Following a very successful girl's football club at lunchtime, Rye College were able to send a year 7/8 team to the U13 cup tournament at Brighton and Hove Albion's training center for sporting excellence in Worthing. Despite never playing together before and a limited amount of training sessions the girls found their feet quickly and played unbelievably well together. Out of the six matches they had, they drew four, lost one and won one. This meant they came 4th overall and had they won one more game they would have gone through to the final where the winners went on to play at Wembley! Throughout the whole tournament the girls conducted themselves excellently, shaking hands with the opponents after matches, thanking the referee and congratulating the other team on good play. They were an absolute credit to the school and really did us proud.

Over the winter term we had a fantastic turnout at netball club with more than 30 pupils training on a regular basis. This was fantastic to see and we were able to enter a team into the league from year 7,8,9 and 11. The teams had varying level of success but a special mention must go to the year 9 team as every single player attended all training sessions and as a result the girls finished the term playing together amazingly well. Another mention must go to the year 7 team who won their league and were unbeaten scoring 9 goals in total and only conceding 1! The league is over for this year but after February half term Netball club will start up again in order to get training for the Sainsburys School Games tournaments where we hope to have even more success! Well done to all involved.