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Issue 2 - Summer 2006
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OLLIE DALESABSTRACT(above)
pastel, 70 x 50 cm 2006
To create her work, Ollie Dales used cartridge paper and black, blue, purple, red, orange, yel-
low and pink chalk pastels to create the image. Lines were then drawn and cut every three
centimetres. The image was rearranged until a striking work emerged.
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{ C ON T EN T S }
FLOOD!Awash with change at Woodleigh
B Y T O M B A R C L A Y
{ N E W S } 4
MIND BOGGLINGWhats in your rock pool?
B Y L O T T I E S I M P S O N
{ F E A T U R E S } 6
ENJOYING FOODDo you believe in healthy eating?
B Y LAURA ROB E RTSON -TIE RN E Y
{ A R T S } 8
BRANCHING OUTWhich is your avourite tree?
B Y T O M B A R C L A Y
{ M U S I C } 1
HEAVE!Revealing the secrets o Tug o War
B Y L E W I S W E L C H
{ F O L I O }
FILLING IN TIMEThe world o drumming
B Y A L E X M I L L E R
{ W O O D L E I G H } 4
SCORE!Highlights rom fxtures this year
B Y S T A F F W R I T E R S
{ S P O R T } 6-
THE JUNIOR BALLTop outfts
B Y S T A F F P H O T O G R A P H E R S
{ G A L L E R Y } 4
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NOAHS
WOODLEIGH
By TOM BARCLAYYEAR SEVEN
The changing landscape aT
woodleigh doesnT faze The new
wildlife
IN MAY no one was going down to the
pitch or a ew days. The eld on the way
down to the pitches was a lake with the
occasional swimming duck and muddy
island under a tree. But our riends the
fock o sheep got trapped on a small is-land underneath a tree. Some got into the
school grounds and had a good munch on
some daodils and other plants around
school. Total havoc! The larger rams were
scaring younger children or younger chil-
dren were scaring the larger rams, I cant
quite remember.
I have spoken to one o the mother
sheep aected by the foods and she said
The weather is always changing around
here. Sometimes you are reezing your tail
o in snow, sometimes you are swimmingto save your lambs and sometimes you are
roasting and trying to jump in a water
trough. The worst weather was when it
fooded, the water could have swept away
a ully grown ram. I asked her lamb how
she was aected and she replied, Baa!
At the Garden Fete the traditional duck
race was cancelled. I was going to win. I
had trained or months with Quackers
building up to the race. The good thing
was that we got to play more Danish Long
Ball, swimming (in the swimming poolnot in the food) and Football on the new
court. For some people that was bad, but
you cant play cricket all the time.
Careul to escape the foods are a ew
new aces at school in the last year, and
they are either covered in eathers or ur.
Not pupils! Lucy the Labrador puppy isnot such a small puppy and is now just
over a year old. She is not as big as Millie
and Molly, yet. She has a ew more riends
now as there is Rocky the cockerel and
Ginger the guinea owl. Rocky and Gin-
ger are never more than two metres away
rom each other. They chase puppies and
people together. They are partners in
crime.
There are even more owl around
since three ducklings hatched. Ater being
in the incubator or 8 days. Im sure theywill be chasing things soon. When they
hatched, they looked very big and you
could hardly see how they could have t-
ted in an egg. Once the ducklings are out
o the heat lamp they had better look out
or Langton the cat. She remains prime
suspect or injuring Rocky and Ginger
in a previous incident. But now Rocky
knows how to deal with cats and Rocky
protects Ginger, as he wouldnt want his
best riend to get hurt. I hope that Rocky
and Ginger will mother the ducklings abit until they get used to school.
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Theres something moving in that rockpool
ONE Friday in June all o year ve went
to the beach or a school trip to Boggle
Hole near Robin Hoods Bay.
This term we are studying sea crea-
tures and the sea shore. We did a lot o
work at the beach.
We measured the length between the
clis and the sea. Every ve metres we
stopped and put down a square o woodcalled a quadrat.
We wrote down in great detail what
was in the square. We even wrote about
the seaweed. We did this twice.
We looked at ossils, dierent types o
seaweed and dierent types o shellsh.
We also took two buckets to keep
crabs in and realised that dierent types
o crabs didnt always go together hap-
pily.We also looked or ossils. At rst they
were dicult to see, but once the tide had
started to go out we ound a lot.
Mr Woolley ound a perect worm os-
sil and Fred Weeks and Edward Meggin-
son ound devils toenails.
Near the rocks we saw a lot o crabs
most o them were shore crabs. We played
in the rock pools beore we came back to
school and I managed to get completelysoaked.
By LOTTIE SIMPSON & ALEX MACHENYEAR FIVE
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By BEN KNOWLSONYEAR EIGHT
HOSTED by Ben Knowlson, Edward
Bloom, Tom Barclay and Thomas Turn-
er, the Pirates o Woodleigh podcasting
radio show hijacked Langtons airwaves.
Almost. The show was recorded live each
Friday evening and uploaded as a podcast
onto the Itunes website.Mr Tolkien helped with the computer
while Ben, Ed, Tom and Thomas were
running and designing the show. The
show went live every Friday night rom
6-pm.
