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Week beginning Monday 24 July

International rowing selection
Alex Berry (L6CR) was selected to represent Wales in the Junior Men's team for the Home Countries International Regatta in Scotland on 22 July. This year's team was the most successful Junior Men's team for many years.

Week beginning Monday 10 July

Tie design competition winners

The arts tie is on the left and the sports tie on the right.

Congratulations to Andrew Norman and Matthew Ireland for their terrific design work. These ties combine elements of their work and, although similar to the usual school tie, can be distinguished by the broad gold band. The design for both ties is the same but a clever colour variation signifies the difference between arts and sports.

Tennis honours
The senior tennis team (Robert Wildman, Abbas Bowen, Sam Salt, James Barber and Richard Budzynski) reached the finals of the National Schools Tennis Championships. They competed last weekend in London, beating Marlborough College 4-2 in the first round. This put them through to the last 16 schools in the country. They lost to Loughborough Grammar school in the next round but are to be congratulated on this excellent performance. See the tennis results page for a more detailed review and photos.

Ernest Didehvar-Sadr (RmSG) won the Chester and District Year 7 singles competition.

Sam Salt (L6DP) and James Barber (5PN) reached the British Schools U16 Northern Region Final. This was played at Bolton. They lost in a very closely fought final to Lymm High School.

Outstanding cadet's awards
Aaron Ferguson (U6CH) has achieved many awards duyring his career in the King's CCF: a Gliding Scholarship; a Royal Naval Special Flying Award; a (very rare) pass with distinction and "Best Cadet" award at the Air Cadet Leadership Course; selection to visit Israel as part of the Air Cadet Exchange; runner up for the Sir John Thomson Memorial Sword (the highest award open to the 9700 CCF (RAF) cadets in the UK; and a "Geoffrey de Havilland Flying Medal" for achievement and a Certificate of Outstanding Service to the CCF from the Commandant, Air Cadets.

UK Junior Mathematical Olympiad
Siobhan Barnard (ShTK) has been awarded a Certificate of Distinction and a bronze medal, representing a performance in the top 25% of entrants. The Olympiad is extremely challenging and entry is by invitation - only 1200 of the 250000 sitting the Junior Mathematics Challenge are selected. Her Certificate of Distinction is therefore a tremendous achievement, ranking her in the top 300 mathematicians in her agegroup.

Testimonial cricket match for Mr Price

North of England Tennis Championships
On Saturday 8 July two pairs of Under 12 tennis players travelled to Pocklington, Yorkshire for the North of England Tennis Championships. The no. 2 pair Khetan Dhital and Sion Parry beat the no. 1 pair from Scarborough College by 10 games to 3 in the first round, but were beaten 10-4 in the second round by Marden High School.

The no. 1 pair from King's, Ernest Didehvar-Sadr and James Barnard, progressed to the Final with victories over Longcroft School, Sedgefield Community College, Marden high School no. 2 pair and Marple Hall School. Unfortunately they were defeated in the Final by Pocklington School but they are to be congratulated on a very fine overall performance in the tournament and o being the eventual runners-up.

Great Britain rowing trials
Several members of the rowing club have been selected to join GB crews. See the rowing club page for details.

Week beginning Monday 3 July

Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Royal Regatta is the final event in the KSRC season, which has seen over 90 rowers competing in events up and down the country.

The Princess Elizabeth Cup at Henley is the prestige event for Schoolboy rowing.  This year 38 crews entered, including all the best British Schools and 6 of the top crews from the USA.

This year the 1st VIII reached the final of the Princess Elizabeth Cup for the first time ever.

More details and a photo of the successful crew are on the Rowing Club page.

Duke of Edinburgh Awards
Silver and bronze awards have been won by nine Lower Sixth students. Siver awards go to Richard Thomas, Liam West, William Orchard, Peter Walker, Christopher Clarke and Seb Deering, and bronze awards to Alex Berry, Lewis Croft and William Scott.

St Bees Military Skills Contest
Charles Corcoran (4DL), Justin Witter (4MH) and Ed Hind (3SO) won this competition as part of a team with Birkenhead CCF.

The competition tested a wide range of skills including observational skills, first aid with multiple casualties, shooting, orienteering and a tug of war. The team performed superbly throughout to beat the seven other teams. As well as being overall winners the team won the tug of war comprehensively.

Chess champion
Bharat Sharma (RmSG) was winner of the recent Chester Junior Chess Club tournament.

Week beginning Monday 26 June

Cambridge honours
Fred Owen (left 2004) has been awarded a Blue for cricket. He has already distinguished himself with his performances this season and will play in the Blues Varsity Matches. Fred's brother Edward (left 2002) and Ben Turner (left 2005) are members of the Cambridge second team. Visit the Cambridge University Cricket Club website for more details.

Tom James (left 2002) will be next year's President of the Cambridge Boat Club. Visit the Cambridge University Boat Club website.

