Wednesday 11th March 2026 – What a morning! Today we hosted our termly PSSP Secondary Inclusion Football event at Harper’s. For the first time ever in this age group, we were at capacity! We had 10 teams, representing All Saints, Heles, Tor Bridge High, Coombe Dean, Plympton Academy, Stoke Damerel and Cann Bridge. Nearly 60 students taking part and loving being physically active and playing for their school. This friendly tournament focuses on Teamwork, Respect and fun. We have a slightly different format that we utilise to support one player on each team: down either side of the pitch, we create a channel which means that 1 player can play unopposed and support their team from there. This works incredibly well to develop confidence and as a team tactic. Throughout the morning we use a round-robin format so that each team gets to play everyone else. 5 points are awarded for a win/ 3 points for a draw and 1 point for a loss. We are incredibly fortunate at these event to be supported by the amazing Sports Leaders from Stoke Damerel – they referee and score all of our games as well as supporting the teams and making sure the event runs smoothly so everyone can have a good time. They were always brilliant but today they absolutely dazzled, particularly with their support of the students from the special school – incredible team, thank you. At the end of the morning, when all the games have been played it is my pleasure to announce the results – quite tricky today as many schools were evenly matched so we had a few finishing on the same points. After looking back over the number of goals scored by each team to work out the final order… congratulations to Coombe Dean who were our overall winners today and well done to everyone who took part – you played brilliantly and represented your schools admirably – well done everyone. Thank you to all of the teachers/staff for bringing your teams along – can’t wait to see you all at the next one. 

Mrs Claire Cormack 

PE Specialist Teacher  

Plymouth School Sports Partnership.