GCSE & A-Level Product Design Exhibition & Fashion Show

The Design and Technology Department opened its doors on Monday night for the annual GCSE and A-level Product Design Exhibition and the Fashion Show. This event showcased the incredible products, which took many months of hard work and dedication from our innovative pupils. As damage to our environment is a growing concern, this year’s show featured numerous

designs focused on sustainability as well as functionality, such as Kirsty Macleod’s Kitchen Chair and Tom Brown's modular storage unit. Pupils have explored shaping materials in innovative and challenging ways such as Shrinidhi Mahadevan and Matthew Beck's tables.

The theme of innovation continued with an incredible feat of engineering from Shaheer Bhatti in the form of his pilots flying aid. There were also outstanding woodworking skills: on display, Emma Dods' ambitious Welsh dresser and Erin Gallagher’s nesting tables. Other exceptional pieces of work included Hannah Ward's computer workstation and Tom Birch’s park bench project that was developed in conjunction with Stockton Council (it was almost sold during testing on Yarm High Street). The electronic product projects showcased would look at home in high-end retail shops! The pupils' efforts were apparent and there were too many highlights to mention each piece!

Professional photos were taken by Michael Cartwright and they are available on the school website. Prints are also available directly from Michael (www.yarmstudio.co.uk).

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The Fashion Show started on a high with fantastic pupil routines, choreographed by the talented Mrs Dunkley.

This set the theme for the whole show; the garments on display were outstanding! The ambitious and challenging garments were produced by Mrs Jackson's talented Fourth Year, GCSE and A-level students.

The Eco garments were equally as impressive - it really is amazing what can be made out of crisp packets and sweet papers!

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As part of their wider understanding of the world of work and careers, a number of our pupils seek out work experience. This can often be secured as straightforwardly as emailing a particular company and detailing your request. Experiences can vary from a part day visit or shadowing to more substantial periods of time, such as a week during a school holiday. As well as being valuable for providing a more tangible insight, they can also demonstrate to future employers that you have the drive and commitment to meaningfully explore your proposed area of future interest. Below is a report from Lower Sixth student, Clare Hirst, who details her experience over the East holidays working with PR firm Recognition.

Mr S Edwards

Work Experience

Seeking Recognition in the world of work

While I am looking to study Musical Theatre beyond Sixth Form, I wanted while I am still at school to explore other avenues that interest me. One of these was marketing and PR so I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days at Recognition PR in Darlington, whose long list of clients includes Duncan Bannatyne and the Bannatyne Group, Sage Gateshead and Bristol Street Motors. Yarm School is another one of Recognition’s clients, and many of the team came to our production of Les Mise rables in which I played the role of Fantine, so it was lovely to meet them all after they had seen me perform two months previously and see the kind of work they do from the inside, as I had previously seen a lot of their press releases for both the school and Active Chartered Financial Planners, who kindly sponsored Les Mis. My short time at Recognition was extremely busy, useful and informative. When I first arrived, I was given a brief introduction to the firm and what they do, which focuses on three main areas; promoting clients, defending clients and enhancing business networks. I was also informed about the ‘life cycle’ of a press release, which is information posted on behalf of a client about a multitude of things, such as an upcoming event or a recent achievement, starting on Recognition’s website and then beyond. There is a lot involved in this process, from liaising with the client and third parties (including obtaining direct quotes from them), organising photographers and completing spelling and grammar checks. I got to have a go at formulating a press release for Sage Gateshead for their week ahead, where I was given information about what acts are appearing at the Sage that week and had to type them up in the correct format and summarise them for the press release. I also created advertising material for job vacancies in the Larchwood Care Group, which was to be used on their social media outlets. The next day I had to use this material when scheduling tweets and Facebook posts to go out at certain points over the next few weeks,

