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| Karl C |
Norwich Union UKA:Shine Award SchemeJust as a general update regarding Benfleet Juniors Running Club.We have 31 paid Junior members now, and average over 20 members attending the training sessions at Appelton School. We have enrolled in the Norwich Union UKA:Shine Award Scheme: What are the Norwich Union shine:awards? The Norwich Union shine:awards is a flagship development of UK Athletics, which reflects its vision - 'fun to fulfilment'. The Norwich Union shine:awards provide opportunities for children from the age of three and upwards to try athletics through fun physical challenges and rewards them for their efforts. They promote an incentive to learn and to develop individual athletic skill through four levels of activity: Level 1 - 'play and learn', 3-8 yrs Level 2 - 'participation', 7-12 yrs Level 3 - 'getting better', 11-15 yrs Level 4 - 'performance', 14yrs + The Norwich Union shine:awards aim to cater for children of all abilities, so an adapted version of the scheme is included at all Levels for young people with disabilities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Juniors start at age 8+ so we will be concentrating on Level 2 The Level 2 Awards' focus aim to 'participation', and provide an awards structure for 7 to 12-year-olds. To encourage the participation of all children at this Level it is sufficient that the child has tried and completed the activities to achieve a reward. The child can receive a sticker for every five activities completed, up to a maximum of 6 stickers. These stickers can be collected on a Record of Achievement card. Each set of 5 activities may be from any of the following sections: Jumping, Combinations, Running, Throwing or Fitness and Fun. All of the activities at Level 2 have performance targets. Opportunities exist for children at this Level to achieve a Cross Country Award, a Race Walking Award, a Skills Award, a Multi-Skills Award, a Healthy Athlete Award, a Sportshall Athletics Award, a star:track Award and an Agility Challenge Award. A Skills Award can be achieved by completing five activities against the performance targets - one from each of the running, jumping and throwing sections plus any other two activities. A Multi-Skills Award can be achieved by completing 7 activities against the performance targets – Two activities from each of the running, jumping and throwing sections plus one other activity. A Healthy Athlete Award can be achieved by completing the fitness and health activities against the performance targets. More details can be found on http://www.norwichunionshineawards.com/ |
| Karl C |
LATEST RESULTS  
All our Junior members are working towards the various awards. Latest results can now be found here http://www.benfleetrunningclub.com/juniors/shine |