BADMINTON REPORT, 1966-7
Last season the team
enjoyed mixed success, the losses being against Urmston and Heywood only. Good
wins were against Urmston Boys (Doubles) and Salford Technical High; the rest were
won as expected.
The House Badminton took
place in March with Stuarts being the eventual winners of a closely contested
struggle with Saxons.
This season the team has continued to improve and to date has only lost one match. Our thanks must go to all who stayed behind to help with refreshments and the members of staff who have helped to improve our game.
A.P. and M.P.
1st
Badminton Team
STAFF MATCH
The big question, as
the hour of the match drew nigh, was could the experienced, cunning staff team finally
beat the School 1st XI which was comparatively inexperienced, and not used to
the electric atmosphere of big games?
It was rumoured that
the staff had been secretly training, but this was quashed when the team
stumbled onto the pitch. The School looked superbly fit, and even took the
liberty of putting right-back and skipper, Rowles, into goal, and goalkeeper
Finch into the centre-forward position.
Unfortunately Mr.
Barnes was missing from the staff team, having suffered a severe blow on the
arm in the last staff match, and had not yet recovered. Mr. MiIler was another
notable omission, for he was thought to be quite promising after showing up
well on many mountain runs.
The game started, and
the school soon took the lead, with Finch laying on a superb opportunity for
Crossley, who neatly netted, hitting the ball crisply past the nonplussed
custodian Jackson, deputising for Mr. Thomas. The Staff fought back well, but
were soon another goal in arrears; this time Hamblett scored with the Staff
team thoroughly perplexed. The School sat back on their early lead, and the
Staff came back into the game a little with Mr. Smith working industriously in
midfield, and Mr. Charlton let fly with a fierce shot, which flew narrowly
past the corner-flag. The half-time whistle blew, and all the players took
their well-earned refreshments of half an orange.
The Staff now looked
refreshed, and began the second half backpedalling keenly. The School had now
sensed the Staff's renewed enthusiasm, and put Finch back in goal and moved
Rowles upfield. The School eventually worked themselves right on top, when
suddenly a defensive lapse left Mr. Williams with a splendid opportunity to
make a name for himself; however, he managed to kick the air, the grass and one
of his own players, but unfortunately not the ball, and the Staff had lost
their chance to stage a come-back.
In the later stages
Wignall managed to miss several excellent chances, superbly schemed by
Thornley, but nevertheless, the School coasted to a 2-0 win.
The Staff were
defeated, but not downhearted, and fervently hope to reverse the result next
time. Well, we'll see!
A. Draper, 6LA
THE FIELD WEEK, 1966
(BIOLOGY)
This year's Field Trip
took us to
We all resided in the
Abbey House, commanding a delightful view, but rather inconveniently situated
on the crest of a hill, a mere one hundred and ninety-nine steps removed from
the town below.
Our first trip out was
to Westonby Moor, to study the low-lying vegetation of the bogs. Our studies
were hindered, much to our frustration, by a mild blizzard. Nevertheless, we
were thrilled to find the beautiful polytrichum commune — a moss. The rest of
the day was spent fossil-hunting on
On the following day
we all went to Flamborough — the biologists to make a survey on quantitative
ecology, that is — the percentage frequency of different plants. This took
place actually on the Head. Freezing weather conditions and an R.A.F. rescue
operation could not deter us from our absorbing research, and, having thrown
our quadrats innumerable times, we came to the conclusion that Wild Carrot was
the commonest plant on that chalky ground, with grass coming second.
The
All evenings were
spent diligently in the Common Room-the only place of refuge from the cold, but
there was always time for relaxation in the town below, before going to bed in
the early hours.
Our next trip to was
Sandsend, about three miles up the coast. We picked the wild flowers of the
wayside and hedgerow, of woodland and river-bank. Back at the Guest House we
identified these plants by means of taxonomy — a long and arduous task.
The sun appeared on
our last day. The coach took us to Robin Hood's Bay, where we examined the
different zones of the beach at low-tide. Specimens vary in these zones. We
found in the rock-pools starfish, sponges, sea-anemones, hermit crabs and
ragworms. Three large brilliantly-coloured lump sucker fish caught our
attention in one pool. The red one, evidently devoid of natural instinct,
allowed us to drag it on to dry land, and did not resist even when having its
photograph taken. Higher up shore were the inevitable fossils.
This was, in my opinion, the most enjoyable trip, because we saw so many things which we had heard about but never before seen.
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