Killingholme Primary School

Congratulations to all of our students and their continued dedication, efforts and attitude to Sports! Please see below the current leader board with the ongoing results, for this years competition!

The Albert Einsteins: 907 points = 1st

The Charles Dickens: 747 points = 2nd

The Abraham Lincolns: 578 points = 3rd

The Florence Nightingales: 576 points = 4th

We linked the Spring term intra-school competition to a challenge day focused on skipping! We're sure we could have created our own source of energry from the high volume of rotating skipping ropes! What an incredible achievement as a team and as an individual challenge too! Our Get Ahead Partnership joined us for Skip 4 Life Day one, on Monday 18th March 2024 and will be joining us for day 2 in the Summer term! Students have already begun completing their Bronze, Silver and Gold challenge card and we are blown away by the Determination and Honesty that has been seen amongst the practice and competition elements! Well done everyone- keep it up! The results from the Day 1 Skip 4 Life Challenge are as follows:

The Albert Einsteins: 470 points = 1st

The Charles Dickens: 430 points = 2nd

The Abraham Lincolns: 330 points = 3rd

The Florence Nightingales: 310 points = 4th

On Thursday 21st March 2024, 16 students attended the Baths Hall, Scunthorpe to take part in the annual Dance Showcase! Our students (who all nominated theirselves to join the showcase) have shown outstanding Passion, Teamwork, Determination and Self-belief by attending after school rehearsals to practise and perform at their very best potential! We were blown away by the performance and the attitudes of these young people and were left amazed by the judges comments! The judges commented on the students high energy levels, their tricks and ability to show indidivuality, their costumes, hair and make-up and the joy they all had performing on stage! Congratualtions everyone- we are so proud of you all! 

On Thursday 8th February 2024, we sent a team of 10 year 5 students to compete in a inter-school dodgeball competition at The Pods, Scunthorpe! Our students showed fantastic Determination, Honesty and Respect for the games, theirselves and students from other schools! Overall our students secured us 12th place out of 18 schools and we're really pleased with their efforts and passion for the game! Our students said:

'I had the best time competing against the other schools!'

'I loved every minute, can we go again soon?!'

'I tried so hard and managed to catch some of the other players out!'

On Tuesday 30th January 2024, we visited Wootton St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Primary School to take part in a Boccia competition! Our students loved the afternoon being able to show off their hand-eye coridination and striking target skills! Although we didn't win the competition, we were really proud of our students, their 'Respect' for the game, perseverance and dedication to succeed! Congratulations to Wootton St Andrew's, who won the compeition and this time the trophy! We are looking forward to our next tournament, which is sure to crank up the level of competition and flair we've already seen so far! Our students said:

-'I had so much fun getting to know the other kids'

-'I really enjoyed it!'

We were really pleased to welcome Steve Sampher (a former British Army veteran) to meet and greet us all and listen to his story and journey on how he came to be selected to represent Team UK in the Invictis Games! Steve's resillience, determination and commitment to tackle the many challenges he has faced, were beyond inspiring and motivating and our students were left amazed by Steve's true grit and ability to tackle poor mental health by chanelling that into Sports! Steve worked with our KS2 students and delivered some motivational workshops that required teamwork and critical thinking! Here's what our students said:

'I can't believe everything he went through!'

'Steve was amazing to talk to!'

'We completed some challenges by using our senses and working together as a team!'

'I loved talking to Steve and hearing his story!'

On Tuesday 21st November 2023, we were excited to host our very own small schools, dodgeball competition between Killingholme Primary School, Wootton St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Primary School and Goxhill Primary School! What an outstanding competition it was between the three schools, where over 20 games were played to the highest level of competition amongst our year 3 and 4 students! We were beyond proud to have won the overall competition and secure the trophy until our next competition in the new year! Congratulations to our students for winning and for demonstrating amazing 'Determination' throughout practice and within the competition! A huge well done to Goxhill and Wootton students for your amazing dedication, respect and effort to the competition! Our students said:

-'I loved that compeition, I want to do it again!'

-'I can't believe we won!'

-'Can we please do this again, it was amazing!'

