Sports Day Etonbury’ s Annual Sports Day consisted of a range of track and field events for the students to participate in. Students represented their houses in these events and worked well together throughout the day. Sports leaders from Samuel Whitbread helped run the event alongside Etonbury staff. The students remained in high spirits all day and really embraced the challenges. The winning house this year was Thatchers. A massive well done to all who took part! Sports Leaders’ Event Etonbury held a Year 4 sporting event for pupils from the local Lower Schools. Sixteen Year 8 students acted as sports leaders and helped run the fun event. The sports leaders were excellent. They represented the school well and made the younger children feel really welcome. KS2 Athletics League Final. Etonbury’ s KS2 team competed in a league of 27 teams. The top teams, after three fixtures, went through to a final, to potentially win the league championship. These top teams included both our KS2 boys’ and girls’ teams. Our KS2 boys’ team finished 4th, missing out on 3rd place by 9 points. Our KS2 girls’ team finished joint 1st, 15 points clear of the next team. District Athletics Finals Usually at this competition we come away with 2 or 3 gold medals. This year we came away with 9 medals and a trophy! The KS2 Girls won their overall competition, taking home the trophy. This is an incredible achievement, two huge wins in one week, which is something we have never achieved before. Mr Bodger and Mr Rowland have put in countless hours coaching and their hard work has really paid off. Mr Morgan and his ICT boys also did an incredible job with data for both events.‘ Magic of the Musicals’“ Such a great performance. They did so well … their facial expressions capture the magic. Thank you.”“ Fantastic show last night. Thank you so much to all involved. Such a lot of talent in one school.”“ Looks like an amazing showcase.”( Parents from Etonbury) These are just a few of the comments received after the latest offering
Where Did That Saying Come From?
Under the Counter. This phrase originated during the Second World War, and describes a common practice among tradesmen. Many items were rationed during the war and dishonest tradesmen would keep articles and foodstuffs that were in short supply out of sight or‘ under the counter’ for sale to favoured customers at inflated prices. from Etonbury Performing Arts. Singing and dancing extracts from‘ Annie’,‘ Fame’ and‘ West Side Story’ captivated a capacity audience. Months of hard work, rehearsing and behind the stage skills were put to the test and the audience was delighted. Years 4 and 5 were treated to a morning performance and the rest of the school was entertained the next day. We look forward to the next amazing production in the autumn. The Queen’ s 90th Birthday Celebration. To celebrate the Queen’ s 90th birthday, Key Stage 2 took part in a street party at school with a picnics that where brought from home. Students had a great time spent with groups of their friends talking and laughing! There was a cardboard cut-out of the Queen, which everyone had their photo taken with in their form with their teacher. The area was decorated with bunting, which had been made individually by pupils earlier in the day, and red, white and blue balloons. Everyone had an amazing time. Crowns and cakes helped to say Happy 90th Birthday Queen Elizabeth. LAMDA LAMDA pupils and our choir performed at Samuel Whitbread Academy Arts Festival on Monday 4th July. This was a great opportunity to be involved in and showcase developing talent at Etonbury. Congratulations from Miss Barnett and Mrs Limb. EACA Summer Sounds‘ Summer Sounds’ recently held their annual music festival at Etonbury Academy. The acts included a number of pupils singing and dancing to an appreciative audience, despite the rain showers. Local bands and youth talent were also showcased. There was also a number of craft stalls and various food outlets including a Hog Roast. We would like to thank all those that attended and enjoyed themselves. Please look out for our next event – EACA Quiz Night in the Autumn. This proved a very popular event in the early Spring. Extreme Mountain Bike experience Etonbury were lucky enough to have Danny Butler from the Extreme Mountain Bike Show, perform a stunt show in school. This amazing day was a prize from‘ Sustrans’, which Etonbury won as part of the National Sustrans Competition. We were one of the top 3 schools, achieving high scores in the number of pupils either cycling or scooting to school within a defined period. by Peter Land
To Show a Leg. It is a navel phrase and was the traditional alarm call used to rouse the hands from their hammocks. In the Nineteenth century women were allowed to sleep on board ship when it was in port. At the cry of’ Show a leg’ if a women’ s leg was dangled out of the hammock she was allowed to lie in, but if a hairy leg appeared the rating had to get up.
Sweet Fanny Adams. This expression is ambiguously used to mean nothing at all. In fact it has a tragic origin. Eight year old Fanny Adams was raped and murdered in 1867 and her dismembered body thrown into the river. The Royal Navy adopted the poor girl’ s name as a synonym for tinned stewed mutton which was first issued at this time and which was scarcely edible. Sweet Fanny Adams became, as a consequence, a phrase for anything worthless.
Suck it and See. Now said of anything experimental, the saying originally alludes to taking a pill which had to be sucked first to see if it worked. It was popularised by Charles Naughton of the Crazy Gang in the 1930’ s who used it as a catchphrase in the music halls.
To Give Short Shrift. To treat someone unsympathetically, without heeding mitigating arguments.. Shrift is a confession to a priest and‘ short shrift’ refers to the few minutes left to a convict between condemnation, confession and execution.
To Come up to Scratch. To be fully prepared for anything. Good enough to pass the test. Taken from the rules of prizefighting published in 1839. When a fighter was knocked down he was given a total of 38 seconds to make his way unaided to a scratch mark in the centre of the ring. If he failed he had‘ not come up to scratch’ and lost the bout.
Put a Sock in it! A plea to make less noise. The phrase comes from the end of the nineteenth century when the early gramophones or phonographs had large horns through which the sound was amplified. These instruments had no volume controls, so a useful way of muffling the sound was to‘ put a sock in it’.
All Singing all Dancing. From an advertisement for the first Hollywood musical Broadway Melody in 1929, when sound first came to the movies. It was re-popularised in the 1970’ s by computer companies advertising the superiority of their software.
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