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pitch at St James’s Pupils enjoy learning about one of football’s biggest events


ByJume Magee julie.magee@jpress.co.uk Twitten@clithadvertiser


Pupils at St James’s CE Prima­ ry School in Clitheroedressed to impress for a World Cup Day, but little did they know


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how close they would come to their own country’s football team that week.


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Key Stage Two classes, Birch and Chestnut, dressed in the colours, or football strip, of a country taking part in the World Cup. . During the morning they


learnt about the origins of the World Cup and were given


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.information about the countries taking part in the 2014 World Cup.-During


Chestnut Class pupils dressed in their football colours, (s)


the afternoon all the pupils took part in a variety of dif­


ferent sporting activities, out­ side in the glorious sunshine. Each child was then treat­


ed to a cup cake decorated with a flag, again represent­


ing a country faking part in the World Cup. The pupils had a great day while learning lots of information about other countries. Meanwhile, pupils from the Oak and Ash Class have


been looking at different types of “journeys” and visited Manchester Airport Aviation Centre to learn more about this topic.


While there the pupils


were able to sit in the flight deck of the 737 demonstrator plane and have a go at “flying” the plane. And as an added bo­ nus while they were at the air­ port the children witnessed an Emirates Airbus A380 come into land.


But the highlight of the day


was watching the England football team plane land and the footballers disembark af- fer returning from taking part in the World Cup.


as they were on the outside viewing area.


Biking and orienteering for these active Oakhill pupils


A 12-strong group of pupils,


teachers and parents travelled up to the North York Moors for


aweekendofmountainbiking. Their base was the youth


hostel in the popular market town of Helmsley and during the weekend the bikers cov­ ered a range of terrain rang- ingfromsmoothforestroadsto gnarly single tracks and muddy technical challenges. Day one was the challenge


of Bransdale, a deserted, but stunning corner of Yorkshire, where the bikers endured a long, but gentle climb to eqjoy


One of the wonderful views enjoyed by the Oakhill mountain bikers


some fantastic forest trails and challenges, followed by a long and speedy descent on tracks and quiet roads. After a good night’s sleep


and a large breakfast on day two, the bikers headed further


intotheNorthYorkMoorswith a climb through Cropton For­ est where they experienced some excellent cross country mountain biking. The highlight of the day was


taking on Rosedale Chimney- one of the top 10 most difficult road climbs in the country. The day was rounded off with an ex­ cellent long descent back to the bus where everyone fell asleep on the journey home. • In other news from Oa­


khill, the inter house orien­ teering 2014 event has taken place with pupiis from Mar­


tyrs and Scholars in the senior


schoolcompetingforthemuch coveted 100 points. The ven­ ue was Witton Park in Black­


burn where pupils took on the


challenge of the course in the park which covers a variety of terrain from dense woods to open fields. With teams from


each year group going head to head the time bonus was key,


and all three scholars teams finished first, giving them the


advantage, winning 135 points to 110. Now the scholars are all


looking forward to their final inter house competitions.


Pupils’ fancy dress raises £2k


YearEightpupilsatStAugus- tine’s High School, Billington, spent an afternoon raising money to support Cancer Research by organising their own Race For Life around theschool fields. Despite the


heat, many tookuptheoption of fancy dress with burglars


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and bunnies making appear­ ances and even a fried eggi The pupils were able to take advantage of a water sta-


tionwithbottledwaterkindly provided by Tesco. The girls’ competitive


race was won by Erin Mul- derig and Emily Haythorn-


Winners Erin Mulderig, Emily Haythornthwaite and the boys’ race winnerMatthew Toman


thwaite and the boys’ race by Matthew Toman. The pupils have raised over £2,000 for the charity so far with some donationsstill beingreceived.


Pupilsfrom Oakhill College celebrate their RrstHolyCommunion.(s)


Pupils research school’s links to the First World War


Pupils in Year Nine at Oakhill College in Whalley eryoyed a trip to Whalley Library to re­ search Oakhill house and its links to the First World War. Whaliey librarian Janice


and Claire Sutton from Lan­ cashire County Council’s heritage team prepared and delivered a fascinating ses­ sion which allowed students to view primary documents and research online Census records from the beginning of the century.


Students were amazed to see how little Oakhill had


St Augustine’s pupils take part in Race for Life event (s)


changedsincethebeginning of the 20 th century and their


investigations into the local 0 area revealed just how every n


community was affected by the Great War.


The students were able


to take advantage of the free • ^ research facilities provided


by the library and so they can


khill, pupils from the college joined with children from the • -


In other news from Oa­


local parish of English Mar­ tyrs in Whalley to celebrate their FirstHoly Communion. Parish Priest Father Price conducted the lovely service.


now research their own fam- @ ily history. •


* The pupils had a great view BowlandMontessoriPre-schoolersontheirBig Toddle, (s)


Toddlers’ charity hike in the Valley for children’s charity


A group of 18 energetic youngsters from Bowland


MontessoriPre-schoolraised more than £400 for the children’s charity Dr Bar- nados after completing a three-mile circular walk in the Hodder Valley. The pre-schoolers board­


ed the Hodder Valley circu­ lar bus bound for Newton disembarking to start their Big Toddle.


During thewalktheytook in spectacular views of the


Bowlandhillsbeforetakinga breakfortheirpackedlunch- esatthehighestpointto refu­


el those tired legs. They then completed the second half of


thewalkwhich ended inaglo- rious run down the last field backintoNewton. The bus delivered all the


youngsters back to Clitheroe tired, happy and with eve­


ryone showing off their well earned medal.


Pre-school leader Nancy


Bigmore said: “Many thanks to Ian at Transdev for ar­ ranging our transport, our


patientdriverandallparent/ grandparenthelpers without


whomthedaywouldnothave been possible.”


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