The Flagpole

Princethorpe College Year 10 pupil, Molly Wincott-Thomas, has been signed for Birmingham City again and will be playing for the team next season.

Molly who also plays for the Independent Schools Football Association’s U16 Squad is a talented footballer who has had a very successful 2019/20 season. As well as playing for Birmingham City's Regional Talent team Molly has also trained at the English FA’s national football centre, St George’s Park, and played in international fixtures against teams from the English Colleges, Scotland Independent Schools, the English Schools FA and the Welsh Schools.

Many congratulations Molly it was great to hear of your latest success!

The Independent Schools Association’s National Triathlon is always a hotly contested event and one of the highlights of the year for our Foundation athletes. The competition takes place every May with participants from across the country. Of course, this year the event has been cancelled much to the disappointment of many of our athletes. So we were really delighted to hear, that determined not to miss out, two Foundation pupils organised their very own lockdown triathlon event!

On Sunday 3 May, Princethorpe’s Year 8, Kaena Wasley and Crackley Hall’s Junior 6, Soren Wasley swam, cycled and ran together, completing the distances for their age groups.

Kaena completed the TriStars 3 distances, swimming 300m, cycling 4km and running 3km, she completed the course in a very speedy 33 minutes and 52 seconds. For Soren it was the TriStars 2 event, he swam 200m, cycled 2km and ran 2km, in a super time of 24 minutes and 9 seconds.

A huge well done to the Wasley family who all took part in the triathlon alongside Kaena and Soren. We are very impressed with you all and it sounds like you had great fun.