On the 13th May, the Year 9 girls’ basketball team travelled to Wrexham to play in the Welsh Schools’ Basketball Final. Through their hard work and exceptional performance they managed to obtain 1st place! They also played two exhibition matches against club teams; Bromborough and Chester, whose players were two years their senior! They put up a fantastic fight against both teams and were complimented on their high standard of basketball by many coaches who observed their matches. All the girls thoroughly enjoyed the day and were outstanding representatives of Stanwell School. Special mention goes to; Rebecca Egerstrom, Tizzy Birch-Hurst, Georgia Atkinson, Shanice Donovan, Niamh Teague, Lucia Attanasio, Kelsey Murray, Amelia Rowlands and Sally Jones.

After several postponements due to bad weather conditions, our Year 11 football team were able to play the final of the Cardiff and the Vale football cup against Barry Comprehensive. It was a closely fought victory for our boys with the final score being 4-3 to Stanwell. All our four goals came from Sam Jones and goalkeeper Harry Roberts made two spectacular saves to keep Stanwell in the match. Congratulations to Sam, Harry and the other team members Scott Taylor, Sam Sellick, Curtis Boddy, Lloyd Phillips, Fraser Hodgkins, Joe Dyer, Max Bramhill, Myles Harding, Dan Spear, Dewi Fford, Liam Walker and Riyad Auckbarally.

On Wednesday 16th May, the Science department organised an interactive event for 120 Year 9 pupils. A team from Techniquest Cardiff arrived to lead workshop design session linked to this summer’s Paralympic Games. The theme was designing and building wheelchairs for extreme sports and pupils worked enthusiastically in their teams to produce and present their ideas.

We were very pleased to receive praise from the wider community for Year 9 pupils Tizzy Birch-Hurst, Milly Williams, Georgia Atkinson and Olivia Hamzelou. All four girls are sports enthusiasts who have taken Netball umpiring qualification courses in their spare time. They volunteered to act as umpires in the Year 6 Vale Primary Netball tournament held at St Joseph’s Primary School last week. The primary sector staff and the 5x60 Sports organisers were so delighted with the girls’ hard work and positive attitudes throughout the day that they bought them boxes of chocolates as a reward. Thanks to the girls for being great ambassadors for Stanwell.

Regular readers of our weekly updates will remember the outstanding performances of Year 10 and 11 pupils in the UKMT nationwide Maths Challenge. Our top performer was Balaji Krishna of Year 10 who scored 107 points out of a possible 135 and achieved a gold award and best in school prize. Subsequently, Balaji was selected for the higher section of the next round which consists of 6 questions for which written answers and explanations must be given in 2 hours. He managed to answer 5 in the time allowed and scored 42 out of 60 with 4 of his questions being marked 10 out of 10! In recognition of this, he has gained a distinction award and received a commemorative medal.

Barry YMCA in partnership with 'Its My Shout!' and the BBC are making a short film that will be screened on BBC Wales.

We are looking for enthusiastic Cast and Crew members to be part of this exciting Oppurtunity!

The first casting session is at Barry YMCA on May 24th from 4pm. All ages and abilities are welcome!

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