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YEARBOOK 09-10<br />
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS<br />
AN UNPRECEDENTED YEAR OF SPORT<br />
FAREWELL TO HEADMASTER<br />
KEVIN CHENEY RETIRES<br />
PRE-PREP<br />
CELEBRATES 25 YEARS
NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONS 2009 – 2010<br />
CROSS COUNTRY<br />
U13 Girls IAPS Champions<br />
FENCING<br />
U13 Boys IAPS Champions<br />
GOLF<br />
Overall IAPS Team Champions<br />
IAPS Team Champions<br />
TRAMPOLINING<br />
U9 IAPS Team Champions<br />
U13 IAPS Team Champions
MILLFIELD PREPARATORY<br />
SCHOOL<br />
2009 - 2010<br />
Front cover: The Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> celebrates 25 years!<br />
Inside covers: MPS National Team Champions. Official Team photographs by Eric Purchase & David Titchener.<br />
Back cover: Grace Bishop and Kathryn O’Sullivan at the National <strong>School</strong>s Equestrian <strong>Association</strong> Event at MPS.<br />
Photography courtesy of Mr & Mrs O’Sullivan.<br />
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The Headmaster’s Speech on Open Day<br />
Friday 2nd July 2010<br />
Mr Mayor and Mrs Coles, Mrs Derbyshire and Governors,<br />
Parents, Staff and Children. We also welcome today<br />
Mrs Champion as our Guest of Honour. As you can see<br />
she is looking well, relaxed and tanned a year on from<br />
retirement.<br />
Although today we report on the past year, forgive me<br />
if I will also be thinking of the past 40 years or so. For<br />
the few of you out there who have reached my age I am<br />
sure you also wonder how the past 40 years passed so<br />
quickly. Time is a strange commodity, it hardly seems<br />
like yesterday when I was at school but it also seems an<br />
absolute age ago. I expect the leavers today feel the same<br />
way about their time at <strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>.<br />
My career has encompassed a range of employment<br />
including three headships. It has been a fascinating<br />
career with much variety. I have been lucky but, as they<br />
say, you do make your own luck.<br />
I am proud of what we have been able to achieve this<br />
year and over the past 10 years, not alone but as a team.<br />
I will remember with some satisfaction the physical<br />
changes we have made at this site such as the pre-prep,<br />
the equestrian centre and the sports hall, to name a few.<br />
I would have liked to have completed the lake project<br />
but the recession put paid to that. However, I do have<br />
some good news. We have a company interested in doing<br />
the project at no cost to us. It would be great for this to<br />
commence and for me to leave you with it started as part<br />
of my legacy.<br />
All these physical changes are important but they pale<br />
into insignificance against the development of each of our<br />
children as successful, happy, fulfilled, enthusiastic and<br />
confident, well prepared for the future. We may not have<br />
succeeded in all cases but this is what we have aimed to<br />
do to fulfil our mission.<br />
My thanks to those staff who are also retiring or leaving<br />
to take up new posts. My thanks especially go today to<br />
Mr Bruno Reina, the Head of Modern Languages, who<br />
moves on to take up a Deputy Headship in London.<br />
He has spent 10 years with us as teacher, HOD and<br />
Academic Co-ordinator. We wish him well in his future<br />
career.<br />
Mrs Papworth also retires after 22 years in the school,<br />
firstly as teacher and then as Head of Geography. Mrs<br />
Papworth has been a very dedicated Geography teacher<br />
and she has fully supported the school in her time here.<br />
She has been the driving force of our Green Team and it<br />
is because of her dedication to the sustainability that we<br />
received our Green Flag Award on three occasions.<br />
Mrs Barlow retires after 25 years teaching in the Pre-<br />
<strong>Prep</strong>. She was one of the founding staff of the Pre-<strong>Prep</strong><br />
when it was located in Glastonbury. She has been a key<br />
teacher in the Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> and has been a great practitioner<br />
and member of staff in her long career with us.<br />
Thank you to all our staff leavers and retirees.<br />
The staff and children have given me an exceptional<br />
final year. You will be hearing from Mr Close of all their<br />
achievements. The children have had a huge amount<br />
of success in the school’s academic, artistic, musical<br />
and dramatic life as well as an amazing year of sporting<br />
excellence. And what an incredible year of sporting<br />
success, certainly the best<br />
in my 10 years here. We<br />
are National Champions in<br />
Rugby, Swimming, Hockey,<br />
Golf, Trampolining, Fencing, Cross Country, Cricket<br />
and Rounders. Our Soccer players managed to get the<br />
furthest any prep school has in the ISFA Championship<br />
and we had an unbeaten 1st XI Cricket for the first time<br />
anyone can remember. Whilst we applaud this success,<br />
we are also pleased to be able to run so many A, B & C<br />
team fixtures, even up to a 6th XI at Cricket, so as many<br />
children as possible can take part in competitive team<br />
sport.<br />
As you already know, we also achieved the accolade of<br />
Outstanding reports from Ofsted and the Independent<br />
<strong>School</strong> Inspectorate. These achievements do not just<br />
happen by good luck; it requires talented pupils and<br />
talented, committed, hard working and supportive staff<br />
whom I would like to thank wholeheartedly on your<br />
behalf. Thank you.<br />
It has been team work and I hope staff will say of me<br />
“But a good leader when his hard work is done, his aim<br />
fulfilled, the people will all say we did this ourselves”.<br />
There have been many changes since I was appointed<br />
to my first Headship but fortunately children are still<br />
children. They still want to live and work in a secure,<br />
stable environment, they still thrive on praise, they still<br />
need to be loved and nurtured, they still need to be given<br />
time and support, they still need to be children rather<br />
than the young adults the world tries to make them. The<br />
beauty of schools such as this is that this childhood can<br />
last longer – they will have plenty of time to be adults<br />
and to be exposed to the wider world.<br />
I returned to <strong>Millfield</strong> in 2001 because it is in my<br />
educational DNA. I tried to add to the schools I ran<br />
the philosophy of <strong>Millfield</strong> so it was natural to return.<br />
So thank you Mr White, the former Chairman of the<br />
Governors, whom I am very pleased has joined us today<br />
and to the Governors for giving me the privilege to run<br />
the school.<br />
I do not know exactly what each of you wants from the<br />
education of your child. However, I am clear in my<br />
mind, what a school ought to provide.<br />
I am a passionate believer in an all-round, holistic<br />
approach. I believe an education should try to develop<br />
the whole child. What use is a narrow academic<br />
education without any thought of the personality of the<br />
child? We all have multi-intelligence and surely as a<br />
school should try to develop as many aspects as possible.<br />
We know a happy child will learn better, so surely we<br />
should be doing things which allow that child to be happy<br />
and fulfilled. This was the Jack Meyer philosophy, to<br />
provide a wide range of opportunities so each child does<br />
something they enjoy and are good at, so will perform<br />
better in all areas of school life.<br />
There may be a place for some to be in a narrowly<br />
selective, academic school but early selection does<br />
not allow for the different times when each individual<br />
develops. In my experience there are so many children<br />
who focus, sometimes quite late, on academic life that to<br />
condemn them at an early age is to lose, to our society, a<br />
huge pool of talent.<br />
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To maintain a love of school, of education in its broadest<br />
sense, is our aim, and to develop each child’s potential to<br />
the highest level possible<br />
I hope the new coalition Government will remember<br />
Disraeli’s words back in 1874 in the House of Commons<br />
when he said “Upon the education of the people of this<br />
country the fate of the country depends”.<br />
Education should not be a political ping-pong ball with<br />
change just to satisfy political correctness. A decent<br />
education for our children is the only way to a better<br />
future.<br />
One of the appointments I made a few years ago was for<br />
Mr Parsons to become the school archivist. This has now<br />
resulted in all the archives being in order for the first<br />
time in 60 years and for us to have a complete record, as<br />
far as possible, of Old Edgarley and <strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> pupils.<br />
This should allow us to reconnect with former pupils and<br />
is an important historical record for the school.<br />
I have been very pleased to support the Old <strong>Millfield</strong>ian<br />
<strong>Association</strong> by raising their profile around the world and<br />
also starting new <strong>Millfield</strong> International <strong>Association</strong>s in<br />
Greece, Turkey and Bermuda. To meet up with former<br />
pupils and other OMs one has not seen for over 25 years<br />
has been a great pleasure and I hope some of the pupils<br />
here will take the trouble to let me know how they are<br />
getting on in the future.<br />
This year the Parents’ & Friends’ <strong>Association</strong> has<br />
continued their support of the school and has helped to<br />
raise over £30,000 for local and regional charities while<br />
at the same time organising some very enjoyable events.<br />
I am proud that in the time we have been here we must<br />
have raised at least £150,000 for Charity: my thanks to<br />
you all for this achievement and my thanks to all the<br />
parents for your support to me and the school.<br />
Today, the 2nd of July, would have been my father’s 96th<br />
birthday was he to still to be alive. This year is also the<br />
70th anniversary of Dunkirk. My father was a Dunkirk<br />
veteran and he was also involved in the Normandy<br />
Landings, so I suppose it is lucky I am here today and the<br />
success of my career owes much to the foundation my<br />
parents gave to me.<br />
The career path I undertook has meant living in school<br />
accommodation for the majority of the time. We have<br />
therefore been under the spotlight as it were, day and<br />
night. I am delighted three of my boys have been able to<br />
join us today so I am able to thank them for coping with<br />
being at their dad’s workplace all the time. They have<br />
done this without complaint, despite the disruption that<br />
it has caused them. Like any good father I am hugely<br />
proud of them and look forward to seeing more of them<br />
in our retirement.<br />
Equally, nothing I have done or achieved would<br />
have been possible without the advice, support and<br />
involvement of my wife Hilary. Inevitably the role she<br />
plays so well has not always been easy. She has taken a<br />
full part in all we have done to the benefit of all. She will<br />
be missed and will also miss you all. Thank you.<br />
My thanks also to all our Governors for their support<br />
over the years.<br />
Our Chair of Governors, Mrs Judith Derbyshire, is<br />
standing down and retiring as a Governor of <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>. She has been great to work with and for. She<br />
has coped with a period of considerable change and has<br />
been instrumental in the appointment of three Heads and<br />
one Bursar. She will be missed by the school but she is<br />
able to stand down knowing that she has left <strong>Millfield</strong> in a<br />
strong position to face the future. Thank you.<br />
Today we say goodbye to our Year 8 leavers and some<br />
other leavers from the school. No doubt, like me, there<br />
will be a degree of excitement of all the new things that<br />
are going to happen. No doubt there will be a tinge of<br />
sadness, of leaving behind something that has for so long<br />
been part of their lives. This is the same for me and I<br />
suspect the other staff leavers.<br />
I hope we have given your children the foundation and<br />
abilities to make the most of their lives and their careers.<br />
I hope I have provided the school with the stability and<br />
continuity it has needed over the past 10 years to face<br />
the present uncertain economic future with confidence in<br />
its ability to do the best for your children and to succeed<br />
with them. I trust the leadership I have shown has<br />
moved the school in the right direction - a gentle and fair<br />
hand on the tiller but in the right direction always.<br />
The most one can do in life is to do your best; I have<br />
always tried to do so. The words of Thomas Stanley,<br />
who said this in the 17th century resonates with me<br />
today. “To leave the world a little bit better, whether<br />
by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed<br />
social condition. To know that even one life has<br />
breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have<br />
succeeded”. I hope all our leavers will try to make this<br />
world a better place.<br />
My thanks again to colleagues and friends who have<br />
supported us through the years. I wish all at <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
well for the future. I am sure with the Considines and<br />
the Shaylers the schools are in good hands and will have<br />
a bright future as one of the best all-round schools in the<br />
world.<br />
Governors<br />
Mrs J E Derbyshire (Acting Chair)<br />
Mr W Bushell<br />
Dr R Clark<br />
”<br />
Mrs C Cripps<br />
Mrs C Flood<br />
Mr J Jackson<br />
Mr A Patel<br />
Sir John Reith, KCB, CBE<br />
Mrs A Sexton<br />
Mr M Simon<br />
Mr T Taylor<br />
Mr R S Trafford<br />
Mr D Williamson<br />
Clerk to the Governors: Mr M Suddaby<br />
Kevin Cheney<br />
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Winter term 2009<br />
Heads of <strong>School</strong><br />
Head Boys:<br />
Spring term 2010<br />
Summer term 2010<br />
Nicholas Isbister<br />
Winter term 2009<br />
Jack Costigan<br />
Head GIRLs:<br />
Spring term 2010<br />
Saul Landrock<br />
Summer term 2010<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko<br />
Daisy Kemp<br />
Heads of Houses<br />
India Maxey<br />
WINTER 2009<br />
Danes Saxons Angles Jutes<br />
Andy Tait & India Maxey Kathryn O’Sullivan & Rio Kurihara Max Phillips & Jenny Vincent Caitlin Brown & Max Hein<br />
SPRING 2010<br />
Danes Saxons Angles Jutes<br />
Conrad Lewis & Libby Letchford Paisley Banks & Saul Landrock Erin McCombe & Herbert Rumney Melanie Pocock & Alexander Vaughan<br />
SUMMER 2010<br />
Danes Saxons Angles Jutes<br />
Hannah Smith & John Hall Amy Cooper & Guy Melly Max O’Leary & Molly Edgley Georgia Young & Tom Burley<br />
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Open Day Awards 2010<br />
CHESS<br />
The Captain’s Chess Cup<br />
(most improved player)<br />
The Junior Chess Cup<br />
The Senior Chess Cup<br />
CROSS COUNTRY<br />
The Claire Forbes Cup<br />
for Girls’ Cross-Country<br />
The James Starr Cup<br />
for Boys’ Cross-Country<br />
DANCE<br />
Award for Dance<br />
Josh Burgess<br />
Adam Dickinson<br />
Nikita Ayvazyan<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
Charlie Martin<br />
Lucy Matthews<br />
FENCING<br />
The Henley Shield (most improved Fencer) Bethan Plant<br />
The Gorham Cup for Fencing<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
The Collins Fencing Shield<br />
Paisley Banks<br />
The Cup for Contribution to Fencing William Woodley<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
Girls Football Cup<br />
Holly Tozer<br />
The U11 Football Cup<br />
Michael Nicholson<br />
The U12 Football Trophy Toby Stroud-Turp /<br />
Joshua Bayliss<br />
The Senior Football Cup George Hankins / Max O’Leary<br />
GOLF<br />
Contribution to Golf<br />
The Adam Mason Shield for Golf<br />
Freddie Sexton<br />
Joshua Fletcher<br />
GYMNASTICS & TRAMPOLINING<br />
The MPS Cup for<br />
Contribution to Gymnastics<br />
Minnie Rider<br />
The MPS Trampoline Trophy<br />
(Best Boy)<br />
Cameron Baxter-Allen<br />
The MPS Trampoline Plate<br />
for Contribution<br />
Daisy Kemp<br />
The MPS Trampoline Trophy<br />
for Best Competitor<br />
Anastasia Knight<br />
OUTDOOR PURSUITS<br />
The James Wheeler Trophy<br />
for Outdoor Pursuits<br />
CUBS<br />
Long Service Award<br />
RIDING<br />
Progress in Riding<br />
Contribution to Riding<br />
Junior Riding Cup<br />
The Pickering Cup for Riding<br />
MULTI EVENTS<br />
Girls Biathlon Cup<br />
Boys Biathlon Cup<br />
Peter Reigal Cup for<br />
Achievements in Multisports<br />
SAILING<br />
The MPS Cup for Sailing<br />
SHOOTING<br />
The MPS Best Shot Award<br />
SQUASH<br />
The Jonah Barrington Squash Cup<br />
Pavel Dinkov<br />
Nigella Landrock / Bethan Close<br />
Jane Considine<br />
Kathryn O’Sullivan<br />
Flo Norris<br />
Bonnie Leheup<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
Alexander Allen<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
Emma Stevens<br />
Edward Green<br />
Jennifer Vincent<br />
TENNIS<br />
The Junior Cup for Tennis<br />
The Kay Cup for the<br />
Girls Tennis Championship<br />
The Senior Boys’ Cup for<br />
Contribution to Tennis<br />
The Senior Girls’ Cup for<br />
Contribution to Tennis<br />
The Clark Trophy for Boys’ Tennis<br />
Tristan Rice<br />
Iona Clive<br />
Corey Niccolls<br />
Abiola Roberts<br />
Giles Hussey<br />
ALL ROUND SPORTS AWARD YEAR 3<br />
All Round Girls’ Sports Award (Year 3) Alice Gouldby<br />
All Round Boys’ Sports’ Award (Year 3) William Smeed<br />
ATHLETICS<br />
The Year 6 Victrix Ludorum<br />
Lydia Lavallin<br />
The Year 6 Victor Ludorum<br />
James Reed<br />
The Intermediate Victrix Ludorum Hannah Nanton<br />
The Intermediate Victor Ludorum George Hazelton /<br />
Mason Tonks<br />
The Senior Victrix Ludorum<br />
Hollie Fearnley<br />
The Senior Victor Ludorum<br />
William Branch<br />
The Mary Glover High Jump Cup Jane Considine<br />
The Hobday Cup for<br />
Middle Distance Running<br />
Alexander Allen<br />
The Nichol Cup for Throwing Cameron Stephens<br />
CRICKET<br />
The U9 Cricket Plate<br />
