SUMMER 2010 Newsletter - Drighlington Primary School

SPORTS ROUND UP
Athletic’s Success 2010
Once again the school athletics team has started the season fantastically. All
teams went to the English Schools Round 1 in Wakefield and did extremely well.
There were some great performances in the junior teams from Sam Otway,
Lawrence Wilson and Eve Kitchingman from Year 7 and Lucy Bisset, Rob
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Campbell and Tyler Whyte from Year 8. The Boys finished 3 narrowly missing out
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on the regional B finals and the girls finished 6 .
Some more great performances from the inter teams as usual - Bena Asomaning
in the Triple jump (pictured right) and, in the boys' team, Dom Howard, Ben
Hopkinson and James Aston had amazing results with James accumulating the
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most points on the day with 39 points for the team! The girls finished 5 and the
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boys finished 1 gaining a place in the regional finals for the third year running.
Good Luck!
More success has come from the teams in the Leeds Schools events. After match 1 the results are as follows,
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Junior boys, Inter boys and Inter girls 1 and Junior girls 2 .Good luck for the rest of the season.
Congratulations to Kieron O'Neill, Jack Schultz, James Thorp, Brad King and Michael Wood (pictured above)
for reaching the West Yorkshire trials competing for Leeds, with Kieron getting a Personal Best of 11.99 seconds
for the 100m and Jack also getting a Personal Best of 1.55m in the High Jump.
English Schools Table Tennis Association - Girls U13 Team National FInals
Our girls Under 13 Table Tennis team consisting of Chardae Chaggar-Brown,
Georgia Fletcher, Abi Harrison and Yasmin Madani (the latter three pictured left),
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finished 4 in the Country after reaching the National Finals in Coventry in April.
This is an outstanding achievement and the girls should be very proud of how well
they have done this year.
Leadership Round Up
This year has been an excellent year for leadership opportunities and events.
Eighteen students have completed the Sports Leaders UK level 2 award
(CSLA). For this they undertook a four day course including a recognised First Aid
award and a disabilities workshop. They have also done at least 10 hours of
leading sport in the community. Sports have ranged from football, rugby,
cheerleading as well as running a multiskill club for primary children aged 4 - 6
years for the last two terms. Five of our CSLA leaders have also been part of the
Leeds Academy Leadership Programme and have attended training at Elland
Road to develop their skills further. They have then gone into primary schools in the
local area to run leadership workshops for Year 6 pupils.
Year 11 GCSE / BTec and Year 10 BTec groups have also been progressing
towards the above award by achieving the Junior Sports Leader Award. Sixty
students have been gaining leadership experience by taking sessions in local
primary schools as well as running multiskill festivals at Horsforth school.
Three Year 9 girls have also started on the road to becoming leaders by
volunteering to coach hockey at the primary school hockey club bases at school
on Friday nights. Well done to them.
Top Link
Top link is a national scheme for leadership run across the whole of
the UK. The Leeds Schools Partnership combine together to run this
project which took place during a full week in June. Our Top link
leaders this year are Year 10 students Tom Roberts, Ben Hopkinson,
Molly Pickering and Vicky Mather. They have attended a national
training day at Tong School along with all the other Top Link leaders in
West Yorkshire and are now planning a world cup competition for
Year 6 students in our local feeder schools.
OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL