Anne Quaile - Handsworth Grange School

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Holiday
Camp
Over October half-term
a 2-day sports camp
was held at Handsworth
Grange Sport Centre.
The camp was organised
and delivered through
a partnership between
Handsworth Forum,
Activity Sheffield, Forge
School Sport Partnership
and Handsworth Grange.
All participants had the
opportunity to take part
in trampolining, climbing,
archery, grass sledging,
football rounders and
dodgeball.
The camp proved to be a
real success and saw a total
of 75 children taking part
on the Wednesday and 47
children taking part on the
Thursday!!!
If you missed out on the
October sports camp,
watch out for posters
around the sports centre
advertising our February
Half-Term activities!!!
Year 3 ‘Get Set’
Mini-Olympics
A part of the schools involvement in the ‘Get Set’ network
the KS4 Sports Council and Sports Leaders planned and
delivered a Mini-Olympics festival to Year 3 pupils from
Ballifield, Brunswick and Prince Edwards Primary Schools.
The aim of the event was:
To run a fun, active sports festival using the inspiration of
the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
To encourage pupils to demonstrate the Olympic and
Paralympic Values sport
Use Sports Leaders and Young Ambassadors as role models to
motivate and inspire the Year 3 pupils to take part in sport
During the morning the pupils were split into ‘Olympic’
teams and completed against other countries in athletics
related activities like long jump and relay races. They
earned points for performance and also for displaying the
values of friendship, respect and determination. Jake Cook
delivered his Olympic presentation as part of this Young
Ambassador role and taught the pupils about the Olympic
and Paralympic Values.
We were also delighted to have Year 6 Sports
Leaders from Brunswick Primary School
helping us on the day. Ellis Robinson, Jade
Maltby and Rebecca Cassim acted as Media Leaders
and they interviewed pupils and took photographs of
the event.
Playground To Podium
The first “Playground To Podium” event of the 2010-
11 academic year took place at the EIS on the 12th
October. The event provided pupils with an opportunity
to experience paralympic style sports including boccia,
football, athletics and cricket. Pupils also had the chance
to complete sports assessment cards where pupils can
track their progress online.
The pupils that took part in the event from Handsworth
Grange were Amy Keller, Bethany Vaughan, Sam
Deakin, Paige Jeffrey, Mumin Samad, Loran Timson,
and Charlie Passmore.
It was great to see everyone having a great time and
giving 100%. A big well done to you all!
P2P Swimming Event
The second playground to podium event took place
on the 19th November 1pm-3pm at ponds forge. This
event was swimming based with Callum O’Mara, Jordan
Proctor and Amy Keller representing Handsworth
Grange. Pupils took part in a fun splash session which
was followed by a series of swimming assessments that
took place in the main competition pool.
All pupils enjoyed the session and were a credit to the
school!
A regular weekly playground to podium multi-sport
coaching session is in the planning stages to take place
after Christmas.
Olympic Bobsliegher, Nicola Minichiello, joined us at the
festival to help celebrate the school achieving ‘Get Set’ status.
She talked to the pupils about the Olympic and Paralympic
Mascots; how they were made and why they are called the
names they have.
Wenlock is the Olympic Mascot and is named
after Much Wenlock in Shropshire. This is a
town that is at the heart of Olympic history. In the
19th century, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was invited
there to watch the ‘Much Wenlock Games’ inspired by
the Olympic Games of ancient Greece. De Coubertin
was inspired by the Wenlock Games too, and went on
to found the modern Olympic movement. The Much
Wenlock Games are still held annually to this day!
Mandeville is the Paralympic Mascot and is named
after Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire and this is the
birthplace of the Paralympic Games. On the
same day as the Opening Ceremony of the
London 1948 Olympic Games, Sir Ludwig
Guttmann held his own sport competition
in Stoke Mandeville for World War II soldiers
with spinal injuries. It was no coincidence – Sir
Ludwig dreamed of a ‘parallel Olympics’
for athletes with disabilities. The Stoke
Mandeville Games grew and grew until
they became the Paralympic Games.
Blast Off
Blastoff is a Football on Your Doorstep
initiative for 11 - 16 year olds organised
and delivered by Activity Sheffield.
It provides fun, structured and safe
sessions at vulnerable times of the year.
Blastoff is currently being delivered on
the new Astroturf on a Friday evenings
5.00pm-7.00pm at a cost of £1 per
player.
