Sports News May 2023

LGGSSPORT

SPORTS ATTENDANCE

INDIVIDUAL & FORMS

SUMMER FUN RUN GET SET, GO

DANCE/GYMNASTICS

SHOWCASE

WELCOME TO LGGSSPORT

Welcome back to the Sports Newsletter and thank you for dropping by to see what our incredible students have been doing since the start of 2023.

As part of the curriculum, KS3 students have access to a range of indoor sport opportunities. Alongside increasing their fitness levels, this develops creative skills, resilience, and personal responsibility.

Year 7 have taken part in a Yoga and Champion Mindset unit, where they have been learning the importance of self-care, understanding the value of yoga as a tool to improve focus and concentration in lessons, as well as practising relaxation techniques.

Year 8 have been Rockin’ and Rolling in their dance unit, as well as gaining an understanding of the differences in body composition during theory lessons.

Year 9 have been celebrating individual differences and creating choreography to ‘Everyone is talking about Jamie’, using dance to share their own stories about acceptance, strength, and mental toughness. They also took part in a problemsolving unit, which challenged and pushed individuals out of their comfort zone by using high ropes and climbing frames in obstacle courses. Outdoors, we have been developing football and netball skills by adapting game

situations. These have fed into some of the extra-curricular clubs and fixtures throughout the term. Year 10 have all completed their Leadership lessons, where everyone that opted for the Award planned and coached a session of their choice for their peers. In their other core PE lesson, they have had the opportunity to play full-sided games in a range of sports from netball to tag rugby.

Year 11 have been taking part in Inter-house tournaments including the fitness suite challenge, football, cone ball, netball, and tag rugby, to name but a few.

We have had huge success in extra-curricular competitions, and participation numbers are continuing to impress - as you will find out in the following Sports News pages where we have included information about some of our sports highlights.

We can now enjoy some warmer weather, and a change in season means a change in sporting provision. Tennis, athletics, rounders and cricket will be introduced and we shall. Don’t forget to pack the sun-cream!

Miss L Sharples Head of PE

SPORTSATTENDANCE

The PE Department’s Award Scheme recognises individuals for attending extra-curricular sport. Any individual that attends an LGGS sports’ club or LGGS fixture, they receive one ‘tick’. Over the course of the year, these ‘ticks’ are totalled and anyone who reaches 30 receives a Bronze, Silver or Gold Award. The following individuals have shown fantastic commitment.

BRONZE 30 clubs

SILVER 60 clubs

GOLD 90 clubs

At the end of the year pupils will received a badge for their PE hoodie based on how many clubs they have attended during the year.

BRONZE AWARD

Modupe Babarinde

Anna Bateman

Sienna Kanaan

Maria Montague

Ella Slater

Emily Addison

Lola Coldwell

Martha Kind

Molly Parkinson

Sarah Rooney

Martyna Szuta

Harriet Wood

Imogen Cripps

Daniela De Silva

Imogen Head

Emilia Holt

Dorsa Rahmani

Aisha Anwar

Alexis Aspin

Hanying Gu

Diya Smith

Dylan Armstrong

Emily Bryan

Emily Dickinson

Lizzie Ennis

Liv Leech

Millie Borwick

Annabelle Carter

Annie Chapman

Kate McNamara

Amy Peacock

Annabelle

Woodruff

Fatima Anwar

Grace Cook

Annika Maden

Amelie Phillips

Lydia Tomlinson

Molly Bonnar

Gwen Kind

SILVER AWARD

Gaia Romito

Beatrice Woodcock

Olivia Corvi

Liv Jackson

Sophie Semple

Olly Eccles

Amal Aftab

GOLD AWARD

Loomy Ammar

FORM TOTAL COMPETITION

The following results are the attendance of individuals in your forms since Christmas:

Well done, you are all amazing.

