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wo o d l e i g h a n
Issue 6 - Summer 2010
FREDDIE BRADLEY Made out of paper and painted by Freddie Bradley (Year 2), this is a monster based on a
BLUE HEAD (above) character from the film ‘Where the Wild Things are.’
painting, 50 x 30 cm 2010

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{CONTENTS}
{NEWS} 4 WOODLEIGH HISTORY
The Historical Society reveals all
B Y R O R Y S E LV E Y

{ F E AT U R E S } 12 DIGGING UP THE LAWN

Year 7&8 excavate Woodleigh
BY CHARLES SAUNDERS

{ F E AT U R E S } 15 A MONK’S DAY OUT

Year 6 visit Fountains Abbey
BY H AY D N C L E M E N T S

{FOLIO} 18 REFLECTION
Woodleigh Photography club winner
BY MAX BRAMHALL

{MUSIC} 24 IT’S A CABARET, Y’ALL

A Country & Western theme
BY G E O R G I A B E M R O S E

{WOODLEIGH} 26 MAXIMUM AIR

Skateboarding arrives in the courtyard
BY ALEX CURTIS

{SPORT} 27-33 CHAMPIONS!

Features on sport this year
B Y S TA F F W R I T E R S

{GALLERY } 34 A YEAR AT WOODLEIGH

Photography from the Woodleigh Flickr
B Y S TA F F P H O T O G R A P H E R S

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Woodleigh’s history re
By RORY SELVEY YEAR SIX
THIS term, Rory Selvey, George Craw-
ford, Zac Woolley and Beau Wyatt have
become very interested in the history of
the school, and have founded the Histori-
cal Society in order to find out more infor-
mation. This is what they have found out
so far, written by Rory Selvey.
The society has been doing things to
learn more and to spread the word about
the history such as interviews with Mr
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England and some of the other staff, pres-
entations to the school and the parents on
the open day and lectures to pupils Lang-
ton Primary School.
In 1929 Woodleigh was founded in
Hessle, near Hull. It was founded by
Arthur and Barbara England, grandpar-
ents of the current Mr England. Origi-
nally the school had only eight pupils.
The school was very close to the Hum-
ber docks, but because of the war in 1939,
Woodleigh moved to Firby Hall.
After the war, in 1946, the school
made its final move to its current destina-
tion - Langton Hall. This is in a fantastic
setting in the countryside
Since Arthur England, his son, Robin,
and his grandson, Mr England, have be-
come headmasters of the school.
In 1992, the Friends of Woodleigh,
evealed
FOW, was founded as an organisation to
raise money for the school. It has done a
huge amount of work, making everyday
life as a child, teacher and parent much
easier.
Over its time, Woodleigh has grown
hugely in popularity, extent and recogni-
tion in the local community.
Pupils have lived happily at Woodleigh
over the years as it has progressed through
time, achieving great goals and producing
amazingly happy people.
The Historical Society have been re-
searching a mysterious object discovered
on the school site.
When the old IT room was demolished
in 2002 Mr England found a old sun dial
on the roof of it. When he found it, it was
slightly pink, which suggests it is nickel
with a bit of silver. It is thought to of been
made by a prisoner of war who was here
during World War 2.
Mr England thinks it was either
dropped or left there on purpose. Mr
Tolkien posted a photo of it on flickr.com,
hoping to find out what it is. There were
several comments and in the end it was
most likely to be a Universal equinoctial
ring dial.
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Ryedale Special Families
By FRED AUSTIN YEAR EIGHT
ON SATURDAY 13th June Ryedale Spe-
cial Families came to Woodleigh to do
some activities lead by James Bulmer.
First we introduced ourselves and told
them what would be happening that day.
Afterwards we gave them a quick tour of
the outside of the school. They loved the
trampoline.
Then we gave them a guided tour
around the grounds of Woodleigh, they
really enjoyed seeing all of the surround-
ings of our environment and they were all
amazed at the sight of the tree house.
Then (because we had prepared one
for them) they did a treasure hunt all
around school. After they had finished
that they had a music session and some
instruments were demonstrated.
The most popular instrument was
the drums as basically everyone wanted
to have a go on them. After some drinks
and biscuits we took them back outside
again and a majority of them went on the
trampoline and a minority of them played
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SCHOOL COUNCIL
