In order to gain Bronze Youth Achievement Awards, vounteers had to compete four 15-hour chaenges during the sports eadership programme. Chaenge 1 Chaenge 2 Chaenge 3 Chaenge 4 Gain experience of teamwork and eadership Participate in reguar activity sessions Vounteer at the Mini Youth Games ke part in a six-day teambuiding course To meet the requirements of UK Youth and ASDAN, vounteers had to set themseves targets they wanted to achieve whie taking part in each chaenge, keep individua portfoios of evidence and reguary review their progress as an Award Group.
CHALLENGE 1 Gain experience of teamwork and eadership During the sports eadership programme, vounteers were introduced to: The basic principes of communication, teamwork and eadership The pan-do-review mode of earning To improve their skis in these areas, vounteers took part in a range of icebreakers, communication exercises and teambuiding activities.
CHALLENGE 2 Participate in reguar activity sessions During the sports eadership programme, vounteers participated in reguar activity sessions incuding: High ropes Skiing Snow tubing Tobogganing Canoeing Kayaking Vounteers aso competed an emergency first aid course.
CHALLENGE 3 Vounteer at the Mini Youth Games Having gained vauabe teamwork and eadership experience, vounteers were given the chance to appy their knowedge and skis to benefit the oca community by supporting the foowing Mini Youth Games events. Event Date Venue be Tennis 23 March 2011 The Howard Schoo Cricket 16 June 2011 High Hastow Cricket Cub Athetics 5 Juy 2011 Medway Park The Mini Youth Games is a muti-sport programme that has undoubtedy become one of the highights of the schoo sporting caendar. Open to a chidren of primary schoo age irrespective of race, gender or disabiity, the aim of these events is to: Provide a safe and enjoyabe environment for chidren to participate in sport Provide opportunities for chidren to earn and deveop new sporting skis Improve chidren s socia skis and their teamwork Encourage chidren to adopt a fit and heathy ifestye
CHALLENGE 4 ke part in a six-day teambuiding course From 19 to 24 June, vounteers took part in a six-day teambuiding course based in Dartmoor Nationa Park. This residentia experience was deivered by Spirit of Adventure, one of the eading providers of adventurous activities in southern Engand. During this teambuiding experience, vounteers catered for themseves in the remote Bacheors Ha Bunkhouse (a converted granite barn situated in the heart of Dartmoor Nationa Park) and participated in a wide range of skis and tasks that cuminated in a physicay demanding fina team chaenge. Vounteers were given tota ownership of this residentia teambuiding course, having to make genuine choices regarding what activities they wanted to do and when and how they wanted to do them. As a resut the team became highy motivated and focused on achieving their fina objective.
SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND VOLUNTEERING A LA CARTE MENU Discuss aocated quantities with eaders before preparing meas Sunday Breakfast Lunch Pasta in tomato sauce with grated cheese, garic bread & saad Chocoate muffins & custard Dinner Monday Tuesday Wednesday Spaghetti on toast Tea, coffee or Bacon sandwich (+ veggie option) Tea, coffee or Crisps Chocoate bar Fruit Carton of juice Cheese Chicken Tuna Sausages, mash potatoes, peas & gravy (+ veggie option) Crisps Chocoate bar Fruit Carton of juice Cheese Chicken Tuna Burger, croquette potato, sweetcorn & saad (+ veggie option) Crisps Chocoate bar Fruit Carton of juice Cheese Chicken Tuna Jacket potato Fiings: Cheese & beans Tuna, sweetcorn & mayo Pancakes with emon & sugar Swiss ro & custard Beans on toast Tea, coffee or Rice pudding & fruit saad Thursday Friday Sausage sandwich (+ veggie option) Tea, coffee or Spaghetti on toast Tea, coffee or Crisps Chocoate bar Fruit Carton of juice Cheese Chicken Tuna Crisps Chocoate bar Fruit Carton of juice Cheese Chicken Tuna
SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND VOLUNTEERING Information1 The Team Chaenge1 ask 1 1 water the other haf shoud be off the water. You must then padde this raft at east 15 meters and then successfuy get back to shore. Earn up to 10 Beans tota Canoeing / Panning At the start of the exercise, your instructor wi give the exact search area to you. Earn up to 14 Beans Search / Cimbing tota The Shopping List ask 4 Haff of your Team wi be given a message to send across the reservoir to the other haff of your Team, who wi send back a repy. Your Instructor wi give you the message and the repy once your two Teams have been chosen No mobie phones! No shouting! No written pacards! ask 5 Recover an Object Night Navigation Two team members wi be tied together and bindfoded. They are to foow a trai set by your Instructor and recover an object. Directions can ony be given verbay. Each person in the team wi have to stand and remain at a given point to give directions. The rest of the team must remain stationary for the duration of the task Abseiing / Panning tota team team Send and Receive a Message A person is missing, you must organise your team to search over a arge area of rough moor and. Your team must perform quicky and efficienty to find the missing casuaty. ask 3 Missing Person Haf of the kayaks shoud be in contact with the ask 21 Kayak Raft You must buid a raft using