Friary School Under 15 Girls Football team have had a fantastic run in the English Schools National Cup. They have reached the semi final stage but could not quite retain their crown won two years ago. Top 4 in the Country is still brilliant.

Results

Round 1 Bye and Round 2 Kingsley College, Redditch conceded.

Round 3 Thomas Telford [H] won 5-0 goals by K.Wilkinson [3],J Balla and A Liddiard.

Round 4 Chasetown Sports College [A] won 2-1 goals by K Wilkinson [2].

Round 5 Meadowhead School [H] won 3-2 goals by A Liddiard[2] and J Balla

Round 6 Deepings School [H] won 7-1 goals by A Liddiard[3],K.Wilkinson[2] and C Knight[2].

Round 7 South Holderness, Hull [A] Won 6-4 after extra time. Goals by B.Merrick[3],K Wilkinson[2] and L Eggington.

Round 8 Trinity School, Nottingham [H] Won 7-4 A Liddiard[3],K Wilkinson[3]B Merrick.

Semi final – St Julie’s Catholic School, Liverpool [A] Lost 5-1 [1-1 at half time]

Friary pupil Callum Heanan has been trying to prevent the opposition from hitting the back of the net whilst representing Staffordshire Schools Under 18 Football team. He has been doing a good job for school too…..our Ist XI have reached the final of the Staffordshire Schools Cup by beating Leek High School on penalties after the score was 2-2 after normal time. Callum saved two penalties to help us go through – we await the opposition and venue for the Final. Meanwhile Katie Wilkinson is representing England Under 17 Girls in the European Championships and also played in the victory over Finland during a training week over half term in February. She has been selected for the European Championships 2nd group stage which takes place in Italy over the Easter Holidays. Beth Merrick has also been selected for the England set up – in her case it is for the Under 15 Squad.

 

 

 

Under 13 Cannock and District Football

Four Friary pupils have represented the District Under 13 Football team. They are Sam Addis, Matt Fletcher, Adam Geldard Williams and Jake Roberts.

Under 13 Girls team played in the semi final of the Staffs Cup against Oldfields School, near Uttoxeter. Friary won 2-1 with goals from Holly Meehan and Milly Lambert. We now await our final opponents to be played after Easter.

The boys teams in the Cannock and District Cup - Y7  beat  Cannock Chase and Netherstowe [6-3] to reach the final - tba, Y8 played Chasetown[h]Won 5-0, Y9 played  Cannock Chase - Drew but lost on penalties[a] and Y11 Cardinal Griffin [h]Won 7-2 with a Seb Finkle hat trick in the quarter finals of the C+D Cup and beat Blake 4-2 in the semi final to reach the final after Easter.

County Netball Players

Sarah Bates in Y11 at the Friary has been selected for the Staffordshire Under 16 Netball team. Eleanor Duignan, Beth Merrick, Tammie O’Sullivan and Catherine Stephenson have also been selected for the U14 Staffordshire Satellite Academy.

Laura Eggington [pictured] Y10, has recently been successful in getting into the Staffordshire Under 15 girls Netball team. Laura plays in the Friary Under 15 team who lost in the final of the Cannock and District Tournament to KE Lichfield by one late goal.

Y9 were semi finalists in the Cannock and District Tournament – losing to eventual winners King Edwards Lichfield.

Y8 lost to KE Lichfield in the deciding match of the Y8 Cannock and District Tournament after winning all their other games so ended up runners up – still quite an achievement.
 

 

 

Alice Arnstein – County Badminton

Alice has played in two badminton tournaments organised by Staffs Schools Badminton. On Saturday February 27th in the under 13's she won the mixed doubles, girls doubles and girls singles competitions. On Sunday February 28th the U15's whilst not as successful had a really good day. She has been asked to represent the county for the U15's on 14th March and is likely to move up a tier. The coach of the U15's is really impressed with her progress. Nikolay Novikov in Y8 has also been involved with the County Badminton set up – a recent addition to the school from Russia. He is a very good player and is developing his ability to speak our language quite well too !! Mr Millward now has a couple of really hard games during the weekly Monday Badminton Club.

