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Fun in the Park 2008
Fun in the Park 2008
Warminster Town Park is a wonderful asset for the town. In order for the children of Warminster to appreciate this resource and use it properly the West Wilts Schools Sport Partnership, organised a day of activities for the Year 6 children from all the local primary schools.

Among the activities which all the children took part in were skate boarding, sum wrestling, golf, tennis, fitness, 'ultimate frisbee' and using the pedloes on the lake. Most of the sessions were taken by specialist coaches.

174 children from 9 primary schools attended the day and had great fun in the Town Park.
Updated July 2008
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Kingdown
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Clarendon

Kingdown Schools Dance Festival

The Warminster Primary Schools brought their dance teams to Kingdown School and presented their dances to each other. The finale was a dance by Kingdown's 'Wildfire' Dance Group who gave an outstanding performance.

Updated July 2008

Top Up Swimming

All can now swim 25 metres or moreDuring the latter part of June, the year 6 children who cannot swim 25 metres have been getting up early and going to the swimming pool every day before school.

All of the 15 students who attended Warminster Sports Centre can now swim at least 10 metres. 13 of them can now swim 25 metres or more.

This initiative being run at all 5 West Wilts pools has been organised by the West Wiltshire School Sports Partnership based at Kingdown Sports College.

Updated June 2008

Warminster Area Sports

The Warminster Primary Schools held their annual sports day on Wednesday 25th June. They had held the field events the previous evening at Kingdown School. Once again the school had made their facilities available and provided Young Volunteers to help with the running of the event.

All the races in the track events were closely fought. The high jump was an excellent competition with many personal bests and the bar going up to 1 metre 25. There was an outstanding throw of nearly 50m from Aiden D (Princecroft) in the boys throwing.

The final results were:
Large Schools
Winners = St. Georges RC
Runners up = The Avenue
Small Schools
Winners = St. Johns
Runners up = Princecroft and Sutton Veny

Updated June 2008

Warminster Kwik Cricket Festival - 2008

On Thursday 5th June the Warminster and Westbury Primary Schools held their Kwik Cricket Festival on Warminster Cricket Ground.

The club had marked out 8 pitches. 16 schools divided into 4 groups. All the teams played each other to decide who went into the semi finals. In one group Sambourne and Bitham Brook both won 2 matches, then drew in their final match. The winner was only decided by counting back the total number of runs scored in their previous games, which gave victory to Sambourne.

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In the semi finals Dilton Marsh beat Sambourne and Princecroft beat Wylye Valley. A very good Princecroft team beat Dilton Marsh in the final.Both Princecroft and Dilton Marsh now go through to the County Finals on June 27th.

Updated June 2008

Spirit of Cricket

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Spirit of Cricket6 Warminster schools have received cricket coaching in the afternoons. On the afternoon of Thursday 22nd May they were able to practise the skills they had learnt in a carousel of cricket activities organised by Bob Powell the Cricket Community Coach, ably helped by cricket coaches from Warminster Cricket Club who hosted the event.

Updated June 2008

Thursday Club 2008

This year 160 years 5 and 6 students from Kingdown feeder schools have signed up for the Thursday club. They come to Kingdown on Thursdays after school where they are able to get expert coaching in squash, trampolining, fencing, skateboarding, archery, modern dance, tennis, girls football and tri golf which are sports that they would not normally get the chance to try in their Primary Schools.

Thursday Club - Tennis Thursday Club - Fencing Thursday Club - Skateboarding
Thursday Club - Archery Thursday Club - Golf Thursday Club - Girls Football

Updated June 2008
Kingdown e-on Festival 2008

Students with their E-on certificates



All the Secondary Schools in the Partnership held e-on festivals for year 4 or year 3 and 4 pupils from their feeder schools.

In Warminster the Young Volunteers organised a festival of activities and games on Warminster Highbury Youth football ground for 60 children from St. Johns and St. Georges schools. Afterwards every student received a medal and certificate for taking part. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed a great day of sport.

Updated May 2008

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Warminster & Westbury Primary Schools Football Tournament

On Saturday 1st March the Warminster and Westbury schools held their annual 6-a-side Football Tournament at Warminster Highbury Boys football ground. This year due to other commitments only 6 teams were able to take part. The tournament ran as a league with all teams playing each other.

