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Rhinos Hero meets Aspiring Sports Stars of Tomorrow
         

 

Year 6 pupils all qualified to take part in the School’s 10th Annual 3 Peaks Challenge and recently walked a total of 28 km with more than 1500m of ascent and descent  of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen y ghent, over a three day period   The pupils slept in a bunkhouse where they had to assist staff with cooking duties, washing up and cleaning.

The final meeting for Athletics will take place in July at the Airedale & Wharfedale School Sports Association Championships, where the School is quietly confident of some medal winning performances.

Barrie congratulated all the pupils on their magnificent achievements over the year and encouraged them to keep up with, and develop, their sports when they moved on to senior schools and throughout their lives.

 
   

Barrie Mc Dermott, former Leeds Rhino and Great Britain star, met youngsters from the Froebelian School in Horsforth when he presented awards at the School’s annual Sports Awards Ceremony this week.

Pupils aged 8 – 11 years were awarded Colours and Medals for fantastic achievement in Sport, e.g. Athletics, Football, Cricket, Netball, Rounders, Swimming, Cross-Country and Outdoor Pursuits.

Apart from many individual triumphs across the board, Froebelian School came 7th out of 23 schools in the Leeds Cross-Country Championships; the Netball team were runners-up in the City High Five Tournament out of a starting line-up of one hundred teams; the Boys Swimming Team secured overall first place in the U11 Boys competition at  a Yorkshire Prep Schools  Sports event organised by Ashville College in Harrogate.

  
Congratulations to our Y6 maths champions, Bethany, Gaby, Gary and Rishi who beat teams from 25 other schools at a recent maths Olympiad.

Froebelian School, Clarence Road, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4LB: E mail: office@froebelian.co.uk Tel:0113 258 3047 Fax:0113 2580173           Headmaster Mr J. Tranmer MA PGCE