Football Festival hosted by Chelsea FC
On Wednesday the 5th March, the year 10 and 11 girls’
football team had the opportunity to go to a Women’s football festival hosted
by Chelsea Fc. We took part in a warm up exercise lead by the Chelsea coaches
before taking part in three 7-aside, 10 minute games and a skill session, which
consisted of shooting and dribbling drills. For the first game, we played
Thomas Bennet where we achieved our first win with a score of 4-0.
Next was a
skilful team from Blenheim High school where we managed to keep the score to
0-0 (with some fantastic saves from Cara Henderson!). Our final game was
against Cobham Free School were we won 3-0 with some excellent goals from Katie
Godan - including one where she dribbled past 4 different players. We were
fortunate enough to be able to meet Rueben Loftus-Cheek (a Chelsea and England
player) and we were allowed to ask questions and take photos with him. We also
saw Hannah Blundell and Jorginho who both play for Chelsea. After the day we
were left inspired and proud of our performance, especially after keeping a
clean sheet. We would like to the thank Chelsea Fc for the festival and for
having the opportunity to play against other schools, meet some of their
professionals and train with some of their coaches.
We also appreciate and
would like to thank Miss Exworth and Miss Walton for taking time out of their
day to take and support us as well as for organising our team so that we were
able to go. We look forward to the closing stages of our season.
Written by Lucy Bower and Holly Cudsin
Girls Playing Rugby
Girls getting dirty! Students were engaged in their 3rd rugby lesson, with the aim of developing the tackling into rucking.
No fear the girls just got stuck in!!
