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Find out what has been happening in the Selkirk area, get the round up of all the Selkirk Active Schools news.... If you have any news you like to share with Active Schools get in touch News Ettrick top the table at Swimming Gala This year Selkirk High School's Swimming Gala managed to go ahead, last year snowy weather conditions made access to the leisure centre unsafe. Ettrick were deserved winners, with Yarrow as close runners-up. Individual winners of the swimming Medleys were Kyle Adamson, Amy Gerlam, Emily Anderson and Keith Learmonth. Congratulations to all swimmers who took part. The Olympic Flame is coming to Selkirk... On Thursday 14th June the Olympic Flame will be carried through Selkirk passed the rugby club and along by Dunsdalehaugh Road and will end at Belmont garage, junction leading to Galashiels. Everyone should go and support this fantastic opportunity and there's no excuses as schools are closed for Selkirk Common Riding! Olympic Passport Launch in January 2012 Active Schools will be promoting the launch of their Olympic Passport in January for P4-7 children in all primary schools. The passport is to encourage as many young people to attend community clubs, taster sessions or after school clubs with reference to trying out some Olympic Sports and Activities. Active Schools will look to make sure all schools have access to a variety of sports in and around the Selkirk Cluster. Come August, children will have totalled up their points for attending the extra curricular sports and will recieve a gold, silver or bronze medal for their participation. Some of the more 'unusual' sports will be offering more points as these clubs there will be few of across the borders. Parents will receive an information sheet as a starter which will have details of the clubs in the Selkirk Area which children can attend. Any additional sports organised will be advertised through the sportborders website, Active Schools Facebook page and newsletters. Hockey legend Janet Jack inspires P7s Janet visited Knowepark as part of the Champions In Schools programme on 2nd December to talk about Goal Setting. The 35 P7s thoroughly enjoyed the visit and have been set a specific goal by Janet for March 2012. This is organise and run a sport relief event in order to raise money for the charity. Janet will be back at the school in January to talk about Healthy Lifestyles. Chris Paterson will be making his first visit to Selkirk HS early January to complete his work shop on goal setting with the S2 school of rugby class.
Knowepark are successful with Awards For All application Well done to Knowepark PS who were successful with their application to Awards For All to receive funding for bike stands, helmets and high vis vests. Mr Falconer the school Janitor liaised with Active Schools to pur the application together which is aimed at improving health and well being for the whole school. This is to encourage more staff and pupils (who are trained through SCTS) to cycle to and from the school and to reduce congestion on Anderson Road and Curror Street. Knowepark PS will continue their Bike Ability Training in March 2012 with the help of enthusiastic volunteer parent Alistair Meikle. The Junior Road Saftey Officers were also involved with the application and will be encouraged to promote active travel in the new year. Selkirk HS Tennis Team Selkirk HS girls came 2nd in the Borders Schools Tennis Championship and the boys came 6th. A huge well done to all participants.
NSSW - Valley Schools Sports Day Kirkhope, Ettrick and Yarrow Primary Schools came together to take part in an event as part of National Schools Sport Week. 50 children enjoyed a morning of potted sports and traditional races followed by Kwick Cricket skills stations lead by Cricket Coach Gordon Branston. Selkirk Cricket Club currently provides opportunities for progressing skills through regular structured training and match games towards achieving both individual skills and or competitive team sport objectives. These stations related to the 4 main skills, catching, throwing, fielding and batting. Congratulation certificates with personal pledges were presented to all children participating in the event as part of NSSW. Lilliesleaf held their sports day on Friday 10th June, Philiphaugh have theirs this Wed (15th June) and Knowepark is on 20th June. Mr Anderson (PE CST) is organising these with the help of Active Schools and Selkirk High School's Sports Leaders.
St Joseph's think healthy.... St Joseph's RC School enjoyed a week of fun activities and learning about healthy lifestyles. Although the weather stopped the children from going outside it meant clearing out a classroom. On Monday Karen delivered parachute games to the P1-4 and P5-7 classes. Tuesday saw both classes take part in some street dance delivered by Michelle Douglas.
