Events

Englands Womens Cricket Captain comes to St Gregs

Charlotte Edwards Visit. (Nov 2010)

Key Stage three students this week enjoyed the fantastic

opportunity to work with England's Women's Cricket

Captain Charlotte Edwards.

Charlotte Edwards made her debut appearance in 1996

and in November this year earnt her 142^nd one day

international cap in Sri Lanka, breaking

the previous record held by Karen Rolton of Australia.

Charlotte is delivering the chance to shine coaching

programme which aims to encourage young females

to discover and become involved in the game of Cricket.

 

 

Charlotte delivered sessions during lessons on

Tuesday to year eight students and stayed after school

to work with a group of twelve students across years

seven to nine, providing them with a coaching session

working on their bowling technique in a variety of

activities, and finished with a game of non-stop Cricket.

 

 

 

All the students who took part thoroughly enjoyed

the session and will be working with Charlotte

next week to continue to develop their skills

of the game.

 

 

 

Louise Newell

 

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Indoor Athletics Y7 Oct 2010

 

 

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Indoor Athletics for Y 3/4 March 2009

Results

1st.   St Josephs

2nd.  St Ebbes

3rd.  St John Fisher

4th.  New Hinksey

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Family Tag Rugby Festival
Thursday 23rd October 2008
 
130 Students from St Josephs, St John Fsher,

St Ebbes, Our Lady's and New Hinksey Schools

participated in a Rugby Festival

at St Gregory the Great School.
 
The festival was the conclusion to 7 weeks

of Rugby coaching from Community Sports

Coach Rich Williams, and the students showed

fantastic improvements to their skills to

provide an exciting, entertaining tournament.
 
There were 3 leagues and each league was

eventually won by a different school to show

the vast array of talent from the city schools.

Over 200 tries were scored in total and all

students seemed to be enjoying themselves

on an autumnal morning with a strong wind

and cold temperatures to test the resolve of the players.
 
Winner of League A were St John Fisher

who won all 3 of their matches.

In League B, the winners were New Hinksey

who were unbeaten in all 4 matches.

And in League C, the winners were St Ebbes

who scored a record total of 33 tries.
 
The tournament was assisted by keystage 4

students from St Gregory's school who did a

good job in ensuring fun, safe and fair play.

See Gallery for photos from the event.

Athletics

The first ever Family athletics event was held at Iffley Road on Thursday 3rd July.

Yr 6 pupils took part in Long Jump, High Jump, Cricket Ball Throw, Quoit Throw, 60m, 100m, 200m, 600m and relay events.

Our Lady's were the overall winners in the boys competition with St ebbes winning the girls event.

In the field events the following are the new record holders -

Long Jump -

Girls -  Shannay (Our Ladys) 2.90m

Boys - Joel (St Joseph's) 3.80m

High Jump -

Girls- Molly (St Joseph's) 1.20m

Boys - Fionn and Naomhan (Our Lady's) 1.20m

Cricket Ball Throw -

Girls - Veronica (St John Fisher) 19.70m

Boys - Max (St Ebbes) 34m

Quoit Throw -

Girls - Leah (St John Fisher) 18.30m

Boys - Joseph w. (St Joseph's) 23.95m

Well done to Jamie for organising the event and a special thanks to all the St Gregs Sports leaders who ran it so efficiently.