| No | I am pleased to report that the U15 cricket team, made up of a mixture of Y9 and 10, won an excellent game last night to put them into the semi-final against St. John’s Marlborough, on Thursday 9th June. The conditions were not suited to cricket on a blustery evening, but all the boys chipped in with bat, ball or in the field. We scored 109-4 from our 20 overs with Luke Panes, Tristan Lundqvist and James Carruthers doing the bulk of the run scoring. We then bowled and fielded well and the game was delicately poised with Sheldon on 88-6 going into the penultimate over. Then all hell broke loose and skipper Joe Clare unleashed a remarkable over in which he took the last 4 wickets, including a hat-trick from his last three balls to win the game. A fantastic and exhilarating way for the Wiltshire player to finish the game. The game was played throughout in a fantastic spirit by both teams and they were a credit to both schools. | |
| No | Following the outstanding successes of St. Augustine's students in schools biathlon (running and swimming) events earlier in the year we are delighted to report that an opportunity to set up a triathlon(running, swimming and cycling) club has emerged with the support of outside coach Andy Collins who already coaches a number of our students. The club will run on mondays from 3.45 - 4.45 and will cost £2 per session. for futher details Andy can be contacted on tri4fitness.co.uk run4fitness.co.uk 07905558666 | |
| No | Well done to Y10 Student Joseph Edwards who has just returned from Guernsey with the regional western counties boxing squad. Western counties won 5-3 overall from 8 bouts. Joe was up against a strong opponent in Casey Delamere, which at first looked to be a bit of a gamble because he is slightly heavier and older. From the first bell Delamere was agressive and strong but Joe managed to land a solid uppercut which shook him, this stopped the Guernsey fighter coming forward. From that point on Joe dominated using his superior boxing skills and eventually ran a clear winner. Joe's record this year is: 5 fights won 4, losing only to the 3 times western counties champion. His next fight is this Friday in Westbury and tickets for the match are £10 each. | |
| No | Joe Edwards of Y10 is a committed and highly skilled amateur boxer. His latest fight was representing Western Counties in the opening contest of the match between Western Counties & Guernsey at the Bristol Sporting Club show on 28th March at the Thistle Grand Hotel in Bristol.
It was a junior contest against Jack Gilvear of Guernsey.
The fight was recorded on Hatton TV and it can be seen by following this link.
http://www.player.brandhatton.com/Player/309/Joe-Edwards-v-Jack-Gilvear.aspx
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| No | On Saturday 19th and sunday 20th March adam and Daniel Lawes of Year 8 competed in the West Wilts Table Tennis championships. In the doubles event the boys were crowned champions and in the singles Adam made it to the quarter finals and Daniel made it all the way to the final, only losing to the top player in the county. An excellent achievement by both boys who now look forward to the school's first table tennis match with Lavington School onThursday 7th April. | |
| No | Well done to Jonathan Galbraith of 10B who competed at the national English Open Tae Kwon-Do championships, held in Telford on Sunday. Jonathan was one of 2,000 competitors from around the UK at the event. He won a bronze medal in the Cadet Boys (15-17 years) Black Belt Patterns division, a tough division, beating others that had more experience.
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| No | Well Done to the year 10 netball team on their fantastic performance last night. They won all their matches and ended as overall winners of the tournament. They have now qualified to represent the college at the Wiltshire County Championships held next week in Swindon. The Girls are Katy Jo Close Ella Minden-Powell Victoria Duhig Abby Croker Alice DixonNatalie Hughes Laura Mansell Thanks
Mrs Kotze | |
| No | ST AUGUSTINE’S DOMINATE St Augustine’s dominated the Yr 7/8 boys inter school’s badminton tournament held at John O’Gaunt on Monday 14th March. They had fierce competion from John O’Gaunt, Matravers and Kingdown. Captained by Thomas Bartlett the team consisted of Jack Bristow, Callum Close, Issac Rhodes, Adam Lawes, Daniel Lawes and Edward Farrell. They all did exceptionally well. Edward played well despite being the only Yr 7 boy from St Augustine’s. Callum and Issac reached the quarter finals with the semi’s being an all St Augustine’s affair between Thomas and Daniel, Jack and Adam. The final was a brilliant battle between Thomas and Jack. Thomas won in the end. WELL DONE TO THE WHOLE TEAM! (Written by Thomas Bartlett) | |
| No | Attached is the latest version of the KS3 Swimming Gala Programme. Letters have been sent home and students must please return their permission slips to Mrs. Kotze as soon as possible. | |
| No | The year 11 Netball team finished joint second in the West Wilts Netball Tournament on the 2nd of March 2011. I want to congratulate the girls for playing with enthusiasm and determination - they never gave up and improved on their performance in each game. Well done year 11 girls! | |
