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 On Wednesday 14th October, St. James' A team went to Skinners Academy to play matches against Bidborough and St. Johns.

 Our first match was against Bidborough, we played well but unfortunately lost 3-1.

Our second match was against St. Johns', unfortunately we also lost this match.

St. Johns' were a very strong team and they had a very tall goal shooter. Bidborough too were a good team, with a very strong defence.

We all had a great time and thank you Mr Chandler for driving us there, and to Mrs Waller, for organising the matches. Thank you Mrs Moriarty and Mrs Mesher for coaching and supporting us.

Team; Eve, Francesca S, Sophie, Alice, Hannah, Vicky and Isobel.

Report by Francesca S.

A Team

On Wednesday 7th October St. James’ A Football team went to Claremont to play a match. The game kicked off and we had possession. We had lots of shots and so did Claremont, but both keepers kept strong. Then late into the first half we had an attack. Joe B put through a ball, Joe T chased it and he was one on one with the keeper, before calmly putting it past him. It was then half time. Claremont had a quick break and had a shot from long range, Josh pulled off an amazing save! They took the corner quickly and Joe T headed it clear. There was a break and Joe B smashed it up the pitch, Claremont’s keeper came out and miss kicked the ball, Joe then took it round the keeper and scored a great goal the final score was 2-0 to St. James’. We all played very well.

Thank you Mrs Waller and Keith for taking and supporting us.

Joe T and Josh were named ‘Men of the Match’.

Team: Josh, Joe W, Joe B, Joe T, Amir, Lewis, Joel and Miller.

B Team

On Wednesday 7th October St. James’ B Football team went to play Claremont B team. The match kicked off and we had a dodgy start. But before half time Spencer ran through the defence and scored. In the second half we started well and Spencer scored another goal to make it 2-0 to us. Towards the end of the match Shakane shot and hit the keeper. After that they had a great attack, but a great save by Max denied them the goal. The whistle blew and we had won 3-0.

Thank you Mrs Waller for organising it and Mrs Simkins for driving us there.

Team: Max, Tommy, Harry, Jordan, Dean, Shakane, Jonny, Spencer and Kyle.

Report by Dean 6A.

On Wednesday 30th September children from year 3 & year 4 went to play in a Tri-Golf Festival, at the Boys Grammar School.

We played against lots of other schools.

The year 4 team finished winners and won a trophy.

Thank you, Mrs Waller and Miss Davison for organising and taking us.

Year 3 Team: Molly, Andrew, Hugh, Annie, Joe, Brandon, Jamie, Isobel, Julia and Millie.
Year 4 Team: Emily, Maya, Guy, Aidan, Hayley, Phoebe, Zach, Jay, Jessica and Ben.

On Monday 28th September St. James’ A team had our first game of the season, at home against Paddock Wood. The games started off a bit tricky, but in the first five minutes we got a corner. Miller took it and delivered a great cross, but Joe T put in an even better header and put the ball in the back of the net. 1-0 to St. James’. The match continued well to half time. We then started again and Joe scored another great goal, 2-0. The game went on well, in the last five minutes Joe W won a penalty. Joe T took the penalty, but their keeper made a great dive and saved it! They were great opposition and we all had a great game. The final score was 2-0 to us.

Joe T and Josh M were named Men of the Match.

Thank you Mrs Waller for cheering us on, also the year 6 girls netball team who cheered the team on and to Carl for coaching, organising and being the ref.

Team; Josh M, Joe B, Joe T, Joe W, Miller, James F all from year 6, Joel, Lewis and Amir from year 5.

A Team

On Sunday 28th June the Netball A team went to Tunbridge Wells High School to play a netball tournament for the Cardiomiopathy Charity. All the money that would be raised would go to that Charity.

We started off playing against Horsmonden. Despite our continuous efforts we lost 4-5.

Our second match was against Southborough. They were very strong players, but we tried really hard to get the ball up in our end of the court. We drew the game 3-3.

Just after our second match we all did the shooting competition. Afterwards we went to our third match against Pembury. But when we got to the court we found out that they hadn't showed up and so we won by forfeit.

After, we played against Langton. They were really good and we played our best but unfortunately we lost 3-5. We then played against St.Augustines, who won 6-4.

Finally our last match was against Speldhurst. They were really good and we lost 4-5.

As is was a very, very hot day we came 6th out of 6 schools! But it was all for Charity so we didn't mind as we raised over £2,200 and it was great fun. In the middle of the day an RAF fighter plane did a special fly over for us, but unfortunately they went a bit off course and instead of going over Tunbridge Wells High School, they went over Beechwood!!

Thank you to Mrs Waller, Mrs Mesher and Mrs Schone for supporting us, and well done to everyone who helped to raise all the money.

Report by Sasha and Nadine.

'A' Team; Sasha, Nadine, Maddy, Megan, Lauren, Suzan and Emily.

B Team Report

On Sunday 27th June, St James B Netball team, along with two year 5’s, Isabel and Hannah, went to Tunbridge Wells High School to play five matches for charity.

Our first match was against St Matthew’s School. They play very well but thanks to our excellent shooters, Olivia and Zoë, we won the match 5-2.

Our second match was against Speldhurst School. Again, our shooters were excellent. They were a bit better than St Matthew’s but everyone in our team played excellently again and we won 4-2.

Next we played Langton Green. All of our team were playing so well despite the heat and so were Langton. The final score was 5-2 to us.

Then we played Horsmonden. If we won this match, we were in the final. Their centre was very fast so it was hard to catch up with her. The final score was 2-1 to us so that meant we were in the final so we had one more match to play.

Our final match was against St John’s School. We were all very tired and were suffering with the heat however they played brilliantly. The final score was 5-2 to them. We came third overall in the league.

Thank you to Mrs Mesher for coaching us and Mrs Waller for organising it.

Report by Jessica H and Eloise P

B Team: Jessica H, Eloise P, Zoë B, Jodie S, Hannah J, Isabel F, Francesca D and Olivia L.
 

