Newcastle School Games & Streetgames Sports Leadership

Newcastle School Games team and StreetGames have linked up to provide sports leadership opportunities for some of our older pupils across the city. The StreetGames programme is managed and coordinated by Active Newcastle across the city providing opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas to participate in a variety of sports as well as access coaching and leadership training.

We have now completed 2 training days, the first involved St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School working with St Cuthbert’s (Kenton) Primary School and yesterday (11^th March) was the 2nd with the cohort of BTEC students from Walker Technology College delivering to some year 5 pupils from Central Newcastle C of E in the afternoon.

The format was for the sports leaders to receive training from StreetGames in the morning and then organise and deliver some activities to younger pupils from a feeder school. Each sports leader received a certificate from StreetGames and has also been signposted to some of the StreetGames programmes running at ‘Centre for Sport’ and Walker Activity Dome.

StreetGames is a sports charity that changes lives and communities, they do it by supporting a network of projects which give sports and volunteering opportunities to young people in disadvantaged communities across the UK. Doorstep sport is StreetGames’ delivery method, whereby bringing sport close to the home in disadvantaged communities at the right time, for the right price, to the right place and in the right style.

Ian Kendall from our School Games team commented “The partnership with StreetGames is one which allows us to provide structured and coordinated training with opportunities to further develop sports leadership skills in a community programme outside of the curriculum. I have been really impressed with the standard of delivery from both St Cuthbert’s and Walker Tech pupils”.

Duncan O’Farrell from Active Newcastle said “This partnership has provided us with a route into schools to further extend our programme and help us to develop a workforce of young people to lead and assists at our clubs. I look forward to seeing some of the leaders at any of our venues and will continue to offer support to further develop they leadership roles as either coaches or officials”.

Jane Kemp, PE Teacher from Walker Technology College said “ Our BTEC students have demonstrated that they are more than capable of delivering this type of activity and seem to have really enjoyed the whole day”.