Sally Bailey is a physical performance professional who has worked across the spectrum of athletic development from school-aged children to elite athletes in a range of individual and team sports. She is passionate about providing people with a real chance to engage with physical activity in the way they want to. Success comes in the form of happy faces striving to be their best. Sally has taken the lessons learnt through running a business and working with national and international level athletes and tailored her approach within a school environment. This has resulted in building athletic development and physical wellbeing programs from scratch in both a boys and girls school.

QUOTES

“Make sure it is about play”

“Well-being is not an add on to the school curriculum - it is front and center of what we do”

“The first question is why am I here (in a school)?”

“The idea was to find 15 min 2-3 a week the boys in the whole school could do something to develop them physically”

“All the things we do around high performance can be put into a school-based program but make sure there is a learning aspect to it”

“You need to take the time to get to know the school and know what the school values”

“Boys respond best in rules and structure whereas for girls, they like to be trusted”

SHOWNOTES

1) Sally's origins and programming via snail mail for a national team

2) Her work with Brisbane Grammar and setting up a physical performance program in a school

3) How to manage the demands from different sports for student athletes

4) Making sure what we do is fun and has an element of game based play

5) The difference between boys and girls schools and performance vs. wellbeing programs

6) Answering the whys of working in a school program

7) Have an impact early and the top & tail strategy

8) The components of a complete wellness or performance program for a school

9) Logistics around a school day and working with student athletes whose main sport wasn’t a school sport or were involved in representative squads outside of school

10) Considerations with dealing with young female students (not just athletes)

11) What to do with a school that is a blank canvas and key differences with boys and girls

People mentioned

Vern Gambetta

Ranell Hobson