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Curriculum Leader, Mr French's Sports Round Up 2024-25

Reflecting on a busy and incredibly successful year for Chis n Sid sport 2024-2025.

The great Pele once said "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do".

The 24-25 season had a myriad of highlights, following is just a small soupçon of what our students have been up to in the world of sport during the year.

Netball: Last year saw the girls enter the Sisters in Sport National Cup for the first time - the U13 team had a notable run to the Bowl Semi Final! This year went on to prove that this was no flash in the pan and that Chis n Sid netball is becoming not only a stable feature at district and county level but also gaining an impressive reputation further afield. Perfectly typified by the U14s and U? run to the Plate Quarter Finals.

At district level the girls have once again been invincible - sweeping all before them and being crowned district champions in all age groups. I’ll say that again – Champions in All Age Groups!

In the seniors they had some serious work to do in their Whiteoak league after winning promotion to Div 2 last year, but true to form another promotion still looks possible this year as currently Chis are joint top on points.

More good news follows with girls in U13 & 15 categories being selected to represent Kent and a huge congratulations to Bailey in Year 12 who has been selected for the London Pulse Development Pathway. Netball keeps going from strength to strength – huge congratulations to Miss Bunn and the Netball Coaching Team!

In Athletics and Cross Country: The school enjoyed another successful year performing well at district level. Indeed, the intermediate boys won their competition and advanced to represent Bexley at regional level. There were some truly notable performances from Zac G at the County Champs taking the gold in the 800m, closely followed by fellow Sedcopian Noah in 2^nd place. This result was almost the reverse earlier in the year at the County X Country where Noah took the top spot. Clearly a very healthy rivalry between these two friends is developing.

Lily G and Cheyane N were selected to represent Kent at the National Champs this summer.

In X Country 2025 saw Chis n Sid host the district X Country for the 2^nd year in a row – contrary to tradition - the weather was glorious and so were some of our students performances!

The following students did us and themselves proud:

Aoifer M won junior girls
Lilly B took Silver in intermediate girls
James B won junior boys with Oli C and Dylan S picking up bronze and silver respectively in a well fought out final.
Murphy McD took silver in the junior boys – with a podium finish qualifying competitors for a crack at the County Champs in Dover. All Chis n Sid runners did well in these races but Murphy was especially good and went on to take 1^st place! Kent County Champ!

Cricket:

This year the school was once again selected as one of the Cricketer Magazine’s top 100 cricket schools for 2025. And a further mention as one of the top 25 state schools! A great testament to the school and the fantastic effort of everyone who contributes to cricket at Chis.

In total the school played an impressive 91 games of cricket since the start of May.

In Girls cricket we were flying high with the U13 team winning the Kent County Chance to Compete Final against local rivals Bexley Grammar. They will be representing Kent at the Regional finals on the 15^th July. On the way to this magnificent victory there was some fantastic batting from Lois F, hitting the rope no less than 4 times! Ella I, Anna F, Dulcie R and Jess S took wickets for fun and picked up more dots than a Dalmatian.

In the U15s we were county finalists in the indoor competition only narrowly losing to a very strong Weald of Kent Grammar team, comprising of a number of county players.

The boys have also done their part: Reaching the finals of 2/4 of the North Kent competitions with both the Year 7 and 9 teams taking the titles. All teams made good progress in the Kent competitions too with the Year 7 team reaching the quarter finals of the plate competition before narrowly losing to Judd.

The Year 10s probably had the most notable run of form – making the county plate final on Tuesday. Coming a close 2^nd to a very professional outfit in St Lawrence College.

Tennis: still the relative new kid on the block and only in its 3rd year as an extra-curricular option really hit some winners this year, most notably being crowed the Kent LTA school of the year was a obvious high but there were many others to follow.

For the first time ever, we entered a Senior Boys team into the National Winter League. We emerged winners of the county stage and progressed to a regional final against Haberdashers School in Hertfordshire. With our number 1 seed unavailable that day (called away to an international tournament) we finished a close 2^nd!

The year saw more teams compete in more competitions that ever before. U13 and U15 boys teams competed in both Kent Doubles and Kent Schools Competitions. With the U15s going unbeaten to reach Finals day – only to miss out on the gold medal by 1 point! Ethan Cl and William Z have now played two whole seasons and have not lost a single doubles match.

Finally the U15 girls team entered the Kent Schools competition this year, coming 2^nd in their group stage booked them a place at finals day where they emerged in 4^th place in the county. A magnificent achievement!

The final review comes from the frequently strange but always compelling world of rugby: In our regular 15s season of Saturday fixtures against some of the best rugby schools in the SE we were very competitive in all age groups with most teams enjoying around a 50% win rate.

The 1^st XV had a somewhat tumultuous season with what started of as a very promising cup run that was cut short in the 4^th round by a last minute try by Worth School (who went on the make the Quarter Finals). A team that is oozing with potential - could the 25-26 season be their year? There are two other teams though who I would like to briefly highlight.

The U12 As had a riotous first Chis n Sid season with 10 wins from 15 games – with an exciting blend of skill and power they really are a team to watch over the coming years!

The girls rugby program has been building on the success of its reincarnation during the previous year – under the steady guidance of Mrs Close the girls went unbeaten this year to claim the both the SE London area cup and the London Youth Games Title!

And finally, to the students – your hard work, commitment and development make all of it worthwhile!