Well this is the fourth annual event that I have got our children ready for and I can say what an honor and privilege it has been to take Willow to the event this year.

I feel that this class's performance has continued to improve and they certainly were independent and motivated to do the best they possibly could.

The theme of the Dance Festival this year was Fairy Tales over time and as all the children cover this in  the English Curriculum, I wasn't sure what we were going to end up with... This is all down to Mrs Douglas who coordinates the whole event, we were given Egyptian Cinderella to do as our performance so Mrs Douglas came into Willow's dance lessons for a few weeks to give some direction  and ideas for our dance. 

We had a fair few talented dancers in this class and it was an absolute to watch them performing 100% and showing their Swagger !!

Thank you Mrs Palfrey for helping with the costumes, Mrs Dirkin and Mr Bennett for help with practicing  and support throughout the event.  What a great team effort!!

Well done Willow an amazing achievement!

We are thrilled to say that  we had a morning of Circuits given to the whole school  as part of their Sponsorship event and it was followed by a Whole school assembly presented to us by Luke Delahunty and I have to say it was a truly inspirational talk about how his journey has turned out so far.  Luke is in the middle of training for the London Marathon so we at Riverside wish him well and were very thankful for his question and answer session at the end of the assembly too.

The counting and calculations have all been done now and we are pleased to say that we have managed to raise £715.60p for the outdoor equipment  that will go back to the children at Riverside.

I would like to say a huge thank you to all the children and families that raised money for this first special event, There was a mini prize donated to a child from each class who managed to raise the most for their class and I can't thank you enough for all of you that got involved.......

Here are some snippets  of what the children got involved in on the day and I am sure you will agree, it will be a venture that we can build on for next year!!

Another thrilling game of netball from the Netball team which we went onto win 12-7, it was a fast and furious game and the team yet again showed their confidence and resilience and managed to get some amazing goals.  I thought in the final quarter Wessex was going to draw level with us but in true Riverside Team spirit, the children managed to keep  some steps ahead, well done to Mehnaz for being player of the match!

 And to the whole team, a great effort.....

1st quarter - Riverside 4 - Wessex 2

2nd quarter - Riverside 7 - Wessex 2

3rd quarter - Riverside 10 - Wessex 3

4th quarter - Riverside 12 - Wessex 7