WIN a trip to the Olympic
Stadium next April for
your school!

Are you ready to go for Gold? Get your school involved
in the build up to London 2012 by taking on Olympic
and Paralympic sports to raise funds for vital medical
research into child health.

Challenge your pupils to cover 2012kms by running, walking, cycling,
swimming, kayaking… just choose your sports and commit to raising funds
for Action Medical Research.

Register before the end of November to be in with a chance to take part in
the Gold Challenge Stadium Parade in the Olympic Stadium.

Click onto the link to find out more.

http://familygoldchallenge.org

To get you started, they are offering a free sports kit to those schools who register on line. The kit will arrive in Sept 11 and will give you the chance to play some of the following Paralympic sports: Goalball, Sitting Volleyball and Blind Football.

To register your school go on line to: click (www.sainsbury’s.co.uk/1millionkids)

The School Games will officially start in September 2011, where a number of competitive sports will involve young children from year 3 to 13 taking part.

It will consist of 4 levels:

• Intra school competitions
• Regular local interschool competitions
• Annual area/county multi sports school games festivals
• National multi sport events.

Also, congratulation to those other schools who competed fantastically in the Hi 5 Final competition – St Barnabus, Sycamore Lane and Cinnamon Brow.

Many thanks goes to our Competition Organiser, Justine, Netball Development Officer at the, “Warrington Sports for all centre” and our fantastic Sports Leaders from Bridgewater High School -  Abbie and Sam, who did a brilliant job of scoring on the day.

If you require any further information regarding Netball opportunities in Warrington, please contact Justine on: justine@sportforallcentres.co.uk

The event was organised by Competition Manager, David Quartermain and the cluster schools involved were:
Cluster                                   Participant Schools
Cardinal Newman                St Peters
Penketh                                    Penketh Community
Lysander                                 Christchurch
Bridgewater                            Stockton Heath / St Matthews
Lymm                                        Statham / Ravenbank
Great Sankey                          Barrow Hall
Woolston                                  Bruche
Culcheth                                   St Helens / Croft

Interest in Sportshall athletics has grown over the last few years, thanks to the repeated staging of the Y5/6 event.  A year 7 / 8 event is also due to run, which will be useful for secondary schools looking to identify talented athletes in the run up to the summer season.

More details regarding the Warrington School Sport Partnership’s Sportshall Athletics Final is to follow shortly.

Fifteen Year 10 pupils are working towards their Rugby Community Leaders Award and there will also be a one day High Five Netball Leadership Course too. It is then hoped that the young leaders will then deploy their talents in the local community and schools.

Tom Williams, a pupil from Bridgewater High School, was one of seventeen young people who successfully gained a Tennis Leadership course, gained from the support of the Cheshire Lawn Tennis Association and Birchwood Tennis Centre.

• Birchwood qualified in top position for every age group in boys
• William Beamont qualified in top position for every age group in girls
• Lymm qualified for both girls and boys under 14 events
• Great Sankey qualified for the under 16 boys
• Bridgewater qualified for the under 16 girls

Individual skills developed as they moved through the competition and at the County final for under 14′s, Lymm performed exceptionally well and won the competition. The girls, Kim, Katie, Sophie and Jasmin only came together at the start of the year having not before played any competitive Badminton.

Run by Warrington Schools Sports Partnership (WaSSP), both the girls and boys competitions were played with much commitment and skill. The young players were a credit to their schools.

After a fast-paced, highly skilled encounter the U16 results were as follows:

·         GIRLS Winners –  Lymm

·         GIRLS Runners-Up – Bridgewater

·         BOYS Winners – Great Sankey

·         BOYS Runners-Up – Birchwood

All of the above teams will now have the honour of representing Warrington in the Cheshire County finals to be held on Thursday 27th January at Birchwood CHS, Warrington.

Finally, well done to the tournaments Most Valuable Players – Aaron Mc (Bridgewater) and Danielle I (Birchwood) – who both received a quality badminton racket and, also, to the other competing school teams who played so well at the comp: Penketh, William Beamont

In the year 10 and 11 races, Sophie Bates (Lymm) and Jack Gleave (William Beamont) took the top spots, with Sophie’s run being one of the day’s biggest wins as she defeated her rivals by more than two minutes.

Emma Scott (Helsby) and Rebecca Coy (Bridgewater) took second and third in the girls’ race, with Chris Smith (Boteler) and Henry Buttress (Lymm) claiming the berths in the boys’ race and St Gregorys taking the team award.

Years eight and nine saw Jemma Eyre (Lymm) and Leighton Sharman (Birchwood) run out the winners as Kate Merrill and M McEverley (both Helsby) came second and third, as did Patrick Iredale (St Gregorys) and T Sljivie (Helsby).

Wins for Amy Renton (Helsby) and Kiro Smithyman-Harding (Bridgewater) in the year seven category meant that Helsby pipped Bridgewater to the team title, as Olivia Bush and Annabel Martin (both Bridgewater) and Billy Young and Oliver Upton (both Helsby) claimed the runners up positions.

The young winners from the last round were at it again in the primary school races, with Lauren Goddard (St Monica’s) repeating her win and Jack Evans, Benji Mullarkey and Daniel Fox (all St Wilfrids) again filling the first three boys’ places.