Wardour Catholic Primary School

Wardour entered 16 enthusiastic Y5 and Y6 competitors into the annual local primary schools swimming gala, hosted by St Mary's School. The children had an excellent afternoon taking part in a variety of individual races as well as the medley and freestyle relay.  The team came 3rd overall.

Wardour Primary are thrilled to have made it through to the District High 5s finals. They competed in the High 5s Cluster Festival at the Nadder Centre, Tisbury coming second by one point. 

The football team played against St Mary's Primary, Gillingham.  A tough match but some excellent play from the new team comprising years 4, 5 and 6.  

Eight Wardour pupils and their ponies travelled down to Moreton in the pouring rain last Saturday for the National Schools Equestrian Association Show Jumping Championships, an event they qualified for in 2018.  After an early start, first up was the 40cm team of Bea, riding Chalice, Evie on Diamond, Pip on Comet and Summer riding Rolo.  Pip was very unlucky to have a knock at the planks, a fence which also caught out Summer & Rolo despite having started so well; Bea flew round achieving an individual 5th place for style,  Bea being the youngest competitor by a considerable margin!  Georgiana gave her pony Carrie a very educational warm-up experience but the arena atmosphere proved a bit too much; Harry gave a wonderful exhibition of how to somersault down your pony's neck and Evie sensibly decided that Diamond had done enough and was too tired to compete and although Jonty was clear it was a much steadier round and not in the ribbons.  Everyone did extremely well and despite the rain had lots of fun - if anyone would like to compete for Wardour in the future do contact Mrs Windsor. 

We are thrilled to have made it through to the North Dorset  High Fives netball final after winning the Shaftesbury Area High Fives Netball tournament at St Mary’s on Monday.

The event was hosted at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury. The runners up were Motcombe and Semley Primary. The St Mary's teams held 4th and 5th position and Abbey School came sixth.  Wardour and Motcombe Primary will both join other finalists from the region on Tuesday 5th March at Sherborne Girls School.

The High 5 team were delighted to finally play at the tournament after bad weather had cancelled play.

Last Friday, two very excited teams of girls and boys from Year 3, 4 and 5 set-off for Shaftesbury Primary School for a much anticipated football tournament. Both teams sat out for the first match but took the opportunity to watch the other teams play. The boys’ first game was a great success against Motcombe B - Wardour won 6-1. With goals scored by Jasper, Harry and Arthur. Meanwhile the girls were also putting up a good fight against experienced players but unfortunately lost two matches and drew two – against Motcombe B and Shaftesbury Primary. With Martha being their chief scorer! Well done Martha.

We mustn’t forget our goalies: they were also fearless in both teams and never gave up. Overall the girls came 4^th in the tournament. The boys also had a 2-1 win against Shaftesbury Primary B team, putting them in 3^rd position, out of eight teams. Well done everyone for showing great team work; supporting one another and above all, enjoying the opportunity to compete.

The year 6 cricket team took part in the local cluster cricket tournament.  Although they had to dodge the rain, the team came second out of four schools and everyone in year 6 had the opportunity to play.