Our boys gracious in defeat
On Thursday, our boys' football team headed over to NESCOT to play St Cecilia's in the football league.
On Thursday, our boys' football team headed over to NESCOT to play St Cecilia's in the football league.
After a nail-biting game Brookfield come away with a 2-1 win.
The girls headed out last Friday to play their first competitive game as a unit – for some of the girls this was their first ever football match too.
This week the weather was extremely kind for the Year 4, 5 and 6 Cross Country competitions.
Year 5/6 Tag Rugby A Competition
The sun shone on the Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Team when they began their A Competition matches last week. They started well with a close, end to end game against , losing narrowly but proving that they were well-placed in the higher tier of the tournament. A win in the second game set us up well for the last group game – and then the rain started! Play continued through a heavy downpour but the team didn’t give up and managed another close result. The tournament did continue into the next rounds despite the conditions but our matches were cut slightly short as teams were finding it increasingly hard to play on with players who were drenched and starting to feel the cold. Dorchester were last team standing in their group so hats off to the children’s perseverance and also their level of play – it was a great effort and they threw everything they had at this.
Well done to Kieran, Matthew, Connor, Hannah, Gkalena, Macey, Aiya, Austin and Ora.
Girls' Football team keep up their positive start with a 1-1 draw in an exciting match.
Resilience is key in sport and the opening match of the season for the boys was certainly a good example of this.
Year 3, Year 4 and those Year 6s still with us in school last week were all treated to a skipping workshop last week led by Sasha, a fantastic instructor from Dan The Man Skipping.
Despite the rather unreliable weather we've had over the past month we were very pleased to have been able to complete all four Sports Days this year!
This was a brand new event for this year and was a follow-up competition to the squash festival and multi-sports events, earlier in the year, that we took children along to.
Our team of four squash players played against St Mary’s, Barrow Hedges and Foresters – each player getting two singles matches against each school. There were some extremely close and exciting games and all the children did really well applying the rules and scoring their own and other players’ matches. Throughout the morning our players really settled into their games, gaining more confidence and warming up well into their all-round match play. There were some great rallies and some excellent winning shots!
All of our players won matches which contributed towards their overall team bronze medal placing.
It was so nice to have squash added to the events programme this year and all the children who took part really enjoyed themselves and have started to develop some brand new skills that they will hopefully use again going forward. We’re certainly looking forward to doing more of this in the future!
Very well done to Carson, Isla, Vivaan and Lily! Photo to come next week!
Another PB where the sun has shone and so has the work of all the children from Year 1 to Year 6.
Our PB Weeks give all our children an opportunity to think about their own ‘Best’ and how having personal goals can help us all move forward and progress.
This week, Year 1 and 2 have competed in Scatterball and Year 3-6 have played Rounders. There has been an impressive display of healthy competition, team work and physical ability, with everyone bringing their best to contribute towards a team effort.
We have been so impressed by each of the year groups and their approaches to their PB efforts this week, which has been reflected in the results where we have had a wider spread of House Team winners this time than any other week before!
Well done to all the children for making this such a successful week and for entering into it with the positive sporting attitude that we are striving to develop at Dorchester.