Leigh Centurions
Community Department
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| The Leigh Centurions Community Department are highly active within the local
area with numerous programmes running throughout the year. |
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| These programmes range from highly structured school programmes to the very
successful Summer Schools that run once the school year has ended. |
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| Current and recent programmes delivered by The Community department are: |
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Centurion Championship Challenge with Leigh Centurions: (New)
The Centurion Championship Challenge offers male and female high school pupils the opportunity to participate in 6 weeks of fun and constructive rugby league sessions. Throughout the 6 weeks pupils are given the opportunity to take part in a sport that they may not be able to do under the curriculum of the school or enhance already established rugby league skills.
Sessions are constructed to give an insight into the rules of rugby league as well as enhancing passing, handling, tackling, kicking skills, integrating fundamental movements, speed and agility. Teamwork, motivation, fair play and self control are instilled into every pupil that takes part.
The aim of the programme is to help increase the number of teams entering the National Champions Schools Cup. The coaching sessions will also be used to promote amateur club rugby league with the view to increasing participation at amateur club rugby league level within local amateur clubs.
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The Link Programme: (New)
The programme aims to strengthen the links between Leigh Centurions and local amateur rugby league clubs as well as primary and secondary schools. The community department are looking towards working within local and surrounding communities of Leigh and providing a link between school and amateur rugby league.
The programme will promote rugby league in general and work closely with local amateur clubs to increase rugby league participation; this is accomplished by constructing rugby league holiday camps and stepping stone rugby sessions to strengthen the link from school to amateur club rugby league. The programme offers ticket initiatives to come and watch Leigh Centurions and provide player appearances to help promote rugby league.
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Friends Together:
The Community department have teamed up with the Wigan Leisure and
Culture department and two local primary schools; Leigh Central and
Sacred Heart to pilot the ‘Finding Friends Programme’. This
programme is run in the pupils lunchtime for five weeks. Finding
Friends is a multi-cultural programme with children from various
countries including England, Slovakia, India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe
in attendance. The pupils learn the importance of communication and
teamwork through various means, including dance, rugby art and other
fun activities.
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Learning Through Sport Programme – Sponsored by Palletline
and Sportsmatch:
The Learning Through Sports Programme welcomes pupils from local
primary schools into The Coliseum Stadium for a fun-filled day. The
Programme is a numeracy and healthy living day based around rugby
and working life at Leigh Centurions. The pupils visit various
departments during their tour of the ground solving numeracy
problems. They also spend time in the changing rooms where they
learn about life as a rugby player and the importance of keeping
fit. Pupils then take part in. their own training session on the
pitch. |
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Game for Girls Programme – Sponsored by Hattons Solicitors and Sportsmatch:
(New)
The Community department runs a six weeks after schools programme in the local
secondary schools. Throughout the six weeks, girls form Year 7 to Year 11 are
taught the basic skills required to play contact rugby, including passing,
kicking and tackling.
Teamwork, motivation and fair play are instilled into all the girls that take
part. The Game For Girls Programme allows girls to take part in a sport that
they would not be able to do under the curriculum of the school.
Information about girls amateur teams in the area is passed on to all the girls
involved in the hope that they will continue to train and play rugby league at a
competitive level. |
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Junior Centurions Programme: The junior Centurions Programme is a five week
tag rugby coaching programme that is being delivered in primary
schools throughout Leigh and the surrounding area.
Throughout the five week programme, pupils in years 4, 5 and 6 will
be taught the basic skills needed to play tag rugby, this will
culminate in a tag rugby festival attended by players and amateur
club representatives, in which the children can showcase the skills
they have learnt and compete against other primary schools in the
area.
The participating primary schools will receive a teachers’ resource pack which
will include skill drills to enable the school to continue to teach rugby once
the programme has ended. |
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