| No | Kelly Vanstone (year 11) has passed her BBO Grade 6 Exam in Ballet with a Distinction, scoring 42 marks out of 50. This is a very high level examination, and Kelly deserves many congratulations for her success. Max Gardner (year 11) has also has worked hard to gain success in his Vocational RAD Intermediate Ballet exam. He achieved a Distinction which is a fantastic achievement as this is an A2 Level equivalent course. Well done to both students. V Nelson | |
| No | Congratulations to Jonathan Galbraith of Year 10 who took part in the South West of England Championships last weekend with 500 competitors in Salisbury. Jonathan won Gold in the boys (under 16) blackbelt heavyweight sparring division (this being dictated by height i.e. over 168cm), and also won Gold in the Tag Team sparring event. A remarkable achievement and testament to the hard work that Jonathan has devoted to developing his skills to such a high level. | |
| No | Students have been selected to swim in the first KS 3 Gala held at Clarendon Pool on the 15th of March from 10:00-13:00. Students will be given letters with all the details regarding arrangement and kit for the day. If your son/daughter is swimming, please go through the details with them as this will help the smooth running of the gala. We would like to invite partents to support the event. Attached is the programme for the gala.
N. Kotze | |
| No | The year 10 and 11 netball players will be playing in the annual West Wiltshire County Netball tournament on the 2nd and 9th of March. The year 10 team have been the county champions for three years running and we would like to wish both teams the best of luck with this great challenge.
Mrs. Kotze | |
| No | From Friday 4th March Wiltshire Cricket are running 6 1 hour sessions for girls in years 7,8 or 9. The course is free of charge and runs until Friday 8th April. If you are interested sign up on the notice in the sports hall. Places are limited to 20 and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
any questions contact Mr Pitcher. | |
| No | Playing for their new Head Teacher the Yr 10 stormed into the final of the County Cup beating St. Laurence 22 – 0. Hard work, determination and a real passion for the job saw them overcome a very committed St. Laurence team. Tries from Ali Broughton and James Carruthers capped a great performance from the whole team, dominating both territory and possession. The County final is to be played on the 7th December, at Dauntsey’s School. | |
| No | The Biathlon competition at the University of Bath this weekend saw a large team of St Augustine's students perform to a fantastic standard. Please congratulate the following for their guts and determination. There was a strong feeling of camedarerie amongst the students who supported each other well. Nine students qualified for the South West Region Semi Finals on 23rd January. Altogether, this was a great day's competition.
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Year Group |
Position Overall |
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South West Qualification |
Matthew Gibbons |
7 |
10th |
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Joshua Brennan |
7 |
9th |
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Claudia Lewis |
7 |
20th |
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Thomas Letchford |
8 |
3rd |
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Q |
Verity Stevenson |
8 |
22nd |
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Calum Pheby |
9 |
7th |
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Andrew Stevenson |
9 |
8th |
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Alice Dixon |
9 |
2nd |
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Q |
Rachel Palarm |
9 |
3rd |
Best Swim Medal |
Q |
Daniel Letchford |
10 |
3rd |
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Q |
Emily Dixon |
10 |
2nd |
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Q |
Emma Mortimer |
11 |
5th |
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Q |
Jack Griggs |
12 |
2nd |
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Q |
Colette McCambridge |
12 |
2nd |
Best Run Medal |
Q |
Jordan Snedden |
13 |
5th |
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Q | | |
| No | St Augustine’s travelled to Chippenham with full confidence after 2 good results against Writhlington and Frome College last week.
Sheldon who were playing up hill in the first half kicked off, the ball was caught and driven on by Craig Player, with good rucking from the forwards especially from Caleb Assirati, Matthew Toledo, Daniel Ralls and Elliott Newton; we retained possession and kept moving up the pitch via Alistair Broughton and Edward Bull. When we got 5 metres away from the Sheldon try line Joe Clare picked the ball up from the base of the ruck to dive in for the first score, unfortunately the conversation was missed giving us a 5-0 lead, 5 minutes into the game. From the restart the ball was caught by Ben Hardy Phillips and he drove forward with aggression. From the base of the ruck a quick pass was given to Alistair to go up the short side, shrugging off poor tackles from the Sheldon backs Alistair was then able to score the second try: again a difficult conversion was missed from the touch line by Joe Knight.
