Busy Start to Athletics Season for Woodbridge School 

It has been a busy start to the athletics season, especially for Year 10, with three competitions in six days, and all in the glorious sunshine. Our reports below come from Mrs Scahill, our Head of Athletics and Other Sports.

ESAA Track and Field Cup, Bury St Edmunds

Woodbridge School got off to a winning start with three of our four teams competing in the Suffolk round of the ESAA Track and Field Cup in Bury St Edmunds on Thursday 8 May. Luckily not a wash out like last year, the teams enjoyed a day of competition in the sunshine. Each team is made up of thirteen/fifteen students and they have to cover all the events between them, doing two events each (one track one field) scoring points for their distances and times. Junior boys and junior girls are a mix of Year 7 and Year 8. Inter boys and inter girls are a mix of Year 9 and Year 10.

The junior boys, junior girls and inter girls won, and the inter boys came second. This takes the winning teams through to the regional round, which takes place after half term in Chelmsford.

We were very proud of our athletes who very early in the athletics term were able to compete confidently and gave it their all. There was lots of support from teammates as every performance meant essential points for the team. Top scorers of the day were Year 8’s Alexandra and Dex, and Year 10’s Romilly and Tom.

Suffolk Schools and Suffolk County Athletics Track and Field Championships

Three days later many of the athletes were back in Bury St Edmunds on Sunday 11 May, competing individually in the Suffolk Schools and the Suffolk County Athletics Track and Field Championships.

Athletes taking part included:

From Year 7:

• Juno

From Year 8:

• Imarah
• Alexandra
• Evie
• India B
• India J
• Imogen
• Alfie
• Dex
• Otis
• Josh
• Ella
• Tom

From Year 9:

• Eirann
• Hamish
• Oscar
• Ben

From Year 10:

• Georgia
• Romilly
• Felicity

From Year 11:

• Margot

It was also lovely to see OWs like Nancy A competing there too.

It was a very successful day for the Woodbridge athletes with many personal bests and top three finishes; especially for Romilly who achieved under the entry time of 4.45, with 4.44 to qualify to run the 1500m in the English Schools Championships in July.

There were Gold medals for Margot (for the third year running) in high jump, for Georgia in triple jump, for Eirann in javelin and high jump, for Oscar in 100m and 300m, for Hamish in 800m, for Ben in long jump, for Tom in javelin, for Imarah in discus, for Alexandra in 800m, and for Dex in 1500m. There were Silver medals for Romilly in 1500m, Ella in javelin, Oscar in high jump, and for Juno in 100m, and there was a Bronze for Ben in 100m.

Well done to all the athletes competing on the hottest day of the year so far, particularly those who achieved personal bests! Also big thanks to their parents for all their support.

Good luck to those going on to represent Suffolk at the Regional Championships in Peterborough on 21 June 2025.

South Suffolk Schools, Northgate

On Tuesday 13 May, in the evening, the Year 10 boys and girls teams were competing against 14 other South Suffolk schools at Northgate.

It was another successful meet with individual wins for Romily, Georgia, Izzy, Charlie, Ollie Y, second places for Eve, Rory, Oli M, Ollie Y, Liam, Johnny and the relay team of Charlie, Tom, Seb and Rory and third places for Sukie, Abi, James, and the relay team of Izzy, Sukie, Abi and Georgia.

Well done all and thank you to the staff for running events and videoing for GCSE.