School Games
Mountain Biking
School Games Indoor Rowing
GPJ Girls’ KS2 Indoor Football finals
went ahead on Thursday 22 March. We experienced some really good games and the worthy winners were Highnam School who won all their matches, with Mitcheldean Primary coming in a close 2nd place.
Well done to all the schools who made it through the qualifying rounds.
Thank you to Hartpury College students who supported and helped run the event.
South Forest Schools’ played brilliantly in the Quick Sticks Hockey tournament at The Dean Academy on Wednesday 7 March. Some great matches were played with Primrose Hill and Tutshill School now going on to join the North Forest Teams, Hope Brook & Tibberton, to represent the Forest of Dean area at the Spring Games on Tuesday 27 March at Cheltenham College.
Primary County Cross Country
The County Cross Country Finals were held on Saturday 10 March at St Edwards School in Cheltenham. The Forest of Dean was represented by 36 students from Year 5 & 6 from over 15 schools who ran a very challenging hilly course.
We had 4 students who came in the top 10 over the 4 races, 1 from Yorkley School and 3 from Highnam School, which is impressive.
They now all go on to the Cross Country UK Finals in March at Leicester.
High Fives Netball Qualifying Rounds
Last week saw the qualifying rounds of the High Fives Netball. The North event took part at Newent School on Tuesday 6 March and the South event took part at The Dean Academy on Thursday 8 March.
The winners and runners up from both areas play in the Forest Finals on Monday 12 March.
Great work by Janice James & Sandra Carter from Lyndean Netball Club!
High Fives Netball Forest Schools Finals
The High Fives Year 5 & 6 Netball Finals took place at Dene Magna on Monday 12 March.
Only 2 of the 4 teams would qualify for the next round on this day, so the competition was tight between Lydbrook, Primrose Hill, Westbury and Forest View Schools.
The overall winners were Westbury & Primrose Hill who now go on to play in the County Finals during the Spring Games on Tuesday 27 March.
Huge thanks to Janice James and Sandra Carter from Lyndean Netball who supported Alan Beard through the qualifying rounds and finals. Best of luck to the teams as they go onto the next round.
GPJ Girls' Indoor Football South Forest Schools Finals
The South Forest Girls' Indoor Football Finals at Key Stage 2 were held at Forest High School. The event was run with the support of Hartpury students along with Berry Hill, Pillowell, Primrose Hill, St Whites, St Johns, Blakeney and Lydney schools in attendance.
We watched some good football with Blakeney beating Pillowell in a fantastic final. Both teams will now go onto the Forest Finals later in the term.
Well done to the teams who all played so well and thanks to Hartpury College students for their support and Forest High for being such good hosts. The Forest now have four teams in the finals; Blakeney, Pillowell, Highnam and Mitcheldean. Good luck everyone!
In red - Blakeney
North Forest Schools' Gymnastics Festival
The North Forest Schools' Gymnastics Festival was held at Dene Magna on Thursday 22 February. We saw some great ‘First Steps Gymnastics’ from the 8 primary schools in the tournament with Hopebrook School producing the best performance. Hopebrook now go forward to the Key Steps Gymnastics Finals on Monday 5 March at the University of Gloucestershire.
We would like to send our thanks to all the volunteers who helped support the day, including our head judges Autumn and Ron.
We also had fantastic helpers from 5 of our own DM students who judged and helped with equipment. Many thanks to Charlotte Cotterell (8W1), Lily James (9W1), Lucy Smith (10W1), Joss Moore (7J1) and Katie Afflick (9F1) for all their help and great work on the day.
Gymnastics Y3 & 4 First Steps South Forest Competition
On Thursday 25 January at St John’s on the Hill Dean Close School our Southern Area Primary Schools were invited to take part in the School Games Gymnastics.
We would like to thank Tracey Skirton for judging the competition and St John’s and their students for holding and supporting the running of the event.
In a very close scoring competition Primrose Hill School won the event from St John’s and Yorkley.
The North festival will take place on 22nd February at Dene Magna.
Sports Hall Athletics
Primrose Hill Primary School sports' leaders Luke Cunliffe and Isabelle Kiely received their Gold Award from the SGO Alan Beard on behalf of their school. They collected this award for all the hard work they achieve at the school. The school offer a wide array of sport and physical activity for all their students and have gone above and beyond with a programme of activity within the curriculum and after-school and community to a high level.
They have had a successful year so far making the School Games County Finals in the Sports Hall Athletics and the First Steps Gymnastics.
Primary County Cross Country Selection Race
We'd like to extend our congratulations to Mitcheldean Primary who were the overall winners in this years KS2 North Forest Girl's Indoor Football Tournament.
This was the first tournament of the year, kindly hosted by Newent School. Other schools in the tournament were Forest View school, Highnam School, Mitcheldean School, Tibberton School and Ann Cam School.
Super Primary Schools' Sports Hall Athletics
Dene Magna had the pleasure of running a 'Super Primary Schools' Sports Hall Athletics Event' on Tuesday 5 December. All 25 Primary Schools were on great form and it was a brilliant advertisement for activity!
I would like to thank Adam from Sports Hall Athletics and the superb support from the volunteers from Hartpury College and Dene Magna School, we could not have run this event without them.

The Results were split into small and large schools as follows:
Small Schools:
1: Yorkley School
2: Lydbrook School
3: Hope Brook School
Large Schools:
1: Primrose Hill School
2: Forest View School
3: Picklenash School
Well done to all teams and congratulations to Yorkley & Primrose Hill. They will now go on to represent the Forest of Dean in the Winter School Games on 5th February at Cheltenham Ladies College.
Quick Hockey Tournament
1st - Hopebrook
3rd - Pauntley