Sport at Holly Hill
Welcome to our sports page!
Here at Holly Hill we like to do as many sport competitions in and out of school as possible so here is a page to celebrate what has been going on.
If your child has competed for an outside club at all and you would like your child to be on this page to celebrate their achievement then please see Mrs Fisher, we would love to hear all about it!
Tuesday 16th June - District Sports
Monday 15th June - Wholeschool Sports Day 2026
Monday 23rd March - KS2 Dodgeball @ Holly Hill
Friday 20th March - Year 5/6 Orienteering @ Jacksdale
Tuesday 17th March - Football Match against St. Mary's
Monday 16th March - Girl's Football Match against Priory
Tuesday 10th March - Football Match against Greasley Beauvale
Monday 9th March - Girl's Football Match against Underwood
Thursday 5th March - Year 5/6 Tag-Rugby
Tuesday 3rd March - Football Match against Hawthorne
Friday 13th February - KS2 Cross Country Running @ Wollaton Hall
Thursday 5th February - Year 5/6 Basketball
January - over the last 3 weeks, children from year 3 and 4 have enjoyed swimming lessons in our very own 'pop-up' pool.
27th January - Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics @ Kirkby Leisure Centre
13th January - KS2 inclusive Multi skills event @ Kirkby Leisure Centre
11th December - Year 3/4 Indoor Athletics @ Kirkby Leisure Centre
20th November - Year 1/2 Indoor athletics @ Kirkby Leisure Centre
5th October - Year 5/6 Football tournament @ Kimberley School
14th October - Girls Football against St Marys
13th October - Boys Football against Jacksdale
9th October - Year 5/6 Handball @ Kirkby Leisure Centre
8th October - Freestyle Football
We were all incredibly lucky to be able to have a visit from Ash Randall, a record breaking Football Freestyler. We all watched his amazing skills in an exciting assembly and then were able to have a workshop with him to have a go ourselves!
6th October - Girls football match against Holywell
30th September - XC running
20 children from year 3/4 took part in the Next Level Games XC running at Beardall Fields. All the children ran some amazing races, we came 2nd in most of the races and this led us to be the final, overall winners!
Fantastic achievement!
18th September - Netball Festival
8 girls from year 5/6 took part in the Ashfield Games Netball Festival at Ravenshead Leisure Centre. The girls had an amazing opportunity to train with the Hucknall Town Coaches.
Well done girls!
2024 - 2025
17.06.25 District Sports! What a great afternoon and some great results! Well done everyone! ???? ??????
13.05.25 girls football match against Hawthorne.
8th May - Year 5 football tournament
1st May - Netball
30th April - XC running
A group of 24 runners headed to Florence Nightingale to compete in the district cross country running. They all ran very good races with some exceptional placings. All races had nearly 100 children in!!
Girls -
8th Bethany
10th Bebe
17th Skyla
18th Dana
Boys -
1st Charlie
17th Alfie
20th Blake
29th April - Boccia
2nd April - Year 1/2 XC running
28th March - Year 6 Orienteering
Spring Term - over the last term we have been inundated with both friendly and league football matches. The Holly Hill children have had a lovely time playing both at home and away against 7 different schools. Fantastic effort by all!
29.11.24
KS1 and EYFS had a fantastic opportunity to experience a trampolining workshop. Each class spent time on the trampolines learning about the safety aspects we have to follow, and having a go at different ways of bouncing on the trampolines, also seeing what ‘tricks’ they could do.
KS1
21.11.24
Today, 12 year 3/4 children headed to Kirkby leisure centre to compete in their indoor athletics competition. Just like year 1/2 children they all had a great time.
And again…. The team came overall 2nd!
A fantastic achievement! Well done everyone!
14.10.24
12 children went to Kirkby leisure centre to compete in the KS1 indoor athletics competition. The children were fantastic and had so much fun!
The team came 2nd overall which is a great achievement!
10.10.24
On Thursday 15 year 5 children took part in ATTFE’s Harry Potter event (Academy Transformation Trust Further Education) at Ashfield Rugby Club.
The event included Harry Potter focused activities and entertainment, including elements of physical activity (linked to School Games), arts and science. There was even a visit from some Birds of Prey! We were asked to create a house name, flag and value.
All the children had the best time, thank you to Mr Close and Mrs Cordon for taking them.
A game of Quidditch...
03.10.24
10 children from year 5/6 travelled to Kirkby Leisure Centre to compete in the Next Level Handball competition, a team made up of 5 girls and 5 boys. Well done to all the children who took part.
24.09.24
The first event of the season was year 3/4 cross country running at St. Mary's Huthwaite. All the children had a great time but very tired after having to run a long way! Well done to all that took part.
2023-2024
Swimming at Holly Hill
Next Level Competition calendar 2023-2024
18.06.24 District Sports
17.06.24 Whole School Sports Day ?? ?? ????
07.05.24
A great netball match against Kirkby Woodhouse this week, the score was 13-2 to KWH but Holly Hill played really really well. Keep going girls!
02.05.24
Our first netball match this year took us to Beardall Fields. The team was a very good side and Holly Hill were up against the odds. The girls kept their heads up - well played girls, a great future ahead!
30.04.24
We were really proud to host the KS1 running competition at Holy Hill. 24 children from year 1 and 2 represented us. So many children ran their very best with some medals as well! Fantastic effort by all.
