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March 2012

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Internet Payments - Simple and Secure The time has come to launch our online payments system in school. This system will enable parents/ carers to pay for trips, music lessons and school meals online by debit card (cash and cheques will still be accepted). The system is secure through RBS and easy to use.

A self explanatory letter will be sent home via students with instructions to set up your online account.

This will be launched with Year 7 parents week commencing 16 April 2012 to be followed by Year 8 parents week commencing 11 June 2012.

There will be a link available on the school website, or visit www.tmhs.co.uk/payments, directing you to the payments website and providing more information about the online payments system.

Mrs J Millar, Senior Administrator, Finance

Lettings

THEATRE

At Temple Moor we have a range of modern facilities which are available to hire for members of our community and local business. We are open Monday to Friday until 9pm during term time and Saturdays 9am – 1pm.

Our facilities include: Gym, Sports Hall, Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) outdoors, Dance/Drama Studio, Hydro Pool, Large Hall/Theatre, Lecture Theatre, classrooms and meeting rooms, all with ICT projection facilities (if required) and food technology room available for cooking classes.

If you would like to view and/or use our facilities then please contact Jenny Millar millarj05@leedslearning.net for availability and further information.

Visit our website for full details and photographs - http://www.tmhs.co.uk/facilities

MUGA

Mrs J Millar, Senior Administrator, Finance

Pastoral Reminders Absence from School Please remember to call the absence line on the first day of your child’s absence and send them with a note on their return to school. Tel: 0113 3368200

Dates For Your Diary

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Mon 16 Apr - Return to school Mon 7 May - School closed May Day Mon 21 May - Year 9 Parents Evening Tuesday 29 May - Parents Voice Fri 1 Jun - Start of Half Term Break

Contact info Temple Moor High School Field End Grove, Leeds, LS15 0PT Tel 0113 336 8200 Email info@templemoor.leeds.sch.uk Visit www.templemoor.leeds.sch.uk

Lost Property Please remember to name all items belonging to your child to avoid loss of personal items. Tel: 0113 3368200 Contact Details It is important to inform school of any change in contact details for your child.

Mobile Phones/MP3’s/iPods Students are not permitted to bring mobile phones/MP3’s/ iPods into school. As well as being a distraction to the learning environment that we strive to create, they are a t arget for theft. School does not accept responsibility for them whatsoever.

Should a student bring one of these items into school, it will be confiscated and only returned to parent/carer on Friday of that week as stated in the student planner

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Message from the Principal What a fantastic term we have had. The ‘We Will Rock You’ team were outstanding, with the quality of acting, singing and live music that would have been a credit to any West End production. On behalf of the whole school I express our thanks to the whole team for their hard work, dedication and amazing talent.

We have continued our focus on building outstanding learning with students in our Stop the Clock and our Independence Days. On the Stop the Clock day students were introduced to the 5 Rs: Reasoning - making careful decisions Responsibility - planning ahead Resilience - sticks at things Resourcefulness – flexibility Reflectiveness - learning from experience Staff have focused in their learning communities on developing students as independent learners and this was showcased in our Independence Day which the students and staff enjoyed.

Everyone’s support for raising funds for the battle against teenage cancer has been truly amazing and the school has now raised over £6,000. Merging ‘World Book Day’ with raising money for charity also meant that the literacy base to all lesson that day, was made all the more enjoyable by so many staff and students dressing as book characters.

All our sports teams continue to do well and our Year 9 rugby team won the Yorkshire Cup beating Freeston 24 - 16.

With the Summer term arriving in just under four weeks we begin our preparation for the summer exams and our best set of results ever. We will also be able to put our winter uniform away and use the polo shirt from the 16 April 2012.

Thank you for your continued support and for making Temple Moor a wonderful place to work and learn.

Stop the Clock Day – The 5Rs On 31 January, Temple Moor High School launched the 5Rs for effective and successful learning. The 5Rs are Reasoning, Responsibility, Resilience, Resourcefulness and Reflectiveness. We believe that if students develop these learning skills and attributes they can achieve success and prepare themselves so they can enjoy learning effectively throughout their lives.

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The day consisted of various sessions that enabled the students to develop these skills. During the day we had…..

A guest speaker who spoke about motivation, resilience and how the brain works.

Games Based Learning – students created computer games and assessed each other’s creations.

