Badminton
ABERDEENSHIRE PRIMARY SCHOOLS
GIRLS SINGLES & DOUBLES BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS
SATURDAY 15TH MARCH 2008 AT KEMNAY ACADEMY
About 50 girls entered the tournament. The following girls represented Culter School.
Rachel Summers, Charlotte Irvine, Amy Rugg, and Jemma Stein (all P6B).
Well done to all girls from culter School for participating. Rachel, Charlotte and Amy played doubles. Jemma played singles and doubles. All four girls said that they really enjoyed the match play experience.
Congratualtions to one of the girls who reached the quarter-finals of the singles and has therefore qualified for the Scottish Primary Schools Tournament at the Bells Sports Centre in Perth in April.
She will be competing against girls from all over Scotland! We wish everyone all the best at this Tournment.
LATEST NEWS!
From the blog below you will have noticed that Adam Fisher & Joshua Coutts reached the semi-finals of their doubles match. As they did so well, the qualified for the Scottish Primary Schools Tournament at Bells Sports Centre in Perth in April. They will play against pupils from all over Scotland. Well done to them both and good luck when the time comes!
Aberdeenshire Primary Schools
Boys Singles & Doubles
Saturday 1st March - Banchory Academy & Sports Centre
Over 100 boys entered the above tournament. Culter School had 22 boys representing our school. This is a record amount of entries from Culter School since I’ve been coaching. The Culter boys all seemed to enjoy the tournament and it was nice to see them supporting each other. It was a long day for the players who were playing doubles and singles, not forgetting the parents who stayed and watched all day.
Well done to all the boys for participating. Congratulations to Adam Fisher and Joshua Coutts who reached the semi-finals of the doubles. Congratulations again to Adam who reached the quarter-finals of the singles and to Zack Griffiths who won his singles pool. all 3 boys each received a trophy for their achievements.
The boys taking part were:
Greg Carrell P4/5I, Adam McBain 4/5I, Thomas Stein 4/5I, Toby Veale P5W, Zack Griffiths P6C, Michael Carrell 6C, Scott Main 6C, Dylan Tyrie-Dron 6C, Duncan Craig 6C, Matthew McIntosh P6B, Cameron Porter 6B, Alasdair Lowe 6B, Jack Yule 6B, Mark Nicholson 6B, Joshua Coutts 6B, Adam Fisher 6B, Callum Buchan 6B, Ryan McKinnon 6B, Kieran Fowler 6B, Ross Harman 6B, Iain Hossack P7P and Elliot Wood 7P
Gillian Moore, Badminton Coach
p.s. A reminder that the Girls Tournament is at Kemnay on Saturday 15th March, 2008.
Aberdeenshire Primary Schools Badminton Tournament Boys - Saturday 1st March 2008Girls - Saturday 15th March 2008Entry forms can be obtained from Gillian MooreCULTER PUPILS REPRESENT ABERDEEN CITY BADMINTON TEAM
Here is a picture of our two pupils who were selected to represent the Aberdeen City Badminton Team.
Unfortunately the Moray Team didn’t come down due to bad weather. Well done to the Aberdeenshire Team who won the Inter Area Tournament. All the players played singles matches and then some fun doubles was organised for them.
MORE BADMINTON NEWS!
Congratulations to two of our pupils who have been selected to represent the Aberdeen City Badminton Team for the Inter-Area Triangular Tournament on Saturday 2nd February 2008 at Portlethen Academy.
The team is made up of 2 boys and 2 girls from P6, P7, S1 & S2. They will play singles matches against the Aberdeenshire and Moray teams.
GOOD LUCK TO THEM BOTH!
This is our school badminton team. We play regular matches with other schools and sometimes we do really well. Most of all we have fun. We have a great coach called Mrs Moore. She gives up a lot of her time for us.
And here is us in action!
We are playing a match in Portlethen Academy on Saturday. We are representing Culter School at the Aberdeenshire Primary School Badminton Quaich. The winners of the Tournament will represent the North East of Scotland at Grangemouth in February. Wish us luck!
Here are the results of Culters match at Portlethen.Peterculter 2 Arduthie 3Peterculter 0 Mill of Forrest A 5Peterculter 5 Oyne 0Peterculter 4 Glenbervie 1Ten teams entered the event and they were put into two pools. Culter came third in their pool. The team played brilliantly and they had some super challenging matches. This was great experience for our players and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.Mill Of Forrest Primary School A team, won the tournament and we wish them all the best when they represent N.E. of Scotland at Grangemouth. The organisers of the event said they were impressed with the excellent sportsmanship from all the players at the tournament.Well done to our players for being a great team!



January 18th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
GOOD LUCK! I’ll be rooting for you.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Well done to Mrs Moore and her badminton team. All those practise sessions paid dividends, you all played brilliantly.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Well done to the Culter School Team who played exceedingly well on Saturday at the regional Primary School Quaich Badminton Competition.The school can be proud of the way the team conducted themselves and with their high level of sportsmanship. A big thankyou to their coach Mrs. Moore for her assistance with the umpiring at the event. You can visit our website for Badminton events in the North East. The live calendar and entry forms can be viewed and downloaded from the website http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/recreationadevelopment/badminton.asp
The next dates of interest for the Culter badminton players will be the Boys Primary School Championships 01/03/08 and the Girls Championships on 15/03/08. I look forward to seeing you there. Keep having a SMASHING time!
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
wel done al:~)
you all played really well together, great team work and support.
be proud mrs moore!
go culter!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
ps brill photo:)
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
All the team enjoyed thereselves and had really good fun playing against other schools. We worked hard and it paid off! Thanks Gillian for coaching us your the best but i dont think anyone will forgive you for making us wear those hidious green t-shirts though!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
Congratulations Culter Primary School!!
As the Youth Development Officer for BADMINTONscotland I am delighted to hear that you are doing so well and especially pleased that you have created this wonderful website for everyone to see your progress.
I hope that more schools can follow your example and I look forward to being updated on how your club is deveveloping.
Fiona Lilley
Youth Development Officer
BADMINTONscotland
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Well done to everyone involved in badminton at Peterculter School. Your blog looks fantastic and I look forward to watching it develop. Keep practising and enjoying your badminton. I hope to get the chance to see you all in action one day. Best wishes for your next tournament in March. I will check your blog to find out about your results.
Thanks to Mrs Moore for sending me the link to the blog and doing an excellent job coaching the team. Good luck to all the players.
From
David Forbes
Scottish Internationalist & BADMINTONscotlands Coaching Development Officer
January 24th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Congratulations everyone!! We are very proud of you all!! Many, many thanks to Gillian Moore who gives up so much time to coach the team. Looking forward to hearing all about your next tournament.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Well done badminton team i think u all worked hard
espescially kirsty and roslyn
WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
im really looking forward to the competition tomorrow and am a wee bit nervous but excited also! i hope me and roslyn do well to make the school proud but we might just need some help to win all the games!!! wish us luck!
February 14th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Well done to everyone on the team! Its great to hear you are doing so well.
Good luck for future games!!
From
Jennie Black
Active Schools Coordinator
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Me and Ross and everyone who is going to the competion on the 1st of March will be AWESOME!!!!!! Good luck to everyone else. Thanks Mrs Moore you rule.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Good luck with the badminton tournaments on the 1st and 15th! I’m sure Mrs Moore will have an amazing game plan for you all so that you all do awesome!
I wonder if any of you can beat Mrs Moore at badminton???