As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, the children at St Agatha’s had the opportunity to learn how playing sport and exercising can support their wellbeing. PE activities were led by Jack from Roar and were giving the thumbs up from the children.

‘It was fun. It was so fun. We went and played three games. The first one was when we were tagged. It was called Classic Tag. We also played tug of war. Each team got one point.’ Reception child 

‘I really liked the dodgeball.’ Year 3 child

‘We pulled a rope together. One team was the blue team and one team was the white team. The games were fun.’ Nursery child

‘I enjoyed the medic dodgeball.’  Year 5 child

‘The dodgeball was great fun. It was a good experience at school especially as it helped us with our mental health and to get to know other children more.’ Year 4 child

In addition to the PE activities, the children were able to help build their resilience by having a scootering or skateboarding session. Here are some statements from the children:

‘I would recommend the skateboarding as it was really fun and I learnt how to do a pancake flip.’ Year 6 child

‘It was really good fun.’ Year 3 child

‘He showed us how to ride a two-wheel scooter and a bunch of cool tricks.’ Year 1 child

‘The scooter tricks were very fun and we enjoyed going around the cones.’ Year 2 child

‘I like how we were introduced to lots of new skills but we had a choice.’ Year 5 child

‘It encouraged us to try new activities and to learn new skills. It will give us more bravery and confidence in the future and we had a lot of fun doing it.’ Year 4 child

‘The skateboarding was so fun. We learnt how to do a pancake flip. It started off hard but it started to get easier the more we practised.’ Year 6 child

Other activities included making memory boxes for the children to be able to look back at fond memories that have been created. The children also very much enjoyed playing playground games such as hopscotch and popping bubbles thanks to members of the PSA who created them with chalk especially for Wellbeing Week.

‘I liked the Walk the Plank game where we could jump off into the sea’. Year 1 child
 

We are pleased to share that The Catholic Union has named St Agatha’s as School of the Week: Catholic Union Weekly Briefing 8 February 2025

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Well done to the Year 6 netballers who won the plate competition at the Kingston Borough netball tournament today. The team played with increasing confidence and played an exciting final match against Latchmere winning 1:0. Fantastic effort and great display of sportsmanship.

Team:
Mia, Mira,Imogen, Max, Maxwell, Haemin, Elyia

Our thanks to the local Tudor Ward Police for visiting St Agatha’s in December to offer a bike marking service to our school community. We hope to get them to come in and do the bike marking again once the weather gets warmer and more families might be cycling.

Thank you to everyone who helped plan the Christmas fair, volunteered on the day, set up, packed away, and came out to support the PSA and the school despite the last minute change of plans because of the bad weather. There was a lovely community atmosphere as we all gathered in the hall to hear the choir, and we had great feedback on the day itself. 

We hope the children have enjoyed their Christmas entertainment contributed to by the PSA. These activities are only possible because of your generosity and support - Tiny Tunes for nursery, pantomime for KS1 and Rose theatre for KS2.