Friday 17th March 2017
Thought for the
week!
SCHOOL SHOP
The School Shop will be closed on Monday
afternoon but will be open every other morning
as usual and on Thursday afternoon.
SHOP OPENING TIMES DURING THE
EASTER HOLIDAYS
Carnival Time!
Both Copthorne & Horley carnival
committees are excited that Copthorne Prep
School is finally planning to join in with their
respective village fun! So far we have the
dates : Horley on Saturday 17th June and
Copthorne on Saturday 24th June, we also
have a Carnival Floats Coordinator : Lucy
Flood (mum of Mia - Yr1 & Charlie - Acorns)
AND a brilliant plan for one float which will
cover the themes of both Carnivals!
(Horley’s is ‘Wonders of the Sea’ and
Copthorne’s is ‘Americana’)
Lucy is very much hoping that several Year 1
mums – and any others who may be
interested – will be happy to help with float
ideas and decorations ... you may find your
shoulder being gently tapped or even better,
do please contact her on 07889 060703 or
[email protected] . She is thinking
waves, turtles, dry ice, bubbles, mermaids,
fish – let your imaginations for the float and
children’s costumes run riot!
Dolphin Day
On Friday 24th March Anna and friends will
be raising money to support the WWF and
dolphins in particular. Children can donate
their non-uniform day £1 to this cause if they
wish, and there will be a stall selling sweets,
lucky dip, cakes etc. at the end of the day.
Monday, 27 March - 10.00am - 1.00pm
Tuesday, 28 March - 10.00am - 1.00pm
Monday, 3 April - 10.00am - 1.00pm
Thursday, 13 April - 10.00am - 1.00pm
No appointments necessary
Help for Heroes Triathlon
Sunday 21st May.
In order to receive the early bird discount,
please do complete and return the
registration forms by Friday 24th March
(see pages 12-14).
We look forward to seeing you on the
starting line!
Friday 24th March
Red Nose Day for Comic Relief
(Non-Uniform Day - £1 donation)
Term Ends for all children from 3.30pm
Buses as normal at 5.20pm
No Tea
We hope everyone will be
off site by 5.30pm.
Amelie (4RT) has lost her skort - she had it last
Friday!
Congratulations to the following children for gaining their awards LAST week:
SILVER AWARD
Emily V
Marcos F-C
Matteo G
Ava M
Alex M
Belle C
GOLD AWARD
Lowenna F
Clara B-D
PLATINUM AWARD
Pranav L
Red noses available to buy in the
Prep and Pre-Prep offices.
Suggested donation is £1.
Marissa F
Success Stories
Good Luck to
Mr Clark who is
playing in the EHA
National Vase
Semi-Finals on
Sunday against
Southampton for
his club Trinity
Mid-Whitgiftians.
If they win he gets
to play on finals
day at Leigh Valley
where the
Olympics were
played with
spectators actually
having to pay to
watch him play!
Copthorne Taekwondo Club
Congratulations to the following who have just
received their Taekwondo grading
Adam H
Camillia H
Bethany H-B
Nathaniel H-B
Cassia R
Arianna R
Thomas R
Liam S
Kier M
Black Stripe
Red Stripe
Red Stripe
Red Stripe
Red Stripe
Blue Stripe
Blue Belt
Green Belt
Green Stripe
Yellow Stripe to all the following:
Gabriella G
William C
Matthew V
Felix J
Melia F
Freddy G
George T
Ann T
Sienna C
Leo L-L
Toby F
Rosie E
Rian J
Congratulations to Jake M who achieved a silver
medal at a recent Gymnastics competition!
Nursery & Pre-Prep News
Reception
Nursery
No doubt you have gathered that the highlight
of the week was our trip to Bocketts Farm!
Pippins have been painting on the tables,
posting marbles down tubes and transferring
sand from bucket to bucket ... what fun!
Acorns class have enjoyed reading Whatever
Next, made their own space rockets and have
blasted off to the moon!