a of your kayaks. team Cimbing / Canoeing The team must navigate to as many check points as they can. Each checkpoint has a number which is the amount of beans awarded for reaching that point on the map. You can navigate in pairs. Two different team members must navigate to each point. You must stay as one group. You wi ony have two hours to compete this task. The tota of Beans for this task depends on the amount of checkpoints reached. Navigation For pre-panning and commitment you can commitment you can your your your Location: Ader Lake map in foder Location: GR: 567711 Location: Burrator Reservoir Location: Given by your Instructor Location: When: your aotted ake day. When: Tuesday or Wednesday PM in the dark!! Permitted Time: 35 minutes on the water! Permitted Time: must be competed in 2 hours ask 7 ask 6 ask 8 Buid a Bridge Team Lower The whoe Team must be owered down a 6 metre rockface. The rope you use must be retrieved once the ast team member is safey down. Stick Boat Race The Team must buid a bridge from the materias provided. The river is approximatey 3 metres wide. You can ony buid the bridge from one side of the river. You wi be given the foowing materias Earn up to 12 Beans Abseiing / Search 4 poes x 2 metres ong rope 1 barre Earn up to green. Then race them between the two given grid references beow. The beans you earn wi depend on the first boat to the finish!!! Earn up to Must be made from environmentay friendy materias!!! Earn 2 Beans extra for each Team member that crosses successfuy (no wet feet) Search / Navigation Rafting Buiding As a team you must ocate a casuaty and carry them to a safe ocation to be picked up. Remember your first aid skis as the casuaty may we be injured. Buid a raft at the kayak venue with the materias suppied. You must then padde your raft to a given point with haf of your team on the raft. The other haf then padde out in boats and swap over so they can padde the raft back. Materias 6 poes 4 4 barres seection of ropes Green 8 Beans Search / Cimbing Red 12 Beans Bue 14 Beans For pree panning and tota team commitment you can 5 Beans ask 10 Rescue Find materias and construct 3 stick boats. Mark them red, bue, Cimbing / Panning ask 9 Earn up to 14 Beans Navigation / Canoeing your your your Location: GR: 551679 (Quarry) Location: GR: 568694 Location: GR: 606698 GR:602699 Location: Given by your Instructor Location: Ader Lake map in foder When: your aotted ake day ask 11 ask 12 Spiders Web As a team you must construct a spiders web between two trees as shown by your Instructor. The whoe team must pass through the web without touching any ropes. Each hoe can ony be used once and must have rope on a sides. Cimbing / Panning (No touching of the ropes) extravaganza for the VIPs (staff and instructors). It must incude a song, a short sketch (comedy or drama) and have a host for the proceedings. You must aso have a 5 minute interva for refreshments but this is not incuded within the aotted 1 hour. Earn up to 20 Beans Abseiing / Panning Pipe Run Earn up to 2 Your team wi be spit in haf for this chaenge. Each The team must construct 2 pipe ines that wi transport 2 gof haf of your Team wi be shown how to tie 2 knots. You bas over a set distance and into a bucket. Both bas must and in must then teach the other haf of your Team the knots you were shown. You must aso earn their knots. Each Team member wi then be abe to tie 4 knots which your instructor wi test you on. Be sure you can tie a the knots Cimbing / Panning the bucket within 2 seconds of each other. The two pipe ines must join 2 metres from the bucket, both bas must then run aong the same pipes and into the bucket. You can ony use equipment provided and each run wi be given a start point from your Instructor. You are ony permitted one attempt, but you may wish before being tested!!!! Cimbing / Panning Location: Given by your Instructor You must cook your Teams evening mea on a B.B.Q. (x2 suppied). You must produce a main mea and a dessert. Beans wi be awarded depending on variety, quaity, and presentation of your evening mea. You must aso entertain the stafff for 15 minutes with a short taent show!!!! ask 15 Tied in knots BBQ a a Dartmoor The team must produce and star in an entertainment ask 14 ask 13 to have tria runs. Materias: guttering, bamboo canes, bas, rubber bands. Search / Panning your instructor at your AM meeting. Use scripts if meeting. Location: Team Base When: Tues/Weds PM must finish before 22:00 When: Tues/Weds PM Permitted Time: 1 hour duration Permitted Time: must finish before 22:00 If you choose this task you cannot do sk 13 If you choose this task you cannot do sk 12 team meeting. Use scripts if Location: Team Base Earn up to 14 Beans Location: Given by your Instructor Location: GR: 628769
Medway Counci s Youth Service woud ike to thank the foowing organisations for their hep with... Project funding: Medway Counci s rgeted Youth Support Fund Greenacre Schoo Sports Partnership The Howard Schoo Sports Partnership Chaenge 1: Arethusa Venture Centre Rivermead Schoo Chaenge 2: Arethusa Venture Centre Chatham Ski Centre First Aid at Work (Training) Associates Rivermead Schoo Chaenge 3: Medway Counci s Sports Deveopment Team Medway Park Chaenge 4: Spirit of Adventure Fina team presentation: Kentish Bakeries Limited Rivermead Schoo Transport provision: A2b Coachways Rivermead Schoo