There was a weekly quiz, top ten
tunes, top ten cars and a debate. Every
week there was a new guest on the show.
We had Mr Hardy and Mel the matron
taking the quiz.
Later in the term the show eatured
live sessions. These included Miles Mur-kett with his guitar and Olivia and Char-
lotte singing a duet. Ben Knowlson also
perormed a special alsetto guess that
tune.
A lot o work went into the show, in-
cluding over 4 minutes o setting it up
and sound checks and hours o heated
debate over the running order and show
contents.
The show nearly never happened.
Only one week beore the rst show oneo the mixers decided to blow up leaving
only one week to get a new mixer in or-
der or the show to go ahead. (The mixer
did arrive, but only on the morning o the
show). Every Friday evening the produc-
ers and presenter stayed cool, even when
the guests were turning up late.
Ater all the hard work all the shows
went ahead and it was great un. I think
everyone had a good time and all the
viewers and crew loved the nal quiz item
- guess the fush. (Especially Thomas re-marks when the toilet fooded on him).
Pirates o Woodleigh is available on
broadband streaming on the internet
rom Itunes.
Pirate podcast rocks
Fridays at Woodleigh
Hermit crabs
Starsh
Fossils
Limpets
Sea anemones
Sea lettuce
Rocks
Sea snails
RocKpool finds
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By LAURA ROBERTSON-TIERNEY & MILES MURKETTYEARS SEVEN & EIGHT
Eat to live or live to eat?
Ed Bloom sparks a healthy eating debate
AT THE recent Rotary Club Youth Speaks public speaking con-
test at Lady Lumleys School in Pickering, Woodleigh were licking
their lips. Our main speaker was Edward Bloom, who perormed
an extremely well written and prepared speech about how we
should enjoy ood and not worry about how many calories it has
in or i it will take a ew years o our lives.We told our school cook Edwards views on ood and she was
very strongly against most o the things he said in his speech,
almost to the point o concerned outrage.
Edward believes that we should eat what we want to eat, not
what we are made to think we should eat. We should not eel
guilty about what we eat, where we eat, when we eat or why we
eat. Edward says who cares i atty ood might take a ew years
o your lie. Cookies answer to that is that she does care i atty
ood is going to stop her, or any o the people that she is going to
make her gorgeous ood or, live or a shorter amount o time.
Cookie is not concerned that 60% o people do not like veg-
etables, she still puts them as a large part o all her meals. Shethinks that it is essential that children get all the vitamins and
nutrients they need into their diet, although she sometimes gets
rustrated when children do not eat her meals because each one
takes her ve hours to prepare. Edward is one o those 60% that
do not like vegetables. He would much preer to gorge out on an
unhealthy, atty or meaty meal than have a serving o vegeta-
bles.Avoid a solitary stued olive on a plate, mushrooms stir-
ried, chopped lettuce, peppers, radishes, celery and watercress
arranged artistically. It looks great. The colours are antastic.
Theres so much texture. It must be good or you because the
magazine says so. But the taste is so boring. Those are the words
o Edward Bloom describing a healthy salad. His opinion is ab-
solutely clear, he nds healthy ood boring and tasteless.
I you wish to eat the ground-up spine o a chicken or the
eyeballs o a sh in a ast ood restaurant then eel ree but how
many o these people actually know and understand what they
are eating? Have you ever thought about the process involved in
Mechanically Recovered Meat? How many people realise thatthere is a higher chlorine content in a slice o waer thin ham
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By ALAN LEEYEAR EIGHT
World Cup fever
hits Woodleigh
than there is in the school swimming pool.
On the other hand Cookie obviously thinks that ast ood res-
taurants do not serve real ood and that it is all made rom the
stretchy, atty, bony and gristly parts o meat and sh. She thinks
that people who eat ast ood do not actually know completely
what they are eating.Cookie believes that healthy ood is the way orward and veg-
etables and salad should be served with every meal. According to
her the ood that is served in ast ood restaurants is total junk.
She makes every single meal that she prepares have at least one
serving o vegetables in and would never even consider serving
ood that was made out o rubbish in her school dinners.
Completely on the other side o the ence, in act quite a ew
metres away rom it, is Edward Bloom. He believes that people
should eat what they want and not be worried i it is going to
take a ew years o their lives.
I people worry about how many calories they consume in
one day he laughs at them and just thinks o what the worldwould be like i everyone was a complete health reak.
Waer Thin Ham?
Stued olives?
Chicken nuggets?
Stir-ried mushrooms?
healThY oR heaRTY?
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LOTS o the ootballers in Woodleigh went crazy about the
world cup, even some o the sta. Even the people who didnt
like ootball were watching it cheering England on.
When England played Paraguay, everyone was so excited.
When Beckham scored the winning goal by curling it around a
Paraguay deender headed it in to his own goal, everybody wasjumping around and shouting.
Some o the children went to Germany and watched the oot-
ball match. They got to miss school! When we were all in the bus
going to Fyling Hall Mr Woolley had the radio on ull blast listen-
ing to ootball. When England scored Mr Woolley went crazy,
pipping the horn to all the other drivers.
At school now everyone is talking about ootball whether it
be England, Brazil, or France. The new French girls were watch-
ing the French match. At night when the borders watch the oot-
ball they get to stay up until the match has nished.
