DELIVERING THE DREAM

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1 DELIVERING THE DREAM Dacorum School Sports Network Newsletter Volume 6 Issue 2 Spring 2018 In this newsletter you can read in more detail the work that DSSN Member Schools have been doing this term. You will also find enclosed details of our School Games Competitions and some information from our sponsors. I look forward to working with you all next term with lots more exciting opportunities available to all DSSN Schools. Happy Easter to you all. Clare GREENWAY NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONS. Greenway Primary school in Berkhamsted attended the Level 2 event run by DSSN back in October the girls had hardly played Table Tennis before. They won the District competition and went on to represent Dacorum at the County competition in December. Winning that the girls went through to the zonal rounds at Tower Hamlets, then the Regional round maintaining their winning streak. Lots more training and practice took place before heading off to Hinkley for the National Finals. The girls were yet again unbeaten to be crowned national champions What a fantastic achievement. Gabriella Bella Tonev said: It feels good, it hasn t sunk in yet. Mr Lewis and Mr Loczy believed in us and said if you put your mind to anything, you can achieve it. We stayed positive and good support helped us to win. Lilly Atkin gave up the chance to be bridesmaid for a family friend, but was travelling to the reception with her trophy. She said: It was worth it! Winning squad: Aliya Power, Gabriella Tonev, Lilly Atkin, Sophie Mabbs. Dacorum Dance 2018 Circus On Friday 23rd March 2018 we once again took over Hemel Hempstead Sportspace to host the annual Dance competition for Primary and Secondary Schools. This year we also introduced a KS1 competition to the mix. Schools accepted the challenge of creating a piece around the theme of the Circus and sent in their entry forms. Clare was overwhelmed with the response this year with several new schools wishing to take part. On the night we had 27 performances from both primary and Secondary schools from the district Over 600 spectators, and of course our superb sound and light guys. Cont d on page 2

2 Competitions& News (cont.) Partnership Competitions Primary PE Conference. This years conference took place on 23rd January 2018 with lots of workshops to attend. An inspirational opening speech from Ali Oliver started the conference off well. 2 workshops attended then off to the market place to pick up some goodies, and lunch. Most of the feedback from the conference was positive with lots of people thinking the workshops they attended were worthwhile. Well done to Tanya Angus and the HSP team for organising such a great event, and thank you to those Dacorum PE Coordinators and Headteachers that attended. Dance Continued Well done to Galley, Hill and George Street for competing in the KS1 section Galley Hill came 1st and 3rd with George Street Second. Year 5/6 Dodgeball On 24th January several teams came to Cavendish for a new competition this year of Dodgeball. The games were fast Our Primary Competition was well contended and the judges had a really hard job to select the top 3. Well done to Nash Mills, Thomas Coram and St Albert the Great for coming 3rd, 2nd and 1st respectively and furious. Each game was timed and points awarded for teams that hit the opposition with a ball. Well done to Hobletts Manor Junior school for winning the overall event. Year 4 Speed Stacking Week commencing 29th January we ran 4 speed stacking events at Cavendish, Longdean Ashlyns and Adeyfield. All three events were attended by several schools to find our overall Dacorum winner for The children had to take part in a and competition as single sex groups and as mixed groups of 8 Our Secondary competition was of a very high standard this year, and performances from JFK, Hemel Hempstead and Longdean had the judges deliberating. Well done to Hemel Hempstead who won the event. Well done to Thomas Coram for winning the competition. They will now go onto represent Dacorum at the County finals. Year 5/6 Saracens Tag Rugby After the initial event was cancelled due to the snow, we eventually took to Camelot Rugby club on Thursday 22nd March for the annual Saracens festival. Lots of schools took part in this non competitive festival. Thank you to Kings Langley Leaders for supporting the event. 2

