Black History Month - Serena Williams

As part of Black History Month, in Year 1 we have been researching the Tennis star:

Serena Williams.

We have been finding out why she is a role model and what she has achieved by working hard.

Many of us want to be amazing at Tennis just like her! Some of us already go to the schools after school Tennis club, so we can practise our skills.

We have shown our findings by drawing pictures of Serena and labelling these with information and her achievements.

Next we will be researching Lewis Hamilton the Formula One race car driver.

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!

Girl’s Football (Match 1)

After having trained hard each Thursday afternoon throughout the Spring term, this week brought the first instalment of matches for our KS2 girls against an experienced Newlands team. Despite the unfortunate scoreline, the girls enthusiastically battled through and thoroughly enjoyed the chance to play on a grass pitch. On our return to school it was rewarding to hear the girls reflect on how much they felt they had improved since Week 1, including a quote from AP -  “I couldn’t even kick a ball!” 

Next week, Team 2 make the trip to Newlands to showcase their skills! Good luck girls!

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!

4T Super Movers

4T have been enjoying celebrating Sports Relief. We loved getting active this week and showing off our super moves!

Super movers in 1L

All week we have been completing SuperMover routines to get our heart rates up.

These videos help us exercise and learn at the same time!

We have recapped the rules on sentence features

and danced along to the alphabet.

It has been very fun and we are all dressed up for Sport Relief today.

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.

Body Coach Workout

We thoroughly enjoyed our workout with the Body Coach to promote fitness and a healthy lifestyle in school! Was so much fun! 

Year 6's Woodmill adventure

Year 6 have had a brilliant time away on our camping trip to Woodmill. We arrived on Monday evening and quickly set to work putting up our tents - which we all found very exciting!

We then had dinner, played some games and enjoyed marshmallows and songs (and the occasional selfie) around the campfire.

Then it was time for a story and bed... not that we got enough sleep..!

The next day, we were in three groups to do three different activities: archery, climbing and raft-building. Let's just say we got a bit wet on the lake... sorry parents who had to do lots of washing/drying when we got home!

We have some very tired children after all that adventuring! What a great time!

Working out into classroom.

1N joined in with a Body Coach HIIt workout and it made us very exhausted but pumped with energy!