Girls Allowed Club is underway - Street Dance
Knowepark and St Joseph's complete Bike Ability Level 2 18 children from Knowepark PS and St Joseph's RC completed their level 2 Bike Ability Award on Fri 22nd May. A huge thank you to all the volunteers who made the programme possible. Philiphaugh and Kirkhope schools start their training this week (24th May) and will be completing this during curriculum time.
Summer Holiday Programme 2011 Karen Cornwall will be going round schools at the end of May to distribute the Summer Holiday Programme for the Selkirk Area for children 5-7years and 8-11years. Most of the kids club activities will take place in the 2nd week of the holidays (11th-15th July) with the SFA programme running the 3rd week (18th-22nd July). Keep an eye out for the flyer coming to your school. Sports Leaders run afterschool sessions Sports Leaders Lewis, Fergus, Mijsje, Glen, Reece, Michael and Ross all completed 10hours plus towards their qualification by providing activities for children from Philiphaugh, St Joseph's, Ettrick, Yarrow and Kirkhope during curriculum time and after school. Well done to all the leaders who passed their Community Sports Leaders Award Level 2.
Selkirk Cricket Club comes to High School... Selkirk Cricket Club has been providing a link with the high school by offering coaching sessions on a Thursday afterschool for boys and girls in S1-S6. The club are trying to boost their junior numbers attending training on a Tuesday evening. All players new or old are welcome to attend the sessions. Cricket Scotland's development officer has also been helping with the link between the school and their coaching sessions cater for all levels. Lilliesleaf & Philiphaugh Health Week (May) Lilliesleaf PS and Philiphaugh CS have had a busy few days with their health week activities. Mr Zimmerman has been delivering cricket sessions at both the schools, BSLT have provided Dance Mats, Active Schools took P1-4 children for parachute/playground games, School Nurse has been visiting and this is just some of the goings on in the schools. P7 World Cup Event Selkirk High School Community Sports Leaders planned a World Cup Football Event for P7 children in the Selkirk Primaries at the end of April. Children from Lilliesleaf, Philiphaugh and Knowepark attended the event (80 children) who were split into 12 teams and played across the 3 pitches at Selkirk HS. The Leaders presented prizes for the winners of each pool, Boy Player of the tournament was Kyle Adamson from Knowepark and Girl Player of the tournament was Stacey Brannan from Lilliesleaf. A huge thank you to the SFA for supporting the event. Children More Safer on Roads... Pupils from St Joseph's, Knowepark and Philiphaugh are currently taking part in the Bike Ability Level 2 programme. St Joseph's RC Primary School (10 P6/7) have been learning about how to cycle safer out and about around their school, using the junctions at the bottom of the Loan and the Back Row. Active Schools Coordinator, Karen Cornwall has been delivering the programme shadowed by Clasroom Assisstants Mrs Thompson and Mrs Wilson. Once the children have completed their training they will then be able to cycle to school with the permission of parents/guardians safely allowing them to take part in more physical activity each day. Knowepark PS have 9 P6 pupils taking part in the training at Fairfield Crescent as an extra curricular event with the help of parent volunteers Alastair Meikle, Bridget and Kevin Stevenson. A huge thank you to Julian from Border Cycles in Hawick who has helped with the Bike Safety Checks and repaired any minor faults with bikes. Julian gave the children discount vouchers for his shop for any children who needed anything major completed on their bike. Philiphaugh CS start their Bike Ability Programme on Tuesday, taking place in Bannerfield Drive. Thank you to all the volunteers who have been helping in the schools, it's a fantastic opportunity for the children. Easter Sports 2011 Children from the Selkirk Area attended the Easter Sports Programme run by Active Schools and Scottish Borders Sports Development Teams. Activities that took place were Tennis delivered by Gavin Harkness and Kids Club delivered by Sports Leaders Glen Maltman and Reece Nichol. SFA also provided activities for all age groups and also had a great turn out for mini kickers.
Young Ambassadors Hockey Tournament Selkirk High School Senior Team won the YA Hockey tournament held at Tweedbank in March. The seniors beat Kelso in the semi final (2-1) and went on to beat Eyemouth (2-0) in the final.
Janet helps pupils reach their goals!
Borderer Janet Jack scored plenty of goals in her career as a hockey international, but it was a different kind of goal she was talking about on Thursday (25th November) when she visited Primary 6/7 pupils from Philiphaugh Community School.
