28/03/2025

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 11:56am

Kurling Kings

On Monday morning, children from Years 5 and 6 took part in a New Age Kurling event, which was held at Robin Park Leisure Centre. The boys were placed in pool 2 alongside Lamberhead Green and Newfold. I am pleased to announce that the team won their pool, defeating Lamberhead Green 3-1 and Newfold 6-2. From this, they went into the final group with the winners of the other pools. Facing St Aidens and St Maries in the finals, Wood Fold were victorious and came away with the ‘Gold’ medals! The boys performed to a very high standard all morning. All their hard work in training leading up to the event had definitely paid off!

Sports Councillors

A few weeks ago, during British Science week, our Year 5 sports councillors (which consisted of Oscar, Jasmine, Lacey, Lyla and Evie) went down to Standish High School to present their inclusive game. The theme of the week was ‘adapt and change’ and was linked to being inclusive in sport. The children designed, implemented and evaluated an inclusive game called target treasure. The game was a throwing-based game which could be easily adapted to meet anyone’s needs.

The game was easy to follow for the participants, with all of them enjoying the game. It was straight forward to set up the game on the grass or on the playground. The participants were very active as they were using their arms and legs to take part with throwing and running.

The game can be played sat down or standing up. Children with a sight impairment can take part with the throwing objects having a bell inside so they know if they hit the board. The game could be used for kicking as well as throwing. The children wanted to play the game again. All the children were very engaged and had lots of fun playing the game.

The children pitched and presented their game extremely well. They were clear and confident and could be heard by all. The Standish High Science department were very impressed! Well done to our sports councillors.