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Deer Park Archers are promoting the sport of archery by running a range of beginners programmes
and 'have a goes' in a number of local schools across Gloucestershire.
Bourton on the Water Primary School win Summer
Term Trophy
Bourton pipped Archway school by the narrowest of margins to take the Summer Term Trophy competed
for by 10 teams and 116 archers. See the following link for full details.
Click Here for link to Archery in Schools Gloucestershire and the full results/photos.
Summer Term
Deer Park Archers are
running programmes in 10 schools this term, many funded by Sport Unlimited, others by schools. The format is typically 1 to
1 1/4 hours directly after school. There are always school staff/representitives present.
Some schools have 2 parts
to the after-school club, those following a beginners course as part of Sport Unlimited and those who have already completed
a program and have elected to continue. One example is Kingshill School who are all (25) members of Archery
GB and Deer Park Archers, another is Bouneside School who have a mixture of Sport Unlimited and those who have already
completed.
The week beginning the 14th June will see 10 teams competing against each other for the Gloucestershire
Inter-Schools Trophies and individual titles. See Schools pages for results and photos from the 21st June.
Gloucestershire Invited to play a leading
role in schools archery!
With all the work currently going on in Gloucestershire schools, Archery GB have
invited the County Sports Partnership and Gloucestershire Archery Society to become a lead County in the Campaign to make
archery a more prominent sport in schools. This will attract more funding and support for the county and for clubs playing
an active role.
A meeting with all parties being involved has been planned for 21st June at Deer Park. Kate Moss (Archery
GB) will also attend one of the current after-school clubs being supported by deer Park Archers.
Balcarras School Beginners Take the
Spring Term Title!
A superb performance by the Balcarras team made up of Beginners who have been shooting
for less than 8 weeks took the title. They will be presented with the Trophy by the Head Teacher during school assembly.
One member of the team, Amber won the Gold Medal in the Individual ladies event, with another school member shooting for
the Improvers Team winning Gold in the gents.
Kingshill School pupils picked up 2 medals in the individual event,
with Sir William Romney and Bouneside winning 1 each.
In the Teachers Competition Balcarras won 2 of the medals
and a Whitminster the other.
Well done to everyone that competed, the standard was again high.
Inter-School competiton - March 2010 - Results Added
9 teams taking part with over 100 individual entries!
Results and
Photos to be progressively added during March.
Inter-Schools Sport Unlimited Competition November 2009
Between November 20th and the 27th the following schools will record scores
shooting a Cotswold Round;
Kingshill Beginners, Kingshill Improvers, Archway, Shurdington, Balcarras and Sir William
Romney.
The school team score will be the median score for the archers entered, normally 16, the winning school will
receive a trophy. The top 3 individual archers from each school will receive certificates and the overall top 3 individual
archers will receive medals.
Schools Programmes
These are running daily in a number of schools under the Sport
Unlimited Programme. 3 of these schools are starting GNAS After-School Clubs.
The Club has already benefited financially
and now the club has been offered significant reductions in our hire fees for the general club meetings. Thank you to Steph,
Dan and Roger for their efforts. Our junior members who attend the participating schools can also attend their after-school
clubs. Likewise those GNAS School club members can attend our DPA sessions.
Sport Unlimited Funding Bid for Summer & Autumn 2010 and
Spring 2011 The application for further funding to run archery year 3 programmes at 12 local schools in the Cotswolds,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Tetbury and Stroud areaa has now been submitted. The plan is to train up teachers/school representitives
to be able to run after school archery clubs in a number of these schools. We will provide coaching support etc. We now have a waiting
list of schools in the Cotswold, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud CSPAN's that would like to be involved as well as long
waiting lists of pupils who would like to do archery in all of the existing schools!
The club has also submitted an application
to ArcheryGB for some extra funding to buy additional equipment, we should have a response by the end of November.
Sport Unlimited Funding Bid for Autumn 2009 and Spring 2010
The application for
further funding to run archery programmes in 6 local schools over the Autumn and Spring Terms has now been approved. Balcarras, Kingshill,
Sir William Romney and Archway will each have 2 programmes running before and after the new year. Shurdington and the Whitminster
Centre one each. The plan is to train up teachers/school representitives to be able to run after school archery clubs in a
number of these schools. We will provide coaching support etc. We now have a waiting list of schools in the Cotswold, Cheltenham,
Gloucester and Stroud CSPAN's that would like to be involved as well as long waiting lists of pupils who would like to
do archery in all of the existing schools!
Sport Unlimited Programmes
The club is being funded by Active Gloucestershire to run a number of 8 week beginners programmes with local
schools. Further details of the programme can be found via the following link.
We are currently working with the following schools as part of the Sport Unlimited Programme running 8 week beginners
programmes;
Coberley School
Birdlip School
Kingshill School
We are also working with Archway School running 2 beginners programmes and The Whittminster Centre, Stroud.
We are running archery experience sessions at the following schools;
Sir Henry Box - Oxford
Stroud and Cirencester College
Sir William Romney School - Tetbury
We are fortunate to have experienced coaches who have gained extensive experience working with juniors and a range of
ideal equipment for junior archers.
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