Tuesday 22nd May

Year 6 Basketball!

Wow, it's been a while since I've updated the blog! I blame it all on SATs!!

Well now that it's all over, I can get back to updating everyone on what we've been getting up to!

On Tuesday this week, we took a group of Year 6 pupils down to Barnfield to take part in a basketball festival. There were 8 schools in total and the children first of all took part in some skills events, followed by matches against other schools. All the children did tremendously well with their skills and in the games, we won 2 and lost 1 (but played very well throughout!).

Everybody was very well behaved and all got to take home a certificate at the end of the day. Well done everyone!

Friday 23rd March

SPORT RELIEF HEROES!

Today, Year 6 (and the rest of the school) took part in the Sport Relief marathon challenge! The theme was superheroes and lots of us got into the spirit of things by dressing up as a whole range of heroes (even I donned a Banana Man outfit, which helped me to relive my younger days!). We even did the course whilst listening to loads of songs which were blasting out over the loud speakers!

As a school, we all contributed to completing the distance of a marathon (we actually completed 30 miles, so did more than an actual marathon!). The event was sponsored and the child with the highest sponsor money raised will win a pair of tickets to watch the next England game at Wembley Stadium! All sponsor money needs to be returned the first week back after the Easter break.

Monday 12th March

BANK LAUNCH!

Today was the first day of the school bank and boy, it was busy! We had over 25 customers, who were all paying in various amounts of money (and were all pleased that they got their free piggy banks in the process!).

The bank staff did extremely well to cope with all the pressure and were scurrying away, completing paying in slips, handing over piggy banks and stamping bits of paper left, right and centre!

Later on in the day, I took Hollie and Eamon down to the Natwest branch on Marsh Road to pay the money in. Well done to everyone involved in the bank and roll on next week!

Thursday 8th March

BARNFIELD WEST VISIT!

Today, we were paid a visit from Mr Bird and Mrs Phipps from Barnfield West Academy, who came in to tell everyone about Barnfield! We learnt all about their huge sports hall, their amazing theatre, the tonnes of after school clubs they run, the different houses and how important their school uniform is.

I think the children were suitably impressed by everything they saw and those who are moving there in September have a lot to look forward to indeed!

Thursday 1st March

WORLD BOOK DAY!
Thursday was World Book Day and children throughout school were invited to dress up as characters that they have been introduced to in the books they have read in class. So in Year 6 we had all manner of characters, including astronauts, scientists, Shakespearian characters and lawyers to name a few! I was very impressed with how many children got into the spirit of things by dressing up and how much effort went into creating some of the outfits!

Tuesday 28th February

TABLE TOP SPORTS!
A group of Year 4 and Year 6 pupils went to Barnfield today to take part in a table top sports event. This was lots of sports that were laid out on flat surfaces (and didn't take much energy to play!!).

The activities we participated in were: table tennis, polyball, table cricket and kurling. We even had to play all these sports against children from a high school (and we were better then they were!).

A great afternoon was had by all!

Monday 27th February

BRILLIANT BOXING!
Wow- what a terrific sports session Year 6 had today! I was a bit unsure if the children would enjoy boxing, but they had a wonderful time and by the end were absolutely exhausted! The children learnt how tiring boxing training is and after an hour's worth of exercise, had definitely lost a few pounds each! There were 6 'training stations', including pad work, skipping and step ups.

We also had a competition at the end to see who could punch the pads the most in 30 seconds, which Kara won with an amazing 105 punches in 30 seconds!! (The message for us all to learn? Don't mess with Kara!!!).
This session was part of the monthly sports sessions being held for each year group. Reception had a boccia session in January and next on the agenda will be handball for Year 2 in March!