Our Year 4’s were really proud to be representing the school again after winning the qualification event last month.
It was a full afternoon of non-stop tennis with sadly no strawberries and cream in sight!
All 4 children played 6 matches against their opposing numbered seeds and they were all quite close. The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible during each match as the points are totalled to provide an overall team total. We maintained our concentration and played extremely well to gain silver position in our tier.
Well done and thanks to all parents and Mrs Cummin for supporting at this event.

A few weeks ago, 9 teams from across the New Forest participated in the Tennis qualifier event, completing matches throughout the entire afternoon with non-stop short court action. Although tennis is an individual sport, we joined our scores together to form a team total. Before the matches, we demonstrated integrity as we ranked ourselves from 1-4. The player seeded 1 then played the seed 1 player from all the other teams, with seeds 2, 3 and 4 following suit. All points were added together to gain a team total from each match. We needed to focus to keep control of the ball and try and outwit our opponents with the placing of the ball within the service box. We all improved our tennis throughout the day with the Year 4 team winning the event and gaining gold medals. This team has now qualified for the New Forest tennis finals and will play against another 15 teams in June. It will be our own Wimbledon warm up!

We had a non-stop afternoon of match play at Fordingbridge School recently for both girls’ and boys’ teams.

Fordingbridge Junior School organised a multi-school competition and so we played around 6 matches against other local schools including teams from Poulner and Western Downland.

It was tricky at first to get used to playing with children from different year groups, but we soon adapted and showed good teamwork to score and defend well so we won a couple of matches. “It was nice to be able to play in different positions,” said Seb.

Thanks again to parental support with transport so we were able to take 2 teams.

The children in Year 5 were very pleased to have Chris Connaughton visit for a morning of storytelling and writing challenges. Chris shared a selection of short stories based on a maritime theme, linking to our recent maritime history project. The children heard versions of The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe and Long John Silver. We also had some of the children's parents and carers join us, and we hope that the children will be inspired to follow up their morning session with some reading at home. We will be doing some more reading and writing based on the stories in school.

Yesterday we were delighted to be able to welcome parents and carers in to school to our Egyptian Exhibition where we shared all of our learning linked to our History project about ancient civilisations and the ancient Egyptians.  During this term, we have also linked our Art learning and created beautiful and colourful canopic jars inspired by the artist Grayson Perry.  In our English lessons, we  extended our understanding of time conjunctions and used them when we created Embalmers Handbooks. The children were very keep to share their projects with their adults and there was a wonderful array of different models, posters, presentations and even a full sized sarcophagus complete with mummy!

Our School were thrilled to have the African Adult Choir - UBUNTU - whilst on their "Dream Tour" of the UK.  Most of them originate from Uganda & Kenya and were made up of Alumni from the African Children's Choir, at least 2 of whom had visited Ringwood Junior School some 10 years ago! 

These talented Christian young performers have just completed secondary school and are now on a gap year before heading to university.  Having come from very poor families, they have been supported throughout their schooling by the Christian charity 'Music for Life'.