Festival Of Hockey And Netball For Bablake Old Girls

As just one of the events being planned to highlight and celebrate 40 years of girls at Bablake since September 1975, Head of Girls' PE Mrs Sue Smith, herself a former pupil, has begun arrangements for a festival of hockey and netball on Saturday 5th September!

She writes: 'We would like to invite our Old Girls back to play some netball and hockey on Saturday 5th September with play starting at 10.00am for netball and 2pm for hockey.

The emphasis is on fun and, whether you still play or would like to come back and find out what skills you have retained, we would be pleased to see you. Equally we would be pleased to welcome spectators. Hopefully some PE staff who taught you will also come along, and Mrs Thomas is already looking out old photos and team lists!

The structure of the day will depend very much on the response, and more details will be circulated once we know numbers. Should you be interested, please email me or Alumni Officer Mrs Sylvia O'Sullivan by Friday 19th June.

As far as possible we will try and keep year groups together. Some players may, however, need to link with a year above or below as we will try and balance the teams and are sure we will not get a perfect distribution of positions for each year.

New astroturf pitches were laid in August 2014 and the netball courts at school are being relaid this Summer, so it will be a fitting way to open the courts, especially as the charity netball tournament last September was such an enjoyable day.

It has been suggested that we arrange something for the evening, so please indicate if you are interested in this, so we can plan ahead accordingly. We hope to see you on 5th September.