The race is on! CMS REALLY needs your help!
The race is on! Everyone has worked hard and coped with so much these last six weeks that I thought it was important to get away from screens as much as possible and really focus on getting outdoors and having some fun. I have created a fun challenge that encourages parents / carers, pupils and also teachers and governors to take part in. The challenge is a race around mainland Great Britain. The race will consist of three teams: 1) pupils 2) staff / governors 3) parents / carers Each 'team' will need to work together to achieve the full distance in the shortest time possible, whilst also competing against each other to see which group can cover the greatest number of kilometers before the deadline of Monday 8th March (which is hopefully when we will all return to school). According to the Ordnance Survey, the coastline of Great Britain is 17,819km. Whilst that may seem a long way, when divided between almost 400 pupils over 3 weeks, it becomes a far more achievable goal. To cover the distance, many forms of exercise are valid: walking, running, cycling, swimming, horse riding, exercise bike, rowing machine and fitness workouts. They all count. Distances can be calculated using any device or app or even by doing the simple calculation in the attachment below then entered via the google form link below. There will be prizes for : - winning House - winning year group - winning tutor group as well as some special mentions for staff and parents / carers along the way! We will be using our social media to update everyone of each team's progress and the accumulated distances on a weekly basis. You are welcome to upload photos / short video clips of your activities if you want to by attaching them here and turning them in. I hope this challenge will encourage you to get outside, spend some time away from screens and gadgets and enjoy the outdoors during half term and beyond, whatever the weather! Please make sure you stick to rules about lockdown restrictions when taking part in any exercise. So, do what you can to help your team achieve this challenge. Don't forget to record your distance after each piece of exercise you do using the forms below. The race will start at 3:30pm today! (Friday 12th February) luck everyone. I know you will smash it! Mrs Williams Head of PE 30/11/2020 November 30th, 2020Tutor DayLast Thursday, we enjoyed our first Tutor Day of the year. We were treated to a visit by Paralympian Aaron Phipps who joined us to explore the idea of resilience both in life and in learning. He very quickly had the children hooked with his tales of wheelchair rugby, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and his absolute determination to succeed. We spent the rest of the day looking at how our brains help us learn and developing strategies to become more effective and resilient learners. Competition also featured heavily during the day with pupils being challenged to compete for their houses in a variety of sports and some hotly-contested inter-tutor group challenges to demonstrate their new-found resilience in learning. We’re looking forward to our next Tutor Day in the Spring term. 18/10/2020 October 18th, 2020Well done to Archie, Myles and Nathan on their fantastic performance this weekend for the PEDSSA District Football team. They beat Gosport 4-1 with Archie and Myles both on the scoresheet and Nathan gaining two assists. Well done boys! Mrs Williams & Mr Phelps  21/7/2020 July 21st, 2020Celebrate with Year 8!On Friday 17th July we were able to get our year 8 leavers together for a final goodbye. This was a particularly special occasion, because most of the children had not been able to physically go to school since the beginning of lock down in mid March. There was a huge welcome back as well as a sad but celebratory goodbye. An assembly on the school field followed by social time and ice cream was a lovely way to end this most strange year of school. Good luck class of 2016-2020. We will miss you! If you want to see what they were like in 2016 as year 5 visit: https://www.cranbornemid.dorset.sch.uk/year-8  16/7/2020 July 16th, 2020Sunflower Success!Today we have announced the results of our sunflower competition and the winner is Archie from 6JG who grew a sunflower 233cm high!   13/7/2020 July 13th, 2020 CMS Lockdown Video - Here's what we've been doing during COVID19. Click on Video to play (Sound on) 7/6/2020 Virtual Sports Day Challenge!With no traditional Sports Day this year, I thought it would be a great idea to challenge you all to take part in this virtual Sports Day. Click on the link below to see the 5 activities you can compete in. There are even videos showing you how to do each activity. Don't forget to write down your scores so that, once you have completed all five challenges, you can click the link in the sheet to enter your scores on the google document. I will be able to see all your scores! We will be competing virtually with other schools from across the local area and even from across the county so give it a go... If you send in your scores = 3 EP points Top scoring boy and girl in each year group = a further bonus 3 EP points Everyone from the winning House who took part = 3 more EP points Remember: don't send your scores to me. Click the link on the attached sheet and send them that way. You can access this link on your laptop, i-pad, smartphone or pc. Good luck everyone and GO FOR IT! Mrs Williams 
