School Games cultural competition winners Young Reporter and Young Presenter


We are pleased to announce the winners of the School Games Reporter and Presenter competitions that we ran earlier this year. All students aged 7-11 from across the county were invited to enter this year’s Cultural competition for the best Young Presenter and Young Reporter. The entry requirements where:


YOUNG REPORTER


Produce a detailed report on a sports fixture, match or competition. It can be word formatted, audio or visual (no more than 2 sides of A4 or 2 mins of filming). The winner will receive a behind the scenes experience working with Newsquest in the newspapers offices to see how reporter and editors produce the newspapers. Plus a £50 Amazon Voucher.


Winner - Devon Clements from Avon Valley College


Devon’s winning report Wellington Academy vs Avon Valley College football.


Young reporter Winner Devon Clements YOUNG PRESENTER


Produce a piece of film showing you presenting which can be recorded or filmed. The Winner will receive a behind the scenes experience working with the BBC Wiltshire Radio at their studio seeing how a radio station works. Plus a £50 Amazon Voucher.


Winner - Ellie Chatwin from Kingdown School


(Visit this link for Ellie’s Video - https://youtu.be/0obY3FZPA0M) Young Reporter


“There was great enthusiasm and laughs on the way to Wellington between the players talking about the upcoming game and previous matches. The coach stated “we have a lot of confidence; we beat Stonehenge 2—0 and giving us a boost, now we just need to perform”. The game started with both sides putting on the pressure.


Five minutes in AVC scored with nice play throughout the team for Jack Stevens to flick it behind him setting it up nicely for Morgan Harvey to finish 1 - 0. It came up to half time with Avon


Valley still leading by 1 goal. A Wellington supporter claimed “They have been playing well so far, a lot of off sides and they need to play the ball on the floor more”.


There was a lot of tension during the match with plenty of action and chances for both teams. From the chances Wellington managed to get a goal, tricking the keeper into thinking it came off his defender so he tried kicking it but unfortunately missed. The score then stood at 1 - 1. Wellington then scored again with a strike from outside the box making the score 2 - 1.


A Wellington striker then volleyed in another goal from a long throw in. 3 - 1 Avon Valley swapped their goalkeeper Lewis Proctor for Morgan Harvey due to injury. With just a few minutes to go Avon Valley had a free kick.


Wellington then snatched the ball on the counter attack to bring in a low cross for the striker to hit it first time.


The score was then 4 - 1. Wellington had a lot of chances but Morgan did his best to keep them out. There was another goal for Wellington


when the corner taker delivered the ball into the 18 yard box and the midfielder scored. Wellington then scored another goal leaving the score at 6 - 1.


I asked the home team captain “So you have won the game, how does it make you feel?” He replied “Good because we haven’t won a lot of games”. I then asked “What are your thoughts on the ref? Did he make good decisions during the match?” To which he replied “Yes he did, he had no linesman so he tried his best”. I asked the Captain of Wellington to name the player he thought played the best. He replied “Our striker because he has just recovered from a broken arm and played well”.


Our captain, Fraser Hicks said “ I think we should have drawn. We played well in the first half but we just couldn’t hold onto it. Our midfielders could have played better if they had dropped back when Wellington was on the attack”.


Fraser thinks that defence and midfield need to be worked on.


Devon Clements


‘Towards an Active Nation‘ is the Sport England Strategy


In May Sport England launched their new Strategy Towards an Active Nation and within this the plans for their extended remit to work with children from the age of five. Over the period of the Strategy Sport England will:


 Invest into projects which offer new opportunities for families with children to get active and play sport together.


Young Presenter winner Ellie Chatwin


 Offer specialist training to at least two teachers in every secondary school in England by 2020. The aim of this will be to better meet the needs of all children, irrespective of their level of sporting ability, and to involve them in shaping


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the sporting opportunities that are provided.


 Improve the experience that children get in school through our work to support the effective use of the recently doubled Primary PE and Sport Premium funding and investment into the School Games.


 Help to ensure there is a good sports and activity offer before and after the school day through supporting satellite clubs and exploring the new Government investment into extending the school day and breakfast clubs.


 Recognise the importance of transitions between both primary


and secondary and then to further and higher education, with an increased focus on supporting inactive children and students to take up sport and exercise.


Further details of each of these areas will be made available over the coming months and WASP will ensure these are communicated locally.


For more details of the new Sport England Strategy visit https://www.sportengland.org/


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