World Book Day.

‘On World Book Day, the staff and children at Agincourt dressed up as their favourite character.  The children had enormous fun coming in as Willy Wonka, the BFG, Alice in Wonderland and many many more.  The staff also took their characters seriously – a fabulous Cruella Deville, Bert from Mary Poppins and even Percy the Parkkeeper made their way into school.’

Agincourt Chess Success.

Eight pupils from Agincourt enjoyed a great day of chess at the Wales Megafinal of the UK Chess Challenge in Swansea on May 9th. Playing six games the target was to win at least four – to enable qualification for the British Gigafinal in Manchester in July 2009. Taking on  the best Welsh youngsters in their age group three from Agincourt made it to the Gigafinal, with the other five close behind. In the Girls’ section Tuesday won the trophy, while in the Boys’ event Joseph  came 2nd, with Zu also qualifying.

Teacher Mr.Thomas said today: “These are all sharp cookies & I expected some good results, but they have gone way beyond my expectations. The UK Chess Challenge, with more than 75,000 entrants, is now the largest chess tournament in the world. The three who go on to the Gigafinal will be competing against the best of British players, & I’m sure they will rise to the occasion. Well done all eight from Agincourt!”

Early Success at Oxford University.

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The Year Two pupils at Agincourt School entered a nationwide prose and art competition run by Oxford University.  The competition invited pupils to design a perfect city.

Henry and Hebe were runners-up in the age 5 – 9 prose competition and Ellie was the winner of that category.  Victoria was a runner-up in the age 5 – 7 artwork category and Hollie was the winner of that category.

‘This is an extraordinary achievement in a crop of incredibly high standard entries and we want to wish them all our huge congratulations’  Oxford University

Agincourt was also runner-up in the overall schools prize for the best set of entries sent from one school.

I am proud and delighted to present these children with their prizes and certificates today.

 Competition Winners.

Emma was the Welsh finalist and Thomas was the runner up for the Royal Mail's letter writing competition. It was a national competition with forty thousand entries.

Agincourt took part in a Floodline competition set by the Environment Agency for Wales. It involved drawing pictures about floods, floodwarnins or rivers which would then be chosen for a calender open to South East Wales. We are proud to say that nine Agincourt pictures were chosen and will become nine months of the year!

Agincourt won the Itton shield in the Chepstow Show. We achieved a terrific first and second place in the art competition, first place in nursery for a collage and third prize in poetry.

Agincourt School pupils’ success at the Chepstow Agricultural Show

Pupils at Agincourt School were delighted to win the Itton Shield and the St Deiniol Cup at the Chepstow Agricultural Show this summer.

The School gained first prize in the Nursery and Infant collage competition, while the Nursery teddy bear competition was won by Charlotte C, with classmates Jessica P and Ella M taking 2nd and 3rd prizes.  The Infants were asked to make animal masks and Isabel W and Alexander L won 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively in this competition.  The Show’s poetry competition was won by Charlotte N with second place going to Rory S.

Agincourt School’s Head Teacher, Mrs Liz Thomas, said,

“We were thrilled to win both the Itton Shield and the St Deiniol Cup at the Chepstow Agricultural Show this year.  The children all worked very hard for these competitions and we would like to congratulate the winners and runners up.”