PE

On Tuesday 16th July the Key Stage 1 gymnastics squad travelled all the way to Huntingdon for the Easton Region schools competition. The Spooner row squad qualified by winning the South Norfolk and Norfolk competitions. This was an incredible achievement as there are approximately 300 junior and infant schools in Norfolk and several thousand Key Stage 1 children eligible to take part. The competition was held at the world renowned gymnasium that is the home of multiple olympic medal winners Louis Smith and Max Whitlock, For the first stage of the competition  the children perform a squat on vault onto a bench. They then walked on their toes to the end of the bench and performed a straight jump onto a mat. As you can see from the photos the children showed great poise and precision. Next came the floor routine. The gymnasts performed a serious of prescribed moves in a routine that was choreograp...

Our Sports Day was held on Wednesday 26th June. This year each house adopted a county to represent. Blue House were Italy, Red House were Sri Lanka, Yellow House were Turkey and Green House were Spain. Sports day kicked off with an Olympic style opening ceremony. The Children's races were all very all very closely contested with all the children showing great determination and resilience. The parents races perhaps provided an indication of why the children at Spooner Row are so competitive. The mum's race was won by Mrs Oswick and the dad's race was won by Mr Webster. After a very thorough IAAF gender investigation sadly Mrs Waterman was disqualified from the dad's race and her very impressive third place was awarded to a real dad instead. The children's competition was the closest it has ever been with all four teams scoring over 100 points. The final re...