Westgate Sports News

Golden Girls The girls have had a successful start to the netball season.

We have over 100 girls attend netball training weekly with

four age groups entered in our local Eastleigh and Winches-

ter League. So far we have had matches against Henry

Beaufort, Mountbatten and two tournaments.

The u12,U13 and U14 beat Henry Beaufort with very con-

vincing score line. The U12 and U 13 also won against

Mountbat ten U12 20 -2 and U13 13 -3 .

The year 9's have been busy with tournaments, the A team

played a versatility tournament at Kings this means the

girls rotate around all the positions. This suited our team

as we are very versatile and they narrowly missing out on

first place due to goal difference. The year 9 B team played

at Mountbatten in a tournament and again missed out on

second place on goal difference. Both teams showed an

e x c e l l e n t t e a m s p i r i t !

Congratulations to all the girls that attend training and com-

pete for the school it great to see so much netball being

played!

Back of the Net! The girls football teams have got

off to a great start this year. The

year 7 girls won their first tourna-

ment out of 10 schools (see above

picture) and the U13 girls made it

through to the third round of the

National Cup, and are currently al-

so doing well in the Hampshire

Cup. The U15 Girls are undefeated, and although the U16 girls have

not won all of their games, they have a great turn out and commitment to the matches they are playing.

So far, the girls have scored a massive 70 goals between them! Keep up the good work, and thank you

to our pupil coaches Alice, Shanti and Serena!

A huge well done to the U16 Basketball team

for their recent victory over Cantell. The boys,

coached by Mr Hemingway, played an awesome

game, and after a tough battle won 40-36.

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year 7 boys rugby team came 2nd in a rect

tournament! Well done to all who played

and especially Player of the Tournament:

Harry Shnuppe.

The Gate The gateway to news and events which make our school so great! October 2017

This Month’s special Features:

-House updates

-A lunchtime with Becs

-Westgate Sports News

-Concert and Trip Articles

-Pupil Successes

- An interview with Mrs Dean

The Wellbeing Group would like some new members from a variety of year groups to come

and join us. We meet in Room 2 during Wednesday break times and talk about different

ideas to promote wellbeing and a positive environment around our school. If you are inter-

ested in this, or would like to help us write The Gate each month, please come along!

Current House Positions

2720

2720

2616

2795 1st

3rd

2nd

4th

Congratulations to 7W1 HHU, 8W1 NPA,

9F2 MSA, 10E2 RHA and 11E2 MFO

who have achieved the highest merit

totals within their year group!

House Calendar Competition Winner for October: Bryan Skeen 10E2

Fabulous Food With the final of The Great British Bake off just

finishing, what better time to celebrate the

achievements of Sam Murphy (Year 10). Sam

competed in the Orcinus Young Chef Cook Off in

the summer. Competing against 6 pupils from

Kings, Sam managed to come 2nd overall—a fan-

tastic achievement. Well done Sam!

‘The Awesome Arts’ Saturday 7th October saw a successful concert

where the Rock, Vox and Barber-

shop choirs performing alongside the Cardiff

Singers, to a busy audience.

The next event will be on the 7th November

where we will have a pupil directed production

o f Sha kesp eare ' s

Twelfth Night at the

Theatre Royal as part of

t h e S h a k e s p e a re

Schools Festival. Pupils

across a variety of years

are involved, with some

Year 11 BTEC Drama

pupils directing the per-

formance. Good luck to

all those involved!

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Fishing Fun I have been going on a fishing course over the last 6 months

in Romsey where they have three different lakes containing

different fish. The idea of the course is to learn new skills and

become better at fishing. They are also helping me with con-

centration, listening skills and are helping me to become more

independent.

I have learnt how to attach lines to the rod, reel in fish of dif-

ferent sizes, types of bait and

how they are used and behaviour

patterns of fish.

The picture below shows me hav-

ing caught my first fish, a carp

weighing 15lbs. On that day we

used PVA bags with food pellets

in as bait. I used a bite alarm

that told me I had a bite. My in-

structor Tom came and helped

me reel the carp in. After taking

the picture I had to throw the fish

back in the lake. I have managed

to achieve starter level one and

level two in the angling skills

award.—Nathan Carr (Year 10)

Making a Splash Year 8 pupil Alicia Peinado qualified to

take part in the Spanish Swimming

Championship celebrated in Barcelona

from 19-21st July. She swam 4 events

(100, 200 and 800m free and 100m

back) and qualified for three finals

achieving 1 fifth and 2 sixth places, all of

them with personal best times. Well

done Alicia!

Lower school in the

Leaves On the 16th of October, for deep learn-

ing day, Year R enjoyed exploring and

investigating Autumn by making animal

habitats, finding different leaves, mak-

ing an autumn colour palette and worm

camouflage. Throughout the day, they

learnt lots about seasonal changes.

