With Our Riders Winning the Show Jumping Title at Hickstead and the Swimmers Being Named the Top Club in the Country Following

Sport

With our riders winning the Show Jumping title at Hickstead and the swimmers being named the top club in the country following the National Arena League Finals, it has been another vintage sporting year for Millfield Prep Sport.

Further individual and team national titles Playing an amazing two thousand fixtures, have been won in Athletics, Basketball, every pupil has had the opportunity to Cricket, Golf, Fencing, Netball, Rounders, represent the school on a regular basis Tennis and Trampolining. across more than twenty five different sports. Alongside the core sports, many We have celebrated the success of our pupils have enjoyed opportunities and talented pupils, but more importantly developed a passion for activities such as we have instilled a lifelong commitment Climbing, Sailing, Canoeing and Shooting. to sport among all our community.

46 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

Athletics With sessions now running over three terms, our runners, throwers and jumpers have had plenty of opportunity to practise and compete this year. Many athletes made the ﬁnal of their county and national events and achieved personal bests. In the South West Championships, our relay teams completed an unprecedented clean sweep of all six relays. The girls’ team ﬁnished 6th in the English Schools Cup Final, competing against the top 12 schools in the country.

The ﬁnal event of the athletics seasons was the IAPS National Finals in Birmingham where our biggest team of over 50 athletes competed. Amirah Weightman Dauda broke the high jump record, Maisie Jeger won 300m and Shot, Jadiel Wahab was Shot champion, Daisy Pellow 800m champion, 01 Kizzi Reed Hurdles and Clarissa Jackson, Maisie Jeger, Charlotte Taylor and Vienna Hounsham Opposite Boys' Hockey Training 01 Inter-House Athletics 02 National Year 8 Girls 4X100 metres Relay champions. 4x100 Relay Champions 03 U11 Boys 4x100 Relay team 04 The basketball team at the IAPS National Championship

02 03 Basketball The U13 basketball team has continued its great run of success. The team came second in the Central Venue League, qualiﬁed for the ﬁnal in the English Schools League and, for the third year running, won the IAPS National Championship. We had a great core of Jadiel Wahab, Amirah Weightman Dauda and Julen Barrondo Gonzalez, with fantastic support from some newcomers. For the first time, we have three returning players to build around next year: Stella Gillespie, Bobby Mulvey and Ayomide Bamisile. Alex Chung shows great promise as a guard.

47 Sport

01 Girls' cricket team 02 Somerset County Cricket U13 competition 03 U11 regional ﬁnals 04 and 05 Pupils taking part in cross country events

02 03

04 05 48 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

County Boys' Cricket Fencing Players Boys’ cricket continues to be strong with the This year, Millfield hosted the British Schools Team fixture list boasting ten different county sides Championships and Millfield Prep squads won 2 in 2016/17 in opposition. The 1st team had an amazing year, gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals. At the National winning both the National RNCF Cup and the Public Schools Championships, Millfield Prep Somerset Boys County Cup. The U11 team won their County Cup, retained the overall trophy for a record-breaking U10 beating a strong Taunton School side in the final. sixth year with Year 8 pupils all contributing points Ellis James, They then represented Somerset at the Regional and Elena Launder finishing 3rd in the champion- Lowen Stephens Finals, winning against three of the other districts, at-arms for Year 8 and 9. Elena, Phoebe Van der but coming short in the final, ending in second Welle and Renee Nassozi Kiggundu all finished U11 place. The U12 team comprehensively beat brilliantly in the top 10 of the British Schools Charlie Morgan- King's Hall School in the County Cup and will Team Championships, winning 2 golds, 3 silvers Hughes represent Somerset in the National Cup next year. and 4 bronze medals. Five Millfield Prep fencers joined forces with senior pupils to compete in U12 There are 11 boys playing county cricket and many the Public Schools Championships, winning Bobby Mulvey, more boys involved at district level, but it is the for a 6th consecutive year. Oliver Harrison participation at every level that is so inspiring. Millfield Prep hosted the IAPS Fencing competition, U13 winning the overall IAPS title again, with gold Michael McNee, medals for Benjamin Sanders, Phoebe, Elena, Joseph Eckland, Girls’ Cricket Kelsey Woname and Stella Gillespie. Elena and Callum Harvey The girls’ cricket programme continues to flourish Phoebe also retained their master-at-arms titles. with regular pairs matches for Years 6, 7 and 8. Hampshire Boys The development teams, playing with a hardball, U12 have been attending additional early morning Dominic Kelly training sessions and enjoyed challenging fixtures against Devon Boys U13 strong county opposition. Joe Farmer The senior team have Cambridgeshire enjoyed victories against Girls U13 Millfield Under 15s (twice), Charlotte Jeffreys Gloucestershire, Cornwall, and Devon (twice). Six girls Somerset Girls have played county cricket for India-Rose Owen, Somerset – we have even had Jessica Hazell, the honour of playing on the Philippa Letchford, main ground twice this year. Charlotte Taylor, Stella Gillespie Cross Country Excel The Mendip Junior and Senior Programme Leagues saw all age groups in action from Years 3–8, and our India-Rose Owen athletes showed their determination in races across the county. Our Year 01 IAPS Fencing 6 boys team finished 1st in the competition Mendip League. We had individual champions at Year 3 and Year 5 level. In the National Prep School competition, Daisy Pellow came 2nd and got onto the podium a year early. Daisy also ran for Somerset in the South West Championships.

