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In this newsletter you can read in more detail the work that DSSN Member Schools

have been doing this term. You will also find enclosed details of our School Games

Competitions and some information from our sponsors. Thank you for all of your

hard work this year and farewell to those that are moving onto new schools.

Have a relaxing summer holiday

and I look forward to working

with you all again in the new

academic year.

Clare

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Dacorum School Sports Network Newsletter

Volume 4 Issue 3 Summer 2015

www.dacorumschoolsportsnetwork.co.uk — @DSSN42

DSSN Awards 2015

Another successful celebration of achievements occurred on Friday 10th July 2015. Nominations came in from 7 different schools, across

the 22 categories. This year was the toughest yet to decide on the winners and the committee really struggled across some of the catego-

ries. We had the pleasure of listening to Laura Turner GB Sprinter, who also handed out certificates and trophies. As always Gemma Roake

supported the evening as a representative from Sportspace—DSSN’s main sponsor. The winners for each category are listed below. Lets

hope next year we get more nominations across a broader range of schools.

‘DELIVERING THE DREAM’

Category Winner Category Winner

KS1 Sports Achiever Stanley Heritage—

Leverstock Green

Lower KS 2 Team of

the year

Chambersbury Year 4

Sports Team

Lower KS 2 Sports

Achiever

Archie Robers—

Chambersbury

Upper KS2 Team of the

year

The Reddings Tri Golf

Team

Upper KS2 Sports

Achiever

Emma Walker—

Bridgewater

Services to PE and

Sport

Gary Macey—St Marys

Mainstream Disabled

Sports Achiever

Henry Heritage—

Leverstock Green

DSSN Award George Street

Elite Performer Mia O’Brien—St Pauls Sainsburys School

Games

The Reddings

Change 4 Life St Pauls C of E VA Determination Zak Fennessey—

Bridgewater

Play Leader Oliver Stone—Chaulden

Jnr

Passion Joe Stocks—Chaulden

Jnr

Bronze Ambassador Archie & Martha—St

Pauls

Honesty Harrison Stephens—

Chambersbury

School Sport Coach Clare Porter—

Leverstock Green

Self Belief Daisy Laing—

Bridgewater

School Sports Organis-

ing Crew

St Pauls C of E VA Respect Jamie Suchodolski—

Bridgewater

KS1 Team of the year Leverstock Green Gym-

nastics

Teamwork Kerri French—

Chambersbury

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Foundation Stage Mini Olympics

Once again this year we celebrated the legacy of the

Olympics with Foundation Stage pupils at both Hemel

Hempstead and Berkhamsted Sportspace on 19th June and

30th June respectively. The opening ceremony saw each

school wave their school flags and repeat the DSSN chant

as well as a visit from the Dacorum Dragon.

22 different schools took part in the 3 events and the top

3 were awarded Bronze, Silver and Gold certificates. Well

done to all who took part and a massive thank you to all the

leaders that helped out.

Partnership Competitions & News (cont.) Network Events Summer 2015

KS1 Mini Olympics

On 4th June at Berkhamsted Sportspace

and 29th June at Hemel Hempstead

Sportpace a total of 480 pupils took part

in the KS1 Mini Olympics. The Dacorum

Dragon was present for the opening and

closing ceremonies, helping pupils to say

the DSSN chant and to celebrate the

Country they were representing.

Events included, Javelin, Space Hoppers,

Football Goal scoring, quiot throwing and

many more. Pupils who came 1st 2nd and

3rd were given Gold ,Silver and Bronze

Certificates to celebrate their achieve-

ments. Thank you to all of the leaders who

helped out at the 3 events.

Year 3 / 4 Mini Olympics

On 23rd June 9 teams descended on Cavendish to

take part in the year 3 or 4 mini Olympics . Each

class split into teams and took part in Football, High

Five, Mini Tennis, Boccia and Athletics. Bronze

Silver and Gold certificates were awarded for each

activity and an overall school total decided who

went home with the Bronze Silver and Gold medals.

Greenway were crowned winners with Kings Langley

in 2nd place and Chambersbury 3rd. Thank you to

Cavendish and their

leaders for allowing

us to use their fa-

cilities.

Year 5 Mini Olympics

The year 5 Olympics was held on 7th July 2015 at

The Cavendish School. Teams took part in Tennis,

Athletics, Table Tennis, Boccia and Basketball. The

opening ceremony saw schools celebrate the country

they were representing and all joined in reciting the

DSSN chant. Congratulations to Kings Langley who

won the overall event with Greenway in 2nd place.

Thank you aslo to Cavendish and their leaders for

making the event possible.


Rounders

This years Rounders league was entered by 12 teams.

