Record numbers join in Round-up of the latest news from the South Cambs SSP
More than 60 children with additional needs, which could be physical, learning, sensory, or a combination of these took part in the annual Adapted Multi Sport Competition.
The morning was full of activity and excitement with children, from a record 12 primary schools, competing in pairs as they rotated all around four different sports: Polybat, Boccia, Table Cricket and New Age Kurling. For many of the children this was their first experience of representing their school and taking part in competitive sport so the event was very much about the children having an enjoyable experience and trying out some new NEW AGE KURLING: One of the activities. sports, with an element of competition added After all the activities had taken place the finishing in. positions were announced, and they were extremely Children played matches and scored points on each close but the four top placed pairs on the day were activity and these were added together to give each pair a total and determine the winners. as follows: Kaileb and Benny (Histon Juniors), Kevin
Harston move up
Teams of Year 3 and 4 gymnasts from eighteen South Cambs primary schools took part in the annual School Games Gymnastics Competition at Comberton Village College. The top two schools earned the chance to represent South Cambs School Sports Partnership at the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough School Games Spring Festival. The mixed teams of six children all had to perform a vault and then either a floor or body management routine with each performance judged and given a score out of 10. Each child’s score in both disciplines was then combined to give an overall team score. Fewer than seven points separated the top two teams but defending champions Linton Heights again took top spot with Harston & Newton A improving from fifth last year for second ahead of their B team, Coton A, Haslingfield A and Dry Drayton. Scarlett from Coton was second in the individual competition, sandwiched between two Linton pupils, 0.1 behind the winner and 0.1 ahead of third. Qualified young judges from Comberton, Cambourne, Linton and Swavesey Village Colleges did an excellent job in scoring the performances of all of the competitors, keeping the competition running smoothly and encouraging and supporting the young gymnasts. Spirit of the Games awards were nominated by the sports leaders and given out to those children who strongly demonstrated self-belief and passion in their performances with the following children among those receiving recognition — Jassiyah (Coton), Annabelle (Monkfield Park) and Felix (Haslingfield). Claire McDonnell, South Cambs School Games Organiser said: “It was another great competition. It’s nice to offer children the opportunity to represent their school and compete in a more artistic type of event such as gymnastics. “It always amazes me how well the children perform under quite intense pressure, it is so quiet in the gym and there are lots of other children, staff and parents watching. All the children did exceptionally well and should be proud of themselves. “The young judges also did an exceptional job; we couldn’t have run the competition without them.”
WARM-UP: Youngsters prepare for the gymnastics competition.
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and Eleni (Bourn), Eric and Henry (Bar Hill) and Peyton and Miles (Linton Heights) These four pairs will now represent South Cambs SSP and compete as a team at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough School Games Summer Festival scheduled for June. Partnership Manager, Claire McDonnell said: “It was great to see so many youngsters taking part in this event, we had a record number of schools taking part this year with four of them taking part for the first time. “It’s important we provide opportunities for all young people to take part in physical activity and sport so that they can experience the enjoyment and wider benefits it can bring, and this event certainly helped to do that.” Those taking part were Bar Hill, Cottenham, Waterbeach, Bourn, Jeavons Wood, Gamlingay, The Meadow, Trumpington Park, Willingham and the University of Cambridge Primary Schools and Histon & Impington and Linton Heights Junior Schools.
QUALIFIERS: Bourn will be one of the teams to represent South Cambs.
Bourn fly the flag
Bourn Primary School will challenge for the right to represent South Cambs in Quicksticks Hockey at this year’s Cambridgeshire & Peterborough School Games Summer Festival. They were among the qualifiers for the South Cambs finals due to take place in May where they will face Willingham, the other qualifiers from their competition at Cambourne Village College as well as the qualifiers from the larger event at Comberton Village College. The winners from that showdown will take on the winning schools from Cambridge, East Cambs and Fenland, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough. Both South Cambs competitions were organised with A teams playing in a ‘Cup’ competition and B and C teams playing in a ‘Plate’ competition. Teams then played in a round robin format, playing all the other schools in their pool in seven-minute matches. At both venues there were lots of fast-paced matches on the day, all played in a competitive but friendly manner and umpired superbly by sports leaders from Cambourne and Comberton Village Colleges. At Comberton the qualifiers from the Year 5 and 6 event were Pendragon (Papworth), Linton Heights, Steeple Morden and Great Abington. The Plate winners were Bourn B and Willingham B at Cambourne and Pendragon B, Bassingbourn B, Histon B and, jointly, University of Cambridge B and Steeple Morden B. Claire McDonnell, South Cambs SSP Partnership Development Manager said: “It was great to see so many children playing and enjoying the game of hockey in a fun and relaxed environment. There were some competitive matches with lots of end-to-end action and plenty of goals. “It was also nice to see a few schools taking part in this event for the first time this year and some different schools winning. “Junior hockey continues to grow out in the local clubs too, so I really hope some of the children who took part go home and ask their parents to take them along to a training session to give hockey a go. More info on the junior clubs in the area can be found on the SCSSP website (http://www.scssp.co.uk/information/community-club-contacts/).”