At school lots o people thought England will win. But the
others are saying stop being optimistic, Brazil will win the worldcup again!
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2006 party makes a splashBy ROB MEWBURNYEAR SEVEN
THE GARDEN party was a big success
or the riends o Woodleigh and raised
100. The only let down was the weath-
er. Highlights included the Louise Pollard
photography stall, Mrs Robinsons duck
catching, Mrs Turners chocolate oun-
tain and Miss Legards and Mrs Greens
spectacular ood.
This years event took place in the
Gym, and despite the rain went on to
raise over 100 or the school.Clayton Hill, in year said: I think
that the garden party was very good be-
cause we raised a lot more money than
the years beore, and there were stalls
or every one meaning there were stalls
or children and adults. He enjoyed the
sponge throw because he could get re-
venge on people, and he said that it looked
like every one enjoyed the party because
every one was walking around with a
smile on their aces. Clayton also thought
that there was only one thing bad about itand it was the weather.
Hidden bottles
Bouncy castle
BB Shooting
Bobbing or apples
Chocolate ountain
Sponge throwing
Sweet stall
Duck pond
Make-up salon
Top sTalls
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IN THE Autumn term in a Saturday
French Lesson, year our had a French
breakast in the school dining room.
In lessons in previous weeks we learnt
the words or dierent breakast oods,
drinks, crockery and cutlery.
We practised some polite phrases in
French to ask or more or to ask people to
pass things to us at the table.
We drank hot chocolate rom bowls,
which was un, and we didnt use plates.We ate croissants, brioche, French bread,
des crales
croissants
pain au chocolat
du pain brioche
du pain
un ca noir
des tartines
un jus dorange
un yaourt
Top BReaKfasTs
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By CHARLES SAUNDERSYEAR FOUR
Bon apptit Year Four!
pain au chocolat and French jam and but-
ter.
Some people even dipped their bread
in their hot chocolate like French chil-
dren do.
I think it was super. Everything was
so delicious. Some people got so stued
they couldnt eat their lunch.
Ater this we learned how to order
ood and drink rom a cae. We also prac-
tised a role play rom memory which wemade menus or and then videoed.
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By TOM BARCLAY YEAR SEVEN
Excitement and
danger as long asits safe
1
This tree is very easy to climb andthere are a lot o sae branches.
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This tree has a large platorm buil
into it. The views are great!
3
This tree has blossom in the sum
mer. Your clothes will get orange.
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This tree is near the outside den
and can be quite dicult to climb
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This is a good tree but you wneed a leg up.
Top 5 TRees
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ACTIVITIES at Woodleigh are endless.Riding, swimming, wargaming, judo,
climbing trees, underground dens and
pottery only scratch the surace o what
there is to do.
Personally, I like to go and climb the
dicult trees in break-times with George
Boyes, Mark Thomas and Alex Miller.
The thrill is making targets and achiev-
ing them, but being with my riends is the
part I like best o all.
You can only climb trees with the per-
mission o a teacher in case there is anaccident alling rom the tree. Break can
fy by when you are enjoying yoursel
with the range o outdoor activities in the
school grounds.
Theres ootball on the outdoor court,
Tennis, Cricket in the nets, the adventure
playground and badminton in the gym.But my avourite is climbing. It can be
dangerous, but i you check every branch
beore you go on, its sae and un. But
its good to have a riend with you, just in
case.
George Boyes, ace tree climber, said: I
like climbing. It gives me muscles. I also
like the excitement o jumping o.
Ted Foster and I were hal way up a
tree and we both ell, but I grabbed on to
a branch and Ted grabbed on to my leg.
Then my shoe ell o.Ted was ne and he wanted to do it
again, but i I had done my shoelaces tight
enough he would have not allen. It was
unny - we were both laughing - it was a
very small tree.
Now I always tie my laces up. Tight.
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Over 60 and still going strong
ACTIVITY weekends were originally Mr
Englands idea. They allow children to have experiences which are impossible
on the school premises. From the rst ex-
perimental weekend, more than ten years
ago, we have carried on at the rate o ve
or six per year. Recently we reached the
60th such weekend.
I, personally, have had some antastic
experiences over the years and eel lucky
to have been involved.
We have spent many weekends in the
Lakes, the Peak District and the North
Yorks Moors. This has given opportuni-ties or outdoor activities such as walk-
ing, climbing, cycling, canoeing, sailing,
caving, shing and camping.
Other weekends have included city
visits to London, Edinburgh, Liverpool,
Leeds, Sheeld, Bradord and, o course,
York. In these cities we have explored art
galleries, museums, historic monuments,
shows, plays and D cinema.
There have been weekends o out-
standing achievement. The Woodleigh-
Woodleigh walk/cycle/run events in-volved travelling 0 miles rom the
By MRS MURKETTACTIVITY WEEKENDS
schools original base near Hull. We have
completed the three Yorkshire Peaks walktwice. We have also canoed down the Riv-
er Derwent. The Wolds Way was walked
over two weekends.
