Oliver & Joseph Bigley, two brothers from the Junior and Senior Boys’ School, had a roaring success at the Wirral Speech and Drama Competition this weekend. The Wirral Festival is a key date in drama competition diaries as it has been running for over 50 years.
Both boys came home with a selection of trophies after beating stiff competition and winning their classes in verse, prose, a solo acting piece and a duologue acting section.
Both boys worked very hard on their pieces and are now starting work on their next LAMDA Exams before work commences on new pieces for the up and coming festivals at the end of the year. Well done boys!
On Wednesday 29th March the author of ‘Beetle Boy’ and ‘Beetle Queen’ MG Leonard came to talk to boys from Y5 and Y6 about her work. Maya, who has been long listed for the Carnegie Medal, was a very lively and entertaining speaker with a wide knowledge of beetles and their habits, including ones that squirted acid from their bottoms, which was of great interest to the lads. The talented writers from Y6 then took part in a writing workshop, which proved a great hit and inspiration for our budding authors. The boys were taken through the planning process of writing a beetle themed story, which they will continue in their writing lessons.
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The British Physics Olympiad has run national competitions in UK schools for 25 years to reward and challenge the best physicists. The exam papers stretch lateral thinking and encourage students to apply fundamental principles in novel situations. Of our pupils who took part in the GCSE Challenge paper, Mazin Karem achieved a silver award, placing him in the top 10% of students nationally. Bronze awards were achieved by Adam Weston, Raymond Win, Rahul Panikker, Abhinav Rajendron and Joe Saffer. Congratulations to all the boys who took part!
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On 26th March, Oliver Raw, Max Fitton, Harvey Baker, Adam Cousins and Monty Barr attended the British Schools’ Modern Biathlon Championships at Crystal Palace Sports Centre in London.
All boys did extremely well and competed against other schools in a 50 metre swim and 800 metre run.
Monty Barr had an outstanding performance coming 5th out of 97 competitors. An amazing achievement! Well done Monty! Very impressive!
Well done to all the boys who took part – it takes a lot of training and hard work to get here!
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Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School was delighted to welcome an outside speaker, Mr James Shone, to Crosby to speak to pupils, staff and parents on one of the biggest issues facing young people today – mental ill health.
James feels that ‘mental ill health is the new cancer of our young people today’ and believes passionately that it is very important for young people to learn how to make wise choices; “we can all learn so much from our mistakes and how to develop robust and wise decision making”.
James was a school teacher and house master, forced to quit teaching in 2013 following a brain tumour that left him without sight and his body partially disabled. Motivated by his desire to see children fulfil their potential, James set up the charity ‘I Can And I Am‘ and has spent three years visiting hundreds of schools to speak about his journey and the importance of inflating the balloon of self-belief.
James joins an eminent list of outside speakers who have visited the school as part of the Merchant Taylors’ Speaker Series. General Paul Nanson, CBE visited in September last year to address the school and local community on ‘Preparing the Leaders of Tomorrow,’ and Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore had visited six months earlier to deliver a presentation on ‘The Adolescent Brain’ where she mounted a strong defence for every teenager in Britain who has ever slammed a door, smoked a cigarette or driven a car too fast!
‘It is always a privilege to welcome specialists to our school to share their knowledge with our pupils, staff, parents and local community and James Shone is a truly remarkable man with an inspirational message’ said David Cook, Headmaster.
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The final of the Brigade’s National Table Tennis Competition which involves 6 teams – which are BB companies from England, Scotland and Ireland (2 from each) – and they battle it out against each other and compete to be National Brigade Champion. It is also our Battalion’s 125th Anniversary so we are celebrating 125 years of the Boys’ Brigade in Liverpool. We have the opportunity to welcome members from all over the UK to Liverpool to see our Battalion and city and the event will be attended by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Roz Gladden.
For more information please contact Mick Southern: [email protected]
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On Saturday 18th March, 13 boys from Year 4 took part in the annual AJIS football festival. Both the A and B teams played extremely well and enjoyed fantastic results. The A team won all seven games and kept seven clean sheets too! Lots of goals, skill and hard work was involved to win so many games. The B team also played really well, winning four out of their six games, scoring lots of goals and battling to go undefeated. A fantastic morning of football, well done boys!
Many thanks to all the parents and families for supporting. The boys did very well especially after their Patterdale adventure.
Next fixtures will be on Monday 27th and Thursday 30th March. This will be two mixed teams against local primary schools.
U9 Squad:
Clarke
Davison-Ball
Finnegan
Fletcher
Hennessy
Johnson
Kennedy
Krawietz
Moore
Raw
Rice
Travis
Wake
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To celebrate the fantastic achievements and success of this year’s rugby season, boys and parents were welcomed to the end of season Rugby Awards that took place on 10th March. The night was thoroughly enjoyed by over 250 boys and parents who joined in celebrations of the hard work of the teams and the dedication of the staff. Thanks to to all who attended and congratulations to the following boys on their awards;
From the U12 squad:
Endeavour award – Ben Smith
Most Improved – Kian McGovern
U12B Player of the Year – Tom Gaskell
U12A Player of the year – Jack Carney
From the U13 squad:
Endeavour award – George Russell
Most Improved – Patrick G Jones
U13B Player of the Year – William Hall
U13A Player of the year – Charlie Gillbanks
From the U14 squad:
Endeavour award – Abdullahi Abdullateaf
Most Improved – George Heathcliffe-Core
Player of the year – Charlie Farrar
From the U15 squad:
Endeavour award – Will Kay
Most Improved – Tom Parsons
Player of the year – Josh Doyle
From the U16 squad:
Endeavour award – Max Vernon
Player of the year – Callum Davies
From the 2nd XV:
Endeavour award – Harry Scott
Most Improved – Sahil Singh
Player of the year – Arav Soin
From the 1st XV:
Endeavour award – Joe Hodkinson
Most Improved – Louis Jones-Farley
Player of the year – Josh Rawlinson
Team of the Year – U12B
Full Colours were awarded to Tom Shorrock, Jack Boyce, Felix Martin, Giacomo Poli, Ben Aitchison, Josh Rawlinson, Cameron Leece and Tom Harley.
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