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Over 1,000 children compete at Wesport School Game Launch

Over a thousand school children have taken part in competitive school sport as part of the first ‘School Games’ festival in the West of England

In 2005 Lord Seb Coe, made a promise to the International Olympic Committee that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics would ‘Inspire a new generation to take part in sport and create a long lasting legacy for Sport in Britain’. To deliver this pledge the government has tasked sporting bodies to create ‘Olympic Legacy’ projects.

One of which is called the ‘School Games’ and is designed to deliver competitive sport to school children all across the country.

Thursday 26th January 2012 saw The West of England Sport Trust (Wesport) launch the School Games in the West of England. The event was held at Filton College WISE campus and allowed 300 pupils the opportunity to take part in a range of sports as well as experience an opening ceremony which included a parade by the 8 invited Primary Schools. Sports which they had a go at included Fencing, Table Tennis, Lacrosse and Tag Rugby. In the afternoon the Secondary schools were given the opportunity to also experience mixed lacrosse, Table Tennis as well as Wheelchair Basketball. Over the whole 4 days of the festival there was a variety of both taster sessions and County Finals on offer.

England Netball Player and Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallist Pamela Cookey who attended the launch event said:

“It is great to see children being given the opportunity to take part and compete in such a wide variety of sports. Schools are normally the first time children get to take part in sport and having an event like this means that they will be inspired to do more. London 2012 will inspire the nation to take part in sport and projects like the ‘School Games’ will allow the next generation to act on that inspiration.”

There were 13 different sporting competitions on offer over the 4 days of the School Games Festival which saw 1,319 pupils representing 23 different Primary schools and 44 different Secondary Schools.

All these schools have been competing against their local schools over the past few months to qualify for the County finals but to also have the opportunity of attending some open entry events which meant schools could bring along other pupils as well as their qualifying teams.

Lisa Wood, Youth Sport Manager at Wesport said:

“I am really happy with how our first School Games festival is going but this is only the beginning as our focus moves to an even bigger Summer School Games festival on the 20th June 2012 at the University of Bath”

For more details, please visit www.wesport.org.uk/schoolgames or contact Lisa Wood on 0117 328 6250 or email info@wesport.org.uk