Sports Leaders T' off for a day of Golf fun!

Students from the Thetford Academy who have recently completed their Young Leaders Award put theory into action by setting up and delivering a Tri Golf Festival for the Thetford primary schools.

Norwich Road, Admirals and Redcastle Furze Junior schools entered two teams in to the even with Bishops Junior school fielding a Year 5 team.

The event took place at Thetford Golf Club who sponsored the event with use of their facilites.  Prior the the event Golf Pro, James O Doherty visited the schools for some top coaching as well as being about on the day to offer hints and tips and talent ID.

The Sports Leaders were responsible for setting up a series of golf based activity stations which covered both putting and driving. The teams were then given the chance in the morning to complete the circuit as a practice round.

We were very lucky that we had fantastic weather which was capitalized on by a picnic on the green at lunch time with the many squirrels, very relaxing.

In the afternoon the pressure was upped with the children being invited to play a scoring round of golf putting the morning practice into action. I must say we have some very talented children in the cluster showing great promise for the golf clubs junior section.

After a very hot afternoon we retired to the shade to announce the score-

3rd place Redcastle Furze team 2

2nd place Admirals team 1

But going through to the county finals in may was Admirals team 2 who finished in 1st place..well done!!

Karen Young, Golf Development Officer for Norfolk also presented awards to the top four golfers who showed the best sportsmanship and to the top two teams on the day who showed the best team spirit…well done to you all!!

A big thank you has to go to everybody who was involved in making the day such a great success and to Thetford Golf Club for making us all feel so welcome

Marie Reidie, SSCO, Thetford Academy North Campus

 

 

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