Extraordinary outdoor moments have
occurred, such as: hard-won and breath-
taking views, snowstorms and thunder-
storms, sitting behind wateralls, leaps o
aith rom telegraph poles, catching and
cooking wild sh, camp res and al resco
cookery, traversing weirs, water-skiing in
the sunshine and crawling through icy
water into caves ull o crystals.There are more memories rom indoor
events such as the Wizard o Oz in Leeds,
Fame in London, or the Chinese State Cir-
cus. We have painted in the Tate Gallery
in Liverpool, visited Edinburgh Castle
and the Tower o London, and seen dino-
saurs in the Natural History Museum. We
have been ice skating, swimming, bowl-
ing and ghost hunting in the catacombs o
Edinburgh.
Recently, on our 60th anniversary
weekend, an intrepid group walked acrossMorecambe Bay, ollowing the Queens
guide, Cedric Robinson. He guided us
through the treacherous quicksands andshiting river channels. It was a spectacu-
larly beautiul and awe-inspiring place.
Through being involved with Activ-
ity Weekends with children we have seen
individual achievements, team work and
acts o riendship. We have seen children
developing understanding, skills and con-
dence.
It has become an important way o ex-
ploring our world and a way o making
education an exciting adventure. Above
all, it has been 60 weekends o un.
Wet, Wet, Wet- national water sports
centre, Nottingham
Exploring York- including Theatre
Royal workshop
London Weekend- including Fame
and National History Museum
Morecambe Bay- including Ingleton
Falls
RecenT acTiViTies
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FIRST camp started with a splash. When
I woke up in the morning, I saw bloodmarks all over the door to my tent.
Then when all the other people in my
tent woke up Dean started gabbling out,
I had a massive nose bleed last night,
Saunders! I was shaking you like hell but
you wouldnt wake up! He showed me
all the blood marks on his sleeping bag
which were even bigger than the ones on
the tent door.
Louis and Horsley gave even more de-
tails, most o which I didnt really want
to know and Dean just kept repeating thesame thing.
When we went rat building it was
boys against girls and the girls had a good
design that didnt all apart but the boys
had a rubbish design that ell apart. The
girls did well because they worked togeth-
er, the boys did really badly because they
were shouting at each other.
The girls did actually win because
Clayton swam o the rat to touch the
buoy. Then when one o the other boys
touched the buoy Clayton wasnt on therat and when the girls touched it all o
By TOM SAUNDERS, BECKY SOANES & GRACE MURKETTYEAR SIXDeans spectacular nose bleed grati
on Thomas tent
The hotly contested rating
competition between the boys
and girls. Who won?
Deep river wading and a severe
soaking
An impromptu ootball match won
12-0 by Woodleigh
Will Megginson managed to get a
ree ice cream!
Louis Knowlsons amazing goal
Water ghts in the lake
Going cycling down exhilarating hills
Olivias amazing capsize recovery in
the middle o Lake Windemere
Tom Saunders jumped into mud -
waist deep - nding a ootball
Top 10
fiRsT camp
momenTs BY
YeaRs 6 & 7
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them were on it, so they won.
The boys then said they won eventhough they didnt really. It was clear to
see that the girls had the better built rat.
On Tuesday we went on a long up hill
bike ride. For lunch we stopped next to a
tranquil lake.
There ater we had lunch we played
in the lake and had water ghts it was re-
ally un. And most o us didnt have spare
clothes so we rode back soaking wet!
Good thing it was a warm day.
On the way back, we stopped o at
some shops and went shopping! Althoughwe only had teen minutes, we got quite
a lot o shopping done.
On the way back the mini bus that
Mrs Murkett was driving broke down or
an unknown reason. Luckily the hill we
broke down on had a very helpul garage
at the bottom along with a play ground.
When the rescue bus came there was
only enough room or hal to t in so Mrs
Soanes came to pick up the other hal, but
Mrs Murkett and her daughter were let
behind because they couldnt t. Miss Le-gard kindly picked them up.
Rat o un on camp
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Did you guess the ghost in this years
Cabaret in a Day?
THIS years Cabaret in a Day was a Mrs
Murkett and Mr Hardy spectacular loosely
based on the story o the Woodleigh ghost
and set in the world o Scooby- Doo.
Ed Bloom played Fred, Laura Robert-
son-Tierney was super sleuth Velma and
Charlie Allenby captured the essence o
Shaggy. Can you guess Mr Englands sur-
prise part , only revealed at the end?
The house plays this year eatured a
scene rom the BFG by Roald Dahl.
In the play, Sophie has a good idea be-
cause she wants to stop the giants eating
children. She is going to make a dream t
or a Queen so she believes in giants and
stops the giants eating children.
Each house worked very hard on scen-
ery, props, learning lines and on creating
a dierent interpretation o the play.
Elements rom all the house perorm-
ances were cast in a super show or the
end o term.
The musical in a day in the Autumn
term was called Noah and his foating
zoo. The cast perormed to a packed audi-
ence in the schools recently reurbished
Jubilee Hall.
The animals, played by years ve and
six, danced onto a spectacular 40t ark,
two by two.
Directed by Mrs Anna Myatt, the play
ollowed the Bible story closely in eight
scenes and our acts.
By CASSIE BATTYEYEAR EIGHT
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Creative projects weave magic into
Woodleigh Art lessons
ART at Woodleigh is my avourite sub-
ject. Year seven have been weaving with
cloth, cotton wool, sh nets and wool. It
all looks very colourul and bright.
