A school football team has been named the best for sportsmanship for the second time in four years.
Forest School’s 1st XI football team beat 70 other schools to win the Independent Schools Football Association’s fair play award.
The students at the school in College Place, Snaresbrook, received the award this week after winning their overall league in late March.
The Association’s chief executive Mark Dickson said: “This is a particularly fine achievement and the boys have behaved excellently.”
The school’s director of sport Ben Adams said: “It is a great honour to have won the fair play award twice in the past four years and we are very proud of the high standards of behaviour exhibited by our pupils on the pitch.
“Sport at Forest it is as much about developing the person as it is about developing the player and this award for our 1st XI is a great example to the rest of the School.”
The 1st XI team last won the fair play award in 2012 and won 21 out 29 games they played this season.
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