Woodleigh School magazine 2007

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Issue 3 - Summer 2007

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| thewoodleighan | No. 3 | Summer term

LAURA ROBERTSON-TIERNEYSPLAT(above)

painting, 90 x 60 cm 2007

To create her work, Laura mixed colours by spattering them on paper. She elt she

demonstrated her personality - colourul and dierent. This work was created in several

layers and took many days to complete.


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{ C ON T EN T S }

LIONS LAIRWoodleigh pupils brave the lions

B Y T O M S A U N D E R S

{ N E W S } 4

ON TOP OF THE WORLDTreehouses and dens

B Y T O M B A R C L A Y

{ F E A T U R E S } 1

MARDI GRAS IN SPACEA review o drama this year

B Y C HARLOTTE FIRTH

{ A R T S } 16

EXOTIC FRUIT BASKETYear eight present a startling menu

B Y C L A Y T O N H I L L

{ F O L I O }

UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTSWhat would you most like to play?

B Y G R A C E M U R K E T T

{ M U S I C } 4

HOUSE CUP CLIMAXA nail-biting fnale to the House competition

B Y P H I L I P J O H N S T O N

{ W O O D L E I G H } 4

GOAL!Highlights rom fxtures this year

B Y S T A F F W R I T E R S

{ S P O R T } 6-33

DAY OUT AT BEAMISHWith years three, our and fve

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 } 34


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INTO THE LIONS LAIRAT WOODLEIGH

By OLLIE DALES & TOM SAUNDERSYEAR SEVEN

INVESTMENT WOULD BE ICING ON THE CAKE FOR EDSTAT

FOOD GROUP CARDS

IN MARCH this year, the rst ever Lions

Lair event was held here at Woodleigh

School.

The idea was based on the TV show

Dragons Den. We originally tried to see i

we could go on the actual show, but theyreplied it was only an adults show or

adult entrepreneurs. We then decided to

create our own show, and called it Lions

Lair.

We invited two other schools- Sher-

burn High School, with their anti-spik-

ing device Propper Stopper and MarketWeighton School as Six-Star products

with their revolutionary handmade gui-

tar stands in the shapes o people, which

can hold a guitar in two ways, leaning

against them or as though they were play-

ing them.

They needed unding or a new welderand a smart welding mask. Woodleigh


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were drawn to go second which was part-

ly an advantage, but also a big risk: we got

to see what the Lions were like, but i the

rst team put the Lions in a bad mood, we

had much less chance.

Luckily the Lions were in a good

mood and we began our presentation

condently. Thomas Saunders and Ted

Foster opened the presentation and thenOllie Dales presented the game, Ted Fos-

ter the market and Thomas Saunders and

Antonia Selvey the nances, with Tho-

mas presenting the main nances and

Antonia the additional source o revenue,

sponsorship.

There was also a prize or the best

presentation, regardless o investment.

All the presentations were really good

said Mike Oughtred, Lion. It was hard to

decide who should get the best presenta-

tion prize.It was brilliant! said Thomas, I was

really nervous but I think we did well.

The result o the presentation was

that the Six Star got their investment, and

we are in ongoing negotiations with two

o the Lions.

But nevertheless it helped promote

Woodleighs new card game, EdStat Food

Groups, an educational card game based

on nutrition inormation.Year seven started a project with Mr

England. It all started in a CDT lesson,

where we decided to design a pack o

playing cards based on nutrition panels

rom the side o ood packaging.

Once we had started to get into the

swing o the game we added some colours

that started o with green, to indicate

that this had no limits, amber, to indicate

know where your limits were and lastly

red, to indicate do not go over the limit.

Originally there were just two ver-sions o the game, but eventually it came

to ve. Ater a while we decided we

would change the colour scheme to di-

erent shades o purple and blue but still

representing the same things.

The reason we did this was to make

sure that the green, amber and red col-

ours didnt get conused with the trac

light system.

At that time we also added the GDA,guideline daily amounts and put those on

the right hand side o the cards whereas

the actual scores o the categories were on

the let.

The nal colours are gold, silver and

bronze. They still represent the same

things. We have tested these on children

and they have been a great success. So

ar we have been to the Lions Lair, our

version o the Dragons Den, and we also

managed to get an article in the Grocer

magazine. Soon we are hopeully going togo into production.


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By TOM SAUNDERSYEAR SEVEN

WHEN years seven and eight visited the

re station Mr Woolley told us about thetypes o re ghter.

There are two kinds o re ghter,

whole-timers and retained. Retained re-

men are people like Mr Woolley who have

another job.

Whole-timers are people who stay on

permanent duty at the re station. We

then went through and looked at the re-

tained re engine and saw what they used

when they were called out.

We saw the oot-controlled alarm, so

the driver doesnt need to ddle aroundwith switches.

We learnt that there are three ways

or the remen to get water in case o re.The rst is the most obvious rom the

engine itsel. There are 600 litres stored

and it is all gone in two minutes. The next

way is rom hydrants.

Yellow H signs show the presence o

these; the bottom number represents how

many metres the sign is rom a hydrant.

And then the third way is to take water

rom any available source.

The retained remen wear pagers,

which sound an alarm i they are called

out. They can change into their re suitin 10 seconds.

