A glorious and delightful day at Buckingham School

I spent the whole day at Buckingham School yesterday for their International Inspiration Day (IID). This day was co-organised between the school staff, the sixthformers who are studying sports leadership and the local Rotary Club and Inner Wheel. This is designed as day to engage all of year 7 (11-12 year olds) in a day of sport and cultural learning.

My role as one of the judges was in the morning to watch how the Higher and Community Sports leaders organised and refereed their activities (including hockey, touch rugby, golf and a wide variety of team multi skilled activities) and rate them against a set of critieria. And in the afternoon, the six teams gave presentations on their country and sport (eg Canada and Ice Hockey or South Africa and Rugby). I was a judge for these activities too.

And we finished off the day with presentations of the awards.

Huge thanks to Margo Jackson who worked with the team at Buckingham School to bring it all together. And I have great admiration for all the young sports leaders who kept all the younger ones involved and active! And thanks to all the Rotary & Inner Wheel people who made up the assessing and judging crew for the day as well, including Bev Trevitt President Buckingham Inner Wheel, Peter Bartlett President Buckingham Rotary Club.

I have no photos of the day itself (as I was abiding by the schools photography policy) but I might be getting a group one sent to me hopefully.

Meanwhile: all the children were just wonderful. It was a joy to be around such youthful energy and team spirit! Everyone had fun, it seemed to me.

UPDATE 290517: Margo sent out a thank you note a day later and she has agreed for me to quote her here, I so appreciated her words:

Many thanks for your support at Buckingham school's 2017 IID yesterday. It was one of the smoothest running days that I have known...

I know from past feedback that the sports leaders and Year 7 pupils really appreciate the commitment that we bring to the day which demonstrates all the work that they have put in since January despite preparing for A levels.

It is a chance too to see the work and ethos of the school which in the past has been sometimes regarded as the 'poor relation' in the town. When you consider they take on the education and community  socialisation of every child not cherry picked by the RLS then the example we witnessed yesterday of team spirit, enthusiasm, commitment, dedicated teaching staff, excellent student behaviour and real tolerance of children with disabilities, Buckingham School is doing very well and should be commended.

I too was very impressed. Thanks again Margo!