Under 11's Girls Football
On Thursday 9th October 2025, HCPS entered 1 team in the Under 11’s Girls Football Develop Festival at Whitton Sports Centre. There were a total of 18 schools that took part in the event. Hadleigh had a mixed Year 5/6 team in, playing 5 matches against Castle Hill, Hillside, Stratford St. Mary's, Whitehouse and Gusford.
The team managed to win 1 and draw 4 games without conceding a goal! This was an amazing achievement by all the girls, demonstrating fantastic skills, respect, resilience and teamwork whilst thoroughly enjoying the event. Well done!
Under 9's Multiskills Festival
On Friday 3rd October, we took 19 pupils from Year 4 to participate in the Hadleigh Pyramid Schools Under 9’s Multiskills Festival at Hadleigh High School. Within this festival, the children took part in 9 different events. All the children had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed their morning.
Well done to 3 of our pupils, who were in the winning team. The teams were mixed between all the local Pyramid Schools, and everyone received participation certificates. Thanks to Hadleigh High School for arranging this fantastic event!
Under 11's Dodgeball
On Friday 19th September, HCPS entered 2 teams into the Pyramid Schools Dodgeball festival at Hadleigh High School.
Both teams played 5 matches each, versus Bildeston, Beaumont, St Mary's, Whatfield and each other!
Congratulations to all our Year 6 Dodgeball players with the HCPS White team winners and HCPS Navy team coming runners up, a fantastic achievement!
Much fun and laughter was had by all!
Under 11's Quadkids Festival
On Friday 6th June 2025, we took two Year 5 teams to compete in the Under 11’s Quadkids Festival at Hadleigh High School. There were 7 teams in total that took part. The other schools competing were: Elmsett (2 Teams), Bildeston, Whatfield, and Hintlesham.
Each participant took part in a 75 metre sprint, a 600 metre run, a standing long jump, a relay and a vortex throw. Every pupils’ score was recorded and calculated into points for that event. Once every pupil had competed in every event, all the scores were added together. After some excellent performances on the track and field, our Year 5 white team managed to finish 1st overall , and our blue team fourth. This was a fantastic achievement by them all!
A great event and one we look forward to taking part in next year. Well done Year 5!
Under 11's Netball Festival
On Thursday 22nd May 2025, Hadleigh took two teams to the Under 11’s Netball Festival at Ipswich School, Rushmere. One team played in the competitive competition, and one team played in the develop competition.
There were 7 schools that took part in the competitive competition in total. The other teams were: St. Johns (2 Teams), Whitehouse, Heath, Stratford St. Mary and Colneis - HCPS were proud to be runners up!
There were 8 schools that took part in the develop league. We played 7 matches, losing 1, drawing 1 and winning 5, this was a phenomenal achievement!
Over the course of the afternoon, both teams played in a 7 minute matches. This was a bee netball festival which meant after every game, the children would rotate positions on the court, meaning that everybody had the chance to play in defence, centre and in attack. Well done all, a fantastic effort!
Year 6 Rounders Tournament 2025
All Year 6 pupils took part in a competitive inter-year group rounders tournament each afternoon during SATS week. They were put into 6 teams, playing against each other once, with 2 innings. 289.5 rounders were scored by all the teams during the week! Much fun and laughter was had by all.
The overall winners were the ‘Green Goats’ wearing green bibs. Runners up were ‘Yellow Lemons’ wearing yellow bibs and third place were ‘Red Rubber Ducks’ in red bibs.
Well done to all Year 6 for such a fantastic tournament!
Under 7's Multiskills Festival
On Friday 16th May 2025, we took 22 pupils from Year 2 to participate in the Hadleigh Pyramid Schools Under 7’s Multiskills Festival at Hadleigh High School, with all of the local pyramid schools. Within this festival, the children took part in 8 different events.
Some of these activities included javelin throw, egg and spoon races, mini hurdles, hoop challenge, skittles, over & under, tennis ball tilt and football dribble. All the children had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed their morning. Well done to all our Year 2 team, and Hadleigh High School for arranging this fantastic event!
