We believe that sport plays a vital role in the development of children. The values and attitudes that can be acquired through improving personal performance or working as part of a team are values for life. All our children have the opportunity to experience a wide range of sporting games and activities at individual and team level through our PE curriculum and extra-curricular clubs.

School Year 2024-2025

Our girl's football team are representing Darwen in the Lancashire County Finals today after winning the Darwen league! Along with Miss Whaley and Mrs Jacques, they have an early start, heading to Fleetwood Town FC with a schedule of eight games to play. We wish them lots of luck and we will keep you posted throughout the day. We are already so proud of them and we know they will give it their all today. COME ON GIRLS!

School Year 23-24

Girls Football Finals at St Bedes

On Tuesday 5th December, the girls' football finals took place at St Bedes High School. They played their first game against Shadsworth and lost 1:0. Next, they played against Lower Darwen and although Debbie-Leigh scored a beautiful goal, they unfortunately drew 1:1. Finally, they played their last match against Ashleigh and managed to win 2:1.

A huge well done to all the girls that took part: Debbie, Lily, Esther, Amelia , Melody, Swanika and Harper.

Written by Esther and Debbie-Leigh

Boccia Festival

On Friday 17^th November, a group of children were taken to QEGS Sports hall and playing fields in Blackburn.

The group of three children ranging from year 3 to year 5, were a little apprehensive. They had only started playing Boccia in the last 3 weeks.

When the group entered the hall, there were a lot of different schools ready to play.

We had our first game and made a draw, the three children gained confidence.

Our next game was a loss, but then the last two games the team won by 4-2 each time.

The behaviour and sportsmanship of the team was outstanding. Mrs Hudson and Mrs Dewhurst were extremely proud of the team.

Well done St James Jets.

Girls football Tournament 14.11.23

On Tuesday 14th November, our KS2 girls football team played in their first competition at St Bedes.

We played 5 matched in total.  We drew one, lost one (narrowly) and won 3!  There were some amazing goals from our year 5 girls and even our youngest member, Harper, managed to get herself on the score sheet.

We finished in second place and as such qualify for the finals night on Tuesday 5th December.

A huge well done to all the girls for a super team effort.

Football League – Week 5

Last night our year 5’s represented school in our week 5 match.  Due to the year 6 children being away and unavailable to play, we had a few new faces.

We played against St Edwards – It was a very close match and our new players performed really well, despite not having played with the team before.  We pushed hard and had some great chances before they scored twice in the space of a few minutes.

We didn’t let this get to us and continued to work hard.  We were rewarded at the very end of the match, when Lily-Mai scored a wonderful free kick that snuck into the bottom corner of their goal.

Although we lost 2-1 the team played well and showed great determination throughout the game.

A huge well done to all the children who have represented St James’ Football Team during the league fixtures this year.  Also a massive thankyou to the parents, grandparents and carers who have turned up every week in the rain and wind to cheer the team on.

Week 4 League Matches

Thursday 2^nd November

Last night, our football team once again ventured out, this time in the pouring rain and wind, to play our 4^th week of matches.

We had 3 games to play.  The first against Holy Trinity which we won by a convincing 3 – 0.  The second match was St Peters. They were a very strong team and although we tried our very best and played as a team we were no match for them this time.  Our last game was St Barnanbas – another strong opponent.  By this time we were all very cold and very wet.  The ball was almost impossible to keep hold of bvut we played on and Axl once again made some amazing saves.  Unfortunately they were the better team and we lost.

The team showed determination, spirit and grit.  We are very proud of our performance.

Well done everyone.

On Thursday, St James' football (year 5 and 6 team) took part in two league matches.  The first game was against St James' Darwen.  We took an early lead thanks to Reun who also scored two more for his hatrick but St James' Darwen scored another thress against us so this game ended 3-3.

Then we played St Pauls. We played really well in this game but they won 2-0.  Overall we played really well and are proud of our performance.

Report by Harrison Yr 5