Patcham Cluster

The Patcham Cluster is based around the Patcham 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 PE Department is Abigail Elliff. The school telephone number is 01273 503908

2009

Community Dance Programme Launched by Young Leaders at Patcham High School
A dance club for children from the Patcham cluster has begun with year 4 and 5 children taking part in weekly sessions led by Junior Dance and Junior Sports leaders from the high school. Children from Patcham Junior, Westdene, Coldean, Carden and St.Martins have signed up for the programme. The sports leaders are responsible for planning and delivering sessions.

Patcham High School Sports Leaders delivering Curriculum PE
Patcham High School sports and dance leaders are planning and delivering curriculum PE sessions in dance, athletics and striking and fielding games for Patcham Junior children throughout the summer term. The young leaders will be working with the Junior School each week utilising the skills learnt and putting them into practice, they are producing high quality PE lessons for the children showing good planning and teaching points. The sessions even include plenaries! The young leaders will also be delivering various events and festivals during the two week TAKEPART festival which will see over 500 children taking part in the many events.

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.

Table Tennis Competition

Congratulations to Patcham Junior School who won the table tennis competition held at Patcham High School on Thursday 26th February. It was a fantastic afternoon that allowed all children who attended to gain a greater understanding of the game, each competitor had to referee, score and play in lots of matches. A big thank you to the sports leaders from Patcham High who supported the event and also to Hollingbury Table Tennis Club who came along to provide an exhibition of superb skills and to provide all children with an opportunity to take part at the club. Well done also to the children from Westdene and Carden who attended. Photos will be available shortly.

Patcham High School Gymnastic and Dance Shows

Preparations are almost complete in readiness for the High School gym and dance evenings (Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th February) which will see over 150 children from the High School taking part as well as 50 children from partner schools who have been attending either gymnastics or dance club that have been led by Junior Sports or Dance Leaders in conjunction with the PE department and SSCo. The dress rehearsal which takes place will be attended by over 200 primary children. Once the evenings have finished Mrs.Elliff (Head of PE) and Mr.Hambrook (SSCo) will be taking some of the High School performers out to the cluster schools for a 'Gym and Dance Tour'. This will see over 2000 children enjoying the fantastic performances.

Yr. 4, 5 & 6 Charity Festival of Sport

On Wednesday 19th November children from years 4, 5 and 6 took part in a Festival of Sport at Patcham High School. Over 100 children from Coldean, Carden, Patcham Junior and Westdene schools attended.

Year 11 Junior Sports Leaders from the high school assisted by the PE department led sessions in Dance, Swimming, Table tennis, Gymnastics and Trampolining.

Each child attending was asked to donate some money to the ‘Martlets Hospice’ and over £200 was raised.

The afternoon finished with performances from some of the activities and a cheque was presented to Clem Hunnisett from the Martlets Hospice.

Each child who attended will receive a certificate from Mr.Hambrook during a school assembly.
This is the seventh year of festivals led by sports leaders/PE department and over this time more than £2000 has been raised for various local charities.

To see pictures from this event please click on Photo Gallery