Fire station visit puts spark into PSHE

The high point was denitely watch-

ing a car door get chopped up. We alsolooked at the tags that they lled in when

they took breathing apparatus and the

electronic tagging system or ast rescue-

or example, someone leaning out o a

window.

Year three and our also visited the

re station in September or PSHE. They

learned about re engines and specialist

equipment.

Mr Woolley dressed up in ull re-

man gear and both years three and our

and years seven and eight hugely enjoyedthemselves.


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Tom Lee alling into a bush withDean Jackson

Will Megginson ran over his water

bottle with his bike

Alex Miller spectacularly skidded

o his bike.

Dean had to borrow Ellenyas pink

bike

George Craword raised 78

MONKEY MOMENTS

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Endurance challenge raises nearly 2000By LOUIS KNOWLSONYEAR SEVEN

THE CHEEKY monkey challenge raised

over 193 or children with leukaemia.Fiteen people raised ty pounds and

there names are George Craword, Zack

Woolley, Edward Medorth, Charlotte

Carr, Charlotte Horsley, John Soanes,

Jay Mitchinson-Singh, Charles Saunders,

Stephen Johnstone, Tom Milnes, Ellenya

Smith, Georgina Barclay, Charlotte Firth,

Tom Saunders, Tom Barclay and Jack

Redern.

There were three choices o raising

money - running, cycling, and swim-

ming.The point o the challenge was to raise

money or children with leukaemia and

there was no doubt that we did that.Abdul Al Ari did the biking all

day, the amount o times he went round

the school is unknown. A lot o people

brought in their own bikes and kept them

on the back lawn or storage.

For the running and swimming, all

the participants ran 6 laps o the school

and swam 6 lengths o the pool.

The star perormers were George

Craword who raised 8, Edward Med-

orth who raised , Tom Milnes with

63 and Jay Mitchinson-Singh and El-lenya Smith who each raised 60.


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By JAY MITCHINSON-SINGH & CHARLES SAUNDERSYEAR FIVE

By ANDREW CHAPMANYEAR SEVEN

Flipping out over the new

school trampoline

Year seven GPS project swings into action

DURING the summer term the school

was given a new trampoline rom Mrs Ul-

lyot.

Many people have enjoyed this tram-

poline because it is very cool and excit-

ing. It is a very bouncy trampoline with a

green outside and black middle.

We had a good idea to dig a hole toput the trampoline in at ground level. So

now well be walking and then suddenly

bouncing.

The children have also got plenty o

time to play on it. It is in the area across

the road rom the woods and near the pool

and the small gate to the games pitch.

Most o the boarders go there in the

morning. A lot o the school can burn o

a lot o energy on it.

I also asked a couple o people in the

school what they thought o the new

trampoline.Jessica Cheung said that she really en-

joyed using it ater school and at week-

ends. Harry Connell said that he and

Abdul Al Ari love it. I say its a un

trampoline that I love.

IN SOME o then year seven English and IT lessons we have

been making a small three hole gol course down at the games

pitch.

We started by planning our own gol course each on pho-

toshop. The winning gol course would be built down at the

games pitch. The winning designs were by Tom Horsley and

Philip Johnston. One o Toms holes was used and two o

Philips.

The next thing we did was spray paint the games pitch withwhite red and yellow spray cans to mark out where to put the

holes. The gol course is going to be built or the whole school to

enjoy and play on.

We used grass carrots to mark out where to put the tee po-

sitions when the lawn mower mows over the grass. We knew

where to put the holes because we used GPS units so we did not

put the holes in the wrong place, also they showed where things

like the pavilion and elds and the school are.

These projects will not interere with any sport that is played

down at the games pitch. This was part o the design remit.

Already year two, three and our have used the course in

games.Tom Saunders said Its great to have our own gol course.

A Justin Birkett ront ip

Tom Barclays James Bond dive

The Kyden Woodhead back ip

Jacks belly dance

A Tom Horsley double 180 orward

roll

The Ollie Dales sideways somer-

sault

Adas leaping cartwheel

TOP MOVES THIS

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Garden variety proves a hit

EVERY year at Woodleigh School there is

a garden party organised by the Friendso Woodleigh. The most popular stall was

the bottle stall which cost one pound to

choose a mystery cardboard covered bot-

tle. Prizes ranged rom water and coke to

wine and beer. It was the rst stall to sell

out.

The newest stall was a Rugby kicking

stall won by Tom Hoggard with ve kicks.

Millie-Jo Castleton, Ada Law, Grace Mur-

kett and Georgina Barclay were oering

very girly make-overs or 0p.

Mrs Knowlson and Mrs Johnston rana cake stall selling very delicious cakes.

Next to the cake stall was the pork

and bee sandwich stall. First one wasree second and third and so on was two

pounds each. My avourite stall involved

throwing wet sponges at the younger chil-

dren and occasionally passing teachers.

George Boyes and Alex Miller ran a

catapult stall ring water balloons at man

sized targets. The prize or the most di-

rect hits was ve pounds.

Lewis Ryan and Justin Burkett ran an

arm wrestling competition or both chil-

dren and adults. The adult prize was a a

can o Carlsberg, and the childrens prizewas a rugby ball.

