Festival of Youth Sport

Ten of our Year 6 girls joined 750 other children from all over South Gloucestershire at the annual summer Festival of Youth Sport held at Yate Outdoor Sports Complex on Saturday 21st June.  Our team were there to take part in the Girl’s Cricket tournament.  Other events included rounders, tennis, new age kurling and volleyball.

The girls were put in a group with Hanham Abbotts and Bromley Heath Junior School.  In Kwik Cricket each team bats for 8 overs with a wicket resulting in 4 runs being lost.  Despite batting really well, Chloe scoring two sixes, the girls lost their first match to Bromley Heath.  They fared much better in the second game beating Hanham Abbotts by 13 runs.  Unfortunately due to a runs difference of only 1 run we ended up in the fifth place play off.

Our best performance of the day came in the play off victory against Wheatfield with lots of runs being scored and wickets taken.  The girls played really well throughout the tournament and really enjoyed themselves.  It was a great day.  Well done to Becky, Rebecca, Chloe, Hannah, Lydia, Sophie, Abi, Mia, Laura and Jessica.

Hanham Cross Country Series

Eight of our Year 6 children recently took part in the inaugural Hanham Cross Country Series.  Races over 800m took place at Hanham High, Longwell Green and Beacon Rise.  Prizes were awarded at each event and then overall prizes were awarded for performances throughout the series.
Our boys’ team was Kieran, James, Zac and Gavin.  Our girls’ team was Jessica, Kerrie, Hannah and Isabel.
In the first event at Hanham, Kieran came third in the boys race and Jessica came second.  The girl’s team were joint first.
At the event held at Longwell Green there was a double celebration as Kieran won the boys race and Kerrie won the girls both leading from start to finish. 
We all ran really well at Beacon Rise but didn’t have anyone finishing in the top three.
Overall the results for Longwell Green were brilliant.  Kieran came third in the overall event.  The girl’s fared even better with Kerrie winning the overall Girl’s competition and Jessica not far behind. 
It was a great event and all the children who took part did exceptionally well and really enjoyed representing their school.

Bradley and Bristol Rovers FC

Bradley is making some remarkable progress as a Bristol Rovers FC Junior Goalkeeper and as a result of his outstanding performance over the weekend, playing for Rovers, he has now been selected to play in an elite tournament representing the club, in Walsall against several junior premiership club teams such as Everton and Manchester City.

He has finished the season with Longwell Green Sports FC, playing for both their under 8’s and under 9’s teams as well as Bristol Rovers FC over the past year.  He now has a full agenda of football tournaments booked over the summer before playing exclusively on contract with Bristol Rovers.