GreenacreSSP

2 students from Rivermead today made up part of the Mid Kent team in the Kent finals. The team was made up from the winners of the regional event. The Rivermead students took part in the wheelchair athletics races. The mid kent team narrowly won! The winners will now go forward to represent Kent in a regional final. Well done Rivermead!

Teachers from our Partnership Schools today took part in a PESSYP day to complete the annual information. For further downloads please look under the downloads section of the website.

On Monday 17th May 2010, former Olympic triple jumper Michelle Robinson visited 3 schools from our partnership. She led motivational sessions with groups of disengaged girls - the main aim being to re-ignite their interest in sport and how they can become involved, either through their own performance, umpiring or leadership. Girls were said to have left the session 'buzzing', and some teachers were inspired too! A full report will be available after the next sessions on 27th May

Miss Pearson, SSCo

Children competed in 6 events ranging from mental to physical challenges, all of which were based on Winnie the Pooh characters. All of the activities were taken from the Tops OAA programme.

Awards were given out throughout the morning for teamwork, sportsmanship and excellence.


1st All Saints
2nd Spinnens Acre
3rd New Road
4th Greenvale
5th St Peters

Medway Council is pleased to announce details for the inaugural Medway Festival of Sport, and invite your school to be a part of this exciting event.

The Festival is being staged at the new Medway Park regional centre of sporting excellence, and will kick off with a Mini Youth Games World Cup tournament on Friday, 18 June 2010, Primary schools will do battle representing the 32 nations that have qualified for the main event.

The Festival will also feature two inaugural Night of Champions competitions, when the top four schools from Medway Mini Youth Games and Secondary School Games will event compete to be crowned overall Medway champions.

The inaugural Festival of Sport is being jointly organised by the Medway Sports Development Team and Medway School Sport Partnership. The full festival programme is as follows:

Friday, 18 June 2010
Mini Youth Games Mini World Cup
Kent Crusaders Schools Basketball Festival (TBC)
Monday, 21 June 2010 Secondary School Games Girls’ Inter Cricket
Secondary School Games Night of Champions
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 Mini Youth Games Athletics

Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Mini Youth Games Night of Champions - Primary
Thursday, 24 June 2010 Secondary School Games Athletics
Friday, 25 June 2010
Disability Youth Games
Medway Schools Dance Festival
Medway Games Series Presentation Evening

Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for entry details

Night of Champions – Primary

The Night of Champions Primary event will take place after-school on Wednesday, 23 June at Medway Park, between from 4pm to 6pm

The event will involve the top four schools from each of the following Mini Youth Games events:

Hockey Badminton Netball
Tag Rugby Table Tennis Kwik Cricket

The schools that have qualified so far are listed below:

MYG Hockey - Hempstead Junior School - Featherby Junior School - Sherwin Knight Junior School - Warren Wood Primary School

MYG Tag Rugby - Sherwin Knight Junior School - Balfour Junior School - St Andrews Primary School - Barnsole Junior School

MYG Badminton - Wainscott Primary School - Featherby Junior School - Elaine Primary School - Sherwin Knight Junior School

Table Tennis – Miers Court Primary School – St Margarets, Rainham – Wainscott Primary School – Spinnens Acre Junior School

Netball – Wainscott Primary School – St Andrews Primary School – The Pilgrims – St Mary’s Primary School, Gillingham

Cricket – tbc

Night of Champions - Secondary School

The Night of Champions Secondary event will take place after-school on Monday, 21 June at Medway Park from 4pm to 6pm

Qualification for the Secondary School Night of Champions is via a series of after-school leagues or competitions, which will be held in the following sports: Basketball (Year 7), Cricket (Year 7), Futsal (Year 7&8), Indoor Rowing (Years 7-10), Touch Rugby (Years 7-11).

Please contact Natalie Rendle, Competition Manager for further information .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


Dance Festival and Presentation

The closing ceremony for the Festival of Sport will be on Friday, 25 June at Medway Park. It will feature a the Howard School Sport Partnership Dance Festival, Greenacre School Partnership dance display and Medway Games trophy presentations.
Trophies presentations will include prizes for the overall Mini Youth Games series winners, overall Medway Secondary School Games winners, and Night of Champions winners.

We will be in contact closer to the date, with further instructions and information, but if you have any questions please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 01634338763.

The first Quick Sticks Festival finally got underway at Thomas Aveling School on the morning of 5th May. The students arrived at the school bright and early, all very excited about the activity that lay ahead of them and all eager to get involved in the many challenges that were being delivered by Young Leaders from the Thomas Aveling School. These challenges lasted approximately 15 minutes each and involved the participants scoring goals, passing accurately between cones, moving the ball in different directions around obstacles and dodging around other players. By the amount of cheering and laughter that came from the groups I think it would be fair to say that a lot of fun was being had!

After the ‘Challenges’ had been completed, all the students took part in a mini tournament, where the teams all played each other. This was very exciting, the players all showing their newly acquired skills off to the best effect and goals being scored at both ends of the pitch. By the end of the games, all teams had achieved some success and all players were excited about playing Hockey
Many thanks go to the Young Leaders from Thomas Aveling School and for the teachers who brought their students across. Let’s hope that next year more schools will be able to participate so that even more students get the buzz for Hockey.

K Wellman

All schools have today been sent their copy of the PESSYP survey, There will be a PESSYP day for all PE co-ordinators at Bridgewood Manor Hotel on 25th May starting at 9am.

If you would like any further details please look under downloads, contact Kelly Harris or your School Sports Co-ordinator or click on this website https://dservuk.tns-global.com/schoolsports2010/default.aspx