English Schools Cross-Country Competition

The English schools cross-country competition was held on Thursday 4th October at St Helen and St Katharine School near Abingdon.

(Left to Right) 

Jacques Michael, Lukas Hovland, Pat Wilson, Greg Weeks, Luke Baxter

The results for our pupils were as follows:

Junior boys - 3km

Luke Baxter (Year 7) Came 13^th out of 40 runners with a time of 12 minutes 16 seconds.

Jacques Micheal (Year 7) was second in for d’Overbroeck’s coming 20^th with a time of 13 minutes 5 seconds.

Luke Baxter

Intermediate boys 4.5KM

Kester McLennen (Year 10) came 20^th out of 30 with a time of 20 minutes 5 seconds.

Hamza Khan (Year 10) was second in for d’Overbroeck’s coming 21^st with a time of 20 minutes 7 seconds.  

(Left to Right)

Lukas Hovland, Pat Wilson, Greg Weeks

Congratulations to all our runners who did very well.

PGL Liddington

PGL Liddington is a new adventure activity centre in Wiltshire. Henry Frend, a Year 8 pupil at Leckford Place describes a recent visit.

"PGL Liddington was probably one of the most special experiences of this year. We really got to know the new Year 7s. At first we thought about how small and young they were compared to us but then we thought again and realised that they were US!!!

So on Wednesday we all climbed onboard the coach and set off for Liddington. We were all very intrigued about what was going to happen on this trip. I was in a dorm with all my friends and at first we had that war over who had top bunk at who got forced down to the bottom; this showed who really was the Alfa male of our dorm, but unfortunately one of us is asthmatic so obviously he HAD to have the top bunk. 

We had a brilliant couple of days - the food was good apart from the custard bowl you could turn upside down and it would stick to the bowl (we called it cardboard custard) and our  activities were brilliant . We did fencing, zip wire, raft building, crate challenge, mountain biking, night time ambush and initiative exercises.

Id like to say thank you to everyone who took us there and made the days brilliant."