We held a North area KS2 Girls Indoor Football event at Newent School for the Forest Games.  Our thanks goes out to Steve Edgell, head of PE and his Newent leaders Josie, Toby and Ruby who supported the event.. We saw some very good football and well done to Mitcheldean & Highnam, worthy finalists who go through to the Forest Finals in March against 2 teams form the south forest area on Thursday 26th March.

 

The North Results

 

Mitcheldean  Points 20  1st

Highnam      Points   13  2nd

Ann Cam      Points 12   3rd

Picklenash   Points   9    4th  

Westbury      Points  4    5th

New Age Kurling 2020

 

We Held a Primary New Age Kurling Event at Newent School on Thursday 9th January.   Many thanks for all the teams taking part, we had lots of teams, lots of games but all seemed to have some fun along the way.   I wish we did not have to have winners for this type of event, however, it is a pathway School Games event,  please thank all the participants and celebrate all their performances.

 

Thank you to all the people who made the event happen and thanks go to the Hartpury College and Newent School Students and Andy Wheeler for the table cricket.

 

Well done to the 3 winners from the 3 groups, Hope Brook, Tibberton and St Whites all with 21 points. Their final rounds the results:

 

Overall:

1: St Whites A                7

2: Hope Brook B            4

3: Tibberton                   3    

 

St Whites and Hope Brook will go onto the Finals on Thursday 23rd January at Cheltenham Ladies College. 

 

Group Scores:

Group 1:                Won   Scores   Position in Gp    

Highnam                 1            9                  5

St Whites B             3            19                2

Ann Cam A              3            18               3

Hope Brook B        4            21               1

Yorkley A                 2            9                  6

Newnham A            1            10                4

 

Group Scores:

Group 2:                Won   Scores   Position in Gp    

St Whites A               4            21              1

Ann Cam  B               1            11               5

Picklenash A             2            14               4

Primrose Hill              1            9                6

Drybrook  B*              2            14              3

Tutshill A                    2            15              2

 

Group Scores:

Group 3:                Won   Scores   Position in Gp    

Picklenash B             1           10                 6

Hope Brook B           2            14                2

Tutshill B                   1            12                5

Tibberton                  4           21               1

Drybrook B                2            3                 4

Yorkley  B                  2            14               3

Sports Hall Athletics Large and Small Teams Forest of Dean Results 2019

 

We had 25 Schools attending Sports Hall Athletics at Forest High School on Thursday 12th December.  What an effort by all the Small and Large Schools in the area. 

 

Alan Beard the SGO would like to thank the Forest High School & Freedom Leisure, Adam & the leaders from Hartpury College & Dene Magna who all worked very hard over the whole day to make this a superb event.

 

Well done to all the teams who took part: 

 

The top 3 Large teams this year:

1st  Coalway

2nd Forest View

3rd  Tutshill

The top 3 Small teams this year: 

1st  Hope Brook

2nd Lydbrook

3rd  Primrose Hill

 

Coalway & Hope Brook will go through to the Games finals Thursday 23rd Jan at Cheltenham. 

 

We held the Forest of Dean Primary Cross Country Race to selection 40 runners to go through to the county finals in March. 

 

The course was sent up at Newent School on Wednesday 22nd January with the support of marshalling from Newent students and we held 4 races with 10 runners being selected from each in the Yr 5 & Yr 6 Boys and Girls races.  We had over 180 pupils attend from 18 Primary Schools.

 

It was very competitive and lively afternoon and the ground was very muddy which was a challenge for the runners. 

 

The runners who advance from this race will join this year’s Primary Cross Country County Championships at Katherine Lady Berkeley’s School, Wotton-under-Edge on Saturday 29^th February where Alan Beard our School Games Organiser will be the FOD team manager. 

 

SEN Secondary Table Cricket at The University of Gloucestershire

 

Dene Magna sent a team to the county table cricket championships at the University of Gloucestershire on Monday 20th January.

The team played so well together and encouraged each other to play well against other schools across Gloucestershire.  It was a close run result and Dene Magna came out on top,  they were worthy winners with most runs scored as they now go forward to the regional finals at Edgbaston Cricket Centre in April.

 

Special thanks should go out to the students who took part for the school and the support staff, Mrs Berry, Mrs Greene, Miss Watkins, Miss Dews and Mr Sherwood & Mr Beard who supported them throughout. 

 

Gloucester Wheelchair Rugby Coming into Dene Magna 

 

On Wednesday 29th January Matt Lydiard the Wheelchair Rugby Coordinator from Gloucester Rugby came into our School and brought over a van full of Wheelchair Rugby chairs after being invited in by our School Games Organiser.  

 

Our Sports GCSE students and a few other lucky students took part in the engagement sessions with the PE Dept to try this former Paralympics sport.  Gloucester now have a disability team called the Titans but also offer taster sessions in the community to show off the game and highlight their good work.  Our students really enjoyed the game and the whole experience and we look forward to having them return in the near future. 

We held a KS1 Cricket World Cup Festival on the 5th February at Dene Magna School for 8 Primary School pupils.  The event was run by Gloucestershire Cricket and supported by our SGO and Dene Magna students. 

 

The pupils from Schools, Highnam, Pillowell, Blakeney, Forest View, Picklenash, Yorkley, Lydbrook and Mitcheldean were put through their paces trying cricket related activity in the Sports Hall.   Great thanks to Gloucester Cricket and the Dene Magna student leaders.