Sport/PE

Having a birthday awake makes it even more fun! All of the children have been incredible challenging themselves and supporting each other.

The children were up early having bacon, sausage, beans, toast, cereal, yoghurt and fruit for breakfast to prepare for a busy day ahead. We have had great fun doing some of the challenging activities including high climb challenges and the zip wire.

The children have enjoyed their evening entertainment playing a splash game where they had to protect a water balloon. Only one group managed to make it survive the drop!

Some of the groups have been able to take aim in archery – with some super bulls eye shots. They have also been working as a team to build a moving buggy.

The children have been doing a trapeze leap to touch a ball and have done some problem solving – which was certainly interesting with lots of chiefs!

The children are having an amazing time at Ford Castle. They have all taken part in their first activities and have had their evening meal. They have worked fantastically in teams and have all challenged themselves.

This term, Reception a have been given the opportunity to work with a specialist gymnastics coach.  The children made a very impressive start to their new unit of work this week by learning to do forward rolls.  By the end of the session most children were able to do this and both classes then mov

In PE, Year Two  have been practising their ball skills. This week, the children had to control the ball using their hands and feet. First, the children had to move the ball around their body in the same direction. When they heard ‘change’, they had to carefully change the direction the ball was mo

During our PE lessons this term, the boys and girls in Year 3 have been developing their volleyball skills. They began by learning how to control the ball. They started by rolling it back and forth, before passing it using an underarm throw. After developing their accuracy, the real fun began when t

The idea behind this weeks flash challenge is to pull together some of the children’s varied interests and increase their skillset. Creativity and rope work have been their key interests over the last term, so making dream catchers was the perfect way of meeting both these topics. Some children deli