Category: Woodbridge News
OWs Laura Silovsky (left), Alice Verrill (right) and Will Loftus received their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards on Wednesday 11 March at St James’s Palace in the gloriously warm Spring sunshine.
HRH Duke of Edinburgh was in attendance and was in top form, chatting freely to the young people and cracking jokes.
The awards were presented by Jim Rosenthal, the sports commentator, who read from his own Gold DoE Expedition record book from fifty years ago. He spoke of the trials of his own expedition and of the crucial teamwork, camaraderie and commitment needed to complete the trip, and specifically of the enhanced self esteem and self confidence that some of his group acquired after battling through such brutal weather conditions together. That, in particular, resonated with Ali and Laura as they had trudged in such bitter Lake District weather themselves!
Congratulations to you all!
The New Wolsey Young Company’s production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”, featuring Flora Douglas, Francesca Ottley and Dominic Crane in the major roles of Abigail, Elizabeth and Judge Danforth, started showing last week at The New Wolsey and is already receiving rave reviews.
The production runs until 25 April. Tickets and details can be found at The New Wolsey website.
Congratulations to the following, who were successful in the recent ABRSM music examinations:
Grade 1: Joshua Bell, Guitar & Toby McNally, Alto Sax, both with Distinction;
Grade 2: Dylan Nicholls, Guitar; Alfred Franklin, Trumpet, Toby McNally, Piano & Hal Ottley, Trombone, all with Merit;
Grade 3: Katy Garnett & Amy Knight, Singing, both with Merit; Jemima Hill, Singing, with Distinction;
Grade 4: Charlotte Bowers & Iona Murland, Flute, Nancy King, Singing; Alyssa Hedley, Natalia Reed & Emilia Vaes, Singing, all with Merit; Jonathan Ferguson, Percussion, Ianthe Hill, Violin & James Phelan, Trombone, all with Distinction;
Grade 5: Charlotte Dinwiddy, Flute; Oliver Bacon, Trumpet, Brendan Bennett & Jemima Hill, Violin and Joanne Garnett, Clarinet, all with Merit; Medomfo Owusu, Theory with distinction and Violin with merit
Grade 6: Will Martin, Clarinet with Merit & Isabelle Cory, Clarinet with Distinction;
Grade 7: Owen Butcher & Lewis Chinn, Trombone with Merit;
Grade 8: Poppy Hill, Alto Sax; Ella Carter, Singing & Harrison Cole, Flute with Distinction.
Book and Arts Week ended on Friday, 20 March with all of Queen’s House dressing up as our favourite animal characters from books. A fantastic variety of creatures turned up including: Fantastic Mr Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, plenty of Dalmatians, Paddington, Muggle-Wump, The Little Red Hen, Puss-in-Boots and Rasta Mouse! A fantastic effort was made with the costumes and the children enjoyed the fancy dress parade in the morning. Mrs King judged the best costumes and the winners were: Suki for her fabulous snail, Rowan who was Winnie the Pooh, Sam for his waddling penguin, Jackson who was Mr Fox and Betty who was Mrs Fox. The overall winner was Arthur who was Paddington, complete with marmalade sandwiches in his old suitcase. What a wonderful end to a terrific week.
On 24 March 2015, Mrs Copestake, the Food Technology teacher, took the Year 2 to visit Sainsbury’s in Ipswich. Mr Na Nakhorn, the store manager and parent of Year 2 pupil, Arthur, planned a brilliantly organised morning of activities learning many interesting things and skills. The overall favourite activity was, unsurprisingly, injecting jam into the doughnuts and coating them in sugar. The trickiest task of the day was, without question, completing this without licking fingers!
Another favourite was when the children tested their speed skills at scanning products at the checkouts. You will be pleased to hear, we have a few potential tillers for the future as several managed 20/20 in 1 minute.
Other activities such as cheese tasting, calculating the cost of a meal deal, finding the origin of the bananas, or locating the dragon fruit kept the children busy and very excited.
Many thanks to Mr Na Nakhorn and his team for a hugely entertaining and informative day. The children were so grateful for their goodie bag of doughnuts and cupcake fun!
Last Thursday two Year 2 football teams took part in the Soccer Tournament at The Abbey. Both teams looked professional and played extremely well, gaining second and third place overall. Barnaby scored two brilliant goals in a row and Lara, who was the only girl on the pitch, played with great skill and determination. All the games were played with enthusiasm and good sportsmanship with plenty of encouragement from the side-lines. At the end of the tournament everyone received a medal and a delicious match tea. A big thank you to the organisers and coaches Mr Graham and Mr Earl.
On Friday afternoon Queen’s House took part in a special assembly in which prizes were given out to the children. The winner of the Dog Competition was Laura O, who correctly guessed the name of the dog to be Barley. Poetry competition winners were Hermione, Margot, Alex C, Jamie M and Boo L. Art prizes were awarded to Alice K, Saffron V, Ruby L, Eriko B and Will M. The Fancy Dress competition was very hard to judge as all the children had made such an effort with their costumes! After much debate, Sukie H, Rowan K, Sam L, Jackson H and Betty G all claimed prizes with the overall winner being Arthur N as Paddington Bear.
The theme for this year’s Book and Arts Week is Animals. Today there was great excitement at Queen’s House as Jenny’s Ark came to visit with over 40 different types of animals! There were rabbits, guinea pigs, tortoises, stick insects and even snakes! The children were told all about the animals including where they come from, what they eat and how to care for them. They were able to hold and feed them. They were amazed by the giant rabbit!
This was a great display of team work from girls who do not normally play together. We pulled up Amy Weir-Simmons, Ella Jerman-Riddell, and Ellie Aitchison from the B team and they did not look out of place. The whole tam rallied together and Katie La Vergne and Lucy-May Turner played really well in our attacking circle. Issy Farr played a stormer as GK and although Norwich came back at us we had a god enough lead to finish with a victory! Well done.
Sunday 22nd March 2015
Read on to find out important information about the day.