HALF TERM PROGRAMMES
THE NEXT HALF TERM PROGRAMME IS EASTER HALF TERM 2024
FEBRUARY 2024
5 days of fun to start our first 2024 half term multi sports programme down at Mark’s Gate. With 111 different superstars taking part over the week, even though some young people had a different half term due to the borough they attend school.
78 males and 33 females took part in football, dodgeball, cricket, tennis, touch rugby and the sports day on Friday.
Below are a few pictures of the week:
OCTOBER 2023
5 days of sports in probably the best weather we ever had for October. With the young champions taking part in archery, basketball, dodgeball, cricket, football and touch rugby.
Here are a few pictures of the week:
SUMMER 2023
5 weeks of a variety of sports for both age groups, the 4-9 year old group and the 10-16 year old group to enjoy. With record breaking numbers partaking over the 5 weeks and the weather being alright, we are pleased to announce the following.
We had 227 different superstars take part over the 5 weeks, 155 males and 72 females embrace the project.
A massive thank you to the sports icons who also helped out as well as one of the local kids who wanted work experience.
As always, a massive thank you to all the staff, coaches, parents and guardians as well as the young people themselves. Not forgetting North meets South for all their support.
Here are a few pictures of the summer:
MAY/JUNE 2023 HALF TERM
5 beautiful days of a variety of sports being partaken by over different superstars this week. Nothing ever beats the energy of having fun in the community.
As always, we would like to thank everyone who got involved over the 5 days. A massive thank you to the sports icons, parents and coaches as always.
Here are a few pictures from the week:
APRIL 2023 HALF TERM
5 days of fun with some good weather for once in April, with 100 young superstars taking part in sports.
FEBRUARY 2023 HALF TERM
We had 5 days of fun, with the young participants partaking in 6 different sports as well as our fun day of course on Friday.
We had 131 different superstars get involved, averaging over 80 kids per day. 46 females and 85 males.
We also would like to thank our first 2 sports icons who helped out with multi sports programme.
Here are a few pictures of the week:
OCTOBER 2022 HALF TERM
5 days at Marks Gate, we had a quiet one in terms of the usual numbers with only 62 different kids partaking in our activities. The weather not being the best could of been a result in the numbers but we hope to be back to normal in 2023.
SUMMER 2022 HALF TERM
5 weeks of sports, with the weather being beautiful 95% of the time. We had our longest and biggest summer programme to date.
We had 209 different stars partake in the programme over the five weeks, with 138 males and 71 females. It was also the first time we have introduced boxing to one of our sports programmes.
As always a massive thank you to all the young people, parents/guardians and coaches for their effort and energy over the 5 weeks.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to North meets South for all your support.
Here are a few pics from the 5 weeks:
MAY/JUNE 2022 HALF TERM
4 days of sun, which meant 4 days of fun with the groups. We were even out on the bank holiday Thursday.
We had 127 superstars partake in our multi sports programme this half term, with 47 females and 80 males getting involved. They took part in football, dodgeball, cricket, basketball and our Thursday fun day.
As always a massive thank you to all the young people, parents/guardians and coaches for their effort and energy over the week. Especially the parents who got involved on the last day.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to North meets South for all your support.
Here are a few pics from the 4 days:
APRIL 2022 HALF TERM
We had every type of seasonal weather over the 5 days, with some young people not broken up from school and with a large number of young people fasting it definitely effected our numbers.
We had 99 different kids partake in our sporting activities over the 5 days, 37 females and 62 males. They took part in cricket, football, basketball, touch rugby, tennis, dodgeball and archery .
As always a massive thank you to all the young people, parents/guardians and coaches for their effort and energy over the week.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to North meets South for all your support.
Here are a few pics from the 5 days:
FEBRUARY 2022 HALF TERM
What a way to start our first half term multi sports programme of 2022. We had 5 days in some of the craziest weather seen time in England in a long, from the rain to storms.
The 2 age groups were the 4-9 year old group and the 10-15 year old group at the Marks Gate location.
We had 107 different kids partake in our sporting activities over the 5 days, 47 females and 60 males. They took part in cricket, football, basketball, touch rugby and tennis.
As always a massive thank you to all the young people, parents/guardians and coaches for their effort and energy over the week.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to North meets South for all your support.
Here are a few pics from the 5 days:
OCTOBER 2021 HALF TERM
We had 5 days of multi sports at the Marks Gate location this half term, with the 2 groups being 4-9 year old group and a 10-15 year old group.
We had 109 different kids partake in the sporting activities over the 5 days, 46 females and 63 males. They all had the chance to take part in cricket, tennis, hockey, archery, dodgeball as well of the fun day on Friday.
As always a massive thank you to all the young people, parents/guardians and coaches for their effort and energy over the week.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to North meets South for all your support.
Here are a few pics from the 5 days:
SUMMER 2021 HALF TERM
We had our biggest turn out in 3 years this summer with 191 different kids partaking in the summer programme at Marks Gate. With some days having over 100 kids at the sessions. We had 116 males and 75 females over the 4 weeks get involved.
