Headmaster’s Report

hope that you enjoy King’s fascinated by the interplay of continu- Illustria. This is the magazine’s ity and change that accompanies our Ithird edition under its new title, lives and the institutions that sur- succeeding the Annual Review in round us. Many of us are creatures of 2013, which in turn succeeded the habit and wary of change. For young Annual Report in 2011. I have to people, on the other hand, so much confess that I was uncertain about in the world is new and exciting, Illustria as a title when it was first hence their propensity not only to proposed by Mike Houghton, our welcome change, but to experiment Head of Classics. It was a clever idea, and innovate. This edition of Illustria but I wondered whether it would suit opens a window onto the School King’s. How wrong I was! Like most in the twenty-first century that is as changes in schools, two years after revealing as its nineteenth-century their introduction they are routine equivalent. I hope you will agree with and, a year after that, they become me that our horizons have broadened cherished institutions to be tampered and that the School is in a far better with at your peril. place! The earliest surviving ancestor The most long-anticipated event of of Illustria in our archives is the 2015-16 was our inspection. We could Macclesfield School Report from not have hoped for a better out- December 1836. Besides listing the come. The team of twelve inspectors Governors (14), teaching staff (4) and published a glowing endorsement not naming H.M. The King (William IV) as just of where the School was, but of the School’s Visitor, the 1836 Report the broad direction of travel we have contains little more than a list of prize been engaged upon over the last few winners, class orders (rankings) and years. In 1959, inspectors arrived at an outline of the timetable and cur- Cumberland Street 48 hours after a riculum. major fire had destroyed the school The King’s School in Macclesfield As an historian, I am inevitably hall. The report congratulated staff

Contents

Headmaster’s Report 1 An overview of the year

Creative Work 4 Highlights of this year’s creative work at all ages

Performing Arts 16 A selection of King’s music and drama events

Academic Highlights 24 Spotlight on some academic departments and initiatives

Events & Activities 34 A selection of our many events and activities from the year

Challenge & Enrichment 44 An overview of our Challenge & Enrichment programme

Community Activities 50 Highlights of King's contributions to the wider community

