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Welcome to the Godalming and District Primary Schools Sports Association Website.
Fourteen schools from the towns of Godalming and Haslemere and their surrounding villages have joined together to provide a variety of sporting opportunities for children in the area.
At present competitions are organised in football, netball, athletics and cross country.
19/10/09
Details of the cross country event can be found in News
15/10/09 Congratulations to St James' Elstead who beat Park Mead on penalties to win the first football tournament of the year. Thank you to Tillingbourne and especially Lyn Wills and Andy Powell for hosting. 20/09/09 Minutes of the meeting attached to the news page. New fixtures now online.
05/09/09 This year's annual meeting will be held on Thursday 10th September 2009 at Chandler School, Witley at 4pm.
14/07/09 Congratulations to Park Mead for winning the final District Sports event of the year. Thanks go to St Edmunds and Godalming Junior who represented the other groups in our experiment this year. Please send comments on your thoughts on how we could improve District Sports next year to me, in advance of our meeting next September: peter@flewfamily.com. 03/07/09 Well done to St Edmund's who won the Small Schools District Sports for the fifth year running. St Cuthbert Mayne finished second overall, just ahead of Beacon Hill. 02/07/09 Congratulations to Godalming Junior who won today's Medium Sized Schools District Sports at Charterhouse. Godalming also won the Boys trophy and Shottermill (who finished second overall) won the Girls Trophy. Thanks to all adults and children who helped and took part.
17/05/09
Dear all,
Hurdles
I am trying to find 24 individual 50cm high hurdles to use at the three District Sports events. They can be either the foldaway type (made by Eveque) or the criss cross type (as featured in the Sainsbury's and Tesco's catalogues).
Could any schools which have some and are willing to lend them for these three events please let me know. Alternatively, do any of our SSCos have any suitable ones at the right height?
Competitors
If anyone wants an example competitor list then I have put one onto the web site under the section News.
Certificates
Finally, to reward those individual children who win events I have ordered pads of personalised A5 certificates to be given out just before announcing the overall winners. This should make the presentation more fun and reward those children who do well even if their school is not an overall winner. So each child who wins a race or event will get a certificate to take home. (I suggest that the name of the child be written on the cert afterwards by the child's school to avoid embarrassing spelling mistakes!)
Regards
Peter
02/05/09 Please see the News page for details of events, competitors etc. for this year's District Sports events. Beware, they have changed to accommodate the new structure.
31/03/09
Chandler hosted an exciting girls football tournament today with 9 schools attending. Tillingbourne deservedly won, beating Park Mead in the final. Shottermill and St James' made up the other semi-finalists. A big thank you to Anna Wilks for organising and hosting. Anyone up for a girls league next year?
26/03/09
Congratulations to Park Mead who won Football League Pool A
25/03/09 Park Mead took part in the County Sportshall Athletics Final at the Guildford Spectrum yesterday finishing 6th. Well done to all the athletes at Park Mead.
Congratulations to Tillingbourne who won Football League Pool B
24/03/09
Congratulations to St Edmund's who win Netball League Pool A with a 100% record!
19/03/09
Congratulations to Godalming Junior who today won the year 5 High 5 tournament. Runners up were Chandler, 3rd Park Mead, 4th Beacon Hill
19/03/09
Congratulations to Tillingbourne who win Netball League Pool B with a 100% record!
19/03/09
Re the district cup Hi everyone 12/03/09
Congratulations to St Edmund's who today won the year 6 district netball tournament. Runners up were Park Mead with Tillingbourne and Godalming Junior in joint third place. Thanks to Gemma Horne at Rodborough for organising.
07/03/09
A short update note to get a few things off my mind
a) District Sports - as the winning school from the smaller and middle sized District Sports Events will be awarded a place in the Large School's Event we need to regularise the programme. Could those who organised these three events last year please let me know which events they ran and then we can create a uniform event list which will allow everything to run smoothly. Consideration will of course have to be given to what events the venue (Charterhouse) can accommodate.
b) Kristie Garrett the PDM has asked me to put to the District a proposal that from next year all netball and football matches are scheduled for the same day of the week - after school on a Thursday. Apparently this works well in the Farnham area and means that other sports events can avoid clashes. This may be something which heads will need to agree as a whole, so could you pass this idea to your head teacher to consider.
c) the season is drawing to a close but there are still a lot of scores missing from my records. Please let me know if any more matches have been played and email me the results. This website has league tables but these are not sorted as the software we use is too fiddly to bother with!
d)
The football cup has ground to a halt. I know that my first round match (Shottermill v Cuthbert Mayne) won’t be played until the 19th March
so I am to blame as much as anyone else. It therefore looks like it won’t be completed this season. Perhaps next season we can schedule this for a September start with the draw being made at the annual meeting and aiming to get the cup completed before the league kicks in?
e) and finally I have been trying to create a on-line repository of risk assessments for match venues. There aren't many so could you email me yours, thanks.
I look forward to all your replies
Peter
05/02/09
Boys playing netball. Just to clarify the position regarding boys playing netball within our District competitions.
Regardless of the size of school, teams are allowed two boys on court at once - no more. Schools themselves can choose not to include boys and it has been considered polite in the past to mention that you are bringing boys but no school should really refuse to play a league match on that basis. All tournaments allow two boys on court at the same time. Friendlies, you can do whatever you both agree on.
This was agreed two or three years ago at the Annual Meeting. Should anyone wish to revisit this issue it can be discussed at our next meeting in September for next season. Please let me know if you want it added to the agenda.
Peter
03/02/09
The agreement on the timing of all matches is a minimum of 15 minutes per half. Anything less than that should be classed as a friendly unless agreed by both after the match due to poor light or weather.
I have also put the rules for High 5 netball on the news page
Peter.
17/12/08
Hi
A quick note to solve a slight issue that has come up. There seems to be some disparity with the length of some netball matches. Halves seem to be anything from 6 minutes to 15 minutes. Could we have a consensus on the best time? To me 6 minutes seems a bit short and not really worth the effort of travelling.
If I start with the proposal of 15 minutes being the set length of each half for both netball and football, ensuring a level playing field when it comes to goal difference etc. Friendlies of course have no restrictions.
Please let me know your thoughts and I will post another note out after Xmas to confirm what we all have decided
Regards
Peter Flew
Chair, Godalming and District Primary School Sports Association
peter@flewfamily.com
05/10/08
Charterhouse have confirmed they can host all three District Sports events for free!
Small Schools - Friday 3rd July 1.30-4pm
Middle Schools - Thursday 2nd July 1.30-4pm
Large Schools - Tuesday 14th July 1:30 to 4pm (including the winners of the Small and Middle Schools events)
21/9/08
New page for risk assessments. Please send a risk assessment for your venue to help build up a District database. Email peter@flewfamily.com
18/9/08
2008-09 Fixtures now on-line See the news page re High Five netball.
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Officers
Chair: Peter Flew Treasurer: Matt Kemp Secretary: Anna Wilks
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