Under 11's Swimming Gala
On Wednesday 24th January 2024, HCPS took part the Hadleigh Schools Under 11’s Swimming Gala at Hadleigh Leisure Centre. There were a total of 10 schools that entered the competition altogether. Each school competed in backstroke, freestyle, breaststroke and relay races.
Throughout the morning, the atmosphere that all the children created inside the Leisure Centre was amazing. As a result of our team swimming brilliantly, we managed to finish 2nd overall and were awarded the runners up certificate. Well done!
Under 11's Ipswich and South Suffolk School Games Sportshall athletics
On Wednesday 17th January 2024, we entered a Year 6 boys & girls indoor Sportshall athletics team into the Ipswich and South Suffolk School Games Sportshall athletics at Westbourne High School. 8 other Schools took part in this event.
During the afternoon, each boy and girl took part in 2 track and 2 field events. These events ranged from relays, obstacle races, throwing events and jumping events.
Congratulations to all the children involved!
Under 11's EFL Cup
On Tuesday 9th January 2024, our Year 6 football team took part in the EFL Cup at Ipswich Town Football Club. We were placed into Group A where we played matches against Rendlesham, Ilketshall St. Lawrence, Cliff Lane, Cedarwood, Sebert Wood and Edgar Seweter. After some excellent performances on the pitch from all the players, Hadleigh finished the competition with 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. This meant the team finished 2nd overall in their group. Well done Year 6 on a very cold morning, and thank you to ITFC for a wonderful event!
Under 11's Sportshall Athletics
On Friday 8thth December 2023, we entered a Year 5 boys & girls indoor Sportshall athletics team into the Hadleigh High School Pyramid event.
During the morning, each boy and girl took part in 2 track and 2 field events. These events ranged from relays, obstacle races, throwing events and jumping events.
After all the enjoyable events had finished, the results were announced. HCPS girls were the overall winners, with the boys coming 3rd in their groups! Congratulations to all the children involved.
Under 11's Girls County Football Finals
On Thursday 30th November 2023, our girls took part in the Under 11’s County Football Finals at Needham Market Football Club. This was the result of the team winning the Ipswich Schools finals during October.
8 Schools competed in the finals. In the group stage, we beat Abbots Green (Bury St. Edmunds) 3-0, then won 3-1 against New Cangle (Haverhill), and lost to Grove (Lowestoft) 1-0. HCPS progressed to the Semi-Finals and beat Dale Hall (Ipswich) 2-0, putting us into the final, where we won 2-0 against Grove (Lowestoft).
Much fun was had during this amazing journey, well done all!
The Girls have now progressed into the Regional Finals, to be held in 2024!
Under 11's Tag Rugby
On Friday 17th November 2023, HCPS entered 2 Year 5 mixed tag rugby teams into the Northampton Saints Festival, held at St. Joseph's College. They took part in many small sided games against over 40 schools from the Ipswich area.
Throughout the afternoon, they continued to develop their throwing and catching skills, whilst showing excellent technique in tagging. Many tries were scored by the team, much fun was had by all – thank you to Northampton Saints for organising!
Under 9's Dodgeball festival
On Tuesday 15th November 2023, we entered 2 teams into the Under 9’s Ipswich area Dodgeball Festival at Inspire Suffolk. There were a total of 16 schools that entered this event. Both HCPS teams played 7 league fixtures each during the afternoon. From both teams results, they managed to reach the Semi-Finals.
From the Semi-Finals, 1 Hadleigh team managed to finish the competition 2nd overall, and the other 3rd overall, from the 16 competing schools.
As a result of this HCPS have progressed through to the County Dodgeball finals in Bury St. Edmunds during April 2024.
This was a fantastic achievement from the boys and girls, much dodging, throwing, aiming and fun was had by all, well done!
Under 11's & Under 9's Tag Rugby Festival
On Friday the 10th November 2023, HCPS took 36 children to participate in the Hadleigh High School Year 4 & 6 Tag Rugby festival at Hadleigh High School. Teams from Bildeston, St Mary’s, Beaumont and Hintlesham also took part. An excellent morning was had by all our pupils. Lots of tagging, running, dodging and scoring trys was on show by all.
