PSSP NEWS

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PSSP Primary and Special Schools Football

Published 01/05/25

Wednesday 30th April 2025 – What a scorcher for our termly PSSP Inclusion Football event. 5 teams attended to compete in our friendly tournament aimed at promoting teamwork, respect and having lots of fun. Represented today were Cann Bridge, Courtlands, Pennycross, Montpelier and Keyham Barton – all of the children arrived excited and a little nervous but keen to get going. After a brief welcome, they were soon off to their pitches ready to play. I am incredibly fortunate at these events to have the outstanding support from the Sports Leaders at Stoke Damerel Secondary School – they referee and score all of the games but also support the children/teams and are absolutely brilliant at it! This event is a round-robin so every school gets to play all of the others. 5 points are awarded for a win, 3 points for a draw and 1 point for a loss. Once all of the games are played, the scores are collated and we present the children with their certificates on the main pitch. Congratulations to Montpelier who were our overall winners today. Well done to everyone who took part, I really hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and would be keen to come back again. Check out the PSSP website for more upcoming Inclusion events.

Position	Team	Points
01st	Montpelier	20
02nd	Courtlands	16
03rd	Pennycross	12
04th	Keyham Barton	8
05th	Cann Bridge	4

Mrs Claire Cormack

PE Specialist Teacher, Plymouth School Sports Partnership

Plympton Family KS1 Multi Skills Festival 2025
Published 30/04/25
Tuesday 29th April 2025 – Today our team of Sports Leaders from Plympton Academy hosted 4 teams of children from our local primary schools. Chaddlewood and Plympton St. Maurice both sent along 2 teams, consisting of children from Foundation, Y1 and Y2 to take part in our friendly (yet competitive) Multi Skills Festival. Lots of excited (and slightly nervous) children took over our sports hall to try numerous activities and hopefully have a lot of fun. The activities range from tests of skill and accuracy with the Bean Bag Throw; team events such as a Sprint Relay and Ladder Relay; speed and agility with the Speed Bounce and even a test of strength with the Chest Push challenge. There were so many smiling faces in the hall this morning, it was fantastic to see so many children enjoying being physically active and challenged. I would like to say a huge thank you to our leaders – you really made the children feel welcome and enjoy all of the events – nothing but smiles and red faces. At the end of the event, the scores were all collated and the results announced… Congratulations to ‘Chaddlewood A’ team who were the overall winners today and ‘Plympton St. Maurice B’ who were very close runners up. Well done to everyone who took part today, we really hope you enjoyed it and would be keen to come back again.

Above: Sports Leaders from Plympton Academy.

Mrs Cormack

PE Specialist Teacher for Plympton Academy & Plymouth School Sports Partnership

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Tor Bridge Family Tag Rugby 2025
Published 25/04/25
Thursday 24th April 2025 – This afternoon 4 teams (3 from St. Matthew’s and 1 from Thornbury) came along to Tor Bridge High to take part in our annual non-competitive coaching festival. Today’s focus was not on winning but on helping children to develop their Tag Rugby skills and team work ahead of the PSSP competition later in the term. We had a real mix of experience in the teams but we had the talented Sports Leader Casey on hand to coach and lead the games – huge thank you Casey! All of the teams had the opportunity to play against each other but our super referee and teachers were encouraged to coach throughout and take the opportunity to spot those consistent errors and work on them. I really enjoyed today’s event – no pressure of the win just children enjoying being physically active and playing sport with their friends. For some of our children it was brushing up on their skills and for some, today was about learning something new and getting used to the many Tag Rugby laws. Well done to everyone who took part today, I hope you enjoyed it and best of luck in future competitions.

Mrs Claire Cormack

PE specialist Teacher for Plympton Academy

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PSSP Cheerleading Festival 2025
Published 25/04/25
On Thursday 24^th April 11 schools came to take part in the PSSP Cheerleading festival. The afternoon started with pupils learning Cheerleading motions and putting these into a game of Simon Says. They were then partnered up with another school to take part in a carousel of six different stations. These involved learning how to safely and effectively complete different team stunts, tumbles and jumps.

