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Plymstock school meets olympic champions!!
On Tuesday 9th March 2010 Plymstock School students, staff and myself had the pleasure of meeting the 50metre Front Crawl World Record Holder Mark Foster, who has taken part in 5 different olympic games and has also been on the popular television show Strictly Come Dancing. To add to this, we also had the pleasure of meeting the Olympic Bronze Medalist Steve Parry!
Both Mark and Steve gave an inspirational talk to our Year Sevens about their own experiences in swimming and concluded his discussion with pupils by speaking about their own personal achievements and the Olympic Games, which was followed by a question and answer session.
As most of you know Plymstock has recently gained a temporary swimming pool which has given all of our students across the partnership the opportunity to have swimming as part of their Physical Education lessons, have some fun and most importantly give the non-swimmers the choice and opportunity to learn this life skill.
Both the year sevens and staff thoroughly enjoyed the assembly taken by the Olympic Champions yesterday and helped alot of us grasp the 'give it a go' attitude! As a result of this Mark and Steve gave one of our year sevens the confidence to come forward and tell us she was a non-swimmer and would like the opportunity to learn! =]
The pool is there for all to use, and once again a massive thank you to Mark and Steve!
Dance opportunities for students and staff!!
On monday the 14th September at Plymstock school we have a professional Hip hop dancer coming to plymstock school to train up a few lucky young dance leaders and staff! There will be posters up around the Plymstock partnership schools to advertise this. The course is free of charge to students and teachers with the idea of developing your new skills and providing other students in your school with atleast ten hours worth of Hip Hop dance in a club lead by yourselves!
If you are interested in taking part in this exciting opportunity please speak to the member of staff stated on the posters around your school!
As well as being trained up in specific Hip Hop dance on 28th september at Plymstock school we have U.dance trainers coming in to provide us with a course. The couse is rehearsing dance for performance, this course is all about learning new ways to deliver dance generally, including the rehearsal and performing process via practical ideas and group activities, as well as leaving with plenty of resource packs to help get started. Unlike the Hip Hop course this course is specifically targeted to staff as there are age limits.
If anybody has any qustions or would like to register students/staff please don't hestitate to contact me shoneywill@plymstockschool.org.uk
I hope you enjoy the new and exciting opportunities this new school year will bring! =D
Dance mat competiton!
First of all a big thank you and well done to all participants who took part in the dance mat competition at Plymstock school on Wednesday 22nd April!!
Students of all ages from a number of schools including Plymstock school, Lipson school, Coomb Dean school, Plymouth High school for Girls and Ridgeway came together to compete in a dance mat competition. The Competition included 2 different tracks of different levels to be completed and the winners were the participants with the highest percentage of correct dance moves on the mats!
Results!!
Year 7:
1st place goes to Savanah from Plymouth High school for Girls with 165.62%
2nd place goes to Jaydene from Plymouth High school for Girls with 161.89%
3rd place goes to Samantha from Ridgeway with 154.35%
Year 8:
1st place goes to Charlotte from Coomb Dean with 143.17%
2nd place goes to Harley from Plymouth High school for Girls with 100.28%
3rd place goes to Kellen from Lipson with 85.81%
Year 9:
1st place goes to Laura from Lipson with 156.88%
2nd place goes to Rhian from Lipson with 139.50%
3rd place goes to Jamey from Lipson with 119.61%
Year 10:
1st place goes to Michael from Plymstock with 139.88%
2nd place goes to Savana from Plymouth Hgh school for Girls with 133.57%
3rd place goes to Charlotte from Coomb Dean with 117.73%
Year 11:
1st place goes to Michelle from Lipson with 126.38%
2nd place goes to Stephanie from Ridgeway with 109.83%
3rd place goes to Charlotte from Coomb Dean with 106.46%
The winners of the group competition were Ridgeway! Well done!
A huge well done to all!! The event had a lovely atmosphere and was enjoyed by all, hopefully see you all at the next competition for some more fun and dancing!! =D
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