Sports 54 A comprehensive review of the year’s sporting successes

Hail & Farewell 81 Staff who have joined or left King’s this academic year

Awards & Prizes 87 Celebrating this year’s award and prize winners

Leaver Destinations 91 Full list of university destinations for 2016

Front and back cover images from the Gibraltar and Jersey Sports Tours 1 Headmaster’s Headmaster’s Report Report and pupils upon the ‘calm manner with the project and I hope to write Our Year 6 pupils also achieved History. All three have made out- in which they carried on the normal a little more about that help next notable success. In the areas of standing contributions to King’s and programme.’ In 2015, we faced a year. Reading, Writing, Maths and Spell- will be greatly missed. Full tributes lesser calamity when a burst pipe Whilst the 2020 Vision is impor- ing/Grammar, the percentages of our to these and other colleagues can be threatened classrooms at Fence tant, we never forget our respon- pupils achieving or exceeding the found in the Hail & Farewell section, Avenue, but in true British style, staff sibility to the current generation expected national level were signifi- but I also want to welcome a number and pupils carried on, whilst Peter of pupils in the School. We are cantly above the national average. Of of new Governors (pictured). Mrs Jackson’s department worked furi- therefore continuing to invest in the the 71 children, 96% achieved or ex- Ayesha Chowdrey is a BBC Executive ously behind the scenes. present as eagerly as we plan for the ceeded the expected level in Maths, with extensive digital media knowl- I was enormously proud of the future. 2015-16 saw the opening of 93% in Reading, 89% in Writing and edge; Professor Neil Hanley joins us School that week, which is always a new sports pavilion at Westminster 96% in Spelling/Grammar: these from the University of Manchester, a rather surreal time for a Head. Road, refurbishment of the chang- results should be compared with where he is Professor of Medicine, One can never be entirely certain ing facilities at Derby Fields and the national averages of around 70%. and Jonathan Watkins (right) is a that effort and progress will be Sports Hall at Fence Avenue, further Finally, we welcome a number partner of a global law firm, also recognised until one sees it in the improvements to our Infant & Junior of new faces as we bid farewell to working from Manchester. They join flesh. To achieve ‘excellent’ in each playgrounds and new class sets of others. July saw the retirement of a a school much changed since the category and across every section iPads and tablet devices, to name but number of long-serving colleagues 1836 Report mentioned above, but of the School could never be taken a few. including Jo Beesley and Linda Pyatt no less ambitious for its future. for granted. The achievement owes I am delighted to be able to record from Music and Eileen Olsen from SH much to the dedication and hard the excellent results achieved in this work of my colleagues on the teach- summer’s public examinations. To ing and support staff as well as the exceed last year’s success at A*-B at A responsiveness of our pupils and the Level was special. The A*/A rate was unstinting commitment of parents. Another of our aims is to ‘support would like to thank Mel Toms and in excess of 50% and around 23% So, this magazine reflects a great parents in raising ambitious and well- Frances Naismith in particular for of grades were A*. Of course, what year for King’s. The curricular and rounded individuals’. You will no their service as Chair and Treasurer matters most for the Sixth Formers is extra-curricular life of the School doubt recognise efforts and successes of Friends of King’s. admission to their preferred course continues to flourish as we fulfil in this area as you flick through the The ambition we have for our at the university of their choosing. our aims to ‘challenge our pupils subsequent pages. Whilst parents pupils is matched by our aspirations We were delighted that all of our to aspire, work hard and achieve’, are less in evidence in these pages, for the School itself. 2016 brought us students holding offers for the most and to ‘develop lively and enquiring they remain a vital element of school several steps closer to realising our competitive courses achieved their minds’. The year saw the embedding life and we are grateful to the many 2020 Vision for King’s as our plan- grades, including those with of- of new curriculums and the further parents who devote time and energy ning applications were approved by fers from Oxford and Cambridge. development and extension of King’s to the School, whether it be helping the Cheshire East Council and then At GCSE level, individual successes Learning Habits. In the Infant & Jun- with sporting activities, organising confirmed by the Secretary of State. abounded and, overall, students iors, colleagues responded to new the many exciting fairs and events Given the inclusion of two greenbelt achieved 85% of all grades at A*-B national frameworks and prepared that our children enjoy, or through sites, this was no mean feat and I and 60% at A*/A. I am immensely to report on ‘assessment without our Friends of King’s committee. I would like to thank Jeremy Hinds proud of their achievements which levels’. In the Sixth Form, we saw the and his planning team from Savills are borne of hard work, diligence start of a two-year return to linear A in particular for their tireless work and attention to detail over a num- Levels. on the project. Jeremy is among a ber of years. number of Former Pupils assisting us

Straight A grade A Level students on results day

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Creative Tewdr Jones, Scarecrow Alice Burton, Sheep Reception Modelling creations made and painted as part of the Reception project on Work farms.

Edward Forrester Pre-School Self-portrait painted during the dinosaur topic.

Lorenzo Roncaroli Pre-School Painting done as part of the Pre-School transport topic.

Nina Harney Year 1 Still-life picture in oil pastels, created as part of the Year 1 topic on growing.

Harry Boddy Year 1 Children looked at the proportions of faces and used pencil to draw self-portraits.

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Rory Horne Year 2 An arrangement of Indian images in silk batik, part of the Year 2 Learning Challenge on India.

Evalina Henshaw-Lawson Year 2 Still-life painting on the theme of plants. George Friston Year 5 A portrait of Henry VIII in the style of Hans Holbein, created as part of the Learning Challenge topic ‘What was life like during the Golden Age of Exploration?’

The Classroom Poppy Fletcher Year 3 After looking at works by Joan Miró, Year 3 Spilt glue scattered over table tops made studies in their sketch books of the forming an island of whiteness. Sebastian Fitzgerald and Sophie Clegg Year 4 shapes and colours he used in his paintings. Pencil shavings all over the place Roman Chariots. A Design Technology project exploring sticking to the drying glue. wheels and axles, as part of the Learning Challenge topic ‘Why did the Romans want more?’ The whiteboard was full with words like the trail of a snail but pure black. A football boot is left behind stinking in the corner as the mud slowly comes off. The sound of the furious vacuum sucks up mess like a dishonoured king. Gobbling paper, sucking water and paint, eating pencil crayons. And then it stops. As something tiny gets stuck inside the giant, noisy machine. Thomas Danson Year 5

Amelia Robinson-Stanier Year 6 Watercolour landscape in the style of Claude Monet’s coastal scenes.

