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Charles Saunders wins
Music Exhibition
Last week Charles Saunders, year 8, won a He returned from this interview with
music exhibition to the public school Rad‐ a huge smile on his face, hoping he had
ley College in Oxfordshire. done enough to win an award.
On Wednesday 3rd Charles travelled His dream came true on Friday morn‐
down south with his trumpet and in high ing when Mr England announced his result
hopes of success. In the audition Charles to the whole school and presented him with
carried out a listening test and also pre‐ an Old Woodleighans tie. Mrs Naylor said
pared and performed an unseen piece. about his result: “It was a tremendous
Charles also had to play two contrast‐ achievement that was very well deserved.”
ing pieces of grade six standard and show
his passion for music to the panel of experi‐
enced musicians.
Charles mainly impressed the panel
with his love of Jazz and blues and was
given a chance to show this with some im‐
provisation.
The panel also pressed many ques‐
tions at him to find his real interests and
then he had an interview with the Warden
(Headmaster).
Charles plays his trumpet all the way to Radley:
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Aries: Say peace to earth and it will
come out wrong and you will say “peas
to earth.” 4
Year 1 poetry
Year 1 have been learning about Chinese Good luck, good health, good wealth.
New Year celebrations. They listened to a Fireworks zoom, zoom, POP!
poem and wrote some more verses them‐ Noodles slurp, slurp slurping.
selves. Can you work out which verses are Blossoms smell, smell, smelling.
theirs? Good luck, good health, good wealth.
Rockets zoom, zoom, BANG
Fireworks fizzle, fizzle BANG. Oranges sweet, sweet, yummy.
Pretty lanterns bob, bob, bobbing. Firecrackers crack, crack, whizz.
Lion dancers whirl, twirl, swirling Good luck, good health, good wealth.
Good luck, good health, good wealth. Rockets zoom zoom crash
Dumpling splash, splash PLOP Red lanterns glow, glow, glowing Noodles wig‐
Rockets zoom, zoom, zooming gle, wiggle, wiggley
Pretty blossoms pink, pink, pinky, Good luck, good health, good wealth.
Good luck, good health, good wealth.
Woks sizzle, sizzle, CLANG. By Connor, Freycinet, Jonty and Edward.
Dumplings yum, yum, yummy. Year 1
Chopsticks click, clack, clicking.
Woodleigh raises money
BY ZAC WOOLLEY, YEAR 6
are actually using the money to do two dif‐
David Brewster from Ryedale Special Fami‐ ferent things; one of these is a cinema club
lies visited Woodleigh on Tuesday to pick and the other thing is a club for younger
up a cheque with a total value of £1050. children to take pressure off parents.
This was the money raised in the fancy A picture of the whole School Coun‐
dress bike ride that was organised by the cil, Mr Brewtser and Becca Lumsden will
School Council. Ryedale Special Families appear in the Gazette & Herald soon.
1st XI football match review
BY CHARLES SAUNDERS, YEAR 8 numbers so Aysgarth kindly lent us a spare
player.
Last week the 1st XI football team travelled
When we got going again we made a
up to Aysgarth without a few key players.
good attacking movement which ended in
We had had an extremely heavy beating
them regaining the ball. Our midfield was
from them in rugby and the odds were not
slow getting back to defend, leaving Harry
on our side.
Connell with a very difficult shot to defend.
However, team spirit held us together
With the score now at 5‐1 we
and we attacked the ball nicely from the
dropped our heads again, letting them get
start. Within a minute we had earned a free
another easy goal.
kick just outside their box. Matt Procter de‐
However, another great forward
livered a lovely ball, hitting the crossbar,
movement led to an attacking corner which
that tricked the goal‐keeper allowing
was taken by the Aysgarth’s borrowed
Charles Saunders to slot away a very early
player, Harry West. He chipped a high one
goal.
to the far post of the goal and their de‐
That was our first goal this season
fender mistakenly picked the ball up!
and raised our spirits dramatically. For
After the fits of laughter Matt Procter
around quarter of an hour we kept a clean
slotted away a nice penalty through the
sheet and continued to attack the ball
goal‐keeper’s legs.
nicely. The defenders held on and Harry
This raised our spirits again and we
Connell, our new goal‐keeper, made some
held them off for another ten minutes. Just
lovely saves on the line.
before the final whistle went they made a
However, they soon made a break‐
break‐away move resulting in a great goal
away run and chipped the ball past Harry
from the touchline which Harry could do
to level the scores.
nothing about.
From the kick‐off they quickly gath‐
Although the final score was 7‐2 it
ered the ball, ran past a slightly disorgan‐
was the best football game the team has
ised defensive line and slotted in their sec‐
played so far. We scored our first two goals
ond goal.
of the season and played a very exciting
Woodleigh then let their heads down
match.
and, as a result, more goals came against
us, leaving the half‐time score at 4‐1.
We started the second half very deter‐
mined but Patrick Litten ended up injured
after going into a tackle. We were low on