Fressingfield wins Gold at Netball!

Massive congratulations to the Compete Netball team, who recently came home with the gold medal position in the High Suffolk HSSSP schools tournament!  This consisted of teams from over ten schools, and is a prestigious and very competitive event!  

On a mild, sunny day, we took two teams, consisting of Compete:  Tobie, Daisy, Bella, George, Imogen, Lydia and Eden, and Develop:  Niall, Maisie, Sienna, Elizabeth, Oliver, Scarlett and Edward, all children from Years 5 and 6.  The games were short (ten minutes each) with no end changes, with children playing different teams on different courts.  With a quick changeover time between games, children needed to be at the right place, at the right time.  Our opponents included a local school which is very competitive, and fielded three Compete teams.

Games were refereed by sports mentors from Framlingham College, who were fair and helpful with all the teams.  In the Compete tournament, Fressingfield made a cracking start, with a rapid hat-trick from Tobie, who then scored another goal!  In the second match, Fressingfield had an even more decisive win.  We then heard that one team had had a national coach to work with them – we drew with this team, who had children who were very tight in their passing.  After the first six games, the Compete team had won five games and drawn one.  With the children making their own substitutions and strategic decisions, all focus was on the semis.  With a plan in place, the Compete team was then told – no semis!  The tournament was all on points during the league rounds!  With bated breath, we heard we were the winners!  Fantastic job, Fressingfield!

Develop team also did incredibly well, although didn’t make medal position.  We were so proud of our school’s determination, passion, respect and all-round enjoyment of the day.  A special mention to our school individual medal winners:  Tobie and Niall (Determination) and George (Teamwork).

Rounders Tournament

Well done to our two rounders teams (Develop and Compete) who did so well at a recent rounders tournament. Despite some of us being fairly new at rounders, we managed to hold our own and gain a few wins in the first round. Some of the match scores were very close. Our Develop team missed out going through to the semis by only a couple of rounders – they were level on points with the team which went through. Again, our Compete team were very close on points, but they did go through to the semis!  Despite losing this tie, they won the play-off to gain a very respectable third. 

Highlights of the game:

  • An amazing catch by Niall
  • Some great leadership skills from Tobie
  • Too many great rounders to mention names
  • Plenty of polite, respectful behaviour to our opponents. 

World Mental Health Day

Congo Class children have been celebrating World Mental Health day by creating dances to show different scenarios, reflecting feelings of worry or anxiety, which might be natural when we go through change. The children have worked hard on varying the dynamics to show moods. Great work, Congo Class!