2009 - 2010
football.
l Sponsored fancy dress bike ride
After that we went on a treasure hunt,
which was made by year sevens in I.T.
l Meet and greet session with
Ryedale Special Families
they were off like a pack of horses, read-
ing clue after clue, not waiting for the rest
of us. Finally we had finished the treasure
l Raffle to raise money for skate-
boarding master-class for all pupils
hunt and we went back into the reading and equipment
room for drink and biscuits
Then we had a music session. A few
students demonstrated the instruments,
l Speeches in special assemblies to
highlight the work of the School
Charles Saunders on trumpet, Jonty Meg- Council
ginson on trombone and James Bulmer
on flute.
Next we let them have a go on the in-
l Deciding on the ideal end of
Summer term school trip
struments. “The school was alive with
music, literally.” Fred Austin said.
I think this experience was excellent
l Fund-raising for seals protection at
Scarborough Sea Life centre.
because it got us to meet people who are
different from us and it is a brilliant way
to meet new friends.
l Deciding on the subject for this
year’s themed week - local history
When they were about to leave, the
School Council cried three cheers. I think
it was a great experience for both them
l Designing a questionnaire for pu-
pils on school improvements
and us.
Charles Saunders hits the right note
By CAMERON CASTLETON YEAR EIGHT
CHARLES Saunders, year 8, won a music
exhibition and an academic exhibition to
Radley College in Oxfordshire.
Firstly, Charles travelled down to Ra-
dley with his trumpet, playing two pre-
pared pieces, one unprepared piece and
also improvising with jazz and blues to
the experienced panel of musicians. He
French year seven meals are miam-miam
By ANGUS BULMER & CAMERON CASTLETON YEAR SEVEN & YEAR EIGHT
PUPILS in year 7 have been working hard
in French lessons to develop their abili-
ties in spoken and written French. One
of their recent topics was food and shop-
ping, so their teacher, Madame Downey,
decided to let them experience genuine
French cheeses for themselves. During
the hour-long ‘dégustation’, they tasted
and learnt about ten different varieties of
carried out a listening test and sang to the
judges as well.
Charles was asked many questions by
the panel to find out his interests and fin-
ished with an interview with the warden.
He was overjoyed with his result and Mrs
Naylor said “It was a great achievement
well deserved”.
cheese from all parts of France, discussing
them in French and writing brief notes on
their opinions, ranging from ‘délicieux’ to
‘je n’aime pas ça’!
The most popular cheese was Brie,
which many of the pupils had first tasted
during their stay in Rouen last October,
and the least popular by far was Roque-
fort.
Later that month Charles also sat an
academic scholarship exam to Radley. He
took a wide range of exams that lasted
three days. He really enjoyed having the
opportunity to stay at Radley and was very
excited with his overall result. Charles
was presented with an Old Woodleighans’
tie for his achievements.
During Open Day, Year 7 also organ-
ised a French cafe. The menu contained
delicious croissants, pain au chocolat and
a lovely bredele and brioche to eat.
To drink there was a choice of coffee,
chocolate chaud or jus de pomme. The
cafe was a great success and we always
had a stream of people to serve.
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Fancy dress bike ride
By PATRICK LITTEN YEAR EIGHT
DURING December Woodleigh did a
fancy dress bike ride to raise money for
Ryedale Special families. The event was
arranged by the school council.
Among the Santas and cheerleaders
there was also a chavvy Cinderella, a boy
scout and whole other variety of animals.
Everyone looked forward to the bike
ride in the morning and could not wait to
get started. Before the bike ride there was
a picture taken for the Gazette and Her-
ald who also wrote an article about the
event.
The teacher counted the number of
laps completed. Some pupils managed to
completed over 100 laps. Ryan Donaghy
raised the most sponsorship money.
One of the largest combined costume
efforts was by the year 7 boys who all
dressed up as cheerleaders.
The whole, almost shambolic, cycle
route was up and around the drive, (try-
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TOp OUTFITS
l 14 different Santa outfits
