NEWSFLASH
Fortnightly Newsletter of Woodhouse Grove School
Business and Economics UK Tour
Itwasnon-stopduringthe halftermbreak for our Year 12 students who went on the business and economics focused UK road trip. They visited the Morgan Factory in Malvern, and had a VIP tour of the working production site, before an evening in Cardiff. Day 2, they headed to the Welsh Mining Experience at the Rhondda Heritage Park and a trip down a mine! From there, was the Royal Mint, where they saw how money is made before going to London. Day 3 started with the 'inside London Finance City' tour, and London School of Economics to listen to a private lecture with Simon Somerville where he shared his knowledge of behavioural economics. They managed to fit in a little trip to Oxford Street before heading to the Museum of Brands, where they took part in a customer profiling workshop and finished the day with dinner at the Old Bank of England Restaurant. The final day of the trip, they headed home, stopping off at Cadbury World in Birmingham. Students were a credit to themselves and the Grove. Based upon such a successful trip, Mrs Watmough is already planning next year’s adventure, which will be a business and economics trip to New York! Details to be released in September. To see all the trip photos,clickHERE
Biology Winners
Year 10 students, along with over 43,000 students from around the world, recently took part in the Biology Olympiad from the Royal Society of Biology. Three of our students attained a gold award which put them in the top 5% of entrants, seven of our students attained a silver award putting them in the top 15% and nine more attained a bronze award where they were in the top 25% of entrants. Well done to Lezain Shyllon who scored 91.26%! We are proud to have so many podium winners in Year 10, the future of
Some of our Sixth Form maths pupils have been preparing for the mathematics aspect of their university entrance tests, under the expert guidance of Mrs Nott. The maths department helps to prepare students for a whole range of university entrance including STEP, MATandTMUA.
Individual Sporting Successes
Congratulations to Alfie Longstaff, Year 12, on his selection for next season’s England U18's Rugby Union team at their tournament in South Africa over the summer holidays. This exceptional accomplishment not only reflects Alfie's dedicationandtalentbutalsobringsgreatprideto the school as we have two England players this year.Welldone,Alfie,andbestofluck!
Well done to Year 8 pupils Bella Strudwick and Cleo Hainsworth whose LANC Netball team came 7th at the Nationals. They lost one match by one goal in the last second and won every other match. It was a great learning to Jess Strudwick, Year 11, who played for the Welsh U17 Netball team last week in a curtain raiser against Celtic Dragons 42.
Good Luck to Austin Burnett, Year 7, who is competing at the British Tumbling Silver Championships 23 with his Saltaire Gymnastics Club over the weekend. Austin has achieved Gold in all his tumbling competitions, making him eligible to compete at the championships, we
Individual Successes Cont...
Well done to Harry Hainsworth, Year 8, on a fantastic football season playing for U13 Leeds District Schools representative team. The team finished 2nd in the league narrowly losing out to EastRidingby2points. Theyalso won the Yorkshire Cup, beating Barnsley in the final and got to the final of the ESFA Cup beating some very strong teams along the way. Well done on a great season Harry.
Congratulations to Jenny Ingham, Year 10, who took part in a ‘Yorkshire Cup’ Artistic swimming competition last Sunday. She competed in the figures and also team competition, where her teamtookgold.
Triathlon Results
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4th OliverGoodison Youth/U16Boys
4th WillThornhill T3/U14Boys
5th CharleyClark-Taylor T3/U14Girls
6th SimeonTedd T3/U14Boys
7th TomGoodison T2/U12Boys
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Congratulations to George Dix, Year 8, who having finished 4th in the Victoria Gymnastics Championships before he returned from Australia, has been accepted into the Men’s Artistic Squad at Leeds Gymnastics Club. This is a huge achievement, well done, George!
to all participants in the recent tennis matches against GSAL. The senior boys deserved victory, while the girls' all draw. Our U15 girls also emerged triumphant in their match. Excellent effort and sportsmanship were demonstrated by all involved. Well played,
Zip the Cow
Once again, we are delighted to be a main sponsor of the Sue Ryder Zip the Cow event in Ilkley on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd July. We have 5 free places for this event and will be running a competition for pupils and staff to enter via firefly. However if you would like to book your own place or places, pleaseclickHERE.
*Please be aware before you book that participants must weigh between 32kg and 111kg toridethezipwire.
Old Grovian Politics Visit
It was a pleasure to welcome OG Dr Tom McMeeking into school on Monday this week visiting Y12 Politics students. He is a visiting lecturer at York, St John and discussed a number of political issues with students, with a key focus on the role of PM and executive power. It was a lively discussion. There is always something going on to discuss and use as an example in UK Politics
Healthcare Careers Day
On Wednesday, ten of our students from Y9 and Y10 attended a 'Meet the Professionals' Healthcare Careers Day at the University of Leeds. They learnt about 16 different areas of the health and social care sectors. The event was incredibly informative and gave the students an insight into life as a university healthcare student and entry routes into each profession, as well as a greater understanding of the wide variety of fascinating andrewardinghealthcarecareers.
Philosophy Trip
On Thursday, ten of our Year 10 students attended an event run by The University of Sheffield's philosophy department entitled 'The Examined Life'. Students were tasked with discussing and challenging philosophical concepts and to reflect on and justify their own opinions before feeding them back to the group. Topics debated included what role 'blame' plays within societal injustice, consequentialism vs deontology and the ethical treatment of animals. The event highlighted the role philosophy plays in structuring modern-day society and culture as well as providing interesting
study as part of their weather and climate topic. Measuring temperature, wind speed/direction and humidity at various locations and assessing what factors might affect thesevariables.
