On Wednesday March 24, 60 year 1 and 2 pupils took part in a racket skills festival. This was made up of hand eye co-ordination skills, target skills, and a taster of different racket sports. Schools involved were Castle and Northern Infants.

The sports leaders from Portchester were outstanding on the day. They interacted and helped the pupils enormously.

On Tuesday 19 March, over 180 pupils from Wicor, Castle and Red Barn took part in the annual cross country event at Portchester School.

In an event of this size all competitors performed exceptionally well with Wicor School running away with 11 out of the 12 medals on offer.

Congratulations to all schools who took part and we hope for more entrants next year.

On Tuesday 24 February, pupils from all Cluster Schools of Cams Hill and Portchester took part in the Annual Tag Rugby Festival.

All teams had received five weeks' worth of coaching from Andy Kirby and all had a good understanding of the game.

For the second year running we hosted a separate girls and boys tournament. Both were represented well with 96 boys and 60 girls taking part.

The standard of rugby throughout the day was exceptional with some very exiting matches being played. Overall, Castle A Girls' Team and Uplands A Boys' Team ran out winners.

A big thank you must also go out to the Sports Leader pupils who refereed the games.

Well done to all who entered the cross-country festival on the 13th of January. It was an excellent afternoon in very difficult weather conditions.

In total 210 Year 3 and 4 pupils took part from the following schools, Castle, Red Barn, Wicor and Uplands. A thank you must also be extended to the staff and parents of these schools who helped to organise and transport their pupils to the event.

The headteacher from Portchester commented that "the afternoon was an outstanding success and the opportunity given to so many children was excellent."

Pupils from Uplands commented " It was fun", "It was tiring but I enjoyed it" and "I loved it".

From our perspective as SSCOs the afternoon was brilliant.