GreenacreSSP

Today marks the start of the first ever Wake Up Shake Up festival for the Greenacre School Sports Partnership. Judges aka School Sports Co-ordinators will be visiting schools across the week with special guest 'Mr WUSU' to watch pupils in routines which they have made up themselves or used from a DVD.

Timetable

Monday
Swingate Infants

Tuesday
New Road
Maundene
St Johns Infants

Thursday
Lordswood Infants
Oaklands Junior
St Margarets at Troy Town
Horsted Infants

Friday
Glencoe
All Saints
Walderslade Primary
Wayfield

Medway Secondary School Games: Girls Football Tournament
Thursday 4 March 2010
Kicks Soccer Centre, Strood

The Medway Secondary School Games kicked off with some more exciting action at the Girls Football tournament, held at Kicks Soccer Centre, Strood Sports Centre on Thursday 4 March 2010. Nearly 100 girls from 8 different Medway Secondary schools competed in the tournament.

8 Medway Secondary Schools competed on the day, which included a Year 8/9 and Year 10/11 tournament. In the Year 8/9 tournament teams were split into 2 groups of 4 teams with the top 2 teams progressing to the Semi Finals. Group A was a tight affair with Chatham South topping the group on 7 points and Rainham School for Girls just qualifying for the semi finals ahead of Thomas Aveling school by 1 point. Group B was dominated by Rainham Mark Grammar School who reached the semi finals with a 100% record, unfortunately for them they found Rainham School for Girls too strong in semi finals and had to settle for 3rd Place by beating The Hundred of School for the second time. The final was contested between Chatham South and Rainham School for Girls, both teams could not be separated in the group stages where they drew 2-2, and the final did not disappoint for excitement with Chatham South winning a thrilling game 5-3.

In the Year 10/11 tournament schools played in a round robin league format where Walderslade Girls B team caused a huge upset with winning the league from St John Fisher RC Comprehensive School. Walderslade Girls A team finished 3rd.

The Fairplay award went to The Hundred of Hoo School, it is crucial that young people are introduced to sport in a friendly, positive environment and that they are encouraged to accept victory and defeat with equal grace. It is important that they learn to show consideration and respect towards opponents, teammates and officials, as well as to the rules and conventions of the different sports.

There was a very friendly atmosphere and schools participated in a co-operative spirit of competition. The final positions were:

YEAR 8/9 Tournament

Position School
1 Chatham South School
2 Rainham School for Girls
3 Rainham Mark Grammar School
4 The Hundred of Hoo School

YEAR 10/11 Tournament

Position School
1 Walderslade Girls School (B Team)
2 St John Fisher RC Comprehensive School
3 Walderslade Girls School (A Team)

Fair Play Winners: The Hundred of Hoo School

The Medway Secondary School Games is a multi-sport programme of events running throughout the school year, open to all Medway secondary schools. The scheme is organised by Medway Council’s Sports Development Team, with the support of Governing Bodies of Sport, local sports clubs and leisure facilities. Prizes are awarded at each event to the winning secondary school followed with 2nd, 3rd and the fair play winners.

The sports development team would like to thank everyone involved in making this event so successful including the help of staff at Kicks Soccer Centre, Strood Sports Centre and volunteers from Greenacre Sports College and Meridian Girls Football Club.

The next Medway Youth Secondary Games event is the Biathlon event on Thursday 25 March 2010 at Medway Park.

If you are interested in joining a local girls football club, getting involved in the sport or finding out more about Medway Secondary School Games you can now do this online on our online directory go to http://www.medway.gov.uk/london2012 or contact the team on 01634 338761.

Medway is set to go sporting mad with a week-long fiesta of competition.

Primary school pupils through to over-50s masters will take part in a range of events as Medway stages its first ever Festival of Sport.

The festival, being staged at the new Medway Park regional centre of sporting excellence, will kick off with a six-a-side football mini world cup, where schools will do battle representing the 32 nations that have qualified for the main event.



The festival will also host two inaugural Night of Champions competitions, when the highest ranked schools from the Medway Mini Youth Games and Secondary School Games will compete to be crowned Medway champions.

The inaugural Festival of Sport is being jointly organised by the Medway Sports Development Team, the staff at Medway Park, and Medway School Sport Partnership development managers Kelly Harris and Claire Moore.