Two further tries were scored in the first half from Alistair Broughton (converted by Joe Knight) and Joe Bakali – Laughton who capitalised on a 3 a man overlap, to round off a whitewash first half.
After the interval, Sheldon came out showing determination and their efforts were rewarded by scoring two of their own tries to make the match closer at 22-10. However for the remainder of the second half St Augustine’s were camped in Sheldon’s 22 with combined efforts from John Galbraith, Tristan Lundqvist, Henry Beer, Conor O’Rourke, Tom Palmer and Andrew Wilkins made the pressure count to allow Alistair to score his Hat-Trick. The conversion was successful giving St Augustine’s a 29-10 win.
Man of the Match: Alistair Broughton for his hard work resulting in him getting his well deserved Hat-Trick.
Report by: James Carruthers | |
| No | Well done to all the girls who played in the netball matches against St Laurence last Thursday. The year 7 girls won their match 13-3 and the year 8 girls narrowly lost theirs. It was a great effort by all and a confident start to the netball season. | |
| No | On Tuesday evening the year 10 netball team played in the Mid Wilts Netball tournament at Dauntsey's School. They came fourth overall and gained great experience from playing in this event. St. Augustine's competed against numerous independent schools and did themselves proud. Well done to Alice Dixon, one of our year 9 students who played two years above her age group. All girls can feel very proud of their performance. Thank you to Miss. Broadbent who umpired all matches.
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| No | Well done to the year 7 rugby team who once again performed brilliantly against St Laurence yesterday evening. This victory was the third so far this season following excellent performances against John of Gaunt and Melksham Oak. Although classed as a training game where the scoreline wasn’t the most important priority we were the dominant team, with strong forward play and running the ball well along the backs we managed to score convincingly more than the opposition. | |
| No | A group of St. Augustine's students took the first step to setting up and running their own Team Handball club under a scheme supported by the Youth Sports Trust called Change4Life. Y12 student Declan O'Neill gives a full account of the leader training he and his fellow leaders underwent on Friday. On Friday the 1st October I took part in a Handball leader’s award lead by national handball players, John and Scott. Scott is hoping to represent Britain at the 2012 Olympics. Handball may be a sport that you have never heard of; however, it is a very popular sport in Europe and has been in the Olympics since 1936. Although the game has been played in Britain for a while it isn’t a main sport such as football or rugby as it has not had much media coverage. Thanks to the London winning the bid for the 2012 Olympics, there has been a lot of funding put into promoting the sport and that is why John and Scott are travelling around the different schools training handball leaders in an attempt to promote the sport at school level, as currently the only place to play handball local to us is Bristol. The course took place at our school and we were joined by another school, Greendown from Swindon. We had a slight advantage over the other school as luckily we are already taught handball at school and therefore knew the rules, whereas this was their first introduction to handball. We started the day in the classroom looking over the rules that we would be using when we set up our own handball clubs. We then proceeded into the Sports Hall where we were introduced to warm-up games that we could use such as handball tag. We then looked at different drills such as throwing, shooting and keeping. As the group we got to play a game, using the rules we had been taught, in the sports hall. This was one of the favourite parts of my day because I love playing handball. It also showed how easy it is to pick up handball as the other school, which had never played it before, managed to quickly understand how the game was played, providing us with a good challenge. However, St Augustine’s came out as the champions! During Period 4 we had to organise a handball tournament for Year Nine girls during Period 5. The organising went fairly well and we managed to have everything ready for Period 5, however during the game we soon realised that our planning was not working as well as we’d hoped. We had too many referees, which resulted in too many opinions and also too many timekeepers. This made communication hard but once we had identified and rectified the problems, the last few games ran much smoother. The tournament was a great piece of evidence of how easy handball is to pickup and how enjoyable it is. The Year Nine girls had never played or heard of handball before they got into the hall. Their first game was slow as they were getting used to the concept of it but as soon as they got into the swing of the game they were racing up and down the court, getting into space and scoring great goals. There were also some amazing saves by the goalkeepers! They all seemed to really enjoy it and were keen to play more. This task was a great test as it threw us into the deep end. We were doing things that we had only just learnt and applying them into a real situation. Altogether the whole day was a fantastic experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I can’t wait to promote the sport more in our school with the other handball leaders We will be setting up a handball club soon. It is an easy and enjoyable sport and anyone can play it. So if it sounds interesting to you then keep your eyes and ears open. Declan | |
| No | Please find attached the year 7-11 and sixth form netball fixtures. | |
| No | The year 7,8 and 9 netball teams played their first fixture on Tuesday evening agains Clarendon and John of Gaunt. The girls won all their matches. We would like to congratulate all the girls on their individual performance, but also on their team spirit and enthusiasm. | |
| No | The Y8 Rugby Team played the first game of season against John of Gaunt school and recodred a hard earned victory 15-10. To read the full match report written by team captain John Butcher open the attachment. | |
| No | Please find attached the Out of School hours learning programme. | |
| No | Fantastic news about Jessie Foster's performance at the British Gas National Age Group Swimming Championships, Sheffield in July. Jessie won gold in the 12 year old girls 200m breaststroke!
