“On a hot June morning, our Final sizzled with a wonderful display of confidence and ability from all the Finalists”. 

• Bravely starting the show, The Three Belles – Annabelle Cox, Arabella Goff and Taylor Milsom – impressed us all with their imaginative ballet-based routine.

• Evie Jackson and the Collingwood siblings Lydia and Ethan entertained with a well-rehearsed ensemble (keyboard, recorder, tambourine) playing of Puff the Magic Dragon.

• Elena Sidman has shown us a talent to be watched in future years with her beautiful voice singing, a pitch-perfect, unaccompanied rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow demonstrating great breath control.

• Eva Perkins and Jemima Baughan thoroughly enjoyed presenting their enchanting ballet interpretation of caterpillars becoming butterflies.

• The Pows – twins Russell and Harrison Pow-Jones – thoroughly entertained us and showed great rapport in their fun version of Les Poissons.

• Frances Arnold gave a bravura solo performance of If They Could See Me Now, showing all round ability in her dramatic interpretation, singing and a great American accent!

• With their fantastic costumes and funky Michael Jackson inspired routine, The Thrills – Cameron Wight, Fraser Humphrey and Anthony Perkins – were a real hit with the audience as they danced to Thriller.

• James Welbourn looked great on stage as he gave us a super, confident and accomplished vocal performance of Fame – another crowd pleaser!

• Tom Taylor got plenty of laughs for his highly original comedy monologue as he demonstrated great stage presence and comic timing, super vocal flexibility and acting talent too!

• Astrid Bishop’s vocal maturity, ability to hold the audience and ease at being on stage made her version of Bjork’s Sssh! a real pleasure to watch.

• The Polka Dots – Sarah Clayton and Kathryn Offer – were a fabulous all round package; lovely singing, super costumes and presentation, and great comic acting in their fun, engaging re-working of Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious.

• The Sketches – Jason Hughes, Jacob Humphrey, James Wallis, and Sam Quick – impressed with their witty well-constructed sketch packed with clever scripting and lyric writing, super acting skills and staging.

Using a newly introduced scoring system, the judges decided on a winner and three runners up who will all perform again at the Leavers’ Assembly (Parents of these children are welcome to come along).” Sara Swan-Capper. 

Again, thank you to everyone who was involved in making the talent show a very positive experience: members of the school council, participants, audience, staff and parents! A special thanks goes to Sara Swan-Capper and Katie Ellis who have supported the children throughout the journey!

A team of 5 Springmead swimmers: Jacob Humphrey, Emily Finch, William Foster, Tom Taylor and Lizzie Finch then dashed up the motorway to the English Schools Swimming Association Primary School Championship at Pond’s Forge, Sheffield where they had qualified for the national relay finals for the second year in succession. 

A very exciting day saw the Springmead swimmers qualify through the heats and take part in the final of the freestyle relay.

 An exciting week in the swimming pool saw Springmead School play host to St Louis, North Bradley, Warminster Prep and Minster schools in the annual Springmead Invitation Gala at Frome pool. Over 70 swimmers competed from the schools in 25m races in Butterfly, Backstroke, Breastroke and Frontcrawl to a very high standard.

Swimming is a techinically difficult and physically demanding sport and it is wonderful to see so many local schools giving swimming the priority that it deserves. Results: North Bradley 40 points; Warminster Prep 52 points; Springmead B 74 points; St Louis 88 Points; Minster Primary 104 Points; Springmead A 123 points.

Monday 21^st June – Yr 3 & 4 Kwik Cricket v Beckington –Home. 

Both schools provided good cricketing skills in this local fixture with accurate bowling, keen fielding and some excellent drives through the fielding circle to find the boundary. After some ‘shakey’ calling between the batting pairs, the players were reminded of the responsibility of batsmen to work as a pair when running between the wickets.

The whole Springmead team of Thomas Hastings, Campbell Goff, Jack Buchan, Alex Mori, Anthony Perkins, Luca Morgan, Fraser Humphrey and Charlie Herd performed to a very high standard and were a credit to the school.

