Holiday Clubs

Spring Football, Athletics ''Run, Jump, Throw'' Programme and also the Hockey Programme. These offer a first step to new sports the activities run for children aged three to fourteen.

As the Easter holidays are coming up soon Glasgow see this as an excellent opportunity to allow free swims in over sixty pools in Glasgow. This promotes the event itself as more children will be willing to try out swimming as they wont be too worried about the price. Also this in my opinion is a great way to help the children to keep fit over the holidays as their mum and dads will not need to fork out money every time their child wants to go as they will have unlimited access with their Young Scot Card.

Each council in Glasgow will have their own sports for example West Dunbartonshire specialises in football, athletics and hockey. I have had first hand experience at these sort of camps as when I was younger I went to athletics camps held in the kelvin hall from the age of nine till I was twelve. It only lasted one week of the holiday and I went to the early class from nine o'clock till twelve so the camp did not ruin my whole day or holiday as I was still able to go meet my friends or do other activities after.

These camps are not only run in the Easter holidays they are run as summer camps as well as this also, there is October week camps and Christmas holiday camps. Both October and Christmas are not as busy as there are a lot of other things to do in this time. It is an experience for the children to go along get fir, and make new friends. I see it as an opportunity for children to try new sports as if its held in a sports arena there will be lots of other sports. As when I went to the athletics camps we had a shot at basically every event, we were shown technique for each event and how to measure out run up for high jump, long jump, triple jump. Obviously the shot put and javelin were not real as it was an indoor track at the kelvin hall, so the javelin was foam to avoid any injury and the shot but was a small bean bag like object.