Sports Leaders News

Sports Leaders News Mrs Allen (School Sports Co-ordinator) Issue 20: 7 February 2020

Our Sports Leaders will be extremely busy supporting sporting activities not only in school, but also within our partner primary schools and across the wider community. Further information on Sports Leadership can be found on the school website: http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/SportsLeadership.html

Sports leaders notice board:

Saturday 8 February 2020 SSP cross country finals at Ashbourne from 8-11am – Mrs Allen and Mr Molyneux will be in attendance.

Tuesday 11 February 2020 Year 11 level 1 sports leaders’ moderation from 10.30-11am

Wednesday 12 February 2020 Fit February at 1pm in sports hall with sports leaders

Thursday 13 February 2020 High 5 netball training with Val Kindred from England netball – 9am-3.30pm with sports leaders

Sunday 23 February-Friday 28 February 2020 Youth Sport Trust International Youth Sport Award conference in Bahrain

Further details are available from Mrs Allen.

Voice of sport meeting

The monthly voice of sport meeting took place on Friday 31 January that focused on our new monthly foci for sport.

Step into Sport conference 2020

Six of our year 9 students (Eve, Ruby, Seline, Harvey, Stephen and Callum) attended the Step into Sport conference at St Mary’s in Chesterfield alongside other students from Tupton, Shirebrook, St Mary’s and Bolsover.

Led by England boxing champion, Rachel McKenzie, students also took part in tennis, volleyball and boccia activities during the morning session. Students played and supported each other leading activities. In the afternoon they devised an action plan to bring some ideas back in to school to encourage others in their year group to take part. They presented their plans to other schools encouraging their leadership skills. We loved seeing Mr Pemberton who now teaches at Bolsover.

SSP sports hall athletics finals Mrs Allen & Mr Shirtcliffe

Highfields hosted a very successful sports hall athletics competition on Wednesday 5 February with our Derbyshire Dales schools. The event saw over 120 students taking part in active competition, supported by sports leaders who had been trained by Mike Frost from England Athletics.

Cluster schools taking part in the large school’s event in the morning were All Saints (Highfields cluster) along with Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School cluster, Lady Manners cluster and Anthony Gell cluster schools. Well done to All Saints who came first and will go on to the county finals, Parkside came second with Wirksworth third and Darley Dale in fourth place.

The afternoon invited small schools to take part with students from Lea and Wessington from Highfields cluster along with schools from Queen Elizabeth’s, Lady Manners and Antony Gell clusters. Congratulations to Osmaston who gained first place and will go on to the county finals. Second place went to Turnditch, Eyam were

third, in fourth place was Hulland, Lea were fifth, Baslow sixth and Wessington came seventh.

After school the secondary school year 7 and 8 competition took place. Students from both year groups competed from Highfields with some excellent performances and results. Highfields finished fourth, Anthony Gell third with Lady Manners second and Queen Elizabeth’s taking first place. Although we didn’t win overall all of our students did Highfields proud once again.

Well done and thank you to everyone involved and a massive thank you to our amazing leaders and staff who allowed the competition to run so smoothly.

School Sports Partnership Secondary Events Calendar 2019-20 For further information please see Mr Shirtcliffe

Sport/Event Age/Gender

Table Tennis U.13 B&G

Badminton KS4 B&G

County U.19 Netball U.19

Table Tennis U.16 B&G

Badminton KS3 B&G

Futsal U.12 B&G

Futsal U.14 Boys

Futsal U.16 Boys

County Girls Racketfest Year 7/8 Girls Dales Cross Country Year 7-13 SSP Event (Level 2)

Monday 30 September @ Lady Manners Monday 30 September @ Lady Manners

Monday 7 October @ QEGS Monday 7 October @ QEGS Thursday 14 November @ Anthony Gell Thursday 28 November @ Anthony Gell Thursday 28 November @ Anthony Gell County Event (Level 3)

Thursday 14 November

Thursday 13 February

Wednesday 2 October @ Repton Thursday 21 November

Tuesday 11 February

Thursday 21 November

Friday 6 December @ QEGS (INSET day - Highfields) TBC

Sport/Event Age/Gender SSP Event (Level 2) Sports hall Athletics Year 7/8 B&G Wednesday 5 February @ Highfields County Individual Table Tennis U.13 & U16 B&G Handball U.13 B&G Wednesday 4 March @ Highfields TBC Handball U.16 B&G Thursday 12 March @ Anthony Gell TBC County U.15 Netball U.15

County U.13 Netball U.13

County U.12 Netball U.12 County Event (Level 3) TBC

Thursday 6 February

Monday 30 March @ Derby Arena Monday 30 March @ Derby Arena Tuesday 17 March @ Littleover Thursday 26 March @ Dronfield Tuesday 31 March @

Sport/Event Age/Gender SSP Event (Level 2) Boccia Mixed KS3/4 Monday 27 April @ Lady Manners Cyclo Cross Year 7/8 Wednesday 3 June @ Whitworth Park County U.15 Rounders U.15 County U.14 Rounders U.14 District Sports Moorways Year 7-10 Friday 26 June @ Moorways County U.13 Rounders U.13 County U.12 Rounders U.12 County Event (Level 3)

Derbyshire School Games TBC Thursday 4 June @ Lady manners Wednesday 24 June @ QEGS

Tuesday 30 June @ Lady Manners Thursday 2 July @ QEGS

Sports Fixture Results

Girls football against St Mary’s Mr Shirtcliffe

On Friday 31 January both our under 16 and under 13 girls’ football teams took to the field away at St Mary’s Church Academy, Chesterfield. Both teams represented Highfields in the best possible way, they worked hard and played some excellent football.

The under 16 team was made up of year 9, 10 and 11 students who all came together to produce an excellent performance. We even had two of our year 8 students come on for the last 5 minutes contributing to our goal. Unfortunately, we lost 2-1 but that didn’t dampen our spirits.

The under 13 team emerged victorious winning 5-2 and were excellent from goalkeeper to the forwards. All 16 players played in the 9 aside game. Well done as we look forward to the next round.