Prep School Spring Term Cross Country Report

Saturday 9th March 2019

Polwhele House Cross Country 2019: Primary School Winners

Twenty-eight children competed in this brilliant annual event, held at Polwhele House School. Despite the recent unsettled weather, the course conditions were good. The top section of the course was windy but firm underfoot, as usual the lower sections of the course were extremely muddy.

Congratulations to all of our runners, who coped extremely well with this hilly woodland course, in particular with ‘garlic hill,’ which is a testing climb for any runner. We were delighted to win the trophy for the best Primary School.

Individual results:

U9 race

Boys: 3rd =James H (Y3), 9th= Felix B (Y4), 14th= Maddox, 20th= Christian (Y4)

Girls: 2nd=Lilly (Y4), 3rd=Lucy (Y4), 7th= Clara (Y4)

U11 race

Boys: 1st= Felix (Y6), 2nd= Cassius (Y6), 4th=Jack B (Y6), 5th= Luke (Y5), 8th= Rory (Y6), 9th=Oliver (Y6), 11th=Jack D (Y6), 13th= Jacob (Y5), 14th=Woody (Y5), 16th= Oscar (Y5), 17th=Archie (Y6)

Girls: 3rd= Daisy (Y6), 5th= Anna B (Y6), 6th= Alice (Y6), 11th=Harriet (Y5), 12th= Izzy (Y6), 15th= Beth (Y5), 19th= Annabel (Y5), 25th= Farrah (Y5), 26th= Ella (Y5), 29th= Alice (Y5)

Truro Prep conquer Coose Trannack 2019

Congratulations to the fifteen children who raced in the cross country event at Coose Trannack last weekend.

Coose Trannack is a steep, woodland course, near Helston. Race distances vary from 1800m (Year 6) down to 300m (Reception).

There were many strong individual performances, with the school taking third place in the team competition for the primary schools:

Year 5 and 6 runners: Oliver, Felix, Jack D, Alice, Anna B, Harriet

Year 3 and 4 runners: Clara, Lucy, Maddox, Gabriel, Millie, Sanna, Archie

Reception: Oliver

Cornwall Spring Games 2019

Thursday 28th March 2019

County cross country finals

Year 4

Congratulations to Lucy (6th), Clara (22nd) and Felix (21st) for competing with such determination in their races at the County finals. They all received gold medals for representing their area team – Peninsula – which came first out of the four areas in Cornwall.

Years 5 and 6

Congratulations to Harriet (15th), Daisy (5th), Alice B (12th), Anna B (15th), Sophie (22nd), Felix (5th), Cassius (14th), Rory (30th) and Billy (reserve). All of the Year 6 children received gold medals for representing their area team – Peninsula – which again came first out of the four areas of Cornwall.

Thank you to Mrs Egford and Mr Ellison for taking the children to this event.

St Petroc’s Cross Country

In beautiful sunshine, on Friday 22nd March, Truro Prep competed in St. Petroc’s annual cross-country competition. Setting off from Bude Cricket Club, and then heading around the cliff tops at Bude, the course offered a range of terrain to test even the most competent of runners.

With around 300 competitors involved in the event, there was good competition for all runners. Felix Beresford picked up 2nd place in the U9 Boys with Lucy Darling and Lilly Leigh taking first and second place respectively in the U9 Girls. All the competitors raced with determination and passion, and should be proud of the places they achieved in what was a very challenging, yet enjoyable course.

U9 Girls

Millie N 22

Amelia R 35

Grace N 14

Lucy D 1

Lilly L 2

Clara C 13

U9 Boys

Thomas R 36

Christian B 19

Henry M 28

Alfie D 57