The official newsletter of Skolars

APRIL 2011 This issue:  HARINGEY GOES TAG RUGBY CRAZY!  STUDENTS REWARDED AT MIDDLESEX!  GIRLS DEVELOPMENT DAY A SUCCESS!  SKOLARS LOTTERY  GET DOWN TO SKOLARS!

Participants from the recent Girls Development Day Club Details HARINGEY GOES TAG RUGBY CRAZY White Hart Lane Community March and April saw the commencement of Haringey’s traditional boys and girls Sports Centre, tag rugby season whereby each primary school in the borough participated in their White Hart Lane, School Sport Family festival with the winners progressing through to the Haringey , Borough tag rugby finals that took place on Wednesday 6th April. London The Skolars Community team facilitated in all of the family festivals with the help of N22 5QW PDMs Dave Thomas and Pete Bennett and their team of SSCos. Congratulations to 020 8888 8488 the family festival winners below: FAMILY BOYS GIRLS For more information contact: Alexandra Park Our Lady of Muswell Our Lady of Muswell Fortismere St Michael’s CE (N6) St Michael’s CE (N6) Paul Thorman Gladesmore Crowland Crowland Community Manager Heartlands Earlham Alexandra 020 8888 8488 Highgate Wood Rokesly Weston Park Northumberland Park St Pauls & All Hallows St Pauls & All Hallows [email protected] Park View Seven Sisters Seven Sisters Woodside Lordship Lane Lordship Lane

All winners progressed through to the Haringey finals that were played on a beautiful early spring day providing excellent condi- tions for some very entertaining rugby. The girls’ competition was very close which featured a sudden death play-off to qualify for the semi-finals between St Paul’s & All Hallows and Our Lady of Muswell schools. It was pleasing to see the semi final be- tween Weston Park and Alexandra Primary schools, both just 1 form of entry schools who gave their bigger neighbours some- thing to worry about. Girls’ champions were St Michael’s CE (N6) who beat Alexandra by 2-1.

The boy’s event the final produced what PDM Dave Thomas described as, the best rugby he’d ever seen from primary school players with St Paul’s & All Hallows winning by a single try in extra time from Lordship Lane school. The finalists will go on to form the basis of the Haringey team for the London Youth Games in June. We wish them the best of luck in the competition. Over 1000 boys and girls were engaged through the programme over the two week period and, as reward, all were invited to Skolars Co-operative Championship 1 home game versus Whitehaven where they helped cheer on the first team. WANT MORE SKOLARS NEWS? VISIT...

GIRLS DEVELOPMENT DAY A SUCCESS! The , hosted a girls year 7 and 8 Rugby League Development Day involving 5 schools from Haringey, Bar- net and Waltham Forest. All participat- ing schools took part in a morning of coaching provided by Skolars’ commu- nity coaches and played a competition in the afternoon.

Taking part in the day were:  Gladesmore  Leytonstone Skolars’ student representative players from L to R: Jaroslaw Obuchowski, Dion  Walthamstow School for Girls Chapman, Dan Stocks (coach) and Aaron Small  Queen Elizabeth Girls School  Connaught STUDENTS REWARDED AT MIDDLESEX The festival was a great advert for girls Former Southgate students, Jaroslaw Obuchowski and Aaron Small, have been Rugby League with all schools displaying awarded a Middlesex University Scholarship. Both Jaroslaw and Aaron are cur- the skills they had picked up during their rently in the first year of studying Sports Science degrees with Middlesex. They morning of coaching. Gladesmore fin- were nominated for scholarships by lecturer in sport Dan Stocks, who heads up ished winners on the day with second the Centre of Rugby Education programme at Southgate College. Dan com- and third places only being separated by mented, “Aaron and Jerry work extremely hard both on and off the rugby field tries scored, Leytonstone finishing above and have been rewarded for their efforts. I am sure they will be successful in their endeavours as they understand the importance of continuous effort in Walthamstow School for Girls by one achieving goals”. They join former Southgate student Nimai Parmar as rugby try. league players from Southgate who have been awarded scholarships with Mid- Well done to all the participants and dlesex University. staff that were involved in the day. In addition to their scholarships, they were also selected for the South England universities representative side that competed at the regional championships in th th on 26 & 27 March. This team was made up of the top 20 players studying in FE/HE in the South of England. In addition to Aaron & Jaroslaw, cur- rent Southgate student Dion Chapman, who studies an NVQ level 2 in coaching, was included in the squad. South England, who were coached by Southgate lecturer Dan Stocks made the final for the first time in the 12 year history of the competition. They beat the Scotland Exiles 32-0 and the North East 18-6 on the way to the final, where they faced the Midlands. With two minutes to go and the score tied at 22-all, South England gave away a penalty which the Midlands kicked to win the game 24-22.

Following the competition, 7 of the South England team, including Aaron Small were added to the England universities train on squad, with a further two added to the Scotland squad. Girls festival winners Gladesmore GET ALONG TO THE SKOLARS! SKOLARS LOTTERY Below are the upcoming Skolars home fixtures. All fixtures take place at White The London Skolars Lottery is a great way of sup- Hart Lane Community Sports Centre, Wood Green, N22 5QW. We’ll see you porting the club whilst gives you an opportunity there! to win cash prizes in the process! For the games below, Skolars are offering recipients of this newsletter All monies raised from the Skolars Lottery go back the opportunity to bring up to four friends to either game for only £6 directly to help fund the Skolars’ successful com- each. For redeem this ticket offer or for further information contact munity programme. Howard Kramer on 020 8888 8488 or [email protected].

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