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This afternoon, our PE Scholarship group have continued to with their unit on cricket. Today’s focus was indoor cricket. With limited batting space, this is an incredibly fast paced and technical version of the game which really put players’ core skills to the test.

As well as accurate throwing and catching, fielders also need to have lightning quick reaction times. This session allowed our children to really work on this skill. They really enjoyed a range of drills which aims to improve their reaction times and catching accuracy. We used ‘reactaballs’ and rebound nexts which send the balls off in random directions for children to catch or block.

We finished the sessions with a great game of indoor cricket where children put their skills into practise. Well done boys and girls!

Sometime the rebound nets made a catch impossible, there a block was necessary to continue fielding. 

Logan anticipating a bounce – but how high?

With multiple surfaces for the ball to rebound and limited space, batter had to choose very carefully where to hit the ball. 

Spot the ball! Quick reactions from Evie (front centre) saw on batter go out here! 

A HUGE well done to our U11s boy who tonight won the Hull Active Schools FA Cup Final, for the third year, in a 2-0 win against Hymers College.

The game was incredibly close throughout the duration with both teams finding themselves in goal scoring positions. Our first goal came towards the end of the second half as Ashton lofted a high cross which nipped in over the keepers head. Our second goal came in the second half after Lindon made a break and didn’t finish after going one-on-one with the keeper. Ashton was supporting and dealt with the rebound by scoring a second goal. More opportunities came in the second half with Tinashe missing from his break and Lucas hitting the post with a huge right foot volley.

The boys saw the game out safely and brought the cup home. Well done boys, you have made Mr. Moy and I incredibly proud! Thanks also to our parents for their continued support.

FA Cup Winners (L-R): Lucas R, Jack S, Tinashe G, Jamie C, Harrie G, Freddie F (c), Lindon B, Harley P, Ewan D, Ashton R & Charnley B.

For the last two weeks, our scholarship group have been trying the fun, but technically tricky sport of Tri-Golf. In the first week children got to grip with the putters and chippers by practising their swings on different surfaces and experimenting with feet positions and stances to see what happened to the resulting putt or chip. Children then had a go at several different Tri-Golf festival games where they had to complete different challenges to score points. After trying this game mode out and seeing the types of equipment used, children then had an opportunity to create their own games for others to play. There were some fantastic challenges created!

Week 2 saw our scholarship group (plus some Y4s for good measure) put when they had learned into practice at the Hull Active Schools Tri-Golf Championships. This was timed competition where children competed in teams of ten, five boys and five girls, across ten different golf challenges, They had five minutes per station to score as many points as they can. When the results came in, our children were very please! In the 3/4 competition, out Y4 team came 3rd and in the Y5/6  competition, our Y5 team came 2nd and our Y6 team came first! These incredible results saw all children receive a medal and also qualify for the Active Humber county finals in June. A huge well done children!

Week 1: Comparing surfaces on a chipping challenge. 

Week 1: Competing in their own festival activities. 

Y5 taking on a putting challenge at the HAS competition.

Tri-Golf is fantastic for keeping fit as it requires constant running back and forth in order to have lots of goes in the allowed time. Children found it to be very tiring! 

Y6 Team First Place (L-R): Harley, Archie, Alex, Freddie, Lucas, Phoebe, Sapphire, Tuloula, Grace & Charlotte

Year 5 Second Place (L-R): Charnley, Jack, Ewan, Ethan, Evie, Lola, Issy & Harrie

Year 4 Third Place (L-R): George, Kian, Arthur, Bailey, Elsa, Lillie, Elissa, Lily and Lily-Mae

Thanks HAS for a fantastic afternoon! Our children were all happy to leave with a medal! 

Tonight, our boys represented not only Christopher Pickering, but the city of Hull at the Humberside 7 aside county finals. Four teams from Hull (CP, Eastfield, Ings and Thanet) represented Hull, and four teams from the East Riding, North East Lincs and North West Lincs in a tournament to find the regions best U11 7 aside team.

Our group was very close. CP’s first game was against old rivals Eastfield and this game ended 0-0. The next two games from the rest of the group were also 0-0 draws. Our second game against Signhilsl was a strong performance with two goals coming in quick succession. A last minute concession saw the game finish 2-1 but out boys were confident. Our last group game was against St Nicks Beverley. This team had also had a 0-0 draw but only beaten Signhills 1-0. This meant our boys would win the group even with a draw. The game was incredibly tight, but our boys were moving the ball well, defending strongly but were struggling to finish their attacks. Sadly, a well worked goal in the last minute put St. Nicks ahead 1-0 and before we could regather, time ran out.

However, our boys came off to s surprise hot chocolate kindly bought for them by one of our parents – thank you so much for this kind gesture, it really helped lift the boys spirits after such a disappointing end to the night. Well done boys, you did yourselves, the school and Hull proud tonight and have learnt a lot to take into future games.

Disappointed but enjoying their post-game hot chocolate. 

Tonight’s man of the match chosen by Mr Moy – Harley. He had a great attitude, made very few errors and worked hard throughout every game. (No award for this so he was presented his hot chocolate!!) 

Tonight our Y34 boys represented the school in a futsal competition at Hull University. Two teams from CP entered the tournament, a team of Y3s and a team of Y4s. The boys come up against some tough competition but thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Unfortunately, neither team made it out of the group stages but both teams came away with goals scored and at least one win. The highlight of the evening was a Y3vY4 Derby! Well done to the Y4 boys who were the winners of this very competitive game!

Y4 Boys (L-R): Max, Harry, Buddy, Max and Archie.

Y3 Boys (L-R): Billy, Cael, Cohen, Freddy and Parker.

Tonight our boys played in the EFL Kids Kup qualifier at Hull University. The group games got off to a good start with a 3-0 win against St Nicholas Primary. The second game was a tough match against Neasden Primary. After taking the lead initially, the boys lost the game in the last seconds 2-1. A confident show in the next game saw them beat Marfleet 2-1. Their last game was vary tight, but the boys kept their composure to see off a strong Broadacre side 1-0.

Unfortunately, the boys finished second in their group by one point – the loss against Neasden costing them a spot in the final match. Despite the result, it was a good opportunity to test themselves against some trickier competition with the Humberside Finals looming next week.

Kacper (2nd from left) scored three fantastic headers from corners! Well done!