A group of Year 4s, along with two of our Year 5 Sports Ambassadors, spent the day at Oaklands College last week participating in a Women's Euros themed World Games Day.

 

Over the course of the day, the Prae Wood children rotated through ten different activities including dance, karate, rugby, hockey and football.  Many of the activities were led by the Oaklands College students who attend the High Performance Centre for their chosen sport.  Prae Wood were representing France alongside students from The Abbey and Windermere.  It was great to see everyone getting involved and the teamwork across the three schools.  Despite the heat, we gave it our best energy and got stuck into all that was on offer.  Well done - you were great representatives for Prae Wood.

Last week, Prae Wood participated in both field and track events at the District Sports held at Westminster Lodge.

 

On Tuesday, the focus was the field events with two boys and two girls from Year 6 competing in three events - the rounders ball throw, high jump and long jump.  Well done to Edward who finished 2^nd and Harvey and Lilly who finished 5^th in the high jump competitions scoring valuable points for the team for placing in the top 6.  Prae Wood also gained valuable points for meeting the standards set in the events - Edward jumped over the 1 metre 10cm standard, Caden, William, Freya and Lauren all threw further than their standards of 30 metres for boys and 20 metres for girls and Finn and Noah, both competing in the long jump, exceeded 3 metres 25cm.

 

On Thursday, it was the turn of the sprinters and one boy and girl athlete from Year 6 in the 600 metres.  The 600 metres proved to be tougher than usual due to the heat.  Our athletes were definitely grateful for the shade provided by the team gazebo.  Several athletes progressed through their sprint heats to the final.  Well done to Hannah, who was 2^nd in the Y5 girls 100 metres, Anya and Aiden, who were both 6^th in the Y4 80 metres and Astrid who was 5^th in the Y3 girls 70 metres.  Both of our Y4 shuttle relay teams qualified for their respective finals with the girls finishing 4^th and the boys finishing 2nd.  Despite all of these great performances, it wasn't enough for Prae Wood to contest the trophies on offer however everyone should be proud that they were chosen to represent their year group. 

Thank you to all of the members of staff who helped out on both days and to the parents who came to cheer us on.