Thursday 24^th June – Yr 5 & 6 Athletics v St Louis – Home. 

St Louis brought 25 Year 5 & 6 children for an Athletics fixture on Thursday.  On a lovely sunny afternoon the children competed in javelin, standing long jump, 600m and Sprint events.

All the children competed brilliantly and were supported by a large crowd of spectators.

Max Ralph, Max Turner, Emily Finch and Lizzie Finch performed particularly well for Springmead.

Future fixtures

Monday 28^th June Yr 3 & 4 Kwik Cricket v Beckington, home.

Monday 14^th June, Rounders v North Bradley Yr 5-6 match report

North Bradley were the opposition for the Year 5 & 6 rounders team. It was a glorious sunny afternoon and some fantastic rounders skills were on display. North Bradley batted first and struggled against some accurate bowling by Tom Brown and some quick fielding in the deep from Max Turner.

Springmead started their innings in a very positive manner with Max Ralph getting a rounder from the first ball. Each of the Springmead team were managing to make good contact with the ball and many were able to score rounders or half-rounders. North Bradley managed a little better in their second innings and put the Springmead fielders under more pressure.

Max Ralph and Jacob Humphrey worked well as a backstop and 1st post combination to force the batters to work hard to get to 1st post. Sarah Clayton and Kathryn Offer both pulled off stunning catches in the deep to keep the North Bradley score down. Another fine batting performance, which included every batter scoring points, saw Springmead run out comfortable winners of a very enjoyable fixture.

Future fixtures

Monday 21^st June – Kwik Cricket v Beckington – Home

Thursday 24^th June – Athletics v St Louis – Home

Twenty-two acts performed their hearts out at this year’s talent show auditions. All three judges were again really impressed with the performances. All entrants were congratulated on their individual achievements and were awarded house points. Twelve finalists will perform in front of the whole school on Wednesday 23^rd June in an extended assembly. 

1. Annabelle Cox, Arabella Goff & Taylor Milsom  (‘The Three Belles’)
2. Ethan Collingwood, Lydia Collingwood & Evie Jackson
3. Elena Sidman
4. Jemima Baughan & Eva Perkins
5. Harrison & Russell Pow-Jones (‘The Paws’)
6. Frances Arnold
7. James Welbourn
8. Anthony Perkins, Fraser Humphrey & Cameron Wight (‘The Thrills’)
9. Astrid Bishop
10. Tom Taylor
11. Kathryn Offer & Sarah Clayton (‘The Polka Dots’)
12. Jason Hughes, Jacob Humphrey, James Wallis & Sam Quick (‘The Sketches’)

Eventual winners will perform in the Leavers’ Assembly.  Keep practising!

Go Explore, where we’ve been this week

Whilst our foundation children have been exploring the wildlife area this week, our Year 2 children have been further a field, to Weymouth as part of their traditional seaside topic.

Our Year 6 children completed their 15km Gold Award walk in good spirit on Wednesday evening.

They covered the distance in an excellent time and worked really well together as a team.

Photo of year 2 children at Weymouth beach in Somerset.

Good luck to Emily Finch, Jacob Humphrey, William Foster, Lizzie Finch and Tom Taylor as they prepare to represent Springmead and the South West region in the national swimming final of the Primary School Championships at Pond’s Forge, Sheffield on Saturday 19^th June.  Finishing third in the regional finals we had not expected to go through to the nationals.  However, a team was unable to take their place so we have now qualified!  We trust that the training our relay team has been undergoing will help them produce a new personal best.

Inter-house Swimming Gala

Congratulations to all the swimmers in Winter house! Over the 51 races across the small pool and main pool, Winter were clear winners this year for the first time. For results please see the school notice board.

As well as having an opportunity to get to know one another, the teachers will be giving you important information about your child’s education at Springmead over the next academic year. We hope by giving you lots of notice you will be able to make it, so please put it in your diary!

Again this year the class meetings will be scheduled so that parents with more than one child can get to each meeting. Whilst waiting for appointments we hope you will be able to join us in the hall for cheese and wine!