Sports Day 2021

 After rearranging from Tuesday, the weather held out today for a fantastic Sports Day.  Although we were sad not to be able to invite parents in to enjoy the activity with our normal picnic, we were delighted to enable all the children to participate in an almost normal Sports Day after the turbulent times of recent.

For some KS1 children this was the first Kelvedon Sports Day and what a great time they had.  Competing in five events to win points for their houses they showed enthusiasm and super teamwork.  There was lots of cheering and support with demonstration of good listening alongside determination to do their best with all their friends.  The KS1 events were supported brilliantly by some of the Year 6 children.  A big thank you for the understanding and patience from these children. It was lovely to see such positive and caring interaction between the youngest and oldest pupils  in school.

KS2 got going straight after lunch and they were more than ready!  Fabulous effort all round by everyone with target hitting, teamwork, agility and ball skills all put to the test.  Great focus and again plenty of support for all taking part from their teams.  A little tight on time in the afternoon,  the children were efficient in moving around, showing good listening and a keenness to be ready for the starting bell each time.  A massive thank you to the teachers for taking down your own class scores and overseeing each activity, as we were unable to use our usual support from family and friends to do this.  

Results were as follows:

KS1 winners - Marlborough

KS2 winners - Scott

Well done to all the children for taking part and big congratulations to the winners.

Athletics Finals Day - 5th May 2021

 How absolutely wonderful to be able to get the children together for our first competition in at least a year:)

Athletics Finals Day is all about finding and celebrating our athletes in each year group.  Every child competed in the heats in their own classes to make the semi-finals and finals that were concluded yesterday.

The competition comprises of running, both sprints and long distance, throwing and jumping.  Athletics is one of my favourite sports because there are so many opportunities for the children to surprise us and themselves, so yesterday was a fab day!

There were lovely moments of sportsmanship among the children as well as heaps of resilience shown by many.  We had a fantastic crowd of supporters with plenty of cheering and the weather held out - thank goodness.

Thank you to the many members of staff that enabled the success of the day too.

Mrs Bull

Breaking Football News . . .

Heathlands 2 v 0 Kelvedon 

Football: Kelvedon 7 v Prettygate 1

Kelvedon vs Prettygate

On Tuesday 10^th of March, Prettygate travelled to Kelvedon to play an exciting game of football. Joe and Felix both scored two goals and Alfie and Nathan both scored one each with an additional unlucky own goal. Prettygate got one back.  Both teams played exceptionally well but at the full time whistle it was Kelvedon who came out on top with a victory of seven one. A big thank you to Mr Ladlow for refereeing. Written by Joe and Alfie    

Sport vs Monkwick Junior School

Our sports teams had mixed results on a recent visit to Monkwick Junior school in Colchester.

Our netball team, coached by Miss Reece, ran out 9 v 1 winners with several great goals and a powerful all-round team performance.

Our football team, despite playing well and creating several great chances in the first half, ended up on the wrong end of a one nil defeat.

The children particularly enjoyed playing both sports on the same evening and travelling to the school together on the school minibus. This helped to create a real team environment where they could support each other. Thank you to those parents who supported both teams.

Mr Faithfull

EFL Football Tournament

Our school football team competed in the EFL football tournament today hosted by Colchester United. The standard of football was strong as was the physical strength of some of our opponents.

We finished the tournament with a credible seven points after achieving 2 wins and a draw in our 6 games. A special mention to Harry D for scoring a hat trick in one of the matches.

Mr Faithfull