School sport and sports leaders news

Highfields student receives Award for Excellence from Chesterfield FC Women

We would like to extend our congratulations to Sophie in Y11. Sophie is a junior player with Chesterfield FC Women and was presented with a special award by Chesterfield FC for her commitment to the club.

Sophie won the new annual Jane Ebbage Award for Excellence. She captained last seasons under 16s squad, showed exceptional leadership through the Covid pandemic by providing players with one to one mental health support and advice, whilst leading fitness sessions and information exercises. Her commitment has been highly appreciated by the club and this award recognises her hard work – congratulations Sophie!

See Chesterfield FC for full details.

Sports leaders internal verification

Last Friday (12 November) year 11 sports leaders internal verification assessment 1 took place with the help of year 6 students from St Joseph’s and Castle View primaries. Sports leaders involved were Matt, Sam, Callum, Roma, Jamie, Lucy, Sophie, Eleanor, Lydia, Georgina and Jasmine from year 11, together with year 12 leaders Hannah and Amy and year 13 leaders Hettie and Elysia.

Staff discussed with us how the younger leaders had performed this week and could see the progression the older leaders showed.

Today, our year 10 sports leaders assessments took place with the help of St Giles Primary – more details to follow in next week’s newsletter.

Cross Country

Our primary schools cross country event took place at Starkholmes on Tuesday with 160 pupils taking part. Highfields had 47 sports leaders involved in a variety of roles from administration, marshals, hares, back markers and photography.

The results of the day are as follows:

Year 1/2 boys

1st - Lea 2nd – Darley Dale 3rd - Wessington

Year 3/4 boys

1st – Darley Dale 2nd - Lea 3rd - Wessington

Year 1/2 girls

1st - Lea 2nd – Darley Dale 3rd - Wessington

Year 3/4 girls

1st - Lea 2nd – Darley Dale 3rd - Winster

Year 5/6 boys

1st – Darley Dale 2nd - Lea 3rd - Winster

Year 5/6 girls

1st – Darley Dale 2nd - Lea 3rd - Winster

Overall results - well done to everyone involved! 1st = Lea / Darley Dale 3rd – Winster 4th - Wessington 5th - Churchtown

Young Ambassadors

Today the first of the year group assemblies took place for the Highfields Young Ambassador teams. Lucy and Harry did an excellent job in relaying an update of sport in Highfields. Other year groups assemblies will take place during the remainder of the term.

SSP TAG rugby finals

This Wednesday (17 November) Highfields held the SSP TAG rugby finals on our all weather pitch. There were eight participating primary schools from across the five secondary schools and our representatives were Lea and Darley Dale primaries - they were brilliant finishing 2nd Darley Dale and 3rd Lea, the winners were Osmaston.

The event was refereed by eight of our year 9 sports leaders – they did an amazing job. Well done to Jenson, Thomas, Matteo, Taylah, Ruby, Henry, Jack and Jacob.

Match Report Highfields vs East Leake Academy

Mr Waller

Result: East Leake 5 - 2 Highfields

The year 8 boys team journeyed to East Leake Academy for the next instalment of the ESFA Cup. They met their first serious test of the competition so far and, unfortunately, were knocked out by a solid East Leake side.

The first goal for Highfields occurred when Maxwell ran on to a careless back pass to slot home past the goalkeeper. The second was a net busting free kick from debutant Elliot who was one of the shining stars on what was a very hard game for the away side.

On to the next game with a lot of lessons learnt from this defeat.

Highfields vs Dronfield Henry Fanshaw – Y11

Mr Shirtcliffe

The year 11 boys travelled to Dronfield Henry Fanshaw School in the football County Cup first round. The team led by Mr Roberts more than matched the opposition, it was a very nip and tuck first half with both teams creating excellent chances unfortunately Dronfield converted one just before half time.

After a thorough team talk they went out and dominated the second half, scoring a goal only to have it chalked off for half time. Then we squandered chance after chance before scoring a well worked goal from Louis, then with the thought of penalties overhead, we managed to score a scrappy goal from a corner in the last seconds converted by Mitch to progress to the next round of the county cup.

Great performance great Highfields determinations - well done.

Highfields vs Dronfield Henry Fanshaw – Y7

Mr Searson

Our year 7 team took part in the Derbyshire County Schools Cup at Dronfield on Thursday. The boys were faced with a very difficult task against the strong and physical Dronfield side.

Unfortunately, the lads were on the wrong side of the result in the end, but a great learning experience for all which they’ll definitely take a lot from.

James and Harvey came closest to grabbing goals, but a couple of good saves and near misses prevented this - well done to all the boys involved!