3 Competitions Continued Partnership Competitions & News (cont.) Year 2 Sports Fayre We held 2 year 2 sports fayres this term. One on 25th January and one on 12th March at Hemel Hempstead Sportspace. Pupils took part in various sports as taster sessions. Some of the activities included Archery, Dance, Aerobics, Multi Skills, and we had a visit from Cricket East and Mr Star. Pat Bickel High Five Festival On Monday 26th February in conjunction with the Bickel family and Sportspace DSSN ran a High Five festival. The event this year was sponsored by the Bickel family to remember the positive impact that Pat had on Netball in the District. Each school that took part received a High Five ball and a set of bibs. 11 schools attended the festival taking part in two pools to find an overall winner for Dacorum. The final was contended by St Pauls and Bovingdon, with Bovingdon being crowned overall winners. Well done to all who took part, and a special thank you to the Bickel family for sponsoring the event. Year 1 Inter School On 22nd February 2018 several schools descended on Berkhamsted Sportspace for the Year 1 Inter School Festival. This competitive event sees children participate in various activities including Bean Bag Throwing, Obstacle Course, Football Shoot out, and Bean Bag Balance. Greenway won the morning session and Grove Road 1TM the afternoon session Thank you to Ashlyns leaders for delivering and scoring the event. Year 2 Sportshall Athletics During the week of 5th February 2018 Several schools took part in the year 2 indoor athletics event at either Cavendish, Ashlyns or JFK. Each event had 6 stations and 3 personal challenge stations to encourage all children to try and beat their own scores, as well as compete as a school. Activities included Javelin, Balance, Standing Long Jump, Speed Bounce, Sprinting, Obstacle Relay, and personal challenges in skipping, hula hooping and an agility run. Thank you to the leaders from Cavendish, JFK, and Ashlyns for supporting the event. Scores were collated for each Girls and Boys team made up of 4 compeititors, and added together to give us our winners. Well done to Kings Langley, Tudor, and Bovingdon who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.

4 Competitions continued Partnership Competitions & News (cont.) Football Tournaments On 14th March teams attended the year 5/6 Mixed tournament held at Kings Langley School. Teams were placed into a cup and plate competition to allow for more children to achieve success. Each of the pools played games to find an overall winner of the pool with those teams and the runners up going through to the quarter finals. The cup quarter finals consisted of Greenway A, Grove Road, Bovingdon A, Hammond A, Kings Langley, Leverstock Green, Boxmoor and St Pauls, with Greenway, Bovingdon St Pauls and Kings Langley winning through to the semi finals The final was a close game with Bovingdon coming 2nd and Greenway coming 3rd. St Pauls were crowned winners. T he Plate competition saw Hammond B, George Street, Hobletts Manor Junior, Greenway B, Pixies Hill, Potten End B, Galley Hill and Bovingdon B get through to the quarter finals, with George Street, Hobletts Manor Junior, Pixies Hill and Bovingdon going through to the Semi Finals Bovingdon took away the winners medals with Hobletts coming 2nd, Pixies Hill 3rd and George Street just missing out. A massive thank you to Kings Langley for hosting the event and supplying the leaders. Also thank you to Apex 360 and Chipperfield Football Club for supplying some of the goals needed to run the event. On 16th March Cavendish hosted the girls 3/4 and 5/6 tournaments. 11 schools took part in the 3/4 tournament and 16 schools in the 5/6 event. Once again the 3/4 event was split into a cup and plate competition with Hobletts Manor, Bridgewater, Brockswood and Bovingdon in the Cup semi finals, with Brockswood winning the event, Bridgwater 2nd, Hobletts Manor 3rd and Bovingdon coming a close 4th The Plate semi finals consisted of Holtsmere End Junior, Greenway, Micklem and The Reddings, with Holtsmere End coming 1st, Micklem 2nd, Greenway 3rd and The Reddings 4th. Well done to all schools that took part, and thank you to Cavendish for hosting the event and supplying the leaders. The last of the 3 tournaments took place on Tuesday 27th March 2018 at The Cavendish School. The 3/4 mixed event was attended by 28 teams all of which were put into 6 pools. Due to time constraints we were unable to complete a plate and cup competition so schools that did not get through were free to leave after the initial rounds. Nash Mills, Galley Hill, George Street, Kings Langley, Bovingdon A, Westfield, South Hill and Two Waters all made it through to the quarter finals, with some results being made on penalties. Galley Hill played George Street, and Westfield played South Hill in the Semi Finals. South Hill were crowned winners with Galley Hill taking 2nd and George Street 3rd Well done to Westfield for making it through to 4th place. Thank you once again to Cavendish for suppling the venue and the leaders. Sports Leagues This term has seen schools competing in the Football, Netball and Ski 2 B fit leagues. The Skip 2 B fit league finished at February half term. After a very high sign up only 13 schools sent in results for both the year 3 and 4 competitions. After skipping against each other virtually schools got down to a final with Gade Valley competing against Aycliffe Drive in both Year 3 and Year 4 with Gade Valley being crowned winners for both events. Well done to all schools that took part. The football and netball leagues culminate in finals after Easter Both leagues have had the most number of schools taking part since DSSN was started. The Football Quarter finals were contended by Boradfield, Bovingdon, Boxmoor, St Pauls, Hobbs Hill Wood, St Bartholomews St Albert the Great and South Hill, with Bovingdon, St Pauls, Hobbs Hill Wood and Broadfield all reaching the semi The final due to take place on 23rd April will be St Pauls vs Broadfield. The netball league finishes today with the next rounds being played after Easter and the Final taking place on 8th May before the tournament.