After a snack on arrival, we went off on a tour
of the farm on the back of the tractor. We saw
a new born calf being cleaned up by its
Mummy and then went off to watch Betty the
goat being milked; we were very impressed
with how much milk she gave and how good
she was, and we all had a turn to stroke her
afterwards.
We have been enjoying the lovely weather,
spending time in the sandpit, riding on the bikes
and scooters and creating lovely chalk pictures
on the floor.
Oaks class have also been enjoying the
sunshine, playing with jelly snow in the tough
spot and have been playing lots of football.
Swimming is really coming on now, everyone
has increased in confidence and are eager to
learn and work on their skills.
We also saw nine adorable curly haired pigs
sleeping under a warm light and looked round the
Kitchen gardens.
After lunch was the pig racing with Will-I-am,
Peppa Pig and Boris Johnson all racing around
the track as we cheered and waved our flags.
We then
enjoyed the bouncy pillows and the playground before
heading home. We had some very sleepy little ones and
big one (Miss King!) on the bus on the way home. The
farmer who took us around was very impressed with our
behaviour and said we were the best group she had had
all year! Well done to all the lovely children!
In other news we have been looking at o’clock time in
maths and writing about our farm trip in Literacy.
What a fun and busy week in the run up to the Easter
holidays!
Nursery & Pre-Prep News (Continued)
Year 1
Year 2
We have been continuing our topic about
growing plants and have taken the opportunity to
explore our school grounds in the lovely fine
weather. We have discovered stems, roots,
flowers and leaves on many plants and looked
carefully at the jagged and smoothness of the
leaves – some even had hairs on them!
Our beans are proving
to be of great interest in
the classrooms with a
leaf slowly uncurling –
apparently it ‘looks like a
dinosaur!’
This week and next the children are building
vehicles and attaching the chassis to the
wheels using fixed and non-fixed axles. There
is a real variety of designs and much discussion about the logo too! Images of power and
speed are very desirable!
We are busy planning lovely surprises for
Mother’s Day. Lucky mummies!
Division is a tricky concept to master so
please use any opportunity you have at home
to practise practical sharing activities such as:
if you have 10 sweets and give an equal
number to 5 children, how many sweets will
each child have?
Thank you very much indeed to Dr. Cathy
Dooris who came in to tell us all about her
wonderful trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. We
looked at a globe to find Tanzania, we saw
some of her wonderful photographs depicting
the change in landscape from the bottom to
the top of the mountain and were all most
impressed with her determination,
perseverance and energy!
In ICT we used the
program to draw a
teddy and the clothes or
items we wanted our
teddy to have. Once our
drawings were complete
we were able to dress
our teddy by dragging the items across and
place them onto our main drawing. By using the
arrow keys we could change the angle of an
item and make it bigger or smaller. We had
some very cool teddies with trendy sunglasses
and umbrellas!
Congratulations to the children who displayed
lovely manners last week and had a special
treat sitting at the Good Manners table with
Mrs Jones:
Rec JD
Finn
Rec SJ
Keir
1 HL
Michael
1 DB
Aryan
2 CP
Ann
2 DP/EPS
Caelan
2 CF
Taran
Red Nose Day, Friday 24th March
We’re looking forward to seeing the children in their
own clothes (preferably red) on the last day of term,
and collecting the donations to the charity. (Please
name your child’s red nose!) The theme this year
is ‘Make your laugh matter’ and we’re hoping to
have a joke-a-thon with the children ... please let
them practise telling you their one, best joke for
entertaining their class. The best joke from each
class will be shared with the rest of the department!
Pre-Prep Courtyard
If you haven’t done so already, please take at
a look at our beautiful, colourful, daffodil-filled
courtyard! A huge thank you to ‘Auntie’ Mel
Fegan (mum of Jack in Year 2) for all her
wonderful gardening; we even have crocuses
under the fire escape!
Nursery & Pre-Prep News (Continued)
A very well done to last week’s Stars of the Week
2EPS/DP Jack – great independent learning and tackling word problems
2CP
Evie – good concentration and focus when working at school
2CF
Leo – for superb work with time. Knowing analogue and digital time for ‘quarter to’
1DB
Sorcha – wonderful descriptive writing about Mrs Vole the Vet.
