Simon Balle All-through School

It’s been a very busy month of sport and this is due to our continued success across our football teams that are still involved in County and National competition. Around this time of year our focus is across Football, Rugby, Hockey, Netball and Basketball.

Rugby News

The Year 7 Boys Rugby team have had a great start to the season and beat Leventhorpe 25-15 in their first district game after a fantastic demonstration of teamwork and support play. Our second game against Broxbourne was a success winning 65-0 with a reduced team. Our next games are as follows;

Tues 5th Dec – Schools Rugby Festival at Cheshunt RFC – 2pm start
Weds 13th Dec v Haileybury College (A)

The Year 8 Boys rugby team have played three games so far have performed well across these games against Leventhorpe, John Warner and Broxbourne. Top performers have been Jack T, Maxwell R and Ben H. Our next games are as follows;

Weds 6th Dec v Goffs (H)
Weds 13th Dec v Haileybury College (A)

Year 7 & 8 Rugby Teams prepare for their game against Broxbourne

Our Year 9 boys played against Goffs, scoring first in a competitive match.

Football News

The Year 7 football team have now made it through to the 5th round of the National cup (last 64 schools) after beating Bishops Stortford School 4-1 in round 4. The boys now play Woodland Middle School Academy.

After losing out in the 3rd Round of the county cup the Year 11 team can now focus on the national cup with our 4th Round game taking place on Friday 1st December against Kingsford. The team have made excellent progress in this competition scoring a total of 13 goals across 2 games.

The U14 Girls went through to the 3rd round of the County Cup winning 1-0 against Rickmansworth.

Hockey News

We hosted the Y9/10 district hockey festival at Simon Balle in November. The Simon Balle team played some excellent hockey in their first game against Freman College, winning 4-0. Strong performances came from Ruby B and Tilly B who dominated the midfield and created lots of attacking opportunities for the side. In the final game, the girls faced a strong Presdales team. It was a well matched contest with both teams getting chances in the attacking Ds. Simon Balle goalkeeper Ella E stepped up to the role and made some fantastic saves to keep the team in the game. After going 1-0 down, the girls quickly equalised with a well worked team goal. The score unfortunately ended 2-1 and the girls came 2nd overall in the tournament with lots of good play to be proud of.

Year 8/9 combined hockey match vs Freman college

On wednesday our year 8 and 9 hockey team played against a year 10 side from Freman college. The girls played extremely well in cold conditions and dominated from the start. After several attempts on goal simon balle managed to break through and score. The freman college goalie made some amazing saves but simon balle kept up the pressure and finished with a 3-0 victory.

District Primary Cross Country Championships

This month our talented Year 3-6 students competed at the District Cross Country Championships at Haileybury College. Our teams really did perform with distinction with the following results;

Year 3/4 Boys – Overall Team winners

Year 3/4 Girls – Runners-up

Year 5/6 Boys – Overall Team winners

Year 5/6 Girls – Overall Team winners

What a fantastic performance from all our athletes and teams, with lots of potential for the future. Well done to all those who participated in what was our most successful performance ever.

Upcoming events

We now look forward to our second edition of Inter-house Sports which takes place on the week beginning 11th December. The boys will play football and the girls will play Hockey. We will publish updates and results in our December Sports Blog.