Issue 23Summer

2016

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WELCOME. Welcome to all HSSP Schools and to the summer of school sport. We hope that your school pupils and staff are enjoying lots of sporting participation/physical activity and events/festivals inside and outside of the school environment.

Congratulations to those schools that qualified for the Kent School Games finals this summer and in particular to the Rainham Mark Grammar School Girls Handball team, who won the Medway, Kent and South East Regional Schools Tournaments and then finished 4th on the England National Schools Championships between December 2015 and June 2016. Other qualifying Kent School Games teams included: Miers Court Year 5 and 6 Quick Sticks Hockey Parkwood Juniors Year 3 and 4 Quick Sticks Hockey Wainscott Primary Year 3 and 4 Mini Tennis Hempstead Infants Year 1 and 2 - Infants Agility Academy of Woodlands Year 5 and 6 - High Fives Netball Hoo St. Werburgh Primary Year 3 and 4 Tri Golf Festival Rainham Mark Grammar Girls Super 8’ Athletics The Howard School Boys Super 8’s Athletics St. Margarets Junior Year 3 and 4 Sports Hall Athletics Riverside Primary Change4Life Festival Bligh Juniors Key Steps Gymnastics

Well done to all of these teams we hope you had a great experience at the various finals.

The Medway SSG (Secondary School Games) has also proved to be a busy and successful year in terms of participation rates from school teams, with twelve sporting events throughout the year and the final District Athletics on 14th July 2016, where each school will represent an Olympic country. Furthermore, most HSSP Secondary Schools gained funding for a Satellite sports club, with a community link.

The Howard SSP staff have been working hard to finalise the Primary P.E. Assessment tool in order to help Primary staff track and monitor pupils progress in P.E. lessons. We have also recently delivered some CPD workshops that have gone down well with teaching staff on: OAA, Change4Life/Health and physical activity clubs and Active Numeracy. We welcome any ideas from primary schools for future P.E./School Sport training courses we could arrange for 2016-2017.

Health projects such as Change4Life clubs and targeting physically inactive children is becoming a higher priority. Clubs such as Change4Life are very important and we strongly advise schools to use their Primary P.E. Premium Funding to improve the health and well-being of primary school children. The HSSP has worked closely with Byron Primary to deliver a 6 week health project at Medway Park this summer and the HSSP rewarded the St. Marys Primary School (Gillingham) Change4Life Club (who completed a HSSP survey and has continued to deliver Change4Life clubs at school for several years) with 2 team visits to the ‘Fun Drum’ soft play venue. Primary Schools need to be aware that there might well be possible future government grants for primary schools with the announcement of the future ‘sugar tax’ funding from 2017 onwards. As soon as we hear more, we will let schools know. We are aware of delays to the launch of the ‘National Obesity Strategy’ due to the EU vote.

Please note: The Medway Tennis Festival (dates: 25th July - 30th July 2016) where lots of different Tennis activities, coaching and competitions take place at various venues across Medway for beginners or players. Please promote these flyers (sent in the post to your school, together with this newsletter) to your pupils and staff. Many thanks for all your help with school sport this year.

CLAIRE MOORE, SGO and PDM - Howard SSP

Page 1: Welcome and Introduction. Page 3: Tri Golf Festivals - Year 1 and 2. Some photos of the Kent School Games team finalists. Health Projects and Activities with Primary Schools and Teachers. Page 2: Summary of CPD Courses delivered and delegate feedback. Page 4: Medway SSG Super 8’s Athletics Event. Rainham Mark Grammar Girls National Handball finalists. Medway Primary Girls only Football and Kwik Cricket Festivals.

Hempstead Infants Kent School Games Infant Agility June 2016

Academy of Woodlands Netball Team Kent School Games June 2016 2nd in Kent

Change4Life Riverside Team at Kent School Games June 2016

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Claire Moore - Partnership Development ManagerThe Howard School,

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Medway SSG Super 8’s Athletics Event for Year 7’s - 25th May 2016 - Medway Park track

Nineteen Medway secondary school teams of 7 pupils took part in the SSG Medway Super 8’s Athletics event. This is where each team member takes part in one track, one field and one relay race.

