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14/07/17

Issue 1

Welcome to Melksham Oak Sports News

READ THE LATEST NEWS EACH TERM

Welcome to the first issue of Melksham Oak Sports News. For the fore-

seeable future we hope to use this newsletter to help our students cele-

brate their sporting success both in school and outside of school

hours.

Since September we have had a number of sporting achievements some of

which may have been forgotten about or not reported on.

Melksham Oak Sports News has bought together a number of students who

have volunteered to report, photograph and video sporting events so that

sporting events can be celebrated.

Working with the media department we hope in the future to create our own

YouTube channel to show highlights of our sporting events. We also give

updates on twitter so why not give us a follow.

If you have any sporting achievements that students or staff would like to

share please email them to hershbeins@melkshamoak.wilts.sch.uk.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Star of the Term………………….2

A lesson for sports leaders…..3

Swimming champion…….……..4

Netball & Rounders………….....4

Year 11 football success………..5

Year 10 football review…..…….6

Taekwondo success……………..7

Year 9 Netball review…………..7

12 Hour Sportathon…………….8

Area Athletics success………....9

After school clubs……………….10

STAR OF THE TERM

Congratulations to George

(Year 7) who won PE star of

the term for term 6. George

has worked well in PE

throughout the year repre-

senting the school in both

football and rugby.

PE STAR OF THE TERM AWARD

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This academic year the PE department decided to adopt Mr Wolff’s great Idea of awarding a star of the

term for high effort levels and achievement in the subject.

Each member of PE staff nominates 3 students a term and a winner is picked at random. The overall

winner receives a prize.

All students who have been nominated this year can be seen below. This is also displayed around the

school on the TV’s to help celebrate the success of our students both in lessons and also highlighting

their commitment to extra curriculum sport.

Well done to all who have been nominated.

Keep up the good work.

“ Thank you for having such

an inspirational rewards sys-

tem, my daughter was over the

moon when her name was

pulled out” Mr & Mrs Dannatt

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MELKSHAM OAK STAR OF THE TERM

TERM 1 Winner

Esme Dannat

TERM 2 Winner Charlie Gerrish

TERM 3 Winner

Ben Fildes

TERM 4 Winner Chloe

Gardiner

TERM 5 Winner Sophia

Holloway

TERM 6 WinnerGeorge Foster

Abraham

Heddjeri

Vinnie Biro

Owen

Lythell

Kurtis Whatley-

Rawlings

Josh Stanley

Theo

Todhunter

Jess

Williams

Ben Brown

George

Foster

Sarah

Clark

Izzy

Nichols

Flo

O’Donovan

Jess Williams

Ben Brown

Sarah Clark

Chloe

Allen

Evisha

Pearce

Jakub

Swiecki

Jess

Arthur

Lydia

Crawford

Oliver

Clarke

Leo

Rendell

James

Witt

Shey

Mathurin

ATTITUDE RESPECT LEADERSHIP TEAMWORK DETERMINATION

RESILIENCE FAIR PLAY EFFORT SPORTSMANSHIP

SPORT LEADERS GET A LESSON FROM

GB’S FASTEST SNOWBOARDER

On 24th March our sports leaders were invited to join Great

Britain's fastest snowboarder Jamie Barrow on the Mendip out-

door ski slope for a snowboarding lesson.

Jamie is a sky sports mentor who travels to schools passing on

his knowledge of leadership and motivation.

He has his own story of how he battles with a debilitating back

condition to do what he loves. Jamie challenges himself and is

sponsored by Red Bull to participate in high risk stunts, his latest

and most dangerous being towed behind an aeroplane on a fro-

zen lake.

We hope that Jamie has inspired our sports leaders to push

themselves to the limits and believe that the impossible can be

possible if you put in the effort.

Congratulations to all who took part you were a credit to the

school.

WHAT IS A SPORTS

LEADER?

Our PE department run a

sports leadership incentive

sponsored by sky sports

that gives students the

opportunity to develop

their leadership skills.

Students from years 7-9

were given the opportunity

to apply at the beginning

of the year to be a sports

leader for the year. They

are then tasked with com-

pleting certain criteria all

linked to developing their

leadership skills.

In the past this has really

helped students develop

and also given them some-

thing extra to put on their

CV.

These students will contin-

ue to be sports leader next

year and help out new year

7 applicants.

Our sports leaders with Jamie Barrow

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Lydia with some of her medals

FUTURE OLYMPIC SWIMMING CHAMPION?

YEAR 7 & 8 NETBALL REVIEW

At the start of the year we had an excellent turnout to training, for both our year 7 and 8 Netballers. The girls took part in a number of matches and tournaments, some of the best results are shown below. Year 7 Results MOCS Vs Matravers – MOCS won 4 – 3 Players of the Match: Evisha P and Sophia H

MOCS Vs Clarendon – MOCS won 4 – 3 Players of the Match: Lashana H & Evisha P.