Year our have been using leaves and
paint to print pictures o chickens. Year
eight have been doing some good work.
They have been scoring the shape o a
plant and colouring them in with chalk.
However year eight are not the only
year group that have been doing this,
years our, ve and six have been doing
this.
Year eight have also been doing some
ink prints using a roller, pieces o card and
coloured paint. Years seven have made
drawings rom pastels. Ater they drew
the pictures they cut them into stripes
and re-arranged them.
The next step was sticking them on to
a blank sheet o paper and then they saw
what their project would look like. They
were all very unky.
The pupils that have been going to ex-
tra art are making some trees rom card,
and then painting them white. Much art-
work has been made or the leavers play,
which is at the end o the term.
Over this past year a lot o work has
gone into organising art projects and all
pupils have put a lot o work into doing
the projects. Im really looking orward to
Art next year.
By GEORGE BOYES & LEWIS RYANYEAR SEVEN
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NURSERY & RECEPTIONRYEDALE FOLK MUSEUM(photo)
spring term 2006
We washed clothes using a dolly tub
and dolly stick. Soap was grated into the
water. We also used bats and a mangle
to get the water out o the washing. Lat-
er on we changed the bed and emptied
out the chamber pot!
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YEAR FIVEFIREWORKS NIGHT(below)
autumn term 2005
perormance poetry
by Alex Machen & Fred Weeks
A mountain o exploding rockets booming like a erce cannon.
A riot o big and small sparks blooming like a beautiul red rose.
A hill o rewood melting like an enormous wax candle.
The shine o glow sticks glimmering in the black hole o the night.
A pile o sticky toee apples daring and red.
Sparklers shimmering like the light o the moon.
An orange fame spitting like a erocious beast.
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YEAR FOURTHE WINTER WIND(below)
spring term 2006
creative writing
by Oliver Hudson
The winter wind
A wave o Christmas through the land,
reezes over the ice.
A pelting tornado o icy stones
Brings stabs o rozen sleet.
Waves o hailstones come like the sea,
In unceasing driving torrents.
Snowy showers and icy storms
Chill you to the bone.
BOARDERSPAINTING WITH GLOWSTICKS (photo)
autumn term 2005
bonre night
by Dean Jackson and Jason Birkett
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YEAR EIGHTTUG OF WAR (photo)
summer term 2005
non ction writing
by Lewis Welch
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Tug o war is surely the most stressul, most dicult and the most tactical sport on the
planet. Teachers and coaches all over Yorkshire obsess over exactly how to win.
Woodleigh School is no dierent and hosts a tug o war competition once a year in
sports day. All o the houses, north, east, south and west go against each other. They
all want to win, its one o the last o the sports events but the one that is the most
enjoyable and competitive.
Last year the year eights were much bigger than this years year eight but the de-
termination o each house to win it will be as strong and big as ever. Last year south
won it, who had some o the biggest people in the school, like Anthony Hibberd, Sun-
ny Chan, and Ed Procter, so it wasnt that hard or south but this year, everybody in year
eight is almost the same height so the competition will be erce.When we asked Jason Birkett some questions about tug o war he said I dont
know much about tug o war, I think there are nine in a team, but Im just guessing I
might be wrong. I also think that the person at the back o the rope which Im pretty
sure is called the anchor, should be a big and strong man. Ive only done tug o war
twice in two years and thats at sports day.
I also asked Mr England and he said, Im sure there are eight people in a tug o war
team as Ive been doing tug o war competitions since 1991. I do tug o war twice a
year once at sports day where the sta, the parents and the children go against each
other and another time at Huntington stadium with all the other schools in the area.
The best position to be in, in a game o tug o war, is with your heel dug into the
ground put the other leg slightly bent and the oot pointing to the side. To try and
increase the grip spit on your hands and rub them together, then your hands will gripthe rope tighter. I would put the biggest and strongest person as the anchor. Biggest
point o all Pull as hard as you can!
Woodleigh tug of war dream team:
At the back Thomas Turner; and the rest
Jason Birkett , Alan Lee, Lewis Welch, George Harrison, Clayton Hill, Brad White
and Rhys Smith.
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Sugar were going down by Fall out
boy
Nevertheless by Nevertheless
The Obvious Child by Paul Simon
Dani Caliornia by Red Hot Chilli
Peppers
Instant Karma by John Lennon
Vertigo by U2
Living on a prayer by Bon Jovi
All the small things
Blink 182
Sweet dreams are made o this by
Marilyn Manson
Enter sandman - Metallica
aleXs plaYlisTDrumming hits all the
right notes at WoodleighBy ALEX MILLERYEAR SEVEN
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THERE is a new craze hitting Woodleigh
drumming! Alex Miller, Jemma Bryson
and Kyden Woodhead are especially good.
Guy Welch, Tom Hoggard, Henry Blun-
dell and George Mewburn are the latestyoung guns in year ve. But why is it so
popular?
Alex Miller has been playing the
drums or three years, as has Rhys Smith.
Most pupils take drum exams which can
be quite hard.
The teachers at the school help you
learn to read drum music. The drummer
is always the most important player in the
band as they keep the rhythm.