1LHL
Moiz – great progress in his reading
RJD
Emily – fantastic Book Day writing using the correct punctuation.
RSJ
Rohan – for making wonderful progress with reading
Mother’s Day Service - 10.30am
Thursday 23rd March
We are looking forward to welcoming
mummies, grannies and aunties to our service
at St John’s on Thursday at 10.30am.
Babysitting
If you need a babysitter, do try
Miss Molly Heasman on 07815 918079, or our
lovely gappies!
Park Run
My name is Kiran Gibbons and I am the Event Director for Tilgate junior parkrun. I have 3 sons at
Copthorne, Arun in Year 3, Rohan in Year 2 and Kian in Pippins Nursery.
Junior parkrun is a fully marshalled, timed 2km run open to all children aged 4-14yrs and is held
in parks across the country every Sunday morning at 9am. Children can walk, run, skip or hop
their way around the course with their friends and family for fun or as part of a training plan.
In January, we launched our own Junior parkrun in Tilgate Park, Crawley. We had over 320
children attend the event and we regularly get over 200 children joining us every week making us
one of the largest junior events in the country. To celebrate our 10th run, we are hosting a
Superhero themed run this Sunday, 19th March and would love to see some more Copthorne
families!
The aim of Junior Park Run is to offer free outdoor activity for all children aged 4-14yrs old.
It also offers an excellent opportunity for all the family to get involved and come together on a
regular basis. It is a great way for children to make new friends and to get involved and introduce
themselves to a sport without any of the normal outside pressures as well as improving health
and confidence. This is a fun event aimed at encouraging children of all abilities, not just those
that are naturally gifted at sport.
I have attached our flyer promoting our Superhero themed run this weekend (on page 11 of this
newsletter) ... hope to see you there!
Missing Uniform
Next Week
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
No Taekwondo
Last day of clubs (except lunchtime tennis)
Mother’s Day Service – NO CLUBS
Red Nose Day - £1 non uniform day.
End of Term. No Tea. No clubs.
Cassia - Purple goggles and
red hat are missing.
Harrison P - Blazer
FOUND
A memory stick in the Preprep
playground
Sports Results
U9 Rugby v Hazelwood
The final game of the season for the 9’s against strong
sides from Hazelwood on a great afternoon for running
rugby. The most important statistic of the day was the fact
that every available boy from year 4 was representing the
school today in either the A, B or C sides. The enjoyment
factor was clear to see from the boys and although most
of the results were not in our favour it was great to see all
the boys getting involved as, I am sure you are all aware,
is not always possible. I trust that the boys have enjoyed
the season win lose or draw as the most important thing
is the development of their game and skill set and it clear
that they are all, at whatever level they perform, better
rugby players now than they were at the start of the
season.
The U9Bs played their game indoors today, against a
very good, tall BHHS team.
Victoria was our captain and got us under way by winning
the toss and taking the first centre pass.
We started brightly with the girls making some good
passes and linking the ball down to our shooters; Victoria
U8ANetball v BHHS
Won 8-1
The girls had beautiful sunny weather for their game in
Brighton against Brighton Preparatory. Tianna had a
wonderful game moving around the court and giving great
passes to both Jasmine and Rachel for some excellent
shooting. In the last quarter the girls managed to score 4
goals with some excellent defence by Ruby and Priya.
The girls won the game easily with the final score being
8-1. Both Bella and Jasmine worked wonderfully around
the D to create some opportunities for shooting.
Well done girls!!!
and Gabriella. We scored off this first passage of play
and I thought the game was going to be an easy one - it
certainly wasn’t!
The Copthorne girls saw themselves 1-3 down after the
first quarter as the BHHS girls settled into their game with
a feisty centre, and very tall GD and GA! Mona had a
tough game against the GA but she played brilliantly,
marking her well. Katie also had her work cut out playing
U8B Netball v BHHS
as our centre, but she used her speed and height well.
