Westdale Junior School news

Everybody had a super time at Westdale Sports Day on the afternoon of Friday 20th July. After terrible weather earlier in the week (when parts of Nottingham had a month's rain in a single day), Mr Stephenson chose a perfect afternoon for our sports.

The whole school took part in eighteen different activities such as "egg and spoon", relay sack race, football dribbling and netball shooting. The sports all took place on the field in front of the soon-to-be-closed Arnold and Carlton College.

There were twenty teams with about twelve children (from all age groups) in each team. Adult helpers explained the games and wrote down all the scores as the teams rotated round the activities. Each team also had two rest periods (including a welcome drink).

At the end of the event the winners this year were the Black Panthers team. They said, "We are very pleased to have won and surprised! It was a great afternoon."

Our Summer Fair was very successful again this year, raising over £900. The Summer Fair took place at Westdale Junior School on the morning of Saturday 23rd June.

In the school hall there was a cake stall, book stall, toy stall, wine or water game and a white elephant stall. There were also cakes, drinks and ice-pops on sale in the Dining Hall. In the playground outside there were many small games designed and made by Year 6 pupils. They included games like Dunk the Dolly, Magic Magnet, Match the Socks Up and Splat the Rat. The games took a lot of time and effort but it was well worth it - an amazing £200 was raised by year 6 games alone. With most games costing only 5p a go, this means that there were approaching 40 paying customers per minute during the course of the morning!

The purpose of the event was to raise money for school (and to have fun). The money is being used to refurbish the computer room.

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