Cannock and District Schools Trampolining

Friary entered teams in to the Cannock and District Schools Trampolining competition held at Hagley Park Sports College in January.

Hetty Hyde Durrant won the Senior Advanced Competition with a very skilful routine. The Junior and Intermediate teams both came third in their competitions out of seven schools so performed very creditably.

Three of the schools’ Rugby teams reached the Staffordshire Cup at the semi final stages. These are the 1st XV [after Easter] the Under 16’s [Newcastle H lost 22-12] and the Under15’s [St Josephs College H Won 17-15] – the final will be after Easter. Friary are hosting the County Under 15 7’s Tournament on March 31st.

Richard Fielding - Staffordshire Under 18 Rugby

Richard who plays for the Friary 1st XV has recently played for the Staffs Schools Under 18 team.

Richard Burton our 1st XV captain has been playing regularly for the successful Lichfield Rugby Club’s 1st XV this year in the back row

Sam Craddock – Friary Year 11 pupil Sam has recently played for the Midlands Under 16 Rugby team. Following an extensive trials programme Sam , who plays for his year group team and the 1st XV at Friary, was successful and was been picked to play for the Midlands in March.

Y11 Cannock and District Champions

On Thursday March 4th the Y11 squad travelled to Chasetown Sports College for the District 7 a side Tournament – and they returned unbeaten and worthy Champions.

In group matches Friary beat Chasetown 25-0, ChaseTerrace 25-5 and Hagley Park Sports College 70-0 [a remarkable scoreline considering the matches were only 10 minutes long !!].

In the final we played Cheslyn Hay Sports College and beat them 25-0. Squad consisted of Adam Butler, Sam Craddock, Seb Finkle, Tom Harrison, James Ingram, Jo Meehan, Joel Nolan, Ben Robinson, Sam Russon and Daniel Skelton.

Tom Harrison also played for the County Under 16 team this year – quite an achievement for a football fanatic. Jack Fielding in Y10 has been selected for the EPDG set up [ England Player Development Group] as has Jack Bayliss at Under 14 Group.

Our Y7 team beat local rivals King Edwards this year which is a rare occasion at Y7 level – well done.

Y10 Cannock and District Champions

Brilliant performance by all the squad. Won all matches –Chasetown 50-0,Cheslyn Hay 45-0,Codsall High School 45-0,Chaseterrace 35-5 and then King Edwards Lichfield 35-5 in the final – all the squad members scored at least one try –JackFielding leading scorer with 13 tries. Squad A Butler,J Bailey,R Baker,J Chapman,A Dune’t,J Feilding,T Foxall,M Haywood.E Lambert,W Newbould.

Friary hosted the County Sevens Tournament on March 31st

Year 9’s rugby team came third after a defeat by Cheslyn Hay in their Tournament and the Under 13 team [Y8] were runners up after losing to Kind Edwards Lichfield in the final 15 – 5.

Cross Country

Friary hosted the final Cannock and District Cross Country League meeting on March 1st and would like to thank Mr Smith, one of our Parents, for sorting the courses out on our field and to Mr Van Block and Ms Haywood for their help with the event and out teams. Morgan Harlow came second in the Y7 girls race, Alice Cattell [County Champion] and Becky Wright[Y8] finished in the top ten in the Y9 race and Lily Sutton won the Y11 girls race. Jake Nicholson Y9 achieved a personal best by finishing 6th in his race. Morgan, Alice, Jake and Daisy Riley, Hannah Gladwin, Jake Porter, Dominic Burden and Rob Miles all ran for the District in the County Championships.

The Friary Astro project began in January and managed to progress despite the poor weather with frequent snow and heavy rain. A rough completion date was mid April.    But unfortunately due to the rain and saturated ground conditions the project has been slightly delayed and may cost more money than initially budgeted for – funding sources are being looked at so a quick solution can hopefully be found. Great news – construction has recommenced on March 9th with a hopeful completion date of early May.