& RESULTS

a total of 24 points and were crowned District Champions

Bel Harte 2nd

Imogen Cripps 3rd

Anna Bateman 4th

Beatrice Woodcock 6th

Daniella DeSilva 9th

May Straker 11th

Isla Capstick 12th

Daisy Potts 5th

Ellie Proctor 6th

Emily MacPherson Littler 4th

Jess Marshall 3rd Gwen Kind 5th Loomy Aamar 10th

C A R E

C O N T R I B U T E

C H A L L E N G E

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

Year 7

1st 7.1 188 points

2nd 7.5 177

3rd 7.3 171

4th 7.2 162

5th 7.4 146

Year 8

1st 8.2 217 points

2nd 8.3 209

3rd 8.4 199

4th 8.5 187

5th 8.1 134

Year 9

1st 9.3 178 points

Joint 2nd 9.1 and 9.2 157 points

4th 9.4 147

5th 9.5 137

DANCE

05.2023

A group of students entered and won a Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham ‘Virtual Dance’ competition. As winners, they were asked to represent the area at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool during May. Congratulations to Kavya Suresh & Srainya Arakel, who choreographed the dance and to the team for all their hard work!

The team included:

Sarisha Oli

Mae Weldon

Charlotte Jolleys

Rehab Burhan

Udita Chatterjee

We created a Bollywood fusion dance that incorporated the theme of ‘Saving the environment’. Blending a mix of classic Bollywood steps, which everyone was able to achieve, and with the goal of highlighting the impact on nature. In the dance we used 'trash', scattered across the floor, to represent litter and we infused a popular Bollywood turn step to represent the easiness in which we can take little steps to help stop climate change. In the final song we used bright coloured cloths to represent how we can recycle

of global emissions. The bright colours and intricate designs of the clothes also add to the fusion of Indian Bollywood dance. This dance revealed the different layers that it takes to save the environment and was represented through the different songs, different beats and through ambience. Overall, it highlighted how, through little steps, we can start to save the environment.

FOOTBALL

U12 District Football Tournament at Morecambe Bay Academy

02.03.2023

football team in the District Competition. They drew 0-0 with Carnforth and Morecambe Bay Academy, 1-1 against Ripley, Lost 2-0 to overall winners Bay Leadership Academy and Won 2-0 against Our Lady’s Catholic College. The overall placings were:

1st BLA

2nd MBA

3rd Carnforth

4th LGGS

5th RST

6th OLCC

Huge congratulations to all of the individuals who represented school fabulously.

U14 Year 8 and Year 9 District Football Tournament

08.03.2023

U14 football team came 4th in the tournament. Won 2, Drew 1 and Lost 3.

GYMNASTICS Regionals Schools Gymnastics

02.2023

12 pupils competed and came top, making LGGS Regional Champions in 3 categories!

During May the students competed in 3 categories of the National School’s Gymnastics final.

Emilia Holt (C), Betsy Matthews, Emily Addison, Lola Coldwell, Martyna Szuta, Tope Dada.

U14 Year 8 and Year 9 District Football Tournament

U12 District Football

FIXTURES & RESULTS

Year 8 lost 7-1

POM Emily Dickinson

NETBALL

Year 9 and Year 10 Netball v RST at RST

27.02.2023

Year 10 Lost 16-10

POM Eniola Afuye, Year 9 Won 26-23

POM Catherine McConnell

Year 9 District Netball Tournament,

22.03.2023

Chloe Benter, Sophia Mellonie, Zara King, Daisy Dickinson, Shaylen Feruzi, Catherine McConnell, Jemima Cook, Evie Rawlinson and Sienna Neil

11-4 Won v RST A

15-0 Won v RST B

12-0 Won v BLA

Under 14s group of 6: Daisy Potts, Isabel Leslie, Nayo Basur, Sarah Rooney, & Violet Quick.

Under 19s group of 6: Grace Ip, Amelia Slaney, Ellen Brown, Imi Tao & Olivia Ayrton

Under 19s pair: Amelia Slaney & her gymnastics partner.

HOCKEY

Year 7 and Year 8

Hockey versus Ripley St. Thomas at LGGS 27.02.2023

Year 7 drew 2-2

POM Olivia Corvi. Both goals were scored by Ruby Campbell

Year 7 District Netball Tournament

Year 7 A and B teams were both crowned District Champions in the district tournament with both teams winning all of their games

Year 8 District Netball Tournament

14.03.2023

Emily Dickinson, Lizzie Ennis, Lina Ammar, Georgia Leech, Liv Leech, Fatima Anwar, Millie Borwick, Lily Ibrahim and Emily Bryan

3-0 win v Central

8-0 win v MBA B

7-4 loss v RST A

8-0 win v Carnforth

LGGS finished in 3rd position

7-3 Won v Carnforth

1st LGGS

2nd Carnforth

3rd RST A

4th BLA

5th RST B

Year 10 District Netball Tournament

Year 10 beat Ripley in the District Finals and Won 12-10 to be crowned District Champions.

