Year 3/4 & Year 5/6 Cross Country

‘DELIVERING THE DREAM’ Dacorum School Sports Network Newsletter

Volume 7 Issue 1 January 2017

In this newsletter you can read in more detail the work that DSSN Member Schools have been doing last term. It was an extremely busy term with 41 of the member schools taking part in at least one of the 44 different events that took place for DSSN members. You will also find enclosed details of our School Games Competitions and some information from our sponsors. I would like to welcome on board new staff to the network. I look forward to working with you all during the this term with lots more exciting opportunities available to all ‘DSSN’ Schools. Happy New Year to you all. Nigel and Lilli

SCHOOL GAMES MARK ACCREDITATION Congratulations to the following schools for achieving their YEAR 3/4 & YEAR 5/6 School Games Mark for 2015-2016 Gold CROSS COUNTRY St Albert the Great School The Year 3/4 Cross Country Competition was a new event George Street School that was introduced last term. This meant that there The Reddings School were two weeks of Cross Country races during October. Bovingdon School Luckily the weather was very kind as we visited Cavendish, Micklem School Ashlyns, Longdean and Astley Cooper Schools in order to Silver run the races. Our thanks must go to those schools for Belswains School hosting the races and supplying sports leaders to marshal Little Gaddesden School the course and hares to lead the way. Great Gaddesden School A total of 30 Schools participated throughout the two The Cavendish School weeks. Kings Langley Secondary School The winnings schools were as follows: Gade Valley School Ashlyns: Nash Mills School Year 5/6-Greenway Greenway School Year 3/4–Greenway Bridgewater School Astley Cooper: Hobletts Manor School Year 5/6-Holtsmere End Bronze Year 3/4-Thomas Coram Maple Grove School Cavendish: Kings Langley Primary School Year 5/6-Maple Grove Aycliffe Drive School Year 3/4-St Cuthbert Mayne Yewtree School Longdean Lime Walk School Year 5/6-Leverstock Green Year 3/4-Leverstock Green Full Results are on the DSSN Website

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Year 2 Tri Golf Year 1 Inter School Competition On the week commencing 14th On Tuesday 11th October the first of this year’s Year 1 inter school November two Year 2 Tri Golf competitions took place at Hemel Hempstead Sportspace. Yewtree, Festivals took place. Thank you to Chambersbury, Bockswood, Little Cavendish and Ashlyns Schools for supporting hosting the competition and supplying Gaddesden and sports leaders. Nash Mills Schools 8 Schools participated in the two events and the took all took part scores were compared in order to find overall in the morning Dacorum winner. session under the The final points scores were close with Lime Walk watchful eye of winning the trophy by just 12 points from second the Sports placed Yew Tree. Congratulations to Lime Walk. Leaders, from Skip 2 b fit Hemel Hempstead and Adeyfield Schools In the 42 teams have entered this afternoon it was the turn of Maple Grove, Gade years skill 2 b fit competition, Valley, South and results are coming in thick Hill and Lime Walk Schools with King and fast. Well done to all Langley School students providing the teams. taking part, keep up the sports leadership. good work up!

Netball League 20 schools are currently taking part in the district Netball League. This league is for girls only and has been running for numerous years, Year 2 Sports Fayres. and is still successful today. On Monday 28th November the Results have been coming in first of this year’s Year 2 Sports for both home and away Fayres took place at Hemel fixtures, Schools have until March to complete all of Hempstead Sportspace. Brockswood, their matches. Boxmoor, Yewtree, Chambersbury and The Reddings Schools all attended the AM District Cross Country session supported by Hemel Hempstead and Adeyfield School Sports Leaders Leaders. Adeyfield School once again hosted the Dacorum Dis- The afternoon trict Cross Country competition. The event took place saw Little on Thursday 3rd November in surprisingly clement weather. 15 boys and girls teams took part. Pupils had Gaddesden, to run around a 2km course Teams across the district Kings Langley, Maple Grove, Micklem, and battled well to get the best results for their schools. South Hill Schools all take part. The PM Well done to Bovingdon and Holtsmere End Schools session was supported by Kings Langley School for winning the Boys and Girls trophies and to South leaders. Hill School for being overall district champions.

Change 4 Life Change4Life is an initiative brought in by the government to inspire a broad coalition of people, includ- ing schools, families and children. The aim is to improve the nation's health and well-being by encouraging everyone to eat well, move more and live longer. DSSN is therefore encouraging all its schools across the district to set up a change4Life club. Due to this we invited schools to attend our Change4Life Festival that was held on Wednesday 2nd November, hosted by the Cavendish school and supported by Cavendish leaders. The festival gave pupils a taster of different sporting activities that can organised at their schools in their Change 4 life clubs. South Hill, St Albert the Great, Yewtree, Gade Valley and Galley Hill all attended the festival.