6 7 Creative Work Creative Work Girls’ Year 8 Birds This project began by making drawings of feathers and creating patterns inspired by exotic birds as cardboard relief pieces. Girls then developed their own individual, 3D sculpture using a range of cardboard construction techniques. Finally, they added oil pastel rubbings to the sculpture in black and white created from their own original, relief designs.

Claudia Freedman Car Journey I look out of the window I see the world whizzing by as a blur On the road I can see tiny reflective cat’s eyes Peering at me through the glass

I see the houses ranging from terraced to detached The light from them flooding the road The moon, bright and shining overhead Lighting up the night

As cars go by, headlights flood the roads On the dashboard are the speedometer and the illuminated clock Their lights blossoming in the car Filling the empty space.

Abigail Breese-Tovey Year 7

Light The moment when I was in the light I thought to myself, is this right? Should I be here with such delight? It was not anything special, it was just another night It was all dark but then there was me in the light I had waited all of my life Just to see what was bright Is this the secret to everyone’s life? Flossie Blackwell Finlay Blakemore Year 8 Martha Squire

Phoebe Gleave

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Murray Redpath Archie Fletcher Jamie Shuttleworth

Boys’ Year 9 Favelas Year 9 studied the historical, social and visual aspects of the favelas of Brazil, following which they designed and produced their own individual favela from card, found materials and acrylic paint. All of the sculptures eventually came together to create a new, miniature favela community.

Sam Wright Sam Jones

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he breezed into my office one which was accompanied by a bold, back, alongside that of the man in cold September morning; her serpentine tattoo that could make the photograph. His name started Swind-swept hair carefully craft- even the bravest man wither at one to ring a bell. I stayed all night at ed, her immaculate figure screaming glance. His lower torso paraded the the office checking all my previ- danger. I tried to stand to attention epithet: “Die or live to kill”. ous cases. He was the one to ruin but it was like her bulging eyes I finally managed to open my my immaculate record. I started to and two-inch heels had me under mouth to mumble out the words, sweat again; the temperature rising lock and key. I could only imagine “What has he done?”. She stared at and the air as thin as paper. As I Jennifer Young Year 11 what news the pages of documents, me with her devil eyes, in expecta- loosened my tie, I knocked over my Jen created this large- which she clutched so desperately, tion. I was confused: my head was black ink pot and as my meticulous scale self-portrait as might reveal. As her bright red lips still not up to date. She said in a notes began to blur into a sea of part of a triptych for her started to move, I began to sweat deadly monotone: “He’s the one confusion, my mind wandered back GCSE Art coursework. and my head slipped into a dizzy that stole my grandmother’s 1920s’ to the period of regret… Her idea was inspired state. I attempted to listen to her diamond necklace!” I was stuck in a There I stood: a twenty-four-year- by facial expressions words, but it was like trying to trance; my mind still captivated by old, newly-qualified, anxious detec- and the illustrations of break out of a labyrinth blindfolded her stunning looks. The sweat now tive, full of potential. As I entered contemporary artist, whilst being chased by a pack of dripped onto my stained collar as I the world of hard work and late Vince Low. blood-thirsty wolves. She brought replied, “How do you know he did nights, I got thrown in at the deep a faded polaroid photograph out this?” The cryptic woman leaned end. The phone rang: my reac- of her pinstriped Henry a la Pen- over my desk and gripped my tions were quick and I answered see dress pocket. This man looked crumpled silk tie firmly and with eagerly. A scratchy but soft voice like a crook. A short scar upon his a serpent-like look she screeched whispered into the crackle of the higher left cheek told stories of his the words, “Bring justice or I will!” bad reception. It was Mrs Edwards rough upbringing. His pointed elf- She dashed out of the room leaving in an unusually nervous voice. She like ears were wide open, listening no trace but the photograph of the wanted to report the stealing of her out for his next vulnerable prey; repulsive man. As I fixed my tie I re- late husband’s gold-plated watch. I his beaten right eye swollen shut alised I had no trace of this woman: spent the next six months pursuing from unimaginable events. The tied no name, no address, no nothing. this man with only his description back, scruffy hair could fool any I hastily scrambled for clues, files for help. The man was untraceable wise man into giving up their most scattered across the room. I in- with his devious ways and distract- precious jewels; his deceiving lips spected the photograph. I turned it ing eyes. He got away. I almost gave able to bewitch any naive victim. over to see her name etched on the up my detective career: I thought His unnerving personality was re- my life was over with no hope of flected in his fleshless, sunken chest being a successful detective ever again. But history will not repeat itself. Alex Watkins Year 10

