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By Louise Cordell

THE UK’s response to the worseningobesity crisis has been slammed byindustry expert Tam Fry at a nationalconference.

The honorary chairman of the ChildGrowth Foundation called the coun-try’s approach to fighting childhoodobesity a ‘national disgrace’.

He said: “We deserve the problemswe are facing now because we failed toobserve and tackle the issue in its ear-liest stages.”

Speaking at the Childhood Health:Fit for the Future conference, he calledon the government to use MichelleObama’s recently launched Americanhealth scheme as inspiration – claim-ing that following their example is theonly way out of the current crisis.

Tam pointed out that within a weekof the US scheme’s launch, the coun-try’s processed food and soda indus-tries had pledged to remove a trillioncalories from their products andagreed to a formal audit to guaranteeresults.

He compared this with the UK’sattempts to encourage self regulationwithin the food industry, which hedescribed as ‘less than effective’.

Under the American scheme, 60 min-utes of physical activity per day will bea must and it will be a fundamentalpart of the school schedule – struc-tured around and integrated intolessons.

Lunchtimes will also be about edu-cating kids on healthy eating andcooking, as well as just feeding them,with the government insisting that allyoung people have easy access to heal-ty foods – not just in schools, but alsoin restaurants and areas like parks, tocreate a continuity of good food provi-sion.

Tam added: “There is a lot we canlearn from this new scheme, but untilwe have someone as charismatic asMichelle Obama to lead the initiativewe will flounder.

“Unfortunately, where that person is,I don’t know.

“MPs are good at producing rules,but they rarely inspire in the way thatis needed, and whoever is to take upthe reins of this cause needs real ener-gy and drive – we need to find them,and fast.

“It will take an obesity champion forthe whole of the UK if we are evergoing to make real change happen.”

‘Britain needs aMichelle Obamato fight obesity’

Poll revealslack ofparentalsupportA NEW poll has foundthat one in five chil-dren aged six to 11 donot get any supportfrom their parents toplay sport outsideschool.

Half of boys and 15per cent of girls saythey would play moresport if their mumsand dads were pre-pared to drive them tosports clubs.

However, the DavidLloyd Leisure pollfound that a third ofparents believe theirchildren should beplaying more sport.

Sarah Hobbs, headof family and pro-gramming at DavidLloyd Leisure, said:“The results revealthat while parents feeltheir children shouldbe more active, theirbehaviour is not sup-porting this belief. Ifwe don’t nurture theseskills when they areyoung, children willfind it difficult to per-form well in sportingscenarios as they growup and there is a dan-ger that they willbecome reluctant toparticipate.”

The Britain’s Got Talent finalists Strike have teamedup with ZigZag to launch a new martial arts pro-gramme for children and young adults.The duo, who reached the finals in the 2008 TV show,will link with ZigZag sites across the UK to roll outthe programme, which combines martial arts, danceand gymnastics choreographed to music.Liam Richards and Danny Ball will train health cluband leisure centre instructors to deliver the ten weekprogramme, which is designed to target total martialarts beginners and to complement the training ofmore experienced martial arts and dance students.Full story, Page 9

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OLYMPIC gold medallist JasonGardener joined Devon’s SchoolSports Coordinators at their annualconference.

The event, which took place inTiverton was opened by YoungAmbassador, Max Oliver, whoreceived a one-to-one motivationalsession with the ‘Bath Bullet’ beforeaddressing the 60-strong audience.Jason gave a keynote speech andquestion and answer session.

Geoff Palmer, regional developmentofficer for Bristol and Western

Counties, Sports Leaders UK said: “Itis events like this that identify theopportunities and achievements thatare possible through Sports LeadersUK qualifications and awards.

“Through the skills and experienceMax has gained, he has progressed toYoung Ambassador and is now ableto confidently address an audience of60 delegates. This event has enabledMax to meet one of his sportingheroes and I’m sure that it will fueleven more motivation to succeed inhis sporting ambitions in the future.”

Jason and Max

Max meets ‘Bath Bullet’

Pupils blowthe whistleon cheating By Louise Cordell

A POLL of school pupils in the UKhas revealed that cheating and unfairplay is rife on the country’s sportsfields.

A survey carried out by the CricketFoundation found that over 50 percent of kids questioned saw badsportsmanship in every single schoolsports match they played – with inci-dents including faking injuries,elbowing in the face, arguing with theumpire and head butting.

To help combat the problem, theCricket Foundation are now expand-ing their scheme to encourage fairplay in schools.

Launched last year, the initiativewill bring lessons in ‘fair play’ to chil-dren in 4,000 state schools through-out the summer term.

The sessions will cover areas includ-ing respecting teammates, opponentsand officials.

John Stephenson, MCC head ofcricket, said: “We passionately believethat sport should be played to win,but not at all costs.

“Our coaches instill the message toplay hard, play fair and have fun,which is something we feel can be ofbenefit to children of all ages andabilities, no matter what sport theytake part in.”

Results so far have been good, witha like-for-like survey showing thatafter taking part in the scheme, thenumber of children who witnessunfair play drops to 37 per cent andthose who say they ‘hardly ever’ or‘never’ see unfair play rises to 41 percent.

Wasim Khan, Cricket Foundationchief executive, said: “Fair play issomething that should be taught atan early age.

“Independent research byLoughborough University found thatcricket can help provide young peo-ple with key life skills such as how towin and to lose graciously.

“It’s all part of our campaign toeducate children through cricket.”

The survey also revealed:� Fourteen is the age when badsportsmanship is most common with63 per cent of teenagers of this ageregularly seeing cheating in games.� Leeds is the place where childrensee most unfair play, but neighbour-ing Sheffield sees the least.� Unfair play occurs overwhelminglymore in team sports (72 per cent)than in individual sports (six percent).� Half of parents admit that theirchildren’s bad behaviour on the playing field is their responsibility;followed by the coach’s.

