On Friday 12th July 2019 ten children from Year 5 and nine children from Year 6 represented the school in a Year 5 Kwik Cricket competition and a Year 6 mixed handball competition.
Both of these competitions were part of the Birmingham School Summer Games and the teams qualified courtesy of winning their local partnership events.
The cricketers played four group games. They won three of those games quite comfortably and only conceded fourteen runs. The fielding and bowling was simply superb. The other game was an incredible match between two very good schools. Chilcote unfortunately lost the game by one run (209-210)! The school they played went on to win the whole competition so shows how close Chilcote came.
The handballers played five group games and despite having a slow start in terms of their performance won all five games and qualified for the semi finals of the competition.
The cricketers finished second in their group and played the school who finished second in the other group in the third and fourth place play-off. Chilcote bowled first and redtricted the other team to a score of 198 (they started on 200). Chilcote just needed to be sensible in their batting and not throw their wickets away. This is exactly what they did, Batting a very mature and risk free innings to score a total of 236 runs. Therefore they finished in third place in the whole of Birmingham - a wonderful achievement!
The handballers had a tough semi-final match but took the lead early on and despite the other team keeping close to them they managed to always keep the lead in the scoring. They made it slightly more comfortable towards the end and ended up winning by 5 goals to 3. Thus they qualified for the final. They had a very tough match against an unbeaten opponent in the final and unfortunately for Chilcote it was just a step too far. They lot the game 4v1 but gave everything. Still they finished as the second best school in Birmingham for handball which is a remarkable achievement!!!
Well done to all of the children involved who, as always represented the school superbly well and gave everything to the Chilcote cause!!!
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