Longfleet travelled to Oakdale to participate in a Hi5 festival which included 8 teams. Longfleet brought two of those teams and showed excellent passing and, at times, shooting to score some great team goals. Both Longfleet teams played with great respect and were praised by other teachers for their determination. Notable performances came from Blossom, who scored 5 goals when playing in Goal Attack and Goal Shooter, and Daniel, who scored all 3 goals in the final match.

 

Longfleet’s “Team 1” won the competition and remained unbeaten, whilst “Team 2” came an admirable 7th. Well done to all the players involved.

Carter Community School hosted a marvellous event which included 7 other local schools. The emphasis was on participation and enjoyment and Longfleet's children certainly enjoyed themselves. Sporting skills including ball balancing, shuttle runs, "speed-bounce" and aiming amongst others, with the Carter Sports Ambassadors on-hand to show the children the ropes and add up the various scores. Although it wasn't deemed a competitive event, Longfleet came away with over 1000 points which was a fabulous effort.

 

This week the Keep Safe Council were invited back to Poole Hospital to officially open the new Children's Emergency Department.  Last November, the Keep Safe team were involved in contributing ideas to the emergency team about refurbishing this area to make it more child friendly.  The team came up with some excellent suggestions about colours, activities and strategies to support families and children that feel worried.  The Emergency Department incorporated many of the Keep Safe team's ideas in the refurbishment.  Excitingly, ITV Meridian News were also there filming and interviewing the children!  This should be aired any day so watch this space..

The Keep Safe team are now involved in helping to rewrite some literature for the hospital to make it more child friendly.  Well done team - you were amazing and did Longfleet proud!

 

Last night Miss Wright, our fabulous music teacher, attended the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence ceremony at the Sheraton Grand in London's Park Lane.  She had been shortlisted for the Francesca Hanley Inspiration Award (Muisc Teacher of the Year).  The awards have been dubbed the Oscars of the music education world and Miss Wright finished as one of the runners up being described as a 'truly inspirational' teacher.  Congratulations Miss Wright and thank you for all yuor hard work and enthusiasm.

On Thursday, Longfleet held a Cricket World Cup Day to celebrate the Cricket World Cup coming to our school. A draw was made previously in which each year group was given a country to learn about and "be" during the day:

 

Year 1 - Australia

Year 2 - India

Year 3 - New Zealand

Year 4 - South Africa

Year 5 - West Indies

Year 6 - Sri Lanka

 

During the morning, each year group had cricket sessions with Dorset Cricket Board coaches, as well as learning about their country and practising for their afternoon performances.

 

In the afternoon, each year group walked to Poole High School's theatre for our very own "World Cup Opening Ceremony". This included seeing the real Cricket World Cup on stage, as well as each year group's fantastic performances, which included poetry, singing, music and dance. Each performance was so very different to the last but they were all outstanding.

 

Thank you to Poole High, Chance to Shine, the Dorset Cricket Board and Nissan for helping make the day the amazing cricket extravaganza that it was.

Longfleet’s gala team worked tirelessly to finish a brilliant 4^th out of 12 schools at the Poole Schools Swimming Gala, held at Rossmore Leisure Centre on the 8^th February. This was made even more impressive by the fact that two of the top 5 schools in the competition were private schools with their own swimming pool!

 

Notable performances from the gala were:

Year 5

 

Year 6:

 

 

*Congratulations to Christopher who will be representing Poole in the Dorset Finals at both 50m Freestyle and 25m Butterfly.

 

Daisy in 50m Breaststroke and the Year 6 Girls’ Freestyle Relay Team are “1^st Reserve” for the Dorset Finals.

 

 

Longfleet hosted Hamworthy Park Junior School on Tuesday 26^th, and both schools fielded two teams. Both schools showed speed, agility and awareness to score some excellent tries, including some superb individual efforts by Jed and Reuben in particular. The matches were used specifically to increase the children’s understanding of the rules, so the terms “offside” and “knock-on” were brought in during the matches and implemented towards the end.

 

We are thankful to Hamworthy for bringing their children to us, and our Year 5/6 teams will be travelling to Hamworthy for a fixture on the 26^th March.

Please see the Second New Barn Presentation in the Latest News Documents section. This presentation includes information about the trip, including arrangements for Wednesday 3rd April and Thursday 4th April. 

Reception had a great time exploring the Tesco Branksome store.  They were allowed 'behind the scenes' to look at the bakery and enjoyed being fruit and vegetable detectives.  It was interesting to find out how far some produce had travelled from around the world to reach us here in Poole!  A big thank you to the staff for their knowledge and patience during our visits and the delicious goodies we were given to share back at school!

To conclude our 'Shiver Me Timbers!' topic, Reception had great fun improvising a pirate themed story with 'The Treehouse Theatre' company.  We sang songs, danced and used our imaginations to create a story as a class, using props.