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Sunday 16th May 2010 - Academies Netball Tournament
Such a brilliant day, we all had a fantastic time! We were expecting heavy rain, so packed waterproofs, hot coffee and the umbrella's... and in true British forecast style, we had gorgeous sun and burnt!

The academies were divided up so they all had eight matches to play. The teams played against Warwick, Rugby, Nuneaton and even against teams from their own Academy.

Daisy Turnecliff was Captain of 'Panthers', and she had Beth Mackey and Hannah McGrory in her team. Becca Hyndman was in a different team. All the girls played extremely well on the day and did themselves proud. Congratulations to the Panthers who came 3rd out of all 8 teams.

During the tournament there was a competition for Star player. Daisy won star player 3 times and I know Beth won one... both girls fully deserved this recognition.

The girls got their assessment for the year and the coaches recommendation for next year.

Daisy and Hannah have been recommended for further satellite trials and Becca Hyndman has been put through for county trials.

All the girls have worked extremely hard throughout the netball season and fully deserve their individual sucesses. We just hope they remember their netball at Finham when they are famous!

7th and 8th April 2010 - Finham vs South Africa
On 7th and 8th April a few of the Finham girls played netball against teams all the way from South Africa in a friendly competition held at King Henry. The event was organised by Lesley Blair, Regional Excel Coach, England Netball.

Zoe Turnecliff (Year 12), Courtney Archer-Clowes (Year 11), Penny Lewis and Rebecca Hyndman (both Year 9) and Daisy Turnecliff (Year 8) all played in various matches and a fine time was had by all! Alot of the matches were won, some were lost, but all the girls had a great experience and worked some of the Easter chocolate off too!

Wednesday 21st April 2010 - Year 11 win Coventry Cup
A massive well done to the year 11 footballers who shared the Coventry cup on Wednesday with a 1-1 draw with Woodlands, all the boys put in a tremendous effort against a very good side. Coming back from a 1-0 deficit showed excellent character from the boys, with the brilliant support from the touchline they were unlucky to have won the game. All in all the season has been a great success unbeaten through all 8 games and scoring 27 goals. WELL DONE BOYS!

Monday 29th March 2010 - Cheerleading Championships

KS3 & KS4 Coventry Winners

Well what can you say; Finham's success keeps on booming with a double takeover in the Coventry Schools Cheerleading Competition.

All girls arrived with their cheer spirit raring and ready to go and I believe if you listened closely you probably could have heard the 20 girls taken all the way from here. An amazing atmosphere to add to the top notch performance put in by all girls, clean and quick arm motions with formations and choreography that could not be faulted (special shout out to Amy our choreographer), overall an amazing performance put in by all the girls and it showed when we won both the KS3 and the KS4 competition, AMAZING!

Choreographer: Amy
Manager: Miss Wildig & Miss Badwin

Wednesday 24th April 2010 - Year 11 Football Team into Coventry Cup Final
A superb 4-2 win over Coundon Court has fired us into the final of the Coventry Cup with an impressive performance from all the players against a tough side. Coundon set out to try an make us play ugly football by playing on a small pitch and getting in are faces from the word go, making the last 20 minutes of the game extremely nerve-racking but with four excellently taken goals by Will Brown, Christian Lynch, Matty Corrigan and George Shelton they didn't have a chance! With this current form (unbeaten all season) and the support from teachers, family and friends on the touchline I'm sure one more trophy will be added to the brand new trophy cabinet for next year. Well done lads!

Swimming & Trampolining Finals - March 2010
Click to read about the two finals

Saturday 13th March 2010 - Year 7 Coventry Schools Netball Tournament. Finham win the Plate!
On Saturday Finham was represented in 5 separate matches which ended with them joint winning the Plate competition along with Coundon Court.

The girls started well in their Round Robin drawing their first match against the tough Cardinal Newman in a high scoring 5-5. This was followed by a loss to C.Court 4-2 and another loss to KH8 9-0. Which actually turned out to be a fantastic defensive score as other teams had lost by 13 or 14 goals... allowing the Finham girls to go through to the plate competition final.

In the Plate final the girls had to replay C.Court and Stoke Park- The girls swept aside Stoke Park 4-0 and then went on to tie with Coudon Court 2-2 at the end of full time. The girls played a nail biting extra 3 minutes and the score at the end was 3-3. By this time the girls and their parents could not take anymore and it was decided the final outcome should be a draw which leads to us sharing the Plate with Coundon Court.

Please can I say a massive thank you to all parents who transported the girls to and from and especially those who stayed, watch and supported the girls. I look forward to seeing you all at the celebration evening at Coundon Court on Thursday 18th March - if you don't know about it, come to the PE office to collect a letter!

