School Games - Nov/Dec 2025

We recently hosted a Christmas-themed Multi-Skills event for Years 1-4 pupils from 14 local infant, junior and primary schools here at Calthorpe! Our Year 11 students Daisy, Maia, Erin, Poppy, Paige and Zoe, along with our Year 10 students Emilia, Jorja, Isla K, Natalia, Kaelee and Amy B as well as our Year 9, 8 and 7 students Olivia, Megan, Adaline, Phoebee, Bee, Emilie, Isabelle, Emma, Amelie, Darcey, Chloe and Edith, assisted in organising and running numerous activities for 60 pupils. This was a School Games Event designed to encourage children to be physically active. Every activity had a Christmas theme and included a variety of fundamental movement skills. We even had a surprise visit from our very own CPS Santa!

To get our event started, Santa played a game of ‘Santa Says’. Following some more warm up games, the children were taken to the various activities to complete. Our students explained and demonstrated the activities There was Santa Dash, Snowball Run, Santa vs The Grinch, Elf Kurling, Santa’s Obstacle Course, Throw to the North Pole and many more. All the children took part in the activities, practising skills such as throwing, catching, running, hopping, jumping, dodging and many more. The children displayed great resilience, determination and fantastic teamwork skills. Our students were exemplary role models and created a positive and fun environment for the primary school pupils. One pupil said ‘this is the best day ever!’.