Wasps Rugby Football Club is continuing to support schools across the local community by delivering free education programmes, even through this latest lockdown. The Wasps Community team have spent the last few weeks working hard with local schools to adapt the club’s existing educational offerings into a new, easily accessible virtual delivery model.
By working with teachers locally, Wasps have recognised the need to create a bespoke offer that can support the needs of each school individually. The club are now rolling this out across the region. Delivered by Wasps’ trained community team, we are delighted to confirm the offering to schools locally.
Primary schools can currently access three different options:
· Pre-recorded Tackling Health video classroom lessons with follow up tasks / worksheets.
· Live (Online) Tackling Health classroom lessons (delivered via schools’ technology of choice) – This can be delivered both to those children still attending school and those learning at home.
· In-school physical delivery for those children still attending which can be:
- Classroom lessons based on the Tackling Health programme
- Outdoor PE sessions based on Tag Rugby
The above options can then be tailored to the needs of each school, as our Community Team work with teachers to provide them with the resources most suited to the platforms and timetabling in use at those schools.
“We have already done a large amount of work to raise awareness of the Premiership Rugby Champions app – which offers free online lesson resources for schools and home-schooling parents alike to use whenever they can,” said Ian Isham, Head of Community at Wasps. “But in addition to the fantastic resource that the app provides, our experienced team can still provide an engaging set of lessons for schools and those learning at home.
“We know how challenging the times are currently for teachers, so if we can help take some pressure off, then that would be fantastic. We provide ready-made lessons centred on the Tackling Health programme, in partnership with Greggs Foundation, which encourages children to become more active and eat more healthily. Supporting our local community is central to everything we do at Wasps. To have been able to adapt our programme offering for schools, so we can continue providing access to them through the pandemic, is a testament to the hard work of our team, and the support provided by local teachers in advising that process.” The Wasps Community coaching staff is also still on hand to continue supporting schools with on-the-ground physical education or coaching for vulnerable or key worker students.
In addition, Premiership Rugby Champions Learn with Us lessons will be streamed live, every Wednesday and Friday at 10.00am. These can be accessed for free either to watch live, or on demand. Designed and delivered by Premiership Rugby Champions teachers, the lessons will use rugby to inspire primary school aged children to learn mathematics and PHSE in a short, fun and interactive way.