Longhill Cluster

The Longhill Cluster is based around Longhill High School in Brighton. The SSCo for this cluster is Darren Hambrook. He can be contacted at dhambrook@ssportsa.freeserve.co.uk
The Head of the Boys PE Department is Chris Emment and the Head of the Girls PE Department is Hannah Mitchell. The school telephone number is 01273 304086

2009

Sport Leaders in action
Junior Sports Leaders have been delivering curriculum PE at Rudyard Kipling Primary School as part of there course. Leaders have planned sessions and led the way with Tag Rugby for year 6. The young leaders also delivered sessions during the recent OFSTED inspection at Rudyard Kipling and the inspectors were impressed with the quality of the young leaders as well as being impressed with the work the School Sport Partnership is delivering within Brighton and Hove.

Longhill and Patcham Clusters enjoy the tennis in Eastbourne
On Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th June over 200 children and staff from the Longhill and Patcham clusters enjoyed fantastic days at the Eastbourne tennis championships - the children were on centre court and watched both mens and womens matches featuring the French Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and British number 3 Alex Bogdanovic. Lots of the tennis players posed for photos and signed autographs for the children including Jamie Murray. The schools that attended were Patcham House, Patcham Junior, Westdene, Carden, Coldean, St.Martins, Woodingdean, Saltdean, Rudyard Kipling and Our Lady of Lourdes. Thankfully the weather was also brilliant - the members of staff have already volunteered to accompany the trip next year! 

Longhill and Patcham Clusters visit Twickenham

On Wednesday 22nd April over 200 children from the Longhill and Patcham clusters visited Twickenham Stadium to see the British Universities Rugby Finals in baking sunshine!! The Womens final was won by University of Wales in Cardiff (UWIC) who defeated Leeds 34-12 and the Mens final was won by University of West England Hartpury who defeated UWIC 49-30 - both games were excellent with lots of tries. All children who attended had a fantastic day out at the National Stadium as did all the staff!

Inter Cluster Cross Country Event for Patcham and Longhill

On Thursday 12th March an inter cluster cross country event was held at Patcham High School for the Patcham and Longhill Cluster schools.
The four races saw over 130 runners take part from the various cluster schools in preparation for the Waterhall championships later this month. The first 5 runners in each race received medals and all other runners received certificates. Many thanks to the Sports leaders from Patcham High School for helping Mr.Hambrook (SSCo) and Mr.Hulks (Patcham PE dept) with organising the event and for also acting as 'hares'. Photos will be on the website soon.  

Longhill Sports Leaders working in the Community

Over 30 Junior Sports Leaders have begun there school based placements in the cluster schools. Sports Leaders have been working throughout the autumn term with Mr.Rolf and Mr.Hambrook (SSCo) in preparation for the school placements - each group of sports leaders will be responsible for planning and delivering PE lessons in each school - leaders will be working with different classes across the schools and will be leading PE sessions for over 400 children over the next term. Already feedback has been excellent with schools commenting on how well students have planned and led the sessions. Each Junior Sports Leader will have a report completed by the school they are visiting which will help determine whether they are able to pass with Distinction or Merit.

Longhill Charity Festival of Sport

On Wednesday 26th November a Primary School Sports Festival took place at Longhill School. The different activities were planned and led by Year 11 Sports Leaders from Longhill.

Over 100 children from Saltdean, Our Lady of Lourdes, Rudyard Kipling and Woodingdean attended. Each child attending took part in Basketball, Netball, Football, Tag Rugby and Dance. Each child attending was asked to donate some money to the ‘Martlets Hospice’ and over £180 was raised – Antonia Shepherd from the Martlets was present to receive the cheque and see a performance from the dancers. All children who attended will receive a certificate for taking part from Mr.Hambrook in a school assembly.

To see pictures from this event please click on Photo Gallery