School Programmes

BBC News: Children 'not exercising enough'. Study shows 99.6% of girls fell short on exercise.
The Guardian: Children fail exercise test, study shows. Less than 1 in 200 of 11yr-old girls gets enough exercise.
The Telegraph: Only one in 250 girls takes enough exercise. A generation of overweight, lazy children could be the first to be outlived by its parents.

Cheerleading is a sport that promotes fitness and team work through fun and hard work. It is a sport that encourages young people to socialise, and to learn skills in cooperation, communication and dedication as well as the physical skills of dance, stunting and tumbling.

The coaches of the Mavericks Cheerleaders have been using the sport of cheerleading across schools in Kent as an exciting new way to get young people active. The National Healthy Schools Programme, an exciting long-term initiative aimed at making a significant difference to the health and achievement of children and young people, uses cheerleading as a new and fun way to achieve this. The National Healthy Schools Programme combined with the numerous skills learnt from cheerleading will help to support the links between health, behaviour and achievement; creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life.

The coaches of the Mavericks Cheerleaders (all qualified, CRB checked and first aid qualified) would be interested in coming to your school to coach a cheerleading club or PE lesson as a way to introduce cheerleading to young people and to encourage new members of our team. We are currently working towards International competition and are recruiting new members to join both the Senior and the Junior teams. The sessions coached in schools consist of cheer games and fitness, learning the basics of cheerleading (including dancing, stunting, chants and tumbling) and learning cheers and routines that can be used to support school team matches or as a performance. The sessions can be a one-off or run for a period and time of your choice.

The successes of cheerleading clubs that have are currently being coached throughout Kent have shown an increase in the number of pupils joining in PE and sport and becoming active. If cheerleading is something your school would be interested in, please do not hesitate to contact us for further information and costs and to discuss the options available.

The Mavericks Cheerleaders are also available for activity and leisure centre clubs, events and promotional work.