'You Can't Win Anything with Kids'

As one football pundit famously put it.

We all know how wrong he was about that! (For those of you born this century, it was said about Manchester United's young side before they won EVERYTHING).

Bang goes my promise to avoid football and politics in my blog.

Here at Wrotham Road, we are very much about the joy of participation - our 'kids' always have a focus on the pleasure of being part of a team - helping and supporting and cheering on their team mates. However, credit where it is due...

This term. the school absolutely smashed the trust's Times Table Rockstar School challenge.

We then trebled our best trophy haul in the Golden Gala swim meet

 (One trophy missing from photo)

In that well-known sporting arena of competitive poetry recital, we took home two trophies 

Common to all these achievements, the camaraderie that all our children demonstrated - taking pleasure in the success of others - was a reoccurring observation made by other people at these events. Maybe even if you don't win, you can still win hearts.