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More than 300 young kids partake in Burlington Junior Fitness Week
23rd May 2009
Last Friday Richmond Volleyball (UK Sports Club of the Year 2009) took part in the 3rd Burlington Junior Fitness Week programme and ran 12 one hour volleyball coaching sessions over two and half days. The programme also show cased several other sports.
A total of 360 young children from yr 3 to yr 6 (8 to 11 years old) participated and all had great fun. The sessions provided practical technical skills and were given tips on basic game tactics and played 2v2 and 3v3 mini sided games.
Burlington’s Junior School PE Coordinator congratulated Richmond Volleyball on their professionalism and fun programme. The popularly of this Olympic team sport has grown significantly in our school and is now an established sport in our PE programme.
Richmond Volleyball Junior Development Officer said: “We were delighted to be involved again in this fantastic initiative bringing the introduction of volleyball in primary schools and supporting the Kingston secondary school volleyball programs. We are keen to work with more primary schools demonstrating how much fun kids have playing volleyball.
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