June 2023 Football Tournament

• We had 10 schools’ teams attending, each with 10 children in their teams.
• We hired the full pitch, which was split into 4 smaller pitches. Each game lasted 7 minutes, where each school played each other once.
• There were no scores kept, no winners at the end.
• We provided a constant source of water and energy bars, plus some apples, for all players and participants. All went down well!

 What we found encouraging was that there were mixed teams, boys, and girls together and from many different cultural backgrounds.

The schools provided their own coaching staff and Grant Alison (with whom we have a long-standing relationship) a co-ordinator on the Active Schools Programme helped with the referee’s and getting schools participating.