Wednesday 10th March 2010 - Coventry Schools Cross-Country
Well done to all runners who competed in the Coventry Schools Cross Country Championships at Memorial Park. The school entered a very big team, especially the year 7 boys who had 12 competing athletes. The year 8/9 boys have not lost a team race all season. Unfortunately two of their best athletes Jack Murray & Harry Lumb were not available for selection, which meant the team got narrowly beaten into second by 3 points by Bablake. Both the year 7 boys & girls teams and the year 8/9 girls finished 3rd overall. Well done to Kirsty Spencer who came second overall in the year 10/11 girls. It was frustrating that some of our best year 10/11 girls did not want to run. Bring on the warm athletics season!

Ski Trip - February 2010
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Tuesday 26th January, 2nd & 9th February 2010 - G&T Rugby
Over the past three weeks 50 of the best rugby players have received expert rugby tuition from coaches at Earlston Rugby Club and RFU National coaches. This is an exciting new club link that has been developed. It is hoped that some of our boys will join Earlston Rugby Club. It also means that for winter matches we can use their flood light pitches.

Thursday 5th February 2010 - Y11 Football Team into Cov Semis
A great win for the year 11 football team this week with a 5-1 win at Whitley Abbey shooting us into the semi-final of the Coventry Cup. Christian Lynch was a hat trick hero for the second time this season, with Joe Anderson and James Corrigan also getting on the score sheet. A great team effort against a tough Whitley team. Bring on the semi-final!

Wednesday 4th February 2010 - King Henry's Relays
In very cold and wet conditions, Finham Park boys competed with the very best private schools in the Country at the King Henry's Annual Relays. Teams competing at Memorial park included the likes of Manchester, Millfield, Loughborough, Newcastle & Kent. Teams were made up of Six competitors each, all students aged 16 and under. Finham's team was Harry Lumb (Y9), Nawid Adylar (Y8), Ben Taylor (Y8), Greg Wright (Y9) & Jacob Rowan (Y8). This meant the Finham had the youngest team by far. Unfortunately due to Jack Murray pulling out at the last minute through illness we were not able to post an overall team position. The effort and dedication of these boys was amazing. Every one of them gave 110% effort. It is hoped that the team will keep on developing for another three years and then will hopefully be a match for the best.

Wednesday 6th January 2010
Snow stops play at Finham Park for the second year running!

Tuesday 10th November 2009 - Sports Hall Athletics - Finham are the Champions
We had a fantastic day today at the 'Year 7 & 8 Sportshall Athletics Championships' on Tuesday 10th November 2009 at Woodlands Sports College, organised by our Sports Partnership, in which 8 secondary schools (Finham Park, Coundon Court, Tile Hill Wood, Woodlands Sports College, Ullathorne, Westwood School, Bars Hill, Cardinal Newman) participated from West Coventry. The event was run by SSP staff and Yr 12 Sports Leaders from Finham Park School, who did a fantastic job in running the field events and managing the yr 7 & 8 teams. We had the following successes:

Yr 7 Girls achieved 1st place and Yr Boys achieved 2nd place, missed out on first place by 1 point!
Yr 8 Boys achieved 1st place and Yr 8 Girls achieved 2nd place, ironically, also missed out on first place by 1 point! This means that our yr 7 girls and yr 8 boys go through to the 'County Sportshall Athletics Championship' in March 2010.

Star Performers: Yr 7 - Bronte Tindall and Yr 8- Daisy Turnecliff.
Team Manager: Jo Jones

Sunday 15th November 2009 - Under 14s Badminton
On Sunday 15th November Nisha Prajapati (yr9) participated in the Warwickshire Restricted under 14s singles badminton tournament at Coventry Sports Centre. After playing some very tough games in a round robin tournament. Nisha won all of her games and came first in her category winning the gold medal! As a result of her fantastic achievement. She has been invited to play for the Warwickshire Under 14s County Squad. Nisha also attends the after school badminton club at Finham on Tuesdays after school.

Well done Nisha! Good luck in your trials!

Saturday 14th November 2009 - England v Argentina at Twickenham
45 school rugby players from years 7-9 enjoyed a cold day at Twickenham watching their heroes play rugby. In a scrappy game England came out on top 16-9.What was just as exciting was the amount of paper aeroplanes thrown from all levels of the stadium. Each of the 80,000 seats had a piece of card to hold up at the start of the game, which soon were made into flying objects. The biggest cheer of the whole game was given to the paper aeroplane that went through the middle of the posts, which was a far better attempt than the ones Jonny Wilkinson had! The next trip will see students go back to Twickenham in the summer to an International 7s tournament.

