Issue 7 Summer 2010 (6.3 MB) - Blundell's School

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N EWS IN BRIEF Judo Champ Main picture: Kathy Ramsay Carr Below: Roger Hann Fourteen year old Alex Scott FH won Gold and Silver medals at a National Judo tournament earlier this year. Alex travelled to Bristol for the Tora Judo Kai where he fought competitors from all over the UK. Competing in the under 65kg category Alex won all his four pool bouts by an Ippon. This is the highest scoring throw and if achieved the thrower wins instantly. Having won through to the semis finals his good form continued and he found himself in the final. Here he competed well but had to settle for the Silver medal. He then entered the Open under 85kg category where he won five bouts and in the final he scored an Ippon in the first minute to secure Gold. Blundell's own SAS! No, not that SAS, but our own Special Art Status students - the art scholars have had an exciting programme of lectures one of which was by a local artist. Roger Hann gave an inspirational lecture and kindly brought in some of his large canvasses in varying levels of completion and invited some students to add some paint. They have also visited Kathy Ramsay Carr's studio, where they were given many useful tips and an insight into the life of a professional painter. GIRLS CAN PLAY CRICKET NC girls, with a couple of GH ringers, boldly laid down a challenge to the SH U13 C boys’ cricket team one sunny evening. With a team boasting several 1st X1 hockey players the girls scored an impressive 135 runs in their 20 overs. The SH boys seemed to find concentrating rather tricky – can’t think why and they only managed to score 115. However, the girls became overconfident and threw down the gauntlet to the U13 boys’ B team and were soundly put in their place. “We’re quite good at batting but we failed to bowl enough balls anywhere near the stumps” was Tory Margesson’s explanation, “it’s much harder than it looks”. Standing tall! Standing at 6' 8" and weighing eighteen stone William Carrick-Smith has been a formidable member of the School's 1st XV 'boiler room' for the last two seasons. Will was selected for Devon to play as a lock-forward and his performance impressed the selectors so much that he graduated to the South West team. At this level he played two more matches against the North and Midlands and he is being monitored by several clubs. Over the winter Barney Loader was selected for the South of England Independent Schools Barbarians Team. Barney, who has been an outstanding fly-half for the Blundell’s 1st XV, went on to represent the South v North at Moseley before being selected for the full England squad. He has been used as a full-back in the recent match versus the Irish Exiles. Barney also played versus the Welsh Crawshays U19s and the Cambridge University Freshers, before touring Malaysia and Singapore over the Easter holidays. Barney has represented Tiverton RFC on a few occasions treading in the footsteps of his father Paul, who also played for the town. 4
N EWS IN BRIEF DEVON CRICKET CHAMPIONS Counting on success The U14 cricketers were crowned Devon Champs. They won the Exeter and District regional matches beating Kings School Ottery by 6 wickets and St James by an innings. This put them in the quarter finals against Exmouth Community College where they managed to win by 40 runs. In the semis they beat Exeter School by a similar total placing them in the final against King Edward VI School Totnes. The game was played in glorious sunshine at Exmouth CC and batting first Blundell’s scored a huge target of 330-9 in their allotted 30 overs. Sam Wyatt-Haines top scored with 159 and was ably supported by Luke Ansell with 47. The Totnes reply got off to a faltering start due to some excellent bowling by Luke Ansell who took four wickets for just 15 runs. Despite a spirited fight back by the batsmen, a hat-trick by Ben French halted any chances of victory and the score closed on 132-9. The trophy was presented by Ted Ashman, Secretary of Devon Schools Cricket and Pete Langford, Chairman of Exmouth CC. Sixteen athletes qualified for the Devon Championships held at The Exeter Arena recently. At this meet eight of them went on to either win or come second in their events, which meant they were selected to represent Devon at the Southwest trials at the same venue. Back row: Martin Peper,Tom Rickets, Tom Fayers, Bradley Upcott-Fowler Front row: Holly Keevil, Kate O'Hanlon, Lizzie Wessely, Tessa Tyder, Hannah Robbins A2 Devised play The Lost Art of being a Man We were delighted when our production won its way to the final rounds of the National Student Drama Festival. Although it didn’t make the final performance we were the only school to be invited to be part of the NSDF ensemble – all the others were university or drama school students. The cast were Guy Potter, Mitchell Bennellick, Julian Strong, Jeremy Manning and Julie Gordon, with the soundtrack designed by Conor Purcell and the lighting by Jake Cushway. North Close Leavers The NC L6 girls are all off for their U6 in Westlake but unusually they are taking their House Parents with them. Mrs K is handing over the reins of NC to Mrs Crease and Mr K is becoming the House Master at Westlake, with Mrs K taking care of the pastoral care of the girls - Will, Jack and Digby (the dog) are, of course, going too! Julie Gordon Yr 13 Blooming Romance! The NC girls raised over £400 for the Breast Cancer Charity in their annual sale of Valentines roses for pupils and staff. In total the girls, ably assisted by Matron Mrs Wilder, sold over 600 roses ensuring that romance is still alive and kicking at Blundell’s. 5
Page 1 and 2: D IARY Blundell’s www.blundells.o
Page 3: H EAD M ASTER’ S I NTRODUCTION I
Page 7 and 8: BATTLEFIELDS TRIP 2010 “The whole
Page 9 and 10: The 3rd VII netball team The 3rd VI
Page 11 and 12: Marlborough Cricket Festival 2010 T
Page 13 and 14: FIVES AT BLUNDELL’S Fives is a sp
Page 15 and 16: DUCKWORTH RELAYS The Duckworth Rela
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Page 19 and 20: leading edge ART REVIEW 2010 Year 1
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