School sport and sports leaders news

Mrs Allen, School Sports Co-ordinator

Derby Cycle day

Last Friday, Derby Cycle came to visit Highfields for our secondary cycling day. Students from all years were given the opportunity to cycle on the Lumsdale field. Years 7, 8 and 12 took part in the morning session, with years 9-11 in the afternoon.

Five Derby Cycle officers came for the day and set up a challenging course for our students to ride during a very windy morning and certainly a windy and wet afternoon. Our students rose to the challenges as ever. There were some excellent races and students received certificates for their participation.

Sports Leaders UK Your Time Girls project

On Tuesday the 2022/23 Time Girls in years 9-10 had their planning session. The girls worked well together planning an indoor competition of benchball for their peers for week commencing 7 November.

The girls are involved in the Sports Leaders UK Your Time Girls project and over the next few months will complete online modules to gain an award.

Well done to Sophie N, Sapphire P, Nicole B and Heidi S from year 9 and Taylah C, Ruby S, Keeley G, Chloe C, Sophie S, Esther S, Zara C, Isobel T, Abigail W, and Katelyn C from year 10.

Primary sports evening

Week 3 of our primary sports evenings took place on Wednesday. The year 11 leaders were superb as usual leading activities on archery and uni hoc. Well done to Sam C, Isla M, Sophie C and Hana B.

SSP mini soccer

The SSP mini soccer mixed finals also took place on Wednesday for large and small primary schools. The event was held on the all-weather pitch at Lumsdale and refereed by Highfields Sports Leaders. All Saints were the winning large school having defeated Lea in the final by 1-0. All Saints now represent the SSP at the County finals. The small school winners were Bamford who defeated Marston by 1-0 and Bamford are now progressed through to the small schools County final.

Combat sports penultimate lesson for Yr 7 girls

Coaches Sally and Trevor instructed the girls in mini competition this week.

Primary targets festival

Starkholmes held the year 3/4 primary targets festival on Thursday. Highfields sports leaders were supporting. St Joseph’s, St Giles, Winster and South Darley were the schools in attendance.

Voice of Sport

Today, Friday, we held our first Voice of Sport meeting with student representatives from years 7-13.

Youth Sport Trust Ortus Project

The first session of the year 7/9 Ortus project supported by the Youth Sport Trust took place today with athlete mentor, Tom Davis. More to follow in next week’s newsletter.

Highfields mini marathon week

Students have been walk, jogging or running 2.6miles in PE lessons this week, inspired nationally during October to celebrate the London Marathon.

Gothia Youth World Cup 2022 news

Year 11 students, Sophie and Erin, played for Chesterfield ladies u18 in the Gothia Youth World Cup in the summer, held in the beautiful city of Gothenberg. It's one of the biggest youth tournament in the world and this year over 4000 teams took part across all age groups for girls and boys.

The team entered into a group with two Swedish teams and an American team playing a match each day for three days. They beat both Swedish teams 2 nil and 5 nil and drew 0-0 with the American team. To put in perspective the Colorado team they drew with are a team made up of players from the Colorado league, and over 1700 players trialled for a place and had a mini tour of Norway prior to Gothia, so the draw achieved was very credible.

Chesterfield ladies u18s finished second in group and on the fourth day had to play a match at 8.00am, which they won 2 nil and put them through to last 16, but had to play a further game at 3pm later that day. The team drew 0-0 and it went to penalties which they unfortunately lost.

The temperatures were very hot all week and on last day hit 30 degrees. The team didn't go out thinking they could win it but the coaches were all very proud of the girls. A few members of the team (Sophie was one) had to play all 270 mins of football in four days due to injuries.

It was an amazing life experience for the team especially for those who had never even flown before let alone been away on their own. All involved found the experience hard work but thoroughly rewarding.

The photograph above is of Erin. Another ex-student of Highfields, Lucy, also attended. The whole experience was unforgettable both for the team and the coaches. To read the full blog of the trip click the link below:

https://www.worldatherfeet.com/post/gothia-cup-2022-where-could-this-go