Natalie Stevens Year 11 This handcrafted Art Deco-inspired Valet Stand represents hours of hard work and commitment for Natalie’s GCSE coursework. It demonstrated extremely high-level making skills and precision and was rewarded with an A* grade.

Verity Griffin Year 11 Verity’s beautiful Art Nouveau-inspired lamp table also represents many hours of hard work. It was very rewarding and also resulted in an A* grade. Verity’s love of STEM subjects has continued through to A Level and she hopes to pursue a STEM-based degree at university.

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Maddie Townley Year 13 Maddie explored the contrasting landscapes of Greece and Snowdonia to develop a series of felt studies, culminating in a reversible embroidered tunic which brings together the two contrasting environments.

Claire Dixon Year 13 Claire explored the theme of ‘stellar phenomena’ for her final exam. She used handmade paper and silver leaf to create a series of bowl forms inspired by the surface of the moon, leading to a series of illuminated installation pieces.

Elliot Keen Year 12 Elliot produced an elegant 3D printed light shade using sophisticated CAD software to create the curved section. When added to the other components it creates a superb light with striking impact. The overall effect is based on simplicity of form which allows the light to function in its purest form.

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Cinders The Year 4 Pantomime ‘Cinders’ did not fail to deliver the expected corny jokes, dramatic action, rousing songs, Performing rhythmic percussion accompaniment and intricate dance routines. The children impressed with their clear and expressive acting, their concen- tration and their beautiful singing, particularly the harmony singing. The Arts lead characters showed great comic timing when delivering the humor- Pre-School were a wonderful sup- having more than one role. It was ous script. Mention must be made of Early Years Nativity porting choir, singing each song with a very entertaining and humorous the children’s extremely funny dance To promote Christmas cheer, Pre- enthusiasm. production. to the Adam & The Ants hit ‘Prince School and Reception children Charming’ which left the audience gave a sparkling rendition of ‘The weeping with laughter! All of the Infant Christmas show Sleepy Shepherd’. Tewdr Jones, as children were an important part of the shepherd in question, found it KS1 pupils performed ‘Straw and the action, appearing in a variety of difficult to stay awake but when an Order’ in which a court case concern- roles. It was a joy to see them enjoy- angel (Emilia Gravett) appeared to ing an overcrowded stable makes the ing themselves and performing with tell him the good news he set off on Judge aware that a baby king has been such confidence. a long journey to find the baby Jesus. born. Year 1 appeared as stars and Mattie Morrison gave a beautiful solo sheep and everyone danced and sang The Lion King rendition of the song ‘Sleepy Shep- with confidence. Year 2 covered a vast and Cordy Kight, the hyena hench- with vibrancy and enthusiasm and herd’ which brought a tear to the eye! array of characters, some children In March, Year 6 pupils presented men. Edie Waters and Jamie Pearce, as the performers and audience loved an outstanding performance of the Timon and Pumba encouraged Simba the songs and choreography, based musical ‘The Lion King’ and were to have the philosophy of ‘Hakuna on African dancing. Our Super Samba ably assisted by an enthusiastic Year Matata’ but Simba was brought to his group added African rhythms to 5 choir. Ruby Callaghan appeared as senses by the help of friends Nala, the songs using djembes and gourd Simba with Harrison Milner as King Zazu and Rafiki, played by Millie rattles. The 60-strong chorus per- Mufasa. Lily Cook was the wicked Scar Crummack, Toby Denton and Lucy formed with vibrancy and enthusiasm and Reece Grady, Zac Spencer Pickup Evans. The musical was performed throughout, appearing as animals of the Pridelands, the grasslands, as lion- esses and evil hyenas.

