Girls Active

Norwich Union GirlsActive is led by the Youth Sport Trust, supported by Norwich Union and spearheaded by Double Olympic gold medal winner, Dame Kelly Holmes.

Norwich Union GirlsActive is designed to empower teenage girls to enjoy more sporting activity on their own terms, making positive choices and being given a voice. It is also about enabling young people to make a positive contribution to their schools. Girls are challenged to come up with ideas on what they would change in their own schools in order to make sporting activity something they would want to participate in.

Over the last two years, a number of Norwich Union GirlsActive roadshows have taken place across the country for targeted schools, where girls aged 13-16  were given the opportunity to take part in taster sessions in activities such as street dance, boxercise and rock climbing. Girls were also challenged to work with their teachers to identify the issues surrounding girls' participation. They also took the lead in addressing the issues and encouraging their school peers to get more active and to stay active.

Last September two girls from the Eastern Partnership were selected to take part in a Girls Active Road Show.

We travelled to the PGL Centre near Hereford and were greeted by Dame Kelly who introduced the road show. The girls took part in a series of exciting sports such as street dance, abseiling, cycling stunts and sliding down the zip wire!

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Girls Active Trip to GO APE outdoor centre on July 3rd 2008.

9 Harris year 10 students were given the opportunity to try something different in PE in the attempt to re engage them in physical activity. They spent the day up in the trees climbing across ladders and wires, swinging from a platform into nets and flying down a zip wires. It was a exciting day out with many challenges, the main one over coming any fears of heights and working together in groups.

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