Sport Relief

Pupils entered into the spirit of the day : all pupils having PE lesson that day will either run one mile or contribute to a one mile swim. Pupils can paid to watch a staff Netball match at lunchtime in the Sportshall – male v female – which the women won 4-2. Sport Relief socks were sold by the Sports Council and other bits of money were raised through various other ideas like the ‘Shirt of Hurt’ Some staff who avidly support local football teams swapped shirts for cash. Mr Martin wore a Villa shirt, Mrs Blatherwick a Birmingham City shirt and Mr Mansell a West Brom shirt. Hopefully £250 plus has been raised for the Sport Relief cause.

School Sports Council

Mrs Callaway oversees the School Sports Council to canvas opinion about sport at The Friary. Billy Maritza and Helen Martin have attended a Top Link Conference, both have run a Sports Poster competition and will be involved in the organisation of a Sports Award event in the Summer Term held at the Friary to highlight the success of our pupils. Representatives from all years attend the meetings.

Mrs Callaway our School Sport Co ordinator is regularly involved in the development and provision of Sport in our local Primary Schools.

Art for Sport

The Friary hosted a Youth Sports Trust Day for Art and Sport – they hosted staff and pupils from a dozen schools from around the Midlands to work with an Olympic Artist – Roald Bradstock – a British Olympic Javelin thrower. Some excellent work was achieved and the art Department produced a CD on the day and this was shown at a workshop event at the Sports College Conference at the Telford International Centre in February. We have now been asked to be involved in some International developments……watch this space !!

Under 15 Girls Hockey

Friary were runners up in the Cannock and District Schools Under 15 Girls Hockey Tournament held at Cannock Hockey Club. Friary won all their games up to the final against King Edwards Lichfield – in this match they lost 1-0 despite having several chances to score. Squad Beth Witton,Laura Eggington,Alex Liddiard,Josie Balla,Beth Merrick,Natalie Jones,Beth Wilding,Jess Withers,Sarah Nicholas,Jordan Hill,Alana Edwards,Catherine Knight and Catherine Allcock.

Staffordshire Hockey representatives. Friary get Midlands experience

Friary’s Under 16 Boys Hockey team played in the final of the Staffordshire Schools Cup after beating Denstone College 5-4. They played Newcastle Under Lyme School in the final and were 20 seconds away from being County Champions. Friary led 2-1 at half time with goals by Ed Lambert, NULS equalised before Lambert put the Friary in front again. With Friary looking likely to hold on for the win it wasn’t to be and NULS scored in the last minute to take the game to penalty flicks – Friary lost 4-2.

As runners up Friary played in the Midland Zonal matches and played 3 Private Schools and performed really well against them – the scores not reflecting the closeness in the matches. Friary lost 8-2 against Trent College [ National Champions at Under 14 age group] with Robbie Gleeson scoring both goals. Lost 5-0 against Oakham School and then drew 2-2 with Nunnery Wood from Worcestershire with goals by Phil Round and E Lambert. Friary ended up in third place..

Squad players were D COOK, S MOSELEY, H CARPENTER, P ROUND, D JONES, T LOMAS, R GLEESON, J LOMAS, M GELDARD WILLIAMS, J FIELDING, E LAMBERT, P NEWTON, J JONES, W NEWTON AND S CARPENTER. The school would like to thank Dave Willenbrusch and Goff Jackson for their help and Lichfield Hockey Club for hosting the Midlands matches.

The Under 16 team also became Lichfield and District Trophy winners in March by beating King Edwards Lichfield 2-1 after extra time. Peter Newton and Robbie Gleeson were the scorers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sports Relief

The main event was a staff Netball match – men versus women – played in front of a large crowd. The enthusiasm outshone the quality of Netball but a bit of fun for the pupils to watch…Sports Relief socks have also been sold over the last couple of weeks and some pupils have done a sponsored swim……..pupils timetabled for Physical Education lessons ran a mile to enter into the idea of ‘going the extra mile’. The amount raised was £250+

The department wish Mrs Bennett’ all the best’ as she left on Maternity Leave in March but welcomed back Mrs Clague who we all hope is now 100% fit.

Mr B J Broad

Director of Sport @ The Friary School – an Arts and Sports College.