We would like to thank every single parent/carer and young person for coming down as the energy was unreal and made it a pleasure to be there.
A massive thank you to Huyen for providing storage of the equipment and feeding the staff.
Also a special thank you to northmeetsouth for supporting us to ensure we always keep to our Moto of being totally free for the kids to partake.
Last but not least, to all the amazing coaches for their hard work over the 4 weeks, without their hard work, commitment and effort nothing would be possible. Kirk, Kwasi, Paul, Aaron, James, Kofi and Steven.
Here are a few pictures of the 4 weeks:
JUNE 2021 HALF TERM
We decided to go back to 2 groups instead of the 3, as we wanted to extend the time for the young people and offer the chance for more local kids to partake in the programme.
We had 99 different kids take part over the 4 days, 42 females and 57 males. With hockey, cricket and tennis being the sports we delivered this half term and our fun day in the pouring rain on the Friday.
As always a massive thank you to the North Meets South, to the coaches, the parents and most importantly the young people for all their effort.
Here are a few pictures of the 4 days:
APRIL 2021 EASTER HALF TERM
With the country opening up in stages due to the pandemic, we were very optimistic about delivering the programme over easter but the response from parents and young people was just the push we needed.
It was 9 days long with the young people getting to try a new sport everyday, we had a total of 82 kids partake over the course of the programme. 34 females and 48 males, averaging 58 kids per day.
A massive thank you to North meets South for supporting this project, we would also like to say a massive shout out to all the coaches, parents + guardians and the young people for their effort over the 9 days.
Here are a few pictures of the 9 days:
OCTOBER 2020
With it being touch and go with the October half term 2020 not happening due to the current pandemic, we were lucky to complete the programme as the lockdown was announced the following day after we finished.
We decided to have 3 groups due to the high demand in the older age group, we had a 4-8 year old group, a 9-11 year old group, a 11-14 year old group.
We had 77 young people partake in the programme over the 5 days, averaging 54 kids per day in a time of uncertainty was amazing.
Here are a few pictures of the week:
SUMMER 2020
This summer was something to remember as there were a lot of firsts, the first time we have ever had to deal with a pandemic, the first time we had to split the groups from 2 to 3 as there were so many kids interested in partaking, the first time we ever delivered a parents fun day at Marks Gate, the first time we ever delivered Badminton and Netball at Marks Gate.
With all that being said, we had an amazing time and as always we received so much positive feedback from the 4 weeks. We taught 104 different kids over the 4 weeks, averaging 58 kids per day. 65 males and 39 females were able to come out everyday and enjoy all the benefits of sports on their doorsteps.
Here are a few pictures of the 4 weeks:
February 2020
The February half term multi sports programme was well attended even on the rainy days, we had 78 different kids over the 5 days. Averaging 51 kids per day, it was a great effort from all parties from parents/coaches and most importantly young people.
Here are some pictures of the week:
October 2019
The October half term multi sports programme went amazing, with 76 different kids getting involved over the 5 days.
With each day having a different sport and a different life skill to learn, the young kids took on all new challenges so well.
We would like to thank all the young people, parents and staff for all their effort over the week.
Here are some pictures of the week:
Summer 2019
The summer programme at Marks Gate is the first of many to come, we had 4 weeks of great attitude, behaviour and willingness to learn.
We taught 146 different kids over the 4 weeks averaging over 50 kids per day over the 20 days, the most unexpected stat was that we out of the 146 kids 66 were females and 80 being males.
We would like to thank everyone for the support and spreading information about the programme, we had 66 kids come down on the first day which was amazing.
A massive thank you to all the parents and kids for taking their time out to get involved and of course the coaches for making it happen.
Here are some pictures over the 4 weeks:
After the success of our Multi sports programme in May 2018, we are proud to announce that we will be delivering Half term multi sports projects starting this summer in 2019.
Our next one starts from the 29th July-23rd August 2019, it is a 4 week programme, totally free to partake in. We know a lot of families like to go away and see other relatives so by signing up it doesn’t require you to come to every session. Lets just say its there so you know your child has something safe, structured and organised to do over the summer if you in tail.
Each day your child will partake in a different sport and learn and focus on a different life skill at the same time. Your child will get to meet new people and hopefully make new friends and all sports are delivered for maximum fun not elite level.
Places are limited due to the size of the facilities, so register your child/children before its too late to avoid disappointment. You can also sign up on the day but you risk the chance of being turned away if its full.
You can sign up by emailing us back the sign up form to sportsandlifeskills@gmail.com
Please note we only allow water at our sessions, so again please read through our code of conduct before signing up please.
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We ran a May/June half term multi sports program in Barking and Dagenham (St Marks Gate) it was our first time down there and the young people and parents really took to the program really well. We delivered football, crcicket, hockey, touch rugby, dodgeball and last day was our fun day. We was only able to do 4 days due to the rain and thunderstorms on Tuesday afternoon, never the less we had great numbers over the 4 days averaging 29 young people a day.
A massive thank you to North Meets South for this great partnership and opportunity.
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