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By CHARLES SAUNDERSYEAR FIVE

By GEORGINA BARCLAYYEAR SEVEN

Galloping to lessons

at Woodleigh

Chre ecole de Copenhagen

RIDING at Woodleigh is now a very pop-

ular sport, with dierent groups. In some

o these groups people canter, or i the

weather is too bad to ride, pupils learn

stable management.

In stable management pupils nd out how to look ater horses. This is very

helpul or the uture or those who de-

cide to buy a horse.

Riding is a great way to exercise and

it is also un. It gets people t and healthy

whilst having un.

When riding children or adults can

lots o learn dierent things.

At a certain point in riding lessons,

pupils learn to trot and later pupils learn

to canter gallop.

When people learn to gallop they needa bigger area such as a eld or the gal-

lops.

YEARS ve and six have had French

penpals since the start o the spring term.These penpals have made our French les-

sons much more exciting. It has improved

our knowledge o French and taught us

how to write letters in French. We write

in French to them and they write in Eng-

lish to us.

It is a French school in Copenhagen,

the capital o Denmark. There are some

interesting names like Lucas Ravn-Haren

and Arnaurd Lavigne.

The school has lots o dierent na-

tionalities including French, English andDanish. We receive reasonably long let-

ters but I dont think they have had much

help rom their teachers.So ar we have written two letters to

them and have received one. We have pre-

pared our third letter, so as soon as we

receive our second letter we will send it

o.

On our third letters we have used post-

cards o our area; writing about where we

live. We have told them where we live and

what is in our village or town.

This has been a great idea by Mad-

emoiselle Schoukroun, extending our

French and making lessons more exciting.Altogether its been a brilliant activity.

I pupils do not have jodhpurs then

they can wear tracksuit bottoms. Simi-

larly i they dont have boots or a hat then

the riding stables have them or hire.

Sometimes the riding stables have

dressage competitions that anyone whoknows how to ride can enter, using one

o the riding schools horses.

In the group lessons pupils get to play

a game called cat and mouse.

In cat and mouse everyone in the les-

son halts at dierent points o the arena.

Then when Susan, the riding school

owner and teacher, says go, every-

one starts trotting or cantering and pu-

pils have to catch up with the person in

ront.

I think riding is a great all year roundactivity or all the boys and girls at

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Treehouse on top o the worldBy TOM BARCLAY YEAR EIGHTTHE SCHOOL tree house has been

climbed and walked on by Woodleigh stu-

dents since it was built a ew years ago.

Built a ew years ago, the treehouse

is still as good as it used to be. Its very

sturdy and strong and I dont see it break-

ing or a long time.

The tree still looks healthy and strong.In the Autumn the platorm collects a sh-

edload o conkers that all rom the top o

the tree.

It also stops those below getting

knocked out by alling conkers when the

tree is shaken. You can ace your ears

i youre scared o heights. Sometimes the

tree house gets used as a look out when

students are playing games.

Another place students can hang out

could be underground or in a building

with no teachers or adults.There are two wooden dens. One is al-

most nished but the other one isnt. The

one thats almost nished is about two

metres tall. The one that isnt nished

will be about three metres.

Students with the help o some teach-

ers built them in PSHE. Both the dens are

in the woods next to each other. We used

slabs o wood to put around the den orthe shelter. We use corrugated metal with

oam inside it or the roo. We obtained

the wood rom a arm down the road.

Building the wooden dens is an enjoyable

joint eort.

The other dens are underground using

corrugated iron and soil as a roo. These

dens are great as no-one can see you once

you are inside.

You may think they sound unsae but

we make a big eort to make sure the

sides o the hole are level to stop it cavingin.


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By CHARLOTTE HORSLEY & CHARLES SAUNDERS YEARS FIVE & SIX

This term Woodleigh Schools two e-

male Khaki Campbell ducks gave birth to

teen beautiul shiny ooted ducklings.

Then one day Miss Lee was playing

with Lucy in the woods, when they ound

a Swedish duckling underneath one o

the trees.

It had been dropped by a crow. Miss

Lee rang an expert who said that the

crows would have brought it back to give

it to their young.

The duck has been named Plummetand he and his riends are doing very

well. He will need to be looked ater or a

ew months beore the duck goes back to

the wild.

We are all waiting to see what animals

drop into Woodleigh over the course o

the next year.

TREVOR is a brown goldsh who lives in

nursery and reception. The tadpoles live

in a smallish tank next to Trevor. Trevor

has an unusual name or a sh. He goes

gold but he is actually a brown goldsh.

In Trevors tank there are a lot o

plants. The tadpoles are turning into

rogs and one is a rog already. The tad-

poles have a rock in their tank. They are

released ater they have turned into rogs.

Trevor will last about our or ve years.

He is one year old now.Each day somebody dierent eeds

him. Trevor has a biggish rock in his tank

with a hole in it. The tadpoles rock is un-

der and over the water level.

Also there are two butterfies that

have hatched. There are ve butterfies

altogether.

Blades and bikes take overPEOPLE are allowed to bring bikes,

blades and skateboards in to play on in

break and in their spare time.

There is a big blue plastic ramp and

you can ask to make a ramp out o wood

yoursel. You are allowed to ride any-

where on your bike in school grounds

apart rom down to the games pitch.You can blade in the courtyard and on

the concrete outside, you can skateboard

in exactly the same places as you can

blade.

