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Olney Middle School
OMore Sporting Celebrations
ur pupils are always brilliant Fields Athletics track. Many of our senior ambassadors and a true team quali ed for their individual nals, credit to the school as they alongside several of our junior team who demonstrate their fantastic were experiencing the competition for the
skills, excellent teamwork and superb rst time. Three of our relay team also
sportsmanship towards competitors from other schools. Over the past month they have excelled themselves.
After coming second in the MK level 2 tournament, the High 5 netball team quali ed to represent MK South at the School Games in Aylesbury. We played ve other teams, drawing our rst match and winning the rest. As a result, we won the competition and we are Bucks and MK School Games Champions 2016.
Having performed extremely well nishing second in their group, Olney Middle School took part in the MKPSA Boys football nals which meant they were one of the top six primary school teams in the whole area. Olney Middle School athletics team once again did themselves proud at the MK Primary Schools Athletics finals, held on Saturday 2nd July at Stantonbury
quali ed for the nals.
On the day, the children were extremely nervous but competed with their customary enthusiasm and determination. After a long, exciting morning, in which the children gave many personal best performances, we had two medal winners: Sonja, who won Bronze in the Senior Girls’ 800m and Natalie, who won silver in the Senior Girls’ 200m.
This sportsmanship and excellence was reflected again at the Milton Keynes School Sports Partnership awards evening. Olney Middle won the Change for Life Club award for our lunch time club – a club run by the year 6 sports ambassadors for year 3 and 4; Natalie (6JH) won the Young Leader award and Joshua P (6JH) won the School Games Values award for Passion.
Bozeat Primary School
TRio Carnival Comes to Bozeat
here was a carnival atmosphere in the village of Bozeat on Thursday 30 June as pupils from the local primary school dressed up in their nest and loudest clothes to take part in a Rio style carnival. Pupils have been making brightly coloured
head dresses and accessories in class during the week which they wore as part of the celebrations and commenced with a procession through the village cheered on by villagers and parents. This was part of the topic that the children have been studying in school which has all been linked to the rainforests and are now moving on to learning about the Olympics where the children will have their fabulous nish Olympic style sports day led by the older children in school during July. The Head teacher said: “It was a fabulous afternoon with lots of support from onlookers in the village who were cheering the children on. We wanted to give the children an idea of the kind of atmosphere that a real carnival would have with music, dancing and drumming. The children then came back to school to take part in a range of activities like Salsa dancing, Samba drumming, Volleyball and much more. Not only did the afternoon reinforce learning and make it real but it also helped children understand and appreciate different cultures across the world which is part of our British Values curriculum.”
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