Happy New Year from Westwood House!

Many pupils were involved in Netball and Hockey fixtures against KES and Clifton College yesterday. The girls had to contend with very blustery conditions and enjoyed some success.  The boys all won their matches convincingly. In the evening the whole house enjoyed the Saturday night DVD, Pompeii, which was well received. Sunday started with breakfast in the house. A good number of the boys went over to the Sports Hall to play Five-A-Side before heading to a delicious Brunch - a typical English Cooked Breakfast with fruit and yoghurt to balance the fried food!! The football was won by Ashish's team.

We went to see Cinderella Pantomine at the Royal Theatre in town this afternoon featuring some the actress, Dani Harmer, who played Tracy Beaker in the BBC series. http://theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3028/Cinderella/860

We all enjoyed an ice cream in the interval and a 'shout-out' to Kingswood School from 'Buttons'.

Christmas Festivities in Westwood

 The Advent Service - Sunday Nov 30th .  

Sam, Tomiwo, Ritika and Cherry light the candles on the Advent Crown.

Dinner in the Main Dining Hall with all the boarders.

 

 The Annual Westwood Christmas Disco

as organised by the prefects.  This year's theme - The Jungle.

       Spot the wild animals and Tigger too!!

 The animals graze at the water-hole.

 Jungle vines grow from the ceiling of the Yr 7 grotto.

Thanks to all the prefects and staff for helping to organise a great evening.

  We raised over £185 for charity - Hemi-Help.

Yr 7 boys under the leadership of Ben prepare the tree for the festive season.

Westwood House Matches

Yr 8 Match Saturday November 22nd.

Posnett vs Cusworth

Posnett in black, Cusworth in red.

 Marcus gets flattened by Henry.

 Sabin storms through the middle.

 Another great tackle from Fin.  Sam looks to keep the ball alive.

 Ben crosses for a decisive score.

Final result

Posnett 21     Cusworth 17

 Marcus stops Antonio in his tracks.  Ref up with play; as always!!

Mr Reeman looks on  - he seems happy.

Many thanks to Mr Hooper for the super photos.

Trip to SS Great Britain. Sun Nov 23rd

 The WW crew next to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous ship.

 Underneath the vessel.  Humidity of 20%, same as the Arizona Desert.  Not the same as the Upper!!

 Upper Class passenger Tomiwo surveys the horizon.

 Along with his fellow travellers.

 ps Ed you are going the wrong way.  Best to face the bow of the vessel!!

Trip to Legoland

Sun 5th Oct

 Another lovely day out.  This time to Legoland, Windsor. 

 The boys meet the lego family.

The dog and the coolbox are made out of Lego.  The boys, generally, are not.

Yr 8 Geography Field Trip to Swanage.

Thursday Oct 2nd.  Fun in the Sun on the South Coast

Pos and his class at The Foreland.

A welcome lunch stop on top of the Headland at Old Harry Rocks.  The Western end of The Jurassic Coast.

Old Harry Rocks with very little wave erosion - today.

  The walk along the South West Coastal Path.  The Pinnacles in the distance.

Field Sketching on Ballard Down looking towards Swanage Bay.  Incredible weather !!

At last!  On the beach at Swanage.  Compare the Chalk cliffs with the clay and sand in the foreground.

Yes boys.  The waves do break up the beach ( the swash.)