Tag Archives: Childrens Badminton

More sport in schools! – Will badminton be one of the?

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The Government have announced that there should be more sport in schools. Will the schools follow this up and look at badminton as being one of these sports?

The West Midlands Performance Centre are promoting badminton and looking for schools to deliver one of their ‘school packages’ to pupils in Birmingham and surrounding areas. Details of these packages can be found HERE. If you as a school teacher and interested then contact Stephanie (Development Office for the PC) by email stefcr@live.co.uk or call 07976 814036

Interested in participating in a little Monday Madness or even in Wacky Wednesdays?

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Stephanie Cartwright-Randle the Development Office at the Performance Centre has organised some SUMMER HIOLIDAY BADMINTON FUN.  If your child or children are interested in having FUN over the Summer Holidays then why not send them along to ONE or a FEW of her sessions.  These sessions will be all about BADMINTON FUN.  Stephanie is interested in spreading the badminton word among kids and making sure they have some fun whilst playing the game.

Monday Madness and Wacky Wednesdays are for Children up to 14 who just want to have some fun and play badminton. Interested then check out the details HERE, Email stefcr@live.co.uk or call 07976814036

Click HERE for Action?

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Yet again Alan Spink the fast fingered photographer has done it again! With a bank of sharp, crystal clear, action photographs Alan Spink a close friend and colleague of West Midlands Performance Centre, has splupplied yet another set of photographs for the Centre’s website. Let me know what you think of them as they are used in the heading on each page. If you want to find out more about Alan click HERE.

Thank you again Alan for supplying some great photographs.

Mom talks about badminton success for her son

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New badminton player Joe Kamara joined the West Midlands Performance Centre recently. His mom tells us about his success so far. Click HERE.

Teachers – Can you answer this question?

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Do you have the next English Badminton Champions in your classroom? Could one of the pupils in your calss be the next Nathan Robertson or Gail Emms? Then please encourage them to compete in the Unipart Schools Tournament that the West Midlands Performance Centre is hosting at the NIA, Birmingham, on Sunday 20 May all day in the Community Halls. The competition is about children trying badminton as a new sport, a sport they play in the garden or play during lessons at school and taking it further. For more information and entry forms click HERE.

Unipart and FZ Forza together sponsor Schools Tournament in Birmingham

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Together Unipart and Forza sponsor a series of schools tournament on on Sunday 20 May 2012 here in Birmingham it comes tot he NIA.

The tournaments are aimed at players with little experience of playing the game of badminton and have yet to represent their county.

The tournaments offers the opportunity of competitive play without the worry of meeting county level players. For details click HERE. For an entry form click HERE.

CHILDREN’S BADMINTON After Easter – Interested?

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ONE or TWO days of badminton for your children. Let them play till there hearts content. With fun games, competitions, shot and footwork coaching and of course lots of ‘normal’ games. For more details click HERE.

If your children enjoy sport them let them have a taste of badminton and see how they get on. Also for those children who already play and just want to play more.

Contact Stephanie 07976 814036

 

BISI Festival Winners – Win badminton coaching prize.

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West Midlands Performance Centre in conjunction with Badminton England organised a BISI festival in Birmingham to coincide with the Yonex All England Championships 2012. The participating school visited the NIA to spectate. The went to the Doug Ellis Sports Centre where 9 schools took part in the festival. The team names consisted of ‘players names’ seeing ‘Donna Kellogg’ George Dixon International School, triumph with a convincing 1518 points. Second place saw a close battle between ‘Jenny Wallwork’ Ninestiles School and ‘Nathan Robertson’ Smiths Wood College with only 15 points difference. See HERE for full details. George Dixon has won a Badminton Coaching session for the school as the prize. This will be delivered by Stephanie Cartwright-Randle – Development Officer for the PC.