Hannah Russell

Four years ago in Beijing, British swimming star Ellie Simmonds came to the games as an unheralded teenager and came away with two gold medals and Russell will be hoping that  she can enjoy the same sort of success in London on her Paralympic debut.

She was impressive at the recent British paralympic trials, setting a European record in the 100m backstroke at the Olympics Aquatics centre and coming away with five qualifying times.

Sarah Joanne Storey!!!

1.   Sarah was born on October 26^th, 1977 (age 35).

2.    Sarah was born without a left functioning arm.

3.   She’s a British swimmer and a track and road cyclist.

4.   Now we’ve got Sarah’s timeline.

1977: Sarah was born.

1992: Age 15, Sarah began her Paralympic career.

1998: In the twenties she was appointed to order of the British Empire.

2008:  In the Thirties Sarah won individual pursuit.

2011: In 2011, she was competing for one of the three places in the GB squad for the women’s team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic games.

2012: In 2012, she appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. 

By Masie and Anam!!

 

  

Paralympics!

           

(Netherlands) Esther Vergeer

          The sport Esther Vergeer plays is wheelchair tennis player .Esther Verger has won 454 single matches. The world number 1 is coming to the Eton Manor parks as defending the singles champion as trying to get her fourth gold in London.

Earlier this month she was practising for the event with victory in the Eaton Manor.

By HASSAN AND ABUBAKR

Hannah Russel

We have been learning about the paralympics so we have typed up a biography about Hannah Russel.

Hannah Russell is a British swimmer and was also born in Chertsey, Surrey 5^th August. She was very impressive at the trials for the Paralympics she came away with a stunning record. She has achieved a gold medal in the 100 meter back stroke in 2011.   One of her achievements is being a paralympion.

by S.M and K.C

David Weir

He won 2 gold medals in the Beijing Olympics. He won them in the 1500m and 800m. He is great Britain’s top wheelchair racer.            (David weir)

Biography of paralympian Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius, born in South Africa 1986. Who is known as the blade runner and the fastest man with no legs. Pistorius has had two legs chopped off which is called amputation. In 2007, Pistorius took part in his very first international able-bodied runners. But he had two artificial lower legs which gave the people with able- legs an advantage. The Beijing Olympics saw him earn 3 gold medals.  

Thank You,

By Dawud and Harish

Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius was born on 22^nd of November 1986. He is an African also known as the (blade runner). As well as that he is the fastest athlete with no legs. 17-28 September 2004 he won a bronze medal. 9 September 2008 he won a gold medal. He achieved much medals in his sport career. In his childhood he went to Constantia Kloof Primary school. Also in his childhood he took part in a wrestling club. He played rugby, water polo and tennis. After a serious rugby knee injury in June 2003, he was introduced to running in January 2004. In his sporting career he took part in the 2004 summer Paralympics in Athens and came third.

David Weir is an paralympic athlete

            David Weir

                        Biography

David Weir was born on the 5^th June 1979 and is an elite British Paralympic  wheel chair athlete from London , England. On 13^th April 2008 David won his 3^rd London marathon in a row and his fourth in total. He came 3^{rd in} the 2010 London marathon, after getting a flat tyre on his new wheel chair. He won the 2012 London marathon which was his sixth in a London marathon.  He is very talented even though he is disabled which shows that even disabled people are the same as normal people.

^{He has been described by the Canadian broadcasting corporation as one of the best wheelchair athlete in the world which made David Weir very happy!}  David Weir currently holds the British record at all track distances up to 5,000 m, as well as on the road at 10 km, half marathon, and marathon.

Pros cons

Hello this is me Saira again and I will tell you a little bit of our life at mersey vale! This is a moment where I can tell you the cons and pros about this school!
PROS:
GOOD TEACHING!
TEACHERS HAVE GOOD SENSE OF HUMOUR!
WE HAVE LONG GOLDEN TIME
WE HAVE IPADS AND IPODS!
BIG CLASS ROOMS
COOL TEACHERS

CONS:

BORING LESSONS
REALLY STRICT TEACHER
SMALL HALL
NOT ENOUGH CHANCES
TEACHERS SOMETIMES DONT LISTEN

Theese were some of the good things and some of the bad things

Bye and I hope theese helped you ! FROM SAIRA

End of year reports By Saira

Today we are gonna get our end of year reports. YES end of year reports! It sounds impossible doesnt it but its not. I hope mine comes out nice and I hope all my friends reports come out nice too! From Saira

sports day

in sports day i got 3 gold medals in sprinting 2 times and skipping 1 time it was brilant and we have ipods and ipads to video the sport day i was the best and Aisha was jealous




       BY Devan whitelock

Sports day!!!!

This week is sports week. We did doge ball, hockey and many more. And yesterday we made a mini   olympics and reception realy enjoyed it. The winner won a prize.

hello

Hello again and today i am going to talk to you about our wonderfull sports week.
All the school were put in different teams against each other in different sports.

from M.W

sports day

this week were doing sports week we are doing loads of sports we did mini olympics basketball trowing events that what we did it is fun this week i hoped you enjoyed my blog thank you

from ethan

To day at school 2 peoplein year 5 called aisha and dawad  is going to do batton we have done posters as well.     

Batton relay

Today is Friday 6th of July and at lunch St Winifred's are passing a batton to us.
We are all very excited about it.
At lunch time today the batton will arrive.
From key stage 2, 8 children are running.
From our class  Aisha ad Dawud will be carrying it.


By Maisie and Aisha

banerr mayhem

Today in our class we are making banners for are schools relay race. its gonna be soo good i really like learning about the olympics i wonder if you like learning about the olympics so thats all peace out

                                   by leon

sports day at mvps!!!

On Wednesday it was sports day and

All of the school took part.

there were lots of races like the running race,

egg and spoon race,the bean bag race

 and much more.

All of the children really enjoyed

racing together and taking part.

The sports day lasted nearly 2 hours.

lots of children earned gold medals and also silvers

an bronze ones.Everyone enjoyed it a lot

hi this is the mini olympics

my buddy is Ryan he kick it far but he didn't get into the finial he lost so is was feeling down in the dump but i liked how won


by Samuel

Sports week!

                          Sports Week!

This week has been full with fun and happiness. First on Monday Mr Ellis was ill and Mrs McDonough was teaching us. We first sorted out the teams for the week I was in the Vipers team. Then we had our break after break we played hockey we were in the semi-finals but we lost penalties. Later we had lunchtime next we had PE with Ben we did athletics. It was really fun. Then we did art we painted our money containers. On Tuesday we had Doge ball then we had break after break we did throwing different items like bean bag, tennis ball and basketball. Basketball was the hardest. Then we did much more.

On Wednesday we had sports week which was really exciting and fun filled. Yesterday on Thursday we did our mini-Olympics with reception. they had fun so did we. This week has been really fun and exciting.

Sports week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mersey vale primary school has just had their sports day it was the best thing ever guess what I won a silver medal and a bronze. I got a silver medal for racing and bronze for skipping it was really hard to skip but I had a go at it we only had two races and it was boring watching but when I did it was cool.




BY Alex 

running in reds

recently some children have been at a mini olympics and have been earing a red shirt.

they were doing jumping, sprinting and other fun activitys, they were other schools competing too.

thankyou for reading this post.

Banners for the race! And sports week

We have been making banners! It has been so fun and so productive! Our morning was really fun because we have been doing all stuff FUN! Seriously every one really enjoyed it and every one helped us a lot! We have also been having sports week and that was fantastic! I cannot believe that a there will be a school in the world that would be so fun! I love this school


FROM SAIRA