There is always a buzz of excitement when the Head Boy and Deputy Head Boys names are announced. Before we broke up for half term the names were announced.

Junior Reporter, William Bannerman, has produced a brief story.

7th October 2015

Today in assembly the head boy, Deputy Head boys and prefects were announced for this year. The prefects are: William Bannerman, Jack Carney, Hemanth Beemiredy and Akxshaeyan Shyamsunthar. The Deputy Head boys are Charlie Olson and James McDermott. The head boy is George Johnston.

Willliam Bannerman
Ace Junior Reporter

Year 3 Visit from the Dentist – a report by Sadha,  Y3W’s Junior Reporter

The visit from the dentist was on Thursday 8th October 2015. First we sat down in a row of three. They introduced themselves and talked about what we were supposed to do.
We went in groups of 13 and all had a go at each activity.

• Group 1 were learning about hidden sugars.
• Group 2 were learning about the technique of brushing your teeth.
• Group 3 were learning about your teeth and what they are all called.

We finished off by watching a video all about going to the dentist.
What a great report, Sadha. It sounds as though you learnt a great deal from the dentist.

Our Monday Chess Cafe seems to be getting busier and busier…and louder and louder too!

Each week we are joined by boys and girls from Waterloo Primary School for a game of chess and some sandwiches – with crisps and a Chomp bar thrown in for good measure. Today’s Cafe was a lively affair with good conversation and some interesting games taking place.

With the help of the PTA and Year Four, we held another very successful cake sale in aid of Macmillan Cancer Care. Cakes started to arrive on Wednesday – all different shapes, sizes and colour. Parents had been very busy and thanks to their generosity and hard work we raised a record breaking £408.50 for a very good cause.

Well done to everyone who took part in this fantastic event. It was SERIOUSLY tasty!!

Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School was delighted to welcome girls and boys from nine local primary schools to take part in a Rugby Tag Tournament to promote the game in the local area on Monday 28th September.

Each school brought a team of 10 players from their Year 6s and the boys and girls played in 4 groups of 4 teams. After the exciting qualifying games Great Crosby RC Primary School took on a Farnborough Road Junior School team in the Plate Final with Merchant Taylors’ taking on Runnymede in the Cup Final. Both finals were exciting to watch and brilliantly played with all the teams having enjoyed a lovely afternoon of rugby.

Merchant Taylors’ rugby continues to thrive under the guidance of Mr Dan King, Head of Rugby, who commented “last season the school played 120 games of rugby with more than 200 pupils taking part. The aim of our festival is to get more children involved in the game. Merchant Taylors’ has excellent links with Waterloo Rugby Club who have a thriving junior section. I hope that the tournament will become an annual event!”

Merchant Taylors’ helped to develop former pupil Ben Kay, the retired England lock. As a small child Ben started playing Mini Rugby for Waterloo Under 9’s and progressed through the School’s teams before joining the Leicester Tigers just before the 1999 World Cup. Ben was rewarded with his first England cap against Canada in 2001 and in 2003 he appeared in his first Grand Slam at the 6 Nations and contributed to England’s first ever Test victory on Australian soil and an away victory against the mighty All Blacks! Ben can now be heard commenting on this year’s World Cup for BT Sport.

Our newest extra-curricular group has just sprung into action. The Junior Reporters are a group of willing writers who have agreed to write articles of interest for the website.

This week the boys were issued with some rather smart reporters’ notebooks, pencil and pen. They promptly went onto the computers to start writing their ‘copy’. Some of their work will be published on this website very soon so keep an eye out for it.

The Junior Reporters will meet up each Wednesday lunchtime and they will pool their resources to produce some quality articles. The older boys are very good at helping the younger ones and I am sure that they will all get a lot out of the club.

Mr Wardle.

Well done to the boys who attend MTJBS Drama Club. They achieved some excellent results in their recent LAMDA examinations.

Ben J – GRADE 2 DUO ACTING: Distinction

Charlie J – GRADE 2 DUO ACTING: Distinction

Akshayan S – GRADE 2 COMBINED: Distinction

Joseph C – GRADE 2 COMBINED: Merit

William G – GRADE 2 DUO ACTING: Merit

Thomas C – GRADE 2 DUO ACTING: Merit

Bradley B – GRADE 2 COMBINED: Merit

Alex G – GRADE 2 COMBINED: Merit

Henry P – GRADE 1 DUO ACTING: Pass