Lincolnshire School Games Competition

Sunday July 9th saw our Boccia team at the Lincolnshire School Games finals at The Meres and SKDC stadium.
 8 School Sports Partnerships were represented , Marston representing the South West SSP .

We found our event, next to collect our T shirts.

Yellow T shirts- lots of insects found us within seconds!

Parents with us waiting at the start.

The parade  round the track with all competitors at the start of the Games.

The opening ceremony had dancers and coloured smoke.

We were playing in the table tennis centre at The Meres( no insects here and quite cool compared with outside).

Sarah ,the  Boccia England official  referee, explained the order of play.

The team communicated well, taking turns and looking to each other all the time.

Luca was pleased with the position of the red balls.

We played 6 ends per match with scores being made from number of winning team balls closets to the jack.

There was great tactical play as well as accuracy with throws.

Looking good for reds( Marston) but we knew it could all change in an instant with the opposition knocking our balls or the jack away.

In the end 3 teams were tied having lost 1 game each.Riley volunteered to represent Marston when Sarah asked for 1 player from 3 schools. Sarah explained to the 3 what they were to do( we didn't know but this was the play-off for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ).

Sarah placed the jack in the centre and Riley threw a brilliant ball very close to the jack, the next team threw and were a long way off, then the last player threw and the ball just curled in front of Riley's at the last minute.

We still were not sure what the final result would be at this stage.

Jade ( an ex English tennis player who played at Wimbledon) presented the medals.

We came 2nd and got silver medals.

Happy children ,parents and grandparents.

Proud children at our first Lincolnshire Games event.

I was very proud of all the children who displayed great competitiveness, team work, respect and thoroughly deserved their silver medal.

Thank you everyone, a great Sunday with you all.

Maths Y6 leading the starter sessions and science work

Y 6 continued to lead the maths starters with children asking the questions in order to work out the number Y6 had chose. Lots of maths vocabulary being used with sensible questions.The 100 square on the white board helps see what is still left so children can start to think,'What's the same, what's different?'

Riley chose the number for the class to work out.

Lots of hands up ready to ask.

Tilly kept the 100m square up to date.

With only 4 numbers left could a question be asked that would identify the missing number?That was the challenge.

Science: creating our own keys to identify leaves.

First keys had to be created by looking carefully to see what the features of the leaves were so a key could then be made.

Children moved round testing the keys to see if they worked.Could the leaves be identifies correctly.

We evaluated and agreed that most keys were successful

Personal hygiene workshop for Y6.

We welcomed Linda, a Health Education and Training Coordinator from Positive Health Lincolnshire to deliver 4 workshops specifically aimed at year 6.
Here the boys were learning how to shave!

It's a messy business-what do I do with the extra foam?

Telling Matthew to be careful- he might cut Jeff!

Next discussing germs! How far can germs spread?

Nasty things germs!

3 people touched the bag and then checked under UV lighting just to see how far the germs(talc acting as our germs today) had spread.

Thank you Linda- 4 fabulous workshops- fun as well as informative.

We'll always wash our hands properly now!?!