Won 6-0
Gabriella played in various positions and showed how
A very enjoyable day out to Brighton for the U8’s final
versatile she is. This game could have gone either way
netball game of the term, the sun was shining and the
but we eventually won it because of our great marking in
girls all in good spirits. Both teams worked exceptionally
the third quarter. Marissa, Amelie and Eliza stuck to their
well during the match, making it a pleasure to watch and players which prevented the BHHS girls from advancing,
umpire. Copthorne looked the more experienced side as whilst Njeri and Ava defended well.
they created many chains of passes down the court and
Well done to Belle, Victoria and Gabriella who were our
used the space efficiently to keep the game moving.
shooters and managed to keep their cool and eventually
Jennifer handled the center position with ease and was
secure the win 6-4. Well played girls, you really had to
also a huge help around the circle supporting her
work hard and it paid off. Congratulations to Victoria who
shooters. Sophie was instrumental in moving into the
was, quite rightly nominated as player of the match by
right position to receive the ball and quickly releasing it to BHHS. Thank you to our supporters this game was a real
Paige and Bethany who each scored 3 goals. When
pleasure to umpire!
Copthorne found themselves having to defend Amelia,
Ivy-May and Talia were not afraid to step in front of their
U10B Netball v BHHS
players to grab the ball, confidently making sure the ball
Won 17-1
did not enter the net. Well done girls, great effort and
The girls were super excited to play on a beautiful
enthusiasm shown by all!!
Players of the match went to our two superb GK’s, Amelia Wednesday afternoon, the sun was shining and the girls
were ready to go although a little concerned as they had
and Ivy-May.
been told they faced tough opposition! They needn't have
Team: Amelia, Ivy-May, Jennifer, Pippa, Sophie,
worried as the first quarter Copthorne dominated from the
Bethany, Jemima, Paige, Samantha and Talia
first whistle, superb passing from Robin, Isabella and Sophie helped Ella and Amelie score an impressive 5 goals,
U9B Netball v BHHS
whilst awesome defending from Kirsten and
Won 6-4
Isabelle only allowed BHHS to score one goal- in fact the
only goal of the whole match! Copthorne continued to
dominate and finished the first half 10 -1 ahead. A quick
reshuffle of positions did not phase them and they all
rose to the challenge in their new positions with goals
from Isabelle and Kirsten taking the score line to 15-1,
final quarter 2 more goals were scored and the final
score line 17- 1. Fantastic play from all girls who did not
give up with their determination and focused attitude,
player of the match was awarded to Robin but you were
all great and i thoroughly enjoyed umpiring! well done
girls.
can happen in versatility! They won this match 7-6 with
three goals from both Rosie and Sheen and one from
Jemima!
Copthorne then took on Cumnor House and again went
behind early on but unfortunately they couldn’t claw this
match back like in the first match and they lost this match
4-3. We had lots of missed opportunities and chances in
this match, and this game should have been ours!
Copthorne’s final match in their pool was against
Brambletye (the overall winners of the tournament) and
Brambletye proved just too strong for Copthorne and won
this match.
U11A Netball Tournament at Hurst
On a lovely sunny afternoon 9 schools took part in U11A Copthorne then waited to hear who we would be playing
next and found that it was a three way tie between
Netball tournament hosted by Hurst. Matches were 6
minutes each way, with a straight turn around at half time Copthorne, Cumnor and Ardingly for second place in our
group to go through to the cup play offs! In the end it
and 2 minutes between rounds. We had a tough
afternoon ahead as we had to play our first five matches went down to goals for and against and Ardingly went
through in second place, putting us in third and into the
back to back.
plate play offs.
Round 1 v Cumnor
Won 5-2
Copthorne then played Handcross in the play offs and it
Round 2 v LND
Won 7-4
was nail-biting throughout the match, as the game could
Round 3 v Ardingly
Won 6-1
have gone either way! When the whistle blew it was a
Round 4 v Hurst
Won 11-3
draw at 2-2, therefore extra time had to be played to see
Round 5 v Great Walstead Lost 2-6
After 60 minutes of netball the girls were exhausted and who went through to the plate final! 5 minutes of extra
time were played and you could see that Copthorne were
thankfully there was a 10 minute break for a breather.