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Thank you to everyone who helped at our Sports Day. Thank you too, to all the supporters – our biggest crowd ever.

In the morning the children went around in mixed age group teams, taking part in 8 different activities. There were throwing, jumping and team relay events. The final scores were remarkably close with all houses scoring over 6000 points. Scott House were the winners with 6,860 points. Congratulations to them.

The teams scored for good sportsmanship and politeness as well, which we believe is very important and the results of this were close too. The winning house was Livingstone. Congratulations.

In the afternoon we ran an amazing 88 races, plus the toddlers and parents races. Apologies for over-running, but we hope you enjoyed it. It was a very hot day and the children were really grateful for the ice-lollies from the PFA afterwards, so thank you to them. The winners in the afternoon were Wellington House. Congratulations.

Well done to all the children. There is a year to recover, before we do it again!

On Wednesday 24th June, some year 5 and 6 children went to Southborough School to participate in the Pentathalon.

The Pentathalon consisted of five events; Long Jump; Hop Step and Jump; Shuttle Run; Football Throw and Tennis Ball Throw.

Everyone played consistantly well in their events and with everyone's help we managed to earn a great number of points.

With all our efforts, we built up 148 points. Unfortunately, with one point in it, we came second to Southborough. All of our team played exceedingly well and displayed some fantastic sportsmanship.

Thank you to Mrs Lewis, Mrs Ingman and Mrs Woolgar for driving us there and thank you to Mrs Waller for organising and supporting us.

Report by Matilda and Toby W.

Team; Toby W, Toby R, Ollie H, Max O, Alice W, Jodie S, Olivia L, Matilda S, Mungo R, Max L, Spencer C, Joe T, Joe B, Alice R, Sophie R and Isobel F.

Kwik Cricket B Team Report

On Wednesday 10th June the Kwik Cricket A team went to the Borderers Cricket Club to play in a mixed tournament.

Our first match was against Claremont A. We tried really hard and won the game 233 to 215.

Our next match was against Rusthall. Thanks to Mrs Ingman coaching us, we won 210 to 209 so it was extremely close!

This meant we got into the semi-finals so we were all very excited.

Unfortunately we lost against Bidborough 182 to 247. So our next match would determine if we were 3rd or 4th.

Lastly we played against Southborough, they had one amazingly strong player who won them most of the runs, so we lost the game 189 to 272.

Thank you to Mrs Lewis for driving us there and to Mrs Ingman and Mrs Waller for supporting us and organising it.

Team; Olivia L, Sasha RW, Toby W, Fraser C, Nadine K, Thomas P, Tristan J and Daniel J.

Kwik Cricket B Team Report 

On 10th June, Mrs Ingman and Mrs Waller took children to Tunbridge Wells Rugby Club to play against 5 other Kwik Cricket Teams.

First of all we played against St. Marks we off well, but unfortunately they just beat us by 21 runs. Next we played against Paddock Wood, they only beat us by 2 runs, the score was 207 runs to us and 209 runs to them. After that we played Bidborough, unfortunately we lost by 5 runs. Then we played against St. Pauls, we won 271 to 213. Our last match was against Soughborough, we lost by 20 runs. Thank you to Mrs Lewis for driving us there and thank you to Mrs Waller for umpiring us.

Team; Bethany H, Isobel F, Victoria T, Alice R, Joe B, Spencer C, Josh M, Kyle M and Sam J.

Kwik Cricket A Team

On Tuesday 19th May the A team for Kwik Cricket went to Bells Yew Green Cricket Club to play in an all girls tournament.

The first match was against Pembury, unfortunately we lost 253, 214.

Our second match was against Lamberhurst B, despite everyone’s excellent play we lost 236, 230.

Our third match was against Speldhurst A. They were really friendly and cheered us on the whole time and we won! 242 - 238.

Our fourth match, against Claremont B, we won 230 – 226.

We didn’t make it through to the semi finals due to run average. We went to play in the runners up section against Beechwood. Unfortunately we lost 226 – 246.

At the end of the day a famous cricketer from the world Olympics came with the trophy, Laura Marsh. In the end we came 6th out of 16 schools.

Thank you, Mrs Ingman for organising it and to Mrs Moriarty and Mrs Lewis for driving us there, coaching and supporting us throughout the day.

Team; Nadine, Sasha, Rebekah, Alice, Olivia, Maddy and Zoë.

B Team

On Tuesday 19th May, St. James’ Kwik Cricket ‘B’ team went to Bells Yew Green to take part in a tournament. Our first game was against Speldhurst ‘B’, we all played really well and got some good hits and the final score was 255, 253 to us.

Our second game was against Sherwood ‘B’, their coach was very helpful with our bowling as the ball was very hard and it did not bounce. The score was 221 to Sherwood and 232 to us.

Our next game was against Lamberhurst ‘A’. We were a bit nervous because we had not played an A team before. Luckily Mia did a brilliant bowl and bowled someone out. The final score was 203 – Lamberhurst and 219 to us.

In the fourth game, against Paddock Wood ‘A’, we played really well but unfortunately lost by 12 points.

We got through to the semi finals. The game to see if we were runners up or not went really well. It was against Speldhurst ‘A’. They had very good sportsmanship and were very encouraging. The score ended 219 to them and 227 to us.

We ended up coming fifth out of twenty teams.

Thank you to everyone who organised it and a big thank you to Mrs Lewis who looked after us throughout the day.

Team; Isobel, Bethany, Jessica, Mia, Victoria, Hannah and Alice.

13th May 2009 - C Team Report

On Thursday 13th May the C team played a home match against Matfield and Brenchley. Shortly after the kick off they had a shot, but it was punched away. Shortly after they had a good attack and the ball went in the goal, 1-0 to them. We had a kick which we passed through each other and in a few minutes we had a corner. Spencer took it and Harry volleyed it, but their goalie saved it. After that they had a shot, it hit the crossbar and then Will’s head, they had a corner which Will punched away.
The full time score was 1-0 to them

Will was named Man of the Match.

