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SPSSA Newsletter #4

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Fifa World Cup 2022 kicks off!!

                        Friday 25th November 2022

                                                                                                                  Newsletter #4

Football, Dodgeball, Panathlon, Southend City Awards, Goalball, Football finals, more Dodegball, Eco Youth board applications and the World Cup 2022!!

It's been a busy 3 weeks in the Southend sports partnership. 

We have been celebrating our 6 school games values within our competitions and have been awarding pupils with medals when we or another school's member of staff has noticed a value being achieved at one of our events.  

The 6 school games values are: 

You may notice your child/pupil coming home with one of our medals in recognition of their achievements, please do ask them what they did to receive their medal. 

A big thank you to our committed and supportive schools who enable their staff and pupils to participate in as many sporting opportunities as possible. 

On behalf of the SPSSA we strive to offer as many sporting opportunities to the young people in Southend. So children can represent their schools and to enable them to develop a passion for sport and physical activity. 

Boys Football competitions:       

Our Boys football tournament is underway, with our emerging year 5 and 6 competition taking part on Friday 11th November at the Len Forge centre with 12 schools participating. 

The Emerging competitions are for schools who have pupils who perhaps don't play football outside of school, only have 1 player who plays outside of school  or schools who have more than 1 team. 

Our winning schools who went through to the main tournament on Friday 18th November were:

Joint winners: 

St Helens and Prince Avenue, 

Joint 3rd place:

St Marys and Eastwood 

Local football clubs

We like to provide community exit routes for our young people to follow on from the sports that they participate in. Local football clubs:

Leigh Ramblers FC | Supporting Grassroots Football & the Community

https://ekcowhitecapsfc.teamapp.com/

*In Southend we are very lucky and have many opportunities to join local football clubs. These are just two examples should you wish to join a club. 

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Essex Girls football Finals:

It was a wet day for our Southend schools at the Essex girls football finals on Tuesday 15th November At Melbourne Park in Chelmsford.  

Congratulations to both Bournes Green and Leigh North Street for getting through to the competition. 

Well done to Bournes Green for finishing a superb 2nd place. 

Year 5 & 6 Boys Football Competition

We held our boy's competition at Len Forge on Friday 18th November with the winners and runners-up playing in the Essex finals on the following Tuesday 22nd November. 

16 schools participated in some very close games.

The day ended in a nail-biting situation after extra time followed by penalties to decide the 2nd and 3rd place positions. 

Final standings:

1st Fairways 

2nd West Leigh 

3rd Temple Sutton 

 

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Well done to both West Leigh (above) and Fairways (right) who competed in the Essex football finals at Chelmsford on Tuesday 22nd November. Both teams finished 2nd in the groups but only the group winners went through to the next round. A great afternoon of football was had by all. `

              Well done boys!

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Goalball:

Goalball is a visually impaired sport, pupils use a bell ball to listen to the direction of the ball. The game is played in absolute silence with only the ball making a sound. Pupils roll and throw the ball into the opponent's goal line. 
Line markers are used to signify the court and to help guide pupils the direction in which they are in using arrows on the floor. 

This competition is always a big hit for our schools and everyone enjoys the quietness of the game. 

1st Chalkwell Hall

2nd Milton Hall

3rd Bournemouth Park Academy 

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive & Dodge

Key Stage 1:

We added a new event to our very busy sports calendar in the form of KS1 Dodgeball. 

Dodgeball is a firm favourite with our KS2 pupils so to offer it to KS1 this year has enabled us to inspire even more pupils at a younger age. 

Well done to the 8 primary schools who joined us at Garons on the morning of Wednesday 16th November. 

  • Richmond Avenue
  • Porters Grange
  • Temple Sutton
  • Bournemouth Park Academy
  • Our Lady of Lourdes
  • Thorpe Hall
  • West Leigh Infants
  • Heycroft

Gold-West Leigh Infants

Silver-Thorpe Hall

Bronze-Our Lady of Lourdes

West Leigh Infants

Years 3/4: 

There were some very close games in the year 3 and 4 competition. We had our largest number of schools in attendance this year with 20 schools in participating. The sportshall was certainly buzzing during game play. The semi-finals and the finals were very close. 

Thank you to our sports leaders from South East college who were assisting during matches. 

Gold- Our Lady of Lourdes 

Silver- Milton Hall

Bronze- Greenways 

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Panathlon             

On Thursday 10th November 4 of our schools were invited to a special swimming gala held at The Aquatic centre in Stratford. The gala was run by Panathlon and they had support from the swimming brand Speedo who had members of the team who had flown in specifically in celebration of the competition from as far as New Zealand, Hong Kong and America. 

