Wednesday 01st October 2025 - A great morning of sport today at Plympton Academy – our first (for this school year) PSSP Primary Inclusion Boccia event was hosted by 7 of our fabulous Sports Leaders. 5 schools attended with 9 teams to take part in our friendly event, aimed at developing new skills and having a lot of fun. On arrival, Prince Rock, Plympton St. Mary’s, Old Priory, Plympton St. Maurice and Cann Bridge were welcomed and introduced to the sport by our leaders. With a little time for practice, we then dove straight in with playing some games against another team. Boccia is a Paralympic sport that is played from a seated position. It is a target game that involves accuracy and strategy and more importantly, is a lot of fun. We don’t keep any scores at these events, instead the focus is on having fun, meeting other children from different schools and developing our target skills. On arrival the children often seem a little nervous but once we are underway, it is great to see so many smiling faces of children enjoying being active and learning something new. I would like to say a huge thank you to our Plympton Academy leaders – you were so welcoming and really engaged with the children. A big thank you as well to Mrs Walpole for your help this morning as well -very much appreciated. Thank you as well to all of the staff who brought their children along today – I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Check out the PSSP website for more upcoming Inclusion events.

Photo below: Sports Leaders from Plympton Academy

Claire Cormack - Plymouth School Sports Partnership

PE Specialist Teacher

Wednesday 24th September 2025 – What a glorious day for some Football! Today we have 5 schools attend in the sunshine for the first of our PSSP Inclusion Football events. Cann Bridge, Plympton Academy, Tor Bridge High, Stoke Damerel and Devonport High School for Boys all came along to take part in our friendly tournament which 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. Once all of the matches are complete, we tally the scores, announce the results and everyone receives a well-earned certificate. I absolutely loved reading out these results today!! Huge congratulations to Cann Bridge who were our overall winners today! Tied on points with Stoke Damerel but in the end they took the win because of the total number of goals they had scored throughout the tournament. Well done to everyone who took part today, I really hope you enjoyed it and would be keen to come back. I would like to say a very special thank you to the Sports Leaders from Stoke Damerel who once again did a fantastic job at scoring and refereeing all of the matches. Check out the PSSP events calendar to see what is coming up and next and don’t forget to sign up. I will see you all at our next one.

Mrs Claire Cormack

PE Specialist Teacher

Plymouth School Sports Partnership.

Thursday 18th September 2025 – It was windy but thankfully dry this afternoon as Old Priory, Chaddlewood and Plympton St. Maurice competed in our annual Plympton Family Cross Country event. As well as show casing some of the vast talent that our young people have, this was an opportunity for us to celebrate some of the schools games values: Self Belief and Determination. We had 55 children taking part and every one of them was determined to do their best and finish the course. It is quite a deceptive course and can be challenging to complete the 2 laps: for the Y3/4 races, the course is just under 1 mile and for the Y5/6 runners, it is just over 1 mile with the finish line being uphill for everyone—who would do that?! Well done to every one of you—all of your teachers and family that came to cheer you on were so proud of you and they were great races to watch. As the runners came over the line they were given a place card and these were collated by their staff—the top 4 runners from all schools were counted and the school with the overall lowest score for the boys and girls were the winners. Congratulations to Old Priory who took the top team spot in the Y5/6 Girls race, the Y5/6 Boys race and the Y3/4 Boys race.

Congratulations as well to Plympton St. Maurice who took the top spot in the Y3/4 Girls race. Excellent performances all round! Congratulations as well to Chaddlewood who definitely put in tough challenge and really forced the other runners to be their best. Well done to all of the children who took part today – you should be incredibly proud of yourselves no matter what positioned you finished and I really hope you enjoyed it. A full table of results can be found below. I would like to say a special thank you to the young leaders from Heles school who volunteered to be our marshals and hares—you did a great job, thank you. Thank you as well to Ms Pullyblank for arranging such high calibre leaders and supporting me with the scoring. I’m already looking forward to seeing you all at our next PSSP event. Mrs Claire Cormack Plymouth School Sports Partnership

Chaddlewood took 2nd spot as they had a higher placed runner. 