01 49 Sport

Football Junior football has ﬂourished this year with the annual festivals at Millﬁeld Prep for the U9s and 10s having good weather and plenty of fun and action.

Year 6 found their rhythm on several occasions throughout the season. Year 7 and Year 8 both reached the local league ﬁnal and Year 7 played some lovely one-touch football as the term progressed.

The U12 and U13 boys were runners up in the Mendip League and the U13 girls retained their

Port Regis Tournament title. 01

01 U10s Millfield Prep football tournament 02 Freddie, Patience and Harriet with the ISGA Junior Open Team Trophy Golf 03 Millfield Prep golfers at the Millfield Prep Open It was an impressive year for golf. Freddie Turnell was the IAPS and ISGA National Champion, Millfield Prep Open winner and holder of the junior course record at Sunningdale Heath GC. Frederick will be playing in the U12 World Championships in July in North Carolina for the second year running.

Patience Rhodes has become Somerset Girls U18 Champion at the age of 13, and IAPS and ISGA National Champion. Harriet Lockley represented Wales in an international match v Ireland, ﬁnished in the top 4 of the Somerset Ladies Championships and is the Millﬁeld Open girls’ champion.

Freddie, Patience and Harriet all joined forces to win multiple national team trophies.

We saw the biggest entry by our school to the Millﬁeld Prep Open at Kingweston, with some brilliant results in all age groups.

03 50 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

01 02 Hockey 01 Boys' hockey team With at least 186 girls matches played and 560 The U13A girls began the season winning the 02 Year 5 hockey boys dazzling goals scored over the season, we have Blundells Tournament, Millfield Prep Tournament, in action 03 Junior girls produced teams from U8 to U13 ranging from Somerset Counties and Regional IAPS Finals. catching up with hockey A–D level. They missed out 0-1 in the National IAPS Final Olympian Alex Danson to be crowned very worthy silver medallists. Our U8 novice boys and girls were able to draw on The U13C team came away from the Hazlegrove the skills already learned in Pre-Prep Hockey Club Tournament as gold medallists and our U13B team and have had a great season, performing well in the won the Millfield Prep Tournament, whilst also U8 Millfield Prep Festival. The U9s are definitely an competitively matching many A team opponents age group to watch, with a depth of talent and an during the term. impressive season throughout. We are also extremely proud to have eight girls and The U10 boys have played some excellent hockey three boys qualify from JDC to JAC County Hockey this year, displaying huge potential. The U10 girls and five to be assessed for JRPC. This is the highest are continuing to develop, learn and progress. number of girls we have ever had recognised for They all have an exciting year ahead. potential to represent ‘West of England Hockey’. India-Rose Owen and Jeannie Jackson have U11A boys got off to a great start, winning the successfully made it through to U15 England Bryanston Festival. Later they became Somerset Hockey Performance Centre (JRPC). County Champions, progressing to the final of the In2Hockey Regionals. The boys reached the Following what has been a fantastic year Regional IAPS Semi Finals and qualified for the of hockey, the girls had the opportunity IAPS National Finals competition. to represent the school on tour to Holland. This trip Our U11 girls have completed a remarkable season. proved to be At the IAPS South West tournament early in the one of the season they finished towards the bottom of the pinnacles of 20 competing teams. However, the girls worked the season. unbelievably hard and demonstrated huge team The girls played spirit, and made enormous progress. As the term superb hockey progressed they became County Champions, and were great defeated the National IAPS Champions and ambassadors for were runners up at the West Finals. the school.

