Grow and Flourish

After our success in the first round of the handball tournaments at Teign School earlier in the term, the Year 3/4 team and Year 5/6 team went to the School Partnership Finals at Teignmouth Community College.

Both teams played 6 matches against other local schools and came first in their age groups and collected a gold medal!

Chudleigh Primary School would like to say a really big thank you to Hares Landscapes (www.hareslandscapes.co.uk, 07769970185) for their generous sponsorship towards the new Year 5/6 football kit. The team and all of the staff are very grateful.

It has been a few years since Chudleigh have had a football team and entered the local football league, so it has been great to see the team looking so smart in their new team colours. They are having a good season too!

In our group of the league, we have won every game and finished top of the table. This puts us through to the semi-finals which will be played against Kingskerswell this week.

We also took part in the School Sports Partnership World Cup Tournament, which took place at Teignmouth Community College and came second.

Over the next few weeks, we have the semi final of the Frank Burnley Trophy and the Plate competition of the Doel Cup.

The players have grown as a team, and they have shown excellent team spirit, resilience, and support towards each other. We are proud of all their achievements so far and look forward to more competitions in the upcoming weeks.

Amber represented Chudleigh primary at the national British showjumping schools championships at the weekend, she finished a creditable 7th in strong competition. 

Louie began a new hobby in the Summer 2022 where he found a love for Electric Balance Bike Racing. He competed in his first event at Wheeldon Farm in November 2022 and won the first 4 races on Day 1 as well as a 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the 3 races on Day 2. He won South West Revvi Champion as a result of earning the most points over the weekend.

More recently Louie took part in the Revvi Cup in Sheffield in January 2023 and came an incredible 2nd place out of 17 riders! 

Children’s Mental Health Week 6th-12th February.

This year’s theme is “lets connect.”

“Let’s Connect” is about making meaningful connections which is vital for our wellbeing. When we have healthy connections – to family, friends and others – this can support our mental health and our sense of wellbeing.

We shared a story called the invisible string which helped us to think about how we are always connected to the people we love.

We played a connect game which showed us how we are connected to other people in our class through shared interests and things we have in common.

We made a giant paper chain to show we are all connected in our school family.

Our 'well being ambassadors' have been putting posters up around the local community. Have you spotted any yet? 

Touch Rugby Intra-House Tournament

Children in Key Stage 2 enjoyed a day of touch rugby on Tuesday 8^th November. The event was run by Tammi Lethbridge from the Dartmoor School Sports Partnership and was one of our IMPACT days that the partnership runs each term.

The idea of the tournament was to develop some healthy competition between the children so that they could earn points for their Tree Teams, as well as having fun developing their touch rugby skills.

A special thanks must go to the Year 5 sports leaders who helped to run each activity station and kept score of all the points during the day. What an amazing team you were!

“This was the best day ever!” said one Year 5 child on her way out of the hall.

Helen Foundation - Felting Day

We have recently hosted a Helen Foundation Supported Workshop facilitated by Daisi (Devon Arts Initiative in Schools). A number of children took part in a 2-day felting workshop and have produced a fantastic wall hanging for our entrance hall.  The Helen Foundation is an arts-based charity supporting and motivating young people in all branches of the arts in Teignbridge. We would like to thank the Helen Foundation for this wonderful opportunity for our budding artists.  If anyone would like more information about the fantastic work the Helen Foundation do, please visit their website www.thehelenfoundation.org.uk

Cyclo-Cross and Fun Bike Ride

On Tuesday 11th October, a group of 26 children from Chudleigh Community Primary School took part in a cycling event hosted by the Dartmoor School Sports Partnership at Forches Cross in Newton Abbot. There were 8 schools taking part in the event altogether from across the partnership and a fantastic afternoon was had by all!

The boys and girls from years 3, 4, 5 and 6 cycled in either a competitive race or a fun bike ride. Some had never cycled in an event like this before and said they were a little bit nervous about it. However, after they crossed the finish line, their smiling faces told a different story.

Congratulations in particular, must go to brothers Freddie (Year 3) and Benjamin (Year 6) who came first in their races (Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 competitive respectively) and a huge well done to the Year 3/4 team who came 4th overall.

Congratulations to Harry who took part in the recent races as part of the UK BMX national series in Scotland. Harry is a member of the Decoy BMX club and is currently fourth ranked in the South West in his age category. Let’s hope we see him representing his country soon!

Our school orchestra playing at the remembrance service

 Every Tuesday after school, Mrs Cherry takes some of our musicians on the school minibus to Coombeshead College in Newton Abbot to attend the Bushell Youth Community Orchestra after-school club. The musicians have been participating in group development lessons with local peripatetic teacher Amanda Ayling and the improvement in their playing and musicianship in just a few weeks has been amazing! It is so lovely to hear live, ensemble music again after so long!

Woods Homes Hedgehog art competition winners and the new hedgehog box in situ.