The U10 Cricket Plate<br />
The BA Lewis Cup for<br />
contribution to U11 Cricket<br />
The U12 Cricket Plate<br />
The Timothy Martin Batting Cup<br />
The Durston Bowling Cup<br />
The Fielding Cup<br />
The Richard Barker Cricket Cup for the<br />
Best All Rounder in the 1st XI<br />
The Ben Hollioake Memorial Trophy<br />
Kasey Aldridge<br />
Ned Dunning<br />
Teddie Casterton<br />
David Scott<br />
Max O’Leary<br />
George Hankins<br />
Harry Anstock<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
Andy Tait<br />
HOCKEY<br />
The U9 Hockey Cup for Girls<br />
Eugene Spencer<br />
The U10 Hockey Cup for Girls Millie Pattemore<br />
The U11 Hockey Cup for Girls<br />
Emily Bayliss<br />
The U12 Hockey Cup for Girls<br />
Harriet Jeanes<br />
The U13 Hockey Cup for Girls<br />
Melanie Pocock<br />
The U9 Hockey Cup for Boys<br />
William Strutt<br />
The U10 Hockey Cup for Boys<br />
David Greenhill<br />
The U11 Hockey Cup for Boys Joseph Grogan-Poulsen<br />
The U12 Hockey Cup for Boys<br />
Harry Close<br />
The Mike Rutter Trophy for contribution<br />
to Boys Hockey (U13)<br />
Andy Tait<br />
NETBALL<br />
The U9 Netball Trophy<br />
The U10 Netball Cup<br />
The U11 Netball Trophy<br />
The U12 Netball Trophy<br />
The Windmill Trophy for Netball (U13)<br />
ROUNDERS<br />
The U9 Rounders Cup<br />
The U10 Rounders Cup<br />
The U11 Rounders Cup<br />
The U12 Rounders Cup<br />
The U13 Rounders Cup<br />
RUGBY<br />
The U9 Rugby Cup<br />
Amelia Low<br />
Amy Rumney<br />
Roxy Gillespie<br />
Hettie Horler<br />
Ellie Pawsey<br />
Juliet Grogan-Poulsen<br />
Bethan Close<br />
Marina Stodart-Stones<br />
Emma Churchill-Coleman<br />
Ali Hussey<br />
Alfie Gibson<br />
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The U10 Rugby Cup<br />
The U11 Rugby Trophy<br />
The U12 Rugby Cup<br />
The Rugby Cup for contribution<br />
to the game (U13)<br />
The V.E. Tackling Cup<br />
Isaac Hughes<br />
Miles Letchford<br />
George Downing<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
SWIMMING<br />
The Year 3 Swimming Shield for Girls Ellie Ager /<br />
Isabel Bartlett<br />
The Year 4 Swimming Shield for Girls Serena Owen<br />
The Year 5 Swimming Shield for Girls Kitty Snaydon<br />
The Year 6 Swimming Shield for Girls Indi Morland<br />
The Year 7 Swimming Shield<br />
for Girls<br />
Lucy Churchill-Coleman<br />
The Sarah Funnell Cup<br />
for Girls’ Swimming (Year 8)<br />
Clare Fowlie<br />
The Year 3 Swimming Shield for Boys Harvey Morland<br />
The Year 4 Swimming Shield for Boys William Owen<br />
The Year 5 Swimming Shield for Boys Oran McNulty<br />
The Year 6 Swimming Shield for Boys Adam Brown<br />
The Year 7 Swimming Shield for Boys Calum Eley<br />
The Paul Howe Cup<br />
(most improved swimmer)<br />
Thomas Gabb<br />
The Duncan Goodhew Swimming Cup<br />
(Year 8)<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
The Helen Bewley Cup for the<br />
most outstanding Swimmer<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
The prizes for contribution to Swimming<br />
Hannah Smith, Caitlin Brown, Lindsay Reid,<br />
Olivia Allin, Georgianna Kloos, Tom Burley,<br />
Jack Longrigg, Jong Hak Lee, Alexander Allen,<br />
Cameron Kurle<br />
THE PRIZES FOR OVERALL<br />
CONTRIBUTION TO SPORT<br />
Olivia Bellak<br />
Grace Bishop<br />
Megan Gillespie Flora Larkin<br />
Kathryn O’Sullivan Georgia Young<br />
Luke Appleton Ralphael Ayitey<br />
Jack Costigan Herbert Rumney<br />
John Hall<br />
Conrad Lewis<br />
Guy Melly<br />
Max Phillips<br />
Joshua Ramsden Camillo Rey<br />
Charlie Strutt Tom Parkinson<br />
Joshuah Stanbrook-Tompkins<br />
SUBJECT PRIZES<br />
THE ART PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
The Sculpture Prize<br />
The Art Prize (Year 8)<br />
Harvey Morland<br />
Georgia Timmins<br />
Asha Colmar<br />
Lydia Lavallin<br />
Iona Clive<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
Paisley Banks<br />
THE DRAMA PRIZE<br />
Year 6<br />
Ben Lawrence<br />
Commendation for performance<br />
in ‘Macbeth’<br />
Libby Brake<br />
Year 7<br />
Isabella Symonds-Willmott<br />
Year 8<br />
Alexander Vaughan<br />
MUSIC PRIZES<br />
Most Promising Junior Instrumentalist<br />
Most Promising Senior Instrumentalist<br />
Most Promising Junior Chorister<br />
Most Promising Senior Chorister<br />
Music Progress – Junior<br />
Music Progress – Senior<br />
Isabel Barber<br />
Matilda McCrum<br />
Emily Vasilou<br />
Carey Andrews<br />
Anna Glazer<br />
Max Hein<br />
Outstanding contribution to<br />
Ensembles – Junior<br />
Harry Kemp<br />
Outstanding contribution to<br />
Ensembles – Senior<br />
Jerome Moore<br />
The Year 3 Music Shield<br />
Elsie Brade<br />
The Mary Webb Cup for U9 Music Katie-May Parsons<br />
The Ben Morton Cup for U10 Music Isaac Hughes<br />
The Jill White Cup for U11 Music Imogen Moore<br />
The Hennessy Cup for U12 Music Laura Winlow<br />
The Rutter Cup for U13 Music<br />
Sadie Bosher<br />
The Miles Knapman Cup for the highest<br />
mark in a Music exam Sadie Bosher / India Maxey<br />
The Olivia Jarvis Cup for Voice<br />
Ella Grob<br />
The Judy Green Cup for Brass<br />
India Maxey<br />
The Prize for<br />
Excellent Practice Natasha Stratton-Christensen<br />
The Kevin Jackson Memorial Cup<br />
for Musical Spirit<br />
Annabel O’Neill<br />
The Bach Cup for excellence and<br />
outstanding performance<br />
Alexandra Smith<br />
PROGRESS IN ENGLISH<br />
Year 3<br />
Joe Mallett<br />
Year 4<br />
Cameron Baxter-Allen<br />
Year 5<br />
Travis Titley<br />
Year 6<br />
Celeste Paterson<br />
Year 7<br />
Lucy Churchill-Coleman<br />
Year 8<br />
Cameron Stevens<br />
The Beverley Kelson Trophy<br />
Freddie Miller<br />
The Wall Trophy<br />
Will Branch<br />
The EAL Prize for Achievement<br />
Ivan Yung<br />
The EAL Prize for Progess<br />
Jong Hak Lee<br />
THE ENGLISH PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8<br />
Aubury Prize for Reading<br />
THE MATHS PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Progess in Maths<br />
The Nichol Trophy for<br />
Excellence in Mathematics (Year 8)<br />
Rory Nicholson<br />
Pan Leesombun<br />
Isaac Hughes<br />
Becky Ager<br />
Katzia Watkins<br />
Miriam Wadey<br />
Brett Dickinson<br />
Max French<br />
William Strutt<br />
Millie Pattemore<br />
Timur Soroka<br />
Yuu Kurihara<br />
Conor Forster<br />
Jack Cadman<br />
THE SCIENCE PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
William Smeed<br />
Year 4<br />
Isabel Barber<br />
Year 5<br />
Charlie Hart<br />
Year 6 Physics Seren Lomax<br />
Chemistry<br />
William Gabb<br />
Biology<br />
Sean Clement<br />
Year 7 Physics William Parsons<br />
Chemistry<br />
Minnie Rider<br />
Biology<br />
George Downing<br />
Year 8 Physics Andy Tait<br />
Chemistry<br />
Max Phillips<br />
Biology<br />
Charlie Martin<br />
THE LANGUAGE PRIZES<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8 French Cup<br />
Ben Shaw<br />
Juliet Grogan-Poulsen<br />
Tom Hall<br />
Anna Glaser<br />
Alexandra Smith<br />
Santiago Sifontes<br />
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Year 8 Mary MacBlain<br />
Memorial Cup<br />
Libby Letchford<br />
Year 8 Spanish Prize Natasha Stratton-Christensen<br />
The Calliari Cup for Excellence in<br />
more than one language Adam Fremond-Jeevanjee<br />
THE LATIN PRIZE<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8<br />
THE HISTORY PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8<br />
THE GEOGRAPHY PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8<br />
Adam Dickinson<br />
Timothy Owen<br />
John Hall<br />
Oscar Plant<br />
Katie-May Parsons<br />
Harry Kemp<br />
Anastasia Knight<br />
Ophelia Knight<br />
Bonnie Leheup<br />
Hamish Sanford<br />
Kasey Aldridge<br />
Amy Rumney<br />
Eleanor Abercromby<br />
Emily Rawlings<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Isabel Bartlett<br />
Year 4<br />
Sophie Nimmo<br />
Year 5<br />
Millie Regan<br />
Year 6<br />
Joseph Grogan-Poulsen<br />
Year 7<br />
Harry Close<br />
Year 8<br />
Tom Burley<br />
THE TECHNOLOGY PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8<br />
Freya Pattemore<br />
Lorien Boyd<br />
Cicely Newton<br />
Bethan Plant<br />
Max Briston<br />
Caitlin Brown<br />
THE FOOD TECHNOLOGY PRIZE<br />
Year 5<br />
Nigella Landrock<br />
Year 6<br />
Miles Hart<br />
Year 7<br />
Poppy Casterton<br />
Year 8<br />
Melanie Pocock<br />
THE I.C.T. PRIZE<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 4<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 6<br />
Year 7<br />
Year 8<br />
Scott Reid<br />
Nia Davies<br />
Tabi Day<br />
Robin Everitt<br />
Callum Aldridge<br />
Nicholas Isbister<br />
MAJOR AWARDS<br />
The Marion Rutter Shield for High<br />
Endeavour in the Junior Department Josh Deighton<br />
The Fellows Trophy for Goodwill and<br />
Citizenship in the Junior Department Lowri Whiskerd<br />
The Carrie Heppner<br />
Drama Cup<br />
India Maxey / Joshua Ramsden<br />
The Martin Trophy for Art<br />
Olivia Allin<br />
The Aram Cup for Music<br />
Anastaysia Shpitko<br />
The Holland Trophy for dedication and<br />
determination in Sport Darren Atkins / Charlie Strutt<br />
The Atkinson Trophy for Loyalty<br />
to <strong>School</strong> Teams Herbert Rumney / Jennifer Vincent<br />
The Heidi & Nick Morris Cup for<br />
Good Citizenshipin Sport Andy Tait / Olivia Allin<br />
The Nicola Parr All-Rounders Award<br />
(Academic/Games/Music)<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
TOP CONTINUOUS<br />
CURRICULUM RESULTS<br />
TOP ADAPTED<br />
CURRICULUM RESULTS<br />
Charlie Martin<br />
Guy Melly<br />
EXHIBITIONS TO MILLFIELD<br />
MUSIC<br />
India Maxey, Isabelle Crispin<br />
ACADEMIC Alexandra Hussey, Brett Dickinson<br />
SCHOLARSHIPS TO MILLFIELD<br />
ART<br />
MUSIC<br />
ACADEMIC<br />
Emily Davies, Paisley Banks, Olivia Allin<br />
Daisy Kemp, Kimberley Hardin,<br />
Annabel O’Neill, Carey Andrews,<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko, Jerome Moore,<br />
Max Hein, Sadie Bosher<br />
John Hall, Miriam Wadey,<br />
Alexander Vaughan<br />
HEADMASTER’S AWARDS<br />
To Head Girls and Head Boys<br />
Saul Landrock<br />
Jack Costigan<br />
Nick Isbister<br />
Daisy Kemp<br />
India Maxey<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko<br />
THE CHENEY ECO CUP<br />
Hugh Edgar<br />
THE BEN RUSHTON TROPHY FOR THE<br />
THREE Cs<br />
(Care, Consideration and Community Spirit)<br />
<br />
Hannah Spilsbury & Oliver Stanford<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Another year, another yearbook! I realise that this is the<br />
tenth MPS Yearbook that I have put together - the first one<br />
being in 2000/2001, the year that Mr Cheney arrived. I had<br />
been editing the termly magazines for a number of years<br />
but Mr Cheney wanted to create an annual record that<br />
would provide happy memories of school days. This issue<br />
celebrates Mr Cheney’s time at MPS and, as I look back over<br />
the yearbooks, I realise just how much has been achieved at<br />
MPS during those years.<br />
As Editor, I would like to thank Mr Chris Twort for his help<br />
with the sports pages and for his tireless proof reading and<br />
John, at St Andrews Press, for always managing to squeeze<br />
in yet more photographs and more text!<br />
MPS never rests and there is no space to record everything,<br />
or even half of it! Please accept my apologies for those<br />
omissions. Enjoy!<br />
Janette Tuckwell<br />
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Ethic & Attainment Awards 2009 - 2010<br />
Group Term Work Ethic Attainment<br />
Group Term Work Ethic Attainment<br />
3KC Winter Joe Mallett William Smeed<br />
Spring Hamish Sanford Rory Nicholson<br />
Summer Joel Hart<br />
/ Charlotte Leonard Finlay Hunt<br />
3MJ Winter Scott Reed Isabel Bartlett<br />
Spring Grace Perrott Harvey Morland<br />
Summer Tamara Baxter-Allen Gabriel Rampton<br />
4JJ Winter Vinny Jones Ria Tozer<br />
Spring Amber McCormick Eugenie Spencer<br />
Summer Georgia Timmins Eugenie Spencer<br />
4MB Winter Katie-May Parsons Isabelle Barber<br />
Spring Juliet Grogan-Poulsen William Strutt<br />
Summer Nia Davies Pan Leesombun<br />
4PB Winter Cameron Baxter-Allen Phoebe Brittain<br />
Spring Willa Watling Kasey Aldridge<br />
Summer Charlie Bone Lulu Scott<br />
5CE Winter Nigella Landrock Harry Kemp<br />
Spring Asha Colmar Michael Dickinson<br />
Summer Proud Rojchuphan Ben Penton<br />
5HA Winter Joshua Deighton Oliver Smith<br />
Spring Travis Titley Thomas Hacker<br />
Summer Travis Titley William Smith<br />
5FB Winter Zoe Phillips Hannah Coombes<br />
Spring Daniel Holen de la Cruz Edward Jeanes<br />
Summer Radostina Yovkova<br />
/ Harrison Reed Davey Jones<br />
5JC Winter Millie Regan Isaac Hughes<br />
Spring Tom Hall Amy Rumney<br />
Summer Cecily Newton Millie Regan<br />
6AD Winter Roxy Gillespie Charli Breeze<br />
Spring Libby Brake Adam Brown<br />
Summer Charli Breeze Tallulah Pittam<br />
6DH Winter Adam Dickinson Anna Glaser<br />
Spring Becky Ager Emily Bayliss<br />
Summer William Gabb Sophia Campbell<br />
6JF Winter Edward Anderson Alexandra<br />
Symonds-Willmott<br />
Spring Ben Mallett Celeste Paterson<br />
Summer Ben Butler Joe Early<br />
6SH Winter Bethan Plant Lydia Lavallin<br />
Spring Eleanor Abercromby Anastasia Knight<br />
Summer Phillipa Deacon Eleanor Abercromby<br />
6SL Winter Elinor Brittain Indi Morland<br />
Spring Gregor Abercromby Elinor Brittain<br />
Summer India Bellak Gregor Abercromby<br />
7JB Winter Da Sol Kim Joshua Barton<br />
Spring Josh Bayliss George Downing<br />
Summer Beth Stowell Mafany Litumbe<br />
7CC Winter Iona Clive Hannah Nanton<br />
Spring Isabella Estefania<br />
Symonds-Willmott Roldan Ares<br />
Summer Max Briston Emma Churchill-<br />
Coleman<br />
7LC Winter Elliott Manna Lina Drozd<br />
Spring Erin Connelly Holly Jackson<br />
Summer Ella Grob Oliver George<br />
7SD Winter Benjamin Dickson Thomas Tant<br />
Spring Isabelle Soole Thomas Cowan<br />
Summer Thomas Smith Thomas Cowan<br />
7JE Winter Finlay Cornford Minnie Rider<br />
Spring William O’Sullivan Finlay Cornford<br />
Summer William O’Sullivan Christopher Borghi<br />
7TK Winter Alex Smith Laura Winlow<br />
Spring Emily Rawlings Katzia Watkins<br />
Summer Sophie Weller Helena Macey<br />
7ES Winter Calum Eley Lucy Churchill-<br />
/ Lucy Alexander Coleman<br />
Spring Calum Eley Lucy Churchill-<br />
Coleman<br />
Summer Nakayi Mazinyi Olivia Luna<br />
7LS Winter Emma Morgan Ophelia Knight<br />
Spring Ophelia Knight Emma Morgan<br />
Summer Phaedra King Alexander Tiarks<br />
8CB Winter Cameron Stephens Nick Isbister<br />
Spring Freddie Miller Conor Forster<br />
8MC Winter Andy Tait Caitlin Brown<br />
Spring Joshua Howard-Higgins Charlie Martin<br />
8AH Winter Harry Griffiths Will Branch<br />
Spring Emma Stevens Harry Griffiths<br />
8DH Winter India Maxey Luke Appleton<br />
Spring Georgia Young Georgianna Kloos<br />
8TH Winter Anastasiya Shpitko Daniel Escott<br />
Spring John Hall Brett Dickinson<br />
8DM Winter Holly Tozer Max Hein<br />
Spring Max Hein Guy Melly<br />
8PM Winter Brenda Gonzalez- Bonnie Leheup<br />
Martin<br />
Spring Alex Wilson- Brenda Gonzalez-<br />
Slomkowski<br />
Martin<br />
8RM Winter Melanie Pocock Eddie Scott<br />
Spring Herbert Rumney Adam Fremond-<br />
Jeevanjeee<br />
8CP Winter Claire Fowlie Oliver Stanford<br />
Spring Oliver Stanford Lindsay Reid<br />
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<strong>School</strong> Council<br />
The first meeting of the new <strong>School</strong><br />
Council was held in early October. Our<br />
eight enthusiastic Year Representatives<br />
- Conrad Lewis, Saul Landrock, Arseny<br />
Zadorozhny, Beth Stowell, Emily Bayliss,<br />
George Caruth, Millie Regan and Isabelle<br />
Barber - impressed the staff with their ideas<br />
and confidence. Throughout the school<br />
year the council met to discuss a range of<br />
issues with the Headmaster, Mr Close and<br />
Mrs Bruce. Topics under discussion have<br />
included food, playgrounds, water fountains<br />
and school facilities in general. The Council<br />
provides an excellent channel for the pupils<br />
to communicate their thoughts about<br />
school life and all matters are given serious<br />
consideration. One of the new initiatives this<br />
year has been the creation of a fitness trail<br />
around the grounds. Minutes of the meetings<br />
are published on the <strong>School</strong> Intranet and also<br />
on the <strong>School</strong> Council notice board.<br />
<br />
Mrs J Bruce<br />
Confirmation at Wells Cathedral<br />
Eighteen pupils from MPS were confirmed on Saturday 24th<br />
April at Wells Cathedral by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the<br />
Right Reverend Peter Price. In a wonderful service, in the<br />
most fitting of locations, the Bishop challenged the candidates<br />
to stand up for their faith and to live out their faith in the<br />
world today. Over 500 family members and guests enjoyed<br />
this truly special event. Mr Considine, the Senior <strong>School</strong><br />
Headmaster, presented all the newly confirmed pupils with<br />
their certificates at the celebratory tea at <strong>Millfield</strong>.<br />
Englishtype Junior –<br />
Year 7 Touch Typing Course<br />
The Year 7 touch typing course was undertaken in the Winter<br />
Term. Mrs Westwood and her team, who come to MPS to run the<br />
intensive course, were delighted that the pupils concentrated so<br />
well, came early to lessons and stayed on to finish what they were<br />
doing when the bell rang. They reported hearing comments such<br />
as, “This is such fun!”– very encouraging when the children are<br />
learning such an important life skill! The new “Speed Booster”<br />
exercises, which are very quick to do, were a great success with<br />
many of the children.<br />
The course produced star performers as usual. Roo Whelan (7LS)<br />
was the outstanding Accuracy Champion on the lessons, where<br />
he achieved 99% accuracy! Dominic Grunwell (7JB) achieved a<br />
first in that he had never tried typing by touch before, but on the<br />
last day did some copy typing at 71 words a minute with very high<br />
accuracy. Very well done, Dominic!<br />
We had a record number of GOLD certificates (30 wpm at above<br />
90% Accuracy) – 10 in all - from Harry Close, Tim Owen, Laura<br />
Winlow, Josh Barton, Dominic Grunwell, Ruby Beeden, Erin<br />
Connelly, Jamil Roberts,<br />
Miles Shepherd and Thomas<br />
Gabb. Some of the SILVER<br />
(20 wpm) successes could<br />
easily have become Gold;<br />
we had 17 altogether. And<br />
another 30 pupils who did<br />
