ORSETT Heath Academy and Thurrock Rugby Club hosted the Thurrock School Sport Partnership year 5/6 tag rugby festival.

Eleven schools from across the borough took part ably assisted by year 8 sports leaders from Orsett Heath Academy. The tournament was organised by Alexa Joel (school games organiser) for the Thurrock School Sport Partnership.

The tournament featured some great matches between schools in the pool stages, with the runners up in each pool progressing to a round robin for fourth, fifth and sixth place and the winners of each pool battling it out in a round Robin for the medals.

After some really close matches the results were as follows:

5th Kenningtons

3rd Belmont Castle

1st Thameside

Rugby Returns To Thurrock Schools!

Thurrock's schools rugby post pandemic is being supported by Thurrock's new Academy of Rugby which thriving under the management of David Harries.

As well as the primary action, both William Edwards and Orsett Heath Academy recently sent strong teams to the Essex Under13s tournament at Barking. This was an excellent event and both teams gave good accounts of themselves against outstanding opposition from Brentwood, Campion and Bancroft.

And both teams went through to the next round in a few weeks time.

If you would like to know more about the work of the schools sports partnership and check on events they have coming up, visit its website via this link