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U9s Girls Football

Published 17/03/25

The U9 girls football festival took place at Marjon University with 6 teams taking part. It was a round robin format, so everyone had the opportunity to play each other. The weather was dry but rather cold, this didn’t stop the girls eagerly awaiting their fixtures. Games were 12 minutes long and teams played with 7 on a pitch at once. There was some brilliant football on display and some very exciting games. The final standings could not be decided until after the whistle of the final fixture that was between Leigham and Bickleigh Down. This game was hard fought and ended with Leigham winning 2-1 which put them as champions, congratulations to them and well done to everyone who took part. (For more photo's please check out our Facebook page).

A massive thank you to Marjon University for the facilities and Sir John Hunt and Notre Dame for providing great referees who completed their refereeing course last week.

RESULTS TABLE - U9s Girls Football

Position	School	Total Points	Goals for	Goals Against	Goal difference
1^st	Leigham	25	13	1	+12
2^nd	Manadon Vale	19	9	7	+2
3^rd	Bickleigh Down	17	13	4	+9
4^th	Montpelier	15	8	11	-3
5^th	Woodford	9	10	11	-1
6^th	Mount Street	5	1	20	-19

Indoor Rowing Programme 2025
Published 17/03/25
Well done to all the schools who took part in the PSSP indoor rowing programme, where we brought rowing machines into schools for the Y5/6 children to try. In total, 38 primary schools took part, 2146 children. Scores were recorded from all the races. Each school was sent a certificate to show how far the children in their school rowed. We then combined all the rowing scores from all 38 schools and the distance covered was the same as rowing from Smeaton's Tower to Paris! Well done to everyone involved.

We are now looking forward to seeing some of these children at the primary school indoor rowing championships on 2nd April 2025.

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KS2 Change4Life Festival
Published 17/03/25
The change 4 Life Festival is always a popular event with schools and this year was no exception. Each child participates in 4 x 45 minute sessions that are aimed at being active, fun and engaging with the intention of learning healthy lifestyles and enjoying exercise. Thirteen schools attended this event and after a welcome speech, children were sent to their first event of the day. The events on offer this year were – Fruit mashup, Dance Academy, Climbing Wall, Minecraft, Fish Frenzy, Target Travel, Madagascar, Space Station. After the next session the children had a lunch break where they met two special guests the Lion and the Lamb, who are Marjon University’s mascots.

After lunch it was another 2 sessions for the children before having a final surprise when two Marjon Scholars arrived for a Q + A session. Louis Beckwith is a trampolinist and Jack Dee is a track and cross-country runner. The children asked some great questions and were rewarded at the end with T-shirts and wristbands.

A huge well done to all the children who took part and did a total of 3 hours exercise! A massive thank you to Marjon University for allowing us to use their facilities and for providing some brilliant students who led some of the sessions.

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Tor Bridge Y1 Multi Skills
Published 14/03/25
Thursday 13^th March 2025 – Today our team of Sports Leaders from Tor Bridge High hosted 2 teams of children from Thornbury Primary for a friendly Multi Skills Festival.

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PSSP Secondary & Special Schools Football
Published 12/03/25
Wednesday 12^th March 2025 – Today the sun eventually came out for our termly PSSP Secondary Inclusion Football event.

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PSSP Primary & Special Schools Football
Published 06/03/25
Wednesday 05^th March 2025 – After fog so thick it looked like pea soup this morning, the sun came out just in time for the kick off of this terms’ PSSP Inclusion Football festival. 5 schools attended to compete in our friendly tournament aimed at promoting teamwork, respect and mostly having a lot of fun.

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Inclusion Primary Basketball
Published 05/03/25
Tuesday 4^th March 2025 - What a fantastic afternoon of sport at Plympton Academy! 4 teams from PSSP schools came along to compete in the 2^nd heat of the Primary Basketball competition.

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PSSP Primary Inclusion Boccia
Published 27/02/25
A great morning of sport today – another PSSP Primary Inclusion Boccia event was hosted by 4 new Sports Leaders from Plympton Academy

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What is Let’s Dance?
Published 12/02/25
Let's Dance! is a nationwide movement of dance organisations, charities, health professions, local councils, community groups, business, celebrities and media getting together with one objective, to get the nation dancing!

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Year 3/4 Indoor Athletics
Published 06/02/25
Wednesday 5^th February - We held the year 3/4 indoor athletics event at the Life Centre. 10 teams came to compete, bringing many children who had never taken part in this event before.

During the event, children took part in various relay races on the track and also field events. These included standing long jump, javelin, speed bounce and chest push. We saw some fantastic results on each event and a lot of close finishes!

The event finished with an all-time favourite, the obstacle race! Children had to hop through a high stepper, jump on the speed bounce, leap over a hurdle and sprint as fast as they could back to their team.

A huge well done to all teams that came to participate, you all had great determination and resilience in all you did.

The results are below:

1^st Bickleigh Down- 310 pts

2^nd Pennycross- 238 pts

3^rd Hyde Park- 222 pts

4^th St Edward's -178 pts

5^th " Whitleigh & Widey Court 176 pts

7^th Cathedral/St Jospeh's- 136 pts

8^th Plympton St Maurice- 108pts

9^th Holy Cross- 100 pts

Thank you to students from Plymouth Argyle for supporting this event.

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Lipson Cross-Country
Published 05/02/25
Lipson X-country was well attended with Mount Street, Prince Rock and Salisbury Road bringing a mixture of KS2 children. The year 3/4 race was a huge loop of the field (approximately 600metres). The year 5/6 race had to cross another field, up two hills and then complete the same loop as well, which added around 400 metres to the course overall. There was some really impressive runs and a lot of the children didn't stop for the whole race! All schools won medals and showed brilliant teamwork and resilience. A big thank you to Lipson for hosting and providing leaders for the event.

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Primary Inclusion Boccia
Published 05/02/25

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