With the Middle schools Indoor athletic championships ever looming ,the year 2 and 3’s thought they’d get practicing early. On Wednesday 1st February pupils  from West Park, Field place and  Hawthorns descended upon Durrington High for a competitive evening of obstacle relay, throwing, jumping and agility events.  All the events were excellently officiated and supported by Young Leaders from the High school. It was lovely to see the support from parents and the year 2 and 3  pupils have such an enjoyable evening and  interacting so well with the young leaders.

Thanks to the young leaders and Ms McCullock, Jon Mills and Pete Gwynn , to all staff and finally to all the enthusiastic competitors
Final results were as follows;

1st West Park (Brazil)
2nd Field Place
3rd Hawthorns

Ali Groves

On Thursday 19th January 14 teachers from across the partnership descended on the Angmering Astro and embarked on their level 1 start coaching Tag Rugby course run by Mike Marsh from the RFU .During the evening teachers were put through their paces regarding their knowledge and aptitude of Tag Rugby. All had the opportunity to learn and develop practices under the watchful eye of Mike and ended the evening playing a short game.  The course was extremely well received and all felt far more confident to deliver Tag Rugby back in their schools.

Ali Groves

On the 25th January 2012, Chatsmore Catholic High School hosted the annual Badminton Festival for all cluster schools. With Badminton playing a big part of London 2012, the idea is to give the pupils as much opportunity as possible to participate in Olympic Sporting Events...Next up Netball!
However, the Badminton festival was run with great help from the Chatsmore Key Stage 3/4 Badminton Squad who spent plenty of time coaching the individuals and developing their awareness of the rules and regulations. When the tournament got going, the standard of Badminton on show was very impressive with the pupils adapting to the game very well. In the end St Catherines Catholic Primary School managed to reign victorious over the girl’s tournament and English Martyrs took the boys crown!
Well done to all athletes for performing in the true spirit of the games and thank you to all teachers, parents and coaches for their assistance.

Steve Davies Chatsmore Catholic High School

St. John the Baptist hosted our first “Angmering Cluster Prepares” event ahead of the Olympics Week which will take place throughout National School Sport Week from June 25 – June 29th later this year.
Twenty eight Year 3 table tennis players arrived keen and eager to represent their schools in what was planned as a fun introduction to the sport and the chance to get ready for an event that will take place in the summer term.
The players were organised into mini leagues where they played round robin matches.
With many parents and staff acting as scorers, the players were encouraged to develop their skills throughout the evening. Indeed, the standard of play markedly improved as the players became more confident. There were, by the end of the evening, some very exciting rallies and games.
Each group produced a player in the “Gold Medal” position and all schools have been provided with certificates so that the prospective Olympians can be presented with them in front of their whole school. Well done to all who participated.
Many thanks to all the scorers, including Bill Silk the Bronze Olympic Ambassador from Ferring, and especially to Mr. Galvin for organising the event.

Group Winners:
Nathan (Brazil / East Preston Juniors)
Alex (China / St John the Baptist)
Jack P (Kenya / Georgian Gardens)
Chloe E (Australia / St. Margaret’s)
Chloe O (South Africa / St. Wilfrid’s)

Pete Gwynn SSCo Angmering

Arundel students recently did the Play Leaders course [good ol Val!] and will hopefully assist at lunch and play times. No doubt with the build up to the big summer event the play leaders will also be called upon to assist with intra school events too.

Sandy Fell

At their first meeting the TLA cluster Olympic Ambassadors recapped the values, worked on communication skills, learnt two games that they will help lead as part of POW [Primary Olympic Week] and observed the Y3/4 gym routine that some will be assisting with at next month’s cluster event.

As expected the group were super and were a real pleasure to work with.
Sandy Fell

Community and Higher Sports Leaders experienced a range of sports played by people with physical or sensory disabilities at a recent session delivered by Nikki Richardson from Albion in the Community. Increased awareness of each disability will hopefully help the leaders when they assist at forthcoming events organised by Southern Area Disability Group.

Sandy Fell

This year Davison students from across the year groups have been part of the healthy body healthy mind club. They have had the opportunity to work with basketball coaches, do cheerleading, trampolining and other activities that are helping to improve fitness, communication skills and confidence.

Over the last few weeks these students have been given the opportunity to work on their leadership, communication and organisational skills. They have been busy planning, practicing and organising an activity session for year 3 from Lyndhurst First School. Last week the pupils from Lyndhurst came over to Davison to take part in an jam pack activity session led by the Davison students. The younger pupils were split into 4 teams and moved around completing various activities including Speed Stacking, target games, New Age Curling and basketball shooting scoring points as a team as they went.

The Davison student were fabulous role models and thoroughly enjoyed working with the younger Lyndhurst pupils. Thank you to the staff and pupils from Lyndhurst for coming along and taking part in this event.

Once again well done to the Healthy Body Healthy Ming girls and to Mrs Vicki Stitt for all her hard work this term. You were a credit to Davison.

Thank you to Vikki Stitt for all her hard work this term.

Dani Baker
SSCO Davison High School

Please note the following dates for events for children with disabilities. They are open to all children from mainstream and special schools within our partnership.
 
Thursday 23rd February Kwik Cricket KS2&3 at David Lloyd Centre Durrington 11am - 2pm
Thursday 8th March 10am - 12 noon KS2 Indoor Athletics - Southwick Leisure Centre
Wednesday 21 March 10am-12 noon KS3&4 Boccia The Sports Dome Littlehampton
Friday 23 March 10am - 11.30am - KS2 Invitation Swimming Festival - Lancing College
Wednesday 28th March 10am -11.30am - Oak Grove - KS1 Target Games
 
Please contact Sandy Fell / Ali Groves for further information

Twenty four young leaders from across the Sports Partnership (two delegates from each secondary school) have met on two separate occasions to learn about their role as Young Leaders/Adistars . Their aim is to help raise the profile of the London 2012 Olympics  and spread the word about the Ollympic and Paralympic Values – respect, friendship, personal excellence, courage, determination, inspiration and equality)

After a session on Team building and trying to beat Sebastion Coe’s Olympic record, the students learnt about disability sports playing boccia, new age Kurling, seated Volleyball and Blind football.  The first two activities  were ably taught by  two National disabled athletes from angmering, Tyler Paul and Matt Berry, followed by Nikki and Dwane from Seagulls Specials. A big ‘thank you’ to all of you for giving up your time to offer your expertise, it was invaluable.  An enjoyable and informative evening was had by all learning to sign and participating in all the different sports.

Students have now been asked to introduce a Paralympic sport back  at their own schools – so watch this space!

Ali Groves