PARTICIPATION DRIVE
Archery is a popular new sport introduced this year .
Students embraced even more sports options despite lockdown .
Launched last year , Project 1000 is a drive to encourage at least 1000 pupils at Sevenoaks to represent the school in a sports team over the course of the year . Despite losing a term of fixtures , many students participated , and we were close to the target . This year , in the absence of inter-school sporting fixtures , we decided to focus on increasing our participation levels through attendance at the 178 different sports coaching sessions that continued to take place outside of timetabled Games and PE lessons .
Our whole school aim was to involve more than 75 per cent of our students in sports coaching sessions and we were delighted to see that by the end of the year 880 students ( 76.32 %) took part in the wide range of sports co-curricular sessions offered by more than 70 staff members .
The options available to students continued to broaden with the addition of wild swimming , archery , American football and indoor rowing into the programme . We are now able to offer 23 different sporting options , and hope that every student is able to find a sport that they develop a lifelong passion for .
Whilst we rightly recognise individual honours and achievements , it is also important to celebrate the exceptional commitment shown by many of our students who consistently attend training sessions throughout the week . These students sacrifice a great deal of their time to improve their performance levels . We applaud their continued application , and hope they are establishing a love for sports which they will carry with them through life .
Steven Brenchley
Well done to the following students who each attended over 100 co-curricular training sessions throughout the year . These were voluntary attendance sessions before school , at lunchtime or after school , outside of their timetabled games periods . There were 1724 events in total .
Year 7 Anjola Adekoya Charlotte Bloodworth Nate de Mariveles Tom Eagle Kevin Fernando Arthur Goodwin Caitlin Miller Samantha Pinto Jessica Robbens Salma Zidan
Year 8 Sebby Kent
Year 9 Jack Eagle Eva Mathew Arthuro Stephan
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