The Evening Express Trophy

Report by Samantha George

 

On 7^th May 2005 at Northfield Academy, myself, Gail Rennie, Lewis Sharp, and Dylan Cameron represented Smithfield Primary School in the N.E. Primary Schools Chess Championships ‘Evening Express’ Trophy.

We were playing against schools like Quarryhill, Muirfield etc. This tournament was one of the toughest tournaments that our teams played in but it was one of the best also. We fought hard throughout the competition as we really wanted to win this as Smithfield School had never won it before

At last it came down to the final game and a wave of silence hit the room as it was all down to this game. When we won it, it was great, we all got a trophy for ourselves and we got the Evening Express Trophy for our school and got our school name engraved on it instead of Quarryhill or Robert Gordons – IT WAS GREAT!