Recycled Fashion Show

On Wednesday 15^th May we took five year 8 girls to The Space in Wakefield to take part in Wakefield Councils annual Recycled Fashion show – an event that celebrates recycling across the district. The girls had spent the last four weeks designing and making their dress for the event.

The dress the girls had designed looked really professional. The theme they had chosen was the recycled bride, so they had made an outfit using recycled denim jeans to make a bodice with a corset style back using ties generously donated by the male members of the technology department – it was surprising what monstrosities were hidden away in the closets of Messer’s Ridgeway and Burgess! For the accessories they used recycled tin cans that had been gathered from around school and they were fashioned into an artificial bouquet and tiara.

The rehearsal went well, and for the main show in the evening the girls pulled out all the stops, competing well with schools that had attended last year. Although we didn’t come in the top three all the girls had a great time and are really looking forward to passing on what they learnt to next year’s team.

John Gregory

It’s been a superb last 2 weeks for sport at Minsthorpe

We have been involved in 7 cup finals in last 2 weeks and won 4 trophies!! The results of these finals are as follows with a photo of the Captains from each of the trophy winning teams.

Year 11 Rugby Wakefield  Division 2 Cup Final v Freeston lost 14-12

Year 10 Rugby Wakefield Division 2 Cup Final v De Lacey won 60 -0

Year 8 Rugby Wakefield Division 1 Cup Final v Castleford TBA

Year 8 Football Wakefield Cup Final v Hemsworth lost 4-2

Year 8 Football Wakefield League Play Off Final v Kettlethorpe won 2-0

Year 10 Wakefield Cup Final v Castleford won 5-1

Year 10 Football Wakefield League Play Off Final v Kettlethorpe won 2-1

These are not the only successes in sport this academic year. To date our successes are:

Year 11 Wakefield 5 a side Football Champions

Year 8 Wakefield 5 a side Football Champions

Year 7 Pontefract indoor 5 a side Football Champions

U13 Girls Pontefract and Castleford 8 a side Football Champions

U16 Wakefield girls badminton champions

U14 Wakefield boys table tennis champions

U12 Wakefield girls table tennis champions

U12 girls silver medallists at Youth Games

U15 mixed touch rugby Wakefield Champions

Year 11 Wakefield rounders champions

U14 Wakefield and surrounding districts gymnastic festival runners up

Well done to all students involved in all these successes and also a big thank you to all staff for giving up their time to take these teams.

John Gregory

The local community has been coming to terms with the tragedy of last Friday and the College has been no exception. On Monday morning we had extra support in place for those who needed it and we have maintained this throughout the week.

Students in our upper years were amongst those most affected and on Thursday in Post 16 assembly, some students sang “A Thousand Years” in tribute to Bethany. Although not a student at Minsthorpe, Bethany had a lot of friends at the college.

As part of the co-ordinated community response, we have brought forward our termly non-uniform day to May 17^th and the proceeds will be donated to the respective Air Ambulance teams who responded to the accident. Please see our ‘Homepage’ for details.

Our thoughts, best wishes and prayers go out to Beth’s family and all those affected by this tragedy.

John Gregory

Hola Barcelona!

During the Easter Holidays the Year 8 football squad went on a football tour to Barcelona. When we landed at Barcelona airport, the pilot thanked everyone for travelling with British Airways and then wished Minsthorpe Community College all the best in their football tour !!!

We had 3 tense and exciting games against the Spanish teams, the highlight being a 4-3 victory over Saint Feliu. This is the first time in eight years of running this trip that we have secured a victory. The squad should be very proud of this achievement.

We had a tour around the Nou Camp stadium, the home of Barcelona Football Club which included going into the changing rooms, going pitch side and going into the press box. We saw Barcelona beat Mallorca 5-0 in La Liga, what an experience this was sat in 90,000 seater stadium !!!.

We spent a day at Port Aventura, one of the biggest theme parks in Europe. We spent time playing golf, table tennis, snooker, water polo and also spent some time on La Ramblas bartering for gifts to take home to our friends and families.

The students that went were a credit to the college, their parents and themselves both on and off the pitch. Well done year 8 football squad, Mr Mann was very proud of the way you conducted yourselves.

John Gregory