On Thursday 5th
February, a group of Year 6 pupils took part in an American Flag Football
festival hosted by the Derby Braves team from the University Of Derby.
The school team was “Silverhill Storm” and we
were up against teams from other schools such as: “Arboretum All-Stars”
“Brackensdale Broncos” “Drysdale Dynamos” and “St. Josephs Jets”.
The pupils took on a series of training
courses including passing, throwing, catching and sprinting.
After the teams completed the
training exercises they competed in a friendly against the other schools. We
only got to play one match before we ran out of time. We played against
“Arboretum All-Stars” and scored 2 Touchdowns (Scored by Finn and Jack) and 4
tags. Overall it was a well-deserved win by “Storm”.
At the end of the festival the
team had a picture taken with a couple players from the Braves Team.
The next day the team were
awarded a certificate each and an American Football for the children to play
with at break time.
by George