The children did so well; determined to try their best and take on the challenge of each station. Many pupils had never taken part in a cheerleading session before but after a show of hands, lots would want to do it again! One person even said 'I was really nervous to come today but then everyone helped me and I really like it!'

To finish, each group learnt a short pom routine, bringing together some of what they had learnt throughout the afternoon.

Each station was led by the wonderful Cheerleading leaders from DHSG, who were AMAZING! They were enthusiastic, patient and so supportive not only to the children, but to each other as well. A huge thank you to Miss Bradley for training them prior to the event, and for all your support organising the event.

We can't wait to see what next year will bring, make sure to book onto this event early as it's really popular!

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Plympton Family Tag Rugby 2025
Published 25/04/25

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PSSP Inclusive Sports Festival
Published 04/04/25
Today was our first Inclusive Sports Festival for Secondary age students with SEND in mainstream and special schools.

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Primary Schools Basketball Final
Published 04/04/25
Wednesday 2^nd April 2025 – Today was the final for the PSSP Primary Basketball held at Plympton Academy.

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PSSP Primary Boccia
Published 04/04/25
Tuesday 01^st April 2025 – another exciting afternoon of sport at Plympton Academy with our PSSP Inclusion Boccia event. Today are super team of Sports Leaders hosted 8 teams of primary age children from mainstream and special schools.

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PSSP New Age Kurling
Published 31/03/25
Friday 28^th March 2025 – Another great morning of sport at Tor Bridge High with our sports leaders running an Inclusive New Age Kurling event for children in mainstream and special schools. We had 6 teams with us today, representing Leigham, Pomphlett, Plympton St. Maurice, Prince Rock, Thornbury and Holy Cross. On arrival, the sports leaders gave each school a demo and explained how to play – then it was straight into the action. Schools played friendly games against each other in a round-robin style format. New Age Kurling is a target-based sport that has been adapted from curling so that it can be played indoors, on a flat surface. Each player delivers a ‘stone’ towards the target at the other end by sliding it smoothly across the floor. The score is then determined by the number of stones closest to the centre of the target. After some time playing the traditional version, we changed the activity to increase the level of challenge and further develop their target skills. All of the children that took part today received a certificate and I am thrilled to say that they all told me what a fun time that had and that they would come back to do it again. Thank you to our Tor Bridge Sports Leaders – you were fantastic with the children once again.

Claire Cormack

Plymouth School Sports Partnership

PE Specialist Teacher

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Inclusion Table Tennis 2025
Published 19/03/25
Wednesday 19^th March 2025 – Today we hosted another PSSP Inclusion Table Tennis event in partnership with Paul Whiting and Bailey Page.

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England Rugby introduction course to refereeing
Published 19/03/25
Yesterday at King George V playing fields we held an England Rugby introduction course to refereeing. The course provided development and learning around refereeing Rugby Union safely and effectively. Students learnt the basics of how to referee a number of elements of the game and how to; communicate effectively with players, coaches and volunteers, to ensure that everyone involved is playing in a safe and enjoyable environment.

This Officiating Award is aimed at gifted and talented rugby players aged 14+ (Year 9 & above) who show high quality leadership skills and who are ready to take their first step into the officiating of rugby union.

These students will now be helping to officiate the Y7 Cunningham Cup Rugby Festival on Friday 28th March 2025.

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Devon Netball Finals 2025
Published 19/03/25
Yesterday what an incredible day at the Devon Netball Finals! Lots of fantastic netball played with great sportsmanship shown⭐️.

Our four teams represented Plymouth brilliantly, Chaddlewood, Manadon Vale, Leigham and Bickleigh Down advancing from the PSSP heats back in January 2025.

A fantastic end to the day saw Leigham Primary School placing 1st and Bickleigh Down C of E Primary School placing 3rd overall!

Huge congratulations!🥇🥉

Well done everyone, you should all be so proud.

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