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6 Dacorum School Games Level 2 This terms School Games competitions have mainly focused on Secondary schools with winning schools of these events taking part in the Hertfordshire School Games County finals in the week of 19th March 2018 Competitions included Rowing, Handball, Futsal, Sportshall Athletics, Basketball, and Dodgeball. Plus gymnastics, Rapid Fire Cricket, and Sportshall Athletics for the primary schools Year 7 & 8 Sportshall Athletics U13 and U16 Handball Competitions JFK hosted this years events, attended by Cavendish, Longdean, Astley Cooper, Hemel Hempstead Ashlyns and JFK. Field and track events were competed in separately by Girls and Boys. Cavendish and Hemel Hempstead won the Boys sections in year 7 and 8 respectively and JFK Girls went through as champions for both ages. On 30th January and 1st February the Handball competitions took place at Ashlyns School. The boys events were run but unfortunately no girls teams entered. JFK were crowned winners in both age groups Well done for getting through to the County Finals in March. U12, U14 and U16 Girls Futsal These events took place on 20th, 21st and 22nd of February. Well done to JFK U16 team and Ashlyns U12 & U14 teams for winning and going through to represent Dacorum. Girls U12 and U14 Basketball On 27th and 28th February the Basketball competitions took place based at Ashlyns. Unfortunately teams pulled out of the U12 event meaning Hemel Hempstead had a straight pass to the finals. The U14 event took place with Hemel Hempstead also winning and going through to represent Dacorum Year 6 Sportshall Athletics Events took place at JFK, Ashlyns and Cavendish. Primary schools attended and worked through track and field events to score as many points as possible. Well done to Greenway Primary won both the girls and boys events and will represent Dacorum at the County finals in June. Key Steps Gymnastics The KS1 competition did not take place due to a lack of entries so Greenway Primary went straight through to the finals. The year 3/4 event took place on 25th January with teams from Yewtree, Greenway, and Hobletts Manor Junior competing. Well done to Hobletts Manor for winning the event in both the floor and team routines. 6 U12 & 14 Rowing and the U15 Dodgeball events did not take place due to a lack of sign up from Secondary schools, and no teams were available to represent Dacorum at the finals Rapid Fire Cricket Having postponed the first date due to snow the new date fell on Friday 16th March at The Cavendish School. A huge thank you to Cricket East for helping to run the event attended by 5 schools including Belswains, Yewtree, Bridgwater, St Albert the Great, and Greenway. Congratulations to St Albert the Great who went onto the County Finals on 23rd

