Sports Day 2010

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Well, it’s here again. Sports Day takes place today with a whole kit bag full of events: both track and field will be happening throughout the day and please keep checking on this website for a live feed from 7:30 to 4:00 updating you on the progress every fifteen minutes.

Any queries about Sports day? Please see a member of the PE Department. For a list of events, please go to the PE office where there is a box of programmes. If you are competing, you are reminded to wear the correct PE Kit. During the morning, only pupils taking part in an event will be allowed on top field. Each athlete must collect and wear a sticker with their events displayed on it. Once these are over, they must return to normal lessons. Anyone who is not permitted on the field, will be asked to leave.

Programme of Events- Please Click Here

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Updated Every 15 Minutes from 7:30 to 4:00

Update 13/7/2010- 12:24pm

I am going to update you tommorow live from the field where all the action is going to take place. I will give a preview of who’s winning and whether any school records have been broken. Pictures and Video will also be placed soon afterwards on this website.

Update 13/7/2010- 13:16

You can send your comments or queries about the Sports Day by email: daniel.evans@flegghighpe.co.uk Otherwise, please write a note and hand it in to the results desk.

Update 13/7/2010- 13:19

Tommorow, this laptop will be outside collecting results from the results tent. There will also be a camera and tripod to record certain parts of it. Please do not touch or use this equipment in any way. Anybody, found to be doing such, will be asked to leave the field. Thankyou. 

Update 14/7/2010-  7:35am

Well, the big day has arrived. Despite the level of action that will be happening today, I am the only one here at the moment! The tent has been put up, so its merely a case of going up there and waiting for the first event. The weather here in Flegg at the moment, is looking promising for our athletes, jumpers and throwers. It should be a fine day, despite the risk of a little light rain shower in the afternoon. Bring your raincoats just in case!!! 

Update 14/7/2010- 8:31am

The school is getting busy now, with competitors getting ready for the big day ahead. I have just spoken to Mr Young- he thinks the weather will hold until after this afternoon. Lets wait and see. Form is next and then a whole mixture of different track and field events. Mr Hart is in, and is presently getting the bibs ready- a very important role!!! Good luck to everyone competing.

Update 14/7/2010- 8:38am

Mrs Mayes is here, Mr Young is in the PE office and the PE staff are getting ready. Mrs Mayes “cant wait..” “the best day of the year”

Flying the Flegg Flag once again

 

Flegg Athletes attend Wellesley Event and achieve second place overall

There’s some who would say that a former Flegg pupil whose mind is set on the college challenges ahead, shouldn’t be dedicating his summer holidays attending school sports events, penning his experiences and sending them to be published on the PE Website. After all, as I sit here in my sun drenched back garden, with the aroma of a simmering burger bun drifting it’s way through the foxgloves, I am aware that my shorts and polo shirt have been transferred to my Flegg Archive box; my almost brand new football shoes have studded the turf for the last time, and ,well, my gum shield I don’t think has ever fulfilled anyparticular role on the pitch; it saw more activity at the manufacturing factory! And then there’s my leotard! But then, I never was any good at gymnastics. 

What sport I ever partook in, consisted mainly of cross-country and athletics. It’s so soon after my departure yet I find myself ending ina mathematical mess as I try to count how many times I competed forthe school over the years. By the end, I had become buddies with the bib bag and trips out on the minibus were as frequent as the weekly shop. I could go on and tell you all about my countless cross country races, but all I’m going to say is that athletics changed my life; mentally and physically. (Bring on the endorphins! Is that the term? Where’s Warnes when you need him?) Having being a regular competitor in the Wellesley, it made a refreshing change on Wednesday 23rd June to stand on the edge of the action; well, on the edge of the long jump sand pit, if you really want to know. My position- backstage rather than on the track- gave me a real understanding of the challenges that faced the athletics. Mr Young’s rhetorical question of “are we going to win,” was a strong encouragement, but in truth, the result is always unpredictable. With both track and field events happening simultaneously, it is tricky to really get an accurate prediction of the final result. The unity between the competitors was positive but the sweat band was still required as both runners, jumpers and throwers felt the pressure during the course of the day. I always remember what Mr Lyn said to me. Mr Lyn, a former athlete and
Olympic coach from Jamaica, trained me in athletics during his brief period at Flegg High a couple of years ago and I always recall before any event, he trained me to think that on the last leg, I was ‘going home.’ It was a simplistic approach but a powerful one which remained in my mind during the race. For the 1500m, Year 7 girls Harriet and Rachael, this was essential advice; the 1500m requiring resilience and determination. For sprinters such as Lucy and Chloe who both won their 100m events, resilience was needed in a different way. Not necessarily throughout their short burst on the track, but resilience to get them through a day of multiple events; indeed, most competitors had more than one track event. Some had to transmit energy to their arms for discus and javelin, while other runners kept a supply of energy in their legs to propel themselves through the sand speckled air on both long and triple jump. 

 Energy never seems to be my best friend; summer holidays spent sleeping seem inevitable despite my attempts at keeping up in irregular hours. But I realise my problem are far from the priority list; imagine a cross country runner kilometres one day, and metres the next. Henry White, an up and coming athlete, I’m sure, runs regularly in cross country events, but seems to do ever so well in shorter distance events. He’s the ultimate link to the unsolved mysteries regarding human adaptation. (Good luck for the future, Henry!) 

Flegg did extremely well, coming 1st in Year 7, second in Year 9 with Cliff Park scraping a few more points to become first in that age group. Year 10s managed to pull off a win but unfortunately, Year 8 only managed a fourth. Parents of these competitors who are wondering where their son’s or daughter’s fingernails have gone need worry no more; the final results were nail-biting. 3rd Lynn Grove, 2nd Flegg, 1st Cliff Park.
It’s one of life’s greatest feelings: the feeling of self satisfaction and success. But to share the success in sport with others is truly remarkable. So if you’re a keen runner whose running shoes only touch the lanes around your village, take a challenge. Join the Flegg Athletics Team and be inspired by others.
The school gates may be closed for me now… but the gate into sport is always open.