Problem Based Learning – students in a team either designed and created a way to safely drop an egg from the canteen balcony, lifted the equivalent of the school minibus in the gym or ran the equivalent distance from Leeds to Scarborough!

Urban Arts – students were learning new skills such as Street Dance, DJ’ing and Graffiti.

The day was a huge success with both staff and students commenting on how much they enjoyed trying out new skills and developing their 5Rs. Mr T Coles, Aspirant AST English and Professional Standards

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Year 8 “Junk to Funk” Every child in Year 8 took part in a recycling challenge for homework.

Their brief was to design and make a piece of art using only recycled materials.

The results were outstanding, with work showing how creative, imaginative and resourceful our students are. With praise and admiration from fellow students, staff and visitors to school.

Materials used included plastic bags, ring pulls from cans, packaging, scrap metal and used car parts, plastic bottles, crisp and sweet wrappers, to name but a few!

Watch this space for the results of the forthcoming Year 7 homework challenge…

Miss C Harris, Faculty Leader of Design

World Book Day in Design Students in the Design faculty celebrated World Book Day by learning about paper cut-out illustrations and then designing and making their own for a story of their choice.

Little Misters and Misses were on hand to offer their expertise and also read a variety of stories to inspire students’ work. See if you can recognise the stories illustrated here.

Miss C Harris, Faculty Leader of Design

Leeds College of Art Evening Classes For seven weeks, six Year 11 students from Temple Moor attended an art course with Leeds College of Art, along with other students from around the city. The first three weeks involved studying still life animals, materials and objects from the African continent and the next four were spent at college experimenting with different art techniques such as lino printmaking. Mixed media pieces by all the students were exhibited at Leeds Central Library.

Michael Black, Year 11 GCSE Art Student

Sixth Form Art Visit to London On 3 February, 30 Textiles, Graphics and Fine Art A Level students travelled to London to visit galleries for inspiration for their work. The day was a huge success, with students enjoying the wide variety of work on exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In addition, students learnt how to travel using the underground, and also enjoyed lunch at one of London’s largest street markets, Camden Market. The day was a huge success and students’ work is already starting to reflect some of the artists’ work experienced.

All work will be on display in our annual exhibition later this summer Miss C Harris, Faculty Leader of Design

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The Week that Temple Moor Rocked!

After a trip to the Grand Theatre in November to see the brilliant touring production of We Will Rock You, our young cast eagerly set about learning the 30 songs and 89 pages of script in what was always going to prove to be our most difficult production to date. What an amazing cast they turned out to be!

Throughout rehearsals they demonstrated total commitment to the production giving up their free time to master the difficult songs, dance routines and lengthy passages of script. Those lucky enough to see the show could not believe that such young students were capable of pulling off such difficult, mature roles.

Anya Bury and Robin Scarth were supremely confident as leaders of the Bohemians Meat and Brittney giving wonderful renditions of Crazy Little Thing Called Love, No-one But You and I Want it All. We have so much young talent at Temple Moor that it was extremely difficult to cast the show. As a result, we had several leading roles played by different students on alternative nights. Commander Khashoggi switched between Sam Austin and Sofia Ravanis and we will all remember the hilarious (implied) bikini-waxing scene from Killer Queens Mollie Sutcliffe and Eleni Ravanis. The leading role of the anarchic Scaramouche was superbly performed by both Becky Flynn and Hannah Swalwell displaying a vocal maturity well beyond their years in songs such as Somebody to Love, Hammer to Fall and Under Pressure. Ciaran Casey had the audience bellowing with his portrayal of the lecherous old hippy Pop and the final burden of responsibility fell on Reece Johnstone playing Galileo. His spectacular performances of some of Freddie Mercury’s most memorable and challenging songs such as I Want to Break Free, We are the Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody were outstanding for a 14 year old.

All of this would have amounted to nothing without the backing of some brilliant musicians. We are extremely proud of the fact that we always perform our school shows with a student band and this year, they excelled themselves. The core wind and string section were backed by some excellent drumming from Jake Burke, Michael Jarvis and Jack Gillham. Nathan ‘Fingers’ Francey hopped his way round a series of highly articulate bass lines such as Another One Bites the Dust and the uniquely stylized Brian May guitar solos were brilliantly executed by Tom Askin, Tom Pickford and Tony Francis.

