England girls claimed team gold at the Primary Schools International, but the boys had to settle for silver.

There was also individual gold for Bethany Yang among four singles medals for the England squad.

The competition saw England take on teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey at Inverclyde National Training Centre in Largs, Scotland.

The competition began with the round-robin team events, with fixtures played over eight singles and two doubles matches.

England girls (Cindy Xiao, Hattie Xiao, Isabella Xiao and Bethany Yang) started on Friday with 10-0 victories over Guernsey and Scotland B, dropping only one game in the first match and two in the second.

Saturday started with a 10-0 win over Jersey, this time without dropping a single game, followed by repeating that feat in a 10-0 victory over Wales.

A 9-1 win followed over Scotland B, with Hattie Xiao the one to miss out as she was narrowly beaten by Mariah Cassino 3-2 (6-11, 5-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6).

And England sealed the gold with a 9-1 win over Ireland in their final match, Yang & Xiao Xu losing 3-2 (11-9, 11-9, 7-11, 6-11, 11-5) to Samantha Pusinskaite & Victoria Sawecka.

Ireland took the silver medal, with bronze going to Scotland A.

England boys (Jacob Dennison, Daniyal Janmohamed, Hayfield Lam and Dominic Rimmy) started with a 10-0 victory over Guernsey on Friday afternoon, dropping only one game in one of the doubles matches.

They followed up with a 10-0 win over Scotland B on Friday evening, when four of the matches went to a fourth game but the rest were decided in three.

Saturday saw a whitewash of Jersey as not a single game was dropped, followed by a 10-0 win over Wales, though that required a fine comeback by Lam & Rimmy to beat Toby Young & Alfie Giles 3-2 (10-12, 12-14, 11-7, 11-5, 11-6) in one of the doubles.

England dropped their first match against Scotland A as James Huang defeated Lam, but England still won 9-1.

That meant the top two teams met in the final round as England took on Ireland and it was a thriller. The first three matches were all won 3-2 by England – Lam beating Ryan Li (4-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-3), Rimmy overcoming Daniel Daly (11-7, 1-11, 11-7, 8-11, 11-4) and Dennison defeating Enoch Huang (9-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-2).

But Ireland levelled as Jamie Yan Theunissen beat Janmohamed in four, and both doubles then went the way of Ireland, also in four.

Ireland stayed on a roll as Daly defeated Lam in four and Li beat Rimmy in three to put them 5-3 ahead overall, but Dennison reduced the arrears by beating Theunissem, and Janmohamed secured a 5-5 draw with a 3-2 (5-11, 16-14, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9) win over Huang.

Ireland edged the gold medal on countback, with England taking silver and Scotland A bronze.

In the Girls’ Singles, all four England players qualified from the groups, with Yang, Xiao Xu and Cindy Xiao all topping their groups and Hattie Xiao finishing second.

Yang continued her form into the knockouts and completed the feat of winning gold without dropping a game as she beat Ireland’s Samantha Pusinskaite (10, 5, 6) in the semi-finals and Cindy Xiao (8, 2, 4) in the final. The other bronze medal went to Victoria Sawecka of Ireland, beaten 3-0 (2, 7, 4) by Xiao.

Cindy Xiao had defeated Xiao Xu in the quarter-finals, having earlier beaten her sister Hattie in the round of 16.

In the Boys’ Singles, Rimmy and Lam topped their groups and Janmohamed finished second. Dennison ended in third place.

Rimmy went on to win bronze for reaching the semi-finals, where he was defeated 3-2 (11-9, 11-6, 5-11, 6-11, 11-5) by eventual champion Ryan Li of Ireland.

Lam missed out 3-2 (2-11, 11-7, 11-9, 6-11, 11-6) to Leo Stakim of Scotland A in the last 16, while Janmohamed lost at the same stage, 3-0 (11-6, 14-12, 12-10) to Wales’ Alfie Giles.

Li beat Daniel Daly in the final as Ireland took gold and silver, with the other bronze going to Stakim.

Dennison won consolation gold, defeating Enoch Huang of Ireland 3-0 (3, 5, 3) in the final, having earlier got past Toby Francis-Lee of Wales 3-2 (12-10, 12-10, 9-11, 12-14, 11-7) in the semi-finals.

Non-playing captains were Dave Pilkington and Teresa Bennett, with Gail Johns the Head of Delegation.