Sport in DASP

Spring Term 2012

The DLC Football Festival Tuesday 24th January 2012

The Dorchester Learning Centre (DLC) hosted its first Football Festival at Redlands this term. The DLC pupils planned fun skill activities and games for the festival as well as providing a mini 4 a side football tournament towards the end of the morning. This is such a unique opportunity that DLC pupils showed off their leadership skills to the community. Dorchester Middle School Year 6 pupils were invited to attend the festival. All the boys at DMS loved the festival and especially enjoyed the tournament.

Dill Butcher worked fantastically with his DLC pupils to provide constant enjoyment and motivation to all the yr 6 DMS pupils.

“What a fantastic morning for DASP schools. To have DLC pupils provide leadership to our Year 6 pupils at DMS. This proves that the DASP schools are working together to get the best out of our pupils in Dorchester. The DLC pupils had unique leadership opportunities and completed them well and the DMS Year 6 pupils had progressive skill training in football. Everyone is a winner”

Mr Dailey
DASP SSCo (Sports Co-ordinator)

Autumn Term 2011

A fantastic start to the sporting year in the DASP schools. We have had nearly all of the 13 first schools undergo a taster in basketball and multi skills. Young year 3 and 4 pupils have had the chance to put their skills to the limit in basketball. Their individual skills with the ball and as well as team work in passing and scoring in the sport have been fantastic. There has been more than 600 pupils learning and tasting the new sport of basketball in their first schools in the Dorchester Area. To carry on the momentum of basketball, all the first schools was invited to a yr 3 and 4 basketball competition held at St Osmunds Middle and St Mary’s Middle schools, where all the local first schools competed against everyone else. There were fantastic leadership from yr 8 pupils in both middle schools to help run the tournament. The winners of the yr 3 and 4 basketball tournaments were Frome Valley and St Mary’s Catholic first schools.

All of the first schools have also entered in the yr 1 and yr 2 Multi skills competition this year. This is a great way to allow all of the yr 1 and yr 2’s to compete against all of the other schools in Dorchester without having to everyone in one venue. Pupils will take part in a multi skill lesson where there are 6 stations testing athletes co-ordination, speed, strength, agility and balance. Each pupil will have an individual score that will be collated and compared to the others in their class/their school and the rest of their year groups in the whole of Dorchester. I had sports leaders in most of the first schools in yr 4 to help out run the multi skills sessions. Credit is due to the many yr 4 sports leaders for helping their school achieve good scores. This means every single pupil in yr 1 and yr 2 in the whole of Dorchester will have a score and is competing against everyone else in their year.

When all of the schools have completed their multi skills lesson the scores are handed in. The top class and individual result will be rewarded. The top two pupils from each year group in each school was then invited to Dorchester Middle School or St Mary’s Middle School were they competed to see which school has the best multi skill athletes in yr’s 1 and 2. Both Damers and Milbourne St Andrews first schools came out on top.

Below are the weblinks to the festivals from the Echo.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/9418081.Delight_for_Damers_after_showing_off_their_skills/
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/9405328.Milborne_s_skills_show/

The first schools so far have been buzzing with sporting enrichment this year and I wish it continues into the spring and summer term. The middle schools this year have been showing fantastic leadership to not only to the rest of their school but to local first schools as well. To start with Dorchester Middle and St Mary’s Middle Schools both ran Super Schools this term and had super leaders supporting the rest of their school through some quick intense circuit training. All the yr 8 pupils lead their entire school through the sporting activity superbly. The Sports leaders at St Mary’s also went into Milborne St Andrews and Frome Valley to run Multi Skills to their yr 1 and 2’s. The leaders were a credit to their school and deserve recognition for how they engaged and motivated the young yr 1 and 2’s in multi skills. In the other Middle Schools, St Osmunds and DMS (Dorchester Middle School) the yr 8 sports leaders lead a multi skill competition for the whole of years 5 and 6. The sports leaders gave up their lunchtimes twice a week for 7 weeks to make sure all of yr 5 and 6 had a try and competed in Multi Skills. The year 5 and year 6 pupils all enjoyed taking part and always thanked the leaders for helping keep their scores. The yr 5 and 6 pupils competed in their tutors at lunchtime to see if their whole tutor score would make their tutor the best in their year group at multi skills.

When the DASP Olympic Torch was handed to two of the middle schools (St Osmunds and DMS) they both had a unique idea of creating the Olympic Rings with pupils from their school before handing it over to the next school. St Osmunds had a limousine drive the torch up to DMS where DMS had the traditional idea of running the torch up to The Thomas Hardyes School.

All three Middle Schools entered in the first every Annual yr 5 and 6 Tag Rugby Festival hosted by Dorchester Rugby Club. The afternoon consisted of high quality coaching in set coaching stations lead mostly by level 1 or 2 Rugby coaches. This coaching was given to the DASP schools free by Dorchester Rugby Club. After the first section of the festival – the tournament began. DMS, St Mary’s and St Osmunds all participated and competed strongly against each other. There was one clear winning school out of the afternoon and the victors was St Osmunds. The Thomas Hardyes School has had a great start with their leaders getting prepared to offer local first schools an Olympic Fitness lesson to any first school pupils in years 2, 3 and 4.

It has been a fast pro-active start to the year with sport in the Dorchester Area Schools Partnership. First schools having tasters in Basketball and other sports. Middle Schools competing in multi skills and showing tremendous leadership skills in year 8’s and The upper school getting set to lead sport/PE in the local first schools. The next step is to have the first schools try more sports and more involved with sports and the Olympics. The middle schools to have more intra competitions and have the Upper school show more leadership in not just the first but in the middle schools too. Spring and Summer term will be a fantastic chance to improve/develop sport in all the DASP Schools which I am personally looking forward to organising.

Mr Dailey
DASP SSCo (Sports Co-ordinator)