Sport High Peak School & Partnership Winter 2016 High Peak Sports Awards This year saw High Peak Borough Council supporting the part- nership by allocating us time at the annual sports awards to highlight some of the great work that’s going on across the area. The 10 Gold School Game Mark Schools were invited along to the celebration evening – many schools brought along their chil- dren and they all felt extremely special to be there. In the lead up to handing each school their framed certificate on stage the audience had the opportunity to see the introductory video that demonstrated all that they’ve achieved this last year – you can view it too at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elVPKHogOjo&t=103s It was a double celebration with the second part of our section devoted to our Young Ambassadors from all the Secondary Schools across the area. We also introduced the group attending with another video which showed the journey our young leaders can take starting in primary schools as part of our Aspire2b Mini Leader Training and Change for Life Champions through to the Secondary Leadership Academy, School Sport Organising Committees and the pinnacle – Young Ambassadors. The video will be out Sue Crookes from Tintwis- on YouTube very soon. tle Primary winning Adult Volunteer of the Year. We’re very fortunate to work with amazing schools that support their young leaders. This was more than demonstrated by two of our ambassadors that spoke to the audi- ence about their experiences – well done to both Jack Bentley from Buxton Community School and Rohan O’Neill from St Philip Howard Voluntary Academy. They talked how their experiences had given confidence to try new things and developed skills for a future career but that it had also developed a passion to get young people active. Most of our competitions are supported by local sports clubs and we thanked them too as many of our partner clubs were in attendance. It must also be said that we’d like to extend our thanks too to the Secondary Schools that host many of the competi- tions – without such a collaborative approach then these opportunities just wouldn’t happen. Page 2 MAP QUEST—WHALEY PARK 2016 On a very wet and soggy Autumn afternoon on 18 October, we held our Map Quest event in Whaley Bridge Memorial Park. 40 teams from 10 schools across the High Peak took part with two cours- es, one for KS1 and one for KS2. All the children had a great time exploring the park whilst getting very wet and muddy! The winners were: KS1 1st Dove Pirates, 2nd New Mills Blue, 3rd Great Hucklow Jaguars KS2 1st Chinley Champs Joint 2nd Hayfield Slither- ing Cobras & Buxworth Squirrels, 3rd Dove Parrots Best Fancy Dress—Dove Holes Pirates Aspire 2b Leadership Academy We’ve been busy this term with our FREE Aspire2B Schools trained so Leadership programme, training Year 5s across the far this year are: High Peak to be brilliant playground leaders! We have booked several more primary schools in for Chapel January too but we still have spaces available so Charlesworth Dove Holes please let us know if you would like us to come to Dinting Playground Leaders your school. Sessions are usually in the afternoon, 1-3pm with the first part based in the classroom and the Dove Holes second part either outside or in the hall (weather dependent). Taxal & Fernilee Sharing Good Practice—Health & Wellbeing On Thursday 10th November 2016 Fairfield Junior School held a Health and Wellbeing workshop. All families were invited to join in a range of sports activities, food tasting and smoothie making sessions, dental health and oral hygiene. Lots of information was given out on the day to all that attended regarding healthy lifestyles and raising awareness of health and wellbeing. A walking group was formed from this workshop, where the parents meet twice a week. The after- noon was hugely successful with over 50 families attending, saying how useful and enjoyable the afternoon was. Many parents were shocked to find out how many cubes of sugar were in everyday food and drinks.—Nathan Neequaye—PLT FEJS Sharing Good Practice— Miles & Smiles BURBAGE PRIMARY SCHOOL The children, staff and parents of Burbage Primary School in Buxton are excited about their new healthy lifestyles initiative, ‘The Daily Mile’. Members of the school community will be encouraged to walk, jog or run a mile every day at school from 8:30am. Children will also have the option of completing their daily mile during the school day. As an incentive, the children will record their achievements and progress on specially made ‘Daily Mile Passports’ upon which the children tick off each mile they complete and aim for Olympic athletes along the way. Chris Hill, the school sports coach and PE leader has set the initiative up based on an idea originating in