Frederick Gent 0 – Bishop Challinor 32 Bishop Challinor are the Year 8 Midlands Champions after defeating Frederick Gent Secondary school, the current East Midlands champions. Birmingham’s only remaining team, were attempting to progress to the National Stages of the Carnegie Champion Schools Rugby League Tournament and were faced with a potentially tricky away tie at Frederick Gent [...]
Schools
WEST MIDLANDS CARNEGIE CHAMPION SCHOOLS FINALS
February 3, 2009 – 7:26 pm
FIVE West Midlands Secondary Schools took another step closer to Wembley last week in Rugby League’s Carnegie Champion Schools competition. Each age group’s winners have now earned themselves the right to be called champions of the West Midlands and now await clashes with their East Midlands counterparts for the right to be to crowned Midlands [...]
Brum Schools Prepare To Take On The Best
January 25, 2009 – 2:52 pm
Three Birmingham schools which have qualifying for the West Midlands Finals of the Carnegie Champion Schools Rugby League Competition go into action next week to try to go on to the Midlands Regional finals in Bromsgrove in February. On Monday January 26, the year 7 (Under 12) side from Leasowes School go into a tournament [...]
Carnegie Champion Schools 2008/09
January 18, 2009 – 8:37 pm
The Birmingham stage of the National Rugby League Schools Tournament is now complete after a week of fixtures decided the City’s Champions at each age group. Under floodlight and held at Aston Old Edwardians RFC, a record number of school teams participated to find an eventual winner at Year 7,8,9,10 and 11. The 5 Birmingham [...]
2008/2009 Secondary Schools Programme
December 8, 2008 – 11:13 pm
The 2008/09 Secondary Schools programme has now kicked off with the annual Carnegie Champion Schools Competition. Kingsbury Secondary School (pictured below), the Birmingham Stage Winners, will try and go one better and become the Midland Champions, gallantly losing in last years final. A record number of Birmingham schools have entered this year’s national 2008/09 tournament [...]
BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS RUGBY LEAGUE
December 8, 2008 – 11:09 pm
In a continued effort to expand and develop Rugby League in Birmingham, the RFL recently held a “Rugby League Coaching for Teachers” course. This format was designed to give school teachers enough game knowledge and coaching skills to take their pupils through six weeks of Rugby League training sessions. The workshop is a fairly new [...]