17/5/2020 Physical Activity Timetable!Our dedicated team of School Games Organisers from across the county have been busy working on a range of fantastic resources for children, parents and even full families to participate in during this strange and unusual time. The latest of these resources is the activity_timetable_ideas.pdf; a timetable full of activities for children of all ages to try out and get involved in. It contains a variety of interactive links that take you to numerous different websites offering a whole host of activity ideas. Please take some time to explore this great resource and enjoy trying something new! Mrs Williams
11/5/2020 Archie's Super Cycling Challenge.Whilst many of us may have been sitting at home, adjusting to this new way of learning, one of our Year 6 pupil's decided to get on his bike and set himself the ultimate challenge in aid of the Julia's House Charity. Rather than hearing it from me, take a look at the photographs below and read Archie's diary to find out why he wanted to do this challenge. I was inspired by two of my football teammates who had chosen to do challenges for charity. So I decided to set myself a charity challenge. I wanted to do something that I don’t normally do. So between me and my mum, I came up with a cycling challenge. 140 miles in 14 days. Considering neither of us had a bike, it was going to be a tough challenge. Luckily, my Nan had an old bike that I could borrow that used to belong to one of her other grandchildren, and my Mum borrowed one from a friend and we also ordered helmets online. I decided to raise money for Julia's House. This is a local charity that gives care to children with life limiting or life threatening conditions. The charity shops that support Julia’s House are closed due to Covid-19 and their major fundraising events have been cancelled. Even during lockdown the nurses from Julia’s House are still visiting families to keep up with the care at home preventing them from going to hospital. If these children were to catch this horrible virus it would be fatal for them. Day 1: We cycled into the forest and then we went to moors valley. In total I cycled 11.42 miles. Three things I learnt that day was 10 miles is longer than I thought, the forest is very hilly and my mum who cycled with me is very unfit. Day 2: Today we cycled through a few tiny villages:Woodlands, Chalbury Common, Holt Wood and Three Legged Cross. This was a tough ride with lots of hills and it didn't help that my mum wanted to keep stopping to take photos of the lambs. Altogether we covered 14.59 miles. Day 3: On day three we both had tired legs from the day before so we did a little bit in the forest and then we cycled around ebblake industrial estate totalling 10.48 miles. Day 4: We cycled around moors valley. We got a total of 11.07 miles. Day 5: We went to moors valley again and we did 10.50 miles. Day 6: We covered 12.35 miles by cycling around moors valley and Ebblake industrial Estate. Day 7: We are now half way and we so far have done 70.41 miles. Today we cycled to Cranborne from Verwood ,we went through Edmondsham . We cycled to the school it felt strange seeing the school and made me realise how much I really miss coming to school and seeing all my friends ,teachers . Day 8 : My mum was struggling today so I kept going in front of her and just checking on her now and again. We cycled to Moors Valley again covering 10.38 miles. Day 9: We went back to the forest for today's ride ,we got a bit lost thanks to my mum and we had to cycle up some really big hills but the best bit about that was coming down them . My mum was too scared to cycle down one of them and pushed her bike down instead but I cycled down them all it was so much fun . Todays total of miles was 10.86.My mum had also ordered ice creams to be delivered from Jims Super Whips ice cream van so i knew i had that to look forward to when i got home . Day 10: After yesterday's ride with lots of hills we decided to do a flat ride ,so we chose to cycle to Ashley Heath and back covering 11.02 miles . This was also our fastest ride . Day 11: was starting to lose a bit of motivation today ,so my mum showed me how much money i had already raised and the positive comments that had been written on facebook that helped a lot. We just cycled around Verwood . Total of 10.19 miles . Day 12: We just cycled around Moors Valley again today , covering a total of 13 miles. Day 13 : A very slow and gentle ride around Moors Valley again today . 10.57 miles. Day 14:
Our last day and it was our longest ride around Moors Valley totalling 15.3 miles. I found this challenge hard and there were days I didn't feel like doing it, especially the couple of days it rained and we got so cold I couldn't feel my fingers or toes but I'm glad I did . It was good exercise for me and I raised £370 altogether. In total I cycled 163.2 miles in 14 days and spent 21hours 3 mins doing it. Archie 6JG Watch the attached video clip of Thinus Delport (ex- South Africa rugby player). Can you complete his challenges? (you can use a different type of ball if you don't have a rugby ball) 1) How many 'Round the Worlds' can you do in 1 minute? 2) How many 'Figure of 8's' can you do in 1 minute? 3) How many swap hand catches can you do in 1 minute? |
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12/2/2021
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