Oakington Manor’s Sport Review

 

I am sure that many of you are aware of the dramatic changes over the year in opportunities for the children at Oakington to be involved in sport at school.  We are now able to offer clubs before and after school and at lunch time for a variety of age groups and sporting activities.

What have we achieved?

Awarded Gold Active Mark

This is a very prestigious award given to schools in recognition of their commitment and provision of sport. Many schools are only awarded an active mark but we were awarded Gold and this was before the changes that have taken place this year!

 

Athletics

Oakington won the Oakington Manor Indoor Athletics Winners Shield in a competition  where 15 primary schools from across the borough attended.

 

 

Six children from Oakington were part of a Borough squad of 30 children who attended Norwich Union Indoor Athletics festival at Crystal Palace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borough Athletics, run through the City Academy, where both year groups 5 and 6 came second in their respective age groups. 

Dance

Year 3 children (25 boys and girls) involved in the Town Hall Dance Festival for the 2012 Olympic Bid.

 

Football

Brent 7-a-side football tournament.  Both the Boys Team and the Girls Team were knocked out in the semi-finals.

 

Brent League (11-aside football.  Current cup holder) winners

 

      

 

 

 

 

Winners of the Brent North League (football)                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

        QPR tournament winners (Current holders of the shield)

 

 

Girls 7-a-side football tournament (semi-finalists) Brent Football Association

            Year 4 football tournament champions                          

                       

Brent River Park Football Tournament (semi-finalists)

Basketball

Winners of a basketball competition held at Oakington Manor for our family of primary schools (Wykeham, Anson and Chalkhill).

 

 

Cricket

Cricket Festival held at Oakington, open to all primary school in the School Sports Coordinator Programme (4th and 5th place).

 

BBC Sport Borough Kwik Cricket open to all primary schools in the Borough (3rd place)

 

 

 

 

Tag Rugby

Tag Rugby Festival for year group5 (3rd place)

 

Borough Tag Rugby Year Group 5 & 6 (3rd place)

 

Multi-Sports

Brent Sports Festival with all the schools from the School Sports Co-Ordinator partnership in which we are involved. We came an impressive 7th when you consider we had to take children from a younger year group because of other commitments.  They were also awarded a trophy for their efforts in Netball.

London Youth Games

Five of our children were selected to represent the Borough at the London Youth Games (Rory Eduh for Basketball; Lamar Roberts, Neiko James, Felicia Griffiths and Anita McFarlane for indoor athletics).

A personal note

It is always heartening to see parents coming to competitions to encourage and support their child.  If you are ever able to help supervise children at such events please contact me to reserve your space on the mini-bus.

 

As you can see, we have had great success in sport, over the year.  But this is only one aspect of measurable success that we have achieved. We are seeing more children becoming actively involved in many of the clubs but my goal is to see all the children being engaged in sport at some level.  You can help by encouraging your child to becoming more active and involved in a club.  Watch out for club information when we return in September.

 

Robert Smith (P.E. Co-ordinator)