Title: Volunteering event
Location: Sport Central, Northumbria University
Description: Thank you for your interest in being involved in the North of Tyne Athletics Network (NOTAN). We have many projects and activities going on over the next year which could not happen without your help. On Monday 21st November we will be holding a volunteers recruitment evening from 6.30pm at Sport Central, Northumbria University, Northumberland Road, NE1 8ST. Food and drink will be available and we will discuss the opportunities available to you.

This will be a great chance to gain some valuable experience in sport and to develop great contacts for the future. If you could let me know whether you can make it to the evening by Monday 14th November at the latest. It would be great to see you there.

Kind Regards

Victoria Spence

Victoria Spence
NOTAN Co-ordinator
Mobile – 07807039541
Email – victoria.spence@notan.org.uk
Web – www.notan.org.uk

Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-11-21

On Tuesday 18^th October Kevin Hill from Sportshall delivered a day of sportshall at Norham Community Technology College. This consisted of leaders training with 14 year 10 students throughout the morning followed by a primary school competition in the afternoon. The leaders learned about officiating and leading a session as well as helping at a competition. The leaders thoroughly enjoyed the day and they all worked extremely well. Nicola Powell, SSCO for the Norham Cluster Schools quoted:  

“Having the young people train young leaders in the morning and then put their newfound skills to the test in the afternoon is an excellent idea. NOTAN organised and delivered the day extremely well; enthusing the new leaders and making sure everything was in place for the competition in the afternoon. The competition gave pupils from many primaries a chance to come together and have fun working with other young people hopefully leading them to aspire to further athletics or leadership roles. An excellent day with everyone getting a lot out of it and above all enjoying!”

 The day was developed in conjunction with Clare Harding from the Tony Blair Sports Foundation (TBSF) where they aim to sign up the leaders to volunteer with other exciting events over the year. Victoria Spence from the North of Tyne Athletics Network (NOTAN) also worked together with Kevin and Clare to develop this day to help improve the provisions available in athletics to the primary school children, along with the opportunities available to the leaders.

Following on from this successful morning, three primary schools from the surrounding area brought along their year 5’s and 6’s to compete in an afternoon of fun-filled activities in a sportshall competition. Waterville, Percy Main and Riverside battled out throughout the afternoon and they all showed some great results.

It was a close result in the end but the red team, Waterville just secured first place with 110 points overall, the yellow team, Riverside in Second place with 92 points and the green team, Percy Main in third place with 88 points. Any outstanding results may be chosen to represent their school at the county competition later in the year.

NOTAN will be working in the surrounding primary schools over the year to develop the children’s skills. The coaching sessionswill focus on the sportshall activities, the athletics 365 programme and in the summer term Quadkids. This will give them a strong advantage for the competition next year where it looks to be an even more exciting competion!

The next courses held in the North East are summarized below

OFFICIALS

No officials courses are currently on offer in the North East but there are some country wide see link below

http://www.englandathletics.org/courses.asp?section=33&sectionTitle=Courses+and+Bookings

COACHES

LiRF 26 January 2013 Lightfoot Centre

Coaching Assistant 2nd and 3rd February 2013 Gateshead

Children’s Coach 9th February 2013 Shildon

for further details see link below

http://www.englandathletics.org/courses.asp?section=33&sectionTitle=Courses+and+Bookings

If you currently volunteer as a coach or official in athletics then you may be eligable to get a course part funded through the Tony Blair Sports Foundation. For more information on this contact arlene.ainsley@tonyblairsportsfoundation.org.

NOTAN saw its final summer grand prix competition on the 3^rd September, finishing in time with the end of the summer weather. It proved to be a great day and a finish for the summer season with a total of 23 athletes attending and over 50 athletes signed up over the series. The weather turned out to be a sunny day as we were greeted with local MP Alan Campbell who came to show his support and gave out the certificates and medals to the athletes.

In the final competition James Wordsworth came first with 170 points for the under 9 boys and Cissie Robson a first for the under 9 girls with 154 points. For the under 11’s, Felix Robson reached first for the boys with 252 points and Plamedi Mukendi reached first for the girls with 237 points, both impressive scores. With the under 13’s Jed Russell came first again for the boys with 208 points and Emma Wordsworth came first for the girls with 150 points. All of the athletes showed a great result for the competition, with improvements shown by everyone over the course of the series.

Medals were given to the overall winners of the competition. With the under 9 boys, James Wordsworth came first with an overall score of 671. In second place came Fin Russell with 388 points and following in third came Matthew Morgan with a total of 136 points. For the girls Cissie Robson secured first with 588 points. Close behind saw Ella Helme with 559 points and Carys Purves in third with 428 points.

For the under 11 boys Felix Robson came first with a total score of 927 points, a great achievement reaching the top score over all the age groups. In second place came Adam Swalwell with 741 points and third Joseph Ramshaw with 607 points. With the under 11 girls Plamedi Mukendi also saw a great score, coming first in each competition achieving 866 points. Second saw Rhian Purves with 615 points and in third Courtney Galloway with 357 points.

Finally with the under 13 boys Sam Evans secured first place with 814 points; another great score. In second place came Jed Russell with 638 points and third with 535 points came Adam Hill. With the girls Emma Wordsworth achieved first place with 465 points, closely followed by Faye Groom in second with 437 points and Emily Davis with 339 points.

A great turnout created a great competition so thank you for coming and thank you to all those who gave up there time to help volunteer at each of the events. With all your feedback we aim to make it a bigger and better event for next year! We now head into the winter season where plenty more opportunities for activities will be on as we prepare for winter training and the cross country competitions.