Curwen competed at their first competition of 2024 on Friday 12th January as they travelled to UEL

SportsDock for the Newham Schools Sports Hall Athletics competition.

There were 12 schools and over 240 children competing at the competition with Curwen bringing a

Year 5/6 Boys and Girls team to compete across a variety of track and field events. Curwen were

placed in heat 1 alongside Britannia Village, Carpenters and Chobham and the boys team got off to a

fantastic start winning their heat in both the obstacle and 4x1 lap relay. The girls continued to do

Curwen proud in the track events, securing the second fastest times across all the heats for the 1x1,

2x2 and 4x1 lap relay.

Curwen continued to shine throughout the field events, with the boys team securing the second

highest score across all the heats for Chest Push and the girls team matching this feat in the Vertical

Jump. However, the standout moment of the field events was the performance of the girls team

within the Speed Bounce, where they recorded the highest amount of jumps across all of the

schools.

This remarkable effort saw Curwen narrowly miss out on a podium place, finishing 4th amongst all

the schools that entered. The children definitely gave their all in every event and it was very pleasing

to see them replicate the high level of skill and ability they show within PE in a competitive setting.

Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly:

Girls Team - Georgia-Marie (6K), Leah (6K), Danica (6K), Aaminah (6R), Alexia-Ioana (6R), Laila (6C),

Janat (6C), Kaci-Ann (6C), Acacia-Mae (5T), Jaynie (5T), Chanel (5CB), Kiarrah (5PB).

Boys Team – Nico (6R), Matej (6R), Gheorghe (6R), Emmanuel (6C), Nathan (6C).

Curwen competed at their seventh and final TTLT competition of the year on Friday 1st December as they travelled to Memorial Park for the TTLT Christmas Cup.

There were 5 schools competing at the festival, with Curwen taking two teams of children to represent the school. Facing matches against Ranelagh, Kaizen, Earlham and North Beckton the boys played exceptionally well with one team managing to go unbeaten, ensuring they finished top of the group and came back to school with the TTLT Christmas Cup. 

Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly: Ade (4GM), Anas (4GM), Benji (4GM), Aariz (4GM), Lucas (4GM), Harley (4GM), George (4GM), Barack (4G), Absar (4G), Aaron (4G), Benjamin (4G), Mohamed (4M), Ibrahim (4M), Joshua (4M), Alhaaz (4M), Shahir (4M), Rome (4M).

Curwen competed at their fourth TTLT competition of the year on Friday 10th November as they travelled to Memorial Park for a boy’s Tag Rugby festival. There were 10 schools and over 120 boys competing at the festival, with Curwen being placed alongside Ranelagh, Kensington and North Beckton in Group 1. The boys won their first two games 5-3 and 5-0 against North Beckton and Ranelagh. They further impressed in their last group game, defeating Kensington by 6 trys to 1 to deservedly finish top of the group and make sure they collected gold medals. Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly: Nico (6R), Matej (6R), Sekou (6A), Samuel (6A), Lakshikan (6A), Dimitri (6K), Nathan (6C), Mikaeel (6C), Herbert (5T), Aadam (5T).

On the 11th October, our year 5 and 6 MASt PE children at Curwen visited UEL Sports Dock.  They had the opportunity to meet Olympian athlete Christine Ohuruogu and to take part in a variety of sport activities.  The children were truly inspired and engaged in what Christine had to say about her personal experience within the world of athletics. The children enjoyed viewing her medals, holding the 2012 olympic torch and getting to ask her questions about her life. The children thoroughly benefited from the sports activities that were put on throughout the day, which included: basketball, cricket, skipping and volleyball. At the end of the day the children got to watch the UEL Basketball team in action. The children got to cheer them on and were very impressed with how they worked well as a team. The key message that Christine wanted to leave the children with was "TO NEVER GIVE UP!", which is one of our core skills that we promote at Curwen. 

On Tuesday (3^rd October), six of our children represented Curwen in the Ten-Pin bowling competition against other schools.

Each player threw their bowling ball down the lanes in order to hit the pins over for points and the team with the highest number of points won the competition. Our talented Curwen team managed to achieve a total score of 491, placing us 4th out of the 11 schools. Muntaha 6C managed to achieve 110 points which was the highest score in the competition! Well done Muntaha!

All of the children really enjoyed it and they can’t wait for the next one. 

Tzuriel 5PB said “I like getting medals.” 

Yusuf 5PB said “It was lots of fun!”

Curwen had a fantastic time at Ranelagh Primary School on Friday 22nd September celebrating the
launch of Ranelagh Rockets.
A team of 10 children participated in a Baseball festival on the new diamond court at Ranelagh,
trying their hand at a range of pitching, throwing and batting activities. They also got to play some
small-sided games against North Beckton, Kensington and Ranelagh where they could showcase
their fantastic baseball skills.
The children thoroughly enjoyed it and are very much looking forward to playing Baseball again
soon!
Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly: Rafin (6A), Diana (6C), Tatyana
(6C), Lorenzo (6R), Sumaiya (6R), Khalil (6R), Ashana (6R), Sufyaan (6K), Jaynie (5T), Thiago (5T).