GreenacreSSP

Having won the Medway and Kent finals of the futsal championships, Greenacre Yr 7's qualified to take part in the National Finals in Sheffield. The boys performed excellently earning themselves a place in the final and eventually coming second! Well done to all involved.

Two schools from the GSSP today took part in the County final for Gymnastics. Both teams had qualified by winning the Greenacre School Sport Partnership event. The event was held at Mote Park Leisure Centre in Maidstone with all the 'big' gymnastics equipment set up prior to a competition happening at the weekend.

Luton Juniors Yr 3/4 team and Horsted Infants Yr 1/2 team were our representatives. The children had all made great progress since first learning the routines for the previous competition.

Luton Juniors were placed as the 5th team in Kent and Horsted Infants placed as the 4th team - an excellent result for both teams. Special mention to Emily Featherstone from Horsted Infants School who also won the overall competition for Yr 1/2. Well done to all involved.

The annual district sports event was today held at Deangate Ridge athletics track, with every Medway secondary school taking part.

The overall results were as follows;

Girls overall
1st Chatham Grammar School for Girls
2nd Rochester Grammar School
3rd Fort Pitt Grammar School
4th Rainham School for Girls
5th Thomas Aveling
6th Walderslade Girls
7th Robert Napier
8th Chapter
9th St John Fisher
10th Rainham Mark
11th Chatham South
12th Hundred of Hoo
13th New Brompton College
14th MCC

Boys overall
1st Chatham Grammar
2nd Rochester Maths
3rd Robert Napier
4th Howard School
5th Chatham South
6th St John Fisher
7th Greenacre
8th Thomas Aveling
9th Rainham Mark
10th New Brompton College
11th Hundred of Hoo
12th Temple School
13th MCC

Holcombe Hockey club today played host to the Yr 1 and 2 Greenacre School Sport Partnership multi skills festival. Teams entered from Horsted Infants, St Johns Infants, St Peters Infants, Lordswood Infants, Luton Infants, St Marys Island Primary School, Wayfield Primary School, Kingfisher Primary School, Balfour Junior School and Greenvale Infant School. A Year 3/4 from Horsted Juniors Also joined the fun!

The children took part in a series of individual challenges followed by some team games. Leaders from Walderslade Girls School and Medway Community College led the activities.

Medway Community College has today played host to the second day of Yr 3/4 sportshall athletics events. Leaders in Year 9 from the school ran the activities with support from the Chatham area SSCo's. Schools could bring a team of up to 30 children to compete, many of whom had received training prior to taking part.

The results were as follows;

1st St Benedicts 616 points
2nd St Margrets 608 points
3rd Luton Juniors 598 points
4th Kingfisher 1 586 points
5th St Marys Island 564 points
6th New Road Bids 536 points
7th New Road 508 points
8th Kingfisher 2 258 points

This is an excellent competition allowing many young people to experience athletics for the first time. Well done to all leaders and participants involved!