Friday, 21 January 2011

Basketball Tournament

On Tuesday 18th January a group of Year 5 children were selected for a basketball tournament at Boston Spa High School. We had only managed to have one practice but we were very excited at the opportunity. When we arrived at the school we entered the sports hall, it was massive. There was one team there already throwing the ball to each other and shooting. So we started practising too.
Soon 6 more team came gushing in through the doors. Suddenly a man called us all in to the middle of the sports hall and went through the rules. Finally, he let the games begin. For the first two games we didn’t do so well, but the next game we improved our play. We drew that one and won most of the rest of our games. Ending the tournament, the man announced the results. We listened anxiously. 8th position, not us, 7th position not us, 6th position, 5th position, 4th position, not us. He finally told us that we were in 3rd position!!! We narrowly missed out on qualifying for the finals but returned back to school really pleased with our performance.

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