Neatherd High School: May has kept us busy with two qualifying athletic events. The first, the Mid-Norfolk Athletics Championship was held at UEA on Wednesday 15th May. Winners who meet age criteria are to go onto the Norfolk Championships on the 10th of June. A cool and what had been wet morning soon turned into a cool but dry afternoon, and what an afternoon we had! Up against competition from Litcham, Northgate, Sacred Heart, Iceni and Wayland our 59 competitors excitedly showed us what they are made of. There were some outstanding results, but as importantly the way that everyone encouraged their team mates and how pupils were asking to ‘have a go’ on the very few events that we had not filled made it for me. All competitors should be incredibly proud of their achievements particularly when you bear in mind that at this point in the term the weather had been against us and had made practice time a very rare occasion! Yr 7 Girls: Alissia Watson- 200m 1st, Georgina Whitehead -100m 1st , High Jump 3rd, Long Jump 1st. Memphis Symonds – 800m 1st , 1500m 1st. Ruby Needs with the aforementioned girls won their Relay. Ruby Wilson – Shot 2nd. Yr 7 Boys: Ryan Ferrari – Shot 2nd, Lucas Rose – Javelin 2nd, Cailean Fennah - Long jump 3rd, Owen Brown – 200m 1st. Cameron Hodgson -100m 1st. Callum Scott 800m 1st. The relay team also won their Relay. Yr 8 Girls: Ruby Chantry- High Jump 1st, Long Jump 1st. Ellie Ampleford- Shot 1st, Javelin 2nd. Beth Barrett - 100m 1st, 200m 1st. Amberly Wright - 800m 2nd. Hallie Taylor- 1500m 2nd. Lucy Gedge and Milly Ogden made up the winning Relay team with Hallie and Beth. Yr 8 Boys: Kayhan Tokbay-800m 2nd, Zak Collins- Idi- 100m, Long jump 1st. Gwilym Hughes – Discus 2nd, Javelin 3rd. Gabriel Borges - High Jump 1st. Matt Way – Shot 1st. Relay team 1st. Yr 9 Girls: Tash Ward- 100m 2nd, Long Jump 2nd. Marni Taylor- 200m 3rd. Sophie Green-300m 2nd. Pearl Williams Eley- 800m 3rd. Lily Tarsey -1500m 3rd. Morgan Dorrell – Shot 1st, Discus 1st. Trin Donachie -Javelin 1st. Relay team photo finish 3rd, it was that close! Yr 9 Boys: Sam Swales – 800m 2nd. Brad Bowie 100m 3rd. Jake Meltom-300m 1st. Kane Clark -High Jump 3rd. Charlie Price-Shot 3rd. Relay team 2nd. Yr 10 Girls: Issy Green - 200m 2nd. Ellie Foster – 800m 1st, 1500m 1st. Eli Plomer – High Jump 3rd. Chloe Webb- Discus 1st. Relay team 3rd. Yr 10 Boys: Joe Kealey – Javelin 2nd. Kallum Brown – Long Jump 2nd , 800m 3rd. Charlie Dickerson- 1500m 1st, High Jump 2nd. Aaron Duffield – Triple Jump 3rd. Joe Kealey – 400 3rd. Adam Taylor – 100 3rd. Relay team 2nd. If you have not been mentioned above it doesn’t mean your efforts were not recognised Team Neatherd. Without all of you we would not have been the overall winners of the competition. Hoorah! Huge congratulations and well done! The following week off we went to the UEA again for the West Norwich and Dereham Schools Sports Partnership Competition. This one was a little more tricky! Our 60 competitors were up against some very tough competition as pupils from Northgate, Hellesdon, Taverham, Reepham, and Ormiston took to the track and field, also giving it their all. I’m not sure what they feed them on in these near Norwich schools, but it makes their legs work very, very fast!! Again we had some outstanding results and again each and every one of our competitors should be very proud of themselves. It was a tough one in such hot weather! Alissia Watson- 200m heat 1st, 200m Final 2nd. Georgina Whitehead -100m heat 2nd, 100m final 2nd. High jump 3rd. Long Jump 1st. Memphis Symonds 1500m 1st. Tamica Larbie-Shot 2nd. Ruby Wilson-Javelin 3rd. Ruby Needs 200m heat 3rd. Ruby Chantry- High Jump 1st, Long Jump 1st. Ellie Ampleford – Javelin 1st. Shot 3rd. Hallie Taylor 1500m 2nd. Beth Barrett- 200m heat 2nd, final 2nd, 100m heat 2nd. Amberly Wright-800m 2nd. Tash Ward- Long Jump 1st. Sophie Green 300m 3rd. Trin Donachie- Javelin 2nd. Morgan Dorrell- Discus 3rd. Bethany Hilton- High jump 2nd. Issy Green 200m 2nd. Amy Malin- Shot 2nd. Ellie Foster 800m, 1500m 1st. Charlotte Welling- High jump 1st. Tom Lake – High Jump 1st, Long jump 2nd. Ryan Ferrari- Shot 3rd. Cameron Hodgson Javelin 2nd. Callum Scott – 800m 2nd. Kayhan Tokbay- 800m 3rd. Bailey Barrett- High Jump 2nd. Jake Melton- 400m 3rd. Brad Bowie- Long Jump 2nd. Charlie Dickerson – 1500m 3rd. Kallum Brown – Long Jump 3rd. Patrick Lee – Shot 3rd. Aaron Duffield- Triple jump 2nd. Joe Kealey – Javelin 1st. Relays: Yr 7 boys 3rd. Yr 8 boys 1st, Yr 10 girls 2nd. Yr 10 boys 3rd. Another brilliant day! Massive thanks must go Mrs Twidle who ran the High Jump for us, meaning Mr Barron and I could keep an eye out and ensure all pupils arrived at their events! COACH TOPPING