ing to ensure no crashing at the corners!)
l Year Seven dressing up as
cheer-leaders. Even the boys.
Luckily though there were only some mi-
nor cuts and scrapes.
l Cinderella
The event raised over £1000 pounds
for Ryedale special families with both
l Spiderman
parts of the school doing it and an esti-
mate was that combined we crossed the l Woody from Toy Story
channel twice!
We handed the large check to a Ryedale
l Superman
special families representative the follow-
ing day.
Everyone put a lot of effort into it and
the Ryedale Special Families were very
pleased with the money raised.
There were some amazing costumes
for the bike ride. For example, Woody
from Toy Story, Superman, Reindeers,
Rugby superstars, Spiderman, ghosts,
many Father Christmases and a power
ranger.
The School Council had worked very
hard to organise the event.
Exotic animals visit school
By LUCY CAWKWELL & ROBERT BRADLEY YEAR FOUR & SIX
BEFORE Easter a lady called Fiona came
and showed us a lot of animals from
snakes to spiders and cockroaches to rats
rabbits to guinea-pigs.
We all found it really fun trying to
identify all the different types of animals.
They let us see amazing things like gi-
ant African millipedes, frogs, snakes and
huge black tarantulas.
They also showed us some rabbits and
rats and mice. The rabbits were really
soft. There were also lots of snakes and
other reptiles.
Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to
hold the really venomous ones but the
ones we were allowed to hold, the corn
snakes, were so slimy we didn’t really
want to hold any more of them.
They were very scaly as well but the
colours on them were so fantastic we
would rather just look at the really ven-
omous ones.
They were based in the reading room
so they could use the giant screen. They
used the giant screen to tell us all about
the animals and have a quiz at the end of
the show.
I was surprised at the size of the cages
and hoped that they were just their travel-
ling ones.
Emily Breese said “I loved holding the
rabbit it was very cute and very friendly”
Abbie Cowton said “I loved watching
the tarantula it was very funny to watch
and quite scary. ”
Ida Hudson said “I loved the snake it
was very cute and funny.”
Ellie Stone said “I love the chinchilla
because it is fluffy and I want one of my
own at home.”
Guy Scothern said “I liked the Guin-
ea-pig because I used to have one.
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World Book Day
By CHARLOTTE AUSTIN & CHARLIE PROCTER YEAR FIVE
WOODLEIGH held yet another success-
ful “World Book Day” at the start of the
year.
There were lots of book characters
and also movie characters such as “Harry
Potter” and “Doctor Who”. There were
also some fairytale characters’ like “Little
Red Riding Hood”.
Everyone tried their hardest at mak-
ing their costumes as good as they could
be. Most costumes were hand made.
Everybody deserved a prize. Many of
the costumes were magnificent. Some of
the teachers dressed up too!
This was one of the best world book
days ever! Charlie Procter said, “It was
fantastic, the best world book day ever.” said “ I loved it this year!”
Charlie dressed up as the fourth doc-
tor (Tom Baker) from Doctor Who. Char-
lie is currently unaccounted for after his
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Tardis failed to re-materialise.
Charlotte Austin said, “It was really
fun, better than last year. I think that my
costume was really good and I enjoyed
making it with my mum.”
She dressed up as Little Red Riding
Hood from Little Red Riding Hood and
the Big Bad Wolf.
No-one knows who dressed up as
the Big Bad Wolf, who crept around the
school before disappearing into the staff
room at break.
The whole day was a great success and
thank you to all the staff of Woodleigh for
putting it on.
William Bradley, aka Harry Potter,
Ben Hudson, Luke Skywalker said,
“The best part about it was seeing every-
body’s costumes.”
Ben’s Year of Wildlife
By BEN LAVERACK BIRD EXPERT
THIS SPRING I have been following
the wild life around Woodleigh and have
found some amazing stuff, but one of the
main highlights of this Spring was the
Goldfinch family.
This year they started to build their
nest in late March. They laid five eggs in
early May and by the end of May all five
chicks fledged and left the parents.
But that doesn’t always happen often
a brood of five would only have one or
two chicks fledge from the nest. But in
a bad spring when the parents can’t find