After a well deserved drink and a doughnut the girls were beginning to tire, whilst Handcross were still hungry for
the ball. They ended up just pipping us to the post and
ready to play again.
went through to the plate final, although what a way to go
Round 6 v Handcross Park Won 6-1
out! Well done to all of the girls as this tournament was
Round 7 v Brambletye
Drew 5-5
played in very high spirts throughout the afternoon and it
Round 8 v Burgess Hill
Won 8-6
was nice to see just how far some of the girls have
The final result was extremely close as the top 3 teams
had all lost one match. Cumnor were the winners with 35 progressed this season, despite playing out of position!
My player of the tournament was Rosie and Josie today,
points and Brambletye (2nd) and Copthorne (3rd) both
with the top goal scorer being Sheen!
finished on 33 points. With a tie on points the positions
were decided by goal average.
U8 Tag Rugby Tournaments at
Well done to all the girls today a super effort and a fantastic display of netball. Team: Alana, Beth, Emily, Ruby, Pennthorpe & Windlesham
Gabi, Mallory, Alayna and Freya.
It’s been an extremely busy week for the U8s with two
tournaments in just two days. It turned out to be an
U11B Netball v BHHS
extremely successful couple of days with all the boys
playing their part in almost bringing two trophies home.
Lost 1-17
Tuesday afternoon saw the boys travel to Pennthorpe for
The U11Bs played their away match against BHHS
yesterday. BHHS put out an extremely strong B team and their annual Year 3 tag tournament involving 6 teams.
Everything started really well with a convincing 8-5
possibly an A team! Unfortunately the Copthorne girls
victory over the Pennthorpe Panthers with some great
were outclassed in all areas of the court and although
rugby being played and it was a sign of things to come.
they battled on they lost 17 - 1. Although they probably
couldn't have beaten this side, with a little more urgently Game two saw a close 2-2 draw with Reigate 2s,
Copthorne just missing out on the winning try in the final
they might have kept the score down.
moments as the ball was put down agonisingly close to
Well done Tia, Tali, Tanishka, Shriya, Leah, Macie and
Leah who didn't give up and a great cheer went up when the try line. It was straight onto game 3 against
Pennthorpe Pumas. Copthorne looked as if they had
Tia scored their goal! Well done girls.
secured victory but Pennthorpe scored with the final play
of the game to secure a draw. A break was then followed
U13 Versatility Tournament at Brambletye
by an excellent victory against Reigate 1s with Copthorne
Well what an exciting afternoon of versatility we had
always in the lead and winning the game 7-6 with a very
today, from start, to finish! The girls were placed into two good performance. The final game against eventual
pools, with 12 minute matches been played (6 minutes
winners Longacre was an up and down affair with
per half) with the girls moving round position after each
Copthorne always in the lead up until the last minute.
half a match!
With the boys leading by two tries, two careless mistakes
Copthorne took on Ardingly in the first match and were
cost us both times and a draw which seemed like a
slow to being with but after a change of positions at half
convincing victory a moment before was difficult to take
time (following a set rotation) Copthorne clawed the
and was probably the difference between us winning the
game back despite being behind, proving that anything
tournament and coming third. It was still a great effort by
all the boys and a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon of
rugby without any losses whatsoever.
Wednesday saw the boys take the long journey to
Windlesham looking to build on the momentum from the
previous day. In glorious sunny conditions the first game
was a success with a great 5-4 victory over Brighton
Prep. The second game saw us up against
St Christopher’s, a team we had been well beaten by
earlier in the season. The game showed how much the
boys have improved since that day with St Christopher’s
having to dig really deep to come up with a try in the final
play of the game to draw 3-3. A short break followed but
then it was onto game 3 of the day against the
Windlesham Wolves. A close game saw Copthorne run
out 4-3 winners and they were to win the following game
against Lancing Prep by the same score line. Game 5
saw us just lose out to eventual winners Holmewood
House, once again in the last play of the game. A final
push saw a well-deserved victory against Windlesham
Wizards by 4 tries to 3 put an end to an eventful
afternoon. Third place could and perhaps should have
been first place with Copthorne playing the best rugby of
any team on the day. As with all tag rugby, bitter blows
can be struck even when the time has run out.
