Indoor Athletics team take Bronze

Team Hambridge Indoor Athletics team took home the bronze at the Somerset School Games county finals at Millfield.

The team of Year 6 and Year 5 pupils competed admirably with notable performances from Erin and Benjamin in the sprint relays and Freddie and Ellie in the field events.

The result capped off a good indoor season for Hambridge. Attention will now turn to the outdoor events in the summer term.

Badminton Silver

Team Hambridge celebrated a silver medal at the Somerset School Games Finals at Millfield.

The team were narrowly beaten in to second by Wiveliscombe.

Badminton coach Mr Francombe was proud of his teams efforts. Having finished first and second at the South Somerset finals, Hambridge were represented by two teams. The A team, made up of year 6 pupils, performed amazingly well to finish second and collect the silver medal. The B team squad included a number of year four pupils who stepped up to represent Team Hambridge, due to the competition clashing with the Indoor Athletics final, proving the talent runs deep at Hambridge.

'RUN FOR FUN' Sunday January 3rd 

 Free for all children 4 - 14 years. On Langport Northstreet Moor.

Our 15^th  free monthly running event

Choice of distance !   2km, 1km or 400m and all runners are timed  First timers welcome and children who have never taken part in a fun run before.

 Published results for you to check your own progress from month to month.

Train for your school cross country events. Get in your school team.  Starts on the moor by Tesco Metro, Langport. 10.00am. Parking at the store. Registration from 9.30am, by 9.45 am  if possible please

 Parents are welcome to run or walk with the younger children.

Come along to enjoy this relaxed but challenging fun activity.

Just turn up, register and run

         More information from David German     tel: 01458 259688

Langport Runners  Juniors

Invitiation to take part in trials for Somerset Indoor Athletics Squad

The academy of combined events are holding Spirtshall Athletics Championship trials and training on Saturday 12th December 2015.

The trials will be held at Yeovil College Sports Centre (BA21 4DR) from 11:00am to 1:30pm

Trials are open to any child in Year 5 & 6 and Year 4 pupils if aged 9 on the 3rd Feb 2016.

Any one interested should see Mr Thompson in Class 5 for more information.

Indoor Athletics Success

Hambridge Indoor Athletics squad are today celebrating reaching the Somerset County Finals after a thrilling afternoons competition in the South Somerset Finals.

Competing against eight schools from across South Somerset Hambridge emerged as joint winners along side Milford Junior School.

The team put in some excellent performances especially in the Boys 4 x 1 lap relay, the girls 6-lap paralauf and the boys soft javelin.

The squad of eighteen children from years five and six will now go on to represent South Somerset at the county championships on the 15th December at Millfield.

Badminton Teams Make County Finals

Hambridge will once again be represented at the Somerset Sainsburys School Games Badminton finals.

After securing first and second place at the Huish CLP event both Hambridge teams went on to the South Somerset finals.

In a keenly contested afternoon, Hambridge A emerged as winners with Hambridge B finishing runners up. Both teams will now go on to represent South Somerset in the county finals at Millfield on the 15th December.

Perrott Hill Tag Rugby Festival

Members of Team Hambridge's Year 3 and 4 children had a super time on Monday at the Perrott Hill Tag Rugby Festival.

The festival, despite the bitter cold, involved an hours tag rugby coaching before the children took part in a series of friendly games.

Much fun was had as you can see from the video below.

Girls make it a hatrick of titles

The Hambridge Girls Football Team claimed the Huish CLP Girls Football Title for a third successive year.

After a nail biting semi final that saw Hambridge win on penalties against old rivals Charlton Mackerel the girls played King Ina in the final.

The final proved to be as tense as the semi as Hambridge took the title winning 1-0.

Well played girls.

Hambridge Girls held at Charlton Mackrell

Hambridge Girls Football team played out an exciting 4-4 draw against Charlton Mackrell.

The game was an end to end affair that saw Charlton rush into a 3-0 lead by half time. Hambridge came back in the second period scoring three of their own. Charlton re took the lead however a spirited Hambridge team bounced back to equalise in the fading light.

Inter-house Year 6 Boys Table Tennis Tournament gets underway

The Year 6 Boys Inter house Table Tennis championship got underway on Thursday with the Group stages be played. The twelve boys from Year 6 were divided into two groups of six. Each player played five group games with the top two from each group qualifying for the Championship semi finals.

The players finishing third and fourth from each group go into the Plate semi finals with the fifth and sixth placed players from each group going into the Bowl semi finals.

