Westdale Junior School news

The first game of our season was against Arno Vale and it was at home. The starting line-up was: Luke in goal; Steven and Sam in defense; in midfield Matt, Joe and Mitchell; with William in. The subs were Daniel and Shaquile. We played some good football. We went behind to an early goal but came back strongly to win 4-1.

Our second game was against Ernehale, which we won. The same seven players were used for that game. Then we had a five month break until February, our third game was against Parkdale at home, we won 2-0. In our fourth game we went to Parkdale and sadly lost, their goal was a lucky header from a corner. After a disappointing loss our fifth game we were hosting Ernehale and went behind 1-0 but then switched on to get three goals and win the match 3-1. After beating Ernehale we travelled to Good Shepherd and we battered them 8-0, Daniel got four, Luke got one, Joe got one, Mitch got one and so did Shaquile. Then Good Shepherd came to our place and we won 5-0. The last game of the season was at Arno Vale, we went there knowing that if we drew or won we’d go through to the knock-out stages of the league play-offs. Fortunately, we sneaked a 1-0 victory.

In the knock-out stages, we played Sir John Sherbrook at home in the last 16 and beat them 4-0 which put us through to the quarters. In the quarter- finals we played Parkdale (for the third time). We won 3-0 (revenge!). After beating Parkdale we made the trip to Burton Joyce, and quite comfortably beat them 3-0. So that meant that we went through to the final.

The final was at a neutral ground which was at (Stanhope) where we played Sacred Heart. After a hard fought match in which there were no goals in normal time, the game went in to overtime. We went behind to a goal in extra time but then Steven scored a dramatic last minute equaliser so had shared the trophy which Joe, the captain, lifted.

So, overall , this was a fantastic season , winning the league and cup double. We scored 38 goals and only conceded 4!

BRILLIANT!!

Labels: 2009, 2010, football, news, sport

Just before half term we have a school Book Week. Everyone in school took part in a range of different activities all connected with books.

The activities included:

- making bookmarks
- visiting the local library
- writing a profile of a character from a book (on the computer)
- having a presentation from Nick Toczeck (a published author)
- a Book Quiz
- dressing up as a book character
- visiting the book sale in school
- taking part in a short story-writing competition

Dressing Up
The whole school was invited to dress up as chacaters from books and, on the Friday, the whole school was filled with magical and wondersful characters: wizards, witches, warriors, cowboys, Dorothys, Harry Potters, Red Ridding-Hoods, Gandalfs and even a toad. Some people made a huge effort and some of the Red Ridding-Hoods even had real cakes. (But not for long!)

Library Visit
After lunch we walked to Mapperley Library. When we arrived we were able to look at the books and how they were organised. The librarian talked to us about the library and about the different sorts of books and other things you can borrow from the library then gave us a "true or false" quiz. You can borrow over twenty books at a time from our library. We also had time to choose a book and spend some time reading it.

Nick Toczeck
Nick Toczeck was really funny. It was good to be able to meet a successful author and to work with him in class. He read us some of his poems - which were very rhythmical and were full of rhymes and pace. He used a camel puppet (called Humphrey) and did some magic tricks to help keep everyone's attention.

Book Quiz
To end the Book Week, the whole school had a quiz. There were questions about book characters, authors, books by Roald Dahl, traditional stories, nursery rhymes and a film story featuring Paddington Bear.

Book week was excellent and everyone was very pleased that Mrs Kilbane (helped by some of the other teachers) had organised it.