U9A Rounders v Cumnor – Won 16½ – 6½
Well what a promising start to the season for the U9′s, and how nice to be playing rounders finally and to see the sun!! Amber captained the side today and got the team off to a good start by winning the toss and choosing to field first. All of the U9′s were nervous to begin with but as the innings went on they got tighter with their fielding, and there was some great work from Amber as backstop, Yelena as bowler and Ami on second post keeping the scoreline low and only allowing Cumnor to score from few opportunities. Copthorne read the full post »
MUSIC EXAM RESULTS
Congratulations to the following children on their exam results: Louis Agranoff Piano Grade 1 Merit Hermione Ashbee Flute Grade 1 Pass Charlotte Baker Piano Grade 3 Distinction Eloise Chirgwin Piano Grade 3 Pass Ella Devine Piano Prep Test Robbie Easton Violin Grade 2 Merit Oliver Hendrikse Soprano Sax Grade 3 Rosie Home Piano Prep Test Jack Inch Saxophone Grade 3 Pass George Jeffery Piano Grade 3 Pass Nathan Jeffery Piano Grade 2 Merit Georgia Keenleyside Singing Grade 5 Merit Jemima Lee Piano Grade 3 Merit Madeleine Liu Violin Grade 3 Merit Edward Mendola Clarinet Grade 5 Pass Isabella Monaghan Flute read the full post »
Madeleine’s busy chess Bank Holiday weekend!
http://www.sussexjuniorchess.org/Results/2011Season/Results11MegafinalResults.html Congratulations to Madeleine on becoming the Chess Under-9 Suprema for Sussex at the weekend after scoring an incredible 6 out of 6 at the UK Chess Challenge Area Megafinal, held at Warden Park School, Cuckfield! She has now qualified to go on to the UK Chess Challenge Southern Gigafinal, which will be held in Reading in July. http://www.sussexjuniorchess.org/Results/2011Season/Results11OOC.html#AEG Madeleine also went on to represent the South & West against the North & East in the annual All-England Under-11 Girls’ Chess match held at the North London Collegiate School on Bank Holiday Monday where she won both her games read the full post »
A proud moment ….
Final weekend at the EGMAF and thankfully all the very hard work truly paid off..Georgina was placed with a Bronze in the Under 11 Song & Dance category and has qualified for the All England Finals, and in the Drama Section she won the Under 12 Versatility Category (verse, prose/Drama and sight reading) with Distinction and was awarded the Junior Section Trophy for the second year running for the highest marks with 88. Another proud parent moment. Helen Guest
Congratulations!
Zillyan Rustom has just received a merit in her grade 1 piano exam. Congratulations Zilly!
U9 National Chess Championships
Sussex second place with FIVE Copthorne players Five Copthorne pupils represented Sussex in the Under 9 national finals on Saturday 28th April. Sussex were beaten into second place by just one point. Very frustrating after a great day’s chess but still a fantastic achievement.The Copthorne Five were Amalia Finnegan, Yelena Finnegan, Madeleine Liu, Adam Smith-Carretero and Gabriel Jones – they managed to score 12.5 points out of a possible 15. Special mention should go to Yelena and Adam, who both scored the maximum 3 points from 3 matches.
England Squash!!!
Madeleine Liu has been selected by England Squash & Racketball to accompany onto court at the O2 Arena, one of the semi-finalists at the 2012 Allam British Open Squash Championships. This is the most prestigious of all events (‘the Wimbledon’) in the World Squash Calendar. Well done Madeleine!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Gianluca Pasquini on achieving an Academic Scholarship to Worth and to Sarena Bhargava who has been awarded Academic, Music and Art Scholarships to Worth. Andy Easton has been awarded Academic, Music and Sports awards at Notre Dame; Ryan Singleton has been awarded an Academic Scholarship at Notre Dame and Morgan Webb a Sports Award at the same school, where Inder Palla passed entry tests. Oliver Hendrikse has obtained an Academic Scholarship to Ardingly where Jamie Meldrum and Francesca Smith also successfully passed entrance exams. Huge congratulations to you all!
