From 24th March until 4th April St Richard's are taking part in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel. This is the UK's largest walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling to school challenge.

Our school will take part for all ten days, but our best five days will determine where our school finishes in this challenge.

Travelling to school in an active way is fun, helps us to be active, gets us ready for learning and contributes to better air quality. We can also win prizes for being involved in this challenge! Each day that over 15% of our school take part, we get entered into a draw to win prizes that include sports equipment for our school.

Classes will also compete against each other to see who the daily winner is!

Learning a Kentish game- Bat and Trap

Some of our Year 3s and 4s had the opportunity to play an old Kentish game, Bat and Trap, this week. For some of our children, this was the second time they'd played Bat and Trap, as they played at the same hub event last year. For most of the children, this was an entirely new experience. It was tricky to get used to stranding behind the trap and triggering the release of the ball. All of the children did really well and everyone scored lots of points. Unfortunately, it was not enough to keep the hub trophy at St Richard's, but everyone had fun, and we look forward to trying to regain the trophy at our next hub event, in Term 4!

Dover Schools Cross Country

St Richard's participated in the first of two cross country relay competitions last week. We had one mixed Year 6 team and two mixed year group teams. The children had to run a mile around the Duke of York's field in a strong, bitterly cold wind. Everyone did so well, and although many of the children had been training at our Friday afternoon running club, for many, it was the first time they had run a mile in a competitive context. Our mixed Year 3 and 4 team did exceptionally well, finishing 5th in the Year 5 race. We look forward to the next event in March, which will be another relay, with each leg being half a mile.

Double win for St. Richard's!

What an amazing week for Sport at St. Richard's! On Thursday alone, our teams won at two events!

First, some of our Year 5 and 6s were out at a tchouckball competition. Despite having had very little practise, our team were the winners of the entire event, winning every single one of their matches, sometimes by quite large margins! This is meant the team got to bring back the hub Cup to St. Richard's. This is an amazing achievement, because no-one can remember a time when St. Richard's won it before!

Later on in the day, our mixed football team were out at Sholden, playing in the Stabbs Cup. St. Richard's won 2-1 in extra time and are through to the quarter-final of the Stabbs Cup, which will be played after Christmas!

Year 1 pupils join in with an exercise class given by Joe Wicks!

This term, some Year 1 pupils got the opportunity to join in with an exercise class given by Joe Wicks at Charlton School. The children (and staff and helpers) had an amazing time and were really inspired by Joe Wicks!

St Richard's have been participating in the World Athletics World Mile Challenge for Kids Athletics Day on 7th May. Take a look at how we are doing so far!

Well done Year 5! You ran the most miles in week one - 75.31!

Week two's winning class is Year 1! Well done to Year 1, running 67 miles this week!

So far St Richard's have run 598.4 miles!

Week three has been a tough one, with bad weather and school trips preventing children participating in the mile challenge every day. However, the winners of week three are Year 4! Well done to Year 4 for running 27.4 miles!

St Richard's total for the World Athletics Kids Mile Challenge is: 700.8 miles!

A huge well done to Year 5, for winning the World Athletics Kids Mile Challenge! You ran 154.1 miles between you!

A huge well done to the girls' team, who got into the final of the Hammond Cup. Although St Richard's were the runners up, it was a great achievement to get to the final and a testament to the girls' hard-work and excellent teamwork!

Year 1 and 2 had a great time playing against other schools at Dover Athletic Football Club. St Richard's won two games 3 - 0, lost two and drew one. Brilliant work for the first time playing as a team!

The Year 5 and 6 Cross Country relay teams had a great time at the Duke of York's... even if they did get a bit wet!

Year 3 and 4 had an excellent morning at Sandwich Leisure Centre, taking part in a Sports Hall athletics event. The children got to compete in a number of running, jumping and throwing events. The St Richard's team came third out of the six teams competing during the morning. Super team work, everyone!