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Schools Colleges  >  Strategic Leadership (Schools Colleges)  >  Active Schools  >  Active Schools Aberdeen Partnership Programmes

Active Schools Aberdeen Partnership Programmes

Go-Ride

Active Schools Aberdeen is working in partnership with Scottish Cycling to develop Go-Ride Cycling Clubs across Aberdeen City.  Go-Ride is one of British Cycling’s club development programmes for improving young riders’ skills through fun competitions and activities and is already established elsewhere in the UK.  Now Go-Ride is being rolled out across Scotland through Scottish Cycling, with Aberdeen among the first cities to get on board.

For more information contact Rebecca Lovie, Active Schools Co-ordinator (Primary) on 01224 346302 or rlovie@aberdeencity.gov.uk.

For information about Go-Ride and Scottish Cycling contact Julie Paulding, National Development Officer on 0131 652 0187 or Julie@scottishcycling.com.

The Friday Night Project

Active Schools Aberdeen is working in partnership with the VSA Young Carers Project to deliver the Friday Night Project.  The Friday Night Project is a fortnightly activity group held at the Aberdeen Grammar School.  It is an opportunity for young carers from across Aberdeen City to take part in a range of physical activities and sports including Basketball, Football, Hockey and Tennis.

For more information contact Rebecca Lovie, Active Schools Co-ordinator (Primary) on 01224 346302 or rlovie@aberdeencity.gov.uk.

For information on the VSA Young Carers Project contact Mary Drever, Senior Young Carers Support Worker on 01224 625009 or mary.drever@vsa.org.uk.

Aberdeen Football Club

Active Schools Aberdeen is working in partnership with Aberdeen Football Club (AFC) to help deliver several initiatives across the city.  Food Standards Agency (FSA) Football is the first project.  This consists of 6 weeks worth of coaching for chosen schools across the city for the P6 age group.  This initiative also ran last year and was highly successful.

The second is McDonald’s Football.  The main focus of this is to target children who don’t play for the school teams.  This is a 20 week coaching programme with the aim for each school to get 1 boys team and 1 girls team from P7.  The chosen schools then compete against other in a series of matches throughout the 20 weeks.

The third is Soccer One, this is focused on S1 pupils and the aim is that the McDonald’s programme is sustained for those children who took part through this scheme.  These are all national initiatives.

For more information contact Louise Beggs, Active Schools Coordinator on 01224 346455 or lbeggs@aberdeencity.gov.uk or Gavin Levey on 01224 650463 or gavin.levey@afc.co.uk.