Team: Will, Tommy, Harry, Ryan, Josh A, Jack, Shakane, Spencer and Kyle.

14th May 2009 - B Team Report

On 14th May, St. James’ B team played football against Matfield and Brenchley. We kicked off and Haytham soon scored to make it 1-0. Then Matthew scored a screamer from just outside the box, followed by another good goal, to make the score 3-0 to us. Then they scored 1 just before half time, to leave the score 3-1 at half time.
Not long after they scored again, but we also scored another. The final score was 4-3 to us.

Matthew was named Man of the Match because of his two great goals.

Thank you Mrs Waller for cheering us on and to Carl for coaching, organising and being the ref.

Team: Josh M, Jordan, Nathan, Oscar, Max L, Matthew N, Jonny, Fraser, Haytham and Harry M.

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On Wednesday 6th May the St. James’ Swimming Team went to St. John’s pool to compete in the Primary Schools Gala.

We had a great start to the Gala as we won our first race. It carried on like this as we won almost all of our races.

We also had two divers, Francesca S and Louis A. They came second, Louis missed out on first place by half a point.

Using our fantastic teamwork and effort we came first out of all the Primary Schools in Tunbridge Wells and also went home with seven trophies!

Thank you very much to Mrs Waller and Simon Killick (for coaching us). Also to Mr Chandler and Mr Smith, Mrs Ingman and everyone else who came along to support us. We would not have won without you.

Swimming Squad; Maddy MS, Tom S, Louis A, Jack N, Natasha Day, Lewis K, Rebekah B, Ellie S, Jessica M, Jonny K, Max L, Hannah J, Simon N, Zach K, Francesca S and Charlotte W.

The team had six swimmers in the open finals and Charlotte was the overall winner of the race and received a cup, which she holds for a year. Congratulations to her.

Both of the team’s divers got through to the final, and improved as the competition went on.

The team won the boy’s relay race, the girl’s relay race, the mixed medley race and broke the record for speed in the race.

All the team won individual medals and certificates.

The team were overall winners of the Gala. The school last won the gala in 2004.

Simon Killick was thanked for coaching the team to their success.

Report by Maddy and Ellie.

Tag Rugby ‘A’ Team

On Wednesday 29th April, St. James’ Tag Rugby ‘A’ team played a tournament at St. Marks ground.
We played four games, the first was against St. Marks, and the score was 6-4 to them. Then we played against St. John’s and it was 7-4 to us. We then played against Claremont and it was 11-1 to them. Finally we played against Beechwood and the score was 7-6 to them.

We all enjoyed it and it was great fun.

Thank you to Mrs Simkins for driving us there, and to Mrs Ingman, Mr Card and Mr Mudge for supporting us.

Team: Toby W, Francesca S, Joanna, Jonny, Miller, Spencer, Oscar, Josh M and Alice.

Report by Joanna.

Tag Rugby ‘B’ Team

On Wednesday 29th April St. James’ Tag Rugby ‘B’ Team went to St. Marks Rugby Ground to play four matches. Our first match was against Frant ‘A’ Team. Luca scored the first and second try, leaving the final score 6-2 to them.

Our second match was against Speldhurst, they were in the lead, but in the second half, both Torrin and Luca scored leaving the final score 5-4 to them.

Our third match was against Groombridge, everyone played well but they took the lead and won 8-4.

Our last match was against Brenchley and Matfield, almost all the team scored, but Brenchley went on to win 9-7.

Thank you to Mrs Ingman and David for coaching us and to Mrs Simkins for driving us there.

Team: Talia, Jodie, Madeleine, Grace, Max L, Luca, Dean C, Joe T, Joe W and Torrin.

Report by Jodie and Grace.

The A Team

On Saturday 25th April, the A team went to Tunbridge Wells High School to play a Netball Tournament. We started off playing against Horsmonden. Despite our continuous strong efforts, they won 4-2.

Our second match was against St. Augustine’s. They were very strong players, but we tried really hard to get the ball up in our end of the court. Unfortunately we lost the game 3-0.

Just after our second match our goal attack, Nadine and goal shooter, Maddy, did a shooting competition. In the end they got 10 shots out of 20. We then played what we thought would be our last match against St. John’s. We managed to keep the ball up by our goal and with excellent passing and shooting from Maddy and Nadine we won the game 5-1.

As we won against St. John’s we got to play three more matches which would determine our place as 9th, 10th, or 11th in the A team tournament. The first of the three matches we were left to play was against St. Peter’s. We were so excited, so we had lots of energy and we won the game 4-0. That meant we could come 9th or 10th.

Our second match was against Claremont. They were really tough to beat and the final score was a close 2-1 to them. Our final match of the day was against St. Paul’s. We really wanted to win our last match, so we tried really hard and the last score was 11-0 to us! That meant we were 10th out of 16 schools.

Thank you to Mrs Waller and Mrs Mesher for supporting us and to Mr Smith and Miss Church who came along to watch. Also thank you to the B team who cheered us on whilst they weren’t winning all the matches!!

Team: Suzan, Maddy, Nadine, Sasha, Lauren, Emily and Alice.

Report by Sasha and Nadine.

The B Team

We played five matches in total including the final. Our first match was against Horsmanden, they played well but we had amazing defences. The final score was 2-3 to us.

Our second match was against St.Augustine's. We had played them once before, so we knew their tactics. The final score was 2-3 to us.

Our third match was against St. Matthew’s. We played brilliantly and with our teamwork, we pulled through with a final score of 5-1 to us.

Our final match was against Pembury. We had never played them before so we didn’t know how well they could play. They were obviously a new team, and hadn’t had much experience. The over all score was 7-1 to us.

As we had won all of our four matches we were in the final. The deciding match was against Claremont. Our amazing centre Jodie was passing the ball as fast as lighting down the court. The over all score was 5-1to us.

When we had finished our matches there was a shooting competion. Which meant me and Olivia had to rush off. We tried really hard and came second.

