Beech House School

Date published: 11 March 2010

Syed Ali, Issmaeel Ansari, Harrison Groome and Ryan Matthews represented Beech House School at the Regional Finals for the UKMT Team Maths Challenge. Together with Mr Bauer they travelled to Manchester for a day of exciting and challenging Mathematical tasks. There were 26 schools represented that day and our team did very well. It was a good experience and enjoyed by all.

Beech House School also took part in the individual Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. The pupils who took part were Jing Shun Huang who received a Silver certificate and a “Best in School” certificate, Ellis Greenwood – Silver Certificate and Arifah Tahir – Bronze Certificate. The following pupils also participated: Faiza Deane, Ben Hirst, Jacob Molyneux, Arifah Tahir, Ameer Ali, Salma Hussein, Jessica Timperley and Zeyad Hussein.

In the Divisional Public Speaking ‘YouthSpeak’ competition, the Intermediate team of Bethany Moat, Lydia Nightingale and Jessica Timperley were runners up. They now travel to Liverpool to participate in the Regional Finals. The Senior team of Jack Noon. Jason Scales and Aleem Tahir were placed in the top four.

Those readers of ‘The Times’ will have noticed in the Eureka section of the paper reviews of The Deep in Hull written by a number of Year 11 pupils.

Pupils from the Upper Prep Department travelled to Liverpool to listen to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They performed their ‘Back to the Future’ concert, which the pupils have been analyzing during their music lessons. They also managed to fit in visits to both cathedrals, a museum and the ‘bombed out’ church.

Beech House 4 – Waterloo Lodge 3
Match Report:

As the small schools football tournament league phase is ending Beech House needed a win against Waterloo Lodge School to ensure they progress to the next stage of the competition. As the game kicked of, Beech House looked the brighter team with crisp passing from Jack Noon and Alex Whittaker carving a couple of decent opportunities early on in the game. Alex Whittaker opened the scoring shortly after finishing a quality cross from Jacob Molyneux. Alex was soon on the score sheet again as he neatly flicked the second past a helpless Waterloo Lodge goalkeeper from a neat through ball by Jack Noon. Aleem Tahir and Ali Nawaz were a tower of strength at the back, shepherded by Jack Noon who commanded midfield throughout the first half. Waterloo Lodge weren’t out of it yet though and started to edge back into the game with some quality passing. The only thing Waterloo Lodge needed was a goal, they hit the post three times, the cross bar and Ben Hirst made some fantastic saves to keep the two-nil advantage, half time couldn’t come soon enough for Mr. Hargreaves. The second half saw the introduction of Dominic Nield who calmed the defence down and allowed Beech House to play football again. This resulted in a great run by Jack Noon taking on three Waterloo Lodge players before being brought down just outside the box. Jack Noon took the free kick himself and scored a peach of a goal. At three-nil anyone would have thought it was game over. It wasn’t. Waterloo Lodge took the ball from the restart and scored an easy goal straight away. The game was getting nervy, until a clever little chip allowed Jack Noon to burst through on goal. Jack took the ball away from the Waterloo defenders only to be brought down within the area. Jack stepped up to take the penalty and hit it directly into the top corner! Alan Shearer would have been proud of it! The score was now four-one but Waterloo rallied and with two quick goals they dragged themselves within two minutes of a draw, but Beech House held on in those dying minutes and took all three points.

All players played well during the game however the players of the match were; Ben Hirst for outstanding goalkeeping throughout the game and Alex Whittaker for quality finishing when it mattered. Well done boys! 

On Wednesday 17 March there will be a Year 8 and Year 6 Parents Evening. On Friday 19 March it will be our annual House Swimming Gala. It will take place at Central Leisure, Rochdale and will start at 9.30. All parents are welcome to attend.

Pupil of the Week:

• Nursery Zainab Ahmed
• Reception Joseph Bingham
• Year 1 Ali Salman
• Year 2 Gabriella Abbondandolo
• Year 3 Daisi Daniels
• Year 4 Mary Lou Taylor