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County Cross Country Squad training sessions
County Cross Country Training sessions (all 14.00-15.00)
All sessions will take place at Plock Court – meeting at the Pavilion next to the University Sports Arena. (Top car park, pass the tennis center)
Friday 15th December
Friday 12th January
Friday 9th February
Friday 23rd February (selection race for county championships)
All squad members are encouraged to run for 20 mins non-stop twice weekly.
County Championships – Newent Community School- Watery Lane, Newent GL18 1QF
DATE TBC – Meet at 9.00 o’clock at Newent School.
In addition to the runs, athletes may try to complete at least once a week in between our squad training sessions.
- 10 minute warm-up – jog and stretch
- Drills – high knees /heel flicks/ skips
- Speed endurance – shuttle runs on football pitch -goal line/halfway line/ goal line /baseline
- Timed run – 2000 m (just over 2 miles) must be continuous – 10 minutes
- Cool down – jog and stretch
Cheryl Stennett
GSSN Network Manager / School Games Organiser
Tel: 07817332928
Twitter: @AtGSSN
Table Tennis at Upton today – great games!




Sports Hall Athletics cluster competition
Lots of happy children took part in our first Sports Hall Athletics cluster competition at Hunts Grove Primary Academy – with Moat and Grange – a fantastic event thanks to Liam at GSSN!



Year 3/4 Benchball at Longford Park Primary Academy
Another high skill level and very competitive morning – well done all teams who took part!
A big thanks to our host school Longford Park Primary Academy



Key Stage 1 Girls’ Football Festival
KS1 girls enjoyed a wonderful morning in the sun at St . Peters playing football – and everyone took away a medal for being “the best they could be”- well done to everyone!



And we’re off!
First event of 2023/24! Pre-season High 5 Netball at Henley Bank High School – great effort by all taking part!











GSSN CPD Offer 2023/24
Following on from our very successful PE Conference on the 20th of September, these are the CPD requests that have so far been identified by our schools:
Our first ‘HOT TOPIC’ session will be taking place at Harewood Infant School on Tuesday 24th October from 16.00-17.00. This will cover the PESS Premium Allocation, Spend and Evidence of Impact.
Following this we will be running session 2 ( TBC at Elmbridge Primary), looking at the very good assessment tool that they currently use to track ‘whole pupil’ progress.
The Youth Sports Trust will then be running a 2-hour session looking at the new online reporting tool for the PESS Premium. for which the GSSN is a phase 1 pilot.
On top of this, the following requests have been made:
Active 30 -Whole staff training – 1 hour twilight
Positive Playtimes – lunchtime supervisors training 45 mins
The STEP principle – how to differentiate in PE teaching – whole staff training 45 mins
Play Leaders – pupil training session, theory and practical
Teaching Games without Names – can be whole staff 45 min CPD or whole class teaching session.
Schools with any additional CPD requests, email Cheryl Stennett at cs@gssn.co.uk
Gloucester City Cross Country Success
We had our best performance yesterday, the 12th of March at the county cross-country championships held at Newent Community School. All athletes performed well and overall in both the boy’s and girls’ combined age groups we finished in second place, our best position ever!
We also enjoyed our first race winner in the year 4/5 boys race, Toby B from Kingsway Primary school, an outstanding run. Joining Toby at the nationals, representing Gloucestershire County, will be Owen W and Ben J, who finished 5th and 6th in the same race, and Ted B who was 8th in the year 6 boys race.


Primary Cross country Training session 2023
Please try to complete at least once a week in between our squad training sessions.
- 10 minute warm-up – jog and stretch
- Drills – high knees /heel flicks/ skips
- Speed endurance – shuttle runs on football pitch -goal line/halfway line/ goal line /baseline
- Timed run – 2000 m (just over 2 miles) must be continuous – 10 minutes
- Cool down – jog and stretch
Cheryl Stennett
GSSN Network Manager / School Games Organiser
Tel: 07817332928
Twitter: @AtGSSN
First GSSN event of the 2022/23 academic year! Netball Pre-Season Festival at Henley Bank High School
