Sports Results Spring Term 2019

Athletics Rochdale Year 7 Indoor Athletics - Boys 5th & Girls 5th

Boccia & Kurling Cross Country

Zak Gorton-Rigg, Aaron Waddington, Nu’aym

Manzor, Jude Anders, Emily Higginson, Tierney

Dutton, Sahar Ali and Haniah Zulfiqar represented

the school in the Rochdale Year 7 Indoor

Athletics. The best results of the day for the boys

were Nu’aym and Jude who were runners up in

the vertical jump and the boys relay team who

were placed third in the eight lap Paalauf. Haniah

and Emily were third in the vertical jump and the

girls relay team were also placed third in the 8 lap

Paalauf.

ISA North of England Finals The Senior finals were held at Scarisbrick Hall in Ormskirk. The Prep finals were once again held in the mud at Beech House. Thirty four schools attended the event, with 820 runners competing. This was by far the largest ISA sporting event ever held in the North of England. Team under 10 Boys - 18th under 9 Girls - 19th under 11 Boys – 18th under 11Girls - 16th under 14 Boys – 12th under 16 Girls – 9th under 16 Boys – 12th under 18 Boys – 18th

A big congratulations to Archie

Mayer and Camilla Zebedee-

Howard for their performance at the

boccia and kurling tournament. The

students performed really well,

considering they have only

participated in the sport a handful

of times. Both the students worked

well with pupils from other schools

and improved their teamwork skills!

Dodgeball Football Che Sullivan-Manders and Charlie Egerton represented the school for a football training session and tournament at the Soccer Factory in Castleton. They participated in various skill stations such as passing, dribbling and shooting. At the end of the event a tournament was held, mixing the teams and various schools together. Che and Charlie remained on the same team and ending up winning the tournament. The event was held as a talent spotting event for Bridgeability football team, and both Che and Charlie have been invited to join the football club.

U11 Boys Rochdale Tournament v Holy Family lost 0 : 3 v St. Edward’s lost 0 : 4 v Newhey lost 0 : 6

v Ashfield Valley lost 0 : 3

U14 Boys ISA North of England – 9th v Cransley lost 0 : 2 v Tower lost 0 : 4 v Q.E. lost 0 : 3

v Hulme Hall drew 1 :1 v Myddelton lost 0 : 3 v Bridgewater lost 0 : 5 v Scarisbrick lost 0 : 5 v Abbey Gate lost 0 : 2

Futsal

U13 Rochdale – 5th v Cardinal Langley lost 0:2 v Kingsway A lost 0: 2 v Wardle lost 0 : 2 v Kingsway B lost 1 :3 v Matthew Moss drew 1 :

Gymnastics

U11 Rochdale Tournament - 4th The following students took part in the first

Preliminary round of the Rochdale Schools

dodgeball tournament: Grace Pountain,

Anais Aston, Lauren El-Hage, Farhaan

Shoaib, Harry Hurst-Grover, Zidan Illahi

and Rayan Hussain. The students came

joint 4th but will sadly not progress onto

the finals. They won 4 games, lost 7 and

drew 1.

They played against Kentmere Academy,

All Souls, Castleton and Caldershaw.

U13 Rochdale Tournament - 3rd Congratulations to our U13 boys dodgeball team

for receiving bronze medals at the Rochdale

schools games. The boys played against Holy

Family, losing 2 out of their 3 matches. They then

played against Kingsway Park and won all 3. Their

3rd game was against Hollingworth where they

won 2 games out of 3, and their final game was

against Matthew Moss, where they lost 1 game,

won 1 game and drew their final game. Well done

Zak Gorton-Rigg, Jude Anders, Dominic Dodd,

Rico Bernales, Jawad Ali, Che Sullivan-Manders,

and Charlie Egerton.

Greater Manchester School Games – 5th Earlier in the year our Year 2 students qualified for

the Manchester School Games Finals to represent

Rochdale against the other boroughs in

Manchester. The students came 5th place out of 9

schools in this final and performed their three

routines in front of Olympic Bronze Medallist Beth

Tweddle. Congratulations to Arabella Hey, Laya

Karunanandarajah, Haris Sheikh, Ihsaan Al-Haqq

and Luchia Wild for their performance. Also, well

done to Laya Karunanandarajah for receiving the

award of the best individual performance for Beech

House School.

Mini Stars Mini Stars Under 13 Dodgeball Bronze Medallists

House Results Spring Term 2019

Cross Country This year’s event produced some exciting races. The result of the competition was in doubt until the final race. The results are: 1st Saturn – 19 2nd Mercury & Jupiter – 16 4th Neptune - 15

Prep Swimming Gala The gala produced a clear winner, which was the gala itself. All but one Upper Prep pupil received a certificate for being in the first three places. The result saw Mercury clearly retain their title. 1st Mercury- 39pts 2nd Saturn- 22pts 3rd Neptune – 22pts 4th Jupiter – 11pts

House Points The totals at the end of the Spring Term are:

Saturn : 571 Neptune : 501 Mercury : 402 Jupiter : 359 House Captain Luke Ashworth receives the Prep swimming gala trophy on behalf of Mercury

The following students who took part in the Mini Stars event, ran by Hopwood Hall College students: Avalee

Sullivan-Manders, Yahya Tahir, Yumna Rana, Fatima Afzal, Sarim Khattak, Evie Wallet, Yusuf Rizwan and

Aayan Khan.The first activity was the tennis ball challenge, where the students had to work on their balance

and co-ordination. Well done to Yusuf for completing this in the fastest time. The next activity was won by

Avalee and Yahya, which was the bean bag toss, working on accuracy and precision. Sarim was the

champion of the agility fun race, where students had to run around cones. The next activity was a team race

called bean speed, to which the students completed this in 4 minutes and 9 seconds. The volley basketball

shooting event was won by Yusuf and Evie, showing some great skills of power, and the final activity was

won by Yumna. The students had to roll a ball at some skittles whilst blindfolded. Well done to all

participants, it was a great day which we all very much enjoyed!