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Bringing Young Europeans
Together Through The
London Olympiad
This is the title of our European Union funded Comenius
project involving out two partner schools in Germany
and our French partner school from St Martin in the
Caribbean. The first week of the autumn term was our turn
to host all three schools in Birmingham which amounted
to a total of 56 pupils and seven staff!
The action packed week started on Monday with a welcome
meal at a local Indian restaurant followed on Tuesday by
a welcome in the Council House by the Lord Mayor who
gave the group a guided tour and personal gifts. That
afternoon the whole party travelled to Straford upon Avon
for sightseeing around Shakespeare’s home town followed
by an evening performance of Much Ado About Nothing. This
adaptation was set in modern day India so the visiting students
had to deal with Elizabethan English with an Indian accent!
On Wednesday students from all the schools worked in the Art
Department all day to produce Olympic and Paralympic murals that
will be put up around school. On Thursday morning all four schools
worked together to write articles for our projects Comenius newsletter
based on the Olympic and Paralympic values before departing for
London where everybody went to the Paralympic Games, staying
overnight at Thameside Youth Hostel.
The whole week was blessed with fantastic weather and we all had an
amazing time with lots of friendships formed between the pupils and
great plans for new projects. The final leg of this Olympic partnership
will be hosted by the French in St Martin in late February 2013 when
we hope to send eight pupils and two staff over to participate.
Year 10 Football
Lordswood Boys’ School
Games
Despite the weather we managed to organise all of the activities
planned for the massive Birmingham School Games finals. This year
the highly profiled London Olympics has been replicated by the
Birmingham School Games and will be held at Alexander Stadium on
Friday 29th June 2012.
Over 21 Primary schools and 8 Secondary schools across the Lordswood
Sports Partnership have battled it out amongst themselves to qualify
for the finals, where only 1 school will be crowned champions in our
partnership. The champions have earned their place to represent
Lordswood Sports Partnership and will compete against the other
Sports Partnership across the City.
The following schools have
made the Finals:
Primary School Sports
Year 3/4
Football
Mini Red
Year 5/6
Tri Golf
Tag Rugby
Cricket (Yr 5)
School Representing
Lordswood Partnership
Woodcock Primary
Woodhouse Primary
Raddlebarn Primary
Princethorpe Primary
Northfield Primary
Primary Schools in action at the Partnership
Finals at Lordswood Boys’ School in
March 2012
It was a very successful year for the U15’s this season. Having shown
signs of promise from previous years they put together a very solid
season, culminating in a Cup Final appearance.
They started the season very strongly with a number of good
performances allowing us to go into the mid-season break unbeaten.
Notable performances from Rico Henry, Malakai Fuller-Spence and
Ricardo Cole contributed to a successful start. Once the season
re-started the boys continued to show their ability to work as a team
progressing well to the quarter finals with the best goals difference in
the competition. This continued into the semi-finals where the boys
won the game by a comfortable eight goal margin, and progressed
deservedly into the final.
Unfortunately, the season did not finish as expected. The team put
in an excellent performance and showed a good work ethic but
came up against a very well organised team from Bartley Green who
eventually won 4-2.
I hope the boys continue to take their success into next season.
Well done Year 10 !
The Primary School finals will be held at the Birmingham University,
Bristol Road on Thursday 28th June. Both finals will start at 9.30am
and will finish approximately at 2.30pm, all support and spectators
are welcomed.
Mr Arshad
Secondary School Sports
Boys
Athletics 7/8
Basketball
Table Tennis U13
Table Tennis U16
Badminton U13
Badminton U16
Girls
Athletics 7/8
Rounders U13
Rounders U16
Netball U13
Netbal U16
Football 7 a side U13
Football 7 a side U16
Lordswood Boys
St Thomas
Lordswood Boys
Lordswood Boys
Shenley Academy
Shenley Academy
Hillcrest Girls
Bournville
Hillcrest Girls
Turves Green
Turves Green
Hillcrest Girls
Shenley Academy
Secondary School Games competition
at Lordswood Boys’ in April 2012
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