July 2009
Portsmouth. People. Passion. Pride.
Thursday, July 16th 2009 - www.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
June 2009
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
March 2009
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
February 2009
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
October 2008
Mary Rose School Specialist Sports College
Monday, October 20th 2008
On Thursday 16th October, we celebrated our official opening as a Specialist Sports College Read 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
September 2008
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
July 2008
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
June 2008
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
April 2008
Little Canada Residential
Tuesday, April 29th 2008
Twelve students and eight staff set off for Little Canada on the Isle of Wright for a week in March. We stayed in log cabins by the sea and took part in a range of outdoor and adventurous activities including Quad biking, Archery, Climbing, Assault courses, the Giant Swing and Aeroball. We also took part in a number of inside activities such as Trampolining, Circus Skills, the Matrix and ICT. Highlights of the week include Chris H climbing to the top of the climbing tower, Zara W loosing a shoe in... Read More
March 2008
Sport Relief � Mary Rose School walks the mile!
Sunday, March 16th 2008
In spite of the damp and drizzle and in true Mary Rose spirit, the whole school walked their mile for Sports relief. Each class dressed in a different sporting theme ranging from swimming to hockey to keep fit … Penguin class even ‘walked’ their mile in the hydrotherapy pool! The route was mostly indoors due to the unpredictable nature of the weather. One of the benefits of having a long main school corridor was that we could quite easily walk a mile – it only took... Read More
February 2008
Specialist Sports College Success!
Friday, February 8th 2008
GREAT NEWS! We have been successful in our application to become a Specialist Sports College! Fantastic! Below is an excerpt from the Press Release: “Portsmouth’s newest school Mary Rose School has been successful in its application to become a Specialist Sports College. The status means that excellence in PE and Sport at the school will now be developed further and used to improve standards in all subjects especially English and Maths. Headteacher Alison Beane: “We... Read More
Mary Rose School Attend Specialist Sports College Conference 2008
Thursday, February 7th 2008
It was very fitting that Mary Rose School should attend the Specialist Sports College Conference this year, with the announcement that we had achieved Sports College status. Mary Rose School was 1 of 10 schools achieving status and 1 of 3 special schools that had applied. We have now become part of a big family, in fact a family of 448 schools across the country. The Sports College Conference followed the theme of ‘different perspectives – different possibilities’ this... Read More
December 2007
November 2007
Faith and Football Enterprise Education Initiative
Friday, November 16th 2007
Faith and Football is an interdenominational faith ministry. One of their projects is an enterprise challenge which is run jointly by Portsmouth and Southampton Football Clubs. Headed up by Linvoy Primus (Pompey Player) and Dave Merrington (Former Saints Manager) the project is designed to develop students entrepreneurial and work related learning skills. Our school has entered a team of 6 students from the Sixth Form who will design and run a business of their choice between November and April. We will be... Read More
October 2007
We Can Do It!
Monday, October 29th 2007
Senior pupils took part in an inspirational workshop with the CandoCo, a dance company that seeks to inspire audiences and support participants to achieve their highest aspirations in line with the Company’s ethos that “dance is accessible to everyone”. Their focus is on dance not disability, professionalism not therapy. A day of workshops was set up as a starting point for our Rock Challenge entry next April 2008. The idea was to show pupils and staff that ‘all things... Read More
The Royal Marine School of Music comes up trumps
Sunday, October 7th 2007
Members of the Royal Marines Band visited us to present a cheque towards our bid to become a Specialist Sports College. We are the first Special School in Portsmouth to bid for Specialist College Status and to qualify from substantial government funding, we need to self-raise £20,000 from local businesses sponsors and from individual donations. The Royal Marines raised over £2,000 from audiences at their concerts around the country. Colonel Chris Davis, the Principal Director of... Read More
September 2007
Walking our way to health
Friday, September 21st 2007
What better way to get fit and raise money for our school at the same time? Mary Rose pupils, staff, parents and friends had a great morning walking round our school grounds wearing the most fantastic fancy dress costumes. Pupils and staff were all set the challenge to arrive dressed as a character from a favourite book, film or TV programme, and boy did they go to town. We had everything from Junglebook to our very own team of Pink Ladies, just take a look in our gallery if you would like... Read More
July 2007
Mary Rose Sports Day
Wednesday, July 11th 2007
Well if it’s a Question of Sport then try Mary Rose Sports Day It was a major organisational exercise but somehow we managed to move our whole school down the road to St James’s Hospital cricket pitch for what turned out to be a fantastic Sports Day. The week before it rained every and we had nearly given up hope – but then lo and behold, the sun came out on the Monday and by Tuesday the ground was dry and we were all set. At 7.00 am staff and volunteers from the Royal Marines... Read More
June 2007
Mary Rose School v Cedars School
Tuesday, June 26th 2007 - Michael Powell
On June 26th 2007 Mary Rose School participated in their first ever, football match against Cedars School in Southampton. The game was played in a friendly manner, It was 20 minutes each way. The game started off with Mary Rose School taking the lead, when William Palmer scored. Then Cedars School equalised with a penalty just before half time, the end of the 1st half finished 1-1. The second half started with Cedars School taking the lead, then 4 minutes from time Michael... Read More
May 2007
'We Are Sailing'
Sunday, May 20th 2007
The keystage 4 Sport and Leisure Group invited Alison to go along on their boat trip on the River Hamble. This excursion formed part of their regular keystage 4 options and also linked to The Gateway Award, which in some ways is comparable to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The group regularly visits the Hamble Outdoor Centre and participates in a wide range of adventurous outdoor activities ranging from archery, climbing/abseiling, boating, using the zip wire and lots more. On this particular trip the... Read More
February 2007
Mary Rose Enters Special Olympics and puts up a fight!
Monday, February 19th 2007 - Michael Powell, Goodwood Class
Before I start, just a comment from some of the event staff there this past Saturday, apparently we were the noisiest group there - whether that is true or not I don’t know, but we were excellent supporters!This past Saturday the 10th of February Mary Rose School entered its inaugural special Olympics event held at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth. Below is a synopsis of our performance in the events:Event: Obstacle RelayWilliam Palmer & Bradley Ryder put up a great fight in this race... Read More