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Norton Infant School’s virtual multi-skills competition took place on Friday 20 March at 9.15am.  The children were excited and eager to participate; the Teaching Assistants were ready and waiting at each event station.

Year 1 and 2 children enthusiastically completed each event and were obviously enjoying themselves.  The results were eagerly anticipated as we all awaited the afternoon award ceremony.  We celebrated everyone’s achievements and the coveted prizes were awarded – T-shirts, water bottles, pencils etc.  Some children even received 2 or 3 prizes, demonstrating a talent in many skills.  Who knows, maybe we have some budding Olympic Champions?

On Monday 23^rd March 2009, the children at Moss Road took part in a virtual multi-skills competition where we competed against other schools in Doncaster.

All the children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 took part. The competition was aimed at improving and developing the students’ skills in agility, balance and coordination in a fun and inclusive way. 

The children were asked to be sponsored for each activity they managed to complete. Nursery also held their own version of the competition.

Leading up to the competition, the children enjoyed practising the different activities and skills. On the morning of the competition, the children were spilt into teams and they visited the 6 different activities: Mini Speed Bounce, Side to Side, Target Throw, Shuttle Run, Leg Stands and Ball Shuffle.

All the children enjoyed participating and had lots of fun. It was lovely to see the children encouraging and supporting their team mates. The favourite activity voted by the children was the Ball Shuffle – ‘we look like penguins waddling’.

C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)

On Friday 23rd January, the Norton Infants and Junior Schools received their annual Sports-Festivals to conclude the delivery of PE lessons from our Flying High Community Coach Carl Hughes.

In the morning Norton Infants School received a Multi-skills festival, which consisted of a fun zone being set up in the main hall and students rotating around various fun multi-skill activities. Then in the foyer area students learnt a dance piece to the High School Musical, consisting of various moves taken from the film, which had been choreographed by Level 1 Dance Leader Students from Campsmount Technology College.

Both areas were delivered by Sports-Leaders and Assistant Sports Leaders from the Campsmount Technology College, with some Year 10 students stepping in to assist as regular Year 12 Sports-leaders were out on Exam Leave.

The students from Campsmount were absolutely fantastic and their delivery was first class, the event was overseen by Carl Hughes and I, however, the majority of delivery was by the Leadership Academy Students. The festival lasted the whole morning and involved all students in Years 1 and 2 and students all received certificates at the end of the day to show they had participated to an excellent standard.

Then in the afternoon the Leadership Academy students went over to the Junior School next door to deliver a Netball Festival to the whole of Year 3 and 4 students. This was a fantastic afternoon, with all students being split into 6 teams from their class consisting of mixed abilities and then all students played a round robin tournament throughout the afternoon, whereby every team got to play each other in their class.

At the end of the tournament the results were revealed to all three Year 3 and 4 classes and alongside this staff had observed their classes and had given a fair play award to a team and this was announced as well. The winners of the tournament and fair play award all received certificates at the end of the festival.

The Leadership Academy students were again fantastic with team leaders looking after each class and a team of umpires, it was a brilliant display of leadership skills from the Campsmount Academy.

All in all a thoroughly enjoyable day, where all staff from both schools expressed how much they and the students had enjoyed it!!!!!

C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator) 

On Friday 16th January 2009, Campsmount Technology College hosted the annual Indoor Primary Sports-hall Athletics Festival for the Campsmount Pyramid. The two Junior Schools Askern Spa and Norton Juniors entered 20 students each from Year 6 (10 girls and 10 boys) into the festival.

This was a very enjoyable and successful afternoon for both students and staff involved. The festival was split into two halves, whereby students participated in track events and field events. The track events consisted of individual and team performances of sprints, long distance and hurdle events and the field events consisted of various indoor throwing and jumping events.

The events were managed and judged by Sports-Leaders and Assistant Sports-Leaders from the newly established Campsmount Leadership Academy and the students showed a fantastic display of leadership and volunteering skills in the running of this.

The Festival finished up very close with Norton Juniors winning the Boys Competition and Askern Spa Juniors winning the Girls Competition. However, when the scores were combined Norton Juniors clinched the title and qualified to represent the Campsmount Pyramid in the Flying High Finals in February.

This was the first time Norton Juniors had won the festival and Helen Jenkins (Norton PLT) commented that it had been a fantastic achievement for students at the school. She also felt that the newly introduced Virtual Competitions had helped her select her squads and that this was a good idea to develop students’ skills and techniques just prior to the festival.

At the end of the festival students were issued with gold or silver medals and certificates and the winning school received a trophy, which was engraved with their winning school on. This was courtesy of Tracey Rice, from Extended Services.

Following this event on Friday 6th February, Norton Juniors went to represent the Campsmount Pyramid in the Flying High Finals at Rossington Sports College. They put on a fabulous display and just narrowly missed out on winning the competition and finished Runners Up.

Again, it was another fantastic display of excellent sporting abilities from Norton Juniors, what a fantastic achievement – Well Done!!!!!!

C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)