Girl's Footballing Victory!

Our Girl's Football Team notched up an impressive eight goals versus Hartford today. They played with both skill and positive sporting behaviour. We appreciated our visiting Sports Leader Referees too. 

Year Six Sports Leaders - #leadersofthefuture

Yesterday, Mr Finlayson from Hunts School Sports Partnership came to run our first ever play leaders training! 

Despite the cold weather, sixteen children from Year Six were very excited to begin seven weeks worth of training to become a play/sports leader. 

Each of these leaders will become an ambassador to promote physical activity at our school. They were thrilled and extremely grateful to be given some free gifts to help them along the way, especially their new play leaders hats and bags!

This week, they learnt the first principle of SPACE! Children showed huge enthusiasm and provided some great answers for discussion. The cold did not put them off and they all managed to deliver a fantastic warm up activity. They learnt how to provide feedback to each other and discussed how their activity could be differentiated to make it harder or easier!

We can't wait to see them continue to develop as leaders each week!

B Team Football Tournament

Today, Crosshall hosted the Hunts District Primary Schools FA Group C, B Team Tournament. The visiting teams were Winhills, Middlefield, Huntingdon and Buckden. 

The Crosshall Team was made up of a mixture of Year Fives and Sixes; Aston D, Joshua B, Ewan B, Ryan G, Alex A, Will G, Willow B (GK), Barney C, Kye F, Charlie B and Daniel B. 

The team put up a great performance to finish third.

Crosshall 0–2 Winhills

Our first match was against Winhills. We kicked off the match and fought hard against the skills of Winhills. Unfortunately, they were a little too strong for us.

Crosshall 1–0 Buckden

The second match was against Buckden. We had several attempts on their goal and eventually Aston broke through to score the only goal of the match. 

Crosshall 0–0 Middefield

Our third match was against Middlefield. This was a tough, but equally matched, game with both teams having many attempts on goal, but nobody could break the deadlock.

Crosshall 0–0 Huntingdon

Our fourth and final match was against Huntingdon. Again, this was another close match with both teams having several attempts at goal but none were successful.

The team displayed the Crosshall Values during the whole tournament and played fantastically.

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.

Girls’ Kwick Cricket Competition

Today, 10 Year Five & Six girls went to Eaton Socon Cricket Club to take part in the Girls’ Kwick Cricket Tournament. 

Our team consisted of Megan C, Morgan C, Georgina B, Lily H, Maddie O, Isabella R, Millie Y, Ruby M, Natalie O and Willow B. 

There were 12 teams from 10 schools. We played in 4 groups of three teams.

Our first match was against Little Paxton. Georgina and Ruby opened the batting for us, followed by Megan and Morgan, Willow and Natalie and, Lily and Millie. Ruby and Morgan both hit a six each, while Millie hit two fours and Willow hit a four. The match finished Little Paxton 249 – 229 Crosshall. 

Our final match against Middlefield saw a fantastic performance by all the team with Georgina & Ruby again opening the batting, followed by Megan and Morgan, Willow and Natalie and closed by Maddie and Isabella. Ruby scored a phenomenal three sixes and three fours. Megan scored a six, Isabella scored two fours, and, Georgina and Morgan both scored a four. The match finished Crosshall 273 – 233 Middlefield. 

We finished second in our group.

All the girls showed great maturity and represented Crosshall fantastically. 

Player of the tournament goes to Ruby for her confident and mature captaincy. 

Many thanks to those parents who came to support the girls.

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.

St Neots Kwick Cricket Competition

Today, Year Five & Six children went to Eaton Socon Cricket Club to take part in the St Neots Kwick Cricket Competition. 

The team consisted of Levi R, Leo L, Matthew P, George P, Ocean P, Ruby M, Ben S and Teddy B. 

The first match was against Little Paxton, with the match resulting in a loss for Crosshall. Final score Crosshall 205 – Little Paxton 244. 

Our second match was against Priory 1. This was a much closer match with Ruby scoring a 6 and Ben scoring 3 successive 6s. The final score was Priory 259 – Crosshall 246. 

The final match was a play off for 7th and 8th place. We were against Priory 2. We won this match with a score of 238 to Priory’s 206 to finish 7th. 

Well done team!