After a three year pandemic-related gap District Sports Athletics competition returned to the local primary school sports scene as nine smaller schools of the area convened in the athletics stadium of The Bridge leisure centre, Broadbridge Heath. The morning event was the year 3 and 4 age category and Loxwood emerged triumphant. In the afternoon year 5 and 6 event All Saints, Horsham took top spot.

The weather was perfect, fine but with temperatures at around 20C not being over-demanding on the children and consequently a number of the youngsters were able to perform at their full potential. The format employed was the quadkids system that involved the children undertaking four disciplines – howler throw, sprint, standing long jump and a middle distance run – as a test of their all-round athletics competence.

From an organisational perspective things mostly went to plan in catering for around 350 children over the course of the day and processing of the order of 1500 items of results data. At the officiating coalface teachers and parent/other volunteers did a great job of generating the results under the direction of event director Dave Ingram.

RESULTS

YEAR 3+4 – detailed spreadsheet download (for individual results analysis)

1. Loxwood 2530 points
2. Northolmes 2466
3. Warnham 2444
4. All Saints 2381
5. Castlewood 2263
6. St John’s 2247
7. Cowfold 2153
8. St Mary’s, Horsham 2124
9. Shipley 1894

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YEAR 5+6 – detailed spreadsheet download (for individual results analysis)

1. All Saints 2937
2. St Mary’s, Horsham 2746
3. Northolmes 2672
4. Loxwood 2638
5. St John’s 2340
6. Warnham 2336
7. Cowfold 2253
8. Castlewood 2237
9. Shipley 1322