This season has seen us starting to work in the Leinster Rugby Performance Pathway following the success of our programmes in a number of English Premiership rugby clubs.
Sessions will be delivered to both the girls and boys programmes to help support parents with their journey of being a sporting parent to a young person showing lots of potential.
All parents and coaches in the performance programmes have been given access to a customised Leinster rugby platform which includes all of the exclusive WWPIS content featuring over 250 blogs, videos, podcasts and infographics.
CEO WWPIS Gordon MacLelland said, ‘This is such a wonderful partnership for us with one of the leading brands in world rugby. We are really excited to have turned our focus to how we can support the performance programmes this season and already the turn out to live sessions, the quality of engagement and the number of parents using the website platform suggests that this has been a really positive move, welcomed by all.
This is just the beginning however, with plenty of scope for development in the future.’
Support is not just limited to the performance pathway. Over the last few seasons we have been working extensively with Leinster Rugby supporting their work with parents and coaches at both club and community level and this season now working within the performance pathway.
A number of Leinster Rugby staff have been trained to deliver sessions in clubs and communities across the province whilst we have run a number of sessions for coaches.
Also available for purchase for clubs and parents is the ‘Our Sporting Journey’ series for Under 7 and Under 9 players incorporating two playing seasons of rugby.
The ‘Our Sporting Journey’ is a series of interactive books for children, putting them at the heart of the sporting experience, allowing them to have plenty of fun, grow as people both on and off the field and immerse themselves in their sporting experience as they progress through their sporting journey.
The books all have plenty of activities for children, encourage positive interaction between children and their parents, require plenty of parental involvement whether that be in having positive conversations, playing in the garden or helping to stick in the pictures that will allow everyone to build up a memory book that will last a lifetime.
Leinster Rugby’s Coach and Player Development Manager, Declan O’Brien commented, ‘Building relationships, respect and trust with our players, parents and coaches across the province is the foundation to building quality sustainable environments within Leinster.
We believe our partnership with WWPIS will encourage and develop a sense of purpose and unity within the rugby community. Everyone’s contribution and support in local schools and clubs is vital to meet the challenges of the future and the specialist skills of an organisation such as WWPIS can only add value to the development of players, parents, and coaches.’