The local sporting legend was offering advice on personal goal-setting as part of the Champions in Schools role-model programme, running for its second year in the Borders through the Active Schools network.
Champions in Schools, developed by the Winning Scotland Foundation, takes Scotland’s high-performing athletes into the classroom to deliver inspirational workshop to pupils over a series of three visits.
Each athlete will build a rapport with a targeted group of 20-30 children, discussing the importance of goal-setting, nutrition and physical activity in everyday life and sharing a belief that the adoption of a positive winning attitude offers long-term benefits on and off the sports field.
Janet’s next visit to Philiphaugh is on Thursday 24th February discussing Healthy lifestyles as the next workshop.
  Swimming Top Up!
Borders Sport & Leisure Trust have teamed up with Sportscotland and Scottish Swimming to provide a local project for P7s (P6s small schools) to assess every P7 child in the swimming pool, this will be based on the NSSA criteria. Those who fail to meet the standard will be offered 10 weeks of top up tuition as an extra curricular programme. The initial assessments will be completed during curriculum time. Schools are in the process of organising dates through Active Schools and BSLT. Assessments are looking to begin first week in March.
February Senior Training Programme 2011
After a successful October Training Programme for senior pupils; Active Schools provided 3 days of training through the February break for seniors across the Borders. The following courses which had been organised were; SFA Early Touches, Badminton Basics and Basketball. The pupils had a chance to expand their CV and gain experience across 3 sports which would help with their sports leaders courses. Glen Maltman and Reece Nichol attended the courses from Selkirk HS; through their enthusiasm and commitment they will be recruited through Active Schools to coach in the Easter Sports Programme.
Selkirk & Galashiels Area Netball Tournament
Seven teams competed at the Queens Leisure Centre on Wednesday 26th January 2011 from Selkirk and Galashiels clusters. Langlee A & B team, Knowepark A & B, St Peter’s A & B and Tweedbank. The teams were competing for 2 places in the Area Netball Final which took place on Wed 9th Feb. There were a lot of close, nail biting games and as the tournament went on the standard of netball increased a lot. The 2 eventual finalists were St Peter’s and Tweedbank who played very well at the finals. Kingsland lifted the James Mclean Trophy with Priorsford coming close runners up. Congratulations to all the teams who took part in the tournament and thank you to all staff who helped prepare for the competition.
CLUB GOLF Selkirk Golf Club have 2 level qualified coaches, Jim Douglas and Alan Wheelans. This means Selkirk GC are now fully enrolled as part of the club golf programme. The club have been liaising closely with Active Schools Coordinator, Karen Cornwall. The club have completed a 6 week block during the Summer Hols for P5-7 children. The sessions were led by Level 2 coach David Wilson from Hawick who has been helping the club on occassions. Alan and Jim are now holding 3 sessions at Selkirk High School as part of the club golf programme and 3 after the Oct Hols for anyone who would like to try out the junior equipment and develop their skills further. Jim and Alan's courses were funded by the SportsBorders coaching scholarships.
CHAMPIONS IN SCHOOLS The Champions in Schools Programme was a huge success across the Borders. Ettrick and Yarrow joined with Kirhope Primary School to recieve 3 visits for Scotland International Chris Paterson. Chris was a huge inspiration to the children and they thoroughly enjoyed the 3 workshops. A Show Case event was held so children could present to the public, Head Teachers, the champions and local councillors what they learned from the programme. This was also an opportunity for anyone in the audience to ask a question to any of the champions. As it's been a huge success, SBC have agreed to another year with the Programme. Schools have been selected but Champions have not been allocated yet. This year Philiphaugh CS P6/7 class will be involved with the project.
P6/7 HOCKEY AND P4/5 RUGBY FESTIVAL 2010 ACTIVITIES FIT FOR GIRLS! Selkirk High School are going to be running a new Girls Only Fitness Class on Thursday lunchtimes for 5 weeks after the October Holidays. Some girls from S1-S3 will be invited to attend the sessions run by Teviotdale Leisure Centre Fitness Instructors. Sessions will involve using the interactive dance mats, boxercise, fitness to music and circuits.
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