PE Results and events October – December 2009

Netball

The girls have continued to work hard on their netball skills this half term. They have been busy training on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and have competed in a range of fixtures.

A special thank you to Mrs Paul and Mrs Hagyard who have voluntarily given up their time to help us coach and train the girls.

Hockey

This term the U14 Hockey squad competed in the U14 County Hockey Tournament at KEHS. They performed well and made pleasing progress throughout the tournament.

Results.

Fairfax-Won 1-0

Tudor Grange – Lost 0-1

Handsworth – Lost 0-2 Final Position = 3rd Place

Cricket

The girls have continued to develop their cricket skills this term with the specialist coaches on Tuesday lunchtimes. The girls also competed in two fixtures this half term. The first game was a softball indoor match against King Edward’s Handsworth. They played well and succeeded with an exciting and convincing win. Later in the term, the team played in the Partnership Cricket Tournament. The girls played very well as a team and won all of their matches thus finishing first place overall. Well done to all the girls involved.

Basketball Coach

This term, we have been lucky to have a Basketball Coach from America to introduce the game to the girls. The Year 11 pupils have had the opportunity to receive specialist coaching during their lessons and the Thursday lunchtime club has been well attended.

Mo, from Louisville, Kentucky, USA has played basketball for over 15 years. She played for four years at BERE College in Kentucky. In 2006, while working on her masters at Wolverhampton University, she played for the Black Country Bears, a Division 2 women's team. In 2007-8, Mo played in Huelva, Spain for C.B Conquero, who won their division championship. Currently, Mo plays for the Birmingham A’s, a Division 1 women’s team.

At first, two-thirds of the class had never played any basketball before – it was a new experience. On the first lesson we didn’t even know how to bounce the ball ! We have now learnt many new skills, such as dribbling, shooting, chest passes, over head passes and the main positions in a game of basketball. After playing a few fun games, we have made progress—all down to Mo’s teaching. Mo will continue coaching us after Christmas and perhaps we may even progress further and be able to play a basketball game to the standard that Mo plays.’

(Eleanor Moss and Haneen Abed 11X)

KS3 Badminton

This half term the Key Stage 3 and 4 Badminton Teams have been receiving specialist Badminton Coaching from the National Player Chris Tonks. He has been working with our girls to improve their core skills as well as their match play both in singles and doubles. Both teams recently competed in the first stage of the Badminton championships and both A Teams won their rounds and qualified for the next stage in the competition

Mrs Keane

Head of P.E.

Trampolining

We recently held a novice Key Stage 3 and 4 trampolining competition against Bishop Challener and Swanshurst. The girls were required to perform two routines. After the first routine, Camp Hill was in second place but after a strong second routine from everyone, the girls managed to win the partnership trampolining competition by 0.5 points.

I would like to say a huge well done to the team that consisted of Caitlin Moylan, Hannah Peoples, Beth Jenkins, Abbie Romano, Eliza Small and Ashley Pinnock .

We also had a selection of Key Stage 4 and 5 judges who did a fantastic job without which the competition could not have happened so a huge thank you and well done to them and Miss Caherty for organising the competition.

In addition, five girls were selected to take part in the Regional Schools Trampolining Competition held at Cocks Moors Leisure Centre on Saturday 5th December 2009. The U19 team consisted of Katherine Stanway, Abbie Romano, Emma Haywood and the U15 team consisted of Ellie Langham Walsh & Alice Sutherland. Well done to all girls who took part. They performed with enthusiasm and dedication against tough competition.

Miss Chapman

Swimming

On Thursday 12th November we took three teams to King Edward’s High School for the ESSA swimming championships. The girls competed extremely well and their results then went forward to the National Relay Divisional

Results.

The results were as follows : -

Junior girls free style came 8th with a time of 2.32.11

Junior girls medley relay came 9th with a time of 2.49.50

Intermediate girls free style came 6th with a time of 2.41.61

Intermediate girls medley relay came 4th with a time of 2.54.93

Senior girls free style relay came 5th with a time of 2.19.74

This was the first time the girls have entered this competition and they have all done extremely well.

I would also like to say a big thank you to the team captain Becky Smith for organizing the teams.

Football : Years 7 & 8 Football league

This term, the Year 7 and 8 football team have been training on a Thursday lunchtime with Mrs O’Grady and competing in a league at Colmers Farm. A big thank you to Mr Richards who has kindly taken the team every Tuesday evening and coached them throughout their matches. The team have enjoyed playing against many different teams and have performed exceptionally well throughout. Zoya Ahmed has been a fantastic captain. She has organised the team every week and ensured that each player has the kit required for their matches. In addition, a special mention to Grace Kneafsey who has embraced her leadership role and has accompanied the team for some of their matches to assist Mr Richards and provide additional coaching advice.

Results

Tuesday 3rd November Shenley Academy : Drew 0-0 Tuesday 17th November Colmers A: Lost 0-2

Baverstock : Drew 0-0 Colmers B: Lost 0-1

Tuesday 10th November Hillcrest B: Won 4-0 Tuesday 24th November Baverstock B: Drew 1-1

Hillcrest A: Lost 0-2 Baverstock A: Drew 0-0

Dance Show

Well done to all the girls that took part in The Evening of Dance 2009. There was a fantastic display of dances from around the world. The girls performed a mixture of contemporary, theatrical and modern dances as well as national dances from a range of countries. The girls have worked hard throughout the term to prepare for the show and learn their routines. On the night, they performed with confidence and energy and as a result put on a great show for family and friends. A special thank you and well done to Hannah Rawbone, Isabelle Hirst and Emily Davies who organised the event and managed to raise £1500 in aid of Cancer Research.

It has been a busy and exciting term with many girls attending clubs and fixtures against other schools. We continue to reinforce the importance of an active healthy lifestyle and strive to provide as many opportunities as we can for the girls.

I wish to thank the PE Department and all the staff who have helped to provide these extra curricular opportunities this term and well done to all the girls involved.

Mrs Keane

(PE Dept).

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