Tag: sports

Well done to these 2 girls for their fabulous sporting achievements in dance and gymnastics.

Football Achievements

Well done to Amelia, Jess and Darcey for being invited to Brighton trials.

Well done to Amelia and Jess for being invited to Sussex trials!

Congratulations to Amelia for being picked for the Sussex team - what an amazing achievement.

We are very proud of you all.

Football at Lancing 12/12/2019

On a very wet and miserable afternoon, the girls’ team travelled to Lancing for the next stage in the tournament. They played several matches in challenging conditions - drawing 2 and losing one. Missing out on the semi-finals by only one goal, we then played in the 5/6 play-offs, which we unfortunately lost. However, out of at least 100 schools that would have entered this round of tournaments, we think that 6th place is phenomenal! Well done girls. We are really proud of you. Thank you to Mr Smith for driving the bus and Mr Griffiths for coaching the team.

18 Year 6 children went to Hailsham to compete in the School Games Sportshall Athletics competition at Hailsham Community College. They participated in a range of exciting indoor events and all tried their hardest. Some of the children were really excited as it was their first opportunity to represent Stafford at a sporting event and we were really proud of all of you. Many thanks to Mr Griffiths and Mr Smith for acompanying us to the event.

On Friday 4th October some girls represented Stafford at the Albion in the Community tournament at Eastbourne Borough. Excitingly we got through to the next round at Lancing, which unfortunately we can’t attend due to Year 6 residential.
The girls were excellent ambassadors for Stafford and we are so proud of them.

Lat Friday, some of our talented footballers went to play in a tournament at Eastbourne Borough. The event was hosted by Albion in the Community and there were 9 schools from all over Sussex. The girls played lots of matches and reached the semi-finals. Excitingly, 3 of the girls were scouted by Brighton and invited to their Brighton & Hove Albion Development trials. The girls were all excellent ambassadors for Stafford and we are so proud of them.

Over the last month, teams from Stafford have been taking part in cricket tournaments from the local area. All the teams were able to win 2 games and got better throughout the tournaments. As well as the team successes, the child had their own individual success such as bowling somebody out, taking a catch in the field or hitting the ball for six runs. The children were excellent sportsman - celebrating their own and others success while respecting the oppositions. They all made Stafford proud.

Thank you so much to all the parents who came and supported our sports mornings. We all really enjoyed them and it was fabulous to see the children competing and trying their best. Each class represented a country this year and had worked hard making flags to carry out during our welcome ceremony, where they paraded in to their country’s national anthem.

Points were awarded for each place in the group activities and totaled up to find our winning colour team. It was really close this year, but the winners are as follows:

Points in each Year group were:

We also give the children points for showing our School Games Values and these are totaled up for each team colour. The results are:

Following our success at the South Downs Area competition, our team went to Crawley to represent the South Downs Area in the School Games Area Finals. The children had an amazing day and were excellent ambassadors for Stafford. We came 6th out of 8 schools which was fabulous. During the day, they took part in their Kurling matches, played in the exploration zone and even met an Olympic rower! Thank you to Mr Smith for driving the bus and to Miss Atwell for accompanying the children. Well done to our 4 New-Age Kurling representatives - we are very proud of you!

Today, our cricket coach, Mr Smith from Sussex Cricket www.sussexcricket.co.uk, organised a ‘5 Bats Speed Cricket’ competition with houses playing against each other in a round robin across the three classes.

Results

Chestnut

Red (30) v Blue (46)
Green (96) v Yellow (80)

Poplar

Blue v Green - Draw
Yellow v Red - Yellow win

Ash

Red (21) v Green (40)
Blue (50) v Yellow (67)

Points table

(2 points for a win and 1 point for draw) so Green won it!

Green - 5
Yellow - 4
Blue - 3
Red - 0

Well done to the Green Team.

