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On March 10th, 34 young leaders from Year 7, 8 and 9 attended the Riverside Community Games festival and worked alongside year 3 and 4 pupils from George Carey and Thames View. The day involved our young leaders working with groups of approximately 12 primary school students and them leading them through 6 different sporting activities. The letter below was received from Felix Sullivan (SportInspired Games Manager). It highlights just how superb our students were all day. We are all very proud of them and their achievements on the day.
“I am writing to you to say how absolutely fantastic your young leaders were at our Riverside Community Games festival supported by the Big Lottery on Thursday.
It was my 50th festival I have run up and down the UK and I have rarely seen a better group of leaders. I started taking the names of your pupils when I saw moments of outstanding leadership but my A4 sheet quickly became two and then two and a half and when I had almost every single name down and some names four or five times, it became clear something remarkable was happening.
Wherever I looked, there was total engagement from the primary school pupils. Wherever, there was any child not taking part there was a leader sitting with them and encouraging them. The Street Dance was my personal favourite sport, where leaders completely threw themselves in to the activity, so that even the least confident dancer gave it a go with a smile on their face.
The cheering, the conga lines, the motivational talks, the banner waving, just the sheer level of fun but also professionalism was just outstanding.
And Clinton, Tayef and Jesse just ran the day. They sorted the sports. The scoring and the competitors. They kept the timings, they organised the teams – As Assistant Event Directors they ran the day and with very little help at all!!
What was really amazing is that your pupils maintained the level of fun and enthusiasm from round 1 – 6 and made a festival day that was one of the best I have ever been involved with.
As a result of Thursday, we have already set up an Athletics club for a term in George Carey and we are confident of setting a Dodgeball club up in Thames View as well.
The teacher feedback from the schools also heavily focused on your leaders and how outstanding they were, although as former pupils, they were trying to take quite a lot of the credit!!
So firstly a huge thank you to you and your school for supporting the Community Games programme and a huge thank you to your leaders for creating the best possible platform for us to get 163 year 3 and 4 pupils into local sports long term.”