We are in debt to the many people in school and the community in providing the technical support to enable us to put on such a professional show including Andy, Helen and Ian Thomson, Lynn Whitfield, Alan Mayfield, Tony Dawson, Elliot Scholey, Tim and Lynne Bigland, Laura Wilkinson, Emma Greenwood, Suzie Ingle, Steve Calvert, Jasmine Brereton, Adam Page, Sian Olbison, Phillippa, Annabel and Megan Riley, Jen Durston, Adam Bell and not least Adam Moore who masterminded the whole project turning theatrical dreams into a technical reality. Special thanks to DYCA for the loan of their equipment.

Our next production will be the Summer variety show events in music, drama and dance to be held during the week beginning 16 July and then, our musical next year takes us back to the 80s again with the stage version of the highly successful film Footloose.

Mr C Cook, Faculty Leader of Performance.

A Smashing Time!

The Design faculty hosted an “eggciting” challenge for Stop the Clock Day, when students from different year groups were scrambled up in small groups then whisked away to embark on their challenge – hatching a plan to protect an egg from smashing, using limited resources, once launched from a high balcony. Results were “eggstraordinary” and imaginative, most eggs gently gliding or softly bouncing to safety.

Miss C Harris, Faculty Leader of Design

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See Green, Think Literacy March sees the launch of our ‘See Green, Think Literacy’ marking initiative across the school. To help improve literacy across all key stages, teachers across all subjects will be identifying literacy errors such as capital letters, punctuation and grammar in students’ work by highlighting them green.

Students will then be encouraged to identify their own mistakes and correct them in their own work. This is part of the school’s ongoing focus on literacy and will hopefully have a really positive impact on the literacy skills of our students across the school. Remember...

See Green, Think Literacy!

Mrs L Goode, Programme Leader of English

World Book Day On Thursday 1 March, Temple Moor celebrated World Book Day in spectacular style as the school was filled with staff and students dressed up as Harry Potters, Where’s Wallys, Captain Hooks and a whole host of other book characters in order to promote reading. As well as the fancy dress, students also had the opportunity to hear extracts from the favourite books of teachers from across the whole school and hear the music scores from a number of famous film adaptations of books during breaks. Our KS3 classes had their lessons for the day based around their favourite books, and all staff and students got the opportunity to ‘drop everything and read’ for half an hour during the day. In addition to this, staff and students had the chance to get rid of their unwanted books and pick a new one at our big book swap.

Although the day was focused on promoting reading, it was also used as an opportunity to raise funds to support The James Brook Appeal and we raised a fantastic £681.29 through non-uniform and fancy dress contributions and the sale of buns and candy floss during break. The day was lots of fun for all of us and continued to promote the school’s positive message about reading.

Mrs L Goode, Programme Leader of English

Independence Day On 6 March, Temple Moor High School had their first “Independence Day”. Throughout the day teachers planned and created opportunities for students to develop their independent learning skills and promote the 5Rs for effective and successful learning. In lessons students were involved in engaging group work, stimulating class discussions, student presentations, collaborative learning and even students delivering lessons! Student feedback has been really positive about “Independence Day” – here are a few of their quotes: “I really enjoyed learning from others” “It made a real change from being told how to learn” “I liked moving around and finding things out for myself” “I liked being the expert and teaching others” Mr T Coles, Aspirant AST English and Professional Standards

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Learning to Learn Languages in MFL Following the success of the launch of ‘Learning to Learn’ in the MFL department, even more activities and events will be forming throughout the year.

After the ‘Learning to Learn’ assembly in January, Year 7 students seemed to be enthusiastic about the project and they especially enjoyed watching the video which includes teachers from other subjects discussing their thoughts and feeling about learning languages.

Most students were lucky enough to have been rewarded with the Senegalese film ‘Kirikou’ in the first term and the response was fantastic. This was not only an insight into other French-speaking countries and cultures, but it was a great opportunity for them to use their listening skills.

Again this term’s reward will be a great opportunity for students to use their language learning skills, as a French theatre company will come to Temple Moor in April, especially for those students who have deserved the reward.

The German and Spanish food tasting days in the canteen have so far been a success and the Year 7s have been enthusiastic and forthcoming attempting to speak the language as well as savour the food.

In addition, some of our Year 9 linguists have been teaching the Year 7s Cantonese and Thai with the aim of focussing on language learning skills. The students responded very well and the girls displayed fantastic teaching skills!