On Tuesday 30th April, 8 Year 4 children went to Ratton School for a handball tournament. There were 8 other schools there and we played 7 fast-paced matches. The game was new to the children, but they quickly learnt new skills and tactics and played really well. It was fabulous to see them trying something new and having lots of fun. We didn’t win any of our matches this time, but we did draw 2. The children were all so enthused by the game, that they have already taught the Year 4 classes how to play (with the help of Mr Smith who attended the tournament). Mr Smith has also taught this to all the other year groups and the game has been really well received this week. It has been great to see everyone trying so hard with a new sport - well done. For more information on the game see https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/what-is-handball

This week has been our exciting competitions week at school. All the year groups have taken part in an intra-school competition, either within their own class or against other classes in the year group. Certificates were also awarded in the some of the competitions for children who did particularly well, or who demonstrated the School Games Values.

Year 3 & 5 Find-a-Goal

The aim of this School Games competition is to pass your ball through every goal in the shortest possible time. The children competed in pairs to see who the winners were. Certificates were also awarded to the most improved players.

Year 3 have been doing ball skills this term and their competition focused on netball skills:

Year 5 have been doing hockey this term and so ran the same competition but with hockey equipment:

Year 4 Run the Loop

The ‘Run the loop’ core task involves a team of four batters trying to score points by striking the ball and running between bases, and a team of four fielders trying to retrieve, throw and catch the ball quickly and accurately. This was run as a competition in the last week after lots of skills practise!

Certificates went to Myles, Dylan T and Lola, Pearl, Alfie, Oliver, Teddy

Year 6 Treasure Island Invasion School Games Challenge

Achieve: The aim of this game is to collect treasure and get it back to your team’s treasure chest without losing your tail.

Year 6 Competition certificates were awarded to:

• Charlie M, Keira, Sofia, Violet, Ben, Thomas R, Anna-Maria
• Payten, Grace, Melody, Endrit, Kacey
• Kal-El, Amelia, Thomas S, Lillie P, Lilli-Jane, Chloe

Year 6 Haka Dance-Off

The Year 6 classes have all been working hard this term creating their own version of the traditional New Zealand dance, the Haka. The term started with us watching the All Blacks intimidate their rugby opposition and we learnt to copy some of the moves.

From here, each class then choreographed their own dance in a similar style. The classes each nominated a leader, who used ideas from individuals to complete their own version. It was excellent to see the children lead their own learning in this way and work together as class teams.

The dances were then performed and judged. The joint winners were Alder – for their well-led dance that was intimidating and used a range of dance technicalities, such as mirroring and unison and Cedar – who had added group choreography after their whole class dance. Well done to all the classes for their great teamwork and enthusiasm.

Football Club awards

Mr Griffiths and Mr Brown, who run our football club, have been watching the players carefully! On Wednesday, they awarded some trophies. Well done to Mikey, who received the most improved attitude award, Phoebe, who achieved the most improved player award and Ben, who achieved the best player award.

Well done also to all our teams who have represented Stafford this term at our sports clubs and in the Level 2 competitions. We are very proud of all your efforts!

On the morning of Thursday 4th April, 8 Year 4s went to Heron Park School for a Unihoc tournament. There were 9 other schools participating and we played in 2 different groups. In our group were Ocklynge, Gildredge House, Pevensey & Westham and West Rise. Mr Griffiths kindly came into school on Tuesday to give the children a bit of a practise and it was clear that they learnt lots. They played really well in all their matches, with 3 draws and one loss. Miss Atwell and I were so very impressed with the amazing attitude and behaviour of the children we took. They were a real credit to our school and we were really proud of them. We unfortunately missed out on a place in the semi or finals, but stayed to support the other teams - it was a really enjoyable morning! Thank you so much to Miss Atwell for her support and to Mr Walton for driving the minibus.

On Monday, Year 3 went and learnt lots of new tennis skills at Hampden Park with Jenny (a tennis coach). The children participated in warm up activities and then built up their skills in order to perfect the skill of a rally. All of the children were excellent role models and amazed their teachers with how quickly they learnt a variety of skills. Thank you to all of the adults who came to help (we wouldn’t have been able to go without you!), to Mr Smith for driving the minibus and to Jenny for giving Year 3 a terrific tennis morning!

