P.E. Department News
YEAR 7 NETBALL TEAM
Runner-Up at North Oxfordshire Netball Tournament
The Year 7 Netball Team raised their game on Thursday 6th March 2008 when they represented the school at the District Netball Tournament . They played six other schools and were determined to do their very best.
The players in the team were:
GK - Alannah Murphy
GC- Alex Ayckbourn
WD- Nichola Taylor
C- Maddie Small/Laura Hicks
WA- Carla Jones
GA- Elizabeth Wallace
GS- Jennie Weston
The results of the matches were as follows:
Gosford Draw 2 - 2
NOA Win 9 - 1
BCC Win 4- 2
Warriner Draw 4 - 4
Banbury Win 7 - 0
CONGRATULATIONS!
Year 8 Netball Team
Blessed George Napier are winners of the Under 13 District Netball Tournament held of Thursday 28th February at Bicester Community College.
BGN players were very nervous as they entered their first Netball Tournament of the year. The team grew in confidence as they won five games in a row beating BCC (4 - 2), Gosford (4 - 2) NOA (4 - 0), BCC `B` (4 - 0), Banbury (6 - 0)
The team scored 23 goals and conceded only 4 goals during the Year 8 District Netball Tournament.
Ellie Davies
Victoria Allman
Poppy Vinall
Katy Waddington
Georgie Blacker
Katie Budd
Katrina Shurrock
Rebecca Coomber
Year 11 Netball Team
The Year 11 netball team played brilliantly at the District Netball Tournament and finished runners-up. Their team work was fantastic to watch.
We wish them good luck representing the district at the County Tournament on Wednesday 12th March.
Very well done!
Elizabeth Burke RW
Emily Page BTT
Fran Smith RRW
Abbi Mulan
Helen Budd CST
Imogen Phillips CST
Roisin Welby CST
Rosie Wilson CST
24 Year 8 students spent a week at Kilvrough Outdoor Education Centre in West Wales from 14th - 18th June . They learned canoeing, caving, climbing and abseiling, while improving their teamwork and communication skills. A fun, wet ant tiring week was had by all!
Dance Department Show Thursday 7th June 7.30pm in the School Hall. Tickets are prices at £5.00 adult and £3.00 child, concessions £3.00. Tickets are on sale at the school or on the door on the evening. This should be an enjoyable evening on dance - please come along and support the students if you can. Proceeds will go towards the Dance Department I-Pod fund.
Golf Club - will start from this week at lunchtime. From this club pupils will complete a Leadership Course to coach our Primary Schools.
County Football Team:
Ryan Wilson - Year 9 selected for County Football Team - Well done!
Leadership Courses:
Leadership courses run in the Easter Holidays through North Oxfordshire School Sport Partnership organised by Carl Hamilton (PDM)
Cricket
Athletics
Tennis
Year 8 Outdoor Educational Trips:
Outdoor Educational Trips running this term for Year 8 students - 30th April 2007 - 4th May 2007 : Glasbury
11th June 2007 - 15th June 2007 : Kilvorugh.
Possible 2012 Olympian!:
Laura Ferguson trains with the elite at Loughborough. In the National Talent Orientation Camp - she is on the World Class Start programme and a possible 2012 Olympian. Good luck Laura and well done!
James Sturla (Head of PE), Kayleigh Marsden and Antony Coggins (Teaching Assisants) have been working in a School in Durban, South Africa called Brettonwood. This project is in its second year and has been jointly funded by the British Council and UK Sport. The project is called `Ideals` which stands for International Development through Excellence And Leadership in Sport. This is the second phase of this years project coming after BGN hosted a Teacher and two gap students from South Africa in January for 6 weeks. James, Kayleigh and Antony are helping to restructure the school`s PE curriculum, their out of school hours learning, develop leadership skills and experience a different culture and educational establishments. They are enjoying the challenges of a school which does not have planned PE lessons (the students are given a ball and run around for 25 minutes) They are working during a heat wave with temperatures reaching 40 degrees plus with humidity. However, they are also supported by extremely helpful and friendly staff.
We have just finished a sports festival with the grade 8`s (yr7) it was based on an athletics format. Before this took place we introducted a house system into the school. The students then voted for their house captains and selected their team. In the previous three weeks to the festival we taught the students how to perform the different events, which included speed bounce and tug of war. The event was a great success and the principle will now be rolling the house system out to the rest of the school.
James Sturla returned to BGN on Monday 19th March, Kayleigh and Antony returned two weeks later after travelling to Capetown and Kruger National Park.
County Cross Country Results
Year 7 12th March 07
Sam Ginger 8th
Callum Greville 41st
Rhys Potter 43rd
Ryan Buick 45th
Andrew Ingram 87th
Caleb Robinson 88th
Karl Girling 92nd
The annual school competion took place at Wade Gymanstics Club on Sat 24th March against three other local schools:
1st Place in school was awarded to Laura Stagliano
2nd Place overall was awared to Rebecca Biddle
3rd Place overall was awarded to Laura Stagliano
Well done to you all!
The three teams were as follows:
Hannah Swales, Abbie Mullan, Rebecca Biddle, Laura Stagliano, Georgina Long
Chloe Harper, Alysha Ong, Tessa Gamble, Leah Chittenden, Paris Malcher
William Gilks, Isabel Stafford, Rebecca Witton, Charlotte Jones, Emily Wittwer
Thanks to every one who attended
Jacob Merrell 125th