Fun in the Park 2008 Warminster Town Park is a
wonderful asset for the town. In order for the children of Warminster to
appreciate this resource and use it properly the West Wilts Schools Sport
Partnership, organised a day of activities for the Year 6 children from all the
local primary schools.
Among the activities which all the children took
part in were skate boarding, sum wrestling, golf, tennis, fitness, 'ultimate
frisbee' and using the pedloes on the lake. Most of the sessions were taken by
specialist coaches.
174 children from 9 primary schools attended the day
and had great fun in the Town Park.
The Warminster Primary Schools brought their dance
teams to Kingdown School and presented their dances to each other. The finale
was a dance by Kingdown's 'Wildfire' Dance Group who gave an outstanding
performance.
Updated July 2008
Top Up Swimming
During the latter
part of June, the year 6 children who cannot swim 25 metres have been getting
up early and going to the swimming pool every day before school.
All of
the 15 students who attended Warminster Sports Centre can now swim at least 10
metres. 13 of them can now swim 25 metres or more.
This initiative being
run at all 5 West Wilts pools has been organised by the West Wiltshire School
Sports Partnership based at Kingdown Sports College.
Updated June
2008
Warminster Area Sports
The
Warminster Primary Schools held their annual sports day on Wednesday 25th June.
They had held the field events the previous evening at Kingdown School. Once
again the school had made their facilities available and provided Young
Volunteers to help with the running of the event.
All the races in the
track events were closely fought. The high jump was an excellent competition
with many personal bests and the bar going up to 1 metre 25. There was an
outstanding throw of nearly 50m from Aiden D (Princecroft) in the boys
throwing.
The final results were:
Large Schools Winners = St. Georges RC
Runners up = The Avenue
Small Schools Winners = St. Johns
Runners up = Princecroft and Sutton Veny
Updated June 2008
Warminster Kwik Cricket
Festival - 2008
On Thursday 5th June the Warminster and Westbury
Primary Schools held their Kwik Cricket Festival on Warminster Cricket
Ground.
The club had marked out 8 pitches. 16 schools divided into 4
groups. All the teams played each other to decide who went into the semi
finals. In one group Sambourne and Bitham Brook both won 2 matches, then drew
in their final match. The winner was only decided by counting back the total
number of runs scored in their previous games, which gave victory to
Sambourne.
"Kwick
Cricket slideshow"
In the semi finals Dilton Marsh beat
Sambourne and Princecroft beat Wylye Valley. A very good Princecroft team beat
Dilton Marsh in the final.Both Princecroft and Dilton Marsh now go through to
the County Finals on June 27th.
Updated June 2008
Spirit of
Cricket
6 Warminster schools have received cricket coaching in the
afternoons. On the afternoon of Thursday 22nd May they were able to practise
the skills they had learnt in a carousel of cricket activities organised by Bob
Powell the Cricket Community Coach, ably helped by cricket coaches from
Warminster Cricket Club who hosted the event.
Updated June
2008
Thursday Club
2008
This year 160 years 5 and 6 students from Kingdown feeder
schools have signed up for the Thursday club. They come to Kingdown on
Thursdays after school where they are able to get expert coaching in squash,
trampolining, fencing, skateboarding, archery, modern dance, tennis, girls
football and tri golf which are sports that they would not normally get the
chance to try in their Primary Schools.
Updated June 2008
Kingdown e-on Festival 2008
All the Secondary Schools in
the Partnership held e-on festivals for year 4 or year 3 and 4 pupils from
their feeder schools.
In Warminster the Young Volunteers organised a
festival of activities and games on Warminster Highbury Youth football ground
for 60 children from St. Johns and St. Georges schools. Afterwards every
student received a medal and certificate for taking part. Everyone thoroughly
enjoyed a great day of sport.
Warminster & Westbury
Primary Schools Football Tournament
On Saturday 1st March the Warminster
and Westbury schools held their annual 6-a-side Football Tournament at
Warminster Highbury Boys football ground. This year due to other commitments
only 6 teams were able to take part. The tournament ran as a league with all
teams playing each other.
Most of the matches were very close, however
at the end Newclose School, who were last year's winners, just over took their
close neighbours the Avenue School by a single point to take the trophy.
Alan Chapman, the Lions President, presented the Lions Cup and medals
to the winners and runners up.
Alan
Chapman with winners Newclose School
Alan Chapman
with runners up Avenue School
Updated March 2008
Primary Hi 5's Netball
Tournament
On Wednesday 30th January 8 netball teams from 5 primary schools
held their annual netball tournament at Kingdown School. Kingdown Young
Volunteers organised and run the event.