U12A girls won the IAPS Regionals and progressed to the semi-ﬁnals, whilst the U12C team had a fantastic unbeaten season. 03

51 Sport

Multi-Sport 2016/17 Highlights It has been another successful year for Multi-Sports British Modern Biathlon competing in the National Schools Biathle Final and U13 Boys: the IAPS Triathlon. Alex Painter (2nd), Evan Jones (5th) Alex Painter, Evan Jones and Calvin Fry (1st)

British Modern Tetrathlon Jack Amor (2nd)

British Schools' Biathlon Melissa McCusker (7th), Ashton Gifford-Groves (2nd), Jack Amor (4th), Alex Painter (3rd) U12A Girls: Isabella Woollard , Eva Barnett and Laura Judge-Wee (2nd) U12B Girls: Charlotte Gouldby, Grace Olding and Heidi Denyer (5th) U14 Girls: Isabella Renwick, Fﬁon Rees and Yuhka Machino (1st) U13 Boys: Calvin Fry, Evan Jones and Alexander Painter (1st)

GB Biathle Series Qualifier for European Championships and World Tour: Jack Amor (2nd) 01 IAPS Triathlon U13: Alex Painter took 1st place with an overall time of 23:51 Storm Munday finished 4th out of 45 competitors in a time of 24:32 Year 7: Lydia Louw finished 2nd out of 19 competitors with a time of 25:39 Jasmine Caley came 4th achieving a time of 25:45 Isabella Woollard took 5th place completing the triathlon in 26:21 Eva Barnett came 6th with 28:01 Heidi Denyer finished 10th in 29:47 Year 8:

02 Harry Barton came 18th out of 28 competitors with a time of 28:27

01 National Schools Biathle ﬁnalists 02 National Schools Biathle Finals – Year 6 Boys Team GOLD – Richard Towers, Jack Amor, Ashton Gifford-Groves 03 IAPS Triathlon ﬁnalist 03 – Jasmine Caley

52 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

Netball Season Highlights A record nine girls were selected for the Somerset County Somerset County Satellite Programme Satellite programme. The team have become the U13 National Selected girls: IAPS Champions, Somerset County Champions and National Harriet Dimdore-Miles, Ellen Jones, Macy Hall, School Sports Magazine Cup semi-finalists. They have also Jasmine Campbell-Du Boulay, Lily Della Valle, won the U13 National IAPS Championship, Regional IAPS India-Rose Owen, Jessica Hazell, Amirah Weightman Championship, U12 National IAPS Semi-Final, U11 IAPS finals Dauda and Isabella Renwick qualification and Millfield Prep Tournament. 2017/18 players will include: India- Rose Owen, Vienna Hounsham, Rosa Launder, After coming 4th at the Regional IAPS, the U13 team did not Maddie Calvesbert-Sharp from Year 8 and Stella Gillespie qualify for the National Finals. Having lost only one game, the and Tilly Standen McDougal from Year 7. Isla Niddrie and team were devastated, but were able to compete in the finals due Amirah Weightman Dauda were scouted from their own to another team dropping out. The girls played excellently, age group, were successful in the U16 County Trials and winning 10-7 in the final to become National IAPS Champions. now represent Somerset two years young

U13 National IAPS Champions, Somerset County Champions and National School Sports Magazine Cup semi-ﬁnalist, Colston's Tournament winners

U12 National IAPS Semi-Finalist, Regional IAPS Champions, Millﬁeld Prep, Colston’s and Taunton Tournament winners

U11 Millﬁeld Prep A Tournament winners, Portsmouth Grammar tournament ﬁnalists and Semi-Finalist Bryanston Tournament

U13, U12 and U11 Millﬁeld B Tournament winners

U12B Taunton B Tournament winners and ﬁnalists of Colston's

U13B and U9B were unbeaten, 76% of all matches won across all 16 teams from Years 3-8

01 and 02 National IAPS Champions 03 The girls' team training

53 Sport

54 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

Riding We have had another very successful year. Our biggest success was the Show Jumping National School Championships at Hickstead, winning for the ﬁrst time in 17 years with an outstanding clear win and all riders jumping double clear.

