Woodleigh School magazine 2008

Issue 4 - Summer 2008

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YEAR TWOTOWNSCAPE (above)printing, 90 x 60 cm 2008

A group mural aimed at developing our printing and co-operative working skills, based upon our investigation of 2-D shapes and composition.

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{ C O N T E N T S }VICTORIAN WEEKWoodleigh travels back in timeB Y T O M S A U N D E R S

{ N E W S } 4

VISITE AMICALEPupils visit RouenB Y S TA F F W R I T E R S

{ F E A T U R E S } 12

MONKEY’S PAWBe careful what you wish for!BY E D WA R D M E G G I N S O N

{ A R T S } 16

THE BIG BANGFireworks at WoodleighB Y A L E X M A C H E N

{ F O L I O } 22

IT’S MUSIC - DUDEWoodleigh’s explosive rock bandB Y A N T O N I A S E LV E Y

{ M U S I C } 24

UNDER FIREWar games at WoodleighB Y PAT R I C K L I T T E N

{ W O O D L E I G H } 24

CHAMPIONS!Features on sport this yearB Y S TA F F W R I T E R S

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HAVING A BALLWith years three, four and fiveB Y S TA F F P H O T O G R A P H E R S

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LIVING HISTORY By TOM SAUNDERS YEAR EIGHT

woodleigh travels back in time for avictorian themed cross curricular week

AT THE end of the Summer term, Woodleigh School went back in time to the Victorian era. Victorian Schools Week is a week spent in study of Victorian people, schools, and everyday life. The period is considered worthy of study as a period in its own right because it lasted so long – well over 60 years – and was a period of invention and change – both the telegraph and,

later, the telephone, were invented in this period, drastically changing communica-tions. Many schools have such a week, al-though there is no set nationwide period as for World Book Day On Monday, the pre-prep went to Castle Museum in York. The class took it in turns to experience a Victorian class-room, play with Victorian toys such as marbles, and look at Victorian household

items such as heavy solid iron irons. On Wednesday all the children dressed up as Victorian children. Some of the teachers dressed as Victorian school-mas-ters and –mistresses. Some of the pupils didn’t seem to notice much difference! Year 8 created sepia photos using pho-toshop and mimicking the style of Vic-torian photographers such as Whitby’s Frank Meadow Sutcliffe.


LIVING HISTORY On Thursday Years 3, 4, and 5 went to Beamish Open Air Museum while the other children had normal lessons. Beam-ish is a mock-up Victorian town complete with tram, village square and – best of all – a sweet shop! Harry Connell, Year 5, said of the trip, “Going down the mines and looking at the equipment was really cool.” Finally, on Friday Years 7 and 8 went to Armley Mill, an industrial mill in Leeds used in Victorian times. Dean Jackson, a year eight said: “It was really interesting hearing how the place had worked in Vic-torian times. I really enjoyed myself.”


1st place - Beckfoot School

2nd place - Dixons City Academy

3rd place - Woodleigh School

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Cat in the Hat helps team to third placeBy ANTONIA SELVEY YEAR EIGHT

ON THE 5th November, 2007, four Woodleighans,: Thomas Saunders, Nao-mi Richardson, Antonia Selvey and Mil-lie-Jo Castleton, travelled to North Light Gallery in Huddersfield for the Kid’s Lit-erature Quiz. The winner of this compe-tition would go on to Newcastle, the na-tional competition, and then the winner of that would be representing the UK in the world competition, in New Zealand. We arrived with great anticipation and arrived in the hall, sat down and prepared for the competition. We came early, so we waited for the other teams to arrive. Finally they arrived, and the game be-gan. We chose a round for double points, which was ‘Magic’. There were many different rounds, including Kings & Queens, Magic, Heroes & Heroines, Fantasy, etc. Fortunately one of our best rounds was the Magic round, which boosted our points. We thought we did well in most of the rounds, scoring an average of about

7-10 out of 10. In the round called ‘Car-toons’, we came joint first, and played a sudden death question, as the winner of each round won a book for each person in the team. This question was ‘How many stripes are on the Cat in the Hat’s hat?’ The opposition put their hand up first and answered ‘three’. However that was wrong and Millie-Jo answered ‘5’, which was correct. Millie has sat next to the Cat in the Hat in the English room for two years. After every round there was a Teach-er’s question, which Mr. Tolkien has won one every year so far. After a few tries in vain, he finally answered one correctly, which won him a £5 book voucher. Finally we finished the rounds, but al-though we thought we did quite well, we had never come in the top three, which were displayed on the projector. We lis-tened to the presenter, Wayne Mills, an-nounce the top three overall, and were amazed when he said ‘In third place,

Woodleigh School!’ Still in a daze, we walked up and shook hands with Wayne Mills and sat back down. The best result a Woodleighan team has ever had! In conclusion, we enjoyed every sec-ond of it, and since the two teams before us were secondary schools with a massive choice of pupils, we were very pleased with our result.

