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Here are the results so far for our Reception football tournament.

Round 1

Wales   1-0   Scotland

England 2 – 1  Northern Ireland

 

Round 2

England 1 – 3 Scotland

Wales  1 – 0  Northern Ireland

 

Round 3

England  1 – 2  Wales

Scotland  3 – 4  Northern Ireland

 

Round 4 – Play off for 3rd place

Northern Ireland  1  – 0  England

 

So that means the final will be between

WALES and SCOTLAND

to be held on Monday (7th July)

Good luck everyone!

 

 

 

 

In Reception we have been running our own football tournament as part of our World Cup theme. Our budding footballers have been split into 4 teams, each with a captain and goalkeeper.

Here are the teams

TEAM ENGLAND

TEAM SCOTLAND

TEAM WALES

 

TEAM NORTHERN IRELAND

 

 

SOME OF THE SPECTATORS

The first round has been complete and results will be announced soon…

 

 

Tomorrow is Sports Day and we all have our fingers crossed for a rain free day.

The action will start at 9.30am.

The format is the same as in previous years but for those new to our Sports Day here is a brief  run down of events;

All of the children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are put into mixed age teams. Siblings will be in the same team. Two grids of activities are set up on the field and each team competes against one other team in each of 10 activities (5 on one grid and 5 on the other). Scores are recorded and totals added.

There will then be some running races. The heats have already taken place and the fastest 8 Reception boys and 8 Reception girls have been chosen for the final.

Here are the finalists

Reception girls                                                               Reception boys

Sophie Shepherd                                                                Isaac Hewer

Alice Stevens                                                                       Archie Hyatt

Ilyana Potten                                                                       Riley Spill

Isla Catt                                                                                  Fergus Crowe

Cerys Kirby                                                                           Ethan Cairns

Erin Brown                                                                            George Thompson

Amy Thompson                                                                  Sam Brown

Amira Kirat                                                                           Ryan Adams

 

A picnic lunch with friends, family or teachers will follow on the field and then KS2 activities will begin after lunch. Parents are free to stay for the KS2 Sports afternoon or to return at normal pick up time. Depending on the weather, we (Reception) may come out to watch KS2 in the afternoon or we may remain in the classroom.

Good luck everyone and we hope you all have a lovely day.

 

Since we have started blogging, it has been fantastic to see just how many people have been commenting on our posts.  We feel that the blogs give people outside of school a view in to the classrooms.  It also means that the children can share their class’ work with anyone and everyone.

We are now starting to invite the children to comment on our blogs and have begun to take them through the guidelines that are displayed , sharing with them what makes a useful and valued comment.  We are aware that not many children from the lower part of the school will have email addresses and so the children are being taught to use the following method.

In the email section put yourname@minchacademy.net…so mine would be MRO@minchacademy.net

In the Name section put who you are and your class…Adam Teal

Then write a comment as normal.

This method will work for anybody and the class teacher will still need to moderate each comment before it is shown on the blog.

We encourage children to use the best punctuation and spelling that they are capable of and remind them constantly that what they write can be seen by anyone in the world!!!

We hope this will take the level of engagement with our blogs to a whole new level.

Here are some children giving recommendations about how to write a good comment…

 

And a poster we have displayed in school.

Most of all, have fun – it will soon be your turn to blog!

Mr. O.