as well as scheduling posts for Cygnet Law. Another task I was given was to source news reporters for an upcoming Bannatyne’s health club event from the local area concerned and note down their contact details for Recognition to contact them. I had to cross check various people to see who would be suitable for this job in terms of the publication they work for, the area they report on as well as the types of stories they normally produce and pick people I felt would be appropriate. In addition, I had to look for PR/Commercial photographers that would be suitable for an event in Nottingham and create a list of people for Recognition to contact. I also wrote a blog post for Bannatyne’s talking about one of their customer’s fundraising success stories and the link to Bannatyne’s health clubs. Throughout my two days I was given other tasks, one of which was to read through newspapers and pick out any articles that have anything to do with art or music, to be used to help source journalists to work on an event in the summer. I was also challenged with the task of answering the phone on behalf of the firm and putting the callers through to the person they wished to speak to; it took a while to get used to the system, but it got easier after a bit of practise! I also got shown around the video studio where the videos used on press releases are edited and sometimes filmed. I was shown a video that they filmed for Yarm School about the recent success for the Prep School girls’ netball, so it was really interesting to see how this was created. Working at Recognition has been an invaluable experience for me, as I have been able to experience a profession I would not have otherwise been exposed to and even down to the experience of working in an office. I have also made great contacts here and I know that working for a short time in PR will help when it comes to networking in the future as well as working with related people, such as theatrical agents. I would like to thank Graham, Caroline and the whole brilliant team at Recognition for making me feel so welcome and giving me such an insight into the world of PR and the impact their work has on their clients’ relations with the media, consumers and business-to-business.

Clare Hirst (L6)

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Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby—Planning the 40th Year celebrations

The Business Department hosted another popular Working Lunch this week, with former pupil Sophie Allick our volunteer speaker. Currently completing her dissertation on "Management in Healthcare", Sophie is soon to conclude her Business Management studies at Newcastle University. After giving the assembled Lower Sixth Business students an overview of her degree and university experience, Sophie spoke of her long term goal to run her own business, and her more immediate plans to secure experience in a Head Office style environment. Sophie was willing to answer a plethora of questions and to offer her advice and guidance to those wanting to target an A* in Business and follow her along the higher education path. Sophie advised staying abreast of current affairs through a news app, utilising CAAE when writing answers (the acronym she still uses to this day!!), regularly consolidating notes and taking on board all offered feedback. We are very grateful to Sophie for taking time away from University to speak to us at this very busy time in her studies, and we wish her well with her finals and with her subsequent London based placement over the summer with Este e Lauder.

Miss C E Rhodes (Economics and Business)

cer@yarmschool.org

The teams met in the Board Room for the fifth and final time in 2018 to face Lord Sugar (aka Ms Boyd). Project managers Philippa, Susie and Elise had been given the unenviable task of compiling a fully costed proposal for an event for Yarm School's 40th anniversary. Advised to consider entertainment, ticketing, themes, catering and logistics, the Project Managers had all worked hard to consider realistic and achievable ideas suitable for the school. Elise's team pitched for a family day to be held in June 2019. This would take place at Green Lane and be open to parents, the Prep School and Senior pupils. They incorporated a BBQ, rides and a bouncy castle and planned for a marquee in case of inclement weather. Philippa's team advocated a non-uniform day to self-fund an inflatable course, which would be open to all ages in carefully segmented slots. They would have a train shaped cake to represent the journey of the school and to prove symbolic given the transport arrangements of many of Mr Tate's early pupils. They also proposed a Masquerade Ball targeted at the older students. Susie's team were keen to support a formal wear 40th Anniversary Ball, which would be an elegant event with former pupils from different decades present to give their personal experiences. This would be open to Fifth Years and Sixth Form students and would take place in March 2019. Lord Sugar praised all three teams for their superb pitches and well researched plans. After much difficult deliberation she determined that Philippa's team had been victorious, thus they received the luxury cake and drink rewards. Susie's team as runners-up received chocolate mini rolls, whilst Elise was asked to return with her team to the Boardroom, where Gabriel was fired. Philippa received winning PM points and Susie runner-up PM points. Miss Rhodes and Mr Menzies commended Susie, Philippa and Elise for their diligence and determination with the task and awarded bonus points to each, whilst the teams commended Fraser, Emma and Susie for their outstanding contribution to this task. Thank you to Ms Boyd for setting and judging a very challenging task, and we look forward to seeing one or more of the proposals being incorporated into the 40th Anniversary plans next academic year. All the tasks have now been completed... all that remains is for the points to be tallied up and for the students to complete evaluation, during which they will have to independently identify and justify which fellow students excelled throughout the year in the categories of leadership, team work and creativity....

Busy in Business ...

The winner takes it all ….