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Entrepreneurial pupils get on their bikes

AT THIS year’s Lion’s Lair, the first school to present out of the three schools was Woodleigh, with their product the Bikes-Lot. Naomi Richardson talked about the introduction and summary, Alex Machen explained the Ergonomics (how it does its job), Ellenya Smith revealed the Aesthet-ics (how it looks) and Stephen Johnstone revealed the Economics (costs). They were asked questions. Then it was time for the next demonstration. The BikesLot is a bike rack made from a log. For six slots it costs £250. Slots are cut diagonally, so water runs off it, so it doesn’t rot. It is made from hard wood and is cut by Mr England. Delivery is included. Tom Horsley said: “I think that the product BikesLot has evolved immensely, and is now a lot more efficient than the original, as well as economical and aes-thetic. I hope that the BikesLot teams sell this product well.”

By TOM HORSLEY YEAR EIGHT


Knockout garden partyTom’s amazing car wash. Was your car any cleaner?

George’s golf challenge. Did anyone manage to chip into the bucket?

Charlotte’s makeover salon. Alex certainly had a new look.

Fred & Millie’s exotic smoothies. One lump or two?

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OVER the past years the Garden Fete has been a great success. The work the school put into the stalls has certainly paid off for this year. The organisation of the fete was up to a very high standard. Also the friends of Woodleigh helped a massive amount. All the school and parents have a great time at the Fete buying and selling goods. There were lots of different types of stalls some games others shops and some com-petitions. This year’s Garden Fete had games for the children to have lots of fun called ‘it’s a knockout,’ all competing against each other in houses. There were eight games altogether all of different types. They were all great challenge from pool vault-ing to a Chariot race. Freddie Weeks said that ‘this year’s garden Fete was the most thrilling Fete

By WILL BENNETT-BAGGS YEAR SEVEN

ever to be held at Woodleigh’. Naomi Ri-chardson said ‘I hope all Garden Fetes could be this good’. Edward Megginson said ‘it’s a knockout was the best chal-lenge ever and I hope we could have this every year’. This year the Garden Fete raised up to £1250. All this money will be put towards facilities for the school.

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By MRS HAYES YEAR ONE

Year one invaded by Aliens!

WE STARTED the year with the first of our monthly visits to “Our Tree’ in Lang-ton. Each month we observe and photo-graph the sycamore tree to record the changes it goes through during a school year. Following on from this we looked at the seasons and harvest time. Mr Paley gave us an excellent tour of his fruit and vegetable shop in Malton and we used some of the fruit in our art work. Later in the term we investigated weaving and made some place mats to eat our fruit on at snack time. During Sus-tainable Schools’ Week we learnt about composting the fruit and helped to plant our school garden. After a the usual busy end of Christ-mas term activities including our play

“Tattybogle” and a visit from the seasonal man in red we enjoyed a trip to the thea-tre in Scarborough to see a production of Babes in the Wood. 2008 began with a detailed look at self-portraits. We used a wide variety of techniques to produce some excellent work. We also searched the school for exam-ples of pushes and pulls. Our topic on Plants and Growth cul-minated in the children producing some very impressive Power Point presenta-tions on ‘How seeds grow’. Aliens invaded Year 1 in early sum-mer. The children looked closely at how a story is organised and turned their own stories into books. A busy year is finished with a trip to Sewerby Hall.

PUPIL in classes from year 1 and above elected class representatives for the new school council this year. The representa-tives were Hattie Gillingham, Joe Brown, Charlie Procter, Zac Woolley, Ted Weeks, Fred Austin, Edward Megginson, Anto-nia Selvey and Dean Jackson. The school council meets up every two weeks with Mrs Hayes. In the meetings we go through how to keep our school environmentally friendly. All the repre-sentatives get ideas for school from their class.

School council leads the way The council have already come up with an idea about having a Burns night party, it went really well. At Burns night we had haggis and Scottish poems. We are doing events so we can get an award for looking after our school. The council need to come up with an environmental code about how to look af-ter their school. We have been thinking about putting recycle boxes in each classroom. The kitchen has already been recycling plastic bottle lids.

