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Godolphin girls make national lacrosse squads!
Six girls from Godolphin School in Wiltshire have been selected for the Wales Lacrosse Team for the Under 19 World Championships held in Germany in August. Player Annie Butcher, whose sister Katie is also in the team, will be the youngest player taking part in the tournament. Meanwhile, Iona Dryden has been selected for the 2011 Senior Wales Home Internationals Team and to be part of the Wales Elite Lacrosse Squad which is recognised as a source of future talent for the next Senior World Cup in 2013.
Jolly hockey sticks!
● Cheltenham Ladies’ College girl, Issy Davies, who represented England in the Four Nations Hockey Tournament over Easter will again represent her country, this summer, at the Under 18 Euro Hockey Championships in Utrecht, Netherlands.
● Both the boys and girls’ hockey teams from Felsted Preparatory School were crowned champions in the U11 round-robin Essex Schools’ tournament. Neither the girls or boys’ teams conceded a single goal in all their games.
charity
Students in Suff olk and Bristol raise money for hospices
Students at Amberfi eld School, Ipswich ditched their uniforms to raise money for EACH’s Treehouse Appeal, a hospice providing care and respite for children with terminal and life- threatening illnesses. The girls mixed clashing orange and purple accessories into their uniform, held a cake sale and squirrelled together bags of loose change for a coin challenge.
Girls from Badminton School, Bristol held a “Trashion” show in aid of Children’s Hospice South West, in Bristol, based on a recycling theme. The girls, aged 3-11, designed costumes to wear in the show from a variety of recycled materials, including plastic bags, newspapers, bottle tops, old clothes and packaging. Their designs were inspired by Katy Perry, fairytale princesses, Kate Moss and Lady Gaga and over 250 people attended the Trashion Show, hosted by Heart FM presenter, Paulina Gillespie from the Bush, Troy and Paulina Morning Show.
Kings and Queens celebrate Comic Relief
Pupils from the Queen’s School in Chester raised over £1,200 from the Senior School and £650 from the Lower School for Comic Relief. The Senior School held an “I’m a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here” event. Students paid to watch eight teachers retrieve red noses from a jelly and fl our and perform silly tasks. The Lower School dressed in red and sold cakes at break time and after school. While at The King’s School, Chester, Year 7 raised £161.22 in aid of RSPCA & Help for Heroes by selling cakes and holding a “guess how many sweets are in the jar” competition.
GREEN ACTION
Calling all tree huggers
Postscript…
St Swithun’s hosted its annual Netball Tournament for U12 and U13 teams. T eir U12 team won their tournament and the U13 were runners-up in their category. Other local schools competing in the tournament were Godolphin in Salisbury, King Edward VI in Southampton, Alton Convent, Kings School in Winchester, Dunhurst in Petersfi eld and Robert Mays in Hook.
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Boys from Beechwood Park Park School in Hertfordshire have raised an impressive £5,000 For A Future Forest. Not only did they organise a Bring and Buy sale, a
sponsored cycle ride and an art competition to buy trees for the proposed Heartwood Forest in Hertfordshire, but they also helped plant them. The proposed forest will cover an area of more than 850 acres near Sandridge, St Albans.
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