The Scottish old boys dinner took place on Saturday 8th October at The Royal Overseas League Princes Street, Edinburgh. The dinner was organised by Mr Ian Nevison and was well attended including two former Head Boys Tom Cope and Joe Jermy. Mr Farrell gave the assembled guests an update on the school and Marcus Millen on School rugby.
Last term we welcomed author Frank Cottrell Boyce into school to inspire the boys with his fantastic books. Here are some accounts from the boys who met Frank…
On 5th December, Frank Cottrell Boyce came and had a chat with us about his books. Overall he has lots of books such as Millions, Cosmic,Brocoli boy, Framed, Sputnik guide to life and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -3. We got a chance to buy a book and get it signed by Frank.
It was a really interesting and entertaining talk and I am looking forward to reading some of his books over the coming months.
By Jude Williams
On Monday 5th December, the author, Frank Cottrell Boyce, came to our school to talk to us and to sell some books. He told us of his childhood and what inspired him to become an author. He read a bit of his books which I’m sure has made everyone want to buy one of his books. I’m planning on getting ‘Broccoli Boy’ which Frank read out in assembly. He will inspire many to be an author and made everybody enjoy assembly a lot.
By Drew Hutchinson
The Heads of School enjoyed a wonderful evening last night at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London at the annual Doctors’ Dinner. The Guest Speaker for the evening was Old Boy Simon Jack – business editor for the BBC.
As previously announced in our weekly newsletter, we are extremely excited to be able to offer Magical Maths, a new after school club to Year 1 and Year 2 starting in January 2017.
Professor Poopenshtinken, the mathematical genius, came in to assembly to visit KS1 and he was fantastic! He showed us some magic tricks using his mathematical magic. Year One and Two watched and they really loved it. The club will be running after Christmas for Years one and two and is already fully booked! The Professor’s friends will be coming back to school on Tuesdays, starting on 10th January 2017, to run this super Magical Maths Club. The club will run for 5 consecutive weeks and will be looked after by Mrs Bonner.
Please visit www.magicalmathsclub.com/haltonsthelensandwarrington for more information.
To launch Stanfield Comic Club, Marc Jackson visited the children in Year 2 and chatted to them about his work as an illustrator. Marc illustrates for The Beano. He then carried out a workshop for the children who had great fun creating their own characters.
Its beginning to feel very much like Christmas throughout MTS after some fabulous Nativity performances by our infants and juniors!
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Congratulations to former student Faye Cook who has gained her Masters Degree from Liverpool University in Modern Languages (Hispanic). Faye is now going on to do a PhD.
Caitlyn Kavanagh has been achieving fantastic success with her gymnastics this year and has recently returned from 2016 Gymstars International Competition where she medalled both individually and within her team.
Caitlyn started gymnastics at 5 years old and began doing competition gymnastics when she was around 8 years old. In July 2014 she moved to The City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club, based in Toxteth. Caitlyn has been working extremely hard with the club, competing in Artistic gymnastics, which for females involves four pieces of apparatus; Bars, Beam, Floor and Vault.
On Sunday 25th September 2016 Caitlyn took part in the North West Individual Championships and achieved 2nd on bars, 2nd on floor and came 2nd overall in her category. Following this success, she took part in the Cheshire and Merseyside 4 Piece competition in November and achieved 1st on Vault, 1st on Bars, 2nd on Floor and 4th on Beam. These triumphs rewarded Caitlyn with 1st place overall meaning she is the Cheshire and Merseyside 4 piece Champion 2016 for her category.
On Friday 18th of November 2016 Caitlyn travelled to Malta and took part in Gymstars International Competition 2016. It was a team competition and she participated in a team of 5. There were 18 clubs taking part including teams from the Czech Republic, Zagreb, Spain, UK, Wales, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Australia. Caitlyn medalled individually, getting a Silver on Vault; and her team came overall first in their category, winning the Gymstars International 2016.
These are fantastic achievements for Caitlyn who is currently in year 8, we wish her all the best in her future competitions!