Sports Development Officer John Hatchett said: “The festival aims to recognise all that is good about sport in Medway. We have many extremely talented sportspeople across all age groups, and this is an opportunity for them to compete in high-quality competition.”

The Medway Festival of Sport starts on Friday, June 18 with the mini world cup football for primary schools and a basketball festival for secondary schools, organised by Medway Park Crusaders (http://www.kentcrusaders.co.uk/).


Among the other events so far confirmed for the festival are:


Friday, 18 June 2010,

Mini World Cup

Secondary Schools Basketball Festival


Monday, 21 June 2010

Girls Cricket Festival

Secondary School Games Night of Champions


Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Mini Youth Games Athletics

Medway Masters


Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Mini Youth Games Night of Champions


Thursday, 24 June 2010

Secondary School Games Athletics


Friday, 25 June 2010

Disability Youth Games

Greenacre SSP Multi Skills Competition

Medway Schools Dance Fiesta

Medway Games Presentation Evening

Over the last two thursdays local schools have been taking part in Inter School competition in the Year 5 & 6 Sportshall Athletics competition. This is the first time that this competition has been held for this age group in the Partnership.

Final results were....

1st Lordswood Juniors School (qualify for Kent Competition)
2nd All Saints
3rd Luton
4th Kingfisher
5th Ridge Meadow
6th St Thomas More
7th Danecourt

Thanks and well done to leaders from Medway Community College and Walderslade Girls School for officiating the results and for Greenacre School and Medway Community College for hosting the event.

The following pupils from Medway Schools went onto represent Medway in the Kent Championships at Wilmington Grammar School, Dartford. Well done to all who took part.....

Year 7 Boys
20th Cameron Payas
23th Tom Whiley
46th Stephen King
49th Kane Hutton
51th Jordan White
53th Connor Harris
72th Morgan Ashenden
84th Jacob Redding

Yr 7 Girls
8th Jacinta Barham Medway
31th Emily Milligan Medway
40th Rachel Narborough Medway
48th Kira Chattenton Medway
50th Eleanor Harrington Medway
51th Laura Gilbert Medway
52th Hollie Thomas Medway
56th Tiah Wall Medway
81th Olympia Little Medway
82th Rebecca Chatton Medway

Junior Boys
8th James West Medway
18th Conor Redmond Medway
27th William Stockwell Medway
30th Elliot Wright Medway
33th Stephen Jones Medway
45th Harry Graham Medway
74th Owain Morton Medway

Junior Girls
45th Lauren Davis Medway
49th Jessica Murphy Medway
56th Dani Chattenton Medway
63th Sarah Westby Medway

Inter Boys
5th Adam Gilbert Medway
15th Jamie Arnold Medway
31th Dominic Carslaw Medway
41th Seb Payas Medway
42th Matthew Lamb Medway

Inter Girls
7 Lucy Nicholson Medway
8 Cerys Sanders Medway
13 Jade Smith Medway
29 Shonagh Seager Medway
37 Alice Porter Medway

Senior Boys
7 Nathan Wilkins Medway
9 Josh Elderfield Medway

Press release: Mini Youth Games Swimming Gala


Medway Park opens its doors to Medway Schools Swimming Gala


Hundreds of youngsters have enjoyed an early taste of the new and improved facilities at Medway’s new centre of sporting excellence.

The Mini Youth Games (MYG) Swimming Gala on Thursday, 28 January took place at the recently upgraded pool at Medway Park, the £11m new centre being created on the site of the Black Lion leisure centre.

More than 250 children from a record 27 Medway primary schools took part in the hard-fought competition. Cheered on by crowds of enthusiastic supporters, each team of eight swimmers contested four individual races and the grand finale, the team relays.

In a reversal of last year’s result it was Hempstead Junior School that emerged victorious, just beating 2009 winners from Kings School, Rochester.

Third and fourth place went to St Margaret’s C of E Junior School and Bryony School. A major focus of all MYG events is on participation and sportsmanship, and the team from St Mary’s Island C of E Primary were awarded the fair play trophy.

Medway Council senior sports development officer Tina Martin said: “It’s great to see the different level of swimmers in this event all competing together.

“The gala is inclusive and as much about participation as competition as club swimmers, school swimmers and recreational swimmers all mixed in to compete for their school.”

Swimming was the fourth event of the 2009/10 MYG competition - a multi-sport programme run throughout the school year for all Medway primary schools. Prizes are awarded at each event and points are gained towards the overall MYG title.

