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Newspaper visits
Newspaper
Frogs a lot!
Now the pool is full people can once
On Wednesday this week, the editor
again enjoy freezing in the pool.
of our local newspaper, the ‘Gazette and
The first day the pool was opened,
Herald’, visited Woodleigh to see our daily
there was a tremendous amount of frog-
life here and all the activities that we do.
catching, with frogs being caught left, right
To start with, Mrs Darly had an inter-
and centre.
view with the recently formed Historical
There were an estimated ten frogs in
Society, which she found very interesting.
the actual pool, with many more in the fil-
She also heard a marching practice by the
ters.
school band in the reading room.
Most of the frogs are now living hap-
During break, Mrs Darly was shown
pily in the beck, after an exhausting at-
all the fantastic things at Woodleigh by two
tempt to escape hands grabbing them.
year eights, Cameron Castleton and Charlie
Nearly all of the people involved with
Goodlass. Overall, Mrs Darly seemed to
the chases of the frogs said ‘It was really
really enjoy her whole visit to Woodleigh.
fun’.
She was amazed by the wide variety of eve-
rything - sport, music and academic work.
The School Council needs you to bring
The School Council needs Suggestions for a in unwanted plants and put them in the
whole school trip. This can be anywhere
front porch. Because we are revamping
nearby that can be reached and returned
the school garden. This cannot be done
from in a day. Good ones so far have been
Flamingo Land & White-water valley. without the help of you and your
please put any other suggestions in the box plants, without them, it will just be
in the front hall mounds of compost.

By Peggy Ullyott, Year 6

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Aries, 21 March - 20 April : One of

3 4
the creators of the Woodleigh
Weekly will apologise for last weeks
Horoscope.

Taurus, 21 April - 21 May : Beavers 5 6

will kill a fiery Angel.

Gemini, 22 May - 21 June : Kumquats

will yoke an Ox and sow a corn 7
field.

Cancer, 22 June - 23 July : Juniper

bushes will play the bagpipes out- 8
side your window.
EclipseCrossword.com
Leo, 24 July - 23 August : A Samurai
Leopard will slice up your Ward-
robe.

Virgo, 24 August - 23 September : Across

Several meteors will blow up your
brand new car.

Libra, 24 September - 23 October : A 2. A snail without it's shell.

bowl of growling petunias will bite 3. An animal with a shell, it lives at the beach
your gorilla in half.
5. A bird which is a lady, it's actually an insect.
Scorpio, 24 October - 22 November : 7. A 60s pop group, but with a different spelling.
A banjo playing whale will land in 8. An insect which lives in a mound, and is very
your snail tank.
small.
Sagittarius, 23 November - 21 De-
cember : Vindictive monkeys will
hang around your house. Down
Capricorn, 22 December - 20 Janu-
ary : A pavlova from Venus will
grab your mp3 player and dance to 1. A insect, often associated with it's speed (or lack
‘Ghost Busters’ of it).
Aquarius, 21 January - 19 February : 2. A small animal with a stinger full of poison and
29 Venomous squids will really claws.
smell in your bedroom.
4. A very simple, three letter word. Birds do it.
Pisces, 20 February - 20 March : A 6. They live in a hive. they are often associated with
rabid Armadillo will buy a packet of honey.
mentoes in a slightly dodgy shop.
TIP: This weeks crossword is based on insects
 Woodleigh is all Teched up!
BY PATRICK LITTEN, YEAR 8 friend.
Below is one of the pictures off Flickr.
With the growing increase of the
websites such as facebook, flickr and twit-
ter, Woodleigh has tagged on and we have
our own pages on these sites.
This item is thought to have been made by
To join the school extranet
an Italian Prisoner of war, if anyone can
(woodleigh.ning.com) which most parents
shed any light on
and some pupils are on, you fill in the form,
what it is, can
and a message will be sent to the office and
you tell us?
you will be added.
There is another
With our Flickr page, search
picture below.
Woodleigh School over flickr and there you
can see all of our photos.
For the facebook you only need to
search Old Woodleigh, and add it as a

Year 1 and 2 making a house!

BY FREDDIE BRADLEY

Year 1 and 2 have been doing a project on

houses.

Cheesy fun for Year 7

On Wednesday the 12th of May, Year
7 had a cheese tasting extravaganza! Dur-
ing one of the year groups’ lessons of
French, they decided to test some of the
many types of French cheese, this was met
with tremendous gusto by year 7 and they
heartily enjoyed the cheese tasting!
 U11 Cricket
Wednesday, 5th of May
BY ZAC WOOLLEY, YEAR 6
Last Wednesday, the Under 11 cricket
team travelled to Ripon for a 10-a-side pairs
cricket match.
When we arrived and their coach told
us that we were only playing 10 overs each,
we were very disappointed, seeing as
though we had travelled to get there from
Woodleigh. We were still determined, so
we started the match. Harry Fenton and
Jonty Megginson opened the batting and
didn’t get out!
The second pair to go in were Robert
Bradley and Charlie Proctor. Robert and
Charlie got a good run rate.
Whilst they were in both teams were
in tears of laughter, because as the bowler
was about to bowl, a fielder ran across the
wicket, with the ball narrowly missing him.
The rest of the overs went pretty well
for us and when we came to field, George
Crawford bowled two tremendous balls
and got a pair of wickets.
Once the fielding was over, both sides
agreed to have another innings, after these
innings.
Woodleigh had won the match.
U9 Cricket
Tuesday, 11th of May
BY GEORGE BREESE, YEAR 4
On Tuesday the Under 9 Cricket team
played Lyndhurst in a quick cricket match.
Owen, the team captain, won the toss and
decided to bat first. First into bat were Ed
and Fred Bradley. Ed was first on strike
and got going well, soon hitting a convinc-
ing four.
Next in were Ben Hudson and Guy
Scothern. Ben was great at hitting the ball
over the boundary while Guy was just tap-
ping it up the pitch. Guy was out a few
times, but not many. But for every time
Guy was out Ben would make up by slog-
ging the ball over the boundary for six.
Charlie Proctor and Harvey Stone
were on next. Harvey played very well and
did one of his best shots. Like Guy, Harvey
was out a few times but it wasn’t too bad.
Last to on the bat were Owen Cowton
and George Breese and they both played
well. We finished on a sound score of 273.
Then it was our turn to field. The
fielding was very good, like in practice.
Wickets were taken by Fred, Ben and Owen
and while Lyndhurst had a couple of good
batsmen, they ended up with a score of 261.
We had won by twelve runs!
By Patrick Litten, Charles Saunders and Cam-
eron Castleton.
With the help of Fred Austin.
Photos by Mr. Tolkien.
Special thanks to everybody else who was
involved.