Month: February 2016
Congratulations to Fraser Johnson, in year 6, who has received a call up for the Suffolk county swimming team. Fraser, who swims for Deben Swimming Club, has been invited to represent Suffolk in the Inter County Competition, being held this year at the UEA Sportspark in Norwich. It’s an outstanding achievement and a considerable accolade to have his talents recognised by the team selectors, who chose their squad from across all the swimming clubs in the whole county. It demonstrates Fraser’s considerable ability, and potential, in this highly competitive sport. Very well done Fraser – an awe-inspiring achievement!
The children in Reception have been celebrating Chinese New Year. They have made fans, dragons and lanterns, experimented at Chinese writing and learnt the names of the animals in the Chinese zodiac. Last week they had a visit from Hong who was able to tell the children more about how this festival is celebrated in China.
By Verity Hobday
Woodbridge U13B Netball team played Farlingaye U13A team at home in the A league. The final score went Farlingaye’s way in what was a difficult game for us, but we played to a good standard. When the first quarter ended the score was 9:2 to Farlingaye, but we continued to try our best. Farlingaye continues to pull away, in some great play from both teams with Woodbridge doing some great defending. Well done, Woodbridge for continuing to try our best.
By Katherine Bye
The match against Ipswich was very different to the last being outside on a very slippery court with a strong wind. The match started off with a quick pace but no goals were scored by either team in the first 8 minutes. With many great interceptions from our team going up the court, excellent defending and goal scoring we kept going and maintained control of the match. There was a constant sense of determination to win, which paid off with many goals being scored throughout the match keeping us steadily ahead of Ipswich all the way through. The final score was 16-11 with great play by all.
By Katherine Bye
Our second match for the U14A was against Farlingaye, with a large squad of 11 players we started off the first inside match with a steady pace and strong shooting. We ended the first quarter 9-4 up. A mix around of players swapping on lead into another strong quarter, but by end of the second quarter they had scored 4 more goals. However we still held our lead, 16-8. They had half our score at this stage in the match which would gain them a point in the league. We couldn’t let them have that so we came into the third quarter fighting strong with many great interceptions by Maud and Sarah in the middle third gaining us a score of 24-10. In the last quarter we started with morale high and rounded off the match by scoring 11 more goals. Combined with excellent defence only allowing Farlingaye to score two more goals meant we finished the match with a great final score of 34-12. Joanne was awarded player of the match by the other team with her great shooting shining through the score.
The 1st team boys had a revenge game against Norwich School on Saturday. The two teams met earlier in the term in the U18 Cup and Norwich took the spoils, after Woodbridge lost a two-goal lead.
Woodbridge was patient for the duration of the first half and controlled most of the ball possession. We were technically the better team, and it was clear that only mistakes from us would allow Norwich to gain momentum. Norwich had one chance in the half, which luckily hit the post and bounced to safety. Woodbridge on the other hand created numerous ones of their own, either by great passing play or individual runs, particularly by captain Callum Askins. We were finally rewarded when Ed Robson pounced on a rebound and pushed the ball over the line in the 25th minute.
Going into half time as deserving leaders, Woodbridge had to regroup soon after as Norwich struck on the counter thanks to a simple penalty corner goal. The scores were level, frustratingly so. This seemed to spur the players on and in the 12th minute Ben Kilburn converted a penalty corner move. Again Woodbridge continued to control the game and the boys were rewarded with one more goal 6 minutes from the end when Will Neall scored to make it 3-1 at the whistle.
The match saw Miles Budden make his debut in goal during the second half. Myles King, Ben Kilburn, Will Neall, Hugo Thomas and Callum Askins all had great games, to name a few. Collectively, this was a great team effort where each player delivered their performance of the season so far.
Our boys played a good, patient game against Gresham’s recently, much to their credit. The match started perfectly with a good penalty corner variation which allowed Ben Kilburn space to score at the post. However, an unfortunate corner after some slow decision making just before half time allowed Gresham’s to draw level. Soon after the restart, things got worse as an unstoppable strike at goal gave Chris Moody little chance, and the boys something of a challenge to overcome. They did so at first thanks to George Williams who showed a bit of individual brilliance, beating three players whilst travelling nearly half a pitch, before a brilliant behind the back lay-off to Myles King, who shot from the left, and then pounced on the rebound from a great save to score. A fantastic bit of play by both George and Myles: 2-2 the score!
One minute before the end Woodbridge earned a series of penalty corners, the final one resulting in the ball running loose in front of goal, and there was Ben Kilburn to pop it in. 3-2… but straight from the restart Gresham’s won their own corner… the Woodbridge defence held strong… and the final whistle signalled victory.
Hugo Kelleway was voted player of the match by his peers. George Williams, Ben Kilburn and Myles King also played very well. Ben Spence also impressed with his leadership upfront, being in the right place, at the right time.