The final peer awarded points for leadership, teamwork and creativity have been tallied and, after five fiercely fought tasks, with the teams having developed a Yarm School Mocktail ("Phoenix Rising" to be sold at future school events), produced stock for and ran a stall at the YSA Christmas Fair, written a children's book for Nursery and Reception pupils (to shortly be rolled out at the Pre-Prep), added value to a bag of stock from Boyes and proposed a pupil targeted event for the Yarm 40th Year Celebrations, I am delighted to announce that: The Winner of The Yarm Apprentice 2018 is.....

Susie Dunn

And the runner up is Philippa Ridley Congratulations!!!! Well Done to both of you, and thank you to all of the 2018 competitors for being so much fun to work with over the past two terms.

Miss C E Rhodes

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Surely the highlight of our chess year, was being able to attract Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan to Yarm School to organise an extravaganza for our best chess players from Teesside Schools (and Sean Marsh deserves immense credit for this). Matthew, a GM (Grandmaster) has twice won the British Championship and his highest world ranking was 14th. Natasha is a WIM (Woman International Master) at Chess, she also competes internationally at the board game "Go".

We had about 30 attendees across the age-range, with five pupils from the Senior School: Aishani Paul, Vignesh Janakiraman, Edward Adams, Gautam Sathyamurthy and Sophia Kusterer. We had a strong contingent from the Prep School and the other half of the participants were from other local Teesside schools.

Matthew gave an interactive lecture on how to learn from the Masters, focusing on an historic gem by ex-World Champion Paul Morphy. This was a game conducted at the Paris Opera, where Morphy played the Duke of Brunswick and the Count of Isouard during a performance of La Boheme. Morphy was esteemed for his rapid and fearless attacking play and this game offered further proof of his genius.

Natasha continued the flow by analyzing the style of Keith Arkell, an English GM who plays an astonishing amount of tournament chess, with a high degree of success. He aims to establish familiar positions, with typical pawn structures (the Carlsbad for example) and then exploit minor weaknesses is his opponent's position, grinding out victory after victory.

The day was concluded by the main event, which was Matthew and Natasha playing against all the juniors (and some parents and even teachers as well) around a giant circle. There was some fantastically competitive and intense chess, but the final result was a thundering 36-0 to our visitors. A thrilling day was had by all.

Michael Pointon.

The next chess event at Yarm School will be the Delancey Challenge - The Teesside Chess Megafinal, and this will take place on Sunday 6th May in the PAA (Princess Alexandra Auditorium) from 9:30am to 5pm. There will be different age categories at the event, and there is a section for Senior School pupils, with both boys and girls at each year group qualifying for the Giga Final in July. For First Year through to Sixth Form, no pre-qualifying is necessary, and enrolment is via the internet:

https://www.delanceyukschoolschesschallenge.com/product-category/megafinal/

There is a £15 entry fee, payable through the internet, and the system is still open for entries. All players of whatever standard are very much encouraged to participate.

Simultaneous Chess

Last week's answer: None - only babies were born

Last time’s winners:

Yumna Ellidir / Will Craggs / Lilian Dufton / Danny Scott / Tegan Addison / Harriet White (Second Year). Congratulations to you all!

This week's riddle: A game show

Rating: Logic

You are on a game show and have managed to get to the last round with a chance to win their grand prize. There are 3 doors in front of you, 2 of which have goats behind them and the other with a car behind it. Once you make your initial choice the host will open one of the other doors with a goat behind it and ask if you want to change your choice. To get the car, would you be better off changing your choice?

Please send any answers in to 16SinhaP@yarmschool.org, remember to add your tutor group (or initials for teachers) and those with the quickest correct answers will get announced in the next issue. Good Luck!

By Parul Sinha & Aishani Paul

Riddles

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Creative Arts & Industries Career Cluster Event

Before the Easter break we held our third Career Cluster event of the year. These events are designed to focus on a

specific area of education, training and employment and highlight the diversity of opportunities that exist. This most

recent one drew together a dynamic range of practitioners and educators within the creative arts and industries. At a

school level this was primarily drawing from the Departments of Art, Textiles and Product Design. Collectively this is one

of most lucrative and income generating areas of the UK economy – of greater value to the UK economy last year that the

combined contributions of the automotive, oil, gas, aerospace and life sciences. Our guests reflected this dynamic, highly

skilled and successful field.