Wednesday 17^th September 2025 – What a start to the 2025-2026 PSSP Inclusive Sports programme! 6 schools attended to compete in our friendly tournament aimed at promoting teamwork, respect and having lots of fun.

Represented today were Courtlands, Yealmpstone Farm, College Road, Holy Cross, Pennycross and Eggbuckland Vale – there were a few nervous faces on arrival but these soon turned into pink cheeks and smiles (despite the wet/chilly conditions). 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. There were some close games today, we had a few drawn matches and some schools finished on the same points overall so we needed to look at the number of goals scored by each of them to determine the final order. Congratulations to Pennycross who were the 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.

Mrs Claire Cormack

PE Specialist Teacher

Plymouth School Sports Partnership

Job role: PE Specialist Teacher

Working pattern: Part time (0.2 FTE) – Flexible hours can be considered

Contract type: Fixed term

Salary: MPS

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated teacher of physical education from a primary or secondary background who is interested in joining the Plymouth School Sports Partnership (PSSP) from September 2025 for the remainder of this academic year in the first instance.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated and professional team. You will have responsibility for coordinating and developing an exciting, high quality PE and sports programme in a cluster of local primary schools to model and develop sustainable high quality physical education teaching.
Experience in a similar environment would be an advantage. We are looking for a qualified (QTS) professional with excellent communication skills, who is IT literate and who has the ability to adapt to a variety of situations. A full UK driving license is essential due to the nature of the role.  Further details and an application form can be found HERE

Closing date: 9am Friday 19th September 2025

Wednesday 02nd July 2025 – What a fantastic day! Today was our annual Primary Disc Golf event at Plympton Academy hosted by some of our talented Sports Leaders. A bright and early start to set up our 12 hole course ready for 20 teams/10 schools. 100 children participated today, representing St. Matthew’s, Austin Farm, Ford, Montpelier, Old Priory, Chaddlewood, Yealmpstone Farm, Mary Dean’s, Bickleigh Down and Plympton St. Maurice. Half of the teams took part in the morning and the rest joined us for the afternoon tee off. After a quick training session on how to throw the disc and putt, we were underway. This event is run with a shot-gun start so each team starts on a different hole and then all move round once they have completed that hole. There is a 8 shot maximum with the idea being to complete each hole in as few shots as possible, just like Golf. Alongside the children’s event, we also had a competition for the staff – who it turns out, are definitely more competitive! There were several prestigious categories to compete for: overall winning team; lowest scoring boy; lowest scoring girl and lowest scoring female and male staff. It was fantastic to see so many children (and adults) enjoying being outside and actively playing. With a mammoth amount of scores in hand at the end of the day, it was off to the computer for me to work out who had won… Congratulations to the St. Matthews’ ‘Atlas’ team who took the top spot in the team category; Talulah from Montpelier for winning the lowest scoring girl; Josh from Ford who won the lowest scoring boy title. Congratulations to Mr. Stein for taking first place in the male staff event and to Mrs Pearce who took the title for the women’s event. Well done to all of our winners – it was my absolute pleasure to visit your schools this morning to drop off all of your prizes. I would like to say a huge thank you to a few people: first off to the fantastic group of sports leaders from Plympton Academy (pictured above) – you were absolutely brilliant with the children and they had such a great time because of it; to the Plympton Academy site team for their help setting up (and also putting in a valiant shift retrieving Discs from various rooftops) and the PE Department for all of your help preparing and on the day; to Tamsin (PSSP) for helping me set up and run the event – I am so grateful to you all! Thank you to all of the staff who brought their teams along – I really hope you enjoyed the event too and I can’t wait to do it all again next year.

Mrs Cormack

PE Specialist Teacher Plympton Academy/Tor Bridge High/PSSP