Netball

We had our first round of matches this week at Priory Ruskin. We played Long Bennington ( who took the place of Great Ponton) -we drew 4-4. Our second game was against St.Mary's, we won and our 3rd game against Ropsley we won  too. A fabulous start with 3 new players in our team who had not played a competitive match before. A superb team effort all round-well done. I was very proud of all 7 children-they represented our school extremely well.

( Sophie is missing from the photo-so I will add another photo after our next round of  matches on 9th October)

Cross Country 2nd race

Another sunny day for our second and final race ( there are 3 but we are away next week). We have talked race tactics and what worked well/ not so well last race so are ready for this race.

The girls lining up, Jess has picked out the race winner from last week and aims to keep pace with her.

                                                                           And go....

1 lap down, 1 to go!

                            Jess keeping up with the leader- she gave her a fright and almost ( and I                                                mean almost ) beat her. A fabulous effort-2nd place.

The boys lining up ready.

Results will follow when we receive our placings following the 3rd race on 1st October.

Cross Country races

Is it that time of year again already? Yes-time for our first race on the grassed area behind  The Meres . All schools in the Grantham area are invited to select their top 20 boys and top 20 girls to enter these races over a distance of 1.5km.
We don't have that many children to select teams from, so any Y5/6 who trains in school and wants to race are entered as  our teams!
This year 3 girls and 6 boys entered the races ( with others just completing the training in school).

Our 2 teams at the start in our school kit.

All photos were taken  before 110% effort was put in by all these children.

It was hard!

 Lots of red faces and out of puff children at the end.

Jess came 4th and Conor came 24th-our top boy and girl with other very commendable places.

2nd race is next week-watch this space.

Dance Club 2014

Our rota of Inspire + coaches have started again this year. Micky has returned to deliver Dance Coaching.The first week was a Street Dance routine.

learning the steps

hands next

arms to give "swagger"

Are we all on our right foot?

and point

and nod

and look

time to put it to music.

Tennis Club-final session

                                  Our tennis club finished their term off with a 'round robin' style tournament

Perfect weather-the group has been really lucky and only had 1 rain interruption all 7 weeks of coaching!

                                              Taking turns to play and umpire each other

Stumps as not enough nets!

3 games going on simultaneously

almost finished

                             Thomas won the most games- The Djokovic of Marston!.

Tour De SK

4 children represented our school in the Tour De SK ( in the week the Tour De France took place in Yorkshire).
Joseph, year 4, Jess and Thomas year 5 and Chloe year 6 made up our team.
First was a warm up.

warming up on a cycle

the race-how fast can the team complete 2000m?

year 4 first

                                                           no time stop for change overs!

next one-year 5

and go year 5

year 6

                                                our time -red team 7 mins 22 seconds

                                   
                Smoothie making using pedal power-a fender blender attached to the back of the cycle

taking tuns to mix the fruit

delicious

                                                                            well done team

Class 3 cricket

Class 3 have learned  and developed their cricket skills and applied them to several variations of cricket-non stop, in pairs and diamond cricket.

skills-long barrier

wicket keeping, throwing, fielding

Frazer discussing what has been covered and asking children to self assess and level their skills.

using sheets to help decide which level 

batting skills using a batting T

cover drive

that's what it should look like-what head, feet and bat position

great shot

More Cricket -Fraser's last week with us.

putting our skills in action

                                                      showing what they have learned

perfect weather for cricket 

 a little bit of coaching