Excellence Cluster
The UCP Marjon
Plymouth Raiders work closely with
Plymouth’s Excellence Cluster
view web site here, to help young
people in schools around Plymouth. Our players and coaches work as
positive role models for the children that we work with, mentoring
children and helping in particular with numeracy and literacy
projects.
We use basketball as a way of engaging children and harnessing their
enthusiasm. We usually work with 10 to 15 schools each year, and our
players and coaches spend 2 hours a week in each of the schools.
This is split between help in the classroom and basketball coaching,
and over the past number of years, it’s proven to be a real winner.
All of our work with the Excellence Cluster is extensively evaluated
by University of Plymouth staff, and results have been so good that
both BBC and ITV Westcountry featured this in articles broadcast in
mid December 2008. |

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