It’s been a great week of cricket for Dore Primary School with both the Y6 boys and Y6 girls teams competing in the county finals to be crowned the best cricketing school in all of Yorkshire (and by logical extension, (the best in the country). All the children who took part were a credit to […]
To celebrate the 10 year anniveasary of the London Olympics and it’s legacy in the UK, we took 40 Year 3 and 4s to a Colour Smash Run event at the Olympic Park. The Pictures peak for themselves I think: Before After It was a lot of fun., The children really made the most of […]
As a culmination of our learning about the impact of the Roman Empire on Britain, we held ‘Legendary Legionary’ day. Dressing and acting as legionaries (Roman soldiers), our ‘cohorts’ of troops rotated around a series of activities to help them prepare to invade Britannia. Children experienced military training – archery and javelin practice, shield designs […]
Early in June, we took two teams to the Sheffield Dynamo Cricket competition at Hollinsend. Both teams represented the school fantastically well, batting, bowling and fielding beautifully. One team came second in their group, just losing out to a good Dobcroft team. The other team won their group, meaning they had to play Dobcroft in […]
To tie in with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, our Sports Day this year was themed around the Queen. Events included tea party relays, corgi racing, street parties, races to the thrones, blindfold Everest climb, and many more. Gemini Dance provided our fantastic closing ceremony dance to ‘Dancing Queen’, which children had learned in one […]
As part of thedrive to get more girls playing – and feeling they can play – football, we took twenty girls from Y4 (everyone who expressed an interest) to a football festival at St George’s Park, Graves. The photos below show just how enthusiastic the girls were, and it was lovely to see their skills […]
The children were really resilient today, practising and improving their forward roles in gymnastics.
This half term year 3 have had the opportunity to try out the sport of squash. We were invited down to Abbeydale Squash Centre for taster lessons. It was wonderful to see how the children’s racket skills improved over their three sessions, back in school we have continued developing these too. Hopefully some may return […]
The Dore Primary Bouldering team competed in the Sheffield City Championships last Friday and stormed home to a fantastic third place! This was a personal best for the school and showed the team’s great ability, but also determination and resilience. Special mention should go to Ben Taylor, who won a special award for not giving […]
As part of our PE lesson this week Year 2 have been taking place in a number of challenges as part of South Yorkshire Games week.
