Girls’ Cricket

After the recent success of the U13s girls’ cricket team winning the Hertfordshire Cricket Cup, Miss Mountford and Mr Alexander had the pleasure of taking the squad to the Regional Finals at the Essex County Cricket Ground, involving the winning schools from Norfolk, Essex, Cambridge, Suffolk and Bedfordshire. The girls performed brilliantly throughout. The squad, led by Jessica K, included Sophie K, Poppy D, Georgia R, Sophie T (Year 7), Lucy H, Anna M and Joanna R. They all played their part in winning the group stages with 2 wins out of 2, which meant they progressed to the final against Notre Dame High School, from Norfolk. After a disciplined bowling performance that restricted our opponents to only 65 from their 40 balls, the girls replied with some scintillating batting. Joanna and Anna set the team on their way with a solid start to the innings, before some big hitting from Sophie K and Lucy H made the performance comprehensive. All batters were faultless throughout – with not one student getting out. The girls ended up winning by a massive 52 runs.

Poppy was the DJ for the drive home and ensured the music playlist fitted the celebration with a great rendition of Sweet Caroline. A huge well done to the squad on some outstanding cricket, but also being an absolute delight throughout the day. Thank you for making it such a great way to end the school year! Thank you also to Miss Mountford for all her time in running training sessions throughout the term.

Trampolining

Well done to Matthew P in Year 9, who participated in the English Trampoline Championship finals in the Silver 15-16 age category, placing 5th out of 14 gymnasts. Great effort and an impressive achievement!

Sports Day

Well done to all those that participated so fantastically during our annual Sports Days. There were a total of 20 individual events for students to score points on, including the traditional athletics events such as 100m, javelin and shot put, but also other events such as Beat the Goalie, Netball/Basketball Shoot and various fitness tests. Kurling, Archery and Ten Pin Bowling also made an appearance this year for the first time too! Then, Friday afternoon, also known as Finals Afternoon, saw the whole school out on the field watching the final of the House Tug of War competition, in addition to witnessing the fastest students in the school competing in some highly competitive racing for 100m, 200m and 800m. We then concluded with a hotly contested, and hugely controversial, staff relay race! Well done to all race winners and participants. For the individual events, the following students finished in the top 3 for their year group:

	Individual Overall Sports Day Winners

	Year 7 Winners
	Girls		Boys
1	Violet R	1	Ethan R
2	Hannah D	2	Archie S A
3	Heather G	3	Harry C

	Year 8 Winners
	Girls		Boys
1	Sophie K	1	Elliott G
2	Poppy D	2	Daniel P
3	Anna M	3	Thomas B

	Year 9 Winners
	Girls		Boys
1	Amber T	1	Finlay
2	Jessie T L	2	George
3	Ella P	3	Max T L

	Year 10 Winners
	Girls		Boys
1	Darci M	1	Oscar C
2	Matilde F E	2	Simeon E
3	Heidi P-S	3	Bobby S

Keller were crowned overall house winners of Sports Day for the first time in their history. Congratulations to everyone who contributed towards their win and to such a huge amount of students that participated brilliantly in the event!

Sports Awards

Thank you to all students and parents who attended our KWS Sports Awards evening and well done to all our nominees and winners. It was fantastic to celebrate your successes in sport this year. Throughout the evening we celebrated the achievements in 8 different sports. Unfortunately, we were unable to invite all students that represented the school so well throughout the year, due to capacity.

Special mention to Diya K for winning the Excellence Outside of School Award, after winning a recent International competition in Croatia, playing up an age group. We also wanted to acknowledge Heidi G and Thomas C in Year 9 for winning Young Sport Personality of the Year and Emily B in Year 11 and George G-H for winning the overall Sports Personality of the Year for Key Stage 4 & 5.

The PE department wishes everyone a fantastic summer and we look forward to being even bigger and better next year.