Estimated Price

£800

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Project Summary

Help boost the confidence of girls and make them feel comfortable being themselves in sport and anywhere else in life.

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Project Description

Through a mix of fun, supportive, and adventurous extra curricular activities – like climbing, ice skating, swimming, and water sports – we want to help these girls find their strengths, try new things, and build friendships along the way. The Largs Girls are senior pupils, who will act as mentors and role models to the selectd s1 pupils. By having senior pupils working as mentors it will give the younger girls that extra encouragement to step out of their comfort zone and believe in themselves. It is needed because many girls lose interest in sport during their early teens and some don’t even feel confident enough to join in, low self-esteem can affect not just health and wellbeing but also life and friendships, attending Extra curricular clubs and community clubs can be a daunting situation by having this opportunity we hope to break down this boundary. We want to change this by creating a safe, welcoming programme where they can try things, have fun, and feel good about themselves. To do this we will run a programme of exciting, confidence-building activities that the girls wouldn’t normally get the chance to try, such as: climbing, ice skating, swimmming and water sports. This will allow the girls to learn new skills such as: tackling challenges, trusting each other, laughing, falling, and getting back up again! discovering the thrill of kayaking, paddleboarding, and being outdoors. Alongside these activities, senior pupils will act as mentors, offering encouragement, sharing their own experiences, and helping the younger girls feel supported. We’ll also run short reflection sessions so the girls can celebrate their progress and recognise how much they’ve achieved. We would also love to provide a box that would sit in PE with deoderant, sanitary products, wipes, makeup remover, hair bobbles and anything else that may be needed. This would promote girls to participate and maybe even try harder in PE as they know after the can use the deoderant provided or wipe off any ruined makeup from being out in the rain. We hope this allows the girls to feel more confident in themselves, both in sport and everyday life, be more active and involved in school and community activities, build new friendships and peer support networks, see sport as something fun, enjoyable, and “for them”. For us we want to develop our own leadership and communication skills, help the younger girls succeed and gain confidence, we also hope to give something back. Having the mentoring model system means this can become a cycle: today’s S1s could become tomorrow’s mentors, we’ll connect the girls with local sports clubs and extra curricular so they have places to continue being active after the programme, staff will also be able to build on the learning to keep confidence and activity levels high in future years.