Six of the best: The new intake of referees that came from St Peter Port School. Left to right – Hayden Dempsey, Anthony Hamon, Jill Pritchard, Richard Help, Richard Bourgaize and Ben Le Huray. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0688875)

GUERNSEY football has six new referees recruited from St Peter Port School.

Five students and Jill Pritchard, the school’s head of PE, have undertaken a five-week course with GFA referees revelopment officer Graham Skuse. They will be in the middle for their first GFA games in the early weeks of the New Year.

Pritchard said that she thought that gaining the qualification would be worthwhile, particularly given growing interest in football from girls at school.

Following an initial contact with Skuse, she offered the course to her Year 11 PE group and said that she was pleased with the take-up.

‘There was quite a variation of sporting expertise in the group, but they really worked well, supported each other and had good fun doing the course,’ she said.

The students who passed the course were Richard Bourgaize, Hayden Demp-sey, Anthony Hamon, Ben Le Huray and Richard Help.