Beech House School students take part in regional sporting events

Year 2 students at the Manchester School Games Finals with Olympic Bronze Medallist Beth Tweddle

Twelve students from Year 7, 8 and 9 represented Beech House School in the ISA U14 North of England football tournament: Joshua Scotti, Che Sullivan Manders, Rico Bernales, Dominic Dodd, Jawad Ali, Abdul Mohammed-Bygrave, Charlie Egerton, Muaiz Wajid, Zain Ali, Jude Anders, Ibrahim Khan and Aaron Waddington.

The event included eight other schools from the North of England.

The team demonstrated fantastic teamwork and determination, along with superb pieces of individual skill.

Each school presented different challenges, which the students were able to identify and make tactical suggestions.

The stand out performances were from Rico Bernales and Jude Anders. Rico superbly pressured opponents in midfield as well as scoring a top corner wonder goal. Jude regularly controlled games with outstanding passing and tactical vision.

The team drew one match and lost the other seven. Despite some of the results this experience will be highly beneficial in future fixtures.

Another group of students took part in the first preliminary round of the Rochdale Schools dodgeball tournament: Grace Pountain, Anais Aston, Lauren El-Hage, Farhaan Shoaib, Harry Hurst-Grover, Zidan Illahi and Rayan Hussain.

The students came joint fourth but will sadly not progress onto the finals. They won four games, lost seven and drew one.

They played against Kentmere Academy, All Souls, Castleton and Caldershaw Primary.

Earlier in the year Beech House Year 2 students qualified for the Manchester School Games Finals to represent Rochdale against the other boroughs in Manchester.

The students came fifth place out of nine schools in this final and performed their three routines in front of Olympic Bronze Medallist Beth Tweddle.

Congratulations to Arabella Hey, Laya Karunanandarajah, Haris Sheikh, Ihsaan Al-Haqq and Luchia Wild for their performance, also, well done to Laya Karunanandarajah for receiving the award of the best individual performance for Beech House School.