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Celebrating school sport
9:00am Friday 4th July 2008
PUPILS from across the Wyre Forest district came out in force to celebrate the first ever National School Sports Week.
Hundreds of students took part in tournaments to mark the first year of the government’s drive to encourage more children into sport.
Wolverley Secondary School hosted a table tennis tournament for years nine, ten and 11 on Tuesday, while there was an inter-schools boys cricket festival held at Brown Westhead Park, Wolverley, on Wednesday.
The celebrations were set to close at Kidderminster Victoria CC’s Chester Road ground, which was hosting a girls’ cricket tournament today (Thursday).
District competition manager Tracy Stephens said: “This is a chance for those children who have never really got interested in sport to take up something they enjoy .
“We’re celebrating the good work that has been done during the last year to increase the number of children who have became interested in sport.”
National School Sport Week is a government initiative managed by the Youth Sport Trust and supported by Norwich Union.
It is also backed by double Olympic gold medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes, who is the National School Sport Champion.
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Net success: Bewdley School’s Becky O’Brien, 15, Stourport High School’s Gemma Rowles, 14, and Wolverley Secondary School pupil Scott Lane, 15, celebrated National School Sports Week with a table tennis tournament.
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