Westgate Alumni Miss Fiztgerald has bee busy setting up a

Westgate Alumni. So far, we have interest

from over 70 people spanning across 6 dif-

ferent decades! We look forward to hearing

more about it very soon.

An exclusive interview with Mrs Dean! After a half term in the position of Head Teacher, we thought it

was time to get to know Mrs Dean: Q: What is your favourite book and why? A: I really like ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ because it’s very cul-

turally rich and beautifully written. Q: What is your favourite thing about Westgate? A: I love how well everyone gets along; pupils and adults enjoy

learning together and support each other well. Q: Do you have any major changes coming up? A: No major changes at the moment but I’ve made a pupil lead-

ership budget so the team can make choices on what the school

needs. For example, when we have non school uniform days the

pupils will have more of a say as to where the money that is

raised goes. Pupils are regularly joining our meetings to talk

about ideas and make plans. Most recently, they've asked us to

reduce the amount of printing in school so we are looking in to

this and will include this in next year's planning. Q:What was your favourite subject when you were at school? A: When I was at Secondary school it was Maths, but when I

went to do my A' Levels, it changed to English. I really enjoyed

taking part in music groups, too. Q: What is your favourite song and film? A: I have so many favourite songs that it’s hard to choose but I

really like Jazz music, as well as songs from other genres and

groups including Guns ‘N’ Roses, Nirvana and even Opera! Clare

Teal is my favourite singer and I also really enjoy listening to the

'William Tell Overture' at full volume! My favourite film would

have to be “'The English Patient' - it's so beautifully pro-

duced. But I also love the 'Shrek' films and have been watching

a lot of 'Cars' recently because of my two year old!

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A lunchtime with Becs Murchie

Q: What’s your favourite meal?

A: Southern Fired Chicken Burger

Q: What’s your favourite film?

A: True Romance

Q: What famous person would you like to meet?

A: Tom Harding—He is so buff.

Q: If you won the Lottery, what would you do?

A: Buy a massive camper van and travel the world!

Q: What’s your favourite thing about Westgate?

A: Mr Searle’s cakes (he owes me a chocolate

cake!)

Q: Who’s your biggest inspiration?

A: Jeremy Corben

This Months Puzzle

See if you can answer the following riddles. The

answers are at the bottom of this page:

1) I’m tall when I’m young, I’m short when I

die—what am I?

2) What word becomes shorter when you add

two letters to it?

3) They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor

scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and

thumbs of their own. What are they?

4) What travels around the world but stays in

one spot?

5) What is so delicate, that saying it breaks

its name?

Help for the

Homeless Three pupils went to Trinity

House in Winchester which is a

homeless shelter. They told us:

“We went there to deliver the

toiletry donations from all years

in the school, that people at Trini-

ty House were all very grateful

for. While we were there we had

a tour around the place by one of

the staff members. The place

had so many great features in-

cluding: a GP, kitchen, toilet,

shower, and a cupboard full of

clothes and shoes. They have a

quiet room where you can have a

rest if you have been sleeping

rough the previous nights. They

have various groups they can join

if they want to and there are over

50 volunteers that help and sup-

port the homeless by giving them

food. They also sit down and help

them find a job, and help them to

write a CV if they have few or no

GCSE’s”

The trio have done an amazing

job in supporting those less fortu-

nate. Thank you to everyone who

made donations! We look for-

ward to seeing what else the

Charity Group do throughout the

rest of the year!

Answers:

1) A Candle 2) Short 3) Glove 4) Stamp 5) Silence

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Lockwood & Co: The Empty Grave

After their recent adventures, the

Lockwood & Co team

deserve a well-earned

break . . . so naturally

they decide to risk

their lives breaking

into a heavily-guarded

crypt. A building full of

unsettled souls, it’s

also the final resting

place of Marissa Fit-

tes, the legendary and (supposedly)

long-dead ghost hunter – though the

team have their suspicions about

just how dead she might be.

What they discover changes every-

t h i n g .

Pitched into a desperate race to get

to the truth behind the country’s

ghost epidemic, the team ignite a

final, epic battle against the Fittes

agency. A battle that will force them

to journey to the Other Side, and

face the most terrifying enemy they

h a v e e v e r k n o w n .

Can everyone make it out alive?

Join Lucy, Lockwood, George and

Holly for one last time as they battle

ghosts and humans for truth and

justice in this breath taking finale to

the bestselling series.

Charlotte Says

(The prequel to Frozen Charlotte)

Tormented by memories

of the fire that de-

stroyed her home, Jemi-

ma flees to the remote

Isle of Skye. But her role

as assistant mistress at

Dunvegan School for

Girls is far from the

fresh start she so des-

perately needs.

Then Jemima receives a box of dolls

from a mystery sender. And so the

games begin…

Top Picture L-R: Jacob Clements, Amber Moffatt and Skye Patterson