Snaresbrook Primary School

The children in the KS1 Sports Council decided to undertake a charitable task. The discussed who needed help and decided that with the upcoming cold weather, that we should collect warm clothing to donate to the less fortunate. They created and advert and re-wrote a Christmas classic to accompany their message.
Please bring all donations to the 1TD collection point. 

Our Year 6 mixed netball team have been practising their skills during lunchtimes since the start of term. Mrs Sells and Mrs Maritz took the team to the Forest Academy in Hainault to compete against the best in the borough. The team fought hard and played with great sportsmanship (photograph not from event).

To celebrate the formation of the new sports council, we took a team building trip to the West Ham Foundation. We visited the royal lounge, dugout, changing rooms, Olympic track and were given an explanation on how the stadium remains innovative .

We were very excited to have Chloe Morgan (Tottenham Hotspur Goalkeeper) visit our school. 

The Girls from our Year 6 Sports Council planned and held an interview with Chloe to investigate how she got into football and what her challenges were growing up.

A very inspirational interview. 

Throughout the Autumn term, the children have been battling it out in the KS2 Lunchtime League. Teams Pink, Blue, Green and Yellow have all been very competitive in their matchups. 

On the last match day of the season it was all to play for between Green and Yellow. After all was said and done it was the 'Green Team' that came away with the trophy.

Throughout the Autumn term, the children in Year 2 have been learning Netball in their PE Lessons. They have been learning the rules of the game and practising key skills. 

They have been playing an adaption of the game called 'Netball 360', in which there are a central collection of nets in which teams try to score in. 

At the end of the unit the children competed in a tournament with the pink team taking home the gold.

Through the West Ham Foundation, we were able to acquire 400 tickets to watch a WSL match at the London Stadium. It was a great day in which we were able to share a day out as a community. The Tottenham Hotspur ladies ended up winning the match 1-0.

AFC Leyton are coming to Snaresbrook. We have been creating links with this local organisation and las year had 4 girls selected to join their team. 

This year we want to add to that number, AFC Leyton will be coming in over several weeks to organise sessions with every girl in our school. 

Off the back of Daniel's stunning world record, John Wagstaff of Petty Son & Prestwich struck up a sponsorship deal with the school football team.The new Year 6 captains Joaquin and Freya met with Mr O’Donoghue to design the new kit and send off the proposed deal. The Swans will be lining up next year in a new sleek black and gold strip ready to take on the new season. Thank you very much Petty Son and Prestwich.

On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, our very own Daniel set out to complete a task that has never been done before. Daniel wanted to set the world record for most amount of bottle flips completed inside of one minute. He had been practising for months and weeks and now it was time to complete the feat. As the community gathered to observe Daniel managed to smash the world record with 47 successful flips. A big thank you to Local businessmen John Wagstaff and Mark Mountney also acted as the independent witnesses required on the day.
https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/wanstead-boy-breaks-world-record-1-6167168

We were very lucky to have Mr Jorge Santos from the Aldersbrook Lawn Tennis Club visit us to host tennis sessions. He spent two days with the children teaching tennis skills across the school. This was a great opportunity for the children to experience high quality coaching. Mr Santos then invited our students to visit their tennis club for a free session.

The Snaresbrook Squirrels, a running team made up from our children, went to Buckingham Palace to complete the Westminster Mile. Over thirty children took part in the race with our fastest runners, Eddie and Joseph finishing in the top twenty. They had voted and decided on raising money for the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

What a great day! Mr O’Donoghue, Miss Heard, Mr Sullivan and Mr Walker took twenty very excited children to Wembley. They went to watch the Women’s FA Cup Final between West Ham and Manchester City. In a very exciting match that ended 3-0 to the citizens. 

A big thank you to our parent helper, Mr Walker, for giving up his Saturday to support the trip.