£200k netball investmentENGLAND Netball is to invest£200,000 in Plymouth’s new £46mLife Centre, to help more young peo-ple progress in the sport.

The organisation is providing thefinancial support as part of its fouryear capital investment programmefor the Life Centre to further itspotential as a Regional and CountyNetball Centre.

Paul Clark, England Netball chiefexecutive, said: “Buying into majorprojects makes very good sense for

netball – the Plymouth Life Centresupports Sport England and EnglandNetball’s strategic objectives.

“It’s about increasing the number of people playing netball, and significantly improving the experi-ence of people playing netball in thisarea.

“Our aspiration is to provide a high-quality netball centre within the LifeCentre servicing all levels of our game– regionally, across the county and inthe community.”

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By Louise Cordell

A COVENTRY primary school is onthe way to becoming one of thesportiest in the city.

This year, Finham PrimarySchool has been able to offer itspupils the chance to take part in awide range of sports, includingnine through a partnership withCoventry Sports Foundation.

This collaboration means thatthe foundation’s sports develop-ment team visit the school fourtimes a week to offer classesincluding rugby, football, streetdance and cricket.

More than 250 pupils at theschool, from reception to Year 6,have taken part in the classes dur-ing and after school and head-teacher Kay Brown, believes therewill be ‘huge’ benefits as a result.

She said: “By making sure ourpupils have the chance to takepart in a wide variety of sports weare ensuring they have opportuni-ties to take part in a great choice ofactivities while making sure theyreceive important exercise.

“Along with the mainstreamsports such as football and rugby,we also have multi-skills and soc-catots for our youngest children.

“It’s a way to introduce sportsthey may not have tried beforewhile ensuring pupils receive the

required amount of P.E. “The school and the children

have embraced the sports and as aresult we’re seeing kids get healthi-er and get more enjoyment fromtaking part in the various games.”

The scheme has already beenrolled out to 36 other schools inCoventry and Wendy Jackson, thesports development manager forCoventry Sports Foundation, alsobelieves that it will play a key rolein keeping young people engagedand inspired by sport.

She said: “We hear a lot in themedia about how childhood obesi-ty is on the increase and children

are less active – but this is proofthat children want to be engagedin sporting activity.

“Finham Primary is also a greatexample of offering opportunitiesafter school from reception andhopefully these children will havea positive experience and continuethroughout primary school partic-ipating in these clubs.

“The response we’ve had fromthe children at Finham has beenfantastic, with many taking upnew sports. But most importantlyit engages and excites them to trynew activities and makes sure wedevelop an active generation.

Sporty primary seespupils getting healthier

Prize drawbid to attractyoungstersMERSEYSIDE Sports Partnership isrunning a prize draw to encourageparticipation in the Sport Unlimitedprogramme.

Sport Unlimited involves eight to tenweek blocks of sport and physicalactivity delivered in school and in thecommunity for young people as partof the Government’s Five-Hour Offer.

To encourage commitment to thefull programme of activity, MerseysideSports Partnership is offering partici-pants the chance to enter a draw, withprizes including T-shirts, hats, waterbottles and sports bags.

Briony Seymour, Sport Unlimiteddevelopment officer, said: “This pro-gramme offers young people acrossMerseyside opportunities to try newsports and activities, within schooland the community, so that theymight be encouraged to join a localclub or leisure centre.

“Sport Unlimited is a great way toincrease participation and we hopethat this extra incentive will encour-age our young people to give eachactivity a chance.

“Our hope is that they find a sport oractivity they enjoy and continue tak-ing part.”

Ace rewardsSPORTS students at a Sheffield collegeare being rewarded for their achieve-ments with free tennis sessions in therun up to Wimbledon.

Westfield Sports Centre is offeringtennis vouchers to its pupils whoachieve gold medal status.

This is part of the college’s gold, sil-ver and bronze medal award system,which rewards and encourages stu-dents who continually achieve highstandards in attendance, punctuality,behaviour, uniform and equipment.

Steve Culf, Westfield Sports Centremanager, said: “We are thrilled to beoffering committed students thechance to test out and hone their ten-nis skills ahead of the sport’s biggesttournament last month.

“The tennis prizes have been intro-duced as an incentive for students tocontinually perform to their best abil-ity and will also help them train andkeep fit out of college hours.”

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Sam teaches benefits of boxingBy Louise Cordell

STUDENTS at Merrill College inDerbyshire are being given an introduction into the world of boxing thanks to local PE instructorand county champion, Sam Godfrey.

The college has brought in a SportsLeaders qualification which helpspupils learn how to lead their ownstructured training sessions and workout with a variety of equipment.

Sam said: “Boxing is a lot more thantwo people getting in the ring andhitting each other.

“All my classes are non-contact and are about getting fit, kids enjoy-ing themselves and learning newskills.

“If the student really gets into box-ing and wants to go further down theline to actual sparring and competingitself, then great; but that’s only avery small part of their journey.”

He believes that the sport can helpa wide range of children improvethemselves by providing a positivefocus in their life – even if before theyhave not been interested in physicalactivity.

He added: “In team sports, forexample, you’ll find some pupils areleft standing in the cold when theydon’t get picked for the team.

“Others get disillusioned when theirskill levels don’t match up to theirexpectations and they drift out ofsport.

“In the boxing gym, everyone isequal and everyone can achieve

something.”As well as basic fitness regimes such

as skipping and working with pads,through the boxing classes, the stu-dents are also taught the benefits of amore structured way of life, includingthings like a healthy diet, self-disci-pline and respect for themselves and

others.Through the course, pupils learned

to design and teach their own mini-classes and those who showed realenthusiasm and commitment havebecome paid assistants at Sam’s localboxing school.

