Partnership working brings back tournament.
After a few years away the P5-P7 EL Primary Badminton singles championship returned on Friday 29th November. 22 children from multiple schools with in East Lothian took part and showed off an incredible standard.
The tournament was organised by Active Schools but in partnership with Badminton Scotland and all the local East Lothian Badminton clubs. The clubs provided volunteers on the day to help score and umpire the matches. Duncan from Dunbar Badminton club also provided each winner and runner up with new grips for their racquets. Active Schools, Badminton Scotland and the local clubs will be looking to develop this partnership based on the success of the tournament.
A big thank you too the 3 Dunbar Grammar School Future Leaders who kindly gave up their Friday afternoon to help set up and manage the results tables for each group.
The tournament was broken into 4 pools and 1st and 2nds from those pools went into the A Championship knockout, 3rd /4th place went to the B Championship and 5th/6th Place went to C Championship.
The winner of the overall tournament went to James from Law Primary
A Championship Winner – James Lawson – (Law PS)
A Championship Runner up – Oliver MacMillian (Law PS)
B Championship Winner – Sia Kaur (Wallyford PS)
B Championship Runner up – Arhum Tahir (Wallyford PS)
C Championship Winner – Oscar Shields (Dunbar PS)
C Championship Runner Up – Freddie Murrell (Dunbar PS)
If you wish to know more about badminton in East Lothian Please contact an Active Schools Coordinator in your area
