News Item 527

During this half term the Boccia players have been busy preparing for the Regional Championships, at which 23 school students competed, representing 1 in 5 of all students. With all standards from beginner to experienced international athlete separated only by physical classification, we did extremely well to take 5 of the 13 available qualifying places for the Nationals (with another 7 going to current College and former Treloar players).

Congratulations to Andrew Morgan, Paige Tabone, Kate Mellor, Jess Hunter and Trevor Wright for qualifying for the Nationals, which will be held in Sheffield in March.

The swimmers are also preparing for their Regional Gala, which will be held this Saturday in Southampton. Good luck to Nathan Crowe, Craig Dewart, Ellie Sewell and new swimmers Ben McGifford and Marie Devlin. Nathan has already qualified for the Nationals in March, and has also attended a Regional training day along with coach Dionne deBotte.

Meanwhile, Josh Toomer has been attending Athletics Regional Squad training days; another new venture for the South East, and one which we expect more students to become involved in in the future. The date for the Regional Athletics looks like it will change from the usual Sunday of the MayDay weekend, so please watch this space for the new date!

Many students are talking about the wonderful display of Sports Acrobatics that we had in Assembly on Tuesday 5th February, performed by the sister of one of our Boccia players, and her team-mates from St. David's College. They have invited us back to demonstrate Boccia and we will be planning a date to do this with them as soon as we can.

The proposed Multi-Sports Club will now start on Wednesday April 23rd, and run between 6.45 and 8p.m. every Wednesday during term time. This is being organised by East Hants and will be open to all, but please note that students who need assistance must provide this for themselves, and this is not something that the school will be able to staff.