Sports Hall Athletics 10th February

On Friday 10th February a team of 19 Y6 pupils took part in the annual Sports Hall Athletics competition at Skegness Academy.

They took part in a total of 24 events (12 for the girls and 12 for the boys).
The events were:
Obstacle Relay - team of 4
1 lap + 1 lap pairs race
2 laps + 2 laps pairs race
6 lap paarlauf (pairs race)
Over & Under Relay - team of 4
4 x 1 lap relay
Chest Push (team of 3)
Standing Long Jump (team of 3)
Standing Triple Jump (team of 3)
Vertical Jump (team of 3)
Javelin (team of 3)
Speed Bounce (team of 3)

With a total of seven teams taking part and so many events happening it was difficult to know how we were doing but the organisers told us the overall lead kept changing hands and that it was very close between the top few teams.
Final Placings:
7th Skegness Junior Academy
6th Alford
5th Mablethorpe
3rd = Burgh and Woodhall
2nd Richmond
1st Horncastle

Dance Competition

On Friday the 3rd of February, a group of children from years 4 and 6 all went to a dance competition at the Skegness Academy. The theme of the dance was The Lion King, in which Isabelle played the role of Simba with other children playing different animals from the film. The children danced to a mix of different songs from The Lion King 1, 2 and 3.

The teachers who made up the dance were:

Mrs R Sylvester

Miss R Rippin

Miss A Sampher

These teachers did the makeup and all the masks. The children left school at about 9:00 and were at the Academy for about 9:30. All of the children wore black clothes and masks with a high pony apart from Isabelle who had face paint and she also had her hair down and backcombed.

There were 7 schools in total, but 2 of them were not against us. In the end we came second with the Skegness Junior Academy coming first.

By Kaycee and Isabelle.

Girls' Football County Finals

Freya, Grace, Jessica, Olivia, Aimee, Scarlet, Tia, Rhianna, Isabelle and Molly took part in the County Round of the Danone ESFA Girls Cup.

Group A Baston (Stamford District) Long Bennington (Sleaford District) Butterwick (Boston District Birchwood (Lincoln District)

Group B St Botolph’s (Grantham District) Market Rasen (Market Rasen District) Parish Church (Gainsborough District) Richmond (East Coast)

We began with a 0 - 0 draw against a strong St Botolphs' who had beaten us in the final last year and were trying to win the competition for a third time in succession.

Next up, we played Parish Church. This was a very end to end game and we were a little unlucky to lose 2 - 1. 

Our final group game was against Market Rasen. As this was the last game in the group stages, we knew a victory by 2 goals would see us into the semi-finals. We began strongly and gained confidence from an early goal. By halftime we were leading 3-0 and went on to win by 4 goals to 0.

Group A	Group B
Birchwood 1 v 1 Baston	St Botolph’s 0 v 0 Richmond
Butterwick 0 v 1 Long Bennington	Market Rasen 0 v 0 Parish Church
Birchwood 1 v 0 Butterwick	Richmond 1 v 2 Parish Church
Baston 1 v 1 Long Bennington	Market Rasen 0 v 0 St Botolph’s
Birchwood 0 v 0 Long Bennington	Parish Church 0 v 1 St Botolph’s
Baston 2 v 0 Butterwick	Richmond 4 v 0 Market Rasen

Baston 5 points (GD+2) Long Bennington 5 points (GD +1)* Birchwood 5 points (GD +1) Butterwick 0 points (GD -4) *Long Bennington beat Birchwood in a play-off.

St Botolph’s 5 points (GD +1) Richmond 4 points (GD+3) Parish Church 4 points (GD0) Market Rasen 2 points (GD-4)

As runners up in our group we had to play the winners of of the other group, Baston, in the semi-final. In a very exciting and entertaining game in which both teams hit the post we were able to score the only goal to book our place in the final.

In the other semi-final Long Bennington defeated St Botolph's by a goal to nil.

In the final both teams defended extremely well and kept chances to a minimum. At the end of normal time it was still 0-0 and so we went into extra time but still neither team was able to get a goal and so the match went to a penalty shoot out. It then took until the 6th pair of penalties to finally divide the teams with Long Bennington winning 3-2.

Dance Festival

On Friday 3rd February a group of children from Y4 and Y6 took part in a dance festival at Skegness Academy. They finished in second place