Others have even gone on to

become accredited boxing coachesthemselves.

Sam added: “I have seen the bene-fits that boxing can bring through myboxing school in Derby over theyears, and I knew they could helpsome of the pupils at Merrill Collegeas well.”

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MIKE McGreal set up Healthy Heroesin Cheshire in 2007 after taking asports science degree, coaching qual-ifications and then working as a pri-mary school teacher for over fouryears.

He said: “As the only male in the pri-mary school I was working in, Iended up doing a lot of PE lessons

and I realised that it was an area Ireally wanted to specialise in.

“When setting up Healthy Heroes itwas very important to me that it wasdifferent from other coaching compa-nies out there – we are more focussedon an all-round approach of health,fitness and fundamental movementskills, rather than boxing kids into

Former primary school teacher Mike McGreal wanted to do more to get young people active and so decided to setup alone, launching Healthy Heroes – Future Fitness found out more.

Mike’s Healthy Heroes bidsto give kids all-round skills

one particular sport.

“We also cover topics includingcharacter development, team build-ing and nutrition.”

The lessons are targeted at primaryschool age children, but Mike hasalso now started up a sister club,Little Heroes, which works on intro-ducing three and four years olds tosport.

He delivers the programme in avariety of settings, from during schoollessons to after school and breakfastclubs and through community workwith local Cub and Brownie groups.

Mike also makes the most of thescheme’s wider approach to help tar-get disengaged and less confidentchildren, making lessons flexible andinclusive to cater for everyone fromSEN pupils to the gifted and talented.

He added: “I think that ourapproach works really well, foryounger children in particular, asmany programmes are too sportsspecific for them.

“Many will just focus on one thing,for example football, but this leaves alot of kids lacking in the basic skillsthey need to be able to excel in allsports.”

In order to focus on the basic build-ing blocks of sport, the HealthyHeroes lessons include multi skilldrills and multi sports like dodgeball,handball and boxercise.

The idea is to ensure that youngpeople have the technical ability they need to go on and take part insports in secondary schools success-fully.

The classes do this by avoiding

laborious drills and instead concen-trating on games to make sure thechildren are having fun.

The lessons they learn are thenembedded by introducing them intocross curricular activities, for exam-ple PHSE and biology, so that theydevelop a well rounded knowledge ofsport and fitness.

Mike added: “This is very importantbecause if kids go off to secondaryschools without the full range ofmotor skills, they will become disen-gaged, because they will not be ableto improve and will not want to takepart. So if you can re-engage them,then you will set them up for stayinginvolved throughout their teenageyears too, and hopefully further.”

Mike believes that it will soonbecome the norm for specialistteachers to be brought into schools toprovide sports education, especiallyin primary schools. However, untilthis happens he advises schools tofocus on a tailored approach, dealingwith mixed abilities by splittingpupils into groups with specially cho-sen activities that allow everyone toprogress at their own pace.

He added: “I know from experiencethat primary teachers have a lot to do and PE can tend to take a backseat.

“It is hard to find the time, but thisis not the school’s fault and so out-side help can be very useful.

“But any coaching that is brought inmust be chosen carefully to makesure that the kids are getting whatthey need to develop and take sportsfurther.”

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Lunch successschool servedup as exampleBy Louise Cordell

A PRIMARY school in Newton-le-Willows is being held up as anexample to others after boostingschool lunch uptake with somecheap but creative ideas.

St Peter’s C.E. Primary School isbeing promoted as a national casestudy after successfully makingsmall changes to help increase thenumber of pupils eating a healthylunch.

It is being promoted by theSchool Food Trust after seeing aten per cent increase in take up oflunches since it started encourag-ing more children to give them atry.

Lesley Cairns, the Trust’s deliverymanager, said: “St Peter’s experi-ences show how schools can makeeven very small changes to theirlunchtime set up to get morepupils involved.

“We now want to share theschool’s tip with others as they areprime examples of the little thingsthat can make a big difference.”

One of the school’s ideas is a‘Rainbow Table’, which gives kidswho are buying lunches thechance to sit at a specially decorat-ed table in the middle of the din-ing room if they have behavedwell, helped other pupils or triednew foods during the week.

The prize also comes with a passto jump to the front of the lunchqueue and get the first choice offresh fruit and salad.

The initiative prompted interestfrom pupils bringing packedlunches, who began to ask if theycould sit at the ‘Rainbow Table’too.

The school subsequently notedan increase in take-up of schoollunches, and 50 per cent of pupilsare now choosing school meals –with the number continuing torise.

Karen Dearden, head cook, said:“The children loved this because itmakes them feel quite important.“One little girl said she felt like shewas in a posh restaurant.”

Other ideas being planned by St.Peter’s include a reorganisation ofthe seating area to reduce queuingtime and the introduction of dailymenus in each classroom.

Barbara Flitcroft, head teacher,said: “I have been amazed thatsuch little changes could havesuch a big impact.

“We’re really excited about theRainbow Table initiative as a wayof increasing school food take-upand we’re already looking at othersmall things we can do in the din-ing room to keep the momentumgoing.”

A Dagenham pupil has won a competition toreceive free healthy school meals for a year.Five-year-old Georgia Tomlin, pictured above,from Five Elms Primary is being treated to herdaily school meal by the School Food Trust afterbeing picked as one of 50 winners in a countrywide competition.Georgia’s parents entered the draw when theyreceived their copy of ‘The Little Book ofGoodness’, a booklet about new school lunchmenus distributed by the Trust to 750,000 parentsof primary school children across England.Mrs Tomlin, Georgia’s mother, said: “I am reallyhappy that Georgia will enjoy free school mealsfor the next year. We try really hard as a family tomake sure that Georgia and her brother and sis-ter eat healthy food and giving them schoolmeals is a great way to do that.”

