Tuxford News | Tuxford Collaboration of Schools | | Sports Partnership Report | Tuxford collaboration of schools has had the opportunity to take part in various activities during the spring term, including coaching, tournaments and festivals. The sports leaders have also been very busy planning, organizing and leading these festivals and competitions. During January Tuxford sports leaders took part in a training session to enable them to officiate the sports hall athletics competitions which were very well attended by the collaboration. February saw the first boy’s football festival this was requested by the teachers to accommodate the boys who were not selected for the school team but enjoyed playing football as you can imagine this was a huge success and both The junior football organisers and KS2 pupils had a great afternoon one to definitely repeat next year. I am pleased to report that the 8th annual dance show took place as usual and as always the standard and variation of performance never ceases to amaze me. This show gives dance leaders the opportunity to lead workshops for the primary school pupils as well as choreographing dances to show on the day. March saw the 2nd KS1 gymnastics festival this was a huge success enabling pupils to show off their floor and bench skills to each other in a relaxed atmosphere. Pupils who attend the Tuxford gymnastics club gave their assistance and rewarded good performance. |
Tuxford News, 5th July 2010 CRICKET AT TUXFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL | BY THE YOUNG CRICKETERS | Tuxford Primary School This term we have been lucky enough to have a cricket coach come into our school to teach us some valuable cricket skills: bowling, batting, throwing, catching and fielding. We have also had an after school club for this sport. Jenny Gunn, an <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> cricketer, also came into school. She showed us some of her cricket skills, they were amazing! Each week we played lots of games such as Marathon cricket, 2, 5, 10 and Clap Catch. |
Tuxford News, 5th July 2010 TUXFORD FAMILY GYMNASTICS FESTIVAL | BY THE PUPILS OF QUEEN ELEANOR SCHOOL | Hello! We are the year 1 and 2 children from Queen Eleanor School. In March we took part in a gymnastics festival at the Tuxford school. In our P.E. lessons we had learnt different gymnastic shapes such as straddles, front and back supports, pike, arch and dish. We also learnt to ‘teddy bear roll’-very tricky but amusing! We all had to remember to point our toes and we practised jumping and landing positions. At the festival we performed our own routines on a bench in front of another school. The Tuxford leaders gave us marks for good shapes and balances and the children that were watching told us things they really liked about our routines. Then we watched them. We also performed our floor sequence to the other school. It was really good to watch children from other schools, we loved learning and practising the shapes and walking, jumping and moving like a real gymnast! 
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Tuxford News, 5th July 2010 TUXFORD FAMILY SPORTS PARTNERSHIP NEWS BADMINTON AFTER SCHOOL CLUB AND TOURNAMENT Tuesdays, 15th January – 26th February Matthew Stacey, Year 11 (Junior Sports Leader) along with Jeremy Bingham (Head, East Markham) and Mr Paul Brightwell (IT Teacher) ran a popular after school club for 6 weeks finishing with a successful tournament. SPORTSHALL ATHLETICS April, Year 7 Year 12 leaders planned, organised and officiated this Youth Games event. Tony Wright from the Sports development team trained the students. The students ran a successful event, encouraging all the pupils performing. HIGH FIVE (NETBALL ORGANISERS) Students from year 10 organised and ran coaching sessions for year 5 & 6 pupils in preparation for the tournament, which is going to take place Wednesday May 7th when 9 schools will be entering the tournament. DANCE FESTIVAL 7TH March Students from year 11/12 showed enthusiasm and commitment when running after school dance sessions for a number of primary schools, pupils then performed in the Dance Festival at which over 200 pupils were involved. Some pupils enjoyed taking part in workshops before the festival, again lead by year 11/12 students. These pupils also performed their work in the afternoon. It was good to see such a broad selection of dance styles and different themes. YOUNG LEADERS TRAINING A number of primary schools are continuing to train their year 5 & 6 pupils to lead activities at break and lunchtimes. Many of these schools have set up successful buddy systems. A celebration event is planned in the summer term in recognition of their work. ACTIVATE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS The Tuxford family are impressed with the activate programme and many of the schools are looking to build it into the school day. HOCKEY FESTIVAL 21st April Young leaders led Hockey coaching sessions and organised and officiated a tournament to which 5 schools entered. This was a very closely fought competition and some excellent hockey skills were displayed. The overall winners were North Clifton, congratulations to them. Tuxford put up a good fight; they were a close second, just losing out on goal difference. RACE FOR LIFE 30 students and staff are training hard for the Race for Life event later in May, building up their fitness and endurance for the event. Events still to come : TAG RUGBY MAY 15TH ORIENTEERING JUNE 13TH MULTI SPORTS KEY STAGE 1 JUNE 18TH CRICKET FESTIVAL YEAR 3&4 23RD JUNE YOUNG LEADERS TRAINING JUNE 27TH TRANSITION WEEK 30TH JUNE- 4TH JULY Tuxford News, 19th May 2008 FOR ALL THE LATEST RESULTS CLICK ON Tuxford News, 10th October 2007 Matthew Stacey and Nicola Stacey (Tuxford Students) are running an after school club at Tuxford Comprehensive School every Thursday night 4.00- 5.00pm for Year 5 and 6 pupils within the Tuxford family. This is proving to be very popular at the last count with 14 pupils attending regularly. Tuxford News, 25th May 2007 Pupils from Gamston, East Markham, Tuxford and North Clifton primary schools took part in a hockey tournament enabling them to christen the new astro turf. Unfortunately we had picked a rainy evening in April but this did not deter the young hockey players. It was a very closely fought competition with all schools showing off their excellent hockey skills East Markham finished overall winners. Thanks go to year 12 Sports Leaders from Tuxford School who organised the teams on the night and officiated all the matches. Leading up to the tournament all schools with in the Tuxford family had the opportunity to access coaching and to try out our new facilities. Barbara Burton SSCO Tuxford News, 18th May 2007 JUNIOR FOOTBALL ORGANISERS YEAR 11 STUDENTS 30 Year 11 students participated in The FA Junior football Organisers Award at Tuxford School ran by Mr Lee Garrett. This award prepares the students with the skills to lead coaching sessions and organise a festival. The students were taught health and safety, skill practices, organisational issues and coaching awareness. The students invited the Tuxford family of schools to the festivals; eight Schools took part in the festivals, which were hosted by Elkesley primary School and Sutton on Trent primary School. The leaders organised the whole day, in the morning they ran football coaching sessions each student working with 4 or 5 pupils, this was then followed in the afternoon by a mini football tournament, all the pupils were in mixed teams managed by one of the tuxford JFO students. The students also took it in turn to officiate the games. DANCE LEADERS AND DANCE FESTIVAL 25 year 10 students are currently participating in the dance leaders course, which explores the different dance styles and how the students can lead interesting and fun dance sessions for pupils. Some of these students have already been teamed up with older more experienced dance leaders to enable them to start using their new skills by assisting with after school clubs in primary schools. The primary schools will then come together for a festival of dance on Friday March 16th at Tuxford School. Tuxford News, 2nd February 2007 | 