Under 9's Dodgeball Finals
Congratulations to our Under 9’s Mixed Dodgeball team, who were the silver medallists out of the 12 competing schools in the County dodgeball finals, at Ipswich School Sports Centre on Friday 2nd May 2025.
We managed to win our group games against South Lee and Elmswell, sending us through into the knockout group against Dale Hall and Sidegate. From winning these games, we secured a place in the final against St. Johns, narrowly missing out on countback.
From this we were placed second overall! Much fun was had by all.
Congratulations on a fantastic achievement!
Under 9's Mini Tennis
On Friday 2nd May 2025, we entered 2 teams into the Under 9’s Tennis Festival at Hadleigh High School. There were 6 teams in total that took part. The other 3 schools competing were: Bildeston (2 teams), Whatfield, and St.Mary’s. Lots of matches were played during the morning. Each game lasted approximately 4 minutes. After some excellent on-court performances from all the players, our 2 teams managed to finish 1st and 4th overall. Well done Year 4, an excellent achievement!
Under 9's, 10's & 11's Cross Country
On Thursday 2nd April 2025, we took 48 boys & girls to compete in the Year 4, 5 & 6 Cross Country festival at Royal Hospital School.
There were around 150 pupils that took part in each of the 6 races. During the afternoon, all of our Year 4, 5 & 6 pupils had to run 2200m which was just over a mile long!
During the afternoon, we managed 2 First place, 1 Second place and 1 Third place, whom all received medals and hats!
Every pupil ran fantastically, with some outstanding results, something they should be proud of – Well done Years 4, 5 & 6, what an achievement!
Under 11's Gym Competition
On Wednesday 26th March 2025, HCPS took 7 teams which included 28 pupils from Years 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 to the Hadleigh Stars Gymnastics Competition.
The pupils took part in vault and floor routines, with some of the teams achieving top placings in their age group amongst the 32 teams in competition:
Year 2: 2nd place
Year 4: 1st & 3rd place
Year 5 & 6: 1st & 2nd place
We are very proud of their performances and hard work training for these events!
Under 11's Dodgeball Festival
On Tuesday 11th March 2025, we entered two teams into the Under 11’s Dodgeball Festival at Inspire Suffolk. There were a total of 10 teams that had entered this event. Every school played each other in a league, with our Year 5 team winning 7 of their 9 games, and our Year 6 team managing to win all 9 of their games against Dale Hall, Henley, Gorseland, Tattingstone, Heath, St. Marks, Britannia, Sidegate and each other!
As a result, Hadleigh Year 6 were overall winners, and Hadleigh Year 5's were runners up!
All children received certificates for their hard work, much dodging, throwing, aiming and fun was had by all, well done!
Trampolining
On Friday 7th March 2025, we took 10 Year 5 pupils to Hadleigh High School, who took part in a range of trampoline activities by Sarah Clarke (Head of High School PE).
The children thoroughly enjoyed using a full-size trampoline to demonstrate their skills. During the session the pupils were focusing on shapes, swivel-hips and different jumping styles. Much fun was had by all during the visit!
Under 11's Mixed Basketball
On Tuesday 11th February 2025, Hadleigh CPS competed in the Under 11’s Mixed Basketball Festival at Inspire Suffolk, Ipswich. There were a total of 10 schools that took part in the event. Hadleigh played matches against Bramford, Claydon, Morland & St. Mary's Ipswich.
The boys and girls were excellent all morning resulting in 3 wins, this resulted in us finishing 2nd in our group, just missing out on the final. The standard of basketball was extremely high. All pupils had a fantastic morning, well done!
Under 11's Basketball Festival
On Tuesday 28th January 2025, HCPS competed in the Under 11’s Mixed Basketball Festival at Inspire Suffolk, Ipswich. There were a total of 10 schools that took part in the event.
Hadleigh played matches against Bucklesham, Rendlesham, Bealings and Hillside. The boys and girls were excellent all afternoon resulting in them winning 3 of the 4 games.
The standard of basketball was extremely high. All our pupils improved and developed immensely and had a fantastic time, well done!