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Week beginning Monday 14 March
Cheshire Schools U19 Badminton Tournament
In this year's tournament, held at King's,
we entered two teams and played against five other teams - Helsby,
Wilmslow, Bishop's Blue Coats, and Sir John Dean's A and B.
The King's A team played well and proceeded to the final. Even
after a "magical" performance by the team we lost the final to
Sir John Deans A to come runners up again, as we have for the past
few years. The team consisted of Andrew Brown, Tristan Thomas,
Phil Harvey and Joseph Lam.
There was a good performance by the younger,
less experienced B team - Matthew Wilkinson, Peter Johnstone,
Michael Hau and Simon Younger.
National Schools Hockey Championship
The school played Millfield in the national
quarter finals at Belle Vue, Manchester. With our captain badly
injured and barely able to walk we knew it was going to be tough.
The King's team was out-played by a very strong side and eventually
lost 6-2. Our goals were from William Mumme-Young (penalty)
and Ben Crooks.
Although we were well below par it was a commendable
effort under the circumstances and completed a fine season for
the team. To
put the performance into perspective Millfield had only conceded
1 goal in 9 matches to reach the quarter finals.
English Schools' Basketball Competition
The sixth form basketball team competed in the last 16 of this tournament, held
in Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Red Nose Day
The total raised so far by last Friday's
events is £548.
Week beginning Monday 7 March
National Schools Hockey Championship
The U18 boys' team has drawn Millfield
School in the quarter finals. The match is to take place on Sunday
13 March at Belle Vue, Manchester - the venue for the Commonwealth
Games. The team would very much appreciate support. The standard
will be very high and the match will be well worth watching.
Details are available from Mr Price.
Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships
This was held at Castle Park, Frodsham. Siobhan Barnard finished
8th in the Minors, Girls. This placed her 3rd in Cheshire and
1st in Chester and District. George Cope finished 10th in the
Minors, Boys. This placed him 3rd in Cheshire and 1st in Chester
and District. James Ellis finished 23rd in the same category
as George. This placed him 8th in Cheshire and 2nd in Chester
and
District.
Poppy Appeal Award
The school has received a framed certificate in ackowledgement
of our contribution to the 2004 Royal British Legion annual appeal.
Week beginning Monday 28 February
World Schools' Ski Championships
Piers Lomax and Thomas Doerr represented
England in the championships held at Windischgarsten, Austria,
in February.
North West Schools Hockey Championship
The U18 boys team won the final against Merchant
Taylors by an amazing 9 goals to 0.
International hockey
William Mummé-Young has been selected
for the England U18 team and played in the starting eleven in a
recent international
in Spain.
William follows a long line of brothers
who have captained the King’s 1st XI and have gone on to play at the highest level.
Their contribution to King’s school hockey has been immense
and they have inspired some golden years for the King’s 1st
XI taking us to the national finals four times during their combined
captaincies. We hope that William can help achieve the same feat
this season (no pressure!).
KSPA donation helping to equip the new music school
The Parents’ Association have made a magnificent donation
towards equipping the recording studio in the New Music School.
The funds will allow
the purchase of a Mackie 16 channel mixing
desk, aYamaha portable 8 channel digital recorder, a
Motu computer interface
Drawmer Compressor, Lexicon effects units, and AKG and Audio Technica
vocal, instrumental and drum kit microphones.
Recent achievements by members of the
RAF section of the CCF
Gliding scholarships have been awarded to Corporal Aaron Ferguson
and Junior Corporals Amanda Scott and James Marsden. These cadets
will attend a week-long course at an RAF Gliding School where
they will learn to fly a glider up to solo standard.
Corporal Adam James has been awarded a two-week
RAF Flying Scholarship which will allow him to train up to solo
standard
on board a powered
aircraft. Corporal Aaron Ferguson has been awarded the Royal Navy
Special Flying Award in the powered category. This is a two-week
course allowing him to develop his flying skills in a powered aircraft.
Tsunami fund-raising
The total, including the Junior School's
contribution, is now in excess of £3600.
Week beginning Monday 21 February
Young Enterprise awards
Fumi had a very successful day at a trade
fair held in Warrington, coming away with three awards.
Half term rowing events
Members of the rowing club were busy taking part in several events.
National Schools
U13 Mini Hockey Tournament
This took place at Altrincham Grammar School
for Girls. Our team came away as winners
of the plate tournament.
Week beginning Monday 7 February
Ski team
The school had a team competing in the British
Schoolboys' Races in Les Menuires, France. There were many excellent
performances
from the members of the team and they came very close to winning
overall.
Tsunami fund-raising
The total currently stands at £2350,
and if we include the Junior School's contribution it exceeds £3000.
The photos below show Mr Hackett's sponsored beard removal
(the sacrifices some people make!) and the Marsden-mind quiz,
a titanic intellectual battle between students and staff.
Successful day at The "Wycliffe Big Head"
King’s rowers were dominant at their
first competition of 2005 held on the Gloucester-Sharpness canal.
The
event attracts most major
schools and universities from the western side of the country.
Despite strong opposition from Bristol University, Radley College
and King’s School Worcester, our 1st VIII was in unbeatable
form here, retaining the event’s “Head Crew” title,
setting a new course record in the process.
