Stocksbridge Junior School

Some of the Y4s went to an athletics competition at the High School in Stocksbrige.  We had do all different events like hurdles, long jump, speed bounce, chest push and many more. The athletics was for boys and girls in y3 and y4. We tried our very best.  We went with our very supporting teachers Miss Keating and Miss Sheehan. It was very tense waiting for the results.  They read out that in fourth place was Wharncliffe Side and in third place was St Anne’s.  That left us and Deepcar for first and second.  When they said that Deepcar came second we couldn’t belive that we’d won! There had never been a y3 and y4 athletics competition before so hopefully the Y3s and 4s will follow our winning next year. Our two teachers have been helping us out by training and prapairing for the competion.

Callie

On the 16th of April 2008 a  few children from each year group (30 in total) went to the Octagon centre at Sheffield University for a Movement Festival.  We had been practicing for about 8 weeks with Miss F. We really hoped that we would get it all right becasue it was a tricky routine.  Some of us invited family and friends for this ‘Around the world’ theme. All of the Links staff were dressed up in diffrent countries. We wore new bright yellow t-shirts  with ‘Stocksbridge Super Stars’ printed on them.  Other schools did dances from around the world like hip hop, indian dancing and cheerleading.   The routines involved lots of clever lifts. We were supported by Miss Willats, Miss Freeman (our teacher for dance) also Mrs Proost (with her little girl) and Mrs Dawson and also Miss Kiff.

Brittany 

On the 16 of April 2008 a few of us, about 30 in fact, went to the octagon center and performed different routines for in front of family and friends and children from other schools. The theme was all around the world; loads of schools came. We practiced for 8 weeks.  We all had different outfits (we looked so cool). Some of us performed the gym routine but we neede mats so had to wait for them to be put out.  At first it was scary but as soon as the music started we tried our best.  We were suported by the techers and staff from the office as well - thank you!

Megan

On the 10th of March 2008, Stocksbridge Junior School’s amazing Athletics Squad went to the South Yorkshire finals to compete for the title of the best team in South Yorkshire. The athletes went to the EIS (English Institute of sport) to hopefully win the most races as possible to get the most points and therefore earn the title of South Yorkshire winners! At the end of the competition, everyone who took part, sat nervously as the result were counted.  Amazingly, after about 6 years of SJS squads competing, WE WON!!!

By Amy.C.   Y6  

S.J.S made a stunning performance yesterday at the English Institute of Sports in the South Yorkshire Indoor Athletics final.  Our school has been amazing at each of the rounds so faras everyone has tried their absolute hardest to do their bit as a part of the team.  The work paid off; we won!!!!!!! Everyone was nervous as the commentator revealed the places from 7th to 1st place.  We couldn’t believe it when it was only the two Sheffield schools left for 1st and 2nd places, even moreso when he read us out for 1st place! Well, everyone in our school now says, “We’re the best team in South Yorkshire!” All the athletics teams are surely going to cherish the memories forever.

On Wednesday 12th March Miss Kunze, a year 5 teacher, is leaving! We will miss her a lot. Hopefully she will come and visit us again. She taught Miss Freeman’s class. She was a really nice teacher! She helped us all on our work when we got stuck on a question. She really explained it clearly when we didn’t understand so we did.

Maddie.C, Rebecca.G, Dannielle.S and Shannon.P

Som of the footballers would rather play out than come to SAM learning club, today I’m going to ask some Year 6 children what they think of SAM Learning.

Ellie A: ” Well samlearning is great, good , good, very good, it is making me think more!”

Jordan B: “I think is it super it is going to give me a level 5!”

Farrell H: “I think i am going to get a level 5 and it helps me study!”

Ben A: “It is fun!”

Alice W: “It is good it is so great it makes me smile when i here the word sam learning!”

Gaby  S: “It is great it is one of these thing that i just love, it is supper, i mean super!”

Jessie R: “It’s so boring and sad!” 

Victoria S: ” It is great for helping me get a level 5!”

