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AQUASPLASH FESTIVAL
This festival is all about having fun and games in the water to develop water confidence. Nearly 60 children from Knowle, Mayflower and Pennycross came throughout the morning and had great fun. Swim Cats Swimming School delivered the festival and were helped by our fantastic year 7, 8 and 9 Sports Leaders who gave 1:1 support in the water.
Living For Sport project - International athlete visits All Saints!
All Saints Academy have successfully been running the Living For Sport programme for 5 years. This programme is designed to develop confidence, self-esteem and social skills with selected students from Years 7 and 8
From being involved in the scheme All Saints were lucky to have a visit from an international athlete- Jo Yapp -who delivered an inspirational session to our Living For Sport group, an assembly on key steps to success and advice on time management and planning to our Gifted and Talented sporting students. Our Year 7 girls were also lucky enough have a rugby session delivered by Jo
Jo gained her first international rugby win at the age of 18 and went on to play for her country 70 times, competing in three World cups, gaining two silver medals and rising to the position of team captain in 2005/06.
This is Jo's first term as a Sky Sports Living for Sport Athlete Mentor. She says: "The programme allows you to deliver to all students - not just those that are interested in sport. It sets out clear messages and skills that students can relate to in order to reach their own personal goals, whatever they may be.
It was a fantastic opportunity for our students to meet and have advice from an experienced international athlete. Jo's advice on the key steps to success applies not just to sport but to everything in life and the students gained a great deal from this visit.
Plymouth Festival Of Sport
On 28th March All Saints took part in the first ever Festival Of Sport. This was held at Marjons and organised jointly by Plymouth University, Marjons and the Sports Development Unit. The day was all about introducing students to new and exciting sports with the aim of inspiring them to join one of the linked clubs. The sports offered were futsal, flag football, ultimate frisbee, mountain biking, orienteering, lacrosse, street dance, trampolining, octopush (underwater hockey), table tennis, volleyball and fencing.
Our students had a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed trying some 'new' sports!
All Saints Primary Football Festival
On 22nd March we held our annual partner primary football festival at Goals. This was for year 3/4 boys and for year 5/6 girls.
The sun shone throughout the morning and there were some fantastic games of football played between all teams.
Girls results-
Bronze medals- Shakespeare
Silver medals- Pennycross
Gold medals- Manadon
Boys Results
Bronze medals-Shakespeare
Silver medals-Mayflower
Gold medals- Manadon
A big thank you must go to the BTec Year 2 students from the YMCA and to Ryan McShane from Marjons for refereering throughout the morning.
Tennis Festivals- 14th and 15th March
Year 3/4 and 5/6 took part in the Citywide tennis tournaments at the Devonshire. The two days which were run in conjunction with the Sir John Hunt and Plymstock Partnership with tremendous support from Devon LTA and the Devonshire saw over 1300 games of Tennis being played. Monday's matches were supported by 10 outstanding leaders from from Sir John Hunt Community Sports College with Tuesday Matches being supported by a team from All Saints Academy.
The results for the Monday Year 3 /4 Competition were;
1st Compton 875 points, 2nd Hyde Park A with 728 and 3rd Keyham Barton with 661 points.
Tuesdays year 5/6 competition results were;
1st Compton 977, 2nd St Peters 842, 3rd Hyde Park 808.
As well as being a competition it was also a fantastic opportunity to target students for talent ID programmes and over 20 letters inviting students to try free taster sessions at the Devonshire were distributed to students that showed potential to develop in the sport.
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