Sports News 8/22/2007

Sports continued to play an important part in the life of pupils at Byron College in 2006-7. Physical Education is compulsory throughout the School and is also taught as an examination subject at GCSE level.

The School aims to include all pupils in sporting activity, set examples for healthy future  living and to produce a healthy spirit of friendly competition with teams competing in House matches and inter-school games and competitions.

2006-7 academic year was, again, a full one for our sporting pupils.

Official games began in October and the final competitions were held in May.

School representative teams who did particularly well were the girls football and volleyball teams and the boys soccer teams.  Highlights included 1st place in competitions for our j.v. girls volleyball teams, U 14 girls football team.

The annual tour to Athens by the James Henderson School of Milan for sporting competition was hosted and organised by Byron and was regarded as a sporting and social success.

A special event in which Byron participated was the Celebration of Europe soccer competition hosted by the German School of Athens.  Representing England, Byron played 5 games, won 3, drew 1, lost 1 (the defeat for England was, as usual, to Germany – 3-2).

The year long  junior and senior House matches ended with a finals night where the finals in football were held in a celebratory atmosphere of music, food and excited parents and supporters.

This floodlit evening was also when we hosted the Awards to Sportsmen event and we were particularly pleased to award badges and certificates to the large number of junior and senior pupils who had satisfied the proficiency standards set by the English Schools Athletics Association.  Taking part in this programme was an innovation this year and we were pleased by our pupils’ performances, rate of improvement and the quality of their increased competitiveness in our annual Sports Day which saw school records being challenged and broken on a number of occasions.

Over the past year the P.E. department has been pleased with its overall development.  More pupils than ever now take part in the swimming programme, mini tennis has been a huge success (we took part in swimming galas and tennis tournaments) and riding has proven to be an extremely popular after-school activity.

Although a number of our stronger performers are leaving Greece the department remains confident that the School will continue to produce highly  competitive representative teams but more importantly will continue to see sports as developing health and fitness, self-confidence, team spirit and pride in the School.

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