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Decorating makeover for dormsBy FRED AUSTIN YEAR SIX

THIS YEAR the friends of Woodleigh raised money to refurbish the old dorms and with the help of volunteers turn them in to better and good looking dorms. Thanks to the volunteers the dorms are a lot better to sleep in it for anyone who boards. The parents helped to paint the walls in the holiday as well as the pupils. Each dorm had a £150 each to decide what they wanted in their dorms. Each dorm has been decorated. The senior girls’ dorm has turquoise paint and red check curtains, while the younger girls’ dorm is purple with lights and pink curtains. All the boys’ dorms are light and airy, with toning curtains and carpets. In year three and four they have play-station that they can all use, while in the

youngest dorm there is a sofa and TV. New computers were installed dur-ing the Easter holidays, in addition to the new ones in the IT room. They are much quicker and I like them a lot more than the old ones. Each com-puter has the name of an animal - whale, wolf, gorilla - and has a screensaver to match. There is also a new suite of computers in the gym balcony which boarders can use at the weekend and during evenings. These computers are really cool. Finally, there is a new interactive white board in year 7’s classroom. There is a special pen that you can use to move the mouse around. It is used in lots of lessons, especially Maths, Art and Geography. It makes les-sons much more fun.


By MRS DOWNEY VICTORIAN WEEK TRIP

DURING our Victorian Week, pupils in Year 6 travelled to Shildon to spend the day at Locomotion, the National Railway Museum’s outpost in County Durham. The aim was to look at the develop-ment of the railways and the heritage left behind in what once was the biggest rail-way repair yard in the world. The pupils had the opportunity to ex-amine a wide range of rail transport from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Sans Pareil, which ran in the celebrated 1829 Rainhill Trials, and a very uncomfortable-looking Third Class carriage. They also visited the original Victo-rian buildings, which had been the home of Timothy Hackworth, pioneer of the early railways, admiring his sitting room and even his multi-seat ‘netty’ in the back

yard! Pupils were taken on a guided tour of the main museum building which has been built in an environmentally friendly manner, incorporating solar power, wind power, an eco-wall for insulation and a method for recycling rainwater. After lunch everyone attended a workshop in which they explored a range of renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and made wind-powered land yachts, which they tested on a slope of the floor in the museum building. Gradually they were encouraged to refine their models so that eventually most made successful journeys across the floor. The day at Shildon provided many good learning opportunities and much enjoyment.

Do the locomotion Woodleigh!


Mind boggling science tripBy MATTHEW PROCTER YEAR FIVE

Crucial crew teaches classBy PATRICK LITTEN YEAR SIX

YEAR five went to Boggle Hole in science to see how animals adapt to different con-ditions on the beach. To do this we used a quadrat which looks like a picture frame. We had to cover the whole beach tak-ing ten steps at a time then putting down

the quadrat down. There was someone writing and he put down how many steps are done and what in the quadrat. We saw swimming crabs, dog whelks, Red eyed crabs, edible crabs, periwin-kles, limpets and butterfish. We found a

lot of crabs and something called a rock-fish. We had to go because the tide was coming in quickly. It was a really good day. We learned which animals will adapt to different conditions.

IN June year six went to Crucial crew in Scarborough and learned about all as-pects of safety, theft, drugs, electricity, fire safety, drink and alcohol, road safety and prison life. It was extremely informative. In group one were Oliver Hudson, Mikey Curtis, Patrick Litten, Charlie Goodlass, Rachel Robson, Beau Wyatt, and Mr. Mills. In group 2 there was Cameron Castle-ton, John Soanes, Charles Saunders, Charlotte Horsley, Charlotte Carr, Jessica Cheung, Jay Mitchinson-Singh and Sam-son Chan.

In the farm safety section, we watched a DVD, showing people acting dangerous-ly. One was hiding in a grain store, and another fell from a tractor. Another showed children playing in dangerous places. A game of cops and robbers ended with a metal gate collaps-ing and a boy dying from a broken neck. The next scenario involved a man dropping litter, breaking a window, spray-ing graffiti and kicking a football against a shop wall. The shopkeeper came out and shout-ed at the man (and us!) for littering. We


Crucial crew teaches classwere then invited into the shop - followed by the litter. As we looked round the shop, he be-gan shoplifting. He took a DVD, CD, Xbox and a phone. We rang the police, and in two seconds he had been arrested! The final scenario was about the ef-fects of alcohol. We put on “beer goggles” which made you feel drunk. Everyone had to walk down an orange line, and try to pin a tail on a donkey. Mr. Mills the History teacher gave it a go and missed the line by half a meter, and put the tail on the donkey’s head! It was an extremely useful and in-formative trip.


