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NFSSP Quick Sticks Festival
Noadswood Sports College
15th June 2010
"Hundreds turn out for Schools Hockey Competition"
The New Forest School Sports Partnership delivered another successful opportunity for young people to access sport within the area. On Monday 15th November, Noadswood Sports College hosted the first ever NFSSP Quick Sticks Festival.
Quick Sticks is fast, safe and exciting and has been designed so that teachers with little or no hockey knowledge or background can deliver the game.
Ten schools and over 100 children took part in this maiden Hockey competition. The competition is a stepping stone to mini-hockey, which is also delivered by the partnership with a similar competition in the spring.
Brockenhurst College students were also involved, with over 25 of their Sports Leaders from the Brockenhurst Academy, running mini-workshops for the participants before the small sided competition in the latter part of the afternoon. Many of children were pleased to be chosen to participate, as the Quick Sticks format is designed to give both non-hockey playing children and those that have had some experience already to compete together.
Rob Cook, Competitions Manager stated, “I feel that these are the sorts of events that give many pupils the opportunity to come together for a competitive, fun and enriching experience through sport. The NFSSP has given many young people these types of opportunities and the benefits are clearly visible when attending such an event as the Quick Sticks Festival.”
“Thank you to all from the New Forest School Sports Partnership that supported the festival and made the afternoon a huge success.”
For more information on Quick Sticks visit: www.playquicksticks.co.uk
School Sport Partnerships were recently a victim of the coalition governments’ autumn spending review. It is events such as this that have made a difference and would continue to make a difference. However in light of the decision to cut school sport partnership funding from September 2011, events such as these will be under threat in the future.
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by Testwood Sports College