Third Day - 05/12/12 - DESIGN A SPORT respecting the values of the Commonwealth Games.

16.30 - Participants are now trying the game created during the session ''design a sport''

14.30 - Gymnastic

13.30 - ''Design a sport'' activity.

12.30 - Lunch Time.


11.00 - Trampoline activities

9.35 - Basketball session run by 2 of our articipants.

9.20 - Participants are now thinking about the Commonwealth games values


9.15 - Participants who are late have to do 25 press up.

9.05 - Many participants are late for the basketball session.

8.00 - Breakfast

LIVE VIDEO - Day 1 and 2

Second Day - 04/12/12 - BUILDING TEAM ACTIVITIES

19.30 - Intercultural Evening. Presentation of each countries of the United Kingdom.

18.30 - Dinner Time

17.10 - Free time. Some of the participants went with a minibus to the supermarket while some stayed to play football or have a look at some pictures taken during the day.


14.00 - Beginning of the afternoon activities. Each participant will try these four activities:

- Archery:



- Climbing wall,

- Basket Ball,

- Badminton : even if some participants changed it on a foot-badminton :-)


12.30 - Lunch Time

11.00 - Team building activities
Giraffe building:

Human knot:

9.40 - Participants are now preparing a 3 minutes presentation of themselves:

9.35 - Beginning of the session.

08.00 - Breakfast

First Day - 03/12/12 - ARRIVAL & WELCOMING ACTVITIES

It seems that we found our official photographer. Joseph Harrisson, from Bradford did some incredible pictures. Have a look...

by Joseph Harrisson

by Joseph Harrisson

 by Joseph Harrisson

You can visit is own page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaharrisonphotography/424265450945319?fref=ts 

21.00 - The Basketball field and the football pitch are now ready...

20.00 - ‘Get to know each other’ activity : Each participant has to find the owner of the paper that they picked up in a balloon.

19.30 - Welcoming meeting and presentation of the programme of the week.

18.30 - Dinner Time

17.40 - All the participants from England have just arrived.

16.55 - The group from Wales has just arrived at the Sport centre.

11.40 - The participants from Scotland have just landed in Glasgow.

Visibility

LIVE UPDATE : During the training we will run different actions in order to give to your friends/family and others person interested  by the training the possibility to follow your activities LIVE. Therefore we will publish regularly pictures/videos/info on the A COMMON WEALTH blog (http://43acommonwealth.blogspot.co.uk/ ). We will as well  update our Facebook, Twitter and Youtube Chanel regularly.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS/FAMILY/COLLEAGUE and others persons who may be interested to follow your activities during this training. Send them the link to the blog (http://43acommonwealth.blogspot.co.uk/  ) or invite them to join Everything is Possible Facebook account (Everything is Possible: the one with a picture of a blond girl and a sign with Everything is Possible in green).

JOIN US ON FACEBOOK/TWITTER/YOUTUBE:

If you have a Twitter account I encourage you to join us and to use #43ACommonWealth every time you tweet about the training. We will let as well one laptop on which participants will have possibility to tweet. If you don’t have twitter, we will be happy to explain you how to use it.

I encourage you as well to join us on our Facebook, Twitter and Youtube account and share these links with your friends/family/colleague and others persons who may be interested to follow your activities.

Practical Information

Open publication - Free publishing - More 4.3

Things to bring to the Training

Dear participants,

Our training ‘’A Common Wealth’’ in Scotland is coming very soon. I will send you in the next days some practical info about the event.

I will begin by the list of things that you should bring to the training.

Things to bring for the training:

-          sport clothes (please note that it is possible you will get wet)

-          Trainers

-          Warm clothes (it will be cold!)

-          Intercultural evening: during this evening we will ask participants to presents their region (we will prepare that during the training), but it would be great if you could bring some local specialities (food, drink) that you would like to share with the group. You are more than welcome to bring any presentation, documents, music about your region.

-          Don’t forget to keep and give us at your arrival all original travel tickets/boarding passes.