A number of former pupils returned to share their experiences and insight; both Natalie Friesem and Amelia Bernard are

in the early stages of study yet spoke passionately about their commitment to the fields of furniture design and fashion

respectively. Ellie Fulford is currently reading Theatre and English Literature at Bristol but is devoting considerable time

to building her profile in the theatre scene through set and costume design. It was a delight to welcome back Chris

Lambert, who addition to creating documentary film work and holding his first photographic exhibition, is currently

working in TV with Channel 4. These were joined by two highly talent former pupils, Sam McClaren a bespoke guitar

maker and Sam Pearce, a much sought after artistic blacksmith.

Our second panel sought to showcase the practitioners from within this broad field; Ed Kluz is a highly commended

artist, illustrator and printmaker. Martin Wakefield shared generously of his deign experience working with Bang &

Olufsen, whilst the combined team of Suzie and David Mack detailed the work of their architectural practice,

Summerhouse Architects. Glen Corbett works in product management and consulting and added an additional level of

diversity to this group.

The evening offered four break-out presentations and we are extremely appreciative of the efforts of Sheffield Hallam

(Product Design), Northumbria University (Architecture, Interior Architecture and the Built Environment), Teesside

University (Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Fashion and Textiles) and Cleveland College of Art and Design

(Creative Routes) for offering such time and expertise to the evening. Staff from these institutions along with Luke

Harmer from the Design School at Loughborough University comprised our final panel, fielding parent and student

questions about training routes as well as workplace opportunities.

The event was made possible through the efforts of three highly successful departments and their committed leadership

and staff members and I would personally like to thanks Ashleigh Jackson, Liz Stebbings and Nick Mills for their tireless

behind-the-scenes advocacy for their work, and for the energy and enthusiasm that they brought to this event from

initial conception to the final realisation on the evening itself. They will continue to inspire and motivate another

generation of students to be bold enough, confident enough and appropriately skilled to move into these vital and

exciting areas of employment.

Mr S Edwards

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Bede House Update

Bede House had a busy end to the Spring Term. Events

for charity week this year had been carefully planned by

the House Captains and these were very well received.

The darts competition saw many competitors coming

back again, and again, to try to beat their best score, or

to better a rival. There were some really impressive six

dart scores by the end of the week. The classic cake

stalls, the very tricky lemon balance challenge and the

paper aeroplane design-and-throw competition all did

their bit in raising funds, and generating atmosphere.

The moto competition saw pupils try to sum up Bede, or

what we stand for, in a short moto. The House Captains

helped me to choose the winner, which referenced a

fondly remembered Bede House assembly. I was

impressed with the Third Year sweet stall, especially the

handmade sweet cones.

During charity week, Bede House played a collective

game of ‘assassin’. It was great watching this unfold:

First Year pupils approaching groups of Sixth Form

trying to find their targets; bartering cakes for

information; cases of mistaken identity; this game really

helped Bede House get to know each other across all age

groups and helped build a real sense of togetherness.

The clear winner was Sasha Donaldson from Third Year,

having found fifteen targets across all year groups.

The most successful event was the Bede Bake Off, which

ran for three weeks. The effort put into making this

happen, by a small group of Lower Sixth, was superb

and the number of competitors each week was equally

impressive. The Bake Off raised over £150; the results

will be announced next week.

Overall, Bede’s efforts made over £550 for the

Butterwick Hospice. A big thank you to everyone who

was involved, either in running an event, contributing

items to sell, or just by buying something from a stall or

playing one of our games.

We were visited by a representative from Macmillan

North East to thank us for our donation earlier in the

year from Mr Emerson’s music quiz. The House

Captains got to hear about the local work the donation

helps to facilitate and to appear in a photograph

published by Macmillan.

Bede House gave a great performance in the inter-

house debating final, played out during Sixth Form

SPaCE, but lost the final decision by a whisker. The

audience seemed persuaded by Bede’s argument

though! I was also pleased to see strong representation

of Bede in the Senior Colours presentation, the Easter

service performance, and performing in the ‘concert

and cakes’ concert. Well done to all involved.

This year’s House Captains have really led by example.

Sophie Elliott, Lucy Newbold, Robbie Williamson, and

Phoebe White have been superb, representing Bede

House, and the school, across a variety of disciplines

with great success. They have been a true inspiration

for the House and the embodiment of my vision for

Bede. Stand up, stand out, make a difference. Fortune

favours the brave.