The results were as follows: GIRLS BOYS

The highest placed Howard SSP Teams were: Girls: Rainham Mark Grammar - Boys: The Howard School and the highest placed Greenacre SSP Teams were: Girls: Walderslade Girls - Boys: Chatham Grammar Boys

The above schools took part and represented Medway in the Kent School Games Super 8’s finals and the Howard School boys and Rainham Mark Grammar Girls both gained 4th position overall across Kent, which was a great achievement..

We thank all the P.E. Teachers for supporting this event and organising all the track and field events at this event. CLAIRE MOORE, SGO

Medway Primary Girls only Football and Kwik Cricket Festivals - May 2016 - Howard School

Fourteen girls only football teams and eight Kwik cricket girls only teams entered these annual Festivals, held at the Playfootball 3G pitches for the football and the playing fields at the Howard School for the Kwik Cricket.

The results were as follows: GIRLS ONLY FOOTBALL GIRLS ONLY KWIK CRICKET

Well done to all school teams and particularly to the Fair Play teams. The winning team from the Kwik Cricket, St. Thomas More Primary, was now invited to represent Medway in the Kent School Games Girls only Kwik Cricket finals in July 2016.

The Anchorians FC kindly helped provide volunteer football referees and details on an exit route for the girls interested in joining a high quality community football club for girls teams. CLAIRE MOORE, SGO

School Positions Rainham Mark Grammar (HSSP highest) 1st Brompton Academy 2nd Rainham Girls 3rd Walderslade Girls (GSSP highest) 4th Thomas Aveling 5th Hundred of Hoo 6th Robert Napier 7th Strood Academy 8th Victory Academy 9th

School Positions Balfour 1st Delce 2nd St Margarets 3rd St Thomas More 4th Kingfisher 5th Phoenix 6th St Benedicts 7th St William of Perth 8th Fairview 9th Temple Mill 10th Saxon Way 11th Wayfield 12th English Martyrs (Fair Play) 13th Horsted 14th

School Positions Howard School (HSSP highest) 1st Chatham Grammar Boys (GSSP highest) 2nd Rainham Mark Grammar 3rd Greenacre 4th Brompton Academy 5th Hundred of Hoo 6th Strood Academy 7th Thomas Aveling 8th Victory Academy 9th Robert Napier 10th

School Positions St Thomas More 1st Kingfisher 2nd Delce 3rd English Martyrs 4th Horsted 5th Balfour 6th Temple Mill (Fair Play) 7th Wayfield 8th

English Martyrs Fair Play Winners Girls Football - May 2016 Temple Mill Fair Play Winners Girls Kwik Cricket - May 2016

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Summary of evaluations received from delegates that attended the HSSP CPD Primary P.E. courses from September 2015 to July 2016

England Schools Handball National finalists: Rainham Mark Grammar School, Girls U13 TeamRainham Mark Grammar School Girls U13 Handball team - (see photo above) have achieved a great deal as a team this academic year: Winners of the Medway SSG Handball Events in December 2015 Winners of the Kent School Games Handball finals in February 2016 Winners of the South East Regional Handball finals in April 2016 4th placed in the country at the National Schools Handball Championships in June 2016. The team lost in extra time in the 3rd/4th place play-off match, to finish in 4th place in the country as a whole.

So this series of fantastic performances at four Schools Handball tournaments demonstrated the commitment and teamwork that a school sports team can achieve. They should be very proud to be placed 4th in the country in their age group, in the increasingly popular sport of Handball.

We look forward to hearing more about this team as they progress through to the older age groups and the increased popularity of the sport of Handball at Rainham Mark Grammar School. Many thanks go to their P.E. Teachers and Team Manager: Mr. Paterson.

