Looking Back - Celebrating 40 Years… Since we are fast approaching Halloween, here is an article from 1986 by a former pupil, Gareth Reagan, on The Friarage’s ‘headless nun’! ‘The night was ‘nun’ too easy’ – 1986 Rumours that the ghost of a headless nun wanders from time to time along the corridors of The Friarage have long abounded. Our task, as “ghost busters of Form I.B”, was to investigate and test the facts. It was easy; all we had to do was stay the night camped on the main stairs. Five of us, therefore, brought torches, sleeping bags and so forth and after church we got changed and set up camp. At 7:00pm after the Headmaster left, we were alone in the deserted school. We sampled our fish and chip supper and had a game of rugby. By 8 o’clock, we were beginning to get “cold feet” and thought we could hear eerie noises. After a short diversion in which Ghostbuster Mulgrew locked us out, (Jones still in his sleeping bag) we settled down and tried to get to sleep. Ghostly images kept coming into our minds as Watson and Tompkins made up horror stories. Eventually, in spite of being terrified and hearing all sorts of things, we drifted into a restless sleep. In the morning we woke at 5:00am, relived that our ordeal was safely over. At 6:30am we got up having confirmed that there was no visual evidence of a ghost, but we would still like to know what or whose unknown hand plugged the cassette recorder that we had definitely left switched on to record any sound the nun might make… Newsletter No: 1190 | www.yarmschool.org | 19th October 2018 It appeared as if Yarm Fair week had come early with the roads through and around Yarm gridlocked with traffic. Few might have suspected that this was the result of a Career Convention. But this was clearly testament to the appetite of so many pupils and parents to access the very best information, advice and guidance, as well as recognition of the quality and scale of the event in terms of the range of delegates offering their enthusiasm and experience. It is estimate that we had over a thousand visitors on the night, combined with over 140 delegates, comprising of 30 universities from around the country. Focused particularly at those pupils in Fourth Year to Upper Sixth, it was great to see a healthy number of visitors from around six other local schools. Delegates spoke afterwards of being impressed not just by the volume of visitors but more importantly the nature and quality of their engagement through meaningful questioning. I would like to thank all of those delegates who gave up so much of their time after the end of an undoubted busy working day, and I am so appreciative of their infectious enthusiasm that gave such energy to the whole evening. Thank you also to the many hundreds of you who came along to support your children in their pursuit of their future directions. Looking to later this year I am hoping to host a couple more of the smaller scale Career Cluster evenings, where we bring in a range of guests working in a specific area of employment, education and training and allow you, the parents and pupils, to drive the evening through question and answer style panel discussions. I am currently planning to deliver one of each of these in the fields of Psychology Routes and IT. Mr S Edwards Career Convention 2018 School wins planning appeal! The school has just received the fantastic news that we have won the planning appeal and now have consent to construct a private bridge over the river Tees and playing fields on land over the river. STOP PRESS...
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Looking Back - Celebrating
40 Years…
Since we are fast approaching Halloween, here is an article from 1986 by a former pupil, Gareth Reagan, on The Friarage’s ‘headless nun’! ‘The night was ‘nun’ too easy’ – 1986 Rumours that the ghost of a headless nun wanders from time to time along the corridors of The Friarage have long abounded. Our task, as “ghost busters of Form I.B”, was to investigate and test the facts. It was easy; all we had to do was stay the night camped on the main stairs. Five of us, therefore, brought torches, sleeping bags and so forth and after church we got changed and set up camp. At 7:00pm after the Headmaster left, we were alone in the deserted school. We sampled our fish and chip supper and had a game of rugby. By 8 o’clock, we were beginning to get “cold feet” and thought we could hear eerie noises. After a short diversion in which Ghostbuster Mulgrew locked us out, (Jones still in his sleeping bag) we settled down and tried to get to sleep. Ghostly images kept coming into our minds as Watson and Tompkins made up horror stories. Eventually, in spite of being terrified and hearing all sorts of things, we drifted into a restless sleep. In the morning we woke at 5:00am, relived that our ordeal was safely over. At 6:30am we got up having confirmed that there was no visual evidence of a ghost, but we would still like to know what or whose unknown hand plugged the cassette recorder that we had definitely left switched on to record any sound the nun might make…
Newsletter No: 1190 | www.yarmschool.org | 19th October 2018
It appeared as if Yarm Fair week had come early with the roads through and around Yarm gridlocked with traffic. Few might have suspected that this was the result of a Career Convention. But this was clearly testament to the appetite of so many pupils and parents to access the very best information, advice and guidance, as well as recognition of the quality and scale of the event in terms of the range of delegates offering their enthusiasm and experience. It is estimate that we had over a thousand visitors on the night, combined with over 140 delegates, comprising of 30 universities from around the country. Focused particularly at those pupils in Fourth Year to Upper Sixth, it was great to see a healthy number of visitors from around six other local schools. Delegates spoke afterwards of being impressed not just by the volume of visitors but more importantly the nature and quality of their engagement through meaningful questioning. I would like to thank all of those delegates who gave up so much of their time after the end of an undoubted busy working day, and I am so appreciative of their infectious enthusiasm that gave such energy to the whole evening. Thank you also to the many hundreds of you who came along to support your children in their pursuit of their future directions. Looking to later this year I am hoping to host a couple more of the smaller scale Career Cluster evenings, where we bring in a range of guests working in a specific area of employment, education and training and allow you, the parents and pupils,
to drive the evening through question and answer style panel discussions. I am currently planning to deliver one of each of these in the fields of Psychology Routes and IT.
