Thanks to everyone at Burgess Hill Bonfire Society for their generous donation of £600 to Woodlands Meed from last year’s procession. Friends of Woodlands Meed Committee Member Inga Herlihy was invited to join BHBS for their celebrations on Saturday and was presented with the amazing cheque!
Our year 9 sports’ leaders have made a fantastic start to their sports’ leaders training. They have just completed five weeks of coaching with students from Bhasvic College whereby they participated in a number of warm up games and activities, before exploring whole team sports such as Kwik Cricket.
For the first couple of weeks, the BHASVIC students led these sessions so that our students had the opportunity to learn how to successfully lead a session, and give them ideas regarding the types of activities they may like to lead themselves. It also gave our students the opportunity to build relationships with the Bhasvic Students and gain in confidence… and didn’t they just!!!
As the roles were reversed, our students put into practice what they had learnt from their initial sessions; planning and leading warm up games, activities and matches with an ever growing confidence in the remaining sessions. Our students worked together as they explained and demonstrated the different skills required, and also offered encouragement to the Bhasvic students. It is a pleasure to see that, even over a short period of time, our year 9s have grown enormously, and have made a great start in developing the key skills required to be a great sports’ leader. Well done guys, we are so proud of you!
We are very excited to announce that after the highly successful pilot scheme last year, GOSketch is back with a BANG! Thanks to Neil and his team at JOLF, our current year 9s will access this amazing opportunity which incorporates two of our most popular subjects; art and sport!
Our students will be provided with a 10 week programme which focusses on communication, fine and gross motor skills, and most importantly teamwork. Our students will work in two teams to design and create a character, persona and colour scheme which, once finalised, will be used to produce some chosen pieces of merchandise that the students will be allowed to keep! These could include t-shirts, baseball caps and putting clubs, all complete with THEIR character and colour scheme...how exciting is that?!
We will keep you updated on their progress and look forward to presenting our students’ final designs!
#watchthisspace #getcreative #littleapprentices
Our students have thoroughly enjoyed their first half of GoSketch sessions. They have had the opportunity to receive some coaching from the Neil; tackling a number of putting challenges with great enthusiasm and success!
Furthermore, the students have also worked really hard on the art and design elements of this project. They were put into two teams, each with an allocated team captain. Their first challenge was to come up with a team name that they all agreed on, and after a lot of discussions, we now have our two teams:
1. The Whisperers
2. The Gull-Actic Golfers
Students have been working hard on their logos and characters for their team, which when finalised will be revealed to the rest of the school!
On Monday, the 27th January, Fox Class travelled to The Triangle in Burgess Hill for the latest Boccia and New Age Kurling Tournament.
The students were split into two groups with both having the opportunity to play five games of both boccia and NAK. The students built on their experiences from the first tournament they attended before Christmas, demonstrating greater accuracy and execution of shots, as well as, a more developed tactical approach; consequently winning a far greater number of matches than last time!
As always, our students did us proud; conducting themselves in a way that epitomised the sportsmanship we strive for at Woodlands Meed, whilst also demonstrating a great team spirit as they tried their best and supported each other from the start until the very end of the tournament.
All students received certificates that were handed out in assembly, due to the fantastic manner in which they participated, but Our ‘Magic Moment Awards’ were given to Lochlan and Jadon, but Well done!
THANK YOU TO ALL INVOLVED FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SPORTING EVENT FOR WM!