Sports Blog
Recent Competitions
Spring
To begin the spring term, the year 3 & 4 Athletics team attended the sports hall Athletics finals against the other seven best schools in Luton! The children worked very hard in training, they gave it their all and had a fantastic time and enjoyed representing their school to finish one of the top 8 schools in Luton Athletics!
On Tuesday 6th February, the girls football team competed the remainder of their Girls Football League fixtures. They played their last 3 matches against Chantry, Beechwood and Surrey Street winning 2 out of the 3 games!
A group of children from the Badminton club were chosen to represent the school and compete in a Year 5&6 Badminton competition on the 14th February. The children had a great time showing off their badminton skills that they had learnt from their PE lessons and after school club, resulting in all 3 teams managing to reach the quarter finals!
On Wednesday 28th February, a group of children attended a Kurling competition at Inspire: Luton Sports Village. They all really enjoyed themselves and whilst all 3 teams managed to reach the knockout stage of the competition, 2 of our teams managed to come back with bronze and silver medals with one team finishing in 3rd place and the other team narrowly being beaten by Hillborough school 2-1 to finish in 2nd place! Well done to all!
There was a 5&6 Girls Football festival hosted at Inspire: Luton Sports Village on Wednesday 6th March that a group of year 5 girls were very lucky to attend. They were able to show off their football skills and learn some new skills playing with and against each other and against children from other schools across Luton! They all had a fantastic time participating in a range of different activities which included passing, dribbling, shooting and fun small sided games.
On Wednesday 13th March, a group of year 3&4 children had the opportunity to attend a This Girl Can festival. There were lots of new and different sports that they were able to learn and participate in which included: Cricket, Dance, Fencing and Football. The children had an amazing time representing their school with their favourite two sports of the day being Kurling and Table Cricket!
The year 5 football team and a few year 4 children had the chance to compete in a Year 5 Boys Football competition on Friday 22nd March. The children had the chance to play a lot of competitive football matches against a variety of different schools in Luton resulting in one of the teams managing to finish 3rd out of the 22 schools that took part and earn themselves bronze medals beating Bramingham in the 3rd/4rd place play off match and only losing once during the whole day in the semi-finals which was against the school that ended up winning the competition, Someries. A fantastic achievement and well done to all!
On Wednesday 27th March, a group of children had the opportunity to attend a Sportability festival at Inspire: Luton Sports Village. There were lots of new and different sports that they were able to learn and participate in which included: Boccia, Archery, Polybat and Volleyball activities. The children had a fantastic time representing their school and enjoyed learning about and competing in some new and familiar sports.
After having an exciting and successful term of sports to start the new year, we are very much looking forward to seeing what the summer term
Autumn 2023
To begin the Autumn half term, 35 children from years 5 & 6 chose to sign up and visit Lewsey Park to compete in a Cross Country competition on Tuesday 26th September. It was amazing to see the children training hard at playtimes and hearing about their extra training in their free time. For some children it was their first time running such a long distance, but they all did their best and represented the school fantastically and managed to achieve a number of top 20 placings.
The girls football team attended the first set of their football league fixtures on Tuesday 10th October and Tuesday 12th December at Queen Elizabeth School and played 6 matches in total over both of the days. The first resulted in a close 1-0 defeat against a very good St Matthews side but the girls came back stronger with a 1-1 draw against Denbigh and finally a 1-0 win against Wenlock! In the second date, the girls unfortunately had two close losses against very good Hillborough and St Margarets teams and a win against Southfields! This resulted in the girls starting their football campaign with 7 points in the Girls Football League and with plenty more fixtures to play later on in this academic year!
On Wednesday 11th October, a group of children attended a Boccia competition at Inspire: Luton Sports Village. They all really enjoyed themselves and had an amazing time learning about and competing in a new sport.
The Year 5 and 6 competed at Inspire in the regional Sportshall athletics competition. The children worked very hard in training, they gave it their all, managed to finish 5th place and more importantly had a fantastic time and enjoyed representing their school.
Next a huge congratulations to the Year 3&4 Athletics team for finishing in 4th during the Sportshall Athletics Competition on Wednesday 8th November and reaching the Sportshall Athletics Finals! The finals will be taking place at the beginning of January.
