Giggleswick Junior School

24 schools participated in the annual Catteral Shield Cross Country race with 310 runners spread over four races and well over 100 visiting adults.  A great many of our pupils, particularly Y6 - 8 did important jobs, looking after our guests and marshalling the course and a band of Sixth Formers did a great job marshalling the traffic.  We also had three Hares to lead the runners around the course.  The course was wet, muddy and in parts quite slippery and posed a genuine challenge to all competitors, but they all ran very well and the dry afternoon helped provide a good spectacle.

Afterwards everyone enjoyed a good Giggleswick match tea while watching themselves run again, this time courtesy of the IT department who had collated some 800 photos from the afternoon and projected a slide show on to the Dining Hall wall.  Finally, presentations were made to winning teams and the top three finishers from the four races.

GJS and Giggleswick Senior School had runners in all four races and gave a good account of themselves -

Giggleswick Results:

U11 GJS boys’ team: 10th/22
– Jack Hutchinson 16th, Scott Taylor 43rd, Thomas Lothian 45th and Jack Muckalt 88th

U11 GJS girls’ team: 3rd/21
– Amy Cornelius 9th, Eve Hutchinson 18th, Emily Shaw 31st, Izzy Nayler 36th and Harriet Phillip 78th

U13 Giggleswick boys’ team: 2nd/11
- Will Roberts 8th, Joel Broadhurst 9th, Charles Smith 12th, Niven Smith 20th and Alden Everhart 22nd

U13 Giggleswick girls’ team: 2nd/12
- Olivia Shaw 4th, Samantha Baker-Jones 7th, Allana Jones 12th, India Birley 17th and Annabel Rood 22nd

Overall Results
U11 Boys’ team winners: Terra Nova. Individual winner: Tom Humphries, Hunter Hall

U11 Girls’ team winners: Hunter Hall. Individual winner: Georgina Denham, The Ryleys

U13 Boys’ team winners: Sedbergh.  Individual winner: Joe Bird, Sedbergh

U13 Girls’ team winners: Westholme.  Individual winner: Molly Newton-O’Brien, Casterton