Several riders qualified and competed for the British Eventing Jumping and Style finals, competing against both adults and professionals. It was a fantastic start to the eventing season with Bronte Monks and Eve Hodder in the top ten, who also qualified for the regional finals later in the season.

Millﬁeld Prep is becoming well-established in the British Eventing calendar for hosting the BE competition. We had a record number of pupils competing with some super results.

Our riders have done amazingly at Hickstead this year with Bronte Monks coming 4th 01 individually and Marina Jolliffe 7th individually.

Many of our younger riders have also had great success with good placing competing in Dressage and Show jumping. Our young riders are continuing to go from strength to strength and the team have brought home some well-deserved wins.

Opposite Hatty Kingsford riding Ruby 01 Lucy Wood riding Daisy 02 Taking a ride along the beach 03 The girls at the Jet Finals 02

Rounders It was another busy season for our girls, participating in ﬁxtures, inter-house matches, festivals, tournaments and Nationals. All our junior girls represented the school, with the emphasis on enjoyment and fun. The U11A team reached the last 8 in the IAPS National Rounders and the U13 team won the RNCF/JET National Rounders ﬁnal against competition from Bedford Girls’ School.

A huge congratulations to the 1st team girls on an unbeaten season and playing well to win the Nationals.

03 55 Sport

Rugby In Rugby Sevens, the 1st team boys won the Caldicott Sevens Developing rugby skills in both the seven a side format and and came second at the Millfield Sevens. The U12 boys also larger team format has been central to the success criteria won their age group in the Caldicott Sevens Tournament. at school. Boys play in a variety of positions, developing individuals into rounded rugby players. They are also expected The U8 boys went through the season unbeaten, playing to take ownership of their learning in games sessions, with some adventurous rugby, the boys have acquired and coaches facilitating environments for development of a developed a number of the skills needed to play fast, growth mindset within their rugby sessions and matches. flowing rugby. The U11b team were also unbeaten, Learning from mistakes and making decisions to change scoring a massive 500 points. aspects that are not going as planned is an overriding skill coaches try to instil in players. Millfield Prep is playing more triangular matches with schools and fostering a love of the game rather than purely on results between teams. It is also part of the Old Mutual Wealth Kids First Rugby programme, becoming the first ‘Champion’ school in the country for its approach to the new rules of play set out by the Rugby Football Union (RFU).

56 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

Opposite Year 7 boys training session 01 Oliver Coombe 02 Thomas Williams 03 Hector Rees-Davies 04 1st team discussion 05 Year 4 boys

04 05 57 Sport

Sailing The sailing season got off to a great start in the autumn, with plenty of pupils keen to get on the water. Chew Valley Lake continues to be an excellent base to train. We had more newcomers to the sport, who learnt very quickly. The summer term started with some race training and our second annual Prep Schools' Regatta, which was well attended despite the tempestuous weather conditions. Our sailors were some of just a handful that managed not to capsize.

In between more training on the lake, we took some sailors to the IAPS Sailing Regatta, and with blue skies and a perfect breeze we managed mid-ﬂeet results of 18th and 23rd of 37 boats.

01 02 Squash It was a successful year for squash, with our clubs brimming with keen, aspiring players. We saw a record number of entries into the National IAPS competition, a two-day event hosted at Millﬁeld 04 with a gruelling amount of matches to be played at a very high standard. A number of the Millﬁeld Prep competitors progressed through to the latter stages of the competition, but unfortunately came unstuck against very good opponents. Callum Harvey did excellently, winning the U13 Plate competition. A very tough section meant Sebastian Sawrey-Cookson was playing some of the best players in the country.

The squash team have played against Hazlegrove and Wycliffe Schools at both U11 and U13 level, and competitively, against Millﬁeld squash teams at U14 level.

01 Ieuan Braybrook and Miles Lewis Dean on the lake 02 Ollie Leigh-Currill and Boris Findlay at IAPS in Weymouth 03 Eric Nixon Castillo, Year 8 03 58 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17

Swimming Our swimmers have done brilliantly this year, remaining the top IAPS Swimming School for 32 consecutive years. At the Summer Nationals Jasmine Nobbs won the 50m Freestyle. We had 12 swimmers on the England South West Camp and two swimmers on the England National Camp. We retain the status as top junior club in Somerset. A record 33 swimmers have qualiﬁed for the South West Regional Championships..