Dr PD Prideaux

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Economics Working Lunch

The Economics department were delighted to welcome back former pupil Nikhil Krishna to talk to members of the Lower Sixth. Nikhil, currently in the second year of his Economics and Management degree studies at Oxford, enjoyed the opportunity to share his wisdom, and discussed the components of his course and the process of application. Willingly answering a subsequent plethora of questions relating to interviews, personal statements and choosing universities, Nikhil also shared his experiences of preparing for the TSA. Many thanks to Nikhil for giving his time so freely.

Miss C E Rhodes

Can you lead?

Can you make decisions?

Can you manage your time?

Can you work in a team?

Can you deal with people who don't pull their weight?

Can you deal with conflict?

Can you bounce back after failure?

Can you think of a charity which means something to you, and raise money to support it?

Can you pitch?

Can you justify your ideas?

Can you stand up for yourself?

Can you take calculated risks?

Can you have fun whilst building the skills needed for UCAS and / or employability?

Can you compete?

Are you in the Lower Sixth next year?

Can you be the 2019 Yarm Apprentice?

Sign up for Yarm Apprentice - Thursday Activities 2018/19

Miss C E Rhodes

(Economics and Business) cer@yarmschool.org

Have YOU got what it takes?

Rounders U18A

Yarm won the toss against Durham School and opted to field first, this can give you the advantage by being able to work towards a certain score set by the opposition. It was very clear from the first ball that Durham had some big hitters and it took us by surprise and during the first innings. We struggled to adapt our fielding positions to counter the distance the Durham players were hitting the ball. We batted well but Durham's fielding was strong and we fell behind on number rounders after the first innings. The second innings proved to be a repeat of the first, even with changes to our fielding positions but it was a lovely friendly match and everyone enjoyed playing.

SPORT

Rowing Katie Anderson and Sarah Portsmouth fly at GB Junior Trials at the weekend to finish second.

Katie Anderson and Sarah Portsmouth took the GB Junior Trials by storm in the women’s junior coxless pair at Nottingham last Sunday. Having been invited to attend this third assessment the girls were hoping for a top 6 finish which would put them in contention for selection for one of the GB events in the summer. However, their faces dropped when they saw the very rough conditions and a strong headwind they had to race through for 2000 metres. Nevertheless they rowed through the first assessment – a 2000metre time trial – and surprised everyone by finishing 2nd overall, less than two seconds behind the much fancied Henley RC crew. This result meant that they will be one of the top seeded crews and because of the difficult water conditions would have a more favourable lane in. the semi-final.

The semi-final was again rowed in very rough conditions, but the girls coped better than most and won the race by 6 lengths and in the fastest time to set up an interesting clash with Henley RC, who won their semi-final, in the final.

Katie and Sarah had hoped that the wind would die down by the time of their 5pm final but unfortunately the wind increased to make the 2000m start more like the North Sea. It was Henley RC who coped better with the conditions off the start but Katie and Sarah were not daunted. The length advantage Henley RC took at the start was not increased over the rest of the course and Katie and Sarah finished the trials in second place. These two crews decimated the rest of the field.

This will now give the GB selectors a bit of a headache, as the Yarm girls were consistently good throughout all three races and only beaten by a crew who had already raced at World Championship level last year. Naturally Katie and Sarah were ecstatic at the outcome and still feel there is more speed to come from their boat. They will

now be invited to the GB Crew Formation trials in July where they will either be selected for the Junior World Championships or the Coupe de la Jeunese. This is a well-earned reward for hours of hard training both in the gym, on the ergos and on the water and it couldn’t happen to two nicer girls.

Junior Inter-Regional Regatta

Yarm School is well represented at the Junior Inter-

Regional Regatta

On a hot and sunny Saturday the National Watersports

Centre, Nottingham, hosted the Junior Inter-Regional

Regatta where schools and clubs from around the country

competed for their region in events for Junior 14 to 16 for

both boys and girls. Yarm School is part of the Yorkshire

region and because this is one of the smallest regions, Yarm

School rowers formed a large contingent. Trials had taken

place on the Tees in March to select the fastest crews for

each event at Nottingham.

This is a tremendous

event for our younger

rowers as for some it is

their first opportunity

to race on a multi-lane

course and against

opposition from all

over the country.