10 or more words a minute,<br />
making in all more than half<br />
the group who have made a<br />
great start in learning this<br />
important skill.<br />
Dominic Grunwell – star performer!<br />
Chess<br />
HEADS OF BOARDING HOUSES<br />
There were some notable<br />
achievements from<br />
MPS players this year.<br />
Nikita Ayvazyan and<br />
Adam Dickinson joined<br />
their Senior <strong>School</strong><br />
counterparts in representing <strong>Millfield</strong> in the<br />
National <strong>School</strong>s’ Championships. They helped<br />
us to finish as runners-up in this U18 event.<br />
Adam went on to represent Somerset, but Nikita<br />
went one better, representing his country, Russia,<br />
at the World Youth Championships in Turkey.<br />
Bethan Plant, Oscar Plant, Henry Smeed and<br />
Adam Dickinson all qualified for the National<br />
Finals of the UK Chess Challenge, Adam reaching<br />
the last two hundred of an event which starts<br />
with over 80,000 (yes, that’s right, 80,000)<br />
players.<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> again hosted a Grand Prix event for the<br />
Somerset Primary <strong>School</strong>s’ Chess <strong>Association</strong><br />
where we were able to raise over £300 to support<br />
local youngsters.<br />
Mr M Turner<br />
Term Berewall Champion Chestnut Hollies Manor<br />
Winter 2009 Anastasiya Shpitko Harry Anstock Darren Atkins Jenny Vincent Oliver Stanford<br />
Spring 2010 Georgia Young Jack Costigan Connor Deacon Caitlin Brown/ Sebastian Munnik<br />
Ellie Pawsey<br />
Summer 2010 Emily Davies Josh Ramsden Nick Isbister Abiola Roberts/ George Hankins<br />
Bonnie Leheup<br />
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Musical Highlights<br />
MPS YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR<br />
On Friday 26th March, our top musicians were in stiff competition for this<br />
year’s titles. At the end of a superb programme of instrumental pieces and<br />
singing, no-one in the audience envied the adjudicator, Mr Hywel Jenkins, in<br />
his task of selecting winners. But, a decision had to be made and Alex Smith,<br />
who played the marimba, won the instrumental title and Ella Grob, who sang<br />
Bernstein’s ‘Peter, Peter’, won the vocal class.<br />
All the competitors deserve a mention for their outstanding performances –<br />
String Class<br />
Kimberley Hardin, Da Sol Kim<br />
Vocal Class<br />
Isabella Symonds-Willmott, Ella Grob,<br />
Samantha Coates, India Maxey<br />
Brass / Wind Class Max Hein, Emily Rawlings,<br />
Daisy Kemp, Matilda McCrum, Laura Winlow<br />
Piano / Percussion Class Carey Andrews, Jong Hak Lee,<br />
Alex Smith, Sadie Bosher<br />
Ella Grob, Mr Hywel Jenkins and Alex Smith<br />
THE ROCK & POP CONCERT<br />
The finalists of the MPS Young Musician of the<br />
Year<br />
This year’s Rock and Pop Concert on Friday 5th March comprised an evening of Beatles music. Many<br />
of the parents in the audience knew the songs from the first time around! The children’s performances<br />
were polished and accomplished, ranging from solo ballads to group numbers. Everyone (audience<br />
included) enjoyed finishing off the evening with a rousing ‘Hey Jude’. The children were backed by the<br />
Moondogs. Thanks to Mr Kench and Mr Boyle for organising a really super evening.<br />
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HOUSE SINGING COMPETITION<br />
The House Singing Competition at the end of the<br />
Spring Term is always eagerly anticipated. Weeks<br />
of preparation go into this event with rehearsals<br />
crammed into lunchtimes and any spare moments.<br />
The four houses (and the Music Department staff)<br />
vie keenly with each other and the added bonus that<br />
the Easter holiday awaits injects further enthusiasm!<br />
The competition comprises two parts – a<br />
chamber choir performance and a ‘whole house’<br />
song. This year’s overall winners were Danes with<br />
‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’, while Jutes were<br />
voted the best Chamber Choir. Mr Mark Williams<br />
adjudicated and is shown here presenting the Heads<br />
of Danes, Conrad Lewis and Libby Letchford, with<br />
their award and Alexander Vaughan and Melanie<br />
Pocock with the Jutes award.<br />
The MPS Chamber Choir joined forces with the <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
Chorus to sing Rutter’s Mass of the Children, in Wells<br />
Cathedral on Tuesday 9th March.<br />
Our Junior Choir, Chamber Choir and some soloists<br />
played in a Concert at St John’s Church Glastonbury<br />
and helped raise much needed funds for the church.<br />
PIANO RECITAL<br />
One of the highlights<br />
of the Summer Term<br />
was the Piano Recital<br />
given by Year 8 pupil,<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko.<br />
Anastasiya’s talent has<br />
been obvious since she<br />
first joined MPS in Year<br />
4, as a young boarder<br />
at Berewall. We have<br />
watched with interest<br />
as her musical ability has developed. She richly<br />
deserved the standing ovation she received at this<br />
concert and we wish her every success in her musical<br />
future.<br />
SUMMER CONCERTS<br />
In a break from our usual format, we split the summer concert over two<br />
evenings. The first was for the smaller ensembles. Again, it was good to see so<br />
many talented youngsters performing so well. It was nice for them to have their<br />
own concert and not be overshadowed by the larger ensembles. The second<br />
evening was given over to the larger ensembles and we were thrilled to be able<br />
to perform Saint Saens’ Carnival of the<br />
Animals. The choirs also joined forces<br />
for one item which made a thrilling<br />
beginning to the evening.<br />
Collections at our concerts raised over<br />
£2000 for Yeovil Coronary Care Unit,<br />
which bought 4 televisions on stands plus<br />
head phones. Thank you - this equipment<br />
was very much appreciated.<br />
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The Year In Art<br />
PERSIAN DAY<br />
THURSDAY 4th MARCH 2010<br />
MPS ARTISTS ON SHOW<br />
During the Autumn Term, paintings by Year 8 pupils<br />
Anna Vashurkina, Alexander Allen, Jennifer Vincent,<br />
Jack Longrigg, Alex Wilson-Slomkowski and Raphael<br />
Ayitey were displayed at West Mendip Hospital..<br />
The paintings came about through looking at West<br />
African pattern and design while in Year 7. The pupils<br />
had been studying West African culture which included<br />
workshops in dance, drumming, printmaking and food<br />
technology.<br />
In these paintings the pupils looked very closely<br />
at geometric and repeat pattern and used imagery<br />
and colour from West African textiles and ceramic<br />
decoration to complete their compositions.<br />
PERSIA DAY<br />
This Year’s Curriculum<br />
Focus Day in Year 7<br />
was Persia. The pupils<br />
had a fantastic day (as<br />
did the staff and the<br />
rest of the school!)<br />
when they had a<br />
chance to experience<br />
a Persian feast for<br />
lunch. We had various<br />
workshops running<br />
throughout the day<br />
ASH-E RESHTEH<br />
(PERSIAN NOODLE SOUP)<br />
PERSIAN LAMB STEW<br />
PERSIAN CHICKEN BREASTS<br />
KOOKOO-YEH BAADENJAAN<br />
(EGGPLANT, EGGS & ONIONS)<br />
KATEH<br />
(RICE)<br />
TZATZIKI<br />
(YOGHURT & CUCUMBER DIP)<br />
PERSIAN SALAD<br />
SHIR BERENJ<br />
(RICE PUDDING)<br />
FRESH FRUIT PLATTER<br />
which included making a Persian ceramic rug,<br />
learning to cook Persian delights, kite making, story<br />
telling through puppetry and Persian classical music.<br />
Pupils had a chance to learn many aspects of this rich<br />
and varied culture.<br />
An excellent group painting in the Fauves style by the pupils in 6AD<br />
THE BARCELONA EXCHANGE TRIP<br />
Accompanied by Mrs Henderson, Mr Maxwell and Mrs McElhinney, twelve<br />
lucky MPS pupils (Tom Strawford, Josh Barton, Haiden Watts, Hannah Nanton,<br />
Reuben Williams, Beth Stowell, Robbie Wills, Alex Pullin, Monica Clifford, Erin<br />
Connelly, Jemima Howard-Higgins and Seb Munnik) visited Barcelona as part of<br />
an Exchange with Oak House <strong>School</strong> from the city. The pupils had a very full<br />
itinerary, visiting the marvellous food markets, the Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell<br />
and the Picasso museum as well as taking part in a tapas making workshop with<br />
Juan Ramon, the school chef at Oak House. The pupils stayed with their host families and had a real taste of city<br />
living. Our Spanish friends visited us at MPS in the Summer Term and enjoyed<br />
Food and Art<br />
workshops and a<br />
visit to Bath to see<br />
the Roman Baths<br />
and doing some<br />
glass blowing with<br />
Bath Aqua glass.<br />
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PICTURES OF THE WEEK<br />
A ‘Picture of the Week’ is selected by the Art Department and announced in Assembly each Thursday.<br />
This hotly-contested honour means that the pupils’ art work can be enjoyed by the whole school. The<br />
‘Picture of the Week’ is initially displayed in the dining room and then moved to the entrance hall of the<br />
main building where it can be enjoyed by visitors too. Here are just of the few from this year’s display…<br />
A drawing by Olivia Allin, 8RM<br />
A Leonardo-inspired oil<br />
painting by Iona Clive,<br />
7CC<br />
An acrylic landscape by<br />
Paisley Banks, 8TH<br />
A charcoal fist by<br />
Ophelia Knight, 7LS<br />
A plaster<br />
sculpture of a<br />
walking man by<br />
Barley Nimmo,<br />
7TK<br />
A charcoal self-portrait<br />
by Lucy Alexander, 7ES<br />
A mythological seascape by<br />
Harry Poore, 7JB<br />
Two acrylic landscape paintings by Celeste<br />
Paterson and Mimi Rhys, 6JF<br />
A semi-abstract landscape by<br />
Fenella Chamberlain, 8PM<br />
A still life painting by<br />
Annabel O’Neill, 8RM<br />
An oil painting of her<br />
sister by Olivia Allin, 8RM<br />
A relief painting by<br />
Harry Griffiths, 8AH<br />
A sculpture in wood and<br />
stone by Georgianna<br />
Kloos, 8DH<br />
A painting of Tiger Woods<br />
by MPS No 1 golfer, Josh<br />
Fletcher, 8PM<br />
A collage self-portrait by<br />
Hannah Nanton, 7JB<br />
A collection of pen & ink drawings by<br />
Georgia Dimdore-Miles, Anna Glaser,<br />
Sammy Coates and Robin Everitt, 6DH<br />
A painting of an Edgar<br />
Degas drawing by<br />
Aimee Smith, 7LS<br />
A collaged pair of<br />
jeans by Annabel<br />
O’Neill, 8RM<br />
Two sketch books by<br />
Lydia Lavallin and<br />
Stasi Knight, 6SH<br />
A pencil drawing by Beth<br />
Stowell, 7JB<br />
A landscape by Georgia<br />
Merritt, 8MC<br />
A construction work by<br />
Jerome Moore, 8DH<br />
An abstract painting by<br />
Ivan Yung, 8PM<br />
A brilliant oil copy of<br />
Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl<br />
Earring’ by Iona Clive, 7CC<br />
A painting of a Persian<br />
miniature by Ophelia<br />
Knight, 7LS<br />
A pencil study by<br />
Ivan Yung, 8PM<br />
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English and Drama<br />
DICK WHITTINGTON & those pesky ratz!<br />
The Year 8 Christmas production was a pantomime with a difference! Told in flashback from<br />
the year 2050, MPS took a new take on the old tale of Dick Whittington and tried to answer<br />
the pertinent question of how a complete buffoon can end up being Mayor of London! Penned<br />
by the Head of English and Drama, Jim Boyd, the play involved hitch-hiking rats, Bridgwater<br />
adventurers, revolting children named Vomit and Puke, an unfunny court jester and a queen<br />
obsessed with facials and liposuction.<br />
Over fifty children trod the boards, arranged the songs and music and worked tirelessly<br />
to produce something new. The first time the whole cast assembled was for the first<br />
performance!<br />
THE MAVERICK DEBATE<br />
On Tuesday 2nd March, two houses both alike in dignity debated on the possibility of future<br />
technology rendering human teachers obsolete.<br />
Early on it was clear that, despite numerous references to bad jokes, lateness and unwashed<br />
coffee cups, the Nays were in the majority. Amy Cooper and John Hall, speaking for<br />
the motion, bravely stemmed the tide of opinion early but the opposition bench of Brett<br />
Dickinson and Gil White stole the spoils. Indeed, it was the biggest winning margin, a clear<br />
thirty votes, in the history of the MPS Maverick Debate.<br />
As for the Maverick, the most engaging speakers from the floor – Anastasiya Shpitko, Brenda<br />
Gonzales Martin and Flora McKaig – all impressed the adjudicator, Mrs Christine Martin, but<br />
it was Saul Landrook who took the title of this year’s Maverick. Not only did Saul have a fine<br />
speech, but he dealt with the numerous interruptions with skill. Well done to all those who<br />
spoke and those who were willing, but were unable to do so due to time constraints.<br />
Another Maverick triumph.<br />
Saul Landrock, this year’s<br />
Maverick winner.<br />
MACBETH<br />
As the summer term drew to a close, Year 6 pupils<br />
‘stood up for Shakepeare’ and gave us a great<br />
performance of Macbeth. A dramatic and atmospheric<br />
set, created by Mr Ratcliffe and the Art Department,<br />
provided the backdrop to this challenging play. Ben<br />
Lawrence in the title role and Libby Brake as Lady<br />
Macbeth, put in stunning<br />
performances. The witches were suitably sinister and the young<br />
Malcolm fittingly heroic. The play was directed by Mrs Lacy and Mrs<br />
Webb who managed to involve the whole of Year 6 in cast and chorus.<br />
Musical accompaniment from our multi-talented staff band provided<br />
enjoyable relief from the unfolding tragedy. Well done to Year 6 for all<br />
their hard work.<br />
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LIBRARY NEWS<br />
Cathy Cassidy, popular for her range of ‘pink’ books<br />
for girls, including titles such as Dizzy, Lucky Star<br />
and Scarlett, visited the school in April. The children<br />
enjoyed her talk which was followed by book signing<br />
and a chance to chat in the library.<br />
The annual Book Fair was a great success, raising over<br />
£1500 in book commission, which was split between<br />
the library, juniors, history, science, geography,<br />
boarding houses, EAL and LDC.<br />
The library monitors<br />
had a well deserved<br />
trip to Wells Cathedral<br />
Library to thank them<br />
for their hard work<br />
and commitment to<br />
the library over the<br />
year. It was a lovely<br />
morning and the tour<br />
of the library showed<br />
us some beautiful books and helped us understand the<br />
development of the printed word. It was a glorious day<br />
– we had a picnic on the Cathedral Green and rounded<br />
off the day with a spot of football.<br />
Ms V Hayes<br />
STRANGE HAPPENINGS at<br />
SPITTLEBURY MANOR<br />
Once again Year<br />
7 had to endure<br />
some very ‘Strange<br />
Happenings’ in<br />
the form of their<br />
annual dramatic<br />
production. This<br />
year, the events<br />
took place at<br />
Spittlebury Manor<br />
during the festive<br />
ball. Assembled<br />
were dignified<br />
guests, dedicated<br />
staff and dishevelled<br />
circus performers.<br />
Horror of horrors<br />
- the Spittlebury<br />
Diamonds disappear<br />
and on to the scene<br />
arrives the detective<br />
sisters, the Marbles<br />
Twins. Everyone is a suspect and secrets and lies<br />
are soon discovered as well as the diamonds. All<br />
ends happily, love prevails, livelihoods are saved<br />
and the circus continues to perform. A cast of<br />
seventy speaking parts performed admirably in<br />
the face of adversity as the first time the cast was<br />
assembled in its entirety was on the first night and<br />
even then a South African exchange student had to<br />
step in! Once again the old adage –‘the show must<br />
go on’ was fulfilled. It was a theatrical miracle!<br />
PERFORMING ARTS CLUB<br />
Last year saw the creation of the Year 8 MPS<br />
Performing Arts Club and this year the short standing<br />
tradition has continued!<br />
Initially consisting of only eight members, by week 3<br />
numbers were over twenty as word of mouth promotion<br />
swelled the ranks. The concept was to give pupils an<br />
idea of the enormous range of possibilities available<br />
in the arts and especially the performing arts. All that<br />
was required to be a member was a willingness to<br />
work hard, overcome shyness, laugh at oneself and be<br />
prepared to perform! Highlights of the term included a<br />
performance in assembly of the comic mime to ‘Torn’<br />
and the production of a CD of two songs by The Flow, a<br />
group created by Kathryn Morley and including Emma<br />
Keen and Fenella Chamberlain. Here’s to the ‘class’ of<br />
2010!<br />
Photographs by David Titchener.<br />
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Junior Department<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 3 went to Bristol<br />
during the second half of<br />
the winter term to visit<br />
the ‘Matthew’, a ship<br />
very similar to the one<br />
Christopher Columbus<br />
sailed across the Atlantic.<br />
The children had a wonderful<br />
time<br />
finding<br />
out what<br />
life was<br />
like for<br />
sailors<br />
500 years<br />
ago. They sailed around Bristol<br />
harbour on a lovely sunny day and the captain gave<br />
some of the children the opportunity to steer the ship.<br />
Luckily they all survived the adventure, although Bertie<br />
looked a little worse for wear!<br />
On Sunday 11th<br />
October, the<br />
junior boarders<br />
went out on a trip<br />
to Tropiquaria. The<br />
children had a great<br />
time having close<br />
contact with a skunk,<br />
snakes and large<br />
spiders, to name but<br />
a few. They also saw<br />
a puppet show<br />
and played in an<br />
adventure park.<br />
The children<br />
were very brave holding a boa<br />
constrictor around their necks!<br />
In the summer term, Year 3 had a fun-packed day at<br />
Bristol Zoo and a trip up Wearyall Hill before some<br />
serious instruction as trainee monks at Glastonbury<br />
Abbey!<br />
Year 4<br />
During the autumn term, Year 4 went to Holford to<br />
investigate rivers and develop their understanding of<br />
what they had learnt in the classroom. They had great<br />
fun and the teachers managed to stay afloat! They<br />
ended the trip going to East Quantoxhead beach to do<br />
some fossil hunting. It was a very good day and all the<br />
children came back to school exhausted.<br />
Year 4 also visited Butleigh<br />
