2010 Gymnastics Competition The partnership held its annual Gymnastics competition 28th April. Over 50 students participated as "Advanced" gymnasts and over 80 as beginners from 22 schools across the partnership. Special thanks to pupils from Clarendon & St Laurance schools for coaching, to Lisa Baines for organising the judges and trampoline, Jacqui Dufosee & Trish Ritchie for keeping the scores. Individual student results may be downloaded from the secure staff area.

Team Winners

Beginners Winners

Advanced Winners

Elite Winners

Table below shows school results.

	Score	Pos		Score	Pos		Score	Pos
Fitzmaurice Red	107.95	1	Fitzmaurice Blue	102.7	8	Paxcroft A	98.05	15
Sambourne A	107.3	2	St Johns	102.05	9	Paxcroft B	98	16
Christchurch	106.1	3	Minster A	101.35	10	Winsley B	98	17
Princecroft	106	4	St Georges B	100.95	11	West Ashton	97.45	18
Hilperton	105.55	5	Long Meadow	100.3	12	Kings Park B	95.6	19
Winsley A	105.2	6	Minster B	99.55	13	Grove	91.25	20
St Georges A	104	7	Kings Park A	98.45	14	Bowerhill	87.85	21
						Sambourne B	87.65	22

Updated April 2010

Bath & West Wiltshire SFA Easter 2010 Tour

Primary school children from the region again enjoyed a fabulous Easter 5-day football trip to Holland.

Flying the flag for team UK was the main aim of the trip but Bristol City FC, Tim Kirk's report seems to reveal that the trip had several other high points (or low points, depending on your view) , ranging from:- Who is looking after the chocolate? How do we cross the English Channel when French ferry workers go on strike? A rather questionable reason why our own Sane Kiely was in the coach loo whilst going through border customs.

All that aside, some brilliant football took place and if you can wade though the very descriptive, and humorous report from Tim Kirk you'll see that undoubtedly there's a film just waiting to be made about the eventful trip. Download the screenplay here.

Updated April 2010

Tag Rugby Tournament

On 17th March schools in West Wiltshire attended a Tag Rugby Tournament organised by the West Wiltshire Schools Sport Partnership and held at Bradford on Avon Rugby Club.

220 pupils from 22 Primary Schools attended the event with teams playing in 4 groups with their results determining which competition they would play in for the knock out stages. The group winners and runners up went into the cup competition with the final four teams being selected to represent West Wiltshire at the County Finals on 30th April at Warminster Rugby Club. The 4 Schools were St John's, Bowerhill, Westbury Leigh and Fitzmaurice meaning each of the towns in the partnership will have a representative. St John's beat Bowerhill in the final and will be tipped to do well at the county finals.

West Wilts Hockey Festival 2010

On Monday 1st March the West Wilts Schools Sport Partnership held their annual hockey festival at Kingdown Community School's astro turf pitch. The festival was run by Young Volunteers from Kingdown School.

Teams from Winsley, Holt, Keevil, St. Johns RC Trowbridge, Bowerhill, St. Johns Warminster, Crockerton, Horningsham and Heytesbury took part. The teams were in 2 groups with everyone playing each other. The 2 winning teams that contested the final were Bowerhill and Holt. This final was an excellent match with the play flowing from one end to the other. It was Holt that proved to be the winners with 2 well taken goals.


Updated March 2010

West Wiltshire High 5's Final

6 schools representing all the different West Wiltshire clusters played in the High 5's final at Matravers on Wednesday February 10th. A round robin tournament was closely contested by the enthusiastic teams with junior netball umpires from John of Gaunt School taking charge of all the games. The top 4 teams now go through to represent the area at the County final


Results:
1st Fitzmaurice 21 Points
2nd Holbrook 19 Points
3rd Bowerhill 15 Points
4th Westbury Leigh 10 Points
5th Sambourne 8 Points
6th Long Meadow 7 Points

Updated March 2010

Dance Festival smashes all previous records

The 2010 dance festival has broken all previous records presenting 35 dance performances by over 600 children from primary, secondary and special schools across West Wiltshire. Over 1000 family and friends were treated to a spectacular selection of dances during the two evenings at The Bath Forum.