DeniseLewis withRound OakSchoolpupils

ROUND Oak School in Warwick hasbeen celebrating its new status as aSports College with a visit fromOlympian heptathlete Denise Lewis.

She gave a talk to the school’s stu-dents, who all have disabilities andlearning difficulties, about her workas an ambassador for the YouthSport Trust and the benefits of ahealthy lifestyle.

Sue Backhouse, the school’s direc-tor of specialism, said: “Round Oakhas long recognised the enormousbenefits that sport brings to ourpupils.

“Through sport, students gainmore than just fitness and skills astheir self esteem, confidence, inter-personal skills and independenceare all enhanced.

“This impacts positively on allareas of their development, stimulat-ing both their physical and mentalattributes.”

Since becoming a Sports College,the school has introduced a newteam of specialist PE teachers and acoach, ordered new equipment, setup more lunchtime clubs and isdeveloping strong links with partnerschools in the area.

Denise helps school celebrate new status

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By Louise Cordell

EXCITEMENT about the 2012Olympic Games is already encourag-ing school children to take up newsports, according to a new study.

A survey carried out by Lloyds TSBfor the launch of National SchoolSport Week found that eight out often kids are looking forward to theGames, six out of ten have beeninspired to take part in more sportand 87 per cent of school childrenparticularly want to try out anOlympic or Paralympic sport.

However, despite this enthusiasm,40 per cent of Olympic sports have

never been experienced by 93 percent of the children surveyed.

It is hoped that National SchoolSport Week will change this, withLloyds TSB teaming up with theYouth Sport Trust and the London2012 Get Set education programmeto provide over four million kids withthe chance to try out a new sport.

It is also hoped that the week willraise awareness amongst British chil-dren about different Olympic andParalympic sports, after the researchshowed that even established sportslike taekwondo, fencing and triathlonare less well known amongst youngpeople.

Olympic gold medallist, JasonGardener, who attended the launch,said: “Hosting the London 2012Games provides us with all sorts ofopportunities to introduce youngpeople to sports that they may nothave previously encountered.

“At the moment our children tendto take part in the sports that we as anation do well in.

“By giving more children the oppor-tunity to try a much wider variety ofsports like those tried here today wewill be able to increase participationlevels, widen the talent pool and helpyoung people lead a healthier, moreactive lifestyle.”

Primary and secondary schools canget involved with this year’s NationalSchool Sport week by registering atwww.schoolsportsweek.org andordering a free teacher planning andactivity pack.

Sebastian Coe, LOCOG chair, said:“This research confirms what we wit-ness every time we travel around theUK – that children are excited aboutthe London 2012 Games.

“We want to inspire children to takeup sport and ensure that they benefitfrom the Games coming to the UK, soI would encourage all schools to reg-ister for National School Sport Weekto help us deliver a lasting legacy.”

National School Sport Week launch

Olympic excitement already having an effect

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A FITNESS bootcamp designed toappeal to children’s adventurousside has been launched by celebrity fitness guru MichaelPellegrino.

The ‘Be Fit Outside’ schemeabandons adult-style gym work-outs and instead focuses on funactivites, like rolling tractor tyresand pulling cars, to keep kidsengaged.

Michael said: “I wanted to find away to get kids and teens fit whilethey were having fun outside, notstuck in a gym somewhere awayfrom their friends.

“We do the sort of stuff that they

would get up to with their mates,except it is in a controlled environ-ment and part of a plan that runsright through the summer holi-days.

“They will go back to school orcollege super fit, and it will all havehappened while they are having alaugh – and maybe even keepingout of mischief.”

Michael has previously workedwith ITV’s Philippa Tomson andIan Payne to get them fit for the Great North Run and wasresponsible for getting formerNewcastle Falcon Tom May fit forEngland.

Adventure on bootcamp menuStrike teamsup with ZigZagfor new schemeMARTIAL arts duo Strike are launch-ing a new fun fitness programme forchildren and young adults.

The Britain’s Got Talent finalistshave teamed up with ZigZag to rollout the scheme across the UK, put-ting on sessions which combine mar-tial arts, gymnastics and dance, allchoreographed to music.

Instructors from health clubs andleisure centres will be trained up bythe young team, Liam Richards andDanny Ball, then go on to deliver theten-week programme.

The lessons have been speciallydesigned to target total martial artsbeginners, as well as complementingthe training of more experiencedmartial arts and dance students andthe course offers a belt system to giveparticipants something to worktowards.

Danny said: “A mini grading sessionwill take place at the end of eachterm where the children will be test-ed on their moves and a short rou-tine, and will be awarded with a newcoloured belt.”

Life skills also form an importantpart of the programme and eachhour-long lesson includes a ‘Strikechat’, where the children are given

the chance to discuss topics such asconfidence, respect, courtesy, mod-esty, perseverance and focus.

Liam added: “We believe that teach-ing life skills is just as important asmartial arts. The programme inspiresand motivates students to achieve inother areas of life and the classes givethem the confidence and determina-tion to do so. We use the ‘Strike chat’time to let the children discuss theirthoughts and feelings on key issuesaffecting them.”

Liam and Danny are also workingwith the NHS in Hull to bring theirtalent to local schools, raising pupils’aspirations and getting children fitterand healthier.

Fergus Ahern, ZigZag MD, said:“The Strike programme is totallyunique and fits perfectly with ourethos of providing fun and excitingopportunities to exercise.

“However, it’s important that healthclubs and leisure centres only putforward instructors that really wantto work with children for the training,as their enthusiasm, or lack of it, willcome across in their delivery of theprogramme, and it’s imperative thatthe kids have fun and go away andtell their friends.”

