The prize was awarded for a project involving year 8 students from Westgate College delivering a Disc Sports in a local primary school. Chris O'Brien and Paul Donaghy (SSCo at West Gate Community College, Newcastle) travelled down to London yesterday with two of the students; Craig and Navied to meet Olympic gold medalist Darren Campbell and collect the award and a cheque for £2,500 for the College. Read more

 

Craig and Navied collect the award from Darren Campbell

At the awards Darren gave an inspiring speech about his journey to success. Darren is the ambassador for the Youth Sport Trust and is very passionate about encouraging young people to go for their dreams and never be afraid to make mistakes because that's where the real learning takes place!

 

Chris, Navied and Craig with Sue Campbell CBE, UK Sport's Chair

 

After the awards Chris, Paul and the lads went on a whistle-stop tour of London to play some disc around the capital.

Paul with Navied and Craig at Buckingham Palace

 

 Chris jumping for joy with young leaders Craig and Navied!

Meanwhile this week, PM Gordon Brown is looking at other ways of tackling obesity, including the notion of introducing alternative activities in schools - read more

 

Craig, Navied and Chris bumped into PM Gordon Brown himself - It's surprising what he gets up to in his spare time!