Volleyball Competition

We entered 2 teams into the Volleyball Tournament on Thursday. It was new to all the children and we had not practised! We had a quick coaching session when we arrived at Priory School before the event started and then it was frenetic!
The 2 teams learned very quickly how to serve, score and rotate as it was 2 on court , 2 off court with teams rotating after a point was won.
The boys played 5 matches winning all 5!Scores were: 10-6 against Ropsley A, 8-6 against Isaac Newton B, 10-5 against Denton B, 11-6 against Corby Glenn and 10-9 against Harlaxton A.
Despite winning all matches it places were awarded on accumulated points and that resulted in us coming 3rd- still very respectable but rather disappointing to hear that the play off teams were Ropsley A and Harlaxton A- both teams we had beaten.

feeling confident

ready to play

The girls played 6 matches, winning 2 and loosing 4. We won 16-6 against Ropsley B,18- 2 against South Witham .

A successful evening- Boys team 43th placed, girls in their league came 5th.

Ben Smith 401 marathon runner visits Marston School

Friday 18th was the last day of our Anti Bullying week and we welcomed Ben Smith to tell us about his amazing challenge  to run 401 marathons in 401 days to raise £250,000 for 2 anti bullying charities. Our Bronze Sports Ambassadors welcomed Ben and Chris from Inspire+ , they joined us just as we were selling our cakes, biscuits and juice- they loved  Ben and Tom's biscuits.
After break the whole school met in the hall and listened as Ben told us why he decided to run 401 marathons. He was bullied for 8 years at school and felt miserable and then found he loved to run . This made him feel better in himself.From this Ben decided to use this new found love of running to help raise money to help other children who were being affected by bullying. Marston children joined Ben in May 2016 ( see previous Blog) on his 247th marathon.
 Ben finished his 401st marathon in his home town of Bristol and raised over his target, £310,000 for his 2 chosen charities.  Ben completed 401 marathons in 401 days despite suffering a broken bone in his back and having to rest for 10 days. This therefore meant that he had to run more than 26 miles some days to make up the lost days whilst his back was healing. Ben finished his 401st marathon in his home town of Bristol and raised over his target, £310,000 for his 2 chosen charities.
Ben encouraged us to dream big and never give up, to remain positive and if we want something... to go for it!
We had time for questions and a whole school photo.

Ben introducing himself and asking if we knew how far a marathon was. To put it into context he asked how many times round our field would we have to run to complete a mile- about 32 so how many for  a marathon? Over 800 and for 401 marathons....333,632 times approximately!

question time

 our Bronze ambassadors

the 401 st marathon interview for the BBC

Whole school photo opportunity

Ben and our 'Pudsey' children

Ben and Tom baked delicious biscuits...

Ben, Ben and Tom enjoying the biscuits

Ben's idea...

Ben encouraged us to dream big and never give up, to remain positive and if we want something... to go for it!

Thank you Inspire+ and Ben for another inspiring visit .

Netball, gym club and New Age Kurling.

Netball.

Our High 5 Netball team played their next 2 matches at Priory this week and kept up their winning record.

Our first match was against Harlaxton and was a close game with us always managing to keep 1 goal ahead and we won 4-3.

Our final match was against Barrowby and we won 5-1.

The team played brilliant netball with excellent spacial awareness, team work and goal scoring.This team is officially the best team I have had the pleasure of coaching. Hopefully we will now qualify for League 1 and will be up against the other 4 best teams in the area in Spring 2017.

Our successful unbeaten team

Gym Club.

                   Gym club are working on skills that will help with forward and backward rolls.

special mats help children prepare

Mrs James coaching and showing the correct technique.

                                     

                                     

New Age Kurling

This week  in our disability PE lesson we played New Age Kurling and really enjoyed ourselves.

No ice  was needed but stones moved on wheels towards the target mat.

getting  to grips with how much force is needed to move the stones

Carl giving some tips

great delight from red team, not so for blue team!

tactics were brought into play knocking out the oppositions stones

great fun was had and we are looking forward to playing again in our last session next week.

High 5 Netball Team

This week  we played our first 2 matches in the Grantham League at Priory School.

Our team before the start of the matches, 2 new team members who have not played in a match before.

 20 schools are playing in 4 different leagues trying to score points that will then place them into a competitive league for Spring 2017.
We are in a league with Denton, Ropsley, Harlaxton and Barrowby.
This week we played Denton and Ropsley. We won both matches and played superb netball.
Against Denton we won 5-0, Riley scoring 4 goals and Isabelle 1
Waiting for our second match....


 In our second match against Ropsley we won 4-2 with Matthew scoring 3 and Rory 1.

Fabulous netball, super scoring and great teamwork.Well done all.

Bronze Ambassadors

Our new Bronze Sports Ambassadors (Hannah,Jasper ,Matthew and Rory) were voted for by their peers in Class 3 to represent us as our new sports ambassadors.We attended our first training to learn about the role expected of us.

first activity-what do you think your role is?

which of these statements are important?

wearing our new T shirts (hiding biscuits behind their backs- it was obviously hard work requiring lots of biscuits as they kept going back for more!)

what we think we will do in school

all the new ambassadors

just our 4 .

Cross Country

Once again we entered 2 teams in to the Grantham area cross country races.
The first race took place in 30 degree heat last week and was a real test for all competitors.

Our team before the races.

Jasper was our highest placed boy coming 4th and Hollie and Hannah came 23rd and 24th for the girls team. All our runners did well coming between 4th and 68th place out of approx. 120 runners in each race.

race 2- a cooler day

children before the races-jaffa cake time to give a quick energy boost

boys stretching

more warm ups

start of the girls race...

Hannah 

Hollie

Isabelle

Lily

walking to receive place tickets

hot and happy-Lily improved from 60th to 42nd Hollie from 23rd to 21st and Isabelle maintained her place in the 30's.

Start of the boys race...

Jasper

Arthur

Alex

Jasper improved from 4th to 3rd,Arthur from 43rd to 34th and all boys finished above 64th.

Well done all runners for representing the school in the first competition of the year.