Gumley House School, Middlesex
Leadership and risk management
Gumley House School organised a huge sports festival for 200 primary school
students, 192 Year 7 Gumley students and Year 10 and 11 sports leaders.
Gumley House School decided to invite Year 4 primary school pupils from five different schools: The Blue School, Isleworth Town, Our Lady and St. John, St. Mary’s RC School Chiswick and St. Michael and St. Martin. The sports festival would also include Gumley’s Year 7 students and 40 Year 10 and 11 Gumley sports leaders to lead the primary students through their activities.
Due to the size of the event, sports areas at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham were hired. Expertise was on hand from the P.E staff, other teachers and Andy Killick, a local sports co-ordinator who helped to create the concept for the day and trained sports leaders. Additional help came from Brentford FC Sports Trust. The Community Sports Trust provided coaches for numerous activities, including: team building, tag rugby, handball, boxercise, tennis, football, inflatable football, golf, penalty shoot-outs, trampolining, dance mats and circus skills.
Creativity and team building
The Year 10 Enterprise students took up the challenge of designing special t-shirts which embodied the Olympic and Paralympic Values. The finished t-shirts were worn by all the sports leaders on the day, and brilliantly captured the essence of the event.
Team building activities were carefully built in to the event to ensure that children of different ages worked collaboratively.
Students also designed certificates which were awarded to members of each team and approached parents/relatives for ‘goody bag’ donations as prizes.
Living the Olympic and Paralympic Values.
As well as being a celebration of diversity, the event helped to foster a feeling of positive transion for students movoing from the primary to secondary phase.
Courage and determination were shown by many students who had a go at several activities they had not attempted before.
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