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Year 3/4 and 1/2 Great Run Football Leagues This years KS1 great run and the year 3 and 4 great run, took This year’s leagues have started off well, with 32 schools place during the week commencing Monday 23rd of participating in the mixed league, and 21 schools in the girls November .KS1 children ran 300m and year 3/4 had to run league. 600m, around their school site. With most schools having played 3 or 4 matches the early The results are listed below, Well done to Boxmoor and Galley leaders in the Mixed League divisions are Hobbs Hill Wood, Hill who took home the trophies. Well done everyone for St Pauls, Nash Mills and St Albert the Great. taking part. In the Girls’ League, where most schools have played 1 or 2 matches, Bovingdon, Bridgewater, South Hill and Gade Valley are the early leaders.

Year Fastest Girl Fastest Boy 1 Caitlin—Boxmoor Sam and Jacob —Boxmoor

2 Kaitlyn—Galley Hill Max—Galley Hill

Year Top Three Schools 1 Boxmoor, St Albert The Great, St Roses

2 Boxmoor, Bridgewater A, Galley Hill

Full league tables can be found on the DSSN Website.

Leadership

Bronze Ambassadors & Health Leaders On Friday 9th October 2015 DSSN joined with St Albans Network to host the year 6 bronze ambassador and health leader training. 4 pupils from 19 different schools in Dacorum came to the event at David Lloyd in Hatfield.

The event consisted of a morning of team building activities and brainstorming ideas on what makes a good leader. Pupils then spilt off into two different groups, the health leaders had a morning of practical activites. This gave them ideas of different sports they can run back at school in a club they are going to be tasked with creating. In the mean time the bronze ambassadors spent the rest of their morning doing theory, they looked at the role of a bronze ambassador and what their expectations will be back at school. In the afternoon pupils swapped around, the health leaders had to create a rap, poem or song advertising a new Change4life club they were tasked with setting up. The bronze ambassadors had a practical afternoon of a level 1 multi skills competition that has been set up for them to run back in their own schools. The pupils have now have been tasked with going back into their schools and putting all their training and set targets into action with the support of teaching staff. They are going to be creating/ reviewing their School Games notice board and creating a school sports organising crew to help support them in their new Change4Life club and level 1 competitions.

School sport organising crews are made up of organisers, reporters, photographers, team mangers and statisticians, encom- passing a whole variety of roles which can include students that are not particularly sporty. This is a fantastic way of getting whole school involvement. Lilli has already gone into a few primary schools across the district to meet with both the ambassadors and the health leaders. Schools have got off to a great start completing all tasks set and more! She looks forward to visiting more in the new year. Keep up the great work.

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On Friday 9th October 2015 DSSN joined with St Albans Network to host the year 6 bronze ambassador and health leader training. 4 pupils from 19 different schools in Dacorum came to the event at David Lloyds in Hatfield.

The event consisted of a morning of team building activities and brainstorming ideas on what makes a good leader. Pupils then spilt off into two different groups, the health leaders had a morning of practical activities. This gave them ideas of different sports they can run back at school in a club they are going to be tasked with creating. In the mean time the bronze ambassadors spent the rest of their morning doing theory, they looked at the role of a bronze ambassador and what their expectations will be back at school. In the afternoon pupils swapped around, the health leaders had to create a rap, poem or song advertising a new Change4life club they were tasked with setting up. The bronze ambassadors had a practical afternoon of a level 1 multi skills competition that has been set up for them to run back in their own schools. The pupils have now have been tasked with going back into their schools and putting all their training and set targets into action with the support of teaching staff. They are going to be creating/ reviewing their School Games notice board and creating a school sports organising crew to help support them in their new Change4Life club and level 1 competitions.

Westfield Primary School pupils talking about why they enjoy being Sports Leaders:

I like being a sports leader be- I enjoy being a sports leader because I cause I like sports and helping like helping younger children develop younger children. Max, Year 5 their skills. Josh, Year 5

I love being a sports leader and I really enjoy have lots of re- I think being a sports sponsibilities. Jack, Year 5 leader is great because it makes me feel special and I also love sports. Eve, Year 6 I love being a sports leader I love being a sports leader because I like to help young- because I like to help younger children improve in sport er children improve in sport and improve their skills. and improve their skills. Archie. Year 6 Archie. Year 6

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Lilli Bentley—Dacorum School Games Organiser

This year’s School Games competitions have got off to a brilliant start with competitions in Table Tennis, Basketball, and Badminton. The winning schools of these events will be taking part in the Hertfordshire School Games in the week of 5th December.

