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Thirteen matches have been played this term. We were unlucky in getting very tough draws in the first rounds of the County Cups at all four age groups, so did not progress in them.
The Year 9 and 10 teams both had good wins against Boston Grammar School. Congratulations to Charlie Hodgson for the school’s top score of the season (74) and Ben McCarrick for the best bowling performance of the season (6 for 11 runs).
The Year 9 cricket tour to Derbyshire in June was a success. The boys played in three very close games – losing by 10 runs to Woodlands school, beating Queen Elizabeth’s of Ashbourne by 3 runs and losing by 4 wickets to Thomas Alleyne School, Uttoxeter.
Particularly pleasing performances were made by Josh Hunter (batting and wicket keeping), Michael White and Stephen Price (bowling).
The whole year 9 squad were a credit to the school and contacts have been established for another tour in 2011 for current Year 8s. |
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Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Expedition |
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33 year 10 students took part in the bronze qualifying expedition in Derbyshire, on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July. The students were dropped off in 6 different groups in Bakewell and they walked to a campsite near Monyash. The camped overnight and then walked back to Bakewell using different routes.
The weather was hot and sunny but the students coped well and enjoyed the expedition. |
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The concert is on Thursday 15th at 7.30pm Tickets are £2.50 (£2 concessions). The concert features the Junior Orchestra, Junior Choir, Woodwind ensemble, string ensemble and soloists from year 8. |
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The whole of Y10 were off timetable for two days for the annual Enterprise in Action conference organised through Young Enterprise.
During the course of the two days the students, working in teams of six, set up a company which has to research a market, produce a prototype product and then market it to their target consumer group. The companies are assisted by business advisors and the event is designed to give students a taste of entrepreneurship. All the companies are in competition with each other and they have to present their product to a panel of judges. The overall winner this year was Momentum with their ‘all in one kitty care’ product!
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Sixth Form Macmillan Coffee Morning |
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Lower Sixth students, Amy Biggadike and Sophie Brass recently organised a coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Amy is well known for her baking abilities so the queue of staff and pupils waiting to buy a piece of chocolate cake or a lemon meringue muffin was not surprising. Supported by friends Caitlin Costello, Kirsty Edge, Jess Emmerson , Sasha Grau, Jas Hutchinson-Bazeley, Martina Short and Jenn Watts, £141 was raised, enough to:
• Pay for a Macmillan nurse for an hour
• Buy a liquidiser for someone who can’t eat solid food as a result of their cancer treatment
• Help run a typical, large Macmillan Information and Support Centre for an hour.
Amy is pictured tempting pupils with her home-made cakes. |
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| ‘Farm Boy’ is performing at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Horncastle
Wednesday 29th September, 7.30pm (provisional start time)
Tickets available from QEGS School Office, priced £7 (concessions £4) |
It sometimes felt as though time had stood still down on the family farm – swallows nesting in the eaves, the old Fordson tractor quietly rusting at the back of the barn, Grandpa still tending his chickens - that is, until the Summer his grandson finished school and came to stay, and the old man started telling stories of what it had been like on the farm when he was a boy.
Award-winning former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo has written a compelling sequel to his much-loved novel War Horse, a moving account of the changing face of the English countryside and a beautifully-crafted reminder that stories really can reach out across the generations.
Now this magical tale of the bonds linking grandfather to grandson and ultimately both to the land has been brought to life by critically-acclaimed New Perspectives Theatre Company and Scamp Theatre in a delightful new show combining drama, storytelling and original music.
New Perspectives, based in Nottingham, is the regional rural touring company for the East Midlands. For over 30 years, they have commissioned and produced new work that tours to rural communities in local venues and more recently, to theatres and art centres nationally. This is the second time they have adapted one of Michael Morpurgo’s books for the stage, and follows on from The Butterfly Lion (2004). For more information on New Perspectives staff, board, history and future shows visit www.newperspectives.co.uk
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