very much food all the chicks will starve.
However most finches nesting sort that
out by pushing the other chicks out so the
stronger chicks can get more food and in-
crease their chance of survival.
But all of our chicks fledged in the end
and this indicates that the parents are
finding a lot more food then they would
in a normal Spring, and our goldfinches
are having such a good Spring that they
are having another brood. They have
built a new nest in the yew hedges near
the court. I know this is the same family
as the last brood because the male has a
damaged wing but can still fly.
There also are a lot of rook’s nests
around Woodleigh School. There is one
rook with a fractured wing that has been
wandering around for about three weeks
and hopefully it should get of the ground
in a few weeks.
This blackbird’s nest (picture) is near
the tractor shed.
Early in the spring a hedgehog was
found on the court it was just wondering
around and someone found it and rescued
it.
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Maths adds up to lots of fun
By BRANDAN LANSBURY & BEN HUDSON YEAR FIVE
IN MARCH Woodleigh School competed
in world maths day 2010.
We played lots of people from all over
the world in the practice sessions and
then we played three others from all over
the world in the final.
Every pupil took part in the global in-
ternet event aimed at promoting numera-
cy in schools on Wednesday 3rd March.
The competition comprised sudden
death live interactive mental arithmetic
games against randomly picked students
from all around the world. Each game
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Year 7&8 dig Woodlei
By GEORGIA BEMROSE & CHARLES SAUNDERS YEAR EIGHT
THIS YEAR, as part of our Local History
Week, Woodleigh had an archaeology day
at school with York Archaeology Trust,
in which years7 and 8 took part. There
were numerous activities like digging
with trowels and spades, and also clean-
ing artefacts.
Most people enjoyed the digging the
most because there was always the thrill
of finding something exciting.
Another activity was drawing found
artefacts. This was interesting because
every item had to be drawn to scale and
this was measured exactly with a ruler.
During this we also got a detailed look at
lasted for 60 seconds and students played
up to 500 games, earning points for each
correct answer.
Those answering the most questions
will appear in the Hall of Fame and Jonty
Gillingham, 11, was hoping to be one of
those: “It’s a chance of being famous for
being good at Maths,” he said.
“I really liked the part where you
could decorate your own avatar,” class-
mate Sam Burdett said.
Victoria Hind added: “I liked play-
ing against people from Australia – that
the artefacts.
One of the activities was also scanning
the ground with two different Geo-phys
machines. The H-frame machine sent
electro-magnetic waves into the ground to
search for resistance under the soil created
by certain objects. The level of resistance
could tell you what material it is made out
of, or how deep it is in the ground. This
could lead to finding something and also
the depth could show you what time pe-
riod it is from. With our scans we found
what we thought was probably the end
of the old driveway at the front of the
school. These images of the ground and
was really cool to think that I was playing
someone on the other side of the world.”
William Bradley said, “I liked going up
to a higher level where all the questions
were more challenging.”
Ben Hudson scored an outstanding
279 points and Brandan Lansbury got a
great score of 165 points. You get to de-
sign your self in cartoon for world maths
day.
There were lots of puzzles where peo-
ple scored over 100 points but Charlie
managed a stunning 522 points.
igh History
the shapes in it were shown in a presenta-
tion on the interactive whiteboard in year
7.
When we cleaned the finds, hot water
and toothbrushes were used. Every crack
and feature had to be cleaned so that the
object could be examined later in detail.
There were a few artefacts that looked
boring before we had cleaned them but,
after we had finished scrubbing them, had
some interesting features to take in such
as carvings or paint.
In the afternoon, many people con-
tributed to the digging and some people
went field-walking, with good finds like
pottery and shaped flints.
Overall the whole day had been a great
success, with everyone enjoying themselves.

