Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and Nursery

Bike competition was a fun event for our students. It took place at Church Langley school, run by the SGO David Stacey & company. Thank you to David for the transport today for our students whilst the BMAT bus was being fixed. There were laps around the astro pitch, paper round on the target, through the gate avoiding the obstacles & balancing push on the bike. Luckily the weather was great, with a dry surface and a little breeze to make condition for cycling comfortable and fun for all. The primary school staff of Harlow have worked together to create new and exciting opportunities for the local children. Developed from an initial suggestion by Luke Hammond (Purford Green), School Games Organiser David Stacey, applied for and acquired funding from Active Essex via a Travel Grant and Environmental Festival Grant to purchase brand new bikes, helmets and storage. This enabled the HDPSSA to add new Cycling Festivals to an already jam-packed sports calendar.

Dodgeball is so much FUN and the students were sweating and they had massive smiles on their faces. We brought 3 teams to this event due the students love of the game. This competition today was the dodgeball qualifiers. Once again, due to increased interest, the Harlow SSP were required to expand the event from last year. This year a staggering 40 teams attended Mark Hall Academy Sports Centre throughout the day, with events split over the morning and afternoon. With some expert advice on the rules, demonstrated perfectly by the school staff, the children were grouped and ready to play. Both events ran really well, considering the logistics of central timing and the difficulties when umpiring – it really is one of the toughest events to officiate as everything happens so fast and all at the same time. Having said this, there were no disputes, with the children and staff demonstrating great integrity and honesty throughout. As always, thanks were given to the amazing staff members who helped organise and officiate, alongside Mr Stacey, Mrs Pardoe and Mr J Stacey and Mr H Stacey. They were able to expand our events due to fantastic collaboration and dedication of all the people school staff involved – great job all! The 20 teams who qualified from today’s event, will meet in the finals on Friday 11thNovember at Mark Hall Academy. Unfortunately, we didn't qualify for the finals, but the students had a great time playing such an energetic & fast-moving sport. The students will still receive certificates in assembly for their excellent play.