Girls Football – County Finals

On Saturday 8^th February, Brooke H, Brooke F, Lacie, Sophie, Sofia, Carmel, Emily and Maya represented the school in the county round of the Danone Cup for girls at Wainfleet Road, Skegness. In total there were nine teams taking part, each of them representing their area of Lincolnshire. In our group there was Lacey Gardens (representing Louth district), John Harrox (Spalding), Boston West (Boston), and Pointon (Sleaford).

We got off to a good start comfortably winning our first game 3 – 0 against Pointon.

Our second game saw us take a 2 – 0 lead against Lacey Gardens before conceding a late goal which made the final score 2 – 1.

Our 3^rd game, against John Harrox, was a much tighter match with neither team managing to score as the match ended 0 – 0.

We knew going into our final game a draw would guarantee a place in the semi-finals, unfortunately Boston West scored the only goal of the game with the very last kick of the match.

At the end of the group stage we had finished in second place and so progressed through to the semi-finals where we had to play Manor Leas (Lincoln) who had won the other group, winning all their games and scoring lots of goals in the process. We soon found ourselves 3 goals down but in spite of this we did not give up and managed to get a goal back just before halftime. In the second half, we looked the stronger team and when we got a second goal a draw looked possible but unfortunately their goalkeeper was able to pull off a couple of good saves. Manor Leas went on to defeat Boston West in the final.

After losing the semi-final, we had to pick ourselves up for the 3^rd/4^th place play off against Westgate (Lincoln). At the end of normal time the score remained 0 – 0 so the game went into extra-time. We took the lead and despite a few late scares were able to see the game out and secure third place overall.

Swimming Gala

Thursday 30^th January – Louth

22 children represented the school in this year’s swimming gala.

We won the following events:

Y3/4 Medley Relay – Belle, Constanca, Casey and Oliver

Y3/4 Boys 25m Breaststroke – Oliver

Y5/6 Boys 50m Freestyle – Torin

Overall Placings:

4^th Burgh

3^rd Richmond

2^nd St Andrew’s

1^st Horncastle

Sports Hall Athletics

Large Schools Sports Hall Athletics Competition

Wednesday 20^th November

Skegness Grammar School

38 children from Years 5 and 6 took part in this year’s Sports Hall Athletics Competition. Altogether there were seven teams representing five schools.

There were 6 track events for the girls and 6 for the boys; obstacle relay, over under relay, 1+1 lap, 2+2 lap, 6 lap paarlauf and 4 x 1 lap relay.

There were also 6 field events for the girls and 6 for the boys; standing long jump, standing triple jump, vertical jump, chest push, speed bounce and javelin.

Each competitor took part in at least 3 events.

1 - Richmond A (119)

2 - Horncastle A (112)

3 - St Andrews (105)

4 - Burgh (105) Sporting Values

5 - Horncastle B (93)

6 - Richmond B (74)

7 - Alford (66)

Boys Football

Wednesday 16th October
Wainfleet Road Playing Fields
A Team: Joshua, Julius, Owen, Harry, Seb, Johnny, Maddox, Johnny
B Team: Tom, Jaydon, Jayden, Jake, Frankie, Quinlan, Theo, Felix

A Team Results:
Richmond A 0 Burgh A 1
Richmond A 1 St Andrew's A 0
Richmond A 3 St Andrew's B 0
Richmond A 4 Richmond B 0
Richmond A 5 Burgh B 0

B Team Results:
Richmond B 1 St Andrew's B 0
Richmond B 3 Burgh B 1
Richmond B 0 Richmond A 4
Richmond B 0 St Andrew's 2
Richmond B 0 Burgh A 4

Final Placings:
1st Burgh A
2nd Richmond A
3rd St Andrew's A
4th Richmond B
5th St Andrew's B
6th Burgh B

Sporting Values  






Winners Richmond B

Volleyball

Thursday 4th October
Skegness Grammar School


12 children took part in the district volleyball competition.  They were split into 3 teams of 4 with each team competing in of 4 mini-leagues for a place in the quarter finals.
Team 3 (Eva, Libby-May, Colby and Evie) were up against Toynton, Burgh 1 and Friskney 2. They improved with each game but were unable to pick up any wins and so were eliminated after the group stage.
Team 2 (Damian, Owen, Madi and Scarlet) were in a group with Burgh 4, Chapel 3 and Friskney 1. They began with 14 - 10 win against Friskney and followed this with a 20 - 4 win against Chapel and a 21 -4 win against Burgh. This put them top of their league and gave them a place in the quarter-finals.
Team 1 (Corey, Luke, Ollie and Emerson) were drawn with Burgh 3, Chapel 2 and St Andrew's 1. They began with a 20 - 8 win against St Andrew's, followed by a 22 - 10 win against Burgh and a 13 - 7 win against Chapel. They also topped their group and gained a place in the quarter-finals.

