School Sport and Sports Leaders News

Year 7s enjoy Judo and Fencing

Our year 7 girls started Judo sessions led by British Judo coach, Andy Parton on Friday 17 September. Andy started the session demonstrating how to dress in a Judo jacket.

Year 7 girls have also been involved in their weekly fencing session. This time they were introduced to the electronic scoring system and simple scoring and acting as a referee

Level 3 Sports Leaders UK

Year 12 and 13 sports leaders completed task 1.3 of their level 3 award leading and assessing each other on Friday 17 September. This is part of their Sports Leaders UK qualification and enables them to prepare for primary school visits in November.

Primary School sports evenings

This week we saw the start of our primary school sports evenings led by members of Highfields Sports Leadership Academy in year 10. Students from South Darley visited and our sports leaders were fabulous, engaging primary students in badminton and dodgeball.

Mini Soccer

Highfields Cluster mini soccer tournament took place on Cavendish fields on Thursday - what a great turn out of students, staff and supporters on an extremely sunny, but windy day.

Schools involved were All Saints, Castle View, South Darley, Darley Dale, Lea and Wessington bringing 230 young footballers in total ready to give it their all! Matches took on the round robin format for students in years 5/6 mixed/boys, years 5/6 girls only and year 3/4.

We had 230 young footballers in total ready to give it their all! Highfields sports leaders were in action from years 9-13 and did an outstanding job as ever. We were so excited to get the action going after two years unable to run any events.

Results for years 3/4

1st - ALL SAINTS 2nd - Lea 3rd – Darley Dale 4th - Wessington 5th – Castle View

Top goal scorer – Xander from Lea Best goal keeper / number of clean sheets – tie between Sam from Lea and Harrison from All Saints.

Results for years 5/6 girls

Three teams entered and the girls played home and away matches. 1st – Lea 2nd – Darley Dale 3rd – All Saints

Top goal scorer – tie between Izzy from Lea and Lily from Darley Dale Best goal keeper – tie between Alice from Lea and Tillie from Darley Dale

Results for years 5/6

1st – Darley Dale 2nd – Lea 3rd – All Saints 4th – South Darley 5th – Castle View (year 6) 6th – Castle View (year 5) 7th – Wessington

Top goal scorer – tie between Reuben from All Saints and Will from Darley Dale Best goal keeper – Riley from All Saints

The small school winners were Lea who now progress to the Rural Derbyshire SSP finals to be held after half term

Certificates, trophies and medals were awarded along with School Game Value certificates for respect, determination, teamwork, self-belief, passion and honesty – winners of these were Shohei, James, Nina, Josh, Leighton, Tashi, Claton, Milly, Tamsin, Gracie, Emi and Abi. Highfields officials, Lucy and Olie received R4s.

Well done to all students who took part and thank you to the following Highfields sports leaders: Year 13 – Hettie, Alysia, Henry, Josh, Oliver, Oli, Ben and James Year 12 – Ben, Joe, Libby, Emily, Milli, Jeska and Isobelle Year 11 – Lucy Year 10 – Noah, Callum, Leonie, Maddie, Ameliah and Dixie Year 9 – Tayhla, Ruby, Jacob, Jenson and Henry

Winners’ gallery …

Sports Fixtures News

Tupton v Highfields friendly

Mr Shirtcliffe took 20 year 7 and 18 year 8 boys to Tupton for a friendly match - their first for 18 months due to Covid restrictions.

During the development games Highfields students produced some brilliant football both in defence and attack and there were some great team and individual goals. As ever students were a credit to the school.

Mr Shirtcliffe Head of PE

Quarrydale 2-6 Highfields Y8s

‘What a game!’ - Highfields year 8 boys travelled across to Nottinghamshire on Thursday to face Quarrydale Academy in the 1st round of the ESFA cup. The boys started the game slowly and found themselves 2-0 down. They found it difficult to get their game going all first half and went in at the break 2 goals down.

After regrouping and a few inspirational words between the boys, Mr Searson and Mr Waller, Highfields came out like a team possessed and looked a different team right from the off. Highfields got their first goal back from an absolute screamer of a free kick from Deon that found the top corner… 2-1. A few minutes later it was 2-2 as Ethan rivalled Deon’s strike with another top class free kick. Later followed a flurry of goals from striker Maxwell, who took home the match ball with a fantastic hat-trick!

The cherry on the icing on the top of the cake came from Dylan who rounded off an excellent second half with a goal from outside the box to make it 6-2. Commiserations to our hosts Quarrydale who’s team fought until the very end. Into the hat the Y8 boys go as they await to find out who they will face in the 2nd round of the ESFA Cup …

Mr Searson PE teacher