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Wow what another great day for our children from Year 5 who went to Wexham Secondary School to play in a Basketball draw against other Primary Schools as a follow up to the meeting we had at Hasbro Headquarters. I have to say yet again the children made me feel incredibly proud from start to finish, they had an amazing time and what was so lovely was that for it was a first competition for one of our children and for the others it was to let them continue their work on Being Fearless and Being Kind and Sports Ambassadors. Sahil received a special award for his work on Being Fearless and Being Kind and told everyone (well over 50 people of differing ages there) what work we have been doing at school since we last visited Hasbro.

Hasbro gave each child a bag of toys at the end of the competition and all the children had a new tshirt and a medal, it was a really wonderful event and I was so proud of their performance during the game.  A very big well done to Sahil, Charlotte, Eisa, Zaara, Samriddh, Maryam and Mustafa and thank you for making these events such a privilege  to take these wonderful children.

We are hoping that the children will remember to bring in their medals and t - shirts to tell the other children and spread the word of the Special Olympics even more.......

 

On Monday it was lovely to see the Sports Ambassadors from Year 5 in Whole school assembly,  they first infroduced themselves and they are  starting to spread the words of kindness amongst the whole school following their training at Hasbro Headquarters last month.  They are aiming to improve the kindness that is demonstrated in the School Development Plan on the playground.

 

They named some table tennis balls with Kind words and we will continue to do this periodically..

We have met since to decide what the children are going to do and we have decided to work with Year 1, 2 and 3's over the next few weeks to get some designs for our inspired rocks and have a place to put them and then after Christmas they are going to run a club for KS 1 for the children at lunchtime.

 

They introduced themselves to the whole school in Assembly today and told the children they are going to help them be kind on the Playground and that the children can go to them if they need help.

They worked with  the children from Year 1 designing  the picture and words  for their rock.

I was incredibly proud of them and really would like you to see some of the work they have started and will continue to do...

What a fantastic morning of football and the quality of play was really good with a lot of the teams present really working  hard as a team!!  St Edmund Campian and Courthouse came first and second in the tournament and this was a first boys tournament that we have entered run by Maidenhead Magpies in the Community and it was so nice to see such good sportsmanship.

 

Thank you boys for being a real pleasure and joy to take to a tournament, not only did they look the part, they played the part well and have given us some things to think about further when we play our fixture on Thursday this week.

 

Well done to Murtaza (Captain), Amaan A, Azaan, Salman, Salahuddin, Eisa, Samriddh, Saqib and Bailey-Ray, some great goals from Azaan, Murtaza and Amaan A and some great saves from Salman and Azaan.

The results of the game were as follows...

Riverside v St Edmund Campian Lost 0-4

Riverside v All Saints Drew 1-1

Riverside v Courthouse 2  Lost 0-2

Riverside v Holyport Lost 0-2

Riverside v St Marys Won 2-1

Riverside v Courthouse 1 Lost 0-5

Riverside v Jennetts Park Lost 0-3

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, yet another privilege to take our children to Furze Platt Junior School today for a multi sports event run by Young Leaders in Year 6  from Furze Platt Junior School.  It was a fabulous afternoon and the children that went with myself and Mrs Cerini were an absolute pleasure to take, according to our healthy choices, we walked to Furze Platt Junior School as part of our warm up!

The event had 12 teams from Riverside,Furze Platt Junior School, Woodlands Park, St Marys, Courthouse, St Edmund Campion, Cookham Dean and St Lukes.  We had a carousel of events that we practiced at first and then we had 5 minutes to score as many points as possible for our schools  and we started off with Tennis, Football, Cricket, Athletics, Tri Golf, Rugby and ended with  New Age Kurling.  We had a really lovely afternoon and as a cool down, we walked back to school with our heads held high! We came 6 out of 12 teams which I believe is the best we have done so far at this particular competition, so well done to Team Riverside, yet another way to make us proud!  Thank you to Mrs Cerini for her help and well done to the children, Sufian, Ali-Sher, Haider, Khadija, Sara, Ummayah, Kylie and Daniyah who tried their very best throughout the competition.

It is with great delight that our Year 3 and 4’s took part in our first tennis competition today and we had a fantastic afternoon as the children certainly improved in their performance from their first game until their last game! 
We played against St Mary’s, Furze Platt Junior, St Edmund Campian and Courthouse Schools and then we went in the playoffs against Courthouse for  third or fourth place !  We were chanting teamwork makes the dream work, all for one and one for all!!  We soooo wanted to come back to Riverside with a medal, sadly we did not manage to get third place and got fourth place but only lost out to third place by only 5 points !  This is a great achievement in itself seeing as it was our first time in this festival.  I was incredibly proud of our children and their resilience and their general attitude to the festival, what a lovely way to start the half term knowing we came fourth out of ten teams which is a brilliant result and one that makes us all the more keen to get a medal in next year.  Well done to Judah, Joel, Faith, Charlotte, Maryam, Conner, Reina and Abdur-Raheem for their effort and participation.  Photos attached of our Dream team! 

There was another proud moment for our Netball team this week. They continue to work hard and are great role models when playing against other teams in the School Sports Partnership! We had 6 games to play in our pool and we started off on a winner as all our positions were what our team normally play, but High 5 rules mean every player rotates their position in every game. If we had stayed in the same position for the whole tournament, I think we could have got into the semi-finals! Well done Team RIVERSIDE and a special thanks to Souradrita for representing our School Netball team and we wish her and Sourodeep and the rest of the family well in their travels. Well done to captain Tas, Aisha, Mehnaz, Lucie, Souradrita, Haleema and Ezzah. We had 3 wins and 3 losses – a good result overall.

We played Lowbrook and it really was a close game the boys worked really hard and had a few shots at goal but didn’t manage to hit the target, however Lowbrook did and they won 2-0 against us but I have to say it was a great game to watch and the boys confidence in playing and passing has really improved, well done boys a really good game to watch and very exciting too!
 

Well done to the team!

Juan was nominated Player of the Match, so well done to Juan and well done to you all !

Wow wow wow what an amazing afternoon of netball and an amazing turnout of parents and family supporting our Riverside team!  It was an absolute pleasure to take the children they were impeccably well behaved and made me feel incredibly proud of how they managed to improve in their performance throughout the afternoon.  Well done to Hiba, Connor, Charlotte, Zaina, Layla, Aleena, Reina and Georgia and thank you for making my afternoon so enjoyable.  It was lovely to see some Ex Riverside children from Newlands come over to support our team too.

The results of our matches were as follows, may I add this is a great starting point for year 3 and 4 to step up and work for our Netball team next year, some really promising netball players.... watch this space, this isn't the last you will be hearing from our Year 3 and 4's, well done once again such a buzzing afternoon and feeling incredibly proud of Team Riverside and our parents who came to support!!

 

Riverside v Courthouse lost 0-2

Riverside v Wessex drew 0-0

Riverside v Holyport drew 0-0

Riverside v Furze Platt Junior school drew 1-1

Riverside v Furze Platt  Junior school lost 0-1

Riverside v St Edmund  lost 0-2

Riverside v Braywick drew 0-0

 

Thanks to George from Maidenhead Magpies in the Community for bringing Shrek to life on World Book day with Holly and Hawthorn classes when they had their football coaching , they had a great time trying to get away from the Dragons!