Sporting Events

The School Games Mark Gold award is awarded to those schools that have challenged themselves and demonstrated their progress over time against a national benchmark.

The Gold Award is given to schools who have evidenced exceptional work in the following areas;

1. Maintaining and growing your school’s engagement in the School Games and your delivery of 60 active minutes for every child.
   Prioritised the delivery of 60 active minutes for every child to support improvements in their physical literacy, social, emotional and physical wellbeing.
2. Creating positive experiences by ensuring physical activity and competition provision is designed to reflect the motivation, competence and confidence of your young people and has a clear intent.
   Demonstrated how they are targeting young people locally who need the intervention most based on school intelligence and data to improve their physical literacy, social, emotional, and physical wellbeing (e.g. low socio-economic backgrounds, minority ethnic groups, SEND, girls)
3. A clear focus on transition points (e.g. Yr.3 and Yr.6/7 as well as those in 3 tier systems) and how secondary schools are engaging in the School Games.
   Prioritised the engagement and delivery in secondary schools in the Schools Games but we also want to recognise the impact in early KS2 and other transition points.
4. Creating positive experiences that support the character development of targeted young people.
   Opportunities across the full breadth of the School Games which incorporates the delivery of high quality, inclusive leadership and volunteering.
5. Advocated to key stakeholders how the School Games makes a meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people, including engaging and educating parents.
   Participation in physical activity and competition will impact on young people’s physical, emotional, and social wellbeing and influence the likelihood of continued engagement both at school and in the community, creating habits for life.

We had a fantastic Sports Day on the last day of term. Thank you so much to all the families that were able to join us!
The results were: Winning team: White

White 757
Blue 752
Red 439

Congratulations to White Team and to all the children for trying so hard and making incredible achievements in all their events!

On Sunday The FPTA held their Family Fun Run, the sun shone and we had a fantastic turn out of runners. It was amazing to see so many of you there and a big thank you to Jacs, Anna, Emma and the FPTA for all their hard work with making this event such a success!

The event has raised nearly £3,000! If you know of anyone who may be able to help us with match funding this amount please get in touch!

Congratulations to Sam in Year 6 who competed in the South East Regional Qualifiers for The British Schools Gymnastics Association, Trampoline Championships, representing East Hoathly School. Sam won the intermediate group and will continue onto the Southern zonal round in January. Well done Sam!

On Wednesday the 16th of November, a group of children from Owls class went to Chiddingly Primary School for a Cross-Country competition. They braved the mud and rain, and showed great perseverance with their sportsmanship! Well done to Sara, Myla, Orlaith, Danny, Sam, Samuel, Paddy, Hugo D and Herbie. Some of these children did so well and have qualified into the South Downs area competition in January.

We are delighted to announce that East Hoathly and Chiddingly Schools have achieved the School Games SILVER LEVEL Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community.

We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

On Friday 15th July, East Hoathly and Park Mead took part in a mini table tennis tournament hosted here at East Hoathly. Our whole team did
fantastically well. Well done to Aaron for finishing in 1st place and Jack S for finishing in 2nd.

Indy from Park Mead said: “it was fun taking part”

Evie from Park Mead said: “I enjoyed playing against another school”

On Friday 1st July East Hoathly and Chiddingly took part in a mini netball tournament hosted here at East Hoathly. The Netball team grew in confidence throughout the afternoon and although the final score wasn’t as we hoped, we were incredibly proud of how hard the children tried.

On the 20th June all the Pioneer Federation schools took part in a Football Tournament hosted at Park Mead. A big well done to our Year 5/6 team for taking part. Congratulations to Danny who won ‘Player of the Tournament’

A big well done also to Pearl who impressed everyone with her fantastic goal keeping skills!

At the end of last term Year 3/4 took part in a tennis tournament in Hampden Park.

We all lined up and got into different school groups, until a squeaky horn sounded.

We then went on to different stations—we practiced hitting the balls, trying to keep the bean bags on the racket, we also had to switch the rackets!

We all did amazingly well and we all enjoyed it. There was lots of other schools, we tried our best and did really well.

Max W and Hugo C

On Thursday we welcomed pupils from Chiddingly to take part in a Badminton Festival at East Hoathly. The pupils took part in different badminton activities which tested their skills of aim, rallying and movement and then put these into practice in a range of mini doubles matches. The children were mixed up into 4 teams and each team competed to win points, each team showed great team work, communication and had lots of fun, despite the challenge of the wind! A big well done to all the children who took part!

Jack C has written a report on the event:

This week we hosted a local area netball competition here at East Hoathly. We had a netball team from Year 5/6 who competed against 2 other schools across the afternoon. Our fantastic team built in confidence, speed and scoring across the afternoon and came 3rd! They had a very close match against our federation school Park Mead with a close score of 4:5. The children were fantastic at working together and cheering each other on. A big well done to those who took part and we look forward to a future match with Chiddingly.

Congratulations to Samuel L for his participation in the South East Cross Country Finals last week.

Well done Samuel!

Last week some of our 5/6 pupils went to a federation cross country event on Tuesday 11th January at Chiddingly School. It had been a wet and drizzly day, but despite the weather conditions, everyone persevered through the mud!

We all started off with a quick warm up session, followed by stretches led by Mr Brett.

The races were split into two groups with the girls running first, followed by the boys.

Each group then ran an outstanding 8 laps around the field which is equivalent to around 2km. We were all so pleased! They definitely deserved a drink of water and a rest after all that running!

Everybody finished the race and team East Hoathly did us all proud. Well done to all the runners that took part. They all showed incredible perseverance, resilience and embracing their growth mindset on facing the challenge.

Following this event 3 pupils qualified for the South Downs area—Samuel, Aaron and Jack.

