A few weeks ago Mr Cooke entered a blog about ‘Inclusion’ into a School Sport competition .
Dear Stretton Handley CE Primary School
Congratulations! You have won a prize for your blog about ‘Inclusion’ as part of the Reward & Recognition Scheme. The prize is a voucher worth £400 to spend at Youth Sport Direct to buy equipment for school to promote enjoyment and participation in PE and Sport.
Well done Mr Cooke!
‘My C of E School’ competition winners!
Stretton Handley Church of England Primary school in Derby diocese won the national MyCofESchool competition. The contest launched last June, invited pupils at Church primary schools to celebrate what their school meant to them in a three minute film.
Children have been selected by prize draw to visit London to join the Bishop of Oxford, Chair of the Board of Education, for tea in the House of Lords. The children will be accompanied by Mrs Knight,Mrs Mahadevan and Mrs Riggott. Children will be ambassadors for our school, going on the visit to represent all our children. We are sure they will have a great time and come back and share their experience with the rest of the school. We will then add photographs and information to the website.
Stretton Handley Church of England Primary school in Derby diocese has won the national MyCofESchool competition. The contest invited pupils at Church primary schools to celebrate what their school means to them, in a three minute film.
The Christian ethos is at the very heart of our school at Stretton Handley. In the video the children wanted to show how Christian values weave through our daily lives and why this makes our school a really great place to learn, laugh and have fun!
The Peak District winning team will join the Bishop of Oxford, Chair of the Board of Education, for tea in the House of Lords.
The Bishop of Oxford congratulated all the entrants: “We were delighted to see the wide range of entries in the competition. The children’s enthusiasm for their schools and the values they find there are inspirational. Their entries are a tribute to the staff, parents and governors and all those who have helped lay the foundations of our church schools over the centuries. My congratulations to the children for their hard work and imagination creating their entries. It’s always hard to pick one winner but I’m very much looking forward to meeting pupils from the winning school over tea in the House of Lords.”
The video can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-zAvwhiGE&feature=youtu.be
On Wednesday 9th July, many of our children, accompanied by Mr Cooke, Mrs Roberts and Mr Sanderson, visited Queen’s Park as part of the Chesterfield festival of Cricket. The children had a great day watching cricket, and also had the opportunity to go onto the pitch and have a go themselves.
We are very pleased and proud that a photograph of our children, taken by Mr Cooke at the Cricket festival has won the photography competition, which was for the best photo of what was happening during the festival. The school receives a cricket bat signed by all the Derbyshire cricket club players. A fantastic well done to Mr Cooke and the children. The Cricket bat will be on display soon.
Dragon’s Den competition winners! Dragon’s Den competition winners!
Fantastic news – our school has won the Cluster Primary School Dragon’s Den Competition! The £250 prize money will be presented to our school by members of the Dragon’s Den Panel in the next couple of weeks. Well done to everyone who contributed ideas and a special thank you to the three children (one Year 6 and two Year 4s) who went along to pitch the winning idea for a ‘learning garden’ to the Dragon’s Den. Our team spoke clearly and well and answered questions confidently. The Dragon’s Den panel were impressed with the way the children talked about the plans and also loved the fact that the ‘Learning Garden’ is building on and developing what we already have. They thought it was great that, as a school, children have already organised Enterprise fund raising activities to support putting plans for the ‘learning Garden ‘ into place.
CONGRATULATIONS – What exciting news!
