KS1 FOOTBALL FESTIVAL
On 4th October we held our KS1 Football Festival at Goals Soccer Centre. This was an Developed themed event and was for pupils who enjoy friendly competition but don't want to solely focus on winning an dlosing, instead they focus on supporting pupils wider development of their physical, personal, emotional and social health. All Pupils received a participant certificate and the school games value celebrated for this event was Respect. All children were encouraged to display the school games values and fair play but each team nominated one pupil from their school who stood out the most for showing Respect School Games Value.
We had the following 16 schools attend our event (18 teams):
- Stibbard
- North Elmham
- Lodge Lane
- Garrick Green
- Hockering x2
- Scarning
- St Peter's
- Reepham
- Bawdeswell
- Toftwood Infant
- Dereham Infant
- Queens Hill x2
- Nightingale
- Cawston
- Astley
- Litcham
The schools participated in 4 different football skilled based activities delivered by the DESA sports leaders, who were brilliant at supporting and encouraging the children to do their personal best. It was great to see over 180 children involved in football and a great opportunity for the pupils to represent their school in a sports event. The pupils were active and improved across the day. Following on from todays event, we encourage schools to provide the children an opportunity to develop and improve their football skills further by putting on clubs before/after school, break and lunchtimes as well as encourage the pupils to join a local community club to promote/grow football wider in Norfolk.
Youth Voice - Quotes from the pupils at the event;
- "Very happy and had a great time"
- "leaders very friendly and encouraging towards the children"
- " learned new skills and was really fun"
- "great experience"
- "enjoyable and fantastic time"
- "organised and brilliant leaders
- "loved it"
- "this was amazing"
- "enjoyed learning new things"
- "liked the activities"
- "incredible, super, awesome, great, amazing, mega, outstanding"
- "lots of fun and lots of challenge"