Well done to all the boys who took part over the 2 days. A
total of 6 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss with nearly 50 tries
scored in just 11 games shows just how successful we
were and the boys should all be proud of their efforts.
Players: Arun G, Alex S, Charlie G, Matthew W, Rex R,
Henry L-S, Harry L, Marcus O-B, John H
U10 Rugby v Duke of Kent
The final game of the season gave us the opportunity to
bring together an extended squad to include all the
players who had represented the A team throughout a
successful season. The sun had it's hat and was coming
out to play which put everyone in high spirits.
It was evident from the first play of the game that we
would spend much of the match in control as the boys
scored from the set move called 'sausages'. Three further
scores in the first 5 minutes gave us the opportunity to
bring on our 4 subs earlier than expected. One of the
highlights of the season took place towards the end of the
first half as we scored a try from a set move from a scrum
that started in our own half and went through every boys
hands down the line for Wesley to score in the corner.
We finished the half 7-0 up. The second half followed a
similar pattern but to the credit of Duke of Kent they
never gave up and were rewarded for the efforts as they
scored a try. We continued to use the rolling sub policy
meaning everyone could enjoy the last match. It is always
nice to finish with a win and a 12-1 margin reflected the
control the boys had. I would like to thank Duke of Kent
for their commitment and courage throughout the afternoon.
Tries: Luke 3, Nick 3, Wesley, Sam P, Chris, William,
James, Shams.
It has been a pleasure to coach these boys this season
and what is clear to see is that we are not a one
dimensional team who just give it to the same player.
Everyone one of the boys brings something different to
side meaning we have the opportunity for tries to be
scored from everyone on the teamsheet. The afternoon
ended with a well deserved team photo being taken to
commemorate a remarkable season.
I am sure that all the parents would agree that this has
been a very successful season both in terms of results
and the development of the boys skills both as individuals
and as a TEAM.
Under 10 A Squad: Sam P, Sam R, Wesley S, William C,
Luke F, Nicholas C, Archie M, Matthew B, Chris F,
Shams K, James V, Ruari F
U11 Rugby v Duke of Kent
The final regular game of the season took place under
beautiful sunshine and the boys were looking forward to
putting right a few wrongs from last week against Brambletye. We started well with Antony crossing the try line
from a set piece place and were soon two tries to the
good when Louis executed a superb dummy play from
another set piece. All that training seemed to be paying
off! With the final play of the half Duke of Kent were
awarded a scrum and took advantage of a narrow
defensive line to run around and score in the corner to
reduce the deficit.
We started the brighter of the two teams again and Louis
popped up on Alex’s shoulder, broke a couple of tackles
and touched down to extend the lead to 3-1. Kent’s
strong runner, and captain, enjoyed a purple patch helping himself to two tries to level the game at 3 all with only
5 minutes left to play. From the restart we retained the
ball well before feeding Luca out wide, who evaded a
would be high tackle to score in the corner. With only 30
seconds left to play the Kent captain, once again, got up
a head of steam and deservedly scored after some
strong running. With the scores level at 4-4 there was still
time for one last “winner takes all” play. Unfortunately for
us, some solid defence from Kent kept us at bay and we
were eventually tackled in to touch.
A draw was probably a fair reflection on the game as I
don’t believe we did enough in attack to warrant the win.
There were far too many dropped balls and we didn’t
learn to double up on their captain in the tackle. Overall, I
am pleased with how this season has developed. As a
small year group it is always difficult to compete against
the bigger school but we have certainly held our own and
even beaten the majority of similar sized schools.
