National School Sport Week Day 5
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National School Sport Week Day 4
Thursday 3rd July
National School Sport Week Day 3
Wed 2nd July
National School Sport Week Day 2
Tuesday 1st July
National School Sport Week Day 1
Monday 30th June
The Annual Conference of the National Association of Head Teachers
2-4 May 2008
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05 December 2007
National School Sport Champion
National School Sport Week Day 1
Monday 30th June
Today I started my journey at 7am to vist the first school on my week long trip to celebrate National School Sport Week.
First visit: Imberhorne School in West Sussex
Their theme for the week is ‘International Activities Week’ – they’ve organised a mini-Olympics doing sports such as Korfball, Rounders, Lacrosse, Handball and a relay race on the athletics track.
Activities Week aims to introduce the students to new and exciting sports from around the world, and the International theme reminds them of their role and responsibility as global citizens in the world of sport and the world of work.
The school also celebrates the Olympics in Beijing with 32 of their students preparing to go on a trip of a life-time.
I arrived at 8.00am met by the Head teacher John Ford , PE Teachers and pupils as well as and the Mayoress of East Grinstead.
First thing to do was some live tv for Setanta Sport and The BBC news channel where 20 students were playing netball.
At 9.30 I received a warm welcome in the main hall from a group of students taking part in International Sports Day and I officially declared International Activities Week opened!
I held a Q&As session with 32 students who will go to Beijing in August and I joined in the activities at the Multi Use Games Areas (MUGA), playing Korfball a game that is quite like netball, which was fun.
I was given a special glass presentation from the school and then I left the school at 10.30 to start on my next journey to the venue Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre.
Second visit: Stevenage School Sports Partnership
held at the Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre – with 6 schools involved: Marriotts Sports College, The Nobel school, The Barnwell School, John Henry Newman School, The Valley School and The Barclay School
I arrived at 12.30 and was welcomed by the Partnership Ambassadors and Partnership Development Managers. They organised a Girls Multi-Activity Event with 12 different activities and sports, led by Community Club Coaches and sports leaders.
Sports include: netball, football, cricket, basketball, athletics, rhythmic gym, street dance, boxercise, hoola-hooping, fit balls, trampoline, badminton, tennis, bowls and mobile team challenge. I had a go at a few of them which was slightly embarrassing and I am sure my street cred went right down!
I really enjoyed meeting everyone and I am very pleased to see how a school sport partnership is working together. I left the leisure centre at 2.30pm to go to the next stop and last visit of the day: Roade School and Sports College. The theme of the day is School Sport and Club Links Celebration Day
Third and last visit of the day:
Roade School and Sports College
Celebrating a range of sports and activities from school club links with secondary pupils.
The day aimed to embrace participation, leadership, volunteering and school club links with 8 schools involved:Roade School Sports College, Ashton Primary School, Blisworth Primary School, Colling tree Primary School, Hardingstone Primary School, Hartwell Primary School, Hackleton Primary School and Stoke Bruerne Primary School.
I arrived at 4pm and after being welcomed I started a tour of the primary sports festival. I visited the sports hall, Astroturf and the main field, where they had lined up a whole range of activities: Sports Hall Athletics, Tag Rugby, Kwik Cricket, Futsal, Multi Skills and Hi 5 Netball.
It was extremly well organised with the young sports leaders doing a fantastic job, and of course all the staff from the sports college made it into a wonderful event.
At the end of all the activities I handed out awards to the winners. What was especially nice was that the parents were all there to see it and that’s what we mean by PROFILE – having the whole community involved.
I must say I have had a fantastic day and after leaving Northampton at 6.45pm on a journey to Nottingham the thought of bed is very appealing!
Tomorrow is another day and I am really looking forward to it.
Kelly
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