We don’t often get invited to send our Year 3s to a local sporting event, so top marks to Budmouth for organising this Y3 Basketball Festival, held at Redlands on Thursday.

Our chosen 10 were happy to admit they hadn’t played much basketball before, but all were looking forward to the chance to find out more about it.

The hall was full of children from other schools, as well as an army of sports leaders from Budmouth, there to run the activities for the children and to make sure everyone had fun. They had set up stations around the hall for practising different skills and everywhere you looked you could see Year 3 children furiously dribbling, shooting and passing. Our group threw themselves into the activities and had a brilliant time – it seems they have all been bitten by the basketball bug.

Our thanks to Mrs Russell who helped us get the team to Redlands, and to Mrs Ray and all the pupils from Budmouth who taught and encouraged the children through the morning. We all had a great time!