Valuing Success for All Contents Foreward Physical Educatjon - PDF document

Valuing Success for All

Contents Foreward Physical Educatjon Department Badminton Cricket Football Hockey Netball Rugby X-Country Links to the presentatjons for each year group can be found at Linktr.ee/nsutuonPHS

Welcome to our 17th annual Sports Presentatjon Evening. Well, this is the strangest introductjon I have had to write for our Sports Presentatjon Evening booklet! We could easily have just let this evening pass with us not being able to have an evening in school but we would miss out on being able to celebrate your wonderful achievements. It really has been such a shame to see such a promising year of sport curtailed only just half way through the academic year. We have lockdown and quarantjne and a distjnct lack of competjtjve sport to watch, let alone partake in. All of the PE stafg have missed seeing you all terribly, both in lessons and in our extra-curricular actjvitjes. You guys are the reason we do the careers we do. We love spending tjme with you on the training grounds, on the fjeld of play and on the journeys to fjxtures. Now, more than ever, I hope you can all appreciate that It is not just the competjtjon that is important to us, in many ways that is a merely conduit for the important aspect of sport, the social bonds it creates between teammates and opponents. It is this social aspect of sport that I know I am missing most of all and seeing each of you push yourselves to be the best you can be. As always, the excellent extra-curricular opportunitjes available to you would not be possible without excellent, dedicated stafg to coordinate the lessons, practjces and fjxtures week in and week out. I contjnue to be very lucky to lead a department of outstanding practjtjoners who give up so much of their tjme and energy to provide these opportunitjes for you. It is ofuen assumed that stafg get paid extra to do this for you, but all extra-curricular support you get is done so in stafg’s own tjme, and without extra pay. I want to take this opportunity to thank them all on your behalf for all that they do. An extra special thanks to Mrs Rowland, who has taken on a considerable amount of extra burden throughout the year to ensure the department runs smoothly. The biggest reward for a teacher of PE or a sports coach is to see pupils partjcipate with enjoyment and then making developmental progress in their ability. The achievements we will be celebratjng have been the result of a huge amount of hard work and dedicatjon by students and stafg alike. I would personally like to

thank all stafg, pupils and parents for all their enthusiasm, support and commitment throughout the sportjng year. As always, it has been diffjcult to decide who would win the respectjve awards this evening, as there has been so much talent to choose from. It would be impossible to acknowledge every individual, but we recognise the amount of individual efgort and commitment that it takes to achieve a personal best. Before I fjnish, I would like to take a moment to refmect on what an amazing group the Year 10 boys are. We have had talented and successful year groups come through the school in years before, but these boys are difgerent. They will not mind me saying that they are not all World-beaters, in fact in most sports they have lost more games than they have won, but I believe that they will have a legacy beyond some of their more successful predecessors. You see, what these boys have that is ofuen missing in a group is an inclusivity. There was never a tjme that one of these boys turned round to me and said “why is he playing?”, indeed they welcomed anyone and everyone into their teams with open arms. In recent years we have struggled for numbers in Year 10 for football and rugby with exam pressures and apathy causing drop ofg in partjcipatjon. To buck the trend, the Yr 10 boys gained enough players to be able to fjeld two and a half rugby teams and just as many football teams. This only happens when boys are welcoming to newcomers and understanding of their development. It has been truly wonderful to see and I am sure that this year group has created an environment that will see a much greater number contjnue to play sport as they progress through school and beyond than some of the more “talented” but exclusive year groups that have preceded them. I hope other year groups can emulate this attjtude in the coming years. I know many of you will be devastated to not be able to see me dance to the Cha Cha Slide or Macarena this year but you’ll just have to wait untjl next year I’m afraid. Let’s all hope we have had a full year of sport before then! See you all at school soon I hope. Mr Tree.

Your Physical Education Department Mr Tree - Head of Physical Educatjon Mrs Mawazini – Head of Dance Mrs Rowland – Head of Girls PE Mr Holland – 3 rd in Department & Lead Teacher of KS3 Mrs Clarke Mr Elliotu Mr Howe Mr Keatley Mr Sutuon Mr Thorne Miss Tregear Mrs Whyatu Miss Breach Mr Columbro Miss Snook Mr Wilder Mr Wright

Year 7 Girls Sports Report It has been a fantastic year for Year 7 girls competing in many sports and is nice to see many girls trying new sports and participating in school matches and events. It is great seeing loads of girls getting involved and most of the sports teams have won many of their games and have only lost a couple. Its has been a great first year, despite it being cut short and everyone who is part of a sport team has brought different strengths and weaknesses but overall, we all come together to make the dream team. I am looking forward to next season and hopefully more people will join more sports which will be even better. Izzy Rider Year 7 What an amazing year for our first introduction to secondary school sport. We all came from different primary schools, with different abilities. But all came together to form teams to represent Park House. This has been a great first season for the netball teams, we’ve played in lots of matches, won many and lost as many. But through all the winnings and loses, we all developed a s a team, and I’m really looking forward to next year. Hockey was great fun, and for many girls, this was the first time they’d played. Unfortunately, due to lockdown, our training, matches, and experiences have all been put on hold until we get back. Hopefully, when we get back, we can go straight to training and start a new season. Amilia Dornan Year 7 Year 7 Boys Sports Report I was really looking forward to startjng sport at Park House having completed so many actjvitjes there previously. Im my fjrst year I have represented the school in Cross Country, in the league, area and district competjtjons improving on my positjon each tjme, whilst some races were run as a team at the district competjtjon I was the only year 7 boy to run, we managed to get some athletjcs in by competjng in the indoor competjtjon in December as a team. I have also really enjoyed the team aspect playing football for the year 7 team with my friends, winning the fjrst round of the county cup competjtjon playing some great football. It’s a but upsettjng that we can’t fjnish the year with some outdoor athletjcs and sports day but I’m really excited to hopefully get these opportunitjes next year and to improve on my fjrst year at Park House. Refmectjon of my year, Ollie Hall