Most of the matches were very close, however at the end Newclose School, who were last year's winners, just over took their close neighbours the Avenue School by a single point to take the trophy.

Alan Chapman, the Lions President, presented the Lions Cup and medals to the winners and runners up.

Alan Chapman with winners Newclose School
Alan Chapman with winners Newclose School
Alan Chapman with runners up Avenue School
Alan Chapman with runners up Avenue School
Updated March 2008
Primary Hi 5's Netball Tournament

A really fun atmosphereOn Wednesday 30th January 8 netball teams from 5 primary schools held their annual netball tournament at Kingdown School. Kingdown Young Volunteers organised and run the event.

The 8 teams all played each other in a league to decide the winners. Sambourne A team were the eventual winners with Princecroft second and Heytesbury third. There were excellent performances from St. Georges and Avenue Schools who have just started netball.

Updated February 2008

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Updated February 2008

TOP LINK training for our students

students studying at the Top Link conferenceOn Friday 8th February students from Kingdown and Matravers attended the TOP LINK conference at Bath University with students from Partnerships all over the South West.

They were given training on how to run a festival and shown the skills needed to make a festival successful. These students are now planning their own festivals.

Updated February 2008

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Warminster Primary Schools League Finals

Action in the air during the Warminster Primary League FinalsOn Monday 28th January 8 Teams finished off the Warminster Primary Schools leagues with a tournament on Kingdown's astro turf. Young Leaders from Kingdown organised and refereed all the matches.

Teams were divided into 2 pools of 4 where they all played each other. The winners and runners up then went on to the semi-finals. In the first semi-final Princecroft beat Avenue 2-1 and in the other semi-final St. Georges beat Sutton Veny 3-1.

The final produced a match of two halves, Princecroft dominated the first half and scored 2 goals in the second half, St. Georges came back playing some lovely football and scored a goal but were unable to breech the Princecroft defence and get an equaliser.

Ball-play during the Warminster Primary League Finals was controlled and precise All the players were keen to get stuck into the action


Princecroft now go on to represent the Warminster Schools next Monday when they will play the winners of the leagues in the other West Wiltshire towns.

Updated January 2008

Warminster Schools Tag Tails Festival

On Saturday 24th November the Warminster Primary Schools held their annual Tag Rugby Festival. This year there were 9 teams entered

The teams were put in pools of 3 where everyone played each other. The 3 winning teams which were Minster, Newclose and Sambourne went into the gold pool, the 3 second placed teams, went into the silver pool which were Crockerton A, Horningsham and Crockerton B and the 3 third place teams, Heytesbury, Avenue and Wylye Valley went into the bronze pool. Every team had 4 matches. The 2 top teams, Sambourne and Newclose from the gold pool were in the final which hopefully would be a showcase for tag rugby.

What an excellent nail-biting game it turned out to be.

Updated Noverber 2007

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Tag Rugby Course

A foggy November evening didn't put off Students from St. Augustines and Kingdown, teachers and club coaches all attended a tag rugby course run by Alan Low, the Community Rugby Coach at Kingdown School on Monday 26th November.

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Updated November 2007

Play moved with great speed from one end to the other in a very even game. The score with a minute to go was 6 all, then just at the end Newclose scored the vital try to just pip an excellent Sambourne team.

The Warminster Lions Roy Self cup was presented by Peter Self who had travelled down from Bristol especially to present this trophy which was given by the Lions in memory of his father.

Updated Nov 2007

Football Course
On Friday 16th November, teachers, adults who help with football clubs and 6th form students attended a course at Kingdown School. The course was run by Chris Taylor who gave lots of ideas about running an after school football club. As the course was run from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. they were able to use the floodlit astroturf.

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Updated November 2007

Hi 5 teachers' training at KingdownHi 5's Netball Course
On Friday 9th November, teachers from all over the West Wilts SSP attended a High 5 netball course at Kingdown School.

Updated November 2007

Sainsbury's 7-a-side Football Tournament

Spectators and players, enjoying the 7-a-side tournament @ KingdownWhilst John of Gaunt and Clarendon hosted the 6-a-side football tournaments, Kingdown played its part by holding the Sainsbuys 7-a-side (mixed) football for larger schools @ Kingdownon 15th October.

A fabulous tournament engaging students across the partnership. Well done everyone.

Updated Oct 2007








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