Hampton Academy News Team report for the London Broncos!

Hampton Academy students Sam and Jack from Year 9 were invited to report on the London Broncos community match day event- The Purdham Cup. London Rugby League development officers had seen the impressive work of our New Team and invited Sam and Jack to the Twickenham Stoop to cover the mini Rugby League event.

Sam created this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubWv6h9_JA&feature=player_embedded#!

Jack wrote the report that features on the London RL website: http://www.londonrl.com/article/7453/minis-celebrate-purdham-cup-success

Below is Jack's thoughts about their great day

On the 21^st July, Samuel and I travelled to the Stoop Rugby ground in Twickenham, to cover the Purdham Cup for the RFL. The Purdham Cup is a mini Rugby League festival for London’s under7s, 9s, and 11s teams. Twenty four teams from around the region arrived at the Stoop for an action packed community event before the London Broncos v Wigan Warriors Super League match.

The day started at around 10 o’clock, when the first game kicked off. There was a very high standard of Rugby league being played, and some really good pieces of play. Samuel and I were granted access onto all of the pitches, and we were allowed to take pictures and get some good footage of all of the games. There were under 7s, 9s and 11s league tables, and they were all very close.

As the day went on, there were some very big scoring games that took place, and the Medway Dragons teams were all looking very strong. Mr Giblin was running two of the pitches, and blew the air horn before and after every game to signal the start and finish of the matches.

The games went on, and finally we reached the semi finals, where there would be some very high scoring games. One game ended 16-12, and since the games were only 8 minutes long, that’s very impressive!

Eventually we reached the Finals, where Medway Dragons would win the under 11s, and Sussex Merlins would win the under 9s. A big thank you to the RFL and the London RL for inviting us to report on the event.

Hampton Academy Girls' Sports Team Photo Evening

Hampton Academy PE team recently held the inaugural Girl's Sports Team Photo Evening.

The event was a chance to celebrate the recent sporting successes at Hampton Academy girls and reward all the girls that have represented the Academy in fixtures and competitions this season.

This event was to document the achievements of those involved and begin the archive for staff, students and their families to look back upon for decades to come. Mr Giblin, SSCo would like to congratulate the girls that appear in these photos and for showing such pride in their Academy.

 

A small selection of the photos are below, including a mock of what the photos may look like in 50 years time.

 

 

Hampton Academy perform at the Borough Cricket competition

Hampton Academy continue their fantastic sporting form. This time the Year 7/8 Inter Cricket teams competed in the Borough Championships. The Girls finish 3rd overall and the boys went one better and claimed second in Richmond. Students and Teachers were very lucky to also have England ladies Cricketer Beth Morgan there to coach on the day.

Hampton Academy Olympic Canoeing

Hampton Academy Year 8 students were given a unique opportunity this week. Selected students were given the change to try some canoeing on the River Thames at Richmond Canoeing Club.

Hampton Academy Y7 Boxing Club

Hampton Academy Girls RoundersYear 7/8 Team

Hampton Academy Girls RoundersYear 7/8 Team

Hampton Academy Year 7/8 Girls win the World Rugby 7s Tag Rugby Event

On Wednesday 9^th May, Mr Blount and Miss Barnes took eight Year 7 and 8 students to the Rugby Football Union Sevens Rugby event at Grasshoppers RFC to celebrate the HSBC World Sevens series.

Our girls met and trained with the England Ladies squad, as well as seeing three other international teams; England Mens, Portugal Mens and USA Mens. The squad included; (Year 7) Jasmine Dillon, Bella Thomas, Jody Wallis, Caroline Berry, Grace Griffin and (Year 8) Alison Connolly, Charlotte Gildersleave and Constance Ageymang.

The day started with two warm up sessions focusing on defending as a team and attacking as a team taken by two RFC coaches. Players from the Ladies team, including Sonia Green, Rachel Burford and Katherine Merchant, stepped in to help our girls warm up and prepare for their matches.

Our girls played two matches in their age group and came home tournament champions.

The first of the two games was against Brentford B’s, with a brilliant result for our team of 5-1. The first try, scored by Grace from a switch from Bella, blew Brentford out of the water, putting us in the lead 1-0.  Brentford managed to squeeze a try, equalising. Hampton then went on a rampage, scoring another four tries, Alison gave us the lead making it 2-1, with Caroline ensuring our victory, making it 3-1. Alison then scored again making it 4-1 and, right at the last minute, Caroline ran half the length of the pitch through a cloud of opponents to make it 5-1.