In the quarter-finals Richmond 1 defeated Burgh 1, whilst Richmond 2 beat St Andrew's 2.
The two Richmond teams were drawn against each other in the semi-finals, with Richmond 1 just edging through to the final.
The final was Richmond 1 against St Andrew's 1. We built up an early lead but St Andrew's then battled back to level the scores with a couple of minutes to go. We finished strongly to win out winners by 19 - 14. The team can now start training for the county finals which will be held next summer.

Girls Football

Tuesday 25th September
Wainfleet Road, Skegness.

Libby-May, Aaliyah, Lacie, Kelsey, Carmel, Eva, Evie and Freya took part in the first competition of the school year. 
Our first game saw us get off to a flying start scoring in the first few seconds as we went on to defeat Toynton 6 - 0.
In game 2 Freya who had scored a hat trick in the first game switched to goalkeeper and made several great saves as we held Woodhall St Andrew's to a 0 - 0 draw.
In our third game we defeated Chapel by four goals to nil.
Game 4 saw us pick up another win this time 2 - 0 against Great Steeping.
Game 5 was our third in a row without a break and several players were carrying injuries but we battled hard against Friskney, coming from a goal down to draw level, before unfortunately letting in a second Friskney goal late in the game.


Final positions
1st Woodhall St Andrew's 11 points
2nd Great Steeping 10 points (GD +13)
3rd The Richmond 10 points (GD+11)
4th Friskney 9 points
5th Chapel
6th Toynton

Summer Cup

A group of 38 children went to Skegness Grammar School on Monday 9th July to take part in the first Skegness Grammar School Summer Cup

5 primary schools took part in the event, The Richmond, Friskney All Saints, St Peter & St Pauls - Burgh, St Andrew's - Woodhall and Hogsthorpe. The children competed over several athletics track and field events including the long and triple jump, a target throw, javelin, obstacle and running events, relays and with our final event being team tug of war!
 The Y3 team was; Destiny, Lily, Emily, Tia, Jasmine, Jayden, Cruz, Torin, Theo and Lewis 

Y4; Sophie C, Imani, Brooke F, Carmel, Sofia, Johnny, Eden, Owen, Harry & Seb 

Y5: Freya, Ashlee, Faith. Scarlet, Eva, Corey, Emerson, William, Oliver 

Y6: Macey-Jayne, Amaleigh, Lily-Mai, Mayzi, Jenson, Kai-Stuart, Max, Benjamin & Samuel 

There were some last minute changes to the teams with George unable to take part in the Y5 events and Mayzi not able to take part in the Y6 running events.

The Y3 team picked up 2 wins; Emily winning the triple jump and Torin winning the obstacle race.

The Y4 team picked up 10 wins; Seb - long jump, Carmel - triple jump, Harry - javelin, Sophie - target throw, Eden - target throw, Brooke - 60m, Carmel - 300m, Harry - 300m, Sophie - obstacle race, and Johnny, Eden, Brooke & Carmel - 4 x 60m relay

The Y5 team picked up 7 wins; Emerson - triple jump, Ashlee - 60m, Eva - 300m, Freya - 600m, Corey - 600m, Eva - obstacle, and Ashlee, eva, Emerson & Oliver 4 x 60m relay

The Y6 team picked up 6 wins; Kai-Stuart - triple jump, Lily-Mai 60m, Amaleigh - 300m, MJ - 600m, Lily-Mai - obstacle and Lily-Mai, MJ, Samuel & Jenson - obstacle relay.

The girls from Y4,5 & 6 won all 11 of the individual track events with performance of the day probably going to Freya who stepped in to run and win the 600m with a few minutes notice!

