Year 7 Indoor Athletics - Thursday 16 September 2010

Sparkes Year 7 continued their amazing start to the House Sports season with their second resounding victory in two weeks.  Competing in long jump, triple jump, standing jump, shot and javelin as well as four relays, the Sparkes team finished in the medal positions in every event.  Ably assisted by several Year 11s the Sparkes Boys were superb in their commitment and attitude and showed a huge amount of sportsmanship throughout.  Mr Smith was delighted once more with the efforts of his new boys and said that he looks forwards to more success in the coming weeks.

Report by Cory Radford (Sports Captain)

Year 7 Mob Match – Thursday 9th September 2010

The Year 7’s began the sporting year in style with a resounding victory in the traditional season opener.  The Mob Match is designed to get the new students used to House competition and is a cross country race over a mile long course.  The idea is to get as many runners as possible and Mr Smith was delighted that 23 of the 25 turned out.  Justin Maiden led the Rhinos home coming in 5th overall, closely followed by Jordan Guest in 14th, both securing their places in the school team.  However the event was won in the middle with 15 runners coming between 20th and 60th.  Mr Smith and Mr Gerrard who ran round with his tutor group were rightly proud and look forwards to more success in the coming months. Report by Danny Roberts (Head Boy 2010-11)