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.  

Year One had a wonderful afternoon making kites as their 'Whatever the Weather' topic finale. We had a fantastic amount of parents and grandparents to help with the children's creations.  We were very appreciative of such a great turn out.  The children's kites were truly fantastic and were well tried on the playground!   Thank you to all!

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Yesterday Longfleet hosted the premiere of "From Classroom To Concert Hall; The Journey To The Royal Albert Hall". Thank you to Soundstorm and Hands On Media for featuring our orchestra in the film and for a magical, memorable, musical journey!

 

On Wednesday 13th, 30 trainee teachers from Poole SCITT came to Longfleet as part of their year-long teacher training course. As well as 10 week placements in various schools in the local area, they are taught the various subjects by lead teachers. Their PE course is taught by Mr Cole and involves them learning to plan a variety of different activities and games to take with them to their next placements.  Our Year 5 children also had the privilege to be taught by the trainees, who planned and delivered small group sessions. The children loved it and were brilliantly behaved. 

Well done to the Year 2 children who participated in the Tri Golf festival at Branksome Heath. It was wonderful to see everybody having such a fantastic time and learning some new skills! Our team did a particularly good job at the putting rounds and came 2nd overall. The next Ryder Cup generation has arrived!