Friday 22nd March was the 17th National Skipping Day. To celebrate, all the classes took part in a 20 minute skipping session. We all had lots of fun using individual and group ropes. Well done to all the children who participated and thank you so much to Miss Smith for organising this event.

On Tuesday 12th March, 9 Year 6s went to the University of Brighton in Denton Road to take part in the Eastbourne PE Association swimming gala. There were 7 schools in total and the children swam races in front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke. There ware also girls and boys relay events. Excitingly, we made it to the final in several of the races securing two silver places and four 4th place positions. We were really pleased to come third overall!

Thank you so much to Mrs Orford for accompanying us on the trip and to Mr Walton for dropping us off in the bus. Thank you to to all the parents who came to support and cheer us on - it was lovely to hear.

On Wednesday 27th February 2019, four Year 6 children took part in an exciting opportunity at Shinewater Sports Centre playing New Age Kurling. There were 4 other schools there, represented in 8 teams. Our 2 teams played 5 matches against other schools and, after that, the teams were redrawn into further pools to decide the final order of the teams. Excitingly, the boys team won!

Well done to all the children who came along and represented Stafford - you were fabulous. Thank you to Ms Atwell for giving up her lunchtime to come along and help out with the event.

A couple of weeks ago, we congratulated Isobel for her winning design for the Sussex School Games logo. Below is the report that has gone to schools and pictures of the logos. Well done Isobel.

New Team name and logo for Sussex School Games Competitions

All nine SGO areas have new teams names and logos that will be used for Level 3 Sussex School Games competitions. (We will still be known as South Downs Area for everything else!)

Thank you to the schools that sent in design competition entries for the South Downs Area. The winning idea was designed by Isabel from Stafford School in Eastbourne. Congratulations to Isobel who will receive her own South Downs Area T-shirt.

The new logo will appear on the T-shirts being worn at the first Sussex School Games final (Sportshall Athletics) this Friday.

On Tuesday (12th February) - at the same time as the netball matches - 13 Year 4 children travelled to Hailsham Community College to take part in an exciting new event, which included lots of fun activities like ‘Animal Walks’ and ‘Crossing the Swamp’. There were several other schools there and we all had lots of fun. It was great to see everyone joining in with lots of enthusiasm and energy. Thank you to Mr Walton for driving the minibus and to Mrs Lloyd and Mrs Orford for coming to support with the event.

30 very excited children performed last night at Ratton School in our first ever Eastbourne Schools PE Association dance festival. We arrived at 3.45pm ready for a rehearsal, which went very smoothly. Packed teas followed in the gym and then everyone put on their new t-shirts for the performance - which was fabulous.

Huge thank you to Miss Doig our dance teacher, the staff from Ocklynge who oversaw the preparations for the event and a really big thank you to Miss Smith, Miss Coombe, Ms Perry and Mrs Springett who came along to help supervise the children. We were all so proud of all their hard work and how they represented Stafford - we hope lots of the children will be able to take part in the new dance club that Miss Doig will be running at Stafford after half term.

Congratulations to Isobel in 4 Chestnut who has won the local area competition to design a new logo for the South Downs Area.

This fabulous design is going to be used on the t-shirts (similar to the one below) as part of their rebranding, one of which will be coming to Isobel as a prize! Well done!

We are very excited by our Year 5 participation in the Premier League Primary Stars programme. This is an exciting opportunity described as, “a world -class primary schools programme which uses the appeal of the Premier League and professional football clubs to improve and enhance physical education (PE) and other curriculum areas, developing skills and values that are crucial to success in later life.” The excitement started with a trip to the AMEX Stadium for some of the children - see below.

Our primary Stars Sports Mentor, Mr Sweet, will deliver high quality interventions targeted at whole classes, small groups and individuals which aim to improve children’s physical literacy, English, Maths, communication skills and resilience. Through team teaching, he will also improve teachers’ confidence in delivering PE. He will be in every Tuesday until Easter.

