School Sports Round-up |
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20-Oct-2008 - [School] The first half term of the academic year has been an exciting and During October a group of students and staff went to the National Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville, returning with 6 Gold, 6 Silver and 4 Bronze medals between five students. This included a clean sweep of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the Boccia event, and Marie Devlin was 'talent-spotted' for Powerlifting and asked to attend a weekend training camp. The following week a Boccia team from the Y11 GCSE PE group won the South East Team Boccia event, and the school were recognised as winners of the 'Excellence in Disabled Sport' category of |
productive one for sport at Treloar School. At the end of August Marie Devlin and Joshua Toomer represented the South East in Athletics at the UK School Games in Bath. Marie gained the bronze medal and a Personal Best (PB) in Discus, with Josh only narrowly missing out on the medals. We all looked on in awe at the spectacle of the Beijing Paralympics, where former school students Ben Rushgrove and David Smith won medals - Ben got Silver in the men's T36 100m, despite having a broken bone in his foot, and David helped the Great Britain Boccia Team to their first-ever Paralympic Gold medal. Swimmer Danielle Watts was attending her third Paralympics but failed to medal this time, swimming against others with lesser degrees of disability than herself. Head of PE Sandra King was also in Beijing, as part of the training for her secondment as Competition Manager for Boccia for the London Paralympics in 2012. 
the Daily Telegraph / Norwich Union national 'School Sport Matters' awards. This recognises the breadth of our curriculum offer to the students, the availability of sporting clubs, teams and activities provided by a wide range of staff, and the support given to students who achieve national and international sporting honours.