Everyone has suddenly started to

bring their bikes and blades in. Biking

is the most popular o the three. You are

allowed to borrow other peoples bikes

i you ask. You can borrow blades and

skateboards as well.

It is really good un going on blades

and bikes and things. There are hills to goup and down on and bumps to go fying

over on your bikes.

You can have loads o un but you

just have to be careul about it. You can

go through the woods on your bike and

down the hill. You can ride up and down

the drive and do tricks.

On your blades you can do tricks o

the ramps and you could ask somebodyto help you learn to blade or skateboard.

Or you could ask them to pull you up and

down the hill in the courtyard. You could

get taught to skateboard and get more

condent and then have a go yoursel.

Children enjoy skidding and pulling

wheelies. They would do the jump on the

ramp then skid round the corner. On the

way up to the top they might mess around

doing tricks. All this excitement takes

place in the courtyard. It is a antastic

area or these activities that are loved somuch by students.

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First camp adventure

for years six and sevenBy SAM MEGGINSON & EDWARD MEGGINSON YEAR SIX

Spiderman Sam Megginson rock climbing upside down

Making dens in Dalby Forest

Running into the sea at the beach

Charlotte Firth caught 15 fsh including one which weighed a stone. Honest.

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FIRST camp was situated in and around

Whitby. Luckily it wasnt raining, but it

was a bit oggy.

We set o and, on the way we stopped

o or lunch at Hole o Horcum. It was

hot and the boys and some o the girlswent down the hill and Sam Megginson

ell down quite ar, he looked a bit rough

when he got back up the hill!

We landed at the campsite and set

up our tents. Then we went down to

the beach and Tom Hoggard and George

Mewburn ound a ball in the big rocks, so

we had a game o volleyball.

We went into three groups; the cool

dudes, the pirates o the Caribbean and

the ootball-annoying nuts.

On Monday everyone went shing arout to sea. Altogether 1 sh were caught.

Charlotte Firth caught the most sh on

one boat, Georgina Barclay caught the

most on the other boat. Sam Megginson

caught the biggest sh. It was a whopper.

Aterwards everyone went on a 16-

mile bike ride to Ravenscar but not eve-

ryone went the whole way. In the evening

the campers ate the sh on a barbecue.On Tuesday we went on a long walk

to a rock climbing centre. The campers

each had a harness and helmet or saety.

Then we started rock climbing and

there were three climbs. We were split

into three groups.

We kept on swapping the climbs. A-

ter rock climbing we went to the beach

or the last time.

On Wednesday we woke up early to

pack up the tents. Then we went to Dalby

Forest.We went on a big walk and ater we

went back to school. We had to stay back

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By CHARLES SAUNDERSYEAR FIVE

The amazing views overlooking the

hotel

The stunning snow which was

perect or skiing.

An amazing ootball match between

AS Roma and Manchester United,

with all o Woodleigh supporting

Manchester United

An impressive crash between Becky

and Freddie

The childrens party with hugepizzas

Tom Horsley lost a ski which

ollowed him down the mountain

Mrs Murkett leading an intrepid

party down the black run Womens

downhill course. Unortunately a

number o children overtook her ...

The antastic weather which lasted

the whole holiday

TOP 10

SKI TRIP

MOMENTS FROM

ITALY

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THIS YEAR about 40 people rom the

school travelled down to Sestriere in Italy

or our ski trip. It was a great success.

There were some good instructors calledFranco. Both o them.

We stayed in a wonderul hotel called

Villaggio Olimpico, in the Olympic vil-

lage. It had lovely en-suite rooms but the

quality o the sta in the dining room was

poor.

The weather on the slopes was good

except or two days; the rst day was oggy

and the second last day was oggy, snow-

ing and reezing to the bone. Otherwise

the weather was spectacular sunshine.

The skiing was good in the newly all-en snow; apart rom one day when it was

icy, and hard to control. Most o the days

we stopped at the same restaurant or

lunch. The slopes ranged rom not very

steep to quite steep. It was excellent ski-ing apart rom there was a great big haul

back to the boot room at the end o the

day, along fat ground.

The hotel was a antastic maze and

you could explore it madly, although you

got used to it ater staying in it or a week.

The village that the hotel was in was su-

perb as well, with shops ranging rom

sweet shops to sport and perume shops.

Altogether I think it was a antastic

place and I would recommend it to any-

body. But it would be un to go somewhereelse next year.

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Year seven conjure magical illusions in their

YEAR seven have been making exciting

sculptures that create optical illusions.

The objects stay up by a weight that is

under the model hanging rom the wood-

en block. The model uses physics to stay

balanced. Gravity pulls down the weight,

which is attached to the wire, which isattached to the wooden block. The wire

By TOM HORSLEYYEAR SEVEN

goes underneath the table or surace and

the weight pulls down so the sculpture

stays balanced.

The longer the wire the less weight is

needed to keep it balanced, but the small-

er the wire the more weights are required

to keep it balanced.The artworks appear to be hanging

in mid-air without any orm o support.

This years year sevens produced some

models, which create an illusion.

These were made with the help o

Mr England in CDT, who has planned to

make a bigger model to put on the stone

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From Mardi Gras to Kids in SpaceBy CHARLOTTE FIRTHYEAR SEVEN

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CDT lessons

FOR cabaret in a day we did Mardi Gras, it was great un and

interesting to do because we had never done anything like it.

