PE
BADMINTON
One of the most popular lunch time clubs this year has been the badminton club with large numbers in regular attendance. This has certainly helped to ensure the team players were sharp and raring to go during their league fixtures and because of the large group of players to choose from, we have been able to enter A & B teams in each District leagues this year.
I am pleased to report that Great Marlow School are the KS4 boys and KS3 girls District league champions and both the boys and girls B teams have enjoyed fixture victories during the season also.
TENNIS
Tennis has really pushed on this year both on the curriculum and as an EC club. Consistently good numbers at training each week have made selection for the 4 places in each team very difficult but a number of students have been able to play and represent Great Marlow in this year’s AEGON tennis leagues. It has also been great to see a number of girls turning up week in week out at training and this bodes well for next year when we enter the girls AEGON league for the first time.
Both the under 13 and under 15 boys teams were drawn against the same 4 schools and there have been some encouraging individual and team results. The under 13s have bounced back from a couple of closely fought matches early in the season to beat Beaconsfield school and St Michaels. The under 15 team have finished the league unbeaten and go through to the knockout stage of the competition full of promise.
One of the season highlights was our trip to the All England club last week. A great day had by all despite the rain delays, although some would say the students got to enjoy the typical Wimbledon experience!
By Mr J Clarke - Head of Department
DUKE OF EDINBURGH
Jamie Kerley, Year 10 at Great Marlow
School,
has been working towards his Bronze Level Duke of Edinburgh award. For three months, he has been looking to complete the four required sections: Volunt eering ,
Skills, Physical and Expedition. A keen golfer, he found the ‘Physical’ section easy to complete, as was the ‘Volunteering’ section where he helped and worked with the boys from Marlow Utd U11’s football training on a Monday evening. He completed the practice and final Expeditions in May, which tested his communication, orienteering and leadership skills. The final section was ‘Skills’ and Jamie, who would like to be a chef when he leaves school, decided to hone his baking skills and present his varied offerings to his parent’s managed office at Stokenchurch. Every week, the companies that share the building all looked forward to the Friday morning treats, which ranged from brownies to biscuits and flapjacks to fairy cakes. Many of the staff were asking if they could make a donation, which Jamie was chuffed about (they must be good!) and decided that he would like any donations to go to the Sue Ryder Hospice in Nettlebed, where his granddad spent his last few days. His parents told him that their design agency, Tank2create, would match the donations he made over the three month period. On the last Friday in May, the final (requested!) bake was his ‘famous’ Millionaire’s Shortbread, and the final amount raised was a staggering £287.29! With this figure being matched by his parent’s agency, this means that Jamie will be presenting a cheque to Sue Ryder for an amazing £574.58!
By Mrs H Murray
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