Year six pupils at a Chepstow school are getting involved in sport by teaching, developing and delivering activities for younger children at their school.

A Young Ambassadors Group was piloted last Thursday (28th November) by St Mary's Primary School and is part of the nationwide Young Ambassadors Programme that seeks to increase sport and physical activity participation in schools.

The programme teaches children to coach and guide fellow pupils in sporting activities, whilst learning valuable transferable skills in the process.

Community and sports development officer at Monmouthshire County Council, Geraint Roberts, said: "The Young Ambassadors Group at St Mary's school gives children the opportunity to transfer lots of multi-skills to the younger children through delivering their own PE lessons and games. They don't teach generic sports but instead encourage lots of games incorporating basic sporting skills.

"The ambassadors at St Mary's work in pairs which gives them the chance to develop relationships with children outside their typical friendship groups. In these groups children are required to prepare their lessons and get creative.

"The project is sustainable in that as the children get older they progress through different ambassador classifications.

"The children have been fantastic so far and have really thrown themselves into the challenge of bringing their lessons and games to younger children at their school."

Young ambassador Amy, aged 10, said: "We teach all sorts of games to year two and I really enjoyed our own version of the game traffic lights that we played with the younger children."