Thank you to Mrs Mesher for umpiring and Mrs Waller for supporting us also thank to Mr Smith and Miss Church for coming and watching us and a big thank you to the ‘A’ team for cheering us on when they were not playing.

Team: Megan, Zoë, Francesca, Eleanor, Phoebe, Jodie Olivia and Jessica.

Report by Zoë and Francesca.

On Wednesday 22nd April St James’ B netball team went to the High School to play two matches against Sherwood and St. Augustine’s.

Our first match was against Sherwood. They were very fast at passing the ball to each other they were also a very competitive team. The final score was 2-2 all.

Our last match was against St. Augustines. It was a very enjoyable game and with good team effort and our excellent shooting by Zoë and Olivia we won 7-1.

Thank you Mrs. Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for driving us all there, also to Mrs. Waller and Mrs. Mesher for umpiring us also thank you to Lauren for supporting us.

Team: Eloise, Zoë, Megan, Jessica.H, Eleanor, Jodie, Olivia, and Francessca.

On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th April, Tonbridge Juddians played in the west coast festival in Weston-Super-Mare.

Our first match was against Ealing B. In the first half we dominated and came out with 6 tries to 0. In the second half, they fought back but we held strong and scored 2 tries to make the final score 8-0. Our second match was against Market Harbourough B. We played well and won the game6-0. Our final match was against the hosts, Weston-Super-Mare. We kept most of the possession and scored 5 tries to win the match 5-0.

On Sunday we played our semi-final against Market Harborough A. We battled and came out on top, 2-1 after the first half. Then we came and scored 5 more tries to win 7-0.

We were in the final!

The final was against Ealing A. We played well, especially Huw who saved us with breakaway tackles. We ended the match 4-0 to Tonbridge. The team felt sorry for Ealing because the had two injuries, a sprained ankle and severe concussion.

Thank you to my Dad for coaching us while we were there.

Report by Josh M. 5 Alpha.

Last Saturday Simon, Max and I went to Gillingham for the second part of the Kent Swimming Gala.

I was the first to swim, 50m breaststroke, but unfortunately I didn’t qualify. Sadly Max and Simon didn’t qualify either, but the good thing for them was that they both had personal best times.

Thank you, to Mrs Waller for organising us and to Mr Killick for supporting us.

Report by Jack

On Thursday the netball ‘B’ team played against Matfield and Brenchley at home. But as they were late to arrive we played a ‘friendly’ match against St. Augustine’s, as they had arrived to play against Matfield & Brenchley after us.

They played very well but we managed to stop all but one of their goals, so the final score was 4-1 to us. The score could have been very different as we only played a short game.

Matfield & Brenchley arrived ready for the match. We had two amazing year 5’s, Sophie R and Hannah J; they volunteered to play as we were down by two players. We played our best and had a successful win with the score 9-3 to us.

Thank you, Mrs Waller for organising the matches and a special thank you to the footballers for spending their break time supporting us!

Team; Jodie, Francesca D, Zoë, Olivia, Eloise, Megan T, Hannah J and Sophie R.

Report by Jodie and Francesca.

On Friday 20th March, St. James’ ‘A’ team played in a hockey tournament at Hawkenbury AstroTurf.

The first game was against Speldhurst, with the final score 0-0. The second game was against Pembury and the final score was 2-0 to them. The third match, against St. Paul’s was very tight and ended in a draw. The final game was against St. Mark’s and we had a goal disallowed and we let in a goal. We ended second in our group.
Thank you Mrs Moriarty and Mrs Gilman for taking us.

Team: Sam A, Max O, Oliver H, Tristan, Sasha, Olivia, Jodie and Nadine all from year 6.
 

A Team

On Saturday 28th March, St. James’ ‘A’ team played in a tournament on the Astroturf at Hawkenbury. Our first game was against St. Matthews, we drew 0-0. In our second game, against Southborough we pushed hard for a goal, but unfortunately we didn’t score and the final score was 0-0. The third game was against Bidborough and they scored quickly and the final score was 1-0 to them. The next game was against St. John’s and we were hoping for revenge as they beat us by one goal in the league. We didn’t get a goal; the final score was 0-0. We then played against Claremont, we lost 3-0. Max got badly tackled but recovered to play in the last game against St. Augustine’s. We flipped a coin for the ends and thanks to Olli and Max we got the end we wanted. Ollie got injured by a player pushing him off the pitch, but played on. Unfortunately for us they scored in the last second of the game, to make the score 1-0 to St. Augustine’s.

Thank you Anton Brisley for some excellent coaching.

Team; Ollie, Max, Sam, Josh, Joe W, Joe B, Joe T, Miller, James and Dean.

B Team

On Saturday 28th March, St. James’ ‘B’ team played in a football tournament. Our first game was against Claremont, we lost 0-1. Our second game was against St. Paul’s, Sam kindly volunteered to go in goal as Will was feeling sick. We had a great break which led us to a goal which Fraser scored. Then we played St. John’s, the final score was 2-1 to them, with Matthew scoring an amazing goal. The next game was against Paddock Wood, we lost 2-0. Our fifth game was against Langton Green, we played well but lost 0-1. Our final game was against Pembury. Haytham scored the quickest goal in the whole tournament. It took 26 seconds. But unfortunately we lost 2-1.

Thank you to everyone who supported us, Nathan for managing us and Carl for arranging the tournament.

Team; Nathan, Max L, Oscar, Haytham, Jordan, Harry M, Matthew N, Sam A, Fraser and Will C.

On 27th March six boys and six girls went to Ashford to take part in the Kent Primary Schools County Finals with other schools from all over Kent.

We spent all day at a sports hall in Ashford, leaving at 8.15am and getting back to school at 3.15pm.

Our best results of the day were in the boys 2 + 2 lap relay and the 1 + 1 relay, run by Toby and Toby in which we came first and then second overall. We also came first in the girl’s long jump, triple jump and the boy’s javelin and third in the boys triple jump.