This year's theme, "The Magic of Disney" featured dance interpretations to music from classics such as Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Lion King, Mary Poppins and more.

Chris Bell, West Wilts SSP Development Manager, said "The standard is extraordinarily high and is getting better every year. We moved the venue to The Forum so that nobody would be disappointed and every ticket request could be fulfilled."

The hard work of students, teachers and sports co-ordinators was also acknowledged with special thanks going to organiser, Caroline Newman, WWSSP Dance Coach. James Evans, Director of Specialism at Kingdown and Wednesday's Compère said " All the parents can be extremely proud of their sons' and daughters' achievements."

Both evenings were professionally filmed. Download an order form now to purchase the . Video trailers of all dance festivals can be seen in the video gallery.

Updated February 2010

Football League Finals On Monday 1st February The Partnership held their annual Football Leagues Finals. Winners of the town football leagues, plus the winners of the local festival, met at Kingdown to decide the top football team for this season. There were some excellent football skills on display and intense competition. The whole tournament was organised and run by sports leaders from Kingdown School.

Bitham Brook - Winners

The semi finals were both close games with Westbury schools winning both games. The final was nail biting with neither team able to dominate and both goal keepers keeping a clean sheet. Extra time was played and each team scored the maximum 3 goals in the penalty shoot out. It was eventually decided on the 5th penalty shoot out, with Bitham Brook taking the top spot over their close neighbours, Westbury Leigh. Both teams should be congratulated on a thrilling performance. Updated February 2010

Westbury Leigh - Runners up

Primary Schools District team are flag bearers at Bristol City FC

The squad enjoyed an interesting evening at Ashton gate, with plenty of goals, irritated fans and even flying programmes. The night seemed to have it all, except the opportunity to celebrate a Bristol City goal! Final score Bristol City 0 - 6 Cardiff

Many thanks to mums and dads for brigning the boys, and a thanks to Ed Furniss at City for helping to organise the event.


Updated January 2009 (Shane Kiely - PDM, Avon Valley Partnership)

Trowbridge Years 5 and 6 High-5 Netball Tournament

To start off the afternoon all eight schools had a 5-minute warm up to get used to the surroundings after that the rules were explained and all the matches started. Everybody got stuck in and played very well for their teams. The Trowbridge Barbarians were formed by using extra players from different schools. After three well played games the decider game came up. It was the best any of the teams had played all afternoon.

Here are the final results:

• 1st - Holbrook
• 2nd - Paxcroft
• 3rd - St John's
• 4th - Longmeadow
• 5th - North Bradley
• 6th - Trowbridge Barbarians
• 7th - Bellefield 8th - Newtown

Thank you to all the schools that competed and to all the teachers and parents that made it happen. And thank you to Mr Wylie, Sam and all the sports leaders and umpires.

Submitted January 2010 by Abena B (year 7) - John of Gaunt Junior Sports Reporter

Boxercise Festival

This year the festival for the special units and Larkrise school featured cheerleading and boxercise on Wednesday 18th November.

Warminster School the independent secondary school in Warminster allowed the Partnership to use their sports hall. Young Leaders from Kingdown School lead all the events with great enthusiasm.

Proceedings started with a cheerleading warm up lead by Katie Watson. Rachel Bown then introduced the boxercise with her usual panache. With encouragement from the Young Leaders the children launched themselves into the boxercise with great gusto.

Updated December 2009

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Badminton Tournament On Friday 4th December the West Wiltshire Secondary Schools held their regional badminton tournament. Once again Center Parcs hosted the competition in their sports village where 8 badminton courts were available. Updated December 2009

Quicksticks Hockey Course

On Tuesday 24th November, teachers from all over West Wilts attended a quicksticks hockey course. The course was run by Clive Nelson the Hockey Development Officer for Wiltshire.