Year 8 Results MOCS Vs Clarendon – draw 9-9 Player of the Match: Maisie B.

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Year 8 student Lydia is currently in a rich vein of form.

This year has seen Lydia really excel in the pool. She is part of Trowbridge swimming club and also trains with Team Bath AS Performance swimming club, showing dedica-tion training is 6 times a week at Bath University.

This training has really paid off with a list of her achieve-ments this academic year listed below:

October 2016 Swim meet at Millfield, Bronze. November 2016 Swim meet in Bristol, 2 Bronze place-ments. December 2016 Swim meet in Weston Super Mare, 4 Golds & 1 Silver. December 2016 Swim meet in Bristol, She came away with 4 Silvers & 3 Bronze. January 2017 Wiltshire age group County championships in Swindon. 5 Golds, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze. March 2017 Swim meet in Swindon 9 Gold and 1 Silver. April 2017 Swim meet in Bristol, 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze. May 2017 – South West Regional Championships 5thand 6th in the 400m Freestyle & 800m Freestyle respectively. We would like to congratulate Lydia on her commitment to sport and hope that this will help inspire others to compete at the highest level their ability enables them to. We will keep you up to date on Lydia’s dream of one day representing at the Olym-pic games.

YEAR 7 SQUAD

Sophie D, Maddy S, Kelsey , Esma D, Phoe-be, Evisha P, Tilly B, Katie, Emily P, Poppy G, Libbby W, Mollie P, Grace L, Sophia H.

YEAR 8 SQUAD

Lucy S Izzy N Mia F Ella P Sophia N Molly W Maisie B

ROUNDERS

The rounders team has also been growing in numbers,

and they hope to take part in more competitions next

year, they did participate in one match this year ending

in a narrow loss by one rounder to Matravers.

If you are interested in playing rounders it will start up

again in the summer term 2018. We hope to see you

there.

“ Thanks to all the

girls for their effort

this year, they have

been fantastic”

Mrs Stickley & Mrs

Williams

“ Such a great feeling to win a trophy with all my school mates under great guid-ance by Mr Collins our hero, leader and inspiration” Jordan C

The year 11 football team had another successful year under the ‘innovative’ man-

agement style of Mr Collins. The season kicked off with an English School’s FA

cup game against old rivals Sheldon. Despite a good performance the team were

defeated by the better side on the day. This spurred the boys on to play for the title

of ‘Area Champions 2017’. They began the league campaign with a convincing 6-2

win against Matravers and went unbeaten against all other opponents in West

Wiltshire, finishing the league off with a re-match against St. Laurence on home

turf with an easy win to take the West Wilts title. The team went on to the Area

finals, playing at Stanley Park against Devizes. A brilliant 5-4 win where the score

line flattered the opposition, saw the boys retain their title as best team in the area

for another year running. Great work from a talented group of players. Mr Collins

wishes them the best for the future and looks forward to receiving 10% of all earn-

ings once signed on for their first club!

YEAR 11 AREA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS

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YEAR 10 FOOTBALL

SEASON REVIEW

SQUAD LIST

Ethan N

Cain C

Josh T

Aidan N

Callum

Owen W

Stu P

Henry P

Jack K

James W

Tommy S

Ollie P

Jake D

Mason P

Jack B

Brandon P

Josh T

Henry P

Josh S

1st game- 2-0 Win against Lavington.

Lavington turned up with 10 players, yet still played a solid game. Wasn’t

enough to stop the Melksham boys from scoring 2 MOTM- Tommy

2nd game- 5-3 Win against Matravers

Overall we deserved the win; however the high scoring game shows the

threat from both teams. MOTM- Jack B

3rd game- 2-2 Draw against Kingdown

A real tough game for both sides, however a tough Kingdown side were able

to comeback from a two-goal deficit. MOTM- Ethan N

4th game- 4-2 Win against Clarendon

Melksham certainly deserved the win in the game, could have and probably

should have scored more. MOTM- Brandon M

5th game- 4-4 Draw against John of Gaunt

Another tough game with both teams scoring late to end a well contested

game. MOTM- Jake D

6th game-3-0 Win against St Augustines

A clean sheet and three goals to reflect a good performance

MOTM- Cain C

7th game-3-2 Loss against St Laurence

A game we needed to win yet made it too easy for our opponents, resulting

in a loss. MOTM- Jack K

The year 10 football team had a great season under the

guidance on Mr Edwards. Team member Tommy S has

reviewed each game.

“ We would like to thank Mr

Edwards for all his hard work

this year and wish him well in

the future”

Year 10 football squad

“ A superb effort from one of our sixth form students, paving the way for others to aspire to” Mr Collins—Head of PE

Melksham Oak sixth form student Alexan-dra S has been taking part in Taekwondo-do for about 8 years, and has reached red belt with black tag. Her next step is to gain her black belt.

