Over the holidays a number of our pupils were successful in making it through to the next stage of the Local Authority HUB netball trials. Pupils who were successful were: Amy Rattenbury Callie Rattenbury Holly Saltmarsh Mia Edwards Jessica Freeman Ffion Phillips Caitey Di’lulio
Six Dwr y Felin pupils attended the U14 County Netball trials at Gowerton School. Megan Johns and Nia Evans were selected to represent the County Squad. What an amazing achievement.
Our Year 9 and 10 netball teams were successful in their league match against Birchgrove last night. Year 9 played very well winning 11-6. Nia Evans being awarded Player of the Game! Year 10 convincingly won 11-2. A great performance by all including Megan Johns who stepped up to play with the Year 10s and awarded Player of the Game for her efforts. Well done ladies!
Sporting success from over the summer holidays update…. Sophie Topper (Year 8), Freja Davies (Year 9), Seren Hughes (Year 10) – selected for the West Glamorgan football squad. Seren Hughes – selection to Welsh cricket senior ladies squad. Bethany Moule New javelin PB of 42.20m – placing 1st in the U15 Welsh Championships. Welsh regional championships – 1st javelin (40.69m). Swansea Junior Games – 1st javelin (40.42m), and 2nd in the 200m (28.21s). Welsh U15 Plate Final – 1st javelin…
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Congratulations to Bethany Moule, who has been selected to represent the Welsh Schools’ Athletics Association in the Schools’ International. These will be held on Saturday 18th July in Grangemouth, Scotland against teams from England, Scotland and Ireland. We wish her the best of luck.
Our young Athletics team represented Afan Nedd Tawe in the NASUWT Wales Athletics Competition. They were awesome. They were a credit to themselves and the school. They finished in 2nd place overall only slightly behind Cardiff & The Vale School, Glantaf. Within the results on the day, two of our girls set new records. Bethany Moule threw 40.76m in the Javelin. This throw was further than any of the U16 boys. Bethany also now holds the record for the 300m…
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A huge congratulations to the Yr 9 rounders team for coming 2nd out of 16 teams at a tournament in Pontardulais Comprehensive, winning their pool convincingly! Dwr-y-Felin then went onto the final Round Robin (3 teams). With each team losing a match each, it came down to rounders scored within the final. We scored 13 ½, whilst the winners scored 14.
Amy Evans (Year 8) is currently the new Welsh Record holder in the high jump. She jumped a massive 1.61m! For those that are 5’ 3” she basically jumped over your head – without the aid of a trampoline. This places her 12th in the Uk for her age group.