Wexford Coaching & Games Development Monthly Report · Month. Wexford CBS won the Juvenile C Hurling Championship and Gorey Community School won their first ever Juvenile B Hurling

Wexford Coaching & Games Development Monthly Report

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Month: May

Camps & Participation Events - “Providing children a fun & safe

environment to participate in Gaelic Games

Summer Camps 2016

The Wexford People, New Ross Standard and Guardian newspapers are partnering with Wexford GAA for the County Wexford Cúl Camps again this year.

The newspaper group are running a competition for a club to win a star coaching session with Conor McDonald, Mark Fanning and Katrina Parrock. It will be similar to last year, involving collecting tokens over four weeks beginning on Tuesday, May 17 from your local newspaper.

The People Newspapers will also be the main sponsor for a skills test section which will be at each camp. This is a new initiative to encourage progression in the skills of the game.

There will be two to four winners of that from each of the 47 camps throughout County Wexford (a boy and a girl for hurling and a boy and a girl for football) who will be brought to Wexford Park in August for a fantastic activity day as part of their prize.

At the recent launch, children enjoyed playing in an inflatable pitch, getting a taster for the fun times ahead at Wexford GAA Cúl camps.

The original idea for summer camps for kids originated in Horeswood. In attendance was Denis Cadogan from the club and Managing Director of INM Regionals Michael Ryan along with the coaching and games team.

Places can be booked online for this summer at;

https://www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie camps start on July 4th and will run over the summer with the last week running August 15th.

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GAA On The Quay

Planning has started for the June bank holiday event taking place on the quay in Wexford town. This event will see over 200 children taking part in an exhibition hurling tournament with the backdrop of Wexford town. It is also planned to have other novelty GAA attractions, creating a festival atmosphere.

Club / School Activity Days

Wexford Coaching & Games have been involved in assisting clubs and schools organise and run activity fun days for their members over the course of the last month. This has helped build the relations between schools and their local clubs, as well as getting children active and participating in GAA. We plan to continue this assistance over the next couple of months.

Academy Squads – Model Academy - “Nurturing Progression, Striving for

Excellence”

Model Óg (U13):

This weekend our under 13 footballers are back in action training in Wexford GAA Halo Tiles Centre of Excellence, Ferns. The following are the times for each club: 9.30 am - North clubs, 10.30 am - South East clubs and 11.30 am - South West clubs. All players are asked to be at the pitch 15 minutes before training time.





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Under 14 Academy:

Last weekend our under 14 footballers went to play their first blitz which took place in Waterford. Teams present on the day included Offaly, Waterford & Wexford. Both our north & south squads won all their games. Well done to all involved. This weekend our under 14 hurlers and footballers are back training this weekend.

Under 15 Academy:

Our under 15 footballers played their blitz against Meath & Westmeath. Both our teams lost to Meath however were very competitive against Westmeath. Both our hurlers and footballers are back training this weekend.

Under 16 Academy:

Ferbane in Offaly was where our under 16 footballers played their blitz. Counties included Clare, Limerick, Offaly & Wexford. Wexford were very competitive and enjoyed their day even with 7 to 10 players missing for the day. Both the footballers and hurlers are back training this weekend in preparation for their next challenge games.

Over 150 footballers played in blitz games over the weekend and thanks to all managers, coaches and mentors for their efforts to date. Best of luck to all our Academy players who are sitting the junior cert over the next few weeks.

Coach Education - “Educating the next generation of club coaches”

Education & Club Development

Coach Education & Club Development

During May our Games Development team visited the following clubs as part of our club cluster program. (Kilanerin, Cloughbawn, Clonard, Gusserane, Ballygarrett, Shamrocks, Faythe Harriers and St Annes Rathangan) The workshop continued with assisting coaches in best practice as well as giving new coaches great networking opportunities with other clubs. These workshops will continue right throughout the year leading into our formal coach education program in September. While most of the above





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workshops were well attended some clubs found it difficult to get personnel to attend. We would emphasise with clubs the importance of coaching standards and how these sessions will further assist you with your coaching. Following on from a number of these workshops there has been some individual club development work with Oulart the Ballagh starting their nursery through the help of Peter Hally, Cloughbawn & Bunclody with the help of Diarmuid & Shane.

Profile:

Emma Byrne

Qualifications:

Foundation, Award 1-Child Youth and Adult, Award 2-Youth and Adult,

BA Sport and Exercise (GAA), BA Sports Management & Coaching IT Carlow. Current student on the MSC in Strength and Conditioning IT Carlow.

Tutoring:

Foundation and Award 1 Child, Youth and Adult courses

Emma is responsible for the Play & Stay Days in Croke Park, helping in the delivery of Club Cluster Support Program, visiting clubs and supporting the Games Development staff in projects around the county.

