Wade Deacon's Year 10's finished runners-up for the third year running to Castleford High School in the Carnegie Champion Schools Final.  Alex Clare scored a fine individual try but Wade Deacon were edged out as Castleford scored three try's which all came from kicks.

Wade Deacon's Year 9 Girls' Team were valiant losers in a hard-fought game against two times Champions Castleford High School.  The Widnes Girls battled to the final whistle against a larger and more experienced team from Castleford.  However, it capped a fantastic season where they reach both the North West and the National Finals.

Wade Deacon's newly appointed Head Boy Aaron Leong is pictured with the Carnegie Challenge Cup Trophy.  Aaron and his Year 10 rugby league team mates will be hoping the Carnegie Champion Schools Trophy will be at Wade Deacon in September, as they face Castleford High in the Final on 28th August in London.

Wade Deacon's Mr Mitchell won the Halton Staff Golf Trophy for players with a Handicap of less than 19.  Mr Mitchell, who has a handicap of 14, won with a grand total of 41 points in the Stableford Event.  Mr Woan and Mr Critchley, who played alongside Mr Mitchell, finished with 27 and 26 points in the over 20 Handicap event.

Twenty five Year 7 pupils took the opportunity to do some Extreme PE on  Bikes and they voted with their wheels.  The boys raced around the school playing fields doing races and team games and begged Mr Woan and Mr Mitchell to let them do it again next lesson. 

Wade Deacon entered six teams in the English Volleyball Association Championships at Pontins, Southport.  Mr Mitchell & Mr Critchley's Year 7 teams were beaten semi-finalist in the Under 12 Boys Competition where Mr Woan's team won the Under 12 Plate Competition.  The Girls teams finished 6th, 7th and 8th in the Under 15 Girls Competition.

Wade Deacon's Jack Jones and Lauren Crowder thoroughly entertained the audience on their way to winning the Key Stage 4 Duo Category.  BTEC Dance students' Jack and Lauren were stand out winners at The Brindley. The Jai Ho Dancers finished in Runners Up position in the highly contested Key Stage 4 Group Category.

Wade Deacon's Year 7 & 8 Cricket teams have triumphed in the Halton "Chance To Shine" Cricket Tournament.  Two teams from Wade Deacon entered the tournament held on Astroturf at The Bankfield School.  Team A won the tournament with victory in the Grand Final and Team B won the 3rd Place Play Off after being narrowly beaten in the Semi Final.

Wade Deacon's Year 7 will be prominant in the forthcoming Cheshire Athletics Trials.   Callum Isbell, Rob Geraghty, Dan Richardson, Noah Robson, Sheldon Johnson, Adam Kirby, Adam Paul, Jonny Rigby, Khalil Borrowman, James Thomson, Shelby Jack, Helen Crowder, Emily Barrow, Charmaine Warnick and Sam Simpson have all qualified.

Wade Deacon's Year 7, 8 and 9 teams all won the Halton  Schools Rounders Tournaments for their age group.  Over 30 boys participated in the tournaments and Wade Deacon came out on top in all three Key Stage 3 year groups.

5 PUPILS REPRESENT HALTON IN GERMANY 

Year 8 pupils Ryan Morgan Joe Holian, Nathan Woodward, Daniel Langford and Luke Jones all travelled to Germany to take part in the Dynamo Football Cup.  The boys faced clubs from all over Europe and reached the Final where they were beaten on penalties by a team from Denmark.

Wade Deacon's Rebecca Preston raced to victory at the Cheshire County Athletics Championships at Macclesfield.  Rebecca won 100m sprint with an excellent time of 12.8 secs.  She was also selected to race for Cheshire in the Inter County Mason Trophy in Birmingham and the English Schools Championships at Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield. 

The Year 10  BTEC Dancers performed two Dances for Nursery pupils before teaching them a Lazy Town dance at Wade Deacon.  Over 30 Nursery pupils were beaming with smiles as the BTEC Dance class showed them the moves over the two sessions.

PUPILS ENJOY DIGITAL WORKSHOP AT LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT

A group of Year 9 pupils attended a Digital Workshop at Liverpool International Tennis Tournament.  The interactive workshop involved using different types of Apple software.  The pupils also had the opportunity to ask questions to former Wimbledon Referee Alan Mills and ex-professional Barry Cowan.

HALTON PE AWARDS FOR JAMES CATON & ALEX ELLISON

James Caton and Alex Ellison collected awards at the annual Halton PE & School Sport Celebration Event. James was presented with the Key Stage 4 Award and Alex picked up the Key Stage 3 Award for outstanding service to PE and School Sport at Wade Deacon.

