CHIGWELL School ended the year with an international sports double.

First, 15 year-old fifth form student Adam Street was capped as goalkeeper for the England U-16 side in the Victory Shield tournament and then the school's netball coach Amanda Newton was selected as captain of the England Womens Netball squad, coming after ten years of playing top class netball in the country's elite international squad of players.

Canadian-born Street has been a pupil at Chigwell since he was 13. He has dual nationality and currently is first choice goalkeeper for the Canadian U-17 team and third choice for the U-20 side as well.

He was talent spotted by West Ham United when he was on an England tour of the UK with Caledon, his home town Canadian club side. To further his ambitions of becoming a professional footballer Street became a West Ham youth player at the same time as starting his education at Chigwell School. He is the regular U-18 Hammers goalkeeper and has also been a squad member of their reserve side.

While still a schoolboy player, FIFA rules allow him to play for both England and Canada.

In the recent Victory Shield, the home international competition for Under-16 players, he was first called up for the England game against Wales, but finished up as substitute goalkeeper.

In the following match against Northern Ireland, which was televised on Sky Sports, he played the whole match and kept a clean sheet in a 3-0 victory.

England won the Victory Shield for a seventh year and afterwards Street was complimented for his strong and competent performance by England's goalkeeper coach Ray Clemence.

Meanwhile Newton, who comes from Newham, has been the netball coach at Chigwell School for four years. She took up the sportseriously as a sixth form student at St Angela's School, Forest Gate.

As a defensive player she progressed towards international recognition through club netball with the Old Plaistovians Association (OPA) and then on to Essex Metropolitan and Eastern Regional selection before her first England call-up to the U-21 squad when she was 19 years old.

For would-be England players of the future, she is a great role model for the girls at Chigwell School although she shrugged it off when she said: "I'm just the school netball coach."