Cundall Manor Upper School News

U14 Girls Hockey

After their success in the area tournament, the U14 girls travelled to Queen Margaret's to play for Hambleton and Richmondshire area. The first match was played against Scarbrough College. We won 2-0 with goals from Lili Kettlewell. Josie Proctor and Esther Willis played very well. The second match was against St Peters. It was a tough match and the final score was 1-1. A great defence was played by Sophie Robinson and Lucy Harland. The last match was played against Harrogate Grammar with a score of 2-0 with two fantastic goals by Alex Willis. Some brilliant tackles from Emma Jones and Ellie Watson. After winning this tournament we went to play at Durham, representing North Yorkshire. We played Durham and drew 1-1. Some brilliant saves from Harriet Bagley and excellent reverse stick action from Maddie Phillips. We then played Pocklington who were representing Humberside and lost 3-1. Harriet Green played very well in attack and after coming 2^nd in our group we went through to play Wakefield High who were representing West Yorkshire. We lost by a considerable amount but played very well in attack with brilliant play from Olivia Foster and Olivia Kirby.

A very pleasing result and a very happy Mrs Walkland finished the day off by coming 3^rd in the north east of England. A very big thank you to Mrs Walkland for excellent dedication and coaching.

Sophie Robinson, Emma Jones and Alex Willis (Leckby)

Inspirational Atworks

The Thornton GCSE Art group have been creating relief work inspired by images of architect Frank Gehry's designs:

by Louis Williams,                                            Fabio Corda                          Tom Hepworth

Operation Christmas Child - Shoe box appeal

A reminder once again of our participation in this year's OCC Shoebox Appeal. Please help/encourage/remind your child to support this very worthy cause. Further details are available from the OCC website - operationchristmaschild.org.uk

Bronze Award Dance Outing

Sunday morning and six sleepy students side step into the unknown! The day of reckoning had arrived for Maddi, Phil, Sophie, Alex, Olivia and Will as they dared to leap out of their comfort zone and take their Bronze Freestyle Dance Award at

D.M Academy in Shipley. After a half term of hard work, learning routines based on jazz, hip-hop and breakdancing, the students nervously awaited their turn in front of the examiner. After a swift warm-up it was all over very quickly, with the boys examined first and the girls following on. Feedback was good and they tell me that they smiled! We will get the results in the next couple of weeks, so fingers crossed.

D Riddell

This week also saw the start of preparations for the Upper School play. The cast attended their first read through of the script whilst the costume department began work on some incredible designs.

An initial costume design for the Upper School production of The Importance of Being Earnest created by Lucy Hookway,

Romy Prendergast and Olivia Lowry.

 In the Hot Seat

As well as inspiring raft of fabulous artwork this week, our new Art teacher Ms Smith even found the time to be interviewed for our Newsletter:

What was your favourite subject at school?  Art

What is the best place you've ever been on holiday?  The Pelopanese, Greece

What's your all time, best ever song?  ‘Like a Prayer' by Madonna

Name 3 people you'd like to invite to dinner.  Salvador Dali, Peter Sellars, Peggy Guggenheim

What's the best book you've ever read?  Jayne Eyre

What do you do in your spare time?  Work!

Favourite colour?  Red 

Favourite film?  It's a Wonderful Life

Bacon or sausage sandwich?  Bacon

Brown or red sauce?  Red

Cinema or DVD?  Cinema

What's your favourite clothes label?  Oxfam

What are you scared of?  Incompetence

Who's the funniest person you know?    Miss Martola

What kind of car would you like to own?  Aston Martin DB5

What bugs you more than anything else?  Incompetence

What world record would you like to hold?  100m

What would you like to be if you weren't a teacher?  An artist

Would you take part in Big Brother?  No, because I don't like circuses

If your house was on fire, what three things would you save?  My children, pets, laptop