James Siebert will be holding a cricket coaching camp for girls and boys in Years 3-8 on 11th, 12th & 13th April.

For full details and an application form, please click here.

Pinewood is hosting our first ever inter-schools team equestrian event at the Summerhouse Equestrian Centre on Saturday 31st March. This will be a NSEA Qualifier for the Schools’ Team Show Jumping Championships and we very much hope that you will either be able to compete at the event or come along and support your friends who are competing.

For full details of the event, please click here.

To download a booking form, please click here.

Several riders made the long journey to Sparsholt College over half-term to compete in the NSEA show jumping competition.  It was lovely to see new team member Frank Meehan doing well with a fast double clear in class 1.  He proved a valuable member of the team in class 2, together with Jess Tregoning, Ben Ryder and Alex Norris.  Despite some children riding new ponies the team came 3rd, just missing out on qualification, and Jess jumped a fast clear on her old pony Joey to take 5th individually.

For the first time Pinewood had a team in the 90cm class and even though we were one team member short we came a creditable 6th.

This was a really solid start to 2012 - well done to all our riders.

Melanie Norris

We are once again collecting these vouchers from Sainsbury's, which provide the school with fantastic new sports equipment.

There will be collection boxes in the Hall and in Pre-Prep (please do not put other supermarket vouchers in there as they have to be sorted by hand!)

Please help us to collect as many vouchers as possible, last year we managed to collect over 11,000 vouchers across the Pre-Prep and Prep, which enabled us to "buy" the following equipment:

Playground football goals, 40 x bean bags, 25 x junior hockey sticks, 1 x Mercian hockey goal keeper kit, 3 x stop watches, 10 x playground multi footballs, 24 x hockey balls, 20 x training bibs.

This was the first time we had been to this meeting and all the Pinewood pupils really enjoyed the experience, despite it being quite tough and wet!  The common was muddy and a bit squelchy, but most of our runners managed to get round.

All the courses were flat and quite fast.  The pupils in all age groups acquitted themselves well and managed to improve on some individual performances. It was great to see members of Year 3 and 4 in both Junior races doing so well - all good experience for them and the future!

Results:

3^rd placed team in the Junior Boys U12 race

3^rd place team in the Senior Girls  U14 race

1^st individual in the Junior Boys U12 race - Stirling Calvert!

Stirling also broke a course record for U12 boys.

AC

U12 Boys

1^st Cheam

2^nd St Hugh’s

3^rd Pinewood

U12 Girls

1^st Cheam

2^nd Beaudesert

3^rd St Hugh’s

U14 Girls

1^st  Beaudesert

2^nd Abberley

3^rd Pinewood

U14 Boys

1^st Farleigh

2^nd St Hugh’s

3^rd Cheam