To celebrate Harry’s second anniversary Jessica and his Mu m chose this lovely weather station.  It will be placed near Harry’s Garden.

Greg Rutherford  is a British athlete from Milton Keynes who competes in long jump and 100 metres. He is coming to school to meet the children and to talk in assembly, along with Julian Golley, Commonwealth Games gold medal winner.

Look below for some Greg Rutherford facts.

 His home club is Marshall Milton Keynes AC.

Rutherford competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games for England. On 8 August 2006, he won the silver medal in the long jump at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a jump of 8.13 m.

He is the current British record holder in the long jump. He set this record at the World athletics championships in Berlin on 20 August 2009, breaking Chris Tomlinson‘s previous record by 1 cm.

Greg won the AAAs Sat 12 July, qualifying for the Olympics 2008.

He also won the international meet at Crystal Palace 26 July with a leap of 8.16.

His personal bests are:

• 100m – 10.26 seconds (2010)
• Long Jump – 8.30m (2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin) New British Record

Last Friday Green day was a great success. The children took part in planting, weaving the Willow, tidying up the pond and looking at ways to keep us GREEN.

Just to remind you that the Spanish Assembly for Language of the Half Term is on Wednesday 18th May – if you would like to attende, please remember to return your reply slips! There is a maximum of 50 parent places.