EVERY Year Three pupil in Dorchester has attended an Athletics Festival designed to enthuse and motivate them ahead of their sports days and the Olympics in the summer term.

The youngsters were given the opportunity to run through the principle areas of track and field, which tested their ability to control and use their bodies in a certain way.

Dorchester Area Sports Partnership co-ordinator Levi Dailey said: “We had hurdles, jumping, javelin throwing and relay racing underneath tunnels which everyone really enjoyed.

“Being outside and performing athletic events in the summer term is a wonderful experience that everyone remembers.

“All the Year Threes had fun and my sports leaders from Year Seven in all the middle schools did especially well considering the heat and the excitement that was around during these festivals.

“It was fun to run and organise particularly when so many of the pupils were so excited before the events had even started.”

Three of the festivals were based at each of Dorchester’s middle schools. One at Dorchester Middle School with their feeder schools of Prince of Wales, Damers and Cerne Abbas, another at St Osmund’s Middle School with St Mary’s Catholic, Manor Park and St Mary’s Charminster and the other at St Mary’s Puddeltown Middle School with Puddletown First, Frome Valley, Milborne and Piddle Valley.