Westdale Junior School news

Our school cricket team took part in the area cricket tournament at Gedling Colliery Cricket Club playing against lots of other schools from the Gedling area. We started by playing several matches in a pool. After we won our pool then went on to the semi finals and victory meant that we then played in the final. This match was much harder than the other matches, but we still won – just! This made us Gedling Champions and so we represented our whole area in the Nottingham Sports competition.

Our school athletics team also won the Gedling Area competition. The team took part in running events (under over relay, hurdles and sprint relay), jumping events (standing long jump, triple jump and speed bounce) and throwing events (javelin and seated over-head throw). We competed against ten other schools and went on to represent the Gedling Area in the county final where we came third overall.

We were equally successful at tag-rugby. Again, we practised hard and played in our area competition at the Henry Mellish Rugby Club. On a very hot afternoon we played three pool matches (and had a bye against a team which did not turn up) to win our pool. Then we had a hard match to win our semi-final before having an easier victory in the final. Yet another victory.

Our rounders squad was unlucky – suffering disappointment when two out of our three events were cancelled due to rain. However, we played well in the friendly tournament that did go ahead, doing particularly well in two out of our three matches.

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