426 SPRING NEWSLETTER 2024 Follow us @tsc_pedance PE We have enjoyed another badminton season in which the sport continues to be popular amongst our students. From October half-term until February half-term we have had a scheduled practice on Tuesday afterschool, available to students from all year groups to attend in order to start to learn the sport and improve their skills, practice to be competitive and represent school, or, simply just play socially with friends. Our sessions have been well attended, as always, and have attracted both boys and girls from across all 5 year groups. We competed in the league structure, playing competitive fixtures against Bolton Boys, Bolton Girls, Canon Slade, Rivington and Westhoughton, with some strong performances from our team players. The Year 9 and Year 10 students that have represented us now have a strong chance of winning the league next year after building their experience for the last two seasons. We also organised two KS3 badminton festivals to introduce the sport to our younger students and to expose them to competitive badminton. Our students loved these competitions and we look forward to many of them representing the team again next year. Badminton We were fortunate enough to have some of our students represent Bolton at the Greater Manchester Cross Country Championships on Saturday 3rd February at Heaton Park. This was following on from the individual success they had by finishing in the top 20 at the Bolton Schools’ Cross Country Championships back in November. The conditions on the day were tough and our students were competing against the strongest runners from across the other 9 boroughs in Greater Manchester but each one of them made us proud on the day. Well done to Harry P in Year 7, Amelia S in Year 8, Elise H in Year 8, Daniel A in Year 9, Abbas B in Year 10 and Nathaniel K in Year 10. Cross Country In January, we took 20 students to Bolton One for the Bolton Schools Swimming Championships which are held every year. This is an opportunity for those students at school who swim regularly for their club, to represent school and compete against the best swimmers from schools across the borough. The standard in many of the races is very high with multiple regional standard swimmers as well as a few national standard swimmers. We always find this challenging as we do not have the option of offering swimming on our PE curriculum but our students always rise to the challenge and this year was no exception. Swimming Our table tennis practices were hit-and-miss this term, with students attending on Monday evenings to learn how to play the game. The sessions grew in popularity as the term progressed with many of our Year 11 GCSE PE students filling the sessions in preparation for their upcoming moderations. We look forward to growing this next academic year. Table Tennis
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