RAISING THE BAR!

Simon Field reporting
On Bank Holiday Monday our pupil participated in the Essex Athletics Championship. He competed against many athletes in the high jump and matched his personal best of 1.70m, eventually winning with this height.

A few days later our pupil, accompanied by Mr Field, travelled back to Chelmsford for the U15 County Combined Events competition. On this day he had to compete in multiple events against many athletes, trying to score as many points as possible. The first event was the 80m hurdles, which he ran in 13.00 seconds into a head wind. The following two events were shot putt and long jump. The fourth event was his favourite, the high jump: at this point the wind was extremely strong and regularly blew the post and bar over. A jump of 1.64m was a good effort in atrocious conditions. He gave it everything for the final event, the 800m. Once all the points were calculated Robert finished in a well deserved-bronze medal place, scoring 2241 points, just 3 points behind 2nd place.