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EVERY year, hundreds of youngplayers progress from being talent-ed schoolboys to being full-timeapprentices at League FootballEducation – all hoping to reach theprofessional ranks.

However, while the apprentice-ship scheme is designed to give thebest opportunity to maintain afootballing career, research hasshown that up to 60 per cent ofplayers will not be offered a con-tract.

The LFE’s Apprenticeship inSporting Excellence programmeaims to tackle this, by putting itspupils through four separate ele-ments of training during a twoyear, full time programme.

Firstly an NVQ, which is trainingcovering the tactics, strength, con-ditioning and psychological train-ing needed for the sport, then aBTEC, which covers the theorybehind the NVQ training.

Pupils also take a level two foot-ball coaching qualification and, ifthey have joined the programmewithout A-C grades in GCSE mathsand English, they complete keyskills courses in literacy an numera-cy.

Only when they achieve all four ofthese are they able to officiallycomplete their apprenticeship.

Dan said: “We take on around 600apprentices each year, who areassessed after taking their GCSEs tosee if they will be offered a place.

“The issue is that only 35 to 40 percent of these will receive a profes-sional contract at the end of thecourse, so we have a moral obliga-tion to make sure that the othersalso go on to a positive destination.

“The main alternative options areemployment, further education,further training or into anotherelite sport and we have built activi-ties into our programme to makesure that our apprentices can godown any of these routes.”

Some LFE pupils are taken on bysemi-professional clubs, which stillgives them the opportunity to playat a high level while also pursuingother areas like coaching, and oth-ers are spotted by university andcollege scouts from around the UKand the USA.

The programme has also acquiredfunding from the Leonardo DaVinci programme which allows it tosend apprentices on 16 week place-ments to football clubs in Europe.

The LFE also works in partnershipwith employers and trainingproviders who exhibit at a speciallyorganised career fair – CompetitiveEdge Live – to let apprentices knowabout the opportunities available tothem.

Finally, course tutors carry outdetailed exit interviews with stu-dents and continue with trackingand monitoring after they leave thecourse, to ensure they stay on theright track.

Dan added: “This strategy is

important, because it is not onlyapplicable to footballers, but to anyyoung people who are trying tosucceed in elite sports, in rugby ortennis, to swimming and golf.

“We want to focus on this fact inthe future and bring together all ofthese apprentices in joint events –attracting more potential employ-ers and increasing the chance ofour students finding the rightcareer for them.

“I think that there is a massivedesire in the sporting world to helpour people achieve what they want

to do next and we want to help ourpupils by playing our part in that.”

Most schoolboys dream of becoming a professional footballer, but unfortunately the chances of them ever beingoffered a professional contract are slim. However the industry still needs their talent, and this is where LeagueFootball Education comes in – providing young people with the opportunity to both build a professional career andchannel their skills elsewhere. Future Fitness spoke to project manager Dan Jolley to find out more.

Scheme looks outfor young playerswith big dreams

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Boys and girls from Ellesmere College’s Tennis Academy have made an excellent start tothe summer season of competitions.Academy director, Nikki Hoy, said: “This is a great indication of the growing strength indepth in the Academy, which has seen seven teams qualify for national finals over the last12 months in various age groups. The atmosphere and camaraderie amongst the players atthe moment is fantastic – I really believe that this could be our year.”

Delight at £150k makeoverTHE Princess Diana Park in Banburyhas been given a £150,000 makeoverby Playdale Playgrounds.

The new play area has been devel-oped as part of Oxfordshire’sPlaybuilder Scheme and was officiallyopened by the town mayor.

Ann Sewell, the council’s events and projects officer, said: “Theseamenities have been a long time coming and everyone is delight-ed this popular park now has first

class play facilities. We hope the children and youths benefit and learn through play for years to come.”

The new playground offers land-scaping and natural play elements;comprising logs, boulders andmounds, alongside traditional playequipment including a jukeboxclimbing unit, an adventure trail, ateam swing and a large freeformclimbing structure.

Junior footballstatistics ‘trulymind-boggling’By Louise Cordell

GRASS roots junior football teams inEngland are struggling to find theaverage of £2,000 every year theyneed just to keep running.

A new survey from Grass RootsFootball Live has revealed that, withover 55,000 junior teams in the coun-try, over £110m has to be raised eachyear by volunteers.

Bob Rosen, Grass Roots FootballLive MD, said: “The statistics we havefound here are truly mind boggling.

"For our junior teams to be respon-sible for a contribution to our nation-al economy of £110m every year isamazing.

"In the current financial recession,for the vast majority of clubs to bal-ance the books is testimony to theircommitment, energy and dedication.

"It truly is a tremendous achieve-ment and one of which all our clubsshould be proud."

In some cases, clubs can runupwards of 40 teams across a widerange of age groups from under six tounder 18 and every year costsincrease.

Apart from the main expenditure onthings like kits, equipment and pitchhire, there also are a wide range ofother expenses.

These include league and competi-tion fees, coaching course fees, train-ing venue hire, training aids andinsurance.

In order to balance the books, clubsneed to raise funds through a varietyof different methods and addition toweekly subs, more are turning tosponsorship, fund-raising events anddonations.

Only a very small proportion ofclubs receive grant aid and localauthority support – despite theexceptional amount of work theycontribute to the community.

Bob added: “Undoubtedly, there is ahuge commitment made by our clubsto raise these huge sums of money.

“Our survey shows the incredibleamount of fund-raising works under-taken by volunteers.

“Despite these increasing costs, thenumbers of our junior teams contin-ue to rise and most are over-sub-scribed. Unlike professional clubs,running up debt is not an option, butour survey has shown that a greatnumber of clubs rely on subsidiesand donations from key members tokeep them going.

