Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and Nursery

Cooks Spinney smash the Tennis Finals. 15 teams who served and volleyed their way through an excellent morning of tennis at the fantastic Harlow Lawn Tennis Club. The children’s enthusiasm and progression was clearly evident throughout the morning, as the ranked individuals competed in various matches for their school team. Again the standard of play was high, the children adapting their skills to make the most on the smaller sized courts, which was necessary due to the large number of entrees. David Stacey (SGO) and Will Calvert (Harlow Tennis Club) were delighted to see the tennis event return and are already making plans to offer school sessions in September with a view to expanding the tennis opportunities to more schools and pupils. The results of the Tennis Finals were as follows: Group 1 1stCooks Spinney – 9 points 2ndChurch Langley 1 – 7 points (on head to head result) 3rdSt Nicholas – 7 points 4thLittle Parndon 2 – 3 points Group 2 5thCooks Spinney 2 – 8 points 6thChurch Langley 2 – 7 points 7thThe Downs 1 – 5 points 8thLittle Parndon 3 – 4 points Group 3 9thSt Lukes – 9 points 10thSt Albans – 7 points 11thLittle Parndon 1 – 5 points 12thThe Downs 2 – 3 points Group 4 13thLittle Parndon 4 – 6 points 14thHare Street 1 – 4 points 15th Hare street 2 - 2 points

Great resilience was shown by the 64 children who participated in this morning’s Year 5 and 6 Tri-Golf Competition at Church Langley Primary School. The continuous rain made conditions really difficult, but the children showed amazing perseverance to rotate through 8 different golf-based activities before competing in a quick-fire competition. SGO David Stacey was highly praising of the spirit and enthusiasm of the children to ‘power-through’ some soaking conditions; they made huge progress in such a limited time and, despite being drenched by the end, really enjoyed themselves. Collecting results during the heavy rains proved very tricky for the adults, some scoresheets had disintegrated by the end of the event! From the scoresheets that we managed to salvage the results were as follows (lowest score = fewer number of shots required: Team Scores: 1stplace: Cooks Spinney 2 - 54 =2ndplace: Hare Street 2 - 67 =2ndplace: Purford Green 1 - 67 4thplace: Cooks Spinney 3 - 70 5thplace: Hare Street 1 - 76 6thplace: Purford Green 2 - 80 7thplace: Cooks Spinney 1 - 90 8thplace: Holy Cross – 96 = 9thplace: Potter Street 1 - incomplete = 9thplace: Potter Street 2 - incomplete = 9thplace: Little Parndon 1 - incomplete = 9thplace: Little Parndon 2 - incomplete = 9thplace: Little Parndon 3 – incomplete Individual Winners 1stplace: Joe – Cooks Spinney 2 -10 2ndplace: Molly – Purford Green – 11 3rdplace: Paddy Purford Green - 12