SUDBURY TEACHERS LEARN TCHOUKBALL FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS
Date: Monday 21 April 2008
Press
contact: Andrew St Ledger 07779 322630 andrew.stledger@tagb.org.uk
Twenty PE teachers from the Sudbury area have learnt the new sport of thcoukball for their schools.
The teachers, all from the South West Suffolk School Sports Partnership (Sudbury and Haverhill), spent the afternoon learning how to play and coach this fast and athletic sport last Thursday (17 April 08). It is hoped that they will now use their new skills to introduce tchoukball to school children across the area.
The staff were attending a free teacher training session at Sudbury Upper School delivered by the Tchoukball Association of Great Britain (TAGB). The training was part of the TAGB's New Year New Sport programme – aimed at introducing tchoukball to secondary schools across Suffolk. So far, nearly fifty schools have experienced tchoukball with many actively introducing it into their PE lessons.
Sudbury has had a long-held reputation for tchoukball with several Great Britain international players coming from the town's tchoukball club.
Partnership Development Manager Kevin Fidell who heads up the School Sports Partnership said:
"We like to provide a wide range of sports for the children in our partnership. Tchoukball appealed to us because it is new and exciting and would appeal to children of all sporting abilities and levels of experience. I would like to see tchoukball played in more schools in our area."
TAGB Suffolk Area Project Manager Melanie Hibberd said:
"Tchoukball is an ideal school sport because it is athletic, sporty and non-contact so it is possible for boys and girls and those from different age groups to all play together."
"Probably the most important benefit of tchoukball is the fact that it is entirely inclusive. Being new to everybody, players all start at the same level. Sometimes when children move up to secondary school they can be left behind in certain sports and it is often underestimated as to just how much that puts some young people off."
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