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Very local
history at
Malton Museum
By HAYDN CLEMENTS YEAR SIX

I WAS so exited when we arrived at Malton Museum as I walked

through the door I was thinking what type of things we would
be doing!
A Roman Soldier called Lucius had a chest which had all the
items he would need for a long journey. He also had a stick with
a sponge on the end used for wiping his bottom. Lucius also had
one tin bowl which he used for eating from, and also a knife and
spoon because forks had not been invented yet.
The first activity my group did was the questionnaire. We
read the question and then tried to find out which glass case
to go to and find out the right bit information. Once you found
out that you just had to write it under the question you were
answering, and then you did the next question.
The next activity we did was mosaics. On this activity you
had a outline of a picture and you had little bits of stone and you
had to put all the stones on your outline and finish the picture.
It was a lot of fun.
Once we had finished that activity we moved on to the next
one which was Roman games.
We played a board game called Merels. This involved mak-
ing up your own game. Everyone had lots of fun playing this in
groups.
Another activity involved dressing up as Roman Soldiers, a
Roman Soldier’s wife, or a peasant. Being a Roman Soldier was
hard because it required wearing heavy chain mail and h e l m e t
and an awkward shield.
We learned how to grind flour using authentic Roman equip-
ment and all the pupils took home the flour to bake their own
Roman bread.
At the end there was a quiz and the pupils had to go around
the entire museum find the answers. The gift shop was great fun.
There was a great selection of Roman, Saxon, Viking, Tudor,
and modern related products, for example, old fashioned sweets.
The best item for sale was a replica catapult pencil sharpener
based on an original medieval design.
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 French

A monk’s day out

By HAYDN CLEMENTS YEAR SIX

IN MAY, Year Six had a trip to Fountains Abbey. When they got
there they were told a bit about the abbey, then they got robes
called habits (picture across) and wore rope belts called girdles.
Fountains Abbey is North of Ripon on the way to Thirsk.
When you arrive you cannot see the Abbey but you can see the
most recent building - the Bell Tower. The main window in the
largest part of the monastery points towards to Jerusalem to en-
sure the monks are closer to Jesus.
The first thing they saw was a little model of Fountains ab-
bey. Then they went and looked around the ruins of the abbey.
We were told about the ruins.
We were showed the different rooms which included the re-
fectory where the Monks ate, the warming room were the monks
were allowed to go once a day there were two massive fires, the
cellar was were all the food and wine and ale was kept.
The punishment was excellent, but for health and safety we
weren’t aloud to pretend to whip each other so instead we just
got told what we have to do.
We learned that the Monks were allowed one glass of ale or
wine. They also ate bread with a very thick soup. They ate any-
thing with two legs, but mainly chickens.
When the Monks reached old age the Abbot would allow
them to go to the infirmary and at that point most of the monks
would be delighted because the infirmary provided three meals a
day whereas the monastery only served one.
Finally, they went and looked around the mill where we
made corn into flour. Then we saw the massive wheel turn be-
fore going went back to school.
Pictures by Max Bramhall - Year 6

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House plays won by North
By PATRICK LITTEN YEAR EIGHT

ON SATURDAY the 20th of March there
was a house play extravaganza as all four
houses battled in a ‘Fawlty Towers’ house
play competition.
Each house was judged on their
unique performance and interpretation
of the playscript by the teachers.
The play was ‘Basil the Rat’ and there
were some great performances from many
people.
The winner of the house plays was
North and the full cast, bar one, was se-
lected to play their part on Wednesday. To
replace Victoria, Alex Curtis played Polly
and, as a last addition, Robert Bradley
played Mrs Taylor.
The final cast was: Patrick Litten
as Basil Fawlty, George Ullyott as Sybil
Fawlty, Charles Saunders as Mr Carnegie,
Alex Curtis as Polly, Ryan Sun as Manuel,
Rory Selvey as Terry and Robert Bradley
as Mrs Taylor. It was a big success.

