Young Ambassadors

 Athlete of the Month

Libby Clegg

Sport of the month

Tennis

Venue of the Month

Aquatics Centre

Ambassador Updates

YAs invited to volunteer at 2010 UK School Games

Platinum Ambassadors Ben Leslie and Anna Ramsay have been invited by Youth Sports trust to volunteer at the 2010 UK school.

They will be among the 350 volunteers that have been recruited to support the games and their role will be to support the delivery of different sporting competitions each day, which may include assisting with results, assisting with event admin and table monitoring.

This year the UK School Games will be staged in North East England with Gateshead, Newcastle and Sunderland uniting as hosts.The games will bring together 1,600 of the UK’s elite school aged athletes competing across 10 sports from the 2nd – 5th September 2010. It aims to provide talented young sports people from across the UK with the opportunity to compete in an event which replicates the feel of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Young Ambassador Kirsty Hill will also be attending the games as a representative of the Scotland Hockey squad. Border Athletes also competing at the games are:

Jessica Wilcox             Hawick High School

Amy Fraser                  Earlston High School

James Clegg               Royal Blind School

Stephen Clegg            Royal Blind School

Angus Gillies               Peebles High School

Flora Gillies                 Peebles High School

Hannah Ferguson       Peebles High School

Sarah Robertson          Selkirk High School

Kirsty Hill                       Kelso High School

Lucy Nevin                    Berwickshire High School

Naomi Symonds            Peebles High School

Channel 4 will be showing a highlights programme of the games on Saturday 18th September from 07.00am till 08.00am and on Channel 4+1 from 08.00am till 09.00am.

For more information about the UK School Games visit: www.ukschoolgames.com

New recruits at Kelso High School

Current YAs, Active Schools and the PE department have been working to recruit 4 new additions to the KHS team.

S5 pupils Gillian Black & Becky Thomson have been recruited as the new Borders Gold Young Ambassadors. The roles of a Gold Young Ambassador involves:

• Promoting the profile of the games within the school, local primaries and community.

• Raising the profile and understanding of the Olympic and Paralympic values amongst other young people.

• Encouraging schools to register for Get Set and join the Get Set network.

• Increasing participation and promote healthy active lifestyles amongst other young people.

• To represent and work across the schools and local the Scottish Borders for a period of 2 years.

We have also recruited Erin Ramsay & Rachael Stewart, also S5, as Kelso High School Adistar Young Ambassadors. The role of the adistar YA is explained below.

 Expanding the programme across the Borders

In partnership with Youth Sport Trust and new sponsors Adidas, Active Schools are expanding the Young Ambassador programme to all other secondary schools in the Borders.
All 9 secondary schools have the opportunity to recruit 2 pupils to act as adistar YAs. The role of the adistar YA will be to;

• Promote the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games within their school through the London 2012 education programme, Get Set.
   

• Be role models in living out the Olympic and Paralympic values within their school.

• Be an ambassador for adistars in their secondary school.

• Complete tasks and challenges set by the Platinum YAs from KHS.

The newly recruited adistars will be invited to attend a local conference on Friday 22^nd October to educate them and prepare them for their role. A full list of newly recruited Border Adistars will be published on this page in mid September.

 What’s next for the Young Ambassadors

The programme will see a few changes this year. Firstly the Young ambassador programme is now being sponsored by 2012 sponsors, Adidas and the programme will expand to other Secondary Schools across the Borders.
After a successful first year in the role of Young ambassadors Kirsty Hill, Ben Leslie, Anna Ramsay and James Stewart will continue the YA role as platinum ambassadors which will involve:

• Mentoring the new Gold & Adistar Ambassadors.

• Assisting with the roll out of the programme across the Borders.

• Holding a Borders conference for all new adistar Ambassadors.

• Recruiting 4 new primary pupils to act as junior YAs in the Kelso Area as part of a pilot programme.

• Coordinating the border wide team of YAs

• Encouraging schools to register to the Get Set network.

• Undertaking an advocacy role with key adults about the roles played by Young Ambassadors.

   

 2009-10 Young Ambassador Review

Last year Active School launched the Young Ambassador (YA) programme in partnership with Youth Sports Trust. Kirsty Hill and Ben Leslie were appointed as Borders Gold Ambassadors in August 2009 and lead the Kelso High School Ambassador team throughout the year, which also included Anna Ramsay & James Stewart. The Young Ambassadors were selected by KHS PE staff and Kelso Active Schools Coordinators due to their sporting talent and their outstanding and ability as young leaders.

The YA team have had an extremely busy year as Border Young Ambassadors, creating excitement and promoting the values of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Read about what they did in the 2009/10 review.

2009/10 Young Ambassador Review 

Get Set for 2012

Get Set is the official Education program for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. The website contains various resources to support teaching from early years to 16 years using the Olympic and Paralympics values. The site contains games, interactive quizzes, films, competitions and classroom ideas to get pupils excited about 2012.

Registration to the Get Set Website is completely free and you will get access to more resources and opportunities. London 2012 have recently just launched the Get Set network, a special new London 2012 community within the Get Set website. If your school joins the network, you then have the right to use the London 2012 education logo. Members of the network will also receive a plaque and certificate marking their achievements and are given priority access to exclusive London 2012 rewards and opportunities. It's easy to join the network, All you have to do is blog about the Values-related work you have done, and complete the simple three-step online application form. Young Ambassadors would like to encourage Border Schools to join the Get Set network and get their schools involved in the opportunites leading up to 2012.