Learners become heroes for a day
Capricorn High School was one of the schools that competed in the Coca-Cola 30 Minutes Heroes Challenge at the school's sports field on Thursday afternoon.
POLOKWANE – Capricorn High School was one of the schools that competed in the Coca-Cola 30 Minutes Heroes Challenge at the school’s sports field on Thursday afternoon.
The Coca-Cola 30 Minutes Heroes Challenge is a competition that was introduced to schools participating in the Coca-Cola T20 Schools Cricket Challenge and is aimed at getting learners to participate in physical activity.
The concept encourages as many learners as possible to complete a five-drill circuit within a 30-minute period. The scores will only be made public once all the schools have completed their challenges. The school that completes the most circuits in the allocated time frame stands the chance to win an outdoor gym to the value of R200 000.
“Our performance on the day was great because the learners that we selected to participate in the challenge did well on the course, with many of them even repeating the challenge,” said Kobus De Meyer, Capricorn’s head of sport.
“Our aim was to create a fun and exciting atmosphere at the school in order to encourage learner participation in the future, and the Coca-Cola 30 Minute Heroes Challenge appropriately supported that aim. All the learners got together and encouraged one other, especially when some of the them struggled with the target throwing activity. The activities were so challenging and enjoyable that the cricket boys asked me if they could use them as pre-season fitness drills. The Coca-Cola 30 Minute Heroes Challenge intrigued many learners who were initially not interested in getting involved in a school activity. We will definitely take part in the challenge again next year,” said De Meyer.
The five drills included:
1. Shuttle runs between six beacons, moving a cricket ball from one beacon to the next.
2. Target throwing at a set of wickets.
3. Skipping with a skipping rope.
4. Catching balls off a rebound board.
5. Weaving in and out of 10 slalom poles.
Fetsi Mbele, the Coca-Cola South Africa marketing assets manager said: “The Coca-Cola T20 Schools Challenge is about making heroes. Through our Coca-Cola T20 30 Minute Hero Challenge, we are encouraging learners in the country to adopt a physically active lifestyle that will become a lifelong practice”.