Christmas with Jack and the Beanstalk

By WILLIAM BRADLEY YEAR FIVE

THE Christmas play for Years 3, 4, 5, 6
this year was Jack and the Beanstalk.
Everyone had great fun, we all en-
joyed singing and acting. Esme Hudson
had the main part - she was Jack. Chloe
Fowler also had a significant part, she
was Jack’s mother. George Breese was
the giant. He was very an angry giant and
when he walked on stage he stormed on
and he had to shout a lot. There were a lot
of animals in the play.
The entire crowd enjoyed it and gave
us a round of applause after every song.
Everyone put all their effort into the play
and even had a piece of scaffolding for a
bean stalk.
We had to make a lot of costumes for
all the animals such as chickens, a cock-
erel, a donkey, a cow and lots more.
We had to learn all our songs off by
heart and some of the songs harder than
others because we had to do lots of ac-
tions with them.
Lots of people came to watch the plays
because pre-prep also did a play about
bees called Billy No Buzz. That was about
a bee who was bullied because he had no
buzz. In the end of the play everyone who
had been mean to the bee went and said
sorry to him.
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YEARS 3-8 PHOTO CLUB
REFLECTION by Max Bramhall (right)
Winning entry selected by Mark Denton
spring term 2010

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 Woodleigh School Photography Club
The themes this term were:

Bright or white
Red
Green
Blue
& Multi-coloured

The competition to decide the best image produced this

term was judged by landscape photographer Mark Denton.

1st Prize –Max Bramhall (page 8)

2nd Prize-Patrick Litten (page 7)
3rd Prize-Jonty Gillingham(page 3)

Many thanks to Mark Denton for judging the competition and

presenting the prizes.

www.woodleighschool.com
www.flickr.com/woodleighschool
www.markdentonphotograhic.co.uk
People in the photo club:

Max Bramhall
Samson Chan
Frankie Cheng
George Crawford
Hattie Gillingham
Jonty Gillingham
Victoria Hind
Stephen Lee
Patrick Litten
Ryan Sun
George Ullyott
Peggy Ullyott
Zac Woolley

www.woodleighschool.com
www.flickr.com/woodleighschool

YEARS 3-8 PHOTO CLUB

THE GIRL IN RED by Patrick Litten (right)
spring term 2010

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YEARS3-8 PHOTO CLUB
COMPETITION WINNERS (above)
spring term 2010

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YEARS 3-8 PHOTO CLUB
THE THREE SHEEP by Jonty Gillingham
(photo)
spring term

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Country and Western Cabaret in a Day, y’all
By GEORGIA BEMROSE YEAR EIGHT
The band’s
playlist
ON THE 19th of March the school per-
formed a cabaret - it was brilliant!
Everybody sung songs and did a little
bit of acting at the same time.
l Islands in the Stream All the parents enjoyed it to and they
got a meal served by the Year Eights while
l American Pie they watched it!
The cabaret was country and western
l Walk the Line theme this year with one of the Curtis
brothers, Mikey the Bad, being a wanted
l A Boy named Sue man as the main part of the cabaret.
It was full of excitement!
l When you say nothing at all All of the songs where a great choice
especially 9 till 5 witch was sung by the
l Four wheels on my wagon whole school and Galveston sung by
Mikey Curtis, also Islands in the stream
l Nine till Five and American Pie sung by the whole
school sounded great!
l Country Roads All the rest of the best songs and
my favourites were: Four wheels on my
l Galveston wagon, Walk the line by year eight and
Country roads sung by all the school. Eve-
l Rhinestone Cowboy rybody thought the cabaret was fun!