The drummers are all desperate to
play in rock bands. Rhys Smith will prob-ably be in a band i he keeps up his amaz-
ing work. He is a wicked drummer. Alex
Miller hopes he will be in a band when he
is about 14.
Alex Miller is on grade three and
Rhys Smith is on grade two. Alex Millerdoesnt like doing grades as he nds it
hard. George Mewbern is on grade one
but he has just started.
Mr Hardy the drum teacher is a qual-
ity drummer. Alex Miller said, I started
playing the drums because my cousin
plays the drums and hes a drummer and
hes really cool. Hopeully drumming will
make me amous.
Kyden also said I love drumming be-
cause it is un and improves my rhythm, I
also like making lots o noise so this is theright instrument or me.
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School band plays in
packed York Minster showPacked York Minster created an
amazing atmosphere or the show
Laura Robertson-Tierney reading
The Brook by Alred Tennyson
Spectacular bell ringing
The Lord Mayor in ull regalia
The school band playing our songs
including Dear Lord and Father
Amazing choral singing by many
dierent schools
Weeks o practising made
worthwhile
A large amount o money raised or
York Multiple Sclerosis society
Reading about the event in the local
newspaper
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WOODLEIGH school band have played
on many outings, including the schools
cabaret in a day and last years appear-
ance on the television at Durham school.
However this was the big one. Theband was invited to play in a charity con-
cert at York Minster and they accepted
the invitation.
The Minster was ull and there were
over 00 people that came to listen. The
service lasted about one and a hal hours
and Woodleigh band only played or a
short time.
The band practised or weeks or
the trip out and they played our songs,
which were, Dear Lord and Father, Coun-
try Jaunt, Razzmatazz and Dreaming.However although we only played a
couple o songs one member o the band
had an extra duty and had to read a poem
in ront o all the 00 people.
The poem that Laura read was called
The Brook and was read very well.There was not just Woodleigh band
playing there were a lot more perorm-
ances, which included bell ringers, chil-
dren singing, charity workers singing and
lots o dierent poems and hymns were
sung and read.
It was a brilliant day out or all o the
band and their amilies and it was a very
brilliant experience.
Mr Hardy said it was a brilliant con-
cert I was denitely glad that the band
had the time to come and play - it was re-ally worth it.
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Tennis - Joe Robinson
Chess - Jason Birkett
Badminton - Alan Lee
Table Tennis - Brad WhiteSnooker - Brad White
Tennis - Oliver Medorth
Snooker - Philip Johnston
Table Tennis - Philip Johnston
Junior Badminton - Philip Johnston
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TOURNAMENT
RESULTSSenior tournaments
Junior tournaments
By BEN KNOWLSON YEAR EIGHT
PHILIP Johnston led the tournaments
this year by winning three dierent com-
petitions.
On the rst day o the summer term
all the students who wished to take part
signed up their name or which competi-
tion they wanted to enter.
There are various competitions toenter. The choices were: - Badminton,
snooker, tennis, chess and table tennis.
All o the competitions are separated into
junior and senior, apart rom the chess.
The results: in the nal o the senior
badminton it was Alan Lee V Brad White
and the winner was Alan.
In the senior snooker nal Brad played
George Harrison and Brad won.
The junior badminton nal was Tho-
mas Lee V Philip Johnston and Philip
Tournaments inthrilling fnale
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won convincingly.
In the junior snooker nal Philip
played Andrew Chapman and the winner
was once again, Philip.
The junior tennis had a unny ending,
Oliver Medorth had to play his brother
Edward Medorth, but big bro won. (Ol-
iver)In the chess nal Alan played Jason
Birkett and Jason Birkett prevailed.
Thomas had to ace Philip again in the
nal o junior table tennis and Philip
was again victorious.
In the senior table tennis Rob Mew-
burn aced snooker champion Brad and
Brad won.
For the second year in a row Brad
aced Joe in the nal o senior tennis and
as usual Joe Robinson was victorious.
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Great day forU13 cricketers
By ROB MEWBURNYEAR SEVEN
THIS YEARS Worsley Cup was played in
glorious sunshine and Woodleigh started
brightly against Greshams. Brad White
(16no) and George Harrison (no) bat-
ted well but we still didnt score quickly
enough and sixty eight was a hard total
to deend especially when they had a an-
tastic number three batsman who enabledthem to score the runs with an over to
spare.
Then we came up against Castle B.
Again we batted rst and we scored
eighty one, there were some good knocks
rom Joe Robinson (14) and Louis White
(16). There was some good bowling and
elding all round with Jack Redern tak-
ing -14 restricting Castle rom getting
the runs.
We came up against a good St. Olaves
side next, and we batted rst. Our total
again wasnt easy to deend we ended up
with ty three runs and it was a good
come back rom Ted Foster () and Rob
Mewburn (1no). St. Olaves knocked the
runs o with two overs to spare.
We got through to the plate and we
came across Terrington Hall who welost against earlier on in the season. This
match was six six ball overs we ended up
with orty seven. There were some good
innings rom Brad White () and Rob
Mewburn (no).
There was some brilliant bowling and
elding rom the team - the two open-
ers bowled excellently; Will Megginson
bowling a brilliant length and Jack Red-
ern taking wickets (4-) at the other end.
