Berkshire Leadership Academy 2010
Bradfield College

On Monday 29th March we took 4 year 9 students to the Berkshire Leadership Academy to take part in a Netball Organisers Course, an officially recognised leadership qualification from England Netball. We usually invite 6th form students to participate in opportunities like this, but this particular group of students have, throughout the year, demonstrated a real desire to improve their leadership skills in netball, and are also currently undertaking the Netball Youth Umpires Award.

During the day, they had a mix of theoretical and practical sessions, and they learned how to officiate, lead groups of young children, develop netball skills and organise festivals and tournaments. They all learned an enormous amount and are now looking forward to putting it all into practice!!

Follow the link below to find out more about volunteering opportunities at

 Longridge Activity Centre 

http://www.longridge-uk.org/volunteers

Report on Leadership Academy 02/04/09

By Sarah Forster

On Thursday 2^nd April 16 Year 12 students went to Bradfield College to attend the Berkshire Sport Leadership Academy, designed to develop officiating and leadership skills in a number of different sports.  Students had pre selected their course from rounders, netball, volleyball, and football.

Everyone had time to complete some theory before heading out into the sunshine for practical. Everyone learnt a variety of new skills and drills and how to coach these to younger children. We also learnt how to plan large scale events including festivals and tournaments.

The netballers from Newlands easily won all their matches at the end of the day, demonstrating that they aren’t all that bad at netball after all!

At the end of the day the organisers insisted on us having a big group photo. Great!

Hopefully we can now all take the new skills we have learned to help in clubs both in school and within the community.

A good day, enjoyed by all.

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YOUNG LEADERS MULTI-SKILLS LESSON PLANS

REGISTER FOR THE SIS VOLUNTEER PASSPORT

To register for the Step into Sport Volunteer Passport

1.                   Go to www.youthsporttrust.org

2.                   Scroll down to the bottom of the page and on the right hand side there is a box called 'useful links'.

3.                   There is sometimes a direct link to the SIS Volunteer passport, and if there is, click on it.

Then skip to number 6 in this instruction list.

4.                   If not, type SIS volunteer passport into the search box and click on the first match in the list entitled 'Step Into Sport Volunteer Passport' where it says Click here to view.

5.                   Scroll down the page to where it says 'click here to enter step into sport volunteer passport'

6.                   At top right of page click on 'sign up now'

7.                   Click on  'register as a volunteer'

8.                   Insert school code - 1114706 and click on  'get school info'

9.                   Fill in your details and click 'register'