Table Tennis Badminton U11—On Tuesday 4th and The U16 badminton competition was held at Cavendish school on Monday 7th Wednesday 5th October two November both the boys and girls competition took place. Pupils were ranked separate U11 Table Tennis into positions, and played singles and doubles games to competitions took place at The reach a final team score. All games were out of 11. Ash- Cavendish School. Due to the lyns, Cavendish and JFK entered the competition. All increase in entries this year teams played really well, in the boy’s competition Ashlyns we had to hold the boys and came 2nd and JFK came 1st and in the girls competition girls competitions on Cavendish came 2nd and JFK 1ST. The U14 competition separate nights. Both took place at Ashlyns School on Monday 14th November this was only a boy’s events were event as no girls teams entered. On the evening Ashlyns, Hemel Hempstead extremely successful and JFK teams all played a round robin tournament. Ashlyns came 3rd, JFK with over 12 teams came 2nd, and Hemel Hempstead school were crowned winners going forward attending each to represent Dacorum in the level 3 games. individual competition. Greenway primary school were winners of both the boys and girls Mixed U11 Basketball th competitions and will be representing Dacorum On Tuesday 15 November 11 primary schools took in the level 3 finals. Well done to all teams for part in this years mixed U11 basketball event held taking part! at The Cavendish School. At this year’s event we were lucky enough to be supported by Hemel Storm and U13—On Wednesday 12th October the U13 boys Russell Hoops, both clubs provided the event with qualified Table Tennis competition took place. The Table refs, a commentator and also supplied all team players with Tennis competition rules ranked pupils into free tickets to watch a Hemel Storm game. positions, and ensured they played their Teams were put into a pool where they all opposing competitor over three games to reach played a round robin tournament of 5 minute a final score. Three schools entered the U13 one way games. They winner of each pool then went on to play competition these schools were JFK, Ashlyns in the finals. All teams played fantastically throughout the and Kings Langley. All schools played a round competition showing great skill, knowledge and sportsmanship. robin tournament with the team winning the The final came down to Holtsmere End Juniors V St Pauls, most games being crowned winners. Well done to both teams fought for the winning position and played some Ashlyn’s U13 boys on receiving first place. great basketball. At the end Holtsmere End were winners taking home gold U16—On Wednesday 19th October the U16 boys medals and going on to represent Dacorum in the level 3 games. competition took place, for this competition we GU12 and GU14 Basketball th th had a lot more teams Aslyns X 2 teams, On Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 November the Gu12 and Gu14 Cavendish X3 teams, Kings Langley x 2 teams basketball competitions took place at Ashlyns School. On Wednesday night and JFK, due to the amount of team’s games Hemel and Ashlyns played a straight final playing 8 minute quarters, after a were played across two pools. The winner of Pool very close game Ashlyns were crowned GU12 well done to both teams! On A was Cavendish A and the winner of pool B was Thursday evening Kings Langley, Ashlyn and Hemel teams played a round robin Ashlyns B. Both teams went on to play a very tournament to find the level 2 winner. All teams played 5 minutes each way, rd nd st close final where Cavendish were crowned Kings Langley came 3 , Ashlyns came 2 and Hemel 1 well done to all three winners. Well done to all the primary and teams.throughout, Ashlyns were crowned winners. Well done to all teams. secondary teams who took part.

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Level 3 On Monday 5th December Holtsmere End Juniors Mu11 and Ashlyns GU12 basketball teams travelled to Oaklands collage to take part in the level 3 games. Both teams played extremely well on the day coming up against some tough competition, once all pool games were played both teams were placed third in their groups.

On Tuesday 6th December JFK GU14, JFK GU16 and Hemel BU14 all travelled to Herts sports village to take part in the Level 3 Badminton competition. The boy’s event took place in the morning, the boys played extremely well coming 3rd in their pool. In the afternoon JFK girls took part in their round robin competition coming up against some extremely tough competition, both teams worked very hard as individuals and pairs. Unfortunately both girls’ teams were knocked out of the competition after all pool games were played. Well done to all for taking part. I would also like to say a massive well done to Cavendish leaders who helped to officiate on the day – great job by all.

Also on Tuesday 6th December Longdean School represented Dacorum at the Hertfordshire Lords Taverners U19 Boccia Championship. The competition is for students with a physical disability. The team played matches against Hertford & Ware, Watford & Hertsmere, Stevenage A and Stevenage B. They won all four games to become county champions and will go on to represent Hertfordshire in the Eastern Region Championship in February.