We tried our best and did very well. We came 5th out of 12 schools from the whole of Kent. Over 600 schools entered.

Thank you to Mrs Waller for organising us and thank you to Mrs Simkins for driving us and supporting us.

Team; Toby W, Toby R, Megan T and Alice all from year 6. Also Mungo, Joe T, Miller, Spencer, Sophie H, Sophie R, Isobel F and Alice R.

Report by Toby and Toby.

On the 24th March, St. James’ ‘B’ team went to play St. Matthews football team. We kicked off and had good chances. Harry was unlucky as he nearly broke the deadlock. Not long after Fraser slotted the ball into the net to make it 1-0. About two minutes later there was an own goal by the St. Matthews captain. Then Jordan scored a great goal and at half time the score was 3-0 to St. James’.

A few minutes after the game restarted we had a great chance and Harry scored our fourth. Straight after St. Matthews took the centre and we had an attack, the ball was like a pinball in St. Matthews box as it was bouncing off the posts, players and the keeper, eventually Jordan flicked it into the net to make the final score 5-0 to us.

Thank you to Carl for refereeing the match and to Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for driving us there.

Team; Sam A, Harry M, Nathan T, Fraser C, Jordan, Oscar and Max L.
 

On Wednesday 24th March St. James’ ‘A’ team went to TWHS to play Claremont and St. Matthews.

The first match was against Claremont. Both teams played extremely well, but despite the team’s best efforts we lost 4-6 to Claremont.

The second match was against St. Matthews. At half time we were winning 4-2 and a special thanks to Olivia, who scored most of the goals. Unluckily for us we didn’t get any more goals and St. Matthews got three more to make the end of match score very close at 4-5 to St. Matthews.

A big thank you to Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for taking us and to Mrs Schone who stayed with us and helped to umpire the matches. Mrs Waller who organised the matches.

Team; Maddy, Olivia, Suzan, Lauren, Alice, Sasha and Emily.

Report by Maddy.

On Wednesday 11th March the ‘A’ team went to Tunbridge Wells High School to play two matches, against Bidborough and St. Marks. We didn’t get to play against Bidborough though as they didn’t turn up, so we won by default. Then we played against St. Marks. With speed from Alice and Suzan we managed to get the ball up to our half and Maddie and Suzan threw perfect shots. St. Marks scored one goal in the last few seconds. Despite St. Marks best efforts the final score was 10 – 1 to us.

Thank you to Mrs Waller for umpiring us and to Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar to driving us there.

Team; Lauren, Alice, Emily all 6A and Sasha, Nadine, Maddie and Suzan from 6Alpha.

Report by Sasha.

Basketball ‘B’ Team - 4th March

The first game was against St. Marks it was tough and we got a draw 1-1. The next game was against St. John’s where the final score was 1-0 to us. Our next match was against St. Augustine’s ‘B’ team, we played really well and with one goal in it the final score was 2-1 to us. The fourth game was against St. Matthews with a six goal thriller and we won 4-2. The last game against Sherwood, we battled hard and the final score was 1-0. We won the ‘B’ group so got into the final which was against St. Augustine’s ‘A’ team, all of the team played really well, but in the last throw of the games they scored a basket. The final score was 1-0 to them.

Thank you to Mrs Waller for organising the event and to Mrs Simkins for some excellent driving to get us there on time.

Team: Max O’, Natasha, Olivia, Phoebe S and Oliver H Yr 6 and Euan A – Yr 5.

Basketball ‘A’ Team - 4th March

On 4th March pupils from years 5 & 6 went to Bennett Memorial School to play a series of basketball matches. Our first match was against Pembury, we all tried hard and had lots of shots, but the score was 0-0. Our second match was against St. John’s, they scored first, but we came back and scored 2 baskets, which made the end result 2-1 to them. The next match was against Sherwood, we drew 3-3. Our fourth match, was against St. Augustine’s they won 2-0. The final match was against Broadwater, they defended well and got a basket, but we got 3 more, which made the final score 3-1.

Thank you to Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for driving us there and thank you to Mrs Waller for organising it.

Team: Nadine, Jodie, Haytham, Rhys Yr 6 and Joe T Yr 5.

On Tuesday 24th February St. James’ A team played St. John’s ‘A’ team. With some great play James scored, but they equalized to make the score 1-1. They went on to score again, but Joe scored for St. James’ to equalize again. After the break they went ahead again. With an amazing free kick Ollie equalized again. In the last minutes St. John’s scored to win 4-3.

Thank you Carl for coaching us and Mrs Waller for organising the match.

Team; Max, Ollie, Sam all year 6, James, Joe T, Joe W, Joe B, Josh M, Dean and Miller.

Report by Ollie and Max.

A team of six boys and six girls, took part in twelve events at Tunbridge Wells High School on Wednesday 28th January. Each member of the team took part in three events. Mrs Waller reported that the team did very well in all events. The overall result, which was based on times, will be announced in the next few days.

Team members; Joe T, Miller, Mungo, Toby R, Toby W, Spencer, Alice W, Megan T, Isobel F, Sophie H, Sophie R and Alice R all from years 5 & 6.

Results update
Aaron Davey from the TW Sports Partnership attended assembly to announce the result. The team had won, by an impressive 55 points and were presented with the trophy. They now travel to Ashford at the end of March to take part in the Kent Festival, against other schools from all over Kent.

A Team

We started well and Miller scored a goal quickly. Then Joe scored a tap in to make the score 2-0. Then Ollie scored but unfortunately they scored, then Miller scored to make the score 4-1. After half time Joe scored to make it 5-1. Then they scored to make it 5-2. Then super sub Max came on to score twice and we won the game 7-2. Thank you to Mrs Waller for organizing it.

Team; Joe T, Ollie, Miller, Joe B, Joe W, Max O, Dean, Josh M and James F.