Contact:

Phone: 0851465825

Email: TBC

Twitter: @byrneemma13

With the addition of Emma Byrne who has developed numerous resources for Leinster GAA more clubs will now benefit.

You register for all the resources here: http://www.leinstergaa.ie/news/leinster-gaa-club-nursery-56-year-olds-programme.7855.html or contact the coaching office directly.

Download the Club Cluster Program here: http://www.wexfordgaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Club-Cluster-Support-Program.pdf

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Recently Wexford GAA coaches hosted a evening with youths from Clermont in France. Over 30 youths were shown the skills of Gaelic Football & Hurling. A special thank you to Anthony Murphy & Derek Murphy for assisting on the day.

Throughout the year Wexford GAA coaches are available to assist with local groups who want to know more about our native game.

Glynn Barntown Go Games Blitz

Glynn Barntown GAA’s Michael Laffan Tournament for u10 & u11 boys will commence on Saturday 14th May @ 10.00am with nineteen Teams playing over thirty-five games.

The blitz is being run under the Go Games ethos ensuring every player gets a game. Over three hundred players will take part in a fantastic festival of hurling. As well as games there will be plenty of activities for the families on the day with music, food and entertainment for all!

Well done to Glynn – Barntown & the organizing committee who have now made this into an annual event.

Teacher Workshops a huge hit!

Well done to all the teachers in Riverchappell NS who took part in another workshop. The teachers are pictured with GDA’S Shane O Hanlon & Diarmuid Byrne along with club – school liaison officer / Wexford GAA tutor Michael Byrne.

This workshop shows teachers the basics of teaching Gaelic Games as part of their PE program as well as giving new and fun games to

play to incorporate fundamental movement skills.

Shamrocks GAA – Looking To The Future

The Shamrocks club in Enniscorthy recently met with the Games Development team & Coiste Na Og Chairman Bobby Goff to discuss plans for 2016. The club are putting in place an action plan to improve club coaching structures as well as develop key links with the local schools and community to put the club to the forefront over the coming year. We wish them the very best over the coming year!

If you are interested in finding out more about the club you can contact the underage secretary here : [email protected]






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Primary & Secondary Schools – “Creating opportunities for learning and

coaching GAA for all Wexford students”

TY Coaching and Leadership

The final TY coaching and leadership courses were completed by the 18th

bringing the total for 2015/16 to approximately 1300 students completing the

programme. Many of the schools have continued the link with the TY coaches

and first years, using the TYS as coaches and assistant coaches to give first year

students additional GAA opportunities.

First year functional movement programme

Wexford C & G first year functional movement programme concluded in Gorey

CS, FCJ Bunclody and Enniscorthy CBS. The programme saw approximately

200 players take part injury prevention and bodyweight movement exercises for

8 weeks.

Secondary School Blitzes

On the 5th and 19th of May in

Pairc Chorman and Good

Counsel two First

year/Juvenile blitzes took

place, with 16 teams taking

part over the two days.

Many Schools including St.

Peters, Enniscorthy CBS and

Enniscorthy VC have also

run off internal blitzes for

first years in both football

and hurling with the help of

the Transition year students

that completed the GAA Coaching and Leadership course.

Coaching support

Coaching for school teams is on-going in both hurling and football in a number

of schools and between all of the aforementioned programs Wexford Coaching

and Games has a strong presence in 18 Secondary schools across the county.





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Successful teams

Two Wexford schools

have won Leinster

Hurling finals this

Month. Wexford CBS

won the Juvenile C

Hurling Championship

and Gorey Community

School won their first

ever Juvenile B

Hurling Championship

which was a fantastic

achievement.

Good Counsel also

won the First year Tom Walsh tournament, beating St Kierens Kilkenny for the

first time in the tournament in 5 years.

Planning 2016/17

Wexford C & G has met with all Secondary schools to plan GAA activities for

2016/17. Schools have prioritised the areas they need assistance in developing

GAA and have set dates and timeframes to run the programs next school year.

Primary School

Wexford still leads the way in Leinster GAA Primary Teacher workshops

having completed 18 to date (May 2016). The workshops provide teachers with

practical sessions to incorporate GAA in their PE class through Fun games and

Fundamental movement skills along with ideas on ways to bring numeracy and

literacy into the PE class.

Through the CE coaching scheme, 98 Primary schools in Wexford receive a

minimum of 8 weeks GAA coaching during the school year.

Blitzes will take place right through May/June to round off the Year coaching in

Primary schools starting with the Wexford Park Blitz days for Wexford town

schools on the 25th and 26th of May.

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Wexford Coaching & Games Development Monthly Report · Month. Wexford CBS won the Juvenile C Hurling Championship and Gorey Community School won their first ever Juvenile B Hurling