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Thursday, 12th September 2024

After the visit of Olympian James Dasaolu back in July, our Sports Leaders came up with the idea of a new trophy to commemorate James' visit and picked a suitably Olympic themed trophy for our four teams to compete for each year. They also decided that the trophy should be named 'The Dasaolu Trophy.'

Additionally, to stop Sports Day being a stand alone event at the end of the year, we are introducing Level 1 competitions throughout the school during PE. At the end of a games-based unit of work, children will partake in a low-stakes intra-school competition within their classes, participating in their Sports Day teams (Teams Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). This also ties in with National Curriculum requirements which state children should engage in competitive sports and activities and be able to do so in a range of increasingly challenging situations. Scores, results and points will be collated across the year and will be added to the points collected on Sports Day to find who will lift the Dasaolu Trophy!

Competition schedules, results and current standings will be posted on our new PE board which will be hung on the playground.

This promises to be an exciting new initiative for the children and one that we hope ensures a lasting legacy from James' visit.

Friday, 5th July 2024 

We enjoyed a fantastic morning at the very first Norton-in-Hales Olympics. Not only did the sun shine, but our four teams (Bulgaria, Spain, Ireland and Poland) performed their activities heroically. The morning saw amazing javelin throwing, expert hurdling brilliant long jumping and lots of very soggy sleeves due to the ever-popular water bucket challenge!
 
One of the highlights of the event was guest of honour, former Olympian and 2x European Gold medallist, James Dasaolu. James led a wonderfully inspiring assembly, showing his medals, talking about his career (including what it was like racing against Usain Bolt) and his acheivements. After that, James then joined us for Sports Day, joining in the with the activities, offering lots of encouragement before participating in the sprint races with the children too!
 
At the end of the a super morning of sporting action, Spain were declared the winners with 887 points, pipping second place by just five points! Well done to everyone for taking part so brilliantly and thank you to everyone who came along to cheer on our children. 

 

Tuesday, 14th May 2024

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games just around the corner, we are delighted to be able to tell you that we will be welcoming former Olympian, Team GB athlete and double European Gold medalist James Dasaolu to our Olympic-themed Sports Day this year.

Sports Day will take place on the morning of Friday 5th July (time TBC) with a reserve day booked for the following Friday.

James will be joining us to lead a warm up, before talking to the children about his career, his path to the top of world athletics, competing against Usain Bolt and will then be a special guest - and participant - at Sports Day itself.

To find out more about James, you can follow the link below: https://sportsforchampions.com/athletes/james-dasaolu/

 

Tuesday, 30th April 2024

Thanks to Cricket Shropshire and the Chance to Shine charity, Tuesday 30th April 2024 saw us have a brilliant day of cricket at our Cricket Engagement Day today. Our enthusiastic coach Nigel has worked with all of our pupils (from Year 6 to Nursery) to help develop catching, throwing and batting skills. There has been lots of hard work, fun, laughter and, unusually for cricket, we even managed to get a sunny day too!

Help our children to

'Be the best they can be'

Norton In Hales currently hold the following awards:

A Youth Sport Trust scheme to

reward a school for the quality of their

PE and School Sport practice.

A Government led scheme to reward a school for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community.

We are delighted that in 2018/2019 we have been awarded the PLATINUM award.

We have been awarded Gold in 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and  2017-2018.

 

Click the School Games Logo below to link to our sporting blog and latest photos from events

 

  

Celebrating our children's sporting achievements

Below are the results and reports from a range of competitions our children have taken part in during 2019/20. These include competitions within school (Intra-school), those where the children have competed for school (Inter-school) and also external competitions.

Personal Challenge (Level 0 Competition)

This year we have introduced the bleep test and speed bounce as personal challenges in P.E. Children will do both activities three times over the course of the year, each time trying to better their both result from the previous event, and a new target set based on their earlier score. 

 

Market Drayton Area School Sport Partnership:
Inter-School (Level 2 Competition)

Thursday 21st March 2019
KS1 & KS2 Dodgeball
Children from both key stages took part in the Dodgeball competition at the Maurice Chandler Centre - Well done everybody!

Tuesday 7th May 2019
KS2 Rounders
A squad of 12 from Years 5 & 6 travelled to The Grove to take part in the small schools rounders competition.

Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Year 3 & 4 Mini Red Tennis
Well done to the 4 children who represented Norton-in-Hales at the Tennis Competition you did us proud!

Wednesday 19th June 2019
KS1 Mini Red Tennis
Well done to the 4 children who represented Norton-In-Hales at the Tennis Competition you played amazingly 

Wednesday 10th July 2019
Year 5 & 6 Tennis

This morning it was time for our Year 5 & 6 children to shine at Tennis well done!

Thursday 11th July 2019
KS1 Football
Today we took a squad of 7 to Market Drayton Junior School to play football. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and as always did the school proud

September 2019
Year 5 & 6 High 5 Netball

Finally the children were able to play their netball competition as it had been cancelled a number of times due to bad weather. Well done everyone.

Thursday 3rd October 2019
Sportshall Athletics
All the children from Year 1 - 6 were given the opportunity to take part in this years Cross Country tournament and we had an amazing response. The results were amazing. Year 2 Girls 2nd Place, Year 2 Boys 3rd Place, KS1 Overall School - 3rd Place. Year 3 Girls 3rd Place. Well done to everyone who took part.

 Thursday 21st November 2019

Quicksticks Hockey

Today a group of KS1 and KS2 went to the Maurice Chandler Sports Centre to take part in the Hockey Competition. The children had a great time, well done everyone!

Thursday 16th January 2020
Sportshall Athletics

This morning a group of 10 children attended the Athletics competition. They all had a great time taking part in the range of activities. Now time to wait for the results!!!

 

Future Events this year include:-

Thursday 12th March 2020- Dodgeball Competition

School Games

 

Platinum for Norton
We are delighted to announce that we have just received confirmation that we have achieved the PLATINUM award from the School Games board. This is the highest award possible as we are very proud that our sport and P.E. provision has been given such an accolade. 




                                                     

 

 

 

What's On

After School Clubs-2024

From April to May  half term school will be offering the following after school clubs.

 Monday

Whole School-Gardening Club 

Tuesday

KS2-Arts Award

 KS1- Cricket 

Wednesday 

Whole School-Choir Club

 Thursday

KS2- Cricket Club

KS2- Book Club

 Friday 

Whole School- Dance Club

 

Accessing Local Clubs

If your child enjoys a sport they may wish to pursue it through a local club. We have brought together details of local clubs which your children may be interested in joining.

Simply click here to access information and contact details for local sports clubs