Calthorpe Park Family
Cheerleading Club
30 year 8/9 girls attended this club over the Autumn term. Big Lottery funding was used to pay for Anita Woodward from the Cheerleading Guild to come in and teach the girls new and exciting cheerleading skills. This is what they wrote about their experience:
Being able to have the chance to take part in after school classes for Cheerleading has been great. It was sooo much fun and we definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys Gymnastics or Dance. Anita has been brilliant and certainly made the club lively. We learnt lifts, stunts, cheers and cheerleading positions which were amazing and we would love to do something like this again. We were all successful in choreographing a cheerleading routine with various lifts and stunts. We are sad to see the club come to an end but we would like to thanks Mrs Pengelly for giving us this opportunity. We would like to carry on with our Cheerleading team and hopefully put some of our skills into practice at up and coming games.
Year 7 & 8 Girls Basketball Team – County cup semi-finalists
Our year 7 & 8 girls Basketball team won the NEHSSP tournament in December to progress to the County Cup knockout stage. They then defeated Bohunt and Cantrell in the next two rounds. They were invited to the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth to play Toynbee in the semi-finals. They dominated play in the third and fourth quarter, but ran out of time to catch up the deficit from the first two quarters. Well done to the girls who loved the experience and did very well considering most of the team had never played before.
Tennis Club
Clive Asprey (community Tennis coach) has been coaching 22 year 7/8 students over the last half term. They have all improved their basic technique and some are approaching more advanced skills. These students will be competing against each other in January at Avondale Tennis Club. This will provide an excellent club link opportunity for any of these students who would like to pursue their Tennis further.
Calthorpe Dance Challenge – 24th of February in the school hall
35 girls (8 groups) from year 7 – 9 entered this competition. These 8 groups competed for 2 places to represent Calthorpe at the NE Hampshire School Sports Partnership (NEHSSP) Dance Challenge at the Princes Hall. The girls had practised very hard leading up to this event with most attending practice sessions 2-3 times a week over a 6 week period.
The standard was very high and it was up to the judges (Mrs Edwards, Mrs Plunkett, Mrs Pugsley and Miss Lloyd) to judge each dance out of 40 points awarding a maximum of 10 in the following categories:
Choreography, Performance, Music and Costume.
Congratulations to the groups ‘Broken’ (year 8) and ‘Compact’ (year 9) who scored the highest and went on to represent Calthorpe.
I would like to thank all the year 10 and 11 girls who helped run the show. A big thank you to the audience who paid a £1 towards Sports Relief and cheered the girls on. We raised £51 for Sports Relief.
Junior School Activities
The majority of the Calthorpe Park Family sporting festivals are taking place over the next term. However, Crondall Primary and Elvetham Heath Primary took part in the Year 5 & 6 Cross Country Event held at Velmead Junior School, Fleet. Both schools entered strong teams with one of Elvetham Heath's two teams finishing the event in a hard fought third place. Well done to all involved.
Both Crondall Primary School and Elvetham Heath Primary School also took teams to take part in the Partnership Tag Rugby Festivals at the end of the Autumn Term. All of the teams had a fun packed afternoon and faced tough competition from other teams from around the partnership. Well done to all those who took part!
Activate
Staff at Crookham Junior and Infant School, Elvetham Heath Primary School and Tavistock Infant School were all introduced to Activate this term. They are starting to introduce Activate to their classes before school and/or after lunch. They can see the value of using Activate to settle their classes down and add to their physical exercise each day.
Young Leaders
Young Sports Leaders have been trained up at Crondall Primary School, Elvetham Heath Primary School, All Saints Junior School and Crookham Junior School in order to help run lunch intra school activities and assist with junior sporting festivals. They have enjoyed learning how to lead through the official Young Sports Leaders course and are now starting to put these skills into practice.
Girls Active
Amelia Wood (Year 10) student at Calthorpe Park School attended the Girls Active day held at Fernhill Secondary on Monday the 8th of December 2008. She really enjoyed her day getting to meet Dame Kelly Holmes and taking part in fun workshops including: Urban Rebounding, Trixter Bikes, Kangoo Shoes and Salsa dancing.
She also got to meet other Girls Active representatives from local Secondary schools to talk about PE issues. Amelia will be able to meet up with all these representatives soon to discuss ways to get more girls active. These girls will be challenged to come up with ideas on what they would change in their own schools in order to make sporting activity something they would want to participate in. Well done Amelia, our Calthorpe Park Girls Active Representative.
