DAWLISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE Volume 1, Issue 1 July 2013 Living for Sport: an introduction Contents Meet the Living for Sport team Interviewing Kate Grey Sam Rose and Lee Pollard Interviewing Kate Grey Ewan Anthony and Oliver Rackley Interviewing Kate Grey Tyler Camp and Tom Blatchford Sky Sports photo gallery Sky Sports photo gallery 2 3 4 5 6 7 What is the Sky Sports Living for Sport Project? The Living for Sport Project uses sports stars and sports skills to boost confidence, change behaviours, increase attainment and improve life skills. It is a project designed and run by Sky, and has been going for nearly a decade. It is based around The 6 Keys to Success. A set of 6 specifically crafted concepts designed to help young people to develop valuable life skills that will help them in and outside of school, both now and in the future. The 6 keys to success are: 1. Mental toughness 2. Hunger to achieve 3. People skills 4. Sports and life knowledge 5. Breaking barriers 6. Planning for success How has it been used at Dawlish Community College? The Living for Sport Project at Dawlish Community College focused on the development of literacy in Year 8. It sought to use sport, and specifically sports journalism and media, as a tool to improve students communication and literacy skills. Through various speaking, listening, reading and writing activities, students have experienced different aspects of sports journalism; including writing match reports, developing their interviewing technique and researching and delivering sports-based presentations. The College received numerous visits from the Project s athlete mentor, Kate Grey, a GB Paralympic swimmer. She was an inspiration, both to the Project Team and the wider College community. She shared inspiring stories in assemblies, worked closely with the Project Team, offering them support and guidance alongside being interviewed, and was the guest speaker at the College s first Sports Celebration Evening. The PE department would like to take this opportunity to thank Kate for all her help with the Living for Sport Project. She is a talented and inspiring ambassador, both for the project, and for sport itself, and we couldn t have asked for a better mentor. Finally, our thanks go to the Sky Sports Project Team for all their hard work and commitment for the past term. Well done boys! Mrs Dempsey & Miss Bean Sport has made me realise that I may be different but I can still do the same things as everybody else. It has helped me to learn lifelong skills such as teamwork, leadership and communication which I can now use in all aspects of my life. It has helped me accept my disability and be proud of who I am. KATE GREY Sky Sports Living for Sport Ambassador or
Page 2 Meet the Living for Sport team Back row: Tom Blatchford, Callum Sweet, Lee Pollard, Ewan Anthony, Mrs Dempsey Front row: Oliver Rackley, Sam Rose, Kate Grey, Tyler Camp, Liam Foster Sport helps people think, helps people listen, helps people to speak up and helps people work together. DARREN CAMPBELL Sky Sports Living for Sport Ambassador
Page 3 Interviewing Kate Grey The Sky Sports Experience On Friday the Sky Sports group of Dawlish Community Collage worked with the Paralympics Swimmer, Kate Grey, on a sports afternoon. Our first activity of the afternoon was a presentation by Kate, where she showed us a slideshow of her achievements. We then had an opportunity to interview her. We asked her lots of questions about her career; such as who her role models where? The final thing she did with us was a practical session; in this session we had the opportunity The day Kate Grey came to Dawlish Community College Kate first came in to share with us her inspirational story, and made a PowerPoint presentation with various pictures and clips. She was mainly inspiring us to do what we love. to try a variety of sporting tasks each with a set of rules to replicate different disabilities. Our first set of challenges where sorting tasks. In these tasks we had to stand on a thin bench in a line and to order ourselves in different orders without falling off. We did two versions one in age order but we were not allowed to talk. The second in height order but we were not allowed to see and therefore wore blindfolds. Our next challenge was bench ball. We did the same again first with normal rules, the next no talking so we had to communicate by movement, our final version was one arm which We needed a leader to decide on the best and most efficient way to solve the puzzle. At the end of the day, we were taken to the conference room to ask some of the questions we had prepared for Kate. was difficult because we were not used to it, but we soon improved and it became much easier. Overall I really enjoyed the day of the Sky Sports project; we learnt lots and about different disabilities, and I hope we can do more activities again as a group. By Sam Rose 8TC Overall I really enjoyed the Sky Sports project. I hope we can do more activities again as a group. SAM ROSE Living for Sport project member After that, she took us into the gym to do some physical activities and thinking challenges. In one of them we all stood on the bench and had to organise ourselves into height order. Three of us were blindfolded. We learned from each activity how to solve the puzzle. I asked: where do you train? And, who do you look up to? We all asked about 3 questions each. By Lee Pollard 8SH Meet Kate Grey; DCC s athlete mentor