Seaside Spectacular Infant pupils presented ‘Down at the End of the Pier’ as their summer production. The story of a family on their summer holiday provided ample opportunity for story-telling, singing, dancing and lots of humour, includ- ing a Strictly Come Dancing ballroom final! Year 2 delivered the speaking roles with great confidence, whilst children from Reception and Year 1 showed off their dance moves and singing prowess.

Junior Music Concerts It was a busy and successful musical year in the Juniors with pupils dem- onstrating their musical and dramatic talents to their peers, their family and in the community. Our Harvest Festival was enlivened by several musical contributions. Woodwind Wonders and Stringstars joined forces to provide a rendition of ‘We Plough the Seeds and Scat- ter’ and our choirs combined to give

16 17 Performing Arts Performing Arts a foot-tapping rendition of ‘Harvest the events of Holy Week in words were represented and there were Herbie Hancock’s ‘Chameleon’ with This included some serious music Samba’ accompanied by our very own and song. They sang with great com- many highlights during the week as the world premiere of the outstand- making but featured a tribute to Mrs Super Samba. mitment and their energetic actions the children were well-prepared, con- ing GCSE composition by Alex Clarke Pyatt and Mrs Beesley, who are both The Carol Service at St Paul’s was a added greatly to the enjoyment of the fident and eager to perform. (pictured), entitled, after much delib- leaving this year, in that the theme beautiful occasion. Year 3 sang ‘Travel- service. Items were also performed by The Summer Concert brought eration, ‘Razzin’ It’ (it’s a saxophone for the fancy dress competition was ling’, Year 4 performed, ‘Follow the Stringstars and the Year 3 - 4 Choir. our musical year to a close with thing). Henry Strutt (viola, Y13) and ‘Legends.’ Some fabulously inventive Star’, Year 6 sang of the ‘Angels in the In May, Junior musicians per- items from all of the ensembles that Chloe Henshaw (violin, Y11) were costumes were seen, but the eventual Sky’, while the Year 3 - 4 Choir sang a formed at the Alderley Edge Music rehearse throughout the year. Wood- the featured soloists in the String winners were Sarah and Rachel Catlin, poignant song, ‘This Christmas Time’. Festival. The 22-strong Woodwind wind Wonders played a special tribute Orchestra’s performance of Grieg’s dressed hilariously as Mrs Pyatt and The Year 5 - 6 Choir and the choir Wonders performed ‘Yellow Bird’, to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday ‘Holberg Suite’ whilst Henry Reavey Mrs Beesley. It was a fitting tribute to of Year 5 pupils sang songs in three ‘Lavender Blue’ and the theme from which they had also performed at the (Y13) joined the Chamber Orchestra both of these amazing teachers. independent parts, thus instantly ful- ‘Wallace and Gromit’. They demon- street party in June and Year 6 class to perform Shostakovich’s ‘Second Aisling Day filling an end of KS2 requirement. strated their versatility in presenting winners performed expertly at what Piano Concerto’ (movements 2 & 3). Over 150 pupils were involved in music that expresses different moods. was for them, their final Junior musi- Playing from memory, Henry was just Senior Choirs the Junior Christmas Concert. Choirs, The adjudicator commented on their cal event. as at home in the lush lyricism of the instrumental and dance groups per- good sense of ensemble, their listen- second movement as he was in the King’s choirs had an exceptionally formed to an exceptional standard. ing skills and well-balanced sound. dazzling syncopation and changing busy year. Over the summer holidays, Senior Music Concerts The Year 5 - 6 Choir worked exceed- The 8 members of Stringstars metres of the third. It was a bravura four members of the Cambiata Group ingly hard to learn the beautiful Span- played a programme comprising the Once again, large-scale instrumental performance both by Henry and by (Sam Jones, Oliver Rushton, Dominic ish carol ‘La Nanita Nana’, performed folk tune ‘Dingle Regatta’, ‘Pizzicato concerts have highlighted the range the orchestra, led by Zarin Salehin with distinction. Corner and Sam Andresen) joined in Spanish, of