On Monday 11th October thirty Gleddings children took part in a friendly cross country running competition at Sacred Heart School.

The course was long with a steep hill to climb, but every child ran with determination.

Special congratulations must be given to the following children who came in the top five positions within their age group: Peter Standfast, James Cooper, Charlie Nendick, Oliver Kenyon, Ben Cooper, Millie Wadsworth, Charlotte Slater, Max Slater and Dominic Hawes.

On Tuesday 12th October the Lower IV and Upper IV netball teams played a match against Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School.

The Lower IV netball team played with confidence and determination, winning the match 5-0.

The Upper IV team played with strength and showed excellent defending skills, but lost by 2 goals to 1.

Congratulations to all players.

On Friday 8th October, UIV played their first hockey match against Heathfield School. It was decided that the first ten minutes of the match should be a practice so both teams would understand the rules clearly.

The match finally started with The Gleddings showing excellent stick work and control of the ball. Alex Scoley played goalkeeper for the very first time, fully equipped with helmet and padding and he did not let a goal pass him.

The Gleddings won 2-0. Congratulations to all players.

On Tuesday 5^th October, Form II/Form III football team played a match against Heathfield. The boys were very excited as it was their very first Gleddings School match.

The game was very tense but Heathfield just managed to win by 2 goals to 1. Our goalkeeper, Aubrey Hall, must be congratulated on some amazing saves.

On Thursday 30th September MIV and UIV played a football match against Sacred Heart Primary School.

MIV played a fantastic game winning 10 goals to 1. UIV had to work hard but were up against some  strong oposition and lost 6 goals to 1.

On Tuesday 28th September the UIV netball team played a match against Heathfield School. An excellent standard of netball was played for the first game of the season.

The Gleddings’ team worked hard, showing some wonderful defending skills; unfortunately, our goals did not go in as often as Heathfield’s did.

Heathfield won by 8 goals to 5.

On Thursday 16th September MIV and UIV played a football match against Heathfield School.

MIV played a fantastic game game winning 6-0 with James Cooper scoring 4 goals, Charlie Nendick 1 goal and Oliver Fleming 1 goal..
Congratulations to all team members.

UIV had tougher oppositon, where at half time we were 2-0 down. After a quick team talk, Matthew Gledhill scored a brilliant goal, closely followed by a goal from Jacob Orley making the score 2-2 at full time.
Well done to all players. A very good start to the season.

On Wednesday 30th June Form III gymnasts took part in the Calderdale Schools’ U8′s Gymnastics Display.

The children from The Gleddings performed with skill and accuracy. We all had a very enjoyable evening of gymnastics.

With summer here at last, we combined juicy peaches and blueberries with a little sugar before adding a cobbler topping and baking.  Delicious!

Preparing the fruit.

Putting the fruit into the baking dish.

Making the cobbler topping.

The finished peach and blueberry cobbler.

The weather has been very kind to our vegetable plot and gardens-plenty of rain and long hot sunny days. The children had great fun harvesting the radishes. The first crop harvested was the Cherry Belle variety and the children had over 100 radishes ready to go to Chef Lizzie for the salad bar. Now we are waiting for our French Breakfast variety. Hopefully we can harvest them before we break up; if not, then we can harvest them in the first week of holiday school along with our carrots.