Woodleigh School Magazine 2006

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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

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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.

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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?

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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

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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

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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-

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By TOM BARCLAY YEAR SEVEN

Excitement and

danger as long asits safe

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This tree is very easy to climb andthere are a lot o sae branches.

2

This tree has a large platorm buil

into it. The views are great!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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


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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By BEN KNOWLSON & THOMAS TURNERYEAR EIGHT

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


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

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Great U11s

By CANDY FONG & JEMMA BRYSONYEAR EIGHT


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.

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Injuries blight U13s


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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Sports day winners:

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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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