July 2018
WYCOMBE HIGH SCHOOL
SPORTS BULLETIN Summer 2018
being only 1 second behind them in the mornings trial. They raced well and hard, and missed out on Welcome to the Sports Bulletin, a half-termly winning by only 1 second! A shame, but we are update of our students’ sporting achievements. Go fully expecting to see this team in GB vests next to the Sports website for details of fixtures and year! follow us on Twitter @WycHighsports.
Individual Success Hockey Congratulations to Jemima Copeman (Y11), who has been busy playing for the England U16 Hockey team! She has played two matches vs Germany and two vs Belgium. Jemima scored her Volleyball first goal on 9 July in the Belgium match, an Izzy Tucker (Y9) continues to impress with her amazing achievement! Jemima has now been selected to compete in the Six Nations tournament success in volleyball. Izzy and her beach partner took silver in the UK U16 National Junior at the end of July! Good Luck! Championships, and then went on to win in the U18s! Very impressive for two 13 year olds! The next stop for Izzy is the England U19 beach volleyball home nations cap in Wales this August. Good Luck! In addition Zoe Tucker (Y7) also competed and won the U14 division with her partner, who both were playing against much older opposition. Overall, a very successful weekend on the sand!
Athletics Emily Sanderson (Y10) continues to impress us with her success in athletics, not only did she win the ‘Alan Hewson’ award on Sports Day for her continued commitment to athletics both inside and outside of school, but she has also been selected to represent Bucks in the Southern Inter-Counties in both the long jump and triple jump. Congratulations Emily!
Over the half term break 6 x WHS girls competed for South East England u15 girls in the Inter Regional Volleyball Championships in Kettering out of a squad of 12. Selected were: Izzy Tucker (Y9), Lily Burniston (Y9), Zoe Tucker (Y7), Hannah Erstad (Y9), Zoe Glover (Y10), Tamryn Bailey (Y9) The girls fought hard and finished 4th out of 8 teams. The team MVP (as voted most by opposing teams) for the tournament was Izzy Tucker.
Rowing
Eloise Brindle (Y10) was part of the Marlow WJ15 crew at the GB / France trials on Sunday 1 July. Their coxed 4 had to change to a coxless 4 for the Additionally, during this event Lily Burniston was trials, an additional challenge on a day with a invited directly by the England U17 coach to join strong tailwind! the England U17 girls (Cadets) training pathway. Lily will join her teammate Izzy Tucker in this Kingston won the morning time trial, and therefore group strating with a two day camp in Sheffield in will represent GB as a coxless and Marlow took July. second, this meant that Eloise had to row again in the afternoon trials! The crew were confident going Amazing job, and many congratulations to our into their afternoon trial but knew they were up WHS girls! against some tough competition, their competition 1
Team Success
Athletics Junior Districts Well done to the WHS junior district athletics team placing 3rd at the junior district championships! Congratulations to WAS and Godstowe in second and first place respectively. A great day of athletics at the Little Marlow track.
U15 Congratulations to the U15 rounders team who are district championships! W inning all their games in the final round!
Bucks School Games Regional Finals
On Thursday 5 July, the WHS Year 7 netball and football teams travelled to Stoke Mandeville Stadium to compete in the Bucks School Games after qualifying in their respective sports leagues.
On Tuesday 12 June, the WHS junior and inter Netball athletics teams travelled to Birmingham to compete in the ESAA Midland regional finals. After Congratulations the WHS Bucks School Games a successful morning in the field events the juniors team who finished in 3rd place overall after a were positioned in joint 1st place and the inters in really tough day competition in the scorching heat! 1st place. After a long afternoon competing in hot weather conditions the junior girls placed 5th overall and the inters 2nd at the regional finals.
Football
Rounders U13
A 6th place finish for the footballers! Excellent performance!
Well done to the WHS U13 rounders team who battled hard in the league finals and coming 2nd in the final match on players out!
Sports Achievements
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Tuesday 10 July 2018
WYCOMBE HIGH SCHOOL
SPORTS DAY 2018 Media Team Report
Results!
The following report was written by Alina Khan (Y8) who made up part of the Sports Daty media team. On Tuesday 10 July 2018, Wycombe High School hosted their annual sports day. This year the theme was The Commonwealth Games in Australia. The day began with the opening ceremony, featuring Year 7’s and 10’s. There was a samba band parading the 100m track; flags of countries in the Commonwealth made by the Year 10’s; the tradition of the Year 7’s sprinting the 100m track with house coloured mascots and balloons; the Hakka dance also performed by the Year 10’s and lastly the cheerleaders well-prepared routine. The enthusiasm and spirit of the house captains, staff and students was shown at this point, with their house coloured clothing and makeup. The opening ceremony, started a whole day filled with a range of competitive sports and events. This ignited excitement and enthusiasm, particularly for the 1500m run. The tension of the 100m and 200m events, where everything can change in a second, had everyone cheering and being very supportive. Some other events included: discus, shot-put, javelin, hurdles, relay and the boomerang throw, fitness relay and the kangaroo hop which were this year’s themed events.
2018
WINNERS
SECOND
THIRD
Year 7
Bronte
Curie
Parks
Year 8
Curie
Austen
Bronte
Year 9
Bronte
Parks
Curie
Year 10
Pankhurst
Bronte
Curie
Year 12
Pankhurst
Nightingale
Austen
OVERALL
BRONTE
PANKHURST
CURIE
Fundraising
Throughout the day, Mr Mackerras did the commentary and music, keeping everyone entertained! This year there was a charity village which was selling baked goods, WHS merchandise, house coloured accessories ice-cream and refreshments. We had time to spend time with our friends and classmates through sports and appreciated the work our P.E teachers and the staff put in, to make Sports Day happen.
New for Sports Day this year was the introduction of the ‘Charity Village’ where the Development Ambassadors and House Charities set up stalls to raise funds to equip the all-weather pitch and top up House Charities fundraising for the year. We encouraged students to bring in small amounts of change to purchase drinks, sweets, homemade cakes, ice lollies and drinks for the House Charities which helped to raise £667.38 for our six local and international charities. The Development Ambassadors were also on hand selling branded merchandise and House coloured bandanas along with a face painting stall complete with House mascot templates. We are pleased to report the Development Ambassadors raised £596 on the day bringing the total amount raised this year to £5,714 - a record year for Development Ambassadors.
By Alina Khan 8F P4
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