DANCERS EXCEL AT HALTON PE & SCHOOL SPORT CELEBRATION EVENT

A group of talented Year 10 Girls produced a fantastic performance in front of a packed crowd at The Foundary.  The excellent rendition of 'Jai Ho' showed the positive effects of BTEC Dance being introduced this year into Key Stage 4 PE.

CARNEGIE CHAMPION SCHOOLS NATIONAL FINALISTS

The Year 9 Girls Rugby League Team will join the Year 10 Boys Team on their way to Wembley in August.  The Girls reached the National Final beating St Wilfreds of Wakefield 12-0 in the Semi Final at Hopwood Hall.  The Girls are the only Wade Deacon team to reach both the North West and the National Final this season.

LEWIS' ENGLAND TRY PROVES TO BE CRUCIAL 

Wade Deacon's Lewis Whitty crashed over in the final minutes of England Under 15s match against Wales Under 16s with the match winning try.  With five minutes remaining the prop forward dragged two would-be tacklers over with him to touch down.  England won the game 18-16 in what hopefully will be the first of many England appearances for Lewis.

GIRLS CARNEGIE NORTH WEST CUP FINALISTS 2009

Year 9's reached the Carnegie North West Cup Final.  Unfortunately, they met reigning Champions St John Fisher High School and narrowly lost.  It has been an excellent season for the girls who have progressed through three regional tournaments to reach the North West Final.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SUCCESS FOR WADE DEACON 

Mr Mitchell has organised an Inter Tutor Extra Curricular Competition and boys and girls have turned up in numbers to participate.  Each tutor group chose their team names which included the likes of Mitchester City, Golden Gauls and FC Critchley.  The matches are taking place every Wednesday from 3pm.

Wade Deacon's Shelby Jack took the Gold Medal at the Cheshire County Athletics Championships in May.  Shelby finished ahead of the pack in the 80m sprint with an excellent time of 11.4 secs.  She followed this up with a Bronze Medal in the 150m with a Personal Best of 21.2 secs. 

NATIONAL FINALISTS FOR THE FOURTH YEAR RUNNING

Wade Deacon's Year 10 made it four in a row as they beat Abraham Guest 20-4 in the Carnegie Champion Schools Semi Final.  They face Castleford High in the final for the third year in a row having won the competition in 2006 at Twickenham.

GIRLS FOOTBALL TEAM  CHESHIRE CUP CHAMPIONS

Wade Deacon's Girls Football Team were triumphant in the Under 16 Cheshire Cup Final with a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory.  The game finished 3-3 after extra time but Wade Deacon held their nerve and Nicole Finnigan made the crucial penalty save to win the trophy

YEAR 10 PUPILS EXCEL COACHING YEAR 8

Year 10 pupils studying OCR Sport have been coaching Year 8's during lessons.  The Year 10 group have planned and organised a Rugby Tournament for Unit 3 and are currently training up small sided teams of Year 8 pupils with great success.

CARNEGIE NORTH WEST CUP FINALISTS 2009

Year 11's reached the Carnegie North West Cup Final.  Unfortunately, they met reigning Champions Great Sankey High School.  It has been an excellent season for the boys who also reached the Carnegie Champion Schools Semi Final but lost out to eventual winners Airdale High.

REBECCA IS IN ENGLAND'S SPRINTING ELITE

After winning her heat at the Northern Indoor Athletics Championship in Sheffield,   Rebecca Preston finished in 8.21 seconds to claim 5th place in the 60m Final.  Rebecca who competes for Liverpool Harriers is ranked 12th in the UK at Womens Indoor 60m and her personal best is just 8.11 seconds. 

VOLLEYBALL TEAM ATTEND  PONTINS TOURNAMENT

Miss Broadhurst took  four Girls' Volleyball teams to Pontins Outdoor Volleyball Tournament in July '08.  The Under 15 team finished in third place and the Under 13 team were runners up in their competition.

GOLF SQUAD VICTORIOUS IN HALTON TOURNAMENT

Wade Deacon's Golf Squad were winners of Halton School Competition at Widnes Golf Club.  They also scooped four individual awards.  Astin Bell was overall winner, Joe Nolan achieved the Best Improvement on Handicap with Liam Orme scoring the lowest Gross Score and Tom Durbin was Runner Up of lowest Gross Score.

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Wade Deacon’s Year 7 also lost out to a devastating defeat. The boys defeated Maricourt 1-0 and St Mary’s 2-1 in the group phase. They then played Maricourt again in the play off but lost 1-0.

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