Sunday, 5 May 2019

Week 11: Shopping and Tubing heaven

It has been a busy week for our boarders! Our South African exchange students have settled into house life well and embraced the rigour of the day to day routines. Once the hard work from the school week had finished, the weekend brought exciting opportunities for the whole house to relax; they did so with enthusiasm, beginning with the invariable trip to town and Saturday night movie and pizza!

Sunday was an especially busy day for the boarders, who travelled to Gloucester for a morning of shopping at the Gloucester Quays outlet centre and an afternoon of tubing on the dry ski slopes. Their return to school was followed up with a hearty BBQ supper and a boarding community meeting where house reviews were shared by Westwood's Captains of Boarding, amongst others. 

It has been an enjoyabel time for all; do please take some time to savour the full range of photos and videos below, highlighting what a great weekend's entertainment looks like at Westwood! We look forward to updating you again soon.


The briefing...
The slope...







The ride...


The relief...








The final curtain...


The BBQ...

The boarder's meeting...

The review.


Sunday, 28 April 2019

The summer term has kicked off

Our Captains of Boarding Ryan and Sarafina have written this summary of our first summer term weekend in Westwood.They write:


The boarders have enjoyed their first week back and are ready for the next. On Saturday, four boarders enjoyed watching Avengers: Endgame while everyone else was in town. In the evening we enjoyed the comfort of our home watching the movie, “The Internship” starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, which was a hilarious movie. Sunday was a very enjoyable and relaxing day as we stayed in the house making a delicious lunch for everyone. We made Chilli Com Carne which we all enjoyed very much. Afterwards with teamwork, people helped clean up the dishes. Some people went to play tennis on the lower, or football in the Sports Hall, or just stayed in the house relaxing. We are excited to meet the South African Exchange Students on Tuesday and we can’t wait to show them what Westwood is like.

 Cooking team in action
 The onions did bring a few tears and Praeasha did really well with the chillis!
 That's an enormous tin of tomatoes, Lala!
 Max and Monica had the peppers in hand.
 Some of the tidy-uppers enjoying some football. Zen feeling at home with new friends.

 James, Marco and Zen did a great job getting the tables ready!
 All the prepping done!

 Executive chef, Mrs Curtis, browning 5 kg of mince with Sarafina!
 Looking good and lovely condiments.
 Servers ready for action


 Happy Boarders!

 Bon appétit!



 Waiting patiently for other dinner guests to collect their delicious food.

 James on round one of three!

 Can we start?

 Happiness personified 

It has been a lovely way to start the summer term! My thanks to Sarafina and Ryan. 

Sunday, 24 March 2019

Week 9: From Superleagues to Sunday Climbing

Another busy week for the Westwood boarders has come to a close. On Friday evening the boarders enjoyed an additional evening trip to see Team Bath Netball play at home against the Strathclyde Sirens in the National Superleague, with the home side emerging victorious 51-47. The novelty and excitment of the occasion was embraced by all:


Waiting for the game to begin!


A close up of Team Bath players.

There is pending excitement for the House Music competition this Monday evening, furthered by the Easter holidays less than a week away. This said, in addition to the Netball, further channelling of this excitement took the form of our usual Saturday night movie. This week was a classic tale re-told: An Outlaw, robbing the rich to feed the poor and restoring glory to an otherwise corrupt and suppressed city of Nottingham: Robin Hood.

Image result for robin hood 

The final chapter in our three-part weekend adventure saw the boarders travel to Redpoint Climbing Centre in Bristol this afternoon. Herein, they were faced with a variety of outlandish climbing challenges, dares and trials, each testing the resolve and agility of our climbers; a lot of fun was had by all. Please take the time to enjoy the array of photographs below with a small slice of video action, too! 


 

Unnav wondering how he manged to get this high...


For Noelina, the sky(scraper) is the limit!




Hoho and Katya finding time to stop and smile!


Sarafina going in (off) blind...

...whereas Sudipti prefers the power of flight!

 
Looking ahead, we shall soon enjoy updating you with the events and awards following the Westwood House Music competition tomorrow night, which will mark the beginning of the end of the Spring Term. Until then, thank you for reading and best wishes for the week ahead.