This question relates to an example such as "my daughter is in year 8, please can we book her onto a course that is advertised for year 9s"
Our aim on all of our courses is to ensure that every student comes away feeling appropriately challenged and therefore leaves feeling tired, but inspired by their sport. Getting this right is based not only on their individual ability, but the ability of the rest of the group - something we don’t know until the day. For this reason, we use school years as our way of structuring the courses.
Our expert coaching team will ensure each individual is pushed to perform at their capacity and stretch each player to help them grow. If it is possible and appropriate, we, at our discretion, sometimes look to move athletes into other groups on the day. We do however ask for your understanding here as this is a delicate art, not a science.
We understand that children's identities at this age is heavily linked to their school year, and therefore moving them ‘up’, even if they are talented has the risk that they do not bond with the rest of the group as well as they might in their original group. We must also consider the effect of moving one person, and not other people in a similar situation in a similar year. For this reason, we ask people to book into the course designed for her age group.