Disability Football in Devon Schools
The growth of disability football in Devon's schools has led to the need for a structured competition and events calendar. The aim is to work with each School Sports Partnership to host an event throughout the academic year offering players with a disability the opportunity for regular involvement in football.
The next few months promise to be an exciting time for Football within the Special Schools with the development of a County-wide Pan-disability league.
Details of the Proposal and the proposed 'Special Schools Fixture Programme' can be found in 'related documents'.
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Special Schools Football – Wednesday 26th March 2008
Wednesday 26th March saw the Partnership’s annual disability football tournament comprising of 15 teams from Special Schools across South Devon.
The teams were divided up into categories and played on 3 pitches on South Dartmoor College’s all weather astro turf pitch. The weather stayed kind as the tournament progressed, with all children and teams having a fantastic time and enthusiastically playing the football matches.
At the end of the tournament medals and certificates were presented by Mr Dinnie, Director of Sport at South Dartmoor, assisted by the Young Leaders who refereed and helped out throughout the morning.
I would like to say big thank you to all those Young Leaders who did such a wonderful job of providing these special children with a memorable and enjoyable morning, and also my thanks go to South Dartmoor for letting us use their fantastic facilities.
Fiona Goodchild, Assistant Partnership Development Manager
The results are listed below.
Pitch 1 Winners: Barley Lane Runners Up: Southbrook 1
Pitch 2 Winners: Combe Pafford 1 Runners Up: Ratcliffe
Finals Pitch 1 & 2:-
1st Place : Combe Pafford 1
2nd Place : Barley Lane
3rd Place : Ratcliffe
4th Place : Southbrook 1
Finals Pitch 3:-
1st Place : Bidwell 1
2nd Place : Bidwell 2
3rd Place : Mill Water
4th Place : Ellen Tinkham
For more information and pictures of the event please see ‘related links’