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World Class Rowing
A team from Coombe Dean took part in the Plymouth Schools Indoor Rowing Championships and they gained some excellent finish places, personal best distances and Championship records!
Chloe Brew, Year 10, had another outstanding event. Not only did she gain First place by some considerable distance but she also achieved a Personal Best and Championship record. She rowed 1325m in 5 minutes. In Rowing terms this is outstanding and above the National Gold Target (1275m) for her age group.
Congratulations also to Samuel Barrett, Year 7, for coming 3rd in his first ever rowing competition.
Coombe Dean Results
Year 7 Girls
Whitney Wright* 6th
Ellie Morris* 7th
Caroline Jasper Eustis* 11th
Rebecca Lapthorne* 14th
Frankie Whitehouse* 17th
Libby Ward 22nd
Year 7 Boys
Samuel Barrett* 3rd
Jack Crocker* 6th
Matthew Pope* 8th
Harry Churchward 19th
Jake Fahy 20th
Year 8 Girls
Hayley Barker 15th
Year 8 Boys
Josh Wills* 5th
Year 10 Girls
Chloe Brew * 1st
Year 12 Boys
Nick Slaney* 10th
* These Rowers have achieved the Regional qualifying standard and they can now enter the Regional Finals on 30th March at Marjons.
Well done to all our competitors.
SGreen
TOP Leaders
As an extension to their Leadership work a group of Post 16 Students from Coombe Dean's BTEC PE group are working with Wembury and Hooe Primary Schools to deliver TOPActivity clubs. Emma, Jess , Ryan and Nick are working at Wembury Primary with year 4, 5 & 6 pupils whilst Josh , Luke , Jordan , Dan and Jemma are working at Hooe Primary and have the challenge of working with year 1 & 2 pupils. The Leaders are responsible for planning and delivering an hour long after school club at the two schools for the next half term.
The TOPActivity programme aims to encourage children to participate in physical activity through a range of non-traditional activities. This makes it an exciting programme to deliver and allows the Sportsleaders the opportunity to explore a range of activity themes.
The two groups have already delivered their first sessions and a special mention should go to Josh for his outstanding work at Hooe. He kept a group of 5 & 6 years olds fully active and engaged for a full hour. Something a seasoned Primary School Teacher admitted was no easy task!
Later this term we are hoping more local Primary Schools will take up the offer of working with our outstanding leaders to help the schools with their delivery of quality after school clubs. For their part our Sports Leaders are looking forward to continuing their relationships with Primary Schools as part of their Community Sports Leaders Award.
Coombe Dean go to Playground to Podium
A group of students attended the Playground to Podium Talent ID day at The Devonshire Club. This programme aims to find future Paralympians and offer them a range of after school clubs to attend. The group spent the day completing a number of physical challenges designed to measure and record their athletic ability. The challenges included sprinting, slalom, throwing and jumping and looking at their faces and by their comments at the end of the day it would be fair to say the group found the activities physically draining!
‘It was hard work and it was exhausting' James
‘It was tiring' Bradley
‘It was very good and also the food was good!' Matt
The day was also attended by two current Paralympians, Lauren Steadman, GB swimmer and Ellen Kean, Irish swimmer. Lauren gave an inspirational speech at the start of the day. She outlined how she had achieved her dream of competing at an Olympics through first attending an event such as the Playground 2 Podium. She said it was important all who attended this day gave their best and had fun in the process, a good motto for everyday life.
Jack, TJ, Anastasia, James, Bradley and Matt will now eagerly wait to see if they have been selected for the next stage of the process and maybe we will be seeing one of them at a future Paralympics!
Bikeability goes from strength to strength
During the Autumn Term Dunstone, Elburton, Goosewell, Oreston, Pomphlett and Wembury Primary Schools have accessed the Level 2 Bikeability Award with over 95% of the children achieving the Level 2 Award. That's over 200 children !
The groups battled all sorts of weather including snow to complete the courses and praise should go to the intrepid Instructors for their excellent work delivering these courses and maintaining the pupils enthusiam and concentration.
Playleaders
Another cohort of year 5 from Elburton Primary have just completed a Playground Leaders course run by myself.
This group of enthusiastic potential leaders was one of the best I have worked with so far and I'm sure they will go onto to be outstanding role models for their school during lunchtime play.
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