Aimee

On Thursday 31st January 2008 the Links Final of the Sheffield Indoor Athletics was held at the English Institute of Sport.  There were 7 schools altogether which included Phillimore, St John’s, norfolk, Sharrow & Deepcar.  At first everybody was very nervous and giddy but soon calmed down and got down to business when Mrs G gave us our teamtalk.  The boys went first on the track whilst the girls did there field events brilliantly.  The boys even won all but one of their racess!  At half time all the girls were nervous because so many people would be watching them run.  just like the boys, the girls managed to win most of their races!  After all of the races the organiser got us all together to read out the results - when he got to third place he still hadn’t read us out.  The top two places go through to the next round so when he read that Norfolk were third, we all whooped with joy.  Amazingly, with 180 points, we came first!  We recieved a trophy to keep, and a shield to keep for the year plus a minature trophy!

The City Final is on Friday 29th February so fingers crossed!!!

Hope and Abby

SAM learning has been a great new thing for SATs revision for Year 6. Miss W first introduced us to SAM learning 30th January 2008 and now loads of people have logged in to complete activities at home. Miss W even spotted that a Year 6 pupils little brother (Year 4) had logged in himself to have a look!  This great site has been scientifically proven to help y6 children do better in their SATs although we’ve been told we still have to do our other homework - this is as well as.  The y6 teachers think it really will help the children to go and get the level 5 they need!

 Matthew

On Thursday 17th January 2008 Stocksbridge Junior  School Gymnastics team went to All Saints College to compete in tournament. We went in two teams of five with a reserve and a mascot. We each performed a floor routine and a vault sequence. We did so well that both teams received awards and altogether we managed to get through to the next round. We wouldn’t have been able to do it without Miss Freeman our coach so thank you very much from all of the squad!

Team B

Yesterday we went to a gymnastics competition at All Saints Collage in Sheffield. We were all really excited as we’ve been really busy training with Miss Freeman recently.  Even though all of the other schools had been coached by professional gymnastics coaches, Team A came first out of all the schools; taking home a trophy for the school and a gold medal each. (Shelby and Ellie from Deepcar tried to make a comment on our blog to tell us how easily they were going to beat us … How wrong they were!!!) Everybody else got certificates for taking part and the second and third place teams got silver and bronze medals.   Two gymnasts from our school were picked for scoring the highest in individual events and were awarded another medal! Our squad wore purple leotards and T-shirts that have been personalised with our names on. We all had a FAB time at this competiton!!!

By Amy C, Emily P & Maddie C            

P.S. I hope we go again!!!

A carefully selected squad of Y5 and Y6 children took part in the first round (Links Cluster) Sheffield Schools Athletics Competition on Tuesday 15th January 2008.  It took place at Stocksbridge High School, where we competed against two other schools; sadly, Oughtibridge were unable to make it. We each did field events (things like long jump, the speed bounce and the seated throw) and also competed in a variety of track races. To get through to the next round we had to pick up as many point as possible so we had to to win lots of races - in fact, we won them all! When they announced the final scores we had 81 points; 30 points ahead of second place! We all cheered and some of us cried… happy tears of course!

by G Wright and H Whittaker.

Every Tuesday some Y5 girls, Y6 girls, Y5 boys and Y6 boys walk to the to lesiure centre and go into the main sports hall and run and train for athletics. It is very tiring but lots of fun!  After-wards our parents pick us up or some of us walk home alone. A great time is had by all!

From L.Bye

On Tuesday some Year 6 children Athletics at the sports centre.  It is for the people who have been picked for the school squad - I was picked! When the school started trials for the team, we lined up and we had a race twice and i won my first race then third in the other one. Only a few got picked and we were all filled with joy!  Hopefully I’ll make the final squad.

Pol R.W.

See ya.

Last half term we did a school performance for Harvest about how to save the world.  Each class had a different part and our class, y5f, did a short poem about the world. Other classes did short plays or songs.  Now we think about how to look after the world more often now. 

 Dannielle S

Look my budding bloggers, this is how to post a message to our school blog!

