Hanley Swan Sports Journalism

Children in year 5 at Hanley Swan School took part in the Warriors Sports Journalism project in the Autumn Term. The children worked on aspects of radio reporting, designing a matchday magazine and designing matchday posters for Warriors matches. Some examples of their work will be shown here shortly.

Chawson Learn With The Warriors

Year 4 children at Chawson First School have been taking part in the Learning With The Warriors programme. The have already created a tally chart and graph to find out which team had won the 6 Nations Championship the most since 1960, used a map to locate European clubs and have performed the Haka like the New Zealand All Blacks. They have 2 more sessions remaining before half-term.

Warriors Rugby Camp

More than 70 young rugby players took part in the Warriors Rugby Camp at Kings Hawford School last week. As well as taking part in a variety of different rugby activities the players got the chance to meet Warriors players Aleki Lutui, Tom Arscott and Neil Best over the course of the three days. Simon Lane, Community Rugby Coach at Warriors, said; "The 3 day camp was a fantastic success, all the young players really enjoyed it and were delighted to meet Aleki, Tom and Neil. We now have rugby camps at Woodrush RFC and Ledbury RFC later this month to look forward to." For details of dates and how to book places please look here: http://www.warriors.co.uk/community/community.php

Neil Best Visits Perrywood School

Irish international Neil Best paid a visit to children in Year 3 at Perrywood Primary School, to talk to them about Diet and Nutrition. The children have completed 5 weeks work on the Something To Chew On project, where they have taken part in various different lessons based around their diet, as well as having practical rugby sessions.

Welland African Masks

Children in Year 3 and 4 at Welland Primary School have been taking part in a project based around the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The children wrote Haiku poetry to represent Asia, made up a number system based around Aztec and Inca codex to represent the Americas, completed a war dance like the nations from Oceania and made African masks. The children here are showing off their African masks.

Northwick Manor v Oldbury Park

Children from Northwick Manor and Oldbury Park Schools played an exciting game of Tag Rugby at Sixways on Saturday. The game was a showpiece event for the Something To Chew On project that 14 schools have taken part in this year. The game was played in an excellent spirit, with some really good skills on show for the capacity crowd, but in the end Northwick Manor won by 5 tries to 2. Northwick Manor will now represent Worcester Warriors at the Guinness Premiership Final and will get the opportunity to play at Twickenham!

George Crook Visits Lickey End School

It's been a busy week for Something To Chew On Ambassador George Crook, as today he visited Year 3 at Lickey End First School in Bromsgrove. George helped the children learn about the 5 food groups, using the eatwell plate and some rubber food! The children then went outside and had a practical rugby session, where they learnt how to pass a rugby ball effectively. The children in Year 3 have 4 more Something To Chew On sessions this term.

Warriors Stars Visit Fairfield Community School

Warriors and England star Matt Mullan and his fellow prop Shaun Ruwers visited the children in Miss Jones' class at Fairfield Community School on Tuesday. The players took part in a lesson about the 5 food groups, and helped the children to organise items of food into the correct place on the Eatwell Plate. This was the first of five lessons that the class will be receiving as part of the Something To Chew On project.

George Crook Visits Harvington First School

Something To Chew On Ambassador George Crook visited the children in Miss Pearson's class at Harvington First School. The children are in the middle of the five week Something To Chew On project and spent the afternoon learning about the conditions plants and animals need to thrive in, and how this relates to the things they eat. George then helped them practice their tag rugby skills outside.

Something To Chew On is a health programme run by all Guinness Premiership clubs in partnership with the Food Standards Agency.

Clifton Soccer Saturday

Here is a short selection of the 'Soccer Saturday' programme recorded by Year 5/6 at Clifton Upon Teme. The children had to work in pairs to describe exciting (or not) elements of some of the weekends sport. Warning - a certain part of this video is quite loud!! Thanks James :-)

Warriors Sports Journalism Project

Children in Year 5/6 at Clifton Upon Teme school have recently taken part in a Sports Journalism project. The have designed a matchday magazine for Warriors game against London Irish, made a radio sports report in the style of Radio 5 Live and created their own Soccer Saturday TV programme.

Here are some pages from their match programme:

Oldbury Park Sandwiches!

Two Year 4 classes at Oldbury Park School have completed the Something To Chew on project this term. The final session involves them creating a healthy sandwich for one of the Warriors players. There were several inventive and unique sandwiches, although Mr Miller was less than impressed with the state of his classroom!!!!

This blog will be a place to keep up to date with Worcester Warriors Education Programme, which consists of:

Learning With The Warriors - A 5 week cross curricular project for Year 4.

Something To Chew On - A 5 week Year 3/4 project based on healthy eating, designed by the FSA and Premier Rugby.

Warriors Sports Journalism Project

There will also be a selection of rugby based games and facts