Kayakingadventure in Lake DistrictBy PATRICK LITTEN YEAR SIX

WE set off at two o’clockish to the Lake District, in two buses, one driven by Mr. Pearsall and the other by Mrs. Murkett. When we arrived there we pitched the tents and had a barbeque of sausages and burgers, then we all played in the woods till about ten o’clockish. The next day we went to a place called tower wood, where we split into two groups of ten. Group A went climbing and group B went kayaking. In the kayaking we went about a mile down the lake and round an island, we couldn’t land because it was very rocky. Then we went back, on the way we played stuck-in-the-water, in our boats, you had to touch the front of the boat with the pad-dle. Then we went on a bit, and our teacher told us to raft to-gether. Then he numbered us 1-10 and said we had to switch canoes. It ended in havoc! Tom Hoggard and Fred Weeks were switching, Tom was already there and Fred had just got out of his canoe when he capsized and Tom ran back but Charlotte capsized too! Tom cap-sized when he got back, then I capsized when I was leaning to get a paddle and went over too. Then we went rock climbing after lunch. We put on a harness and a helmet to climb a pole. We were tied with a rope through a winch which was held on the end by everyone, the rope went through a concrete block. We had to climb a pole and stand on the top and jump to a bar hanging in the air and do a chin up. Then we went on rock climbing trees. They were like playground walls just taller and trees. We then did an assault course. After that we went to camp to have tea. The next day we did a cycle ride to the ferry then we cycled to the fresh water aquarium. We had a guide and saw a caiman from Blackpool zoo, a scorpion, and a load of fish. We then took the ferry back to camp and had dinner. The last day we went Canadian canoeing which wasn’t that good. We then went home.


By MRS DOWNEY FRENCH

French exchange

AT ONE o’clock in the morning on 23rd June, twenty-five ex-cited children and three nervous adults set off for five days in France, to enlarge their knowledge of the culture and the lan-guage. Complete with luxury coach, we made excellent time, arriv-ing in Dover in time to board the ferry and have our breakfast of croissant and chocolat chaud. On arriving in Rouen we met our host families and set off with them for the first of four nights of eating and sleeping French-style. As hoped, the families all gave us a warm welcome and the children had a wonderful time exploring their new temporary homes, from apartment to manor house, from bungalow to farm. Each morning we met up again at 0830 for some cultural and historical visits and excursions, which included the Tapestry, the D-Day Museum and the British Cemetery at Bayeux, the Mulberry Harbour and a film at Arromanches, a historical tour of the old centre of Rouen, a visit to a haunted abbey and a won-derful viewpoint over the River Seine at Chateau Gaillard, and finally a day in Paris, including the ascent to the top of the Tour Eiffel, a guided tour of some of the major sights and a boat trip on the Seine. The shopping time, which was built into the schedule, was greatly appreciated especially as it was the start of the summer sales. In fact I am convinced some of the group would have spent the whole time shopping given the chance! The pupils were regularly complemented on their good be-haviour and attempts at speaking French, and the weather was in our favour all week with warm sunshine every day. It was all in all a most successful venture. A la prochaine!

Visite amicale,culturelle ethistorique à Rouen et à Paris


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Be careful what you wish for!By EDWARD MEGGINSON & TOM MILNES YEAR SEVEN

THE Monkey’s paw is a horror play which all four houses did for house plays. The houses all gave great performances but in the end South won. All through the Easter term everyone in Years 7 & 8 have been putting all the their games time into rehearsing. There were seven parts for the play. There was also lighting, sound, Mr. White, Mrs. White, Herbert, Sargeant Major Morris, and an official. All the years sevens used podproducer

THE Christmas plays this year were per-formed by the year threes, fours and fives. The year three were as the main charac-ters and the year fives provided the choir singing. Some of the year seven boys got involved by playing the roles and dressing up in animal costumes: they played the ox, two donkeys and the two camels. The teachers worked hard and well to make the plays such a success for every-

Christmas plays a great success

to find sound effects for the plays. The story is about a monkeys paw. Whoever owned the paw had three wishes. The wishes turned out completely wrong - someone even dies! All year eights in CDT created props for their houses. It was up to all the house captains where to put the props and the stage. The win-ning team had to peform on the last day off term. North did well in the acting but more props were needed. South did well

both props and acting. West did well but one of their actors was missing on the day. East did well in acting but on the stage they forgot the main prop - the paw! The plays were judged fairly by the teachers. Unfortunately Mr. England was not there to judge. South with a good score went in to the end of term play. All of year six and below really enjoyed the house plays and cannot wait until next year.

