Nicky Morris Athletics Champions!!

Well done to all of our athletes who competed on Thursday 6th July and throughout this years very successful athletics season!

Our U13 team came 2nd!

Our U15 team came 1st!

Our Over 15 team came 1st!

This meant that we were crowned champions for the 31st year in a row!! (Minus 2020-2022 where no one competed due to covid)

Congratulations to the following girls who won their individual events:

Jess Botheras – U13 shot put

Izzy Wilson – U13 standing triple jump

Scarlett Victory – U15 75m hurdles

Rosie Bentley – U15 high jump

Jess Downing – 15+ 300m hurdles and discus

Martha Ker – 15+ 800m

Alice Lynn – 15+ 80m hurdles

Ella Little – 15+ long jump

Beth Botheras – 15+ 300m

15+ 4x300m relay team

Special mention also goes to our over 15 4x300m relay team – Jess Downing, Alice Lynn, Martha Ker and Beth Botheras – who smashed the record and therefore were awarded the Jane Branford memorial award for outstanding athletic performance!!

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Bruce Longden Athletics Competition Winners!

Congratulations to our first ever senior boys team who competed in the Bruce Longden Athletics Competition on 12th July at Wodson Park!

The boys were competing in division 2 as it was our first time at the event against teams including John Warner, Saffron Walden, Leventhorpe, Freeman, Sele and Goffs Academy.

The boys absolutely smashed it and only went and WON!

Shout out to the following boys who won their individual events:

Josh Hole – 100m Hurdles and Shot put

Josh White – 100m and High jump with a crazy jump of 1.80m!!

4x100m relay team – Tobeya Ikeyina, George Reilly, Josh White and Josh Hole

4x400m relay team – Josh Hole, Josh White, Ollie Hobdell and George Reilly

Hopefully this means we will get promoted into division 1 next year.

Thanks to our Year 12 leaders who helped officiate events throughout the day

A very special day as it was our first ever win of a boys trophy for Presdales and an amazing end to an incredible athletics season!

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Presdales Equestrian Team

Last weekend, Presdales Equestrian team took three members to Brook farm to jump the 80/85cm and the 90/95cm as a team and as individuals.

Evie Lodge on Kadanz was first to go in the 80/85cm where she had a tack malfunction resulting in her being unseated. However she got back on and jumped the 90/95cm to come back with a brilliant result of 2nd place as an individual!

Next to go was Ellen Beesley on Leith Libretto on whom she jumped an amazing round in the 80/85cm to win the class as an individual! Then she had a go at the 90/95cm where she gave it her best just to have a miscommunication at the final fence.

Last to go was Ruby Robinson on CrossWord where she rode 2 clears in both classes to come 2nd in the 80/85cm as an individual and then she jumped the 90/95cm to win the class individually!

Not our day for the team but it was all good practise for the season ahead in September but we gained some brilliant results. Well done girls!

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Rounders

Huge well done to the Year 7 rounders team who played their district tournament last week. They won 3 matches and lost 2 so ended up coming in 4th place. Some excellent batting and fielding from everyone, but the Star Player goes to Annabelle Copues for being an excellent backstop all tournament!

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Student News

Ellie Bostock (Year 11) is the Schools INTERNATIONAL Shot champion!!

As Ellie recently became English Schools champion, last weekend she represented England at the Schools International competition. Not only did she get a new pb of 15.03m but also came in 1st place! We so proud of you Ellie – you are incredible!

Don’t forget that Presdales PE Department are on Facebook. Please follow them to see our students’ achievements in non-school sporting activities!

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Gifted and Talented PE club

Well done to all students who have been involved in Gifted and Talented PE club this year.

The girls have dedicated their Monday mornings each week before school to improve their fitness and overall sporting ability, despite already having heavy training schedules for the high levels they train and compete at in their individual sports.

Also students are welcome to apply in September for next year if they compete at a county level or above (or equivalent) in any sport!