Last year Jessie qualified for Nationals in 2 events and made one final finishing in 5th place. This year Jessie qualified in 4 events and added both Individual Medley events to her programme, making finals in all of her races. Jessie won her first National Gold medal in the 200 breaststroke in a 10 sec PB of 2.39.2, to become one of the world's fastest 12 years old 200m breaststrokers. Jessie won the race by more than a body length and showed the whole pool her exceptional skills and stroke control over the four lengths. In the 100 event, Jessie missed out on her second Gold medal by a mere 0.04 sec on the final touch and took the silver in a brilliant 1.16.2. After 3 solid days of hard racing Jessie swam in the 400 Individual Medley in the last day, showing her endurance and determination to finish a very respectable 6th in a 5.18.6. Jessie trains hard at Street Swimming Club and deserves our congratulations. An amazing achievement! | |
| No | The college hosted it's 2nd Sports Awards Evening on Tuesday 13th July with the addition of awards for the growing number of outstanding Dancers in the college. The evening was organised and run by members of the Sports Council under the excellent guidance of Mrs Kotze and was a wonderful celebration of student talent, enthusuasm and determination. Year 12 students and Chair and Vice Chair of the Sports Council, Joseph Rutter and Lucy Bartlett compered the evening with great skill. The awards were presented by former student and GB pole vaulter Sophie Upton which again added a special ingredient to proceedings.
The award recipients were as follows:
Junior Sportsman of the Year Joseph Clare
Junior Sports Woman of the Year Emily Dixon
Junior Dancer of the Year Katie Erangey
Intermediate Sports Man of the Year Tony Ricci-Mchelone
Intermediate Sports Woman of the Year Emma Mortimer
Intermediate Dancer of the Year Max Gardner
Senior SportsMan of the year Thomas Clare
Senior Sportswoman of the Year Alice Bowerbank
Senior Dancer of the Year Lucy Bartlett/Katie Oughtibridge | |
| No | Laura Butcher 12 Jer and Emily Dixon 9T had a very memorable experience at this competition last weekend at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium. Both said it was a fantastic experience but particularly for Emily who was there as a first timer. Laura, an experience Wiltshire competitor, led the Wiltshire team as Girls' Captain. Both girls achieved 10th place in their respective field events: Laura, despite injury, in Pole Vault with a jump of 2.70m and Emily in High Jump equalling her PB with a jump of 1.60m. Emily also ran in the Wiltshire 4 x 100m relay team who qualified for the finals in which the team came 7th with a National Standard time. This competition has inspired the girls to aim higher and set challenging goals. | |
| No | Former student Dan Talbot has been selected for the Junior world Championships in Canada he leaves next Tuesday. He will be doing the 200 metres and the 4 x 1 relay. This follows success in Germany last weekend. He won the 200 and they won the relay. | |
| No | Well done to Nathan Burrows, Patrick England, Samuel Fuller and Dennis Ricci-Mcelhone on winning the Year 7/8 boys county tennis finals at the Next Generation Centre in Swindon on Thursday. A full report and a team photo is attached. | |
| No | Congratulations to Laura Butcher, Year 12, and Emily Dixon, Year 9, for being selected to represent Wiltshire at the Aviva English Schools Athletics Championships on 9th and 10th July at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham. Laura has been made Wiltshire Athletics Girls Captain which is a wonderful achievement. You can watch the event live on Sky Sports on Saturday 8th, though Emily’s high jump and Laura’s pole vault events are on the Friday. Good luck to the girls. | |
| No | Congratulations to Emily Dixon who scored an incredible 2909 points from her 5 athletic disciplines to come third overall in the junior girls pentathlon at the South West Combined Events last weekend. As part of the Junior Girls Team with 3 other girls they amassed 8371 which is the highest all time score ever in that age category. Emily now ranked 10th in the all time list will go on to compete in the national championships in Stoke on the 18th/19th September. | |