Report by; Miller, Ollie and Max

B Team

Haytham scored first with a good goals which boosted our confidence. There was a collision and Nathan had to come on for Max. Haytham chipped it to Harry who tapped it in. The half time whistle blew and we had a chat. We went back out and unluckily we conceded a goal, but our heads didn’t drop. Nathan tapped it in, but it was disallowed. Then we scored twice, one from Harry and one from Jordan. The men of the match were Jordan and Max.
Thank you Mrs Waller for the refreshments and organising the match and to Carl for coaching us.

Team; Haytham, Max, Oscar, Nathan, Matthew N, Sam A, Jordan and Harry.

Report by; Nathan and Sam.

On Wednesday 21st January St. James’ ‘B’ team went to the High School to play 2 netball matches. The first match was against Claremont ‘B’ and with help from Emily and Nadine; we managed to win 3-0.

After a break we ran onto the pitch eager to start playing against St. Paul’s, and within the first five minutes Jodie, Olivia and Zoë had already scored a goal each. Even though the opposite team were very good we won 6-2.

Thank you to Mrs Waller for supporting us and to Mrs Simkins for driving us there.

Team: Emily, Nadine, Jodie, Olivia, Jessica H, Megan and Zoë.

Report by Jodie and Olivia.

On 20th January 2 children from 3 Alpha and 2 children from 4A went to a Gymnastics Festival. We went to Bennett Memorial School and did lots of different moves. We did cartwheels, backwards rolls, forward rolls, tuck jumps, half jumps, forward support and backwards support. At the end of the Festival we had a competition and the school that won was Hawkenbury School. It was great fun and thank you to Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for driving us there.

On Wednesday 14th January, four pupils from year 3 and year 4 went to Tunbridge Wells High School to take part in the Curling Festival. There was a year four team, Team A and a year 3 team, Team B.

St James' B Team got to the finals and so did the Southborough Team A. In the first round St. James' B Team got 8 points and in the second round they got 1 point. At the end the total scores were announced. St James' scored a total of 9 points and Southborough scored a total of 21 points. Sadly we didn't win, but came in second.

Thank you to Mrs Simkins for driving us and to Mrs Waller for supporting us.

* Team A: Sanjana, Nathan, Emily and Jessica
* Team B: Oscar, Abbie, Faris and Somerton.

Report by Sanjana Year 4

On 27th November St. James’ B team played against Claremont B team. Their team had several of their A team playing for them. When the game was five minutes old Claremont scored to make it 1-0. A few minutes before half time Harry got a good through ball to Joe who scored. After half time we battled well and Haytham managed to slot the ball past the keeper. Not long after that the ball was like a pin ball, bouncing off several players but eventually Nathan managed to clear it. Claremont got a lucky goal as it bounced off one of our players and went in. Time was running out and Claremont had a good chance and rolled the ball into the back of the net. The game finished 3-2 to Claremont.

Man of the Match was Sam, who made some great saves throughout the match.

Thank you Mrs Waller for organising the match and to everyone who came along to support us.

Team; Sam, Matthew N, Haytham, Fraser, Nathan, Harry M, Daniel J, Oscar and Joe W.

Report by Fraser and Nathan

On Wednesday 3rd December St. James’ ‘A’ Netball team played three matches at the High School. Our first match was against Pembury and they were fantastic. Even though we tried our hardest, they managed to break through our defences and score an amazing nine goals, with the final score 9-0 to them.

Our second match was against Bidborough and they were incredibly tall and tough. Even with our amazing defence we lost with the final score 6-5 to them.

Finally we played Horsmonden; they were fairly small yet very fast. In the first half we were losing 5-0 to them. But we pulled through the second half thanks to our brilliant shooters Nadine and Eloise, leaving the final score 5-5.

Thank you Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for taking us and to Mrs Waller for our three very enjoyable matches.

Player of the Match was Suzan.

Team: Lauren, Alice, Emily, Eloise, Suzan, Nadine and Sasha.

Report by Emily and Lauren.

St. James girls had their first match on Tuesday 2nd December against Bidborough. Bidborough scored first but Rebekah soon scored the equaliser with an amazing goal, right in the back of the net. Still in the first half and Bidborough edged ahead again, until our team got together and Rebekah rammed in another goal. At the end of the first half the score was 2-2. In the second half our team did some really good tackling and some great defending especially from Nadine. Unfortunately Bidborough managed to sneak in a few more goals leaving the final score 6-2 to them.

Thank you Mrs Waller for organising the match and to everyone who came along to support us.

Player of the match was Olivia.

Team; Tasha, Olivia, Nadine, Rebekah, Talia, Coral, Madeline and Zoë.
 

On Wednesday 26th November the ‘A’ team went to Bidborough to play a football match. The game kecked off and they had an attacking chance which blazed wide. After a few more minutes Miller got the ball and snuck in a sneaky goal past their keeper. A goal kick was taken and Josh didn’t put enough loft on the kick and they headed in a goal over the top of him. We had lots of chances, then Dean went for a cross, their keeper left it and it rolled in, 2-1 to us. The half time whistle went. They were on top form in the second half and scored a good goal which rolled past Josh who was unable to stop their third goal. Then we had some attacking chances but their defence was strong. They scored another goal and then another went past Josh which made the score 4-2 to them. After the centre Max had a chance but it just missed. The final whistle went leaving the final score 4-2 to them. Thank you to Mrs Waller for organising the match and managing us and to Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for taking us.

Team: Josh M, Joe B, Joe T, Max L, Dean C, Miller and Jordan, all year 5. Also Max and Ollie from year 6.
Report by Josh.

On Tuesday 25th November the ‘A’ team played against St. Augustine’s. We started the game well and had lots of chances, but before we knew it they had scored a goal. At half time it was 1-0 to them. We got a lot better in the second half and had a lot more chances. Miller had the ball and passed it to Max O, who scored making 1-1. St Augustine’s then went on to score two more goals making the score 3-1. We came back into the game when Miller scored a great goal to make the final score 3-2 to them.

Team: Josh M, Joe B, Joe T, Max L, Dean C, Miller and Jordan, all year 5. Also Max and Ollie from year 6.

