Westdale Junior School news

For the second time, children from Westdale Junior School have had poems selected for publication in the national “Pound a Poem” competition. This year we have had TWO winners – and they will have their poems printed in an anthology which will be published and put on sale.

All the children at school got a chance (with everyone else up and down the country) to write poem about fruit and/or veg – they had a week to do it. We had lots of entries. Once the week had ended Mr Caldwell typed up all the poems without a name and all the other teachers chose their favourite out of each year group. The winners got their poems got sent to the pound – a – poem team. They were: Anthony Yr6, Lucy Yr5, Ella Yr4 and Heaven-Leigh Yr3

The runner-ups were Ria Yr6, Faye Yr5, Cait Yr4 and
Ryan from Yr3

Mrs Hayles was very impressed!

And we are yet to find out whether anyone in our school has got through to the next stage of the competition.

Labels: 2009, competition, news, poetry

Mrs Kilbane and Mr Jennings took some of the year 5 and 6 children to Wheldon School for an athletics competition against 7 other schools in Gedling.

We came first with 108 points beating the next school in second place by 2 points but this was only the heat so we have won a place in the district final. Rudy (one of the children representing our school) jumped a whopping 6.98m the farthest the competition organisers had ever seen. Other events were speed bounce, long jump, triple jump, seated throw and javelin. Finally we just like to thank Mrs Day and Mrs Collins for their help with transport.

(In the Gedling area final, we came fifth out of all the schools.)

Labels: 2009, althletics, clubs, sport, Y5, Y6