Archery in Schools

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Archery in Schools

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Kingshill After-School Club Now has 48 members!

At the start of the November term Kingshill met for their first November meeting and had no less than 48 archers (mixture of beginners and improvers) on the register. The school are now covering the meetings on their School TV Channel and members of last years after-school club will again be amongst the award winners at the schools Sports Awards evening!

Inter-Schools Competition - Autumn 2011 Term

The Inter-Schools Competition started in October and will be completed in November.

Results upto the 22nd November are as follows;

School Teams

Archway Improvers 149.5
Shurdington Primary School Improvers 139
Balcarras School Improvers 139
KLB Sixth Form 134
Kingshill Improvers 133.5
Balcarras School Beginners 115
Archway Beginners 108.5
Kingshill Beginners 107.5
KLB Beginners 105.5
Shurdington Beginners 99

Individual Scores (160 have competed so far). Top Individual Scores are as follows;

Note; Scores in Yellow not eligible for individual awards as shooting with own bows.

1 Megan Balcarras Improvers 168
2 Alex Kingshill Improvers 168
3 Vicky Kingshill Improvers 167
4 Brendon Kingshill Improvers 160
5 Ivor Archway improvers 158
6 Victoria Archway improvers 158
7 Lizzy KLB Sixth form 158
8 Anna KLB Sixth form 158
9 Charlotte L Balcarras Improvers 158
10 Dan H Balcarras Beginners 154
11 Dan KLB Sixth form 153
12 Alex R KLB Sixth form 153
13 Jodie Balcarras Improvers 153
14 Sammmy Shurdington Primary Improvers 152
15 Josh Kingshill Improvers 152
16 Zak Archway improvers 151
17 Ellie Archway improvers 148
18 James KLB Sixth form 148
19 Billy Shurdington Primary Improvers 148
20 Jamie Kingshill Improvers 147
21 Phoebe Balcarras Improvers 146
22 Amber Balcarras Improvers 146
23 Ellie KLB Sixth form 145
24 Callum Shurdington Primary Improvers 145
25 Ben Balcarras Improvers 145
26 Maddy KLB Sixth form 144
27 Jack KLB Beginners 144
28 Nathan Archway improvers 143
29 Tom KLB Sixth form 143
30 Oliver Hillview Primary 143
31 Will J Archway Beginners 142
32 Rachel Balcarras Improvers 142
33 Christian Hillview Primary 142
34 Adam Archway Beginners 141
35 Samuele Shurdington Primary Improvers 139
36 Fergus Shurdington Beginners 139
37 Joe C Balcarras Improvers 139
38 Kizzy Archway Beginners 138
39 Issac Archway Beginners 137
40 Thomas H Kingshill Beginners 137
41 Nick KLB Sixth form 136
42 Bailey Shurdington Primary Improvers 136
43 Joe Balcarras Improvers 136
44 Dan Hillview Primary 136
45 Charlie Kingshill Improvers 136
46 Rob Balcarras Improvers 135
47 Maisie KLB Sixth form 134
48 Jarrod Shurdington Beginners 134
49 Dan L Balcarras Beginners 134
50 Anthony Kingshill Improvers 134

After-School Clubs - Autumn Term

This term we are supporting 6 main after-school clubs, due to high participation numbers at each club (which is great!) we are unable to run more than one club at the same time on each day. The usual inter-school competition will take place later in the term, when all the new beginners have got up to speed!

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.

Hillview Primary School - Winners Summer Inter-Schools

Hillview Primary Win Gloucestershire Schools Archery Title

Eleven Primary and Secondary Schools that run after-school archery clubs supported by Deer Park Archers have just completed the annual Inter-schools Trophy and Hillview Primary finished top of the table with Bourton on the Water Primary School finishing by the narrowest of margins in second place.
This was a dramatic improvement for Hillview, who finished in 10^th place last time they competed.