Church. They explored all the<br />
furniture and items which can be<br />
found in a church. The beautiful<br />
stained glass windows inspired<br />
the children to make their own<br />
designs back in the classroom.<br />
In connection with their<br />
history studies, Year 4 went to<br />
Dorchester on the sunniest day of<br />
the spring term. After becoming<br />
experts on the life, death and<br />
discovery of Tutankhamun, a<br />
visit to<br />
Maiden Castle was good<br />
preparation for their study of<br />
the Celts in the summer term.<br />
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Year 5<br />
On Thursday 5th November, Year 5 set out on their intrepid trip to Caerleon<br />
to support their work on the Romans. We had a quick snack and marched<br />
in true Roman fashion to the museum. Here we spent some time examining<br />
the artefacts and then taking part in role play exercises as Roman rich men<br />
and slaves. The benefits of being a rich man soon became obvious! This was<br />
followed by a sumptuous packed lunch (thank you Mr Bickham) in the open<br />
air before a walk to examine the Roman Baths. Finally, we took a look at some<br />
barrack remains and had a fun-filled time letting off steam in the amphitheatre!<br />
At last we got<br />
back on the<br />
bus, exhausted<br />
but happy. The<br />
weather had<br />
smiled on us and<br />
we had had a<br />
fantastic day.<br />
Anglo Saxon Day<br />
In March, Year 5 had an<br />
action-packed Anglo Saxon<br />
Day. The morning was<br />
spent completing a carousel<br />
of activities relating to<br />
Anglo Saxon art, craft and<br />
culture. These included<br />
creating<br />
Anglo Saxon pottery,<br />
sword and brooch making<br />
and writing Anglo Saxon runes and riddles. In the<br />
afternoon we welcomed our visitor, who brought<br />
many interesting artefacts, weapons and armour that<br />
we were able to look at and try on. A very enjoyable<br />
afternoon was had when many new and interesting<br />
facts and stories were heard.<br />
Why you should become a Cub Scout<br />
I have been a member of the school Cub Pack for the last three<br />
years and I have loved every minute of it. At each meeting we start<br />
by raising the Union Flag,<br />
saluting it and saying the Cub<br />
Scout Law, promising to do<br />
our best, be kind to others<br />
and do a good turn every day.<br />
We play loads of games but<br />
work hard to gain badges for<br />
things like fitness, healthy<br />
eating, art and map reading.<br />
The best bit of being a cub is the cub camp in the summer. We<br />
get to cook sausages and marshmallows, sing songs round the<br />
camp fire and even sleep in tents; how cool is that! Come on,<br />
join in, you know you want to and you’ll have the time of your<br />
life.<br />
Cubs rock!<br />
By Bethan Close<br />
(Green Sixer)<br />
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History<br />
MEDIEVAL DAY<br />
Year 8 took part in<br />
another very successful<br />
Medieval Day in the<br />
autumn term, despite some appalling<br />
weather conditions! Unfortunately,<br />
this meant the archery had to be<br />
abandoned. Pupils spent the day in<br />
house groups and were able to take<br />
part in medieval dancing and bicycle<br />
jousting as well as workshops on arms<br />
and armour. They were marked on their<br />
enthusiasm and participation and the<br />
winning house this year was Saxons.<br />
CONGRATULATIONS to Year<br />
8 pupils, Alexander Vaughan<br />
and Brett Dickinson, who both<br />
qualified for Round 2 of the<br />
prestigious National Townsend<br />
Warner History Competition. Brett<br />
went on to be highly commended for his efforts.<br />
Year 6 pupils<br />
visited the<br />
Fleet Air Arm<br />
Museum at<br />
Yeovilton as<br />
part of their<br />
studies into<br />
life during World War II.<br />
Year 7 explored<br />
Chepstow Castle<br />
during their<br />
investigations<br />
into the<br />
medieval<br />
period.<br />
Maths<br />
United Kingdom Team Maths Challenge, Wednesday 24th February.<br />
The Regional Round of this competition was hosted by <strong>Millfield</strong>. We entered<br />
two teams each consisting of two Year 8 and two Year 9 pupils. Our teams<br />
came third and fourth, the ‘A’ team, coming just one point behind the<br />
second placed team, which out of 240 marks is close! Congratulations to<br />
all the MPS participants: Joshua Burgess, Jack Cadman, Brett Dickinson and<br />
Giles Hussey. Also congratulations to the ex-prep school mathematicians,<br />
Stacey Avvacumova, George Galliano, Kate Golledge for <strong>Millfield</strong> and<br />
Charles Auckland, a member of the winning King’s Bruton team.<br />
Mr N Wright<br />
Pupils who achieved Bronze, Silver or Gold<br />
standard in the United Kingdom Mathematics<br />
Challenge whilst in Year Seven, a year early.<br />
Science<br />
SALTER’S CHEMISTRY FESTIVAL,<br />
Tuesday 18th May<br />
Four MPS Year 8<br />
pupils - John Hall,<br />
James Everett,<br />
Miriam Wadey and<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko<br />
- were selected to<br />
represent the school<br />
at the Salter’s Festival<br />
of Chemistry held<br />
at the University of<br />
Bath. Pupils spent<br />
the morning taking part in the Salter’s Challenge<br />
carrying out some forensic chemistry testing along<br />
with representatives from<br />
17 other schools in the<br />
region. In the afternoon<br />
they carried out a problem<br />
solving exercise set by the<br />
University followed by a fun<br />
demonstration of exciting<br />
chemistry.<br />
SCIENCE GOES TO SLIMBRIDGE<br />
To tie in with their Biology<br />
lessons, Year 7 pupils enjoyed<br />
a visit to The Wildfowl and<br />
Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge,<br />
home to the world’s largest<br />
collection of ducks, geese,<br />
swans and flamingos.<br />
In Physics, 6AD<br />
investigated the strength<br />
of different structures.<br />
They managed to<br />
balance 96 Jenga blocks<br />
(unsupported) on a piece<br />
of A4 folded card. Can<br />
you better that?<br />
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Food Technology<br />
YOUNG CHEF COMPETITION<br />
The eventual winners of the MPS Young Chef Competition<br />
were Miles Hart (6AD) and Melanie Pocock (8RM) who went<br />
forward to represent MPS at the local heat of the Rotary<br />
Club Competition in Wells in December. Melanie cooked a<br />
delicious farmhouse chicken casserole with creamy mash and<br />
a selection of vegetables that she grew herself, and a classic<br />
apple and bramble crumble for the second course. Miles<br />
Our finalists for the Rotary Young Chef competition in action at the<br />
MPS cook off.<br />
opted for a boned chicken leg stuffed with walnuts, watercress and Proscuttio ham in a cider jus followed by a fantastic<br />
crème brûlée. The competition was for ages 11 to 17 year olds, so they were up against some more experienced cooks<br />
on this occasion. However, they have gained valuable early experience for future cooking years!<br />
Our pupils entered wholeheartedly into the ‘Best Decorated Cake<br />
Competition’. It was all in a good cause – we raised lots of money for<br />
Children in Need!<br />
Winners of the best decorated cake competition:-<br />
Congratulations to:<br />
Josh Barton, Eleanor Abercromby, Minnie Rider and Elsie Brade<br />
THE INTER-HOUSE COOKERY COMPETITION<br />
The hotly-contested annual cookery competition took place in the summer<br />
term. The two early rounds involved cake-making and a food knowledge<br />
/ tasting quiz. The Angles team of Lindsay Reid, Flora Larkin and Jack<br />
Cadman took an early lead but there were more tests to come!<br />
In the main part of the competition the contestants had to prepare a meal<br />
to demonstrate their skills. The menus would not have been out of a place<br />
on Masterchef! The teams produced some beautiful dishes and the judges,<br />
Mrs Champion, Mrs Close, Mrs Baker and our new Chair of Governors,<br />
General Sir John Reith, had a difficult (but enjoyable!) time selecting the<br />
winners. Angles menu, comprising Sundried Tomato Bread, Devonshire Red<br />
Stuffed Chicken Breast and a Chocolate & Raspberry Cream Glass, won the day and some well-deserved house points.<br />
DARTMOOR<br />
Year 6 pupils had their annual residential trip<br />
to Dartmoor in September. The visit is truly<br />
cross-curricular – geography of the moor and<br />
its National Park status; a visit to Morwellham<br />
Quay gives a glimpse into the Victorian way<br />
of life (and the<br />
opportunity to dress up); a visit<br />
to Stone Farm and the animals<br />
who live there AND, perhaps<br />
most important of all, a great<br />
opportunity to make friends and<br />
get to know all the other Year 6<br />
pupils and staff!<br />
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The Year 8 Leavers Dinner<br />
Year 8 Dinner<br />
Wednesday 30 th June 2010<br />
In the final week of the summer term, Year 8 pupils celebrated their time at<br />
MPS with a formal dinner. Elegantly dressed young ladies and smartly attired<br />
young men emerged to enjoy a lovely summer evening on Wednesday 30th<br />
June. The dinner was preceded by a ‘drinks’ reception at the Headmaster’s<br />
house.<br />
Year 8 pupils and staff would like to thank Mr Bickham and the catering staff<br />
for once again providing a sumptuous meal. The evening was a fitting and<br />
memorable event for the Year 8 leavers and senior retiring guests Mr and Mrs<br />
Cheney and Mrs Papworth.<br />
Starters<br />
Prawn Cocktail<br />
Melon<br />
Melon & Parma Ham<br />
Mozzarella Tomato & Basil<br />
Main Course<br />
Steak with Red Wine Sauce<br />
Carrots Roasted in Honey<br />
Sweet Corn<br />
Mange Tout<br />
Vegetarian Lasagne<br />
Stuffed Peppers<br />
Desserts<br />
Selection from the Sweet Trolley<br />
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Year 8 – Post Examinations Programme<br />
On completion of their summer term exams, Year 8 embarked on an exciting programme of events and activities,<br />
organised by Mr Link.<br />
There was a trip to Big Pit, competitions such as Challenge Day and Inter-House Cookery; talks on first aid, drugs and<br />
World War 1 and, make-up, dance, fire, art, poetry and drumming workshops. For the more energetic there were<br />
surfing trips and the opportunity to try grass mountain boarding.<br />
An optional long weekend at PGL in the Brecon Beacons was a great way to unwind after exams.<br />
LAST YEAR’S PAGE!<br />
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<strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory <strong>School</strong><br />
Year 8 2009-2010<br />
Back row: E. Davies, M. Edgley, A. Taylor, J. Burgess, O. Norris, C. K. Yung, J. Stone, S. Landrock, J. Cadman, L. Fathers, O. Stanford, J. Hall, J. Timmins, L. Appleton, C. Kurle, H. Tozer, G. Merritt, C. Deacon.<br />
5th row: E. Scott, C. Niccolls, A. Fremond-Jeevanjee, M. Pocock, I. Maxey, J. Forster, J. Lawrence, F. Miller, J. Longrigg, H. Spilsbury, F. McKaig, T. Burley, B. Dickinson, T. Parkinson, K. Taylor, A. Wilson-Slomkowski, N. Isbister,<br />
C. Forster, C. Martin.<br />
4th row: A. O’Neill, A. Hacker, A. Vashurkina, A. Roberts, O. Galbraith-Helps, H. Anstock, B. Coleman, H. Edgar, J. Costigan, M. Carroll, C. Stephens, H. Hart, G. Hankins, B. Hecks, K. Morley, P. Considine, A. Cooper, E. Stevens, K. Hardin.<br />
3rd row: J. Fletcher, M. Hein, C. Fowlie, A. Hussey, C. Strutt, C. Lewis, J. Vincent, C. Brown, B. Stevens, J. Moore, M. Phillips, G. Hussey, J. H. Lee, A. Allen, G. Kloos, D. Kemp, G. Melly, A. Harris, K. O’Sullivan, L. Reid.<br />
2nd row: H. Leheup, F. Sexton, C. Andrews, I. Crispin, M. Wadey, G. Young, E. Gillespie, L. Matthews, J. Stanbrook-Tompkins, C. Rey, R. Kurihara, A. Tait, L. Letchford, J. Considine, N. Stratton-Christensen, K. House, O. Allin,<br />
M. O’Leary, D. Atkins, S. Munnik, M. Tattam, H. Smith, A. Vaughan, P. Banks, K. Andre, F. Chamberlain, E. Keene.<br />
Front row: G. White, S. Sifontes, B. Gonzalez Martin, I. Yeates, E. Pawsey, R. Ayitey, A. Abdulrazaq, S. Bosher, A. Shpitko, W. Branch, J. Ramsden, J. Howard-Higgins, H. Griffiths, J. Everett, H. Fearnley, G. Bishop, E. McCombe, O. Bellak,<br />
D. Nanji, P. Dinkov, A. Bedford.<br />
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Riding<br />
What a year for MPS riders! Starting at the South West<br />
JWS Qualifier, the Eventer’s Challenge on 11th October<br />
2009, over 20 schools were competing at <strong>Millfield</strong> for<br />
a chance to represent the South West at the National<br />
<strong>School</strong>s finals in November. The MPS team, consisting<br />
of Kathryn O’Sullivan, Bonnie Leheup, Hettie Horler<br />
and Charlotte East, did very well, coming third overall<br />
in the ‘Jumping with Style’ competition. This involved<br />
riding over a series of show-jumps up to 90cm high<br />
and then, without a pause, changing jumping style to<br />
complete a round of cross-country jumps. This was a<br />
great performance as the girls were competing against<br />
pupils up to the age of 18 years.<br />
On Sunday 28th February, the NSEA Mini JWS (Jump<br />
with Style) qualifying competition was held at <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong> Equestrian Centre for the third time.<br />
The course is run over approximately 9 show jumps<br />
and then another 9 simulated cross-country fences.<br />
The second half of the course is timed and, with it<br />
being a qualifier for the championships, the course<br />
had to be challenging. Riders are given marks for their<br />
rhythm and pace around the course, change of speed<br />
between show jumps and cross-country jumps, and also<br />
for their riding position.<br />
There were approximately 25 teams in total in each<br />
class, each team consisting of 3- 4 riders, but the best<br />
3 scores counted out of each team. There were also 15<br />
individual riders.<br />
It was a long day and the MPS riders were the last 2<br />
teams to go in and jump their rounds. All riders put in<br />
a great performance. The judges added up the scores<br />
to find the <strong>Millfield</strong> ‘A’ Team of Kathryn O’Sullivan,<br />
Erin McCombe, Hettie Horler and Yasmin Strutt had<br />
won the class. All four riders have qualified for the<br />
Championship in November. The ‘B’ team of Bonnie<br />
Leheup, Grace Bishop and Holly Jackson finished 5th<br />
overall - a great achievement.<br />
Best in the West!<br />
It’s official - Chris Watson, our chief<br />
instructor at MPS, was the winner of<br />
the regional heat of the British Horse<br />
Society’s Young Instructor of the Year<br />
competition. He was one of only 12<br />
finalists throughout the whole of Great<br />
Britain and Ireland. Congratulations<br />
to him – he was too bashful to be<br />
photographed with his trophy but we have a nice<br />
picture of him in action!<br />
HICKSTEAD<br />
During the summer holiday, a team<br />
of 3 riders (Bonnie Leheup, Kathryn<br />
O’Sullivan & Charlotte East) competed<br />
in the Hickstead Inter <strong>School</strong>s Show<br />
Jumping Competition.<br />
There were 22 teams in the first round<br />
but only 10 teams could go through<br />
to the championship. We put in good<br />
performances but it was a long wait to<br />
see if they were good enough for us to<br />
go through! When the good news came we didn’t have<br />
time to celebrate, we had to stay focused and walk the<br />
course in the International Arena.<br />
The course, which was well up to<br />
height, was quite challenging for<br />
these young riders. Kathryn was the<br />
first rider to go in our team. We all<br />
had our fingers crossed and, as she<br />
jumped the last fence, all the <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
spectators stood up in the grand stand<br />
and whistled and cheered - she had<br />
produced a super clear round.<br />
Charlotte did just the same as Kathryn,<br />
jumping a clear round; this put the <strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> team<br />
into 1st place, with one rider from each team left to<br />
jump. Bonnie was the final rider in our team to jump;<br />
she put in a great round, just knocking two poles out<br />
of their cups. This put us into a very respectable 2nd<br />
place overall.<br />
As Charlotte and Kathryn had both jumped clear, they<br />
had to jump off for Individual placing. They both<br />
jumped clear again and<br />
were fast against the<br />
clock.<br />
Kathryn finished one<br />
second behind the<br />
winner to take 2nd<br />
place and Charlotte<br />
took 3rd.<br />
Well done, girls! Chris Watson, BHSII SC, SE<br />
STONAR MINI ISODE<br />
At the Stonar ISODE<br />
on Sunday 23rd May,<br />
the <strong>Millfield</strong> Red team,<br />
consisting of Erin<br />
McCombe, Bonnie<br />
Leheup, Hettie Horler<br />
and Charlotte East, won<br />
the 95cm Class, 14 points<br />
clear of the nearest<br />
challenger. The girls did<br />
Mrs Shayler presenting the plaque<br />
to Erin, Bonnie & Hettie<br />
exceptionally well, with some well deserved individual<br />
places as well. Well done!<br />
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Boarding Life<br />
How do the boarders spend their weekends when school finishes on<br />
Saturday? The answer is – they have lots of fun! At the beginning of<br />
each term Mr Coates, Director of Boarding, distributes a list of weekend<br />
activities that boarders can sign up for. Activities on offer include, trips to<br />
Tropiquaria and Wookey Hole Caves; ice skating in Bristol; ten-pin bowling<br />
in Taunton, jet skiing in Bridgwater, laser fun in Bristol and skiing / ringos<br />
at Churchill.<br />
Those are the trips off campus but there is so much to do in our own<br />
school grounds. Every September boarders enjoy a Multiactivity<br />
Extravaganza when they can try just about anything that takes their fancy<br />
as these pictures show...<br />
Helping Others<br />
It has been a busy and fruitful year on the charity front at MPS. It is one of<br />
the quietly important aspects of school that underpins many of the activities<br />
undertaken by the children.<br />
We have an ongoing link with PLAN where we sponsor an Ethiopian boy called<br />
Engedaye and we tend to raise money for him through our school discos. We<br />
are fortunate in having a personal link with the charity through Dr and Mrs<br />
Sharp. They travel to Ethiopia once a year and meet with Engedaye and his<br />
family. On these trips they are able to take out donations of clothing made<br />
