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Sports council meets the governors

The welling Sports council have only just begun their work improving PE and Sport at

Welling School. They were asked to talk with the schools governors about what they

have been doing and what they wish to do in the future. Karlan Grant, Sam Donovan,

George Horrigan and Abbie Gray volunteered to represent the Sports council and were

mightily impressive! This is what they had to say.

The Sports council has been developed so that we have a voice to change Sport and PE

at Welling School. It is an opportunity for us who love sport, to get together and discuss

ideas as to how we can make PE and Sport at Welling better and more interesting.

Each tutor group has a sports captain who was elected by the rest of their tutor group.

We all have badges! We meet on Fridays at 8.20-8.55 in the LRC. Sometimes, we meet

as years 7-9 or 10-13, or sometimes we meet as a whole sports council. After these

meetings we take back ideas and talk with our tutor groups. Each year group has a sixth

form sports captain as a mentor to help with discussions.

What have we done so far?

At first, we were asked to help the PE department with changing the curriculum inPE for next year. We were asked what we liked, and what we didnt like about PE.We were also asked what we would like to see for next year- things like doingdifferent activities, more activities after school like fitness and badminton. Wehave seen that they have listened as there is now a fitness club on a Monday afterschool for yr7-9.

After the Olympic Assembly in November, we were asked to go back to our tutorgroups and discuss a few ideas that we can do to make sure everyone knows

about the Olympics and what it stands for. We have been told that this will behappening after Sport Relief. We have been asked about rewards in PE and how the PE department can change

the way it rewards students. We have felt that not enough is done to say welldone to ordinary students who do well in PE, or celebrate achievements in PE. Wehave put forward a variety of different ideas from postcards, raffle tickets andspecial ties or badges for those representing the school in Sports teams. Our ideashave been taken back to the PE department who are developing a new system forSeptember 2010.

For the last 6 weeks, we have been meeting every Friday to plan a week offundraising activities in aid for Sport Relief. We spent a lot of time discussing

different ideas and have come up with a plan which has been put together for theSport Relief week- this includes working with the Catering company for a specialmenu on the Friday of Sports Relief. We will be responsible for running theactivities, going into assemblies to make sure everyone knows whats going on andcollecting the money during the week.

Future Vision of Welling Sports council

We want to drive change for PE and Sport at Welling School. There are a lot of talented

sports people here and most really enjoy sport. We want to;

Ensure that there are more opportunities for our talented sports people

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We want to go round the school, to each department and lessons to see how wecan use sport to make lessons more enjoyable eg with DT to make a wooden ball-Use sport to make lessons better;

We want to see more sport related ideas around the school. Get involved more with the Olympics and get the Inspire mark. Meet for longer so that we can discuss more and plan at the same time.