Community Classrooms
What is RELAYS?
The RELAYS (Regional Educational Legacy for Arts and Youth Sport) project seeks to engage young people in the South West in sporting and cultural events in the run up to the London 2012 Games. Led by Universities South West, through a network of regional universities and cultural organisations, RELAYS aims to blend youth sport and culture in a vibrant mixture of activities across the region in the build up to the 2012 Games. It is funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity that has been set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic Games and Universities South West. To learn more, see the RELAYS website:
Community Classrooms - A RELAYS Project
Working in partnership with the University of Bath and University of Gloucester, UCP Marjon’s CLM&SD will deliver Community Classrooms (CC). CC will be delivered through the concept of a ‘sports hub’ and is designed to reach out to underrepresented groups in HE and FE.
CC is a vehicle which will help to raise educational aspirations and achievement by using sport, culture and physical activity to work in and with the community. In addition the project will provide enhanced vocational opportunities for UCP Marjon students, staff and members of partner organisations.
Using sport and active recreation as both a catalyst and a core activity, CC will use ‘active learning’ or ‘learning by doing’ to deliver a significant part of the sporting and cultural curriculum in either a community setting, with community members or both. The aim being to raise aspirations for, and widen participation in, FE and HE in the region. UCP Marjon will work with Plymouth’s SSPs and other community organisations to develop sustainable infrastructures that deliver demand-led and flexible curriculum, addressing the needs and interests of specific communities. The UCP Marjon ‘sports hub’ aims to build on existing good practice to develop the volunteering, coaching and mentoring opportunities available to UCP Marjon students, staff and members of the community. It is hoped that existing partnerships with the Youth Sport Trust, Sport England and NGBs can be developed to provide a vocationally sensitive project that will allow all participants in CC to develop personally and/or professionally. CC will utilise the student expertise at UCP Marjon to both benefit the community and enable the students to gain valuable vocational experience and coaching qualifications.
CC, through the Legacy Trust UK funding, will help to produce a generation whose lives were changed by 2012 with the aim of achieving the CLM&SD six key outcomes. In addition CC aims to ensure that systems are in place to validate UCP Marjon as a community resource leading up to and beyond 2012. The CC project will allow the CLM&SD to synthesis and develop much of the existing good practice facilitated by the CLM&SD.Working in partnership with the University of Bath and University of Gloucester, UCP Marjon’s CLM&SD will deliver Community Classrooms (CC). CC will be delivered through the concept of a ‘sports hub’ and is designed to reach out to underrepresented groups in HE and FE.
CC is a vehicle which will help to raise educational aspirations and achievement by using sport, culture and physical activity to work in and with the community. In addition the project will provide enhanced vocational opportunities for UCP Marjon students, staff and members of partner organisations.
Using sport and active recreation as both a catalyst and a core activity, CC will use ‘active learning’ or ‘learning by doing’ to deliver a significant part of the sporting and cultural curriculum in either a community setting, with community members or both. The aim being to raise aspirations for, and widen participation in, FE and HE in the region. UCP Marjon will work with Plymouth’s SSPs and other community organisations to develop sustainable infrastructures that deliver demand-led and flexible curriculum, addressing the needs and interests of specific communities. The UCP Marjon ‘sports hub’ aims to build on existing good practice to develop the volunteering, coaching and mentoring opportunities available to UCP Marjon students, staff and members of the community. It is hoped that existing partnerships with the Youth Sport Trust, Sport England and NGBs can be developed to provide a vocationally sensitive project that will allow all participants in CC to develop personally and/or professionally. CC will utilise the student expertise at UCP Marjon to both benefit the community and enable the students to gain valuable vocational experience and coaching qualifications.
CC, through the Legacy Trust UK funding, will help to produce a generation whose lives were changed by 2012 with the aim of achieving the CLM&SD six key outcomes. In addition CC aims to ensure that systems are in place to validate UCP Marjon as a community resource leading up to and beyond 2012. The CC project will allow the CLM&SD to synthesis and develop much of the existing good practice facilitated by the CLM&SD.