On Wednesday 11th October, a group of children had the opportunity to attend a Sportability festival at Inspire: Luton Sports Village. There were lots of new and different sports that they were able to learn and participate in which included: Goalball, Golf, Kurling and Table Cricket. The children had a fantastic time representing their school with their favourite two sports of the day being Kurling and Table Cricket!
And finally, the year 5&6 Basketball team attended a Basketball Festival on Friday 8th December at High town Sports and Arts Centre. The children all really enjoyed themselves, having a great time and this was a fantastic opportunity to play some competitive basketball matches against children from other schools and practise all of the basketball rules and skills that they have learnt this term during Basketball club.
Spring / Summer 2023
Sponsored Fitness Circuit
On Tuesday 31st January we welcomed the professional gymnast Steve Frew to our school to lead a sponsored fitness circuit with all of the all pupils. Steve Frew is a British artistic gymnast who has represented both Scotland and Great Britain over 100 times at various international competitions. Our visit started with Steve leading a fitness session to get all the children exercising together and having a good time. This was followed by an inspirational whole school assembly aimed to encourage children to discover and pursue their passion in life. The children had a great time and managed to raise money to help purchase new sports equipment.
Sportability
On Wednesday 22nd March a select few children were chosen to take part in a Sportability festival. The festival was a non-scoring event aimed to help the children play, learn and experience a wide variety of sporting activities. The focus was solely on taking part and having fun. The children took part in archery, boccia, playbat as well as volleyball. They had an amazing time and it was great to see the older children look after the young children and support them through the activities. Great job everyone, well done!
Multi Sports
It was a great term for sport filled with a variety of events and activities. During Spring term, eight children were selected to represent Ferrars at a Multi Sports competition. The selection of year 3 and 4 children took part in a carousel of events including badminton, volleyball, table tennis and archery. The children represented the school in a fantastic light and it was great to see some of our previous cohorts leading the activities and setting a great example to all.
Autumn 2022
Football - Away Vs St Martins
On Thursday 17th November had an away football match against St Martin’s primary school. After a short walk and warm up the game finally got started. The team were all very nervous, started slow and ended up conceding an early goal from a mistake. As the game went on, the team’s confidence steadily grew and Dima scored a great goal to even the score. Unfortunately, just before the half St Martins took the lead again. During the half time team talk the team took ….. Early in the second half Gurtej scored to make the scores 2-2. With great determination and resilience the team kept pushing and Zaid scored an amazing last minute goal! Ferrars won the game 3-1!
Netball - Home Vs Riverbank
On Wednesday 16th of November we took part in our first league fixture of the season against Riverbank primary school and the girls were determined to get off to a winning start. The match started slowly, but soon enough the nerves settled and they began to use a variety of skills and techniques they had been taught during training. The girls took the lead in the first quarter and from there the teams confidence continued to build and they went on to victoriously win the match 7-1. A huge well done to all the girls who took part.
Sports Hall Athletics
This term the year 3’s and 4’s as well as the year 5’s and 6’s competed for the school at the Luton School Games Sportshall athletics. The children had to compete with the best local athletes their age in the local area. They took part in a number of events including the standing long jump, standing triple jump, javelin, vertical jump, chest push, obstacle relay, over and under as well as a number of races. All children tried their best and represented the school in a fantastic light. Unfortunately, the year 3 and 4 team did not manage to qualify for Town finals, however the year 5 and 6 did an incredible job and qualified for the Town finals in January 2023. Huge well done to everyone who took part.
Swimming
Even before the coronavirus pandemic around one in four children could not swim the statutory 25 metres when they left primary school – and it is feared that could rise to three in five children by the 2025-26 academic year. Swimming and water safety is a vital life skill that every child should have and for this reason all children will be learning to swim each academic year. During the autumn term, the year 4 children have been walking to Lewsey swimming pool and focused on performing basic safe self-rescue in based situations, swimming 25m or more competently, confidently and proficiently, as well as using a range of strokes effectively e.g. front crawl, back stroke and breaststroke. Next term year 5’s will be swimming followed by years 3 and 6 through the summer term.