All semi finals will be played after half term.

Group A
                      P   W   L  Pts
Freddie          5    5    0   15
Ben                5    4    1   12
Oliver            5    3    2    9
Joe C             5    2     3   6
Joe G             5    1     4   3
Joel                5    0     5   0

Group B      
                      P    W   L   Pts
Joe R             5     5    0    15
Tom               5     3    2    9            (Tom finishes second due to a better head to head record v Henry)
Henry            5     3    2     9
Stanley          5     2    3    6             (Stanley finishes fourth due to a better points difference)
Finlay            5     2    3    6
Andrea           5    0     5    0

Championship Semi Final draw
Freddie v Tom
Joe R v Ben

Plate Semi Final draw
Oliver v Stanley
Henry v Joe C

Bowl Semi Final Draw
Finlay v Joel
Joe G v Andrea

Hambridge Storm into South Somerset Finals

Hambridge Schools Indoor Athletic Team stormed into the South Somerset Finals with a comprehensive win at the recent Langport event.

Taking a lead into the second week of competition Hambridge improved their scores across the events to win by a massive 700 points.

The win means Hambridge will represent the Langport CLP schools at the South Somerset Finals in December.

Well done Team Hambridge

Year 6 Boys Football Team fall short at YTFC Tournament

The Year 6 boys football team finished runners up in the recent Yeovil Town Football League Schools tournament.

The event held at Huish Park, Yeovil on Friday 16th October, 2015 saw two teams from Hambridge take part further underlining the strength in depth at the school. Unfortunately, Hambridge B were unable to get out their group with Hambridge A qualifying for the knock out stages.

However the A side were taken to a nail biting sudden death penalty shoot out in their Semi Final against Wyke. Indeed they were indebted to goalkeeper Joe who made the all important save after Tom  had given Hambridge the advantage.

Unfortunately Hambridge's efforts were undone as they came up against a strong Selwood Academy side who went on to win the tournament.

The final result shouldn't detract from an excellent day's football. Well done to everyone who took part and a big thank you to Mr Francombe and Mr Akers for their help in organising the day.

Hambridge A & Selwood Academy

 Hambridge B

Blue House take KS2 Girls House Football Competition

The 2^nd of October to the 9^th of October was international girl’s football week at Hambridge School. We already have a successful girls football club so we decided to play an inter-house girls football tournament. The first matches were Blue vs Red and Green vs Yellow for KS2.

In the Blue vs Red match there was a lot of throw ins and goal kicks. But Blue advanced to the finals after beating red 6-0. In the Green vs Yellow match  there was a lot of goal kicks and saves but it was the Greens that advanced into the finals against Blue with a 4-1 win. It was great!

These results mean that Reds played Yellow for 3^rd and 4^th position. Blue then played Green for 1^st and 2^nd.  In the Blue vs Green match Erin got slide tackled twice by Jess the goal keeper and Lily! But she was okay. Despite a gutsy performance by Greens, the Blues proved to be too strong and took the title with a 4-1 win! We shook hands and congratulated each other. In the game between Yellow vs Red, Red won 4-0 letting them take 3^rd place and with Yellow finishing 4^th. 

Thank you, girls for taking part you played amazingly, well done. Also thank you to our referees Mr Thompson and Mr Francombe. Thank you to Mrs Mckay for organising this great event and a massive thank you for coaching us.

By Phoebe and Daisy

Hambridge Humbled by High Ham

Hambridge Year 6 Football team were humbled in their second league game of the season at home to High Ham.

Having beaten King Ina in their opening fixture Hambridge were full of confidence however they were facing an up hill battle from the very start as High Ham rushed into a 4-0 lead. Tom pulled one back after good work by Finlay put him in one v one with the keeper but High Ham hit straight back to take a 5-1 lead at half time.

The second half saw a fight back as a more resilient Hambridge emerged. Tom once again took the lead grabbing two quick goals to complete a hat trick and reduced the deficit to 5-3. With the pressure building on the High Ham goal Hambridge couldn't find away through and High Ham pounced on the break to seal the win with a sixth goal.

Hambridge will look to bounce back when they travel to Curry Rivel on Monday.

Year 6 celebrate Indoor Athletics Success

The Year 6 Indoor Athletics Squad they came away from their recent competition at Huish Academy having swept the board with excellent results.

Although the overall team competition results will be published on Monday results were given out for the highest scoring Boys and Girls in the first round of competition held on the 8th October 2015.

