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Women’s world cup trophy tour
We shared the last day of spring half term with the first day of the south west tour of the Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy nationwide tour. The cup, won by England’s Red Roses team in September 2025 and since then, the cup has toured England to celebrate and engage young girls in rugby. We invited 5 local schools to come and join us for this special visit and then engage with a great team of coaches from Andover Rugby & Football Club.
The coaches put the children through their paces and the additional bonus was that they were also able to play and get to know childrne from other local schools and new friendships emerged. The busy morning was played in traditional English rugby weather; a little drizzly and wet but fun nonetheless!
Netball tournament
The hotly contested netball tournament amongst our cluster schools was held in mid-March to a packed crowd of parents and all 7 schools taking part on a sunny Tuesday evening.
Our team of 8 had been practicing lots together in school both at after school club and with Mr Marchi, our PE coach from ActiveMe360. They rotated positions and played brilliantly, showing fantastic team spirit and super skills; they were always in a space to receive the ball, ran miles up and down the courts to ensure we had a strong position of play for every shot and scored accurately to rack up 20 goals over 6 games and a very strong silver position overall.
Because of the rotation style of High 5 netball, 3 children are off court whilst 5 play and only 1 boy can play at any one time. Even when not on court, children were scoring, analysing the performance of their team mates and translating things they’d noticed back into their play in the next game. What a fantastic team, result and, most importantly, effort from them all. Well done!
(Ava is missing from the photo as she had to leave early to attend her Chelsea football training session)
Young Voices 2026
Rehearsing for 4 months, singing 16 songs, a huge trip to London are all just part and parcel of the experiences our Year 5 & 6 children engage with at Stockbridge and this year was no different. Our 37 children joined an 8600 strong choir to sing memorable medleys, one off, specially written numbers and join in with the world record breaking ‘Wicked’ sing along at the O2 this January.
What an experience! The awe and wonder as we entered the seating area (we were very lucky and had 3 official ‘suites’ at the O2 this year) was worth all of the hours of rehearsals! The lights, the singing, the dancing and the awesome band and conductor make this event really special.
Of course, in true Stockbridge style, we made a real ‘day’ of things with an early coach to London to get us into Greenwich where we topped up on a warm lunch at Pizza Express. This meant we arrived at the O2 in good time for rehearsals to begin but not too early that we were hanging around for ages. We then launched into 4 hours of rehearsals to ensure our performance was perfect and in sync with the other 8600 children before having an extended break from 5pm – 7pm. The lights went off at 7pm, screams rang loudly across the arena before launching into song at 7pm to an audience of all parents, family and friends.
Creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Future Scientists
Our Upper school, Years 4-6, spent an exciting day at INTECH in Winchester Science Centre in early November as they embarked on their ‘Out of this World’ topic, learning all about electricity and space. This heavily science based topic revolves around children asking and investigating questions they have asked about how our world works – where better to visit?!
They were inspired by the opportunities for hands on learning and enjoyed a workshop all about refraction of light. The children were able to wear special glasses which refracted light and showed them the colours of the rainbow and, using lasers, they were able to ‘bend’ light – all fascinating science learning. The night sky also came into focus as they spent time in the planetarium and focused in our solar system’s planets and what’s ‘in between’.
Back in school, children have been working with an electrician from local company MG Cavill’s to explore different circuits which they will incorporate into their Mars Rover designs.
Grounds working party
This photo shows two members of the Maple family hard at work on Saturday 18th October when we opened our school gates for a quick 2hrs of help in managing our extensive school grounds. The Maples weren’t the only family that turned out to help! The Homans, Camerons, Bryants, Kings, Jefferies all turned out and with so many hands, 2hrs flew by and we got so much done!
We’ve planted up the Early Years area with grasses and interesting flowers for year round colour which will also be used in the mud kitchen to make all kinds of wonderful potions. Bushes and shrubs were trimmed back to ensure the pavements along Old London Road are as wide as possible and help families be safe when walking into school and the beds and borders were dug over too!
We concluded with a chocolate cake, Victoria sponge and a number of freshly cooked hot dogs. All in all, a great morning’s work. Thank you to all who took part.