Christmas Week: Episode 2

WOKING LIONS APPEAL: CHRISTMAS BOXES

Every tutor group at Winston has made a Christmas Box to donate to the Woking Lions Christmas Appeal; they are for less fortunate families. Donations included: ·         non-perishable goods (tins/biscuits/chocolates); ·         children's toys and books; ·         comfort items for the elderly. The boxes were decorate in wrapping paper and collected on Wednesday morning.Thank you to everyone who contributed. Christmas Decoration Club These are the results of the Christmas Decoration Club in Design and Technology. Students were able to build on their skills using 2D design, to produce personalised bauble decoration designs which were cut on the laser cutter to give them a professional finish.   Students designing their product.  The Results! The Winter Concert On Wednesday 140 students took part in a superb Winter Concert.  There were performances from twelve different groups including: The Choir of 65 students An Orchestra of 57 students A Handchime Group A Guitar Group A Percussion Group A Wind Ensemble A Session Band A Key Board Group The Year 10 Musicians A Cappella Group The String Ensemble The Piano Trio Together with other students forming duos and trios to perform both traditional and modern pieces.  The range and standard was excellent.  I was incredibly proud of our students  and delighted that the evening celebrated the importance of making music together; that we celebrated our community by working together to create this great experience for both the audience and our students.  Thank you to Mr Drake, Mr Allen, Miss Ashworth and Mrs Mellor for ensuring that the evening was such a success and to all the staff, students and parents for participating in this celebration.  The Rehearsals Carols on arrival. The Year 7 Handchime Group playing Away in a Manger. Thank you Mr Drake for developing this within the department.                                                                    The Guitar Group                                                 Anna and Chris: 'Baby it's Cold Outside'                                                            Bachir: Brian Boru's March                                                              Alex on the Double Bass                                                     Callum: Waiting on the World                                                                    Year 7 Ensemble                                                        Percussion Group: Stick Click                                                       Percussion Group: Radioactive                                                                       Wind Ensemble Challenge Troop Seven brave Year 9 students took part in Challenge Troop this half term. They went out as part of an enriched curriculum offer, one day a week for 6 weeks,  learning valuable skills including fire building , bush craft , team work and basic survival skills. This  all came together last Thursday when they undertook a night exercise and worked as a team to build camp fires and establish sleeping areas before they undertook a night navigation stalking exercise ,which was a great success. The students then slept under the “stars “ which were, in fact, very large rain drops, that continued to fall until about 1.00 am. The aim here was to keep dry and this was achieved by three of the seven students who were able to spend the whole night under canvas. Once Friday morning arrive seven very tired campers took a brisk walk, followed by a spot of PE then it was cook your own breakfast, although not the traditional bacon and eggs; just what they wanted from their ration pack. Once the kit had been check and everything was repacked, on went to Cam cream and the rest of the morning was spent in teams trying to out smart the opposition . I believe that Sargent Asntal's team were the winners, thanks to some very clever camouflage  and hiding out in the trees; well done Elle! At 2pm seven hungry and tried students arrived back at school in need of a bath and some home comforts.