Look at our stars in action! Next week are the final fixtures including the clash between …… Charles Dickens A and Charles Dickens B!
Cross Country Triumphs
Year 5 and 6 faced the elements in Southwark Park last Thursday to compete in the Borough Cross Country competition. Children from local schools bundled their clothes into bags, braced themselves against the blustery wind and then competed around two laps of the park.
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The race was around one and a half miles long and all our competitors made it around at their own pace with some children achieving brilliant results. In the Year 6 Girls (our top girl in 10th) we came 7th and the Year 6 Boys (individual places of 5th and 10th)came 2nd giving us a placing of 3rd in Year 6 overall. In Year 5 the results were even better with the boys in 2nd (individuals in 2nd and 7th places) and the girls were 1st (with Charles Dickens taking 1st,2nd,3rd and 6th in the top ten!). Overall in the Year 5 competition we came first!
To fully understand their triumph, the whole school joined them in a slow motion run whilst listening to the ‘Chariots of Fire’ soundtrack. Congratulations to all the runners and especially to the medal winners in the top ten individual places.
A Special Olympic Legacy Gift From The Old Mercers’ Company
On Friday, six members of School Council went to Gresham College, a college supported by The Mercers’ Company and The City of London Corporation. We had been invited to accepted a generous prize from the Old Mercer’s Company which we won in their Olympic Legacy Competition. This prize is to pay for equipment for our planned sports pitch in Lant Street. We hope to buy netball hoops, and football nets. We accepted the prize cheque from John Cavanagh
Our School council ate lots of biscuits, and got to wear his gold and silver medals, from Athens and Beijing Olympics. The children were hugely impressed!
On the way back, they watched the firemen putting out a mock fire. All very exciting – hence the photos of the children hanging off the fence!
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On your marks, Get set………Go!
Year 5/6 are in training for inter-house and inter-school competitions and have been using the BOST site on Union Street as their practice ground. They have been building up their stamina in long distance running and will comepte at the Southwark Cross Country in October. They have also been working on their explosive sprinting techniques on the laned running track!
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Charles Dickens Primary are ‘inspired’ by the Paralympics!
London 2012 may now be over but some pupils at Charles Dickens Primary will remember it forever. 5 year 6 pupils were lucky enough to see the athletics on Friday with Mrs Worley. It is wonderful to hear children describing the strength and talent of our paralympians with an admiration and awe, often reserved in the past for football or running stars! We hope this is the legacy London 2012 builds upon!
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‘We went to the Paralympics today. The first thing we heard when we were coming towards the stadium was screaming and shouting. It was very loud and exciting. We were going to watch the athletics which included Javelin, 200m wheelchair race, 100m sprint and long jump. The long jump had to be done in silence as all the competitors were blind. They needed to hear their guides clapping and shouting so they could follow the sound. The highlight of our day was when we were going home we met a Silver Medalist paralympian and we had our picture taken with him. Wow!!’
Pictures can be found subject coordinators, PE, paralympic photos.
Red House win at Sports Day!
Congratulations to everyone in Nursery, Reception and Years 1 and 2 for making Sports Day on Friday such a brilliant success! Everyone took part in a round robin of activities including sprints, football shoots, javelins, tag-rugby, climbing in the play area, bean bag throws and relay races. The sun shone, everyone behaved brilliantly, the mums beat the dads in a tug of war and when the medal winners were tallied up the Red House Falcons took the cup. Thank you to all the children, Year 6 helpers, parents and staff for making it such an enjoyable event!
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Charles Dickens at the Mini-Olympics!
Everyone from Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 went to the brilliant BOST Mini-Olympics off Union Street for a morning of different activities and experiences. The day started with a procession where every child walked through Olympic coloured hoops, around the arena and settled by the boxing ring. Following a boxing match between Miss Henderson and Mr MacKinnon every class performed their special Olympic sport song (each class has been looking at different sports) which included such classics ‘Row your boat’ and Queen’s ‘Bicycle Race’.
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The children then took part in a long list of activities including basketball hoops, tennis, ping pong, hula hooping, hiding from the rain, space-hopper racing, badminton, sheltering from the rain, football, skipping, boxing, beach volleyball and sandcastle building! At the end of the morning we all gathered together for an awards ceremony celebrating sporting talent and sportsmanship. Each winner received a medal and a herb plant to remember the day.
Thank you to Tyrone and his team for running such a brilliant activity!
Brilliant Ballerinas
Today saw the end of year performance for the three different ballet groups who have been working with Sam this year. The audience were treated to a performance by each group. They were shown a selection of different ballet moves and then a cohesive choreographed performance set to music. All the children have loved ballet this year and more and more (of all ages) have joined as the year went on. Well done all of you and thank you to Sam for being such a great teacher!
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LSBU Sports Centre’s Summer Sports Camp
LSBU Sports Centre’s Summer Sports Camp
Boys & Girls aged between 5-15yrs
£70 per week or £17 per day
We still have spaces left, enrol your child now! Registration form attached.
Once you return it to the email address below you can call 02078157812 to make payment.
6-10 & 13-17 August 2012 9.00am – 5.00pm
The sessions will be run by fully qualified coaches many of which are Elite Athletes.
With sports ranging from Football to Trampoline your child will no doubt enjoy the time they spend with us!
Timetable also includes: Street Dance, Capoeira, Badminton, Taekwondo, Gymnastics, Archery and much more!
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Hope to see you there!
Sports Centre Team
Academy Of Sport
London Southbank University
100-116 London Road SE1 6LN
020 7815 7812
sportscentre@lsbu.ac.uk
www.lsbu.ac.uk/sports
Fun at the Mini Olympics!
Key Stage two took part in the BOST Mini Olympics last week. Each pupil got the opportunity to take part in a wide range of sports and activities and a good time was had by all!
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