After winning the regional finals, we qualified for the county finals, so off to Colchester we went.  This was a big opportunity for our team and we were nervous and excited at the same time to test ourselves against the best teams in the county.  There were 32 teams that had qualified and were all at an extremely high standard. Most of the games we played were draws but as a team we learnt a lot from the experience and will take away some valuable lessons to help improve ourselves as a team.  Well done boys you did our school proud.

 

This was our first girl’s football league match. The girls had been working hard developing their skills and resilience and giving up their lunch time to get in some extra practice.  As the game started the girls’ dedication really showed.  It was the first time the girls had had the opportunity to play as a team in a competitive match and played with huge amounts of enthusiasm and passion. Their determination paid off when Zainab broke through the strong Kings Road defence to score our first goal. In the second half Lawford Mead continued to push hard and Frankie struck a right footed volley straight in to the top corner of the goal. 2-0!! Kings Road matched the determination and carried on working hard to score a goal before the final whistle blew, making the final score 2-1 to Lawford Mead. Well done girls, a great first game.

Miss Lindsay, Miss Chittick and Mrs Archer took 24 year 5 and 6 children over to Melbourne Park, to say it was wet was an understatement! As we all stood huddled under the tarpaulin that we had originally brought to sit on, and the hail stones started to fall we considered turning around and returning to school. We were then ushered into the sports hall where we attempted to dry off and were told that the races would still go ahead. The children were taken out race at a time into the sunshine and onto the soggy field while the rest of us stayed in the hall playing games. The races started and LawfordMead ran as well as they could. The overall results were year 5 girls finishing 9^th, Year 5 boys finishing 6^th, Year 6 girls finishing 8^th and year 6 boys finishing 6^th. Well done all of you for showing resilience and determination.

 

 

It was that time again to host our termly Lawford Mead Dodgeball tournament.  Miss Lindsay and the children were super excited to be playing in another dodgeball competition. This time we were able to field 5 teams and welcome Bishops school and Margaretting school.  The pupils all waited eagerly and listened carefully as Miss Lindsay explained all the rules and then the competition began.  The games were all played at such a high tempo with some outstanding dodgeball being played.  As always, the crowd played their part by creating a fantastic atmosphere that spurred all the teams on.  With the crowd roaring them on the final approached it was Lawford Mead vs Lawford Mead.  The final was so tense with the score at 1-1 after 2 games. The match game down to sudden death and with the pressure mounting Lawford Mead B managed to hold their nerve and take the title! Well done Lawford Mead B and all the teams who came and competed.

 

8th November 2016

Home match v Bishops School .

This was our 2^nd league game of the season and the kids were very excited to be playing bishops a school that we haven’t played before as they are not normally in our league.it was a very cold Tuesday afternoon and the game started very brightly with Lawford Mead creating lots of early chances, the crowd roared very loudly as Matthew and Harvey both hit the post in a matter of minutes. Bishops started to get back into the game and put us under pressure and within 3 minutes we found ourselves 0-3 nil down, bishops continued to cause us lots of problems creating many chances and scored another 3 goals . at half time miss Lindsay gave her team talk ,and after some confidence boosting the team came out for the second half with a new found passion and resilience ,

Even thou Lawford Mead tried their best and even got 2 goals back, Bishops were the stronger team and finished up 10 -2 winners, well done Bishops.

15^th November 2016

League game v Baddow Hall .

This was our 3^rd league game of the season and the children were looking forward to hosting the game against Baddow, Lawford Mead starting very strongly and really played some outstanding football. With both our wingers Callum and Harvey tearing through the Baddow defence creating many chances for our forwards, it wasn’t long before our hard work paid off with clinical finish from Matthew after great play from bobby to set him up , this was quickly followed with another goal when bobby swung in a corner for Callum to head in at the far post to make it 2-0 , Lawford Mead continued to create some great goal scoring chances and with a free kick being awarded just outside the box, up stepped Bobby to fire us 3-0 ahead. The second half was played with a good pace and some outstanding football being played by both teams, Baddow created chances themselves and managed to catch us on the break and got 2 goals back , with the game quite close Lawford Mead stepped up a gear and started playing some lovely football, and their patience and resilience paid off when Bobby got his 2^nd goal of the game, followed by a great run and finish from Harvey to put Lawford 5-2 up, with further goals from Harvey, Callum  and with Bobby getting his 2^nd goal of the game, and then Baddow got 2 more goals themselves.  Lawford Mead finished 8-4 winners.

 

29th November 2016

Tonight’s game saw Kings Road come and join us.  As always, the team were very excited to be playing a match.  The game started very brightly and Lawford Mead played some outstanding football and really showed how hard they have all been working to improve their skills and fitness. With the game being played at such a high level from both teams Callum burst down the wing to put in a great cross that Harvey was able to get on the end of to put Lawford Mead 1-0 up.  With Bobby taking control in the midfield he put a great ball through to Harvey who slotted it home for his second goal of the match.  Lawford Mead continued to create chances that were blocked by the Kings Road side. Then a free kick was awarded outside the box that Bobby was able to score a lovely goal to make it 3-0 by half time. The second half continued as strongly seeing goals from Tom, Callum Bobby and Matthew, making the score 7-0 by the final whistle.