Clayton Hills awesome catching at silly
mid o helped. We got them or twenty
runs.
We were then in the plate nal against
Howsham Hall who we lost to earlier on
in the season. It was a very close game but
that was in the past. We batted rst again
and scored sixty one runs with some good
batting rom Joe Robinson (no) andRob Mewburn (16). But it still wasnt
enough and they knocked the runs o
with an over to spare. The main thing
that let us down was our elding.
Our Woodleigh team did brilliantly
at this tournament with some antastic
bowling rom the bowlers. Our high-
est wicket taker was Jack Redern with
nine wickets. This was a antastic day or
Woodleigh cricket, and one all the players
will no doubt remember or a long time.
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Great U11s
By CANDY FONG & JEMMA BRYSONYEAR EIGHT
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THE GIRLS teams have had a roller
coaster season this year.
In the Autumn term 00 the U11 net-
ball team started the year losing the rst
ew matches. The scores varied around
how much the team lost by, sometimes itwas close and other times it was hard to
accept.
When they got into the swing o the
game later in the year, they started win-
ning some matches. The team drew twice
and won twice. The teams highest win
or our team was 0-1 against St Martins
school, a real achievement.
During the season there was a huge
U11 netball tournament at Queen Mar-
garets school which eatured schools
rom all over the country. Our team wason re winning most o our matches,
which earned us a rd place out o 0
other schools around the area!
Mrs Johnston was overwhelmed with
the teams eorts, and bought everyone
pencil sets. This year Ollie Dales was the
proud captain o the team.In the same term the U team started
o winning the rst o their matches,
which really impressed all the other
schools. They carried this on winning
throughout the season, without losing
any o their matches - all the other teams
were running scared.
The highest score was -0 against
Bramcote. Charlotte Horsley encouraged
their team to carry on winning. All the
teachers were extremely impressed with
the skill o the team.The U and U10 rounders were joint
ages, and unortunately didnt win many
o their matches. The worst loss they had
was 1 to against Cundall.
They practised nearly all o games
time. In spite o a lot o encouragement
rom the teachers they still didnt winmany matches.
The U11 team won the majority o
their matches and were constantly prac-
tising. They didnt always win by a lot
but they mainly kept beating all the other
teams and keeping a high standard as one
o the best teams around.
Their team captain was Charlotte
Firth. She encouraged the team to do well
and keep winning. Their best score was
1-6 against Lisvane, pretty impressive.
Lets hope the good orm continuesinto next year.
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Injuries blight U13s
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THE POTENTIAL was there, sadly or most o the season the
personnel were not. Injuries and absences blighted our chances
and also led to a couple o shock deeats.
Even so, the season got o to an encouraging start with a
win over Read School, in which both wings managed a try. This
was ollowed by Red House Norton, who proved a much sterner
test beating us 1-10.
Things began to look up again with a good win over Ter-rington. Two matches up at Aysgarth led to two deeats, but only
by the narrowest o margins. Ater a draw against Cundall, the
side were hoping or victory over Howsham. However, it was not
to be. So, yet another year goes by. 18 was the last time we beat
Howsham. Surely it must be our turn again soon!
No time to dwell in the past and victory at last, beating Scar-
borough college in another exciting close match. The Christmas
term ended with a match against St. Martins Ampleorth, who,
on their arrival, greeted PBW with a birthday song in Latin.
Unortunately their good will did not extend to the rugby pitch
By MR MILLSRUGBY
and we were soundly beaten.
The second hal o the season started with a solid win over
Fyling Hall. However, it soon went pear shaped. We ran out o
props or the match against Bramcote and they did have a strong
ront row. Shock deeat!
Pocklington next, always a strong physical side. Hooray our
orwards put up a real ght (obviously stung by the previous
match or was it PTMs tongue and boot?). O.K. so we lost, butat least we competed and it ran really close - shame we were not
even at ull strength.
Lochinvar House next, on tour rom the south. Another real-
ly exciting, close match, with the school coming out top by three
points. Final match against Cundall away. Nothing exciting
about that, in act a complete massacre in their avour.
As I wrote at the beginning, injuries to key players let us
down considerably, but there were many excellent individual
perormances throughout the year and I hope all o this will be
put to good use next year as there are a ew scores to settle.
OUR competitive season started with aloss to Bramcote. The score was 1-4. The
team was quietly disappointed and put
in heavy training sessions until the next
match v Minster.
Our practice paid o with three
straight wins Minster (-) Cundall (6-
4) and Minster (6-). Our season took a
turn or the worse with ve losses on the
bounce to Bramcote (0-4), Hurworth (1-
), Queen Ethelburgas (0-4), Bramcote
(1-), Asygarth (1-6).
Mid-season we pulled two great winsout o the bag over Cundall (-0) and
Ripon choir (1-0) we drew with Ter-rington (1-1) and then beat Asygarth (-
0) and Mowden Hall (-0). Towards the
mid season we had a draw with Bramcote
(-), then we had a magnicent win at
the Spirit o Soccer tournament oset by
another draw - this time with Terrington
(-).
A downall towards the end o the
season resulted with some key players in-
jured and general tiredness in the team.