Pictures by Max Bramhall - Year 6

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Skateboarding wizards
By ALEX CURTIS YEAR EIGHT
WOODLEIGH School turned into a skate park for the day as the
pupils practised ollies, flips and 180s with maximum air.
The School Council and the Friends of Woodleigh organised
the event which lasted all day and involved over 80 children.
Instructor Paul, from Rubicon Skate, started with a series
of balancing exercises and moves. Pupils aged 5-13 found out
whether they were regular or goofy, which end of the board was
the nose and which the tail, and how to turn at speed.
Pupils also learned and practised a series of tricks and moves,
including 180s, kick flips, tic tacs and glides.
George Ullyott, age 12, from Garton-on-the-Wolds, said : “It
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was great to learn new skills and it was a challenging experi-
ence.”
Victoria Hind, age 11, from Hutton Cranswick said: “I liked
it and I found it fun especially the flips.”
Jonty Gillingham, age 11, from Thixendale said: “I liked the
ollies and tic-tacs because they were harder and more difficult
to execute.”
The best skateboarders performed a master-class in the af-
ternoon, finished by Paul the instructor completing a spectacu-
lar aerial 360 shove it and kick flip over the school’s parking
barrier.
 WOODLEIGH WINS CUP
By CHARLIE PROCTER YEAR FIVE
WOODLEIGH School took part in the an-
nual U11 Spirit of Soccer festival hosted
by Aysgarth.
Woodleigh’s U11 B team took part.
The first match was against Mowden
Hall. Ben Hudson scored a sensational
hat-trick to win the game 3-0.
Then we played Bramcote, with Ben
Hudson adding to his tally and Charlie
Procter scored a further blinder. The re-
sult was 2-0 to Woodleigh.
After that we played Cundall and
Brandan Lansbury finished them off with
a low piledriver into the bottom corner.
Aysgarth were next and Ben Hudson
and Haydn Clements dominated, each
scoring good efforts to win the match.
The penultimate game was against
Barnard Castle which resulted in a frus-
trating 0-0 stalemate.
This left Woodleigh School in the fi-
nal against local giants St Olave’s. Rory
Selvey, coming on in the second half,
scored two injury time screamers - a
master-stroke substitution by Woodleigh
coach Mr Copeland.
Keeper George Crawford did not con-
cede a single goal to round off a magnifi-
cent tournament winning performance
by Woodleigh.
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Plate success
for Woodleigh
By CHARLES SAUNDERS YEAR EIGHT

THE WOODLEIGH 1st team travelled up to Hurworth to com-

pete in their annual rugby sevens tournament.
Our first match was against Grindon Hall, a team we had
never played before. They had some very strong, powerful and
direct runners that were very difficult to tackle. However we
held them off for a couple of minutes before they broke away and
scored under the posts. After that it went downhill, they scored
more tries and someone got injured. The final score was 26-0.
We then lost our next two matches quite heavily against Cundall
and Terrington. They were very hard teams indeed and we did
not have a top strength side out.
Having finished these two consecutive matches, Woodleigh
were very tired and had an hour’s rest before our next match
against Argyle. Woodleigh came onto the pitch ready to go and
Frankie Cheng scored early on. This boosted confidence and
more tries came from Frankie and Harry Connell. After half
time Woodleigh lost pace but managed to finally beat Argyle.
Woodleigh’s confidence was boosted hugely by this and we went
into the next match in high spirits.
Our next encounter was with Hurworth House, a team which
we had closely beaten in 15-a-side last term. We started well,
with aggressive tackling and a good firm covering in defence. At
half time, the scores were level on 7-7. In the last five minutes,
Charles Saunders came on with a slightly recovered injured el-
bow, and after a great movement by the whole team, Woodleigh
scored in the corner. Woodleigh won the match 14-7. After that
Woodleigh had come third in their group and played Fyling Hall
in the plate. We won this match pretty easily with great play
from the forwards Alex Curtis, Charlie Goodlass and Ben Laver-
ack.
The plate final was against Hurworth, whom we had already
beaten in the pools. It was a very close match and breakaway
tries from Alex Curtis and Charles Saunders led to a 14 ‐ 0 lead.
In the last play of the game, they looked as though they would
score but a foot race ended in that glory being cut off.
This was the first prize we had won this season and it really
showed how well everyone had performed throughout the day.

