It was the turn of our Year 3 and 4’s to experience the variety of gymnastics equipment and expertise of the Noadswood Young Leaders this week. We enjoyed all of the different stations on offer to challenge our balance and co-ordination, but our favourite was the Trampoline, Acro and Vault. We really pushed ourselves to improve our skills on the beam, with high kicks and walking backwards and we created some fabulous floor sequences. It was great to work together, in fact we didn’t stop moving all afternoon!
If you are interested in joining a gym club, our local one is Gymstars in Ferndown.

15 teams from across the New Forest participated in the Sportshall Athletics finals on Saturday at Testwood School. All athletes raced against each other over 3 events a run, a jump and a throw ending with an exciting mixed relay event. It was all about the experience and taking part as we encouraged each other to achieve some really standout individual performances, whether it was a good placing finish in the sprints, a well- executed or accurate throw or speedy jumping.
We showed tremendous teamwork and also enjoyed supporting our fellow Ringwood- based school teams, cheering on our friends from Poulner School.
Thank you for giving up your Saturday morning to represent Ringwood Junior School so well!

  

A fabulous but nonetheless dream shattering morning was spent playing some really skilful football at the Community hub on Tuesday with dedicated Year 6 boys. 16 schools attended and we were put in a tough division. All the matches were intelligently played and exciting so we were pleased to not lose a match and thrilled to put 2 goals against the favourites. Sadly, with the way other matches played out we didn't quite earn enough points to win the division and to qualify for the knock-out semi final but our boys can be proud that they played with their hearts on their sleeves and showed great teamwork supporting each other in every match. Thanks to our great team of supportive parents, as always much appreciated.
We are looking forward to a few more football events before Easter to involve all the other Year groups.

We were fortunate to be able to compete and take 2 well-practised teams to the New Forest Schools Indoor Athletics Qualifier event this week held at Ringwood School. The teams are mixed Year 5 and Year 6 with all children competing in an individual run, jump and throw events along with a relay event using the kickboards to turn as you can see in the photo.
There were 10 teams at the event and it was lovely to be involved in this from a competitive perspective but also it was great to see the children try so hard to achieve as many points as they could for their team. 4 teams qualified for the finals, which will be held in January and we all cheered loudly as one of our teams have made this final, along with gaining shiny medals.
Thank you to all the parent supporters who were essential in making it a very memorable event for both our teams.

Many teams from local schools gathered at the fantastic AFCB football facility at Long lane on Thursday for an afternoon filled with non-stop matches. I was impressed by the football skills and match play from all the girls, who played with confid