Belmont Blog

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• Space Centre Extravaganza!

  Tue 10 Mar 2020
  A very excited Year 5 had a fantastic day at the Space Centre, Leicester. Favourite activities included the Rocket Tower (144 steps to the top!), a 'Tour of the Night Sky' in the Planetarium and the numerous interactive displays and activities. 

• Belmont Beast Dodgeball Team - East Midlands Champions

  Fri 06 Mar 2020

  Ten of our Year 5 and 6 children travelled to Leicester to take part in the East Midlands Regional Dodgeball competition. Nine schools were competing and the Belmont Beasts began the initial rounds playing Welton Primary School. It was a strong start with Belmont Beasts winning 12-0. We then continued the winning streak by beating Inkersall Primary 11-1, Boothville Academy 8-4 and then drawing 6-6 with St Mary’s C of E Primary. This took us through to the Semi-finals where we beat Christ the King Primary 8-4. The final was against Smith’s Wood Academy and Belmont made an excellent start winning the first half 6-0, after a quick change of sides the final concluded with Belmont winning 10-2.

   

  This win means that the Belmont Beasts will travel to the University of Nottingham in July for the National finals. Twenty of the very best primary dodgeball teams from across England will be competing.

   

  With special thanks to Mrs Smith and Maddie who have coached the team and many thanks to all the parents who have kindly supported the pupils - it is very much appreciated! Thanks also to the Burton Bears for their support.

   

  A massive congratulations to all of the team for their incredible skill and teamwork. They all made a huge commitment to training both in and out of school at Burton Bears. We are very proud of you!

   

  Be the ‘beast’ you can be!

   

  

• Fabulous Friday Afternoon with Nigel Clough

  Sun 08 Dec 2019
  Belmont had an action packed two hours with Nigel Clough and Chris Beardsley from Burton Albion Football Club. Our prime minister, Leon, warmly welcomed our visitors to Belmont. The Sports Leaders enjoyed asking Nigel lots of questions about the importance of leadership skills and Nigel shared his favourite books. A whole school assembly followed and again some excellent questions for Nigel from our Year 2, 3 and 4 children. To finish the afternoon, twenty children thrived on the responsibility of representing Belmont in a coaching session led by Chris and Nigel. An amazing time was had by all and the children's enthusiasm and team work was outstanding! 

  

• Children in Need Donations

  Sun 08 Dec 2019
  With many thanks for your kind donations to Children in Need - over two hundred pounds was raised.

• Dodgeball Success!

  Sun 08 Dec 2019
  Belmont Dodgeball teams did an amazing job at the Primary Dodgeball competition with one of the teams winning the final and a very shiny trophy - well done to all involved!

• Primary Goalball

  Sun 08 Dec 2019

  Belmont entered two Year 6 teams into the Primary Goalball event held on Thursday 7th November at Greenbank Leisure Centre. The Year 6 pupils have spent a series of their PE lessons learning all about Goalball and developing their tactical play ready for the competition. We are proud to report that both of our teams won two out of the initial three matches putting them through to the quarter finals.  

   All of our children played with great sportsmanship and supported one another brilliantly. We now look forward now to our inter-house competition taking place during PE lessons over the next few weeks. Good luck everybody! 

• Cross Country

  Sun 08 Dec 2019

  Belmont entered eight teams into the Primary Cross Country event held on Tuesday 22nd October at Melbourne Sports Park. The majority of Belmont Running Club members took part ranging from Year 3 to Year 6. Each child ran a total of 2km against a strong field of many local primary schools. Our results were outstanding especially with a first place for Daisy in the Y6 girls event. This will mean that Daisy will be selected to represent the district at the National Primary Cross Country event in March 2020. The Y3 boys produced a fabulous third, fifth and sixth place with Ralph, Dylan and Reece. Other great results included a sixth place for Theo in the Y5 boys and 7th for Billy in the Y6 boys event. We are so incredibly proud of every child who took part, well done! 

   

  

• Book Fair

  Wed 06 Nov 2019
  Thank you your continued support at the school book fair. We sold £3,980.69 of books and this will enable us to spend £528.41 on books for the school library. We hope the children are enjoying their new books!

• Thank you - Harvest Festival

  Wed 06 Nov 2019
  A massive thank you to all our families for their generous donation of harvest gifts and donations for Age UK. Our harvest gifts were taken to the residents of Oaklands and the Swadlincote food bank. We raised £125 for Age UK. Thank you for the Year 4 children who led the harvest service and well done to all the children for singing the harvest songs so beautifully.