Mr S Edwards
Career Convention 2018
School wins planning appeal! The school has just received the fantastic news that we have won the planning appeal and now
have consent to construct a private bridge over the river Tees and playing fields on land over the river. STOP PRESS...
On an autumn evening steeped in nostalgia, former Headmaster Neville Tate and current Headmaster, David Dunn hosted an audience of parents and pupils, past and present. They gathered in the Friarage Theatre last Thursday to salute forty years of Yarm School..
The main focus of the evening was the showing of a Tyne Tees Television documentary, first transmitted across the region in 1978, which related the story of how Yarm School was formed by a group of parents who wanted their children to have an education based on ethos of grammar schools. The documentary included interviews with pupils (who will be fifty plus now!), parents and Headmaster Neville Tate, the driving force behind the new venture as it revealed to the audience how their vision had become reality.
The film thoughtfully related the highs and lows of establishing a new school. It was quite absorbing to see parents and teachers, paintbrushes in hand, preparing classrooms for use. Only sixty pupils and three teachers were present on the opening day – a far cry from Yarm School today! The audience listened attentively to Neville Tate on the screen as he shared his thoughts on the new school’s ethos whilst scenes such as Mr Tate driving the school minibus to collect pupils from Eaglescliffe railway station each morning clearly demonstrated how far Yarm School has come in forty years.
The question and answer session with Neville Tate which followed was enjoyed by all and the evening ended with a chance to buy a copy of his history of the school, ‘The Story So Far’, with many memories shared and new ones created as photos were taken.
Whilst Yarm School today has achieved distinguished academic success the principles first championed by Neville Tate and the founding parents, remain valid contributing to education at school today as much as they ever did. Yarm School has achieved so much in forty
years but those early days of educational enterprise, grit and determination to succeed will surely never be forgotten.
Mr P Menzies
Forty Years On...Still Going
Strong Yarm School visit to Phoenix House Help for Heroes Centre Catterick
On Tuesday seven senior members of the CCF as well as Maddy Jackson and Mia Mack (the two winners of the Porsche Wrap competition) visited the Help for Heroes centre at Catterick Garrison. The pupils were given a presentation of the extremely valuable work of the centre in providing wounded servicemen and women as well as their families with ongoing support. The centre aims to relieve the pressures on wounded service people suffering both physical and mental injury from conflict and service in our Armed Forces.
Following the presentation the pupils were given a tour of the extremely impressive centre. This included looking around their state of the art gym specially adapted for those with severe disabilities as well as checking out their outstanding Art centre. What struck all who visited was the incredible work Help for Heroes continues to do despite the fact that the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are no longer in the public conscience. The need to help the servicemen whose lives have been devastated by those conflicts is on-going and will be for years to come.
We were delighted to be able to pass on a cheque from Yarm School to Help for Heroes for £1000 and the CCF has pledged to support the centre in the future.
Mr T Taylor
Help for Heroes
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Research Fellow discusses
Great Lakes refugee problems
As part of our commitment to providing enrichment
opportunities for pupils and to extend their understanding
beyond the curriculum, we are delighted to welcome
Professor Tim Whitmarsh from the University of Cambridge
to deliver the first talk in this year’s open lecture programme
entitled ‘Were the ancient Greeks white?’
