Date For The Diary- Former Pupils Charity Netball Tournament- Saturday August 30th

This year England netball has been promoting Back to Netball. With a slightly different spin on it, we would like to stage our own Bablake event by inviting former pupils back to play in a charity tournament to be held at school later this summer on Saturday 30th August, with play starting at 10.30am.

The emphasis is on fun and, whether you still play or would merely 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 supportive spectators. Hopefully PE staff who taught you will also come along.

The structure of the day will depend very much on the response from players and more details will be circulated once numbers are known. Should you be interested, please email Mrs Sue Smith (Head of Girls' PE from September), who will send you further details.

Those who wish to play will be asked to nominate two areas of play and to give some indication of playing experience since leaving school. 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 have a perfect distribution of positions! Should we need additional umpires, please would you indicate if you would be willing and able to offer to umpire a game, if necessary? 

The charities we are supporting are Breast Cancer Care and Cancer Research. We are linking the former with its summer Strawberry Tea campaign. Tea and cakes (which may not all include strawberries) will be available for a donation to the charities. As it is holiday time, however, we hope you will understand if we ask you to provide your own lunch.

As we do not have contact details for all ladies who entered Bablake from 1975, it would therefore be extremely helpful if you would pass on news of this event to those with whom you are still in contact. (With the Astroturf pitches currently being re-laid, a hockey tournament is also planned for the future.) 

With thanks to Mrs Sue Smith and Mrs Gill Thomas, former Deputy Head, now retired, for arranging this event.