Horsham District Latest News
YST Working with the RFU to Grow Rugby in Schools
The Youth Sport Trust is working in partnership with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to listen to the ideas and needs of young people with the aim of engaging more young people in rugby. Through working together with schools and their students on this Workforce Pilot, the RFU are creating a range of formats of rugby that are designed to be exciting and vibrant to all.
Shelley Reign Supreme in Dodge City
Shelley School won the year 3+4 dodgeball championships played tonight in the indoor athletics hall (‘The Tube’) at The Bridge leisure centre as a consequence of wet weather preventing play outdoors. They won a round-robin of eight teams from six schools, winning six of their seven matches and, interestingly, only being defeated by bottom team Southwater B in their second match of the night.
More Girls are Playing Football But a Significant Team Sport Gender Gap Remains
The latest Sport England Active Lives Children and Young People survey reveals persistent gender gaps in team sport and activity levels. The overall 22% gender gap in team sport participation has remained stable since last year, with 69% of boys aged 5-16 engaging in team sport compared to only 47% of girls in the same age group.
100 Policy Ideas for Sport, Physical Activity and Wellbeing
The Sports Think Tank has released their new ‘The Road to the 2024 Election Manifesto.’ The manifesto document presents policy calls, ideas and proposals from 29 organisation from across the physical activity sector.
Southwater Year 5’s Unstoppable At Sports Hall Athletics
The third and final meeting of the Horsham Primary Schools Girls Football League took place tonight at the Tanbridge astroturf in bitterly cold weather. Heron Way A were heavy favourites starting the night in pole position and never looked like relinquishing that advantage as they added another three wins to their record. The bigger question mark hovered around second spot with Southwater and Leechpool front sides matching each other point for point but the former prevailing by a goal difference of just three.
Great Fun at TT Skills Festival
15 children from two schools – Kingslea and St Mary’s Pulborough – took part in a table tennis skills festival at The Forest School on Friday. The event involved learning and informal, self-scoring competition and Finn and Charlie from Kingslea emerged as winners accumulating 430 points, 20 ahead of schoolmates Ayaan and Jack.
Advantage Leechpool in Netball Division A
Last Thursday’s netball league Division A was affected by the postponement of three matches due to one of the three courts becoming too slippy to play on. Thankfully those matches can be squeezed into the second and final meeting due after February half term.
Children’s Mental Health Week
Children’s Mental Health Week, from February, 5-11, is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK.
England Football Launches New Disability Training E-Learning Module
The 60-minute module, Introduction to Coaching Disabled Footballers, follows the 2021 launch of Football Your Way, The Football Association’s landmark disability football plan to help develop, improve, and raise awareness of disability and disability football.