CPSL Football League - Prettygate 0 vs Kelvedon 4

Our school football team had to be at their resilient best to overcome the current league leaders four nil in a match against Prettygate. With a depleted squad and no substitutes, everyone played their part and really stepped up to the plate with a powerful performance. There were some tired but happy children at the end of the match. Well done everyone!

Goals - Kieran x 2, Toby x 1 and Franc x 1

Player of the match - Ethan

Tag Rugby - Colchester-Blackwater School Sport Partnership

Congratulations to the school rugby team for achieving 2nd place overall with a five wins and one loss. Some of the children were playing in their first ever tag rugby tournament which makes this achievement fantastic. Well done to all those that played and a thanks to the parents/friends who turned up to support. Thanks for the chocolate brownies Mrs Jennings!

Netball - Prettygate v Kelvedon 2/2/17

Year 5 and 6 second netball match

Prettygate 4 v Kelvedon 5

Year 5 and 6 played their second netball match on the 2nd February. It was against Prettygate and we were determined to play well because Prettygate had beaten us in the athletics earlier this week. 

First all the children had to go to the office so Mrs Short could make sure that everyone was there. This time it was only Mrs Short and Mrs Bull because Mrs Colgrave was ill. When Mrs Short had made sure that everyone was there, we got on the bus - luckily we did not get lost like last time.

When we got there we got our bibs on and stood in our positions ready to start. We were nervous because they looked like they were good at netball and they had tall players. After 7 minutes’ Pretty gate had scored 1 and we had scored 2. 14 minutes in we had scored 2 and Prettygate had scored 2. At the end we scored 3 more times meaning we had scored 5 times and they had only scored 4.

We said hip hip hooray for Prettygate and they did the same. After that we went inside and had a drink before we left to go back to school.

We won our second match.    

Evie-Rose and Evie.

Sportshall Athletic finals - 1st Feb 2017

What a great event!

After making it through to the next round of the Indoor Athletics, we knew it would be big competition.  The children faced 2 schools they had already competed against, and come third to, plus the three top schools from a later round.

However, rather than shying away from the fact this would be tough, everyone rose to the occasion with aplomb.  Without doubt, every child gave 100% and neither myself, Mr Faithfull or Mr Walsh could have asked any more from them.

The final results were called out in reverse order and began with:

• Kendall - 6th place on 68 points
• Feering - 5th place on 72 points
• Layer - 4th place on 142 points (previously beating Kelvedon)
• AND in joint 2nd place on 158 points Kelvedon and Heathlands (previously beating Kelvedon)

As we were on equal scores, the decider for placement was taken down to the number of events won by each school, therefore our final placing was 3rd with Heathlands 2nd.

Overall winners were Prettygate with just two more points at 160.

As usual, we feel immensely proud of the way the children performed and competed throughout the morning.  They were delighted with their medals and the progress in their individual events was excellent.

Many thanks to Mrs Hale for helping with transport today.

Mrs Bull

CPSL Football League - Heathlands 0 v Kelvedon 2

Kelvedon Vs Heathlands

On Thursday 26th January, Kelvedon played Heathlands. We got there by travelling on the school mini bus; Mr Faithfull and Mr Walsh came with us on the journey to the match. Despite the freezing cold weather, we managed to get through the whole warm-up.

As the game started, we found it hard to control the ball as the ground was very hard which made the ball bounce a lot. 10 minutes into the game Toby and Kieran came up with a great link of play when Toby played a ball across the box to Kieran for a tap in.

At half time we made a few substitutions - Amy came on for Toby and Luke T came on for Ethan. In the second half, when Toby got subbed back on, Toby set Kieran, and Kieran accurately scored in the top right corner. The final result was 2-0 and at the end of the game we all shook hands.

This win continues our 100% winning record in the league.

Player of the match: Kieran

Written by Joe and James.

Year 5 and 6 Netball match

Match report by Evie and Evie-Rose

North 1 v Kelvedon 15

On the 23rd of January Years 5 and 6 went to their first netball match at North Primary. We all had a very enjoyable time.

At 2.55 pm all the children in the netball match went to Mrs Short’s class room. Then they had to go to the hall so Mrs Short and Mrs Colgrave could count all 8 of the children - everyone was there so we started heading to the bus. After all of the children made sure that they had everything they needed, Mrs Bull made sure everyone had seatbelts on, then she started to drive.

In the bus we put some music on and that got the children very excited. Mrs Bull was very silly and took the wrong turn so we had to turn around at McDonalds, that got everyone very excited but then we headed out of the car park of McDonalds. When the children got off the bus, they followed Mrs Short and Mrs Colgrave to the school playground of North primary. They looked like they were great at Netball - they were very tall.

Everyone put their bibs on and stood in the right places and waited for the whistle to blow. When 4 minutes had past no one had scored and we had to change our positions. Then after 6 minutes we had scored lots of hoops and North Primary had scored one. Everyone played really well and we ended up winning our first match 15 - 1. At the end we all said hip hip hooray for North Primary and they did the same. We all shook hands with them.

As a treat for winning our first ever match Mrs Short and Mrs Colgrave got all of us Mc Flurries.

CPSL Football League: North 0 v 11 Kelvedon

Our school football team played their third league fixture of the season today over at St Helena secondary school against North Primary.

The result was a resounding eleven nil victory with the goals shared around the team.

Well done to everyone who played today. Mr Faithfull

Player of the match - James Rissen