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O2 Gymnasts
Tuesday, January 10th 2012
On Tuesday Discovery class had the fantastic opportunity to go to the O2 Arena to see the international men’s artistic gymnastics Olympic qualifying event. The pupils were very excited and loved the whole experience. They were treated like royalty, being led to one of the executive boxes to view the spectacle. The pupils really rose to the occasion, supporting all the amazing gymnasts and soaking up the whole atmosphere of the event. They tried to keep count of how many turns and somersaults the...Read More
PE in the Community
Monday, November 21st 2011
A group of students in the 6th Form have been accessing community facilities as part of their PE in the Community module.
In September the students had two lessons at the Portsmouth Golf Centre. Not only did they have a great tutor there but the Golf Centre also kindly subsidised the lessons. The students thoroughly enjoyed the lessons and showed real improvement over the two lessons. They continued to practise their skills in the local park for the rest of the half term.
Since half term the group...Read More
Discovery Class at UKSA
Friday, October 7th 2011
What a glorious week Discovery Class had at UKSA sailing on the Isle of Wight. We went on the last week of September and hit the Indian Summer. There were many activities pupils were able to participate in and they certainly all joined in fully. On our first day we went to the onsite pool and experienced wearing buoyancy aids for the first time, as well as building water confidence. After having a generous evening meal we played team building games, including rounders and monkey football.
On Tuesday the...Read More
Britannia Sponsored Walk Day
Monday, October 3rd 2011
Last Friday was a very special day in Britannia Class. It was the day of our sponsored walk in aid of raising money for children at the school to go on school holidays. We chose New Zealand as our country in the Rugby World Cup. Our parents and carers dressed us up as the New Zealand All-Blacks rugby team! Those of us who had protective helmets wore them as they looked like rugby helmets. Before we went on the walk we watched the rugby team doing the Hakka and then we watched a demonstration of the...Read More
Steve Cunningham's visit to Mary Rose School
Monday, October 3rd 2011
Steve is the Fastest Blind Man in the World!! He came to Mary Rose School to tell us about his AMAZING achievements. He showed us films of him completing some World Records.
Steve was the first blind man to:
drive really fast in a car
go really fast in a power boat
fly around Great Britain in and aeroplane.
He has also been the captain of Great Britain’s blind football team and has played cricket too. So, we thought we’d put him through his paces. Steve played football...Read More
National Schools Sport Week – Inspiring Dreams: Our Legacy
Monday, July 11th 2011
Monday 27th June – Friday 1st July 2011
‘Inspiring Dreams: Our Legacy’is Mary Rose School’s project in the build up to the 2012 London Games. As part of our build up and with the aim of developing and leaving a legacy for our young people within the City we decided to team up with our local School Sports Partnership to hold a disability sports taster awareness week at the Mountbatten Sports Centre for mainstream and special needs schools.
Monday
Day one of the big...Read More
Mary Rose vs Cedar School
Thursday, June 23rd 2011
On Thursday 23ndJune The Cedar School from Southampton came together with the Mary Rose school to practice football skills in mixed teams, we started of by playing out in the muga, we all introduced ourselves and each group spent five minutes on the each station, testing different football skills such as shooting, dribbling and passing.
After the first half of the morning of beautiful sunshine, it started raining a little so we finished of our games inside. It was soon lunch time and time to...Read More
Sharks enjoy Multi-skills
Tuesday, March 29th 2011
Shark class have been very busy over the past couple of weeks and have been training very hard!
Today Shark class took part in a mutli-skills festival with children from Cliffdale School. The activities involved using a range of physical skills as well as using other skills such as patience and listening. Over the past two weeks students from the Physical Education department at Portsmouth University have been helping shark class to prepare. They ran two training sessions for the class and helped...Read More
Junior Football Organiser Course
Tuesday, March 15th 2011
Bradley Ryder, Eliza Rusby, Hannah Thompson, Robyn Fletcher, Callum Rowlands, William Palmer, Nathan Harper, Zoe Barton, Georgia Rogers, Daniel Blower,
As part of our young peoples leadership development at Mary Rose Hampshire FA came in to deliver the Junior Football Organisers (JFO) Course to a group of 12 pupils and students.
The day began with some theoretical aspects about safety considerations and what our young people believed should be involved within a football session.
We played lots of...Read More
Enable Ability – Bowl-a-thon!!
