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Sports Leaders

Meet the Team

We are Mellor Sports Leaders!

The Sports Leaders are a team of Year 5 and 6 children who have a passion for Sport and getting active. We are often children who have taken part in afterschool clubs and teams or who have shown a special interest in this area.

We have to complete an application form and give it to Liz, Corey and Tina who select the Sports Leaders. The application form states that Mellor Sports Leaders must show these qualities at all times:

Responsible, Active, Committed, Approachable, Teamwork, Able to work with younger children, Helpful, Role Model

We have to say why we think we would make a great Mellor Sports Leader.

Year 5 Leaders are recruited in the Autumn term and they continue with their job into Year 6.

The Sports Leaders assist at Sports events across the school year. This has included supporting younger and SEND children during our Mini-Olympic Sports Afternoons in Sports Week and setting up equipment, running Paralympic activities alongside Liz for all year groups 1-6, helping to run whole school charity runs such as Race at Our Place where we run warm-ups and cool-downs, marshal the event and encourage the children to get around the course.

 

Reports to Governors

Spring Term 22/23 - Sports Leader Update

Since our last report, we have held a meeting with Corey about the Sports Leaders helping out at lunchtimes in the ball court to help out with the games. This started after Christmas. We also met with Liz and talked about how to help others get active inside Funnington. All of us have now completed our Sports Leader training module with Corey. Also we have given out the Daily Boost trophies for the most active classes in the school for the Autumn term.

Autumn 22/23 - Sports Leaders Update

Year 5 children were asked to apply to become a Sports Leader to work alongside the current Year 6 Sports Leaders. We wrote out an application for Liz, Corey and Tina. On these applications, we had to explain why we are a good role model, how we would help develop younger children in sports around the school and we had to give examples of how we are respectful. Our first task as Sports leaders was getting our photos taken for the display. Our next step for Year 5 and Year 6 is to complete our training with Corey. The next time we meet, we will discuss our project ideas for this year.

Summer 21/22 - Sports Leaders Update

This term we have been continuing with helping out in Funnington and the Ball Court at lunchtimes. Our trophies and badges have arrived and we will be launching our Daily Boost Sportivator roles and incentive scheme in the Autumn term.  We have been learning about New Age Kurling, Boccia and Sitting Volleyball and have been supporting Liz in running these activities for the other children as part of Sport’s Week Paralympic Activities. We have had to use our leadership skills such as communication and organisation to do this.  We have also helped to run the Race at Our Place. We led the warm up and were stationed around the track to encourage everyone to keep running and to stay safely on the track. We also helped escort the parents whilst on site.  We will be supporting Liz and Corey during Sports Week by organising equipment, setting out events, helping specific children and giving out and collecting in team bags.  We are looking forward to helping to recruit new Sports Leaders for next year although we will be sad to see our Year 6’s leave the team. 

Spring 21/22 - Sports Leaders Update

This term we have been organising how we are going to help the Lunchtime Supervisors deliver different activities to pupils in Funnington. We will use our Sports Leader training to support this.

We have also discussed and are planning to send out a home school challenge called ‘Get caught playing sport!’. To start this off, we will put photographs of us doing different sports at home on display. We will add a few sentences about who we are and what we are doing to help inspire others to be active at home and to take part in the challenge.

We are also going to start writing mini reports to put on our School Games Board so the school knows what we are doing to be active as a school and what happens at different events.

The school teams have been doing a lot of sports related activities outside of school so far this term. This includes the Dance Festival at Taylor Road Primary School, Boccia and New Aged Kurling at Aylestone Leisure Centre and the Football teams have also been in action. Zakariya even had a starring moment on the BBC East Midlands News talking about Boccia!

We have managed to sort out costs for our Daily Boost trophies and badges and will put our request to Nik shortly.

Autumn 21/22 - Sports Leaders Update

This term, new Sports Leaders have been chosen. Each year 5 child that was interested in the job took home an application form and they wrote why they would make a good Sports Leader including all the Mellor Character Traits that would help them. Then Liz, Tina and Corey had a difficult task to choose from these as there were so many. The Sports Leader group consists of 19 children from years 5 and 6. We are going to source appropriate trophies for the classes that do the most Daily Boost as our first task for our Sports Activator project. We are also going to be doing some Sports Leader Training to help us to do our jobs well.

Projects

Sports Leaders 21-22

 

So far, the Year 6 Sports Leaders have all completed part of the Sports Leader Training virtually with Corey. This would normally have been face to face training with Leicester City School Sport and Physical Activity Network but they have provided virtual training for this year and last year.

This year we have also been organising how we are going to help the Lunchtime Supervisors deliver different activities to pupils in Funnington. We will use our Sports Leader training to support this.

We have also discussed and are planning to send out a home school challenge called ‘Get caught playing sport!’. To start this off, we will put photographs of us doing different sports at home on display. We will add a few sentences about who we are and what we are doing to help inspire others to be active at home and to take part in the challenge.

We are also going to start writing mini reports to put on our School Games Board so the school knows what we are doing to be active as a school and what happens at different events.

We are going to create a job in each class to support with running the Daily Boost. There will be badges for the children with the job and trophies for the class who does the most Daily Boost minutes in each term! We have managed to sort out costs for our Daily Boost trophies and badges and Nik has agreed that we can purchase them next term. We hope that this job and trophy system will encourage more children to be active every day!

Sports Leaders 22-23

Daily Boost Project
As Sports Leaders, we would like to improve the fitness of the children in our school by encouraging them to get active every day!
We think we have come up with a solution. We want to reward classes who have done the most amount of Daily Boosts each term with a trophy – similar to the attendance trophy but termly to allow for the data to be sent to Liz. We would like to buy a trophy for each phase group to maximise the motivation across the school.
There will be 4 trophies (17cm tall) engraved with:
EYFS Daily Boost Champions
Year 1/2 Daily Boost Champions
Year 3/4 Daily Boost Champions
Year 5/6 Daily Boost Champions

In addition to this, we have created a job for a child in each class called the ‘Daily Boost Sportivator’. Their role is to remind their teacher to do the Daily Boost every day and to encourage their classmates to take part in different activities. We have designed a badge for them to wear so that they feel proud to have that job and it gives them an identity.
Here is our design:

 

This project has been running since Autumn Term 2023 and so far we have 95% of the classes taking part!
The Autumn term champions were:
EYFS Daily Boost Champions – NAMJP and N/RHC
Year 1/2 Daily Boost Champions – 2AW
Year 3/4 Daily Boost Champions – 4EB
Year 5/6 Daily Boost Champions – 6GH

The Spring term champions are to be announced shortly!

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