The talk will focus on the idea that nowadays many people
tend to classify themselves and other people by skin colour
and will question whether the ancient Greeks did the same.
The answer is ‘yes’ … but not in the ways that you might
expect.
The lecture will be held in the Friarage Theatre on Friday 9th
November and it will begin at 4.15pm. It should last
approximately one hour including time for questions.
If you would like to attend the lecture, please email Mrs
Dr Aisling O’Loghlen was conducting field work research in northern Uganda
when she was invited to speak with the Politics Society, allowing her to base
her talk on the very latest findings. Having worked as a city planner and
adviser to the United Nations, she has now combined her experiences to work
on the pressure and impact of forced migration in urban spaces. Her work
centres on the Great Lakes area of central and eastern Africa, in particularly
Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This talk
was of special interest to those Politics students setting off next week on a trip
to Rwanda, a country woven into the fortunes of this entire region. The
numbers involved in these migration shifts are overwhelming, though Aisling’s
work is built upon individual interviews with those affected. It has allowed her
to build a portrait of the specific challenges being faced, as well as the attitudes
of both refugees and citizens in countries receiving these visitors. Despite
facing significant threats from officialdom, in the form of hassle and extortion from corrupt police officers, and
restrictions on movement, work, housing and status, local populations, perhaps in part recognising their own
vulnerability, are on the whole accepting and even welcoming of the mass arrivals and presence of so many refugees.
This perhaps provides a telling contrast to the emergence of more hostile attitudes in Europe despite the significantly
smaller numbers involved in our own continent. Dr O’Loghlen responded to some intriguing questions, some focusing on
the ethics of such research, such as the risk that the researcher gains more from this work than their subjects do. It was a
fascinating insight into the deep challenges posed by such migration movements, which according to most experts will
become only more prevalent in the future given the issues of food insecurity, water scarcity, etc., and the ensuing political
and social ramifications of these disruptions.
Mr S Edwards
Last time’s answer: An Eye! Last time’s winners: Joshita Mishra, Aspara Naguleswaran, Isra Ali, Isabelle Swallow (First Year) Samantha Botterill, Keya Shah (Second Year) Danny Scott, Yumna Ellidir, Tegan Addison, Siya Puthuraya (Third Year) Oliver Marriott (Lower Sixth) Sam Hardy (Upper Sixth) Mr Stone (Prep) Congratulations to you all! This week's riddle: What is it? Rating: A thinker What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself? Please send any answers in to [email protected], remember to add your tutor group (or initials for teachers) and those with the quickest correct answers (in before this coming Monday) will be announced in the next issue. Good luck!
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On Thursday 11th October, Yarm School hosted the North-East Regional Qualifier, for the English Schools National Team Chess Championship. We entered three teams to play against last year's eventual winners, RGS Newcastle, coached by international master David Eggleston. Our teams comprised: Yarm A 1. Gautam Sathyamurthy 2. Ihsaan Mahmood 3. Crispin Roundtree 4. Keya Shah Yarm B 1. AJ Thorne-Wallis 2. Abhinav Sathyamurthy 3. Vignesh Janakiraman 4. Benedict Francis Yarm C 1. Edward Adams 2. Shrish Nair 3. Adam Wright 4. Yusuf Syed RGS proved too strong for us, with extremely high gradings for their players; their top two players were both graded 190+ ECF. Indeed their 10-year board one has the distinction of being the youngest ever Dutch player to beat a grandmaster in a graded event (when he was 8!). Keya Shah was the star of the show with our only win against a RGS player, and there were particularly strong performances from Yusuf Syed and our stalwart, AJ Thorne-Wallis.
Mr Pointon
On Saturday 13th October, Yarm Prep School hosted the 24th Yarm Chess Championship, which attracted over a hundred entrants. Within the event, there was a senior section, also organized on a team basis, with the team names being former world champions: STEINITZ - 14.5 Points 1. Gautam Sathyamurthy 2. Michael Darcy 3. Luke Nargol LASKER - 4.5 Points 1. Vignesh Janakiraman 2. Sophia Kusterer 3. Ollie Cochrane 4. Saisparsh Sidaginamale CAPABLANCA - 13.5 Points 1. Crispin Roundtree 2. Yusuf Syed 3. Mohammed Sanaulla ALEKHINE - 7.5 Points 1. Shrish Nair 2. Aishani Paul 3. Keya Shah 4. Alice (Bydales School). Each team played each other twice, hence everyone played six games. Steinitz were the winners, with Capablanca in second place and Alekhine in third. There were some notable individual performances, for example Luke was unbeaten and Gautam, Yusuf and Crispin all scored 5/6. We had a marvellous day's chess, under the superb organization of Johannes Grundmann and Sean Marsh, and the TV cameras were even present and footage will be going in the "One-Show" programme.
