Friday 05th June 2026 – What an exciting morning of sport at Old Priory Junior Academy. I had the pleasure of working with the Y6 Sports Leaders today to get them ready to deliver our PSSP Primary Inclusion Archery event. 7 teams from PSSP schools across the city came along to take part in our fun festival for children in mainstream and special schools. Children from Cann Bridge, Old Priory, Leigham, Courtlands, Plympton St. Maurice, Chaddlewood and St. Matthew’s all came along to learn some new skills and compete in different personal challenge style events. As each team arrived they were introduced to the young leaders they would be working with all morning and they were taken through the key points of how to use the equipment; after a few quick practice arrows, we were straight in to the competition with each child having 3 chances to score as highly as possible with 3 arrows. Instead of competing against others, this personal challenge event is designed to encourage the children to improve at their own individual pace – striving to score more points with 3 arrows over several rounds. While they were waiting for their turn, there were Archery worksheets for the children to complete and a ‘school crest’ challenge which resulted in some very creative designs. After the highest score competition, each of the leaders took their group through some fun games and challenges. I would like to say a huge thank you to our leaders today – you were fantastic with the children and really ensured that they all had a great time!

Thank you as well to Ms. Roberts for all of her help in organising this event and to Jacob (PSSP) for all of this support and some creative art work with the ‘school crest activity’. Thank you to all of the staff that brought their teams along today – I hope that you enjoyed watching our new archers as much as I did. I look forward to seeing you all at another event very soon.

Mrs Cormack - PE Specialist Teacher.

Plymouth School Sports Partnership