JUNIOR SCHOOL Sporting Success Sport is tremendously important to the Junior School community and we remain committed to providing three hours of PE within the curriculum each week. The inspection team highlighted both the breadth and depth of PE provision, commenting on the quality of specialist PE teaching. We believe in the value of competitive sport and House sports competitions are celebrated events in the Junior School calendar. Over the past twelve months, each and every child has represented his/her House at Sports Day (athletics), the House Swimming Gala and, of course, the Murphy Cup (football) with Harimau emerging victorious after several years of Beruang dominance. The matches were hotly contested and, as always, team spirit and sportsmanship featured strongly. Year 6 pupils also represented their House in basketball and netball. Responding to feedback from parents and pupils, we are delighted to be extending House basketball and House netball to Year 5 in order to increase opportunities for competitive sport. We recognise from the Kirkland Rowell survey and PYG forum that parents and pupils would like more opportunities for interschool sport as well. We are committed to responding to this feedback and next year we will enter A, B and C teams in every ACSIS (Athletic Conference of Singapore International Schools) football and netball tournament to increase opportunities further. Next year, increased PE staffing and, the development of the central playing field and conversion of the Griffiths Jones Hall into a multi purpose sports hall will enhance provision further. It is worth celebrating that there are already more Junior School pupils representing Tanglin than ever before. Our Junior competitive teams have continued to impress and achieve success across a wide range of sports, both in the ACSIS leagues and overseas tournaments. Once again, athletics proved to be a strong point for TTS after finishing in silver medal position in ACSIS Athletics and as champions at the FOBISIA Games in Bangkok, whilst securing a second place finish for the junior boys Cross Country team and third for the girls. Our footballers also excelled with both the boys and girls U11 teams making the finals at the Phuket Football Tournament (which unfortunately had to be cancelled due to thunderstorms) and enjoying more success at the FOBISIA games picking up two boys championships and a girls second place. We are particularly proud of the development of girls’ football over the past couple of years and this resulted recently in the best ACSIS results to date where our U10 girls A team and U11 girls B team were crowned champions and the U11 A team finished in second place. Swimming and athletics boast the largest competitive squads in Junior competitive sport and both have continued to go from strength to strength resulting in many Junior School children succeeding in a wide range of events both as individuals and as part of a team. Most recently the Tanglin Titans Gymnastics team notched up an outstanding set of results by finishing with four team golds and three team silvers at the FOBISIA Gymnastics competition hosted by Patana School in Bangkok. Our Junior Merlion boys swim team were awarded a close second place at the ACSIS championships narrowly missing out on gold behind UWC East. Well done to everyone who has represented team Tanglin over the last twelve months and congratulations to those pupils who broke school records. Increased opportunities to come.
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