"I am looking forward to sharing school-based expertise on parental engagement, advising how to transfer and facilitate development in elite youth sport."
Lisa Fathers
Lisa Fathers has been invited to the prestigious UK Sport and English Institute of Sport (EIS) Pathways Symposium on 12th October, presenting to staff working in GB performance pathways about the involvement of parents in a young person’s education.
The audience will be comprised of coaches and managers who look after the development journey of elite athletes, and Lisa will share her expertise on parental engagement from a school perspective, outlining how these strategies can be adopted in a sporting context. UK Sport is the high performance strategic funding agency and the EIS is a grant funded organisation, which since its inception in 2002, has worked with athletes leading up to and during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games and many national, European and world events in sport.
Lisa says: “It’s an honour to speak at such a prestigious event, especially on a topic that is dear to my heart.
“It goes without saying that parents have an important role in the development of their child, whether that is from an academic or sporting perspective. I am looking forward to sharing school-based expertise on parental engagement, advising how they can transfer and facilitate development in elite youth sport and assist the development of athletes to be the best they can be.”
The ethos that sport can help to enhance a young people’s health and wellbeing is embedded across The Bright Futures Educational Trust - in January this year, the Trust announced its partnership with the Youth Sport Trust, a partnership that has seen a range of innovative approaches to using the power of PE, physical activity and sport to enhance the health, happiness and education of its students.
One of the schools in BFET is Connell Sixth Form, a college that in the last month alone has celebrated two pupils’ professional sporting successes at Manchester City FC and at the Paralympics, so Lisa is delighted to be representing the school, and BFET’s other schools, at the event.
