Well Done Winston!
On Tuesday 22nd February Year 7 and Year 8 went to Hoe Valley and took part in some netball matches. The teams were both ready to get going as soon as we were there and show how hard they have been working in training. Winston were off to a flying start by scoring very quickly into the first quarter, in both games and kept up the high score rate throughout. They all worked so hard as a team and were encouraging throughout the game.
Players of the match went to Lucas from Year 7 and Holly from Year 8.
Year 7 won 14:2 and Year 8 won 22:2.
Well done to both teams and we look forward to the upcoming fixtures later in the term.
Presenting in a Positive Way
On the Friday before half term groups of students in Years 7, 8 & 9 got the chance to present the social actions plans, that they had been working on, to
a panel of judges, to determine a school winner.
We are very lucky to be working with the Chelsea FC Foundation and
their Premier League Inspires Challenge. Over the past 6 weeks each group have
been working on their chosen social action plan and how they would like to
positively contribute to our environment in a sustainable and collaborative
way.
Each group made a pledge to create a social impact towards climate
change and to reduce the damage that we are making on our world.
The CFC Foundation have been working with schools in London and
Surrey to determine which school is going to represent Chelsea FC and compete against
all the other Premier League football teams in this National challenge.
Firstly,
we had to determine which team, in which year group, was going to represent The
Winston Churchill School. Here are all of our groups who presented their plans
which ranged from cycling challenges to help to reduce our carbon footprint; to
recycling projects using art and working with our kitchen staff and business
manager.
It was a very tough decision, but we could only have one team to take forward to the next stage and represent the school. This team was Year 9.
On Wednesday 23rd February the Year 9 team travelled to Chelsea FC’s football ground where they had to present against another 4 schools. They were given the VIP treatment as the day was hosted in the Vialli Suite overlooking Stamford Bridge’s football pitch. The students got the opportunity to meet representatives from the Premier League and Future Foundations who were judging all of the presentations. They were also given an insight into future career paths and how they can utilise the skills they have learnt from working on this project in their future employment.
All the presentations were amazing and all very different. The
judges had a very tough decision. However, a decision had to be made and the
overall winning school was Fulham Cross Girls’ and we would like to wish them
the best of luck as they now compete with all the other football clubs.
The judges gave our Year 9 team such positive feedback about their presentation and some ideas and guidance to support their project as they begin to roll this out within the school.
The
Chelsea FC judge commented, “I thought it went superbly and
everyone delivered a fantastic presentation and were a credit to the school!”
We are extremely proud of them
and how they demonstrated a level of maturity, confidence and connectivity with
their audience to be able to effectively present and get their message across.
These skills can now be put to the test as they next will present their project
to our Senior Leadership Team so they can implement their community cycling
project to help the environment and collectively reduce our carbon footprint.
Watch this space……………
