Issue 21Summer

2015

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WELCOME. Welcome to the summer edition of the HSSP newsletter. We hope you are enjoying lots of School Sport and Physical Education in the summer months.

We would like to remind all schools that the online opening and closing dates for the National School Games Award (Bronze/Silver or Gold) is as follows: opens on Wednesday 03 June and closes on Wednesday 30 September.2015. This Award application covers your school P.E. and School Sport achievements during the 2014-2015 academic year. If you would like any help with this, please do not hesitate to contact myself or your SSCo. We plan to hold a meeting (based in a computer room) at the Hundred of Hoo Secondary School on Monday 13th July 2015 at 4pm and this will include a session on the internet helping Primary P.E. Co-ordinators to apply online for the their School Games Mark/Award.

This time of year includes lots of school sporting events for all ages and many Kent School Games finals, which have been played at Medway Park. Congratulations to the following school’s for being invited/qualifying/selected to represent Medway in the summer of 2015.

Miers Court Primary Quick Sticks Hockey Winners - yrs 3 and 4 Hempstead Juniors MYG Hockey qualifiers - yrs 5 and 6 St. Thomas of Canterbury Primary Mini Tennis qualifiers yr 3 and 4 Twydall Primary Kent Tag Rugby Fair Play Winners - yrs 5 and 6 Hempstead Juniors and Kent Tag Rugby qualifiers yr 5 and 6 Burnt Oak Primary St. Helens Primary Infant Agility team qualifiers Elaine Primary Academy High Fives Netball qualifiers yr 5 and 6 Wainscott Primary Tri Golf Wnrs yrs 3 and 4 Parkwood Juniors Kent Sports Hall Athletics team yrs 3 and 4 St. Marys Primary and C4L teams - yrs 3 and 4 Brompton Westbrook Primary Miers Court Primary Key Steps Gymnastics teams (year 1 and 2 and year 3 and 4) Rainham Girls School Super 8’s Athletics Girls Team (year 7’s) Rainham Mark Grammar School Super 8’s Athletics Boys Team (year 7’s)

We would like to remind Primary Schools that the current government has promised the Primary P.E. Premium funding until 2020 and so you will definitely be receiving your £8-9000 per school next academic year.

We hope you have a great summer of sport for your students and then a well-deserved summer break and many thanks for everything you do for your students and staff in P.E. and School Sport. CLAIRE MOORE SGO and PDM

Page 1: Welcome. Page 3: Medway Primary Girls Kwik Cricket and Girls World Cup Football Festivals. Introduction. Secondary Schools Tennis Course. Gillingham Primary Football League. Page 2: Young Leaders at St Mary Primary. England Hockey Players attend Brompton Academy Opening. Inter/Intra Athletics at St Marys. Training for the West Kent Games. Page 4: Elaine Primary Academy and Howard School Table tennis. Athletics warm up events. Medway Super 8’s Athletics Events. Farewell Mrs G. Halls.

St Thomas of Canterbury Mini Tennis Team,Kent School Games, June 2015

St Marys C4L Team, Kent School Games, June 2015 Brompton Westbrook Primary C4L Team, Kent School Games, June 2015

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Claire Moore - Partnership Development ManagerThe Howard School,

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Elaine Primary Academy and Howard School – Table Tennis fixtureElaine Primary Academy won both the Mini Youth Games Table Tennis Event in March 2015 and in their preparation for the Night of Champions event played a series of friendly team matches against the Howard School pupils at the Howard Table Tennis Centre.

CLAIRE MOORE - SGO

Elaine Primary Academy and Howard School - Winners MYG Table Tennis 2015 Rainham Girls Super 8’s Athletics team June 2015

Medway SSG Super 8’s Athletics Event, 10th June 2015Sixteen Medway secondary school teams of 8 athletes entered the Super 8’s event where each athlete must take part in at least one track, one field and one relay event at Medway Park track on 10th June after-school.

All secondary teachers volunteered as event organisers and many thanks goes to Craig Paton - track Manager and Gail Halls - Field Manager for their support. The final team results were as follows:

GIRLS BOYS

Congratulations to both the winning Rainham Girls and Rainham Mark Grammar Boys teams who have now represented Medway in the Kent School Games finals.