1st - The Richmond School 250 points
2nd - St Peter & St Pauls, Burgh-Le-Marsh 246 points
3rd - St Andrew’s, Woodhall Spa 210
4th - Hogsthorpe 173
5th - Friskney All Saints 171

Cross Country

Skegness Grammar School, Thursday 10th May

27 pupils took part in a cross country competition.

The Y4 girls came second in their competition with Boe 11^th, Hollie 12^th, Sophie 13^th, Sofia 14^th, Imani 16^th and Libby 44^th

The Y4 boys came fourth in their event, with Harry 1^st, Sebastian 14^th, Eden 15^th, Johnny 22^nd, Archie 33^rd and Maddox 45^th

Sebastian was awarded the determination award.

The girls from Y5 & 6 finished 2nd in their race with Macey-Jayne 3rd, Amaleigh 4^th, Lily-Mai 24^th, Eva 28^th, Lexi 29^th, Evie 31st, and Freya 61^st

Lily-Mai received the respect award.

The boys from Y5 & 6 finished 3rd in their race, with George 1^st, Corey 10^th, Jenson 13^th, Owen 20^th, Oscar 23^rd, Oliver 45^th, Max 48^th and Emerson 49^th

ESFA/Danone Under 11 School Teams 7-a-side Cup, Midland Regional Finals

Saturday 5^th May, Riverside Sports Complex, Nottingham University

Team: Luke, Corey, Emerson, Damian, Owen, Ollie, Max and Jenson




Group A

School	County
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary	West Midlands
St James C E Primary School	Northamptonshire
Walkwood Middle School	Worcestershire
Swanland Primary School	Humberside
Codsall Middle School	Staffordshire
The Richmond School	Lincolnshire

Group B

School	County
Greenfields Primary School	Leicestershire & Rutland
Whitchurch C E Junior School	Shropshire
West Bridgford Junior School	Nottinghamshire
Ledbury Primary School	Herefordshire
St Charles’ Catholic Primary School	Derbyshire
St Paul’s C E Primary School	Warwickshire

In our first game we were unfortunate to lose 2 - 0 against Walkwood, who went on to win the entire competition. Next we were beaten 3 - 0 by Swanland, 4 - 0 by St James and 3 - 0 by Codsall. Our final game was the closest of the day as we lost 1 - 0 against Sacred Heart.
Although results did not go our way nobody gave up and we showed great determination throughout. With six of the team being able to play in next year's competition it is hoped we can learn  from the experience and come back stronger next season.

Codsall and Walkwood from group A, together with West Bridgford and Whitchurch from group B went through to the semi-finals.

West Bridgford defeated Codsall on penalties whilst Walkwood beat Whitchurch.

In the final it was  Walkwood 1 West Bridgford 1 at the end of normal time, with Walkwood winning the penalty shootout.

Spring Term Round Up

Tuesday 13th March - two teams took part in a Quicksticks Hockey tournament. Both teams played well, with the Y5 team finishing 4th overall. Corey received  a Golden Ticket invitation as a result of his determination and fairplay.

8th March the girls and boys football teams took part in the local round of The Premier League Primary Stars competition. Both teams reached the semi-finals of their respective competitions.

On the 20th March a group of children from Y6 took part in a multi-skills talent day at Skegness Grammar School.


On the 21st March Madeleine, Macey-Jayne, Grace C, and Scarlett took part in a kurling competition at QEGS Horncastle.


By the end of the Spring Term 111 children had attended at least one sports event. In total we have had 303 sports appearances.

Hi 5 Netball

Scarlett, Macey-Jayne, Megan, Courtney, Mayzi, Lily-Mai, Tegan, Hannah, Madeleine &  Jessica represented the school in a HI 5 Netball competition at Skegness Grammar School on the 20th February. As you can see from the final placings below we were drawn in the same group as the eventual top 2 schools!

League 1                                                   League 2

6th - Woodhall Spa 2                             6th - Alford Primary

5th - Toynton All Saints                         5th - Chapel St Leonards

4th - Friskney                                          4th - Horncastle 2

3rd - The Richmond                               3rd - Woodhall Spa 1

2nd - Horncastle 1                                 2nd - Great Steeping

1st - Burgh Le Marsh                             1st - Skegness Junior Academy

Semi Final 1 - Skegness Junior Academy v Horncastle 1 (Horncastle Winners)

Semi Final 2 - Burgh Le Marsh v Great Steeping (Burgh-Le-Marsh Winners)

Final - Burgh Le Marsh v Horncastle 1 (Horncastle win 2-0)

Swimming Gala

18^th January, Louth Meridian Pool

Team Members: 

Noah, Harry, Johnny, Thomas, Maddox, Tom, Lily, Mia, Nyah, Lexi, Sophie C and Ella from Y4

George, Colby and Emerson from Y5

Jessica, Maya, Grace E, Macey-Jayne, Mayzi, Lily-Mai, Ben, Tyler M and Charlie from Y6

Took part in this year's swimming gala.

