Young Ambassadors

 Athlete of the Month

Tom Daley 

Sport of the month

Badminton 

Venue of the Month

Hockey Centre  

Ambassador Updates

Selkirk win 1st YA Interschool Olympic Event

2012 clubs for Kelso Primary Pupils

The Gold Young Ambassadors, Becky Thomson and Gillian Black set up and delivered 2012 clubs in 2 local primary schools this term. The senior pupils delivered 2 5 week clubs for P5/6 pupils at Edenside PS and Broomlands PS.

They offered a different Olympic sport each week including gymnastics, tennis, badminton, basketball and athletics. At the start of each session they talk about that Olympic Sport and asked pupils to find out information about the sports at 2012 including athletes from that sport, what venue will it be held at, how many medals will there be and interesting facts about the Olympics. The clubs where a huge success and the 2012 clubs will continue in other schools.

Adistar's deliver Paralymic Festivals across the Borders

The secondary network of Adistars have been working with Active Schools to deliever local paralympic festivals for primary pupils. Over the school year Gala Selkirk and Earlston, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Peebles have held 2 paralympic festivals. Pupils have took part in Kurling, Boccia, Athletics, Tennis, Football, basketball, dance and cricket. Adistars from the local secondary schools attended the events to deliver kurling and boccia stations, after having recieved training from Active Schools.

At some of the festivals the adistars also raised the profile of the Olympic and Paralympic Values by presenting certificates to pupils that had lived one of the 7 values.

Kelso High School Welcome to the Get Set Network

The Young Ambassadors from Kelso High School have successfully joined the Get Set Network. Get Set is the official education programme for the 2012 games and is full of exciting resources for pupils ages 3-19yrs.

The Get Set network is a special community of schools from across the UK that have been recognised and rewarded for their commitment to 2012. The school will receive access to exclusive competitions and 2012 Games related opportunities over the coming years.

As a member of the Get Set network the school are now in the best position to take advantage of the London 2012 Ticketshare initiative which will distribute Olympic and Paralympic Games tickets to children and young people in schools and colleges across London and around the UK.

Visit the Get Set website to find out more or if your school is interested in joining the Get Set Network please contact your Active Schools Coordinator. 

   Secondary Pupils Leading the way to 2012 

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 secondary schools have the opportunity to recruit 2 pupils to act as Adistar Ambassadors. 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.
  

  

  
  Adistar Ambassadors in each school are detailed below:

Gold YAs at Kelso High School

KHS 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 Border 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.

Junior YAs

The Borders Young Ambassador programme sees many changes and new additions this year including the recruitment of 4 new Junior Young Ambassadors. Kelso Active Schools have recruited 4 P7 (2 from Broomlands PS & 2 from Edenside PS) to undertake this new and exciting role. The successful P7 pupils are:

Broomlands   Linsey Young & Flo Mace

Edenside       Lara Patterson & Ryan Angus

Their aim throughout the year will be to Raise the profile of the Olympic and Paralympic games in their schools, by completing challenges set by the KHS team of Young Ambassadors. They will be entering London 2012 competitions to win their school prizes and will be responsible for maintaining a London 2012 notice board within their school.

Their challenge this term was to start decorating their notice board and deliver an Olympic Assembly to the school with 2 of the Young Ambassadors from KHS. They are also busy working on creating a Kelso inspired mascot as part of a Get Set Competition.

For more information about what they have to do for this competition click here.

 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 

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

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.