Thanks to Hadleigh High School for organising!
Under 8's Girls Football Festival
On Tuesday 7th November 2023, HCPS entered four Year 2/3 teams in the Under 8’s Girls Football Festival at ITFC. There were 24 teams that took part in the event.
Our teams played 9 games each, against many schools from across the Ipswich, Woodbridge and Felixstowe areas. All the teams played brilliantly throughout the afternoon and had a great time! This was the first experience of playing small-sided team games for many of our girls, a fantastic effort by all!
Thanks to Suffolk FA and Ipswich Town Football Club for organising this wonderful afternoon!
Under 11's Girls Football Festival
On Tuesday 17th October 2023, Hadleigh CPS entered 2 teams in the Under 11’s Girls Football Festival at Whitton Sports Centre. There were a total of 12 schools that took part in the event. Hadleigh had a Year 5 team in group 1 & a Year 6 team in group 2, where we played matches against Colneis, Claydon, Henley, St Mary's (Woodbridge), East Bergholt, St John's (Ipswich), Morland, Beeches and Cedarwood.
Both HCPS teams won their respective groups, which meant that Hadleigh played each other in the grand final! After normal time and extra time, the game finished 0-0 resulting in both teams being awarded joint winners.
This was an amazing achievement by all the girls, demonstrating fantastic skills and ability throughout the mornings games. Well done!
Under 9's & Under 11's Cross Country
On Friday 6th October 2023, we took part in the Under 9’s and Under 11’s Boys & Girls Cross Country festival at Hadleigh High School. There were 7 other schools participating in this competition. The other schools were Whatfield, Bildeston, St. Marys, Beaumont, Elmsett, Kersey and Hintlesham. During the morning, all of our pupils had to run 1600m which was just short of a mile. There were 4 races in total. An Under 11’s Boys race, an Under 11’s Girls race, an Under 9’s Boys race and finally an Under 9’s Girls race. Every pupil ran fantastically. After the scores were totaled up HCPS won the Under 9's Boys, Under 9's Girls and Under 11's Girls categories, with the Under 11's Boys coming runners up. Well done to the all the runners who raced!
Under 11's Football
On Thursday 5th October 2023, HCPS took a Year 5 and Year 6 team to compete in the Under 11’s Football Festival at Whitton Sports Centre. There were a total of 16 schools from across the Ipswich area that took part in the event. Hadleigh played matches against Woodbridge, Gusford, Cedarwood, Broke Hall, St Matthew's, St John's, and Colneis. Both teams played some excellent football during the morning, with excellent attacking and defending skills. From the many games, we won some, lost some and had a few draws. Well done for proudly representing HCPS, and for showing an outstanding attitude and effort towards School Sport.
Year 5 & 6 Tag Rugby World Cup Tournament
On Tuesday 3rd October 2023, Year 5 & 6 pupils took part in our own Tag Rubgy World Cup Competition. The pupils had been learning Tag Rugby during weekly PE lessons. Attacking, tagging, throwing, receiving, dodging, weaving and scoring tries have all been developed.
There were 2 competitions.
In competition number 1, winners were England (Pink Team), 2nd was Fiji (Purple Team), 3rd New Zealand (Black team) and 4th, Ireland (Green team).
In competition number 2, winners were France (Blue Team), 2nd was Japan (Yellow Team), 3rd Wales (Red team) and 4th, South Africa (Orange team).
The pupils thouroughly enjoyed showing their talents to all the teachers that came down to support the event, well done for your excellent hard work!
Year 6 Dodgeball
Congratulations to all our Year 6 Dodgeball players who participated in the Hadleigh High School Primary Partnership.
HCPS Sky team were runners up with HCPS Navy team coming third overall.
Much fun and laughter was had by all! 🤾♀️🤾🤾♂️ 👏
Inspirational Award 2022/23
Congratulations to George for being awarded our Inspirational Award for the 2022/23 academic year!
George epitomizes our 'Reach for the Stars' values in our 'Be the best you can be' programme.
In all aspects of School Sport George's enthusiastic, resilient, and determined approach is continually shown.
Well done George!