Plympton Family Cross Country 17.10.18

5 schools came along today to take part in our friendly Cross Country event at Hele's, designed to be a warm up event for the bigger, city wide event coming up later this term.

As well as showcasing the vast amount of talent that our young people have, this was an opportunity for us to celebrate one of the School Games value: Determination. We talked about what this meant and in particular how they could use their determination to their advantage during their race; this certainly had an affect as there were some very determined individuals and everyone tried their best and pushed hard until the very end.

Every runner that took part today finished the course.  It is quite a deceptive course and can be very challenging to complete the 2 laps but all of the runners went off quite quickly and were somehow able to maintain a great pace.

Well done to every one of you—all of your teachers and family that came to cheer you on were so proud of you and they were great races to watch. As the runners came over the line they were given a place card and these were collated by their staff; the top 4 runners from all schools were counted and the school with the overall lowest score for the boys and girls were the winners.

Congratulations to Montpelier who took the top spot in the Y3/4 Girls race; Old Priory who won the Y3/4 Boys race and well done to Woodford who won both the girls and boys race in the Y5/6 category.

As well as competing for points for their teams, the 3 fastest girls and 3 fastest boys from each age group were awarded medals: congratulations to Lyla (Montpelier), Elsie (Montpelier) and Lauren (Old Priory)  who were the top 3 girls in the Y3/4 category and to Dylan, Ashton and Samuel (all from Old Priory) who were the fastest 3 boys in this age group. Congratulations as well to Zara (Old Priory), Victoria (Woodford) and Anaiya (Old Priory) who were the top 3 girls in the Y5/6 age group and Lochlin (Woodford), Joseph (Plympton St. Maurice) and Callum (Old Priory) who were the fastest 3 boys for Y5/6.

Well done to everyone who took part today—I really hope that you all enjoyed the event. I would like to say a huge thank you to our young leaders from Hele's who volunteered to be our marshals today.

See you all at our next family event coming up soon.