Alexandra has had another good year. Com-peting in many national and international competitions with great results.

During her time taking part in Taekwondo she has achieved both national and interna-tionally here are a list of her achievements:

Double Vice Poland Champion

Double Vice World Champion,

British Champion

3rd in England and South West

Champion of South West .

We would like to congratulate Alexandra in achieving and maintaining such high levels of perfor-mance, and showing that Melksham Oak students can compete at the top level.

Well done to all year 9 netball players this year on another very successful season.

The girls committed to training worked incredibly hard displaying great enthusiasm and team spirit.

Their approach paid off winning all but one of their matches throughout the season.

The team took back their reputation of being a for-midable team in the area by taking back their lead and finishing in top position in the West Wiltshire year 9 tournament.

A super well done to the team, Molly C, Kia , Daisy H, Sophie M, Billy C, Kay-la D, Cerys P, Kalia P, Am-ber R, Nicole P, Sadie and Nicole H and to all those that trained, your coach couldn’t be more proud.

RISING TAEKWAN-DO STAR

YEAR 9 NETBALL TEAM MAINTAIN TOP SPOT

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“Well done to all year 9 players on a very suc-cessful year” Mrs Sawyer

On Saturday 8th July more than 60 students took part in a 12 hour Sporta-

thon that saw them compete in sporting activities from 8am-8pm.

The aim was to raise as much mon-

ey as we could for The Wiltshire Air

ambulance, this is a local charity

that receives no government fund-

ing and will be our local ambulance

station when they move to their

new airbase in Semington in 2018.

Each student was sponsored and

raised at least £10 to last the dura-

tion of the event which sounds easi-

er than it was.

The first few hours were good with

mass participation and students choosing to participate in either tennis

or a football tournament.

However with the temperature rising

to nearly 30°C, students, teachers

and volunteers were struggling to

keep hydrated. Mr Wolff had organised a barbeque so some broke

for lunch whilst the games continued around them.

The effort from the students was amazing and they finally finished

the day with a 25 yard football shoot out. Everyone we spoke to en-

joyed the event but needed Sunday to recover.

A massive thank you to everyone who took part and helped organise the event, the students have man-

aged to raise over £2000. Some of the students who stayed for the whole 12 hours will be selected to

visit the Wiltshire Air Ambulance base to present a cheque in the coming weeks.

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“ Amazing effort! Thank you

so much for your support

and energy”

Wiltshire Air Ambulance

AREA ATHLETICS AT

BATH UNIVERSITY

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We had another fantastic day at Bath University when over 50 students participated in the annual area

athletics championships.

This is always a great opportunity for our students to participate on a professional track where the Great

Brittan athletes train on a regular basis. The facilities excellent and this is often where future athletes are

spotted and invited to train with team Bath.

This year students teams were selected from those who did well in events taught in their PE lessons and

also those who attended after school athletics club on a regular basis.

We have some outstanding athletes in our school, and are now starting to nurture them, getting them to

believe that they can be the best in the county and beyond if they train hard and believe in themselves.

All the students performed to the best of their ability and we had a number of top three finishes. However

two athletes who deserve a special mention are Evisha P (Year 7) and James W (Year 10) who both won

their events.

Evisha won the 100m sprint and was selected to represent North

Wilts at the County Championships. While James managed to win

the 800m for the third successive year, this is a great achievement

showing commitment and dedication to the event. The next step is

for both athletes to push themselves to the next level and try to lead

our team to another successful meet next year.

Well done to everyone who took part. They are now helping to show

that Melksham Oak produces superb athletes who are proud to rep-

resent the school.

Free after school sports clubs JUST BRING YOUR KIT AND JOIN IN

The PE department have put together a timetable for a range of sports that students can experi-

ence from Monday-Thursday each week.

These clubs are for any student in the school to challenge themselves in sports that they may not

get the chance to in lessons. This also gives the students the opportunity to represent the school in

fixtures and competitions against other schools.

It would be great to see each student attending at least one club and help us continue the sporting

success at the school.

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SPORTS CLUBS TIMETABLE TERM 1

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

AFTERSCHOOL

BADMINTON(badminton

Coach)

Week1

YEAR 7/8FOOTBALL

(Mr Hershbein)

HOCKEYAll YEARS(Mr Wolff)

RUGBYALL YEARS

(Mad Dog & PE staff)

Week 2YEAR 9/10 FOOTBALL

(Mr Hershbein)

TRAMPOLINING(Miss Hayden-

SmithMrs Stickley)

NETBALLALL YEARS(Female PE

staff)

THEORYCATCH UP

BTEC/Cambridge Years 9-13

(Mr Hershbein)

These may be subject to change due to fixtures being played or availability of staff.