SPORT BADMINTON Badminton at Reading School has continued to flourish. Thanks to generosity through the ‘Building for the Future Fund’, we have been able to have dedicated sessions for the KS3 and KS4 teams, which has paid dividends in their development; many thanks to Mr Keith Godfrey for his tireless efforts in this.
Here each team showed how much they had learned, passing through the group stage and the semi-finals with confidence. Alas, here KS4 met the favourites and though they were able to win the 3/4 doubles and compete admirably in all games, they couldn't overcome the plethora of nationally ranked players in the opposition.
The KS4 team continued the Reading School tradition of being both deep and skilled; each of the members could beat the other (on their day), and that depth proved crucial in the County round, from which we emerged unbeaten.
KS3 fared well, winning their group and meeting a strong team in the final. It came down to sudden death in the deciding game, and fate was with our opponents; they won the match and left with a bittersweet second place.
The KS3 team are more spread in standard and experience, but full of potential; this they proved in County round, where they overcame some early nerves to triumph; they joined their KS4 fellows in the Regional round.
A big thank you must go to both Mr B Owen and Mr P Stromdale for their contributions to badminton this year. We are grateful for all the support we have received and hope that we can return to the courts next year.
FOOTBALL Resplendent in their new team kits, fashioned with a striking diagonal stripe emblazoned on the front, Reading School’s footballers were on course for a successful season before being curtailed.
football. Oliver Crew led the way with 16 goals, but Joseph Rogers, Daniel Bose-Mason and goalkeeper Kai Trust all defended with discipline and excellent positional awareness to form the foundations of that winning spree.
Prior to Christmas, all year groups had been entered into the Year 8 were looking like potential County Cup winners after English Schools FA National Cup competitions with the 1st reaching the quarter-finals and were also unbeaten in the XI, Year 10s and Year 8s all progressing to the third round league after conceding only one goal in four games. before suffering narrow defeats to some strong opposition. For Years 9, 10 and 11 there was a mixed bag of results, As a curtain-raiser to the Reading Schools Leagues, a series and inclement weather meant that there was no local derby of 5-a-side tournaments took place, with the U18s taking with Reading Blue Coat this year. the plaudits by finishing as joint winners of their event, For the seniors, it was the 2nd XI who had the most success, closely followed by the Year 8s who were runners-up in finishing as runners-up in the Berkshire FA League and the theirs. emergence of one or two players who will hopefully go on In the new year, perhaps some of the most pleasing and shine for the 1st XI next season: Hector Williams, performances of the season came from Year 7. Oluwatobi Adekola and Tony Xu were the stand-outs. We are certainly excited to see what next season has to come and After a chastening exit from the County Cup, they won seven for the future of football at Reading School. successive matches by playing some intelligent and creative 2019-20 Season Stats (all competitions) Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
Goals For
Goals Against
st
1 XI
11
3
1
7
27
24
nd
10
6
2
2
34
21
rd
4
3
0
1
14
8
th
4 XI
3
2
0
1
8
8
Year 11
2
0
0
2
5
9
Year 10
8
4
0
4
16
13
Year 9
7
2
1
4
15
22
Year 8
11
10
0
1
41
10
Year 7
11
9
0
2
70
17
Overall
67
39
4
24
230
132
2 XI 3 XI
34
Floreat Redingensis
SEPTEMBER 2020
