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I'll just reply to a few points, some of these are to emails that were sent straight to me so may seem a little out of context.
1. Any documents, consent forms etc would be appreciated. I'm an ICT teacher and have no problems with 'borrowing' electronic copies off people. Thanks Kev
2. My school doesn't have a sixth form so I am solely talking about 16 and below. This is why I'm more pensive about legal issues.
3. I work at St Paul's Academy www.stpaulsacademy.org.uk the school is a sports specialist academy but with no fields, a one badminton court gym and two concrete playgrounds. Fortunately we are moving to a new building with a 3G astro with floodlights and a good hall in Jan.
4. I was going to start with just years 9, 10, 11. My school is a mixed school but currently quite small we are growing in size. Our intake is about 30 percent girls. What do others do about girls playing early on. My feelings are:
1. I have no female member of staff.
2. If we made it mixed very few girls would turn up and those that do are likely to overwhelmed by the boys.
3. I should just do older boys first get them understanding the game and start girls later then mix them at a later time.
Any suggestions?
4. My school already have a gaelic football team including a girls one. So hopefully another minority sport is going to be supported not frowned on.
Cheers
Lewis
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From: "Kevin Lowe"
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:31:09 +0100
To: <juniorultimate@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [juniorultimate] Junior ultimate - Secondary Schools
Welcome back to junior ultimate Loopy! It's been a few years since you
coached GB juniors in 2000 and ironically, GB Juniors are going back to
Heilbronn, Germany in 2010 for Junior Worlds, only this time we'll be taking
GB Juniors Open, Junior Women, U17s Open and U17s Girls.
Insurance - all junior tournaments are UKU sanctioned, therefore covered by
our insurance. By that I mean public liability insurance if something should
go wrong. Medical insurance only applies to juniors that have full UKU
membership (£18.50 for those under 18, £27 for over 18s). Any junior playing
for a GB Junior squad must be a member, others are being encouraged to join.
Next year we will also be introducing school affiliation for newer teams but
we are hoping that most juniors competing in a national junior event like
Indoor nationals, U17 indoor, national junior outdoors and junior women
indoors will be members of the UKU, even if it is only the nominal £5
membership.
Schools tend to have their own insurance for PE away fixtures. It's worth
checking out what your school has. I know mine is different if I can day
trip it (which they class as a PE away fixture and gets the same cover as
rugby, hockey, netball, etc.)
Smoking pot on the sideline, bongs being given out as prizes, etc. I really
haven't seen much of this at a serious tournament for many years, and
certainly not at junior tournaments. If you are really concerned about
keeping minors safe, then you can always make alternative accommodation
arrangements. For example, GB U17s at tour 2 all stayed at home (Birmingham
lot) or at the coaches house. That throws up a different set of child
protection issues but guidelines get discussed and agreed. Airbadgers always
find a hostel or scout site to camp at away from the tournament, I try to
day trip it as I struggle to get female staff/over 18s to accompany my
teams, and so on. Coaches do what they think is best for their juniors with
the limited resources they have.
Active teams in London - Discy Business are the only ones that attend junior
nationals and Latymer High School in Hammersmith play, as do various other
schools, apparently. Check out http://kevlowe.
(I haven't updated the details on this site for a while so if anyone wants
to email me with updates, I'll gladly add them or change their details).
Stress saving advice - Try to get weekly time in the sports hall, get them
playing outside all weathers early, get them to a tournament and they'll be
hooked! Then get them hooked in year 7. Don't take it personally when the
head of PE refuses to recognise it as a real sport because 'a dog can play'.
I've seen dogs knock footballs around but it doesn't mean they'll get signed
up by a premiership team, well, maybe Man City or Chelsea would sign them,
but no one that doesn't have a bottomless pit of money. Dates for U17
Indoors and U20 Indoors should be decided upon soon, and bids for outdoors
will be requested in September. Weekend tournaments often need county
approval and though some are happy with a couple of weeks notice, others
want 8 weeks notice. If you want to see sample risk assessments, parental
consent forms, medical forms, etc. that we use for tournaments, just ask.
XEUFC, maybe there are some opportunities there. Off the back of Worlds in
Heilbronn, Germany got 7 local schools playing and most of those 11 year
olds formed Germany's team playing in Southampton 2007 and they were
extremely good by then. Talk to Si when they're back from World Games.
Good luck.
Kev.
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