by MPS – there are quite a few of our blue sweatshirts being worn in the<br />
mountainous region of Ethiopia where Engedaye lives!<br />
Our non-uniform day saw money being donated to CHICKS, a charity offering<br />
holidays to disadvantaged children based in the South West. We also held a<br />
cake sale for Children in Need with a special cake decorating competition taking place as well.<br />
Year 8 pupils presented a cheque for £500 to<br />
BIBIC – just one of the charities that benefited<br />
from our May Fair.<br />
MPS responded to the Haiti appeal with vigour. The children, including boarders, made a huge number of cakes with<br />
the money being donated to a charity called World Vision who are on the ground in Haiti. We were able to present a<br />
cheque to them for nearly £1,500.<br />
Most of our musical events also have a retiring collection and this year The Yeovil Coronary Care unit benefitted from<br />
several donations.<br />
The boarders contribute to charity as well in various ways. Last year the charities supported by the boarders included<br />
Children in Need, sponsoring an African Child through Action Aid, an autism charity, as well as money being donated<br />
to retired donkeys and dogs. These donations are made through the children’s own pocket money. Some boarders<br />
have also worked for the Somerset Wildlife Trust, cleaning the Somerset Levels as part of community work. In May<br />
this year all boarders took part in a charity car wash (much appreciated by staff and parents alike) with all proceeds<br />
from this event going to Help for Heroes.<br />
Mrs J Bruce<br />
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Kevin Cheney – Headmaster 2001–2010<br />
Mr Kevin Cheney, who was<br />
appointed as Headmaster<br />
of <strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory<br />
<strong>School</strong> in January 2001,<br />
retired at the end of July<br />
after a distinguished career<br />
in private education during<br />
which he has held three<br />
Headships.<br />
Kevin, who is 60, masterminded<br />
the move of the pre-preparatory school from<br />
the centre of Glastonbury to the <strong>School</strong>’s main Edgarley Hall site just<br />
outside the town. He also oversaw the building of two new boarding<br />
houses and was the inspiration<br />
behind the use of Middle Edgarley<br />
Farm as riding stables on the<br />
<strong>School</strong>’s campus.<br />
His vision to improve the overall<br />
look of the <strong>School</strong> has resulted in<br />
better facilities for children, giving<br />
them an environment to be proud<br />
of, interspersed with specially commissioned<br />
sculptures. He oversaw the building of a new<br />
sports hall and the conversion of the old one into a theatre. He also revamped<br />
the dining hall.<br />
During his 9-10 year headship, Kevin introduced the<br />
teaching of Mandarin as an extra-curricular activity. He<br />
appointed a Grand Master to teach chess. The <strong>School</strong><br />
gained publicity for the introduction of English type, a<br />
touch typing course. He developed bus routes for day<br />
pupils among many other achievements.<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory, under him, has been at the<br />
forefront of ECO and environmental awareness. It was<br />
one of only 10 independent schools to achieve Green<br />
Flag status and one of the few so far to put up a wind<br />
turbine.<br />
Kevin has led a committed, supportive and excellent<br />
group of staff. As a result, the <strong>School</strong> has received glowing reports from Ofsted<br />
for its Early Years provision and from visits by Independent <strong>School</strong>s Inspectorate<br />
(ISI). A recent Ofsted boarding inspection found the <strong>School</strong><br />
to be outstanding in all respects and the ISI report at the<br />
same time found the <strong>School</strong> to be ‘outstanding’ and ‘good<br />
in all areas’. The lead inspector commented: ‘Children at<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory have the time of their lives’.<br />
The <strong>School</strong> was also visited by Sue Palmer, author of<br />
‘Toxic Childhood’ who said it was the least toxic school<br />
environment which she had ever seen. Another visitor was<br />
Jim Rose, the Government’s Primary <strong>School</strong>s Advisor, who<br />
also commented on the excellence of the <strong>School</strong>.<br />
In Mr Cheney’s final year the pupils have had great success<br />
in music, art, drama and sport. The Under-13 boys won the<br />
Rosslyn Park Sevens and several national championships<br />
organised by the Incorporated <strong>Association</strong> of <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong>s (IAPS). These included: cricket, rounders,<br />
hockey, swimming, golf, trampolining, cross country running and fencing. Apart from this, the girls and<br />
boys have been successful in a variety of other sports at county and regional level.<br />
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His first headship from 1986-92 was at Trinity<br />
<strong>School</strong>, a 3-18 day and boarding school in<br />
Teignmouth, Devon. He then became Headmaster<br />
of Cranmore <strong>School</strong>, an all boys Catholic prep<br />
school in Surrey.<br />
His first teaching job was<br />
as Assistant Housemaster<br />
at Clifton College, Bristol,<br />
from 1977 to 1980. He<br />
then joined the staff of<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>School</strong> for six<br />
years as a Housemaster<br />
and a Geography teacher.<br />
He was also Commanding<br />
Officer of the <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
Combined Cadet Force<br />
(CCF).<br />
Mr Cheney is married to Hilary who has been<br />
fully involved in the work of <strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory.<br />
They have four grown-up sons: Thomas aged 29,<br />
twins Edward and Samuel aged 26 and Henry<br />
aged 19.<br />
Hilary and Kevin, we wish you both a long<br />
and happy retirement.<br />
The restored summer house<br />
The opening of one of the many successful May Fairs<br />
Eco Day<br />
This year we also said a sad farewell to Mrs Cathy Papworth who has<br />
truly been the ‘Green Queen ‘ of MPS.<br />
MPS enjoyed a hugely successful Eco Day in the last week of the<br />
summer term, organised with Mrs Papworth’s usual efficiency, involving<br />
every pupil and member of staff in both the <strong>Prep</strong> and the Pre-<strong>Prep</strong>.<br />
This was our fourth Eco Day and, as we look around the school, we can<br />
see the legacy of earlier Eco Days in the form of the orchard, the bog<br />
garden and pond, to name but a few of the positive outcomes.<br />
During her ‘reign’ as<br />
champion of all matters<br />
green, MPS has gained and retained Eco <strong>School</strong> status (something<br />
that is not lightly awarded), erected a wind turbine and established a<br />
Green Council with pupil representatives, providing a forum for open<br />
discussion on environmental matters.<br />
Mrs Papworth has been tireless in keeping pupils and staff on their<br />
toes with regard to recycling and saving energy. Thanks to her, we are<br />
all much more aware of wastage and much more appreciative of our<br />
environment.<br />
Mrs Papworth, we will miss you but your message lives on!<br />
READ THE ECO-DAY NEWSLETTER ON THE SCHOOL WEB SITE!<br />
www.millfieldprep.com<br />
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<strong>Millfield</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong> Parents’ & Friends’ <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> – 2009-10<br />
The Parents’ and Friends’ <strong>Association</strong> has had another<br />
busy and successful year - here are some of the<br />
highlights!<br />
This year’s Charity May Fair<br />
had a spectacular circus theme<br />
and raised £10,000 which<br />
was split between 31 different<br />
charities. The Fair featured<br />
stilt-walkers, jugglers, hulahooping,<br />
tight-rope walking and<br />
the children even got a chance<br />
to practise their own circus<br />
skills in specially organised workshops. There was also<br />
Maypole and country dancing<br />
by the pre-prep children, Talent<br />
Show and busking and all the<br />
wonderful and varied class<br />
stalls. In addition, 25 local<br />
charities attended and ran their<br />
own stalls.<br />
This year’s May Fair<br />
Committee was very ably<br />
led by Karie Clifford,<br />
Dominee Worman and<br />
Laura Zaky, who worked<br />
together so well to ensure<br />
that all ran smoothly, was<br />
lots of<br />
fun and raised so much money on<br />
the day. Many thanks to them and<br />
to the whole May Fair Committee<br />
- a great team effort!<br />
Jenner, a carer from<br />
Children’s Hospice<br />
South West, talked<br />
movingly about how<br />
the Hospice makes<br />
such a big difference to<br />
children like Bethany<br />
and their families - this<br />
illustrated perfectly<br />
their motto of ‘making the most of short and precious<br />
lives’. A special May Ball Committee worked hard to<br />
make the evening such a great success – many thanks<br />
to all who helped.<br />
The Quiz Night in November 2009 was another<br />
successful evening with our quizmaster extraordinaire<br />
Mr Harris who struck just the right balance between fun<br />
and intellectual challenge – a huge thank you to him for<br />
all his hard work! The quiz was fiercely contested, with<br />
the winning team, ‘Flushed Away’, clearly delighted to<br />
be presented with their Gold HMC certificates from Mr<br />
Cheney (see photo)!<br />
On Saturday May 22nd we held a Venetian Masked<br />
Charity May Ball and a fantastic total of £20,000 was<br />
raised for Children’s Hospice South West. The Sports<br />
Hall was transformed<br />
into a Venetian scene<br />
with pictures of<br />
Venetian characters,<br />
giant masks, gondola<br />
poles and of course<br />
masked guests!<br />
The evening started<br />
with champagne<br />
and canapés in the<br />
evening sunshine<br />
followed by a delicious Venetian style table buffet.<br />
Many thanks to our superb auctioneer Nick Oliver for<br />
the Grand Auction which was followed by dancing<br />
to the fabulous live band ‘Doctor Chocolate’ and Mr<br />
James’ super disco! This<br />
year’s Ball was in memory<br />
of Bethany Chinnock-<br />
Schumann who sadly died<br />
in December 2009, aged<br />
11 years and whose sister,<br />
Amelia, was in the preprep<br />
2004-07. Caroline<br />
We held our first ever MacMillan Coffee Morning on<br />
Friday 25th September 2009 where we raised £785<br />
for MacMillan Cancer Support. Our regular events<br />
of Welcome Coffee mornings and Champagne and<br />
Canapes have also been well supported.<br />
This year in particular we would like to thank the<br />
retiring Headmaster and Mrs Cheney whose guidance<br />
and whole-hearted support of the Parents’ & Friends’<br />
<strong>Association</strong> throughout their stay at MPS has been<br />
invaluable. Moreover, during their tenure, we have<br />
raised well over £100,000 for a wide range of charities.<br />
We would also like to thank the following for their<br />
help and support throughout the year - Mr Link,<br />
Amanda Cosway, Janette Tuckwell, Tim Kelly,<br />
Lawrence Whitehead, Janet Baker, Ray Bickham and<br />
all the Chartwells catering team, Mr Dutton & the<br />
groundsmen, the gardeners and the cleaning team.<br />
A special mention should go to Paul Begg and his<br />
carpentry and maintenance team and Andrea Coombes<br />
and Mandy Rossiter for their help with the Ball.<br />
We are always looking for new committee members<br />
and helpers so please do feel free to get involved if you<br />
would like to – please contact the Office or any of the<br />
Committee Members if you are interested. As I come<br />
to the end of my time as Chair of the <strong>Association</strong>, I<br />
would like to thank all those who have supported our<br />
events over the last few years and helped us to raise<br />
such amazing amounts for charity.<br />
Heather Hall,<br />
Chair of MPS Parents’ & Friends’ <strong>Association</strong><br />
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<strong>School</strong> Colours 2010<br />
ATHLETICS<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
Alexander Allen<br />
Charlie Martin<br />
Josh Ramsden<br />
Cameron Stephens<br />
Josh Timmins<br />
Will Branch<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
Ali Hussey<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
Jane Considine<br />
Georgia Young<br />
Olivia Bellak<br />
Olivia Allin<br />
Abi Hacker<br />
Grace Bishop<br />
Paisley Banks<br />
½ Colours<br />
Brett Dickinson<br />
ROUNDERS<br />
Ellie Pawsey<br />
Ali Hussey<br />
Olivia Bellak<br />
Abiola Roberts<br />
Megan Gillespie<br />
India Maxey<br />
Grace Bishop<br />
Kathryn O’Sullivan<br />
Jenny Vincent<br />
Anna Vashurkina<br />
Phoebe Considine<br />
Jane Considine<br />
Georgia Young<br />
TENNIS<br />
Giles Hussey<br />
Corey Niccolls<br />
Alexander Vaughan<br />
Abiola Roberts<br />
Jenny Vincent<br />
½ Colours<br />
Max O’Leary<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
Herbert Rumney<br />
Max Hein<br />
Anna Vashurkina<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
Tom Parkinson<br />
Conrad Lewis<br />
Max O’Leary<br />
Josh Timmins<br />
James Everett<br />
Camillo Rey<br />
Herbert Rumney<br />
Jong Hak Lee<br />
Charlie Martin<br />
Gil White<br />
Charlie Strutt<br />
Harry Anstock<br />
BOYS HOCKEY<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
Luke Appleton<br />
Andy Tait<br />
Harry Anstock<br />
Conrad Lewis<br />
Jack Costigan<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
George Hankins<br />
Charlie Strutt<br />
Herbert Rumney<br />
½ Colours<br />
Josh Lawrence<br />
Saul Landrock<br />
Max Phillips<br />
Freddie Sexton<br />
Raphael Ayitey<br />
Dan Escott<br />
John Hall<br />
GIRLS HOCKEY<br />
Brenda Gonzalez Martin<br />
Melanie Pocock<br />
Georgia Young<br />
Olivia Bellak<br />
Lindsay Reid<br />
Jenny Vincent<br />
Flora Larkin<br />
Grace Bishop<br />
Kathryn O’Sullivan<br />
Phoebe Considine<br />
½ Colours<br />
Olivia Allin<br />
Caitlin Brown<br />
Ellie Pawsey<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
Molly Edgley<br />
Jane Considine<br />
Abby Hacker<br />
Ali Hussey<br />
RUGBY<br />
Ralphael Ayitey<br />
Herbert Rumney<br />
Will Branch<br />
Josh Howard-Higgins<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
Josh Stanbrook-<br />
Tompkins<br />
Josh Ramsden<br />
Jack Costigan<br />
George Hankins<br />
Max O’Leary<br />
Andy Tait<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
Alexander Allen<br />
Guy Melly<br />
Charlie Strutt<br />
½ Colours<br />
Harry Anstock<br />
Freddie Miller<br />
Charlie Strutt<br />
Josh Timmins<br />
Milo Carroll<br />
Josh Lawrence<br />
Camillo Rey<br />
CROSS COUNTRY<br />
Alexander Allen<br />
Jong Hak Lee<br />
Tom Parkinson<br />
Charlie Martin<br />
Andy Tait<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
Flora Larkin<br />
Caitlin Brown<br />
Lyndsay Reid<br />
Olivia Bellak<br />
Ellie Pawsey<br />
½ Colours<br />
Giles Hussey<br />
Megan Gillespie<br />
Oliver Stanford<br />
Ali Hussey<br />
Josh Ramsden<br />
Luke Appleton<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
Jane Considine<br />
SWIMMING<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
Caitlin Brown<br />
Clare Fowlie<br />
Cameron Kurle<br />
Hannah Smith<br />
½ Colours<br />
Tom Burley<br />
Jack Longrigg<br />
Alexander Allen<br />
Olivia Allen<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
Jong Hak Lee<br />
Lindsay Reid<br />
NETBALL<br />
Olivia Bellak<br />
Sadie Bosher<br />
Ellie Pawsey<br />
Abiola Roberts<br />
Ali Hussey<br />
Megan Gillespie<br />
Grace Bishop<br />
Olivia Allin<br />
Holly Fearnley<br />
Georgia Young<br />
½ Colours<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
India Maxey<br />
Laura Scourfield<br />
Kathryn O’Sullivan<br />
Molly Edgley<br />
Lindsay Reid<br />
Claire Fowlie<br />
India Yeates<br />
Caitlin Brown<br />
Brenda Gonzalez Martin<br />
Georgianna Kloos<br />
GOLF<br />
Daniel Escott<br />
Joshua Fletcher<br />
George Hankins<br />
Freddie Sexton<br />
CRICKET<br />
Andy Tait<br />
Max O’Leary<br />
Darren Atkins<br />
Harry Anstock<br />
Max Phillips<br />
George Hankins<br />
Herbert Rumney<br />
John Hall<br />
Guy Melly<br />
Luke Appleton<br />
½ Colours<br />
Josh Stanbrook-<br />
Tompkins<br />
Adam Jeevanjee<br />
Freddie Sexton<br />
Josh Burgess<br />
SAILING<br />
Emma Stevens<br />
TRAMPOLINING<br />
Daisy Kemp<br />
Emma Keene<br />
½ Colours<br />
Milo Carroll<br />
Carey Andrews<br />
FENCING<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
Paisley Banks<br />
CULTURAL<br />
COLOURS<br />
ART<br />
Olivia Allin<br />
Paisley Banks<br />
Emily Davis<br />
Molly Edgley<br />
Natasha Stratton-<br />
Christensen<br />
Georgia Merritt<br />
Emma Keene<br />
MUSIC<br />
Sadie Bosher<br />
Kim Hardin<br />
Ben Hecks<br />
Annabel O’Neil<br />
Carey Andrews<br />
Jerome Moore<br />
Daisy Kemp<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko<br />
Max Hein<br />
Fenella Chamberlain<br />
DRAMA<br />
India Maxey<br />
Anastasiya Shpitko<br />
Paisley Banks<br />
Georgia Merritt<br />
Brett Dickinson<br />
Alex Vaughan<br />
Flora McKaig<br />
Kathyrn Morley<br />
Santiago Sifontes<br />
Louis Mustin<br />
Saul Landrock<br />
Erin McCombe<br />
Josh Ramsden<br />
Emma Keene<br />
Fenella Chamberlain<br />
South African Exchange<br />
We were pleased to welcome five South African pupils to MPS as<br />
part of the well-established Year 7 Exchange Programme. The<br />
pupils came from the town of East London, Eastern Cape, where<br />
the boys attend Selborne <strong>School</strong> and the girls, Clarendon Primary<br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
Ashton Arthur, Faith Marthinussen, Senyo Simpson, Alexander<br />
Thorne and Andrew Spanjaard were the guests of Helena Macey,<br />
Matilda McCrum, Barley Nimmo, Josh Barton and Tom Strawford<br />
respectively.<br />
We hope they enjoyed their stay in England and their time at MPS.<br />
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Cross Country<br />
The Mendip Leagues<br />
In the Mendip Junior and Senior Leagues our teams put in some<br />
very strong performances. In the Junior races (Years 5 & 6) Lydia<br />
Lavallin led the field and Michael Nicholson was our top performer<br />
