HERMITAGEPRIMARY SCHOOL
Summer Term
Sports 2014 Newsletter
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Dodgeball Festival
Park House hosted a Dodgeball Festival on the 3rd of July. Darragh Magee, Ty Smith, Henry Sharkey, George Sparkes, Amelia Davis, Chloe Bush, Ella Feenstra and Leah Atkinson represented the school and played against Spurcroft, St Finians and Yattendon. We won one lost one and drew the other. All the games were very exciting and closely fought. The children all enjoyed the games and proved to be very competitive. They children showed some real fighting spirit and excellent sportsmanship.
Thorngrove Athletics Y3/4
On Friday 20th of July we sent eight children from Y3 and eight children from Y4 to represent the school at Thorngrove Primary. From Y3 we had Matthew Adams, Theo Mulholland, Harry Benoke , Thomas Claydon, Esmee Campbell, Daisy Craik, Poppy Airey and Elizabeth Cunningham. From Y4; Lilly Disson, Dexter Savage, Luca Allen, Josh Wilson, George Craik, Ruby Barton-Gibson, Ellie Blunt and Olivia Bevan. The children enjoyed a lovely afternoon participating in boys and girls relays. Only one team didn’t qualify for the finals and the Year 4 boys came 3rd in their final. They then ran a boys and girls 1000m race. Lilly Disson came 1st in the girls which was a great achievement.They then enjoyedhot dogs and doughnuts at the end of the afternoon!
Year 5/6 Dodge ball Team
Year 3/4 Thorngrove Athletics Teams
Y3/4 MiniTennisCounty Final
WINNERS!!!
On the 11th of July a team of eight pupils from Y3/4 attended the mini tennis county finals at WellingtonCollege. Jack Craik, Sam Turner, Henry Field, Daisy Craik, Zack Benoke, Poppy Airey, Hannah Griffith and Elizabeth Cunningham played 3 schools to qualify for the semi finals. They beat Lynch Hill, St Edmund Champion and Trinity. In the semi-finals we played Binfield and won 5 matches out of a possible 8. This meant we qualified for the final. In the final we played Trinity again and won all 8 of our matches. Fantastic achievement from all the children! The children displayed lots of the Olympic values throughout the day and were a credit to the school.
Well done!
Falkland Kwik Cricket Festival
This year saw us send a boys and girls team to Falkland cricket club on June the 17th. In the boys team we had; Thomas Morton, Christian Collett, James Legg, Jacob Gill, Henry Drake, Robbie Marriott, Arjun Sanghera, Nathan Stacey, Ollie Basham and Kieran Benton. We have some fantastic cricket players in Y5/6 and I was expecting that they would do very well. We won two out of three of our matches and just missed going through to the knockout stages. The girls didn’t fair quite so well, loosing all of their matches. Hannah Irfan, Ella Everden, Kate O’Doherty, Katie Dunn, Eloise Bennett, Immy Lyons, Kate Ritchie, Cameron McCulloch, Lizzie and Anna Heneghan thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Winners of the CountyFinals in Mini Tennis
Year 3/4
Year 5/6 Boys Cricket Team
Newbury Athletics Inter Schools Relays
Hermitage Primary attended this event for the first time last year. We enjoyed it so much we sent two teams this year. Representing the boys was: Christian Collett, James Legg, Henry Drake, Nathan Stacey, Jacob Gill, Robbie Marriott, William Darby and Kieran Benton. Representing the girls was: Hannah Irfan, Ella Everden, Kate O’Doherty, Cameron McCulloch, Kate Ritchie, Chloe Bush, Lilly Disson and Livi Langton. Hermitage Primary was awarded the FastestVillagePrimary School Girls and Boys Team. Congratulations to all those who took part!
Finalists in Newbury Swimming Gala
The following children qualified for the finals of the Newbury Swimming Gala: Thomas Morton, Hannah Irfan, Sam Turner, Arjun Sanghera, Robbie Marriott, Chloe Bush, Ella Everden, Kate Ritchie, Darragh Magee, Christian Collett, Henry Drake and Amber Morrison. In the finals Thomas achieved a 3rd place in the Boys Individual Medley and a 2nd in the Boys 2 Length Backcrawl. Hannah achieved a 5th place in the Girls Individual Medley and a 3rd in the Girls 2 Length Breaststroke. Other noteable results came from Sam Turner who was 3rd in the Boys U10 1 Length Breaststroke, Robbie Marriott was 3rd in the Boys 1 Length Front crawl, Chloe Bush was 4th in the Girls 2 Length Frontcrawl, and our girls relay team came 3rd in the 4 x 1 Length Freestyle Relay. The boys in the Special Relay team came 6th. Well done to all those who took part.
Part of Year Y5/6 Relay Teams
Newbury Swimming Gala Finalists
Table Tennis Festival – RUNNERS UP
On Tuesday 3rd of June we entered another new competition. Park House organised a Table Tennis Festival for year 5/6 pupils. Thomas Morton, Christian Collett, Hannah Irfan and Ella Everden made up our team. We beat several schools to reach the finals. We played against Falkland in the finals and all four players had very close and well fought matches. Falkland came away as overall winners and Hermitage took the silver medal.
The children enjoyed their games so much that we decided it would be a good idea to get an outdoor table tennis for the school. As you may be aware some of the money from our sponsored walk, during Sports Week, will go towards the purchase of a table that we hope all the children will enjoy.
WINNERS Mini Tennis Tournament Y3/4
On Thursday 5th June a Year 3/4 team went to Greenacres Leisure Centre to represent the school in a mini tennis competition. The team consisted of Jack Craik, Poppy Craik, Henry Field, Sam Turner, Zack Benoke, Olivia Bevan, Hannah Griffith and Poppy Airey. The children all performed brilliantly, beating three other schools to reach the final. In the final we played St Gabriels School and beat them convincingly. As a result of our win we went forward to play in the CountyFinals at WellingtonCollege. Amazing result!
Year 5/6 Table Tennis Team
Year 3/4 Mini Tennis Team
Quad Kids Year 5/6 and Y3/4
The Quad Kids event at Park House took place at ParkHouseSchool on Saturday the 14th of June, having been rained off in May. Unfortunately, we were unable to send a full squad of children from Y5/6, however those that did attend performed so well. Each child had four events to complete; the 75m sprint, 600m middle distance, standing long jump and the howler throw. The children from Y5/6: Thomas Morton, Christian Collett, Hannah Irfan, Ella Everden, Cameron McCulloch and Katie Dunn all did well, especially as the Y6 children had only just returned from a very tiring week at Sealyham.
Our Y3/4 team was able to finish in 3rd place, which was a wonderful achievement! We had a full squad which included; Henry Field, Jack Craik, Sam Turner, Zack Benoke, Daisy Craik, Poppy Airey, Lilly Disson, Olivia Bevan and Hannah Griffith. They completed the same events but had a shorter middle distance run of 400m. A really brilliant effort from all the children again.
Year 3/4 Quad Kids Team
Year 5/6 Quad Kids Team