Saturday 7th November 2009 - Year 9 Girls Netball Tournament
On a very early and extremely cold Saturday morning the Year 9 Tournament at Tile Hill Wood School took place. Finham were pooled against some tough schools but had a strong chance of getting through to play for the plate.

Finham started off strongly against Bluecoat winning the game with confidence reflecting the same standard from the game they won against them earlier on in the season, one game down, 3 more to go. Straight to the next game against Coundon Court and what a performance! Excellent teamwork from the centre court players and the shooting was on form. Adding the quality of play from the players to the immense amount of support from the families, winning the game was the icing on the cake. Two games completed and two won.

Without having time to breath, Finham were into their next game against King Henry's, a battle commenced and the fighting spirit from the girls was reflected in their netball. Outstanding play from all of the girls but Henry's just beat us with goals and won the match. The final game in our pool was against Cardinal Newman and the effect of the tournament had started to take its toll on all the players from one school to the next. An outstanding effort put in by the players from Finham, superb collaborative team play, excellent defence and brilliant work from the shooters but we couldn't quite maintain the lead, unfortunately we lost the game.

Player of the Tournament: Amber Dixon
Winner of the Plate: TBC

Tuesday 10th November 2009
Congratulations to the following students who now have their names entered on Finham's Sports honours board:

Wdnesday 21st October - Finham v Bishop Ullathorne Derby Match
Click here to read the report and see the team photos

Saturday 17th October 2009 - 3 Counties Trampolining Championships, Tamworth
Finham Park had a fantastic day at these championships on Saturday, achieveing some great results. Students competed against some 'tough' competition, particularly in the U13 and U15 age groups competing against schools in Warwickshire such as Stratford Girls Grammar, Kenilworth Sports College, Alcester High, Polsworth and many more from Coventry,Warwickshire,Staffordshire. Winning students included:

We also entered the 'Synchronized Trampolining Competition' for the first time, and did exceptionally well in the following categories:

We now go on to compete at the 'Regional Schools Trampolining Championships' on Saturday 5th December 2009, in Birmingham, where we are hoping to retain our titles that we achieved there last year as 'U15 Regional Team Champions', 'U15 Regional Individual Champions' and 'U19 Regional Individual Champions'.

Friday 16th October 2009 - Netball goes from strength to Strength
Year 8
The Year 8 team have demonstrated some superb skills and teamwork from the beginning of the season. In every game all the girls have tried their best and kept the discipline needed to ensure victory against sometimes rough opposition. All the games have been high scoring for Finham thanks to Daisy T and Charlotte alongside an excellent defensive record thanks to Asha, Iman and Abi! The whole team deserve recognition for their outstanding dedication and contribution to Netball and to school sport at Finham- a massive thanks also needs to go to Miss Jays and Sally Lewis for doing an outstanding job as their coaches and to all their parents for the continued support they have shown and assistance with transport! The Year 8 'A' squad consists of: Charlotte Blakeman, Daisy Turnecliff, Laura Neale, Hannah McGrory, Daisy Donohoe, Abi Black, Iman Vinning and Asha Jagatia.

won Vs. B. Ullathorne
won Vs. Barrs Hill
won Vs. Sidney Stringer
won 11-2 Vs. Caludon Castle
won 7-5 Vs. Foxford ~ star player Daisy Turnecliff

Year 7
The Year 7s have made a fantastic start to the season managing to win all the league games they have played and improving their skills every week at training. It is a pleasure to see them each week and watch them steadily improve their skills and start working together as a unit. There has been some outstanding shooting from Rachel Lewis and some raw netball talent demonstrated by Charley Lucas, Paige Smith, Finola Hughes and Amy Trenberth. I look forward to seeing the girls continue to do well this season which will finish with a League play off and the Coventry Schools Netball Tournament! Well done to evey girl who attends Netball Club!! Great start to the year!

won 3-0 Vs. Whitley Abbey ~ star player Rachel Lewis
won 3-2 Vs. Barrs Hill ~ star player Charley Lucas
won 3-0 Vs. Sidney Stringer ~ star player Paige Smith
won 7-5 Vs. Caludon Castle ~ star player Katie White

Thursday 15th October 2009 - Cross-Country Success
Congratulations to all 30 students who took part in the 4 Coventry Schools cross country league races. The final race was held at Finham Park The year 8/9 Boys team dominated everyone of the 4 races finishing over 150pts ahead of Kings Henries. Harry Lumb (year 8) came third overall in this age group. This team will now go onto represent the schools in the annual King Henries relays, which attracts the top private schools from around the country. The year 7 girls were narrowly beaten into second place overall by Tile Hill. Finally there was also success for Kirsty Spencer (Year 10) who finished third overall.

