West London Finals at Brunel University

If this week wasn’t busy enough, Strand had not one, but two teams qualify for the West London Finals held at Brunel University on Thursday! Strand represented Hounslow in Panathlon and football and competed against schools from Brent, Hillingdon, Harrow and Hammersmith and Fulham. After becoming Panathlon champions in Hounslow earlier this year, River class managed to do one better this week and become the champions of the whole of West London! There were 6 events that consisted of various skills including throwing, catching, dribbling and running. All these skills have been worked on over the year in their PE lessons and those lessons paid off as they shone in every event that they took part in. Meanwhile, the football team not only absolutely smashed their group stage matches, winning all three games (2-1, 5-0, 7- 1), but due to scoring 14 goals in total it meant that Strand came top across all three of the groups! This meant that we went straight to the semi-finals where we faced Glebe Primary School, representing Hillingdon Borough. It was a tough game and, after playing four long matches the day before, the boys were exhausted and were defeated 2-0. Massive well done to all of River class - Abbas, Anika, Jostan, Louie, Maci, Molly, Oskar, Phoebe, Usman and Ziad. Well done once again to the football team - Jake, Oliver, Charlie, Sebastian, Supo, James, Ranveer and Zubeyr.