Mr Pointon
24th Yarm Chess
Championship
Chess Match Vs. RGS Newcastle
We are only a couple of short months away from the completion
of our brand new lounge/bar/drama studio/changing facilities.
There will be new
changing rooms, to benefit
drama pupils and visiting
performers and a fantastic
new drama studio
completes the work, which
is being undertaken in the
basement of the
Auditorium.
Stay tuned and pencil in some post Christmas PAA events in your
diary, so you are able to come and enjoy the fantastic new
facilities!
New facilities well underway!
Monday saw 22 cadets and 4 staff from the CCF depart for their Autumn Term Field Day. Mr Mist had evidently ordered nice weather, and despite being a little wet under foot, the cadets excelled on the navigation exercise at Hardwick Park. The cadets covered a 3 mile course navigating between markers with each individual taking a turn at leading. Charlotte Paylor's team ran out the winners with an impressive time of just over an hour.
In the afternoon we travelled to Marsden Bay on the Northumberland Coast to conduct some adventure training in the form of coasteering. The activity involves working your way around a piece of coastline and is a cross between bouldering and swimming (with some jumping too!) Despite the cold water all the cadets pushed themselves and the instructors commented on how enthusiastic they were throughout.
Well done to all and thank you for the staff for helping on the day. It was great to see all cadets enjoying themselves thoroughly and WO2 Darwin participating very well particularly in ball throwing activities.
Mr T Taylor
NEWS
CCF Autumn Term Field Day -
Navigation and Adventure
Training
What’s On!
THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW
Join our cast of West End Singers and LIVE band as we take
you on a journey through music from “The Greatest Show-
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Upper Sixth Business were delighted to welcome Mrs Heward, Yarm's Finance Manager, into their lesson last week. Mrs Heward brought to life "the external influences which impact on Finance and Accounting", with a multitude of applied examples. She then willingly answered a plethora of questions. Many thanks to Mrs Heward for her continued support of our department.
This week History society
attendees were treated to a talk
from Bakaer Noble (O3AJ), titled
‘Project A119 Operation nuke the
moon’.
Bakaer delivered a talk based on
the space race between the USA
and the USSR during the Cold War. Bakaer provided some
background on the Cold War and increasing tensions between
the two superpowers following the end of World War Two.
By 1949 two power blocs existed in the world; NATO and the
Warsaw Pact. In the early 1950s the USSR took the lead in
this ideological struggle by launching Sputnik 1 on October
4th 1957. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite in orbit
around the Earth. This delivered a huge blow to the morale
and confidence of the American people during the Cold War
and American scientists were keen to fight back with project
A119. The plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon had
been discussed for a few years by the American Air Force. An
explosion on a lunar creator on the moon would cause a flash
of light as the dust cloud from the explosion would be lit by
the sun. The flash of light would be visible from earth,
showing the world the extreme power the US had available
and providing a warning to the USSR. The project was
cancelled; however, as researchers discovered that should the
nuclear missile fail to hit the moon it was likely to return to
earth and cause mass devastation. Details of the project
remained secret until the early 1990s.
The signing of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963
and the Outer Space Treaty in 1967 prevented further
investigations into detonating nuclear bombs on the moon.
The US took a major lead in the space race with the successful
launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. Tensions between the USA and
the USSR existed up until the late 1980s when the fall of the
Berlin Wall symbolised the collapse of communism in Eastern
Europe and the end of the Cold War.
The History Society meets every Tuesday at 1pm.
Mr A Morrison
The History Society
The next big Outdoor Education expedition will be to Ladakh in the India, Himalayas in the summer of 2020. Spend 28 days on expedition; exploring new cultures, trekking in the Himalayas, along with other outdoor activities. Run by the school's Outdoor Education department, the expedition is open to all current Fourth, Fifth, and Lower Sixth pupils. Come and find out more about the expedition on Wednesday 7th November at 4:30pm in the Friarage Theatre. Mr Mathers will be delivering a short presentation to pupils and parents on all aspects of the expedition. Letters will be available on and after this date.
