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

Wednesday 2^nd April 2025 – Today was the final for the PSSP Primary Basketball held at Plympton Academy.

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

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.

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