7 School Games Finals Herts School Games Finals Week 19th 23rd March Level 3 On Monday 19th March JFK and Ashlyns attended Batchwood Centre to compete in the County Final Futsal tournaments Well done to all teams for taking part, no medals this time. On Tuesday 20th March Wodson Park Sports Centre held majority of the Secondary events, with Handball, Basketball, Rowing, Dodgeball and Sportshall Athletics all taking place. JFK took part in the Handball competitions with both teams making it through to the semi finals Both teams went to penalties, with the U13 team winning, and the U15 team narrowly missing out Congratulations to the U15 team who won Bronze medals in the 3rd/4th place play off, and to the U13 team who took away the Gold medals. Hemel Hempstead represented us in the U14 Basketball They played some great games but unfortunately got knocked out in the first rounds. During the afternoon the Sportshall Athletics took place with Cavendish, Hemel Hempstead and JFK representing Dacorum. All 4 teams did really well and pushed themselves to achieve their best. The Year 7 boys from Cavendish came 8th, The JFK girls from year 7 came 11th. The year 8 boys from Hemel came 8th and the girls from JFK came 5th. Well done to all who took part. On Wednesday 21st The Gymnastics took place at Marriots Sports Centre with Greenway and Hobletts Manor Junior representing Dacorum. Well done to both teams for taking part. On Friday 23rd St Alberts attended the Herts Sports Village to take part in the Rapid Fire Cricket competition At time of print we are unsure of how they did Well done for taking part. Congratulations to all the teams., and especially to JFK for helping to boost the Medals table. Dacorum School Sports Network Summer Term Calendar DSSN APRIL 20th Active workshop and American Football course 23rd Football League Final 25th Bronze and Health Leader celebration 27th Year 1 Inter School Competition MAY Week commencing 1st Mary Year 3 Tri Golf 10th Apprentice Training 17th Year 3 Tag Rugby Festival 21st MSA and Play leader Training 25th KS1 Mini Olympics JUNE 8th Netball Tournament 12th Year 3/4 Olympics 14th KS1 Mini Olympics 22nd PE Subject Leaders Workshop 25th Foundation Olympics 28th Year 3/4 Mini Olympics 29th Foundation Olympics JULY 10th & 11th Year 5 Mini Olympics 13th DSSN Awards Night 16th Rounder's Tournament School Games Events MAY 9th Year 4 Tri Golf 23rd Mini Tennis Red 24th Kwik Cricket JUNE: 6th Quicksticks 7th Inclusive Archery 13th Girls Kwik Cricket 20th Inclusive Cricket & Golf 21st Change 4 Life Celebration JULY Week commencing 2nd July SCHOOL GAMES FINALS WEEK

8 Dacorum School Sports Network DACORUM SCHOOL SPORT NETWORK BOXMOOR MICKLEM GEORGE STREET SOUTH HILL YEW TREE GALLEY HILL AYCLIFFE DRIVE COLLETT HOBLETS MANOR INFANTS HOBLETS MANOR JUNIORS GADE VALLEY ST CUTHBERT MAYNE CAVENDISH ASHLYNS ST THOMAS MORE TRING HEMEL HEMPSTEAD GROVE ROAD ST BARTHOLOMEWS DSSN ADEYFIELD ALDBURY ST ALBERT THE GREAT LONGDEAN TWO WATERS HAMMOND ACADEMY JFK ASTLEY COOPER BELSWAINS KINGS LANGLEY WOODFIELD LEVERSTOCK GREEN PIXIES HILL NASH MILLS LIME WALK LITTLE GADDESDEN REDDINGS CHAMBERSBURY CHAULDEN JUNIORS TUDOR GADDESDON ROW GREENWAY HOLTSMERE END INFANTS MAPLE GROVE GREAT GADDESDEN ST PAULS CHIPPERFIELD THOMAS CORAM ST MARYS ST ROSE S HOLTSMERE END JUNIOR BROCKSWOOD BOVINGDON ACADEMY KINGS LANGLEY POTTEN END BRIDGEWATER WESTFIELD Clare McCawley Dacorum School Sports Manager The Cavendish School Warners End Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP1 3DW Telephone c.mccawley@cavendish.herts.sch.uk Website Facebook Dacorum School Sports Network