CLAIRE MOORE SGO and PDM

School Points Positions

Rainham Girls 749 1st Rainham Mark Grammar 707 2nd Thomas Aveling 702 3rd Walderslade Girls 637 4th Robert Napier 557 5th Strood Academy 512 6th BORA 485 7th Hundred of Hoo 391 8th

School Points Positions

Rainham Mark Grammar 848 1st Greenacre 801 2nd Hundred of Hoo 787 3rd Thomas Aveling 755 4th Strood Academy 701 5th Howard 682 6th BORA 588 7th Robert Napier 538 8th

MRS. G. HALLS - P.E. TEACHERRainham School for Girls is sad to say that Mrs Halls is retiring from teaching this July after 23 years of service.

Mrs Halls has been a valued member of an extremely successful P.E. Department, without whom we would not have had half the success we have had. Mrs. Halls commitment, hard work and talent identification has greatly influenced the success of the department. Mrs Halls has done amazing work, not only at Rainham School for Girls, but also in our local primary schools. Whether leading CPD training sessions to primary school teachers, helping run the Medway Primary Schools Festivals and Mini Youth Games or teaching Rainham pupils how to make excellent sports leaders.

We are going to miss her so much, but hopefully we can persuade her to come back and help us with our sports day and leaders! Mrs. Halls will continue to work for the Howard SSP one day per week as a School Sports Co-ordinator (SSCo) for our Primary Schools.

RAINHAM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS PE DEPARTMENT AND CLAIRE MOORE SGO

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Young Leaders at St Marys Primary (Gillingham)

Year 5 pupils at St Marys recently received training to become activity leaders. The aim of the award is to help pupils develop leadership skills such as organisation, communication and teamwork, as well as helping to build confidence and self-esteem as they take on responsibility of leading their peers and younger children.

At the start of the day, there were several boys and girls who were keen but a bit apprehensive. They followed the STEP principle when planning and leading activities and ensured that all of their ideas incorporated “SOCCER” – Safety, Organisation, Co-operation, Communication, Enjoyment and Responsibility. They practised their leading skills on each other before leading pupils from a year 3 classes. They now feel confident to organise and lead small games and activities during their lunch time. The leaders also feel ready to lead their class through a warm up for PE and are looking forward to helping Miss Jessup to run sports day.

Gail Halls SSCo

Inter/Intra Athletics at St MarysThis annual competition is always very popular at St Marys and all of the pupils from year 3 and above take part in the speed bounce, standing long jump, chest push, mega howler throw and the 35m sprint.

Pupils have several attempts at each event and the competition is strong.

Miss Jessup uses the results to help her choose her athletics team and to discover new talent. She also rewards the best boy and girl in each class, plus the runners up.

For the second year, Asda Active sent a representative who gave all the children a healthy snack and a drink after they had competed.

It was a very busy day for the year 6 activity leaders as well as some sports leaders from Rainham School for Girls who judged and recorded all of the events.

Gail Halls SSCo

Andrew Bridge talking to Sports Volunteers for West Kent School Games

Training Student Volunteers for the West Kent School GamesYear 9 sports leaders from Rainham School for Girls received training at Medway Park in preparation for helping at the West Kent Games. They were welcomed by Andrew Bridge, ex GB basketball player who gave an inspirational speech.

As the day progressed, they discussed how to make it a day to remember for all of the competitors. The leaders were chosen initially by Mrs Halls and then had to write and explain why they were suitable candidates to lead at this prestigious event. Hannah, Abbey, Hollie and Keisha chose to officiate at the Super 8 athletics competition, (Rainham Girls year 7 athletics team have subsequently qualified to represent Medway at this event); Rebecca, Ciara, Becky and Gabby chose to lead the tri golf competition and Liv, Genevieve and Toni were be part of the media team. Gail Halls SSCo

Secondary Athletics warm up eventsStudents from Rainham Mark, Rochester Grammar, Robert Napier, Thomas Aveling, Hundred of Hoo and Rainham Girls recently took part in two athletics events hosted by Rainham School for Girls – one for year 8 boys and girls, the other for year 9s.