This year we have teamed up with Goxhill Primary School and Wootton St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Primary School to improve our small school’s competitions! Our first competition took place on Monday 16^th October at Goxhill Primary School, where 9 of our students (who have shown a real ‘Passion’ for Hockey this half term) attended to compete and shown their new found skills and talent for Hockey! We are really proud of our students, who have demonstrated a real dedication and fantastic attitude, by attending extra-curricular Hockey and trying their hardest within PE! Well done everyone, it was a great day and we’re super excited for the next competition! Our students said:

-'I had the best time competing against the other schools'

-'I felt so smart taking our own hockey sticks, they looked great'

-'I scored a goal against the other school!' 

On Wednesday 4^th October, our school had a brand new experience (organised by our School Sports Partnership) where we worked to code and programme robots to compete in football games! Sphero came into school and our students loved every minute of working with the STEM enhancing game! It has been fantastic to see a new and inspiring programme that excites students, is modern, inclusive and brings new level of competition into the world of sports! We can’t wait to have Sphero back in school and see what the next level of challenge holds in store! Our students said:

‘I loved using the robots and being able to control their movements!’

‘I really enjoyed working with my friends to code the robots!’

During the Autumn term we have completed competitions within our class school sports houses that have been appropriate to the PE curriculum and our new found skills. Our students have worked exceptionally hard and are very proud of their efforts and the points scored for their teams! This term we have competed in fundamentals, skipping and hockey! The results are as followed:

The Albert Einsteins: 437 points = 1st

The Charles Dickens: 317 points = 2nd

The Florence Nightingales: 266 points = 3rd

The Abraham Lincolns: 248 points = 4th

On Wednesday 20^th September, our students had the chance to take part in a brand new event (organised by our School Sports Partnership) at the Ethiad Stadium in Manchester! We had the opportunity to ask questions and explore the many different job roles that surround and support professional football and experience a day in the life of a footballer! Our students had an amazing day and felt inspired by the day’s events which saw them attend the Ethiad Statium and the National Football Musuem!

Our students said:

‘It was the best day’

‘I enjoyed the day because I got chance to see the different roles’

‘The stadium was amazing’

Here are the overall results for our Intra-school competitions this year! What a fantastic year of sports it has been for Killingholme this year! A HUGE congratulations goes out to all of our students and their phenomenal achievements! We can't wait to see what 2023/24 has in store for us and look forward to welcoming you back in September! 

The Charles Dickens = 1287 points = 1st

The Florence Nightingales = 1160 points = 2nd

The Abraham Lincolns = 1100 points = 3rd

The Albert Einsteins = 1040 points = 4th

On Thursday 20th July, we were extremely pleased to welcome back our Sports Partership-Let's Get Ahead! We held our annual Colour run and the turn out was a huge success! Thank you to all of the parents and carers who were able to join us for the afternoon and Get Coloured! Our students, as ever, loved the event and it was evident that emotional well-being was incredibly high and positive as the students, parents, staff and carers smiled the whole afternoon! We loved every minute of the colour run and we are so pleased that our students got to take part again in a wonderful treat after a years hard word and amazing efforts! Well done everyone! 

On Thursday 13^th July, our students took part in their final intra-school competition of 2023! We welcomed back our sports partnership to help with hosting a Football Festival ahead of the upcoming Women’s World Cup! Our students were delighted to have the opportunity to showcase and use their football skills to compete for the final time in their team colours and what a great end to the year it was! Well done to each and every one of our students for your continued determination and dedication to sports! The results are as follows:

The Albert Einsteins = 81 points = 1st

The Charles Dickens = 76 points = 2nd

The Abraham Lincolns = 69 points = 3rd

The Florence Nightingales = 68 points = 4th

Our Students said:

“I really enjoyed the penalty shootout and dribbling skills before the competition!” – Year 6 Student

“I enjoyed getting to practice some new skills!” – Year 2 Student

“I enjoyed scoring goals and the 2 minute challenge!” – Year 2 Student

“I enjoyed just trying my best!” – Year 4 Student

“I liked learning even more about football!” – Year 4 Student

“I just had loads of fun!”- Year 3 Student

On Monday 21st April we were super excited to enter the Development Swimming Competition hosted by our fantastic Sports Partnership- 'Let's Get Ahead! A team of 10 students from years 5 & 6 travelled to the Pods, Scunthorpe and completed a varitey of different races including: breast stroke, front crawl, back crawl, freestyle and mixed medley events! We are beyond proud that we were able to attend and sucessfully take part in this strenuous and hard competition and want to say a massive well done to all of our students who took part! You demonstrated phenomenal teamwork, passion, belief, determination and respect!