course. Polka’ (which many a professional or- and depth of instrumental music- (Y12) and conducted by Mrs Beesley. The focus of the Spring Term was others from Cambiata North West to During the same week, perfor- chestra find tricky!) and ‘Londonderry making at King’s. November’s Autumn Once again, King’s Swings was the the wonderful ‘Holberg Suite’ by perform at an international choral mance in the local community was Air’, with a lovely cello solo from Concert included performances by perfect musical tonic for performers Grieg. This featured a variety of solo conference in Manchester where they the theme: 6ST visited Harry Lawson Thomas Bailey. King’s achieved first all our instrumental ensembles, from and audience members alike. This an- opportunities, with Chloe Henshaw received a standing ovation. Court to entertain the residents; 6JEB place and a silver cup in both classes, the flute and clarinet ensembles to nual highlight of the musical calendar (violin) and Henry Strutt (viola) In September, the Foundation sang at the opening of the Maccles- which was definitely well-deserved. the Chamber Orchestra and Big Band. featured full sets from both the Jazz mastering the difficult solos in the Choir was requested to sing at the field Christmas Tree Festival and, at There were 120 entries in the The String Orchestra, expertly di- Band and the Big Band with memo- final movement and a lovely cello Civic Service celebrating the appoint- the request of the Mayor of Maccles- Junior Music Festival this year which rected by Mrs Beesley, gave a stunning rable solos not only from individuals and bass quartet (played by Rachel ment of the new Mayor of Cheshire field, a Year 5 choir sang at the Hospi- made for four busy mornings. Adjudi- performance of Bach’s ‘Brandenburg new to the bands but also from those Catlin, Aisling Day, Frances Laker and East, Hilda Gaddum. In December, tal Carol Service at St Luke’s Chapel. cation was provided by Senior Music Concerto no. 4’. Zoe Richmond and playing with them for the last time. Sarah Catlin) in the slow movement. the choir was invited once again to The Festival of Easter was cel- staff and much praise and helpful Helen Lyons (Y13) played the concer- We performed this piece both at the join the Northern Chamber Orches- ebrated with a service at St Paul’s comment was offered to the children. tino flute parts with style and grace, lunchtime ‘Music at Mike’s’ recital and tra for their December concert at String Orchestra Church. Years 3 and 4 led us through All the musical families of instruments whilst Georgina Bloomfield (Y8) at the Spring Instrumental Concert the Heritage Centre where they sang played the fiendishly difficult violin This has been another amazing year and received glowing feedback. a range of Christmas music from solo lines exquisitely. The concert also for the String Orchestra, which is As always, the highlight of this year medieval to modern times, culminat- included a world premiere, with the made up of players of all standards, was the intensive, but immensely so- ing in a spine-tingling close harmony Brass Group performing Mr Brown’s from relative beginners to Grade 8 ciable, rehearsal weekend at Triganos. arrangement of ‘Have Yourself a ‘We Wish You a Merry Jazzed-Up Christmas’ to tumultuous applause. In March, the Big Band (pictured right), led by Mr Dearden, participated in a national concert organised by the Merchant Taylors’ Company at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Such events are a fantastic opportunity to join together with other schools. Our Big Band was the toast of the even- ing with a stunning performance that kept the audience on the edge of their seats and featured some fantas- tic solos from Alex Clarke (Y11), Olly Macfadyen, Henry Reavey, Tom Voysey and Will Fox (Y13). In April, the Spring Instrumental Concert featured a huge range of ensembles performing at an excep- tionally high level. Highlights included the Jazz Band’s performance of three different numbers, each piece featur- ing a different pianist. Ben Sneddon and Sam Rosser (Y8) made their de- buts on piano, joining Nancy Xia (Y11) to form a hugely talented triumvirate of piano/bass players. The Big Band paired a storming performance of

