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NEWS The new term sees a change in activities in the PE Faculty with the summer sports of athletics, cricket, rounders, tennis and softball taking centre stage. Clubs will...
It was a privilege once again to profile our great school at the national By Leaders for Leaders summer conference which took place in Central London earlier this week. Following...
It was great to see our talented Year 11 Drama GCSE students perform under the lights and the additional scrutiny of a visiting GCSE examiner on Wednesday evening of this week....
On Thursday 25th April 5 students from Bushey Meads attended a ‘Women in sport’ conference at Queens school. It was organised by Arsenal football club. The students...
Bushey Meads is a Reading School! With the gorgeous weather we had over Easter weekend, I was teased with one of the best things about a summer holiday; sitting outside immersed...
As many of you are aware throughout the year, every half term, each faculty is asked to nominate one student from each year group to receive a prestigious High Achiever Award...
It was good to visit a number of Character Development Groups last Friday morning and once again see all students making the most of the dedicated 20 minutes of silent reading....
On the 25th April 2019, my Year 10 French class and I took the great opportunity presented by our teachers, to go to the BFI cinema. Upon our arrival we were given booklets to...
On Saturday the 27th April, Ms Court, Ms Smith, Mr Lester and Ms Bowe ran four GCSE English Literature revision workshops for year 11 on ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘A...
NEWS
The new term sees a change in activities in the PE Faculty with the summer sports of athletics, cricket, rounders, tennis and softball taking centre stage. Clubs will continue at lunchtimes and after school with lots of competitive sports events taking place this term. A reminder to all students and staff that information on sports clubs/fixtures and events can all be found in the following areas :
The continued push to improve the health and fitness of the students remains a focus and all clubs are available to all students.
ATHLETICS
County League Athletics – Match 1
Date : Mon 29th April 2019
On Monday 29th April the school had the honour of hosting the first Hertfordshire County League athletics match of the season at a new venue of Hillingdon Athletics Stadium. The League consists of 6 fixtures against the other 25 schools in our region of the Herts County League. The first match saw the teams competing with Habs Boys and Girls, St Joan of Arc, and Bushey Academy schools. It was a tough first match but the students acquitted themselves very well with some excellent individual performances.. We had 4 individual winners on the evening with victories for Megan Worley in the Junior Girls 1500m, Dominic Richards Junior Boys 300m, Ronan Ismaili Junior Boys 1500m, Alfie Hiron Senior Boys high jump and max machen senior Boys Pole Vault. Well done to all those who took part and a special thank you from all the staff from other faculties who turned out to help officiate the event.
Commended performances :
JUNIOR GIRLS
Team score – 34 points – 2nd=
M Worley 1500m 1st
R Wheeler 800m 2nd
F Hadden 100m 3rd and Discus 3rd
I Harry-Brown 200m 3rd
D Denholm 300m 3rd and Long Jump 3rd
G Mitea Javelin 3rd
JUNIOR BOYS
Team score – 50 points – 3rd
R Ismail 1500m 1st
D Richards 300m 1st
A Ali Long Jump 2nd and 3rd 100m
R Uthayakumar High Jump 2nd
F Spencer Pole Vault 2nd
G Gonzalez-Aller Javelin 2nd
A Law 3rd 200m and 3rd Discus
Q Kazmi 3rd 800m
N Haines 3rd Triple Jump
M Brown 3rd Shot
SENIOR GIRLS
Team score – 34 points – 3rd
V Fordham 2nd Triple Jump and 3rd 100m
CJ Lea 2nd High Jump
L Potter 2nd Discus
F Boselli 3rd 300m
B Coste 3rd 800m
C Gonzalez-Aller 3rd 1500m
F Mulima-Matiya 3rd shot
SENIOR BOYS
Team score – 47 points – 3rd
A Hiron 1st High Jump
M Machen 1st Pole Vault
C Mainwaring 2nd 1500m and 3rd Shot
N Amoako 3rd 100m
A Velautham 3rd 200m and 3rd Long Jump
A Doody 3rd 400m and 3rd Javelin
M Keough 3rd 800m
H Khan 3rd Hurdles
J Norris-Ataie 3rd Discus
The other matches are on the following dates :
MATCH 2 : Wednesday May 8th 2019
Venue – ST ALBANS ATHLETICS TRACK
MATCH 3 : Tuesday May 14th 2019
Venue – WOODSIDE ATHLETICS TRACK
MATCH 4 : Thursday May 23rd 2019
Venue – WOODSIDE ATHLETICS TRACK
MATCH 5 : Thursday June 6th 2010
Venue – WOODSIDE ATHLETICS TRACK
MATCH 6 : Monday June 105h 2015
Venue – JARMONS PARK ATHLETICS TRACK, HEMEL
UNDER 20 DISTRICT ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The annual Watford District Athletics Championships for Y11,12 and 13 students was held at Woodside on Wednesday 1st May. We had 3 qualifying athletes and all managed to finish on the podium in their events. Yama Qarib was 2nd in the Shot, Kaitlyn Williams 2nd in the Discus and Chris Osei 3rd in the 100m. Well done all.
