July 8th 2022
NEWSFLASH Fortnightly Newsletter of Woodhouse Grove School Follow us on twitter @woodhouse_grove
Pink it Up!
Geography in the Sun
Today’s non-uniform day was a little different as everyone came sporting their best pink outfits for the Candlelighters Charity. It was great to see everyone dressed up to raise money.
Y7 geographers have been making the most of the sunshine to undertake a microclimate study of the school site.
Grove Awards This week has seen another 9 students complete their Grove Awards: It’s been a year full of activities and events Year 7: Gabriel Berry, Amelia Grimshaw, as well as the usual busy day to day aspects Charlotte Powell-Whiffen of school life. To see a brief photo round up Year 8: Connie Dawes, Ellie Fisher, Joshua of the past year please click HERE Kendrick, Elizabeth Smith Year 9: Liam Matley, Ned Waterhouse Shakespeare Lessons The challenges they completed ranged from 7G have been in the amphitheatre for Green Grove and a starring role in English this week, performing extracts from 'Midsummer Night's Dream' to D&T club, ‘The Tempest’ in a competition to bring Junior librarian and a wide variety of sport Shakespeare’s humour to life and see who and performing arts clubs. Well done! could make the audience laugh the most!
Happy End of the Year
Play Your Way to Wimbledon Congratulations to Dara Treanor and Natalie Flynn, Y9 who have made it through to the finals of the 'Play your way to Wimbledon' competition. They will now represent themselves in a doubles knock out tournament lasting 2-5 days at the All England Club in August.
Karate World Champion! Congratulations to both Harrison and Lewis Riley who competed as part of the Great Britain KKO squad at the WUKF World Karate Championships in Florida this week. Both boys did exceptionally well with Lewis taking Bronze in his individual category and Harrison becoming Wold Champion, taking Gold in his individual category! They also took Bronze in the teams event, fighting together for the first time. What an exceptional performance from both boys.
Athletics Awards The Headmaster presented our athletes with their certificates for placing in the top three in their event in the West Yorkshire Schools Athletics Association Championships. The school achieved three Golds, six Silvers and three Bronzes.
Good Luck Maisey We wish Maisey Bellwood Y9, the best of luck this weekend as she represents West Yorkshire at the English Schools Athletics Championships. Maisey will compete in the heats of the Junior Girls 800m today and hopefully in the final on Saturday.
Aquathlon Fencing Competition WGS fencers were invited to Harrogate Fencing Club to take part in a friendly team tournament. Well done to Dexter Small, Charles McLarnon and Zach Simpson Y8, and Liam Matley (Captain) Y9 who fenced very well losing to Harrogate A team, but beating their B team.
This week we hosted a Leeds Schools’ Aquathlon, with 99 entries from lots of different schools, from Years 7-10.
Artistic Swimming Well done to Jenny Ingham Y9, who performed in the National Artistic Swimming Combination Cup competition performing solo and as part of the team.
History Drama Production
Annual Summer Concert
Last week, a group of GCSE and A level historians went to see 'The Nervous State' a production based on the diary of F L Lucas, detailing the build up to WW2. It was a very interesting production and made the students consider the impact that war has on our society.
Last night we were treated to some great entertainment at the Summer Concert. It was wonderful to see such a wide display of talent. What a perfect way to finish off a brilliant year of performing arts.
Cambridge Chemistry Challenge Nine of our Year 12 students were invited to compete in the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge. Congratulations to Lizzie, Isabella and Samuel who were awarded gold. This places them in the top 10% of the 7,000 pupils selected for the challenge. Achieving any certificate on the challenge is an incredible feat, with demanding questions and an application of knowledge that stretches well beyond the A-level course. Congratulations to all of our certificate winners.
Music Results
Political Campaigners Year 8 skilfully made presentations using rhetoric to create a convincing political campaign to be elected as a young MP. They designed logos and posters then wrote a convincing manifesto that utilised Aristotle's logos, pathos and ethos. They considered issues that were important to them, such as reducing plastic waste and climate change, demonstrating their mature and sensitive appreciation of wider issues.
30 Days Wild
We had a mixture of activities from our students participating in the June 30 Days A huge congratulations to those who received their music results today, and a Wild campaign - from wild swimming, photography, nature-based artwork, bird special well done to Catriona who was awarded her ARSM with distinction, the first box making, breakfast al fresco and even a hedgehog rescue! One student, Adam WGS pupil to ever achieve this! Bashir Y9, also composed a lovely poem. All results below: Catriona Cochrane Y13 - ARSM with distinction Bella Lawson Y13- Grade 8 flute with distinction Anna Jarvis Y10- Grade 7 piano with merit
Leavers’ Weekend Last weekend was Leavers’ Weekend, with many of the school’s big events of the year taking place. Saturday started off with a wonderful Prize Day service where students, staff, parents and Governors came together to celebrate the successes of the year and those who had been awarded a school prize. In the afternoon, following a bit of good luck with the weather, it was Sports Day. Having not held a Sports Day in a few years it was great to see so many people competing for their House and cheering on the teams in all events. Well done to Towlson on taking the days victory, with Vinter coming 2nd and Atkinson 3rd! On Sunday we held the 22’ Leavers’ Chapel Service followed by the OG Family Fun Day and BBQ. It was a lovely day with great food from the WGS catering team, live musical performances from Grove student bands, and WGS vs OG tennis and cricket matches. It was fantastic to be able to host the full range of Leavers’ Weekend activities was a perfect way to end the school year. To see all the photos from sports day please click the photos below.
Enrichment Week Year 11 and 12 took part in an Enrichment Week last week where they were able to attend 2 hour workshops based around the different subjects offered at Sixth Form. Students had a great time in their workshops and got some key insight into the Sixth Form courses.
Royal Society of Biology Last week our Year 12 students Olivia Ranson, Lizzie Deall, Tasmia Tayyibah and Ritikan Kanda competed in the Royal Society of Biology Quiz against 20 other schools and colleges. They completed ten 20-minute challenges over the course of the day. It was a fantastic day with lots of novel skills and challenges. The team finished 5th out of 16 teams and were particularly praised for their performance in the microbiology task, well done girls!
Year 7 Activity Day This week Year 7 took part in an activity day where they got to try lots of different things including rock climbing, axe throwing and roasting marshmallows.