Heres a bit o inormation about Mardi Gras: Mardi Gras, also

known as Shrove Tuesday, Carnival, and Pancake Day in the

UK, is an annual estival which is celebrated on 0th February

in 00.

Falling just beore Lent, it traditionally marks the last oppor-

tunity or un and easting beore 40 days o sel-denial. Mardi

Gras means Fat Tuesday in French. There were dancers who

were: Charlotte Firth, Laura Robertson-Tierney, Ada Law, Jes-

sica Cheung, Georgina Barclay, Grace Murkett, Charlotte Hors-

ley, Charlotte Carr, Rachel Robson and Guy Welch. They dancedto ten songs these included: Swing low sweet chariot, Mambo

dance, the country dancing song, whole lotta lovin and the um-

brella dance.

There were about 130 people involved in the Musical in a

day, maybe even more and about 100 people came to eat and

watch the perormance. On musical in a day we perormed Kids

in space. Kids in space was written by Debbie Campbell, I am as-

suming she is a very creative writer. It was a perormance about

a group o kids that went to space and ound some androids that

were broken. There was an android called Specks, he was the

one that xed the other robots but they were mean to him in

return.

The song selection included, getting around, rst kids in

space, blast o, out o control (sung and danced by the androids),

I am dierent (sung by specks), the space ca, Moon-hopping,

Planet round (danced by planets), Under control (sung by an-

droids), I know a man, good-bye moon, Blast o and Kids in

space.

The Christmas play, was about Mr Partridges amazing troop

going to see and sing to Santa and Mrs Claus, but Mr and Mrs

Grimgrump interered because they wanted Mr.Partridges

amazing troop to sing to his amily rather than the Claus, theGrimgrumps and the Claus hated each other! George Craword

who played Mr Grimgrump said: I enjoyed being the mean per-

son, it brings out the mean side o me! He also added, it was

unny when the crowd booed it made me laugh.

The choir: 1 lords a-leaping,11 ladies dancing, ten drum-

mers drumming, nine maids a-milking, eight pipers piping,

seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, ve golden rings,

our calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and Mr

Partridge in his pear tree!) was the whole school. There was a lot

o work put into it and it showed in the amazing perormance!

which was called Michaelmas this was

taken back by its designer Michael

Iwons

The statue will be made rom wood

and metal. It eature a string o balls start-

ing with a basketball then a rugby ball all

the way to a shuttle cock.

It is hoped to be nished by Founders

day.

There are currently nished sculp-

tures in the ront hall and they are wellworth a look.


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The children were able to dress up in

Victorian clothes and perormed lots o

domestic tasks! They washed clothes

using a dolly tub and stick, polished

brass and made lavender bags. They

played with toys rom the past and

wrote on slates. We had a picnic by the

stream and everybody enjoyed a lovely

day out.


NURSERY & RECEPTIONBECK ISLE MUSEUM(photo)

summer term 2007


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The wind howls like a werewol baying.

It blows the leaves o trees like an elephant.

The wind goes and comes like day and night.

It blows branches down like bulls running into trees.

The wind thunders like a herd o antelopes stampeding.

It quietens like people sleeping.

YEAR FIVEA WINDY DAY(right)

autumn term 2006

poetry

by Fred Austin


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One cold night, in the middle o January,

a snow storm arrived. The wind howled

then the snow swirled around and

gently ell to the ground.

In the morning there lay sprinkled a sot

sheet o white crisp snow.

Further away trees dangled icicles rom

their drooping bare branches. Over the

hills and ar away the snowstorm blew

its fnal breath, waiting or another day.

SNOWWOODLEIGH WONDERLAND (photo)

spring term 2007

beore lessons

YEAR SIXTHE SNOW SCENE(below)

spring term 2007

creative writing

by Naomi Richardson


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YEAR SEVEN & EIGHTMELON BASKET (photo)

summer term 2007

non fction writing

by Grace Murkett & Philip Johnston


This year at Woodleigh School, the year sevens have cooked a

starter, main course and making a delicious desert. But frst the

year sevens did a basic skill, boiling an egg. You may be thinking

that is not hard but many people couldnt get the egg in the pot

without making a splash in the water. Then the next week they

cooked some mussels with French bread to dip into the mussels.

But some people, including vegetarians, did not eat the mussels

they just ate the bread instead. Then they learned how to make a

main course, which was chicken with chilli and onions. Ater they

make their dishes, they then had the opportunity to try what

they had cooked. Ater the chicken they made a salad o threecolours, avocado, mozzarella, and tomato. They spread them out

on a table or the year sevens to eat at. At the same time another

group o year sevens were cooking ried liver with lettuce. Then

or dessert they made a tasty lemon drizzle cake. At lunchtime

the year sevens were allowed to try what they had baked.


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Ingredients:

Raspberries

Cherries

Blueberries

Blackberries

Orange

Kiwi

Pineapple

Watermelon

Apricot

StrawberriesFor the pour over glaze:

Juice o one lemon

Juice o one lime

Orange extract 33ml

Almond essence 5ml

3-4 tablespoons o icing sugar

Draw a line with a knie 2/3 o the way up and around the melon.

