Sport News 2023-2024
Year 3/4 QuadKids Event
Our 3/4 Athletics Teams attended Ormiston Six Villages and competed in a 50m sprint, 400m run, vortex howler throw and a standing long jump. We were incredible proud of the team for their fantastic efforts and hard work! Bartons accumulated 1,320 points and finished 8th out of 13 schools. Sam finished in the top 4 boys at the event and jumped a huge 2.40m in his long jump event.
Year 5/6 QuadKids Event
Our Year 5/6 Athletics team attended The Regis and competed in a 75m sprint, 600m run, vortex howler throw and a standing long jump. Overall Bartons scored 1,217 points, finishing in 10th out of 11 schools. They showed great sportsmanship!
Rowing Event
Selected children from Year 4 attend a Rowing Event designed to encourage their participation in sporting events. When the children returned to school they asked "Please can we go to more sporting events." The event was also an opportunity for selected children in Year 5 to develop their leadership skills.
Dance House
On Wednesday 24th May, our dance club had the privilege of performing at Worthing Pavilion Theatre, as part of Dance House. The children helped choreograph a Disney medley to celebrate 100 years of Disney. It was a fantastic opportunity to perform in a theatre and the children absolutely loved it!
Mini-Olympics
To celebrate 100 days until the Paris Olympics, the Bronze Ambassadors helped to plan a Mini-Olympic Day for the school. EYFS children took part in surfing and cycling themed activities. Children in Year 1 - 6 took part in Tri-Golf, Fencing and Modern Pentathlon themed activities. The children were in mixed teams from mixed year groups.
Throughout the day points were collated from the different activities and the results were:
1st Place - Unicorn with 1040
2nd Place - Dragon with 907
3rd Place - Phoenix with 890
4th Place - Pegasus with 775
Infant Agility
Our EYFS and Year 1 children had a lot of fun at the Infant Agility. The activities had been designed by Sports Hall Athletics and aimed to improve and test the children's fundamental movement.
Disney Festival
8 children from Year 1 and 2 took part in the Shooting Stars Disney Event. The aim of the festival was to encourage girls to play football through Disney themed activities. They had lots of fun learning football skills linked to Toy Story and Frozen.
Let Girls Play Football
On Friday 8th March, Bartons took part in #LetGirlsPlay to encourage more girls to play football. Our Bronze Ambassadors organised and lead football activities on the playground for all the children to take part in. It was a huge success and great to see so many girls playing football!
Introducing our Bronze Ambassadors for 2023 - 2024
Our Bronze Ambassadors are involved in:
- Organising and planning different types of events that will appeal to all children in the school
- Publicising events, competitions and school sports clubs
- Helping to organising sports events, such as Sports Days and celebration events and competitions
- Leading sporting activities in playground at lunch times
- Starting warm-ups
- Increasing sporting participation
Our Year 5 and 6 boys football team went to the Regis to participate in the West Sussex School Sport Partnership Small School Football Competition.
After many successful wins the boys finished 2nd in the Small Schools Competition! Well done boys!!
Sports for Champions Day - Sponsored Event
On 10th November, we welcomed professional England footballer, Chloe Peplow to Bartons. She hosted the sponsored fitness event where every class worked with her taking part in a fitness workshop. During an inspiring whole school assembly, she explained how she had dreamed of being a professional footballer and told us how she progressed in her career - actually playing for England and other top women's football clubs. She explained the importance of being and staying fit. We had lots of fun and it was very insightful!
Year 5 / 6 Indoor Sports Hall Athletics
Year 5 and 6 represented 'Team Bartons' at the Indoor Athletics event. The children took part in track and field events. It was a great afternoon!
Area Athletics 2023
Bartons entered the FAB Area Athletics for the first time. The children had been working hard during our athletics after school club in preparation for the event. The children represented Team Bartons fantastically well competing in a range of track and field events.