| Sky Sports Living For Sport announces Awards to honour UK Students |
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The Sky Sports Living for Sport Student of the Year Award 2010 celebrates the successful way secondary schools across the nation are using sport to inspire young people, through their involvement in Sky Sports Living for Sport. Sky Sports Living for Sport, delivered in partnership with the Youth Sport Trust, is helping teachers across the UK encourage pupils to get more involved in activities and benefit from trying new sports. The Awards will offer schools that have registered, and delivered a Sky Sports Living for Sport project, the chance to share the impact it has had on pupils and celebrate the journey they have been on. Working towards measurable self-development goals – across areas such as health, behaviour and achievement – schools across the UK have been creating flexible activity programmes, including a diverse range of sports – from football to fencing, basketball to boccia. As a result, pupils have been testing and developing a wide range of life-skills including teamwork, communication, discipline and focus. Olympic Gold medal-winning sprinter and Sky Sports Living for Sport Ambassador, Darren Campbell will lead the judging panel to help decide the 12 regional finalists who will be invited to the national awards ceremony to be held at Lord’s Cricket Ground on 8 October 2010, where the national Sky Sports Living for Sport Student of the Year Award 2010 will be presented. Darren said: “I owe so much to sport, both professionally and personally. Without sport, and encouragement of teachers who saw how it was helping me to develop focus and self-belief, I could have very easily chosen a very different path in life. Going into schools, I’ve seen for myself how much of an impact Sky Sports Living for Sport is having. It’s incredible to watch how their attitude can shift through a single session and how belief in themselves and their abilities can be transformed. “It means a lot to me to be leading the judging panel,” he added, “but with more than 1,000 schools registered for the initiative, and every single one involved deserving recognition, it isn’t going to be easy to whittle it down to 12 regional winners!” The regional winners will each receive a £50 Adidas voucher and the chance to be interviewed by a Sky Sports film crew. Their school will also secure an extra visit from an Athlete Mentor and £500 towards their school’s next Sky Sports Living for Sport project. The student and the teacher will be invited to the UK ceremony on 8 October, with part of the day including a tour of Lord’s Cricket Ground, long seen as the Home of Cricket. The UK winner, who will be announced at Lord’s, will receive a £100 Adidas voucher while their school will secure an extra visit from an Athlete Mentor and £2,000 towards their school’s next Sky Sports Living for Sport project. To nominate students, all teachers need to do is go to www.skysports.com/livingforsport The closing date is 16 July. Successful finalists will be notified during the first week of the autumn term 2010.  Schools not yet registered for Sky Sports Living for Sport still have time to do so via www.skysports.com/livingforsport |