After a team talk from Mr Blount, the girls went into their next game all fired up. Hampton were now against Brentford A’s. Rain unfortunately blighted the start of the game and we slipped behind 1-0. An inspirational pass from Bella to Jasmine allowed her to rocket to the try line to equalise, 1-1. The girls managed to hold onto their lead and increase it with Alison scoring after a mammoth run from Charlotte down the wing, passing to Bella, then to Jasmine who slipped but managed a pass to Caroline, then Jody stepped in for a short pass to Alison making it 2-1. Brentford equalised after a slip from two of our players. The girls were still determined to give it their all and Jasmine went on to score 2 more tries, the match ended 4-2.

The girls worked incredibly hard and didn’t let the bad weather get them down;

Bella ‘We learnt a lot from the England Ladies Team and we put the skills and methods into our games. We had a lot of fun playing, the whole day was a success and I want to play more’

Charlotte ‘The best bit was learning how to work as a team to defend’ (video team tag)

Grace ‘It was amazing because we met the England Ladies Team and pout our skills to good use’

Jody ‘Everyone played as a team therefore we won both of our games even though it was very wet’

Jasmine ‘It was a great opportunity to meet the England players and it was a fun day. I learnt a lot and I used different skills that I didn’t know before. I scored 3 tries!’

Students at PGL Netball Weekend

On the 23 of March a mixture of year 7, 8 and 9 students had the amazing opportunity to attend a PGL Netball weekend. The team played several teams from across the UK and gained a wealth of experience in skills and tactics. Not only did the girls get the chance to play competitive Netball but were also encouraged to take part in PGL adventure activities such as the GIANT swing and the zip wire!

Sophie Berry, Dannielle Rooney, Holly Cronin, Jasmeen Bajwa, Shefali Pandhi, Maisie Sellwood, Olivia Sweeney, Bella Thomas, Jasmine Dillon & Briony Bailey

What a great weekend! Can't wait to do it again!!!

Boys Cricketers Claim Silver

Hampton Academy Year 7/8 Cricket team claim second place in the Richmond Borough Indoor Cricket competition. This achievement is great preparation for the Hampton Academy boys to defend their league title from last year.

Hampton Academy Year 7 Boys Rugby League

Hampton Academy Year 7 Boys Rugby League

Team Richmond Cricket

Hampton Academy Y8 student, Henry, represented the borough at the London Youth Games Cricket Cup at the weekend in Harrow. The team did really well finishing in second place in their group. They beat Harringey and Hounslow but lost their last match to Hillingdon. Team Richmond missed out on a place in the finals due to point’s difference.

Team Richmond teammates Ryan and James went along to support the team too

Hampton Academy Follow Local Olympians

Our Olympic Ambassadors Jack and Holly have selected two local Olympians for Hampton Academy students to follow. The two Medal hopefuls that Hampton Academy will be supporting are Mo Farah and Jess Walker. Mo Farah has just won Gold in the indoor international athletics and Jess Walker is a former student of Hampton Community College. Check out the Olympian biographies below

Name: Jessica Walker

D.O.B: 24/06/1990

Olympic event: Kayaking

Hometown: Brighton/Hampton Hill(London)

Height/Weight: 170/170lb

Coach: Miklos Simon and Trevor Hunter

Hobbies: Running/Canoeing

Interesting facts: Jessica grew up in two places, Brighton and Hampton Hill. She went to school in Hampton, going to Hampton Hill junior school, and rectory grove, or as it is known now, Hampton Academy. She is the youngest ever British female Olympian to ever participate in an event. Her first event was the K2 500M in Beijing. She came 17^th.

Name: Mo Farah

D.O.B: 23/03/1983

Olympic events: 1500M, 3000M, 5000M and 15000 M. (Running)

Hometown: Hounslow.

Height/Weight: 1.75/140lb

Coach: Alberto Salazar

Hobbies: Football/Running

Interesting facts: Mo was born in Somalia, but is a British civilian. He has supported Arsenal football club since a very early age. He is a married man, married to long time partner in running and in love, Tania Nell. They married in Marble Hill, Richmond. He has one daughter, Rihanna. In his career, he has won a total of 6 gold medals, 2 silvers and 1 bronze.

Introducing our newest Olympic Ambassadors

Hampton Academy have two brand new Olympic Ambassadors! Jack P and Holly C to continue on the work done by Matthew G and Izzy H. Our new Olympic Ambassadors introduce themselves below...

Hi, I’m Jack and I’m in Wordsworth, and I’m in year nine. I’m also one of your four Olympic ambassadors. My job is to keep you up to date about the Olympics and what we can do as a school.  