30.04.24
The KS2 Boccia team competed in a festival at Kirkby Leisure Centre, they all had a fantastic time and came home with a lovely certificate.
24.04.24
20 children took part in the Eastwood and District cross country running. A fantastic effort by all.
A big well done to the two boys in the year 5/6 race.
1st went to Oscar and 3rd went to Charlie!
23.04.24
FIRST EVER GIRLS FOOTBALL TEAM!!
Well done to girls in year 3,4,5&6 for playing in the first girl's football team for Holly Hill against Jacksdale! Very proud of you all!
16.04.24
Well done to the boys football team who played a great match against Jacksdale!
21.03.24 8 children from year 5/6 enjoyed an afternoon competing in an orienteering competition at Jacksdale primary school. The children took part in different tasks, learning different skills to do with orienteering. Unfortunately, the weather was not great but it did not stop them from smiling ?? ???
03.02.24 Congratulations Oscar and Charlie! They both ran extremely well in the Nottinghamshire cross country running championships at Worksop College. They came 16th and 18th out of nearly 100 runners!! Well done!
23.01.24 Eight year 4/5 girls went to Sutton academy to play basketball. The girls did a great job even though the baskets were incredibly high! ??
15.01.24 We sent three boys to compete in the trials for the Nottinghamshire cross country running. They all ran really well with Oscar and Charlie coming in the top 10. This means that they will go forward to the Championships at Worksop College in February. ??
16.11.23 - KS1 indoor athletics
15.11.23 another brilliant afternoon for the football team! Unfortunately not the result we wanted though. After wining all of our matches in our group we went through to the semi final. After full time and then extra time the game went to penalties. We were just beaten at the very end. Great performance boys!
05.10.23 Year 3/4 Cross Country Running @ Kingsway Primary School
Holly Hill took 16 runners from year 3/4 to Kingsway school. The course was tough with a considerable hill that the children had to climb twice. All of the children ran fantastically and tried their very best!
Well done to you all. ?????? ????
27.09.23 KS1 Footgolf @ Horsendale Primary school
26.09.23 - Handball @ Sutton Community Centre
A team of 10 year 5/6 children travelled to Sutton to compete against 5 other schools in Handball. A fast-paced game with no room for error, Holly Hill played really well, drawing 3 of their matches but unfortunately losing 2 of the matches. The team played with great sportsmanship and encouraged each throughout the games.
Well done to all!
(Sorry no photos today!)
2022-2023
16.05.23 a great day spent at Eastwood football grounds with Elite sport. We took a year 6 and year 3 team. The year 6's dominated the tournament from the start and came home with the winning trophy. The year 3s also had a great day playing a sport they love. Well done boys!
24.04.23 - winners of the Holly Hill, Bagthorpe, Brinsley tri tournament! ??
21.04.23 - Healthy Living Day - Well done to our Workout Warriors who won themselves a Next Level Sports water bottle!
21.04.23 KS1 Healthy Living Day
21.04.23 - FS/KS1 Healthy Living Day
20.04.23 Eastwood and district Cross-country running
2021-2022
Wednesday 27th April
What a fabulous performance the Holly Hill children put on at the Eastwood and District xc running! We can say that all the training has definitely paid off!
The year 3/4 girls absolutely controlled their race with girls coming home in 1st, 5th, 7th, 8th! Special mention to Freya who won!
The highest placed year 3/4 boy came home in 6th - well done Oscar!
The year 5/6 children also ran really well with over 100 runners in each race.
Fantastic results, Mrs Fisher cannot wait to go back next year! Keep up the training!
Monday 25th April - football tournament against Bagthorpe and Brinsley
The football team played two great teams for their last match of the season. Unfortunately, it wasn’t our day today, not scoring any goals and conceding three. A fantastic effort by all of the team. We look forward to next season when the year 5 children will continue and welcome in the year 4.
Tuesday 22nd February - year 5/6 sports hall athletics, track events. Well done to all of you!
Tuesday 8th February
12 year 5/6 children walked down to Selston High to take part in the Sportshall athletics competition. All the children were really well behaved and tried their best in all of the events. Well done ??
Tuesday 8th February - a great win for the year 5/6 football team against Lawrence View Primary School! Well done ??
Friday 4th February - really proud of these 8 children who represented Holly Hill at the Nottingham schools cross country running competition, held at Wollaton Hall. They had to run 2 kilometres! They have trained nearly every lunchtime for the last month and did not disappoint on the day. Well done to you all. ?? ??
Tuesday 9th November - the year 5/6 children having a lovely time doing Archery as part of their multi skills after school club.
Wednesday 3rd November - the football team at the Eastwood and district Football tournament at Kimberley. ?? ??
Monday 4th October - the football team's first Eastwood and district league match. We all got a little bit damp!! ??
Friday 1st October - a great start for the young ambassadors, they held a speed bounce competition for year 3\4. ??
Wednesday 29th September - Football tournament ?? 10 boys took part in a football tournament at Eastwood County Ground. The boys played really well and even got to meet Ben Osborne who is a professional footballer who plays for Sheffield united, he used to play for Forest!
Tuesday 21st September - a fantastic effort by all at the Ashfield cross country running competition held at Holly Hill. Our children did us proud. Well done all ???? ????
Tuesday 21st September - We are pleased to say that we have had 6 year 5/6 children trained to be our Sports ambassadors for the upcoming year. They will be in charge of organising sport and competitions within school. Good luck team!
