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Reaching Higher
14/12/05
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A group of seven second year events management students spent a day introducing year ten students to university life at Leeds Met.
Chris Botham, Briony Cox, Matt Friend, Alison Giles, Charlene Payne, Kim Rhodes and Alex Temple chose to participate in the Aim Higher scheme which encourages children, who may not otherwise consider university as an option, into higher education. The students contacted Woodkirk School, Guiseley School and Allerton Grange High School through Education Leeds to each bring 12 students to the Headingley Campus for a taste of university life.
As Chris Botham explained, the intention was to focus on some
of the extracurricular activities available whilst studying.
The help of fellow students was enrolled, with representatives
from the university’s lacrosse, volleyball and dodgeball
teams coaching and refereeing a tournament of some of the less
conventional sports available at Leeds Met.
It was a close run competition with a sudden death final between
Allerton Grange’s Diamond Blacks and Woodkirk School’s
Red Devils. The Diamond Blacks took the championship and were
presented with their prizes of JJB Sports vouchers by the university’s
Vice Chancellor, Professor Simon Lee.
Lucas Jackson and Mohsin Ahmed, both 14 and from Allerton Grange High School, agreed that the day had been ‘fantastic’ and ‘brilliant’. They especially enjoyed lacrosse and playing volleyball competitively for the first time. They were also full of praise for the Leeds Met students by highlighting that the day was ‘very well organised’.
Although some of the participants had thought about university
previously, the day of sports and touring the impressive campus
injected much more enthusiasm and certainly encouraged the majority
of them, including Ashleigh Floyd, Ella Hampson, Katherin Calder
and Sian Dexter from Woodkirk School, to want to come to Leeds
Met.
