PE REPORT ISSUE 3
6TH March 2012
Heartlands Winners! Olympic and Youth Sports Trust Innovation Award
Paralympics dream... ...is now a reality for six Heartlands pupils!
Heartlands PE Team - elated winners of the YST Innovation Award
Heartlands Academy Physical Education team emerged victorious when they won a national award from the Youth Sports Trust for their excellent use of PE and school sport to improve whole school standards. The Youth Sports Trust innovation awards is an annual event whereby schools from across the country come together to celebrate the impact sport is having on the lives of young people and celebrate the achievements of outstanding contributions from schools and individuals. The Youth Sports Trust has not previously informed schools of shortlists or winners and was determined to maintain the level of surprise until the last possible moment. This meant that the Heartlands PE team travelled up to Telford to attend the awards
dinner without knowing if they had even made it onto the short list. Sitting in the front row, the team nervously awaited the result and were disappointed to not see their name on the short list or even as the runner up – however, once Baroness Sue Campbell CBE began to describe the winning school, all the pieces came together – it was us, the Heartlands Academy PE team had won! A representative from the Youth Sports Trust later congratulated the team stating that the “application stood out and was by far the best they had read” – he went on to say that the “teaching and learning shone through and that the supporting evidence was fantastic”. A deserved win for the whole Heartlands Academy community! PE Team
An amazing, once in a lifetime opportunity, has arrived for six Heartlands pupils to be part of London 2012. The lucky six are: Fahima Ali Mahamed; Jeblu Miah; Tahir Mohammed; Arshad Hussain; Naveed Hussain and Anita Chan. The Heartlands pupils will be the official ball boys and ball girls for the Paralympics Table Tennis this summer. The Table Tennis event is one of the biggest events at the Paralympics and will be shown live on television, across the globe... Our team of Heartlands Olympians, will be working for five days on the games and will truly experience, a once in a lifetime opportunity. Good luck to the pupils and keep an eye out for them during London 2012. PE Team
Sports Day 14th June at the Hadley Stadium