Winston Extra Leadership
Our Year 10 Winston Extra Leadership students embraced an amazing opportunity last week teaching our Year 8 PE classes. Students planned some active, fun and engaging lessons in football, netball and basketball which the Year 8's thoroughly enjoyed. Whilst some leaders felt confident in leading the Year 8 students, others started their sessions with slight reservation but by the end of the lessons had discovered they possessed more skills than they initially thought.
Next lesson, the Year 10 students will be reflecting on their leadership skills and identifying what went well and what skills they could further develop. What was lovely to see was the support the Year 8's showed at the end of the lessons; some of the basketball leaders got a round of applause and Hamad received hand shakes from students in his session.
Well done to all of the leaders. Mrs Daniels
Raising Money for Cherry Trees
Our student council have made a decision to support Cherry Trees:
Cherry Trees is a small charity providing home-from-home specialist short breaks/respite for children and young adults aged 0-19 with a range of complex disabilities including learning, physical and sensory impairments. Cherry Trees is a lifeline for the families of more than 100 children and young people who are regularly cared for here, whether it be after school for a few hours, a weekend or even a couple of weeks stay.
All of our students had the opportunity to develop an understanding of the work of Cherry Trees during assemblies and to consider ways in which we could all support such a worthwhile charity.
All of our students had the opportunity to develop an understanding of the work of Cherry Trees during assemblies and to consider ways in which we could all support such a worthwhile charity.
Year 9 Football
On Thursday 13th February the year 9 boys football team played against St Josephs School in the 4th round of the Surrey County Cup. Having got through the previous round against Wimbledon College narrowly on penalties they were up against another stern challenge in St Josephs School.
The boys started off quite tentatively against a bigger, more physical side however soon started to settle into the game and match them for physicality and in their play. After the first 10 minutes of end to end football with both teams looking positive going forward a lovely weighted pass from Cameron Golestanian put Bradley Murphy through on goal and he finished superbly to make it 1-0 going in at half time.
The second half started with St Josephs fully on the front foot and putting us under a lot of pressure in the first 10 mins and they deservedly equalised through a good long range effort. Winston regathered themselves and dug deep, challenging for everything and not letting them have a second on the ball. The back three of Jamie Fletcher, George Evans and Archie Drinkwater were outstanding dealing with everything that came their way, and with Noah Blake just in front they defended really well. After a good spell of possession another super pass from Louie Sossick put Bradley Murphy in for his second of the game to give us the advantage going into last 10 mins.
Under some late pressure Ben Storey made 2 great saves to keep it at 2-1 and then with 5 mins left Louie Sossick made sure of the victory with a superb solo goal blasting it past the keeper having run past 3 defenders.
This win now sets up another challenge for the boys in the QF at home against Carshalton Boys School on Monday 16th March.
