Danes Educational Trust football cup

To coincide with International Women’s Day, a record-breaking 465,000 girls from 5000 schools across England signed up to take part in the FA and Barclays’ #LetGirlsPlay biggest ever football session. 

To coincide with this, we hosted the first ever ‘Danes Cup!’ an under 13 football tournament for girls from across the Trust to compete for the new Danes Educational Trust Trophy. Over 50 Girls from the Trust travelled to John Warner School to participate. 

Three qualified female referees took charge of the games, they were excellent role models for the players.

The tournament was a round robin, ensuring each team played five games and against every other team in the Trust. The matches were played in great spirits, all the girls represented their schools brilliantly, showcasing not only an abundance of skills and talent, but also demonstrating sportsmanship, competitiveness and resilience. 

As we partnered the event with England Football, all participants were gifted an FA goody bag for their efforts and The Danes Cup trophy was eventually awarded to Croxley Danes after five exciting matches, Croxley Danes topped the group with a huge 13 points having only lost one game. 

Overall Standings
1st - Croxley Danes A
2nd - Croxley Danes B
3rd - St. Clement Danes
4th - John Warner
5th - Chancellors
6th - Onslow St. Audreys

We want to express our gratitude and thanks to all the PE departments across the Trust for bringing their teams over to compete and providing their girls with a great footballing opportunity during International Women’s Day. We would also like to thank ESA for their expertise in photography and filming a paticular thank you to our student photographers Frankie (ESA) and Owen (John Warner).

It was a brilliant afternoon of football and we are already looking forward to next year!

Miss H Wood-Thompson
The John Warner School
Deputy Head of Sixth Form 
Teacher of Physical Education