Everything Goes Swimmingly for All Saints and Leechpool
Nine schools convened upon the Pavilions in the Park swimming pool on Wednesday to compete in the annual primary schools gala. As usual teams could be entered in the A event for club swimmers plus any non-club children prepared top ‘swim-up’ and the B event for non-club swimmers only.
Shelley Reign Supreme in Dodge City
Shelley School won the year 3+4 dodgeball championships played tonight in the indoor athletics hall (‘The Tube’) at The Bridge leisure centre as a consequence of wet weather preventing play outdoors. They won a round-robin of eight teams from six schools, winning six of their seven matches and, interestingly, only being defeated by bottom team Southwater B in their second match of the night.
Southwater Year 5’s Unstoppable At Sports Hall Athletics
The third and final meeting of the Horsham Primary Schools Girls Football League took place tonight at the Tanbridge astroturf in bitterly cold weather. Heron Way A were heavy favourites starting the night in pole position and never looked like relinquishing that advantage as they added another three wins to their record. The bigger question mark hovered around second spot with Southwater and Leechpool front sides matching each other point for point but the former prevailing by a goal difference of just three.
Great Fun at TT Skills Festival
15 children from two schools – Kingslea and St Mary’s Pulborough – took part in a table tennis skills festival at The Forest School on Friday. The event involved learning and informal, self-scoring competition and Finn and Charlie from Kingslea emerged as winners accumulating 430 points, 20 ahead of schoolmates Ayaan and Jack.
Advantage Leechpool in Netball Division A
Last Thursday’s netball league Division A was affected by the postponement of three matches due to one of the three courts becoming too slippy to play on. Thankfully those matches can be squeezed into the second and final meeting due after February half term.
Little Netballers Shine at Millais
The next generation of netball talent in the Horsham area was on show at Millais School on Thursday as school year 3+4 children (aged 7-9) gathered in a festival event under the tutelage of a year 9 group of sports leaders from the secondary school.
All Saints Top of Netball Table, but Leechpool B in Control
After last week’s Division A freeze-off the Horsham Primary Schools Netball resumed with the first Phase 2 Division B meeting at The Bridge leisure centre multicourts. All Saints and Leechpool B both started well. In their first games All Saints beat a rejuvenated Greenway outfit by a single goal and Leechpool B saw off Kingslea B in conclusive style. All Saints then proceeded to despatch Shelley 6-0 and Leechpool B made lighter work of Greenway. Round 3 saw the two confront each other in an excellent game which Leechpool came out the better of, 3-1.
Southwater Year 6s Go Stronger Higher Faster in Indoor Athletics Comp
The third and final meeting of the Horsham Primary Schools Girls Football League took place tonight at the Tanbridge astroturf in bitterly cold weather. Heron Way A were heavy favourites starting the night in pole position and never looked like relinquishing that advantage as they added another three wins to their record. The bigger question mark hovered around second spot with Southwater and Leechpool front sides matching each other point for point but the former prevailing by a goal difference of just three.
Heron Way Win Girls Football League
The third and final meeting of the Horsham Primary Schools Girls Football League took place tonight at the Tanbridge astroturf in bitterly cold weather. Heron Way A were heavy favourites starting the night in pole position and never looked like relinquishing that advantage as they added another three wins to their record. The bigger question mark hovered around second spot with Southwater and Leechpool front sides matching each other point for point but the former prevailing by a goal difference of just three.
Leechpool A Shade It In Netball Group Decider
Some more good matches were played tonight at The Bridge in the second meeting of Pool A of the Horsham Primary Schools Netball League. Phase 1 f the league is now completed and groups will be re-arranged for the new year with promotion of the top teams to an upper division and the others formiong a lower division.