With over 200 pupils participating in after-schools clubs this term, this is a real achievement for the school and all the pupils and it is a triumph for team work, only 2 of their team finished in the top 20 individual scores but such was the consistency of their 12 archers that their overall score won the day!

Top score for the team was Oliver, with Ryan just 4 points behind, Steph Crang – Coach commented that ‘This group of archers improved throughout the term, they were always willing to learn and whilst they were unfortunate with some of the weather they endured at practice sessions they turned out in all weathers. They were certainly a credit to the school!’

As part of the competition the top 3 individual boys were Callum and Sam Mitchell from Kingshill Cirencester School, and Ben from Archway Stroud School.
Taylor from Arthur Dye Primary and Katherine Frusher from Archway finished joint top in the Girls Competition with Bracken from St Matthews Stroud Primary in third.

During the summer holidays Deer Park Archers are supporting a number of events organized by Active Gloucestershire and local council groups including holiday clubs and Active Inclusion events.

Click Here for link to Archery in Schools Gloucestershire and the full results/photos for the Summer 2011 Term.

Archery GB Progress Awards

Congratulations to all 20 members (yes 20!), that achieved progress awards at last weeks Kingshill After-school club. Photos top follow. This was by far the biggest group of after-school club archers achieving these standards in a single event! Well done to everyone.

Spring 2011 Inter-School Competition Headlines

Balcarras retained the title, just 2 points ahead of Sir William Romney with Kingshill in 3rd place. 11 teams entered and the Katherine Lady Berkeley School had the top placed 'all Beginners' team.

Best individual performances from the 170 competitors was from Balcarras with 6 of the top 10 Junior Ladies and Jodie finishing 1st and Rachel in 3rd. Millie from SWR finished second. For the Junior Gentlemen KLB provided 4 of the top 10 with Ethan finishing 1st, Sam M from Kingshill and Jake from SWR finishing 3rd. Ethan's 172/180 was the highest ever recorded!

Go to the schools website for the full results.

Dan working with 3 Teacher Coaching Assistants.

Making After-School Clubs Sustainable

An important part of the After-School Club process is to 'enable' the teachers to run the clubs. Dan is working with 3 of the teachers from Balcarras School in preparation for them taking a Level 1 Coaching Course later this year.

Schools Programmes - Spring Term Update
Have now started an extra 173 pupils on beginners programmes currently being run in 7 schools on a daily basis.
An inter-schools competition started on the 6th February, results will be published as soon as it is complete on 17th february.
We had a meeting with Active Gloucestershire to look at the new funded programmes available for 2011/12 and a meeting at the beginning of March with Archery GB representatives who will be visiting to look further at the county schools programmes.

Spring Term

125 new beginners at 6 schools and 2 evening beginners programmes! And almost 100% of those who were at the after-school clubs last term are continueing.

We are hopeful that 3 of the pupils who progressed from after-school to full club attendance last term will become county indoor champions in January, watch this space.

First Issue of Our Gloucestershire Schools Archery Newsletter!

Our work in schools is growing, it's popularity is growing and we want to encourage other clubs and schools to give it a try. We have decided to produce a Newsletter towards the end of each term to share our experience, why not give it a go?

Click here for Schools Archery Newsletter

Balcarras School Improvers Win Autumn Term Inter-Schools

Congratulations to Balcarras School who won the Autumn Inter-Schools Team Competition with a score of 144. Vale of Berkeley finished second on 138 and KLB and Shurdington Primary tied in 3rd place on 128. Ten teams competed for the Autumn Team Trophy, well done to all of them! See the schools Archery page for full details.
Individual honours (121 Competing) went to Gents - 1st Robbie (Shurdington), 2nd Ben K (Balcarras) & 3rd Jake (SWR). Ladies title was also won by a Shurdington Archer Becky, 2nd Tamsin (SWR) & 3rd Chloe (Shurdington).

Autumn Term

9 Schools will compete for this terms Championships and the scores will be taken during the middle of Novemeber. There will be more than 120 individuals competing.

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.

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.

Active Gloucestershire (August 2009)

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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