“Our worry in the longer termwould be if clubs can continue toraise the funds required to cover alltheir costs.”

Partnership pupils put best foot forwardin dance world record attemptPUPILS from Blackpool’s SchoolSport Partnership have taken part ina dance sequence world recordattempt.

Children from 17 local primaryschools teamed up to try and beat thegreatest number of backing dancersperforming with a singer at a singlevenue.

More than 400 kids took part in atwo minute dance sequence toRobbie Williams’ Rock DJ – sung bylocal performer Tim Harding – at the

Blackpool Tower Ballroom, beatingthe previous record of just 251dancers.

The Partnership, which organisedthe challenge, now faces a wait forthe attempt to be verified byGuinness bosses.

Local dance teacher Jo Cleasby said: “It was so nice to see so many children getting active and enjoying dance, especially theboys, and the atmosphere was sensational.”

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How Dave has passedon his passion for sportBy Emma Spencer

DAVE Webster was too young tojoin up at the outbreak of theSecond World War so decided to getinvolved in wrestling and boxingclubs instead.

During his stint of NationalService he had taken up the twosports and when he couldn’t goaway to war joined his local regi-ment the Gordon Highlanders.

Dave started his own wrestlingand boxing clubs and as teenagertrained at the Spartan Club along-side fellow Scot Sean Connery whowas getting in shape for his role inSouth Pacific.

From there Dave went on tobecome a PE teacher and one of hispupils was a young Denis Law whofamously went on to play forManchester United.

He may be turning 83 this yearbut could still teach people a tenthof his age thing or two.

In 1954 Dave became the WorldChampion strength puller – a feat no-one had managed before.

After retiring from strength train-ing he joined the Scottish SportsCouncil of Physical Recreationwhere he introduced new sportssuch as gliding, canoeing andtrampolining – later to become anOlympic sport.

Dave also opened NationalCentres of Excellence across

Scotland and coached many suc-cessful weightlifters includingOlympic medallist Louis Martin inthe 1960’s.

He also came across a 19-year-oldby the name of ArnoldSchwarznegger who went on tobecome a professional body-builder.

By this time Dave had alsobecome a film maker recordingworld championship events usingthe videos as training aids for hisathletes.

He was also a technical officialwith the International WeightliftingFederation at events in Rome,Mexico and the UK but in 1968 hehad become dissatisfied with thepolitics involved.

Involvement with the Olympicswas also to come to an abrupt endwith the tragedy in Munich,1972,when members of the Israeli teamwere taken hostage and murderedby militants.

Dave turned his attention to theCommon wealth games champi-oning home grown weight liftingtalent and was one of the first peo-ple to lead campaigns against theuse of drugs in sport.

In 1991 he was made chair of theCommonwealth Games council forScotland, four years later was teammanager of the Scotland squad andawarded an OBE for his efforts in1995.

He was 70 when he took part in

his last competition before movinginto media work.

All the time he was running hisbusiness Powerhouse Fitnesswhich he set up in 1980. In theearly days it sold products to sportsclubs and gyms and the first storeopened in Glasgow in 1987.

There are now 11 throughoutBritain and Powerhouse hasbecome one of the leading suppli-

ers of fitness equipment includingsports nutrition, treadmills, cycles,free-weights and benches, heartrate monitors and clothing.

Powerhouse is now run by DaveWebster’s sons David and Nigel.

David said: “He has had a very fulland colourful life you could say.

“He is probably the most widelyknown historian in strength gamesalive today.”

Dave with Arnold Schwarznegger

THIS year’s AfPE National Conferenceis set to take place July 7-9 at theCotswold Water Park Hotel.

The event attracts over 300 dele-gates nationally, with local authorityPE advisers, lecturers, consultants,partnership development managers,school sport coordinators, teachersand coaches attending.

Keynote speakers confirmed so far:

� Lady Marie Stubbs, the formerhead mistress and best selling authorwho is an expert on transformationalleadership after turning around StGeorge's Roman Catholic SecondarySchool.� Phil Parker, who has been pro-gramme manager for the PE andSport Strategy for Young People sinceSeptember 2008.

� Phil Beadle, who starred in Chann-el 4's The Unteachables and wasnominated for a Broadcast Award forhis role as literacy mentor onChannel 4's Can't Read, Can't Write.� Steve Kibble, adviser for PhysicalEducation and PEDPASS StrategyManager for Devon Learning andDevelopment Partnership. � Professor Stuart Biddle, Professor

of Exercise and Sport Psychology atLoughborough University, UK.� Chris Holmes, Britain's most suc-cessful Paralympic swimmer ever.

There will also be over 30 work-shops on the strands of leadership,pedagogy, health and research fordelegates to choose from.

For more information visit:www.afpe.org.uk.

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Leeds University opensUK’s biggest gymTHE University of Leeds hasopened the biggest gym in the UK.

The Edge gym at the Universitywill also be a London 2012Olympic training camp venue.

Open to students, staff and public, The Edge features a 25m eight lane pool, sauna and steam room and 200 stationgym featuring state of the

art equipment.

Each piece of equipment comeswith TV link connecting users to a full range of terrestrial andsatellite stations, including SkySports, radio and even their owniPod.

There will also be 125 fitnessclasses every week from bodyattack and aqua aerobics, to hulaaerobics.

By Louise Cordell

A UNIVERSITY student,Mohamed Yacoobali, hasopened up his own gym whichlooks at strength and condi-tioning in a new, innovativeway.

His ideas include the use ofunusual equipment and equalemphasis on indoor and out-door training and he is alreadywinning client approval.

Mohamed, who is studyingfor a Strength andConditioning MSc at theUniversity of Bolton, said: “Weneed to think again about fit-ness regimes and change theway we train the body.