The final took place on Thursday and all 3 completed the race and did fantastically well against lots of competition.

We are all incredibly proud of you, well done Samuel, Aaron and Jack!

 

 

All the children took part in a gymnastics workshop run by Gymnasts from Fun Abounds Gymnastic centre in Uckfield. The children learnt and practiced a range of skills and     movements singularly and in groups and pairs. They also watched videos of the types of movements and routines that competing gymnasts often complete.

Kallie in Reception said, “I got really good at doing a rolypoly – you had to really tuck your head in your legs.”

Poppy has recently competed in the Beacon Club Championships. There were many different races and Poppy raced the 200m front crawl, 100m front crawl, 50m front crawl, 50m metre backstroke and 100m backstroke.

Poppy raced against children in the 10 and under group and after some tense competition and a lot of perseverance, Poppy won 2 bronze medals and 3 ribbons, two for 5th place and one for fourth. Well done Poppy, we are so proud of what you have achieved! We look forward to seeing you in the Olympics!

A few days ago, there was a hockey tournament for Year 5 and 6 organised by Mr Lawrence. It was set on the playground and unfortunately, the weather was really cloudy! I played on a team with Zach, Sophia and Lucy. We nearly won!
It was really fun and we had good teamwork—which made it all the more fun!

There were many things to do, like scoring goals and dribbling the ball around the cones. After that, there was a relay and that was quite tense because it was really hard. The whole tournament ended with shaking hands and saying well done.

Write up by Matilda in Year 5.

Earlier this week, Mr Lawrence set up a football tournament for Key Stage 2. It was played on the field before lunchtime. I was on the orange team with Danny, Pearl, Poppy, Archie and Jessica.

In the final, the orange team played the pink team. The game was really fun and it went by really quickly! We ended in a draw, which meant in order to find the winner of the tournament, we had to take part in the dreaded penalty shoot-out.

I took the first penalty and scored. In total the orange team scored three out of three on penalties and the pink team scored two—which meant the orange team won the tournament!

Write up by William in Year 6

Sports Day this year was a fantastic sunny day filled bean bags, hoops, dribbling, hurdles and races.

We would like to thank all the parents, friends and family who joined us for a lovely picnic and for supporting the children throughout the afternoon. There was a real buzz of enjoyment in the air.

The children all worked incredibly hard in the lead up by practising the different sporting skills and they showed these off on the day.

The winning team was Red Team with a total score 1,415 points!

Well done to all the adults who took part in the adult races, the children loved watching these.

The ‘Alfriston Primary School Football Tournament’ is in its second year and was set up as a ‘post SATs’ event for Year 6 students. East Hoathly were invited to take part and as we are obviously a small school Year 5 children were also invited to take part.

Ten teams were invited and were divided into two pools of five. East Hoathly started well, winning our first match 1-0.

The team were tested early on in the second match as they went down 0-1 to an early goal but they fought back and won 2-1.

They continued to play well for the next two games winning 3-0 and 4-1 which meant that they finished top of their pool and were through to the semi-finals.

They faced Lewes Old Grammar.

Obviously as the team had now progressed through to this stage the opposition was becoming tougher and they went 0-2 down. However, once again they all kept their heads up, encouraged each other and worked as a team to come back and win 3-2.

We had made it to the final!

We faced the hosts, Alfriston. The game, between the two best teams on the day, was always going to be tight and this certainly was the case with the score 0-0 at full time. With no extra time at this level of the game, it was straight to the (dreaded) penalties.

A nerve racking end to the game for both teams and, of course, for the goalkeepers and the penalty takers.

It was a proud moment for them all, including Mr Lawrence (the new Gareth Southgate) and Miss Purcell (who I thought was going to faint under the pressure of a penalty shoot out) as we won 4-3.

There were, obviously, some amazing individual performances on the pitch but it would not be right to highlight them because this was a team effort and all in the spirit of East Hoathly School ‘Vision’.

Reported by Mr Skelton (Matthew and Harry’s Grandad).

There was fantastic displays of sportsmanship and teamwork during the games. We can see you worked really hard—well done!

Those medals go very well with those victorious smiles! We are already looking forward to the final and to seeing how you get on there!

Well done Year 3 and 4, we are all very proud of you!

On Thursday 4th April, the incredible Year 3 and 4 football team played 5 tense matches on the Lewes 3G pitch.

Their first match was against Wallands who they beat 1-0 thanks to an excellent goal by Maxym and some brilliant goal-keeping by Hector.

Next up, they played the undefeated Ringmer and lost 3-0. However, it wasn’t over yet as their next game was against South Malling who they beat 4-0. Darcy and Florence really got stuck in during this match and we saw some great defence from Luke and Oscar.

Our penultimate match was played against Western Road and after a strong start, they eventually beat us with a very respectable 4-2. This match saw Holly Z as the goalie, where she did some spectacular saves!

With all to play for our final game was against Southover, which we won! Louie was on fire with his passing technique, Jack did some excellent defending and Oscar tried his hand at goalkeeping.

Overall a great team who worked hard and played well together. We came third out of six teams and narrowly missed being in the semi-final. Well done Year 3 and 4! You all displayed great communication, team work and sportsmanship!

We have been following Sam’s progress as he has competed in his gymnastics competitions.

Last weekend he, once again, represented East Hoathly at the National Finals of the British Schools Gymnastics Association.

He had to travel up to Birmingham, where he met over 500 other children from all across the UK, who were competing.

In Sam’s group, there were 30 children in between Year 1 and 6. They all had to perform two routines in front of judges and a rather large audience!

Sam totally smashed it and back flipped his way into an incredible 3rd place!

Well done Sam! All of that hard work has paid off! We’ll look forward to seeing you in the Olympics in a few years time!