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PAAC Year 6 Multi Sports Event
A group of year 7, 8, 10 & 12 students organised and ran a Multi Sports Event for over 60 local year 6 children. The year 12 BTEC PE Leaders were responsible for the planning of the activities as well as organising the arrangements for the Primary Schools to visit. The year 10 Leaders were using the day as their final assessment for the Level 1 Sportsleaders Award whilst the year 7 & 8 Leaders were gaining valuable leadership experience. All rose to the occasion magnificiently and ensured the year 6 children had a great time.
The event was based on summer sports and the Leaders ran Athletics, Kwik Cricket, Softball, Rounders, Ultimate Frisbee and Short Tennis sessions. The year 6 were kept constantly busy and finished the morning very tired but happy.
Due to it's success this event will now become a regular feature of our expanding Leadership programme
PAAC Netball League - Closest result ever!
All 7 PAAC Primary Schools took part in the annual High 5 Netball League. 7 schools entered the 'A' League and 3 also entred the 'B' league. The leagues were held at Plymstock School and were umpired by Netball Leaders from Plymstock School and Coombe Dean School.
'A' Team League
The teams were evenly matched and all matches were closely contested. No team won all their matches and the winner was decided on goal difference! The standard of play was excellent and the sporting attitude of all teams a credit to their Schools and the SSP.
Hooe managed to maintain their winning reputation and claimed First place thanks to an impressive +20 goal difference!
1st Hooe 24 pts + 20 goal difference
2nd Goosewell 24 pts + 7 goal difference
3rd Oreston 22 pts
4th Elburton 20pts
5th Dunstone 18 pts
6th Pomphlett 12 pts
7th Wembury 6 pts.
'B' Team League
The 'B' Team League involved the 3 teams playing each other twice and it was also hotly contested with all 3 teams winning and losing to each other.
1st Goosewell 18 pts
2nd Oreston 12 pts
3rd Pomphlett 10 pts
Thank you to all the Sports Leaders who gave their time to help with this League.
Leaping into Life
Over 100 children from six local Primary Schools attended a Leap into Life Festival at Coombe Dean School. The event was organised by the BTEC PE Leaders as part of their course. They were responsible for planning, organising and running the event and they rose admirably to the challenge.
The event was attended by Foundation stage, Year 1 & Year 2 children and they spent the morning taking part in a number of physical activities based on basic movement skills such as twisting, turning, running, throwing, agility, speed and balance. The Leaders ensured all the activities were fun and challenging for all involved.
As always it is a pleasure to see our students working in such a mature and purposeful way and thus ensuring the younger children had such a positive experience here at Coombe Dean School.
Coombe Dean Leadership Academy Bronze Award
Coombe Dean Leadership Academy Bronze Award
Congratulations to Isobel Cole, yr 8 for being the first of our Young Sports Leaders to achieve a Bronze Award for her commitment to leading and volunteering. Isobel was among the first of our students to take part in the Youth Sports Trusts 'Young Leaders Award'. She has now completed 30 hours of volunteering with a local group.
Isobel desribes what she has done to achieve this award....
"Last year I was given the chance to become a Sports Leader with many other students. I thought that this would be a great opportunity to build up on my leadership skills. I have recently achieved the Bronze level of the award and I'm now working towards the Silver. In order to complete the Bronze I regularly helped to organise and run events at a local club which involved helping out with a sports day.
I am now helping to coach my local Primary Schools Netball club and getting involved with the organisation of the Primary Schools Netball league.
I am finding the experience very inspiring and hope that it will help me in the future."
National U15 Girls Rowing Champion!
Coombe Dean School, Elburton is proud of the outstanding achievement of year 10 student Chloe Brew. She has just become the National U15 Indoor Rowing Champion. This result is the latest in her quest to be the best in her sport and comes on top of her Gold at the Plymouth Schools Championship and Silver at National Indoor Rowing Championships. At the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships Chloe rowed 1324m in 5 minutes which is 50m beyond the gold medal target distance for a her age group and just 1m off her personal best distance.
Chloe's success at rowing is due to her natural talent and determination to win but it is also an example of the good work of the School Sports Partnership and Schools Sport Co-ordinator scheme. Chloe was introduced to rowing in year 7 when she took took part in a rowing taster session as part of an enrichment day activity organised by the School Sport Co-ordinator, Sarah Green and run by Plymouth Rowing Coach, Kevin Sellar. It was obvious from this first session that Chloe had the potential to do well in rowing. Chloe joined the Coombe Dean School Rowing Club and started to take part in competitions and since that time she has consistently improved her ranking and personal best distances. Chloe is now achieving the recognition her natural talent and competitve drive deserves.
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