Sports News

Year 3, Year 4 and those Year 6s still with us in school last week were all treated to a skipping workshop last week led by Sasha, a fantastic instructor from Dan The Man Skipping.

This was a brand new event for this year and was a follow-up competition to the squash festival and multi-sports events, earlier in the year, that we took children along to.

Our team of four squash players played against St Mary’s, Barrow Hedges and Foresters – each player getting two singles matches against each school. There were some extremely close and exciting games and all the children did really well applying the rules and scoring their own and other players’ matches. Throughout the morning our players really settled into their games, gaining more confidence and warming up well into their all-round match play. There were some great rallies and some excellent winning shots!

All of our players won matches which contributed towards their overall team bronze medal placing.

It was so nice to have squash added to the events programme this year and all the children who took part really enjoyed themselves and have started to develop some brand new skills that they will hopefully use again going forward. We’re certainly looking forward to doing more of this in the future!

Very well done to Carson, Isla, Vivaan and Lily! Photo to come next week!

This was our last fixture of a very busy, and successful, year on the netball front.

It was with mixed emotions that I approached the games – it’s always great to have our teams on court, but this was the last time I would be part of a match with our committed group of Year 6 players who have had much success in terms of their progress, results and how much fun they have made it week on week. They will be missed next year.

The A team completed their Dorchester netball journey with a 6-3 win against a strong team and should be very pleased with how well they calmed their play when St Mary’s started to narrow the gap and were able to combine well to ease ahead for their final victory of the year.

The B team saw a few players trialling new positions and against a well-practised St Mary’s team they found it hard to settle into their own game, but the 6-0 score line doesn’t reflect some of the smooth passages of play and lovely circle feeding that they displayed during the game.

This was the first ever match for most of our C team players, who waited very patiently to play in the third game of the fixture. The most pleasing thing about their performance was their technical netball – footwork was good, as was their understanding of their positions – which is key for all these players going forward. The final score was 4-0 to St Mary’s, but due to time constraints some of the opposition team were A team players playing out of position and so our C team should be very pleased with how they coped with this and how they managed to keep the score line within touching distance for the whole game – only one goal scored in the second half!

A huge thank you to all the players for their enthusiasm towards our matches this year and also to the number of parents who have regularly come to support, both home and away matches, whatever the weather!

Year 5/6 Borough Athletics

Due to work going on at The David Weir Centre, this year’s Borough Athletics was just open to Year 5 and Year 6 athletes. It was a hot afternoon to be competing, but our Squad of 16 runners and our Team Manager were excellent ambassadors for Dorchester, both with their performances and their conduct throughout the competition.

What a wonderful morning we had at Year 5 and 6 Sports Day today.