in the boys’ races. At senior level our four teams – Year 7 Boys<br />
and Girls, Year 8 Boys and Girls – did well, with the Year 8 Girls<br />
consistently winning the team races, Amy Cooper coming first on<br />
every occasion. The Year 7 Boys similarly won all three team events<br />
with Calum Eley, Asher Roberts and Jamil Carse keenly contesting<br />
the lead.<br />
The English <strong>School</strong>s Cup<br />
Both boys’ and girls’ teams won through the first round at<br />
Clayesmore on Friday 9th October and went on to the Regional<br />
Round, held on Saturday 14th November at MPS.<br />
The girls, led by Amy Cooper in 3rd place, put in a brave attempt<br />
but finished fourth and missed out on the finals by 3 points.<br />
However, on home ground, the boys won - Charlie Martin (7th),<br />
Alexander Allen (9th), Jong Hak Lee (11th), Tom Parkinson (15th),<br />
Asher Roberts (27th) and Oliver George (33rd) - and so progressed<br />
to the National Finals in Newquay on 5th December, where they<br />
finished in 7th place.<br />
The National <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong>s Championships,<br />
Malvern College, Sunday 28th February<br />
Thirty-five schools from all over the country contested this event.<br />
Historically, we have always done well but this year we probably<br />
had our best-ever performance. We had two individual champions<br />
in Lydia Lavallin and Amy Cooper, a fine second place from Charlie<br />
Martin, a 9th place for Michael Nicholson in the U11 race and a<br />
6th place for Olivia Allin. We also won both the U13 Girls and U13<br />
Boys team races.<br />
fantastic 6th overall in the Youth E Boys group, winning the swim<br />
convincingly.<br />
Later in November, in dreadful weather conditions, a brave group of<br />
MPS pupils competed at the South West <strong>School</strong>s Biathlon qualifier,<br />
which regularly attracts 500 competitors from around the region.<br />
Alexander Allen and Charlie Martin had a close tussle for 1st and<br />
2nd place in the run, with Alexander eventually adding that win to<br />
a first place in the swim. In the Year 5 Girls, Kitty Snaydon had a<br />
very good day, taking 2nd place.<br />
Four qualifiers then went on to compete at the National <strong>School</strong>s<br />
Biathlon Championships at Crystal Palace in March. There was a<br />
high standard of competition and the MPS children set a number<br />
of personal best times. Commiserations to Alexander Allen, who<br />
had qualified and had top ranking in the country, but was too ill to<br />
compete on the day.<br />
Year 5 Girls Kitty Snaydon 7th<br />
Year 6 Boys Adam Brown 27th<br />
Fraser Owen 39th<br />
Early in the summer term, an excellent turnout of 14 children<br />
competed in the South West Biathlon Qualifier at <strong>Millfield</strong>. Many of<br />
the children in the team were competing in their first multi-event<br />
competition and they acquitted themselves well. Alexander Allen<br />
was in fine form, winning the run, the swim and the overall Youth<br />
C Boys title convincingly, qualifying alongside team-mates Tom<br />
Burley and Charlie Martin. James Reed and Poppy Casterton also<br />
qualified in their respective categories.<br />
Over the first weekend of the summer holidays, several of the<br />
regional qualifiers competed in Liverpool at the British Modern<br />
Biathlon Championships. Alexander Allen ran a storming PB in the<br />
run of 2:58 for 1000m to finish 2nd overall – Well done, Alexander!<br />
A special mention must also go to Charlie Martin who, already<br />
established as one of the best runners in the school, recognised his<br />
weaknesses with his swimming and worked really hard over the year<br />
to improve his times, with great improvements. Well done, Charlie<br />
– a great example for others!<br />
Mr P Brooke Houghton<br />
Our victorious U13 Boys’ team<br />
together with Amy Cooper and<br />
Lydia Lavallin, our two individual<br />
champions.<br />
U13 Girls’ team – winners<br />
of the National <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Championships.<br />
Alexander Allen, Tom Burley and Charlie Martin at Liverpool<br />
Edgarley Relays, 24th March<br />
The 26th Edgarley Relays attracted very strong schools from as far<br />
as Cornwall and Cumbria..<br />
Year 7 & 8 Girls - The MPS girls had not won the event for 12<br />
years with Penair <strong>School</strong> dominating in that time, but the team<br />
of Amy Cooper (4th), Olivia Allin, Flora Larkin and Minnie Rider<br />
stormed round and beat Newquay Tretharras <strong>School</strong>.<br />
Year 7 & 8 Boys - The boys had only won the event twice in the<br />
last 10 years so they were hoping for a win. However, sickness hit<br />
the team of Charlie Martin (2nd), Jong Hak Lee, Tom Parkinson<br />
and Alexander Allen on the day and they eventually finished third<br />
behind Stonehenge <strong>School</strong> and Penair.<br />
Mr J Etherington<br />
Multi-Event Sports<br />
The first event of the year was the South West Modern Triathlon<br />
qualifier at <strong>Millfield</strong> in October. Five MPS pupils entered, many<br />
taking part in their first competition, and all enjoyed the shoot,<br />
swim and run events. They all qualified successfully for the national<br />
event in Wolverhampton in November.<br />
Only Adam Brown and Georgianna Kloos were able to compete at<br />
the British Modern Triathlon Championships, but they gave 100%<br />
and both set personal best scores in more than one discipline.<br />
Georgianna was 18th in the Youth D Girls age group, with a super<br />
4th place in the swim. Adam made it into the medals with a<br />
Sailing<br />
IAPS National Sailing Regatta –<br />
Weymouth Sailing Academy, Portland<br />
On Thursday 13th May, Emma<br />
Stevens and Becky Ager represented<br />
the school in the U13 series of races<br />
at this inaugural event. It was a<br />
fine day, starting with light winds<br />
which increased during the afternoon.<br />
Fifteen boats from 11 schools took<br />
part in the U13 event (with a further 15 boats in an U11 series). The<br />
girls were on the water for 4 hours, entering no less than 5 races,<br />
in what were lovely sailing conditions. Sharing the helming from<br />
race to race, this was their first competitive event after only four<br />
training sessions together on Durleigh Reservoir. The opposition<br />
was stiff, with crews coming<br />
from as far as Windermere.<br />
However, our girls were a<br />
credit to themselves and<br />
to the school in that they<br />
achieved a best result of 9th<br />
place in one race, finishing<br />
13th overall. So very well<br />
done to Emma and Becky!<br />
Mr P Ratcliffe<br />
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Swimming<br />
The success of this year’s swimming squad came to a climax in<br />
the summer term. At the National IAPS Finals at Crawley in May,<br />
our boys smashed 5 IAPS records and both boys’ and girls’ teams<br />
won the overall top school titles. It was then on to the South West<br />
Regional Championships in June, where Rio Kurihara and Calum<br />
Eley both achieved new national times and Rio broke two school<br />
records. Claire Fowlie, Hannah Smith, Caitlin Brown and Vidya<br />
Sondhi were all gold medallists.<br />
But the culmination of the swimming year came at the National Age<br />
Group Results, 28th July -1st August, Ponds Forge, Sheffield. The<br />
MPS swimmers were in great form and ready to compete against<br />
the top club swimmers in Great Britain. They produced some<br />
magnificent swims and won a total of 8 Gold medals, 1 Bronze and<br />
set 22 personal best times.<br />
Results:<br />
Rio Kurihara had another excellent performance at the National Age<br />
Groups, winning five individual gold medals in - 200m Breaststroke<br />
(2.28.19) in a Personal Best time (PB) by 11 seconds which was<br />
also a British Age Group Record, the 200m I.M (2.16.97), a PB by<br />
5 seconds, the 100m Breaststroke (1.09.80) in a PB by 3 seconds,<br />
the 100m Butterfly (60.53), a PB by 3 seconds and the 400m<br />
I.M (4.47.38) in a PB by 11 seconds. Rio came 3rd in the 200m<br />
Freestyle (2.02.81) in a PB by 3 seconds and also won 2 Golds as<br />
a member of the boys’ 4 x 200m freestyle relay and the 4 x 100m<br />
Medley relay team.<br />
Rio set 6 new school records and is to be congratulated for<br />
winning the Top 13 year old boy in the Country Award.<br />
The age group championships culminated in <strong>Millfield</strong> being crowned<br />
the Boys Top Age Group Club in the country!<br />
Well done to :<br />
James Guy (ex-MPS1 Bronze)<br />
Joel Knight (ex-MPS 1 Gold, 1 Silver)<br />
Josh Booth (ex-MPS1 Silver 1 Bronze)<br />
Rio Kurihara (5 Golds- MPS) (pictured below)<br />
Relay team members<br />
James Chater (<strong>Millfield</strong>),<br />
Calum Eley (MPS) and<br />
Sam Carnell (<strong>Millfield</strong>).<br />
Lydia Lavallin (at her<br />
first Nationals) won the<br />
100m Breaststroke in a<br />
best time by 6 seconds<br />
and came 4th in the<br />
200m Breaststroke.<br />
Coaches Helen Gouldby<br />
and Lin Skirton with Rio<br />
and his 5 gold medals<br />
and Top Boy award.<br />
Netball<br />
An excellent term of<br />
netball from all the MPS<br />
teams culminated in the<br />
U13 team (as Regional<br />
winners), the U12 and U11<br />
teams (both as Regional<br />
runners-up) all progressing<br />
to the National IAPS Finals<br />
in Brighton on Saturday<br />
13th March.<br />
The U11 Girls<br />
All three teams met up against very tough opposition; the U12s lost<br />
to Brighton College in the final, the U13s finished in 3rd place and<br />
the U11s did not get through the group stage but did very well to win<br />
their final game against The Manor, a team who hadn’t lost all day.<br />
Seven girls from the U13 team were selected for the Somerset<br />
County squad and five from the U12 side were selected for next<br />
season. Earlier in the spring term, the U13A and U12A teams<br />
finished as runners-up<br />
in their respective MPS<br />
Tournaments. The U12B<br />
side did very well to finish<br />
up as semi-finalists when<br />
playing against A teams.<br />
The U13 team did well<br />
to win the Bryanston<br />
Tournament, while the<br />
U11A girls claimed victory<br />
in the Leweston event<br />
and were undefeated in<br />
friendly matches.<br />
The U13 netball team with Mrs Rawlings Every girl in the Junior<br />
Department and Year 6<br />
played a competitive game of netball and 95% of the Years 7 and<br />
8 also played a competitive game. Well done to all the girls who<br />
represented MPS teams at netball this year and who have achieved<br />
excellent results.<br />
Tennis<br />
The MPS<br />
Tournament<br />
U13 Boys Giles Hussey beat<br />
Corey Niccolls 2-6, 7-5, 7-5<br />
U13 Girls Iona Clive beat<br />
Abiola Roberts 6-1, 6-2<br />
U11 Boys Teddie Casterton<br />
beat Tristan Rice 6-2, 6-3<br />
U11 Girls Georgia Dimdore-<br />
Miles beat Lucia Spencer 6-2,<br />
4-6, 7-5<br />
COUNTY REPRESENTATION - Corey Niccolls represented<br />
Somerset in the U14 County Cup and Giles Hussey represented<br />
Wiltshire in the U14 County Cup.<br />
SAVE THE CHILDREN TOURNAMENT - On Sunday 2nd May,<br />
MPS held a ‘Save The Children’ Doubles Tournament which raised<br />
over £1000 for the charity. In the boys’ event we had 7 pairs and<br />
in the girls’ event we had 5. Alexander Vaughan and Max Hein were<br />
victorious in the boys and Jenny Vincent and Ellie Pawsey in the<br />
girls. Two teams went on to represent MPS at the Regional Finals<br />
in September, where Ralph Pattar and Alex Hagon won the boys’<br />
event and Abiola Roberts and Iona Clive won the girls’ event. The<br />
National Finals were played at Roehampton in October and, we are<br />
delighted to report, that Alex and Ralph won through 5 matches to<br />
become National Champions! Abiola and Iona lost to the eventual<br />
winners in the semi-finals but played some great tennis to get so far.<br />
AEGON U13 NATIONAL SCHOOLS - As we go to press, the U13<br />
boys’ team have reached the National Quarter Finals after beating<br />
Tretherras <strong>School</strong>, Newquay in the last round of the Regional playoffs.<br />
The U13 girls did very well to reach the Regional stages but<br />
unfortunately lost to a strong Red Maids team.<br />
In the House Matches, Jutes managed to win all three year group<br />
matches - Years 6, 7 & 8!<br />
NATIONAL IAPS FINALS, July 2010<br />
U14 Girls Singles Iona Clive was Runner-up<br />
U14 Girls Doubles Iona Clive and Abiola Roberts were<br />
Runners-up<br />
U14 Boys Singles Giles Hussey was Runner-up<br />
U14 Boys Doubles Giles Hussey and Corey Niccolls are the<br />
IAPS CHAMPIONS!<br />
(see photograph inside cover)<br />
Alex Hagon won the U12 Boys Singles in the Somerset County<br />
Closed Tournament<br />
Giles Hussey<br />
Alex and Ralph are pictured<br />
here receiving their award from<br />
Annabel Croft<br />
Abiola Roberts & Iona Clive<br />
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Girls’ Hockey<br />
As the results table shows, the girls enjoyed a very busy and<br />
successful season.<br />
The U13 squads won a high proportion of their matches. The<br />
A team won the County Tournament and went on to represent<br />
Somerset in the West of England Tournament in March. The<br />
B squad achieved an unbeaten season in their school matches<br />
and the team also competed in the County Tournament where<br />
they finished in a very creditable 3rd position. The squad were<br />
runners-up in the West IAPS Tournament and this qualified<br />
them to compete in the IAPS Nationals at Queenswood <strong>School</strong> in<br />
December, where they finished third in their group.<br />
Girls’ Hockey Results 2009<br />
Teams For Against Won Drawn Lost Played Tournaments<br />
U13A 49 9 9 3 2 14 3<br />
U13B 98 9 14 1 0 15 1<br />
U13C 31 1 7 0 0 7 0<br />
U13D 12 4 4 0 1 5 0<br />
U12A 59 7 9 1 0 10 2<br />
U12B 72 7 11 3 0 14 1<br />
U12C 21 5 6 0 1 7 0<br />
U12D 15 2 4 1 0 5 0<br />
U11A 31 9 8 1 1 10 5<br />
U11B 34 3 5 0 1 6 0<br />
U11C 3 2 1 2 0 3 0<br />
U11D 3 3 0 1 0 1 0<br />
U10A 7 6 3 2 2 7 2<br />
U10B 15 9 4 1 3 8 0<br />
U9A 7 3 2 2 0 4 2<br />
U9B 2 6 1 1 1 3 0<br />
U8A 9 4 2 0 1 3 0<br />
U13 County Champions<br />
The U12A squad won the Regional IAPS Tournament and represented<br />
the West in the National Competition at Queenswood <strong>School</strong>, where<br />
they finished as silver medallists. To complete their unbeaten run the<br />
team were also winners of the MPS Tournament.<br />
Congratulations to the following girls who were selected for Junior<br />
Development County Training: Abby Hacker, Caitlin Brown, Emma<br />
Keene, Fenella Chamberlain, Flora Larkin, Grace Bishop, Georgia<br />
Young, Jane Considine, Jennifer Vincent, Kathryn O’Sullivan, Lindsay<br />
Reid, Mel Pocock, Molly Edgley, Olivia Bellak, Olivia Allin, Phoebe<br />
Considine, Charlotte East, Emma Churchill-Coleman, Harriet Jeanes,<br />
Hettie Horler, Holly Jackson<br />
The U11 teams also gained good results in their school matches, with<br />
the A squad winning the Port Regis Tournament and being runners-up<br />
in the Clifton Tournament.<br />
At U10 level the squad won the MPS<br />
Tournament and the Badminton<br />
<strong>School</strong> Tournament while the U9 and<br />
U8 squads gained in strength during<br />
the season.<br />
The girls’ teams played over 120<br />
matches during the season and all<br />
girls had the opportunity to represent<br />
the school in matches.<br />
Mrs A Mantell<br />
Rounders<br />
MPS U13 National JET<br />
Rounders Winners<br />
(see photograph inside<br />
cover)<br />
The U13 rounders team<br />
progressed to the semi-finals of<br />
the National JET competition<br />
after an exciting battle against<br />
The Downs in early June. The<br />
finals, which were played in<br />
U14 GIRLS’ COUNTY<br />
HOCKEY.<br />
Congratulations to the following<br />
girls who were selected to represent<br />
Somerset in the West County<br />
Tournament on Sunday 14th<br />
March:<br />
Further selections were made at<br />
the County Tournament where<br />
Flora, Kathryn and Lindsay were<br />
chosen to train in the West of<br />
England Squad<br />
Congratulations to the MPS<br />
U11A team who won their MPS<br />
Tournament<br />
Oxford at the end of June, involved a semi-final match against<br />
Port Regis. The girls were determined that this would be<br />
their day! With top scores from Abiola Roberts, Ellie Pawsey,<br />
Olivia Bellak and Jenny Vincent, MPS scored an excellent 18<br />
rounders. Port Regis also hit well and made 17, which made<br />
for a very tense and exciting second innings. Again, another<br />
excellent batting innings gave MPS a total of 35 ½ rounders<br />
(with several hits leaving the pitch and threatening nearby<br />
windows!). Port Regis started their second innings strongly but<br />
Flora Larkin, Lindsay Reid, Kathryn O’Sullivan, Harriet<br />
Jeanes and Phoebe Considine.<br />
crumbled under the excellent bowling, back stop and first post<br />
combination. This meant a repeat of last year’s final against<br />
Foremarke Hall.<br />
Again we were put into bat first. The bowling and fielding<br />
from the opposition was excellent; but good scores from<br />
Phoebe Considine, Ali Hussey and Anna Vashurkina gave us a<br />
total of 10 ½. Foremarke, in reply, struggled to produce any<br />
great consistency against our bowling and scored 7 ½. The<br />
second innings only took our score to 16 ½ as we seemed to<br />
hit every ball to their best catcher. Foremarke obviously now<br />
saw that the game could be theirs for the taking. However,<br />
great catches from Megan Gillespie, Ellie Pawsey and India<br />
Maxey helped secure the first 4 batters dismissal. Great<br />
cover work from Kathryn O’ Sullivan and Grace Bishop kept<br />
the scoring to a minimum. The innings was then crushed<br />
by superb bowling and backstop work from Ali Hussey and<br />
Jenny Vincent, thus winning the game by 4 ½ rounders. A<br />
superb team effort in hot conditions and the first win in this<br />
competition since 2003.<br />
Well done to all the team for their superb support of each<br />
other and their determination to make the day a success.<br />
Mrs E Rawlings<br />
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Football<br />
The undoubted highlight of the<br />
2009-10 season was the success<br />
of the 1st XI in reaching the<br />
semi-final of the National IAPS<br />
Cup. At that stage we went down<br />
to the eventual winners, Bolton<br />
