National Sports School – Pembroke

Business name: National Sports School

Address: Sir L. Prezios, Pembroke

Telephone: +356 2137 0334

Description: National Sport School
• The National Sport School, Malta is a co-educational school for student-athletes who have a high potential for development in their chosen field of sport.
• The school enables these young athletes to pursue simultaneously both their specialised sports training and their academic education. Thus it ensures that students will not lose any opportunities of undertaking further educational studies at both post-secondary and tertiary level in order to qualify academically in any other career that they may choose to pursue.
• This is the only local school to connect sports and academic studies closely by offering a flexible academic environment that is customised to student sporting demands. It has a distinct identity within a co-educational setting providing appropriate facilities for both male and female students, its own uniform, transport arrangements and a set of classrooms, specifically dedicated to its students.
• The school welcomes applications from talented young sports students in their final year of the primary school.
• Entry is by selection. Candidates must be nominated by their National Sports Organisation as being amongst the most promising at national level.
• A satisfactory level of academic achievement at primary level is necessary. Prospective candidates must sit for Benchmark Exams.

Talented Athlete Support
• Sports pupils have individualised training programmes developed and delivered by a high performance coaching team of sports specific and strength and conditioning experts.
• A sports nutritionist draws up an individualised nutritional diet for each pupil.
• A sports psychologist every week helps to enhance students’ performance through individual and team sessions. The aim is to help identify individual strengths and weaknesses as a way of being objective about performance.

Academic Studies
• High performance sports’ training is integrated with academic studies.
• Pupils follow a modified curriculum with reduced time in some non-core subjects allowing more time to be spent on sport.