This year we took part once again in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel to school week and what a fantastic outcome we have achieved! 93.87% of our students actively travelled to and from school each day during the event and even further to this we came a WHOPPING 16th out of 773 small primary school's that took part in the competition! What an outstanding achievement our families have completed with the children and a HUGE well done to everyone who was able to get involved! We can't wait to take part again next year and keep up the active travel and fantastic work going!

New to Killingholme Primary this year! Our students were super excited to welcome the 'Let's Get Ahead' Partnership into school to host a 'Speed of Light' competition for the very first time! The aim of the competition was to work together as a team in order to hit the 'orbs' with the team colours as many times as possible whilst also against the clock! These competitions grew harder as patterns, speed and instructions became more challenging! Our students rose to the challenge and earned more points for their Sports Houses, which has left the numbers very close indeed! Well done to everyone who took part and demonstrated great communication, teamwork, coordination, resillience, perseverance and more!

Our students said:

'I loved the colours and hitting the orbs' - EYFS student

'I liked working with my team mates' - Year 2 student

'I was so sweaty afterwards, it was really exciting! I haven't played anything like that before!' - Year 5 Student

Here are the results from the competition:

The Albert Einsteins = 80 points = 1st

The Abraham Lincolns = 70 points = 2nd

The Charles Dickens = 60 points = 3rd

The Florence Nightingales = 30 points = 4th

This term we're back off to a brilliant start here at Killingholme Primary! Our students have blown this half term's competition out of the park and have demonstrated their very best efforts and skills in reference to what they've been learning in PE!

Reception children took part in a competition called 'Fantasy Island' which included lots of games involving hand-eye cordination, catching and throwing and navigating around a safe space!

KS1 consolidated their new found balls skills and put them to the test in a 'Bowling' competition! 

KS2 put their Gymnastic abiities to the test! Using the Sainsbury's School Games Criteria, we hosted our own Gymnastics competition and really put on a fantastic show modelling a variety of balances, rolls, travels and jumps!

Everyone did a fantastic job and tried their very best to achieve lots of points for their Sports House! The results are as follows:

The Charles Dickens = 266 points = 1st

The Albert Einsteins = 239 points = 2nd

The Florence Nightingales = 212 points = 3rd

The Abraham Lincolns = 166 = 4th

On Friday 15th July 2022 we held our annual Sports Day and what a day of competition it was! Congratulations to all of our students for their fantastic efforts, attitudes, sportsmanship and teamwork! Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came to support and spectate (and compete as well) and to our valued school staff too! Below are the overall results for the end of year School Sports Houses:

The Charles Dickens = 1755 points = 1st

The Florence Nightingales = 1633 points = 2nd

The Albert Einsteins = 1628 points = 3rd

The Abraham Lincolns = 1371 points = 4th

Again, congratulations to all of our students for what has been a fantastic year of competitive sports and new experiences too! Bring on 2022/23!

In 2020/21 our Sports Partnership, Let's Get Ahead invited us to take part in virtual, interschool competitions throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. These competitions allowed our students to continue to develop their personal growth and achievement, competing in school and were able to see the running leaderboard as we moved throughout the year! We have opted to take part in the competitions once again and our students are extremely pleased! We're off to a great start and have so far completed and competed in:

-Fantasy Footgolf, September 2021 (working through a variety of holes, teeing off and aiming to get to the green with the smallest par using student's feet!)

-Marathon Movers, October 2021 (completing jogging/walking laps around the playground encouraging additional movement and exercise daily!) 

Please see below the results for this year's virtual competitions and a list of the schools we competed against!

On Tuesday 28th June 2022, we were pleased to welcome back our Sports Partnership for our students to take part in another new physical activity experience! Students had the opportunity to work together in non-competitive 'crystal-maze' like challenges, in order to complete the games! These challenges required the students to really focus on positive communication, team-work and determination to succeed! 

