Hertfordshire School Sports Partnership

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A10 SCHOOL SPORT PARTNERSHIP

ENEWSLETTER

ISSUE 17 END OF SPRING TERM.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter and look forward to working with you all once again next term.

Activemark/Sportsmark

Those schools that were awarded either Activemark or Sportsmark should now have received their certificates, if for any reason your school has not please contact Jayne Jarvis.

Sports Academies

The SSP has now set up 4 academies; Netball, Girls Football, Canoe and athletics, thank you to all those schools who have sent pupils, however, we still need to encourage more schools to send pupils. We are hoping to run these academies plus more next year so watch this space. If anyone has any comments please feedback to your SSCo's.

Dates for next term

Monday 20^th April 2009 - Athletics Academy starts

Monday 20^th April 2009 - Heads of PE meeting

Wednesday 22^nd April 2009 - Young Netball Umpires Course starts

Wednesday 29^th April 2009 - TOP Outdoors Course

Thursday 30^th April 2009 - County PE conference (secondary)

Friday 1^st May 2009 - Primary Hockey Festival

Friday 6^th May 2009 - ASCO/Primary Netball League starts

Saturday 9^th and Sunday 10^th May 2009 - Herts Youth Games

Thursday 14^th May 2009 - TOP Link Festival

Monday 18^th May 2009 - Aquasplash Festival

Wednesday 20^th May 2009 - Aquasplash Festival

HALF TERM

Wednesday 3^rd June - Primary Crickets Heats

Thursday 4^th June 2009 - PLT Training Day. PESSCL collection and planning day.

Thursday 9^th June 2009 - Disability Talent Day

Thursday 11^th June 2009 - Primary Cricket Final

Wednesday 24^th June 2009 - PESSCL SURVEY DEADLINE

Friday 26^th June 2009 - Primary Gifted and Talented Day

Monday 29^th June to Friday 3^rd July 2009 - National Sports Week

PLEASE REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL http://www.schoolsportweek.org/

Monday 13^th July 2009 - Secondary Gifted and Talented Day

Wednesday 22^nd July to Friday 24^th July 2009 - Gifted and Talented Camp

Monday 27^th July to Friday 31^st July 2009 - Multi Sports Camp

More info will follow with regards to the dates above. Details still to confirm for;

Year 3 Football Tournament

Primary Sports Ambassadors Meeting

Leadership Academy

RLSS Reach and Rescue course

Website

Please remember our website, still in working progress! The address is: www.hertsssco.co.uk. Please take a look we would welcome any comments you have. We will be placing reports; entry forms templates etc on this site.

BIG Lottery

Just a reminder for your allocations with regards to the BIG Lottery Projects:

Primary Schools

8 weeks dance

8 weeks tri golf

8 weeks yoga bugs

8 weeks speed stacks

Secondary Schools

8 weeks dance

8 weeks extreme golf

Please remember to complete all monitoring forms this is a requirement of the funding. All pupils that attend 8 weeks of any BIG lottery projects will receive a t-shirt, please speak to your instructor or SSCo to arrange delivery of shirts for your pupils.

If you have not arranged delivery of these clubs please speak to your SSCo to arrange the setting up of these sessions. We are now in the position to be able to provide instructors for all of these clubs.

We still have 3 more projects to set up; Team Challenge and Row/Dance Challenge (secondary schools) and Mini Gym (Primary Schools) - this information will follow after Easter.

Coaching Funding Update

Please remember is you have had any additional funding for coaching for school teams etc, we require details of numbers etc, your SSCo will contact you for this information. Please remember that if you require additional support with training/coaching any of your school teams please speak to your SSCo to see if the SSP would be able to support your school.

Livewire Projects

A funding application has been submitted and the SSP is a waiting to see if the projects bid for will be successful.

HYG's

A BIG thank you to all those schools who have sent pupils for the Herts youth Games Trials, this year the SSP is assisting with the following teams; Basketball, Sportshall athletics, Aquathlon, Netball, Hockey and Tag Rugby.

2009/2010

The SSP is starting to plan for 2009/2010. If anyone has any comments or any areas schools would particularly like to see developed please could this be discussed with their SSCo or Jayne Jarvis.

CONTRACT

Many schools have asked for a contract/service level agreement with regards to coaches employed or arranged by the A10 SSP. This has now been put together and will be sent to all Headteachers by the end of this term. These agreements will need to be signed and returned to Jayne Jarvis by no later than Friday 1^st May 2009. If schools have any queries with regards to this please contact Jayne.

KS1 Multi Skills

If you have organised this within school and have now completed the first round please can you send them into Holly ASAP. If you require any help with this project or require further information please contact Holly.

Saracens EDF Project

The following schools have been chosen to take part in the Saracens EDF Tag rugby Project and will have a 5 week programme of delivery within their school including a teacher inset:

Bonneygrove, Flamstead End, Hurst Drive, Four Swannes and Holy Trinity will all run from w/c 20^th April for 5 weeks (missing a week for SATS week). Then Dewhurst St Mary's, Westfield, Andrews Lane, Ponsbourne and Longlands will all run for 5 weeks from 8^th June.

If you are one of these schools and have still not received information please contact Jayne Jarvis

London 2012

Register your school on the London 2012 getset website there are fantastic resources for all your schools to download the web address is:www.london2012.com/getset

Name

School Base

Responsibility

Contact number

Email

Jayne Jarvis

Turnford

Partnership Development

Manager

01992 308333

07875 709172

jaynejarvispdm@yahoo.com