The songs of World War II were about optimism. They needed to be, for World War II was harder on the civilians and Forces of Britain than any other previous War. Yar 5/6 concert is to commemorate the outbreak of World War II 70 years ago. The pupils performed songs for the era, both well-known and more obscure.
If ever the power and importance of music was evident, it was during the dark days of World War II.
34 Schools took part. The Leehurst Swan pupils all performed extremely well resulting in the school gaining 3rd place in the large schools category.
The individual triumph of the afternoon was that Isabel Rutledge who easily won her heat for the Year 6 girl 80 metres sprint and who then stormed home to win the actual final.
The Year 6 Boys, Ben Quigley, Eliott Sherwood Clark, Zac King and Rufus Daniel came 3rd in the final of the Year 6 Boys circular relay.
Other notable performers were Year 6 girls, Sophie Waddington, Isabel Rutledge, Olivia Beale and Romilly Lacey who came 4th in the final of the Year 6 girls circular relay.
Sophie Waddington came 4th in the Y6 Long Jump as did Zac King in the boys event.
Ben Quigley came 4th in the final of the Yr5/6 boys 800m and Pippa Shakerley came 6th in the Yr 5/6 girls 800m with a personal best of 3.09 minutes.
James Baggueley came 6th in the Yr 5/6 Boys high jump with a personal best of 1.20 metres.
The Year 5 boys shuttle relay team of Oliver Battersby, Jake O’Gorman, Alex Larson and Bradley Commons got through to the final of this event.
Very well done to all those pupils who represented Leehurst Swan at the preliminaries and at the main event.
New computers for the music room
New School Bench
KS1 playground bins
This event held at Hordle Walhampton School and was the first year of entry for Leehurst Swan who took a team of Year 4 and 5 pupils.
Twenty six schools took part in the Championships.
Tara King ran her 75m sprint heat in 12.1 seconds which put her through to the final with the second fastest time in all the heats. The fastest time being 12.0. In the final Tara ran her personal best of 11.8 which saw her finish 2nd. The winning time was 11.6 seconds.
The Y4 boys relay team ran well and did very well with their baton changing but unfortunately they were not quite quick enough to qualify. Thomas McFarland and Eleanor Kuszynski produced a very encouraging performance in the 800m but it was two Y5 boys who really showed promise in this event George Woodford White ran a personal best of 3 mins and 20 secs and Pippa Shakerley ran her heart out to produce a personal best of 3 mins 10 secs.
Elliot Penny came 4th in the Yr 4 Long Jump with a personal best of 3.39 metres.
Very well done to all the pupils.
The Prep team from Leehurst Swan consisted of 3 boys pairs and 1 girls pair whilst the Junior squad consisted of 2 boys pairs and 1 pair of girls. All matches were keenly played with the junior boys matches proving to be fairly evenly contested whilst the junior girls pair gained from the match play experience.
In the prep matches Henry Birt and Rufus Daniels and Harry Baker and Bhupinder Tandy won both their sets convincingly. Whilst Sam Littlejohn and Alex Larsen won one and lost one.
Well done to all who took part.
