Olympics Athletics Day - 17th June 2025 - Rutland School Sports Partnership
Olympics Athletics Day
Rutland School Sports Partnership
17th June 2025
In early June, reminders kept arriving from Catmose College about the Year Seven: Take Your Child to Work Day!
With a rather diverse and last-minute work situation, I couldn’t tell my daughter, Luna, precisely what we’d be doing! But one week out, it came to my attention that the School Olympics were happening at the Corby Stadium, and as I’d be taking her brother, I enquired whether we may attend and photograph the event. Mr Thomas kindly agreed, so we had a plan!
We got set a couple of days before with a quick sports photography lesson, so at least she had an idea of how to operate the equipment and understand what the assignment may involve. We also looked at some other work I'd done previously providing insight of what can be achieved post production. On the day, we started early getting a camera body ready with batteries fully charged, memory cards formatted, and lenses packed along with anything else we might need. We arrived at Corby promptly to give us an opportunity to review the venue, check out the natural lighting, and take some test shots.
It wasn’t long before the place was buzzing with activity! Luna got well and truly immersed capturing the the various track & field events - with very little input from me. I was impressed with her movement; trying different locations and angles, and where possible reacting to the conditions and getting some ‘off the action’ photos which can help paint a more complete picture.
Sure, I’ve helped her with much of the editing, suggested some different crop-composition ideas, and getting the 175 pics finished and onto the web (she now realises why I spend so much time at my desk - significantly longer than being out on the job) but the work you find here is basically hers. I’m very proud of what she has accomplished as operating a hefty and technical piece of equipment to capture such a variety of pics is no mean feat. She was also game for running the camera in manual mode, learning about how to balance the shutter speed, aperture, and sensor sensitivity, to take many sharp images with varying depths of field.
She seemed to enjoy the day, and I am pleased because Catmose has a great photography programme; maybe this has sufficiently whetted her appetite so she’ll continue developing her creativity and understanding in and out of college. Another conclusion we drew from the day is that employment should be fun and satisfying! Placement opportunities help provoke the children’s interests directing their learning choices and career prospects so they too will hopefully one day be in a job they also relish - a typical example of this is the last image: Medic DJ Steve loving his work!
Apologies that we didn’t get a picture of everyone, that wasn't the overriding aim, but hopefully this collection provides a good snapshot of the event for those who couldn’t come along. I like how many of the images depict the level of determination the children put into their sport even at primary level. Personal favourites are from the long jump and relay.
Thanks again Mr Thomas for allowing us to attend, and to all the friendly & efficient sports leaders from Catmose College / Harington, and of course, not forgetting the children and teachers for being so positive on what was a very warm day trackside.
In early June, reminders kept arriving from Catmose College about the Year Seven: Take Your Child to Work Day!
With a rather diverse and last-minute work situation, I couldn’t tell my daughter, Luna, precisely what we’d be doing! But one week out, it came to my attention that the School Olympics were happening at the Corby Stadium, and as I’d be taking her brother, I enquired whether we may attend and photograph the event. Mr Thomas kindly agreed, so we had a plan!
We got set a couple of days before with a quick sports photography lesson, so at least she had an idea of how to operate the equipment and understand what the assignment may involve. We also looked at some other work I'd done previously providing insight of what can be achieved post production. On the day, we started early getting a camera body ready with batteries fully charged, memory cards formatted, and lenses packed along with anything else we might need. We arrived at Corby promptly to give us an opportunity to review the venue, check out the natural lighting, and take some test shots.
It wasn’t long before the place was buzzing with activity! Luna got well and truly immersed capturing the the various track & field events - with very little input from me. I was impressed with her movement; trying different locations and angles, and where possible reacting to the conditions and getting some ‘off the action’ photos which can help paint a more complete picture.
Sure, I’ve helped her with much of the editing, suggested some different crop-composition ideas, and getting the 175 pics finished and onto the web (she now realises why I spend so much time at my desk - significantly longer than being out on the job) but the work you find here is basically hers. I’m very proud of what she has accomplished as operating a hefty and technical piece of equipment to capture such a variety of pics is no mean feat. She was also game for running the camera in manual mode, learning about how to balance the shutter speed, aperture, and sensor sensitivity, to take many sharp images with varying depths of field.
She seemed to enjoy the day, and I am pleased because Catmose has a great photography programme; maybe this has sufficiently whetted her appetite so she’ll continue developing her creativity and understanding in and out of college. Another conclusion we drew from the day is that employment should be fun and satisfying! Placement opportunities help provoke the children’s interests directing their learning choices and career prospects so they too will hopefully one day be in a job they also relish - a typical example of this is the last image: Medic DJ Steve loving his work!
Apologies that we didn’t get a picture of everyone, that wasn't the overriding aim, but hopefully this collection provides a good snapshot of the event for those who couldn’t come along. I like how many of the images depict the level of determination the children put into their sport even at primary level. Personal favourites are from the long jump and relay.
Thanks again Mr Thomas for allowing us to attend, and to all the friendly & efficient sports leaders from Catmose College / Harington, and of course, not forgetting the children and teachers for being so positive on what was a very warm day trackside.