The Gresham’s School Inter-House target sprint competition recently took place at the start of February.  Each of the seven Houses entered a Junior team (Y9 & Y10) and a Senior team (Y11, Y12 & Y13), containing five competitors.  The event has been adapted slightly, in order to make it very spectator friendly and also to allow those that had not done very much shooting the opportunity to be competitive.  Each competitor was required to run 200 meters before coming into the air rifle range and shooting down five targets.  Once the five targets had been knocked down then the next runner set off around the track.  Adding to the excitement, it was run under floodlight, at 8 o’clock in the evening.  Both the track and the range were floodlit to create a wonderful atmosphere.

A huge congratulations, and thanks, must go to the 70 pupils that took part and that were involved in the event.  Particularly well done to Woodlands for winning the Junior trophy and to Oakeley for winning in the Senior trophy.  Howson’s were consistently good in both races (finishing in 2^nd place in both races) and therefore won the combined overall trophy.  Well done to all of the winners.