Strong focus on sport and young people's health and well-being - transcript

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Teacher:

That’s why, we’ll just stick nice and simple at the minute.  You tell the kids about yourself, your sport, your activity, what it means to you. Encourage them to think about the Olympics Games, yeah, the 2012 Olympic Games, but 2014 it’s right on our doorstep, the Commonwealth Games.

Boy 1:

Aye, it’s brilliant.  You feel first of all pride in playing for your country and it gives you a kind of sense of achievement that you’re doing well and ...

Boy 2:

It’s anticipation, you think ... I thought I was going to be nervous, but it wasn’t nerves, it was more just anxiety just to get out there and play because I knew it was going to be pulling on a Scotland jersey and be playing, and with the three of us starting and, I mean, we’ve all been kicking about since we’ve been 8, 9 together, so for the three of us to be starting it was special.

Boy 3:

Overall the school career’s been brilliant.  The laughs we’ve got on the way, and just everything we’ve got to do.  Even the bus journey and everything we’ve got to look forward to as well, just getting to be with the lads basically.

Boy 2:

I’m a lot more confident because of that, it builds stuff like teamwork and communication.  So when you’re about, when you’re around your team mates you get ... you are confident and you go out in the park and you play better I think, so I think it has helped.

[Children in a games lesson]