At Junior 14 level the Yarm School quad had been selected

for the Junior 14 coxed quad event and although they have

only been rowing for a year they finished a respectable third

in the B final.

At Junior 15 level the Yarm

School boys’ quad and four

represented the region and

finished third in their B final.

This promises well for the

forthcoming regatta season. The

Yarm girls also represented the

region in the girls’ coxed four

event and rowed very well to

finish third in their B final.

As said before, the Yorkshire region is a small one and in

order to compete in all events, Yarm junior 15 girls were

selected to row in an older age group in a coxless four. With

some of the crew still 14 years old this was a tall order but

they rowed very very well and beat 2 other crews. Well

done girls !

Katie & Sarah bring Mr Lund to his knees

Two very happy but tired girls

together with their coaches

Cricketing Third Years, Matthew Maloy and Abhinav Ramisetty, are celebrating after being selected for Durham CCC’s U14 squad. The talented pair, who have also played for Cleveland Schools’ Cricket Association for a number of years, will face the likes of Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire in the coming season. Both boys opened the batting for Yarm’s U13 team, last year. We wish them every success.

Congratulations to Jamie Pender, who following on from representing Durham County Rugby Union U15’s in an emphatic 62-21 victory over Northumberland and a thrilling last minute 26-19 victory over Cumbria, recently heard that after 7 weeks training and selection, he had been selected to play cricket for U15 Cleveland Schools.

Very well done!

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Finally, all the Yarm junior 15 boys combined to row in the

eights’ event . Again there was another creditable row and

all the points earned from these events went towards

Yorkshire’s total. The Yarm junior 15 girls combined to

again row in the junior 16 category and produced a gusty

performance.

Although the Yorkshire region was never going to win the

event, it did produce some very promising performances

from our crews and our Boat Club is now looking forward

to York Spring regatta at the beginning of May

Success at the London Mini-

Marathon

Congratulations to Gabrielle Hall who was the youngest to compete in the London mini marathon! She finished 2nd girl in the North East over 5k completing the course in 19.14. This placed her 32nd out of all the regions, competing against the best girls in the country. Gabby is just 11 and although the race is an under 13 event the majority of the runners are actually 13 (loop hole in the running world, if your birthday falls at certain times you can get in). Gabby was the youngest in the race so to be placed 32nd with the elite juniors at 11 years old is incredible. If she’s selected next year she will be a year older, and competing with others nearer her age. Gabby is up in Scotland next month for the Scotland marathon running 5k. A brilliant achievement from a talented athlete!

Well done Jamie

Duo’s Durham Delight!

SPORT

At the start of the Easter break, our team tennis players headed to Portugal for several days of intense training. Once again we were based at the excellent Amendoeira resort which provides all that is needed for the players to focus on improving their tennis.

Everyone had five hours of coaching sessions per day, with the morning sessions focusing on technique work and the afternoon based on game play.

A great time was had by all and significant improvements were made right across the group. This all bodes well for the season ahead.

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Our first tennis fixture of the season took place this week. Amy Booth and Fi Weatherhead (who stepped in at the eleventh hour) played together, and Kate Craig and Leila Wilcock.

Durham struggled for enough girls to play so had to use some U15's players therefore the games were a little one-sided. All four of our players performed well. At times our serves were a little rusty but on the whole I was very pleased with them.

We played 28 games of tennis with both pairs playing 14 each.

Won 24-4

This week was also the first rounders match of the term. We won the toss and opted to field first. Elise Darcy bowled well in the first innings, picking up a number of outs and taking a fantastic catch herself. However some rusty fielding meant that when the Durham girls were able to strike the ball, they were able to find gaps in the field and were consistently picking up half rounders. They posted a score of 6.5 after the first innings. When it was our turn to bat, we struggled to find runs against a well organised Durham field. Hannah Walker did pick up a rounder with a great strike and we ended the first innings on 3.5 runs.

The second innings was much more competitive, although Durham continued to strike the ball well picking up a further 5.5 runs. We were not far behind in the scoring in the second innings, as we picked up 4.5 runs including a rounder from Elise. Although we improved as the game went on, the match finished 12-8 to Durham who were the more organised team on the day. Player of the Match went to Elise Darcy.

Tennis & Rounders Portugal Tennis Camp

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