Phoebe  took first place with Lily  finishing second. In the boys competition Hambridge completed a clean sweep with Tom finishing first, Joel  taking second and Joe finishing third.

Year 3/4 Football Festival @ Ilminster Football Club

Year 3 / 4 Football Festival at Ilminster Football Club
Tuesday 13th October

The up and coming football stars of Hambridge School took part in their first football festival of the season. The friendly competition saw two Hambridge teams go up against teams from Hinton St George, Broadwindsor and two sides from Greenfylde.

The match of the tournament saw Hambridge A draw 1-1 with Hambridge B proving that the strength in depth is certainly there.

Well done to all those that took part.

Full results are listed below

MATCH RESULTS
Pitch 1 Hinton 1 v Hambridge A 0
Pitch 2 Hambridge B 2 v Broadwindsor 1
Pitch 3 Ilton 1 v Greenfylde A 1
Pitch 1 Hinton 1 v Ilton 0
Pitch 2 Hambridge A 2 v Broadwindsor 1
Pitch 3 Greenfylde B 0 v Hambridge B 3
Pitch 1 Hinton 3 v Broadwindsor 0
Pitch 2 Greenfylde A 0 v Greenfylde B 2
Pitch 3 Ilton 0 v Hambridge B 4
Pitch 1 Ilton 0 v Greenfylde B 1
Pitch 2 Greenfylde A 2 v Broadwindsor 3
Pitch 3 Hambridge A 1v Hambridge B 1
Pitch 1 Broadwindsor 5 v Greenfylde B 1
Pitch 2 Hinton 2 v Hambridge B 2
Pitch 3 Hambridge A 4 v Greenfylde A 0

Football Report Hambridge V King Ina Thursday 1st October, 2015

On Thursday 1^st of October 2015 Hambridge took on King Ina In their first league football match of the season. King Ina dominated the opening four minutes with shots coming in from every direction. Luckily Joel in the Hambridge goal was equal to everything they threw at him. In the fifth minute however King Ina’s pressure paid off and they duly took the lead. Hambridge took the centre and within seconds Finlay crossed to Tom who scooped the ball round with his left foot and past the helpless keeper to equalise.1-1. King Ina took the centre and Hambridge won possession back quickly. The busy Joe produced a fine through ball to Freddie who saw his shot juggled by the keeper allowing Freddie the chance to score. Goal! 2-1 Hambridge. King Ina came back. Suddenly, the ball flew into the air. Smack! Faulkner was down and was forced off due to clash of heads. Oliver came on as Finlay came off holding his head in pain. But as soon as Oliver had entered King Ina caught Hambridge on the break and scored. 2-2. Come on Hambridge. Hambridge weren’t giving up though. Wild got the ball and dribbled to the edge of the box where he found Joe who coolly scored to put Hambridge back in front. 3-2 to Hambridge.

The whistle blew for the start of the second half. King Ina took the centre and within minutes they scored. 3-3. Hambridge kept on pushing but couldn’t get a goal back for 15 minutes. It was so tiring but we knew we could win it. Suddenly, Freddie was on the ball he passed it to Tom who nutmegged one and then Maradonna’d the second and scored. 4-3. Hambridge were in the lead. But King Ina were right back on the attack with a period of sustained pressure and a number of corners, Hambridge were having to dig deep. With seconds remaining a King Ina corner landed at the feet of Robinson who passed it to Trickey. His instinctive pass found Finlay in space. Out numbering the King Ina defence three one Finlay took the shot and scored. 5-3. The final whistle went Hambridge had done it. The man of the match was Henry for his excellent leadership at the back and for some timely interventions..

What a start to the season. Hopefully, Hambridge can carry on this form.

By Tom, Henry and Joe 

KS1 Fun Run Success

On Thursday the 1st of October twenty children from KS1 competed in the first KS1 Fun Run of the year.

An excellent afternoon was had by all with Hambridge taking a 1 (Amelia),2 (Rose), 3 (Maisie) in the Year 1 Girls race as well as a second place for James in the Boys Year 1 race.

In the Year 2 races Poppy and Kiera recorded first and second place respectively and Jack Male won the Year 2 boys race.

Cross Country Success

Wow! Was how one parent has described the first cross country event of the school year. Out of 86 pupils in Key Stage two, forty of them pulled on the green and white of Hambridge to run. You must admit this is fantastic for a school of our size.

Despite the testing conditions every one of the Hambridge team performed brilliantly.

Congratulations to William  who finished 1st in the Year 3/4 Boys race. There was also top three finishes for Erin  and Joe both recorded 2nd place in their respective Year 5/6 races.

