L3 Birmingham Schools Games Triumph!!

Thursday 11th Feb

What an amazing day! - The Arthur School took three teams to compete in the L3 Birmingham Schools Sportshall Athletics Finals - having qualified as North Birmingham champions in the regional competitions two weeks ago! (See the event report from this competition in a previous post!).

Today's finals were held at the Doug Ellis Sports Centre (BCU) in Perry Barr.  Our three teams, Y7 boys, Y7 girls and Y8 girls were all competing in separate competitions, with approximately 12 other teams, coming from schools all across the Birmingham area.

The Arthur Terry Students Representing Each Team at today's L3 Finals

The competition involved a wide range of indoor track and field events - including: Sprints & Long Distance races, Multiple Relay's, Shot Putt, Vertical Jump, Broad Jump, Standing Triple Jump and Speed Bounce events.

The atmosphere throughout the competition was fantastic!!  All of the Arthur Terry students competed brilliantly and supported each other superbly. There were many notable performances amongst our students, including many 1st places in the heats and events that took place - which made for a very exciting wait as the results were announced during the closing ceremony (see picture above!)

The results:

Congratulations to our Y7 Boys - 1st Place and Gold Medal Winners!!

 

Congratulations to our Y7 Girls - 3rd Place and Bronze Medal Winners!!

Congratulations to our Y8 Girls - 1st Place and Gold Medal Winners!!

...to have three teams qualify for the L3 Birmingham Schools finals as regional winners was fantastic, and to now have three teams all walking away with medals from the finals - including two 'Gold's' and a 'Bronze' is absolutely amazing! - Well done to all of the students that took part on such a wonderful achievement.

Y7 Boys Reach District Cup Final!!

Wed 10th Feb

Congratulations to the Y7 boys football team who this week made it through to the Aston, Erdington and Saltley District Cup Final!

Semi-Final Result:
Arthur Terry 2 v 1 St Edmund Campion
O. Powell 2

The boys started the game very brightly, carving out several chances to score the opening goal - only to be thwarted by some uncharacteristically poor finishing.  The team did go on to take the lead though after striker Oliver Powell brilliantly dispatched a super left foot shot across the keeper and into the far side of the net.  Despite having more of an attacking threat, a heroic goal line clearance from defender Josh Glithero was required to keep the score 1-0.  After a Campion forward rounded our advancing keeper at the edge of the box and slotted the ball towards the empty goal, Josh's brilliant reaction and speed proved to be just enough to get to the ball and divert it away for a corner.  The visitors did manage to equalize thereafter, making the score 1-1 at half-time!  The second half proved to be equally competitive as the first period and there was nothing to suggest that either team held the edge over the other.  The difference and winning goal came 10 minutes before the end, after a brilliant one-two link up between Oliver Powell and Ben Haycock provided the assist for Oliver to score his second and best finish of the match!

Cup Final Details:
Arthur Terry vs Washwood Heath / Bishop Walsh
@Hollyfields Sports Ground - Kick-off: 3.45pm

U16's reach the District Cup Final!

Friday 5th Feb

Arthur Terry 4 v 1 Plantsbrook
R. Hutchinson
S. Watts 2
J. Francis

Man of the match: A. Thompson

U16's in semi-final action at Sutton Town FC, Coles Lane

The Y11 team faced familiar foes Plantsbrook in the semi-final of the AES District Cup, that was played at Sutton Town FC ground (Coles Lane) on Friday evening.  The boys were keen to maintain their 100% winning record against their opponents and they started the game very brightly indeed.  Arthur Terry took the lead through a wonderful strike from Reece Hutchinson, who after receiving a return pass from a quickly taken short corner, carried the ball to the edge of the penalty box before curling it right into the opposite top corner of the net!  Unfortunately, a very soft goal was then conceded after some ''indecisiveness / over-confidence'' at the back! The boys shortly restored the lead just before half-time though, after striker Sam Watts finished clinically after latching onto a through ball from midfield.  An improved Plantsbrook came out stronger in the second-half and to be fair, looked the most likely to score next.  However, Arthur Terry's defense proved to be very resilient and withstood everything their opponents had to offer.  Some real quality football from Arthur Terry then came through, as the team once again took control of the game. This led to a further two goals being scored in the second-half courtesy of striker Josiah Francis and another stunning goal from Sam Watts, who had skillfully turned his marker inside out before rounding the keeper to slot comfortably into the waiting net.

A huge congratulations to the boys!
Hopefully they will finish their final season together with another trophy to add to the many titles they have won in their previous years from Y7.

Cup Final Details
Arthur Terry vs (Great Barr / Kingsbury)
@ Hollyfields Sports Centre (Holly Lane, Erdington)
Tues 8th March - 3.45pm Kick-off

Y7 Football Team Win in Shoot-Out Drama!

Tues 2nd Feb

The Y7 football team this week hosted Kings Norton Boys in R4 of the BSSF cup.  The team (pictured above) were without AVFC academy players Kharel Reddin and Ryley Thomas, who were both involved in club commitments, but the remaining players managed to cope very well without them as they managed to defeat the visitors and progress into the semi-finals of the Birmingham Schools competition.

