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For when the one great scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the game.(Grantland Rice, 1923.)
The Mini Youth Games (MYG) is a multi-sport scheme running throughout the school year, open to all Medway primary schools. The scheme is organised by the Medway Council's Sports Development Team, with the support of the governing bodies of sport, local sports clubs and leisure facilities. Prizes are awarded at each event and points are gained towards the overall MYG title.
At each event points are awarded to each school for simply taking part. This is the main emphasis of the MYG – enjoyable participation, so the most prestigious prize at any event is always the fair play award. The fair play league runs alongside the main scheme. Schools are allocated a fair play score by officials and event staff that counts towards an overall fair play ranking for each event and over the whole year.
It is crucial that young people are introduced to sport in a friendly, positive environment and that they are encouraged to accept victory and defeat with equal grace. It is important that they learn to show consideration and respect towards opponents, team mates and officials, as well as to the rules and conventions of the different sports.
For more information, please refer to the Mini Youth Games brochure (pdf 585KB). To use this and the other pdf files on this page, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this on your computer, please use our advice page.
Coaching and after-school clubs
Pre-event coaching is an important part of the Mini Youth Games (MYG) and a way of introducing many children to the skills of a new sport. A teacher, a parent or a visiting qualified coach may deliver this coaching and the council's Sports Development Team is keen to support this, either through providing coach education courses for teachers and adults other than teachers or by using external coaching expertise.
Where possible, the team would like to offer a limited number of free coaching sessions to schools entering a MYG event. This activity need not stop after the event. The team is keen to assist schools in establishing after-school clubs in new sports and will help with initial coaching costs on condition that the school continues this provision by covering further coaching costs or through a teacher gaining an appropriate coaching qualification.
Community links
There are a great many sports clubs in Medway that are keen to welcome new members and build links with local schools. Schools interested in benefiting from club links should contact the Sports Development Team to find out about the clubs in their neighbourhood.
The Sports Development Team has published a Sports Club Directory that includes contact details for many sports clubs within Medway.
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Continued Professional Development (CPD) Programme The primary aim of the programme is to improve the quality of teaching, coaching and learning in physical education (PE) and school sport. The national PE CPD programme will ensure that teachers and others have the tools and expertise to deliver high quality PE and school sport. The programme will support the implementation of the targets detailed in the PE, School Sport and Club Links Strategy (PESSCL), including the joint objective from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCFS) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), to “increase the percentage of school children in England who spend a minimum of two hours each week on high-quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum.”
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