On Wednesday 19th November, St. James’ ‘B’ team played netball matches against Claremont, St. Augustine’s and Horsmonden.

Our first match was against St. Augustine’s, they weren’t easy to beat, but we pulled through and won 5-3.

Our second match was against Claremont, again they were a good team and hard to beat, but with our great shooters Zoë and Olivia we won 7-4.

Our third match was against Horsmonden, this was challenging because although they were smaller than our team they were very fast and it was a close match, but we won 4-3.

Thank you Mrs Mesher for umpiring the matches and to Mrs Waller for organising them. Also thank you Mr Chandler and Mrs Woolgar for taking us.

Team: Olivia, Emily, Jodie, Francesca from 6A and Ellie, Zoë, Jessica H and Eleanor from 6alpha.

Report by Zoë and Ellie.

On Tuesday 18th November, St. James’ ‘A’ team played away to Claremont ‘A’. The game started and we tackled hard but let in a goal. We kicked off and while trying our hardest they tackled back and passed the ball past us and scored another two goals, making the score 3-0 to them. They were a strong team and we tried our hardest. They got another two goals into the net to leave the final score 5-0 to them. Thank you to Mrs Waller who organised the match.

Team: Josh M, Joe B, Joe T, Max L, Dean C, Miller and Jordan, all year 5. Also Max and Ollie from year 6.
Report by Miller and Ollie

On Wednesday 5th November 8 children from St. James’ went to the Skinners field for a cross country race. There were four children from years 3 and 4, and four children from years 5 and 6. There were seven teams in total, including ours. Years 3 & 4 had a race which was a kilometre long and year 5 & 6 had another which was a mile long.

At the start of the race we all lined up to wait for the starting horn. It was very wet and muddy so lots of people fell over. St. James’ all started towards the front and managed to stay in the first half of the group all the way through. There were more than 50 children in the year 3/4 race and in the end, Madeleine finished 26th, Ben, came 5th, James came 3rd and Joel finished 2nd overall. All our team finished, and because we had all done so well St. James’ won the cup for this race.
Report by Joel, year 4

After the year 3/4 race it was the year 5/6 race. This was a mile long and half of it was uphill which made it very tiring! We all did really well. Toby R finished 1st, with Alice in 8th place, Oliver in 9th place and Daniel in 13th. One hundred and six children took part in this race. Overall St. James gained 31 points which meant they won the trophy.

Winner gets his medalAll the children received certificates and the trophies were presented in celebrations assembly.

Thank you to Mrs Waller, who organised the team, Miss Church who helped to train and select the team, Mrs Lewis and Mrs Harris who took us to the event and supported us.

Report by Toby R, year 6

On Wednesday 5th November the A team played against St. Pauls A team at home. In just over a minute we were on the attack with Ollie passing the ball to Miller who scored. Both teams had chances, then Max scored to make the score 2-0. Ollie went on to score the third goal, with Miller then getting the fourth. At half time the score was 5-0. After the start they scored, but St. James came back with more goals to leave the final score 9-1 to St. James'.

Goals scored by - Joe W, Ollie, Max with 3 and Miller with 4.
Thank you to Mrs Waller and to everyone who supported the team.
Team; Miller, Max, Ollie, Joe W, Joe B, James F, Matthew, Josh M.
Player of the match was Miller.

Report by Miller and Ollie.
 

A Team

St. James' played against Langton Green A team. They scored first, and then again. Max then scored a really good goal to make the score 2-1 to them . Just before half time they sneaked a goal past Josh. In the second half Max scored to make the score 3-2, but they scored again. Max scored to gain his hattrick to make the score 4-3. In the last minutes of the match we dominated the play and had some rely good chances, but didn't score. The final score was 4-3 to Langton.

Report by Ollie H.

Player of the match was Joe W.
Team; Josh , Miller, Joe W, James F, 5alpha, Nathan and Max from 6A and Haytham 6alpha.

B Team

On 21st October, St. James' B team played their first league match against Langton Green. We started the game well and had a lot of chances. Harry was unlucky with a couple of chips over the cross bar. Before we knew it, it was half time. Half way through the second half Jonny scored a brilliant goal to put us in the lead. We tried hard from then on, but couldn't get another goal. We were very happy with our first win. Thank you Mrs Waller for organising it and thank you to all the parents who supported us.

Report by Oscar and Dean.
 

A Team

On 17th October St James' A team played a tournament at Hawkenbury. Our first match was against St. John's B team. We dominated the play then in the last minute Haytham scored. The next game was against St. Marks, they scored first to make the score 1-1. Our third game was against St. John's A team, we had known from the start that they weren't going to be easy. The final score was 1-0 to them. Our fourth game was against Southborough, Haytham and Joe T both scored to make it 2-0, that was the final score. If we won our final match we would be secured a second place. The final match was very exciting and Ollie scored. We did very well and finished third overall. Thank you to Mrs Crane who managed our team.

Report by Ollie H.

Team; Joshua M, Miller, Joe W, James F, Joe T all 5alpha, Ollie H, Max, Nathan all 6A and Matthew and Haytham from 6alpha. Player of the match was Miller.

B Team
 

On 17th October the B team played at Hawkenbury in the Primary Cup. This was the first time we had played together as a team. Our first game was against Bishops Down, we tried our hardest but they were a strong team, so we lost 1-0. Our second game was against Claremont, we played better but we were playing a stronger team and the result was 3-0 to them. Our third game was against Langton, we played really well this time, but still they were a good team, but we managed to hold them to a 0-0 draw. Our fourth game was against Southborough A team, we were all ready for this game, but sadly lost 3-0. Our last game was against St. Augustines, we were worried because they had won lst year, but we never gave up and we held them to the end, but in the last minute they scored and the final result was 1-0 to them, we thought it was a good result against last years winners.

Report by Joe B and Max L.

Team; Jordan 5 alpha, Max L, Dean, Oscar, Joe B all 5A, Harry M, Daniel 6A and Sam from 6alpha.
Player to the match was Jordan.
 

