Month: April 2018
Woodbridge pupils enjoyed a stellar weekend at the RHS MUN conference, representing France, Japan, and Ukraine. The Woodbridge team members Samuel Kill, Daniel Hempstead, Mary Godfrey, Samuel Newman, Callum Sycamore and Joshua Bradbeer all won best delegate awards. Sophie Little, Daniella Elman and Ellie Bakewell were awarded highly commended delegates. Due to this success, Mary Godfrey, Ellie Bakewell and Callum Sycamore were also awarded best delegation as Ukraine.
This was particularly exciting as a number of the pupils had never been recognised before and have only started MUN recently.
Despite missing out on the sunshine over the weekend, it was well worth it to have the opportunity to discuss such interesting current affairs, such as the colonisation of Mars.
This year’s Young Enterprise company was impeccable at the recent Suffolk finals. One of half a dozen companies competing, each of whom had made profits (though none quite as good as ours), East Coast Eats were out on their own in front for quality of trade stand (featuring a gorgeous cake made fresh from her own recipe in the book by Mary Godfrey, Deputy MD.) and, more importantly, product: a simultaneously sumptuous and elegant cookery book featuring a contribution from Delia Smith, favourites from many of our wonderful local restaurants such as The Table, The Crown, Honey and Harvey, The Oyster Inn and more, and recipes drawn from local traditions as well as charming new takes on old fashioned favourites. Compact, and perfect for holiday or home, this is a brilliant book well worth the cost. They have been so popular that the second print is on order.
The team was also well out in front for the quality of the presentation to the audience: witty, energetic, engaging and full of proper content, this was a slick and impressive performance which rightly found favour with the judges. And talking of which, with twelve minor prizes presented first and all going to one or other of the other five companies, the judges did give our team and supporters something of a sweaty moment before rewarding them with two of the three major awards (trade stand and presentation) and a rightful share of the overall honours (a new format for the evening: the naming of joint winners to reflect the fact that two go forward to the regional finals in June).
So, to June it is, and to further success. Many, many congratulations to the company: Callum Sycamore (MD), Joshua Bradbeer, Saxon Gallo, Sebastian Lamb, Lily Proudfoot (presentation team); Mary Godfrey, Daniel Hempstead, Ella Holliday, Jude Ashken, (trade stand); and Mollie Biddle, Thea Hall, Nathan Little, Jessica Bowers and Georgia Martin; and also of course to Mrs Wright for her judicious guidance.
Exercise Combat Cadet is the annual competition held by 7 Infantry Brigade (aka The Desert Rats) allowing 20 teams (of 9 cadets) from all over their area of responsibility, which includes roughly 7,500 cadets from both CCFs in schools and ACFs from each of the nine counties, to compete over two days. The aim is to pit the best cadets from each school or detachment against one another in a number of areas. This year the focus was on TIBUA (Tactics In a Built Up Area) and involved operating in an urban environment. Our cadets had to respond to a range of scenarios, including casualty evacuations, First Aid, section attacks, defensive operations and house and street clearance. There was also a 3 mile run.
This means we have now come 3rd, 1st, 3rd, 2nd over the last four years which demonstrates the continued excellence of our cadets and Army Section, especially when compared nationally. No school or ACF can match this run of consistent success over recent years. Much of our success this year was down to our Section Commander, C/Sgt Tom, who continued the tradition of superb leadership and tactical understanding that our previous commanders have shown.