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The St James and Ebrington annual KS1 dance competition was so much fun and attended by Domer House, Blockley and St Catharines. Each school created a group, duet and solo dance and had to face a panel of ruthless Y6 judges. After an amazing afternoon of dancing, ignoring the dodgy teacher dances, St Catharines were the victors with Dormer House finishing a close second. All dances from StJeb were created by our Y6 children who gave up countless break times to support our KS1, thank you Y6!
Congratulations to our LKS2 Gymnastics Team who finished 1st from 9 local schools at the Key Steps competition. After training hard all year our team of five girls and one boy showed off all their newly learnt talent and came back victorious! A big thanks to Mr Willis who has been so supportive of the schools development in gymnastics, we are learning so much from you and we couldn’t have done it without you!
Congratulations to our brand new Floorball C Team who played matches last night at CCS. This is the first time StJeb has entered a C team into the league and they gave everything! A special mention to Joel Masters who was outstanding in goal, some of your saves were out of this world!
WELL DONE TEAM!
The Cotswold Floorball League's 'B' Team competition continued with two new teams entering the fray. St James & Ebrington 'C' and Temple Guiting both ended up at the bottom of the group, but did not play badly.
CCS lost several players to injury and illness and called on several of the reserve list who played brilliantly on the day. Mery Sutherland had some work to do in earning a 'shut out' for the evening. Oliver Ashton, Holly Burkert and Josh Rushby kept everything else clear in defence. Oliver Solomon, Ruby Farrell, Grace Matthews and Olivia Peachey put on the pressure at the other end as the team tried to maintain its 100% record for the season. Jess Whittingham was supposedly an attacker, but did a great job covering for Rushby when he carried the ball forward. He scored on two such forays in the 2-0 win over St James & Ebrington 'C'. Solomon's hat trick was the foundation of a 5-0 win over Temple Guiting. The first was a neat rebound from Matthews shot which hit the post. Rushby and Farrell added the other two goals.
In the all St James & Ebrington match the 'B' team won with Oliver Haydon's lone goal. The 'B' Team consolidated top qualifying spot with a 5-0 win over Temple Guiting. Oliver Beale netted a hat trick added to by Billy Corner and Haydon.
Willersey claimed second place with two wins. Theo Beale's brace of shots 'in off' luckless defenders was enough for a 2-0 victory over Temple Guiting. The 'C Team' thought that their time for a win was due when Louis Grove put them ahead against Willersey, but fell almost immediately to an equaliser by Tia Goodwin. Zac Duncan -twice- and Beale made the best of the chances which came their way in a 4-1 win.
In the basement battle between the newcomers Temple Guiting came out on top as Harry Keighley and Patrick Upton made it 2-0 against the 'C Team'. Temple Guiting even survived a late power play against them.
Blockley, Temple Guiting and the 'C Team' now move into play offs in two weeks' time. St James & Ebrington B and Willersey wait until 27th February for their next matches.
CCS 2-0 St James& Ebrington C
CCS 5-0 Temple Guiting
St James & Ebrington B 1-0 St James & Ebrington C
Willersey 4-1 St James & Ebrington C
St James & Ebrington B 5-0 Temple Guiting
Temple Guiting 2-0 St James & Ebrington C
Willersey 2-0 Temple Guiting
After 10 weeks of hard training ALL of EC3 took part in the intra-schools competition with events such as javelin, speed bounce, relay and long jump. Congratulations to our Blue team who won the whole event! Sorry that the photos are blurry, I don't know what happened.
The first Cotswold Foorball League 'A' Team qualifying pools was almost completed tonight. St Jeb are still in pole position, but could be overtaken on goal difference if St Catharines can win their postponed match against Blockley. At the other end of the table Bourton on the Water, Mickleton and Blockley are in a tight struggle to earn fourth place and avoid the early play offs, all dependent on the postponed games.
The day opened with a friendly between St James and CCS, the latter winning 2-0 with goals from Malachy Jones and Alex Adams. St James went on to play a goal less draw with Mickleton. Mickleton then suffered a 0-4 defeat to CCS who are still on a 100% record with their season probably over. Only the appearance of a new team at this late stage will see them playing another match. Edward Irwin, Oliver Solomon (twice) and Adams were the scorers.
Mickleton were also beaten by St Davids. Thomas Chamberlain, and Liam Honour (twice) put Saints ahead. Sam Meddins-Fawden netted a late consolation for Mickleton as they lost 3-1. Saints goalkeeper Ellis Muckle deserves a lot of credit for keeping out shots which would have evaded most of the other keepers. St Davids did taste defeat at the hands of St Catharines on another 3-1 scoreline. Matt Hitchings did put them ahead early on, only for Felix Lindner (twice) and Oli Whitehouse to force the win. Recovering quickly, St Davids defeated Bourton on the Water 4-0. Hitchings took advantage of a missed clearance with a cracking shot to the roof of the net. Chamberlain, Winnie Brazil and Hitchings again completed the scoring. The result would have been even worse for Bourton had Cameron Gilson not kept out so many shots from Hitchings and Honour.
The best matches of the night were two draws involving Mickleton. They went down to a well taken early goal by Bourton's Lauren Jefferies, but earned a point when Meddins-Fawden slammed the ball home. Against St Catharines, Mickleton went down to a mishit shot by Felix Lindner which looped high over the keeper. Jackson Wohjan-Parker soon equalised, then put Mickleton ahead with a low, hard shot from a long range free hit. The best goal of the night made it 2-2 in the final minutes. Lindner won the ball in defence and flicked a backhand pass through a couple of defenders to Edward Smith whose dribbling run and perfect shot were admired by all the small crowd.
CCS 4-0 Mickleton
St James 0-0 Mickleton
St Catharines 3-1 St Davids
Bourton on the Water 1-1 Mickleton
St Catharines 2-2 Mickleton
Bourton on the Water 0-4 St Davids
St Davids 3-1 Mickleton
What an amazing day of rugby today! All the children from reception to Y6 took part and some terrific tries were scored! The girls were particularly impressive today, Mrs Kemp (CCS) was very impressed.
After a full on Friday of tag rugby, the eventual winners were Aston with Meon in a close second place. Congratulations Aston, you never gave up and showed great determination throughout the day!