Pupils in first year recently enjoyed an afternoon of sporting challenge, courtesy of the school’s involvement in the Sky Sports in Schools Programme. For the fourth successive year, pupils welcomed a top athlete to take them through a series of sporting challenges. This year’s welcome visitor was Emma Wiggs, currently World Champion Para Sport Kayaker. Emma has also been a seated volleyball player.
Emma delivered a ‘Six Keys to Success’ workshop and para sport practical session to our pupils, with an emphasis on pupil engagement and interaction. Emma also held special workshops for our Sports Ambassador team.
Read some of the reviews below, directly from e-Mag members:
Cara Sinnett
The Sky Sports Challenge was basically for encouraging children of all ages to become more active and try different things, accepting opportunities that we wouldn’t normally go for. We met Emma Wiggs who was a Paralympian, and had won several gold medals for all of her efforts. She described how she became disabled and her story from then onwards. Afterwards we were involved in many different sports, some that only Paralympians would normally take part in. We were blindfolded for football and had to sit for sports like volleyball – this proved to be a challenge for some of us! We also had to support our partners in many different things too. This did seem harder than we had expected but overall was a great experience, worth being involved in. We had to really trust the people we were working with and be aware of our surroundings. This certainly did encourage lots of people in my year to join new clubs and welcome new opportunities. I would love to be part of many more similari activities!
Hannah Devine
On the 11th of November, Emma Wiggs came to Clyde Valley High School to challenge the 1st year at Paralympic Sports. The 1st years really enjoyed all of the games that Emma had set up for us. The most popular ones were Blind Football, Sitting Down Vollyball/Bumball and the 1 legged long jump. The 6 years helped us to do the challenges and it was the best way to end the day !
Liam Murray
On the 11th of November 2013 a paralympic gold medalist named Emma Wiggs came to Clyde Valley High to tell us about herself and show us what sport she played and how she played it. She also showed us the gold medals she won for sitting volleyball. It was a great experience and good fun for all the 1st years who took part in it. The activities we did were sitting volleyball, sitting basketball, one legged high jump, blindfolded beat the goalie and many more. Everybody loved it, I could see it on their faces and in their eyes. At the end, she thanked us for being good listeners and how we contributed with each other.