<strong>School</strong>, after a long journey<br />
north. In earlier rounds, we defeated Elstree (3-0), Truro (6-2),<br />
Ardingly (6-0) and Aldwickbury (on penalties). We were delighted<br />
to receive a special award by the sponsors, Rensburg Sheppard, for<br />
having got further in the competition than any other prep school in<br />
the three years of the competition’s existence.<br />
In the National IAPS 6-a-side competition, we triumphed in the<br />
Southern Area event at Elstree, defeating St. Andrew’s from<br />
Eastbourne 2-0 in the Final. However, on Finals Day at Shrewsbury,<br />
we were below par and, with only one win in our five matches, did<br />
not succeed in our aim of retaining the title first won in 2008.<br />
In the ESFA U13 competition, we went out 2-3 to Lytchett Minster<br />
(in the final minute of extra<br />
time), while a much weakened<br />
team lost 2-5 to Huish Episcopi<br />
in the County Cup. In league<br />
games, the 1st XI was rarely<br />
at full-strength and a severely<br />
weakened side lost to Wells Blue<br />
<strong>School</strong> to dash any hopes of<br />
retaining the District Cup.<br />
In the ESFA U12 competition,<br />
we suffered an early round 1-4<br />
defeat against a talented team<br />
from The Grange <strong>School</strong>, Bristol. However, in the Spring Term,<br />
the team triumphed in the District Cup, defeating old rivals from<br />
Fairlands 2-0 in the Final.<br />
In the usual October block fixture against Port Regis, involving Years<br />
7 and 8, we won all seven matches, the highlight being a 3-1 success<br />
by the U13A team.<br />
The highlight of the<br />
Junior Football season<br />
(Years 3-6) was the<br />
success of the U9 team<br />
in winning the MPS<br />
7-a-side Invitation<br />
Tournament, defeating<br />
The Paragon <strong>School</strong><br />
from Bath 1-0 in a tense<br />
and exciting Final. The<br />
squad comprised Kasey<br />
Aldridge (Capt.), Alfie<br />
Gibson, Vinny Jones,<br />
Oliver White, DJ<br />
The Victorious U9 Team<br />
Crosby, Ben Shaw, William Smeed, Joe Mallett, Scott Reed. A week<br />
earlier, at the U10 Tournament, the MPS team did very well to reach<br />
the Final before going down 0-2 to Fairlands Middle <strong>School</strong>.<br />
We once again sent two U10 teams to the King Edward’s 7-a-side<br />
Festival in Bath. The ‘A’ side was unbeaten, winning 2 and drawing<br />
3, while the ‘B’ team was undefeated until the final game.<br />
The U11 team won just two and drew two of their ten games but<br />
always gave of their best, ending the season with a win against<br />
Blundell’s <strong>Prep</strong>. The standard of play in Years 3, 4 and 5 has rarely<br />
been higher with virtually every game won. The future looks very<br />
bright and promising!<br />
Boys Hockey<br />
Our 1st team, having won the IAPS National Championships (from<br />
an entry of 80+ <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong>s), went on to compete in the West of<br />
England Championships held at <strong>Millfield</strong> in late April. Representing<br />
Somerset, we had convincing wins against Hereford, Wiltshire,<br />
Devon, Gloucester, Dorset and Cornwall to become Regional<br />
Champions.<br />
This victory took the team to the National Finals in Nottingham on<br />
Friday 7th May. We won 3 of our 4 group games and progressed to<br />
the ‘super four group’ to determine the overall championship. In a<br />
superb encounter against Whitgift <strong>School</strong> (South Champions) we<br />
drew 2-2. A final victory over Dean Close (West Qualifiers) was<br />
enough to see the team become National Champions. From an<br />
entry of approximately 500 prep, state, independent and grammar<br />
schools this was an amazing achievement. We have not won<br />
this title since ’96 and ’98 when old boys (Mantell, Brothers etc)<br />
progressed into the senior Great Britain team.<br />
Winning both the IAPS and National <strong>School</strong>s competition is a double<br />
no school has ever previously achieved. Andy Tait was named<br />
‘Player of the Tournament’ for both the IAPS and National <strong>School</strong>s’<br />
finals. Darren Atkins was joint captain with Andy and delivered<br />
a superb acceptance speech on both occasions. The team (Luke<br />
Appleton, Harry Anstock, Conrad Lewis,Darren Atkins, Andy Tait,<br />
George Hankins, Charlie Strutt, Rio Kurihara, Jack Costigan and<br />
Herbert Rumney) has ended up being:<br />
Somerset Champions, West of England Champions, National <strong>School</strong>s<br />
Champions, South West <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong>s Champions and National <strong>Prep</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>s Champions. This is an unprecedented ‘grand slam’! (see<br />
team inside cover)<br />
The U12A side enjoyed a<br />
highly successful season,<br />
one of the highlights<br />
being the team’s now<br />
customary triumph in the<br />
Bryanston Tournament.<br />
The U11 team surpassed<br />
themselves in the IAPS<br />
Regionals by qualifying<br />
for the next stage of the<br />
competition – where they<br />
acquitted themselves well<br />
without being able to<br />
secure a ‘medal position’. One of the highlights of the term has been<br />
the outstanding play of the goalkeeper, Joseph Grogan Poulsen –<br />
who has certainly been kept very busy!<br />
Congratulations to the U10 team who won their Tournament at the<br />
Senior <strong>School</strong>, defeating local rivals Hazlegrove 1-0 in the final. The<br />
squad comprised Ned Dunning, Oran McNulty, Tristan Rice, Davey<br />
Jones, David Greenhill, JJ Tonks, Tom Hall and Oliver Smith. The<br />
U9s put up a gallant performance in their Tournament but three<br />
draws at the group stage weren’t quite good enough to put them<br />
through.<br />
Jo Morgan-Hughes, Director of Sport<br />
GIRLS FOOTBALL<br />
In the ESFA U13<br />
competition we went<br />
down 0-6 to a powerful<br />
North Somerset team<br />
from Backwell <strong>School</strong>.<br />
However, the U13/12<br />
7-a-side team did<br />
very well to finish as<br />
runners-up in the Port<br />
Regis Tournament,<br />
narrowly going down in the Final 1-2 to Gillingham <strong>School</strong>. The<br />
squad comprised Holly Tozer, Jenny Vincent, Phoebe Considine,<br />
Jane Considine, Lindsay Reid, Monica Clifford, Lace Jones, Ruby<br />
Beeden, Lucy Churchill-Coleman.<br />
Holly Tozer represented the Somerset Girls U14 team and is a<br />
member of the Somerset FA Girls’ Centre of Excellence.<br />
The U10 Team with Mr Beal<br />
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Athletics<br />
National <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong>s Final, Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, Monday 5th July<br />
The athletes had previously qualified by winning (or being a fast 2nd) at the South West <strong>Prep</strong> <strong>School</strong>s event<br />
that we host at the senior school.<br />
3 gold medals Lydia Lavallin (1500m) Amy Cooper (1500m) Jane Considine (High Jump)<br />
3 bronze Harry Close (Hurdles) Charlie Martin (1500m) Alex Allen (Triple Jump)<br />
We had 11 finalists in total.<br />
Well done to all the MPS athletes -<br />
George Hazelton - hurdles final, Emily Rawlings - hurdles heat, Mason Tonks - 100m final and 200m final,<br />
Hannah Nanton - 6 races in two hours! 100m final and 200m relay final, Asher Roberts 5th 1500m.<br />
Mr A Duke<br />
JUNIOR SPORTS DAY, Saturday 19thJune<br />
Results: 1st 2nd 3rd<br />
Year 3 Girls Alice Gouldby Elsie Brade Ollie Hayes<br />
Year 3 Boys Harvey Morland William Smeed Benjamin Shaw<br />
Year 4 Girls Juliet Grogan Poulsen Amelia Low Georgia Timmins<br />
Year 4 Boys Kasey Aldridge Gideon Beaver William Owen<br />
Year 5 Girls Lottie Dunning Amy Rumney Nigella Landrock<br />
Year 5 Boys Jarett Tonks Ikey Morland/Charlie Exley Thomas Hacker<br />
Junior Sports Day action<br />
Asher and Harry in action<br />
SENIOR INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS, <strong>Millfield</strong>, Friday 28th May<br />
Top Athletes<br />
1st 2nd 3rd<br />
Year 6 Girls Lydia Lavallin (1500m**) Mimi Rhys (High Jump) Libby Brake (Javelin)<br />
Year 6 Boys James Reed (800m) Michael Nicholson (800m)/ Ben Mallett (Long Jump)<br />
Cameron Brown (800m)<br />
Year 7 Girls Hannah Nanton (200m) Minnie Rider (800m) Harriet Jeanes (800m)<br />
Year 7 Boys Harry Close (Hurdles)/ Edward Green (Javelin)/ Finlay Cornford (200m)<br />
Mason Tonks (Long Jump)/ George Downing (Shot)<br />
George Hazelton (800m)<br />
Year 8 Girls Hollie Fearnley (Javelin**) Amy Cooper (800** Georgia Young (Hurdles)/<br />
and 1500**)<br />
Olivia Bellak (100m)<br />
Year 8 Boys Will Branch (100m)/ Darren Atkins (200m) Cameron Stephens (Javelin)<br />
Alexander Allen (400m)<br />
** New <strong>School</strong> Record<br />
Jutes - winners of the<br />
Inter-House Athletics.<br />
Year 8 Girls<br />
Year 7 Girls<br />
Year 6 Girls<br />
Year 8 Boys<br />
Year 7 Boys<br />
Year 6 Boys<br />
Skiing<br />
On Monday 10th May, eight pupils attended the SATIPSKI Slalom Skiing event in the Hemel Snow Dome. We travelled up the night before<br />
and benefitted from a good practice on the almost empty slope. On the day of the competition, the slalom course was laid out and the<br />
boys were allowed the briefest of inspections before their individual timed runs. Every boy managed to successfully complete both runs.<br />
A number of boys were skiing 1 or 2 years young, which meant our younger pupils were skiing against 14 year olds, so it was a great<br />
achievement for our A Team to come 7th and our B Team to come 10th out of 14 teams. Congratulations to all our skiers:<br />
Team A - Saul Landrock, Yuu Kurihara, Hamish Gillams and Edward Anderson<br />
Team B - Joshua Forster, Conor Forster, Thomas Tant and William Ponting.<br />
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Golf<br />
Somerset <strong>School</strong>s Golf Championship, Long Sutton Golf Club,<br />
Monday 26th April<br />
A team of 5 prep school golfers performed very well in this event<br />
which is open to all schools in the county and players under the<br />
age of 18. In the gross event, JJ Fletcher went round in a score<br />
of 78, which placed him 8th out of a field of 96, thus being named<br />
as a reserve for the South West U18 team. In the nett event, when<br />
handicaps are taking into consideration, Freddie Sexton came 3rd<br />
in the boys’ section, Jenny Vincent was 3rd in the girls’ section and<br />
Darren Atkins and George Hankins both performed very well.<br />
Finally, in the nett team event, the team of JJ Fletcher, Freddie<br />
Sexton and George Hankins were crowned Somerset <strong>School</strong>s Golf<br />
Championship Nett Team winners.<br />
IAPS Golf Championship, Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club,<br />
Monday 14th June<br />
The MPS Golf team played in the IAPS National Championships at<br />
the world famous Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. The team,<br />
consisting of JJ Fletcher (Capt.), George Hankins and Freddie<br />
Sexton, performed extremely well, retaining the Team Trophy for<br />
the 5th successive year with an aggregate total of 143 points, the<br />
highest ever. In the individual event we haven’t had a National<br />
Champion since 2006, but this year our golf captain, JJ Fletcher,<br />
went round in level par amassing an individual points tally of 54 to<br />
be crowned IAPS National Champion.<br />
See the photograph of George Hankins, JJ Fletcher & Freddie<br />
Sexton, National Golf Champions inside cover.<br />
Cricket<br />
For the first time in (almost) living<br />
memory, the 1st XI enjoyed an<br />
unbeaten season, winning 20 and<br />
drawing 5 of their 25 matches.<br />
The good weather in late April,<br />
May and June ensured that very<br />
few games were rain affected. One<br />
The 1st XI<br />
that was abandoned was the match against Somerset U13 on 1st<br />
May when the visitors were a somewhat embarrassing 36-5 before<br />
the rain set in. We won the National J.E.T. Shield for a record sixth<br />
time – our fourteenth National title in 14 years. On ‘Finals Day’ in<br />
Oxford, we comfortably defeated Cheam <strong>School</strong> by 7 wickets and,<br />
in the Final, St Olave’s from York by 6 wickets. We also retained the<br />
County U13 Shield, convincingly defeating Fairlands Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
in the Final. Impressive victories were recorded against the County<br />
sides of Cornwall (twice), Cardiff and the Vale and Mid Glamorgan.<br />
The team’s batting was very strong right down the order with Max<br />
O’Leary, George Hankins and Dan Escott all scoring hundreds. In<br />
fact, the team was never completely bowled out. The fact that we<br />
scored at such a fast rate meant that, in the ‘timed’ games, we were<br />
able to declare early in order to try and take ten opposition wickets.<br />
Harry Anstock was an excellent opening bowler and deservedly took<br />
most wickets. The averages show that he was supported well at the<br />
other end and in the field. It was good to see left-arm spinner Josh<br />
Burgess doing so well at the end of the season when he came into<br />
the side.<br />
For the first time in three years we qualified for next season’s David<br />
English / Bunbury Cup when our U12 side defeated old rivals King’s<br />
Hall by 4 wickets in the Final, David Scott taking 5-7 (including the<br />
hat-trick). Our U11 8-a-Side team battled their way to the County<br />
Final before going down by a narrow seven run margin against<br />
Taunton <strong>Prep</strong>. (who went on to finish third nationally). U11 skipper,<br />
Teddie Casterton, scored 421 runs at an average of almost 40, his<br />
highest innings being 75 v Somerset U11.<br />
As is customary, all of our twelve teams won far more games than<br />
they lost. It was very satisfying to see both Camilo Rey and Josh<br />
Howard-Higgins scoring centuries for the 5th XI. Our Junior teams<br />
(in Years 5, 4 and 3) all did very well and it will be interesting to see<br />
how some of the very promising players develop over the next few<br />
years. Our Girls’ team played very well to complete a notable double<br />
success over Clifton College <strong>Prep</strong>. Our U13B team came runners-up<br />
in the MPS Twenty20 Tournament. In the House Competitions,<br />
Jutes won in Year 7 whilst, in Year 8, Angles and Danes shared the<br />
title.<br />
Our Somerset County age-group players in 2010 were –<br />
U13 Max O’Leary, George Hankins, Andy Tait, Luke Appleton, Max<br />
Phillips, Dan Escott<br />
U12 Archie Dunning, Josh Bayliss, David Scott<br />
U11 Teddie Casterton<br />
Ned Dunning, Oran McNulty, Tom Hall, Jarett Tonks and Kasey<br />
Aldridge all represented the Somerset <strong>School</strong>s U10 team. Emily<br />
Bayliss played for the Somerset U13 Girls’ side.<br />
MPS Tournament, Tuesday 22nd June<br />
JJ Fletcher won the RC Champion Trophy and the team of JJ<br />
Fletcher, George Hankins and Freddie Sexton won the Cheney<br />
Trophy. Jenny Vincent came 2nd in the girls’ section. Well done to<br />
Luke Appleton and Robin Everitt who also played well.<br />
Staff/ Pupil Challenge, Wednesday 23rd June<br />
Congratulations to the team of Mrs Sarah Champion and Freddie<br />
Sexton who won the title for the second year running.<br />
ISGA Junior Open, Tuesday 29th June<br />
Congratulations to JJ Fletcher who was<br />
placed 3rd after a count-back and to<br />
Freddie Sexton who came 2nd in the nett.<br />
Stowe Putter, Saturday 28th August<br />
Heavy rain made the Stowe Putter even<br />
more of a challenge this year. However,<br />
the greenkeeper’s heroic efforts – baling<br />
out bunkers at first light - were rewarded<br />
as the competitors proved more than up to<br />
the challenge and produced some great golf<br />
in this the 43rd playing of the competition.<br />
The winner of the Stowe Putter was our<br />
own JJ Fletcher with 54 points. This is the<br />
second year in a row that JJ has won The<br />
Stowe Putter and the third successive year<br />
a pupil from MPS has won this prestigious<br />
event. We also won the team trophy for<br />
the second successive year and for the<br />
fifth time since 2001– well done to Freddie<br />
Sexton and JJ Fletcher.<br />
1st XI CRICKET AVERAGES – 2010<br />
BATTING Inns. N.O. H.S. Runs Av.<br />
Max O’Leary 19 8 129* 880 80.00<br />
Daniel Escott 11 3 147* 634 79.25<br />
George Hankins 17 5 110 570 47.50<br />
Darren Atkins 9 3 51* 221 36.83<br />
Freddie Sexton 3 1 56* 70 35.00<br />
Herbie Rumney 7 5 24* 63 31.50<br />
John Hall 8 3 43 153 30.60<br />
Andy Tait 19 6 58 356 27.38<br />
Luke Appleton 16 5 45* 267 24.27<br />
Max Phillips 12 4 31 144 18.00<br />
Harry Anstock 7 3 13 35 8.75<br />
Guy Melly 4 1 8* 24 8.00<br />
ALSO BATTED: Adam Fremond-Jeevanjee (18, 4*), Josh Stanbrook-<br />
Tompkins (0*, 3), Archie Dunning (4) * - Not Out<br />
BOWLING Ov. M. Runs Wkts. Av.<br />
Luke Appleton 10.3 4 15 4 3.75<br />
Daniel Escott 50.1 18 96 24 4.00<br />
Josh Burgess 31.5 6 88 16 5.50<br />
Max Phillips 20 5 35 5 7.00<br />
Max O’Leary 97 23 310 31 10.00<br />
Harry Anstock 136.4 28 338 32 10.56<br />
Darren Atkins 60 12 211 18 11.72<br />
George Hankins 96.3 19 290 23 12.61<br />
J Stanbrook-Tompkins 35.5 5 167 11 15.18<br />
Guy Melly 71.4 7 253 16 15.81<br />
John Hall 40 6 153 9 17.00<br />
ALSO BOWLED: A. Freemond-Jeevanjee<br />
(2-0-9-0), A. Dunning (2-0-24-0)<br />
CATCHES<br />
10 – A. Tait 9 – D. Escott, M. O’Leary<br />
8 – H. Anstock, L. Appleton, G. Hankins<br />
7 – D. Atkins, M. Phillips<br />
3 – J Stanbrook-Tompkins<br />
2 – A. Fremond-Jeevanjee, J. Hall, G. Melly<br />
WICKETKEEPING: Herbie Rumney : caught<br />
12, stumped 11<br />
PLAYING RECORD: Played – 25 Won – 20<br />
Drew – 5 Lost – 0<br />
WINNERS OF –<br />
THE NATIONAL J.E.T. SHIELD<br />
THE SOMERSET SCHOOLS COUNTY U13<br />
SHIELD<br />
JJ Fletcher – winner of<br />
the Stowe Putter<br />
Freddie and JJ receiving<br />
the team trophy<br />
As always, the Cricket Department is sincerely grateful to Mr<br />
Dutton (Head Groundsman) and his staff, Miss Cosway (Transport),<br />
Mrs Tuckwell (Publicity), Mr Kelly / Mr Whitehead (Caretaking),<br />
Mr Bickham / Mrs Baker (Catering). Grateful thanks are also due<br />
to Mr Richard Twort of Mirage Interiors who once again sponsored<br />
the 1st XI shirts.<br />
Mr C J Twort, (Head of Cricket)<br />
Andy Tait, 1st XI<br />
Captain and winner<br />
of the Ben Hollioake<br />
Memorial Award<br />
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Rugby<br />