By SOPHIE LEAR YEAR SEVEN

one to watch and enjoy. The plays were followed by some food and drinks and some children who performed in the plays played music and some more entertained. The play was about an innkeeper and his wife, played by Charlie Procter and Charlotte Austin, they had Mary and Joseph come visit their inn and slept in their stable. Mary and Joseph were played

two more year threes, Molly Lear and Ben Hudson. The Christmas plays were so en-tertaining for everybody to watch. Will Bennett-Baggs said’ It was funny and probably fun for the little ones to do.’ Naomi Richardson said’ It was really fun-ny and the little ones did really well.’ The little ones were really excited about the plays and the enjoyed perform-ing them so much.


Interesting Isabel imagines impossible ideas of invisible islands with ice cream in-sects. Isabel Richardson

Pretty Polly plants poppies on the platform, her pink pet pig Percy has a plaster. Polly Mumford

YEAR ONEAWESOME ALLITERATION (right)summer term 2008

Happy Hattie is as hungry as a horse and has high huts with heavy hens.

Hattie Gillingham

Jammy Jack is juggling juice jugs and jump-ing over a jet telling jokes. Jack Machen

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YEAR TWONATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUMsummer term 2008

Dear Jess,

I hear you are going to the National Railway Museum, so I thought I would and tell you about it.

If you find the Learning Centre you will find some good activities like the bridge building. You had to put some blocks in a certain place. It was great fun and you can stand on it. The Brass rubbing was quite fun too. You had to get a piece of paper and put it over a metal plate and shade over it.

The Royal carriages were very good. The carriages were very pretty and they look like houses. The Chinese locomotive was massive and so was the Mallard. I wish we had trains now, like in the olden days. The Schools’ lunch coach was quite good. We had to sit on the train to eat our lunch. You can find out about a lot of things. It is so big it is easy to get lost.

I hope you really enjoy your visit. I’m sure you will have a great time. I look forward to hearing all about it.

Love from Esme.

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WHOLE SCHOOL SUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS WEEK (right)autumn term 2007PHSEby Mrs Hayes

OUR FIRST themed week at Woodleigh certainly went off with a bang (smoke-free of course). To launch the week we were lucky enough to have Dr Jonathon Shanklin from British Antarctic Sur-vey who was one of the small group who first discovered the hole in the ozone layer. He entertained us with his tales of re-search life in the Polar Region and fended off the parry of ques-tions admirably. The week was jammed packed with events and activities for all ages with as many lessons as possible having a sustainability theme. A School Council was democratically elected and had its inaugural meeting during which work on gaining the Eco Schools’ Bronze Award began. Year 8 went to a screening of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth followed by a discussion group at City Screen in York. Food for thought. Later in the week, accompanied by Year 7, they also visited the St Nicholas Fields Environmental Site in York to hear about sustainable energy and ways of saving energy. Everyone agreed that the contents of their bins needed re-viewing after a visit from the Ryedale Recycling Officer. Nursery, Reception, Years 1 & 2 now keenly scrutinise all the waste they produce and are quick to comment on which bits should be put in our recycling bins. Fairtrade came as quite a shock to some of the children after our visitor showed them how bananas, chocolate and even foot-ball production can have an impact on communities around the world. Are they still asking for Fairtrade products at home? During the week every class helped to build our garden us-ing donated plants and recycled tractor tyres as planters. The area is blooming nicely and can be used by everyone to relax or as an outdoor teaching area. The week culminated in a Fashion Show like no other ever seen! Clothes donated for the Air Ambulance Collection were carefully sorted, styled and strutted on our catwalk. From street to evening wear; Yorkshire farmer to WAGG, accompanied by appropriate music, even the most unassuming took up the chal-lenge to look good for less. Not sure what the Air Ambulance representative thought but he was very grateful for the dona-tions. All in all the week was a resounding success which we hope the children and adults involved will remember for a long time. More importantly let’s hope they can incorporate some of what they have learnt and change their lifestyles in some small way to help the World. Better get planning our next themed week, it’s going to be hard to match this one.


