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These 7 fantastic Year 5 girls represented our school brilliantly at this week's Northamptonshire Sport cricket competition.

On Friday 29th March, we celebrated our HONESTY values awards. Mr Horsley led the celebrations and, as always, lots of dancing was encouraged! The Year 6 DJs span the discs and helped to get everyone into the mood for the special assembly.

The teachers were enthusiastic to explain why the children had been selected for the award. Honesty in learning, honesty to self and honesty in actions were all key themes of the teacher's comments.

This week, the children at Woodland View have been taking part in our termly school sports challenge! This term's challenge was based around our current value - cooperation!

From Foundation Stage to Year 6, nearly 300 children took part in the challenge throughout the week! Depending on which year group your child is in, the challenge was slightly different. For children in Foundation Stage and KS1, they had to work together to run as fast as they could from one side of the pitch to the other, passing the ball carefully at the change over each time. In KS2, children were tasked with throwing and catching the ball - in a pair, showing coordination and cooperation - between each other a given number of times without dropping it.

Being the final Friday of this half-term, we gathered together to celebrate our Values Awards. This term's value was COOPERATION. The red carpet was laid out for the winners and Mr Horsley led the proceedings.

The children showed great support for each year group's winners as they were called to the front, proceeded down the red carpet and accepted a special certificate to celebrate their achievement.

A teacher from each class then shared some words about the chosen children to explain why each child had been selected for the COOPERATION value award.

You may not know that we also have a range of music playing as the children come down the carpet. This is organised by our Year 6 DJs! As you can see from the picture below, Mr Horsley is also keen to encourage supportive dance as well.

This afternoon, a team of Y6 children represented the school and the district at the County Football Finals in Wellingborough. As you may remember, the squad qualified for the county finals with a fantastic 2nd place finish at the district finals in November, where they finished 2nd overall.

See https://www.wvps.northants.sch.uk/news/?pid=11&nid=2&storyid=106 for more information.

The team got off to an amazing start with a wonderful 2-0 victory in their first game! They followed this up with a competitive 0-0 stalemate. After that, the team fought hard in their next two matches, unfortunately falling to defeat in both fixtures. This meant that the team finished with a win, a draw and two losses, helping them to finish 3rd in the group!

In the 5th/6th play-off, the team showed great determination and fight; however, they came up just short against Wootton (1-0) in their final game to finish 6th overall. This is an amazing achievement and the squad finished 6th out of the nearly 100 schools who have competed in the event across the county this academic year!

Mr Willars and Mr Havard were incredibly proud of the skill, teamwork, cooperation (our current value), respect and courage that they have shown today and in the previous competition. It has been a pleasure for both to take the boys to each competition and see them enjoying and achieving fantastically whilst representing the school.

Keep your eyes peeled for more wonderful sporting achievements this year!