Cranford_Review_June_2014

Physical Education at Cranford
Living for Sport:
Hockey Player
Meeting Helen Richardson was an amazing experience; we
learnt, most importantly, a lot about perseverance and
cooperation. She was very open about her own experiences
and what she gained through them and she shared this with us,
making it imperative never to give up in any aspect of your
life regardless whether related to sport. We completed
a series of team building activities
in which it was necessary for
every member of the team to work
together in order to successfully
complete it. From this, we learnt
that communication is key as well as
leadership and determination as some
groups failed on the first try because
of their lack of ability to listen to all
members of their group, however they
persevered and finished albeit last.
This demonstrated the importance of
perseverance in completing any task
and we learnt this important lesson
from Helen Richardson-Walsh.
Fizza Amjad (year 11)
Living for Sport:
Boxer Hannah Barry
We
were told that we were going to get spoken to
by a female boxer, I didn’t know much about
her and I presumed it would be a motivational speech
comparing life to boxing metaphorically; however it
was something completely different. She walked in and
immediately her presence was known despite her small
stature, she had an aura about her and it caught everyone’s
attention. She spoke about her life to us; it was a life
that most of us could only imagine, filled with domestic
violence, drugs, gangs and her being excluded from school
on numerous occasions but from looking at her and seeing
the professional manner in which she carried herself I
would never have believed it. After all that she has been
through, all the doors shut in her face and despite all the
abuse both physical and mental that she experienced, she
became one of Britain’s greatest female boxers and beat
the famous Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams on two
occasions. This success did not happen overnight; it took
thousands of hours of hard training and was due to her
making the right decisions from a young age. She could
have lived a life of crime and done nothing with herself
but she turned her back to that life and channelled her
energy into something positive. So I ask you, what will
you channel your energy into; schoolwork and sports or
the PS3? And will you realise that in order to be successful
you have to put in the work today to build the foundations
of your future, SATs lead to GCSEs lead to A levels leading
to university which eventually leads you to the career that
you aspired to all those years ago. So I urge you to make
a positive change today to better your future.
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Hardeep Rai (year 13)