PE

On Wednesday 20th October, several from Woodpeckers and Owls took part in the Badminton Festival. They had a great time taking part in all the different activities and thank you to our Year 6 leaders for helping them on the day.

On Thursday 7th October and Thursday 14th October, several children from KS2 took part in an U11 Football tournament at Whitton Sports Centre. They all thoroughly enjoyed the experience; great team spirit was shown and our wonderful girls’ goalkeeper was awarded the fair play award on the day. .

Sports Day happened at Stratford St Mary on Monday 19th July – with Woodpeckers and Kingfishers events taking part in the morning. The children competed in their houses and took part in 5 events – standing long jump, chest throw, sprint, fun run and target game. Great fun, great team spirit and great attitudes were […]

Sports Day happened at Stratford St Mary on Monday 19th July – with Owls and Swans events taking part in the afternoon. The children competed in their houses and took part in 5 events – standing long jump, chest throw, sprint, fun run and target and water race. Great fun, great team spirit and great […]

The swans have been practising their number skills of doubling, trebling, addition, subtraction and multiplication by playing Darts! They had so much fun!

On Friday 14th February, Kingfishers Class celebrated 100 days of school. We started our morning with some fun facts about the number 100. We then remembered that it was also Valentine’s Day and we learnt about St Valentine and read the book ‘That’s Love’. Combining both themes, we challenged the class to write 100 hearts […]

Recently, six children from the Owls class travelled to Inspire Suffolk in Ipswich to participate in the U9 Dodgeball Festival. We competed against six matches against five other schools, remaining unbeaten by winning 4 and drawing twice. The children were also picked as the Fair Play team of the festival which we, at Stratford, are […]

Recently, eight children from Swans class took part in an U11 Table Tennis Tournament, held at St Joseph’s College in Ipswich. Our children competed against three other schools containing ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams: Morland, Cliff Lane and St Pancras. Each child played at least three matches consisting of best of 5 games. Overall, both Stratford’s […]

At the start of October, 13 boys from the Swans class made the trip to Whitton Sports Centre to compete at the U11 Football Competition. Wearing our new football kit for the first time, the boys did their best against 4 other schools: Hadleigh, Shotley, Henley and Hillside. The final game against a strong Shotley […]

Friday 5th July saw the annual sports day at the school. The sun shone, crowds gathered and children enjoyed a variety of events; the atmosphere was fantastic! Otters were the victorious winners and gained 40 house points! Well done. Thank you to all who helped with the preparations beforehand and to those who helped on […]

May was a great month at Stratford St Mary School for Sport and PE. In the two sporting competitions, U11 Swimming and U11 Netball, we achieved 6th place in both events, with 12 teams competing altogether in the Swimming and 16 teams in the Netball. A huge well done to all children involved and a […]

Recently, 24 children from Owls and Swans braved the rain to compete at a Cross-Country event held at the Royal Hospital School in Holbrook. The year 4 children’s course was 1,500m, whereas the Year 5 and 6 children’s course was 2,200m long. The children were nervous but extremely determined and they all finished the race […]