Due to bad weather last half term, the Year 7 and 9 netball tournaments were rearranged to the week beginning of 24th April. We took an A and B team from Years 7 and 9 to All Hallows to compete in the tournaments against other South Ribble schools. Both nights were fantastic events with the sun even coming out to join us for the Year 7 competition. On each night, the teams had lots of matches to play with short running times, meaning little time to score. All teams played fantastic, demonstrating quality netball skills and sportsmanship throughout. 

The Year 9 A Team finished 4th and the B Team finished 6th. Well done, girls!

The Year 7s did exceptionally well with the A Team finishing 2nd and the B Team finishing 3rd out of 9 teams. Well done, girls!

Mrs Tompson and Miss Shahi 

Sports, Performance and Health Faculty

On Wednesday 22nd March, the Year 7 Sportshall Athletics Team travelled to Blackpool Sports Centre in the Lancashire County Finals to represent South Ribble. The girls competed in track and field events against winners from all the other areas around Lancashire with 14 different schools competing. The girls have been practicing really hard over the past few months and it certainly paid off. It was quite nerve-wracking performing in front of so many other schools but the team really did do us proud. 

We finished in 7th place out of 14 which is a fantastic achievement in a County competition! 

The girls are already looking forward to progressing further in summer Athletics after Easter and we can’t wait to watch them develop and hopefully be back in the Sportshall Athletics County Finals as Year 8s next year. 

Massive well done and congratulations to the whole team – Jasmine, Esther, Isabelle, Darcey, Phoebe, Boadicea, Chloe and Ida. 

Mrs Tompson 

Performance, Sports and Health

The PGHS Year 8 A Netball team competed for the first time in the South Ribble Netball League on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th March at All Hallows Catholic High School. They won 2 games and lost 2 games. They displayed skills of netball at a pleasing standard and supported each other throughout the games. They were brilliant ambassadors for sport and were great representative of PGHS. Well done, girls! Your tournament is on Monday 27th March at All Hallows’. Good luck! 

Team players: Evie B, Tanisha S, Willow H, Niamh D, Holly L, Faye S, Katie O, Marianna N and Mannie D

Player’s player: Holly L, Katie O

Teacher’s player: Marriana N

Miss Shahi

PE Department

Year 7 have made a fantastic start to Netball this year, with more than 20 students regularly attending practice every Monday night after school since September. The standard and commitment has been very high. We took three teams to All Hallows Catholic High School for a friendly match at the end of January. All girls performed brilliantly, demonstrating a high level of Netball skills and further developed their knowledge of game play which was great preparation for the league. If we could have entered all three teams in the South Ribble League we would have, but unfortunately we could only enter two. 

The league has taken place at All Hallows Catholic High School over 3 different nights. The A & B teams continued to impress us with their efforts and dedication and of course, continued increasing skills and sportsmanship. Due to a couple of schools missing the last date, we are still unsure of the final ranking. The A team were undefeated however, so we are hopeful for first place. It really has been a pleasure to watch them all develop. Well done, girls and keep up with the training! We still have the Year 7 Netball Tournament to look forward to at the end of this term. 

A massive well done to all the girls!

A-team : Eve, Phoebe B, Bo, Lily, Isabelle, Laila, Jasmine and Georgia.

B1-team: Julia, Charlotte O, Charlotte G, Abbie R, Phoebe M, Jessica and Esther.

B2-team: Bella, Nick, Anya, Elizabeth, Molly, Esme, Abbie E and Riya.

Mrs Tompson

Performance, Sports and Health Faculty News

Congratulations to our Year 7 and 8 PGHS gymnastics team who successfully achieved 9 medals altogether in floor and vault at the South Ribble Gymnastics Competition on Thursday 2nd February at Worden Academy. Well done, girls! Amazing performances both in floor work and vault!

Year 7 Novice Team: Darcey W, Lily H, Maddie N, Hanna H and Isabella N.

Year 7 Advanced Team: Jenya Z and Eva P

Year 8 Novice Team: Pixie H, Jemima D, Kieonie B and Amber S

Year 8 Advanced: Molly H and Chloe A

Team medallists were: 

Jenya Z- Gold Medal in floor and Gold Medal in vault.

Darcey W- Bronze Medal in vault and Gold in floor

Molly A – Silver Medal in vault and Bronze Medal in floor 

Kieonie B- Gold Medal in vault and Gold Medal in floor

Pixie H- Bronze Medal in vault

Miss Shahi

PE Department

On Friday 20th January, 5 of our Year 11 GCSE Dance students attended a dance workshop at Runshaw College with a professional dancer from the very prestigious, Rambert Dance company. The girls participated in contemporary technique sessions and learnt choreography of the professional work ‘A Linha Curva’. ‘A Linha Curva’ is one of the professional works we study during the GCSE Dance course so it was great for the girls to be taught choreography from Craig who actually performed in A Linha Curva. The girls performed with superb technique and projection. Well Done! 

Mrs Naylor

Curriculum Leader for Performance, Sports and Health

The PGHS future lionesses are undefeated again! A massive well done to our girls for once again showing an amazing team performance in the South Ribble five-a-side indoor football tournament. They won all their matches finishing top of the results table by 5 clear points. We didn’t concede a goal so the player of the tournament goes to our fantastically talented goalkeeper, Jessica L. The whole team performed exceptionally throughout with great sportsmanship. Well done to Chloe M, Lucie J, Georgia B, Sophia W, Phoebe B, Jessica L and Daisy L. 

Mrs Tompson

PE Department