Education

Worcester Warriors Community Foundation Brochure 2018
Schools
Worcester Warriors Community Foundation Brochure 2018

 

Our Education Team work with schools across the County, delivering a number of schools programmes.

They deliver numeracy and literacy programmes in school as well as a suite of lifestyle initiatives. We use rugby as a tool to engage young people whilst the ethos of the game supports the development of their life skills. Find out about our various schools programmes below.


Only Girls Allowed – Year 9 (Girls)

This project is aimed at smaller groups, with students specifically targeted by schools. The two-hour sessions are split – one hour in the classroom focusing on teamwork, leadership, communication and respect, and one hour trying a range of different sports including rugby, dance, cricket, rounders, self defence, gymnastics. For more information on Only Girls Allowed please click here.


Wonderful Worcester #YourCityYourClub – Year 3/4

This project is designed to celebrate the things that make Worcester great, from our historical buildings to the role Worcester played in the Civil War, our international sports stars, Royal Worcester porcelain and the world-famous Worcestershire Sauce.

By raising awareness of our city we hope that children will have an increased feeling of pride in their city.

Lesson 1 – Worcestershire Sauce – Design a new bottle for (School Name) Sauce.

Lesson 2 – Civil War – Empathetic writing – Write a letter from the battlefield.

Lesson 3 – Sport – Research sporting heroes from Worcester and create a profile.

Lesson 4 – Worcester Porcelain – Design a plate celebrating Worcester.

Lesson 5 – Worcester Cathedral – Tessellating patterns – Floor tiles for school.

Lesson 6 – Maps – Compare C16/C19/C21 maps of Worcester. List similarities/differences and discuss the changes.


Sports Journalism

This project links rugby with literacy, showing how the skills children learn in their literacy lessons can be used in sport.

The project focuses on three main areas:

Matchday Magazine – The children work in pairs / small groups to design different pages of the Warrior Matchday Magazine. When printed out the class will then have their own copy of a magazine.

Radio Reports – The class create a ‘Sports Report’ style radio programme, watching highlights of a variety of different sports, preparing a report and then recording it and editing them together.

Advertising – The children design an advertising campaign for a Warriors match.


Tackling Health

Delivered nationally by Worcester Warriors and the Premiership Rugby clubs in primary schools which Greggs Foundation already has a relationship with through its Breakfast Club Programme, the Tackling Health programme is an interactive project for children aged seven to eight which takes a holistic approach to teaching children about their own health, wellbeing and about leading a healthy lifestyle with a rugby focus.

Premiership Rugby has joined forces with Greggs Foundation to help improve physical activity and physical literacy among key stage two children across the country.

As a sport, rugby can offer playing opportunities and role models to children no matter what their ability or background and the interactive Tackling Health programme takes a rounded approach to teaching children about leading a healthy lifestyle.

The key aims of the project, which is also supported by Public Health England, are to improve young people’s understanding of what constitutes healthy eating and a healthy diet and to increase levels of physical activity.

Key Stats
· Current childhood obesity rates state that one in three children are obese or overweight by the time they leave primary school.
· Children growing up in low income households are more than twice as likely to be obese than those in high income households.
· Tackling Health is running across all Premiership Rugby clubs and 30,000 young people will benefit from the programme across the next two years

Wayne Morris, Community and Corporate Responsibility Director, Premiership Rugby said: “Almost one in three children leaving primary schools are now classed as overweight, which is a really scary number, and rugby is a really great sport as it’s suited to lots of different body shapes.

“We want to use the assets we have, such as the players as role models, the brands of the clubs, to get young people excited about being physically active and understand the food they are putting into their bodies.

“Tackling Health is a great partnership with the Greggs Foundation, which has a great history of delivering Breakfast Clubs at primary schools all across the country.

“Premiership Rugby also has a great history of making learning in a school environment fun for young people and when you put those two things together you get a fantastic programme like Tackling Health.

“It’s really going to make a difference to 30,000 young people across the country, improving their physical activity and their healthy eating.”

Tracy Lynch, Foundation Manager, Greggs Foundation said:  “When organisations combine their ideas, resources and passion together, they can often have greater impact than working on their own.

“Tackling Health is a fantastic example of how collaborative action can inspire organisations to achieve and sustain positive long-lasting impact.”

For more information or to book your class in, contact dave.rogers@warriors.co.uk

 

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