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Since Easter all Yr 7-10 pupils have been taking part in athletics events during their Core PE lessons. The information gained from undertaking these has enabled us to select teams to compete in a number of local and national events.

The PE Department would like to  take this opportunity to share with you how well they have done in these competitions, and to highlight some of the individual successes of three of our outstanding DGSB athletes.

District Championships Yrs 8 and 9

1st Overall as a Team

1st Place Finishes:100m- Redman 400m- Grajcar 800m- Knight LJ- Tonks TJ- Hooper Javelin- Collins Shot- Tonks Discus- Redman Relay- Tonks, Abed, Hooper, Redman

2nd Place Finishes: 200m- Abed 1500m- Pearce HJ- Mather

District Championships Yr 11

1st Overall as a Team

1st Place Finishes:100m- Saunders 200m- Saunders HJ- Twyman TJ- Saunders Javelin- Twyman Discus- McGee

2nd Place Finishes:800m- Twyman Shot- Templeman Relay- West, Twyman, Templeman, Saunders

3rd Place Finishes: 400m- Gibb

English Schools National Cup- Junior Boys Yrs 7 and 8

Regional A Finalists- 404 pts- NEW DGSB SCHOOL RECORD!

Year 7- Idehen, Purja and Scrivens

Year 8- Miah, Yeoman, Blanch, Henderson, Douglas-Birkett, Adlam-Hill, Redman, Bleu Potterton, Fielding, Long and Denning. (Also involved but not in the picture- Aston, Catterick and Cartwright)

English Schools National Cup- Inter Boys Yrs 9 and 10

Regional B Finalists- 375 pts 

Year 9- D Pearce, M Hooper, A Tonks, (also involved but not in the picture- M Jones and B Mather)

Year 10- O Collier, J Williams, G Jenner, N Coleman, T Brooks-Sykes, M Scott, W Hughes, T Whittington, P Childs, F Loane and N Paterson (also involved but not in the picture O Harding)

Powell Trophy

1st Overall as a Team

Junior Boys

Year 8- J Fielding, J Yeoman, R Long, A Henderson, A Blanch and B Potterton

Inter Boys

Year 9- M Hooper, A Tonks, B Mather, M Knight and D Pearce

Year 10- P Childs, N Coleman, O Harding, O Collier, M Scott, G Jenner, T Brooks-Sykes and J Williams

Individual successes:

T Owler (Yr 12)

T Owler is currently ranked 13th in the Country for U20 400m.

He is also the current Kent County Champion and is expected to gain selection to represent Kent at the English Schools Championships in July.

N Paterson Yr 10 

N Paterson is currently ranked 75^th in the Country for U17 1500m.

He has represented Kent in various X-Country and Track and Field events this year and was part of the Kent team that won Silver at the English Schools X-Country Championships in March.

He is also the new Kent Schools 1500m Champion.

V Redman Yr 8

V Redman is currently ranked:

10^th in the country for U15 60m (indoors)

7^th in the country for U15 100m

42^nd in the country for U15 200m

He is the current 60m and 200m indoor Kent County Champion as well as being the Silver medallist in the 100m and 200m at the Kent County Championships. Additionally, he was also the 100m Silver medallist at the recent Kent Schools Championships.