'I really enjoyed the challenges because they were different and I've never seen them before' - Year 4 student

'I enjoyed working with my friends to complete the games' - Year 2 student

On Thursday 23rd June 2022 our brilliant Sports Partnership joined us in leading a Colour Run for the second year in a row! Our students loved this non-competitive, highly inspiring and new opportunity to take part in physical acitivity that was fun, colourful and energetic! This year we invitied parents and carers to join us on the field and to also #GetColoured! There were smiles all round and the feedback fantastic from students, staff and parents/carers!

'It was so funny and my mum got covered in paint too!' - EYFS student

'I loved it because the teachers joined in with us!' - Year 5 student

On Monday 28th March our School Partnership joined us in hosting our very first Orienteering Competition! Our students worked together and used their skills and knowledge to navigate through a variety of challenging routes in a bid to complete the trail with the quickest time! The day was a great success and the results phenomenal! Our students said about the event:

'I liked finding the numbers'- EYFS student

'I enjoyed that the numbers were all mixed up, so you had to work together to follow the route in order'- Year 5 student

'I really liked the orienteering because we used maps and got to do lots of running'- Year 5 student

'Using the fingers sticks was really fun and the noise it made when you got to dab the numbers'- Year 2 student

The results are as follows:

The Charles Dickens = 725 points = 1st

The Florence Nightingales = 705 points = 2nd

The Albert Einsteins = 530 points = 3rd

The Abraham Lincolns = 335 points = 4th

New to Killingholme Primary! Students have been developing their knowledge, skill, awareness and understanding of Body Management through Gymnastics and for the first time ever we have completed and competed in a whole school Gymnastics competition using the School Games platform! EYFS took part in some fantastic apparatus balancing and walking and built up to a dismount as well as several varied rolls! KS1 and KS2 competed using star, tuck, stretch and straddle body positioning for jumps and built up to vaulting and jumping to dismount! Brilliant sportsmanship was demonstrated by all students- great job everyone! The results are as follows:

The Florence Nightingales = 115 points = 1st

The Albert Einsteins = 113 points + The Charles Dickens = 113 points = Joint 2nd

The Abraham Lincolns = 111 points = 3rd

Back by popuar demand! In December we welcomed back our Sports Partnership (Let's Get Ahead) to host their annual Get Glowing Sporting event! Students loved engaging in Glow in the Dark games that take sports to a whole new level of fun! Games included Hit the button, Badmington and Dodgeball target practice! Here's what some of our students new and old said about the event:

"I have never experienced anything like this before, it's so much fun!" -Year 6 student

"I love it because it's different, colourful and fun!"- Year 3 student

On Friday 2nd July 2021, students dressed to impress and put on their 'fast feet' ready to Race 4 Life in our first ever Race 4 Life Schools event! Well done to all of our students who took part in this life-changing event and a special thank you to all of our families and extended friends who supported the school in raising funds for Cancer Research UK! Together, we raised an astonishing £547.00! We look forward to holding another Race 4 Life event, raising even more awarness and saving lives together! Well done Killingholme! 

This year we held our annual Sports Presentation Evening and invited the whole of KS2 to join us in celebrating their fantastic hard work and skill in sports over the past year. Pupils and parents recieved fruit kebabs and refreshments, whilst every child recieved multiple awards that recognised and highlighted their dedication and efforts in a variety of sports. To finish off the evening we held a free sports raffle for our pupils that had some really exciting prizes up for grabs! Killingholme Primary would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thankyou to all of the providers that kindly donated prizes for our sports raffle, this support makes the evening all the more exciting and fun for our pupils and we appreciate your generosity greatly.

• AirKings, Scunthorpe
• Immingham Lesiure Centre
• The Pods, Scunthorpe
• Ancholme Lesiure Centre, Brigg
• Grimsby Town Football Club
• Eden Tanning, Health and Beauty Ltd, Immingham
• Scunthorpe Bowl
• Candice Beauty
• Studio 54 Tanning and Beauty, Immingham

We look forward to hosting next years sports evening and celebrating even more success in 2023!