Last Saturday some Year 5 who are playing in the district Hockey went to a competition. They have been training the whole year and practising their skills with the rest of the players who are from different schools. They really enjoined and they will play another competition in the next few days. Well done Safia, Amirah and Yusuf!! 
​They have written about the competition and we would like to share with everyone and encourage all the pupils to practise different kind of sports. You can also see a picture after the game with the coach and the whole team with a trophy. 

​"On Saturday, the 23rd of June we went on a hockey competition. We played 7 matches and we won 6 of them!! At the end of the day, we got a trophy and Amirah and Yusuf won an England hockey bag"

Year 3 and Year 4 has been playing a Cricket Competition in Victoria Park last week, the 28th of June. They played with different schools and they were enjoying the day and doing sport with more students from their same age. They have written something about the competition to share with us!

​"First, we practised our skills on cricket for a warm up. After practising, we found out which schools we were playing against. Our opponents were Virginia Primary School and Mowlem Primary School. We were excited and nervous, but we really enjoyed it. The first game with Virginia we lost, but with Mowlem we won with 291 runs and Mowlem got 219 runs. We felt really happy but we had to leave early..." 
​By Year 3 and 4.

It is always really interesting to see our students doing different staff for charities and volunteers with the aim to help people. One of our Year 6 pupils has run with her family in the "Race for Life" to help people with Cancer and try to improve their life. She is telling us her feelings about it and we would like to share with everyone and encourage our community to do any volunteer or charity work. 

​'Last Saturday I did a 5000m (5 km) run. I ran for cancer, to help cure cancer faster. My mum and brother  joined me in helping to beat cancer. It took us just over 30 minutes to complete the run. I ran for my cousin's Nan, my uncle and Blue Gate Fields Junior School. I was given a medal with "this is beating cancer" and "race for life" carved into it.'

Blue Gate Fields Junior School pupils have been playing football against St. Mary & St. Michael School!!! They have visited our school to join us doing sport and having fun. Year 5 and Year 6 boys have already played some friendly games with lots of good results. Year 4 and the girls team will have also the opportunity to play a friendly. We can see some photos of Year 6 teams. We will update more soon... Enjoy it! 

Some Year 6 and Year 4 are going to Barcelona for a football competition. You can see some photos from the pupils, they are Shafin from Year 4 and Dawud and Afzal from Year 6. They have been playing really good and been selected for the district football. We wish them good luck for the trip and the competition and the most important thing: have fun and enjoy this amazing opportunity. Good luck boys!

We are working on a project call "Mile a Day" where all pupils are involved and they are running a mile every day in PE. The aim is to keep all children fit and moving doing exercise. They have done a bleep test and we will compare the results at the end of the term. You can see some photos of the pupils running a mile. Really well done everyone!

We can see some Year 6 photos where pupils are playing cricket. A coach is coming to teach them the basics of cricket and they will be participating in competitions from next week. 

Our Year 4 and Year 5 students have been working on a Sport Move and Learn Health Project for local primary schools during the last term with Leyton Orient Trust. The project aimed to support the following objectives:
-          Improving pupils knowledge of a healthy lifestyle
-          Increasing pupils physical activity levels
-          Improving pupils enjoyment of physical activity.

The photos show pupils from Year 5 playing handball during the last day of the project. In all PE lessons there are always important rules to develop such as the understanding of the sport rules, fair play, helping others and the team and respecting each other. The aim was also to encourage players to exercise and improve  lifestyles by being healthy and active through sports.

The programme was divided into two sections:

-          Healthy lifestyles enrichment project: the students spend 6 weeks in the classroom doing workshops sessions with the coach on Healthy Living covering diet, nutrition and hydration. We gathered feedback during the last lesson to summarise all the knowledge development during the project. 
-          PE sports sessions: after the workshops in classroom, students had another 6 weeks to play different sports, linked to the national curriculum, as football, dodgeball and handball. Everyone took part and participated in the PE lessons with the most important thing being fair play whilst participating in sports and competition. The children worked individually and cooperated as a team taking challenges to improve themselves. 

After 6 weeks studying in Class the important things about a healthy life and how to improve our lives being active and follow healthy habits with Leyton Orient Programme, Year 4 and 5 were outside playing football, trying to improve and challenge themselves. Everybody was involved and participating. They will carry on with different sports playing and having fun from next week.

Some students from Year 4 were playing Dodgeball in PE with the costumes they were wearing for the World Book Day. There were great costumes and many funny moments during the day. You can see some photos of all of them dressed up as book characters.