Miss W

A couple of weeks ago Miss Kiff took a few children to a cricket festival. She slpit us into 3 diffrent groups: group a, group b and group c .  We were against Deepcar School and Saint Ann’s. The competition was quite tough.  The competition was supposed to end at 4:30 but finished at 5:20 instead so we were a little late home! It was the most fun ever; Miss K said we were all very sportsmanly.  Amazingly Group A came 2nd overall! 

Dylan, Y5

Recently, our school took part in the Outdoor Athletics competition at Woodburn Roud. It was 3:30 until 7:00pm. It was a very good experience for all of us. We did lots of training with Wani which was great fun.  Some people luckily got through to the final and I was one of those people. I was amazed because I thought I was rubbish.

It was really good fun and i would like to go again.

This is a photo of us practising our baton changes.

By Amy C.

On the 16th March (Red Nose Day) I went to take part in the Y6 Athletics Final at the English Institute of Sport.  I am also in the Y5 school football team and I play for a Sunday league team, which is called Silkstone A team and do swimming lvl 12  and play for a tennis team. When school ended everyone was nervous. I went in Mrs Dawson’s car and it was about a 10 min drive. So far I have’nt even lost a race and i do the distence, hurdles, speedbounce and the mixed relay. My first race i came 3rd out of 8 then 1st then 2nd then 3rd.

Pol

On Monday 23rd of April we went to futsal it was at Goodwin and it storted at 10:oo. We took 7 players to play. We played four games and we won all of them! Sadly, after lunch, it all went wrong.  In the finals we lost all the three games and one was against our own school’s Y6 team. We came 4th out of 17 and it was a good day out!!!!!!!!

Callum B

On Monday 23rd April 2007 Liam, Arron, Connor, William, Chris, Jordon and Callum, the y5 Futsal team, went to a tournament in Sheffield. It was a rainy day but we still had a great time. We won our first 4 games 3-1, 1-0, 7-0 and 4-1 but we lost in the finals.

IT WAS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

By William C

On Monday 23rd April, the Y5 and Y6 Futsal teams went to a tournament in Sheffield. When we got there, we had a kick about then we had matches.  Amazingly we won our first 5 matches.  After lunch we found out we’d made it through to the next round! We played 3 more matches but we lost all of them.  Overall we finished fourth out of about 15 teams!

Chris, Y5

On Friday 16th of March, the athletics squad went to The Insutute Of Sport to compete in the city final. When we got there, all of the schools , who where competeing , went to sit on the floor. There was a man who introduced a athletics champion. He was invited to compete in the comenwelth games. He raced in a very lond race and he came 1st.

After that, the boys where racing 1st. They all did very well and most of them did extremly well! While they where running, the girls where doing their field events. Megan won on the target through. I was her partner. We both did our best. It turned out fab. After, the girls where racing. They did very good and the boys did well at their field events.

At the end of the competion, we found out where we had come. We came 4th out of 80 schools. When the man read out our school, we all stood up and recived a trophy. It was a great excperience and Miss was pleased. It was good and we all did a great job!!!

In the teachers’ competition Mr H had to throw the javelin.  compared to the other teachers we didn’t think he’d do too well.  We were very wrong! He made a whooping throw, way past the other javelin’s.  Miss W even took an action shot!

On Monday 19th March 2007 Y6 and Y5 girls team played a match in the freezing cold weather!!

 There was 9 girls 8 playing (1 sub); but they took turns in being the subs! We were against one of the best teams in our league from Sacard Heart. As usual, the team was late due to taffic and that their school is quite far away from our school. We kicked off about 4:30 pm. Sacrad Heart Started with the ball but about 5 seconds after M.L Stole the ball and headed for their goal. Although M.L is a great player, their goalie showed great skill be saving the ball. 0-0  

She kicked the ball down to our goal but luckly for O.B Stocksbridge had a pair of great defenders. They dribbled the ball down to the pitch and passed to the mid fielders.

Returning for revenge Sacrad Swooped the ball and Headed for our goal. Suprisingly our brill defenders were defated and it was up to O.B to save the goal.

She tried with all her might and saved it.

0-0.

Half time. We had a pep talk the it was the second half.

 The second half was just like the first and so at the end the score was 0-0. 

By Olivia, Y6