Last modified on Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:42:43 BST by rknott
Events
Plymouth Festival of School Sport
Over 500 Year 7, 8 & 9 pupils took part in the first Plymouth Festival of School Sport at UCP Marjon from 15 secondary schools in the City. The event was run in partnership with RELAYS (Regional Educational Legacy for Arts and Youth Sport), UCP Marjon, Plymouth City Council, and the University of Plymouth.
37 student volunteers from UCP Marjon and University of Plymouth helped out with the planning, co-ordinating and running of the event. All the pupils participated in three different activities receiving coaching from Community Sports Clubs and student coaches. Annabel Allen and Steve Donald, from Plymouth City Council Sports Development Unit provided the links with the community clubs.
Each participant went home with a certificate designed by a University of Plymouth student which included Community club details for each sport at the event. The pupils were invited to join the local clubs from their experiences at this event. With so many of the community clubs represented the aim is to help a smooth transition from school sport to community sport.
Sarah Green, Teacher at Coombe Dean said, “Today was a fantastic opportunity to give students a taste of new sports, take them outside their comfort zone and challenge them. They have really enjoyed the activities offered and will be going home, tired and happy, having had a positive sporting experience.”
The sports included were: Climbing, Street Dance, Underwater Hockey, Orienteering, Mountain Biking, Volleyball, Flag Football, Lacrosse, Table Tennis, Futsal, Trampolining, Ultimate Frisbee and Fencing. Being recognised through the Inspire programme the Plymouth Festival of School Sports was awarded the Inspire mark, making it part of London 2012 ethos.
2012's festival will be taking place on 26th & 27th March
Club Day
The first Club Day was staged in the new sports centre at UCP Marjon with the 5 clubs delivering a full programme of coaching to over 150 participants. Alongside the Hockey, Basketball, Football, Volleyball and Netball coaching, families were able to take part in Climbing, Swimming and receive Sports Therapy and Health Checks. Organised by a team of UCP Marjon students as part of the RELAYS project, the pilot event proved a great success. Project coordinator Jamie Oxley said “the event had a really nice family feel to the day, everyone enjoyed experiencing a range of activities. The most popular was certainly the climbing wall with over 100 children having ago on the new indoor facility”.
The next Club Day is on the 15th January 2012!!
Primary School Mixed Hockey Festival 2011
‘The spirit of Hockey shines through’
The 10th Plymouth Primary Schools Hockey Festival ‘inspired by London 2012’ and staged at UCP Marjon was hailed a big success by everyone involved. This year’s festival was organised and delivered by a team of students from UCP Marjon, University of Plymouth, local schools and the City hockey clubs. In total 59 school teams took part over the 2 days with all the players receiving coaching from UCP Marjon coaches and the opportunity to complete their hooked on hockey skills challenge award. Face painting, goal & no goal and dance offs were all added additions to action packed festival.
On the pitch, Stoke Damerel remained undefeated all day to lift the OPM HC sponsored Cup defeating local rivals Keyham Barton in the final. Horrabridge secured 3rd defeating Compton in 4th. In the Shield, St Andrews (Plymouth) pipped Old Priory B to the Tavistock HC sponsored Shield with Elburton coming 3rd and Holbeton 4th. In the PGSOB sponsored Plate, Yealmpstone Farm defeated Hooe to secure the title with St Dominics 3rd and Whitleigh 4th.
President of Devon Umpires, Paddy Porter praised the spirit of the event and quality of the umpiring which was undertaken by young umpires from the following schools; DHS Boys, Lipson, Ivybridge, Hele’s, Ridgeway, Sir John Hunt, St Boniface’s and University students. This year John Brown from Ridgeway was awarded the most promising young umpire award.
Skills Challenge results; Team 1st Dobwalls, 2nd Old Priory, 3rd Mount Street, Individual awards; Boys 1st George Bush (Holbeton), 2nd Matt Baxter (Oreston), 3rd Tyler Walsh (Dobwalls), Girls 1st Olivia Elphic (Oakwood), Jade Ainsworth (Mount Street), Lizzie Selley (Old Priory).
Fair play winners were Blackpool Primary who entered the event for the first time. The event receives valuable support from the hosts UCP Marjon, all the local hockey clubs, Nigel Rowe (Plymouth Half Marathon), Redrok and Tony Pryce without whom the event could not take place.
2012's festival will take place on May 31st and June 1st
Last modified on Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:16:28 GMT by rknott
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