In assembly this week, Mrs Paine announced the three designs chosen by our Sports Ambassadors to submit to Living Streets for the WOW badge design competition.

 

Well done to Millie in Year 6 (for her bee design) and Jack (for his art theme) and Annabelle (for her rabbit image), both in Year 5, for creating eye catching designs focused on what gives them joy.

 

Well done also to Larch class who submitted the most entries, fourteen in total, and won the opportunity to enjoy some 'golden time' this week. Overall, we had just over sixty entries from across the school with everyone who submitted a design receiving a certificate to acknowledge their efforts.

 

We wait to hear whether any of our three submitted designs have been successful.  Wouldn't it be great to see one of our designs used on one of next year's monthly WOW badges?!

This week, the last cross country race of the season took place at Gardenfields.

 

Our runners all agreed this was the hardest of the five thanks to three ascents of the hill on the two and a half lap course.  An afternoon of Health Related Exercise in PE had also impacted energy levels for our Year 6 runners.

 

The girls raced first with the four Prae Wood girls finishing close together - Grace 40th, Freya 42nd, Lauren 51st and Millie 54th.  Phil was the first Prae Wood boy back in 34^th followed by Thomas in 37th, Finlay in 41st, Harvey in 43rd, new addition to the team, Theo, in 49^th and Jaydon in 56th.

 

Well done to all of the runners from across Years 5 and 6 who have taken part in the races this season and thank you to the parents who have provided transport and their support.

This week in our circle groups, the Year 1-4 Eco warriors helped to prepare the planters for some new planting!

 

On Thursday, our Spring Eco working party took place. We were able to tidy up the water habitat area, rehome some beautiful snowdrops, plant potatoes, carrots,parsnips, a selection of herbs and we reused pots and old tubes to plant flowering plants.

 

Mrs Gritz would like to extend a huge thanks to the families who helped!

Pupils from across Years 5 and 6 enjoyed an afternoon of tag rugby organised by Saracens at Harpenden Rugby Club this week.

 

There was little rest for the teams who enjoyed a full schedule of fixtures against other schools from the Harpenden School Games Partnership.  Although scores are not kept, the teams were competitive and keen to do well.  As the games progressed, team work improved to provide some lovely flowing rugby with plenty of tries scored.  For the two Year 6 teams, with the exception of Esme and Imogen who were helping to ensure the teams had enough girls, the highlight was definitely the game where they were drawn against each other.  No one wanted to be subbed off for this game, so the 7 a side rule was changed to 10 a side so they could all take part.

 

It was great to see so many of our children playing rugby and representing Prae Wood.  Well done!