9 students from Coromandel Valley Primary School - Cian, Daniel, Dylan, Ewan, Finn, Jackson, Jake, Maggie & Micah - recently competed at the Southern Zone interschool chess tournament, where 59 students from 6 schools took part.

The Southern Zone is very competitive, and with our Year 7 players away on camp, we had a much younger team than other schools. But the Coro team did exceptionally well, leading in the early rounds before slipping to 4th place mid tournament, but having some great results over the last 2 rounds to finish in equal 2nd place, and gaining the bronze medal on a countback.

We had some excellent individual results, with 6 of our 9 players, either equalling or beating their previous personal best scores.  The highlight of the day however, was Finn who scored 6 wins from his 7 games, which equalled the best for the tournament, giving him 3rd place overall,  Finn as a Year 1 student is just 7 years old, and was beating much older opponents.  A great effort!

Congratulations to all of our players for representing our school so well. 

Huge thanks to Opal Greenwood & Kerri Coghlan for assisting with transport - without your help, Coro would not be able to take part.

The Chess Club continues to meet on Monday lunchtimes, and anyone is welcome to come along. It would be great to see some new faces.

David Shaw