Overall an exciting term for the MFL department, and more to come!

Miss N Redman, Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages

School Takes Action for Wildlife Nine students from the Year 10 Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award group at Temple Moor High School in Halton have been busy giving wildlife in the Wyke Beck Valley a helping hand in time for Spring. The students have been working with BTCV’s conservation volunteers to build a dead hedge by the side of the beck in Halton Moor.

Wyke Beck Valley Pride Coordinator, John Kilner, said “It’s great to see young people taking positive action in their community. By building the dead hedge from dead wood elsewhere in the valley we’re providing places for creepy crawlies to feed and hide that in turn attracts more birdlife and supports a healthier environment for us all to enjoy”.

The students have been working in the area for around six months now, undertaking a variety of work including; clearing litter, tree trimming, bulb planting and erecting nest boxes. They took a short winter break before recently returning to begin the ‘dead hedge’ work.

Working in collaboration with local community groups the boys have shown real maturity and responsibility and are now well on their way to completing their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award.

The students in the group (Cameron Fisher, Kyle Fogarty, Jack Gillham, Ryan Greaves, Oliver Hawkin, Sam Hewitt, Joe Macklam, Busani Ncube, Andrew Needham) and myself would like to express a special thank you to John Kilner (Wyke Beck Valley Pride), John Cummins (Groundwork) and Andrew Tiffany (BTCV) for supporting the group during their work.

Mr R Starbuck, Duke of Edinburgh Coordinator

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Temple Moor Science Symposia In June, Temple Moor will be launching a bi-annual science lecture which will be made available to students, parents, the community and staff and students from other schools. The aim of these events is to enhance understanding about topical science issues and provide opportunities to broaden people's scientific knowledge beyond the curriculum.

The first of these events will be a lecture about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the applications and implications of it, led by Professor Peter M Watkins from the University of Birmingham. It will take place on Wednesday 20 June from 6.00pm - 7.30pm and is a must for those students with an interest in Physics at A-level and beyond, as well as parents who wish to broaden their knowledge of this often publicised multi-billion pound experiment.

Tickets for this event are free of charge and are first offered to students of Temple Moor, their parents and the local community, before being offered to other schools from the end of April. For tickets please contact Lynn Whitfield in the main school office on 0113 3368204 or via e-mail at whitfil02@leedslearning.net.

Date for the diary: The second lecture will be on 18 September 2012 and the topic will be "Primeval Slime".

Further details will follow in the summer term issue of TEMPO. Mr J Hudson, Assistant Principal, Science and Science College

The Eco-Code is set The Eco-School committee have published the school's Eco-Code. This is the charter which sets out our aims and ambitions for becoming more sustainable, but it requires all students and parents to subscribe to it for us to make the impact we want to make.

TEMPLE MOOR HIGH SCHOOL Eco-Code Being an Eco-School means: Everyone must play their part - a little effort achieves a lot Feeding the bin - the floor is on a diet Taking the time to recycle items in the atrium/ canteen Being open to new ideas and ways of working Promoting sustainability to other Promoting wildlife and treating it with respect - it is our friend.

Living healthier lifestyles.

Switching on to switching off appliances – the money we save can be re-invested Eco – School Council

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Bronze Eco-School Award January saw Temple Moor achieve the Bronze award from EcoSchools for our progress in making Temple Moor more sustainable since September.

The student led Eco-School committee delivered assemblies during "Switch it Off Fortnight", encouraging students and staff to reduce our energy usage by switching appliances off when they were not being used. Their efforts led to a 1% reduction in the school's energy consumption.

Students also met with Leeds City Council's sustainability unit to review our energy consumption patterns and proposed other suggestions such as having an automatic switch off for ICT equipment. Many of these suggestions have been adopted or are being implemented at present, helping to reduce our impact on the environment even further.

Mr J Hudson, Assistant Principal, Science and Science College

Temple Fusion Dance Company After the success of the National school street dance finals, Temple Fusion have been very busy putting together new choreography for up and coming shows and competitions.

Temple Fusion has been split up into three troops as it now boasts over 80 students that come down to dance every Tuesday night. We now have Temple Fusion Crew, Temple Fusion Boppers and the Temple B Boys, all three troops are working hard with Mrs Tate, Miss Olbison and Jake Daniels and our current Year 11 BTEC dancers on new pieces to showcase in the summer show.