Updated December 2009

Tag Rugby Course

Teachers, rugby club coaches, student teachers and 6th formers all attended a tag rugby course at Kingdown run by Alan Low the Rugby Community Coach on Monday 23rd November.

Updated December 2009

West Wiltshire Primary School Girls 6-A-Side
Football Tournament

Eight teams took part in the West Wiltshire Girls Football Tournament held at The George Ward School in Melksham

The competition started as two leagues of four with the winners of each league scheduled to meet in the final match.

All the matches in League A proved to be closely fought but in the end, Bellefield of Trowbridge managed to win all of their three games. Although more goals were scored in League B the winners would have to go through only on goal difference. Christchurch (Bradford on Avon) and Grove (Trowbridge) were clearly the strongest teams in the group and the game between them resulted in a 0-0 stalemate. Grove finished their games with a goal difference of seven and going into the last league game, Christchurch knew that to qualify, they would have to score five against a plucky Emmaus side. After scoring four there was a nail-biting wait as time was running out and a penalty shoot-out seemed a possibility to decide who would qualify.

Orienteering Event - 1st & 2nd October Due to the popularity of the Orienteering event this year we held it over 2 days. 30 schools and 250 students took part. Orienteers from the Sarum and North Wilts Clubs helped with the day. The day consisted of schools coming at intervals, getting instruction, doing introductory routes followed by a timed course. The enthusiasm of the students was infectious and both days were lovely Autumn days, a great mix making an excellent event Matt Andrews, who organised the days, should be congratulated on a memorable event. Updated October 2009.
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Large Schools Football Tournament The first football tournament of the year was held on Kingown's Astroturf 12th October. This was the tournament, which decides the 2 large schools to represent West Wilts in the County Finals. Thirteen teams from all over the Partnership took part. The teams were in 4 pools. The winners and runners up from each group then progressed to the quarter finals. There were some excellent matches, well refereed by Young Leaders from Kingdown Community School. The final was between Fitzmaurice from Bradford-on-Avon and Bitham Brook. As the final whistle saw the teams drawing, it was decided both teams should share the title and go on to the County Finals on 26th January at Stanley Park. Updated October 2009 Click here to see the winners

New SSCo represents GB

By now many of you will have already met Phil Wylie, our new Sports Coordinator for John of Gaunt cluster but did you know he's also our very own international, super-sports star?

Phil has just returned from the World Championship for duathlon where he represented Great Britain and came 13th. Some achievement, eh?

Phil also regularly goes to France where he races for a French club, proving that our sports coordinators learn, inspire and share their skills from first hand experiences.

The photos are a selection from his activities in North America and France.

Welcome to the partnership, Phil. The bar is getting higher.

Annual PLT Conference

80 teachers quickly got into action during the start of the new term when we all gathered at Cumberwell golf club to make plans for another exciting and activity-packed year.

Several new PLT's also joined the partnership so a big welcome to those.

Guests were Ronnie Heath who will deliver Fundamentals of Movement sessions, Heather Price who gave us practical ideas in achieving '"The 5 Hour Offer" and following a number of workshops, Jill Elbourn spoke about "Professional Development Into The Future".

Thanks to everyone for attending. The Partnership is poised for another great year - bring it on!

Updated September 2009

Fun in the Park - 2009

A total of 173 Yr 6 children from Warminster Primary Schools met at Warminter Town Park on 15th July to participate in a variety of activities. This was organised by the West Wilts Schools Sports Partnership, based at Kingdown School.

The students had a carousel of activities which included taking pedaloes on the lake, skate boarding in the skate park, golf on the play and put area, boxercise, tennis, basketball, frisbee, sumo wrestling and gladiators.

A number of passers-by commented that this is the way the park should be used, and this was reinforced at the end, as it was great to see so many young people engaging in activities and enjoying themselves.

Updated September 2009

Chris Bell
Partnership Development Manager