Sports College News

22 students from the Kingswood partnership spent their second week of lessons doing a practical session with a difference! The students are beginning their course studying a Health, safety and injury module. This involves them having to develop understanding of how to carry out a risk assessment for a number of practical activities. It was decided that the students would experience the risk assessment processes at Bristol’s Hamburger Hill activity centre. They all completed a new outdoor activity called ‘Pulse ranger’ which is similar to the indoor game of laser shooting, but instead of being in an indoor environment it is carried out in vast woodland and is found to be much more exhilarating!

The centre allowed us to examine the way that they monitor and manage risks when facilitating high risk, adrenaline fuelled activities. This was a great help for the students when completing assignment tasks. The hands on practical experience of the activity and the visit to the centre was a great learning opportunity for all the students.

Friday period 6 has become alot more than just ‘Going home time” for the Grange female dancers!! 70 plus year 7-9 students all make their way down to the sports centre to prepare and learn new dances. Students have the opportunity to learn lots of different dance genres; street, contemporary, and cheerleading to name but a few!

The female PE staff are thrilled to have so many dancers and are really excited about the talent that will be involved in the 2010 Dancefest.

There is still opportunity to come and join us at dance club, we are very lucky and have upper school students helping us to choreograph and manage the enthusiasm on a friday afternoon.

This is a report on the sports science lesson. We were doing forces and safety in P.E. It was really exciting as we were doing something new (except the rugby scrum as some of us have already done that) and it was fun because we were learning but having fun at the same time.

First we watched Mr Postlethwaite do an example of a rugby scrum and we all learnt something by watching it. Then we did a rugby scrum with a partner. We had to get on our hands and knees and put our cheeks on their ear. It was really fun, we had to push with our shoulders against each other to drive them over the line. We then had to get three people on each side and we had to push our shoulders against theirs and see who could push more. If the scrum moved it was unbalanced as one team was stronger. If the scrum turned the team was unbalanced and one side was stronger.

Ther tug of war was the best sport activity. It was competitive but fun at the same time. It showed you had to work as a team and use your weight to pull the rope. In the last go we had one team with shoes on and one team with just socks. We learnt how friction affects how things move. When you have your shoes on you have more friction and the one with no socks was sliding all over the place as it was much more slippery as they had no grip so they had no friction. A big disadvantage!

At the end of the lesson we were on a trampoline one at a time. That was my favourite bit. You pushed up with upthrust and came down by gravity. It was all unbalanced forces. We did 3 different shapes, tuck, straddle and pike. You had to be careful to not land on your head or you could break your neck.

It was the best lesson ever! The whole class really enjoyed it and we learnt a lot. It was all thanks to Mrs Stuart and Mr Postlethwaite for arranging it so thanks to them because we all appreciate it. I think we should do it more often. Please!!

The Grange sixth form orienteering event Warmley Forest resultsCheck out the results for the Warmley forest Orienteering event. All the sixth formers had a great time. We are looking forward to hosting another event later in the year.

Well done to you all

As part of this terms enrichment programme the PE Dept have offered Dodgeball to year 7 and 8 students, both girls and boys. Last Tuesday, 10Th March, the session had 84 students attend!! This is a phenomenal number and we are extremely proud of all the students that commit to enrichment activities.

As a result of the numbers we will be changing the venue to the sports hall next week! Hopefully we can develop some squads and compete in fixtures with other local schools.

Click the following link to check out Dodgeball rules

This year students have been able to participate in Golf at a number of levels. We have had students participating at the highest level through their clubs but we have also been promoting golf at participation levels too.

Students have been able to access golf coaching on Thursday afternoons with our link professional golfer from the Kendleshire Golf Club. They have had two sessions at school, which have focused on technique.

A number of competitions have been organised in the South Gloucestershire area through the ‘Golf Roots’ and ‘Active Golf’ initiatives. The idea behind the initiatives is to enable students to access golf coaching and try golf where previously they would not have had the opportunity. The students have really enjoyed the opportunity to try a different sport and develop their skills and confidence. We hope that this will lead to more students playing golf regularly on one of the many local courses.

Students who attended the recent ‘Active Golf’ competition at the Kendleshire Golf Club were awarded the fair play award for their excellent approach to the tournament. Well done to everyone involved.

The students involved in the initiatives were:

Yr. 7 boys: Mitch Jobbins, Sean Skinner, Tom Shail and Josh Jennings

Yr. 9 girls: Stella Jelly, Amy Williams, Natasha Micic and Nichola Walker

Yr. 9 boys: Ben Limmer, Jacob Watson, Josh Denley and Michael Saunders