Horsham District Latest News

YST Working with the RFU to Grow Rugby in Schools

The Youth Sport Trust is working in partnership with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to listen to the ideas and needs of young people with the aim of engaging more young people in rugby. Through working together with schools and their students on this Workforce Pilot, the RFU are creating a range of formats of rugby that are designed to be exciting and vibrant to all. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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