Outdoor Education
Expedition: Ladakh
2020
Last Thursday, a group of fifteen First, Second and Third Year pupils attended an excellent event at Seven Stories in Newcastle. Many of you may remember visiting Seven Stories with your Reception class or with your parents, and spending time in the story corner or reading picture books. At the moment, they have an exhibition displaying the work of teen fiction writer David Almond; it showcases how he plans, where he grew up and a great deal of other interesting information about the man himself and his many works. One interesting fact we found out was that he grew up near Gateshead, which in my opinion makes the exhibition even more special with him being a local author. After studying the whole exhibition, we went down to the bottom floor of the building where we had an amazing view of the River Oozeburn, which one of Almond’s books was based on. We listened spell-bound to a reading from this text, before being inspired to try our own creative writing. We thoroughly enjoyed the trip and we must thank Mrs Dugdale and Mr Craig for taking us to this wonderful exhibition.
Luke Porter
Trip to Seven Stories
Making it count...
The Yarm Apprentices have been set their second task. Gracie (aka Miss Rhodes Jnr) set the task via a very impressive Google Slides presentation. The teams have each been allocated £60 budgets and have been challenged to man and stock a stall at the school's Christmas Fair in November. Stalls must be family friendly, customer service must be superb, stock must be glittery and the whole stall needs to be Christmas themed. Yash and Rachel have been appointed as Project Managers of Team Phoenix and the renamed The Silent Knights (formally known as Team Dynamite) respectively and all proceeds will go to charities to be determined by the teams. Will Team Phoenix continue to rise from the ashes or will The Silent Knights sleigh the opposition? Come and see the teams in action at the YSA Christmas Fair.
NEWS
Yarm Apprentice - All that
glitters is not gold....?
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(after school)
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Finish Friday, 14th December 2018
(after school)
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SPORT
Sport Scoreboard U13A v Cardinal Langley RC Won 20-17
This was the second round of the SNS National netball cup and the girls were drawn against Cardinal Langley RC High School to be played away. We travelled to Greater Manchester not knowing what standard our opposition would be but with high hopes of a victory. We arrived with plenty of time for a good warm up and after a team talk the match began. Both teams began nervously and made some mistakes but soon we settled into a better standard of play and took the lead by 3 goals in the first quarter. With only 2 changes we kept hold of our lead at half time. During the 3rd quarter we started to make some unforced errors and the opposition took advantage of this and they led by one goal at the end of the 3rd. We knew we were the better side and we just needed to keep our heads and play netball our own pace and not make so many errors. The girls rose to this challenge superbly and played some lovely fast netball and dominated the last quarter. The final score saw us take our 3 goal lead again and the girls are now one of the last 8 schools in the North competition. Congratulations to all who played. Our next match is a home game thankfully!
Netball
The girls played St Olaves in the next round of the U13A tennis, carrying on from last summer’s competition. They won 2 singles and both doubles games giving them a score of 8-4 overall. They are now through to the Division 1 Regional North finals and are one of the final 16 teams in Great Britain remaining in their event. Congratulations girls!
Tennis
Girls’ Hockey
U15A v Fettes College Lost 2-7
U13A v Cundall Won 2-1
U12A v Cundall Draw 2-2
U12B v Cundall Won 4-3
U13B v Cundall Won 2-0
U12A v St Olave’s Won 7-1
U12B v St Olave’s Won 8-0
U13A v Bede Academy Won 8-0
1st XI v Egglescliffe Won 2-1
Netball
U13A v Cardinal Langley RC Won 20-17
Boys’ Hockey
U15A v Queen Elizabeth Grammar Won 3-1
Rugby
1stXV v East Durham College Won 27-24
U15A v Carmel College Won 42-0
U12A v Barnard Castle Lost 1-8
U12B v Barnard Castle Lost 6-8
U15A v Newcastle School Won 43-5
U13A v Newcastle School Won 50-0
U12A v Newcastle School Lost 2-4
Rugby
U12A v Barnard Castle Lost 1-8
On Thursday the U12 A team came up against a well drilled Barnard Castle . The sun was shining and we were all enthusiastic and eager to get a win. The game started well with both sides showing excellent skills and teamwork. Not long into the game Yarm went behind to a well earned try from the opposition, however we did not let this dampen our spirits and the Yarm boys continued to fight on. Just before the whistle blew for half time Max Mowbray, Zach Parker and Oscar Thomas put in some good running and footwork and Oscar Shaw managed to charge down the pitch to score a magnificent try.