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Huge cross-country ev
Hockey and Netball on a high
By CHARLOTTE AUSTIN & MOLLIE LEAR YEAR FIVE
THE HOCKEY and Netball teams this year have played 15
matches with mixed success. However, all of the boys and girls
in Years 3-8 have greatly enjoyed the experience. The hockey
team has 2 boys and 7 girls. Some of our best players are Peggy
Ullyott, Sam Burdett and Louise Litten but everyone plays really
well.
In our first match of the term we played netball against Queen
Ethelburga’s and we lost 3-2. The best player was Peggy Ullyott but
we all tried really hard. Our second match was against Terrington
where we were playing Hockey. The score was 5-3 to Terrington
and our best player was Sam Burdett but we all worked hard.
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The U9’s first netball match was against Bramcote in January.
We lost 5-2 but we all tried really hard especially Lucy Cawkwell
who was the best player in that match.
The first hockey match the U9 played was against Terrington
in February. Terrington won 7-8 and our best player was Esme
Hudson. We all played well really but Esme just played a little bit
better.
The best moment is when you score a goal in hockey and net-
ball or when you have tackled someone on the other team. It’s
really good if you win but even if you don’t win it doesn’t mean
you didn’t try your best.
vent run at Woodleigh
By CAMERON CASTLETON YEAR EIGHT

IN MARCH Woodleigh hosted their annual cross-country com-

petition. There were 350 people running from 16 schools around
Yorkshire. Also the course had been changed this year, making
the event even more exciting.
The first race was the under 9 mixed, which Woodleigh came
tenth overall in. The next was the under 11 girls race, in which
Woodleigh did not compete because there were people absent.
Our best race was the under 11 boys, where we came third
overall with competitive runners such as the Bradley boys, Jonty
Megginson and Harry Fenton. This was a huge success against
schools much bigger than us.
Woodleigh did not compete in the under 13 girls competition,
so our next race was the under 13 boys. We came seventh overall
in this with runners like Cameron Castleton and Beau Wyatt
coming in the top 25. Frankie Cheng ran very well for the school
as well.
This race concluded a fantastic for the Woodleigh running
teams. We had some great performances from all age-groups and
everybody really tried their hardest.
The overall winners of the under 13 boys race was St Mar-
tin’s Ampleforth. They ran very well, but, still, Woodleigh
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ricket teams
By WILLIAM BRADLEY & ROBERT BRADLEY YEAR FIVE & SIX
THE U11 cricket team have had an amaz-
ing season. They started the season with
a match against Cundall Manor. They
bowled first and got them out for 70. We
got to 70 with 5 wickets down and won
the match convincingly.
Our next match was against Red House.
They got a score of 64-3. We came into
bat and won with only one wicket down.
We were very happy with our two wins
and were looking forward to our next
match against Scarborough Collage Jun-
ior School.
With our confidence running high we
started the home match. We batted first
and gained an outstanding total of 120.We
were extremely pleased with our efforts
as it was a very good score. Scarborough
were taking it steady at first because they
had lost a wicket first ball. Scarborough’s
innings was going badly and after losing a
couple more wickets they lost all of their
confidence and were all out for 20.
We had two more matches against
Moorlands in Leeds and Belmont Gros-
venor at home. We won both matches
well and kept our winning streak. The
match against Moorlands was a pairs one
and it was a comfortable win. The match
against Belmont Grosvenor was at home
and we bowled first.
We managed to bowl them out for 55
with Robert Bradley getting a hat-rick and
a five wicket haul. This was another good
win and our last match of the season was
getting nearer.
The last match of half term was against
Bramcote. We batted first and got a total
of 85 all out. They came into bat and kept
the partnership until the sixth over when
we got the break through and then some
wickets fell. They managed a total of 65
all out and lost the match by 20 runs.
The next match was against St Mar-
tins we got 88-7. Our bowling started well
and they were 30-3. Then their 4th wicket
partnership put the game in their hands,
but we fought back and took four wickets
but it was too late. St Martin’s won the
match with one ball to spare.
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FABIENNE TURNER
A BUZZING BUMBLE BEE (above) Fabienne created this painting with a sponge and vivid paint. She did it all by herself with
painting on paper, 150 x 85cm 2010 yellow and black paint so it looked just like a bumble bee.