Cross Country

Are you ready for the Cross Country season 2025 - 2026? Details of the proposed races are in the document below. Looking forward to seeing as many Y3,Y4,Y5 and Y6 children as possible representing our school!

Mrs Bell

      2025 - 2026 so far

Race 5 - Concord Park

It wasn't raining!!! 

We had 27 children out today and while we missed some of our regulars due to illness, we welcomed Robyn P and Albert U to their first ever cross country race! I thought in the lead up to Christmas there may be less children overall, but there wasn't and we had some massive PBs today. All the children were brilliant as usual and everyone tried hard especially up that big hill at the end!

Special mentions today go to...Robyn W, Violet and Ellie for their huge PBs (Y3/4), Ray B,  Freddie, William, Bertie T and Zaeyne for their PBs (Y3/4)! Isla (Y6) who finished 27/107 in the Y5/6 girls race; Sadie and Saffie for their PBs (massive PB for Saffie). In the Y5/6 boys race, Parker (Y6)  finished 21/138 - outstanding running for everyone today.

A very special mention for Oscar S (y3), who stuck with Albert up that long drag to the finish. It was Albert's first race and Oscar was Mr Motivator this morning, supporting him all the way to the finish. Well done Oscar.

Results:

Y3/4 Girls Team A - Esme, Evelyn, Ellie, Lola

Y3/4 Girls Team B -Kylie, Violet, Robyn W, Robyn P (124 runners)

Y3/4 Boys Team A - Jacob, Milo, Freddie G, Ray B

Y3/4 Boys Team B - Zaeyne, Bertie, William, Oscar and Albert ( 165 runners)

Y5/6 Girls A Team - Isla, Harnam, Sadie, Saffie (107 runners)

Y5/6 Boys A Team - Parker, Harry, Maxwell, Jacob

Y5/6 Boys B Team - Maksym and Micah (incomplete team)  138 runners

WELL DONE to everyone.

Also, thank you to Polly Crookes, Nikki Smith, Daisy Holland and Mr Wild for your help this morning!

Race 4 - Parkwood Springs - another WET one!

I've never known a Cross Country season so wet! Race 4 was the 3rd WET race - only one dry race so far. Despite the rain, a few illnesses, and football matches taking priority, we managed to get 22 children out running today. We were able to enter teams in all categories except the Y5/6 girls race  - Gabby and Charlotte both did really well but we needed 2 more runners to make a team.

Results:

Y3/4 Girls - Team A  - Esme H, Evelyn, Ellie, Violet, Poppy (and they were all '2 digits' - no one over 100 and about 120 girls ran)

Y3/4 Boys - Team A - Milo, Freddie, Ray, Zaeyne

                 - Team B - Alex, Bertie, Joseph (incomplete team)

Y5/6 Girls - Team A - Gabby, Charlotte (incomplete team)

Y5/6 Boys - Team A - Harry, Alfie, Casper, Maksym

                     Team B - Micah, Maxwell, Jacob, Michael

Well done you lovely lot and I hope you have now dried out!

Race 3 - Bradfield Secondary School

A HUGE well done to our hardy runners who braved the really wet weather today and came out to  run for Norton Free! We had 23 brave runners this morning and you were fantastic! It was WET, MUDDY and SLIPPY - difficult to run in those conditions, but that didn't stop the children. Everyone finished their races, some children managed a PB and everyone was smiling at the end. We had Bertie (Y3) joining us this morning and a surprise visit from Mr Holland. Thank you to all the children who braved the elements this morning - you are incredible!

Poppy gets the prize for the best facial expression, Alex was probably the muddiest and Milo (Y3), Zaeyne  (Y4), Alfie (Y5) and Isla (Y6) smashed out a new PB each! All 23 of you deserve a medal for turning up and running today - Thank you for supporting school! Mrs B!

Y3/4 Girls

Team A - Esme H, Evelyn F, Kylie Rose S, Lola S, Poppy M

Y3/4 Boys

Team A - Jacob O, Milo, Freddie G, Zaeyne

Team B - Ray B, Bertie T, Alex (incomplete team)

Y5/6 Girls - 

Team A - Harnam, Gabby, Isla (incomplete team)

Y5/6 Boys

Team A - Parker, Harry, Alfie L, Casper

Team B - Micah, Jacob, Maksym. Michael

Race 2 - The Bolehills

We had 35 children out running for Norton Free this morning which is amazing for a one form entry school! All the children were FANTASTIC as usual and ran really well on a very hilly course. There were 753 Sheffield children taking part so well done to everyone who came out to run. Race 1 = rain, race 2 = hills!

We welcomed Charlotte and Poppy (Y3) this morning, Stanley TH (Y4), Harnam (Y5) and Casper (Y5). They all did really well especially Harnam, Poppy and Charlotte for their first ever cross country race, with Harnam finishing 28th out of 156 runners!