Then draw lines to the top o the melon, but leaving room or a 5 cm

wide handle. Cut out the melon fesh in blocks.

Peel and seed the seasonal ruits then mix all the ruits in a bowl.Take out all o the watermelon in cubes or in balls. Mix the lemon

juice with icing sugar and the liqueur, then put the mix over the ruit.

Cover with oil then leaves to chill in the rerigerator or about one

hour.

YEAR EIGHTMELON BASKET (photo)

summer term 2007

recipe writing

by Justin Birkett & Clayton Hill


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Ukulele

Sousaphone

Electric Mandolin

Didgeridoo

Piccolo trumpet

Mongolian gong

Theremin

Glass harmonica

Bouzouki

Wurlitzer organ

Bamboo xylophone

I WOULD LOVE TO

BE ABLE TO PLAY

And the most unusual

instrument is ...By GRACE MURKETT YEAR SEVEN

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WOODLEIGH school has a variety o un-

usual instruments. Mr Ogram plays the

baritone saxophone and the recorder, he

says he could play the piccolo i he had

one.

The Baritone Saxophone is a huge long saxophone, which is rather hard to

play. When the teachers show their in-

struments the baritone saxophone was

shown but nobody wanted to start learn-

ing it.

Charles Dales plays the cymbals, and

the harmonica. He says his grandpa, who

can play almost every instrument, teaches

him.

When asked what he can play he said:

I dont play songs on them I just use

them to annoy my sisters.He started playing cymbals about a

year ago, he began to play because his

grandpa was singing once and he said to

get something out o his drum kit and join

in.

Charles chose to play cymbals. He

started playing the harmonica about twoyears ago, when his grandpa gave him a

harmonica as a present.

Mademoiselle Shoukroun can play

glasses o water. She can play Do, r, mi

la perdrix. It is a French song that has a

very catchy tune.

She started playing it at the inter-

national school in Burma, where it was

cross-linking with a science experiment.

When asked how to get the notes right

she said, you put more or less water in

depending on the size o glass. It worksbetter with crystal glasses though.

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Piano is the most popular

to play at WoodleighTheme rom TitanicCool Calypso

Rush hour

In the pink

Get in step

Andante

Ode to joy

Balleto

The bee

Garage sale

The entertainer

TOP SONGS

ON THE PIANO

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By GRACE MURKETTYEAR SEVEN

THIS YEAR many children have started

playing instruments, such as fute, trum-

pet, and saxophone. All o them have

learned very ast and will probably do a

grade soon.

Lots o people already play instru-ments and the most popular instruments

are very close together.

The most popular instrument is the

piano. There are 14 pianists and there are

a couple in most year groups.

The people who play piano were asked

why they liked it so much, and why they

think other people like it.

Antonia Selvey said I think the rea-

son people like playing the piano is that

you can play all dierent types o music

on the same instrument and you can playwell with all o the other hand held in-

struments.

You can improvise with any music,

like turning a happy song into a sad, up-

setting song or turning a jolly song even

jollier using swing.

Georgina Barclay said Its a good hob-by and its un. Plus you also learn about

music. Ollie Dales said I think the rea-

son is because its nice that when you

know how to play you can go anywhere

and impress people.

Charlotte Firth said I like it because

it makes you concentrate on hand-eye co-

ordination, and its un.

Grace Murkett said I think its be-

cause you can play any style o music,

plus you can listen to a song and pick the

piano, then gure out by ear what to play,because it is an obvious note.

By GRACE MURKETT YEAR SEVEN

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By PHILIP JOHNSTON & ADA LAW YEAR EIGHT

North win the House Cu


THIS TERM, Woodleigh School has had

the annual house tournaments, which

were: Music, Cross Country, Biathlon,

Hockey, Swimming, House Quiz, Round-

ers, Cricket and Sports Day.

At Woodleigh School there are our

houses, each person in every house played

a part in the tournaments.The house music winners were East

singing, John The Builder. Everybody

ound the song amusing, unny and ex-

citing. The person in East who thought

o the idea was Laura Robertson-Tierney

.Ater winning the house plays all o the

East members were very thrilled.

In the Woodleigh Cross Country,

South came rst, West came second and

North came third.

In the Biathlon West did very well

scoring ninety points. East and North

got the same amount o points a hundred

points each. North did very well as well

scoring ninety points.

The House Hockey reerees were Mr

Woolley and Mrs Johnston; the winners

o the house hockey were East, scoring

twenty points. In second were West withteen points while North and South

drew with ten points each in third place.

In the Swimming tournament, East

were the winners scoring twenty points.

In House Quiz the winners were

north, scoring twenty points.

In the individual school tournaments,

the contestants had to pass our stages,

the Knock out round, Quarter Final, Semi

Final and The Final. This years results

are eatured to the right.