3 pools were created with teams expected to play their

games before the Rounders tournament that took place

on Monday 10th July.

Congratulations to Bovingdon, The Reddings, and

Belswains for winning their leagues.

As mentioned the Rounders Tournament took place on

Monday 10th July at The Cavendish School. The rain

was not going to stop play and we moved onto the astro

turf to complete the tournament. 3 pools were organ-

ised with the winners of each pool plus the highest

rounder scoring runner up went through to the semi

finals. The final was a close fought game between

Bridgewater and Kings Langley with Kings Langley being

victorious by 1/2 a rounder. Well done to all who took

part and to all the parents for abiding by the fair play

charter.

Partnership Competitions & News (cont.) Network Events Summer 2015

Tri Golf

On Tuesday 19th May, Wednesday 20th

May and Friday 22nd May Ashlyns,

Cavendish and Longdean hosted the Year

3 Tri golf festival for 12 different

schools. Pupils worked as a

team at 8 different

stations showing off their putting and chipping skills.

Scores were collated at the end of the week and

Hobletts Manor Junior were awarded Dacorum

champions for 2015. Well done to all who took part.

Netball Tournament

This years netball tournament took place at The Cav-

endish School on Friday 8th May 2015. 20 teams took

part in 4 different pools to find the overall Dacorum

champion. Thankfully heavy rain held off this year and

the girls were able to

play some good net-

ball.

The final between

Bovingdon and Holts-

mere End Junior was a

close context. After

normal time the two

teams were drawn, so

extra time was played.

At the end of this they

were still drawn, so we

had to play the golden

goal rule. Bovingdon

were crowned overall

Dacorum champions for

2015.

Well done to all teams

for taking part this

year.

Speed Stacking

On Tuesday 12th May Bridgewater

and Cavendish played host to the

Year 4 Speed Stacking

Competition with Longdean

hosting on Wednesday 13th.

Only 8 teams took part in this

years competition competing

against each other in the 3-3-3

and 3-6-3 competition to find

the Dacorum champion to

represent us at the Herts

School Games finals in June.

The times from across the 3

venues were compared and

Kings Langley Primary were

crowned Dacorum champions

for 2015. Thank you to

Ashlyns, Cavendish and

Longdean for supplying the

leaders for the events.

Well don't to all who took part.

Saracens Year 3/4 Festival

On 7th May 2015 650 pupils from years 3 & 4 descended on Camelot

Rugby Club for the annual tournament supported by The

Saracens Foundation. Schools

had some training in the

morning delivered by coaches

from Saracens and leaders

from Kings Langley School.

The afternoon then saw two

competitions take place one

for year 3 and one for year 4.

After lots of matches, St

Thomas More were crowned

year 3 winners and South Hill

won the year 4 tournament.

Well done to all who took part

and a special thank you to

Kings Langley leaders and

Saracens for making the

event possible.


Jessica Stretton is selected for the GB Paralympic Team

Longdean School Year 10 student Jessica Stretton has been selected by Ar-

chery GB to represent Great Britain at the up and coming Dutch Paralympic In-

ternational tournament.

Jessica, who is just 15 years of age, suffers from cerebral palsy but has always

had a strong desire to be involved as many sports as possible. She started ar-

chery just 18 months ago and has since then has been on a whirlwind journey,

which included winning her first gold medal for Great Britain last year.

She recently took part in a selection shoot for the full GB team. This took place

in poor weather conditions with wind and rain but Jessica performed excellently

and was successful in her bid for a place.

Jessica will, therefore, this month travel with the squad to Holland for her full

international debut. She hopes that this will be the start of her journey to the

Partnership Competitions & News (cont.) Network Celebrating Success 2015

Epic Easter themed multi skills event: A great suc-

cess!

After the success of our yr3-4 Christmas themed

Multi Skills festival, delivered by Archie McFadyen

and Martha Woollett (the St. Pauls Bronze Ambassa-

dors) and some yr6 leaders, the decision was easy

when we were asked if we wanted to run an Easter

themed event for all of ks1.

We planned and organised 6 ‘egg-citing’ events includ-

ing bunny bounce and catch the egg which all the chil-

dren really enjoyed.

“You spoke really clearly and made it really interest-

ing,” said Eowyn in Year 1.

We learnt a lot about leadership and important values

from our last festival and tried to use all of these

things in the event.

Our team of yr6 helpers helped us to spot children

who showed values such as: Passion, Respect and Hon-

esty. It was challenging but we managed to do it! Soon

we will be giving out our Easter themed prizes in as-

sembly but it will be really hard to choose because

everyone’s a winner!

