Longfleet conducted themselves brilliantly at this tournament, held at Poole Grammar School, to finish in 3rd place overall. Wins against Oakdale and St Aldhelm’s in the group stages (including a tense final ball win against the latter) ensured our progress to the semi-finals. We came up against a determined St Joseph’s team, who, after a very close game, beat us by 2 runs (again off the final ball!). This then put us up against St Aldhelm’s (again) for the 3rd/4th place play off. Longfleet won this match by 30 runs. Highlights of the day included a hat trick by Alfie Wathen, which, on its own is amazing in itself, but was made ever more spectacular by Alfie Partridge taking all three catches. One of these, a diving, one-handed effort, Ben Stokes would have been proud of. 

The Harbourside Learning Partnership delivered another fun sporting event for our Infant School age children, this time an athletics event at Lilliput Infant School. Longfleet's Sports Ambassadors were on-hand again to show the reception children each event, and they were also giving stickers to any children who finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd in their activities. The children enjoyed sprinting races, sack races, javelin throwing and an agility race. Thank you to Lilliput and particularly Miss Adeney for hosting. 

Our Longfleet guitar pupils have been invited to perform at a very exciting event. Soundstorm, our fabulous music hub, are staging a celebration involving schools from across the region at Upton Country Park. The concert is being linked in with the theme of the 50 year anniversary of the first moon landing and is called Transmission. The concert will be on July 3^rd at 7pm and if you would like to book tickets please do so as soon as possible through the Soundstorm website. The children will have two rehearsals at school with inspirational guitarist and composer, Chris Woods. Have a look at his website to find out more about him https://chriswoodsgroove.co.uk/ All our guitar pupils have taken letters home giving more information. Please return the permission slip by Monday 3^rd June if you want to take part.

Year 3 and 4 had an excellent morning at Magna Academy, competing against 8 other schools and 12 other teams in total. All of the children had learnt golf at Longfleet by the host of the event, Coach Deej, who put the children through their paces with the help of the excellent Magna Academy Leaders. In a rotation of activities, our 20 children enjoyed chipping and putting games, and were kept active throughout the morning. We couldn't quite finish in the top 3 to qualify for the Dorset Finals, but improved hugely as the morning progressed. Thank you to the parents for coming to support and helping with transport. 

Our school orchestra recently gained twenty-two new recorder players from Years 3 & 4 and three new violin players from Crocodile Class, taking our numbers up to sixty-five!  To celebrate, we learnt a piece of music called ‘Superhero Blues’ and performed it to the parents after school on Wednesday.

Children representing each of our instruments also performed a piece of music. The recorders kicked off the concert with ‘Chilled’, followed by performances from the flutes and clarinets. Our cello pupils performed Frere Jacques in three parts and a Grade 2 piece called ‘Happy Places’. Jiya then gave us a lovely solo violin performance of a piece from ‘Carmen’. Our trombones, cornets and trumpets gave a lively rendition of ‘Strollin’ followed by impressive solos by Zoya on the piano and Josh on the drumkit. The concert ended with ‘Superhero Blues’ performed by the whole orchestra.

Well done to the orchestra (especially if that was your first ever performance) and thank you to all the parents, families, friends and teachers who came to listen.

The children in Year One had a fantastic day out at Avon Heath Country Park celebrating all that they had learnt in their 'Roots, Shoots and Muddy Boots' topic. They expertly identified different items from nature in a scavenger hunt and made some wonderfully creative pieces of artwork using objects found around the forest trail. The highlight of the day, however, had to be the den building where they worked as teams to create Bear Grylls-worthy dens. They dragged and arranged branches, furnished their dwellings with logs and even passed the waterproofing inspection! A superb day was had by all!

Longfleet started the tournament confidently with some tight bowling and fielding against St Joseph’s. However, two silly run outs and a remarkable last over in which we lost 3 wickets, all to great catches, ensured we narrowly lost our first game. Although our skills improved, so did our opponents, and Baden Powell A and Bishop Aldhelm’s were the two strongest teams in the competition. Our fielding certainly improved in these games as we had plenty of practise! A final battle saw us matched against St Joseph’s again, where in a shortened match, we batted, bowled and fielded brilliantly to win by 30 runs. Mason in particular caught three brilliant catches, whilst Lewis bowled his over quickly and accurately. Well done to all the players for their fantastic improvements over the course of the tournament, especially in the bowling.

Our Year 5 Lionesses produced some great displays to finish the tournament in 3rd place. The tournament was played on the Vitality Stadium pitch, and the girls were so excited to play on the same pitch as some of their heroes. In a small group of 3, each school played each other twice, resulting in four group matches overall. 

 

Longfleet 7-0 Parkfield

Longfleet 0-1 St Katherine’s

Longfleet 8-0 Parkfield

Longfleet 3-0 St Katherine’s.

 

This put us into a semi-final with St James. A narrow 1-0 loss was an unlucky result with the chances Longfleet missed, but the girls had a fantastic time.

 

Daisy Preston scored 12 goals overall in the tournament, making her the tournament’s top scorer. 

 

 

               Year 5’s Trip to Winchester Science Centre

Year 5 went on a trip to Winchester Science Centre for their topic of EUREKA! First, we got on to the coaches and set off for a one-hour journey. When we got there, we split up into our groups and ventured to the ground or top floor.

Here are some explanations of the exhibits:

Mind Ball: The mind ball is an exhibit where you must relax to get the ball to your opponent’s end of the table.

The Vortex: The Vortex is an exhibit where you must turn around the handle to make a vortex.

The Colon Café: First, you had to get a ticket from a ticket machine and go in. Next, you scan your ticket. After that, you watch your digested food flow around your intestines. On your way out, it says: “WARNING, WARNING toxic gas is coming!

“I really liked the Colon Café!” Paige, Eagles.

“I liked the planetarium,” Liam W, Eagles.

 “I really liked the mind ball,” Archie H, Kites.                         

                                            

THE WORKSHOP

In our workshop, we learnt about the states of matter: liquids, gases and solids.

First, we had to show what the states of matter were. Then we had to do some experimenting. Let’s see if you can guess what we made. So it is sticky, kids love it and it is stretchy. So have you guessed yet?.........You have? Good! It’s slime of course. Then we had to gather all our slime into one ginormous piece of it.                                                     

The Planetarium

Last of all, we went in to the planetarium. A planetarium is a big dome that has a projector showing the night sky.  In addition, a remote controls the projector and makes the sky move.

Lyra and Haydn ☺