Girls from seven Nottingham City schools have taken part in a girls’ leadership event to build confidence and enable them to inspire younger girls in their schools to be more active.
Girls were selected to take part from Nottingham Free School, Djanogly City Academy, NUAST, Nottingham Academy, Bluecoat Wollaton Academy, The Trinity Catholic School and Nottingham Girls Academy.
They attended the event at Harvey Hadden Sports Centre, taking part in a series of practical and theory workshops to prepare them to return to school and set up and run activity sessions for targeted less active Year 7 girls.
Organised by School Sport Nottingham, and supported by the Youth Sport Trust and Active Notts, the day started with a fun warm up led by ambassador Charmaine Daley to help break the ice and get the girls moving.
Workshops were then led by athlete mentor Jade Windley and Mandy Newbold from the Youth Sport Trust, with girls asked to think the barriers and motivations to being active before considering how to create the right environment and how to design and modify activities for a range of participants.
The girls have now begun planning what activities they will deliver back in their schools.