This Friday is the 7’s tournament at Brighton College,
however the matches will be taking place next door to
Whitehawk Football Club and next Wednesday will be the
Interhouse rugby competition which you are all welcome
to come and watch.
Thank you again for the support from the parents and
well done to the 11 boys who took to the field.
Try scorers: Louis (2), Antony and Luca
U12 Rugby v Duke of Kent
Won 5-0
What a way to finish a season! It is a pleasure to report
on the performance of the season. It was clear from very
early on in this match that the Duke of Kent certainly
knows how to tackle! Rather like Brambletye, whatever
we threw at them throughout this match they were willing
to tackle, tackle and tackle again. This resulted in a
prolonged deadlock with both sides attempting to play
positive, attacking rugby but failing to get as far as the try
line. Eventually, Austin led by example, taking the ball on
the half-way line and stepping inside and outside of
several tackles and running straight through others he
made it all the way to score our opening try. Our attack in
this first half was rather too narrow and we were not
using the support runners available to the ball carrier – ie
we were not passing enough! So the score was still 1-0
at half-time. After the break, the boys really showed that
they had listened and the last quarter turned out to be a
very impressive all-round display. Ben tackled like a
demon all afternoon and was always difficult to stop with
the ball in hand. He made a lovely outside break mid-way
through the second half after Karan had secured the ball
well and he was well supported by Austin who, as a
result, went over for our second try. Sam S sensibly
dropped back when needed as full back which enabled
him to show off his elusive running with ball in hand as
well as turning in another impressive demonstration of
the art of tackling. Alex again showed great determination
and aggression in possession and added some nifty
footwork to his repertoire. Today he also linked much
better with his teammates and it was following a break by
him, support play by Sam D and Jacob that Ben was able
to score our third. Joseph was also linking well and
Charlie continued to throw outrageous dummies as he
was done all season and this enabled him to make good
ground on a number of occasions. Luca, as usual, did a
great job of securing possession at numerous breakdowns as well as going on several rampaging charges
with the ball in hand. He tackled superbly as well. Following another break by Ben, Alex was in support and
passed to Luca who went over from close range for try
number 4. The icing on the cake was also supplied by
Ben who ripped the ball from a maul near our own line
and then ran the length of the pitch swerving left and right
to avoid the last tackler. Throughout, Jacob did a great
job of orchestrating our set moves and linked well with
his outside backs. This was a real team performance
and the culmination of a lot of hard work in training but
Man of the Match has to go to Ben this week for an outstanding
all-round display. It has been a pleasure to coach this
group and they really deserve a hard fought victory today
against a stubborn opposition. Final score Duke of Kent
0 – 5 Copthorne. Well done all!
Cumnor 7s
A really good performance from the boys although we
lost 3 games they were all by a single try which was
tough to take against some of the best sides in the area.
Interesting tournament under the new RFU regs as no
medals and no winners which was somewhat strange to
most of us. Still a good day and a lot of fun.
U13 Rugby v Duke of Kent
What a beautiful day to finish the season on, sunshine, a
dry pitch and no wind after all the miserable weather we
had to endure in the early part of the year. The boys were
certainly up for their last game of rugby for Copthorne.
The game was a bit one sided as the boys ran in 3 tries
in the first few minutes. To their credit they maintained
their discipline and continued to play good rugby
throughout the game winning clean ball and running in
tries from the backs. Thanks for the understanding of Zac
and Dan who left the fray early and also Kieron for similar
reasons. A comfortable win at the end of a most
successful season with only the one try defeat to Great
Walstead spoiling an unbeaten season, having said that
we did the same to the last year. It has been a pleasure
to coach this year and a big thank you to Mr Jenkins for
his invaluable input throughout. I hope that the boys will
continue to play at their senior schools as there is clearly
a lot of talent here. Thanks for the support and the touch
line banter. Have a good Easter break and back for
cricket in the summer.
Congratulations to Mrs Jenks and the U9A Netball Team
who won the Caterham Tournament on Thursday
afternoon!!
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