Over the Easter holidays 36 energetic students travelled across the Bay of Biscay to Barcelona for the school’s second ever international sports tour.
The group enjoyed scorching weather conditions, a PortAventura Theme Park excursion, local Spanish football fixtures, inter school football and netball competitions and a day out in Barcelona and tour around the Barcelona Olympic stadium in scorching weather conditions.
Our travelling teams performed magnificently in their local fixtures with the U13 Football narrowly losing vs Montroig FC 3-4 and our U14 Football winning emphatically vs CF Cunnit 5-1. In addition, the Netball and Football teams represented the school to the highest levels in their end of trip Masterclass Tournaments with the U14 Netball coming 5th, U13 Football also coming 5th and U14 narrowly missing out on the big cup and coming 2nd on penalties.
The trip was another phenomenal success that upheld both the values and vision of the school. The PE department are already planning the Sports Tour for Easter 2024 (hopefully including girls’ football and boys’ rugby to the travelling teams).
We would like to thank our local sponsor (GPR Decorating Services - https://gprdecorating.co.uk) who generously subsidised the expense of all playing and training kits for the entire tour party. Without their support our students would not have been the best dressed teams out in Spain.
Awards:
U13 Netball - Masterclass Player of the Week – Megan McGlone (8Ridgeway)
Coach’s Player of the Week – Amy King (8King)
Masterclass Tournament Player’s Player – Isabella Lendrum (8Burrows) and Juliette Stangroom (8Ridgeway)
U13 Football - Masterclass Player of the Week – Isaac Searle (8Burrows)
Coach’s Player of the Week – Monty Wignall-Jones (8Sherborne)
Player’s Player vs Montroig FC – Freddie Hollingworth (8Otter)
Masterclass Tournament Player – Finlay Squires (8Wilson)
U14 Football - Masterclass Player of the Week – Billy Netley-Harris (9Andrewes)
Coach’s Player of the Week – Finn Schmidschneider (9Ridgeway)
Player’s Player vs FC Cunnit – Ross Muvuti (9Otter)
Masterclass Tournament Player – Josh Pressdee (9Wilson)
Top Tourists 2024 – Monty Smith (9Ridgeway), Max Gayle (8Burrows) and Isaac Briffa (9Wilson)
Please keep your eyes peeled for upcoming notifications and information letters regarding next year’s 2025 tour and check out the PE department’s social media for an insight into this year’s incredible tour (Instagram - bishopluffape).
Mr T Blewitt, Teacher of PE