Last week, Lwandle played a friendly against a community side. This was a great opportunity to build relationships with other organistions working in this community. The game was played with excellent sportsmanship from both the sides. All of the boys tried their best. Unfortunately Lwandle lost this game, but it has given the coaches a number of focus areas for the next set of training sessions.
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Joy Leon recently visited the Helderberg Academy for the coaching sessions. Joy is a utility player who plays for Egyptian National Sevens Team. As rugby sevens grows around the world, with its imminent introduction to the world stage at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, this has been a great opportunity for the young people to meet someone who is playing a high standard of rugby. The young people were inspired by Joy and this will drive...
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Last week the young people from Macassar. Sir Lowry’s Pass and Lwandle competed in the Community Cup. This event draws many young people together from different backgrounds to share in a sporting event, where fair play and good sportsmanship form the foundation of a great competition. The week began with Macassar girls taking on a local school team. Unfortunately they lost, but learnt a great deal from the experience and now...
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Last week saw the start of the Helderberg Academy Mentoring Program. One afternoon each week the coaches spend an hour mentoring the young people from Macassar, Lwandle and Sir Lowry’s Pass. These sessions are aimed at building self-esteem, encouraging the young people and providing pastoral support. Last week’s sessions were a great success, with many young people coming to each session. The picture above is of the...
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Last week, Helderberg Academy welcomed two new coaches from the UK. Matt Clark has just completed his A Levels and will be starting university in September 2015. Until then, he will be working with the Helderberg Academy, specializing in Soccer coaching. Matt supports Crystal Palace and prefered position is holding midfielder. Dave Bell is our second new coach, he has been working in a secopndary school in Kent for the past five...
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Impact Winter Holiday Club During the first week of the winter holiday, the Helderberg Academy we had the priviledge of organising a holiday camp for 68 young people from Sir Lowry’s Pass, Macassar and Lwandle. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, there were 16 students from the U.S. who are training in South Africa with the Impact Course, who came and run the winter holiday camp. We had a fantastic time learning about...
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