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• Gardening Updates

  Wed 31 May 2017

  As we move into the summer months, our gardening project is in full swing!  Each class is currently cultivating a chilli plant as part of our chilli competition, along with their own potatoes which are happily growing outside of school.   The Year Six children spent a very muddy day planting up rhubarb and raspberries and many other plants in the barrels outside of school, along with preparing the ground ahead of the construction of our poly tunnel.   We have also built a new bed near the climbing boulder, and introduced a range of other herbs and plants in all sorts of places around school.

   

  The children in gardening club have been busy planting up new vegetables from seed, including squashes, beans and pak choi! They have sewn the seeds into trays of starter plugs. Once they are ready, the gardeners will plant them out in the vegetable beds to continue their growing journey outside! We look forward to tasting the produce!

   

  During half term the PTA hosted a plant sale to raise funds to support all the gardening going on at school. A massive thank you to everyone who bought plants and to all the stalls which donated 10% of their sales to the school.

   

  This has certainly been a very busy term so far, and our gardening club have big plans for the rest of the summer.   We must thank Mrs Musson and Richard Hart for all of their hard work with this project – the school grounds look amazing at the moment and it is fabulous to see so many children enjoying gardening!

  

• In-House Gym Competition

  Thu 25 May 2017

  On Tuesday 23rd May we held a school based Gymnastics competition, in order to raise some funds for gymnastics equipment and leotards.   The number of children who chose to enter the competition was amazing to see - and watching them complete floor routines and a vault competition was fantastic.  All of the children competed to a high standard, with all of our Gymnastics coaches expressing their pride at the attitude the pupils demonstrated.   At the end of the day the whole school gathered for a presentation in which the top 6 children in each category were awarded medals or ribbons.

   

  Year One Competition:

   

  Bronze - Freya Pitt.                Silver - James Wilmot.            Gold - Lacey Osborne

   

  Year Two Competition:

   

  Bronze - Bradley Starr           Silver - Finley Shadrick          Gold - Azalea Wooldridge

   

  Key Stage Two Novice Boys Competition:

   

  Bronze - Harrison Grubb       Silver - Cory Stevens              Gold - Nathan Bewes

   

   

   

  Key Stage Two Novice Girls Competition:

   

  Bronze - Eden Downing        Silver -  Charlotte Conway       Gold - Lara Bird

   

  Key Stage Two Intermediate 'B' Boys Competition:

   

  Bronze - Joshua Lui              Silver - Ewan Shadrick            Gold - Stanley Waters

   

   

   

  Key Stage Two Intermediate 'B' Girls Competition:

   

  Bronze - Lucy Baker.             Silver - Eleanor Foster            Gold - Imogen Spencer

   

  Key Stage Two Intermediate 'A' Mixed Competition:

   

  Bronze - Emma Wright          Silver - Archie Waters             Gold - Holly Chamberlain

   

   

   

  A special mention must also be made for Imogen Spencer and Lara Bird, who won the overall Intermediate and Novice categories respectively!   We also need to say an enormous thank you to Kerry, Sarah, Aaron, Ashleigh and Claire for all of their hard work before, during and after the competition.  It is such a pleasure to see the children being able to take part in these activities, and as always, their effort and attitude was exemplary.

  

• Shebbear Football Competition

  Fri 05 May 2017

  Recently we were also able to take two football teams to a tournament at Shebbear College.  This competition saw a Year Four and Year Five team taking part, and both teams clocked up several victories before they ended up facing each other!  Both teams played brilliantly in this match, and after winning, our older team went on to appear in the final of the overall tournament.  We were very proud of both teams of children during the tournament, and it is good to know that we will have very strong football teams over the next few years!