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www.scssp.co.uk Extra Curricular Clubs Lots of new and exciting after College clubs have run this term with many students taking advantage of the opportunities available. Year 8 Trampolining This term saw the start of a Year 8 only trampolining club. The club runs on a Thursday after College for an hour. It was regularly attended by 30 students from Year 8 who refined their basic skills and developed their confidence in overcoming the challenge of learning new skills. KS4 Badminton Club Having successfully won a Sport Unlimited bid to run badminton club for KS4 students badminton club was able to start this term on a Thursday after College. Attendance has been good and students have been able to play matches against friends and set up some competitions. If anyone else is interested in attending
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please come along as this club will run until the end of the Summer Term.
Climbing Club In conjunction with Cambridge Regional College students from Impington Village College have been attending climbing sessions after College on a Thursday. Teaching Assistant, Mrs Mee has ensured that all students who signed up for the club attend the sessions led by CRC instructors. Students have been set challenges and team building work throughout the sessions and they have learned to boulder, climb and abseil. Change 4 Life: Youth Sport Trust and Various Governing Bodies of Sport On Wednesday 2 February representative from the Youth Sport Trust, Ministers from the Department for Health and Governing bodies from handball, volleyball, table tennis, wheelchair basketball, fencing, badminton and boccia attended a Conference at Impington Village College. The conference was held in the new Sports Centre Conference room. The representatives covered several workshops and listened to talks from
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Rob Campbell, Katie Jarvis and Emma Clifton. They also discussed ways in which their communication and work with schools could be made more effective. At the end of the conference they visited the ‘Change 4 Life’ Table Tennis club currently running at Impington Village College. For many this was their first experience of a ‘Change 4 Life’ club. From this they could see that these clubs are making a real difference to students would not normally choose to go to the more traditional, competitive after school clubs. Everyone left the conference talking very positively about the way the C4L programme is working and about the College. DISTRICT, COUNTY and ANGLIAN CROSS COUNTRY For the second time in three years Impington won the District Cross Country Championships, held on Royston Heath. With boys and girls competing from Years 7 right through to Year 13, the students performed exceedingly well on a very demanding course which was both hilly and muddy. All the boys teams won their categories, with the girls doing their utmost to finish in