The 6th Form football team travelled to Trinity on Wednesday night for their league match. The match started badly and got worse with AV eventually going in at half time 4-1 down. After a half time rearrange we went back out with a renewed purpose and immediately went on the attack and scored a quick goal. We battled back with two goals from Chris Bryant, one from Karl Bryant and one from Jordan Banner to go into the last 5 minutes 5-4 down. Unfortunately we could not force the equaliser and eventually lost 5-4. Man of the match was Tom Wheatcroft who worked incredibly hard all game.
The Boys should be congratulated on their second half performance.
Training every Thursday.
Mr Mellor
Last week, our media team worked really hard to make sure the Sports Broadcast was ready to launch on Friday 14th November. We hope to launch new broadcasts each week and each episode will have regular features such as students of the week, latest sporting news and more. Make sure you stop by and watch last weeks broadcast.
On Wednesday 19th November, the school trampolining team are doing a sponsored three hour jump to raise money for t-shirts and leotards. The event will start at 13:30 and will finish at 16:30.
The participants spend an hour and half every Thursday, from 3 - 4:30 practicing and learning skills and routines for up-coming competitions.
Watch this space for news and events concerning the AVTT (Arrow Vale Trampolining Team).
Following on from the success of the Sports Leadership Awards delivered at Arrow Vale the Foreign Language Leaders Award (FLLA) has been launched by Miss Noble and Miss Barber with a group of Year 10 GCSE French students. The Award teaches students how to plan and deliver short lessons, builds teamwork and confidence and provides an exciting and innovative classroom environment for the teaching and learning of French. As part of the Award, Arrow Vale's FLLA students visited Ipsley this week and taught a short lesson of French to groups of Year 8 students using laptops, worksheets, games and powerpoint and presented the Ipsley students with a certificate the end. The morning was a huge success to be repeated in the very near future at Churchill Middle School. Congratuations to all the leaders involved (if you don't know who they are look out for the FLLA badges on their ties or blazer).
Miss Barber/Miss Noble
The British National Trampolining Championships took place at Cocksmoor Woods Leisure Centre on Sunday March 9th. Rachael Elsegood in 13CB represented Arrow Vale in this competition and finished in a very creditable second place out of the top 9 performers in Great Britain. Rachael commented "I'm very pleased to have reached The Nationals but feel that I underperformed on the day. The whole event was really exciting and culminated in a closing ceremony like the Olympics".
Congratulations are due to the Arrow Vale Yr 11 Rugby League team, who took part in the Northern Festival of The Carnegie Champion Schools Tournament on Wednesday 23rd of January at Knottingley RUFC, Wakefield. They beat their East Midlands rivals Ellis Guildford Sports College 12-0 in their first game and went on to a convincing victory over the North East champions, Long Benton School from Newcastle, by a scoreline of 32-4.
The team are now officially Midlands Champions and can look forward to a National 1/4 Final before 1/2 term.
Thursday, 20th December will see the second round of House Matches. Boys will be playing rugby whilst the girls will be playing football. The boy's rugby house tournament is in need of sporty stars to take to the field and take part in a competitive, death match that is the house matches. To apply please see Mr Maycock. Remember to bring kit and your competitive spirit.
A gaming competition is also taking place on the same day. Halo 3 will be played on an Xbox 360 and linked to the theatre projector for some intense gaming action. Check back for updates and results!
Rachael Elsegood represented Arrow Vale High School at the County Schools trampolining championships at Haybridge Leisure Centre on November 10th. She is currently in year 13 and competed in the U19 closed section of the competition. Rachael came 1st out of 19 competitors performing a routine with a maximum tariff of 2.0. She won with a winning score of 52.6 points and improved upon her score from last year.
Rachael attends Redditch trampolining Club at the Abbey Stadium where she trains and coaches six days a week. She is a qualified level 1 assistant coach and also volunteers her time at Bromsgrove and Stratford clubs. She is also using her love of trampolining to achieve her Step into SportGold award and has completed 88 voluntary hours.
As a result of her county success Rachael will go on to represent Arrow Vale in the Regional competition at Cocksmoor Woods Leisure Centre in December. She will be competing against other schools from the West Midlands where she hopes to continue her good form.
Quote from Rachael
"I was really pleased with my performance in the competition. I am training hard and focusing on my goal of qualifying for the zonal championships next year".
JFO is a course which helps people who want to get into the coaching side of football. It helps develop knowledge and understanding of the game and how to teach basic skills to less experienced players.
Over the course of two days I really enjoyed everything we did. Coaching is something I've always looked to do when I'm older as I have always been interested in every aspect of football, so this course was the right one for me. As I am quite a quiet person this course along with the help from the coach and fellow students has helped me become more confident and to take me out of my comfort zone.
After asking other students who also took part what they enjoyed most they all replied with "everything!". We learnt new things but it was presented to us in a fun and non-boring way. The activity that I enjoyed the most was planning my own session with a partner and together presenting it to the rest of the group to do and give us feedback on. We chose to do a penalty shoot out which was a fun way to practice shooting and it appeals to all ages. After each player had taken a few shots we than adapted to the skill level of the player for example if it was to easy they had to shoot with their weaker foot.
The FA books that we were given were very useful because they had basic activities, which we then adapted to make them our own and present them to the rest of the group.
This course is a starting point for my coaching. After doing this course I feel confident to push myself on to take part in more coaching courses. I can now help out with coaching at a football club for 6-11 year olds, which I will start very soon. This course has helped me a lot, so when given the chance to do a similar course at a higher level I will definitely consider it. If you are interested in football coaching I would advise this course as it can lead you on to a lot more courses in the future.
Chantelle Elder 10JBI
Congratulation to the Year 11 netball team who beat Kingsley 8 goals to 2 in their final match at Arrow Vale.