Through close working with the
Handsworth SSCo, Activity Sheffield
were able to offer 3 taster sessions to
pupils at lunchtimes to promote the
Friday evening session and encourage
pupils to setup and enter their own
5-a-side football team into the
competition. The taster sessions saw 75
pupils take part and a steady increase in
the number of pupils taking part on a
Friday evening has been seen due to the
taster sessions.
School Team
Success
The following pupils participated in
the Athletics Selection competition
and have been selected to represent
Sheffield at the South Yorkshires Schools
Championships.
Y10 Nicky Coomber – 1500m
Y11 Dailyn Brown – Shot and Javelin
Y7 Ahmed Nabo – 100m
Y7 Georgia Hollis – LJ
Y8 Joe Hutchesson – 400m
Y9 Samantha White – Shot and Discus
Well done and good luck to all the
athletes!
Mr Siviter/Mrs Leaver
Y10’s Top Activity
The Y10 PAYL members Penny Rawlings, Bailey Wattam, Bradley Pickering, Josh Walker, Natasha Ford
and Y9 Josh Towers have been delivering a “Top Activity” multi-sport club on a Thursday evening at
Brunswick Primary School. The session was aimed to provide Y2 pupils with a range of fun coaching
opportunities in a variety of sporting disciplines. The session was certainly a big challenge for the Y10’s
but they did themselves proud and as usual were a credit to the school. A big well done to you all!!
PE Festivals and Competitions
Between Easter and Spring Bank Y9 and Y10 young leaders as part of Active IQ and BTEC have
organised and delivered various competitions and festivals including a rugby, tri-golf and tennis event.
Over 300 different children from Brunswick, Athelstan, Ballifield and St Josephs attended the events
and thoroughly enjoyed them. The next events are the rounders competition on the 10th June and
cricket competition on the 13th June.
After School Parkour
September saw the start of a 10-week block of parkour activities funded
through Forge School Sport Partnership and Sport Unlimited. Parkour is the
physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path
by adapting one’s movements to the environment. It is a non-competitive,
physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route,
attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible. Skills
such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves are
employed. The goal is to get from one place to another using only the human
body and the objects in the environment. The obstacles can be anything
in one’s environment, but parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas
because of the many suitable public structures available such as buildings
and rails. The alternative activity has proven to be a real success with a total
of 32 pupils from across all year groups having taken part to date.
After School Hockey
Rotherham Hockey Club (RHC) in partnership with Forge School Sport Partnership and Handsworth
Grange has been delivering a 10-week block of after school hockey sessions on the new Astroturf.
A total of 10 pupils have taken advantage of the free coaching sessions on offer. Pupils have had the
opportunity to learn and develop new skills along with a chance to participate in a festival that is
scheduled to take place in week 10 of the programme.
RHC also hope that through the after school sessions some of the children might even decide to join
RHC after the 10-week block comes to a close and participate in hockey on a more regular basis.
Hotshots Basketball Competition
The Handsworth Family Hotshots competition took place on Tuesday 23rd November
at Handsworth Grange Community Sports College. Brunswick, St Josephs and
Athelstan were represented at the event with over 40 pupils taking part. Athelstan
team 1 and team 2 clinched first and second place in the competition. These two teams
will combine to form one entry into the partnership hotshots final competition along
with Brunswick who will clinch the second entry place into the final.
The finals will take place on Thursday 3rd March at the EIS where the winners and runners-up will be
entered into the city wide final. Good luck to both teams!!!
Coaching Innovation Schools – Olympic Legacy
Handsworth Grange is one of 8 schools in the country to be chosen to be part of the coaching strand
of the Youth Sport Trusts Innovation Schools Project. Handsworth Grange has been given £10,000 to
work towards developing a “World Leading Plan for Sports Leadership Legacy”. This will involve working
with 6 “Minority” Olympic and Paralympic National Governing Bodies of sport to pilot some entry
leadership awards within HGCSC and provide feedback to the NGB’s on how to improve the courses and
create some case studies. A CD resource must also be created linked to the awards that will be distributed
to schools nationwide come 2012.
Adistars Training
On the 24th January 2011 a training session was provided through Forge SSP for the members of the
Y10 Adistar young leaders.
The training course was based on the Olympic and Paralympic values and was delivered by the Y11 Gold
and Platinum Ambassadors Jake Cook (Handsworth) and Philip Woods (Tapton). 12 Adistars took part
in the training; the nominated Adistars from Handsworth Grange were Natasha Ford and Josh Walker.
Natasha and Josh will be cascading what they have learnt to the Y6 Primary PAYL members between
Feb Half-term and Easter.