Tuesday, March 1st 2011
Enable Ability is an established independent charity for the care, welfare and advancement of disabled people living in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. (www.enableability.org.uk)
This year Enable Ability held a fundraising Bowl-a-thon at AMF Bowling, Bedhampton. The group invited different agencies to join them in bowling from 11:00am – 11:00pm in order to raise money for their projects.
Always keen for a challenge Mary Rose...Read More
Wheelchair football tournament
Thursday, February 17th 2011
This half term the classes of Mary Rose School took part in its first intra class wheelchair football tournament. Penguin, Britannia and Wimbledon classes were involved.
The preparation for this event started after Christmas with all three class learning about Wheelchair football in their PE lessons. As the tournament date approached each class were asked to design and make their own football shirt. The creative challenge was on!!! Each class took time to think about how to make their football shirt...Read More
Special Olympics
Monday, February 7th 2011
On Saturday 5th February our squad of athletes took part in the Indoor Athletics National Final held at the Mountbatten Leisure Centre, Portsmouth. Athletics squads from all over the country took part in the event as far away as Bath. All in all there were 200 competitors. Each squad took part in a range of indoor athletic events which included adapted traditional events such indoor shot putt, standing long jump and sprints.
The Mary Rose Squad stood out from their other competitors, dressed in their...Read More
Mary Rose working together with the Respectability Programme
Thursday, January 6th 2011
Mary Rose School have been working with the Respect Programme since 2008. This year we have been developing our links further and have been working with them to help facilitate training and experience for young volunteers wanting to work with people with special needs.
Mary Rose was the venue for this year’s re launch of the project as the ‘Respectability Programme’. The event was a showcase of all the links we have made with the project so far.
Respectability volunteers have been...Read More
Mary Rose and Respectabilty in The News
Thursday, January 6th 2011
A SPORTS project aims to give troubled young people a chance in life at the same time as helping disabled children.
The idea behind the Respectability scheme is for ‘disruptive’ boys and girls in Portsmouth to learn about those suffering from profound disabilities through sport.
While the youths will learn vital skills for training, leadership and future jobs, disabled kids from the Mary Rose special school will also enjoy extra sports activities.
For more of this story download the...Read More
Mary Rose and Respectability visit to the O2 Arena
Tuesday, November 23rd 2010
Barclays ATP World Tennis Tour Finals
We were over the moon to find out that we had the chance to go to London’s O2 Arena to watch Federer Vs Murray in the World ATP Tour Finals.
Brad Ryder, Georgia Rogers and Kirsty met up with the Respectability Team early in order to travel up to the big event together.
We had lots of fun on the bus playing cards and singing to the radio. When we arrived at the O2 we were excited to make our way to ‘The Fan Zone’ where there was a variety of different...Read More
Mary Rose Sport and Movement Festival
Monday, November 15th 2010
Following on from the success of last years ‘Sensory Festival’ we decided to run a Sport and Movement Festival. We put four different activities on the schedule for the event and they included, Wheel Chair Football, run by Specialist Football Coach from Southampton Saints Gary Loveridge, Sherborne run by specialist Penny Rance, Rebound and Table Cricket both run by members of our PE Team.
We invited Wimbledon, Britannia and Penguin Classes to take part and were thrilled that...Read More
Mary Rose School V Cedars School
Thursday, November 4th 2010
We were really excited to welcome Cedars School to Mary Rose for our annual New Age Kurling match.
Cedars arrived for a 10:30 start and we had a group warm up in which we really enjoyed meeting our new friends!
We then had some time to practice our Kurling skills in a circuit before lunchtime.
After lunch we played our match against Cedars. It was a great game and everyone played really well! At the end of an exciting game Cedars just managed to achieve a 5 – 3 win.
They were presented with the...Read More
Invasion Games Festival
Thursday, October 21st 2010
Venue: Mountbatten Centre
Students:Darren Turner, Carl Walker, Richard Webb, James Broad, Levi Samphier, Mariah Green
We had a great time at the Invasion Games Festival and had the chance to work together for different team activities. There were 3 main sports that we focussed on with different specialist coaches for the afternoon, Goal Ball, Football and Wheelchair Basketball.
All of the students worked really hard in each activity and the coaches were very pleased with progress made – the...Read More
Respectability Launch at Mary Rose School
Wednesday, September 29th 2010
Mary Rose School has been working in partnership with the Respectability Programme which is linked with Portsmouth Football Club. The programme helps to provide route ways for local young people to gain experience in coaching and supporting various young people with special needs within an educational setting.
Throughout the programme Mary Rose students have had the opportunity to work with a variety of volunteers in sporting events and in classroom sessions.
