Dunhurst wins in Netball, Rugby and Hockey

March 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Dunhurst, Bedales Junior School, had a successful week on the netball court when the Under 11s played against Prebendal School and won 24-1. In Rugby the Under 12 Rugby Sevens performed incredibly well with a very convincing win. The U11A Girls team played hockey against St. Ives School and won 11-1, which was a fantastic victory over strong opponents. The U13 Girls hockey team followed suit beating Ditcham Park 2-0. Commenting on the matches, Rachel Hearnshaw, Dunhurst’s Head of Sport, said: “Our teams continue to secure great results and this first half of the spring term has seen some excellent and well deserved performances – all the training is paying off.”

Dunhurst also took 50 competitors to Highfield for a large cross country event. All the runners enjoyed the mud and completed the course with a smile on their face. Congratulations to Pippa Lock for finishing 8th out of 100 runners and Rosie Geaves 20th, Hetty Wraight 15th and Archie Gibbon 18th.

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Bedales comprises three schools situated in Steep, Hampshire (UK): Dunannie (ages 3–8), Dunhurst (ages 8–13) and Bedales itself (ages 13–18). The vision of Bedales' founder, John Badley, was to create a school which would be profoundly different from the public schools of his day. From 1893, when Bedales began, there was a determination to shape the school around what was considered best for the individual child's educational welfare and happiness. Two strands predominated: breadth ("Head, Hand and Heart") and the cultivation of the individual's intellectual and personal qualities ("Intelligence, Initiative and Individuality").

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