Harron Homes donated a Christmas tree to our school because they were holding a competition for the “Best decorated tree” amongst the local schools.  We gave the donated Christmas tree to Reception and they put all their efforts into decorating it beautifully as you can see from the photograph.

Today we were delighted to find that we had won the competition! We will receive £500 to buy books for Reception which is great; we will be asking the Reception children for ideas about books they would like to have in school.

The Springbank Year 6 athletics team yesterday completed an impressive hat-trick by winning the Leeds West Indoor Athletics Championships for an incredible third year in succession. Our athletes first took gold in the new form of the competition in the year following on from the London Olympics and since that time we have become the team to beat out of almost 140 schools in our local area. Thursday night's competition was one of the closest seen in recent times and our usual rivals, Lower Wortley and Southroyd, were in determined mood as they looked to take the trophy out of our hands. Fierce determination from the Springbank girls saw them, remarkably, win every single one of their races on the day - that included the race of the night where a dropped baton looked to have knocked us out of the hurdles relay only for the girls to fight their way back from fifth place to win outright! The boys were equally determined against some very talented athletes from other schools and won the majority of their races on the night. However, Lower Wortley produced some amazing performances in the field events, including two of the longest triple jumps ever recorded in primary school history, so we knew the final result would be tight. In the end Springbank took the title by just ten points and they will now go through to the finals against the best schools in the city to be held in January. Well done athletes - as always you have done us proud! 

The Year 6 football team returned to Priesthorpe on Tuesday 20th October for the second of four rounds in the family of schools mini football league.

In the first of three matches, Springbank once again faced closest rivals Farsley Farfield. The game started very evenly with both sides looking likely to make a breakthrough. Luck was not on Springbank's side though, and Farfield took the lead with a powerful shot from outside of the goalkeepers D. The boys battled to the end but just couldn't break through the defence and were defeated 1-0. The team showed superb resilience and didn't let their heads drop, encouraging each other fantastically and going into the second of the nights games with confidence and determination to play the best they could.

Once again the game, which was against Calverley CofE, looked like it was balanced on a knife edge with both teams playing some fantastic passing football. Springbank were the first to pressure the goal and after a super ball from Temwisha, Jacob scored a superbly placed goal from a tight angle. This lifted the Springbank spirit and minutes later a super counter attack led to Luke playing Jacob in on goal for him to score his second of the game. The game ended 2-0 to Springbank, the team's first win of the academic year!

In the final game of the evening, we played Pudsey Bolton Royd. Springbank started the game as they finished the last and played their hearts out from the first whistle to the last. The breakthrough came after some lovely play from Theo to set up a fantastic finish from Temwisha. Shortly after, Luke followed the ball to the keeper and claimed a deflected goal to make it 2-0 to Springbank. The evening ended with Jacob's third goal following some fantastic footwork.

Once again the boys should be very proud of themselves and how they conducted themselves throughout. They showed superb sportsmanship and never stopped trying all evening. They were a credit to themselves and the school. We now enter a winter break, with the third and fourth rounds to be played after the Christmas holidays. A big thank you must also go to parents and carers for being fantastic supporters of the tournament and braving the chilly conditions to support the school team!