The Launch event was held at Mary...Read More
MaryRose SchoolSports Day 2010
Tuesday, July 20th 2010
As the very helpful, but slightly mad, staff met at St James Hospital field at 7am the Heaven’s decided to open for the first time since Easter and the rain came down! Not to be put off, the decision was made to put up all the (19) gazebos, set out the tea and coffee and place all the equipment on the field in the hope that it was only a shower and would clear up soon. Sure enough it did and the sun came out just as the pupils left school – delayed only slightly by an impromptu fire...Read More
Boccia Finals
Tuesday, June 22nd 2010
Six pupils from Mary Rose School took part in the South Play-Off finals in Reading on Sunday 13thJune. Pupils reached this stage through playing and winning a local Boccia league.
It was a very early (6.30am) start from school, and a long but peaceful journey to Reading. Pupils started the day well and were first on court. After a very close first match they were unlucky to lose the match 6-4. However after this match the head Referee suggested that Charlie and Josh be taken to a talent ID day for...Read More
Kids on the water 2010
Tuesday, May 18th 2010
What a wonderful day! Turtles were lucky enough to be invited to the annual Kids on the Water Day Out. We were assigned to 3 different craft, Limelight and Solent Wind both beautiful Sailing yachts and Tacitus Motor Yacht. All the crews were great fun to be with and made the day a real treat. Brandon and Billy were allowed to take the helm; much to the surprise of any following boats as we zigzagged across the shipping lane! The sun shone, the wind blew and a great time was had by all. Many thanks to all...Read More
UKSA – 2010
Friday, May 14th 2010
8 pupils boarded the midday ferry to the Isle of Wight ready for a week of sailing and nautical activities. The crossing was smooth and sunny but as there was only enough time for a quick drink we decided to take a detour into Ryde for our lunch.
We arrived at the UKSA sailing centre in Cowes, unpacked the busses and had a tour of the centre. Pupils were shown where all the different boats were moored, the swimming pool and most importantly the dinning room. After dinner we...Read More
Mary Rose pupils visit the Pompey training ground
Tuesday, May 11th 2010
Mary Rose pupils visit the Pompey training ground
On Thursday 22nd April we very lucky to be invited to Portsmouth Football Club Training ground in Eastleigh. We were met by Roger who works for the club along with Charlotte and Vicky who work for the Respect programme. We went straight out to watch the players training for their next match against Bolton. We couldn't see the first team players very well so Roger got special permission form Avram Grant to get really close and...Read More
Youngsters Thrilled At Training Ground Visit
Tuesday, May 11th 2010Sion Donovan - The News
CHILDREN who took part in a disability awareness programme have had their good work rewarded by meeting Pompey players.Read More
New Age Kurling League
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
Location:
Peter Symonds College
Pupils:
Lois Growse, Regan Laing, William Palmer, Zoe Barton, Joe Walker
Staff :
Kirsty T, Clare Heyes, Claire Ellis
After a long journey to Winchester we arrived at Peter Symonds College. After we had registered our two teams the pupils went and started practising their Kurling skills in a warm up.
The schools were organised into round robin competitions for the morning. All pupils played really well but it was obvious the games were not going...Read More
Mary Rose School wins a National Sports Award
Thursday, February 11th 2010
The annual Sports Colleges Innovation and Recognition Award winners were announced last night at the Sports College Conference Gala Dinner.
Olympic gold medallists Jonathan Edwards, Denise Lewis and Darren Campbell, England cricketer Claire Taylor, gymnast Beth Tweddle and paralympians Chris...Read More
Special Olympics
Saturday, January 30th 2010
A team of ten pupils, well supported by parents and staff, took part in this years Special Olympics at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth.
All pupils took part in at least two events. They had practiced hard prior to the competition. All their hard work paid off and they were confident in their events achieving excellent results.
Hannah and Yasmin took part in the javelin and with Hannah throwing over 15m and a personal best, morale was high.
William, Joe and Bradley all took...Read More
Key Stage 3 – Multi Skills Days
Tuesday, January 26th 2010
As part of the Sports College, two days were identified to provide all pupils in Key Stage three with the opportunity to take part in a multi skills event to develop fundamental movement skills including balance, agility, co-ordination, speed, strength and reaction time.
The aim of the two days was for all the pupils to discover which ‘superhero’ they were most like.
All of the pupils in completed 6 basic fitness tests. Each test was named after a superhero character...Read More
Starfish - Beijing on Ice Day!
