Curling Competition

We recently held a curling competition for Year 3 students.  Every child had 20 attempts before we totalled all the scores.

Medals for special awards were given out and a trophy was presented for the top class scores!

In first place was Jake Hare (3SH).  He scored an amazing 3380 points, followed closely by Hisham Ikram (3K) in 2nd place.  Hisham's score was 3280 points.  In 3rd place was Sam Lawrence (3P) with 2955 points.

Well done, Year 3!

Rain stops play!

KS2 sports day
On Tuesday 28th of June, key stage 2 had a chance to have an afternoon of  fun because it was sports day. Each child at the school had a chance to do every activity. The activities were:
Basketball
Bean bag race
Egg and spoon race
Javelin
Obstacle race.....
and lots more.

Unfortunately, as the weather forecasters had already warned us there was from out of the sky the most awful storm ever. There was thunder and lightenenin and everybody (including the parents and people watching) had to make a dash for it into the hall. We were are really soaked and were supposed to watch a DVD in the hall, but because we had got so wet we had to go back to our classrooms and change back into our dry clothes.
It was a real shame that the afternoon had to be cancelled but we all enjoyed the little time we had showing off our sporting skills!

By Isabel 3K

 

 

400 day Countdown!

Hello and welcome to the Olympic 400 day count down blog.
On the 23rd June a group of children went with Mrs Ironside to Ilford (just opposite the Town Hall) to celebrate the 400 day countdown to the Olympics in 2012.
We had a fantastic time and learned some new dances - the Cha Cha Slide and the Macarena. This was really good fun and we were dancing out on the street to a DJ! There were also other schools from Redbridge joining in with us.
This was a really cool way of celebrating just 400 days left to the Olympics!!

By Vidhisha   3T

Sports Presentation

This was a fantastic evening which was enjoyed by everyone that attended. We wanted to recognise the achievements of children who have represented the school with their talent, attitude and effort. We also wanted to award children for consistent effort in lessons.



Also we had some very talented sports personalities giving us fantastic displays of their talents. You can see these on video by clicking on the pictures below:

Dancing/Cheerleading



Speed Stacking Demo

Jeremy Lynch

Woodford County Dance Festival

On Wednesday 2011 the Indian dance girls went to Woodford County High School!

When we got there we all were overjoyed and nervous to see how humongous the stage was. There was different colorful lights everywhere, shining on people. It felt like we were in an actual concert but really we wasn’t. We saw lots of great people dancing, they had great moves. Some people danced street dance, some people tap danced and some other people also done Indian dance like we did.
The music was so loud and we even had a walk way that would lead us to the stage. It all seemed very professional. When our school’s name got called out we were all really nervous; we didn’t want to perform in the end even though we had all really  been looking forward to it. In the end we all pulled ourselves together and it didn't turn out as scary after all!
We had the most wonderful time of all and we wanted to do it all over again. It was a fantastic experience for us all!

By Rhea and Aria

Cricket

This week in cricket we practiced our techniques at bowling and learnt different techniques. You can be a 'spin bowler' or a 'pace bowler'.  Like the name suggests a spin bowler puts a certain spin on the ball which is a difficult technique to learn, whereas a pace bowler concentrates more on the speed of the ball which is just as tricky.
After a very long practice session  we managed to play a match of cricket using most of the professional rules except one or two. The final score was 25 runs to 3.

Basketball

Basketball is a very popular sport at Fairlop. We have a Basketball pitch in our play ground and many different people from all age groups play there to see how good it is.


Year 5 of Fairlop primary school have many 1st place awards over the years as we are very good at Basketball.

The redbridge mini games are coming up very soon and we are looking for to this competition. We compete in the mini games every year, year 6 had their tournament back in December and now its year 5s turn. We are all training very hard for this event and we will have trials to see who will be in the school team. Mrs Ironside will have the task of picking the bext team for the school.

By Maaz



More about speed stacks!

Have you used speed stacks yet?  Speed stacks are plastic cups, but this plastic is special because of the way it’s made. 

The rules are tricky but you will get used to it!  The first rule is when you stack a cup you have to let go before you put it down. The second rule is to do the stacks with both hands and that’s really it. There are three different ways to do speed stacks.

The first stack is the three:

The second stack is the six stacks which is a bit trickier:

The last one is the trickiest the ten stack:

There has been and there will be more speed stack competitions in school. The first competition in the Autumn term was between the year 5 classes, and the winner was Class 5S.

Keep checking the Sports Blog for more speed stack news at Fairlop!  We love it!

By Maaz and Piraveen - Class 5M