Two Year 5/6 teams represented Fishergate in the Fulford Cluster Netball Competition on Wednesday 11th March. It was a great event with Miss Hawes leading a group of 14 players from Fishergate involved, who all worked brilliantly and displayed some great team skills and tactical awareness.

The Fishergate teams played against teams from St Oswalds, Naburn, Dunnington, Elvington and Wheldrake, with one team winning one game, losing one game and drawing three games to finish third.

Our other team performed even better, winning all their games without even conceding a goal, and have now qualified for the City of York finals, which will take place on Tuesday 17th March at Joseph Rowntree School.

Well done to Miss Hawes and all the children involved, and thank you to parents for your continued support.

We are delighted to have gained two awards for the provision of PE and Sport at Fishergate School. Firstly, we have been awarded the Sainsbury’s Silver Games Mark.

To achieve SILVER LEVEL, your school must meet all of the prerequisites as well as the following:

– provide all students with two hours of physical education and school sport per week (made up of curricular and extra-curricular activity)

-engage at least 35% of students in extracurricular sporting activity every week

-use the Sainsbury’s School Games formats to provide the opportunity for both boys and girls to take part in the appropriate level of competition.

use the Sainsburys School Games formats to provide the opportunity through inter-school competition for both boys and girls to take part in ‘B’ standard competition.

regularly feature match reports and competition results on the school website and in the local press;

engage at least 10% of students in leading, managing and officiating Sainsbury’s School Games activity;

engage students in the planning and development of Sainsbury’s School Games activity;

utilise sports coaches to support school sport;

have active links with at least three local sports clubs.

The school also achieved the Youth Sports Trust award through the assessment of the school’s provision and outcomes in physical education and school sport.

Last week, the Fishergate Gymnastics squad took part in the York Partnership Gymnastics competition at Archbishop Holgate School. The competition was split into 3 strands, Year 1/2, Year 3/4 and Year 5/6, with the winners of each competition going forwards to represent York in the North Yorkshire Youth Games in June.

All of our squads performed fantastically well and were a credit to the school. Both the Year 1/2 squad and the Year 5/6 squad won their events, with the Year 3/4 team narrowly missing out in their event.

The Youth Games final will now take place in York against teams from Harrogate, Selby, Craven, Ryedale, Hambleton and Scarborough.

Congratulations to Sean Roberts (Year 2), Alice Childs (Year 3), John Walker (Year 3) and Jack Davies (Year 5), who all took part in the city wide Cross-Country event at Huntington Secondary School. All of our pupils put in a fantastic effort, with Alice finishing in the top ten of her event.

If anyone is interested in joining the school Cross-Country club, there are spaces still available. The club is run by Mr Wannell on a Friday afternoon at 3.15pm. Anyone wishing to join the club can see Mr Pennington for a letter.

On June 13th, we celebrated World Cup day in school to launch the start of the Football World Cup.

The day involved a selection of soccer skills, including a penalty shoot-out, Brazilian Soccer skills, 5-a-side competitions and a dribble zone.

Children also took part in cross-curricular lessons, in which they had the opportunity to learn about the various countries taking part in the event.

Each child chose a country for their class World Cup draw, with the winners each receiving a prize at the end of the tournament.