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Rounders Festival: HSMS vs Fairlands

Tue 07 Jun 2016 Mrs Allen

Match report Thursday May 26th

Rounders festival Fairlands V Hugh Sexey

Venue: Fairlands Middle School

The sun was shining and the match conditions were perfect.

Forty girls from all four year groups travelled to Fairlands in Cheddar for rounders.

Many thanks to Mrs. Martin for her support with umpiring.

Year five

The girls were really excited about their first match. The girls have been training hard with Mr.Lamb on a Monday lunch time and this was their opportunity to put their skills into practise. It was a close match with some excellent performances. Ester Mitchell was given girl of the match

Final score Hugh Sexey 9Fairlands 7

Year six

One of the loudest teams I have ever umpired! The noise was encouraging and again there were some excellent performances. Isobel Cook scored four rounders and was given girl of the match.The catching was very accurate and it was an exciting match to watch.

Final score Hugh Sexey won

Year seven

This was the first match for year seven and they have not played together as a team. All girls have been regularly attending club on a Thursday evening and captains Grace Richardson and Caitlin Petit organised their players well. Fairlands batted well and eventually came through to win. Poppy Whittingham was given girl of the match.

Final score. Fairlands won

Year eight

The girls fielded and batted well and their skills were exceptional. At one point they managed to get all the opposition out. This team have been focusing on their batting and it showed as time after time they hit the ball into the distant horizon. Zoe Collyer batted superbly and score four rounders.

Final Score Hugh Sexey 22 Fairlands 10

Bat Antics

Tue 07 Jun 2016 Mrs Edmonds

During our library lesson today, 5CE were visited by the school's resident Lesser Horseshoe bat, Barry!
The bat was very scared and agitated so we quietly sank to the floor and crawled out of the library commando-style...all 27 of us!
We were so inspired by our visitor that we researched bats and wrote some poetry.

HSMS Equestrian Team through to National Schools' Championships

Mon 06 Jun 2016 Mr Mitchell

Hugh Sexey Equestrian Team

On Sunday 29^th May the team travelled to West Wilts Equestrian centre to compete in the Area qualifiers.

The top two teams would then go to the National Schools Championships at Addington in October

The team came an amazing 2^nd and the team also had an individual 2^nd out of a 78 competitors.

Milly's mini saga chosen in Young Writers' National competition

Mon 06 Jun 2016 Miss Ball

Congratulations to Milly, 5JB who wrote a fantastic 100-word mini saga that she entered into Young Writers' national writing competition 'Ancient Adventures.' Milly's mini saga 'Titanic Teddies' has been chosen to be published. We will have a copy of Ancient Adventures in the school library very soon.

Biathlete World Tour Gold for Alex

Mon 06 Jun 2016 Mr Jackson

Well done to Alex (Year 5) and Hannah (Year 6) on their fantastic performances at the biathlete world tour series in Austria. Alex achieved Gold and Hannah was close to a medal too. Good luck to both in Portugal in July.

Cricket success for Year 6

Mon 06 Jun 2016 Mr McGrath

The year 6 cricket team were crowned Mendip champions in a fine afternoon at Wells Cricket club. The cricket on show was of a very high standard, and the kwik cricket formula provided a nice opportunity for the players to experience playing against other schools. Hugh Sexey enjoyed a successful afternoon beating Elmhurst B team, Fairlands and then Elmhurst A in the final. All of the players involved were on top of their game, with captain Sam Tucker leading by example. Ben Frost and Izzy Talbot bowled well all afternoon and George Nuttycombe had an excellent afternoon with the bat and bowl. Lewis Richards played his first game of the season and looked very assured throughout. Oscar Simms Preston also was giving the chance to bowl some overs and looked assured and confident. All of the players involved should be very proud of their performance. The team will now go through to the Somerset final.

Thanks to Mr Hedaux for his work during the event, and Mr Albrow for his tireless work with the cricket team.

Hugh Sexey cricket team are through to the final of the Wylie shield after a strong showing against Wembdon school. Wembdon looked a challenging opposition with a number of tricky bowlers. This proved to be the case in the first few overs when a couple of wickets were taken from the Hugh Sexey batters. Fortunately, the players started to find their rhythm, with Tom Spinks hitting a couple of well executed 4s to build up the score. Jamie Wilbourne played his first competitive game for the score, and grew in confidence and stature as the overs progressed. George Nuttycombe also batted well against a strong opening bowler. As the innings progressed the Hugh Sexey pairs improved, and showed good communication to build up the runs total. Sam Tucker then hit four 4s to add a significant amount of runs to the tally and put Hugh Sexey on 256.

When Wembdon came into bat it looked like it could be a bad afternoon for Hugh Sexy, with 19 runs hit on the first 3 overs. Thankfully Isac Nichols held his nerve and delivered two excellent overs, taking 3 wickets and keeping the score down to a minimum. Wilbourne also contributed with some very brave fielding, and Oscar Simms Preston did a fine job keeping the wicket against some sharp bowling. This galvanised the players and was followed by a good second over for Fraser Bruce. With Spinks, Nuttycombe and Tucker the remaining 3 bowlers, confidence amongst the players was high. The bowlers didn't disappoint and managed to keep the score down to 236, meaning Hugh Sexey progress to the final.

Well done to all the players involved, it was an enjoyable game of cricket played in a good spirit. Thanks to Wembdon and thanks to Mr Albrow for his work with the team.