Temple Fusion Crew have just become Leeds school dance champions after winning the Leeds school dance finals beating 19 other schools in Leeds, they will be showcasing their work at the Garforth Arts Festival in June. They are also working hard for the next UDO regional street dance Championships. Watch this space.

We recently had 30 dancers from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance come in to work with our Year 9 BTEC dance students and the gifted and talented students from Year 8. This was a fantastic opportunity for our students to work with professional dancers and everyone that took part had a fabulous time.

We are very excited to be hosting a workshop with Britain Got Talent finalists, Twist and Pulse, in March, this will be aimed at Temple Fusion dancers and Year 7 and 8 students.

Overall it's been a fantastic journey over the last few months and we are really looking forward to showcasing our work at the summer dance show in July.

Miss E Tate, Teacher of PE

Healthy Schools School dinners have changed in the past few years. In fact, food served at Temple Moor has changed completely.

Food is cooked from fresh ingredients and more fruit, vegetables and bread are served. Gone are the days of the ready-made foods, regular chips, crisps and chocolates. Instead, the meals are balanced and tasty with plenty to choose from.

Recycling for our Future Another major area of focus for the Eco-School committee has been to reduce the amount of general waste the school generates. To really make a major impact on this, the school has installed paper recycling bins in all offices and classrooms across school. The atrium and canteen are also due to be transformed by the end of March, with the installation of two recycling zones which will be hubs for recycling the following items: batteries; printer cartridges; paper/cardboard; plastics and clean and bagged clothing. It is hoped that this major project to enhance the school's sustainability will not only empower students to make positive choices to reduce the waste they are responsible for, but will allow parents and others who use our facilities on an evening to take advantage of these facilities and get involved in recycling.

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Mr J Hudson, Assistant Principal, Science and Science College

We at Temple Moor want to provide balanced nutritional meals that enhance the educational experiences of the students, but also want the students to take ownership over what is served. In order to achieve this, Temple Moor became one of the first schools in Leeds to launch the School Food Ambassador’s project and was given headline news in the educational supplement of the Yorkshire Post. To date we have surveyed the students using a brand new E-food online survey to find out their opinions of the catering we provide and will be making the required amendments to our menus. Additionally, we have just completed the first phase of the re-designing of the canteen area, with the school food ambassadors taking a leading role within those designs. Keep an eye out for the next Tempo where we will show you the completed designs!

At Temple Moor we feel passionate about supporting your child's education through appropriate nutrition. Part of this commitment is to ensure that students who are entitled to free school meals are positively encouraged to take their allocation and that parents/carers are informed of the entitlement criteria. This commitment lead to us undertaking whole school assemblies trying to promote the importance of free school meals and our ambassadors will be mentoring students to support this process. If you feel your child may be entitled to a free school meal please contact Leeds Benefit Helpline on 0113 2224404 or visit your local one stop centre who will be able to support you with the simple application form.

Mr A Ayliff, Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

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March 2012

School Games Trampolining Competition

Jolly Hockey Sticks

On Tuesday 28 February we entered two teams of exceptional Year 7s into, hopefully, the first of many 'School Games' Trampolining competitions held at Bradford University. The teams performed their routines excellently under incredibly nerve-racking conditions in front of at least 100 pairs of eyes! I was extremely proud of them considering we have had only a few weeks of practice leading up to the competition and a few injuries along the way that luckily didn’t dampen any spirits or damage their admirable level of confidence. A special well done to all of the following:

A talented team of Year 8 boys entered the West Yorkshire rounds of the English Schools’ Hockey competition at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield as underdogs. They finished a credible third out of eight and only lost one fixture 1-0 narrowly against Leeds Grammar. The event organisers were extremely complimentary of our students’ attitude and level of skill given their relative lack of experience.

Mr T Hainsworth, Teacher of PE

Level 1- Cameron Ripley, Jess Parker-Oates, Chloe Liburd and Emma Rose Level 2- Jess Keeligan, Rachel Wood, Amelia Buchanan and Crista Bowes Let's smash the next competition after Easter!! Please come to Trampolining Club every Monday Week 2 from 3.00pm - 4.15pm.

