Over 100 Schools & Clubs taking part in the Commonwealth Dribble

Commonwealth Dribbling Century has been reached!

Over 100 school, club and community groups are now involved in the Commonwealth Dribble, part of Scottish Hockey’s Hockey Generation programme to link into Glasgow 2014. The Commonwealth Dribble is aimed primarily at schools, but has attracted a range of groups including hockey clubs and cub packs. The programme challenges groups to dribble a distance equivalent to the area of a Commonwealth nation, as well as providing additional hockey-based classroom activities. Groups have been able to choose any Commonwealth nation or territory and can dribble multiple nations.

To date, 103 separate groups/schools have registered to take part in the dribble with more than 5,700 children taking part; ranging from schools where hundreds of pupils have taken part in a whole school challenge to small classes of less than 10 in rural schools. The nature of the Commonwealth Dribble allows all sizes of groups and abilities to get involved and set the challenge to suit their context and aspirations. The highest achiever so far is Newtonhill Primary in Aberdeenshire, where they have more than completed their Canada challenge, dribbling a whopping 110,130m – that’s more than 110km!

With updates continuing to stream in from participating groups, the national total for the Commonwealth Dribble currently stands at 673,173m. As schools focus on the Commonwealth Games in their summer term, we expect to see a rush of updates reported to us in the coming weeks. It’s not too late for schools to get involved if they want to add the Commonwealth Dribble to health weeks or summer term activities. Full details are at /hockey-generation/commonwealth-dribble.aspx.

Well done to the following groups who have completed their challenge distance. For those still dribbling, keep going and we look forward to receiving news of your achievements. Scottish Hockey is currently working on the next stage of the challenge and full details will be available soon to help you to keep dribbling into the new season…

 

Completed Commonwealth Dribble Challenges

School/Group Name

Commonwealth Nation

Distance Dribbled

Scotstown School

Trinidad and Tobago/South Africa/Malawi

61,614

Miltonbank Primary

Pakistan

7,960

Quarry Brae Primary

Nigeria

92,376

Guildtown Primary

Guyana

21,500

Arduthie School

Antigua/ Mozambique

40,989

Stenhousemuir Primary

Bangaladesh

14,757

Stepps Primary

Cook Islands/Solomon Islands/Niue/Tuvalu/Norfolk Island

1,262

Shawlands Primary

Pakistan

8,110

Mintlaw-Active schools network

Antigua

480

Peterhead Club-Active Schools

Antigua

440

Newtonhill School

Belize/falkland is. Botswana, kenya,lesotho,barbados,dominica,jamaica,st lucia,seychelles.trinidad and tabago,vanuata

30,668

Rattray Primary School

Scotland

9,190

Crombie Primary

Jamaica/Scotland

12,900

Balcurvie Primary

Scotland/Malawi?Falkland Islands

21,020

Woodlands Primary School

Bermuda/St Helena

4,308

Tayvallich Primary School

New Zealand/ Swaziland/ Singapore/Jamaica/Isle of Man

10,434

New Machar School

Jamaica/Scotland

9,772

Glassary Primary School

Trinidad and Tobago/Kenya

12,730

Lairdsland Primary

Scotland/ Jamaica/Norfolk Islands

12,950

Achtergaven Primary School

Jamaica/Singapore/Mauritius/Seychelles/Samoa/Wales

9,684

Braehead Primary

Australia/Scotland/malta/jamaica

86,201

73rd Perthshire Cubs

Scotland

15,920

Dundee Schools League

Malaysia/ Cook Islands/ Niue/ Sierra Leone/Papua New Guinea/Ghana/Antigua & Barbuda/ Wales

24,502

Perth and Kinross Primaries

South Africa

12,796

Newtonhill Primary

Canada

110,130

Portlethen Youth

India

40,480

 

 

 

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