The Junior Sports Leader Award is a nationally recognised award that is available to all cadets over the age of 14, aimed at developing your leadership skills. It’s a fun course and offers an insight into the enjoyment you can gain through sports leadership. The syllabus is designed to cater for all sports as opposed to one specific sporting activity, which can be applied to a variety of different events.

It’s a practical qualification where cadets learn through doing, rather than through written work, and your ability as a competent leader is assessed by observation rather than written tests.

The course is divided into two modules , module A covers the fundamentals of sports leadership, and which is applicable to a wide variety of sporting and recreational activities. This includes:

Organisation skills
Fair play in sport
Communication skills
The role of the umpire
Health and fitness
Opportunities in sport and recreation

Module B covers the practilcal side of the course, where you must complete a minimum of one hour of sporting or recreational activity of which you have been the sole planner. Each session is closely supervised by a qualified Instructor. The one hour leadership can be split into 2 slots of 30 mins, 3 slots of 20 or 4 slots of 15 minutes.