In my spare time, I like going out with friends, playing football for a team every Sunday morning, and in the summer I play cricket for a team. I’ve also supported Chelsea all my life.

I work closely with my year nine partner Holly, who’s in Conrad.

Hi I’m Holly. I am in year 9, in Conrad. I have been chosen to be an Olympic ambassador working with Jack. Our job is to keep everyone updated about the Olympics and what we can do as a whole school.

I have been in the school netball team and the borough sports. I have recently joined Whitton netball team as goal defence and centre which I enjoy.

Rising Stars- Hampton Academy Cricketers

Hampton Academy are the defending Richmond Schools Y7-8 Cricket Champions, and the strength of the squad looks set to continue as four students make the final training squad for Team Richmond.

James H, Owen G and Ryan McC from Year7 and Henry N-S from Year8 were selected from the Richmond trial for the final training squad ahead of the 2012 London Youth Games. Team Richmond are the defending champions and will be looking for another winning performance across all sports. For more information about London Youth Games and to apply to represent Team Richmond at other sports visit http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/leisure_and_culture/sports/sports_development/london_youth_games.htm

Congratulations to all four boys and good luck to them and the entire Hampton Academy Cricket squad in the 2012 season.

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Autumn 2011 Highlights

Hampton Academy Sports teams have a brand new vibrant image to represent the new look academy. A generous contribution from Hampton Academy Association and a remarkable donation from two students added to the previous funds raised from Hampton Academy staff and students to kit out the sports teams in impressive new sports uniforms. The modern and lively designs are exclusive to Hampton Academy and students Josh D and Shefali P, the students who donated their Jack Petchey award money, are proudly showing off the new shirts alongside other sporty students.

The momentum that Hampton Academy picked up in their inaugural year continued in the Autumn of 2011 and below are just a few highlights of a hugely successful term of sport.

The headline story for the term has to be the Hampton Academy football teams. The academy staff threw their weight behind the footballers, even attracting Mr Byrne from the Maths dept. to coach the Y9 boy’s team. Mr Blount and Mr Mayfield dedicated themselves to Y7 and Y8 fixtures but Mr Crossan again lead the way by navigating the Y10/11 team all the way through an unbeaten season and to the Grand Final showdown against Richmond Park Academy at Hampton and Richmond Borough FC under floodlights. Our boys picked up the silver medal on that occasion but made the entire academy proud in front of hundreds of supporters. It was not only the boys that had an unbeaten football season, Ms Davidson and our Y7/8 girls topped their league and will now aim to go one better than the boys in their Grand Final against Grey Court in the New Year. Good luck girls.

Mr Mayfield had his sights set firmly on silverware in the boys KS4 Volleyball and successfully managed to win the Richmond Borough Championship. Our lads went one step further than last year’s silver to prove that Volleyball success at Hampton Academy is no fluke. Congratulations to our Y10/11 boys who will progress to the regional stage of the competition.

Ms Nuttall and Ms Horsburgh coached the Y9 and Y10/11 Netballers through a gruelling schedule and fixtures against every other school in Richmond. Our girls improved out of sight throughout the course of the year and the Y9s even reached the Borough semi-finals. Ms Horsburgh also nurtured the academy Y7/8 Hockey team through a full season of fixtures.

Mr Blount marked his arrival at Hampton Academy by creating a Football and Basketball team for the brand new Y7 boys, but it was his Y7 Rugby team that were most impressive. Mr Giblin and Mr Blount created a regular Rugby training for Y7,8,9 and 10 and continued to develop the Weight Lifting club for the KS4 boys

Introducing Mrs Day and Mrs Dyatt! These two committed staff members developed their Friday night Badminton club that was full to capacity every week of the autumn term. The club proved that it was not just about recreation as Ms Day produced a KS3 boy’s team that came overall second in the Richmond Borough competition. The club ran so well that the Richmond SSP decided to make it the Richmond Change4Life Badminton club. Well done everyone who made this such a successful club.

The Academy also competed in the Borough Cross-Country championship, Y9 Basketball, Y7 Sports Hall Athletics, and boys 6-a-side tournaments. With such a huge demand on the academy staff for sports fixture and competitions, the PE staff would like to recognise the contribution of Mrs Clark who drove the minibus and single-handedly enabled half a dozen fixtures go ahead. Thanks also go to the premises team that assisted in fulfilling fixtures.

As a footnote, the Y10/11 students controversially beat the Hampton Academy staff in a Comic Relief charity Volleyball match. The staff will undoubtedly be exacting their revenge on the students in the Staff v Students Football match at the end of term.