Our schools in attendance representing Southend were; West Leigh, Darlinghurst, Richmond and Hinguar. 

The gala was run specifically for pupils with SEN and disabilities to build their confidence in the water and enjoy competing against other schools in fun swimming activities. 

The Aquatic centre is an iconic venue and was during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The children were lucky enough to have met some of Britain's Diving Commonwealth and European medallists as well as watching them practising their diving skills. 

 

                                                            

 

We look forward to hearing all about the next Panathlon event running on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th November with even more of our schools in attendance.                                     Good Luck!

more information on Panathlon can be found: 

Panathlon Challenge | Competitive Sport for Disabled & SEN Chilldren

Families challenged to get active during FIFA World Cup with #HalfTimeChallenge

Children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust wants to support more young people to ‘Bend it like Bale’, ‘shoot like super Jack’ and ‘back-heel like Russo’ in a drive to reduce sedentary behaviour this winter and get more families up and active whilst enjoying the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

During the 2022 tournament, the Youth Sport Trust will release three fun football-based video challenges via its social media channels for families to complete, starting on 21 November. 

The videos will test families football skills with challenges like nearest to the pin, ‘keepy uppies’ and dribbling accuracy. Young people’s creativity is also being encouraged as the charity will share free downloadable design your own ‘team, ball and kit’ templates. 

The #HalfTimeChallenge videos will be released on the below dates: 

  • The first on 21 November when the Home Countries play their first matches 
  • The second on 3 December when the knock-out stages begin 
  • The third on 13 December – the day of the semi-finals 

At each stage families can upload photos and videos of themselves participating in the challenges, using the hashtag #HalfTimeChallenge and tagging @YouthSportTrust for a chance to win one of three Adidas Al Rihla footballs. The official match ball of FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. 

Find out more and get ready to take part youthsporttrust.org/HalfTimeChallenge

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Southend City Activity Awards evening

It was pleasure to celebrate the achievements of our Key Stage 1 school of the year West Leigh Infants and our Key Stage 2 school of the year Thorpe Hall on Friday 11th November at the Civic Centre. They were our winners from last academic year 2021-2022. 

Follow us: 

Keep up to date with competitions/ news and photos via our twitter handles 

@SouthendWestSSP                         @SouthendSSP               www.spssa.co.uk

Competitions/events coming up:

30/11/22 Boccia AM

                 Kurling PM

1/12/22 Basketball Finals AM

7/12/22 Handball

5th-12th/12/22  Santa Dash 

ECO Youth Board applications OPEN

Our applications to become part of our first ever Eco Youth members group is now open. 

Pupils from Years 4-6 can apply to become a member. 

Members will represent their school and will help the sports partnership become more Eco Friendly and sustainable. They will help us create ideas/visions in ways that we can work collaboratively for the benefit of our city and our planet. You will be the pupil voice on behalf of your school.

 

Deadline for applications is Friday 9th December 2022.

Applications can be found via your PE teachers or by emailing Kfitzgibbon@eastwood.southend.sch.uk

Winter HAF Programme 

HAF (Holiday Activity, Food) Holiday provision is available for children from ages 4-11 who receive benefits related free school meals. 

Here are 2 programmes that you can sign your pupils up to for FREE.

See details below for bookings. 

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World Cup 2022                                 

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ will be played from 20 November to 18 December. 32 teams will compete across 64 matches in the 22nd edition of the tournament. 

Good Luck England in your next game: "Footballs coming home......"

England V USA                                FRIDAY 25th NOVEMBER @ 7PM

Dodgeball Fun for years 5 &6

There was even more dodging and dipping in the year 5 and 6 festival and competition on Wednesday 23rd November. 

We had 13 schools participating in the festival followed by a further 14 in the afternoon for the main competition.

The final games were very close, with final positions:

1st Darlinghurst

2nd Prince Avenue

3rd Earls Hall 

Darlinghurst managed to retain their tittle for a second year in a row. 

A big THANK YOU to the sports leaders from Cecil Jones high school who came to support the schools and helped field their balls that went off court.

Here they are awarding  some of our medal winners:

 

ELF visits! 

As we approach December we are looking forward to the return of our friendly elf. The elf will be visiting some of our schools between 5th-12th December in support of the Daily Mile. Keep up those laps and those smiles whilst buddy the elf pops along-perhaps he'll join you along the way!!!