The MYG forms part of the Medway Games series organised by Medway Council’s Sports Development Team with the support of Medway’s two school sports partnerships, national governing bodies, local sports clubs and leisure facilities.

If you are interested in joining a local swimming club, getting involved in the sport or finding out more about Mini Youth Games, visit the A-Z club directory at http://www.medway.gov.uk/london2012.

For more information on getting involved with the MYG programme contact John Hatchett on 01634 338763.

Schools entering from Greenacre School Sport Partnership included; Balfour Junior School, Walderslade Primary, Pilgrim School, St Thomas More, St Marys Island, Oaklands, St William of Perth

Students leap to victory in trampolining competitoin

Pupils from Chatham South School had a spring in their step after bouncing their way to victory in the Medway Secondary School Games trampolining competition.
The team of Beth Hatton, Ellie Rogers, Grace Kelly and Leah Redhouse were crowned champions ahead of teams from Rainham School for Girls and New Brompton College. Just five points separated the three teams by the end of the day.
The individual competition was also a close battle. Millie Gray from Rainham School for Girls scored 64.50 to beat Victoria Greenhow from New Brompton College and third placed Grace Kelly from Chatham South.
More than 50 children took part in the competition at at Jumpers Rebound Centre, Gillingham, on Tuesday 21 January.
The competition was part of the Next Step programme, which has been produced by English Gymnastics Schools to provide a progressive competition structure in basic trampoline skills for children from Year 7 to 11 who have not competed in a Regional Elite Schools Event or who are club members.
There are two levels of competition: Step 1 and Step 2. Each Step is made up of three sections - body management – (performed on a strip of floor mats), set skills and set routine (on trampoline).
The event was supported by young leaders from The Hundred Of Hoo School and staff from Jumpers Rebound Centre.

The Secondary School Games is a multi-sport programme of competitions for Medway’s secondary schools. It forms part of the Medway Games series run by Medway Council’s sports development team, supported by Medway’s two school sports partnerships, national governing bodies of sport, and local clubs and facilities.

For more information on getting involved with the MYG programme contact John Hatchett on 01634 338763. For more information about trampolining contact Jumpers Rebound Centre on 01634 855507.

Schools entering included; Greenacre School, Chatham South, Hundred of Hoo, New Brompton, Rainham School for Girls.

RYA PRESS RELEASE
09 January 2010


BEN AINSLIE PRESENTS INSPIRATIONAL YOUNG SAILOR WITH PRESTIGIOUS AWARD


Thomas Lambert, aged 18, from Rochester in Kent was presented with the prestigious RYA South East Young Sailor of the Year Award 2009 at the Tullet Prebon London International Boat Show. The awards were presented by sailing legend Ben Ainslie, a previous winner himself, and recognise the outstanding achievements of youth sailors across the country.

Tom was voted RYA South East Regional Young Sailor of the Year 2009 last autumn. He is not only a keen competitive sailor at Wilsonian Sailing Club, based at Rochester, but has also made major contributions to his club and the local community.
In particular, he has:
• Organised sponsored sailings, which have raised close to £2000 for Children in Need.
• Gained a Youth Opportunity grant for his club worth £10000 for the purchase of 4 new club training boats for Junior and Adult training. Tom put together presentations to Medway Council to apply for the grant, and has given updates on the use of the money.
• Obtained his Sports Leader Award and become a qualified dinghy instructor
• Played a major part in the Thomas Aveling school/club link to set up the link and the regular training sessions, as well as instructing at after school sessions.

Tom was amongst thirteen RYA Regional Young Sailor of the Year winners who are voted for by RYA affiliated sailing clubs. These young sailors have made a significant impact on youth sailing, ranging from gold medal winning achievements and overcoming adversity, to the huge amount of hard work and effort they give back to their clubs.

Tom and family were treated to an action packed VIP day at the show, thanks to Pantaenius Yacht Insurance.

ALL DANCE FUSION SESSIONS WILL BE TAKING PLACE AS PLANNED.

THE MEDWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLASSES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.

FOR FURTHER INFO PLEASE CONTACT VIKKI SOLES ON 01634 666337 X 250

Have you had a look at the Medway Council website for how to get involved in sport and activity in the local area. Its full of ideas and contacts for you and your families to get involved. Please click here http://www.medwaygetsactive.co.uk