Year 7A and B and Year 8A and B Netball teams v RST

02.02.2023

The 2 Year 7 teams included: Anna Bateman, Emilia Holt, Jaya Prihar, Liv Jackson, Martha Kind, Modupe Babarinde, Olivia Corvi (Player of the Match), Sienna Kanaan, Sylvie Cook, Dorsa Rahmani, Emily Addison (Player of the Match), Gaia Romito and

The A team won 6-1 and the B team lost 3-0

The two Year 8 teams

Emily Dickinson, Emily Bryan (Player of the match), Fatima Anwar, Kanmani

Jayaprakash, Lily Ibrahim, Lina Ammar, Lizzie Ennis, Lydia Tomlinson, Millie Borwick (Player of the match), Unaysah Patel, Amy Peacock, Anna Buttery, Sophie Semple and Alexis Aspin.

The A team lost 13-1 and the B team drew 4-4

Year 9 and Year 10 Hockey at Ripley St. Thomas

MY YEAR 7 ACHIEVEMENTS

Olivia Corvi 7.4

In school I have been to:

• two netball matches for the school team (at LGGS)

• A hockey match after school (LGGS team)

Out of school I have been to:

• A street dance show (with Jennifer's Dancers) at the Grand Theatre - a team of 15-20 aged 9-16 years old.

• Swimming at Lancaster University since we moved from Italy and achieved the highest-level - Stage 9.

• Skiing (February half-term), I participated in many races down a toboggan track with the instructor and came 1st - 3 times in a row. That is all my achievements. I hope to do more sports and clubs later in the year and am currently training for another street dance show.

Gaia Romito 7.1

I have achieved the following sporting events:

• netball competitions

• a hockey competition

• athletics competitions (some in primary school)

• a swimming gala (in primary school)

• street dance shows

• A, sort of, orienteering competition hike with Scouts.

Ella Slater 7.1

• I play for a football team outside of school and have got ‘girl of the game’.

• I am in the athletics team for the second time.

May Straker 7.1

My sporting achievements in the past year are,

• I was on the cross-country team, and we won.

• I have been on the athletics team twice.

• I go to lots of sporting clubs.

Why not share your achievements in our next newsletter.

Year 9 Netball Tournament

Year 8 Netball Tournament

Year 7 Netball Tournament

Year 10 Netball Tournament

Esha

Jessica Felton qualified to represent Lancashire in the U19 competition at Wolverhampton during April.

NETBALL INTER-HOUSE

Year 7, 8 and 9

Year 7

TOURNAMENT A

1st Rendsburg

2nd Perpignan 3rd Lublin

Aalborg

TOURNAMENT B 1st Rendsburg 2nd Lublin

Perpignan

TOURNAMENT C 1st Lublin 2nd Perpignan 3rd Aalborg

Rendsburg

Year 8

TOURNAMENT A

1st Aalborg

2nd Lublin

3rd Rendsburg 4th Perpignan

TOURNAMENT B

1st Lublin

2nd Aalborg

3rd Rendsburg 4th Perpignan

TOURNAMENT C

1st Rendsburg

2nd Perpignan

3rd Lublin 4th Aalborg

Year 9

TOURNAMENT A

1st Rendsburg

2nd Perpignan

3rd Lublin

4th Aalborg

TOURNAMENT B

1st Perpignan

2nd Lublin

3rd Aalborg

4th Rendsburg

INDIVIDUAL SPORT

Many of students are very keen sports competitors outside of school. You can read about just some of their impressive and varied achievements …

master Ronnie Green and Sandy Holt.

I didn’t win as it was an inter-club and in inter-clubs there is no win or lose, it is a draw - even if you technically win.

CURLING

Marianna Ward, Year 10

I have been playing curling for nearly two years, since a friend and I tried out winter sports at The Flowerbowl, Preston.