In the Y3/4 Competition we finished 3rd behind Horncastle (1st) and Woodhall St Andrew's (2nd)

In the Y5/6  competition we were 4th overall with Woodhall St Andrew's the winners in this age group.

We picked up several individual race wins;

Ben won the Y5/6 boys 25m Breastroke

Colby won the Y5/6 boys 50m Backstroke

George won the Y5/6 boys 50m Breaststroke

Jessica won the Y5/6 girls 25m Butterfly and the 50m Breaststroke

Girls Indoor Football

11^th January, Skegness Grammar School

A team (Freya P, Lily-Mai, Maya, Macey-Jayne, Mayzi and Amaleigh) came 1^st

B team (Olivia D, Tegan, Grace C, Eva, Libby-May, Madison) just missed out on a place in the semi-finals.  Y6 Y5

Rowing

On Friday 1st December Estera, Jessica, Lily-Mai, Luke, Ben and Tyler M from Year 6 went to Skegness Grammar School to take part in a rowing competition.
After some warm up games, the first rowing event was a One Minute Challenge where each rower had to see how far they could row in one minute. Estera managed a very impressive 255m just pipping Ben's 253m to be the top individual.

The next event was a 10 stroke relay where each rower had to ten strokes before handing over to the next rower.
The final and deciding event was the 2000m team relay, where the 6 team members had to row a combined distance of 2000m. Our team completed the course in 9 minutes and 7seconds.

The final placings were:
1st Richmond
2nd Friskney
3rd Burgh
4th Woodhall St Andrews

Cross Country

After school on Thursday 23^rd March 39 children went to Alford Cricket Club in Well near Alford to take part in a cross country competition.

The Year 4 girls were first to run. Eva was our first runner home in 10^th, with Poppy 13^th, Freya 23^rd, Kelsey 36^th, Ashlee 30th and Libby-May 53^rd.

In the Year 4 boys race George finished 1^st, with Corey 2^nd,  Oliver 10^th, Konrad 23^rd, Oscar 30^th, Emerson 36^th, Colby 46^th and William 70^th.

Year 5 girls: Macey-Jane came in 1^st, with Mayzi 5^th, Madeleine 17^th, Lexi 18^th, Ella 19^th and Lily-Mai 22^nd.

In the Year 5 boys race Jenson was our first finisher in 6^th place. Anthony was next home in 18^th with Benjamin 29^th, Tyler 34^th, Charlie 35^th and Ben 40^th.

In the Year 6 girls Scarlet B was 3^rd with Isabelle just behind in 4^th, with Cloud 11^th, Scarlett H 14^th, Jessica 16^th, Rhianna 19^th and Lisa 22^nd.

Finally in the year 6 boys race; Billy was 2^nd, Tyler S was 10^th, Jack 11^th, Luke 12^th, Evan 16^th and Kiefer 19^th.

Overall we finished first in the large schools team competition.

Sports Hall Athletics 10th February

On Friday 10th February a team of 19 Y6 pupils took part in the annual Sports Hall Athletics competition at Skegness Academy.

They took part in a total of 24 events (12 for the girls and 12 for the boys).
The events were:
Obstacle Relay - team of 4
1 lap + 1 lap pairs race
2 laps + 2 laps pairs race
6 lap paarlauf (pairs race)
Over & Under Relay - team of 4
4 x 1 lap relay
Chest Push (team of 3)
Standing Long Jump (team of 3)
Standing Triple Jump (team of 3)
Vertical Jump (team of 3)
Javelin (team of 3)
Speed Bounce (team of 3)

With a total of seven teams taking part and so many events happening it was difficult to know how we were doing but the organisers told us the overall lead kept changing hands and that it was very close between the top few teams.
Final Placings:
7th Skegness Junior Academy
6th Alford
5th Mablethorpe
3rd = Burgh and Woodhall
2nd Richmond
1st Horncastle

Boys' Basketball Tournament

On Thursday 26th January a team of boys from Year 6 took part in a basketball tournament at Skegness Academy.