Scotland. Anthony Tierney, Headteacher of Burbage Primary, hopes that the scheme will be a fun and inspiring way of promoting healthy and active lifestyles in the community. The Daily Mile is open to everyone at the school and started in September. NEW MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL Children from New Mills Primary School have been running the Daily Mile now for 6 months. We are one of 1000 schools nationally who have adopted this simple initiative to increase the amount of physical activity which children have access to every day. We run our mile before school begins every morning and record the number of miles we have run on a blackboard in the school foyer so that all children can see how far we have collectively run that week. We run our mile in all weathers and the enthusiasm for the scheme amongst the children has gone from strength to strength. The ‘Mile’ has in fact taken on a life of its own – children don’t have to be chased out of their classrooms and in fact are very disappointed when the Town Hall clock strikes 9am and we all have to go back inside! The school are now starting to see the benefits which the Daily Mile can bring in the long term – children are fitter, stronger have more stamina and are get- ting used to being outside in all weathers. Staff are also seeing an increase in the physical and emotional resilience shown by a number of children and we have also seen a marked reduction in lateness. Our Daily Mile has become a social event where children run and talk about all kinds of things from the Brexit to the US election result! Recently we have had a number of children running and singing Christmas carols in preparation for the upcoming Christmas concerts. Last week we launched our Daily Mile ‘Buddy’ scheme where children from the Juniors run with those in the infants, supporting, en- couraging and coaching them to running further every day. This initia- tive will give children the chance to develop their Leadership skills and is part of a wider Sports Leadership Strategy which the school have developed. As part of the school fundraising efforts for Children in Need, a group of Year 6 students organised extra Daily Mile ses- sions during lunch times – the target was to run over 200 miles in the week. Thanks to their efforts and the enthusiasm of the rest of the children, we ran 268 miles in 5 days – a fantastic effort raising. Page 4 High Peak School & Sport Partnership Sainsbury’s School Games Mark 2016 Well done to all our schools that have achieved a School Games Mark. GOLD Buxton Junior School Harpur Hill Primary School Buxworth Primary School Hayfield Primary School Dinting Primary School Padfield Community Primary School Dove Holes Primary School St Lukes Primary School Hague Bar Primary School Tintwistle Primary School SILVER Burbage Primary School Buxton Community School Chapel High School Chinley Primary School Fairfield Junior School Glossopdale Community College New Mills Primary School Newtown Primary School New Mills School & Sixth Form Peak Forest Primary School St Georges Primary School St James Primary School St Marys RC Primary School Taddington & Preistcliffe Primary Thornsett Primary School Taxal & Fernilee Primary School BRONZE Duke of Norfolk Primary School Gamesley Community Primary School St Philip Howard Catholic Academy Whaley Bridge Primary School The new criteria for 2016/17 School Games Mark has not yet been set but it’s likely a pre- requisite will be that every school fills in a health check in order to apply online. We’ll send more details through on this as soon as they arrive. The pennants and plaques for 2015/16 have all now arrived at the office. We will be in touch and arrange delivery over the next few days leading up to Christmas. Cross Country Partnership Finals Our Cross Country Partnership Finals are usually a very wet and muddy affair, and this year the weather didn’t disappoint! 160 children from Y3,4,5 & 6 from 7 different schools across the High Peak took part at New Mills Quarry Rd fields. We were supported by young leaders from New Mills School and High Peak Athletics Club. The level of enthusiasm and determination in such wet conditions was amazing. The winning schools were: 1st Burbage Primary, 2nd Harpur Hill and 3rd New Mills Primary School. The School Games value for the event was Determination and this award went to New Mills Primary School. CPD Practical Opportunities—2017 Tuesday 'Circus Circus' Teaching Fundamental skills Youlgreave Village AM - Circus 24th Jan and Dance at Key Stage 1 through the Hall PM – Dance theme of Circus. 9.30-3.30 Friday Ensuring your sports coaches are delivering Bakewell ABC AM 3rd Feb high quality PE & School Sport (KS1&2) Friday How to make your PE lessons more inclu- Buxton Junior Full day 0930 - 3rd March sive.