I was lucky enough to be spotted by the former Vice-President of Preston Curling Club, now President of the English Curling Association, who put me in contact with a team from Kent and Cambridge who were looking for a fourth player to join their team. I travelled to Junior National Women's Championships in Kent in late March and, in the second competition I ever played, we came second! A great achievement considering I'd never even met the skip (captain

of the team) until the start of the competition.

Since the National Women’s Championships I have been training non-stop and competing in bonspiels (curling competitions).

In January 2023, I competed in the Mixed Doubles Adults Championships with a boy from Lancaster Royal Grammar School. It was a great experience and I got to play on new ice in Dumfries. A friend, who also plays in the same team as me, won the competition and is going to the World Championships in South Korea. In the Women's section only one team entered my team! Therefore, there are no National Championships, and instead we are going straight to World B Championships this winter in Lojha, Finland. I have been training more and more, ever since we found out, but it is extremely difficult for the rest of my team as The Flowerbowl is currently the only dedicated curling rink in the entirety of England.

I am very excited to be representing England for the rest of the year and looking forward to competing in lots of competitions which take place in England, Scotland and Finland.

I recently competed in Preston Curling Club's Novice Bonspiel at The Flowerbowl with a randomly selected team. The weekend was very tough but we pushed through and won all but one of the matches, putting us in second place overall. We won a hamper each, which was donated by Barton Grange. There were also separate competitions including

a sociable and fun sport. I also competed in a Christmas Bonspiel during December with Team Mcloughlin and we all dressed up in fancy dress!

Despite there being lots of junior competitors at The Flowerbowl, there is only one girl, apart from myself, that is part of the Preston Curling Club's junior squad, the rest are boys and, I am trying to encourage more girls to participate in the sport. It would also be better for the sport if there was more competition in this category, especially when it comes to the national championships. It would be wonderful if more girls from LGGS would join as there are National Schools' Championships to compete in also. There are currently only one or two schools from the Kent area involved, but if a few more LGGS students joined, we would have enough for a girls’ team. We could also have a mixed team by recruiting from other local schools.

It is a truly an amazing, unique and inclusive sport which has become my hobby, passion and life.

People can watch or take part in the junior sessions at The Flowerbowl on Mondays between 5.30pm and 7pm and on Sundays from 10am until 11.30am.

If you are interested in joining, please catch me for a chat or email me, as I am always open for questions and conversations regarding the sport. I can bring my curling equipment in to school to showcase to students and explain how everything works and believe that my coaches

enough interest. I hope this news helps raise awareness of curling. Videos of the sport are available should you wish to see them.

GOLF Sofia McGhie, Year 11 2022-2023

During September 2022, Sofia was invited to join the Scottish Girls’ Golf National Performance Training Squad at St Andrews. Sofia had a very successful tournament in the Stephen Gallacher Foundation where she came 2nd at Fairmont Golf Course, St Andrews. In February, Sofia won the Robert Rock Junior Masters U18 Girls’ event in Portugal. Sophia took part in the Scottish Golf U18 Winter Training schedule and this involved monthly meetings at

girls form England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to be invited

for a 2 day selection-workshop for the Vagliano U16 girls’ team which will play against Europe. Sofia really enjoyed the

COMING UP ...

out who has been selected for the 2023 tournament. Once GCSE’s are completed, there’ll be a full schedule of national tournaments to look forward to, hosted by England, Scotland and Welsh Golf.

You can register online for the Midsummer Supper Run or buy tickets for the ‘Dance and Gymnastics Showcase’ via or website: lggs.org.uk

For more details and to register, visit: www.lggs.org.uk

Sports Week 19 - 23 June

Years 7-9 will try a new activity. This event runs alongside National Sports Week with the main focus on #PledgeToPlay The pledge supports the government’s ask that children are active within school for 30 minutes and outside of school another 30 minutes, 60 active minutes each day. Year 7 will take part in Wheelchair

Basketball, Year 8 Parkour and Year 9 Fencing. There will be a variety of new and exciting activities for pupils to try. Read more.

Sports Day 18 July

We will confirm the date closer to the event as Sports Day is dependent on the weather.