Page 4 Page 4 Grey roaring to the finishing line Paralympic Visit to DCC On Friday the 21 st June, a group of year 8 students were visited by Kate Grey. She showed a presentation about herself and how she grew up to become a very successful swimmer. She I really enjoyed interviewing Kate I was truly inspired and hope to have a great future like hers. LIAM FOSTER Living for Sport project member inspired the members of the group as they entered a conference room in the school. The pupils Our day with Kate Grey First we got changed into our PE kit then we went to room 9a. When we got in there we got our questions ready and wrote them up on a paper. About 10 minutes later Kate came in and showed us a presentation about her career and it was really inspirational, like if you train hard enough and work a lot at a certain thing you will eventually get success (a quote took turns to ask Kate questions about her diet, idols, fear in the pool etc. Kate said, I look up to my parents because of how much they have helped me and have been there for me. She also said, when I was younger I was afraid of drowning, but now I am always worried that my goggles will fall off because it can cause a lot of difficulty when in the water. Once the interview was over, the group and Kate headed over to the gym to do some physical activities. The activities were based on what it would be like to have a disability. For example, one of the from Kate). When she finished the presentation we went into a conference room and asked her our questions for half an hour and we found out that her inspiration was her parents who have been there for her through everything and they encouraged her to swim. After that we went down to the gym to participate in some activities that Kate had set up and they were quite challenging they included; sliding on the floor with your bum and trying to order yourself in age order without talking activities involved half the group being blindfolded and having to line up in alphabetical order along a thin bench. To finish off, the group were split into two teams and played bench ball with one hand inside their t-shirts. Afterwards the group and Kate said a final goodbye and the students went home. Liam Foster, a member of the group said, I really enjoyed interviewing Kate, but my favourite part was the activities in the gym. I was truly inspired by Kate and hope to have a great future like hers. By Ewan Anthony 8JM without talking and trying to get in height order whilst being blindfolded. Overall it was a fantastic afternoon and a great experience, I really enjoyed it especially the challenges we did in the gym. By Oliver Rackley 8JM Kate s favorite stroke is breaststroke
Even though it was hard I now know that I can do much more challenging things if I set my mind to it. EWAN ANTHONY Living for Sport project member Page 5 Interviewing Kate Grey On Friday 21 st June, Kate Grey, a Paralympic swimmer came down to visit Dawlish Community College as part of a project called Living for Sport. Kate Grey was telling us how she came to be a Paralympic swimmer. When Kate was little she got her arm cut off in a sausage machine and believed that she was never going to be successful but she decided to join a swimming club to gain confidence. She struggled at first but she soon got much better and she was ready for Beijing Olympics in 2008. She made it there and got a silver medal. But after the Beijing Olympics she started to concentrate on London 2012, About a year before she had problems with her glands and went to see her doctor. The doctor told Kate that she wouldn t be able to take part in London 2012 but she ignored them and kept training every night and morning. When it came to qualifying she missed out by a second. She was heartbroken and just felt like giving up, but now she is commentating on swimming championships and she loves it. Also she is speaking to other schools about her career. When the questions were being asked she was answering them with a smile which must mean she enjoys answering questions. One of the questions was, who helps you the most with your swimming career? and she answered back by saying, my parents have always stuck by me and helped me to be the person I am today. After the interview she did an activity with us which included deaf benchball and no legged races. Everyone enjoyed the day including Kate Grey. By Tyler Camp 8JM Kate at DCC On Friday the 21 st of June Kate Grey visited a group of teenagers at DCC. Firstly she showed us a presentation of her life, she showed us her first competition and shared with us her problems and how she overcame them. Secondly we interviewed her about her diet her fears and her feelings on her competitions. She told us about how she looked up to her parents because of all the support they gave her and for driving her on to her goal. She also said I was worried about entering a competition because I wasn t as good as my friends but when I got there everyone was in the same position as me. After the interview we headed down to the gym to do a series of challenges. They were based on mental toughness, team work and leadership. One challenge, we hand to sit with our back on the wall and our feet at a 90 degree angle to test our mental toughness. Ewan said, even though it was hard I now know that I can do much The proudest moment in Kate s career so far was representing GB at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. She went on to win a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke more challenging things if I set my mind to it. Once we had done all the challenges we said our goodbyes. She had gone but she had left an inspired group of teenagers behind. By Tom Blatchford 8SH
Page 6 Page 6 Sky Sports photo gallery Kate faced some tough questions from the team The group were inspired and enthralled by Kate s story Getting down to the nitty gritty details
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Page 8 Page 8 Sky Sports: Living for Sport Literacy Project 2013 Thanks again to Kate Grey and the Sky Sports Project Team! DAWLISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE Keep your eyes peeled for future Sky Sports: Living for Sport Projects at DCC
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