“I set up my non-traditionalgym last May and it is focussedentirely on strength and condi-tioning and really looks at howthe body is supposed to beused and challenged.”

The club uses equipmentincluding anchors, chains,sandbags, logs, truck tyres andeven a cricket ground roller.

On top of this, whenMohamed cannot find a suit-able piece of kit for the exercis-es he has in mind, he designsand builds bespoke equipmentspecially for the club.

He added: “The programmesI have put together use thebest evidence available.

“Too often gym regimes arerepetitive and this greatlyreduces the effectiveness of thetraining on the body and gymusers get bored.

“My programmes involvedconstant change and use sci-entific principles, which dic-tate that you need differentworkouts for speed than forforce and strength.”

Mohamed has travelled toAmerica to research hisstrength and conditioningtraining and has worked withelite strongman LouieSimmonds who has competedfor over 40 years.

He is now putting this experi-ence to use with clients rang-ing from dance teachers and

surgeons to a young tennischampion who is only eightyears old.

He has also won the endorse-ment of a local GP who nowrefers people to the club if theyneed to improve their strengthand overall fitness.

Mohamed added: “I believein encouragement – beforestarting my study at Bolton Iworked in sport and coaching,and worked with youngoffenders, so my coachingskills are very important.

“I believe that with functionalfitness classes and access to aprogramme that works I cansignificantly improve some-one's strength and condition-ing, whatever their fitnesslevel.

“I am always learning, alwayslooking for new innovationsbased on scientific evidencebecause this subject is my pas-sion.

“Postgraduate study is hardwork but it has been worth it inevery way.”

Non-traditionalgym opened bystudent Mohamed

Mohamed Yacoobali

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Concern as walkto school numbersfall to all-time lowBy Louise Cordell

PARENTS worry more about their childrenbeing murdered than much more wide-spread health problems such as obesity,according to a new survey.

Of the parents questioned, 30 per centsaid they most feared that their child wouldbe abducted or killed by a stranger, while afurther 30 per cent worried that they wouldbe hurt in a road traffic accident.

However, only one in 20 said they wereconcerned about poor health in later lifedue to the child's levels of physical activity.

The study, which has been carried out forcharities Parentline Plus and Living Streetsis being published as part of a campaign toget more children walking to school.

Both charities claim that parents canincrease activity levels by using simplemeasures like walking to school instead ofusing a car.

Tony Armstrong, Living Streets chief exec-utive, said: “We are deeply concerned thatthe number of children walking to schoolhas dropped to an all time low.

“It’s certainly not wrong for parents tofear road accidents or abduction, but it iswrong that fear for children’s health is puton the backburner especially when the sta-tistics show that there is more chance that

their children will suffer long-term healthproblems from obesity.

“Taking small steps such as increasingactivity levels through walking to school isone way of reducing this risk. In theschools we work with we have seen anincrease in walking levels.”

The two charities are now calling onGovernment to make sure that interven-tions like traffic calming measures are putin place to encourage parents to walk toschool with their children.

They are recommending that 20mph ismade the default speed limit whereverpeople live, work or play, that local authori-ties invest in safe and walkable route toschools and that children are taught roadsafety skills before their transition to sec-ondary school.

Jeremy Todd, Parentline Plus chief execu-tive, added: “We know that parents andcarers face increasing demands on theirtime as they try to balance work and familylife.

“But whatever the barriers, we encourageparents and schools to look into alterna-tives to driving which may work for them, such as park and stride, walkingbuses or informal walking arrangementswith friends, neighbours and older sib-lings.”

Two South Yorkshire teenagers are to take part in the World KickboxingChampionships in Edinburgh.Jordan Brittain, 14 and Luke Parkinson, 16, will be in the England team com-peting between October 28 and 30.They qualified after reaching the finals of the British Junior Championships inBirmingham this month.Jordan and Luke are members of a kickboxing club run by former championArthur O’Loughlin.

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THE Leicester Tigers have staged theirfirst corporate rugby SevensTournament, where teams from compa-nies including Lucozade, Jaguar, HSBCand Caterpillar battled to win the trophy.

It was the first event of its kind to beheld in the Midlands and the first corpo-rate Sevens Tournament to be hosted bya premiership rugby club.

The teams wore kit from the newGForce range from Gymphlex, a localLeicester company.

Matt Poole, director at Tigers Events,said: “We were very pleased to work withan established and respected local man-ufacturer.

“We were proud to kit out our teams insuch fantastic looking kit for the firstever National Corporate Sevens tourna-ment at Welford Road.”

Tigers stage tournament

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School investsin new dancemat systemTHE Robert Ogden School inBarnsley is the largest school forautistic young people in Europe and has invested in a dance mat system to help get its pupils active.

The school takes the physical devel-opment of its students seriously andis always looking for new ways ofinspiring the pupils with excitingnew activities.

It has bought in a Just for Schoolsdance mat system from FitnessGaming, which uses the Nintendo Wii or any other major games console to deliver the dance activities.

Duncan Black, Fitness Gamingdirector, said: “The students atRobert Ogden School have manyproblems to overcome and ensuringthey are undertaking an adequatelevel of physical activity can be diffi-cult.

“It is great to see their reaction tothe dance mats – the school has sometalented players and now they canreach their full potential.

“The staff have also grasped the potential of the system and are intending to use it to help develop numeracy and literacy skills in addition to the exercise benefits.”

A PE teacher and rugby coach isencouraging his pupils to be moreactive and adventurous by tellingthem about his time living on adesert island.

Richard Demain-Griffiths has nowcompleted his first year of teaching atBishop Wordsworth School inSalisbury, but before that he spenttime on the island of Vorovoro in Fiji,with the TribeWanted project.

This scheme is a unique communitytourism project which has created aconstantly evolving island communi-ty.

