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!
Under 11's County Cricket Finals
On Monday 19th June 2023, our boys team competed in the Under 11’s Boys Cricket County Finals at Ransomes Sports Ground, Ipswich. This was the result of the team progressing from the Ipswich Schools finals. There were 12 schools that had made it to this stage of the competition.
In the group stage, we beat St. Boltoph's (Diss), and Lakenheath to progress to the Semi-Finals where we beat St. John's (Ipswich). In the Final we narrowly lost to St. Mary's (Mildenhall)
Once again, the boys batted, bowled and fielded to a high level to become County runners-up is a fantastic achievement well done all!
Under 11's Girls Cricket Festival
On Thursday 8th June 2023, Hadleigh competed in the Under 11’s Girls Cricket Festival at Ransomes Sports Ground, Ipswich. There were 6 schools that took part in total. The other 5 teams that took part were Dale Hall, St John's, Morland, Castle Hill and St Mary's Woodbridge.
During the morning, the girls batted brilliantly, which was followed up with accurate bowling and some tidy fielding. After an excellent display from the girls all morning, Hadleigh managed to win 1 match and lose 1 match. This meant they then had to play in a play-off for third-place, against Dale Hall. HCPS came out victorious! That victory meant that they finished third overall. Well done Year 6 girls!
Under 11's Boys Cricket Festival
On Wednesday 7th June 2023, Hadleigh competed in the Under 11’s Mixed Cricket Festival at Ransomes Sports Ground, Ipswich. There were 5 schools that took part in total. The other teams were: Shotley, Castle Hill, Dale Hall and East Bergholt. Over the course of the morning, the boys batted brilliantly, which was followed up with accurate bowling and some tidy fielding. After an excellent display from the boys all morning, Hadleigh managed to finish runners-up overall which was a fantastic achievement, putting us through to the County Finals - Well done Year 6 Boys!
Under 11's Netball Festival
On Thursday 25th May 2023, Hadleigh took a team to compete in the Under 11’s Netball Festival at Ipswich School, Rushmere. There were 6 schools that competed in total. The other teams were: East Bergholt, Gusford, Claydon, Bealings and Broke Hall. Over the course of the afternoon, we played each team, in a 12 minute match. This was a bee netball festival which meant after every 6 mins, the children would rotate positions on the court, meaning that everybody had the chance to play in defence, centre and in attack. Hadleigh managed to win 3 games and lose 2 games, resulting in them finishing 3rd overall. Well done all, a fantastic effort!
Under 11's Multi-Skills Festival
On Friday 19th May, we took over 20 pupils from Year 5 to participate in the Hadleigh Pyramid Schools Under 11’s Multi-Skills Festival at Hadleigh High School. Within this festival, the children took part in 7 different events. All the children had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed their morning.
Well done to 4 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!
Year 6 Rounders Tournament 2023
All Year 6 pupils took part in a competitive rounders tournament each afternoon during SATS week. They were put into 6 teams, playing against each other once, with 2 innings. 317 rounders were scored by all the teams during the week! Much fun and laughter was had by all.
The overall winners were the Quangle Dangles wearing blue bibs. Well done to all Year 6 for such a fantastic tournament!
Under 9's Dodgeball Tournament
Congratulations to our Under 9's Mixed Dodgeball team, who are the County Champions! They went undefeated all afternoon at South Lee School, Bury St. Edmunds tournament on Tuesday 25th April 2023. Facing Sebert Wood, Great Welnetham and Nayland on their way to the final against St. Joseph's Sudbury. Much fun was had by all.
Congratulations on a fantastic achievement!
Under 10 & 11's Cross Country
On Wednesday 29th March 2023, we took 24 runners to compete in the Year 5 & 6 Cross Country festival at Royal Hospital School.
There were around 100 pupils that took part in each of the 4 races. During the afternoon, all of our Year 5 & 6 pupils had to run 2200m which was just over a mile long!
Team Results
HCPS Y5 Boys - 👏 5th Overall, out of 21 Schools
HCPS Y5 Girls - 🏆 1st Overall, out of 19 Schools
HCPS Y6 Boys - 🏆 1st Overall, out of 23 Schools
HCPS Y6 Girls - 🏆 1st Overall, out of 27 Schools
Every pupil ran fantastically and something they should be proud of - Well done Years 5 & 6, what an achievement!
Under 11's Tag Rugby
On Friday 24th March 2023, HCPS entered a Year 5/6 girls tag rugby team into the Northampton Saints Festival, held at Ipswich Rugby Club. The girls took part in many small sided games against schools from the Ipswich area.
Throughout the morning, the girls 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 11's Dodgeball Festival
On Tuesday 14th March 2023, we entered a team into the Under 11’s Dodgeball Festival at Inspire Suffolk. There were a total of 16 teams that had entered this event. Hadleigh managed to win all their group games, against Britannia, Cedarwood, Ravenswood, Hinlesham & Eyke.
All children received certificates for their hard work, much dodging, throwing, aiming and fun was had by all, well done!
Under 9's Girls Football Festival
On Wednesday 8th March 2022, HCPS entered two Year 3/4 teams into the Under 9’s Girls Football Festival at ITFC. There were over 24 teams that took part in the event.
Our teams played 8 games each, 4v4, with no Goalkeepers on a very cold day. Lots of goals were scored by the girls! Both teams played brilliantly throughout the afternoon considering the weather and had a great time! This was a fantastic effort from both teams!
Thanks to Suffolk FA for organising this wonderful afternoon.