Rosehill Primary School creating a little bit of history in the annual Primary Schools Cross Country championship with the best score ever.

For the girls team incredibly finished with seven runners in the top 10 to clock an overall score of just 66.

It was a poignant moment for the school as it will be their last ever cross country championship as the school will be demolished in the summer.

The well established competition brought together more than 300 runners from 38 large and small primary schools.

The event was split in to two races to accommodate both sizes of schools.

And Rosehill boys followed in the footsteps of the girls team to win the large school team award.

It was the ninth time in 10 years the school had completed the 'double'.

Teacher Leslie Riley, who helped co-ordinate the event with fellow Rosehill teacher Alan Parker, said: "It was a great day for the school especially as it will be their last ever championships.

"The girls team were absolutely superb to get so many runners in the top 10. Something like that has never been done before."

While Rosehill did dominate the girls event, there was a bit of an upset in who crossed the line first as Sarah Chapman beat Jayde Howson in to first place.

Jayde had beaten Sarah in all of the practice build-up races.

Emma Hornsby of Casterton was in third place.

The record breaking Rosehill team also included Nicola Wilding (4th), Rachel Preston (6th), April Tregay (7th), Danielle Goldie (9th) and Katie Carter (10th).

The individual performance of the runners meant that Rosehill finished 236 points ahead of second placed Coalclough. Brunshaw took third place with a combined score of 407.

While Rosehill boys won their team award, it was a St Stephen's pupil who cross the line first to be crowned individual champion.

Michael Scott beat Aaron Simcoe of Rosehill in to second place with Thomas Cole of St John's RC in third place.

In the team award, Rosehill were top with 178 points with Cliviger finishing second with 250. Christ the King were third with 274.

In the large school the top eight of a team of 10 counted towards the overall score.

In the small school, it was four from seven and it was Park Hill who completed a double winning both the girls and boys team events.

Park Hill girls finished with a total of 338 points ahead of Burnley Wood who were second with 372.

In the boys, it was the same one-two finish with Park Hill finishing with 234 points and Burnley Wood with 367 while St Peter's were in third place.

In total, 186 boys from 20 schools and 149 girls from 18 teams took part in the competition which has been running for more than 20 years.

And the pupils got a surprise when Bertie Bee turned up to present the awards at the girls race while Burnley player Dean West handed out the trophies after the boys race.

Leslie added: "It was a very success two days. We put a lot of hard work in to the event but it is all worth it when you see so many children taking part."