Silver Award

We are proud to announce that Hambridge Primary School has achieved the Silver Award from Sainsbury School Games.

This award further underlines the schools commitment to developing wider opportunities for our pupils.

The award is given based on the number of children participating in school sports clubs as well as the number of children who are given the opportunity to take part in sport against other schools.

Last year we entered teams into competitive competitions in Football, Netball, Tennis, Rounders, Cricket, Gymnastics, MultiSports, Indoor Athletics, Badminton and Hockey.

In 2015/2016 we aim enter more competitions with more teams increasing the opportunities for pupils at Hambridge.

Rugby Team show Heart at School Games Final

The Hambridge School Tag Rugby Team performed admirably at the Sainsbury's School Games Tag Rugby Finals. Hambridge originally entered two sides into the competitive Huish CLP event with the A team being knowcked out in the Semi Finals and the B Team reaching the final. In doing so they automatically qualified for the Sainsbury's School Games Finals. 

Unfortunately the young B team (Made up of Year 4 and 5  children) were unable to reproduce the performances that had seen them make the finals day. They did however produce some gutsy displays against teams made up of older children. The future is bright for Tag Rugby at Hambridge.

Upcoming Events

• Monday 14th September - KS1 Fun Run @ Curry Rivel 
• Thursday 1st October - Year 6 Football v King Ina Year 6 Netball v King Ina 
• Monday 5th October - KS2 Cross Country @ Kingsbury Episcopi 
• Thursday 8th October - KS2 Sports Hall Athletics @ Huish Academy 
• Monday 12th October - Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Tournament @ Somerton RFC 
• Tuesday 13th October - Year 6 Football v High Ham Year 6 Netball v High Ham Year 3/4 Football Tournament 
• Thursday 15th October - KS2 Sports Hall Athletics @ Huish Academy 
• Friday 16th October - Year 6 Football v Huish Episcopi 
• Monday 19th October - Year 6 Football v Curry Rivel 
• Thursday 22nd October - Cross Country @ Hambridge 
• Tuesday 3rd November - KS2 Girls Football v Charlton Mackerel 
• Thursday 5th November - KS2 Girls Football Tournament @ Huish Academy 
• Monday 9th November - KS1 Fun Run @ Long Sutton 
• Thursday 12th November - Year 6 South Somerset Football Tournament *Dependant on league position

Visit to Yeovil Football Club

KS2 Cricket Club Enjoy Brilliant Afternoon

Our KS2 Cricket Club enjoyed a brilliant afternoons cricket as they represented the Langport CLP in the Sainsbury's School Games South Somerset Tournament.

Having finished second to King Ina in the CLP tournament Hambridge went to Chard Cricket Club full of enthusiasm and confidence. Unfortunately the team were knocked out in the group stages managing one win and two defeats. However with the majority of the team being Year 5 the experience of playing high quality tournament cricket can only benefit.

Hambridge were represented at this summers Sainsbury's school games as the Year 3/4 quad kids team won through to the county wide spectacular. The young athletes competed across 4 athletic disciplines finishing 7 overall. There some excellent individual performances especially from Jack Morgan in the boys throwing event and Benjamin Clapp in the boys' jumping event.

Close Call for Hambridge Primary School Badminton Club

Hambridge KS2 Badminton Club came third in the 2014/2015 Somerset Schools County Championships at Millfield after winning throught The previous three rounds. The squad of four made up of boys from Year 5 and 6 played strongly and at one time look likely to win. This strong ranking came only six months after the school set up its Badminton club, with particular support from Mr Francombe. The club runs twice a week and is open to all children across the school.

Hambridge crowned Olympic Day Champions for a 3rd time

On Friday 26th June 2015, twenty four hours after missing out on Area athletics glory (by 2 points) Hambridge visited Yeovil Athletics arena to claim the Levels Academy Trust Olympic Day Title. During a competitive morning of athletics Hambridge produced some stunning performances.

Most notably Jack Morgan in the javelin and the Year 5/6 girls' and boys' relay teams.

Cricket Club get Star Treatment

The Hambridge Cricket Club visited the County Ground, Taunton home of Somerset County Cricket Club on Tuesday 14th July. The club took part in a training session at the centre of excellence before having a tour of the ground. During the tour the players visited the home dressing room and met Somerset Batsman Tom Cooper and New Zealand wicket keeper Luke Ronchi.

The visit was rounded off with a visit to the cricket museum and club shop before watching a few overs of cricket in the stands.