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Active Schools Awards: Most engaged club of the year

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Over the next week Jude Salmon, Active Schools Manager, will be running through the nominees for the club category of the Active Schools Awards.

This post covers the nominees for the most engaged club of the year.

See all announced nominees for the Active Schools Awards on Bright Futures.

Lismore RFC City of Edinburgh Volleyball Club Murrayfield Wanderers

Lismore Rugby Football Club

Lismore RFC are a club that offer fantastic opportunities and pathways for pupils in south Edinburgh.

They have a dedicated team of staff and coaches that deliver curricular and extra-curricular classes throughout the year.  From these clubs they field a number of teams in citywide competitions and events and provide pathways from school participation in to club participation.

In addition, they provide senior pupils with the opportunity to become coaches and gain Scottish Rugby Union qualifications.  They have successfully mentored several ex-pupils through their early stages of coaching and assisted them to deliver sessions to younger pupils in the area.

City of Edinburgh Volleyball Club

City of Edinburgh Volleyball Club consists of a junior academy and a senior club. The club is predominantly based in South Queensferry. With strong and developing relationships with Active Schools and Edinburgh Leisure, the club are well respected in the community. With programmes which have catered for children from primary one all the way to the senior national team, pro-contracts abroad and one former player representing Great Britain at London 2012, the club has a lot to be proud of.

This excellent reputation is appealing to families for their youngsters. There is no question about the efforts the club goes to to engage with the community and develop their ever growing base of players and support team.

Another element that deserves great admiration is the team of adolescents that the club is currently mentoring, with thanks to the recently awarded Sportscotland Direct Club Investment which will develop these coaches and subsequently allow further growth in participation at younger levels.

The club takes every opportunity for its athletes to compete and it has a robust network of competition which includes Junior District League, Junior National League, District League, Senior National League and Junior/Senior National Team.

Murrayfield Wanderers

During term one we saw a very low uptake to the after school rugby clubs.  Murrayfield Wanderers worked with the schools to deliver during curriculum time, so that children were given the opportunity to learn the sport.

The club organised a rugby festival at Murrayfield where all schools in the Tynecastle cluster took part.  Term two rugby clubs are now full following such as positive experience.

The club approached one of the primary pupils who showed great promise in rugby and offered him the opportunity to work alongside his coaches in the after school clubs to develop his leadership and coaching skills.



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