Last Thursday night, the Fishergate Year 5/6 rounders team stormed to victory in the Fulford cluster round, remaining unbeaten in all their matches against Escrick, Naburn and Elvington.  With a whopping 16 rounders scored and only 5 conceded, this means we will progress to the York finals to be held on Thursday 25^th June at Fulford High school.

A very big well done to all the players who pulled together as a team and conducted themselves very well on the day. They will continue their training with Miss Hawes in preparation for the finals.

On Wednesday 10th June, Fishergate pupils from Year 3/4 took part in the York Partnership Tennis festival at Wigginton Tennis Club. Eight schools from around the city entered to event, with teams being split into two pools of four. Players each played three matches, with the first player to reach seven points winning the game.

For the girls, Year 3 pupils Charlotte Hemlin and Ruby Shaw were representing the school, whilst Year 4 students Akshar Cowgli and Ashwin Tamang represented the boys. All of our players put in a fantastic display, demonstrating excellent effort and sportsmanship throughout. A special mention should go to Ruby Shaw, who won all of her 3 matches in a fantastic display of tennis.

With the leagues being decided on the combined number of points won across the 12 matches, the players were really unlucky to lose out on a place in the final to Robert Wilkinson by just a single point!

Players from Year 5/6 will take part in their own competition next week.

Last week, Fishergate teams from Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 attended the York Partnership cricket festival at Dunnington CC. The teams were chosen from players who have attended cricket club with Mr Kelly throughout the Summer Term, with the winners of the tournament going through the represent York in the North Yorkshire Youth Games.

Teams played 3 matches in the group stage, with the winners of each league playing one another in the final. The pupils enjoyed a fantastic day in the sunshine, and displayed some excellent batting skills. Both teams won one, and lost two matches and so unfortunately did not qualify for the finals, however the improvement in their skills has been fantastic to see and was a credit to Mr Kelly’s hard work with them.

The tournament was eventually won by a very strong Dunnington team, who will now progress to the Youth Games. Any children wishing to join the school cricket club should contact Mr Kelly. The club runs on a Monday night from 3.15-4.15.

Pupils in Key Stage 2 have been enjoying the opportunity to enhance their cricketing skills alongside a specialist cricket coach. Rachel Hildreth, development officer for Yorkshire CCC has been working with both Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 classes during the Summer Term to enhance their batting, bowling and fielding skills.

Children have been learning about cricket within their PE lessons throughout the Summer Term, and on Thursday 4th June Fishergate will be entering both a Year 3/4 and a Year 5/6 team into the sports partnership festival, which is taking place at Dunnington CC from 10am to 4.30pm.

Mr Kelly has also been running an after-school cricket club since April, which still has places available. Any children wishing to join the club can contact the office, or speak to Mr Kelly.

The Summer Term will include a busy schedule of sporting events, involving after-school clubs, inter-house tournaments, partnership competitions, Youth Games finals and Sports Day. Below are some key dates for the diary.

House Competition

The Summer House competitions will take place on

Yr 5/6   Wednesday 24th June AM

Yr 1/2   Thursday 25th June AM

Yr 3/4   Thursday 25th June PM

Partnership Competitions

Fishergate sports teams will be taking part in four partnership competitions over the course of the Summer Term. First, there will be a Year 3/4 Tri-Golf competition on Tuesday 19th May, followed by Cricket tournaments for Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 on Thursday June 4th. Next, there will be the Tennis finals for Year 3/4 (Wednesday 10th June) and Year 5/6 (Wednesday 17th June), and finally the Year 5/6 Rounders on Thursday 25th June.

Youth Games Finals

The Fishergate Year 1/2 and Year 5/6 Gymnastics teams will both be representing the City of York in the North Yorkshire Youth Games, after winning their respective partnership competitions. The finals will take place on Monday 22nd June at the Mount School, York.

Sports Days

This years Sports Days will take place during the first week of July. The Key Stage 1 Sports Day will take place on the afternoon of Thursday July 2nd, with the Key Stage 2 Sports Day taking place the following afternoon, on Friday July 3rd. Reserve days will take place the following week.

The week before Easter saw the second round of this year’s house competition, with children competing for one of their four sporting houses – Brilliant Beckhams (Blue), Ennis Elites (Red), Magic Murrays (Green) and Superstar Simmonds (Yellow).

The children took part in Tag Rugby and Hockey tournaments within their Key Stage phase, as a culmination of their PE work over the Spring term. At the end of each tournament, the winning team were awarded 4pts, 2nd 3pts, 3rd 2pts and 4th 1 point.

After the second round of competition, the Magic Murrays leapfrogged into joint second position, whilst the Superstar Simmonds continue to lead the way. The house team standing are as follows:-

Superstar Simmonds     62

Ennis Elites                   60

Magic Murrays              60

Brilliant Beckhams        58

The next round of our Sporting House Competition will take place next week, with the four house teams Superstar Simmonds (Yellow), Magic Murrays (Green), Ennis Elites (Red) and Brilliant Beckhams (Blue) taking part in Tag Rugby and Hockey events. Year 5/6 children will play their tournaments on Wednesday 18th March, whilst Year 1/2 (am) and Year 3/4 (pm) will have their events the following day, on Thursday 19th March.

Morning events should begin at around 9.30am, whilst afternoon events will start at around 1.15. All games will take place either on the playground (Hockey) or Field (Tag Rugby), which all parents are very welcome to attend.

At present, the competition is very evenly balanced, with Superstar Simmonds leading the way on 31 points, Brilliant Beckhams and current house champions, Ennis Elites level on 30 points and Magic Murrays just slightly behind on 29 points. Good luck to all the teams on Wednesday and Thursday. Updated results and standings can be found on the PE board in the KS2 hall. 

 Two Year 5/6 teams represented Fishergate in the Fulford Cluster Netball Competition on Wednesday 11th March. It was a great event with Miss Hawes leading a group of 14 players from Fishergate involved, who all worked brilliantly and displayed some great team skills and tactical awareness.

The Fishergate teams played against teams from St Oswalds, Naburn, Dunnington, Elvington and Wheldrake, with one team winning one game, losing one game and drawing three games to finish third.

Our other team performed even better, winning all their games without even conceding a goal, and have now qualified for the City of York finals, which will take place on Tuesday 17th March at Joseph Rowntree School.

Well done to Miss Hawes and all the children involved, and thank you to parents for your continued support.