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For the second
time in three years, Whitchurch High School has been crowned as the
Reading Champion of South Wales and the West.
In the Kids Lit
Quiz for South Wales, held on November 15th at Howell’s
School, Llandaff, Whitchurch’s team triumphed over another 28 teams,
from as far afield as Bristol.
The team was made
up of Sherna Adenwalla, Eleanor Barton, Bethan Candlin and Eleanor
Matthews, each from Year 8, all of whom had earned their places by
competing in knockout quizzes through the past two terms.
Another Whitchurch
team, comprising Eluned Williams, Gareth Lee, Nic Gibbs, Gareth
Davies, Rhys Thorne and Joe Lewis, also competed well.
After 100
questions, the Whitchurch 1 team had scored 80.5 from a possible
total of 110. They had won four of the ten rounds of the
competition, on subjects such as Mythical Creatures, Horror, Pop
Culture and Glorious Food.
Quizmaster Wayne
Mills announced them as champions with the comment:
‘They’ve beaten the 80 mark and it doesn’t happen
often.’
The margin of
victory was impressive; three points ahead of Bristol Grammar School
in second place, and a further eight points ahead of the team that
finished third, last year’s champions from Cardiff High.
It made them the
second team from Whitchurch to win the title, following Dave Heslop,
Tom Skirrow, Tom Pacey and Hoda Fahiya (now in Year Ten) two years
ago.
Most excitingly,
this now means an invitation for Whitchurch to compete in the
National Kids Lit Quiz final in Newcastle on December 3rd,
This will be the third time on five years that the school has
qualified to compete at a national final level, making reading one
of our most successful areas for competition.
The four students
will fly to Newcastle on the morning of the event, and then return
the same evening. They are only one quiz away from reaching the
World Final, to be held in 2008.
Thanks go to Mr
Brown and Miss Edwards, without whose efforts over the past year
this triumph for the school could not have been achieved. |
