Hampshire Harriers Wheelchair Basketball club led by Terry Marsh recently visited Farnborough 6th form College to raise awareness of disability sport amongst the sports students. 40 able bodied students took part in the wheelchair basketball activity, and some students even took on the Harriers in a 5v2 match. The students were unable to win any games such was the skill of the Harriers players.

_{Volunteering and Leadership Opportunities}

_{Volunteering and leadership has been a key area of development within the college over this academic year. Though the college has been offering Sports Leaders Award courses for over ten years, it was apparent that there was often little formalised engagement of the students within the local area. Through the FESCo programme, working links with the SSP and local schools have been established. Our leaders are now a prominent and regular feature of clubs, events and activities within the North East Hampshire SSP.}

Dance Leadership

^{Dance Leader students at The Sixth Form College Farnborough demonstrated how they are an inspiration to local school children as their four week dance project came to a climax with a spectacular showcase held at Oak Farm Community School. The showcase, entitled Oak Farm Family Dance Showcase presented a range of pieces and involved over 50 local school children.}

^{The work was a result of a four week project led by Dance Leaders from The Sixth Form College Farnborough, in association with North East Hampshire School Sports Partnership. Second year dance students prepared and delivered a dance session every week in Cherrywood Community Primary School, Tower Hill Primary School and St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School. The project aimed to build links between further education and local schools by providing extra-curricular dance activities.}

^{Friends and family of the school pupils, who were invited to the performance, were full of praise for the work. Subject Leader for Dance Leaders, Emily Burke, said, “I am overwhelmed by the maturity of the leaders and how they have applied their leadership skills when working with the school children, it is a demonstration of the hard work and commitment that our students put into their studies within the Performing Arts department.”
Staff at the schools who worked with the College students said they were a fantastic role model for the school children and were impressed by their manner of professionalism and sense of responsibility.}

^{DANCE LEADERS involved in the project were:
Cherrywood Community Primary School - Sara Lacey, Annabel Moody, Erika Rose, Rhianne Watson, Josh Harrison, Eleanor Turner, Verity Cooper, Nicola Ashton.
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School - Sian Brown, Krystal Duncan, Samantha Till, Victoria Moore, Kimberley Jarnak , Steffi Callaco, Piers Jeffries.
Cherrywood Community Junior School - Ben Seward, Lucy Chilton, Megan Hill, Rebecca Evans, Rachel Tufts, Charlotte Black, Fallan Burke.
Tower Hill Primary School - Becky Kukcla, Sophie Kelpacz, Joel Stevens, James Dance, Jessica Newson, Hayley Goddard, Hayley Carrington.}

^{SPECIAL THANKS to all the schools involved in this project; the dance leaders for their wonderful guidance and expertise, who made the sessions both informative and fun. Oak Farm Community School for hosting this event; Jack Salzman for technical support; Lucy Chilton and Ben Seward for creating the programme and Joel Stevens for designing the poster.}

Dance Workshops

_{20 year five pupils from local primary schools were invited into college for a dance workshop hosted by the Dance Leaders Award students. The students lead sessions in Hip-Hop and Jazz dancing which the primary school pupils loved. The level of skill and enthusiasm shown by the DLA students was superb. Teachers from all the schools voiced how excellent the sessions were and said that they were keen to be involved in any future projects.}

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^{British Colleges Sport (BCS)}

^{At the beginning of the academic year 2009/10, the Sixth Form College Farnborough entered the British Colleges Sport championships for the first time. In addition, the college also entered many BCS cup competitions. The aim of this project was to increase the quantity and diversity of inter college competition available to students.}

^{The regional championships were held over two days, the first at Portsmouth and the second at Aldershot.}

^{Students competed in numerous events from multiple disciplines, including: Netball, Golf, Football, Rugby, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Hockey, Table Tennis, Trampolining, Cross Country and Swimming.}

^{Following these regional championships, 22 students were selected to represent the South East at the National Championships in Loughborough. Of these 22 students 14 came home with medals. As a college, Farnborough came 1st place in the mixed badminton and men’s trampolining and 2nd place in the women’s cross country. Students from the college also played a pivotal role in the South East regional teams, achieving 2nd in women’s trampolining and 2nd in men’s swimming.}

^{Overall, the Sixth Form College Farnborough accrued the second highest medal tally for the South East Region. For our first year participating this was an undeniably great success.}