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.