Crackley's Honorary Hogwarts Students Enjoy A Fabulous Quidditch Day

Quidditch is an upcoming sport that is a mixture of Handball, Dodgeball, Tag-Rugby and Football. Crackley Hall’s Quidditch Day was funded by the PTA and facilitated by Ben and Owen from Enrich Education.

The day began with an assembly where the school’s House Captains were sorted into their Harry Potter houses – Jupiter was Ravenclaw, Venus was Slytherin, Saturn was Hufflepuff and Mars was Gryffindor. Pupils then took part in training sessions in their year groups. They picked up the rules quickly, first practising using the ‘Quaffle’ and ‘Bludger’ in drills before moving on to play mini-games. The object of the game was to score more points than the opposition by throwing the ‘Quaffle’ through three hoops at either end of the pitch and all before the ‘Golden Snitch’, or in our case the 'Golden Teacher', was caught.

The event was rounded off with an awards ceremony where the best Beater (J4A Nieve H), Chaser (J4A Jess G), Keeper (J6V Seb R) and Golden Snitch (Miss Eve) were presented with certificates before the overall winning House was announced. Congratulations go to Slytherin (Venus) who scored the most points across the day and were presented with the Quidditch Cup.

Crackley Hall School’s Quidditch Day was thoroughly enjoyed by all who took part. At the end of the day, a number of staff received training on the sport and the plan is to now run a regular Quidditch House event. Quidditch proved to be fast and physical and was popular with pupils and staff alike.

We hope you enjoy this short video of photos and clips from the day.