YEARS SIX, SEVEN & EIGHTECO - GARDEN (above)autumn term 2007 CDTphoto


BONFIRE night was a night to remember. The fireworks came big and small and there were lots of fireworks donated by people to the school. The fireworks lasted for over an hour and went high and long. They finally finished at 9:30. The bonfire went really well and stood high until the end when it finally collapsed and went on to burn for the rest of the night. It was a night to remember for Woodleigh. The cooks worked long and hard in the kitchen, and the food came out as a great success. They sold ice lollies, toffee apples and curry with hotdogs. Lots of money was made from Bonfire night and it was the best bonfire night so far. The Guys this year were made by Year three and were placed on the bonfire less than five minutes before the fire was lit. The Guys lasted for a long time until they burned. It was a great success and will be held again next year.

YEAR SEVENBONFIRE NIGHT (below)autumn termby Alex Machen


WHOLE SCHOOLBONFIRE NIGHT (photo)autumn term


Enemy artillery closes in on WoodleighBy PATRICK LITTEN & FRED AUSTIN YEAR SIX

AS I mustered my forces around the bat-tle field three units of six horsemen, two units of two artillery and forty units of five infantry, I saw my enemy had the same amount as me. Up with the Union! Baron Fred surveyed the battlefield. It had a river and three bridges. There was a hill on his and a few woods and two barns. He was with the Confederacy! I moved first. My army in the centre marched, cavalry charged and moved three hexes; they need to be close to kill. The artillery fired and kill two cavalry-men, and they retreated. Baron Fred’s musketeers walked for-ward one hex and killed four cavalrymen. The artillery fired but unfortunately the shot was lost in the woods. His cavalry galloped to meet mine at one of the bridg-es but it was an even match and he with-drew. The artillery fired again and left a toll of three units dead. Then took the last remaining musketeer. ‘One down four to go.’ Baron Fred’s artillery massacred my

cavalry. Drawing, for now! Then his mus-keteers shot at my cavalry but missed and shot his own musketeers. NOW I’m winning, I just have to fire my artillery with a cavalry charge, and a

shower of shots. It is working to perfec-tion! With a load of sixes from the dice, I made them die! The union won. If you haven’t seen or guessed already this is about the war games, taken by Mr. Mills at the end of term in history lessons. It is also on in activities after school on Tuesday and Thursday.


The Lion Sleeps tonight

Wuthering Heights

Frosty the snowman

Little Shop of Horrors

Rule the World

I can see clearly now

Ruby

Patience

Another one bites the dust

The scientist

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THERE has always been a school Brass band, playing in prayers and plays. How-ever, Mr Tolkien brought in the idea for a second band, a rock band. He asked year 7 & 8 musicians if they wanted to join. After asking pupils from both years 7 and 8, the band was singled down to 5 peo-ple- Kyden on Drums, Ada on keyboard, Antonia and Georgina as singers and Mr Tolkien filling in on guitar. The band practices commenced on Friday nights, after tea, and soon the band sounded like a proper band. So for Christmas, we decided to perform a Rock version of Frosty the Snowman. It was an amazingly exciting song, and we really enjoyed performing it in front of an audi-ence at Christmas. The band also played live during Cab-aret in a Day, with Mrs Naylor playing the piano. They performed Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush and Ruby by the Kaiser Chiefs, amongst others. As we continued with the band, we looked at different songs, like Rule The World by

TakeThat, and The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit. When the summer term started, the band has worked on the score for Little Shop of Horrors for the Year 8 leavers’ play. The band was a really good experience for all of us. It gave us a taster of what it would be like to be in a professional band, and makes us appreciate how hard they must have worked to get it to that perfec-tion, as we did to get it to about as half of that perfection. It will be one of our many memories of Woodleigh. Georgina said what she thought of the band. ‘It was really fun to have a differ-ent band to the usual one, where we could do other music than classical.’ Kyden also commented on what he thought of it. ‘I wanted to start the band because I can play the drum kit more, as I weekly board and don’t get play much at home. I’m glad Mr Tolkien started the band because we do lots of different types of music, like a little bit of Green Day, Phil Collins, Kate Bush and other stuff.’

