What is a Regional Multi-skill Academy (RMSA)?
Regional Multi-skill Academies (RMSAs) are designed to challenge the most able young people further through innovative practice using the five multi-abilities and to increase practitioner knowledge using the multi-skill approach to Multi-skill Academies.
Building on the success of the 2008 pilot year, a £5,000 grant is available to each HEI and Sports College.
RMSA Format
Each RMSA is a one-day event split into two strands:
- A Multi-skill day for the young people designed and led by the HEI or Sports College staff. Briefly this strand does provide the young people with challenges within a multi-skill environment followed by assessment of their ability in the five areas. Feedback/profiling is provided to each young person to take away with them, plus collated into generic information for the RMSA as a whole.
- A CPD element for MSA practitioners led by Youth Sport Trust staff. The aim is to improve the standard and consistency of MSA delivery across the country and to share new thinking.
The outcomes for the young talented performer are:
- To provide an advanced and innovative experience for the young people, using the multi-ability concept, with a particular focus on the Physical and Cognitive/Thinking abilities.
- To reward and encourage the young people, helping them to understand the multi-ability concept and how this relates to becoming a better sports person.
- To provide assessment and feedback/profiling to the young people in an innovative way.
- To share good practice and innovation with other hosts and throughout the network.
For further information about this exciting area of work please email: francesca.ruffoni@youthsporttrust.org.