The team was made up by; Tyler S, Kiefer, Mateusz, William, Dennie and Oliver.

Results

Richmond 8 Wainfleet 0

Richmond 8 SJA 14

Richmond 2 Willoughby 16

Richmond 0 Friskney 20

Richmond 4  Woodhall 0

Richmond 4 SJA b 14

Final Placings

1st Friskney

2nd Willoughby

3rd SJA b

4th SJA a

5th Richmond

6th Wainfleet

7th Woodhall

The Richmond School Girls’ Basketball basket a 3rd place! by Kirsten

Last night at Skegness Academy Kirsten, Tia A, Isabelle, Aimee, Molly and Lisa took part in a basketball competition. In the first match we smashed Skegness Junior Academy B, 12 points to 4. Unfortunately Isabelle injured herself in the 2^nd minute of this game and had to not play the game.

Skegness Junior Academy A, were more competitive and unfortunately beat us 20 points to 10. They used their height advantage lots in this game as they had one player as tall as Mr. Ball!

The next match we played was against Friskney, another team of tall Year 6’s, and they just beat us 6 points to 2. This was a very low scoring game and both teams used their defence skills lots.

The last match played was against Woodhall Spa. Isabelle played the last game. We beat them by a big difference of 12 points to 4.

 In the end we came 3^rd. The scores were:

1^st: Skegness Junior Academy A

2^nd: Friskney

3^rd: Richmond

4^th: Woodhall

5^th: Skegness Junior Academy B

“My favourite moment was when I scored my first goal. I scored seven baskets altogether and I am really happy. It was so fun. I definitely want to play the sport again!” - Kirsten.

                                                                                                  

Girls Basketball by Isabelle

On the 25th January, the girls basketball team (Me, Tia A, Molly, Aimee, Lisa and Kirsten) went to a basketball tournament at the Skegness Academy. When we arrived I was very nervous but excited too.
The first game we played was against The Skegness Junior Academy team B. Unfortunately, in the first 2 minutes of the game I injured my little finger and it really hurt. After that the other team ended up beating SJA team B 12-4. I missed out on the next two games which were not very goods scores for us. Next was SJA team A, and they beat us 20-10. Watching and not taking part in the game made me really cross. Friskney then beat us 6-2, and that was the time when I was practising with one hand on my own. At the last game I joined in and we the beat them 12-4. I was very proud that I still got up and played at the end. Overall we finished 3rd which is good enough for me.

Football County Finals

The school football team (Dalton, Harry, Ethan, Mckye, Billy, Jenson, Evan and Eythan) took part in the County Finals of the Lincolnshire Schools’ Football Association, U11 Danone Cup, School Team Competition on Saturday 21st January at Wainfleet Road, Skegness.

Taking part in the competition were the 8 district competition winners split into two groups:
Group 1
William Alvey (Sleaford district)
Parish Church (Gainsborough district)
Hawthorn Tree (Boston district)
Malcolm Sargent (Stamford district)
Group 2
Market Rasen (Market Rasen district)
Richmond (East Coast district)
Linchfield (Spalding district)
Saxilby (Lincoln district)

We began with a game against Market Rasen where a goal in the first 20 seconds helped to calm any nerves and set us on the way to a 3 - 0 victory.
Next up was Linchfield who had also won their opening game. This was a much closer game and we had to be at our best to run out 1 - 0 winners.
Going into our third game, against Saxilby, we knew that a draw would be enough to see us into the semi-finals but a defeat would see us miss out on goal difference. Once again we played very well and won by 2 goals to nil, securing top spot in our group in the process.

In our semi-final we played Parish Church who had finished as runners up in their group. We started strongly and were 3 goals up by half time. This allowed us to try and save a little energy for the final and although Parish Church came back strongly we restricted them to a single long range goal.
In the final, we played Malcolm Sargent Primary who had also won their group. We went behind for the first time in the competition early on in the first half. However, we looked to be getting back into the match and created a few opportunities of our own before a goal in the dying seconds of the first half put us 2 goals down. In the second half we couldn't break through a strong defence and had to settle for second place.
Throughout the tournament the whole team displayed a high level of sportsmanship, determination and skill and should be proud of their efforts.