Forget the Fantastic Four – meet our Elite Eleven

A team of eleven motivated Year 11 students travelled to the Peter Paine Performance Centre at Boston College to compete in the annual Elite Eleven Competition where Spalding Academy finished 2nd out of the whole of Lincolnshire.

Elite Eleven is a mixed inter-school sporting competition that involves 11 secondary schools from across Lincolnshire who compete against each other in a variety of indoor sporting challenges. All four schools in our Trust participated so this added extra competition between our own schools.

The challenges facing our students were tests of fitness, strength, speed, power, agility, memory, problem solving and team-based challenges, which were linked to events seen at the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris 2024. These included a golf challenge, football darts, Illinois agility run, a minefield challenge, farmers walk, netball challenge, sports anagram, new age kurling, BlazePods reaction time challenge, drainpipe teamwork challenge, fitness challenge and a memory challenge.

After all of the challenges were completed and before the presentations, an inspirational talk was given by 4 x World Champion Body Builder, Josh-Blue Majury who discussed his pathway into the industry of bodybuilding and personal training, plus how he himself used setbacks to become successful.

Mr Munton, Teacher of PE at Spalding Academy said “The team represented our school perfectly. They all worked extremely hard together and showed excellent resilience and teamwork to achieve the highest position we’ve ever achieved at Elite Eleven, having participate for many years now. The day required a range of different skills from a test of physical strength and fitness, problem solving and team building activities and the accomplishment is a testament to the students’ dedication, co-operation, and strategic thinking. As a reward for their hard work and success, each team member received a £20 voucher to an Escape Room, which was a nice gesture from the organiser who put on a great day out for the students.”