On Monday 14th January, 30 Year 5s headed off to the AMEX Stadium for an exciting day to start our journey with Premier League Primary Stars. The day was run by Humanotopia (an inspirational London based company) and focussed on respect and social skills. The day was an amazing success and we were so pleased to see lots of children being brave, trying new things and learning new skills. During the day, we were lucky enough to go down into the stands and have our photo taken by the pitch: we also met Gully and JD, one of Brighton & Hove Albion’s disability players.

Here are some of the comments the children made:

“I’ve learnt how to be aware, honest and responsible. I know how to keep harmony.” - Sienna

“We were shown how to respect others and get more confident,” - Alfie

“I was happy and felt happy when I got to speak in front on the microphone. I said some really nice things to JD and he has cerebral palsy and finds it hard to move. I held the mic for him and I felt so happy.”

“I am so proud that I overcame by fears and became more confident,” - Nel

Thank you so much to Mrs Lloyd, Miss Taylor and Mr Cairns for their help with the trip. The children were good ambassadors for Stafford and I know that they really enjoyed their day.

On Wednesday 5th December, 12 Year 4 children attended a multi-sports festival at East Sussex College in Eastbourne. The events were run by the students at the college, who set up and ran lots of fun activities including: parachute, ‘the floor is lava’, ‘extreme rock, paper, scissors’, parachute games, benchball and more. The children were all great ambassadors for Stafford School and had lots of fun - they especially enjoyed the cops and robbers game!

This week, the Year 6 not attending the residential have had lots of fun and taken part in a range of different activities:

Swimming

On Wednesday, we went to the Sovereign Centre to swim. The children all had a fabulous time and were complemented by a member of the public on their lovely manners and great behaviour. It was fabulous to see the children all practising and using the swimming they have learnt in their lessons to have fun with their friends.

Sports Leader Award day

On Thursday, the children took part in a special day to achieve a School Games Sports Leader certificate.

In groups, they had to design an activity, a poster for it and a scoring system. They were given the opportunity to test these out on each other and then lead the activities for the Year 4 classes in the afternoon.

All the children worked really well together and had lots of fun.

It has been fabulous to see everyone out on the field for the first time today enjoying the sunshine and being very active playing lots of different sports. Hopefully, some of our lunchtime activities will move outside from the Star Studio very soon.

Our personal competition for the last few weeks has been the standing long jump and we have had some excellent ‘jumpers’! The winner for this week was Emilio in Year 3, who jumped a whopping 1.46m, well done! Special mention must also go to Harrison in Year 3 for an impressive 1.35m jump.

If anyone has any ideas for the next competition, please see Mrs Lloyd!

We were really excited to welcome James from Scootfit to Stafford on Wednesday, Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon. Every class took part in a fun and energetic scooting session to music. It was fabulous to see the enthusiasm with which the children (and staff!) took part and James was impressed with our level of balance, skill and agility. If you have a scooter at home, it would be great if you could go out over the weekend and show your family what you were doing. We are also hoping to invest some more time and money in scooting at school to improve our fitness even more! Have fun scooting at home.

On Wednesday 28th March, all of Year 5 went to the University of Brighton to take part in a sports festival with four other local schools. During the day, we were all split into six different colour teams and took part in different activities, including problem solving, survival skills, team-building games and a Zone-7 ball competition in teams at the end.

Unfortunately, the weather was not on our side so we had to do all our activities indoors. However, we all had a great time and were fabulous ambassadors for Stafford. Thank you to all the staff for their help on the day.

On Friday 23rd March, Stafford celebrated Sports Relief. In the morning, we had a great time doing whole school Zumba led by Miss Taylor and ably assisted by Miss Smith and Miss Coombe.

At lunchtime, lots of teachers led some fun activities on the playground including: Zumba, stoolball and hula hooping. Thank you to all the teachers who gave their time to do this.

Change4Life competitions were run by some of the Year 6 pupils and the winners were:

Star Jump competition: Mia in 6 Oak with 127 Star Jumps

Run & Jump competition: Chloe in 6 Maple with 8.85 seconds.

We also sold lots of wristbands to raise some money to support this fabulous charity.