Here we go - we’re rocking all over the Wolds


Judo a big hit atWoodleigh


JUDO is a martial art used for self-defence. Here you can do it as an after school activity with a judo instructor called Steve Atkinson. He is a fun, exciting teacher and very good. His grade is a 2nd Dan Black belt. Judo suits are provided if you do not have your own. The first lesson is free and, if you like it, you can continue. After chang-ing, the class bows on and then they do games such as British bulldogs, bananas and murder ball to warm up. Following this we start the Judo part doing stuff such as ground work, grading syllabus, throws and defence. We do some-thing different each lesson but now we are doing a lot of grading syllabus because we are doing a grading on the 14th of June. At the end we normally do some proper fights. We get into groups and then the senior grade will give you a numbers each. Steve will then call out a number and the corresponding number

from each group will fight each other. We asked Tom Saunders, a yellow belt with two stripes, who has been doing Judo for five years, “Did you want to continue Judo after your first lesson and why?” He answered – “Yes I like the technical aspects.” Then we interviewed Dean, a year eight, who has been do-ing Judo for almost two years but still hasn’t graded. We asked him – “What first made you want to do Judo?” He replied – “I like grappling with Tom Saunders.” The last person we asked was George Crawford, a boy in year four who has been doing Judo now for two years but also hasn’t graded yet. We asked him – “What grade are you hoping to get to in the next grading and why?” He answered – “I hope to be a black belt.”

By CHARLES SAUNDERS YEAR SIX


WOODLEIGH hosted an under 13 foot-ball tournament on the 15th of March. Six schools took part including Cundall, Fyling Hall, Bramcote, Read, Minster and Woodleigh. All the teams were all equally matched with each other with the group stages seeing four draws on the little pitch. Woodleigh lost their first match to Fyling Hall losing 1-0. Then they made a great comeback by

beating Read 3-0 with goals from Tom Hoggard and Dean Jackson. Woodleigh went through to the semi-final against Cundall beating them 1-0 due to Sam Megginson’s outstanding per-formance in goal and a goal from Dean Jackson. Woodleigh fought a nail biting final between Woodleigh and Fyling Hall with the only goal scored by Tom Hoggard to seal Woodleigh’s victory in extra time.

By TOM HOGGARD & SAM MEGGINSON YEAR SEVEN

We are the champions


I AM delighted to be writing this article during the cricket sea-son. Throughout my five years one of the biggest areas of im-provement in sport at Woodleigh has been in cricket. I’m not talking about winning, but more importantly being in a better position to compete against the other prep schools. Cricket is not my strongest sport but is easily my favourite. It allows children the opportunity to learn some difficult skills, think carefully about tactics, adjust to limited overs and work as a team whilst at the same time being an individual. I have to thank the support of Tom Tolkien who has ably taken over the under 9s and of course Paul Mills whose under 11 teams build a suitable foundation for the children to move into the 1st XI. From there it is up to the dedication and enthusiasm of the boys themselves – creating a culture of cricket has been a number one priority. Indeed, over the past two days I have watched William Procter amass over 70 runs in two fine opening batsman’s in-nings but also seen William Bennett-Baggs (not one of our strike bowlers) take five wickets. I hope I will be invited to umpire 1st XI matches next year – this team will just get better and better! Memories and favourite moments from the past five years: taking a 1st XI football team (who themselves would have admit-ted being more rugby minded) to Belmont Grosvenor in 2004 - we played a very good BG side and battled our way to a 4-3 de-

By MR WOOLLEY PE


A winning run for Woodleigh


feat – any one there would have agreed paying nothing to watch the match was a bargain. Beating a well organised St Martins Ampleforth side at Mer-chiston 7s in 2004. Whilst refereeing an under 11 team against Hurworth House a player was injured in the second half – we were three tries down – I stopped my stop watch. After we had scored three tries and were winning the match I suddenly realised I had not re-started my stop watch – we won the match in overtime!! Practising batting against Rob Mewburn’s bowling all year only to be bowled by him in the staff match – second ball!! Refereeing rugby verses Lochinver House – their big, strong and fast winger broke clear only to be stopped by a magnificent covering tackle by George Harrison – breathtaking. Refereeing the under 11 final between Woodleigh and Cun-dall Manor at the last Hurworth House 7s – again although we were narrowly pipped – it was a spectacular game. Rhys Smith hitting the winning runs against Terrington last year with Kyden Woodhead patiently holding up the other end – magnificent. Watching two former pupils – Joe Robinson and George Har-rison – winning a cricket match for Thixendale – very mature and patient batting – made me very proud! Finally – I very much look forward to being involved with fixtures at the weekend next year – I hope I will be invited to referee and watch the further development of all of the children at Woodleigh.


Double dutch? No problem!


By MR MILLS RUGBY

This year was a difficult season; we had a young small side and everyone else seemed to have older, bigger and sometimes enor-mous sides. After a close win against Sedbergh’s 2nd XV, the team then lost three in a row conceding over 150 points! However a couple of wins boosted morale and although there were only defeats for the rest of the season, at times there had been both excellent individual performances and some quite exciting matches, los-

ing to Cundall 9-0 after being beaten 43-0 earlier on, is a good example. The Sevens season also proved rather mixed. The school host-ed the “Howham Sevens” at Woodleigh for the first time and the team were unlucky to miss the semi-finals by one try on count back. The day before had seen an outstanding performance by the Under 12 Seven at St. Olaves, which hopefully points the way to the future. Once again to our loyal supporters and also to Pete Woolley who is leaving us many thanks for all your input. You all seem convinced we will have a good season next year, I trust the team and I can make it happen.

