Monday, 27 January 2025

Resilience Leading to Success

 

A Busy Week for Chelsea Provision at Winston.

It has been a very busy week for the students involved with the Chelsea provision at Winston.

Firstly, a girls and boys team represented Chelsea on Monday at Motspur Park which hosted the Premier League Inspires London Tournament. This special event welcomed participants from six clubs: Fulham, Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, QPR and Charlton. It was a day dedicated to fun, inclusivity and celebrating the Premier League values. The two teams played well in the tournament picking up more wins and draws that loses. The boys team made the semi-final but sadly lost by one goal. There were so many brilliant performances from Mason and Sam. The Girls team also made it through to the plate final and won it on penalties. A massive shout out to Hasina for saving the penalty and then scoring the winning penalty.

 

Fulham Under-18s duo Quinn Schutter and Ruban Khan attended the final games of the tournament. They also presented medals to players and handed out the prestigious PL Values awards. These awards recognised some of the individuals and teams that exemplified the spirit of the day by embracing sportsmanship, inclusivity, and positivity. Alfie was recognised as an individual that showed these skills and received a goody bag of Fulham items. Then finally the boy’s team were awarded a trophy for Team sportsmanship across the whole tournament.  Well, done to the boy’s team!!!




Premier League Inspires Winston Final

 

On Thursday last week all those in the Premier League Inspires Challenge presented their projects on gender equality.  The 11 different groups have spent the last 6 weeks working on this challenge. They have discussed ideas and challenges around gender equality, and each come up with a unique project that they then had to pitch to a panel of judges.  There was so many good ideas and concept that’s had been really thought out. We had support groups, gender equality sport tournaments and even an idea around developing gender neutral uniform. The judges had a difficult decision in picking a winner to go on and represent Chelsea in the next round of competition.  The judge finally chooses the group with Megan, Annabelle and Hasina. The girls aim to produce a podcast where they interview females and males about their experiences of gender equality in their lives.  They plan to record their first podcast this week and will be going to Stamford Bridge on the 7th of February to present their idea to another panel of judges.  Good luck girls with your idea!



Year 7 in Design Technology

I am amazed at how resourceful my Year 7 class has become in the space of 15 Design Technology lessons. Our latest project has given them a chance to be super creative; they were given a small cube of wood plus "scrap" and they had to create a mini figure of their own design!  They have been using all sorts of equipment and materials and the results are outstanding! What has impressed Mrs Smith and Mr Antony the most, is the development of resilience and confidence to explore a way to overcome 'stuckness' before asking for help directly from us.  When asking questions they are asking more for reassurance rather than direct help.  We are both very impressed and proud of them. 

Mrs Smith 
Year 8 Leader