The Leigh Centurions Community Department deliver coaching at local schools
after school hours. These clubs run for six weeks where the community coaching
staff are available to take coaching sessions and provide an opportunity for
children to stay behind for one hour once school has finished to learn about
rugby and to take part in various physical activities.
The Tackle Sport Programme:
This programme was again very successful in the local area. The programme was
aimed at hard to engage young adults. Participants worked at the stadium along
with qualified coaching staff and first team players one day per week for six
consecutive weeks, through a rugby based skills programme and mentoring the
coaches monitored and helped to control the attendees’ social problems and
consequently helped instil social control issues to over 1800 participants
helping them back onto a stable pathway providing them with a clearer aim for
their future.
The Leigh Centurions Summer School:
Once the school year is over, the Community Department are still hard at work
organising the hugely successful Leigh Centurions Summer School; this has been
run for the last three years with many children returning each year.
The four day Summer Schools are held at The Stadium and run throughout the
school summer holidays Children that attend the summer school take part in four
fun-packed days where they participate in various rugby related skill drills and
fun games. The children are given a tour of the Stadium where they get the
chance to see the first team changing rooms, try on the player’s kit and see the
gym facilities that the players use. Children that attend also get the chance to
meet the first grade players as they help deliver the coaching and join in with
the games.
The Summer School is rounded off with a presentation on the final day where
all children receive Leigh Centurions gifts and certificates as a thank-you for
taking part.
If you would like any further information about the programmes delivered by
the Community Department, please don't hesitate to
get in touch.
‘Asthma – Stay on top of your game’ with Leigh Centurions:
This is a new programme for the community department and took place
at Westleigh High school with the help of the Primary Care Trust and
two of our first team players in Paul Rowley and Tere Glassie. The
programme was aimed at children aged 7-11years old who suffer from
asthma in the Leigh area.
Participants took part in several fun activities designed to educate
sufferers in how to manage their asthma and share their experience
with others including Paul and Tere. Both players sat and listened
to the children explain what it like living with asthma and both
learnt a lot about the illness. Paul and Tere then joined
participants in fun active games such as pass tennis, bench ball, 6
pass and ladders. Participants also took part in art activities
(including Tere) as a way of evaluating the impact of the programme.
The community department would like to thank all the staff that
helped make the programme a huge success these included Una O’Hea
and Lisa Alker asthma specialist nurses, school nurses Jackie Clough
and Jill Clarkson and Lynne Calvert of the Primary Trust whose
enthusiasm for the event made it all possible.