Week beginning Monday 19 June

Chester Music Festival and Chester Youth Orchestra
The following students at King's were class winners at the Festival, which was held at the school:

• Michael Cannon - Open piano solo (19th-century French composers)
• Michael Cannon - Open piano solo (Bach & Scarlatti)
• Simon Bate - Open brass solo (City of Chester Brass Band trophy)
• Simon Bate - U16 composition class
• Selim Ungut - U12 Piano solo (Slaney Cup)
• Simon also came 2nd in 2 classes and 3rd in 2 further classes!

Tatsuhiro Nomaguchi and Hiroshi Amako have successfully auditioned for the Chester Youth Orchestra, joining Simon Bate and Emily Lee who are already members.

Heads of Year appointments
With the growth of the school and the importance attached to our pastoral care of pupils the headmaster has made the following appointments:

• Mrs Gareh as Head of Year 7 (Removes)
• Mrs Meredith as Head of Year 9 (Thirds)
• Mr S Parry as Head of Year 10 (Fourths)
• Mrs Hollingworth as Head of Year 11 (Fifths)

These appointments should be recognised as an extension of the pastoral system within those year groups.

Trinity College Music Examinations
A total of 31 awards have been made following the recent examinations. They cover the whole range of grades and a wide variety of instruments, as well as singing. Miles Rosen achieved a distinction in grade 8 drum kit. There were 10 other distinctions, 16 merits, and 4 passes.

Athletics
Our Junior Boys' (Removes and Shells) team performed extremely well to finish in the top eight schools in Cheshire in the ESAA Sainsbury's Track and Field Schools Cup.

Week beginning Monday 15 May

County cricket team selection
Thomas Pearson-Jones (3MB) has been selected to represent Cheshire in the U14 cricket team again this season. He has also been selected as vice-captain.

Week beginning Monday 8 May

Associated Board Music Theory results
Between them the 4 candidates achieved 3 distinctions (at grades 1 and 5) and a merit (at grade 3).

Week beginning Monday 1 May

Head of School team appointed
Next year's Head of School, Head of Girls and Head of Boys will be William Wilson-Theaker, Lauren Phillips and William Orchard, respectively.

Scholarship for gap year project
Caroline Brindle (U6BH) has been awarded a £500 Bulkeley-Evans HMC scholarship for her gap year project in Uganda. Scholarships are awarded to gap year projects taken up between school and university by boys and girls in HMC (The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference) schools. Awards are given to projects which are of benefit to the community of the country/countries visited during the year. The majority of awards go to boys and girls involved in projects in poorer countries or the poorer areas of other countries.

Caroline will be working as a secondary school teacher on a placement organised by Project Trust. She is organising a charity auction to take place on Saturday 13 May with a variety of attractive prizes to raise more funds for her project.

View a document giving more details of Caroline's project and auction . View the auction catalogue. Visit the Project Trust website.

Wateraid walk of solidarity
On Saturday 29 April about 50 students from the upper sixth walked around the centre of Chester in order to raise money and awareness for Wateraid, an international charity. Some members of the group carried buckets of water on their heads!

Through sponsorship money pledged in advance and donations from passers-by around £2000 was raised for the charity. Learn more about Wateraid and their work by visiting the Wateraid UK website.

Week beginning Monday 24 April

Badminton Champions
In the recent Chester and District Badminton League tournament, held at Christleton Sports Centre, Peter Johnstone (ShER) won the U15 boys' singles and then teamed up with Andrew Hales (4SP) to win the U15 boys' doubles.

Associated Board Music Examinations
27 students passed the examinations in various instruments at grades 1 to 5. 11 of the passes were at merit level and 3 at distinction level.

String quartet playing at a gala dinner
The recent spring concert (see a review and photos) showcased some of the outstanding musical talent currently in the school. So much so that it attracted police attention! A call came from the Chief Constable's office the following Monday requesting a string quartet to play at the gala dinner for the National Special Constables Conference.

Twelve year old Miriam Bowen (RmSG) with sixteen year olds Tatsuhiro Nomaguchi (5PF) and Emily Lee (5PN), duly answered the police call, ably assisted by violin tutor, Adrian Rushforth. The quartet gave a polished professional performance at the Crowne Plaza Hotel which was well received by all the guests including Cheshire's Chief Constable, Peter Fahy and special guest, The Duke of Westminster.

(from left) Tatsuhiro Nomaguchi, The Duke of Westminster, Chief Constable, Peter Fahy, Adrian Rushforth, Emily Lee and Miriam Bowen

RNLI fund raising event
The school band played at a Royal National Lifeboat Institution fund raising event at Eaton Hall. The organisers received very positive feedback to their performance from members of the audience.

Chemistry Olympiad
Alexei Makhort (L6KL) was awarded a gold medal, Andrew Norman (U6SW) a bronze medal, and Ming-Chee Chung (U6SD) a commendation.

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