On Tuesday 25^th July we hosted The Henry Beaufort Sports Awards, an evening where we acknowledged, rewarded, and celebrated the achievements of our young talented sports performers and teams in what has been a very successful year of sport. We were privileged to have Alex Danson-Bennett attend the evening who gave a hugely inspirational speech as well as handing out the awards. Alex Danson-Bennett, MBE, has represented her country over 300 times as a hockey player, captained her country, won a Gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, a Bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics, 3 Bronze Commonwealth medals, a Bronze World Cup medal as well as scoring 115 international goals and currently is the President of England Hockey.  

Throughout the evening, each school team's success was summarised and there was a player of the season award given out as well as 3 special mentions for each team. There were so many fantastic highlights from the 136 school fixtures throughout this academic year. Throughout the evening, we also recognised some of the students for their ‘sporting excellence’, which included:

Sydney, a talented football player who was part of the Queens Park Ladies team, who entered an all-boys league and didn’t lose a single game, won the league, scored 61 goals, and only conceded 11 throughout the 22 games.

Harry, a Team GB tumbler, who is part of the Great Britain Junior tumbling team, won Gold for Team GB at the Scalibus competition in Portugal, won Gold in the National Age Groups and the overall British Championship and is currently the British Youth Champion.

 

Jacey,  who represents Great Britain in Aerobic Gymnastics. Jacey has recently been competing in Prague in the Czech Open where her group placed 6^th and 2^nd in Aerodance, which was her first international Silver Medal.

Ethan, who is a very talented ice hockey player who was selected as one of the top 80 players in his age group in Great Britain to attend an England Showcase event. Ethan put on a fantastic display of his skills and attitude throughout this event and is currently waiting to hear if he is invited to the England U15s team.

Matthew, who plays water polo at a regional level for Southeast England.  Matthew also took part in the English Schools Duke of Cambridge Cup, a tournament featuring the best U15s in the country. Matthew’s team won. In January 2024, Matthew flew to Spain to play for England against teams from across Europe as part of the Swim England Talent Centre programme.

Congratulations to all the students who have represented the school throughout this academic year, as you have all been instrumental in the success Henry Beaufort has had in all the competitions, leagues, and fixtures. Finally, huge congratulations to all the students who were nominated for a team award.