Bournemouth RFC hosted another Dorset Tag Rugby Festival, this time for Years 3 and 4. Longfleet took two teams, and were one of 15 schools to take part in the tournament, which included over 20 teams overall. Although the matches were deemed "non-competitive", the TREDS values of rugby were in full force as Longfleet scored some brilliant tries, and, after some excellent coaching by the Bournemouth RFC referees, also learned the importance of a defensive line and coming up together. Incredible solo individual tries were scored by George S, Reuben C and Denny, whilst Jed must have been the festival's top try scorer with 12 tries in only 6 matches. The children even came away with a BRFC goodie bag and a medal for their efforts.  

This term the children in Year 4 are having whole class tuition on brass instruments. In their first lesson today, they met Mr Penfold who is a specialist brass teacher that already visits Longfleet to to teach our Year 6 brass pupils. Mr Penfold demonstrated each of the brass instruments to help the children decide whether to play a trumpet, cornet or trombone. Very quickly the children learnt to play their first two notes and each class has the makings of a great brass band already!

After the next lesson all the children will be able to take home an instrument to practice on. This instrument will be theirs for the duration of the project.

Later this week, the Year 4 parents will be recieving a letter telling them a bit more about the lessons and explaining how to look after the instruments.

Wel done Year 4. You're already off to a good start!

 

Eleven of Longfleet's Year 5 and 6 children travelled to Carter Community School to participate in fun activities across a wide range of sports. The activities were purely for enjoyment and interaction, no points were scored, and the Carter Sports Leaders engaged and pushed our children into striving for their best each time. Our favourite activities were the dance, the cricket "sprint" and the diving catches.

The marvellous "Centre for Wessex Young Musicians" are holding a special event for young brass, woodwind and percussion players on Saturday 4th May. 

Open wind and brass and percussion rehearsals,
• Instrumental sectional coaching
• Introductions to improvisation
• Breathing and warm-up techniques
• Mass concert band ensemble rehearsals,
• Performance demonstrations
• Final performance at the end of the day.
• The flyer says that it is for Grade 3 - 8 levels but if you are one of our Year 6 Brass and Clarinet players who are hoping to take Grade 2 this summer you are welcome to attend.
If you want to know more, please go to the 'News and Events / Letters / Music Letters' section of our school website and download the flyer and appication form.The deadline for applying is Friday 26th April.

Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed their VE Day on Wednesday. A particular highlight was their street party, as they enjoyed time with friends and family, and then performed their dance. Well done Year 6!

The groups have switched, our Celtic Warriors are becoming ‘Survival Experts’, while our ‘Survival Experts’ are increasing their Celtic knowledge. We have had rain this morning, but all are in good spirits and everyone is well. 

Longfleet took the long journey to St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury, to take part in a swimming competition that showcased every child’s amazing resilience and perseverance. We were joined by other local schools, as well as special schools across Dorset, with all the children enthusiastic for what was, for some, their first taste of a swimming gala.

The children from Longfleet competed in the following races:

 

 

The children supported each other throughout the competition, cheering all the competitors and showing real joy at each other’s performances. A huge thank you to all the Longfleet staff who came to this event and work with the children, and to Mrs Kent, who takes the children swimming every Friday morning and works tirelessly on improving their technique and resilience in the water.

 

Look out for more “Can-Do” events in the Summer Term!

Hello again from New Barn. We have had a fun day of activites and are now ‘chilling’ in our rooms before our BBQ. The day has been dry, but we might have to have an indoor BBQ, we are waiting to see what happens. The Celtic day has been full. We have made Celtic pots, chalk structures, made butter, ground wheat into flour and heard some Celtic / Roman historical stories. The Survival day, has involved building shelters, lighting fires and making arrows.

On Tuesday, two teams of our Year 3 and 4 netballers attended the annual Netball Festival held at Oakdale Junior School. Our teams competed against a number of other schools in Poole and were a credit to Team Longfleet. Team A absolutely dominated their group, winning all three of their matches (5-0, 4-0 and 4-0). Team B also kept a clean sheet and came in as joint winners of their group. All the children showcased some incredibly impressive netball skills and sportsmanship and did themselves and the adults supporting them proud.

We have arrived and all is going well. At the moment we are enjoying the sun. One group is learning how to survive, while the others are finding out about Celts. Everyone is well.