Southway Group Newsletter Article Week Beginning 03/03/2017 Rise in boxing fitness credited with improving behaviour and school attendance Southway New Fitness programme Boxing as a sport requires a high level of athletic prowess: strength, speed, agility, hand-eye coordination, endurance, nerve, and power, just to name several required attributes. Boxing as a fitness activity enables the average person to hone those same athletic skills, all without having to take a punch. Enhanced Cardiovascular Health The whole point of cardio is to place a moderate amount of stress on your heart and lungs so that they re challenged enough to make beneficial physiologic adaptations to support the higher level of physical activity. But how you choose to place stress on your heart and lungs is up to you. As long as you keep your heart rate up during your workout, there s no reason you can t punch, kick, and jump your way to a healthy heart at your local boxing gym.
Improved Total-Body Strength During a boxing workout, you may punch or kick a bag hundreds of times, requiring your upper body, lower body, and core to engage as you make contact with the bag. Plus, most boxing gyms incorporate other strength training moves into a boxing workout. Boxing is a great outlet for stress for two reasons: First, during a boxing workout you typically transition between high intensity bouts of exercise and
moderate intensity recovery periods. When you re pushing yourself through a couple minutes of high-intensity punching or kicking, you don t have much mental power left to worry about how bad you are at maths, or how someone has wound you up during the day. Boxing fitness is an incredible mechanism for improved body composition because it perfectly combines muscle-building strength training moves and calorie-torching bouts of cardio. By regularly participating in a boxing program and following a nutritious eating plan, there s no reason you won t see changes in your shape and improvements to your fat mass percentage. Southway students and staff have participated in this provision delivered by qualified boxing coaches in a purpose built gym. Work Experience Fletcher McTighe, Alex Gibbons and Lewis White are still engaging in a work experience opportunity and are looking for chances to help out where possible. We have completed painting & decorating tasks, erecting fences, clearing rubble, rubbing down, designing garden layouts, removing stud wall, hanging doors. We will be taking on more tasks as the weather improves. So with this in mind if there are any jobs that staff would like being done please contact the Southway work experience team and we will see what we can do. Careers Wednesday 1 st March see s the Southway year 11s attend the Job fair at Plymouth pavilions. This will hopefully give them an insight into potential employers and training providers. This is hopefully preparing them for their next steps into adult life. Congratulations Another Southway shout out goes to Maverick Scott for catching up on his Btec Workskills units, Maverick started late but has shown a real passion in the alternative learning pathway and is flourishing. Alex Gibbons turned 13 on the Thursday 23 rd February so a big step into teenage years begins. Alex also baked a cake for the occasion!
Short term plans It is important to begin every day as a new one and any issues and concerns must be dealt with to enable us to move on. Southway is here to ensure our students get a rounded, holistic approach to education. As mentioned students in year 11 are attending the local Job fair on March 1 st / 2 nd down at Plymouth pavilions. This will help them to make some choices for their futures and give them an insight into what may be available. We continue to deliver an alternative educational pathway that suits the students we work with. We are also planning at looking into further alternative accreditation which matches their skills and would like to see access to vocational training more available. School is working hard at increasing access to technology and soon all students should have their own chrome books. It would also be good to see the internet issues resolved at Southway or even another site that could be more suitable.