On Monday 16th april England Hockey player Charlotte Hartley visited Essa Academy and delivered a hockey taster session to a large boys group.

Charlotte visited Essa as part of the Sky Sports Living for Sport Project, a scheme that a group of our year sevens are currently enrolled on. Charlotte discussed our project with the year seven group, before delivering an inspirational presentation on her career to date.

After her session with the year seven group Charlotte visited the astro turf and delivered a hockey skills session; a session thoroughly enjoyed by all the students involved. 

On Friday the 23rd March Essa Academy celebrated Sport Relief by hosting a "Sport Relief Mile" on the astro turf. Over one hundred staff and students took part in the mile, with everyone completing it successfully. We witnessed a number of interesting duels between staff and students.

Every participant paid one pound to enter, with all the proceeds going to charity. 

Well done to everyone involved.

Essa students were given an unexpected visit in February when premiership footballers David Wheater and Adam Bogdan visited Essa to take part in a hockey session.

David and Adam spent time learning basic hockey skills before taking the Essa students on in some small sided games.

After the hockey session the players attended a question and answer session lead by the year seven's in the sports hall, and signed team posters for all our students.

Both David and Adam were presented with trophies for 'Most improved hockey player" at the end of the session.

Mr. Moore's Y9 team went to a futsal tournament at St. Catherine's academy on Monday 12th March where all the schools in Bolton had been invited and won. A superb display of tactics and determination saw them to a 2-1 win over Sharples to secure victory. Every player played a huge part and thoroughly enjoyed the matches. Congratulations and well done to all who took part. 

Mr. Jolly

Our year 7 football team put in a much improved performance against a strong Ladybridge outfit. Essa started strongly and were awarded when Adil Patel beat the Ladybridge goalkeeper with a powerful shot to the left.

Essa continued to press with Liam Davies and Zuhair Solicitor finding excellent positions on the edges, and centre backs Nasar Hodson and Enes Yildiz successfully breaking up the Ladybridge attack. However we were unable to turn this pressure into goals, and just before half time, Ladybridge caught Essa on the counter attack and levelled the game at 1-1.

It was much of the same in the second half as, with midfielders Hamzah Umar, Kaif Khan and Tawqeer Subhani to the fore, Essa dominated possession and territory. Essa continued to create chances but were unable to capitalise until, after good work from Davies, Patel finished from close range to make it 2-1. 


Essa were denied their first victory in the closing stages. Ladybridge poured forward and were able to clinch the equaliser against the run of play with minutes to spare.

Essa produced some excellent football throughout the game and should be proud of their performance. Today's top performers were

Nasar Hodson
Zuhair Solicitor
Hamzah Umar










Team: Abbas Adam; Qais Hussain, Enes Yildiz, Nasar Hodson, Gamachu Gemeda; Zuhair Solicitor, Hamzah Umar (C), Kaif Khan, Liam Davies; Adil Patel, Usman Naseem.

Subs
Tawqeer Subhani, Mazharul Alom, Zulfiqar Khan.


Mr Lorenzen