National Schools Sports Week 29th June – 3rd July.

In order to celebrate National Schools Sports Week the college laid on a wide range of activities, which not only impacted on students PE lessons but also used sport to develop understanding in other lessons. Students were also set the challenge of setting themselves sporting pledges.

In PE students were given the opportunity to choose their activity. The theme was ‘try something new’. Students were given the opportunity to use our new climbing wall and to play games such as Rocket Ball, Floor Ball, Handball, Ultimate Frisbee and Shokk Combat. These activities really engaged the students and we are looking at including some of them in our curriculum for next year.

During lunch times and after school students were given an enhanced programme of activities. Table Tennis and a Rowing challenge were set up on the playground, to ‘bring sport to the public’. The two most impressive performances on the rowing challenge were from Josh Shakleton and Danielle Pond.

All years 7 experienced lessons with a sporting theme across the whole of there curriculum. Example of this included Science where students learnt about forces through Rugby and in Maths where they improved their data collection by recording each other in track and field events. This method of learning has been proved to be really popular and the departments are looking to add more active learning experiences into their schemes of work.

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