Bright future for Rugby team


Double dutch? No problem!


By CHARLOTTE CARR YEAR SIX

WOODLEIGH had a skipping tournament against Langton. This tournament was taking place at Woodleigh School’s gym. The competitors for Woodleigh School were as following: Ben Hudson, Molly Lear, Charlie Proctor, and William Bradley. For the year fours there were Andy Choi, Billy Garritty, Louise Lit-ten and Peggy Ullyott. The competitors for year five were Katie Stellings, Harry Connell, Mathew Procter and Edward Medforth. Year six: Char-lotte Horsley, Charlotte Carr, Charles Saunders and Mikey Cur-tis. After the competition Langton did their demonstration to Woodleigh. Their demonstration consisted of, Foot work, back-wards skipping, speed skipping, various boxing skipping, criss-cross skipping and big rope skipping. Woodleigh’s demonstration consisted of the same things as Langton but we also did some different things. We did Parachute skipping, Helicopter skipping and slalom. Woodleigh’s demon-stration was from year 3- year 8. Langton school beat Woodleigh overall in the skip off. There were prizes for the fastest skipper in each year group. For year 3 a boy from Langton won the prize. Year 4: Langton, year 5: Ka-tie Stellings from Woodleigh and year 6: Charlotte Horsley from Woodleigh.The prizes were certificates. We asked the pupils from Woodleigh School from year three to year six, what they thought of this skipping challenge. Here are a few quotes: for year three we asked William Bradley: “Did you enjoy participating in the skip-off?” “Yes I did, I thought it was very challenging and fun.” For year 4’s we asked Louise Litten: “Which part of the skip-ping demonstration was most interesting to watch?” “I thought the Slalom skip was the most fun to watch because I enjoy ski-ing!” For the year 5s we asked Lucy Mumford: “Which skip did you find the most fun to do?” “I thought that one of the Boxing skips was the most fun to do because the way you moved your ropes from side to side and then jump over. It is really fun.” For year six we asked Charles Saunders: “Did you feel sup-ported by your school?” His answer: “I did, because they were cheering me on all through the skipping and when I sat down they were saying ‘well done’ which was encouraging.”


Good seasonfor girls’teams


By ADA LAW & ANTONIA SELVEY YEAR EIGHT

THIS season Woodleigh has done very well in their Rounders. They have tried there best. The U13 team comprised: Charlotte Carr as Bowler, Charlotte Firth as Backstop also Captain, Anto-nia Selvey who plays as 1st Base, Ada Law as 2nd Base, Charlotte Horsley which 3rd Base, Lottie Simpson who plays as 4th Base, Hannah McConnon as 1st Deep, Grace Murkett is 2nd Deep, Ellenya Smith is 3rd Deep, Charlotte Firth and Antonia Selvey have done exceptionally well at getting the ball from backstop to 1st very fast and getting a lot of players out.

On Saturday 7th June the under 13 girls had a rounder’s tournament and we did very well. There were over five teams that were there, but we did not have the chance to play all of them. We played Queen Margaret’s school and we drew with them and also in that match Lottie Simpson caught someone out with her eye and got a black eye. When we played Terrington A team in the tournament we unfortunately lost, When we played the Terrington B team we won. When we played St Martins Ampleforth we lost.


Editors: Tom Saunders & Patrick LittenSub editors and writers: Year 6 & 7Design and layout by Mr Tom Tolkien

Photo credits: Mr Tolkien: pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-10, 12, 13, 16,17, 18, 20-27, 29-34, 36Mrs Downey, pages 10-11, 14-15Mrs Hayes, page 9Mrs Meggison, page 27Mr Miles Murkett, pages 28-29Patrick Litten: pages12-13

Many thanks to: All the staff and children at Woodleigh SchoolAll text © Woodleigh School 2008. Woodleigh School - Langton - Malton - North Yorkshire. Y017 9QN01653 658215 (tel), 01653 658423 (fax), www.woodleighschool.com, [email protected]

OLIVER HUDSON THE MAGIC PORTCULLIS (above)paper weaving on paper, 150 x 85 cm 2008

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