01 Evan Jones, Calvin Fry, Alex Painter 02 Katie White and Isabella Woollard 03 Evan Jones and Ruby Smith 04 Maddie Calvesbert-Sharp and Calvin Fry 05 Awesome Arena League Top Club swimmers 01 02

Swimming Highlights

Somerset County Championships Top Age Group swimming club

Arena League National Club Final Top Club in the country

IAPS Championships Top Swimming School for 32nd

consecutive year 04 03 Boys: Treble National Champions U12/13 – Overall Girls: Treble National Champions U12/13 – Overall

South West Regional Championships A record 33 swimmers qualiﬁed for this event, which is highly ranked and only contains the best club swimmers in the South West of England for each age and stroke. The squad won 16 gold, 7 silver and 12 bronze medals.

Summer Nationals To qualify for the Nationals is extremely tough with only the top 24 swimmers in the country invited and then the top 20 after that head to the ASA (English). We congratulate Calvin Fry, Isabella Renwick, Maddie Calvesbert- 05 Sharp, Alice Chan and Rhiannon Evans for reaching this goal.

59 Sport

01 Tennis Twenty-eight players represented Millfield Prep in the IAPS Tennis Tournament in July, hosted by Millfield for the third year in a row. In the U13 Girls’ 02 singles, four of the quarter finalists were from Millfield Prep. We also reached the U13 Boys’ Trampolining doubles quarter-finals, the U11 Boys’ doubles At the South West Schools in November our quarter-finals and the U11 Boys’ singles quarter- U11 girls’ team of Manou Smits, Madaleine finals. Caitlin McLoughlin and Francesca Davis Whatling and Charlotte Manton were 1st in won the U13 Girls’ doubles title. the team event and Charlotte came 2nd and Manou 3rd in the individuals. The U11 boys’ team Twelve players represented their respective of William Morgan-Hughes, Sebastian Duke, counties in the different age groups of the LTA Brychan James and Conor Donoghue also County Cup competitions, four attended LTA placed 1st and Ellis James placed 1st in the U11 Regional training camps and four players competed elite individuals. The Southern Zonal Schools at National Level. Francesca Davis qualified for the event saw our U11 Boys placing 2nd and Ellis Grade 1 U12 Girls Nike Invitational Winter National placing 1st again. Tennis Tour Finals at the National Tennis Centre in London, which included the top 16 girls in the At the National Schools in Gatehead, the U11 country. Francesca Davis and James Sclater Boys' team competed well and came 3rd. Ellis both qualified for the Nike Under 12 Grade 1 again was in top form and also finished 3rd for 03 National Tennis Championships in Bournemouth a well-deserved bronze individual medal. All the in the summer. Frankie was seeded 6 and reached boys were at least a year young for this age group. the last 16 of the singles and James reached the Quarter Finals (beating the number 4 seed) Our final fixture was the IAPS National and also the Quarter Finals of the Doubles. Championships, which saw 29 Millfield Prep pupils competing amongst nearly 200 competitors from Our girls’ team reached the regional finals of 15 schools nationwide. The U13 Girls (India-Rose the Year 8 Aegon National Schools Competition Owen, Emily Bradshaw, Phillipa Letchford and in Exeter in November, making them among the Adelina Drauschke) retained their national title 01 Francesca Davis at top 16 teams in the country out of the 600 schools for the third year running. Zackary Keane was training 02 Millfield Prep that entered. They also got through to the County our only U13 Boys’ entry and came a fantastic IAPS Tennis team including; stages of the boys and girls Aegon Competition 2nd place. Our U9 Girls’ team (Matilda Johnson, Frankie Davis and Caitlin and will go on to compete in the County play- Lucy Champion, and Amelie Whatling) were McLoughlin U13 girls double offs in September. 6th, U9 Boys (William Morgan-Hughes, Krijn champions 03 IAPS Trampolining Champions Smits, James Brychan and Finn Collins) were Both the girls and the boys U14 teams (combined silver medallists. The U11 Boys' team (Ellis, with Millfield) qualified for the Premier Division of Conor, Sebastian and Fraser Baxter) won their the Aegon National Club League and both teams team event. Ellis was placed 2nd in the individual came third. Our Year 8 teams also competed in the competition. The U11s (Manou, Madaleine, Aegon U18 National Schools before losing to Taunton Kizzi Reed and Charlotte) placed 7th and Isabelle School and Beechen Cliff School respectively. Middleton did well, completing both her routines.

60 The Year at Millﬁeld Prep 2016/17