Students make the grade

The Monday and Saturday Ishin Ryu Ju-Jitsu students at Trevor Steward's Brandon classes successfully passed their last gradings of the year.

There was a presentation evening where the students received their next belt and certificate in front of their proud parents.

Steward said: “All the infants did a fantastic grading which involved throws, groundwork, lots of fitness and much more. It was great to see them with so much determination and courage to keep going.

“The juniors' grading lasted 1 hour and ten minutes with continuous throws, combinations, groundwork, fitness tests and much more. It was an awesome grading to watch and they all gave it 100 per cent with true spirit and dedication. Whatever I asked them to do they just kept getting back off the mats and fought for their next grade.”

Infant class - White/red: Joshua Payne, Kian Dicks, Alfie Lynch, Matthew Hargreaves, Zac Roberts-Harrell, Shaswathan Sanjeevan, Kieran Keen and Toby Slaughter

White/yellow: Jameson Branagan

White/ orange: Teddy Webber

White/ green: Kyle Wells, Ethen Wells and Ben Regester

White/ blue: Jonathon Kalaj

White/ purple: Illona Lavallee

Black/white: Hayden Edgecombe

Junior class - White/black: Aiden Westley, Joseph Smith, Hannah Smith, Brendan Adams, Maddy Aleixo, Tiago Amaral, Rhys Collins, Kirishoban Santeevitay, Kieran Keen, Katerina Amaral-Bailey

Yellow: Lily Vincent, Jordan Newton

Yellow/black: Kirtsy Pullen, Lucy Pullen, Ciera Neal and Jonas Ruiter

Orange: Teresa Oliveira and Sylvan Lavallee

Orange/black: Elliot Walls and William Roberts Harwell

Orange/black: Joanne Searle

Green/black: Liam Sewell and Joshua Newton

Blue: Molly Wilson

Blue/black: James Neal and Alex Cosstick

Purple: Ryan Hewitt and Ceri Dixon

Brown/black: Joshua Grinsell and Leigh Hibbs.