Miss R Aspinall, Teacher of PE

Temple Moor Olympics 2012 Temple Moor will be hosting our own version of the Olympics this summer. We will be taking all students from Years 7 to 10 to the John Charles Centre for Sport, where they will compete in a number of activities which appear within the Olympics and the summer curriculum. This will be run as an interhouse competition, with students competing for house points throughout the day. It will be a brilliant opportunity for students to try different sports and compete against each other whilst embracing the Olympic spirit.

Mr M Philpott, Faculty Leader of PE & Community Sport

Years 7 and 9 Netball The Year 7s got off to a flying start this season beating a strong Morley Academy side 3-0 and Rodillian 4-2. They then played in the City of Leeds netball tournament held at GSAL The girls came up against some extremely tough competition but with each game their performances got better and better. Player of the tournament was goal keeper Nicole Gell for making countless interceptions in defence and for her ‘never give up’ attitude!

In their last two games the girls unfortunately lost 10-4 against Cockburn and 8-5 against Rodillian but are looking forward to getting back to winning ways for the final part of the season! All the girls in the squad have done fantastically well and their team spirit and attitude is outstanding, keep it up!

The Year 9 team have won three out of four games so far this season; the highlight has definitely been beating Rodillian 10-9 at home. In an epic nail biting match the scores were constantly neck and neck, with Temple Moor taking the lead on several occasions but Rodillian were not giving up so easy and kept the pressure on.

Miss J Hodgson, Teacher of PE

One Last Chance of Glory The Year 11 football team will have one last punt at winning a trophy. They enjoyed an emphatic 7-3 win at Mirfield in the third round of the West Yorkshire Cup and could meet Corpus Christi in the quarter finals if successful in round four. Good luck to the boys as they deserve some reward to go with their undoubted talent.

Mr T Hainsworth, Teacher of PE

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‘Team of the City’ Sports Nomination Following dominance across the city competitions over the last two years, a record four out of five qualifications into the Nationals and with still two teams in the National last 16. I am now honoured to announce that Temple Moor High School's Rugby League teams (from across the year groups) have been nominated for the "Team of the City" prize at the prestigious Leeds Sports Awards ceremony at Elland Road. This is a high-profile event, compared by Look North's Tanya Arnold and it is expected that a number of Leeds Rhinos, Leeds United and Yorkshire Cricket players will all be in attendance. We will wait with bated breath as the winning envelope is unveiled on stage!

Mr G Nicholson, Learning Manager (English)

All to Play for with the Girls Football...

Girls’ football at Temple Moor is going from strength to strength, both the U15 and U13 teams are still in the Leeds Cup and are in contention to win the league.

In the most recent game the U13s thrashed John Smeaton 11-0 to book their place in the quarter finals of the cup. Nicol McGregor and Chloe Sweeting all scored hat tricks and Eve Ruston scored two. The squad have got a pretty busy fixture schedule coming up so it’s still all to play for! Good luck girls and well done to you all so far.

Miss J Hodgson, Teacher of PE

Rugby League Our Year 10s showed genuine National finalist potential despite a cruel Yorkshire semi-final defeat. An under strength side meant that 12 of the starting 13 had to play the whole game without any rest and were losing 6-22 at half time (against a great side crammed with super league scholarship players). However, our lads showed immense courage and character after the break and brought the match back to 18-22. In the final play of the match we were on their line looking to go on and win the tie, our attacking kick landed in an opponents hands who ran the length of the field to score. Sirius Academy 28 Temple Moor 18 I'm delighted to report that our Year 9s retained their Yorkshire Champions status under floodlights at West Hull.

Harvey Hallas was announced as the official Man of the Match, but it was also Brad Sutcliffe's contributions that made a big difference - trailing by 8-16, Brad scored a neat solo effort before creating a further two scores to completely change the momentum of a highly competitive fixture. Special mention also to Josh Jordan-Roberts whose four conversions from four attempts proved vital. Temple Moor 24.

Freeston 16.

Before both of these aforementioned games, Super League clubs (Huddersfield Giants and Wigan Warriors) contacted the school asking to come and look at our players for possible scholarships. This is tremendous recognition of the calibre that many of these students possess.

Coming Soon: Our Year 9s and 10s both have very tough National last 16 ties in Wigan before the Easter break. Here's hoping that by the next edition both teams will still be in the competition at the quarter-final stage.

Mr G Nicholson, Learning Manager (English)

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