Staverton tell us about their Orienteering

At Staverton C.E Primary School, Mrs Brindley has arranged to have professional coaches, to come into School and coach the year 6 pupils how to do orienteering.In orienteering there are three coaches named Owen,David and Dan.The three coaches split the children into three groups and started the warm up.

For the warm up they make a north,south,east and west, and say which one we have to run to. After we are all warmed up we gathered round our coaches and wrote on a piece of paper north,east,south and west.We then take 5 cones out a bag and make a starting point.After that we counted steps from the starting point too the first cone, then from the first cone too the second and so on.we wrote down the direction we walked in and hid the cone in.Example:North,East or South,West.Then all the teams get back together and swap the directions to the cones,we then had to off and find the other groups cones.

I like Orienteering because you get to work as a team and with a selection of children you would not normally work with.

and their views about Young Leaders

Mrs Brindley is the sports co-ordinator at Staverton School, which means that she is in charge of all the money for the sports clubs and sports equipment. One of the activities that goes on in P.E -(Physical Education) for year six, is Young Leaders, a recognised qualification which can be practised for students from the age of ten to the age of fourteen.

The children practise for their Young Leaders test with papers and exercise. To become qualified to be a Young Leader the children must organize a game with younger children, and must sort out any problems that may occur, to make sure the game played is fair. In preparation for the test, many papers must be completed correctly along with several warm ups and exercises. It is not certain that all students will pass to become Young Leaders, but depending on how much the child has tried; the students could help their score.

Children are excited about the tests, as they know that they could become part of a recognised sporting association. Students are still in preparation for their tests, and are listening carefully to everything that is said about the subject, hoping that it will help them on the day. Quoted from David Needham, A year six pupil, when asked how he feels about playing with smaller children, 'I know that it makes them happy, so therefore it makes me happy to be making their playtimes fun!

If all primary schools trained their highest years to become Young Leaders , the younger children in schools would have someone qualified to play with them and look after them, rather than having to employ more adults. Future generations could benefit from the scheme, as it does not just help us now, but could help school children in the future.

Submitted in March 2008 By Eleanor R & Laura C

Melksham Cross Country Competition

On Monday the 3rd of December a few people from Bowerhill Year 5 and 6 did a cross-country run at George Ward School. Four schools entered the competition.

First we warmed up then Mr Malley told us where the track was. The girls race started. There were 18 girls entered in the girls' race. The Bowerhill girls did well.

After the girls race the boys' race started with 21 boys taking part. Mr Malley's whistle blew and the boys sprinted off. Again Bowerhill did brilliantly, the final results were:

Everyone had a great time.

Bowerhill Girls		Bowerhill Boys
1st	Ruby	1st	Tom	Updated December 2007
2nd	Jade	2nd	Lewis
3rd	Katie R	7th	Corey
4thy	Katie A	10th	Ben
6th	Shannon

Larkrise school raise £400 for charity

This student's article has been submitted by Wesley, class S2 of Larkrise special school.

Updated July 2007

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