Following the cross country event our school took part in February one of our Year 5 girls qualified for the Hampshire Cross Country Championships which took place on Tuesday 10th March at Down Grange in Basingstoke. There were approx 100 girls from year 5/6 running from schools across East Hampshire and she came 36th. We are very proud of her and she really enjoyed taking part despite the rain, mud and wind! She even beat the girl who pipped her into 2nd place at Perins a couple of weeks ago, she was really pleased about that! We are already looking forward to taking part in this event next year.

As part of the nationwide Sport Relief effort this year the BBC Philharmonic orchestra will play Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony live at MediaCityUK in Manchester on Friday 13th March. Hundreds of people nationally will be challenging themselves to run 5K and "beat" the music, which lasts between 30 and 35 minutes.  

On Wednesday 11th March the whole school joined together to take part in our own “Beat Beethoven” challenge in aid of Sport Relief.  Each class took part in a running relay  to see how many laps of our Golden Mile track they could do for the length of Beethoven’s Fifth symphony.  We also counted the laps we did towards our whole school Travel to Tokyo challenge and within the session as a school managed to travel 312 miles closer to our final destination of Tokyo.

On Tuesday 3rd March 8 boys and 1 girl from Years 5 and 6 who take part in our after school football club put their skills into practice at the annual 7AS football rally at Perins. The team played in 3 games against other schools from our cluster.

Our sport leaders did a fantastic job of organising the team, making sure everyone got to play an equal amount of time and those who wanted to play in goal got an opportunity to do so. For some children this was their first opportunity to represent our school in an event and they all got to enjoy a fantastic afternoon of football in the wonderful Spring sunshine.

On Tuesday 25th February the whole school joined together to take part in our traditional pancake races. Our sports leaders did an excellent job helping to organise the teams, encouraging everyone and making sure everyone had great fun. Points were awarded for each team in each class and the scores were very close- with the overall winners being the blue team and reds following a close second just one point behind! Following the event a girl in Wrens commented “I can’t wait to do that again next year as it was so much fun!”

Since our return to school in September each class have been making use of our fantastic new Golden Mile track. As a school we are joining together in a whole school challenge to see if we can run the distance to the Olympic destination Tokyo by the end of the summer term. So far we are on the way and have clocked up a total of 1369 miles together. We have currently reached Rivne Oblast in Ukraine and have 4612 miles left to run!

On Thursday 28th November all of the classes from Owls to Kingfishers took part in interhouse basketball games within their PE sessions. The children were spilt into their house teams and took part in mini basketball games, putting into practice the skills they had been focussing on during their curriculum PE sessions. Children in Owls and Robins played half court games and used basketball skills (dribbling and passing) to score points by a player receiving the ball cleanly over their end-line. Kingfishers played full court games scoring baskets in the netball posts. Our 4 sport leaders were involved in umpiring the games and Oscar said “I really enjoyed helping umpire the basketball games. It was a really good experience and I find basketball such a fun game to play as when you start playing you never want to stop.” After a fun packed day of competition the final scores were added up and the overall winners were the Yellow team with 40 points, with the Blues just 2 points behind with 38 points.

On Monday 18th November we took a team of 9 players to Four Marks to play a friendly High 5 netball match. They really enjoyed their first opportunity to play as a team and represent the school, putting into practice the skills they had been learning in the after school netball club. 

We played 4 games of 7 minutes so the girls got the opportunity to rotate around most of the different High 5 positions before the light faded! 

The girls showed good team work and 2 great goals were scored by Millie and Ally. 

After the match each team decided their players of the match for the opposite team and enjoyed a warming hot chocolate before heading home. We are looking forward to arranging some more friendly matches for netball club in the Spring term.