I'm very pleased to say that this afternoon the school was awarded a Gold standard for school sport. This is a national award and takes into account School PE, clubs, competitive sports and other opportunities that children get at Poverest. Thank you for helping support school sport and make it...

Today, children from years 5 & 6 watched the West Indies play a warm up match for their tour of England. Our children were able to see top level cricket live and appreciate how fast the bowlers can bowl the ball. The children got to meet some of the players and even played on the pitch during t...

National Pop Lacrosse finals 2024. Yesterday our Lacrosse team took part in the National finals. We travelled to Birmingham University to take on the best teams in Great Britain. We played teams from Scotland, Macclesfield, Altrincham. The only teams to beat us were the eventual winners and th...

On Thursday afternoon we took two teams to play Cricket against St Nicholas Primary School. Both teams played really well with some excellent batting and bowling. This is the first year that we have been able to field two Cricket teams. It's been great seeing more and more children playing co...

We took part in the Lacrosse regional finals at Surrey University. The standard was incredibly high in all the matches we played. We finished in the top 4 which means we qualified for the National finals in Birmingham. This is the second year in a row we have qualified for the nationals. We will...

This afternoon we had a visit from author and poet, Neal Zetter! It was very exciting to listen to him performing his poetry and the children all had a chance to join in, too! He also gave us the opportunity to ask questions and gave us an insight into life as a poet and author. What a brilliant end...