Bradley Stoke Youth FC : The club school link program and Football Festival
May 20th, 2013
The BSYFC club-school link program for 2013 is just coming to its conclusion. The program which started in 2007 continues to grow and develop with the football coaching sessions this year involving 14 local schools and over 700 Year 1 children participating.
The purpose of the sessions is to get children involved in football and hopefully they will continue with the football outside of their school. Each school receives 3 sessions of football coaching from BSYFC FA Qualified coaches. Every session is based on fun based
skill coaching using the latest FA techniques.
The school is then invited to the annual BSYFC Football Festival, which is part of the Bradley Stoke Town Festival. The event this year is on Saturday June 8th on the top field at the Jubilee Centre. Start time is 12 noon with first match kick off around 12.15pm.
All the 140 children taking part will receive a medal and goody bag. All schools receive a cup and many prizes are on offer including full football team strips and football coaching kits. The cups each year just keep getting larger with last year winning cup being 18ins tall
this year the winning cup is a mighty 33ins tall
it might just be bigger than the children. See photo.
BSYFC have also been going into 4 local schools providing football coaching sessions to Year 3 and 4 girls. This has resulted in over 120 girls having the chance to try football and hopefully they will all continue to play. The club is linked with the local womens Bristol Academy WFC Team (Come on the Vixens) and we often have star striker Annie-Marie Heatherson at our girls training
sessions giving valuable tips and running exercises. Annie also presented the trophies at our recent Girls Presentation Night held at the Aztec West Hotel.
In 2012 the club expanded to running football coaching sessions for children with disabilities. The sessions run every 2 weeks on a Saturday morning. The club is already an highlighted service provider for football on the National Autistic Society
(NAS) web site. If you have a child with special requirements then the club may be able to help. The club currently covers children between 6 and 11 years old.
Any children interested in joining the club can contact Martin Lee at [email protected] for more information.
Anyone interested in sponsoring the club or anyone wanting to coach or manage a team or just wants to get involved can also contact Martin.
BSYFC is an award winning FA Charter Standard Community Club. The club website is at www.bsyfc.co.uk
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