Music - East

Cross Country - North

Hockey - East

Swimming - East

Quiz - North

Biathlon - North

Rounders - WestCricket - West

Sports Day -

Drama - North

HOUSE CUPCompetition winners

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Tennis - Ted Foster

Chess -Philip Johnston

Badminton - Rhys SmithTable Tennis - Rob Mewburn

Snooker - Philip Johnston

Tennis - Edward Medorth

Snooker - George Ullyott

Table Tennis - Matthew Procter

Junior Badminton -

Charlotte Horsley

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RESULTS

Senior tournaments

Junior tournaments


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GREAT YEAR F


AS I write this article the rain is pouring down outside it should

be sports day! Usually we dont let the weather dampen our ap-petite or sport and over the past twelve months children rom

Woodleigh have represented the school at rugby, ootball, hock-

ey, netball, cricket, rounders, cross-country, athletics, swimming

and tennis. We have made tremendous progress in all o these

sports and it never ails to amaze me how competitive we oten

are against schools that have a much larger pool o children to

draw rom at each dierent age group. Twelve months ago Rhys

Smith represented the North East Prep Schools at the national

athletics nals in Birmingham a superb eat.

The autumn term brought ootball and rugby together or

the last time. So many schools are now doing rugby exclusively

in the autumn term that or the 00-08 season we have now joined the band wagon. Both the under 9 and under 11 rugby

teams proved very competitive. The under 11 rugby team never

quite got their act together in the 1 a-side game but proved a

real orce as a seven-a side team. I had the pleasure o reeree-

ing them in the nal o the Hurworth House tournament and

although they lost against Cundall Manor the actual game itsel

was a brilliant advert or under 11 rugby. The under 9s played

in some excellent matches and it was good to see the year 3s be-

ing involved in some way in all o the games. The year 4 group

improved throughout the season and will add a strong younger

dimension to the under 11s next year. Mr England and I took

the under 13 seven-a-side team to the Merchiston Castle tourna-ment in Edinburgh. The team itsel had struggled in the smaller

sided game , not because o a lack o talent but oten due to a ail-

ure to understand how very dierent the tactics are compared

to the 1-a-side game. The day itsel was great success and the

improvement in the style o play was palpable. Particular im-

provements were shown in deence and in the last match o the

tournament it would have been very easy or the boys to allow

an excellent St Olaves team to run amok. This never happened

and is a refection o the progress made throughout the day. I am

surprised to see that Mr Horsley was not in the summer honours

list having stoically spent most o the day sitting between two

argumentative members o sta in the ront o the mini-bus!Our own under 9 and under 11 ootball tournament was a great

By MR WOOLLEYPE


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OR SPORT


success and, once again, the standard o ootball has improved

through the enthusiastic and meticulous tutorship o Mr Tolk-

ien. It will be interesting to see how the move to the spring

term will aect ootball xtures and I hope to create an evenmore varied sporting calendar by introducing two or three boys

hockey xtures in the second term next year.

Our cross-country was an excellent event. I was delighted

when my riend rom the re-service volunteered to hare each

race, I mysel struggled round the games eld ve (yes ve) times!

I thank Dan Gilbank or his support but particularly thank all o

the children who ran in spectacular ashion.

The biggest improvements this year have been in cricket. I

knew that the missing ingredient in previous years was our lack

o practice in the run up to the season. I hired the cricket nets

in York in the hope that it would not only encourage some better

cricketing skills but also generate a cricket culture. It worked! Ithank both boys and parents or their support or these Sunday

aternoon sessions. The 1st XI have shown a much stronger

back bone and games have been much more competitive. We

should have given a strong Bramcote side a much better game,

and we were unlucky against Cundall Manor a game that

was played in appalling conditions. Rob Mewburn managed 3

against St Martins Ampleorth nd XI, Rhys Smith 64 against

Ampleorth College under 14 Cs, Ted Foster bowled a hat trick

in this highly entertaining and high scoring match as well as bat-

ting extremely well in the Worsley Cup the ollowing day. This

tournament allowed some o the stronger year 6s an opportunity

to play. The under 11s have had a very good season and I amalready looking orward to urther improvements in cricket next

year. I am delighted to say that we have received a cricket bag or

next season rom the Lords Taverners.

So what or the uture? More Tennis we had two very good

matches at Terrington! More swimming we struggled against

a much stronger Terrington under 9 team, but importantly the

children very much enjoyed the event and I now know the level

we need to reach to be competitive. More sports I have made

contact with the English Basketball Association, our ootball

tournament this year will be or local primary schools and orm

part o our sustainable schools week in October, boys hockey,

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Transition

season or

Rugby team

30 | thewoodleighan | No. | Summer term

By MR MILLSRUGBY

AT THE risk o sounding boring, injuries

again plagued this seasons perormance,

with barely the same side turning out

twice in a row. However, there were some

very close matches, in which the narrowline o victory or deeat was decided by a

single score.

The season started well enough with a

victory against Red House, sadly ollowed

by a close -0 deeat by Cundall. Things

picked up again with a win against Ter-

rington. The next match against Hur-

worth proved interesting in as much as

we had run out o props and they kindly

lend us their spare prop, although the

injury during the match made me oer

him back. However it was another closematch being decided in their avour by

two points. It does not pay to miss a con-

version in ront o the posts!

Aysgarth beat us quite convincingly,

which was then ollowed by the return

match against Cundall. What a match!

1-0 down at hal time, to come back and

win 6-1.

Howsham Hall was the next xture:

deeat again. Sadly we later learnt that

Howsham Hall was to close, which brings

to an end a xture with one o our clos-

est and dearest neighbours. I once said I

would retire once we beat Howsham, so

now am doomed to a limbo-like existence.

