Today, we entered a team of Year 5 and 6 children into the Dorset School Games Windsurfing competition at Portland OTC.
In the morning, the children practised their windsurfing skills ready for the competition in the afternoon! They were all confident travelling in a straight line and did a great job of developing their skills when turning.
In the afternoon, they competed as a team in both windsurfing and paddle boarding races. We were incredibly proud when it was announced that we were the overall winners! In addition, Josh even competed in races with some experienced windsurfers and was brilliant at demonstrating our school values of aspiration and resilience!
Well done to everyone for a fantastic day!
Our #ThisGirlCan sports trip was very exciting! Our activities were tennis; cricket; football; netball; athletics and warm –ups. I think everyone enjoyed it so much! Our teacher was an amazing helper and Sue, our bus driver, was lovely to talk to. The leaders at Parkstone Grammar were great too!
# THIS GIRL CAN was BRILLIANT!
The people we met were really nice and we worked well in our groups even though some of us did not know each other that well. Finally, we finished, got our certificates and went back to all of our schools. We were tired! I just have to say a big thank you to the teachers who organised it for us!
By Rachel, Kites
Our Year 4 pupils are making fabulous progress on their brass instruments! Take a look at the videos and photographs on the music page of the school website to hear and see them playing. Don't forget there is a concert coming up on Monday 1st July at 2.30pm and we would love you to come and listen. We'll also be talking about opportunities to continue learning the trumpet, cornet or trombone in a smaller group next year. Thanks to all the lovely Year 4 parents who are doing a brilliant job helping their child to remember their instruments every Monday and encouraging them to practice at home!
On the 11th of June, some skilled members of the Year 4, 5 and 6 athletics team went to Ashdown for a Town Sports competition.
We did events including:
. 75 m . Long jump
. 600m . Cricket ball throw
. 150 m . High jump
. 60 m . Hurdles
Some people in our school got through to the County Finals which means they go up against people throughout the County. Unfortunately, it was raining very heavily and it was freezing but we were resilient and we carried on to try our best in everything we did. All the teachers got nice, warm drinks whilst we ran all of our events.
By Blossom and Eloise, Kites
On Tuesday 4th June, some Year 5s and 6s went to Broadstone Middle School to take part in the Quad Kids event. At the tournament, we all took part in 4 events: howler throw; standing long jump; 600m and 75m. Overall, our team came 7th. Mr Fehrenbach and Miss Helm were particularly impressed with everyone's resilience and endurance during the 600m!
By Jamie, Eagles
https://chriswoodsgroove.co.uk/longfleet-guitar-orchestra-a-new-sea/
Percussive guitarist and composer Chris Woods delivered a fantastic workshop to around 40 Longfleet guitar pupils last week. They are preparing a piece to perform at Soundstorm's "TRANSMISSION" concert which will take place at Upton Country Park on Wednesday 3rd July. If you would like to be in the audience make sure you book tickets through Soundstorm's website as it is sure to be a sell-out event! Guitar pupils, check out the amazing resources Chris has made for you by clicking on the link above. There are four different 'loops' to choose from according to how confident you feel and each one has a video and TAB to help you practise. Our second workshop with Chris is on Tuesday 25th June.