Kin-Ball tournament provides great experience for Sports Leaders
Kin-Ball tournament provides great experience for Sports Leaders
One of the many partners our PE and Sports department team up with is ‘School Games’ who work with schools to increase competition, participation and leadership for young people to take part in sport.
As our school benefits from excellent sporting facilities, we regularly host events at the school and welcome children from local primary schools. This also provides useful coaching experience for our Year 10 Sports Leader students to act as managers, coaches and officials.
On Monday this week, Bourne Academy in association with School Games hosted an annual Kin-Ball tournament that showcased this thrilling and unique sport for local primary schools.
Kin-Ball is a relatively new sport originated from Canada where three teams of four players compete against each other at the same time to try and keep a giant lightweight ball (measuring 1.2 metres) off the floor! The objective of the game is to score the most amount of points by not letting the ball touch the ground.
Mr Dennis, Teacher of PE said “Our Year 10 Sports Leaders were excellent in assisting with this tournament and this experience will help them greatly with their programme. They all showed great enthusiasm to learn the game and help all the primary students have a fantastic day. A massive thanks to all those who took part and made the day possible.”
Rupert Gibson from Sport Games said “I was really impressed with how proactive the Sports Leaders were. They picked up on tasks and the rules really well. I hadn’t in fact expected them to step into the umpiring as they did. I thought I’d be umpiring one pitch and grabbing someone else to do the other but they just slotted in!”