Summer Event, 30th June 2018

This year's summer event is on 30th June and will run from 2.00pm to 4.45pm at Woodland Middle School, Malham Close, Flitwick MK45 1NP.

Please note that staff, boys and girls are expected to wear uniform for the Presentations. A tuck shop will be open during the afternoon.

Please note that in the absence of any information from any of the individual competition organisers, I have re-issued last year's information.

The Anchors will be doing Sports, organised by Angela Hathaway.

Juniors will all be doing a Triathlon, organised by Andrew Burchell.

Company will be doing Archery organised by Allan Tresidder.

Seniors will be playing tennis, organised by Steve Fossey.

The competitions will be followed by Battalion Praise and presentation of the annual battalion trophies.

Please advise the relevant organisers of the numbers of people taking part no later than Friday 29th June.

Anchors Sports:

• Relay running race: First Anchor carries a skittle, runs from start marker, around top marker and back to finish marker passing skittle to the next Anchor.
• Potato and spoon: First Anchor holds spoon with ONE hand, no fingers must be touching the potato! Runs from start marker, around top marker and back to finish marker passing potato and spoon to the next Anchor.
• Hopping relay: First Anchor hops to the (half distance) end cone, round and back, hopping all the way. When he gets back to the start line the next Anchor goes
• Juggling ball Hoop: First Anchor runs from start marker to hoop and picks up juggling ball. He then runs back to throwing marker and standing still throws juggling ball into hoop. Leave juggling ball in hoop and run back to finish marker to the next Anchor. If juggling ball misses hoop then Anchor must keep trying until successful.
• Sack Race: First Anchor jumps in sack from start marker, around top marker and back to finish marker to the next Anchor.
• Over and Under: Anchors stand in straight line and pass skittle over first one's head, under second one's legs, over third one, to 4th one who runs to the front and starts again, over then under. Keep repeating until first Anchor is back at the front of the line. (Teams with <4 will have to get members from front to run to the back to make up the numbers each time. Just remember that you will probably get confused when the game is finished - game is finished when a 4th Anchor runs to the front!).
• Loaded: First Anchor runs from start marker, around top marker where he picks up one item, back to finish marker and gives it to second Anchor. Second Anchor takes this item back to top marker where he picks up a second item and takes that back to the next Anchor. This Anchor carries both items to marker and picks up a third item and so on. Fourth Anchor brings all five items to finish marker, team sits down.
• Hoops: First Anchor runs from start marker, through hoops, around top marker through hoops and back to finish marker to the next Anchor.
• Football Dribbling: First Anchor dribbles football from start marker, around markers to top marker and back to finish marker to the next Anchor.

Rules:

• 4 Anchors per team. Teams with more than 4 Anchors can have a different team member stand out for each game.
• Teams with <4 will have to get members to run twice to make up to 4.
• Companies are encouraged to enter more than one team. Please make sure everyone knows which Company they belong to (would be helpful if they could wear a Company name sticker / ID)
• Every team's score counts. The winning Company will be the single team with the highest score.
• As soon as each your team finishes they must sit down. The teams will be awarded positions only once sitting.
• The first four teams to finish and be sitting down after each event will be given points. 1st = 8 points, 2nd = 6 points, 3rd = 4 points, 4th = 2 points.
• Four judges will be appointed (volunteers required please) to decide on finishing positions.
• After every event those finishing in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th position will be given card to give to Head Judge who will record result on master scoreboard.
• Event will be outside. Should there be very heavy rain we will be in the Hall.
• Games may be omitted depending on time (and if inside).

JS Triathlon Rules

Companies may enter as many teams of 3 as they like.  Teams of less than 3 will be at a disadvantage, but are still welcome to take part, or form mixed teams where numbers permit.

Please advise Andrew Burchell of the number of Juniors that you expect to be entering.

• The competiton consists of three events; skill, mental & stamina.
• For each event the teams will be ranked in order (so the 1st placed team gets 1 point, 2nd placed team gets 2 points and so on).
• The scores for each event are then added up to find out which team wins the overall event.

Skills

• Teams will demonstrate their skills at a variety of challenges, e.g. dribbling, shooting, throwing
• Details will be given out on the day
• All Juniors in a team do each activity & score points in accordance with the score card for the event

Mental

• Teams will be given a mental challenge

Stamina

• All Juniors take part in a run around a marked course (the run will take between 5 & 10 minutes if you run all of the way). At the end of the race runners will be handed a position card. This must then be taken to the scorer who will allocate the appropriate points to the teams. All finishing places will contribute to the scores. Any runners who fail to complete the course will come in joint last place. If a team has less than 3, those "missing" will score as if they came in joint last place.

Company Archery 

Note: These rules may be subject to amendment.

Companies may enter as many teams of 2 as they like.  In addition to the Battalion team competition there will be an individual award for the Top Archer.

There will be three diciplines:

• Short Distance - 6 Paces 3 Archers at a time, 3 or 4 Arrows each (tbc).
  Targets to be elevated.
  Score points for arrows that stick to the target; any that bounce off / fall off, don't score.
  Where an arrow crosses the line between 2 scoring zones, the higher score is awarded.
  Refs decision is final.
• Long Distance - as for Short Distance but at 10 Paces
• Rapid Fire - at 6 paces, firing at 6 2-Litre plastic bottles on tables, an equal distance apart.
  3 archers at a time
  On command "go", the 3 archers fire arrows to hit the bottles / quick reload / fire again. Each bottle hit (knocked over) scores 1 point for their team.
  Firing continues until all 6 bottles are hit or the arrows have run out.

Each Archer gets a placing for each discipline, 1 to ...
The team score for each discipline is calculated by adding the placings of the archers on that team, so if one team has an archer with the highest score and an archer in 10th place they will score 1+10 = 11 points.
Where 2 archers get the same score, they'd be awarded a joint placing (say joint 3rd place, and the next person would get 5th place, etc).
For each discipline the teams are then ranked in order (so the 1st placed team gets 1 point, 2nd placed team gets 2 points and so on).
The rankings for each discipline are added to work out the overall score for the competition.

Senior Tennis