Sponne School were due to host the U12 (year 7) Northants County Netball Plate last week on Wednesday 28th February, however due to the extremely cold weather and the onset of snow unfortunately the tournament was cancelled. The plate competition acts as a qualifying tournament for the County Cup with winner and runner up teams being invited to attend the Cup. On this occasion all teams entered into the plate were therefore invited to attend the County Cup.

Sponne girls crowned Champions for the second year
On Tuesday 20th February Sponne took combined Yr 7 and Yr 8 teams to the County Sportshall athletics Championships which were held at Kettering leisure village. In Sportshall athletics, the athletes take part in a variety of running, throwing and jumping events inside a sportshall.

Year 8/9 Boys were tournament winners on Wednesday 21st Feb. Despite the freezing temperatures the team won both games without conceding a goal. Results were 5-0 against Campion and 2-0 against CCS. Congratulations to Ben Clarke, James Evans, Will Evans, George Rimmer, Ned Black (C), Flynn Sekban and Lachlan Glen.

Tuesday 20th February we took 8 Netballers from Year 8 to the U13 County Plate Tournament at Kettering Buccleuch Academy. There were 8 schools entered which meant 7 games with only one break over the whole tournament. The girl’s first game was against Moulton, during which Francesca O’Dell demonstrated some fantastic attacking play and feeds into the circle finishing 5-0 to Sponne. 2 of the next 3 games finished 6-0 to Sponne against Bishop Stopford, The Duston School and Malcom Arnold Academy with impressive centre court play from Poppy Waldron, Alex Hall and Lilly Webb.

On Tuesday 6^th February we took 12 year 9 girls to competed in their District Hockey tournament. Despite the very cold weather all girls played great. No wins this week, but the girls worked really hard to concede only 3 goals across the whole tournament. Well done to Claire Parton on her debut. Well done Girls. Mrs Stone.

Player’s player - Mia Cowley

Coaches Player - Caitlin Donohue

Article By: Sarah Turnock
NMPAT - Head of Towcester Centre

NMPAT have recently run a joint project between the three NMPAT Saturday Centres of Towcester, Queens Cross and Brackley in conjunction with the City of London Sinfonia to give the students at those centres an experience of playing in a 100+ piece orchestra using some of the BBC Ten Pieces and also having a composition created from their ideas gathered in a workshop in December. The fruits of our labours were shown in a concert on Saturday at the High School in Northampton. One of Ben’s composition ideas formed a main theme in the specially composed piece!

The Sponne pupils involved were:

Ben Maxwell - leading the cellos
Lily Isaac
Faith Hawkins
Cerys Sampson
Laura Punter
Katie Baker

Village Schools – Thursday 1st February

The Atmosphere of the second 5-a-side Indoor Football tournament was incredible as the Year 3 & 4 footballers scored goal after goal. All Teams demonstrated amazing effort and team spirit, with some very impressive saves from the Goal Keepers, Well don’t to Greens Norton who managed to finish in both 1st and 2nd place. Well done to everyone who came from all the Sponne Leaders. Report by Megan Edhouse (9DW)

Final Results:
1st – Greens Norton A (18 points – goals for 19)
2nd – Greens Norton B (18 points – goals for 12)
3rd – Forest Federation A (13 points)
4th – Blakesley (8 points)
5th – Forest Federation B (6 points)

Town Schools – Wednesday 31st January

The first of two Indoor Football competitions took place today with teams from both Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary and Towcester Primary. Both Schools bought two teams each and every one played everyone once. All players showed excellent sportsmanship and stoicism throughout the games and demonstrated some really skilful play. Well done from all the Sponne Leaders. Report by Amy Clarke (10TH)

Final Results:
1st - Towcester B (13 points)
2nd - NHPS A (11 points)
3rd - NHPS B (8 points)
4th - Towcester A (5 points

Article Written by Bernie Noy ( Year 9 )

On the weekend of January 5th- 7^th 2017, my twin sister and I travelled to Blackpool to compete in the National Championships for Ballroom and Latin dance. Thousands of pairs, soloists and group dancers attended. It is the largest competition in the UK. To compete here you have to qualify and to qualify you have to compete regularly in smaller competitions and earn “points.” The “points” depend on where you place in your category.  Then, you qualify to the Britain's Best if you have enough points to prove you are at a high level. Finally, if you have placed at Britain best then you get through to the championships. Josie and I came 3^rd at Britain’s Best which was excellent for us! There are many more ways to qualify for the championships but that is the way our dance school choose. Overall, in your category there are thousands of people you have to compete against to even get to Britain’s Best.

Well done to Ethan Brackley for submitting beautiful subtle piece of film music to the NMPAT composing competition. It was judged 'highly commended and rank in the top 4 in the county wide competition.