Wednesday, January 20th 2010
Starfish class really enjoyed their activities on Beijing on Ice Day! Makayla and Chanay loved exploring in the icy sensory theatre and feeling the hot and cold things and drinking hot chocolate! Ollie and Louis had fun playing in the “snow”. Everybody loved the swimming session – listening to the sounds of the whales and riding on the large inflatables and one of our mummies came along to watch. We especially enjoyed it when it snowed heavily when wec were in the water! We all enjoyed...Read More
Beijing on Ice – A sight to see!
Wednesday, January 20th 2010
Wednesday 20th January 2010 saw the 2ndof our Beijing to London theme days – Beijing on Ice! After the huge success of Beijing Bikes last year when we completed 206 miles towards our target of 5071, Mary Rose School pupils and staff decided that they would link the Beijing theme day this year with the 2010 Winter Olympics.
On the day itself a number of different activities were organised to ensure all pupils could experience the snow and ice through a range of media,...Read More
New Age Kurling Festival
Tuesday, January 19th 2010
7 pupils from Milton Park visited Mary Rose School to play New Age Kurling against 7 pupils from Turtles and Dolphins class.Read More
Master class in Boccia, November 2009
Monday, November 30th 2009
In preparation for the National Boccia Championships, Mervyn Turk, a GB Boccia coach came into school to train the two young people selected to represent our school in Sheffield at the weekend.
Mervyn spent an hour looking at skills and target practice, varying the speed and angle of play as well as some rules of the game with them. Hannah and Bradley listened carefully and showed good improvement and further developed their skills during the session.
A huge thanks to Mervyn for giving up his time to...Read More
Sportability Festival
Tuesday, October 6th 2009
On 6th October 5 pupils from Mary Rose School ran a Sports Festival for 6 schools and over 50 young people at the Mountbatten Centre. Supporting them were 10 volunteers from Respect and V as well as 2 volunteers from Hilton Hotels. Pupils led activities such as Boccia Scoring zones, Tee ball targets, Ten Pin Kurling and the Obstacle race. Hannah, Bradley, Jess, Jodie and Graham took charge of the activities helping to score, call out names and demonstrate the activity. Each of the activities had been...Read More
Young Ambassadors
Sunday, September 27th 2009
Last year Mary Rose became a Specialist Sports College and took part in the The Young Ambassadors Programme for the very first time.
Each year until 2012 School Sport Partnerships across England will recruit two young people to take on the role of Young Ambassador for two years. The Young Amassadors work in their local communities championing sport and the ethos and values of the Olympic and Paralympic movement. In their second year they take on a mentoring role with the new Young Ambassadors.
This...Read More
Portsmouth. People. Passion. Pride.
Thursday, July 16th 2009www.england2018bid.
Portsmouth. People. Passion. Pride.
‘Portsmouth. People. Passion. Pride.’ is the council’s bid to become a host city as part of England’s campaign to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018. The World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event. Bringing the World Cup to Portsmouth in 2018 would have enormous benefits for the city and the region, putting an international spotlight on everything we have to offer.As well as acting as a catalyst for development of infrastructure and...Read More
Parallel Games
Saturday, June 20th 2009
14 pupils took part in the games this year representing Portsmouth at both New Age Kurling at the Aldershot Garrison and Boccia at Farnborough Leisure Centre. After long journeys and a few wrong turns we arrived at our respective destinations.
As there were only four teams in the Boccia category we got off to a quick start with Charlie, Graham and Hannah winning their first game against Winchester 2’s. Bradley, Alice and William were next up and narrowly won against a good Winchester 1’s team....Read More
Key Stage 3 ICT/PE days
Wednesday, June 17th 2009
Pupils in Key Stage 3 took part in a project to produce new posters of PE activities to be displayed around the school.Read More
Hampshire SLD Athletics Competition
Friday, June 5th 2009
A team of Keystage 5 students from Mary Rose School arrived at the Hampshire SLD Athletics Competition in good spirits and looking forward to demonstrating their athletics skill against other schools including Icknields, Great Oaks and Salterns to name just a few, on Wednesday 3rd June 2009. First up to race was Jamie who was quick to win the first race of the day. Roy, Jess and Chris P all took part in the bean bag course with varying levels of support. Congratulations must go to Roy who was the winner of...Read More
UKSA 11th – 15th May 2009
Wednesday, May 20th 2009
On the 11th May a group of 12 pupils and 7 staff took their sea sickness pills and made their way to Cowes on the Isle of Wight for a weeks sailing residential. The weather forecast for the week was excellent…if you like sailing in force 8 winds! Fortunately the weather was good to us and we were able to get out on the water every day.