Tennis champion
On Saturday and Sunday of last
week Chris Hales (RmJM) came first in the Ariel U12 tennis tournament.
On his
way
to victory he beat the UK number 9 in the U13 age group.
County Cross Country Championships
The races were held at Reaseheath College, Nantwich on Saturday
5 February. In the Minor (Yr 7) Girls race Siobhan Barnard came
6th. In the Minor (Yr 7) Boys race George Cope came 6th and James
Ellis 10th. In the Senior (Yr 12/13) Girls race Amanda Scott
came 12th and Katriona Boyd 13th.
Trinity College of Music Examination Results
In the recent examinations one student passed grade 7, four students
passed grade 6, four passed grade 5, two passed grade 4, two
passed grade 3, three passed grade 2, and six passed grade 1.
There were ten merits and two distinctions.
Hockey finalists
After comprehensively defeating
Cockermouth School 11-0 the 1st XI progress to the North West of England finals
on Sunday 27 February.
Football - U13 District Cup
A 3-2 victory against Catholic High School mid-week earns the team
a place in the semi-final.
Week beginning Monday 31 January
Chester and District Basketball Championships
The sixth form basketball team won this event,
held at Christleton High School last Wednesday. The team beat Catholic
High, Christleton
and Upton High to win the championship. The team has also reached
the divisional stages of the English Schools' competition.
The team consists of Richard Budzynski, Mike
Davies, Tom Doerr, Chris Martland, Glyn Morrice-Evans, Tata Mbako,
Andrew Brown, Robert Wildman and Matthew Pipe.
Tsunami appeal fund-raising
events
Members of the school approached last
week's fund-raising efforts with impressive enthusiasm, initiative
and generosity. The total raised is expected to be about £2000.
Week beginning Monday 24 January
Tsunami appeal fund-raising
events
Various events are planned for this week
and some have already taken place.
- members of the fifth form raised £200 by washing
cars last Saturday
- George Marks, Oli Greening and Ben Cooke (of
the fourth form) raised £300 with a sponsored walk to school
on Monday morning, leaving
Tattenhall at 6:00 (am!) and reaching school at 8:53
- there will be a cake or sweet sale in the
hall at morning break every day this week
- the Marsden-mind quiz will take place at 1:15
in the hall - students can watch their peers take on the best
brains on the staff in a battle for the coveted Marsden-mind
title
- on Thursday lunch-time there will be a Pop
Idol (or is it the X-Factor?) audition - talent will be assessed
by our own Simon Cowell (Mr Wheeler), Sharon Osborne (Mrs Gareh)
and Louis Walsh (Ed Lister of U6JL)
RAF helicopter visit
There was great excitement when an RAF Squirrel
helicopter landed on the playing fields at the King’s School
at lunchtime on Friday, 21 January. The helicopter had come
from the Defence
Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury. After being taught the
basics about helicopters by the pilot, members of both sections
of the CCF were allowed to look around it.
Duke of Edinburgh
awards
Silver awards have been achieved by James
Clulow (L6BH), Alex Fennell (L6CH), Richard Fletcher (L6CH) and
Andrew Norman (L6SW), and bronze awards by Philip Bowyer (5FV),
Chris Clarke (5FV), James Ecroyd (5WB) and Sean McMahon (L6SW).
Week beginning Monday 17 January International athlete
Mr Jones the maths teacher was seen on BBC Grandstand on Saturday
afternoon taking part in the Great Edinburgh Cross-Country Event
- an internatiunal event in which olympic athletes took part.
ISFA U16 selection
Congratulations to Jonathan Bedford (5DL)
who has been selected to represent the ISFA on this season's
tour to Italy at Easter. Fixture details are still to be confirmed
but the team will be based in Rimini on the Adriatic coast.
Week beginning Monday 10 January
County hockey finals
Both the U14 XI and the 1st XI reached these
finals and played very strong teams from Altrincham school on Saturday
8 January. The U14s were beaten
7-1 and the 1st XI won 3-1.
As county champions the 1st XI will play
in the north west semi-finals. These are to be held at the school
on 6 February.
Tsunami appeal fund-raising
It has been decided by the charities committee (consisting of form
charities reps) that money raised would be used to support an
orphange in Sri Lanka as part of a project involving a large
number of independent schools in the UK. Part of the money will
go to buying boats and other things that will help them to rebuild
their livelihoods. We hope to suppport the orphanage in the longer
term and to build up relationships with communities in the area.
Cipher Challenge results
The Challenge consisted of three encoded
messages of increasing difficult. Message 1 was cracked independently
by Alex Hinchliffe (4MP) and Elliot Carty (3KL) (along with,
of course, numerous members of staff). But congratulations go
to Fred Deas (ShSO) for the first correct submission. Messages 2 and 3 were cracked by Ming-Chee Chung
only half an hour after the challenge was published. Mr Browett
writes "look on his works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Week beginning Wednesday 5 January (start
of term)
Shells' sponsored ergothon
A total of £234.34 was raised by
the pupils who took part in the event, and on Wednesday 5th January,
the cheque was received by Lady Edwina Grosvenor on behalf of
the Esther Benjamins Trust. She about to embark on a 3 month
stint in Nepal doing work for that charity, and having briefed
the School in assembly on the nature of the charity's work she
plans to return to us after her visit to discuss how the money
has been spent.
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