Kiveton & Wales Community Matters - May 2009
Wales High School
Article by Wales High School Tel: 01909 771291 P. Milligan www.waleshigh.com
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rom the 2nd to 5th December, pupils from Wales High School performed a remake of the Olivier Award winning musical, Honk! Students from all years worked extremely hard over a period of 10 weeks to stage a fantastic performance. The show went extremely well with every night a sold out performance. All the students that took part thoroughly enjoyed themselves, as did the audience. By Caitlin Parkhouse, Emily McNulty, Amber Thornycroft.
Our congratulations go to Dominic Moon. Dominic won the under 18’s Sheffield Golf Championship. He was invited to Brazil, in October, for a 6 day intensive golf tournament called the ‘Faldo Series Grand Final’. He was also filmed for a segment on Look North. For over a year, girls have been enjoying football coaching sessions with Doncaster Belles ladies coach, Scott Duncanson. As a special pre-Christmas treat for the girls he was joined by Nicola Hobbs who is currently the England Goalkeeper. She came along to give our students a few extra tips and tricks of the sport.
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ales High School are widely recognised for their international program. Part of this program is our trip to the commonwealth carol concert at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar square, London. We attend every year; and every time, we seem to be the only school group to have been invited. This year, twelve Y10 students were chosen – as a reward for achieving a Certificate of Excellence for their work last year. We saw many of the city’s sights before an afternoon performance of “The Sound of Music”. It was fantastic! In the evening, we had seats reserved for the Carol service – which a memorable occasion for all of us. It had a truly “commonwealth” flavour; celebrities from politics, TV and show business. By Matthew Day.
Every year a non uniform day for the charity group Barnardos is organised. Each student was asked to donate a pound to the charity in return they could wear their normal clothes for a day. The trade off was a huge success. Hannah Day — Head Girl said, ‘People don’t realise how much organisation goes into collecting money from 62 tutor groups. Overall it was a huge success. We managed to raise around £1300 for Barnardos.’ By Sam Briggs.
Cross Country Runners Selected to Represent Rotherham After 5 weeks of competing against other schools in the cross country league, Wales put out their strongest team to compete in the annual championships in October. There were some excellent team and individual results. Rebecca Moran (Y8) was runner up in the junior girls race, Luke Cotter (Y8) won the junior boys race and Adam Newton (Y12) won the senior boys race. Our junior girls team won their event and brought the Rotherham School’s trophy back to Wales. Well done! Chantelle Kelwick, Rebecca Moran, Jessica Freeman, Luke Cotter, Adam Newton and James Marsh were all selected to represent Rotherham in the South Yorkshire Championships in February. All Year 7 pupils were offered the chance to visit Crowden. It was the best time ever! Favourite activities were orienteering, archery and the zip wire. I will never forget the fantastic residential trip to Crowden. By Georgia Naughton. Kiveton Park & Wales Community Development Trust: 01909 773348
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