On Wednesday 8th October St. James A team played a match against Paddock Wood. We had some good chances in the first minutes of the match. Then we got a free kick which Ollie took and Haytham headed into the goal. Then they equalized to make the score 1-1. Minutes later they scored again, we then got a corner which Ollie took and Haytham again headed into the goal. Shortly after that we got another corner which the cross bar denied Haytham from getting a hat trick. At half time the score was 2-2. Not long after the kick off for the second half they scored. Then Joe W scored an amazing goal from nothing! Then Paddock Wood broke through our defence to score again. The final score was 4-3 to them. Thank you to all the people who came to support us and thank you to Mrs Waller who coached us.

Report by Oliver H

Team; Josh, Miller, Joe W, James F, Joe T 5α, Haytham, Matthew 6αand Max, Oliver and Nathan 6A.
 

On Sunday 5th October Tunbridge Juddians U10’s went to Foxbury to play in a rugby tournament.

Our first game was against Beckenham. We had a solid win of 6-0. Our next game was against Cranbrook, who defended well and the final score was 0-0. Our third game was against Sidcup, which we won 2-0. Our last group game was against Bromley, we drew 0-0, but this was enough to get to the cup final. It was against Westcombe Park.

The game was amazing and our defence was strong even though we were very close to our try line. The final score was 0-0, so the cup was shared.

Report by Josha 5α.

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On Wednesday 1st October the St. James’ Tri-golf team took part in the Tri-golf festival at Tunbridge Wells Golf Club. Many other teams from different schools took part and we all had great fun practising our chips and putts. Our team came 3rd overall. Sam from 3a won a medal for being the most promising player. Organisers watched all the teams taking part in all the activities and Sam was noticed at each one for trying hard and playing very well. He received a bag of goodies containing a mouse mat, cap, water bottle and medal.

We would like to thank Miss Davison for arranging for us to take part in it.

Team members; 3A - Sebbie and Katie. 3α – Daniel, Sam and Niamh. 4A – Issy, Paul and Ella. 4α – Harry and Samantha.

Report by Samantha.

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6A have been creating letter shapes in gym, with children working mainly in pairs. Some of the children spelt out ST JAMES.

They have also been co-operating balance, which means they have to trust their partner to hold the balance.

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Sports Day took place on Thursday 26th June, the sun shone and it was a beautiful afternoon. Many parents came along to support the children, the PFA provided Pimms, juice, lollies and biscuits for them.
Children sat in their houses Wellington - wearing red, Scott - wearing yellow, Livingstone - wearing green and Nelson - wearing blue.

The first races on the track were the 100m sprint for both boys and girls in all year groups, while the track events took place, at the other end of the field the field events started with throwing followed by the hop, step and jump. On the track skipping races followed the sprints. It was then time for the Mums race, they were a little reluctant, but finally they lined up and headed for the finish line, The Dads were keen to have a go, and in the end 3 races had to be run due to the number wanting to race. The toddlers then had their go, with brothers and sisters on hand to help them. After that the bean bag and hoop races took place.

At the half way mark Nelson were in the lead with 64 points, Wellington had 60, Scott 48 and Livingstone 41. The last races were the class races, the long distance race over 400m and finally the relay.

It was very tense as points were added up.
In the end the winning team was Nelson, congratulations to them all. Team captains received the trophy, with its blue ribbons on, from Mr Chandler, the Headteacher.

On 11th June, St. James’ A and B teams set off to the Neville Cricket ground to take part in the annual Kwik Cricket Festival.
A team report

Ollie, Sam 6A, Robbie, Jacob, Victoria, Ralph, Bryony and Niall 6α

Our first match was against St. Pauls which we won, but it was close. The second match was against Bidborough which we lost, but again it was a good game. We finished second in our group and we went through to the quarter finals to play against Southborough, which we won by 30 runs. Then we went through to play Horsmonden in the 5th and 6th play offs. We won by 39 runs. We all played really well and finished 5th.

Report by Ollie.
B team report

James, James H, Chris, Adam, Oliver 6A, Tom P, Thea, Emma, 6α and Will 5α

We played a total of 16 matches and only lost one, by a few runs. Every member of the team should be proud of their performance. Will’s powerful batting sent our opponents running in all directions and Thea and Adam also did some great batting. James and Chris nailed some tricky catches. Oliver was an excellent wicket keeper and Emma and James both took wickets with their skilful bowling!

Ollie kindly volunteered to play in the friendly against Sherwood and played well.

Report by Tom P.

We had a great afternoon, many thanks to Mrs Hemsley for organising it and to Mrs Ingman.

On Wednesday 4th June St. James’ A and B teams played 4 games at Tunbridge Wells Rugby Club.
A Team Report

Sam, Ollie, Chris, Natalie, 6A, Robbie, Victoria, Jacob and William 6α, and Olivia 5α.

Our first match was against Langton Green and we won 6-5, we then played St. Peters and won that match too, 5-3. Next was the game against Groombridge which we lost 2-7. The last match was against St. John’s which we won 6-2. That meant we had made it through to the quarter finals where we played St. Augustines, last years winners, but unfortunately lost 4-6. St Augustines went on to win the tournament.

Report by Sam.
B Team Report

Max, Oliver, 5α, Haytham, Tristan, Louis 5A, Bryony, Emma 6α and Grace 6A.

The first game was against Horsmonden, who were really strong and unfortunately we lost 4-1. Our second match was against Frant, we played really well and scored 4 tries, but Frant scored 5 and we lost the game really late on. The final score was 5-4 to Frant. Our third game was another close game with St. John’s who won the game 3 tries to 2. Our final game was against Langton Green where we played really well. We won the game 6-4. The scorers were;- Max 2 tries, Tristan, Haytham, Suzanne and Bryony.

Overall we played really well and scored a total of 13 tries.

Report by Max and Oliver

Thank you to Mrs Hemsley for a very enjoyable afternoon.