Yarm continued to defend well in the second half, however Barny seemed to have upped their game and we saw some
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SPORT
fantastic attacking and defending from both sides. The final score was 1-9 to Barnard Castle. This was a defeat but also a learning curve for Yarm who showed some excellent skills and determination against a strong team. Well done Boys!!
pleasing aspect of the performance, as it demonstrated the boys' teamwork and work ethic that is becoming ever more evident.
As has been the case all season, the forwards provided the platform for this expansive and expressive brand of rugby to flourish. Vice-captain Harry Wildridge, prop Harry Rodwell and Jonathan Wood in particular worked tirelessly throughout the match with effective tackling, rucking and carrying. In the backs, excellent passing and offloading from Thomas Van Niekerk, Roman Andrews and Junior Newton provided an abundance of opportunities for the outside backs, with Charlie Thompson in particular benefiting with various strong runs from outside centre. Wingers Fergal Deane and Max Jones also contributed with evasive and explosive running.
As the game progressed, it was particularly pleasing to see the replacement players make such positive and confident contributions to the performance. This team ethic was typified by the contributions of Nathan Muzawazi, who played on both the wing and at full back. Nathan kept the ball alive fantastically, releasing the ball to his inside runners whilst he was also not afraid to take on defenders himself.
To conclude, this was a very encouraging display from the U13s, and one that will stand them in good stead as they prepare to face tough tests against the likes of Nottingham High School, Durham School and St Olave's in the coming weeks.
U12B v Barnard Castle Lost 6-8
On Thursday 11th October 2018 the Yarm U12B boys played a home match at Green Lane against Barnard Castle. Barnard Castle were a very strong opposition, who were quick, organised and had impressive tackles ’up their sleeves’. Unfortunately Barnard Castle took the lead but we held our own during the first half and we played stronger into the second half after Mr Morrison gave us some things to work on. We got some brilliant tries from Matthew White (3), Ben Dempsey (2) and Essa Ibrahim (1). We have taken some positives from the match such as our strong defensive skills and our strong runs from the boys. Our catching and off loading was also good. Things we are going to work on for next match are: to stop crowding round the ball, make some space, work on tackling around the legs and ultimately stop high tackles. This was one of the main reasons we lost the ball today and probably lost the match due to giving them the advantage with penalties.
U15A v Newcastle School for Boys Won 43-5 Saturday 13th October saw the U15's face local team NSB at home. The weather was closing in and it looked like it was going to be a very wet and windy day. The boys arrived early and started to warm up as a team and get into the game frame of mind. The game kicked off and Yarm instantly stepped up to the challenge and took the game to NSB. The match was tough and the boys played with excellent heard. The tries started to be scored by both teams with Yarm scoring first and then NSB scoring soon after. This did not alter the boys’ attitude and they soon began to exploit the defence of NSB and using our key strong runners of; Alex Wild, Sam Dunkin, Connor Brown and Alistair Cropp we started to put tries on the board. The NSB boys did not loose faith and fought the whole way to the end of the game making Yarm work hard for this victory. The boys showed excellent skill and some new players stepped up and really showed they have the skill and determi-nation to really effect the teams. Well Done boys. Onward and upwards!!
U13A v Newcastle School for Boys Won 50-0
The Under 13s bounced back from their defeat to Dame Allen's in their previous fixture in impressive fashion at Northern RFC against Newcastle School for Boys on Saturday.
Much of the game was played in heavy rain, which made the boys' confidence and skill with ball in hand all the more impressive to watch. This was matched with teamwork and resilience in defence, as NSB enjoyed a lot of possession particularly in the first half. This was perhaps the most
Hockey
U13A v Cundall Manor Won 2-1
Last Wednesday the U13A team had a match against
Cundall Manor. We were already aware they were
strong opponents and that we had a tough match
ahead of us. We therefore wanted to play our very
best. In the first half, we made some excellent passes
and tackles, however struggled to keep them out of
shooting range. Luckily Phoebe made some excellent
saves, and Rosie made some great tackles to prevent
them from scoring. With India, Emma, Izzy, and Har-
riet working together as a team attacking and moving
up the pitch, we eventually managed to pass to Kayla,
who was able score a fantastic goal! At halftime, we led
by 1-0. Unfortunately, in the second they scored the
equaliser. It was a short corner that sadly deflected
into the goal. But we came back fighting with a great
