Regents Review - Summer 2021

The Regents Review Summer 2021

Physical Education DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

I hope when reading this you and your families are in good health. It’s been fantastic to see the students take full opportunity of the returning extra-curricular programme (albeit in a slightly different format!) Every club has been at full capacity and the students have thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We are really looking forward to next year, when we hope competitive fixtures will return and we can continue the excellent run of our football, rounders, track and field and swim teams. Plans are also in place for the return of our successful Enrichment Day programmes aimed at developing key skills necessary for successful play, workshops to develop understanding of key rules, strategies and tactics and participation in competitive game situations in a variety of sports. Keep your eye out for further details. The PE Champions held a brilliant week, where students from different PE classes competed against one another in a variety of sporting challenges. Despite a challenging year, our PE Champions have been working

hard to be creative and bring the joy of sport to all. They, and some lucky winners of the PE raffle competition have enjoyed a day at New Forest Activity Centre this term – thank you and well done to all! We currently have an exciting opportunity for our current Year 8 students, which was launched on the Year 8 Google Classroom page. We have started the process - slightly early, to recruit our next team of PE Champions. If you are interested in applying, please visit the Google Classroom group or a member of the PE team for all the details. This is a fantastic opportunity and we look forward to seeing who will become a PE Champion 2021- 2022 (really proud to see 7 of the 9 students interviewed for the Senior Student Leadership Team being previous PE Champions). We ran our sporting extravaganza on the last week of term. Each year group had 4 periods off- timetable where they were able to sign up to two of our eight sporting workshops: dodgeball, football, water polo, dance, basketball, superstars, netball and rounders. This was our fourth ‘Sports Day’ variation in 4

years and are very proud of the students and their approach to makes these events a success.

We’d like to take this opportunity to remind parents and students that they should not be wearing hooded tops for PE (or in school). Students should be complying to the school PE uniform policy which can be found on the school website. The PE team wish you a restful and safe summer. We are really looking forward to welcoming you all back and playing sports together again!

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