Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown And that’s a wrap! Hi Everyone, Our Sport for Newcomers initiative in Charlottetown that we have been working on has finished. We wrapped up our events this week with our final newcomer golf session at the Belvedere Golf Club in Charlottetown. Much like our previous […]
S4N Charlottetown – Come Try Golf Clinic at Red Sands Golf Course
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hi Everyone! Throughout the month of June we partnered with the Prince Edward Island Golf Association (PEIGA) to put on a 4-week Sport for Newcomers (S4N) Come Try Golf Clinic. We started on Wednesday June 7th and the program ran every Wednesday in June afterwards […]
S4N Charlottetown – Come Try Hip Hop Dance Camp
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hi Everyone! I’m back to tell you about the fun and exciting event we put on this past weekend. On Saturday June 24th, with the help of Dance Virtuosa, we hosted a Come Try Hip Hop Dance Classes for Newcomers, ages 6-18. This event was […]
S4N Charlottetown – Come Try Basketball Clinic for Newcomer Girls
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hi Everyone! This past weekend we concluded our S4N “Try-A-Sport” basketball clinics with a full day clinic for newcomer girls in grades 1-12. The clinic was held on Saturday June 3rd in the Holland College gym in Charlottetown and the morning began by welcoming girls […]
S4N Charlottetown – Newcomer Boys Basketball Clinic
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hi Everyone! This past weekend we held another very successful sporting event! With the help of Basketball PEI and their coaches we held a come try basketball camp for newcomer youth boys at Holland College in Charlottetown. We had just about 50 boys come out […]
S4N Charlottetown – Physical Literacy for Newcomers With Sport PEI
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hi Everyone! We had a very busy first week of May starting off the week with some Judo sessions and finishing the week with a physical literacy session. On Friday May 5th we had a Professional Development day here in PEI. Normally, IRSA’s YSS department […]
S4N Charlottetown – Newcomer Youth Try Judo
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hello everyone! We have a very busy month ahead of us filled with lots of different events covering different sports. We kicked off this month with judo sessions at the Rikidokan Judo and Mixed Martial arts studio in Charlottetown. For this event we were able […]
S4N Charlottetown – Newcomer Girls Try Flag Football Session
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hello everyone! We kicked off our SportWORKS – Sport for Newcomers Initiative program this week in PEI. We started off with a come try flag football two-hour session on Monday April 17th in the evening for newcomer girls from grades 4-12. We also opened the […]