TEAM<br />
2009<br />
PLAYED WON DREW LOST FOR AGAINST<br />
1st XV 13 10 1 2 379 89<br />
2nd XV 11 10 1 448 12<br />
3rd XV 6 5 1 205 49<br />
U12A 12 12 492 42<br />
U12B 9 8 1 27 63<br />
U12C 6 5 1 248 43<br />
U11A 13 7 6 205 120<br />
U11B 8 1 7 61 225<br />
U10A 11 4 2 5 165 130<br />
U10B 9 9 115 311<br />
U9/U8A 10 7 1 2 270 115<br />
U9/U8B 4 2 2 65 90<br />
The 1st XV enjoyed an excellent season and they began it by<br />
beating Sedbergh, The Downs and Cheltenham at the Clifton<br />
Festival in early September. When at full strength other schools<br />
found it difficult to cope with the pressure exerted from a good<br />
pack which possessed some dynamic forwards and an outstanding<br />
set of backs who had pace as well as great running and handling<br />
skills.<br />
The 2nd XV also enjoyed a successful season and they played<br />
some very entertaining rugby throughout the term. They were<br />
perhaps the one of the most talented second teams we have ever<br />
had at the school.<br />
The U12As had an outstanding set of forwards this year who were<br />
athletic, powerful and committed and they helped deliver some<br />
super results for this unbeaten team. Many of the backs were also<br />
very talented and they were able to capitalise on good ball won by<br />
their forwards. They retained the U12 trophy in a tournament held<br />
at Taunton <strong>Prep</strong>aratory <strong>School</strong> without conceding a single point.<br />
This team will go on to form the basis of a promising 1st XV.<br />
The U11A team also enjoyed a good season and they demonstrated<br />
much skill and determination, as well as a willingness to learn.<br />
They reached the semi-finals of the Port Regis U11 tournament<br />
as well as the final of the Super 12s which was held at Monkton<br />
Combe. A mixture of powerful forwards and skilful backs often<br />
proved too much for their opposition to cope with.<br />
The U10A team played well over their season and they achieved<br />
some excellent results. There is much promise in this set of boys<br />
who improved considerably as the term progressed.<br />
The U9As have also been successful and have produced some<br />
excellent victories. Reaching, though narrowly losing, the final of<br />
the Blundell’s U9 Tournament, was one of the highlights of their<br />
season. This demonstrated they have ability and they will go on to<br />
do well over the coming years.<br />
A special mention must be made for<br />
Darren Atkins, Will Branch and Miles<br />
Letchford who were all picked for<br />
England Barbarians at their respective<br />
age levels. Congratulations should also<br />
go to Joshua Ramsden<br />
and Ben Mallett who<br />
Darren Atkins & Will Branch<br />
represented the South<br />
West Barbarians in their age groups.<br />
Danny Grewcock, the Bath, England and British<br />
Lions rugby player, gave an evening talk to<br />
boarding pupils.<br />
Miles Letchford<br />
RUGBY SEVENS – 2009/2010<br />
This was a season noted for some<br />
outstanding success for our teams.<br />
The sevens season started back in<br />
early December with a visit to the<br />
Bryanston Sevens where the 1st VII Danny Grewcock with Josh<br />
won this prestigious tournament Ramsden and Darren Atkins<br />
in quite horrendous weather<br />
conditions beating Cheltenham College 24 points to 7 in an<br />
exciting final. This was the first time we have ever won this event<br />
and was a sign of things to come.<br />
At the Port Regis Sevens in early March we managed to reach the<br />
final but unfortunately lost to an excellent team from Kingswood<br />
<strong>School</strong> in Bath. At The Downs Sevens we overcame the host<br />
school 33 points to 12 in the final. At the <strong>Millfield</strong> Sevens the 1st<br />
VII won their group and progressed impressively through to the<br />
final against Monmouth, where the boys put in a great performance<br />
to win by 22 points to 5.<br />
The U11s also played well in the <strong>Millfield</strong> Tournament and<br />
although they didn’t progress to the main part of the competition<br />
they qualified for the Cheney Trophy which they went on to win,<br />
beating Sandroyd by 17 points to 7 in the final. At the South West<br />
Sevens, held in Plymouth, they again performed well and managed<br />
to reach the semi-final where they narrowly lost to a good team<br />
from Blundell’s <strong>School</strong>; at The Downs Sevens the U11s again<br />
played well and won the Plate Tournament,<br />
beating Bristol Grammar <strong>School</strong> in the final.<br />
We entered an U12 team into the Second<br />
Team Tournament at the Caldicott Sevens<br />
and they were unlucky to lose by 5 points to<br />
7 in the final to the host school.<br />
The finale to the Sevens season is the National <strong>School</strong> Sevens<br />
which is the biggest rugby tournament in the world and the most<br />
prestigious event on the schools’ Sevens circuit. In the group<br />
matches we played against Highfield, The Mall and Ardingly and<br />
we won these matches convincingly despite losing one player<br />
with a fractured wrist and another to illness. The boys therefore<br />
qualified for the quarter-finals on the following day and a 31<br />
points to 7 win over Sandroyd in this match set the team up for a<br />
testing semi-final against a physical Downsend side. Some superb<br />
defensive organization and clinical finishing ensured we went<br />
into the final after an impressive 28 points to 0 win. Although<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> scored the first try in the final against a spirited Aldro<br />
team the opposition fought back to take the lead. Two more tries<br />
before half time ensured that <strong>Millfield</strong> went into the break on top<br />
and with two more tries in the second half it meant that <strong>Millfield</strong><br />
won an exciting match 31 points to 7 thus becoming the National<br />
champions which is a tremendous achievement.<br />
In this tournament we scored 228 points and only conceded 3<br />
tries. This demonstrated that we were not only a good attacking<br />
team but that we also had magnificent defensive qualities as well.<br />
History was made at this Rosslyn Park with all three teams from<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> winning their age groups, ie at U13, U16 and U18. This<br />
has never been achieved before and firmly puts <strong>Millfield</strong> on the<br />
map as the premier Rugby Sevens school.<br />
Many congratulations to the members of this outstanding squad<br />
who won three major sevens tournaments as well as the nationals.<br />
However, they were not just a superb team but also wonderful<br />
ambassadors for their school.<br />
(See the Rosslyn Park winners inside the cover).<br />
Mr D Hill (Head of Rugby)<br />
Fencing<br />
The British Youth Championships, Sheffield, 1st- 3rd May<br />
Congratulations to Roo Whelan who won the U12<br />
Boys’ Épée title. Paisley Banks won a medal for her<br />
7th place in the U14 Girls’ Sabre. Well done to all<br />
the MPS pupils who represented the South West at<br />
these Championships - Harry Vigar, Sean Clement,<br />
Bethan Plant, Tallulah Pittam, Will Woodley, Alex<br />
Smith, Rio Kurihara and Seren Lomax.<br />
IAPS Championships, MPS, Sunday 13th June<br />
This was an incredibly successful event for MPS<br />
pupils - we won the boys award and the overall<br />
title!<br />
Gold : Flo Norris, Alex Smith, Rio Kurihara,<br />
Bethan Plant, Paisley Banks and Cameron Baxter-<br />
Allen<br />
Roo Whelan<br />
Silver : Georgia Timmins, Oscar Plant, Michael Law, Bethan<br />
Plant, Paisley Banks, Will Woodley, Alex Smith, Roo Whelan and<br />
Rio Kurihara<br />
Bronze : Amelia Lowe, Charlie Bone, Harry Vigar, Bethan Close,<br />
Millie Regan, Ed Anderson, Sean Clement, Tallulah Pittam, Will<br />
Woodley, Roo Whelan and Loveday Hedgcock<br />
MASTER OF ARMS (Sabre, Foil & Épée)<br />
U11 Girls Bethan Plant U11 Boys Ed Anderson<br />
U14 Girls Alex Smith U14 Boys Rio Kurihara<br />
* The MPS Fencing Team photograph can be seen inside cover<br />
Trampolining<br />
Trampolinists become National Champions (see<br />
team photographs inside cover)<br />
On Saturday 24th April, the trampolinists took part<br />
in the IAPS National Trampolining Competition,<br />
held at MPS. The squad had a fantastic day with<br />
every competitor coming away with a medal.<br />
Congratulations to all the competitors and to Bob<br />
Dutton and his coaching team.<br />
The U9 Boys’ Team (Harvey Morland, Scott Reed<br />
and Cameron Baxter-Allen) and the U13 Boys’<br />
Cameron<br />
Baxter-Allen<br />
Team (Asher Roberts, Harry Close, Milo Carroll and Yuu Kurihara)<br />
won their team events to become National Champions. Cameron<br />
Baxter-Allen won the U9 Boys’ Individual title, Yuu Kurihara took<br />
Silver in the U13 age group and Jake Foy won Silver in the U11<br />
Boys’ Individual event.<br />
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Life In The Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> 2009-2010<br />
Forest <strong>School</strong><br />
Forest <strong>School</strong> is a big part of our weekly curriculum. It is wonderful for the Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> children to experience our great<br />
outdoor area.<br />
Some of the exciting activities the children have experienced this year have been – making nettle soup, looking at<br />
habitats, building a clay oven, making dens, building see-saws, practical maths, cooking popcorn on the camp fire,<br />
making collections, working together as a group and identifying mini-beasts! A big thanks to Shane Potts from<br />
<strong>Millfield</strong> who helped to build the clay oven.<br />
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Autumn Term 2009<br />
BOOK WEEK<br />
The Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> children celebrated<br />
National Book Week by dressing up<br />
as their favourite book character.<br />
Everyone had a great time!<br />
HARVEST FESTIVAL<br />
During the Autumn Term,<br />
parents and friends joined the<br />
children to celebrate Harvest<br />
Festival. Each year group<br />
presented a song or poem. Y2<br />
focused on ‘Water for Life’.<br />
We collected many generous<br />
food boxes for the Salvation<br />
Army that are used to support<br />
families in the local community.<br />
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THE FESTIVE SEASON<br />
The Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> children all enjoyed<br />
the festive season. The children took<br />
part in the Nativity, ‘Tinsel and Tea<br />
Towels’, Christmas Fun and Games and<br />
the annual Christingle Service with<br />
Rev. Allen in St. Andrew’s Chapel.<br />
Making Christingles is always a very<br />
busy morning with the year groups<br />
mixing up so that the older children<br />
help the younger.<br />
YEAR 2 AHOY ON THE<br />
SS GREAT BRITAIN<br />
The Year 2 trip to the SS Great<br />
Britain gave the children the<br />
opportunity to discover what<br />
the life and times were like for<br />
people back in 1800’s The children<br />
explored the ship and even dressed<br />
up in costumes and pretended to<br />
be the people waving off the SS<br />
Great Britain on her maiden voyage!<br />
YEAR 1 @BRISTOL<br />
The Year 1 children had a fantastic day trip to @Bristol.<br />
They spent time exploring the ‘move it’ area which<br />
included a range of equipment such as machines,<br />
strong shapes and water wheels. The children took<br />
part in an exciting interactive workshop investigating<br />
forces through fun activities including making their<br />
own windmills and launching rockets.<br />
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PRE-SCHOOL AT THE ABBEY<br />
The Pre-<strong>School</strong> children<br />
had a wonderful time at the<br />
Abbey ruins, looking for signs<br />
of autumn. The children<br />
had a shuffle in the leaves<br />
and collected lots of leaves<br />
and acorns to make picture<br />
frames back in school.<br />
RECEPTION VISIT TO ORCHARD<br />
VETERINARY PRACTICE<br />
The Reception<br />
children visited<br />
Orchard Vets<br />
in Glastonbury.<br />
Mrs Taylor was<br />
kind enough to<br />
take her puppy<br />
Charley along<br />
for a quick<br />
check up. The<br />
children found<br />
out how to care<br />
for a pet and<br />
created their<br />
own vet’s clinic in the classroom.<br />
Celebrating 25 years of<br />
the Pre-<strong>Prep</strong><br />
In February 2010 we celebrated 25<br />
years of the Pre-<strong>Prep</strong> with a party.<br />
We were joined by former members<br />
of staff and pupils, displayed<br />
photographs covering a quarter of<br />
a century, ate deliciously sticky 25<br />
cupcakes and planted a Kilmarnock<br />
Willow tree on Apple Tree Green.<br />
Spring Term 2010<br />
Curriculum Focus Week<br />
Our aim for Curriculum Focus Week this year<br />
was to enable our children to understand about<br />
the food groups and the need for a varied and<br />
balanced diet. They had the opportunity to see<br />
where food is produced and how it is processed<br />
and marketed.<br />
Each day looked at a different<br />
food group – carbohydrates,<br />
protein, fruit/veg, dairy and<br />
sugars with activities based<br />
around each. We had hands-on<br />
sessions making bread, pizza,<br />
butter, fruit salad, smoothies,<br />
stir-fry and biscuits - everyone<br />
enjoyed eating their homemade treats!<br />
There were various trips to farms, supermarkets and mills – a<br />
great week was had by all!<br />
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Burns the Bread<br />
The Pre <strong>School</strong> children enjoyed a visit to Burns the Bread bakery in Glastonbury. They had<br />
a guided tour around the bakery and the opportunity to see how all the delicious goods are<br />
made; they even got to see how the jam is put into the doughnuts! Everyone enjoyed choosing<br />
a cake from the shop to take home.<br />
After their visit to the bakery, the Pre-<br />
<strong>School</strong>’s role play area became the Little<br />
Red Hen Café and Bakery. The children<br />
had great fun playing and dressing up as<br />
the baker and serving one another tea and<br />
pastries!<br />
Bristol Zoo<br />
The Year 1 children had a day trip to<br />
Bristol Zoo. The purpose of their visit<br />
was to explore the zoo for African<br />
animals and discover the different<br />
habitats they live in; from the desert<br />
to the rainforests and savannah.<br />
The children enjoyed an ‘African<br />
experience’ session led by a member<br />
of staff from the zoo. The experience<br />
took place in a tent themed room to<br />
create the atmosphere of what life is<br />
like in the savannah. The children<br />
met lots of African creatures such as<br />
millie worms, rats and a scorpion.<br />
There was also the chance to look at<br />
various bio facts from Africa including<br />
skins, tusks and horns.<br />
Sir Teachalot<br />
Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed a fun<br />
day spent with Sir Teachalot.<br />
The children learnt about castles<br />
and medieval life and had the<br />
opportunity to dress up in costume.<br />
They looked at the weapons knights<br />
would have used and built castles<br />
using wooden<br />
blocks which had<br />
defensive walls. Each child had a turn<br />
at jousting and the day ended with<br />
a story told by Sir Teachalot about a<br />
Princess and a dragon. The tale was<br />
acted out by some of the children and<br />
Mrs Neeve was the dragon!<br />
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Summer Term 2010<br />
Playtime on Apple Green<br />
Court Farm<br />
Pre <strong>School</strong> had a wonderful trip<br />
to Court Farm. The children fed<br />
the lambs, stroked the donkeys,<br />
watched Jodi the cow being<br />
milked, saw some, pigs, goats,<br />
chickens, geese, guinea pigs, rabbits<br />
and horses, played in the barns and<br />
even had<br />
a ride on<br />
Farmer<br />
Edwards’<br />
tractor…<br />
What a day!<br />
Reception Trip to Kilve<br />
Rain did not dampen a great day of mathematical activity at Kilve! The children counted in 2s, 5s and 10s, compared<br />
the size and weight of pebbles and created their own pebble sculptures. Some even wrote their names in pebbles.<br />
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Thistledown Farm<br />
Year 2 visited Thistledown Farm to<br />
see the new arrivals in the lambing<br />
shed, goat pen and chicken house.<br />
The children had the opportunity to<br />
bottle feed the lambs and kids and to<br />
hold the chicks.<br />
The children<br />
watched Pearl<br />
the sheepdog<br />
round up the<br />
flock of ewes<br />
and lambs and<br />
had great fun<br />
playing with the<br />
puppies.<br />
The Magdalen Project<br />
Year 1 visited the Magdalen<br />
Project for a day of outdoor<br />
adventure. They became<br />
Darwin explorers when,<br />
armed with pooters, spoons,<br />
magnifying glasses and an<br />
assortment of containers, they<br />
hunted for mini-beasts to examine before returning<br />
them to their homes. In the shallows of the River<br />
Axe they went river dipping and had tubs and fact<br />
sheets to help identify<br />
the contents of the nets.<br />
Feeding the hens was a<br />
tickly sensation and the<br />
children discovered that<br />
new laid eggs are warm to<br />
the touch!<br />
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Wilbur and the Web<br />
The end of term concert, set in a farmyard, tells the story of Wilbur the smallest piglet in a litter. He becomes friends<br />
with Charlotte the spider who lives in his barn and begins to understand that life is ongoing and that friends are never<br />
forgotten.<br />
The concert was a big hit and the children really enjoyed being a part of such a ‘terrific’ performance! Many thanks to<br />
everyone who helped towards this year’s concert.<br />
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BOYS HOCKEY<br />
SWIMMING<br />
1st team IAPS and National <strong>School</strong>s’ Champions<br />
The MPS squad - Girls IAPS & Boys U12 & U13 IAPS<br />
TENNIS<br />
Giles Hussey / Cameron Lambden,<br />
‘Save the Children’ National Champions<br />
Giles Hussey/Corey Nichols, IAPS U14 Doubles<br />
Champions<br />
CRICKET / ROUNDERS<br />
RUGBY<br />
National J.E.T. Champions<br />
U13 Rosslyn Park National Champions
Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8LD UK<br />
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