Newsletter Spring

Year 8 Trafford
Finalists
The Year 8 Football squad fell at the final
hurdle to finish their season as Trafford
Schools U/13 Runners-Up. After
sweeping past Urmston Grammar,
Stretford High, St. Anthony’s and Wellacre
in their opening matches, a narrow defeat
with a weakened team against Ashton-on-
Mersey consigned the team to 2 nd place in
the ‘North’ division.
This led to a tricky away fixture at ‘South’
winners Blessed Thomas Holford. In a
see-saw match, Stretford took a two goal
lead, only to be pegged back to 2-2. In the
dying minutes, Ahmed Isaac struck from
close range to secure a fine 3-2 victory. In
the final held at Manchester United’s
training ground at Carrington, SGS faced
Sale Grammar, coincidentally also
runners-up in their respective league.
On a sunny but breezy day, Stretford
struck within the opening minute as
James Allatt pounced on a goalkeeping
error to score his first of the season. As
the game wore on Sale dominated
possession and an equaliser arrived just
before half-time. During the second half,
Stretford defended resolutely, but as
extra-time was looming, failed to clear
their lines and Sale agonisingly poked
home the winning goal. The team is to be
congratulated this season, as they have
had to adapt to a new formation and one
or two personnel changes, however, the
future looks promising for next season as
the team will be entering both the English
Schools and Greater Manchester Cups to
develop their experience.
Girls’ Football
Bashar
Careers Day
The girls came third in the first round of the Manchester United Girls tournament narrowly
missing out on the next stage. The girls produced some gritty performances worthy of
Manchester United great, Roy Keane. As a unit, they developed some delightful passing
interplay to score some fabulous goals. Facing some very accomplished and tough
opposition, our girls can be very proud of their progress.
Bashar has reached the dizzying
heights of National Champion in
his age group for trampolining.
taking up the sport in 2004,
Bashar is currently coached by
the renowned Steve Moreton
and is in training to compete in
the 2015 world championships in
Denmark. At present Bashar is
ranked Number 1 for the
forthcoming world cup to be held
in Portugal.
Sid
Sid started playing badminton when
he was 8 years old. It soon became
apart that he was naturally talented
with superb hand-eye co-ordination.
He quickly rose up the rankings and
represented Lancashire being
coached by Colin Haughton, Britain’s
premier badminton coach. Sid soon
progressed to the full England squad
and began competing for his country.
Sid is currently ranked Number 3 in
England!