Quad Kids Competition

This afternoon, Year Five and Year Six pupils made their way to St. Ives to take part in the Huntingdonshire Schools Sports Partnership’s Quad Kids Competition. Quad Kids is an athletics combined event, like the decathlon and heptathlon. The athletes each took part in the following four events: 600m run, 75m sprint, standing long jump, and howler throw. Each athlete’s times and distance are converted to points which accumulate to make the team’s score.

Our Team A consisted of: Elise H, Yuliia C, Amelia C, Poppy A, Leo T, David E, Charlie B, and Daniel S. 

Our Team B were: Beau Z, Isabella O, Francesca L, Ava B, Callum N, Matthew H, Josh T, and Jack C.

The children battled hard in all their events, and showed great sportsmanship by cheering on their team-mates as well as athletes from other schools. 

After a long and tiring day, we were rewarded with Team A finishing a fantastic first place, and Team B finishing a brilliant Third place. This is an exceptional result if we keep in mind that there was also a competition in the morning and nearly 350 children took part throughout the day. The results from both the morning and afternoon competitions were combined to give the overall results.

An extra special mention goes to Yuliia who won the individual girls’ competition.

Quad Kids Level 3

Today, 10 Year Five & Six pupils went to the St Ivo Outdoor Centre to take part in the Living Sport Level 3 Quad Kids County Championships. We were part of a team with Brampton representing Huntingdonshire. Due to the Year Six pupils being away on their residential, we took a mixed team from the three teams that attended the Level 2 competition, two weeks ago. 

Our team consisted of Megan C, Morgan C, Francesca H, Tina A, Freya C, George P, Matthew P, Elliott B, Ryan B and Alfie B. They wore their bright pink Huntingdonshire T shirts with pride. 

We started with an opening ceremony with dance performances, speeches and a mass participation warm up. There was a guest appearance from sporting champion Jade Windley. Jade is a former professional tennis player, who represented Great Britain and played at Wimbledon. We finished the ceremony with a reading of the ‘Spirit of the Games’: Determination, Honesty, Passion, Respect, Self-Belief and Teamwork. We then moved to the track to start the competition. 

The team split into 8 groups, with athletes from the other 4 districts (Peterborough, Cambridge, Cambs. South and Witchford) and rotated round the 4 events: 75m sprint, 600m, standing long jump and howler throw. 

Everybody worked extremely hard in the heat and maintained the ‘Spirit of the Games’ throughout the day with many performances worthy of being performance of the day. 

There are 2 performances that stand out though. Freya in her 600m. Freya was in a constant battle with 2 other girls until 200m to go when they dropped 1 girl, with 100m to go Freya started to pull away, the other girl started to pull back, but, with lots of support from her team mates Freya pulled away to win by about 2m. The other performance that stood out was at the end of the day when Megan threw 24m in the howler. 

We are extremely pleased with how these athletes stepped up to the challenge of the day and represented Crosshall Junior and Huntingdonshire in the Spirit of the Games.

Quad Kids Competition

Today, 30 Year Five and Six pupils travelled to the St Ivo Outdoor Centre to take part in the Level 2 Quad Kids Competition. The weather was cold, grey and drizzly as we arrived – not a good start. 

Ten schools took part, with 24 teams and over 200 children competing. 

Our three teams consisted of:

A Team Georgina B, Lily-May R, Eva H, Livvie B, Bethan T, Louis C, Alfie R, Luke M, George P and Jacob P. 


B Team Morgan C, Francesca H, Grace H, Megan C, Caris V, Fred T, Harvey W, Freddy W, Elliott B and Thomas W. 


C Team Beatriz C, Tina A, Mia L, Abi M, Elise LR, Matthew P, Alex B, Ryan B, Alfie B, and Finn P. 

For the first rotation, the A Team competed in standing long jump, B Team howler throw and the C team did the 400m run. 


In the second rotation the A team took part in the 600m run, B Team standing long jump and the C Team the howler throw. 


During the third and final rotation the A team took part in the howler throw, B team 600m run and C team standing long jump. 


All the schools then came together to take part in the 75m sprint. All the Crosshall athletes finished in the top four (of eight athletes) in their races. 


Miss Howell nominated Alfie B for his win in the 400m and Abi’s all-round performance as the athletes of the C team. 


Mr Blackwell nominated Francesca’s 1.90m standing long jump and Thomas’ 35m howler throw as his athletes of the B team. 


Athletes of the A team were Eva for her 2.00m standing long jump and all 5 girls for finishing first, second, third, fourth and fifth in their 600m race and leaving the other two schools in their wake! 


We now await the results – fingers crossed for a top two finish so we can go to the next round! 


We would like to thank Mrs Blackwell, Miss Howell and Mr Blackwell for their support on the day.