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Week beginning Monday 3 April
Senior Prefects for 2006-7
The following members of the Lower Sixth have been selected:
Fiona Barrow, Chris Blake, Michael Blake, Michael Cannon, Maris Elmore, William Fletcher, Pranav Khamar, Nicola Mollett, William Orchard, Lauren Phillips, David Reid, Hannah Sissons, Oliver Stratford, David Tattersall, Peter Walker and Will Wilson-Theaker.
Leipzig exchange visitors
Five students and a teacher from our exchange partnership school in Leipzig are visiting this week.
Success for Young Enterprise company "M"
The company's Audio Tour Guide to Chester, on CD, has earned the company more than £600 profit. It has been sold to local hotels and bookshops. The company has already won a Best Business Plan award and at last week's Chester Area Finals they added the Best Presentation and Best Company Report awards to their tally. They went on to be named Best Young Enterprise Company in Chester and Ellesmere Port.
They will now represent Chester in the Cheshire Area Finals in May. (There are more photos on the Young Enterprise page.)
Week beginning Monday 27 March
Charity non-uniform day
Students and staff are paying (a minimum of ) £1 to the charity fund for the privilege of wearing their own choice of clothes on Friday. This is part of a week of events raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust. For more in formation visit their website at www.teenagecancertrust.org
Week beginning Monday 20 March
King's 1st XI won the final of the Boodles ISFA Cup against Millfield School 2-1
Millfield scored after 7 minutes. Jack Minshaw equalised about 15 minutes later, and then scored again in the second half. With a tremendous team effort King's held on to the lead to take the cup.
U14 Girls' Cheshire Hockey Finals Tournament - Thursday 23 March 2006
The girls were runners up in this tournament. They lost out only because the winners, Queen's, had scored one more goal against one of the other teams.
Week beginning Monday
6 March
Flying visit
The CCF received a visit from a Lynx helicopter of 815 Naval
Air Squadron based at Yeovilton. Photos and report on the CCF
page.
Investor in People Award
King's has achieved the prestigious Investor in People award.
UK Intermediate Mathematical
Challenge
One hundred pupils from the third and fourth years were entered.
There were 195000 entries from across the UK. The school's entrants
acquitted themselves well with 43 qualifying for certificates:
5 gold, 19 silver and 19 bronze.
The best individual result was obtained by Jack
Webb of 3SO. His score of 105 put him in the top 0.2% of entrants.
He has been invited to attempt the next round; the Olympiad (Cayley).
George Kiff (4MH) and David Richardson (4SP) also
did well, gaining gold certificates and being placed in the top
1% of the entrants. They have been invited to take part in a Europe-wide
round IMOK (Pink Kangaroo).
Liverpool Mathematical
Society Competition
This event took place at John Moores University on Saturday 4 March and was
sponsored by Barclays. Both of the school's teams walked away with £50, even
with depleted numbers - three and four against other teams of five. Team members
were Andrew Norman, Chris Blake, Matthew Firth, David Tattersall, Omkar Vedpathak,
Pranam Khamar and Matthew Skues. The arrangements were made by Alexei Mackhort
but unfortunately the weather conditions prevented him from reaching Liverpool
to take part.
Charity
A little love was spread around the school on St Valentine's Day when over
forty carnations were delivered by the "Charity Cupids". More than £100 was
raised for Chester Aid to the Homeless.
Week beginning Monday
27 February
Snow keeps the school closed
Owing to transport difficulties the school had to be closed on Thursday 2 March. See some photos of the school under its snowy blanket.
ISFA U16 selection
Jack Minshaw has deservedly been selected to represent the full
ISFA Under 16 football squad against Rushden and Diamonds FC and on the tour to Budapest. Week beginning Monday
20 February
Half term holiday -
school closed
Week beginning Monday
13 February
Outstanding contribution
to the CCF acknowledged
Cadet flight Sergeant Aaron Ferguson (U6CH) has been awarded a prestigious
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland Flying Foundation Medal in recognition of his outstanding
contribution to the CCF at the school. Aaron and his parents have been invited
to attend the award ceremony at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in July.
U15 district 7-a-side
football finalists
The school team of Ben Lamont, Dylan Phillips, Jack O'Donnell,
Josh Rudge, James Hill, Rostam Osanlou, Reece Sadiq, Patrick
Fletcher and Tom McCormack reached the final after matches with
Queen's Park HS, Upton HS and Bishop Heber School. They then
lost 0-2 to Bishop's HS in the final.
Week beginning Monday
6 February
Saying it with flowers
Students are being offered the opportunity to send a card, message or flowers
to their Valentine for a mere £2. All proceeds will go to a local charity.
Flowers will be delivered by the "Charity Cupids" on Valentine's Day.
Week beginning Monday
30 January
Software developer
The successes of sixth former David Tattersall (L6KS) were featured
in an article in this week's Chester Standard. David has been
writing software in various programming languages for some years
now. One of his recent creations is "Unity", which adds new features
to The Game Creators flagship product "Dark Basic Professional".
You can view their website at http://www.thegamecreators.com
Another of David's products was launched in February
2005. "Clear skies" is an online game in which players set up and
manage their own airline in competition with other players worldwide.
Currently he is developing a website and online shop for a greetings
card business.
Victory in the Boodles
ISFA Cup semi-final
First half goals from Jack Minshaw and Robert Wildman saw the
1st XI through to the cup final. The final will be played on
Monday 20 March at the Walkers Stadium, Leicester. Kick off is
at 7pm. Our opponents will be last year's winners of the competition
Millfield School who defeated Hampton School 3-0 in the other
semi-final.
For information about the Walkers Stadium visit:
http://www.stadiumguide.com/walkersstadium.htm
For more information, photos, and latest news
of the Boodles
ISFA Cup vist the web site: http://www.isfacup.co.uk/
Cheshire
U19 Indoor Hockey Champions
The girls' first team defeated Upton Hall 2-1 in the final to win
the tournament.
Week beginning Monday 23 January
Prizegiving
Judge Elgan Edwards, Honorary Recorder of the City of Chester,
presented prizes to more than an hundred top achievers at the school's
annual prizegiving. The pupils had all achieved outstanding success
in the classroom, on the sports field, in the performing arts
or in dedicated service to the school and local community.
The school's top academic prize, the Westminster Medal, was won
by Owain Johnstone, Head of School 2004/5, who will be reading
English and modern languages at St Anne's College, Oxford after
completing his gap year.
In the photograph, left to right: Headmaster, Tim Turvey;
Emma Ross (prize for service to the school, now studying at Manchester
Metropolitan University); Richard Pawson (Brotherhood Award for
the greatest contribution to sixth form life and the prize for
religious studies, now studying at Bristol University); Rhodri
Owen (Head of School, lower sixth Latin prize who will read Law
at Cambridge) and His Honour Judge Elgan Edwards.
Rugby honours
Nick Jones, who captained the 1st XV in 2002/3, has succeeded in
the highly competitive world of university rugby and represented
Cambridge in the Under-21 varsity match at Twickenham in December
2005.
Nick is in his second year at Girton College,
reading Chemical Engineering. As well as school rugby, he also
played for Chester Rugby Club and represented Cheshire at Under
15 and Under 18 levels.
Unfortunately, Nick was on the losing side this
time. Oxford won the match 25-6.
Photograph: Nick Jones (with the ball) in the
U21 varsity match at Twickenham. Photo courtesy of Michael Derringer If for any reason you can't find what you are looking for have
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