The game itself finished 1 - 1 at FT and remained the same after a period of additional time was played, taking the match to a penalty shoot-out.  Matt Greenway had leveled score in the second half, which Arthur Terry dominated (...making up for an AT missed penalty at the end of the first half).

In what is always a nail biting scenario, Kings Norton won the toss and elected to strike first. During the shoot out Arthur Terry GK James Pemberton produced two super saves, setting up a strike winning opportunity for Jordan Mewis who duly converted to win the tie! 

The penalty shoot-out summary:

NB: Well done to all of the boys who bravely stepped up to take one!

The Y7 team are now scheduled to play Plantsbrook School in the Semi-Final!

North Birmgham KS3 Sportshall Athletics Champions!

3 out of our 4 KS3 indoor athletics teams were crowned North Birmingham Champions in the L2 schools competition, which took place at the Arthur Terry School in the week beginning Mon 25th January.

The KS3 boys competition took place on Tues 26th Jan. 8 students from Y7 and 8 students from Y8 were selected to represent their respective year groups in a range of track and field events.

Results table below:

As you can see from the results, our Y7 boys managed to secure the North Birmingham title by edging local schools Bishop Vesey and NBA into joint second place.  Sadly, our Y8 boys team fell one place short of this and just missed out reaching top spot by 4 points.  All was looking good for a double victory on the evening, until the Y8 relay team dropped the baton in the very last race of the competition!  The mistake proved to be very costly and prevented the team from having another shot at retaining the 'Overall Birmingham Schools Winners title' that they achieved last year!

The KS3 girls competition took place on Thurs 28th Jan. Once again, 8 students from Y7 and 8 students from Y8 were selected to represent their respective year groups in a range of track and field events.  Both teams performed superbly during the competition and came out on top amongst the other competing schools.

Results table below:

As you can see from the results, our Y7 girls finished in first place ahead of Highclare - 2nd and John Willmott - 3rd.  Our Y8 girls team, also 'overall Birmingham Schools Winners' from last year, absolutely smashed the points scoring by achieving the highest team tally and winning margin of the week!

Congratulations to all of the teams and the students that took part! 3 winners and 1 runner's up from Arthur Terry was a fantastic achievement for the week.  Our 3 winning teams now progress into the L3 Birmingham Schools Sportshall Athletics Finals taking place on Thurs 11th Feb at the Doug Ellic Sports Centre - (BCU campus in Perry Barr).

West Midlands 5-a-side runners up! - Y7 Boys Football

Wednesday 3rd Feb 2016

Arthur Terry U12's - West Mids 5-a-Side Runners-Up 

A squad of seven Y7 boys (pictured above) represented the Arthur Terry school as Aston, Erdington & Saltley SFA champions in the ESFA U12 Indoor 5-a-side area finals today, which were held at the Pride Park Soccer Dome in Derby.

The finals included 18 schools from all across the West Midlands region (inc. Telford, Wolverhampton, Stoke, Bromsgrove & Droitwich, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Burton, Hereford, Cannock, Halesowen & Stourbridge, Brierley Hill & Dudley, Nuneaton, Staffordshire, Sandwell, Redditch, Wyre Forest and Shropshire). 

The tournament was set up into 3 groups of 6 teams. The winners of each group, after playing a round robin format of 5 games would progress into the semi finals - joined by the best runners-up from across the groups!

A summary of Arthur Terry's games!
The Arthur Terry team got off to a great start winning their first two games comfortably, but in game 3 the boys incurred a narrow defeat that left the group wide open! The team bounced back immediately in game 4 by securing the highest scoring tournament victory on the day, setting up a 'group deciding' match in the last game!  With the knowledge that only a win would see the Arthur Terry team progress into the semi's, the boys performed brilliantly and they convincingly got the victory that gave them top spot in the group.

The semi-final was an extremely close match.  After taking an early lead, the boys allowed the opponents to level from the spot after conceding a penalty kick with just minutes to spare. Star player Ryley Thomas netted the winner in extra-time though, booking the place in the final and taking his personal tally to 11 goals in the tournament (Arthur Terry's highest scorer on the day!).

Having played so well throughout the day and deservedly reaching the final, the Arthur Terry boys sadly came undone against a very strong Sandwell Academy team - who were admittedly the best team there on the day, having won all their games and conceding just three goals in the process.

It was a fantastic day out and an absolutely tremendous achievement for the boys! - Being ranked as the second best 5-a-side football team from all the schools in the West Midlands is something that they can be very proud of indeed!!

Group game results & scorers:
G1: AT 3 vs 1 Nicholas Chamberlain - O. Powell; M. Greenway; R. Thomas
G2: AT 2 vs 1 Stourport HS - A. Jones; R. Thomas
G3: AT 0 vs 1 Kingsmead
G4: AT 8 vs 0 Abbot Beyne - R. Lewis; O. Powell; R. Thomas x6
G5: AT 2 vs 0 Excel Academy - R. Thomas x2

Semi-Final result & scorers:
AT 2 vs 1 St Bedes - A. Jones; R. Thomas
NB: 1-1 FT; 2-1 A.E.T

Final result & scorer:
AT 1 vs 5 Sandwell Academy - M. Greenway