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Year 11 Transition Trophy

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6-a-side Football Tournament at Oaklands College

6th June 2018

The school are very proud to announce that the following boys won the Year 11 Transition Trophy Football Tournament:

  • Phisit Pholjorn
  • Josh McGrath
  • Daniel Narayadu
  • Harry Herbert
  • Bradley Humphrey
  • Dylan Morton Cutts
  • Shane Galvin
  • Scott Saunders

The pupils were invited to participate in a tournament along with pupils from others schools, to help them with their transition process for Sept 2019. It was a great day and the pupils were a credit to the school. Well done to all of the pupils that took part.

Special mentions to players that were nominated for player of the tournament awards:

  • Josh McGrath
  • Daniel Narayadu

Year 8 Learning Leaders at Wodson Park

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On Friday 11th May and the 18th May a group of fifteen Year 11 students from Pinewood School attended a Primary Schools Multi Skills Festival to experience work as a Sports Leaders. The event was held at Wodson park leisure Centre in Ware.

The pupils were selected to participate in the day as a culmination of their work to develop their Sports Leadership skills in their PE lessons as part of the “I Can Lead” qualification accredited by Sports Leaders UK.

The pupils had a fantastic day using their leadership, teamwork and communication skills.

All Pinewood students and staff had a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed the activities, whilst representing both themselves and the school to the best of their ability. They are now looking forward to further developing their own sports leadership skills.

Wheelchair Rugby National Shield Winners 2017

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On Saturday 25th November five students from Pinewood School represented Saracens Wheelchair Rugby Youth team at the Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby Youth Tournament at the Stoke Mandeville Stadium.

The pupils had been attending Wheelchair Rugby training sessions, with expert coaching and support from Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, at Pinewood School on Monday afternoons since September.

Pinewood’s Wheelchair Rugby team consisted of Jason Adjekum-Mensah (Y11), Josh Barklem, Griffith Biembongo (Y9), Albie Woodward and Tomi Adebisi (Y8).

The team won there opening 2 matches in their group thanks to tries from Jason Mensah and Griffith Biembongo. They then faced tough matches against very strong opposition from Exeter and Ospreys. Pinewood progressed to the shield final where they met Northampton Saints. All students played incredibly well in the final and Pinewood won the match 15-11.

All Pinewood students and staff had a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed the tournament, whilst representing both themselves and the school to the best of their ability. Pinewood Saracens pupils were awarded with medals and the winner’s shield at the end of the GB Wheelchair Rugby Youth Tournament. Pinewood would like to thank GB Wheelchair Rugby for their continued support of the wheelchair rugby programme in the school.

If you would like to find out more about Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby or the BT Wheelchair Rugby Youth Tournament, please visit http://gbwr.org.uk

Remembrance Service at Richard Hale School

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On Friday November 10th a group of Year 11 pupils, along with Mrs.Brunton, Mr.McDevitt and Mr.Ritchie, visited Richard Hale School to be part of their Remembrance Service. It was an interesting experience for our pupils who were amazed at the sheer size of the school and the vast number of pupils. We attended the senior assembly (Years 10-13) which was led by Director of 6th Form, Mr.Steve Robins. The Richard Hale senior prefects also gave impassioned speeches about the harrowing WW1 battle at Passchendaele. One video clip was based on the sounds of a battlefield. There were constant loud bangs of bombs and gun shot. Following on from the assembly we congregated with the rest of the school around the cenotaph. The names of all former Richard Hale pupils who fought and lost their lives in WW1 and WW2 were read out. We then heard the last post performed by six trumpeters before respecting two minutes silence. A quite moving and memorable experience.

“I enjoyed it because I’ve never been to a Remembrance service before. I enjoyed listening to the trumpet players playing the last post.” Josh M

“I thought it was memorable to give thoughts to those who gave their lives in conflict. My grandad on my mum’s side flew a Lancaster bomber. He was shot over France. We even have some parts to the plane!” Charlene M

“I thought it was good how the whole school were around the Cenotaph. The research by the students was impressive. Having been in the army myself made it great to see the effort made by the pupils.” Mr. McDevitt

“Once again our students have done themselves proud. The ceremony was imposing in comparison with our school assemblies. Our students responded fittingly and were full of questions and observations afterwards.” Mrs.Brunton

Many thanks to the staff and pupils of Richard Hale for inviting us and making us feel welcome.

School Council visit The Mayor of Ware

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Mrs Hooton and Ms McCormack took 12 members of the School Council on a trip to find out what the role of the Mayor actually involves.

The pupils individually asked him a question (which he answered at length), about the responsibilities involved in being The Mayor.  Mr Alex Curtis, the youngest ever Mayor of Ware showed pupils around the beautiful Priory building telling them about it’s history.

They were able to try on his gold chain and use the gavel which is a small hammer, to keep order in the meeting chamber.

It was a very informative visit and something the school council can share with the rest of the pupils at Pinewood.