Staff Charity Football Match
The annual Staff Charity Football Match took place on Monday 20th July
It was a tightly fought contest, with Churchill City coming out on top with a 3-2 win over the Winston Wanderers. Mr Lovell-Smith bagging the winning goal with only 2 minutes left!
Mr Reid put in star performance with his 2 goals for Churchill City, earning himself the player of the match. Mr Belcher and Luke Fernandez chipped in with goals for the Wanderers.
It was all action as well, with 3 yellow cards, and a sending off. Our year 9 referee very much enjoyed giving the red card.
We managed to raise £82 for charity, which is less than previous years, but we were competing with the KS3 production, which I'm sure was a better spectacle than this match!
Thank you to everyone who took part, and all the students who helped out.
Mr Eaton
Nature Watch!
Some pictures for the blog from the pond last week with Frankie looking for newts.
Mrs J Peters
Student band raises £575 for charity!
6 months ago, our band MotivE came up with the idea to organise the first student-led concert with the aim of gaining live performance experience whilst using our passion for music to make a difference and raise money for our school's chosen charity, Woking Hospice.
For our band's first ever full concert, it was such a great experience! Performing on the main hall stage with fantastic sound, excellent lighting and an enthusiastic audience was such an amazing feeling. Developing our skills individually is challenging and takes a lot of work, but coming together and playing as a band is a different level. It takes precision and timing and being able to read each other on stage, to make the songs sound as good as they can.
We spent a huge amount of time practicing and deciding on our set list, to cover songs that we were all excited about playing live. We played 17 songs, including two original songs written over the past year we have been playing together. We played a range of songs like War Pigs (Black Sabbath), Everlong (Foo Fighters) and Can't Stop (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Our opening song, Where Eagles Dare (Iron Maiden), was a challenge for all members of the band due to the technical difficulty of each part.
We also played some crowd favourites like Iris (New Found Glory version) and an acoustic song Hole Hearted (Extreme) with Spike on his 12 string guitar. We enjoyed playing our own songs to a new audience as well. Our final song, Peace Sells (Megadeth), was also a difficult song to learn and put together.
Overall, as amateur musicians, with exams and other commitments at the same time, the concert was a huge success, and was a lot of fun to put on. We also learnt a bit about all the elements it takes to put on a concert and what it feels like to perform on stage for over 1.5 hours! We received some great feedback from audience members who enjoyed our performance and thought we sounded very professional! 3 members of our band are Year 11 but we are committed to continuing to play together and write new music.
We hope we have made the music teachers and the school proud and we have raised £575 profit for Woking and Sam Beare Hospice.
Thank you so much to Miss Wells, the Tech Team, and the Finance department, for helping us to make this concert possible!
Thank you to all the music teachers for all the opportunities you've given us throughout our time as a band at Winston.
Milo
