Sporting Impact and Innovation in Sport

SURREY SPORTS AWARDS 2009

SPORTING IMPACT AND INNOVATION IN SPORT

This award is for a school that has:

created a new activity/approach to engage the diverse needs of young people;
actively engaged with all young people to identify and deliver appealing activities and appropriate environments;
and/or, used alternative activities to embrace new partners in the delivery of out of school hours learning e.g., parents, community partners or providers.

The shortlisted nominees are:

Waverley & Ash School Sports Partnership - WINNER

The Waverley and Ash School Games was devised by the local community sports network, made up of several partners including the SSP, local authority sports development teams, sports councils, DC Leisure and Surrey NHS. Over 300 young people from 6 secondary schools participated in 5 events, (hockey, volleyball, water polo, basketball and relay events) as well as rowing and archery as demonstration sports. The local sports clubs delivered each of the sports events to encourage them to continue their participation after the event. The impact of games has seen the participation in competition among 5-16 years olds increase from 44% to 58%, along with a 7% increase in young people attending a community sports club.

Mid Surrey School Sports Partnership

With sports leadership high on the agenda for the mid Surrey SSP the school sports coordinator for Therfield School introduced the Young Leader Programme into 3 primary schools in their cluster. The programme aims to introduce sports leadership to young people aged 10-13 so they can learn the skills needed to help teachers set up sports activities and run intra-school sports competitions. An adapted scheme of work was put together by the SSCo so teachers understood the principles of the programme and in turn had the confidence to deliver the YLP in future years.

Bishop Wand School Sports Partnership

The government designed initiative, GO Girls was developed to specifically target teenage girls to improve their self-confidence, leadership, communication and teamwork and in turn increase their sports participation. The Bishop Wand SSP delivered the initiative in 7 secondary schools that was attended by over 70 young girls aged between 14-16. Sports on offer included yoga, spinning and body combat and links were formed with local leisure centres and clubs so the young girls could continue their activity once the initiative had finished. The success of the initiative in the SSP was marked by a visit by the advocate of the initiative, Dame Kelly Holmes on 29 September where she had the opportunity to meet some of the Go Girls who were delivering sessions to younger pupils.

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