Our results:

Y3/4 Girls Team A - Sophia S (30th), Kylie Rose, Evelyn F, Esme H

Y3/4 Girls Team B - Lola, Evie, Isla, Violet

Y3/4 Girls Team C - Robyn, Poppy, Charlotte (incomplete team) (167 runners)

Y3/4 Boys Team A - Jacob O (20th), Stanley TH, Milo P, Zaeyne S

Y3/4 Boys Team B - Ray B, William H, Oscar S, Joseph M (239 runners)

Y5/6 Girls Team A -  Harnam (28th), Gabby G, Isla, Sadie, Charlotte (156 runners)

Y5/6 Boys Team A - Parker (10th), Harry (23rd), Casper (46th) Alfie (77th)

Y5/6 Boys Team B - Jacob M, Maxwell, Maksym, Micah, Michael (191 runners)

Well done to everyone who took part. We had some PBs today  - Ellie improved by 30 places, Violet by 25 and Lola by 20 in the Y3/4 girls race. William improved by 48 places and Milo improved by 22 places in the Y3/4 boys race. Gabby improved by 18 places in the Y5/6 girls race and Jacob M improved by 12 places! Well done to all of you! Biggest improver this week goes to William (Y3)!

Thank you for coming to represent Norton Free - you are all BRILLIANT, wherever you finished. 

Eccleshall Woods - Race 1

That was a soggy race! We had a fantastic turn out for our small school with 35 children braving the wind and rain, running around getting soaking wet. I bet we had more children representing school than some much bigger schools.

Welcome to all the year 3 children who came out for the first time today. We had some brilliant results from the Y3s and Y4s and some equally brilliant results in the Y5 and Y6 races. Everyone looked very damp by the end! I have added the results to the league and our results are listed below.

Team A consists of the first 4 children across the line, Team B is the next 4 and team C is the next 4. We do so well to get more than one team out so thank you for coming along.

Y3/4 Girls Race - (150 runners)

Team A - Kylie Rose (28), Sophia S, Esme R, Evelyn F

Team B - Esme H, Lola, Isla C, Ellie N

Team C - Violet, Robyn (incomplete team)

Y3/4 Boys Race - (231 runners)

Team A - Jacob O (17), Freddie G (43), Milo P, Ray B

Team B - Zaeyne, Oscar, Alex, Joseph

Team C - William, Theo, Henry (incomplete team)

Y5/6 Girls Race - (137 runners)

Team A - Gabby (58), Isla, Sadie, Amber

Team B - Charlotte, Saffy (incomplete team)

Y5/6 Boys Race- (183 runners)

Team A - Parker (20), Harry (22), Alfie, Jacob M

Team B - Maksym, Maxwell, Micah, Michael (all the Ms)

Year 3s - Well done Kylie Rose, first race and finished 28/150 girls. Evelyn F first race and finished 43/150 boys. Jacob O - first race and finished 17/231 boys. What a brilliant first race!

Parker, Zaeyne and Freddie G, Sophia S, Lola S and Esme R  all got PBs today - well done to you!

Race 8 -  City Championships - Graves Park:

WELL DONE to all our fabulous children running today in the City Champs! There were over 600 children taking part today and 30 of them were representing Norton Free.

We had guest appearances from Dylan, Stan D and Dotty and this meant that we could enter more teams (4 in a team). We had seven teams out today, amazing for a small school. Thank you!

You were ALL brilliant everyone finished the tough, muddy race and we had some PBs.

Well done to Harry (18th),  Eliza (24th) and Parker (23rd) - top 20 or top 30 in Sheffield is something to be very proud of!

Well done to Tamara who came and ran even though she had a late night at a sleep over!! That is real commitment.

Results:

Y3/4 Girls Team A - Gabby, Esme R, Isla C, Sophia S

Y3/4 Girls Team B - Lola, Esme H, Ellie, Imogen, Jasmine

Y3/4 Boys Team A - Harry W, Alfie L, Freddie G, Stanley TH

Y3/4 Boys Team B - Oliver, Ray B, Jacob, Zaeyne, Alex

Y5/6 Girls Team A - Eliza, Charlotte, Dotty, Tamara

Y5/6 Boys Team A - Parker, Finley, Maksym, Dylan

Y5/6 Boys Team B - Noah, Jesse, Michael, Stanley D

Lola S achieved a new PB and so did Freddie G in the Y3/4 races. Well done to you two!

Maksym had a great run today with a 17 place PB!

Zaeyne saw Alex fall at the beginning of the Y3/4 boys race and went back to get him so he could run - team work! Zaeyne deserves a special mention!

Thanks to Mr Grimmer who came to help and to the parents who marshalled - Mr Lowe and Mr Crookes!

Y3/4 Boys have QUALIFIED for the South Yorkshire School Games Cross Country at Cannon Hall, Barnsley on the 11th February 2020. Well Done boys! 

This event has been postponed until further notice, due to the current weather situation!