Category Archives: Senior Boys News
Physics Students Visit Jodrell Bank
On Friday last week a group of 30 year 9 Physics students visited the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire. Its main feature is an enormous 250ft tall radio telescope – the third largest moveable radio telescope in the world. During
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Lancashire Cricket Success for Three Former Pupils
Lancashire’s Second XI faced Yorkshire in their opening Second XI Trophy game of the season and featured three former Merchant Taylors’ pupils in their XI. The match took place at Scarborough Cricket Club and it was the second time that
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Y11 and L6 Receive Medicine Career Talk From Ex-Pupils
On Thursday we were joined by two former Merchant Taylors’ students, Dr Libby Wilson and Dr Nikhil Misra, who gave a talk on careers in medicine to Year 11 and Lower Sixth boys and girls. Dr Wilson is an Emergency
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Sefton Super Reads 2019
On Tuesday 26th March sixteen boys, Joseph Bigley, Charlie Johnson, Alex Meadows, James Randall, Zac Richardson, Sulaimaan Ahmed, Raiden Swindells, Matthew Hannon, Junior Connor, Hugh Lawrence, Rajan Naidoo, Harry Wynne, Buckley Loftus, Raveen Mallawa, Hemanth Bheemireddy, and Methul Gamage, went
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MTS pupil scores ‘genius’ MENSA mark
Twelve year old Darren Toh, who was born deaf, has been awarded the highest possible IQ score by MENSA, months after passing his GCSE Maths exam with a Grade 9. Darren did not speak until the age of five after
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Merchant Taylors shortlisted for Goldsmiths’ Company Award for Community Engagement
The School was shortlisted in recognition of the amazing work it does in our local community through the Merchants in the Community Project and School-wide fundraisers led by the School Council. Five of our Upper Sixth boys were asked to
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World Book Day 2019 – Tom Palmer
We were delighted to welcome Tom Palmer to help us celebrate World Book Day. In assembly he talked about the importance of reading, and how discovering new books inspires ideas for his stories. After an hour with all the junior school boys,
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MTS Combined Concert Band and SaxPac take part in ‘Music for Youth Festival’ in Rochdale
At an hour Mr Harrison did not know existed at the weekend, 57 pupils departed from Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School for the first competition involving the only recently formed Merchant Taylors’ Combined Concert Band and SaxPac at Rochdale Town Hall
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Drama and Spanish – Merchants Masterclasses
On Saturday 9th March we held a Spanish and Drama Masterclass. The girls involved learnt some Spanish phrases and put their language skills to the test by producing and performing a cafe scene all in Spanish! Their parents were invited
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Talking Minds – A Mental Health Symposium for Educators
Merchant Taylors’ is proud to be hosting “Talking Minds – A Mental Health Symposium for Educators” on Friday 24th May 2019 from 09.30 – 15.45. Keynote speakers include: Natasha Devon MBE Jonny Benjamin MBE Danny Sculthorpe Dick Moore The cost of
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