Good luck to Huw Dawson tonight who will be competing in the Second Round of the FA Cup for St. Albans! We wish both him and St. Albans FC all the best. To our students going, enjoy the game and stay safe ๐๐ป๐
#oneofourown
#verulamforlife
Sandpit Lane like youโve never seen it before๐๐! The fields looking better than ever with their makeover! Thanks to so many parents who attended the previous fixtures and to the students who conducted themselves with excellence ๐๐ผ
WHAT A RESULT!
Congratulations to our Year 9 Footballers who have beaten Langley School 5-3 in the ESFA Elite Schools National Football Cup and subsequently booked their place in a National Final!
Great Achievement lads!
#COYV
#TeamVerulam
@SchoolsFootball
What a performance from our year 9 football team making it through to the National Cup last 8!!
We wish a safe journey home and give commiserations to
@tsas_norwich
who defended amazingly for 70 minutes only to concede right at the death to a Will S strike.
Well done to Year 11 student Sebastian Ferdinand who will now make the step up to U18 as he accepts a full-time scholarship at Arsenal FC๐๐ป
He was part of the impressive Y11 County & District Cup wins.
Good luck in your next step Seb from all of us at Verulam๐ช๐ป๐
Congratulations to Will. A (Year 10) making his debut for the Welsh Under 15โs v Slovakia - made even more special with a 1-0 win! Fantastic achievement!
#COYV
#TeamVerulam
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Congratulations to our Year 7 Mob Race Cross Country runners who WON the meet!!
Amazing attitude from all the boys involved and a great way for our new students to represent the school for the very first time๐ช๐ป๐
Two former students representing both QPR and Tottenham Hotspur tonight in the FA Youth Cup๐
Both Charlie McDonald (QPR) and Will Andiyapan (Spurs) are both Verulam Alumni having left in 2019. Pictured here battling it out โฝ๏ธ
#verulamforlife
#CallItOut
๐๐ปThis term in the PE Faculty at Verulam we are introducing our Call It Out scheme. This will educate and challenge our students on offensive language. This proactive stance is vital in PE and we encourage all our students to be aware of the words/phrases they use!
Year 11 are crowed County Champions!!!! 3-0 victory against Richard Hale ๐๐๐
A superb performance that seeโs the Vs go through the entire completion without conceding a goalโฝ๏ธ
Goals from:
Oliver M
Bradley S
Sam E
Commiserations to our Senior side who fell to a 3-2 loss in their District Cup Final. Congrats to
@SJLPhysEd
and thanks to
@stalbanscityfc
for hosting ๐ช๐ป
A close game well battled with two good sides. โฝ๏ธ
Well done to our very own Tom H (Y12) who has been selected for the Junior European Fencing Championships in Serbia. He is the first ever Verulam student to be selected for this competition! Congratulations Tom for all your hard work and good luck in February๐๐ป๐
#verulamforlife
Last tweet of the day:- feels like I havenโt stopped so apologies for taking up your timelines BUT we wanted to (as a PE Department) thank everybody who came today and supported the boys. Genuinely overwhelming seeing the sea of white shirts from current students, parents, (1/2)
Congratulations to our Under 14 footballers reaching the
@HertsSchoolsFA
County Cup Final for the 3rd year in a row! Final score Verulam 3 - 1 John Henry Newman.
#COYV
#TeamVerulam
A huge congratulations to Year 7 student Thomรกs B-D who claimed gold medals in both the 100M and 200M events in the East of England Athletic Championships๐ฅ
A fantastic achievement, well done!๐
Thank you to all our Year 11โs & 13โs - heartbreaking way to say goodbye today but youโll always be part of
#TeamVerulam
. Itโs been our pleasure taking you through - look after each other & take care of yourselves.
#COYV
As soon as we receive details of the ESFA Schools National Final (date / venue / times) we will tweet it out. It would be amazing to get as many current & former
#TeamVerulam
students there to support.
#COYV
#NationalFinalists2019
Things you love to see ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ Competitive rugby is back with a good first showing from our Senior XV! A well battled fixture that ended with us narrowly losing out to
@StColumbasSport
.
#sportsmanship
End of the football season 2018/19
* Over 400 students representing the school
* 15 competitions entered
* 3 District Finals, 1 District Champion
* 1 County Champion
* 1 National Runner Up
* Lots of time given up by Staff, Students and Parents
* Lifelong Memories
#COYV
Apologies for the late shout out BUT huge congratulations to our Year 7 boys who yesterday became Mob Race Champions! Fantastic achievement representing
#teamverulam
#teamwork
for the very first time ๐ ๐
Massive well done to our lads this morning in a great fixture of Rugby against
@SandringhamPE
! Our Year 7s, 9s and 10s were superb in their victories and the 8s battled well in a competitive game๐๐ป Well done all involved and thanks to those who came to support
#comeonyouVs
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Hugely proud of our Year 8 athletics squad who came 2nd today in the County Plate Final, narrowly missing out on victory by 2 points.
Well done for a hugely successful athletics campaign gents! ๐๐ป๐
Congratulations to Verulam Alumni Will Andiyapan who has signed his first professional contract with
@SpursOfficial
!
