Last Saturday three teams of three girls attended the Girls English Chess Federation U19 Northern semi final held at Bridgewater School in Worsley, Manchester. The girls performed well and we came back with 4th,6th and 8th in the North of England. The fourth place team; Angelina Bennett, Anna Xie and Eleanor Rowlandson are all in year 8 so were playing against girls much older than them and did exceptionally well to win a medal.
Congratulations to all the girls who competed!
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.
