Easter "Give it a try" Project

Our successful Easter "Give it a try" Project for our Mini Club and Mini Sports members was excellently recieved by the children in attendance. Informal participation meetings with the children during our club sessions, especially on trawling ideas for additional activities, kept to a recurring theme, that they would like to try Dance, Drama and Music. We decided to invest some funds in a week long series of "taster" sessions offering the three popular themes. Fully qualified tutors were employed to deliver the two hour sessions and from 1:30 to 4pm over four days during the holidays. The outcome was too have two phases. The first was to ”survey” the children and find out which activity was most popular. Questionnaires were distributed and with a 100% return rate these have now been evaluated. Phase two was then to act on the findings and investigate funding to provide a weekly session in order to give the children a more sustainable project option and give them a platform to develop and extend their skills and build on the games and sports element provided by the current out of school provision. Phase 1 has now been completed and first choice was a very close vote between Dance and Music. Indeed, Dance only came out on top by 1 point. Both tasters were so well recieved, given the childrens comments that accompanied the survey forms, that we've decided to investigate support to facilitate a Dance and Music project. We've let the children decide, the least we can do is support their ambitions.