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Local History Week!!

By Fred Austin, year 8

Issue 12 Friday 18th June 2010 Next issue: 25/06/10

The final activity was drawing a scale

diagram of objects scattered under a grid.

Here at Woodleigh, we are very con-

scious about our history, we have a history

society and explore the history at any other

opportunity.

Years 7 and 8 helped towards this

goal by doing a dig, near the underground

dens, with York Archaeological trust.The 24 Archaeologists were split into

four groups, one for each activity.

The activities were Pot washing,

where the groups washed bones and pots,

an essential part of archaeology, unfortu-

nately all of the pots to be washed were not

found at Woodleigh, but in York.

Another activity was digging, were

great pains were taken to keep the ground

level. Then there was the scanning. The

scanning was mainly done by walking up a

strip of land and jabbing the machine into

the ground every 50 centimetres. The sec-

ond part of the activity was running up and

down trying to step on the beeps while

holding a very expensive machine.

Pupils At the dig.

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Years 2-6s visit to Malton Museum.

Year 1 and 2 are History detectives

BY ZAC WOOLLEY, YEAR 6

In the courtyard you will see a part of

the building that was knocked down.

Near the science room we think thereis a horse hook.

Near the science room there was

some old bricks and some new bricks.

The old doorway was filled in with

bricks. you can still see the shape of the

building that was knocked down.

When we first got to the museum, we

were split up into groups.

Each group did a different activity.

The first activity my group did was making

Mosaics.

Then we played a game called RoundMerrills, which is basically a game where

you have six discs and make up a game

BY YEAR 1 AND 2

Kayaking returns to Woodleigh.

Last Friday, Woodleighs pupils went

in the water for their kayaking and canoe-

ing club.

The week before half-term the group

had their safety talk.

The lessons started in open boats and

the other kayaking and canoeing classescommence on later Fridays.

with them..

Then we dressed as Roman soldiers

and we ground flour.

Afterwards we sorted things found

buried in different layers.

At the end of the visit there was aquiz.

BY PATRICK LITTEN, YEAR 8

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Huntington Stadium

By Patrick Litten, Cameron Castleton and Zac

Woolley.

With the help of Fred Austin.

Photos by Mr. Tolkien.

Special thanks to everybody else who wasinvolved.

Under 9s Championship

On Tuesday Woodleighs Under 9

team left a lot earlier than the older teams.We had teams of boys and girls who com-

peted well in various events including:

Foam Javelin, ball throw , long jump and

races of 4x100m, 50m, 150m and 600m.

BY PATRICK LITTEN, YEAR 8

In the afternoons events, the

Woodleigh teams performed very well in a

wide range of sports.

Among the many events were Javelin

and Shot-put, in which we came first, Ball

throw, Discus and races in 100m, 200m,

400m, 600m, 800m and 1500m.

The relays were appreciated with tre-

mendous applause with 4x100m and4x400m.

The whole event ended with a tug of

war which was won by Pocklington boys.

Woodleigh put three teams,

Woodleigh Boys, Italian Boys and Italian

girls. The teams went through with varying

degrees of success

The Under 11 and 13

ChampionshipBY PATRICK LITTEN, YEAR 8