Reported by Martha Woollett, St Pauls

AfPE and SLUK Level 5 PE Subject Leader Qualification

Congratulations to our first cohort of delegates for achieving the Level 5 certificate in Primary PE Subject Specialism. They attended 6

training days and completed tasks in order to achieve the qualification. Some have now gone onto complete the Level 6.

A celebration evening was held in May at Herts Sports Village where Sue Wilkinson from AfPE came and handed out the certificates to del-

egates whilst some of their Head teachers watched and celebrated with them. Well done to all of you.

WANTED

School Sports Apprentice

DSSN is looking for sports apprentices to support the delivery of PE and

school sport within Dacorum Primary Schools. The role will begin in

September 2015.

The apprentice will:

be based in a primary school (4 days/ week)

work for DSSN (1 day/week)

earn approximately £5100/year

receive a NVQ- Activity Leadership level 2 qualification

be aged 16-21 and not in full time education

The apprentice should:

Have some leadership experience

Have good organisational skills

Be self-motivated and able to use their initiative

Want to inspire others.

If all of the above sounds like a career for you please contact

Clare McCawley on 01442 278737 or via e-mail to:

[email protected] for more details and an

application form.

Closing date 31st August 2015


From our sponsors


A Celebration of Young People

Teachers from various schools were asked to write about some of the achievements of selected pupils in their

schools, using a tag line—Are you MAD (making a difference)?

Nash Mills

‘Trained as a play leader and thrived

at this. Better communications skills’

Leverstock Green ‘Has represented the school in vari-

ous mainstream sports’, ‘attended

talent ID for Hertfordshire Disabil-

ity Sport

Pixies Hill

‘Good Team Work, Self Esteem and

Focus in Girls Football Team’

Aycliffe

Drive

‘Enthusiastic during athletics

lessons—doesn't morning do

clubs. Is no attending athletics

club and has gained confidence Holtsmere End Infants

‘Involved in the Change 4 Life pro-

gramme’

Holtsmere End

Juniors ‘Has started a lunchtime

club for netball with

year 3’s’

‘Always been sporty, but

now plays sport outside

school for various teams’

St Mary’s ‘Never took part in PE’

‘Now regularly asks about PE and

says ‘I like PE’

St Paul’s, Chipperfield

‘In year 5, had low self esteem, and behaviour-

al issues’

‘Became a bronze ambassador, increased confi-

dence, helps in playground’

‘Participates in many sports teams’

Bridgewater ‘Good Runner and enjoys it’

‘Participated with confidence in inter-house cross coun-

try’ Hobletts Infants ‘New to the school—quite shy and

lacks confidence’

‘Looking into doing boxing’

‘Parents more positive since sport

clubs started’ Bovingdon Academy

‘Represented school in Yr 5/6 Rugby,

Yr 6 Kwik Cricket and Yr 6 Football’

‘Plays cricket with Bovingdon Cricket

club Chambersbury ‘Involved in many after

school clubs’

‘Has developed social skills

and is now socially active’

‘Involved in multiple sports

festivals throughout

school

Hemel Stags

‘Joined Community

Club’

‘Regularly attends

training outside

school’

George Street

‘Talks regularly in assembly about

sports’

‘Organises and runs activities’

‘Is a Sports Ambassador’

‘Overcome behaviour issues’

Nash Mills ‘Struggled with confidence and had

low self esteem’ ‘Came out of his shell’ ‘Enthusiastic about playing’ ‘Member of a rugby club


Mini Tennis Red

8 schools took to the courts at Leverstock Green

Tennis Club to find the district winner. With 2

boys and 2 girls scoring points for their school, it

was a great day out in the sun. The day ended

with a final between Bridgewater and Greenway,

with Greenway winning all their games in the final.

Mixed Kwik Cricket

10 schools took part in the mixed kwik cricket at

Leverstock Green Cricket Club.

Although a windy day, there

were lots of happy faces about

the place. The final was a very

close game, with only 3 runs

difference between

Bridgewater and Leverstock

Green. Leverstock Green were

crowned district champions.

Girls Kwik Cricket

It was a very sunny day down at

Hemel Hempstead Cricket Club

for the girl’s kwik cricket with 5

teams playing in a round robin.

After winning all their games,

Leverstock Green won overall

and became district champions.

Here is a round up of the summer School Games events.

It was an eventful summer term, and I am pleased so many young people took part in these events.

Key Steps KS1 and KS2

Having gone through to the final without a competition in the past two years,

Leverstock Green finally had some competition. However, due to unforeseen

circumstances, the other schools dropped out, and Leverstock Green

automatically qualify for the Final and are crowned district champions once

again.

