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• Gymnastics Festival

  Tue 06 Feb 2018 Mr Roper

  On Tuesday the 6^th of February 2018, Mr Roper took ten children from years 3 and 4 to represent our school at a Gymnastic festival at Erewash Valley Gym Club’s brand new venue. This was a fantastic opportunity for the children to learn new skills and develop existing gymnastic techniques using equipment that they would not usually have access to at school.

  The children practised their balancing skills and showed brilliant bravery by performing forward rolls and headstands on the beam. They learned jumping techniques on the bouncy castle runway and to volt over the horse. They developed floor routine skills using hoops and ribbons on the tumble mat and used their core strength on the bars to balance and hold themselves up in order to do a somersault. Conor and Kyedan even managed to leap from the lower bar to the highest just like an Olympian!  

  All the children worked incredibly hard and attempted each station, even if it was a little scary, and represented the school fantastically! A big well done to Conor, Noah, Kyedan, Emily, Luca, Leora, Leo, Alex, Tayler and Lacey.

  

• Dodgeball Champions 2018

  Mon 05 Feb 2018 Mr Roper

  On Monday the 5^th of February, I was lucky enough to take a group of year five and six children to the local Dodgeball competition at Long Eaton School. We competed against eight other teams in a series of three minute games. Our children played fantastically well and demonstrated great spirit, determination and superb sportsmanship in each and every game. Of the eight games we participated in, we won six (three of which we won 6-0, meaning we knocked all the opposing players out) and narrowly lost two. Our knock out victories gave us the highest number of overall points and we won the entire competition. Each player received a gold medal. A huge well done goes to Dylan, Jack, Connie, Hope, Jaydon, Ella, Archie and Oliver. CONGRATULATIONS!

  On behalf of myself and the children, we would like to say a special thank you to the parents that helped transport us to the venue and cheer us on to victory!