The 8 teams all played each
other in a league to decide the winners. Sambourne A team were the eventual
winners with Princecroft second and Heytesbury third. There were excellent
performances from St. Georges and Avenue Schools who have just started
netball.
On Friday 8th February students from
Kingdown and Matravers attended the TOP LINK conference at Bath University with
students from Partnerships all over the South West.
They were given
training on how to run a festival and shown the skills needed to make a
festival successful. These students are now planning their own
festivals.
On Monday 28th
January 8 Teams finished off the Warminster Primary Schools leagues with a
tournament on Kingdown's astro turf. Young Leaders from Kingdown organised and
refereed all the matches.
Teams were divided into 2 pools of 4 where
they all played each other. The winners and runners up then went on to the
semi-finals. In the first semi-final Princecroft beat Avenue 2-1 and in the
other semi-final St. Georges beat Sutton Veny 3-1.
The final produced a
match of two halves, Princecroft dominated the first half and scored 2 goals in
the second half, St. Georges came back playing some lovely football and scored
a goal but were unable to breech the Princecroft defence and get an
equaliser.
Princecroft now go on to represent
the Warminster Schools next Monday when they will play the winners of the
leagues in the other West Wiltshire towns.
Updated January 2008
Warminster Schools Tag Tails
Festival
On Saturday 24th November the Warminster Primary
Schools held their annual Tag Rugby Festival. This year there were 9 teams
entered
The teams were put in pools of 3 where everyone played each
other. The 3 winning teams which were Minster, Newclose and Sambourne went into
the gold pool, the 3 second placed teams, went into the silver pool which were
Crockerton A, Horningsham and Crockerton B and the 3 third place teams,
Heytesbury, Avenue and Wylye Valley went into the bronze pool. Every team had 4
matches. The 2 top teams, Sambourne and Newclose from the gold pool were in the
final which hopefully would be a showcase for tag rugby.
What an
excellent nail-biting game it turned out to be.
Updated Noverber
2007
"Tag
Tails slideshow"
Tag Rugby Course
A
foggy November evening didn't put off Students from St. Augustines and
Kingdown, teachers and club coaches all attended a tag rugby course run by Alan
Low, the Community Rugby Coach at Kingdown School on Monday 26th November.
Updated November 2007
Play moved with great speed from one end to
the other in a very even game. The score with a minute to go was 6 all, then
just at the end Newclose scored the vital try to just pip an excellent
Sambourne team.
The Warminster Lions Roy Self cup was presented by Peter
Self who had travelled down from Bristol especially to present this trophy
which was given by the Lions in memory of his father.
Updated Nov
2007
Football Course On Friday
16th November, teachers, adults who help with football clubs and 6th form
students attended a course at Kingdown School. The course was run by Chris
Taylor who gave lots of ideas about running an after school football club. As
the course was run from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. they were able to use the floodlit
astroturf.
Updated November 2007
Hi 5's
Netball Course On Friday 9th November, teachers from all over the
West Wilts SSP attended a High 5 netball course at Kingdown
School.
Updated November 2007
Sainsbury's 7-a-side Football
Tournament
Whilst John of
Gaunt and Clarendon hosted the 6-a-side football tournaments, Kingdown played
its part by holding the Sainsbuys 7-a-side (mixed) football for larger schools
@ Kingdownon 15th October.
A fabulous tournament engaging students
across the partnership. Well done everyone.
During the latter
part of June, the year 6 children who cannot swim 25 metres have been getting
up early and going to the swimming pool every day before school.
6 Warminster schools have received cricket coaching in the
afternoons. On the afternoon of Thursday 22nd May they were able to practise
the skills they had learnt in a carousel of cricket activities organised by Bob
Powell the Cricket Community Coach, ably helped by cricket coaches from
Warminster Cricket Club who hosted the event.
On Wednesday 30th January 8 netball teams from 5 primary schools
held their annual netball tournament at Kingdown School. Kingdown Young
Volunteers organised and run the event.
On Friday 8th February students from
Kingdown and Matravers attended the TOP LINK conference at Bath University with
students from Partnerships all over the South West. 
On Monday 28th
January 8 Teams finished off the Warminster Primary Schools leagues with a
tournament on Kingdown's astro turf. Young Leaders from Kingdown organised and
refereed all the matches.
Hi 5's
Netball Course
Whilst John of
Gaunt and Clarendon hosted the 6-a-side football tournaments, Kingdown played
its part by holding the Sainsbuys 7-a-side (mixed) football for larger schools
@ Kingdownon 15th October.