Four of our pupils from Northfield School and Sports College competed in the Royal Lifesaving Society’s National Lifesaving Speed Championships at Ponds Forge, in Sheffield, on 9th and 10th March 2013, all achieving excellent results in their individual events.

Gwennan Thomas was placed 7th in the girl’s 12 – 14 years 100 metre obstacle event, where the swimmers have to swim 100 metres and dive under 4 gates that are placed in their lane. Gwennan also placed 10th in the 50m manikin carry.

Haf Thomas swam personal best times in all her events in the girls 12 – 14 year old category.

Dominic Munns was placed 16th in the boys 12 – 14 years 100 metre manikin carry with fins, where the swimmer has to swim 50 metres in fins, pick up a manikin and tow the manikin 50 metres.

Charlotte Thwaite swam personal best times in the girl’s 15 – 17 years 100 metre manikin tow, where swimmers swim 50 metres in fins with a torpedo buoy, fasten the manikin into the torpedo and tow the manikin to the end.

A successful weekend was had by them all.

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Well done to 5 Northfield pupils who represented Cleveland at the National Inter County Cross Country Championships held in Derbyshire. They all qualified in the final 12 in the Northern Counties Championships held at Lawrence Jackson school. The 5 pupils were Hannah Featherstone, Callum Martin, Liam Ferguson, John Smith and Stephen Raybould.

Mr Alderson states this years Cross Country team was the strongest team for along time and he was very proud of the schools achievements and in particular of the individuals running for Cleveland.

Pictured above is Hannah Featherstone and Callum Martin.

Northfield students have been awarded certificates for their hard work volunteering in the School Library. The certificates were presented by author and screenwriter Andy Briggs at the annual Student Librarian Awards Ceremony, which this year was held at The Princess Alexandria Auditorium, Yarm School.

Year 8 students Caitlin Bromley, Faye Capes, Jacob Cook, Tyler Cook, Cory Grey, Jessica Milburn, Leah Rushby, Charlie Smith and Georgina White received certificates for completing the Student Librarian Training scheme first award.

Year 11 students Victoria Hall and Shaun Laing were presented with the Special Recognition Award for five years dedicated and consistent volunteering.

The evening was enjoyed by students, parents, teachers and librarians from 17 schools across Teesside whose students all follow the training scheme which is unique to the area and last year endorsed by the National Literacy Trust.

41 pupils travelled to Ajax in Amsterdam during the Easter holidays. The pupils had 3 days football coaching at the famous Ajax Academy with high quality academy coaches. All the pupils developed their skills and understanding based on the Ajax ethos which is named TIPS, which means Technique, Insight, Personality and Speed. The pupils really enjoyed the training and also playing against local Dutch teams when they were encouraged to play out from the back into midfield which is encouraged throughout the Academy age groups and into the First team. Two Northfield teams won and one team lost.

The pupils also watched Ajax beat Hercules 4-0 in an exciting game at the Amsterdam Arena. Ajax are still top of the League and looks highly likely that they will win another Championship. We also had tours of the Amsterdam Arena and the Ajax Experience.

Mr Alderson has stated that the trip was the best football trip so far organised by Inspiresport, and that he was very proud of the all the Northfield pupils. All the pupils had a fantastic experience and they will remember it for the rest of their lives.

 To view pictures from the trip go to the gallery here

In February, Y10 were nominated for Stockton BC Young Person’s Community Award. This was in recognition of their successful Guinness World Record Attempt last July and how they achieved it. The school got a letter from The Mayoress’s office saying that Y10 had ben commended for their efforts and invited to attend a ceremony where the students would be awarded with a cerificate and a small token of appreciation. Along with Mrs Story the four students who attended were Oliver Robinson, Ben Harrison, Olivia Connor and Eleanor Davidson. They had a lovely evening meeting the Mayoress, getting the award and having some photos taken with her before being taken on a tour of her official chambers.

THE SCHOOL’S Under 16 Girls table tennis team achieved national acclaim by winning the English Schools National Championship at Hinckley on March 23rd.

Well done girls; Hannah Clark, Eleanor Davidson, Katie Barlow, Sophie Barlow, Amy Webster.

On Tuesday morning the year 7 reading group joined with a group of year 6 students from St. John the Evangelist Primary to meet author Liz Pichon. Having completed the Stockton Book of the Year reading scheme, the author meet and greet session was to reward students for all their hard work. Liz Pichon’s book Tom Gates Excellent Excuses was the Northfield reading groups favourite by far, so the group were really excited to meet Liz in person. She not only talked about the Tom Gates series but showed everyone how she creates the fantastic illustrations and taught the group how to re-create the cover of the Tom Gates books. There was also time to ask lots of questions and to have copies of her books signed.

NORTHFIELD School’s Table Tennis prowess once again came to the fore as the Year 7 and 8 boys team swept the board with gold medals at the Tees Valey School Games.

After losing the first game in the final at Darlingon’s Dolphin Centre the Northfield boys came back to beat Hartlepool’s Manor School 7-1 to clinch the gold medal.

In the disabled table tennis Year 9 student, Andrew Green also claimed  gold and silver medals to add to the school’s tally.

Pupils in year 9 will be taking part in BBC School Report 2013 today. (21st March).
Christopher Andrews, Nikitta Trainer, Abbi Liddell, Hannah Stothard, Sophie Larkin, Hannah Gee and Alicia Swales will be working with Mr Whem to produce their very own radio news broadcast, which will be used on the BBC website today.
After 4pm, go to the BBC website or the BBC School Report section of our school’s site or click here to hear the programme.