Events
OW Sports Festival 2011 -
The morning after the morning after the night before...
For anyone who lasted the entire night, surely the lasting memory of Sports Festival 2011 was JJ flying the flag for the 'older generation' on the dance floor of Blast Off. For those who didn't make it that far... let's just say you were the lucky ones!
The OW Sports Festival on Saturday September 17th marked the ‘unofficial’ launch of the year of celebration marking the 500th anniversary of the school. It was fitting them that record numbers of OWs came back to the school to play football, netball and hockey and to re-live memories of their days at this remarkable school.
The sports festival was followed by the OW Dinner which, this year, saw the return of Big Band which really saw the evening go off with a swing - the rousing rendition of Jerusalem possibly being the finest the school has heard in a long, long time.
In terms of the competitions (once again all played in the spirit of the occasion): the OW Golf Tournament held at South Staffs Golf Club on Friday 16th was won by OW and WGS Governor Mr Robert Purshouse. The Football competition saw the 2009 First XI, captained by Mark Cartwright, secure victory , though all the plaudits must surely go to the Staff team for their brand of Total Football and for the goal of the tournament scored by a certain Mr M. Benfield. In netball, the current First VII took the title, beating the staff team in the final, whilst in hockey a strong tournament was ably supported by the OWA Hockey Association.
The Sports Festival and the evening dinner was a real celebration of everything the school stands for and the consensus is that it was a truly fitting way to 'kick off' the quincentenary year. And now we are looking to make a visual record of the day’s events from photographs taken by the school and more importantly from the imagery taken by OWs on the day(s) and evening activities.
So, if you have any photographs of any of the events, please send them to mark@wgs-sch.net and they can be uploaded into an expanding record of the festival on the WGS website.
Please send only those images you are happy to share with your fellow OWS and indeed the world,
and remember, the WGS is a ‘family site’ so we reserve the right to censor any of those that may not be appropriate (those of JJ engaged in any kind of dancing for example.)
A selection of photographs will also be included in the 2012 e-newsletter which you can register for by emailing Gail Evans: gail @wgs-sch.net.
Thank you for your continued support of this very special event, and don't forget, now that this year is over, we're already looking towards next year. The dates for which are as follows:
OW Golf Tournament - Friday 14th September
OW Sports Festival and Evening Dinner - Saturday 15th September
The 1990 Reunion - 20 years on!
On the afternoon of 24th April, almost 70 former students and staff came back to WGS to mark the 20th anniversary of leaving school. Members of the 'class 1990' came from the far flung corners of the globe (and Tettenhall) to reminisce and wonder where on earth the last 20 years went!