Monday 5th October 2009 - Inter-College Sports Programme
As part of the PE departments pyramid structure Inter-college sport in an essential part of getting students not only involved in competitive sport, but also enjoying sport. This week the PE department launches it's new Inter-college sports programme.

Most activities will run at a couple of weeks before each half term in the sporting activities students have been taught. This week the competition gets into full swing with boy's table tennis, penalty shoot out and cross-country time trial, where the fastest athlete in school will have his name engraved on a new trophy. Other upcoming competitions include Year 7 & 8 rugby and netball, where the whole year groups will come out of their normal lessons to compete in these sports. Finally the competition will culminate in sports day. For further Inter-college Sports competitions please check out the inter-college section of the PE website.

Wednesday 30th September 2009 - Year 9 football match v Coundon Court
Finham Park producing a commanding display to overcome a decent Coundon Court team 4-0 on Wednesday night. Finham were on the attack from the start with Greg Wright and Liam Dann looking dangerous up front. The midfield three of Jack Stubbs, Jack Murray and Brandon Forst were bossing the game, spraying passes wide to Shouker and Ole Bacon on the wings. Finham were creating chance after chance and finally Jack Stubbs made one count slotting past the Coundon keeper. Liam Dann added two accomplished finishes to make the score 3-0 at half time. Greg Wright the provider for all three goals proving difficult for the Coundon defence to handle. In the second half Finham took their foot off the gas a little but were never worried at the back with another excellent display by captain George Swain alongside Joe Howarth, Joe matthews and Jack Jarvis. With the final whistle moments away Greg Wright capped a good performance to slot in at the back post leaving the keeper with no chance.

The 4-0 win fully deserved and Finham look forward to taking on Westwood next week needing a win to secure a place in the league playoff semi finals.

Mr A Ditch - Team Manager

Sunday 27th September 2009 - Netball Satellite Trials, Alan Higgs Centre
On Sunday, 7 girls from Finham Park School took part in the Netball Satellite trials at Alan Higgs. Rebecca Hyndman, Beth Mackey both in Year 9 and Daisy Turnecliff, Abi Black, Asha Jagatia, Hannah McGrory and Laura Neale all in Year 8 took part in a series of drills and netball games over 4 hours.

With parents and staff looking on anxiously all the girls worked extremely hard and were very impressive in their matches and did themselves and the school proud.

After a tense wait Becca, Beth, Daisy, Hannah and Laura were all successful in securing a place for the upcoming season and fully deserved their place in the squad. Although Asha and Abi were unsuccessful this year we are confident that they will return next year stronger and wiser from this experience and we are sure they will be successful in joining the other girls.

A massive congratulations goes out to all the girls...we are extremely proud of them all!

Wednesday 16th September 2009 - Laura Connelly, Sporting achievement
Laura was selected to represent England at the WUKF European Championships for Children, Cadets and Juniors, held from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September in Constanta, Romania and competed in the Girls 11-12 Category. She came 5th (narrowly missing out on a medal) in the Kata (self-defence moves) section and in the Kumite (Fighting) section, she succeeded in winning a Bronze medal. As you can imagine, we're so pleased with her performance, especially at this level!

Tuesday 15th September 2009 Cross country League Race 1 out of 4 - Finham Park
The First round of the Coventry Schools Cross Country League took part at Finham Park School. In very windy conditions Finahm Park produced some excellent results. In year 7 Lawrence Bint claimed 3rd in the boys race, whilst Bronte Tindall missed out on first by 2 seconds claiming 2nd in the girls race. In the year 8/9 boys race saw Jack Murray claim 2nd overall. The boys also packed well in the team race with 6 athletes inside the top 19. Early indications are that both the year 7 girls and the year 8/9 boys are in the lead of the team races. 2008 athletics sensation Ramnik Soar suffered with stitch for over half the race and finished back in 7th. Well done to all athletes.

Summer 2009 - Triathlon Challenges for PE Staff
Mr Day and Mr Amos had their own sporting challenges during the summer. Mr Day completed the famous Alpe D'huez French triathlon. In seriously hot conditions Colin produced a steady swim before he tackled he 21 bends of the mountain - 30k in total. It all finished an attitude sapping 7K run.

Mr Amos completed the UK Ironman - one of the hardest sporting challenges around. It comprised of 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and ending with a full 26.2mile marathon. Mr Amos has also raised over £1000 for charity. Both teachers are now looking to compete in the London Marathon next year.

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