Online, the project has over 10,000members and anyone can visit theisland and spend time living withother tribe members and the Fijiancommunity.

Richard said: “My main aim as ateacher is to make sure that thepupils know about all the opportuni-ties out there for them and encouragethem to make the most of it.

“Although I am a PE teacher, I alsowant the non sporty kids to knowthat there are other ways that theycan be active for life, and work aspart of a team.

“I recommend TribeWanted toeveryone I meet - because the wholeexperience is just non stop activity,but with a peaceful side to it as well.

“For example, while I was out therewe built a gym in the jungle fromscratch!

“I especially focus on the gap yearstudents I teach and tell them that tohave a year out and not spend some

time with the Tribe would meanthem missing out massively.

“Some head out to do it straightaway and others build the experienceinto their other plans – like our rugbyplayers who are on the way out toAustralia or New Zealand to completescholarships, or others use it to com-plete their Duke of Edinburgh Awards- there is something for everyone.”

TribeWanted has now launched asecond project in Sierra Leone, work-ing with the local government andcharities to help support the localcommunity.

Any schools or colleges interested ingetting their pupils involved can visit:www.tribewanted.com for moreinformation.

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TEN schools from the Hamble SchoolSport Partnership are getting theirpupils involved in ballroom dancing,thanks to a training programme fromEssentially Dance.

The schools have all provided twoteachers, if possible one male andone female, who are taking part inthree days’ training over the year tocomplete the beginners, intermediateand advanced sessions.

Some are PE teachers, but notdance specialists and none have anyexperience in ballroom dancing.

Mandy Quill, the SSP’s partnershipdevelopment manager, said: “Thefeedback so far has been very encour-aging and extremely positive – all thedelegates have been looking forwardto their training and have many talesof success about the clubs they havestarted in their own schools.”

One male head of PE has started upan extra curricular club where the

students invited local senior citizensto attend a ‘tea dance’, which was abig success.

Another primary school has intro-duced ballroom dance into the cur-riculum across the school, as well assetting up an after school club linkedto the extended schools after schoolcare club.

Mandy added: “Another male PEteacher has found that the traininghas completely changed his percep-tion of dance and he has gone from‘dreading’ attending the first sessionto now attending dance classes inde-pendently with his wife to practicehis skills so that he can support thedance department when they start upa ballroom dance club.

“He said that the hardest thing wasgoing back to the PE department fol-lowing the training and actuallyadmitting to his colleagues that heenjoyed it!”

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These courses challengeand bring out the best inyour students, enable themto learn new skills, improvetheir self-reliance and helpthem to recognise the bene-fits and dynamics of work-ing as a team.

But none of this shoulddetract from the fact that awatersports trip is all aboutenjoying an adrenalin-fuelled week of superbactivities, based in one ofPGL’s market-leading cen-tres and supported by theirenthusiastic and fully-trained instructors and sup-port staff.

New software tocut down on swimschool organisationLEISURE trust, Tone Leisure, has developed a newpiece of software designed to cut down on organisa-tion and administration time spent operating swimschools.

CoursePro is the first programme of its kind and hasbeen introduced after a £10,000 investment fromTone.

The software helps to organise everything fromscheduling lessons to updating the progress of eachchild and producing detailed reports.

Swim instructors are able to feed up to the minutedata into the system via iPod Touches at the side ofthe pool – cutting out the need for follow up paper-work.

Parents can also log in remotely to check theirchild’s progress and pay for new lessons online, elim-inating long queues at the leisure centres.

CoursePro is now set to go national after trials inthe region showed that the software saved 70 staffhours a week on average across four swimschools.

Joel Chapman, Tone Leisure commercial director,said: “It had become clear that organising andadministering swimming lessons was an area thatcould be improved vastly with some inventive think-ing.

“The key aim was to cut down on the number ofhours swimming instructors have to spend register-ing attendance, ticking off levels, printing out reportsand giving detailed feedback to hundreds of parents.

“This is all now done online, allowing swim schoolsto free up a significant number of extra hours of staff time, as well as attract greater numbers of participants with the continuous assessmentscheme.”

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THE Granta School in Cambridge haschosen to replace its existing Ozonesystem with a state-of-the-art ATGUV technology ultraviolet water treat-ment system for its on campus spe-cial needs hydrotherapy rehabilita-tion facility.

Granta school operators took thedecision to replace its Ozone system

with UV technology due to the highcapital running costs, several opera-tional issues and required level oftechnical expertise associated with itscomplex operation.

In comparison UV treatment is asimple, fully automatic process thatcannot be overdosed, is lower in cap-ital costs and performs the same oxi-

dation and disinfection tasks at afraction of ozone’s running costs.

Joanna Clarke, site manager, said:“The UV system has had a tremen-dous impact on our water quality.

“What’s most impressive is howeasy UV systems are to operate andtheir low running and maintenancecosts.”

More kidsstayingsafe inwaterMORE children are being taught howto stay safe in the water thanks to anincrease in the number of instructorson the Royal Life Saving Society’swater safety programme.

There are now 2,500 rookie lifes-guards providing lessons for eight to12 year olds on essential water safetyskills to keep themselves safe andprotect others in and around water.

Christine Cullen from ErdingtonSwimming Pool, Birmingham, hasover 22 years of lifesaving and swim-ming teaching experience and hasbeen announced as the 2,500thRookie Instructor.

She said: “The programme is anexcellent way to introduce youngpeople to water safety, personal sur-vival and rescue techniques in a funbut realistic way.

“I know the children really enjoylearning the new skills and tech-niques and equally I enjoy teachingthem.”

Rookie Lifeguard is now in its thirdyear and is run in swimming pools,lifesaving clubs, schools and leisurecentres across the UK.

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