Year 4 Tennis Team & The Wimbledon Champion!

Road to Eastbourne Aegon Tennis Tournament

During the summer term, the year 4 tennis team have competed and won two qualifying rounds, of the LTA’s ‘Road to Eastbourne tournament.’  This Saturday they travelled to Eastbourne to compete in the grand final, against 8 other winning schools from other regions. 

Our team shone in the skills tests and tennis matches and finished as bronze medal winners overall. Over 100 schools had competed in this tournament, so to finish in 3^rd place was a great achievement.

Many congratulations to all of you  who competed in the initial rounds, as well as the final.

The children received medals, certificates and a goodie bag of LTA treats. They then went with their families to the Aegon International tennis tournament, to watch the professional players in action. However, the excitement did not end there!

The LTA arranged for the current Wimbledon Ladies Champion, Petra Kvitová, 

 to meet the children and pose for some pictures with the winning teams.

Check out the cheesy grins below of: Kian, Louis, Daniel, Charlie, Kiyra, Sienna, Caitlin and Matilda.

One lucky member of the Vale team was chosen to return to the Aegon Championships on Monday, to meet with Petra again to conduct an interview. You will be able to see more pictures and a write up of her day on the blog soon, plus her pictures will appear in the British Tennis Magazine next month.

Congratulations Sienna!

It has been a pleasure to play tennis with you all this term and see you apply your new skills in this fantastic tournament. Well done. Mrs C :) 

Inter-house Geography Challenge

NEWSFLASH: EMERALD WIN THE INTERHOUSE GEOGRAPHY CHALLENGE

For the last 2 weeks, the children in Year 4 have been working hard learning all the counties in England. Today was the day their knowledge was tested in an inter-house challenge!

Within their classes the children all took part in round 1 of the challenge, naming 20 labelled counties on a map. A massive congratulations to all the children for their effort and hard work learning these at home, especially those who got 20/20! 

Below are some of 4CP concentrating hard on their challenge!

Then it was onto round 2! The highest scorers from each class competed in 'Junior Mastermind' but this time they had to name the county town or city!

The finalists eagerly awaiting their second challenge. Do you think they look a bit nervous?

Junior Mastermind began! 

Eventually, it was time for the Grand Final! With 1 child from each house, we were ready to crown our Geography champion.

Nicholas, Caitlyn, Billy and Elliot, our grand finalists! 

The final results:

Emerald - First place

Amber - Second place

Sapphire - Third place

Ruby - Fourth place 

4TC Matilda Assembly

Congratulations to you all 4TC!

Such a wonderful final assembly of the year. You impressed me so much with all your hard work and effort. Well done to all. Naughty school children, back stage ninjas, tech team, dancers, choreographers, narrators, Trunchbulls, Matildas, Mr & Mrs Wormwood, Miss Honey, Amanda Thripp, Lavender, Michael, Bruce Bogtrotter, Jack & Jill, Cinderella & fairy godmother, Romeo and Juliet. 

 I'm very proud of you all! Mrs C :)

Road to Eastbourne Tennis Tournament

On Tuesday 19th May, eight children from year 4 competed in the 2nd round of the Road to Eastbourne Tennis tournament at West Worthing Tennis Club. In the first round, they all competed in activities which were designed to develop their tennis skills. In the second round they split into 2 teams, then either played tennis matches or more skills games on the beautiful mini grass courts. There were 7 other local schools competing and there was some tough competition. However,  the eventual winners were...The Vale First & Middle School!
Congratulations to: Kian, Charlie, Daniel, Louis, Sienna, Matilda, Caitlin and Kyira. Thanks and congratulations also need to go to Olivia and Haydn who competed in the first round of this tournament and have made a great contribution to the success of the team.

The year 4 team will now compete in the grand final on Saturday 20th June. This will be held on the opening day of play, at the International Aegon tennis tournament in Eastbourne.
http://www.visiteastbourne.com/events/tennis.aspx

Wonderful tennis and great sportsmanship year 4!
Well done
Mrs C :)

Sussex County Tennis Tournament Year 4

Today, two teams of children from year 4 competed in the under 9 tournament for the Sussex County Schools Tennis Championships.

Boys’ Team: Kian Taylor Goss, Louis Hutchence, Haydn Le Manquais, Charlie Mills and Daniel Mills.

Girls’ Team: Olivia, Kyira, Caitlin, Matilda and Sienna.

The boys had a difficult first few games against the home side, Bedes A team. However, they played with tenacity in high winds and won several matches against Lancing Prep and St Andrews School. All the children had the opportunity to play both singles and doubles matches against several different schools.

The girls had a wonderful day of tennis. On their way to the final they beat: Moira House A team, Lancing Prep at Hove A team and St Andrews A team. The final was a closely fought battle between our girls and St Bedes A team. There were some excellent rallies and the final scores were very close. Although St Bedes were the eventual winners, our team were very proud to finish as 'runners up' of the Sussex County under 9 tournament; it was great achievement.

Thank you to all the children who represented our school so well with: politeness, good etiquette and sportsmanship throughout. Also, a big ‘thank you’ to the parents and grandparents who came to support and especially to those who volunteered to umpire some matches.

Mrs Casey :) 

The girls team celebrating in the hospitality tent. Congratulations year 4!

OSCARs 3.10.14

This week we celebrated the following children in our year meeting.

4JP - Darcey, Georgia, Aime-Lou, Billy and Fraser.

4TC - Teagan, Patrick, Carys, Dylan and Liam

4CP - Sienna, Rachel, Jack and Nyle

Our new ALWAYS children are: Maddie (4JP) and Sienna (4CP).

Please leave your messages of congratulations in the comments below.

OSCARs 26.9.14

This week we awarded OSCARs to the following children:

4JP - Aadi, George, Tom, Sophie, Maddie.

4CP - Max, Vishal, Daniel, Kaitlyn, Katie

4TC - Hollie, Lily, Sophia, Anthony, Stanley

We also awarded our first "Always" Gold star badges to Ellis, Jude and Rachel!

Congratulations to all these children for some amazing work and behaviour! Leave your messages for them in the comments!

OSCARs 19.9.14

This week we celebrated:

4JP - Eniola, Finlay, Nicholas, Megan, Aaron.

4TC - Matilda, Ruby, Elliot, Luke

4CP - Ethan, Annaliese, Maisy, Sam, Joe

Congratulations to those children for their special award!

OSCARs 12.9.14

Today we gave out our first OSCAR awards in Year 4.

The awards went to:

4JP - George, Joseph, Henry, Jorja, Molly

4TC - Haydn, Jude, Rakeem, Katie

4CP - Karis, Erin, Morgan, Charlie

The children received these for being OUTSTANDING, SUPPORTIVE, CARING, AWESOME and RESPECTFUL.

Welcome

Welcome to the blog of the Year 4 classes at The Vale School.  Keep up to date with our learning here, we look forward to sharing it with you.

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