by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
“There’s a breathless hush in the Close to-night, Ten to make and the match to win, A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play, and the last man in.” The stage is set as the final overs of this exciting cricket match unfold but this is not...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
At an Inter-Schools athletics event, the Heads of some of the schools were sitting in the shelter of a marquee and were joined, uninvited, by a group of enthusiastic parents from one of the competing schools as well as one of their coaches. Two incidents,...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
There is an old adage that says that “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” There is much wisdom in that, not least with regard to teaching our children crucial lessons when it comes to sport at school. If we are going to do sport at all, we...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
When the New Curriculum was being introduced, a gathering of Heads had been assembled to find out more about what was involved. It was exciting that the New Curriculum acknowledged the need for there to be more sport in schools; of particular interest, one...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
My father was an exceptional golfer. For many years he played off scratch (meaning his handicap was zero) and he once reached the semi-finals of the English Amateur tournament. Two days before he died, aged seventy-three, he won a small local golf...
