Brooklands Sports Presentation Evening 2026
"This was a wonderful evening celebrating so many pupils' successes in sport”
On Tuesday 14th July Brooklands held their 10th Annual Sports presentation evening. The evening began with a talk from Marlie Packer OBE.
During her 17 year international rugby career to date, Marlie has played in four 15s Rugby World Cups and one Sevens World Cup for England. England made it to the Final in all four World Cups she played in. England won in both 2014 and 2025 to become Rugby World Cup Winners, making Marlie a Double World Champion. Marlie captained England in 2023 & 2024 and was Vice Captain for the 2025 Rugby World Cup Win. She has so far won ten Six Nations Grand Slams during her England career, including two as captain.
We ran over 70 clubs this year across the school day and have also entered county and district cups, National schools competitions, MKDons set tournaments, all the Leighton- Linslade Partnership competitions and swimming galas. We had two 12hr basketball events, two new sponsored table tennis events and sports day.
Brooklands has also run a sponsored event held during lessons to raise money for The Osborne Trust, who help families and young people whose parents have cancer and as a school we raised over £700, Plus interform competitions have been introduced.
A special mention must go to those teams that won their district competition: The yr 8 Girls and the yr 7 boys both won the football district finals.
We held the district Athletics competitions with our best ever results, with 16 individual winners and the team finishing a close 3rd
The evening then celebrated over 90 individual ‘players of the tournament’ winners who all received medals. Following this the school celebrated the 100% commitment awards. These awards were for pupils who have given everything to PE lessons even when they have found this difficult. Our winners were Yr 5- Rosalie and Henry, Yr 6- Olivia and Louis , Yr 7- Ruby and William and Yr 8- Ryan and Livvy.
Sports Achievement awards were then presented to pupils that have excelled in PE lessons, clubs and fixtures. This year's winners were: Yr 5- Seren and Leo, Yr 6-Jack and Emma, Yr 7- Alisa and Eli and Yr 8- Izzy and Ethan.
The rising star award went to a pupil that can find school hard but sport is their favourite thing to do. This is a pupil who has excelled in PE and has come so far personally - Kayden in Yr 7.
A new award this year was introduced, Sports Leader of the Year. This award celebrates a pupils that has gone above and beyond as a sports leaders at all the different events. This year it went to Grace.
Team of the year went to the team that had the best result at the highest level and this went to the Yr 7 Small Schools National Football Team- Eli, Jake, Federico, Joshua. Elio, Henry, Barnaby, Joseph, Freddie, Frankie, Mason, Giuseppe, Zach and Kayden
The final award was Brooklands Sport Personality. This award was for the pupil who has excelled in sport throughout their time at Brooklands. This year Izzy in Yr 8 was crowned Brooklands Sports Personality 2026 for her commitment to sport at Brooklands.
Mrs Hodgson, Headteacher said "This was a wonderful evening celebrating so many pupils' successes in sport. I am so proud of everyone involved in the Brooklands Middle School community. It is a huge team effort for all these events to take place. A great way to end the academic year seeing so many pupils receive certificates, medals and trophies.’