Dacorum School Games Level 2 Summer Term 2015

Tri Golf

Kicking off the summer term with MU11 tri

golf. Hosted by Cavendish school; Leverstock

Green, St Paul’s and Reddings

Primary school battled it out to

find the district winner. With a

massive 1000 points difference,

Reddings Primary were crowned

district winners and will repre-

sent Dacorum at the School

Games Final.

Quicksticks

On a very warm and sunny Monday afternoon, 7 schools took to the Cavendish

Astro pitch to play against each other to claim district champion for

quicksticks. After the pools played the final commenced with Belswains

taking on Bridgewater. Both teams played tremendously well, but it was

Bridgewater who won.


The school games final took place over a few days and at several different venues.

The Speed Stacking, High Five, Mini Tennis, Key Steps and Rugby were all at Wodson Park on the 25th June. On the same

day, the Tri golf took place at the Letchworth Golf Club and the Mixed Kwik Cricket took place at the Hertford Cricket

Club. The Trampolining final took places at Queens School on the 29th June and the Girls Kwik Cricket took place on the

1st July over at Welwyn Garden City Cricket Club. The quicksticks final took place on the 30th June at Oaklands College.

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to all teachers/parents who ensured that all participants were at their correct venues.

The Dacorum Dragon made his way round to see all the different teams participating at Wodson park, and on the way

round, many different teams from the county wanted to take a picture with him. He was almightily pleased with all the

attention.

The results of each sport are as follows:

School Games Finals

2 3 3

DRAFT CALENDAR DATES

DSSN SCHOOL GAMES

16th September—Peer Leaders 3rd & 4th September—Sainsburys School Games Level 4

18th September—Bolt on Day for 14-19 6th October—U11 Table Tennis

24th September—Young Ambassadors Conference 7th October—U13 Table Tennis

October—Football, Netball and Year 4 Rugby Leagues Start 8th October—U16 Table Tennis

5th October—Year 1 inter School at Hemel Sportspace TBC—SEND Table Tennis

9th October—Bronze Ambassadors and Health Leaders 10th November—U14 Badminton

15th October—Change 4 Life Festival 11th November—U16 Badminton

19th October—SEND TID Day 16th November—MU11 Basketball

Week Commencing 19th October—Cross Country 17th November— GU12 Basketball

November dates to follow 18th November—GU14 Basketball

Sport School Position

Speed Stacking Kings Langley Primary 10th

High Five Bridgewater 9th

Mini Tennis Greenway TBC

Mixed Kwik Cricket Leverstock Green 5th

Girls Kwik Cricket Leverstock Green 3rd in group

Tri Golf The Reddings 6th

Quicksticks Bridgewater 10th

Key Steps KS1 Leverstock Green 8th

Key Steps KS2 Leverstock Green 6th

Rugby U11 Bridgewater TBC

Rugby U11 Saint Cuthbert Mayne TBC

Rugby U13 Kings Langley TBC

Trampoline Next Steps 1 Hemel Hempstead TBC

Trampoline Next Steps 2 Cavendish TBC

Trampoline Next Steps 3 Ashlyns TBC

Trampoline Elite Kings Langley 1st and 2nd


Dacorum School Sports Network

TWO WATERS

DACORUM SCHOOL SPORT NETWORK 2014-2015

DSSN

TUDOR

YEW TREE

HOLTSMERE END JUNIOR

MAPLE GROVE

MICKLEM

GEORGE STREET

GALLEY HILL

GADE

VALLEY

BOXMOOR

COLLETT

SOUTH HILL

WOODFIELD

CHAMBERSBURY

LEVERSTOCK GREEN

GREAT

GADDESDEN

ST PAULS CHIPPERFIELD

ST ALBERT

THE GREAT

ST THOMAS MORE

ST ROSE’S

ST CUTHBERT

MAYNE

NASH MILLS

CHAULDEN JUNIORS

PIXIES

HILL

VICTORIA

INFANT WESTFIELD

POTTEN END

GREENWAY

GADDESDON ROW

REDDINGS

LIME WALK

BROCKSWOOD

HOBBS HILL WOOD

LONGDEAN

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD

ASHLYNS

CAVENDISH

JFK

ASTLEY COOPER ADEYFIELD

ST MARYS

KINGS LANGLEY

KINGS

LANGLEY

BELSWAINS

BOVINGDON ACADEMY

AYCLIFFE

DRIVE

HOBLETS MANOR

INFANTS

HOBLETS

MANOR JUNIORS

HOLTSMERE

END INFANTS

LITTLE

GADDESDEN

THOMAS

CORAM

BRIDGEWATER

BISHOP WOOD

HAMMOND ACADEMY

BROADFIELD

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Clare McCawley

Dacorum School Sports Manager

The Cavendish School

Warners End Road

Hemel Hempstead

Herts

HP1 3DW

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