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Tuesday, 5 July 2016

SPORTS DAY 2016 - 5th July

Sports Day 2016 ‘one of the closest in a long time’

The world’s best athletes will go head-to-head in Rio de Janeiro next month, but while there may not be an Olympic title at stake on school sports day, the competition was just as high as students looked to claim both individual and team glory. In fact, Mr Barlow said that it was the closest sports day, in terms of points between form groups, for a long time.
The first part of the morning saw the field events take place with students participating in high jump, long jump, discus, javelin and shot put. After the conclusion of the field events, the whole school made their way onto the field to support their friends and colleagues. The opening events on the track were won by Josie Robertson (year 8) and Ruby Spencer (year 9) in the girls 800m, while Spencer Sheard (year 7) and Matt Owen (year 8) triumphed in the boys’ event.

Although the rain did hold off for the day, the events took place in difficult conditions; with rain in previous days leading to soft and damp conditions underfoot. The conditions didn’t, however, stop school records being broken.  Year 7 students Joe Ayre and Fin Stratford set new records in the 200m and 1500m respectively. Joe beat Elliott Darman’s 2013 time by 1.03 seconds, while Finn set a new 1500m record in a time of 5 minutes, 20 seconds, beating Jack Farrall’s record from last year by 9 seconds.

1500m
The one event that only a small minority want to compete in is the 1500m, the dreaded three and three quarter laps around the track. Harper Whitehead, however, made the event his own in the year 9 race. Harper is used to difficult conditions having represented Cheshire in the English Schools’ Cross-Country Championships earlier this year and he ran a strong 1500m. The field was bunched crossing the finish line for the first time, but Harper soon increased the tempo and was unchallenged as he pulled out an advantage over the rest of the field.

100m and 200m
The 100m is the most prestigious and shortest running event on the schedule and saw Meera Shanati (year 9), George Johnson (year10) and Lydia Eardley (year 10) all record convincing victories. In the 200m, Lexi Harrison won by some margin in the year 9 girls race, while Daniel Sturridge’s 200m year 9 school record still stands despite a strong performance by Lewis Eaton.

Megan Sheard changed disciplines this year, but still managed to win just as emphatically. The year 10 student has previously run the 1500m and still holds the year 7 school record for the event, but she opted to switch from endurance to sprint this year. She won the year 10 girls 200m convincingly proving her ability as a strong all round athlete. In the year 10 boys 200m, there was an unconventional technique on show as one student ran the event backwards! I wonder whether we will be seeing any athletes running backwards in Rio?

Overall standings
Heading into the relay events the tutor standings were very close with just a couple of points separating the top few tutor groups in each year. However, with relays worth double points, that could still have all changed.

After the relays had been run and all results had been verified, the moment everybody was wanting for arrived...the final results.
There were just two points separating the top-five tutor groups, with 7ZGr beating 7HV and 7CT by one point to claim the year 7 title with 130 points. Year 8 was not as close, however, with 8KJE’s total of 136 points beating 8CE by six points. Year 9 was much more convincing with 9SDR taking the year 9 title by a 20 point margin, while 10JC were the victorious tutor group in year 10 once again.

Written by Adam Bailey

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