Why Psychology?

School Sports Psychology

Integrating Psychological Skills Training into a sport environment can help young people reach their full potential, promote positive self-esteem, perceive competition as challenging not threatening, develop resilience, enjoy their sport experience, stay involved in sport, and nurture personal growth in other aspects of life (Burton, 1991; Tremayne & Newbery, 2005)
Sport has the capability to create greater self-confidence and transform how individuals view themselves outside of sport (Chinkov & Holt, 2016).
7-11 year old's realise that differences in ability can explain unequal performance but still believe more effort leads to higher ability, so we must reinforce effort, improvement and learning as keys to success (Knight, Harwood & Gould, 2018).

“The wide-ranging benefits of PE are frequently used to justify PE’s place in the curriculum. However, PE should be a key part of the school curriculum for its unique potential to support whole-child development, which includes but is not limited to the promotion of physical health”
Dr David Grecic

“School Sport Psychology laid a foundation before the PE lesson to go out and think about something other than the physical side. It was very interesting to see how the children reacted. There was a lot of talk with their peer groups about how they were feeling and their mindset during the lesson”

“As a teacher I think it has helped me by watching the videos as I have learnt too, psychology is fascinating”

The psychological challenges were good, they gave me something different to think about in PE

I learnt more about my mindset, it made me think a lot

I am curious now about psychology and how my brain works