KS1 Sports Day

What a fantastic afternoon Key Stage One had at their Sports Day! Here are some snapshots from the day.

KS2 Sports Day

Thank you so much to all the adults who came and supported us yesterday at Sports Day; we all had a fantastic time! Here are some snapshots from the day.





Specific congratulations must go to the White Team who won - again! (Must be a new record!)

Shirley Warren Wins Gold!

Every year, a national charity called the Youth Sports Trust assess how well schools are doing in regards to Physical Education, Physical Activity and School Sports. This includes everything we do at Shirley Warren in our PE lessons, in our clubs and with all the competitions we participate in.

This year, we have been awarded the GOLD AWARD! Well done everyone!

Girls Football - Match 2

Last night, our second team of girls headed to Newlands for a friendly match. We knew it would be a challenge, as this is our first time playing together, and against a strong team!
Everyone gave it everything they had and Miss Dickinson and Miss McKitterick were really proud to be coaching them on the sidelines.
Well done girls!

Upper KS2 cross-country success!

Last week, Year 5 and 6 cross-country runners - many of whom were racing for the first time - took part in the city-wide cross-country championship. They did so well! Miss Dickinson and Miss McKitterick were very proud of them.

Year 5 Yoga

Check out Year 5's yoga brain break - it was Pokémon themed! We had to use our bodies to make strong shapes, control our breathing and help catch those pesky Pokémon. We had so much fun!
You can try this at home - just look on YouTube for Cosmic Kids Pokémon yoga.

Football team victory!

Yesterday, the football team competed in the Testlands Tournament against 10 other schools. It was a very hot day; luckily umbrellas at bottoms of bags came in handy for shade!

We had an unlucky start, losing to Moorlands (who went on to win the entire tournament) and Springhill B. This put us into the B league.

However after lunch the games flipped our way as we went on to beat Bassett Green 2-0, Springhill B 3-0, Banister B 6-0 and Banister A 1-0! 

There were some superb passes and interceptions - Miss Dickinson was very proud to be on the sidelines cheering them on!

The tournament ended with us winning our league. Congratulations boys - you have worked so hard this year and after that great performance yesterday, you deserved to win!

Sports Leaders

Over the year, the Shirley Warren Sports Leaders have been training to plan and deliver sports to children across the school. They have been out at lunchtimes running fun activities with Key Stage 1 and yesterday they assisted our coaches with a Year 1 lesson!

Mr Stanley and Mr Ship have been blown away by their patience, dedication and leadership skills and said that they were absolutely amazing in yesterday's lesson. Well done Sports Leaders!

If you are in Year 4 or 5 and think you might make a good Sports Leader, make sure you let Mr Ship or Miss Dickinson know as we'll be looking for new Leaders next year!

Green Council care for our school

Recently, Green Council met and had lots of items on the agenda (things to discuss).

A few meetings ago, some members noticed that playtime equipment was sometimes going missing.

So in our last meeting we started to label equipment with "SWP". We are hoping this will mean that fewer balls and other playtime items will disappear!

If you see any playtime equipment around the school or community, please bring it back to the office.

We are going to try very hard to look after what we've been given and we hope everyone will help us.

Cross-country relays

Throughout the year, teams of KS2 children have competed in cross-country races against around 25 Southampton schools. This culminated on Friday with the March Hare relays. We ran in teams, rather than individually, and scored our best results of the season!

Boys: 14th
Girls: 15th
Mixed boys and girls: 9th

Next term, Mr Kelly will be coaching at running club - we're looking for the next team of cross-country runners to represent Shirley Warren, starting with the Autumn 2018 season. Could you be one of them?

Year 6 Tag Rugby

Yesterday, a team of Year 6 children headed to Test Park to take part in city-wide tag rugby tournament. They had a great time and finished 6th out of 12 teams - a very respectable placing considering they had only played together once!

Year 3 and 4 Tag Rugby

Yesterday, some representatives of Year 3 and 4 attended the Test Park Tag Rugby Tournament. They all had a great time and Mrs Rogers and Mr Wood loved how although they didn't win, they were very gracious to the other teams and all tried their best. Well done everyone!

Bikeability training

This week, Year 5 have been training with the Bikeability instructors to ride safely on their bikes. Level 1 saw them practising on the playground to ensure their stability and independence - this has been a great achievement for some children who could not ride at all before this week!
Level 2 children are currently out on the local roads learning how to stay safe with signalling and being aware of other road users. Their instructors have been so pleased with their willingness to learn. Well done Year 5!

Year 6 PE

In P.E., Year 6 have been practising their tennis skills, serving and receiving as well as different techniques with the racquet. Maybe we have a future Andy (or Andrea!) Murray in the mix...?

Fantastic Footballers

After school on Wednesday I was at Testlands Hub to watch my son play football for another school and look who I saw!

The boys from Years 5 and 6 played really well.  They won their first match 3:1 and lost the second 4:0 (neither against my son's school so I could cheer them on!)  It was lovely to join parents, siblings and grandparents cheering on the sidelines and great to see children I teach showing different skills to classroom work.

Special thanks must go to Mr Ship and Mr Kelly who organise and coach the children.  Keep it up, Team Shirley Warren!

From Mrs Williams
(Support Teacher, Year 6)

Stretching ourselves in 6D - in more ways than one!

Last week, the whole school took part in Joe Wicks' live school workouts. On Friday, Year 6 tackled some (rather difficult!) exercises such as squats, lunges, mountain climbs and press ups. We had great fun but had some rather achy muscles afterwards! A great brain break and it helped us to think about our heart rate and our circulatory systems as part of our Science topic.

1L Getting fit and healthy!

1L were finding out about how to eat and be healthy this week. Part of their week was to follow Joe Wick's live workout as doing exercise can keep you healthy and has many benefits to your body.

Year 1 getting out of breath doing star jumps.

 Burpees!!

It's always important to stretch and Joe showed us some easy stretches to finish our workout.

Friday Fitness!

4T enjoyed a bit of fitness on a Friday - a great way to finish our morning and have a brain-break! Thanks Miss Dickinson for the recommendation, we're looking forward to having another go sometime soon! :) 

Y2 Working Out on a Wednesday!!!

We had a massive amount of fun giving our brains a break and enjoying a quick workout mid-morning! Thanks Miss Dickinson for sharing this with us - we loved it!!!

Year 3 working out!

When we heard about Joe Wicks, the body coach, doing work outs for schools we decided that we must do them! After our dance session today (we were very busy bees today!) we completed one of the work out sessions that Joe was hosting on his YouTube channel. We had great fun but we were very tired at the end! 

Here are some pictures of us!