Cranford Review 2021

SPORTS / PE
Competitions
and Inter-forms
in Sport
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Competition should not
be feared, it should drive
us to learn at a faster rate
and perform at a higher
level. Competitions
and inter-forms are put
on by the PE department
because we want to help students
learn this, have fun and install resilience on how
to win and lose gracefully.
Lockdown did not stop us from doing so. We carried out many
at home competitions which students had to enter online ranging
from physical challenges such as the plank or how many steps you
can do in one day. The final lockdown competition we had was an
‘Express Yourself’ challenge encouraging students to be creative
and express what makes them happy which was run during children
mental health week. Students created videos, wrote articles or
sent images in as entries. In school we ran inter-forms in football,
running, athletics and dodgeball. Winners received medals for
their efforts.
We hope to continue our extensive competition approach and will
be using the new online format a lot more in September 2021.
Dodgeball Review
Students in year 7 and year
8 took part in an interform
dodgeball tournament
after school. The students
played within their form
in an exciting round robin
tournament. Due to COVID
the tournament was played
outside on our astro
pitches. Throughout both
tournaments, all students
showed a great amount
of passion, resilience and
respect towards one another.
After some fantastic
performances from both
students and teachers who
took part, on the first day
8X came out as the winners
and 7Z on the second day.
Congratulations to both
forms who are currently reigning
champions for interform dodgeball
at Cranford.
Basheak Bussue (PE Department)
Rebecca Carter (PE Department)
Express Myself
I express myself by
playing sports. I love to
play many sports but I
love one particular one and that is
netball. Netball to me is my passion
and I believe that I can express
myself in many ways through it.
Express
Myselft
Netball makes me happy and I believe I can be
myself and become a better person. Netball helps
me to take things off my mind and lets me be
myself. It makes me become more confident and
determined. Netball makes me feel resilient and
I can really show my true colours by showing
people what I love. Netball is in my comfort zone
and makes me feel stronger and it tells me that I
am ready to do anything I want but I just have to
be resilient and I have to persevere. In year 6, I
was in a netball team and that is where my passion
for netball started. I started in an afterschool club
then I slowly got into mini tournaments and then
I was chosen to go to this big tournament. It
showed that I need to be patient and it takes time
to achieve your dreams and goals.
Jagroop Layal (year 7)
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