4 Coromandel Valley students - Cassian, Finn F, Jackson G and Lily Z - recently took part in the Term 2 Southern Zone Primary Schools Chess Tournament.

5 schools and 46 students took part in the tournament, with the Coro team the smallest on the day.   With only the top 4 students from a school contributing to the final score, we were at a huge disadvantage.

But all 4 students did a fabulous job, not only representing the school well with their results, but also showing great sportsmanship.  St Martin de Porres were the clear leaders all tournament, but it was between the remaining schools.   After 6 rounds with just one round of games to play, Coro were sitting in equal 3rd place, finally finishing in equal 4th.   Final results were

We had some excellent individual results with Cassian, Finn and Lily finishing in equal 15th place on 4 wins from their 7 games, and Jackson finishing in equal 24th place on 3 wins.   Lily was the 3rd placed female competitor of the tournament, missing out on the first place trophy by just half a point.  Special mention to Cassian, who was competing in his very first interschool tournament.  Congratulations to all of our students for competing so well!

The Chess Club continues to meet on Thursday lunchtimes in the Music Room and anyone is welcome to come along.   It would be great to have some more students take part in the Term 3 tournament.

David Shaw