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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award<br />
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has once again received a positive uptake<br />
this year for all three awards.<br />
41 Year 10 students have undertaken the Bronze Award, culminating in<br />
two expeditions in June around the Windermere area. Co-ordinators Jan<br />
Hayward and Chris Rhodes have also offered an exciting programme of<br />
activities for the Bronze Award students, including climbing and navigation<br />
clubs, first aid awareness training and a skills course run by Kendal Fire<br />
Station. Students have been invited to be involved in two local conservation<br />
projects, at Serpentine Woods and with the North Kendal River<br />
Enhancement Group, enabling them to contribute to their local<br />
community including litter picking, woodland maintenance, and enhancing<br />
public footpaths by planting and weeding. 19 Year 11 and 6 Year 12<br />
students completed their Silver Training Expedition in March, despite<br />
blustery conditions in the Yorkshire Dales, and will be completing their<br />
Qualifying Expedition in September. As always, the willingness of The<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> staff to help run the award has been invaluable,<br />
and enabled a high number of students to participate.<br />
Swimming<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> is once again<br />
attracting headlines in the swimming world<br />
when two of its students together with a former<br />
student took their talents well outside the<br />
County boundaries to take part in events as far<br />
apart as Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester.<br />
In the North West Regions Youth<br />
Championships held in Manchester, 16-year-old<br />
Victoria Hevey (photo, top) took her career to<br />
new heights. The 16-year-old swept into the<br />
Bronze Medal position in the 50m Backstroke<br />
final with an outstanding piece of backstroke<br />
sprinting, finishing in a Personal Best time of<br />
33.13 and claiming a new Long Course Club<br />
Record for this distance. Old boy, Sam Kaye<br />
(photo, centre), travelled to the Ponde Forge<br />
National Pool at Sheffield to take part in the<br />
British Junior D.S.E. Championships.<br />
Competing in five events Sam enjoyed a hugely<br />
successful weekend, first of all achieving a<br />
personal ambition in setting a new British<br />
Record and taking the Gold Medal for 50<br />
Butterfly in 29.64. With an immaculate start and<br />
displaying his outstanding talent and skill he<br />
held off all opposition and stormed to a thrilling<br />
finish for a historic win. He then went on to win<br />
a further four Gold Medals over the two days<br />
with outstanding performances in the 100m<br />
Butterfly, 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle and the<br />
4 x 25m Freestyle Relay. His time of 1:06.86 for<br />
100m Butterfly and 1:01.62 for 100m Freestyle<br />
also brought him New Club Records, both of<br />
which have stood for a number of years. In a<br />
second visit to Sheffield Sam competed in the British International<br />
Disabled Championships from which he came away with three Gold and<br />
three Silver Medals. His best times in the five events that he entered also<br />
produced new 50m Long Course Club Records for him and his time of<br />
I:05.97 for 50m Butterfly fell just outside the Qualifying Time for the<br />
European Disabled Championships. 14-year-old Bethan Richards (photo,<br />
bottom) took a gold winners medal at the British Gas ASA National<br />
SPORTS ROUND-UP<br />
Water Polo Championships, held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre. In<br />
this instance she was playing for City of Liverpool who beat City of<br />
Manchester in the finals. Just to settle the side down after a nervous<br />
opening few exchanges ‘Hot Shot’ Beth scored the first two goals to put her<br />
side 2–0 in front and then went on to collect a total of 6 goals in a series of<br />
three matches, which they won 10–6, 12–9 and 12–4. Beth has also earned<br />
a place on the Cumbria swim team who will be representing the County in<br />
this year’s North West Regions Inter Association Galas being held at<br />
Salford, later this month. All three swim and train with Troutbeck Bridge<br />
swimming club.<br />
Fit4Life<br />
The official end to the Fit4Life programme and associated funding really<br />
has finished with a flourish this term.<br />
The Mountain Boarding sessions at “Surf-The-Turf”, the Lakeland<br />
Mountain Board Centre in Sedgwick were suitably extreme with wet and<br />
muddy conditions seemingly every week just to make things interesting!<br />
The Gym sessions in the Fitzone at Lakes Leisure in Kendal have gone<br />
very well with all students completing the full induction to enable them to<br />
become established members. And finally, the Street Dance classes with<br />
the Year 9’s have been fantastic with the instructor Jeni really setting a high<br />
standard and playing some great tunes!<br />
Table Tennis<br />
Zarah Dixon has qualified as U/13 Girls County Champion and goes to the<br />
English <strong>School</strong>s Individuals National Championships in Doncaster.<br />
Girls Football Cumbria <strong>School</strong>s League Finals<br />
Following their victories in the South Lakes tournaments in February all<br />
three of our girls teams went on to compete in the Cumbria finals in<br />
Penrith.<br />
The U12 team<br />
finished as runners-up<br />
having beaten <strong>Queen</strong><br />
Elizabeth, Solway and<br />
Millom and drawn with<br />
Richard Rose Central<br />
and Richard Rose<br />
Morton. The U13 team<br />
finished in 3rd place<br />
following victories<br />
against Netherhall,
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