Volunteer gets gold & news of skipping festival 

 

Third Gold Volunteer Award

 

Catherine Davis of Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community High School became the third South Staffordshire School Sport Partnership (SSP) student to register 200 hours Volunteering and Leadership on the YST Step into Sport passport.

 

Catherine joins two students from the Great Wyrley Performing Arts High School who have achieved 200 hours of volunteering in their Community Clubs. Aiden Bolas and Steven Foster, who are in Year 13 at Great Wyrley were presented with their Gold Awards for active sports volunteering at the school’s annual prize giving earlier in the school year. Steven has been helping with local football club Wyrley Juniors and Aiden with Cannock Phoenix Swimming Club. Both students are determined to continue volunteering at every opportunity and push towards their 400 hours or Double Gold Award. Steven has also scooped the Staffordshire FA’s Football Workforce, Young Person Award for the season 2008-2009. Catherine has achieved her 200 hour Gold Award through School based volunteering in her own school, and in Primary School Festivals and Tournaments. Catherine has also completed over 80 hours volunteering in her local Community Club, helping with the Football Academy at Wyrley Juniors. She was also selected to attend the Staffordshire FA Volunteer Camp at Uttoxeter and the Regional Volunteer Camp at Walsall FC last summer. Their Awards are highly regarded, showing dedication and a willingness to go out of their way to help others and they are a credit to themselves, their clubs and their schools.

 

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South Staffordshire SSP
Skipping Festival

 

On Wednesday 27^th January, 125 year 1 pupils from 4 local primary schools converged on Cheslyn Hay Sport & Community High School Sports Hall to enjoy a morning of skipping and fruit tasting.

 

The Skipping Festival is an annual event which brings every year 1 pupil from the Cheslyn Hay family of Primary Schools to one venue to skip. The event was supported by 18 Sports Leaders from Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community HS who were instrumental in encouraging and supporting the youngsters during the morning. These year 10 students were outstanding in their patience and hard work with the year 1 pupils. They led a general warm up before Judy Ganecki from the British Heart Foundation “Jump rope for Heart” team began the skipping warm up followed by a basic skipping session. After a fruit tasting break, the youngsters were encouraged to build on their basic skills by adding a number of increasingly difficult tasks. Some of the youngsters found moving on difficult but a large number could complete some of the stunts with a few reaching a very high standard by the end of the Festival.

 

 

In preparation for the Festival, SSCo Eric Field had visited each school to do a taster session and teachers at all the schools reported a massive uptake in skipping at lunchtimes and breaks afterwards. “It is amazing how quickly the youngsters pick skipping up even if they have done very little before and they soon moved on to ‘social skipping’ in pairs and small groups.”

 

 

Thanks to Judy Ganecki, the Leaders, the teachers and classroom assistants the youngsters had a thoroughly enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

 

Eric Field
Leadership Coordinator and SSCo
Tel: 01922 416024
Email: ericfield50@hotmail.co.uk