Borough (Open)

Year 5/6 children from 8 schools braved the scorching heat today to compete in the 2^nd Borough Rounders tournament. Play kicked off just after 10.30 following a redraw as one team unfortunately couldn’t make it on the day. Schools were drawn into two pools of 4 and played a rounders robin across four pitches. 

In pool 1 Dundonald set a high standard throughout their games with excellent team work and tactical play which put them through as top of the group. In Pool 2 the games were much closer with Cranmer just beating Aragon to the top place.

The annual MSSP inclusive football festival took place on Friday 4^th May 2018 at Tooting and Mitcham FC’s astro-turf facilities. It was exciting to finally be able to host the festival due to the previous postponement from March caused by frost and snow! But no such conditions could stop us this time as the sun shone gloriously on the 23 schools that attended.

 On Friday 27^th April 2018 the Merton School Sport Partnership held its inaugural inclusive tennis festival, hosted by the All England Lawn Tennis Club centre based on the Grand Drive, Raynes Park.

The Merton School Sport Partnership held their annual Borough Boccia Competition on Friday 26^th January 2018 at Canons Leisure Centre. Twenty-four schools took part in the inclusive event and teams were split into four groups with six schools in each.  Each team had five group games and played for their seeding for the quarters, semis and final placings matches. Boccia is an inclusive mixed-gender Paralympic event that can be played by all ages, abilities and disabilities. The aim of the game is to propel your ball nearest to the ‘Jack’ ball to win.

Over the past six months players and coaches from Wimbledon Hockey Club  have been working closely with a number of primary schools in the Borough of Merton to introduce and develop a high class and inclusive hockey programme for the children of Merton.

The Quick Start Hockey initiative kicked off with assemblies and taster sessions for 2,000 Merton state primary children last term and are now rolling after-school clubs  for 8 schools this term with another 10 to 20 hoping to join for the next school year. 

The Merton Inclusive Multi Sports Festival took place on Friday 10^th November 2017 at the superb facilities of the Sutton Sports Village Tennis Academy with 20 schools each bringing a team of five KS2 pupils.

The Merton School Sport Partnership hosted their Inclusive Cross Country Festival at Morden Recreational Ground on Friday 29^th September 2017. 17 primary schools took part in the festival that included four race categories: year 3/4 girls, year 3/4 boys, year 5/6 girls and lastly year 5/6 boys. All the racers paced themselves over the 1200m course.

Determination, belief, resilience, enthusiasm and a great team approach were just some of the attributes displayed today by our Year 8 Leaders from Harris Academy Morden. Lead by 800m Paralympic Gold Medallist Tim Prendergast the group of 16 planned a carousal of engaging and challenging team activities to deliver to the year 5 students from several local primary schools.

Children from seven Merton Schools showed us just how much they have progressed at our first ever Aquatics Festival at Canons on Monday 10th July 2017.