On Wednesday 7th December Hemel Hempstead Gu14 Basketball team headed to Herts sport village. The girls played extremely well playing against students a year older than themselves, well done to all team members. Hemel came 4th in their pool.

On Friday 9th December the level 3 table tennis competition took place at Queens’s secondary school. In the morning Greenway girls and boys teams played against other teams across the county. Both teams played phenomenally well on the day, working fantastic as part of a team showing great sportsmanship and encouragement to each other. Greenway Girls were crowned county winners taking home gold medals and Greenway boys’ came 3rd winning bronze medals! WOW. Well done to both teams! In the afternoon of the 9th Ashlyns and Cavendish boys U14 and U16 also travelled to Queens School to play in the level 3 finals. Both teams played really well, with a mixture of games won and lost both teams were knocked out at the round robin stage. Well done to all teams!

This is a report written by the 4 members of the Greenway team who were crowned County Champions. When competing in the county table tennis competition we faced five teams from other boroughs around Hertfordshire. The first team we played were extremely challenging as it was our first competitors and we were just warming up. Luckily, we won 5-3 in games that meant we were on our way to becoming the county champions! In our second match, we managed to achieve another win with the overall score of 6-2. This came to conclusion of the fact we were in the semi-finals. By then, we were starting to build confidence. Here we come! For our third and final match of the group stages, we played William Ransom who we found our most challenging team yet. With their number one player being the third best In England, it was a close one, but it finished as a draw. The only way they came first in the group stages was because they won one more game in the other matches. We won 17 matches but they won 18. In the semi-finals, we played against the team that came first in pool A. We won all our games and got advanced to the finals. We knew we could do it! It started to get tense as we were playing for the title of ‘County Champions.’ We were up against the same team that had beaten us before. Our number 1 unfortunately lost her two game but it was close on her 2nd match. The great thing was our number 3 and 4 won all their games! Everyone was depending on our number 2 because she needed to win at least one of her matches to get win! If she lost we would have drawn, then it would go through to points. She won narrowly! We all celebrated. In January we are off to the zone finals to play the other county winners! By Margot, Alice, Livy and Izzy

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We now have a total of 9 apprentices across the district based in their schools for four days a week. In this time they support the delivery of PE lessons, run extracurricular clubs and support in the classroom. One day a week apprentices help Dacorum to deliver sporting events and festivals as well as completing their NVQ qualification. The Apprentices receive central training at Stevenage twice a term. They will also have the opportunity to achieve various NGB sports coaching awards, This term they will be taking a Trampolining Level 2 qualification.

Level 2 Apprentices School James Ouston Bovingdon Primary

Ryan Davis Brockswood Primary

Abi Layman Aycliffe Drive Primary Saul Steeden Hobletts Manor Juniors

Jack Sloan Nash Mills C of E Primary

Troy Duncan Yewtree Primary Ben Wilkins Kings Langley Primary

Level 3 Apprentices School Charlie Frost Kings Langley Primary Ben Johnston Leverstock Green Primary

Dacorum School Sports Network Spring Term Calendar

DSSN Events School Games Events

January January 24th - Herts Primary Schools PE Conference 17th - High Five Netball League starts 30th - Year 5 & 6 Tag Rugby Fixtures Start 20th - Secondary Trampolining st 31 - Year 1 Inter School—Berkhamsted Sportspace 25th - Secondary U14 Rowing

th February 26 - Secondary U16 Rowing

3rd - Teacher Training Day th February 7 - Year 2 Sportshall Athletics at Longdean st th 1 - Secondary Handball 7 – Year 3/4 Rugby League Festival nd th 2 - Secondary Volleyball 8 - Year 2 Sportshall Athletics at Berkhamsted Sportspace th 9th - Year 2 Sportshall Athletics at Cavendish 8 - Year 8 Sportshall Athletics 9th - Year 7 Sportshall Athletics March nd rd 22 - Secondary U14 Futsal 3 - Year 5/6 Saracens Tag Rugby Festival at Camelot RUFC rd th 23 - Secondary U16 Futsal 7 - Year 1 Inter School Competition HH Sportspace 17th - Dacorum Dance Competition March 28th - Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 Girls Football Tournament 1st - Year 6 Sportshall Athletics 29th - Year 5/6 Mixed Football Tournament 2nd - Year 6 Sportshall Athletics 30th - Year 3/4 Mixed Football Tournament 8th – Secondary Volleyball 20th – Herts Level 3 Finals Week

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