Congratulations
@WillAndiyapan
we are all very proud of you ๐
Aaaaaaa so near....we just miss out on that final with a 2-0 loss. What an amazing achievement from our boys to get to that stage and compete at that level. Close game, we had chances but just couldnโt seem to convert one! Youโve done us all proud Under 13โs!
#TeamVerulam
This Thursday, 6th May, Mr Anthony from the department is going to be keeping a fast to celebrate Ramadan and all of the community both at Verulam and outside who celebrate this holy month.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
We are delighted to announce that we will be joining forces with Oaklandโs Wolves Youth FCโฝ๏ธ๐๐ผ This long term agreement will see vast improvements to the Sandpit Lane playing fields and offer some excellent coaching and playing opportunities for all our students!
10 weeks of VeruLive Workouts, completed! Over 1000 interactions, absolutely smashed it. Loved every minute of keeping fit together over lockdown! Thanks to all of you that took part from Mr. Anthony & Teddy! Enjoy your Easter break ๐
Year 7B football team through to the FINAL of their county cup competition after a 3-1 win against Katherine Warington. Well done to Taylor for MotM! Love it gents๐ช๐ป๐
Final tweet this academic year, we want to wish all our students a restful, enjoyable and safe holiday. We look forward to welcoming you all back in Sept (especially our new Year 7
#TeamVerulam
members). Massive thanks to all parents, students & staff who have supported us
#COYV
Former student Tomas Galves made his international debut for Finland๐ซ๐ฎ this week๐๐ป
Huge congratulations from all of us here at Verulam, Tomas๐
#verulamforlife
Well done to the Year 9 football team getting through to the 5th round of the national cup beating JFS Brent 5-1.
0-0 at half time a much better second half performance with goals from Oscar R X2, Joe R, Freddie J and Will S
And there we have it. Another year of District Athletics comes to a close! So many superb performances from our boys and well done to all who competed today ๐๐ป๐
family members, old boys and staff who made the effort & ultimately the day even more special. Lots of people travelled a long way at their own expense to be there today and we cannot thank you enough. Safe journeys back wherever youโre heading.
#TeamVerulam
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With our teams seeing lots of success in the district and county cup, it comes with a price for the PE dept. The office has been a hive of fixture organisation for a busy few weeks ahead๐๐ป๐๐ปโฝ๏ธ
Great to see the Vs performing so well๐
Another lockdown looms over us, and that means one thing.. the Verulam PE Dept will be challenging students, staff and all our extended community to keep fit with us over the coming weeks. We bring to you Verufit!
Before our first house football game this morning, our Year 8s decided to take the knee out of solidarity to the English footballers who suffered racist abuse at the weekend ๐๐ผ
#respect
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the
@YourSchoolGames
Gold Mark Award in recognition of our extracurricular provision and our continued sporting engagement!
Thanks to all of our students who get involved and parents for their support
#TeamPE
#Gold
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Good luck to our Under 14 footballers tonight at the St Albans City & District Sports Awards. They have been nominated in the category โSecondary School Team Of The Yearโ.
#TeamVerulam
#COYV
Some amazing news to share with our Verulam community! One of our own, Oscar N in Year 9 has qualified for the English National Championships.
Oscar has qualified to compete in the 800m with the 4th fastest time in England!
A truly remarkable achievement, well done Oscar๐๐ป๐
๐| We are delighted to announce that
@SACFC_Academy
players Huw Dawson and Alex Lankshear have signed first team contracts with the Club โก๏ธ
#SACFC
49' GOAL!!!! Huw Dawson with a howitzer!
He unleashes a strike from the edge of the of the penalty area which is laser-guided into the top-right corner.
๐ก The Saints 1 - 0 Casuals ๐ค
#SACFC
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A massive Verulam congratulations to Xav who plays Gaelic football with the local club, St Colmcilles. On Saturday they took part in the All Britain Competition (the ABC), and after a long day of group stages and finals... They won!
They are U15 British Champions. ๐๐๐
Well done to Year 9 who made it through to Round 6 of the National Cup beating Bishops Stortford High School 3-1. Scorers were Dapo B and Man of the Match Freddie J with 2 screamers. The PE Dept wishes Ben B well as it was his last game for the school.
An excellent way to top off their first term of rugby at Verulam. Our year 7s put in a great performance with a win over Beaumont to see out 2021๐๐ป๐
Introducing our half termly PE Bulletin! The VerUpdate PE Department๐๐ผ. Please have a read and keep up with everything thatโs going on in PE for this summer term๐๐ช๐ผ
Top 200 sporting schools in the country! Proud to announce that off the back of our sporting achievements, we have been ranked 199th in the country by
@schoolsportmag
This is out of 3444 secondary schools. Thank you to students, parents and staff for your support!
A huge congratulations from all here at Verulam to Jack B (Y10) who was recently selected for the England U15 training camp!
A simply amazing achievement earned through his hard work! Well done, Jack!
#verulamforlife
Well done to the Year 11 football team who progress into the semi final of the County Cup with a 2-0 win against Queens!
Goals from: Bradley & Alex
MOM: Alex S
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