SHENSTON IAN 88 - Old Silhillians Association

Swimming Sports
A large crowd of enthsiastic on-lookers and Parents turned up to watch what
turned out to be one of the closest Junior Swimming Sports in recent years.
The final outcome was only settled in the last event when the Pole relay team
narrowly beat their close rivals, Fetherston, to ensure their second overall victory
in two years.
A number of excellent performances were recorded with Stephen Morris
setting a new record in the 4th year back-stroke competition. This won him the
Victor Ludorum for the best performance on the day. Two other records were
established by two very promising swimmers in J2. Giles Blessed got the afternoon
off to an excellent start by setting a record in the U9 back-stroke. This was shortly
followed by Jacob Davis, who broke a well-established record in the U9 freestyle.
With nearly every boy in the Junior School taking part in the event there was
plenty for the parents to cheer about.The lead changed hand many times and it was
not finally settled until the last relay.
Final Results: 1) Pole 94pts
2) Fetherston 93pts
3) Jago 83pts
4) Shenstone 82pts
5) Windsor 81pts
Sports' Day
H.J.T.
June 20th was a glorious sunny day and the Junior School Sports lived up to the
occasion. Slick organisation made it an enjoyable affair; not least for those brave
toddlers, mothers and fathers who ran so well in the 'special events'. In more
serious events Stewart Murray ran and jumped brilliantly to give Windsor the
spring-board of their successful defence of the trophy. He was well supported by his
team in the novelty races but Shenstone were in the lead as the final relay set off.
Windsor won the race in fine style and with it the house trophy for the second
consecutive year.
Final placings:
1) Windsor
2) Shenstone
3) Jago
4) Pole
5) Fetherston
The Borough Junior Schools Sports
The Junior School athletics team produced their best ever performance at the
Borough Junior Schools' athletics sports held at the Norman Green Athletics
Centre, on Thursday 30th June.
Cheton Parmar began the evening with a confident run in the 800m. winning in
a time of 2 minutes 38 seconds. The 80m sprint heats and semi-finals saw all 4 of the
school's runners reaching their final. In the Under 11 final James Spicer-Freeman
produced a very determined run to win. Edward Keating came fourth. Stuart
Murray came first in the Under 12 80m sprint. Michael Mina came 8th.
The Under 11 and Under 12 relay squads practised their take-overs and won
their events. The under 11 squad needed a good run from James Spicer- Freeman
to ensure their victory but the under 12 team won comfortably in a fast time of 57
seconds.
This clean sweep of the boys track events was backed up by some good
performances in the field events. Michael Butler took second place in the under 11
cricket ball and Khaled Elsheikh and Ramez Moussa produced good performances
in the high jump competition.
These excellent performances enabled the team to finish in 4th place just 2
points away from the runners-up spot, despite being able to enter only half the
events!
Tennis Final
H.J.T.
This year's entry was a record and the cornpetition also produced two of the
best finals ever seen. In the singles Stewart Murray eventually triumphed over the
wind, rain, cold, breaks in play and Barnaby Dowding, who proved to be a worthy
opponent. The second set was taken in a tie-break before Murray won it 7-6 to add
to the 6-2 result of the first set. Dowding, who showed a likeness to John McEnroe,
partnered Murray in the doubles' final and they eventually beat Simon Waters and
Morgan Jones 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 in a match that lasted over 2 days because of the rain
showers. A memorable tennis season was over.
Chess
G. Deeming
This school year has seen a lot of regular chess, particularly for the top VI. As
well as the Solihull Primary League Title being defended, there have been the
individual tournaments and chess club every Thursday and Friday. In the League,
Ulverly took our title in a nail biting finish. Our only other set-backs were against
St. Patrick's and Shirley Heath against whom we drew. We finished as runners-up.
This year's Captain and Vice Captain were T. Richards and Matthew Jones
respectively.
In the individual tournaments the first and second year competitions were won
by Daniel Keating, the third year was won by James Boys, next year's captain, and
the fourth by Thomas Richards.
On behalf of all the players I would like to thank Mr. Loynton for encouraging
and organising the Junior School's Chess.
Tae Kwan-do
For the first time ever, the Old Gym has resounded to the shouts of the Korean
martial art Tae Kwan-Do, every Wednesday and Thursday after school. This
exciting 10 week course is led by Mr. Dave Oliver, the Chairman of the British Tae
Kwan-Do Association.
A thrilling demonstration, organised for parents, included the smashing of
wooden blocks with bare hands and feet, but unfortunately you have have to be 16
or over to learn this skill. We have been practising self-defence techniques
including lots of stretching exercises in preparation for our yellow belt test. The
course is open to the third and fourth years and has proved extremely popular.
Jeremy Bomford.