Regents Review Summer 2019

The Regents Review Summer 2019

Physical Education DEPARTMENTAL NEWS The summer term has been extremely busy in the PE department. We launched a brand new Sports Day where we returned to Southampton Sports Centre. This enabled students to select from over 30 different sports and activities, and experience playing them in specialist facilities designed for each. We had a number of professional coaches attend to deliver some fantastic sessions that the students thoroughly enjoyed. I would like to say a huge thank you to all the external coaches, organisations, staff, students and parents that supported the event and helped make it such a success! We will be asking students to complete a survey on how we can potentially adapt the day next year. On Friday 5th July 2019 we took 40 students to Southampton City Athletics Championships to compete against other schools. Almost all students placed in the top 4. Congratulations to: Kacper Gornicki, Year 7 Mariella Parkhouse, Year 7 Joe Ryan, Year 8 Ben Bowyer, Year 10 Our PE Champions have also had a busy term leading clubs and primary school events, including 2 football tournaments where they led over 200 students and did a fantastic job! They also supported at Wordsworth Primary School Sports Day on Monday 15th July 2019. They have been a credit to the PE department this year – thank you to you all.

U15 Rounders U15 rounders team were a pleasure to take to fixtures this year. The journey in the minibus to and from fixtures was always a highlight for me. It was always a good opportunity to discover student gossip that, as a Head of Year, I never seem to get told! With regards to the rounders, all the games played were played in a really good competitive spirit, applauding good skills on both teams. Games were all very close this year, however our best result was against St. Georges in the drizzle with a draw. Often the only difference was ½ rounder and the odd over thrown ball. The standard this year was very high. We will remember this for next year and hopefully be on the winning side next year. Well done girls. Game 2: We showed superb batting and running skills and won 13 - 8.5 against Woodlands with rounders scored by Indie (1), Sophia (1.5), Ella (1), Lucy (1), Malee (2), Bethan (2.5), Molly (2) and Mariella (2). Game 3: Unfortunately, after only being 1 rounder behind after the first innings, Upper Shirley High managed to get 4 of our players out in the second innings with superb fielding and beat us 8.5 - 5 rounders. With our rounders being scored by Layla (1), Bethan Mr Sinclair

Year 7 & 8 Rounders

some tough competition within the city. Below is a summary of our match results and rounder scorers: Game 1: Showing well-tuned fielding skills we won 10 - 2.5 against Oasis Mayfield with rounders scored by Layla (2.5), Indie (2.5), Bethan (0.5), Malee (0.5), Sophia (1.5) Ella (1) and Lucy (1).

It has been a unpredictable rounders league this year with playing in the scorching heat compared to having to wait in the mini bus until a storm passes over. However, our Year 7 & 8 rounders team have been ready and raring to play and even train in the rain in order to match up to

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