August - Village Voices
August - Village Voices
August - Village Voices
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Super sports week!<br />
Monday 27th June to Friday 1st July was National Sports Week focussing on the Olympic<br />
and Paralympic values. We had to try to achieve our personal best in a sporting activity<br />
and try to do something new that we wanted to do by the end of the week. Some people<br />
did skipping, tennis and others did running. Most people achieved their goal and<br />
everyone got a certificate for trying their best.<br />
We had our own replica of the Olympic torch and on the first day (Monday) we all had a<br />
turn at carrying it part of the way around our field in a relay. It was then carried into our<br />
school hall by the youngest pupil (Jack Hartill) and the oldest (Luke Coates) where it was<br />
alight all week.<br />
Earlier this month when we visited the O2 to<br />
see the Royal Ballet perform Romeo and<br />
Juliet, we saw the Olympic stadium from the<br />
train and from Stratford station. This inspired<br />
us for sports week.<br />
One of the themes for this year’s national<br />
sports week was sports we have never tried<br />
before. So in our PE lesson with Mr Abraham<br />
we tried a variety of different sports we had<br />
never tried before. We had 3 different villages<br />
with a range of sports in each.<br />
In one there were disabled events. In this one<br />
we did sit down volleyball, chair basketball<br />
and an assault course with no sight (we had<br />
to wear blindfolds and be directed by<br />
someone else.)!<br />
In the next one we did sports from different<br />
countries there was the log throw from<br />
Scotland and French boules.<br />
And finally we did sports from previous<br />
Dr Coffey holding the.school Olympic torch.<br />
times that our parents or grandparents might<br />
have done, such as the hammer throw and throwing horseshoes at a target.<br />
On the last day of our sports’ week we had a very important visit from our MP Dr<br />
Thérèse Coffey. The reporters and the school photographer showed her round the building<br />
and she talked to everyone in our assembly before meeting with the School Council.<br />
Dr Coffey is a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, and has had<br />
the amazing opportunity of holding the genuine 2012 Olympic torch so before she went<br />
we took a photo of her holding our torch.<br />
To finish our sports week, along with schools across the country, we put the torch out at<br />
12:20pm. Can you think why?<br />
Luke Coates and Tabitha Chapman<br />
<strong>August</strong> 2011 page 7<br />
Iona Balleny
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