The Powerboats on the first day proved to very a very popular activity, and the efficiency of the self inflating bouncy aids were tested even before the boats had...Read More
Beijing Bikes are GO!
Tuesday, March 17th 2009
Mary Rose School has joined forces with the Mary Rose Trust and Portsmouth Football club to provide the pupils with the opportunity to experience a variety of sporting activities as well as help identify talented young people with the potential to go further and may be take part in London 2012.
Tuesday 17th March saw the launch of this programme of activities with cycling as the focal point. Mary Rose School students and staff started the mammoth challenge of biking 5071 miles, the distance between...Read More
Sports Hall Athletics – Feb 25th at Fleming Park
Thursday, February 26th 2009
Thirteen of our pupils took a trip to Fleming Park in Eastleigh for a day of sports events.Read More
Mary Rose School Specialist Sports College
Monday, October 20th 2008
On Thursday 16th October, we celebrated our official opening as a Specialist Sports CollegeRead More
Mary Rose School and Corali Dance Company Get Creative
Monday, October 13th 2008
Corali is a professional performance group made up of adults with learning disabilities. “Corali is about giving skills to people with learning difficulties so that they can be creative, work with other people and understand more about dance and performance.”
We spent a fantastic day with them on Monday October 6th. Six people from Corali ran a series of workshops for our 14-19 year old students to help them to develop ideas and learn new skills ready for our Rock Challenge performance...Read More
Mary Rose School, Specialist Sports College Young Ambassadors Programme
Saturday, October 11th 2008
One month in to becoming a Specialist Sports College, Mary Rose School takes part in its first Youth Sports Trust initiative – The Young Ambassadors Programme.
Special Needs Sports Colleges and School Sport Partnerships have all nominated Young Ambassadors for the programme. Here at Mary Rose School we have nominated Jade Smith and Bradley Ryder to take part in the programme and undertake their training.
Hundreds of Young Ambassadors from across England have been chosen to promote sport,...Read More
Mary Rose School Triumphs
Sunday, October 5th 2008
The first football match of the season was a resounding success for the Mary Rose School football team. Our intrepid footballers played against Cedars School on September 18th and won the game by 12 goals to 2.
It may sound like I one sided match (which in some respects it was) but a great time was had by both teams with much good humour and good fun.
The match was supported by the Rotary Club who presented all the players with certificates and medals and to our delight presented the Mary Rose Team...Read More
Disney Land or Mary Rose School?
Monday, September 22nd 2008
The whole school took to the playground on this beautiful sunny day to walk a mile to raise funds for the new school mini bus – and of course to have fun and keep fit too.
Staff, pupils, friends and parents dressed up as film or TV characters and joined in our sponsored walk. There were some fantastic costumes and each class awarded a prize for the best costume and the runner up. What a difficult choice this was. Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse came along to welcome everyone and to add fun to the...Read More
X- Biking comes to Mary Rose School!
Tuesday, September 16th 2008
As part of the preparation for the Sports College Opening Day on the 16th October 2008 at Mary Rose School, Tracey Clarke, Director of Specialisms, invited Lynden from the X- biking team down to Mary Rose School to demonstrate their new range of bikes.
Students from Spinnaker class really took to the bikes and spent their time riding, watching and supporting other members of their group as they tested them. They were particularly excited by the X-dream that simulates biking in the outdoors, using a...Read More
Sports Day
Tuesday, July 15th 2008
Once again we were lucky with the weather. The whole school walked along to St James’s cricket ground and took part in a wide range of activities all geared to meet the different abilities of our pupils. The pupils were grouped vertically by age and assigned to one of 4 ‘houses’. Competition was fierce and there was much light hearted rivalry between the members of each ‘house’. In the morning all the pupils took part in activities that included, skittles, target ball,...Read More
Parallel Games
Friday, June 20th 2008
On Friday four teams (2 Boccia and 2 New Age Kurling) went to Aldershot to take part in the Parallel Games.
One of our Boccia teams just missed out on victory, coming second, and our other Boccia team won the play-off match to be placed third. Unfortunately, we didn't fare quite so well in the New Age Kurling part of the tournament.
We all supported each other and we very Sporting. In fact William even won the fair play award.
During the day we all got to chat to the Mayor of Portsmouth as he was...Read More