Congratulations to all students that represented Hampton Academy in the Autumn. The standard and expectation continues to rise. Finally, a special thank you goes to all the dedicated Hampton Academy PE staff and teachers from other departments that made these fantastic successes possible.

James Giblin

School Sport Co-ordinator

Hampton Academy

Hampton Academy Sports and PE department have been thrust in to the 21^st Century and joined the world of Twitter- follow all the updates @HamptonPE

Hampton Academy Brand New Sports Kit

The new look Hampton Academy have celebrated their recent sporting successes by unveiling their brand new bespoke sports kits. The original designs are exclusive to Hampton Academy and will make students even more proud to represent their school in sports fixtures and competitions.

Funds were raised by students and staff from the Olympic Learning day in March 2010 and from a generous donation from Hampton Academy Association in the summer term. Students Josh Dillon and Shefali Pandhi even donated their own Jack Petchey prize money towards the kits. These generous student contributions were recognised by having the students’ names added to the sleeves of the Rugby and Netball shirts.

Below is a picture of the sports kits modelled by a selection of Hampton Academy’s most successful students. At the front: Josh and Shefali, proudly showing off their shirts.

Mr Giblin who organised the fund raiser events for the kit and oversaw its production had this to say, “Thank you to everyone who contributed to the funds, especially Josh, Shefali and Hampton Academy Association. It’s a great honour to represent your school in sports competitions and now Hampton Academy students have sports kit that they can be proud to wear.”

Netballers Reach the Richmond Schools Semi Final

On Tuesday the 6th of December Hampton Academy took part in the bough netball tournament. Hampton were lucky enough to host the tournament and lots of schools from the surrounding area including; LEH, Teddington, Orleans Park School, Grey Court and Richmond Park Academy came to compete.

  

The competition was tough but Hampton Academy managed to win both their opening games against Orleans Park School and Grey Court, 5-2 and 2-0 respectively.

 

 

It was a freezing cold evening and we were struggling to keep warm but our excitement was keeping us going!! The word was in, we were through to the semi finals! The team played hard but unfortunately Teddington's shooting was exceptional! Hampton Academy lost the match 5-1.

 

 

All was not lost however! We were into the 3rd and 4th place playoffs in a match against LEH 'A'. I saw a superb effort from Hampton Academy the marking was second to none and the team continued to create opportunities on the attack. Sophie Berry, later named Hampton Academy's player of the tournament, notched up another two goals but alas it wasn't enough, the final score... Hampton Academy 2 - LEH 4.

 

 

Over all we were placed 4th, not too shoddy considering the amount of teams and the strength of the competition! I couldn't be prouder of the year 9 netball team!

 

Jasmeen Bajwa, Sophie Berry, Hollie Cronin, Courtney Haynes, Paige Halloran, Shefali Pandi, Danielle Rooney, Maisie Sellwood.

 

 

 

HA V Orleans Park School - 5-2

 

HA V Grey Court 2-0

Teddington v HA 5-1 (Semi's)

LEH (A) vs HA 4-2 (3/4 place play off)

 

 

Miss Davidson

Hampton Academy KS3 and KS4 Boys Badminton

Congratulations to Mrs Day and the Hampton Academy KS3 Boys Badminton Team who took the silver medal at the Richmond SSP Badminton Championships.

Hampton Academy KS3 and KS4 Boys Badminton

Hampton Academy Year 7/8 Girls Hockey

Hampton Academy Year 7/8 Girls Hockey Team- Which photo should we put up in the PE corridor?

Hampton Academy Year 10/11 Football Grand Final

Football Fever! Hampton Academy Year 10/11 Footballers topped the HRBFC North Richmond School League and get set to play in the Schools League Grand Final against Richmond Park Academy on Wednesday 9th November at the The Beveree Stadium- home ground of Hampton and Richmond Borough FC. All Spectators are welcome 4.30pm KO

This will be the second year in a row that Hampton Academy make the Grand Final. Good Luck to Mr Crossan and the boys

Action Photos of Year 7 Football

Action shots of Hampton Academy Year 7 Football v Teddington: Check out the fabulous finish and celebration for the first Hampton Academy goal!

Hampton Academy Year 10/11 Boys Volleyball

Hampton Academy Year 10/11 Volleyball Team 2011

Hampton Academy Year 10/11 Netball

Hampton Academy Year 10/11 Netball Team 2011

Hampton Academy Year 9 Netball Team

Hampton Academy Year 9 Netball Team 2011