This was a chance for the P.E. staff to see who their best athletes were in preparation for District Sports, but it also gave other students, who wouldn’t make that team, the chance to participate in an athletics competition. There were some exciting performances, which I’m sure will be improved on when they compete on a proper track at Medway Park at the annual SSG District Athletics event on 16th July.

Gail Halls SSCo

St. Helens Primary School Infant Agility Team, with the Minister for Sport Tracey Crouch MP, at the West Kent School Games, June 2015

Rainham Girls Sport Leaders officials at long jump

Rainham Girls sports volunteers at long jump

Rainham Girls Sports Volunteers sorting out the Tri Golf equipment

St. Marys young leaders organising the Intra-School Sports Competition

Wainscott Primary yr 3 and 4 Tri Golf Medway Winners, June 2015

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Medway Primary Girls Kwik Cricket and Girls World Cup Football Festivals, Tuesday 16th June 2015 at Strood Sports CentreThe annual Medway Primary Girls Kwik Cricket and Football events were organised this year, with a ‘Women’s World Cup football festival theme’ where every school was allocated a country. Seven Schools entered the Kwik cricket event in the morning and eight Schools entered the Football in the afternoon, all matches were played on the 5-a-side ‘3G Kicks pitches’ at the Strood Sports Centre. This fun event was designed to promote and encourage girls participation in sport and physical activity across Medway Primary Schools and many thanks go to primary teachers for preparing their girls teams and supporting this girls only Festival.

The following schools adopted a country and wore their tee shirts all day: St. William of Perth Primary - Sweden Delce Academy - Brazil Cuxton Junior - Germany St. Margarets Junior - Spain St. Thomas More Primary - Holland Temple Mill Primary - USA Wainscott - England Balfour - Canada

After all school Kwik Cricket Teams played each other in a 6-a-side game with 4 ball overs the final results were as follows:

Fair Play: Delce Academy (Brazil)

The winning team was invited to the Kent Cricket Board Girls Only Kwik Cricketfinals.

Wainscott winners of Medway Primary Girls Kwik Cricket June 2015

1st Wainscott Primary (England) 2nd Temple Mill Primary (USA) 3rd St. Thomas More (Holland) 4th Balfour Jnr (Canada) 5th Cuxton Jnr (Germany) 6th Delce (Brazil) 7th St. William of Perth (Sweden)

Secondary Schools Tennis CourseFifteen secondary school teachers from across Medway attended a recent Secondary Schools Tennis Course held at Brompton Academy in an effort to improve the quality of tennis provision in schools. The course was delivered by Nick Skelton and organised by Howard School Sports Partnership through the Kent LTA.

Martin May SSCo

Gillingham Primary Schools Football LeagueThis 7-a-side league will start as from September 2015 onwardsat Brompton Academy. For further information contact Dave Brenton(Featherby Junior School) or Martin May SSCo at Brompton Academy. Email: MartinMay@bromptonacademy.org.uk.

England Hockey Players attend Brompton Academy Official OpeningEngland and Holcombe Hockey Players Sam Quek and Steph Elliott attended the official opening of Brompton Academy on Wednesday 24th June.

The Academy has fantastic new Sports facilities including an all weather astro turf pitch and outdoor tennis and netball courts. As part of the opening event Sam and Steph provided a master class coaching session in Hockey to students from the school. A variety of activities were on offer for students as part of the opening day, which was also supported by Gillingham Football Club and Crusaders Basketball who are key partners for the school.

Martin May SSCo

In the World Cup Girls Football Festival, there were two groups of 4 school teams and then a final play off stage for positions. In the finals: Holland (St. Thomas More) beat England (Wainscott) 3-1 and then Germany beat Sweden 1-0 for 3rd/4th position. The overall final positions were as follows:

The Football Fair Play Award was awarded to St. Margarets Junior School.The Golden Ball Award went to: Charlotte Beard (England - Wainscott).

The Golden Boot Award went to:Orla Goodall (Holland - St. Thomas More).

CLAIRE MOORE SGO and PDM

1st Holland (St. Thomas More) 2nd England (Wainscott) 3rd Germany (Cuxton) 4th Sweden (St. William of Perth) 5th Canada (Balfour) 6th USA (Temple Mill) 7th Brazil (Delce) 8th Spain (St. Margarets)