SPORTING UPDATE Summer County Games 2012 Our Year 8 Netballers are County Champions 2012 Year 7 Girl's Football Success U14 Netball CROSS COUNTRY REVIEW Working Towards The Stephen Lawrence Education Standard West Bridgford King Kong of Ping Pong 2013!!! Year 8 interview Sir Mervyn King Beth Shalom Holocaust Visit in 2012 Step Into Sport Stride for life U19 Netball team win team of the year Insight - Olympic Edition!! Outstanding Year 7 success at Cross Country competition County Cross Country Report 2013 Issue 1 Of The WBS Post!! New fitness suite and dance studio Jamaican Themed lunch – Celebrating Jamaican Culture, its Olympians and Woodland legacy BBC SCHOOL REPORT DAY 2013 Year 7 girls' football team success continues... Sport Relief 2012 The West Bridgford School supports ‘Better Without Bullying’ UK Youth Parliament Green week "Fun Run" fun!! Solid start to cross country season U13 boys' football team lift a national trophy Cross Country Update (November 17th) Visit to Peter House College U19 netball success at county level Terrific start to the cross country season Fell running success! More congratulations to our Cross Country Runners Balloon Launch U13 Boys football team are County Champions yet again! U15 Boys Cricketers into County 20/20 Quarter Finals Year 7 Cricket Team - COUNTY CHAMPIONS 2010 Celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics 2012 Celebrating the Jubilee and London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics U19 Netball team through to the Nationals! U14 Boys claim South Notts Final Title!! Lawrence Logan (Y10), Midlands Area Champion in Topper Sailing School Sports Partnership Cross Country news U14 Cricket team success Bandwagon (Young Enterprise team 2010) UK finals (12-14 July) Our family of schools Olympic flag heads to its first Stephen Lawrence Education Standard Update- Ambassadors in the community U15 Cruise into County Cricket Final Show Racism the Red Card Competition U16 netball update The Stephen Lawrence Education Standard Medals all round for Cross Country teams WATER WAY TO REACH COUNTY SEMI FINAL!! YR11 FUTSAL CRICKET NEWS Congratulations to our Year 9 boys' football team Boccia Success! Success for our Rwandan Student Year 12 launch their new in-house magazine - Insight Skating Success Phenomenal result in the 'Institute of Physics' National competition County Bronze Medals for Year 7 running teams (Cross Country) Insight 3rd Edition Hot off the press! U19 Football Success Triathlon Success New All-weather Astro Pitch Opening Year 9 County Football Champions!! Table Tennis Success Samba Year 7 Girls' Football Team Crowned County Champions 2012 Insight Congratulations to Tom Dussek (Year 8) Moroccan expedition 2011 Outstanding start to Cross Country season! Celebration Assemblies Gold for Year 7 Futsal Team U15 GIRLS ARE COUNTY CRICKET CHAMPIONS More athletics success for Bridgford athletes Brilliant Battlefields Visit to Northern France and Belgium Year 8 Pintsize Theatre March 15th: BBC School Report Day Celebrating the Olypmics and Paralympics Trip to Olympic Park Barcelona!! U18 hockey win! Official opening of our wind turbine Cross Country Update West Bridgford wins Rushcliffe Partnership Athletics Championships
On Thursday 19th April the year seven girls were crowned County Cup Champions after defeating George Spencer School 1-0. It was a tight affair for the first 15 minutes of the game with chances few and far between for both sides. Charlotte Lacey then popped up with a goal after making a darting run to the front post, converting Emma Brown’s cross. The second half again was very tight with George Spencer pushing players forward at every given opportunity. With them attacking we looked to hit them on the break and although chances were coming our way, we could not extend our lead. The effort and determination from each and every girl was tremendous and we are all proud of their achievements. Well done ladies!! 
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Year 11 History students visited the Beth Shalom Holocaust centre on 14th March. They met two Holocaust survivors who posed challenging questions for the students on Genocide, Intolerance and Holocaust denial. The visit undoubtedly supported the schools recent work towards the Stephen Lawrence Education standard. As usual our students were thoughtful, engaged and a
credit to the school.
Together with our family of schools we have made a commitment to achieving this standard which was officially launched in 2003 in Leeds. Stephen Lawrence's death is one of many thousands of deaths resulting from racist attacks. What makes this death different is the legacy it has left and the changes in government legislation and practice throughout the UK.
For our school it means we are making a public commitment to promote equality in its wider sense, raise achievement and promote community cohesion.
We have already done lots of exciting work but wish to further develop our aim of encouraging all pupils to recognise the part they play in our local community in West Bridgford and within society in its wider sense.
We have groups of pupils (Ambassadors) who have delivered assemblies and strongly believe we have a duty to ensure all our pupils appreciate and value the diversity of culture that lies across our city and help them understand their part in helping to create an open society where everybody matters.
We invite you to share in our vision and we seek your support in ensuring that our young people
become engaged and responsible global citizens.
2012 Weather Balloon ReportOn 13th March 2012 several sixth form students launched a weather balloon from outside the world studies block, many teachers and students turned up to watch the big event. At 8am they filled the balloon with special gas which took it up into the upper atmosphere.
The on-board computer brought back some important information and data; the balloon was also fitted with a camera and brought back so exciting photos.
A temporary HQ in world studies block monitored progress with a hi-tech GPS (global positioning system) to show where the balloon landed.
Countdown and launch happened around 8:10am having been given the green light. One of the staff said “It was just like a NASA launch”.
By O King
2012 Weather Balloon Report
On Tuesday 13 March a group of Year 12 students, Jordan Phillips, Luke Skills, Luke Adams, Lingyi Yang, Judith Lesowiec and Gagan Sehmbi, launched a balloon from outside world studies to travel to the upper layers of the atmosphere.
They had worked hard with Mr Green to try to collect data in the form of video footage and photos, the aim with taking the photos was to get a shot to show the curvature of the earth. They designed a box to carry 3 cameras and mobile phone with a built in GPS to collect videos and images. The box was designed to be light and aerodynamic so the material they used was polystyrene sheets. Due to the freezing temperatures at altitude the electronic devices wouldn’t survive the extreme cold so the team decided to use chemical hard warmers, which the group had tested in the freezer. The mobile phone was used to track down the box when it had landed, so the team and Mr Green could track it down and download the footage.
The head teacher, Mr McDonough, very kindly donated £500 towards the project.
The special balloon was inflated with helium kindly donated by Nottingham University.
The initial diameter of the balloon was 1 metre, but as it travelled into the upper atmosphere due to the pressure drop and lack of oxygen the balloon reached a diameter of 8 metres before bursting. The balloon reached 32.522 km above the earth.
The box then dropped back to earth at a rate of 13ft per second. It had a small parachute. The whole flight took 1hr 17 mins. The group then travelled with Mr Green to retrieve the box which had landed in a field near Bourne, Lincolnshire. The equipment had survived the journey and the group received some amazing footage.
By B Phillips.