We lost our last three tournament xtures
to Fyling Hall (0-1), Read (0-6) and Cun-dall (0-1).
Great start to football season
By JOE ROBINSONYEAR EIGHT
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Tough time
for U11
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WOODLEIGHS U11 ootballers struggled this year against big-
ger and more powerul sides. First o, Woodleigh went to Bram-
cotes tournament. Our rst match was against Bramcote Ateam. They had a very good team. We played nine games in the
tournament and we won three o them.
Ater the tournament the next match we played was against
Cundall A team. Cundall scored three goals in the rst hal and
we scored one still in the rst hal.
In the second hal we came back into the game and the nal
score was -4 to Cundall.
We then played Bramcote away again and Tom Hoggard
scored the opening goal. We lost our way and the nal score was
6- to Bramcote.
Our next game was against Minster they scored three goals
and got an early lead. In the end the score was -1 to Minster.The Under 11 B team were playing Asygarth. Asygarth got
two goals in the rst hal. Tom Hoggard, Will Procter and Oliver
Medorth came on and the nal score was -.
We played Terrington next and they had a pretty good team.
They scored two good goals in the rst hal. In the second hal
they went to three nil up and then a miracle happened making
Tom Hoggard score two goals. In the end the nal score was -
to Terrington.
We played sixteen, lost twelve, won three and drew one, we
all played really well.
We are all really looking orward to next year when we should
have a really strong team made up o mainly year sixes.
By WILL PROCTERYEAR FIVE
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Close fought battle edged
Years 3 & 4:
100m - John Soanes
200m - Charles Dales
400m - Edward Medorth
800m - Charlotte Horsely
Years 5 & 6:
100m - George Mewburn
200m - Oliver Medorth
400m - Will Bennett-Baggs
800m - Will Bennett-Baggs
Years 7 & 8:
100m - Miles Murkett
200m - Joe Robinson
400m - Joe Robinson
800m - Jason Birkett
TRACK RESULTS
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IN JUNE Woodleigh School hosted its annual sports day which
is another one o the many house events. There were our di-
erent house events and then each age group had various races,
which included the 100 metres, 00 metres, 400 metres, 800 me-
tres, 4x100 metres and 4x400 metres.
There were also various eld events such as the cricket ball
throw and the long jump.
Here are the results o the track events:- The years and 4100 metres was won by John Soanes, the years and 6 was won
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the years and 6 was won by Will Bennet - Baggs and the
years and 8 winner was Jason Birkett.
All o the races were ran brilliantly especially Miles Mur-
ketts 100 metre race which he won in 1.16 seconds.
The winners o sports day were East, ollowed by West,
then South then North.
A big thanks to all the sta which organised the sports
day and made it run so smoothly and all o the athletes whotried their best.
by George Mewburn and the years and 8 was won by Miles
Murkett.
The years and 4 00 metres was won by Charles Dales, the
year and 6 was won by Oliver Medorth and the year and 8
was won by Joe Robinson.
The years and 4 400 metres was won by Edward Medorth,
the years and 6 was won by Will Bennet - Baggs and the years
and 8 was won by Joe Robinson.The years and 4 800 metres was won by Charlotte Horsley,
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Editors: Tom Barclay & Rob Mewburn
Sub Editors and writers: Ben Knowlson, Miles Murkett, Cassie Battye, Alex Miller, Will Megginson,George Boyes, Mark Thomas, Laura Robertson-Tierney, Tom Saunders, Tom Stokoe, Thomas Turner, LewisWelch, Alan Lee, Lewis Ryan, Thomas Turner, Candy Fong, Jemma Bryson & Joe Robinson.
Design and layout byMr Tom Tolkien
Photo credits:Mr Tolkien: pages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6-10, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20-34, 36Miss Howitt: page 18. Thomas Saunders: page 15Mrs Murkett: page 14.Mrs Matique page 11.Mrs Fitton: page 17
Many thanks to: All the staf and children at Woodleigh SchoolAll text Woodleigh School 2006. Woodleigh School - Langton - Malton - North Yorkshire. Y017 9QN01653 658215 (tel), 01653 658423 (ax), www.woodleighschool.reeserve.co.uk
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LEWIS WELCH
PETALS(above)coloured pastels on paper, 100 x 65 cm 2006
To create his work Lewis Welch used nails and knives to etch an outline o a fower. He then
illustrated the fowers with pastels against a bold black background. White pastel outlineswere later added to highlight the edges.
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eddie Trueman OBE 1931- 2006
ORTLY beore going to press, the news was an-
unced o the sad death o Freddie Trueman OBE.
We had been privileged to host a dinner in the
mnasium with Freddie as principal speaker on March
h 2006. He spoke or over an hour, without notes,
tertaining and amusing a devoted audience in his
n inimitable style.
Head waiter on his table was Ed Bloom (in photo.) In
course o the evening Freddie had asked Ed to etchottle o water or him rom the bar. On returning, he
s oered a tip which he declined with the words, I
uldnt possibly accept your money, Mr Trueman.
At the end o his speech Freddie said, It has been a
asure to visit Woodleigh School and may I say what
nderul, polite children I have met this evening. Its
ars since I was reerred to as Mr Trueman!
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