Poor weather and a mix-up over xturesbrought an end to the rst hal o the sea-

son.

The second hal saw a victory over

Bramcote, deeat by Pocklington. Lochin-

var House, on tour rom the south, gave

us,not only a close game, but also an en-

couraging win, as no ewer than junior

players had been brought into the side

and all perormed well. Finally, we saw

o the season with a win against Fyling

Hall, which, or those who like statistics,

means the side won more games than itlost.

As usual there were not only some

good team perormances, there was some

stirling work rom quite a ew individu-

als.

Finally I would like to thank all the

teams supporters or turning out what-

ever the weather and also or the advice

some o them so reely oer. It is always

taken in, ully analysed and then acted

upon in the appropriate manner.


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Tennis gets

serious at

Woodleigh

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By ANTONIA SELVEYYEAR SEVEN

YEAR seven and eight have a new competitive sport or summer

- tennis matches against Terrington.

When we arrived or our rst meeting we were nervous but

excited. We were put into doubles, which were Ollie Dales and

Tom Horsley, Antonia Selvey and Philip Johnston, and Ted Fos-ter and Rob Mewburn, who swapped with Charlie Allenby. We

played six games in a set, and one set against each couple. Un-

ortunately all the mixed doubles lost their matches, but Ted and

Rob won one o their matches. We had played our hardest, and

we enjoyed it.

A ew weeks later we had another match, again against Ter-

rington. The team had slightly changed, Tom Horsley and Char-

lie were taken out and Rhys smith was put in with Laura Rob-

ertson Tierney and Clayton Hill. The doubles were not as simple

as beore, but Ted and Rob stayed together.

For the rst matches it was Laura and Rhys, Antonia and

Philip. Then it changed to Ollie and Rhys, Antonia and Clayton,and nally was Ollie and Clayton, Laura and Philip. We all got

two games, although Ted and Rob got three, and won ve o the

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Team captains give

their views on the

sporting year

3 | thewoodleighan | No. | Summer term

THE CAPTAINS have had their say on this seasons success,

rom rugby and hockey in the winter to cricket and rounders in

the summer, and everything in between.

For ootball the under elevens captain, Tom Hoggard, was

interviewed or an overall view on the season.

It was a good season or the team, we won most o our

matches, passed well and played properly as a team.

Our best win was in the Bramcote tournament, where we

beat Minster 6-1.

Overall it looked like a good year or all o the ootball teamsand they even let a girl in the under thirteens team.

By ADA LAW & ANTONIA SELVEY YEAR SEVEN

In hockey there werent many matches on the grass, but, al-

though it was only practised on the new court, the ew matches

played were very good.

The captain, Laura Robertson-Tierney, explained what hap-

pened.

We had a very good season or hockey, with Ollie Dales,

Georgina Barclay and Antonia Selvey or the orwards, Lottie

Simpson as centre hal and with our amazing Charlotte Horsley

as our sub ready to come on to the pitch at anytime during the

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sweeper or goalie. One o the highlights o the season was

when we beat Saint Martins Ampleorths 16- when they

had a goalie and our players and we played with our ve

players on the pitch, and no goalie or sweeper.

In rugby the under nines captain, Matthew Procter, was

asked what he thought o this years rugby season.

We won most o our matches. Overall Ted Weeks was

the best tackler and I probably scored the most, it was a pret-

ty good season.

For netball the under ten and under eleven captains say

what they thought o this year.

We did quite well, said Charlotte Horsley and LottieSimpson, The best score was 10- against Bramcote. We en-

joyed this match the most.

In the summer there is cricket, which the under nines cap-

tain, George Ullyot, talks about their season.

It was a good season, and we won about two thirds o our

matches with amazing catches

Also in the summer is rounders, which the under thirteens

captain, Charlotte Firth, describes this season.

This year we were recovering rom the loss o some o our

players, but we did extremely well with me as backstop and Lau-

ra at rst base, who were our main way o getting people out.

Everyone in the team was very good they deserve to be

proud. With big hits, risky but lucky running and good catch-es.


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Editors: Ollie Dales & Tom Saunders

Sub editors and writers: Georgina Barclay, Andrew Chapman, Charlotte Firth, Tom Horsley,Dean Jackson, Philip Johnston, Louis Knowlson, Ada Law, Thomas Lee, Grace Murkett, Antonia Selvey,Kyden Woodhead,

Design and layout byMr Tom Tolkien

Photo credits:Mr Tolkien: pages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6-10, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20-34, 36Mr Barclay, page 11-12Miss Howitt & Mrs Hayes: page 18.Mrs Murkett: page 15-16 . Mrs Gillingham: page 16

Many thanks to: All the staf and children at Woodleigh SchoolAll text Woodleigh School 2007. Woodleigh School - Langton - Malton - North Yorkshire. Y017 9QN01653 658215 (tel), 01653 658423 (ax), www.woodleighschool.reeserve.co.uk


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WILL SIMPSON,MATTHEW PROCTER& EDWARD MEDFORTHTIGER IN THE JUNGLE(above)

mixed media on paper, 150 x 85 cm 2007

To create their work Edward, Will & Matthew drew an outline in pencil and completed the

image in paint by tracing leaves, and etching details using the reverse end o a paintbrush.

They were very pleased with the bright colours.


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