CLAIRE MOORE - SGO

Rainham Mark Grammar Girls Handball team. 4th in England Schools Championship

Active Numeracy course at Parkwood Junior. June 2016

% of delegates scored the course NAME OF CPD COURSE AND VENUE Name No’s as an excellent/good – ‘enjoyable of Tutor attending learning experience’

Gymnastics K.S. 1 at Hempstead Infants GH 11 100% Gymnastics K.S. 2 at Featherby Juniors GH 14 100% Dance K.S. 1 and 2 at Twydall Primary JW 2/3 100% K.S. 1 and 2 Invasion Games at St. James Primary CP and MM 20 100% High Fives Netball - Brompton Academy GH 6 100% YST Module Whole School Impact JG 5 100% ASA Certificate for teaching Swimming at K.S. 1 and 2 SR 12 100% Gymnastics K.S. 1 at Temple Mill Primary GH 6 100% Gymnastics K.S. 2 at Temple Mill Primary Junior GH cancelled Multi Skils K.S. 1 and 2 at St. James Primary CP and CH 16 100% OAA for K.S. 2 at Bredhurst Primary CH and CP 7 100% Change4Life Workshop at St. Marys Primary CM, GH and EB 9 100% (Medway Council) YST Module Active Numeracy at Parkwood Juniors YST tutor 17 100% (raising achievement of Maths through PE and School Sport)

NationalCurriculum2014

Physical EducationAssessment Toolfor Primary Schools

An in-depth tool to help plan lessons, identifywhere pupils are within their Physical Educationlearning, identify who is making progress andprovide evidence for feedback.

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Medway Tri Golf Festival - years 1 and 2 at Medway Park - 16th June 2016The Tri Golf Festival was very well supported on Thursday 16th June with 17 primary schools in attendance and 12 pupils per team.

The overall final positions and results from across both the morning and the afternoon sessions were as follows:

Many congratulations to the 2 Fair Play Award School teams: Fairview in the morning and All Faiths in the afternoon. Medals were awarded to the top 3 team positions.

The winning team: St. Thomas More Primary will be receiving the perpetual wooden shield to keep for one year – WELL DONE.

Many thanks to the volunteer sports leaders (and their Teachers/School Sport Co-ordinators) from the Hundred of Hoo and the Howard Secondary Schools. We simply cannot deliver these events without them, so their help is absolutely essential. The Sport Leaders did a great job, even with the distraction of the England football match going on against Wales in the afternoon!

Also many thanks go to Primary Teachers and parents/grandparents for their support at this Festival and well done to every child that took part.

CLAIRE MOORE - SGO

St. Marys Primary Change4Life club at Fun Drum. June 2016

Position School Points Position School Points 1st St. Thomas More 302 10th Horsted 225 2nd Fairview 273 11th Bredhurst 222 3rd Bligh 265 12th St. Peters Infants 204 4th Balfour Infants 254 13th Kingfisher 196 5th St. Margarets Infants 248 14th Halling Primary 189 6th Hilltop 246 15th Maundene 183 7th Meredale 245 16th All Faiths 171 8th Saxon Way 236 17th Wayfield 158 9th Parkwood Infants 226

Health Projects and Activities with Primary Schools and Teaching StaffThe Howard SSP is working closely with Byron Primary to provide a 6 week Health Project with Medway Park Children’s Shokk Gym and Gym Instructors. This is part a Health grant received from Medway Public Health Team.

A Change4Life workshop was also held in June at St. Marys Primary School in partnership with Emma Block - Medway Council Public Health Team and here 9 teaching staff from 4 primary schools learnt about Change4Life club principles and general ethos. Colleagues benefitted from sharing games ideas and discussing how to go about setting up a Change4life club and keep regular attendance at the club.

We are actively encouraging Primary Schools to think about targeting young people that are physically inactive, to help them to change their current inactivity levels and discuss ideas on nutrition.

St. Marys Primary School completed a recent HSSP survey and demonstrated their commitment to Change4Life clubs for all year groups and as a reward they received 2 group visits to the Fun Drum Soft Play venue (see group photo above).

CLAIRE MOORE - SGO

Fairview Fair Play Tri Golf Team - Years 1 and 2. 16th June 2016

NationalCurriculum2014

Physical EducationAssessment Toolfor Primary Schools

An in-depth tool to help plan lessons, identifywhere pupils are within their Physical Educationlearning, identify who is making progress andprovide evidence for feedback.

Emerging

Expecting

Exceeding Beginning

Progressing

Securing

NationalCurriculum2014

Physical EducationAssessment Toolfor Primary Schools

An in-depth tool to help plan lessons, identifywhere pupils are within their Physical Educationlearning, identify who is making progress andprovide evidence for feedback.

Emerging

Expecting

Exceeding Beginning

Progressing

Securing