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Merry Little Christmas’. The end of two pieces from Chilcott’s witty set- in their pyjamas! The boys evidently In the summer term, the Lower from Henry Strutt and Ellie McKenna, Foundation Choir Prague Tour term carol services featured all three ting of ‘Aesop’s Fables’, accompanied had a great time too, including an School Music Competition (a House was enthusiastically received by a large King’s choirs, with the Songbirds and by Mr Dalgleish. King’s Sings also evening stroll by the sea. competition masterminded by Mrs In July, 40 members of the Founda- local audience. Cambiata Group giving effervescent included a final performance from The choirs met again on Sunday Pyatt) saw soloists and ensembles tion Choir enjoyed a fantastic five-day On the final day, our brave choris- performances of Britten’s ‘This Little the Barbershop Quartet. Now in Y13, morning to experience a couple of from Years7-9 perform in front of tour to Prague. Performances included ters gave several impromptu perfor- Babe’ and ‘The Huron Carol’ respec- Messrs. Strutt, Fox, Reavey and Jacot hours of fun at the Kendal Climbing their peers. A number of students an early-evening concert in the art mances of different pieces in public tively. are a hugely talented and entertaining Wall, before journeying to Cartmel. were then invited to perform again as nouveau central hall in the spa town places (Charles Bridge, various train The Spring and Summer terms saw quartet who will, we hope, continue The singers were delighted to be met part of the Lower School Competition of Mšené-lázne just outside Prague stations), which was an awesome both the Songbirds and the Cambiata to sing together and who have cer- in the Priory by a wonderful audience Soirée. Once again the range of per- and a lunchtime mass in the Church of experience. groups singing away from home. Fol- tainly started a tradition here at King’s of families, friends and local people, formances was outstanding, includ- Our Lady in Týn, a huge 14th century IJC lowing their stunning success at the that others will continue. who enjoyed an uplifting concert of ing memorable solo performances Gothic church whose twin spires Alderley Edge Music Festival last year, Staff and students have worked choral music and instrumental solos. by Georgina Bloomfield (violin) and dominate the Old Town skyline. It has Poets & Players the Songbirds, conducted by Mrs tirelessly to make music in a wide A sincere and massive thank you Isaac Salisbury (drums), a hugely one of the finest acoustics in Europe Beesley, mounted a robust defence range of further settings. The String goes to Mrs Beesley, Mrs Pyatt, Mrs entertaining performance of Rossini’s and its pipe organ is the oldest in Pupils delighted a packed Main Hall of their title and came an excellent Orchestra continued to enjoy resi- Barratt and Mr Crawford, who year ‘Duetto Buffo di due Gatti’ (or ‘Cats’ Prague, dating from 1673 and tuned with their own original compositions second. The Cambiata Group again dential weekends away at Ilham Hall after year make this trip possible Duet’) by Emily Friston and Mila to a Werckmeister (III) temperament. including classical quartets, modern took part in workshops and a concert (November) and Trigonos (March), and even more special than the one Waseem and fantastic, peer-directed After singing Rachmaninov, Tallis and guitar solos and comic studies, during with Cambiata North West whose whilst our annual series of lunchtime before. performances by groups from two Duruflé during Mass, we then per- a night of poetry and music master- final performance (nearly 200 sing- concerts at St Michael’s, ‘Music at Daisy and Madeline Holden Year 7 forms: 7SMP (‘Let Her Go’) and formed a short recital of choral works minded by English teacher Samantha ers) broke the UK record for the Mike’s’ continued to showcase the 7JAIH (‘Seven Years’). In total, the by Mozart and Maxwell-Davies plus Quinn. The event showcased pupils’ largest singing group made up of very best of King’s music (including competition lasted over three weeks Pachelbel’s ‘Choral-Partita’, dazzlingly immense creative instincts with musi- Senior Music Competitions boys whose voices are changing. In Y7 Boys & Friends, masterminded and was a magnificent celebration of played on the organ by Mr Dalgleish. cal performances from Henry Reavey, May, the Lower School Choirs Tour to brilliantly by Mrs. Barratt). We enjoyed two music competitions lower school music making. Our final recital of the tour was at Olivia Hamblyn, Blake Richardson, Blackpool and Cartmel (King’s 10th) this year. In the Spring Term, all musi- This year we are saying goodbye to the Church of the Holy Saviour, just Zarin Salehin, Henry Strutt, Will Fox once more combined rollercoasters, cians in Y10 upwards were invited to staff (please see Hail & Farewell) and round the corner from the Old Town and John Daly as well as poetic recit- Cartmel Priory Tour climbing walls, a concert at Cartmel come and play/sing as part of a series pupils who have given everything to Square. Music sung earlier in the week, als of works from boys in Years 8 and Priory and copious amounts of sugar In May, the Songbirds and the Cam- of informal heats. Ten students were King’s Music; they leave us with our combined with further choral works 9. The event also raised over £200 for to outstanding effect. biata choirs enjoyed an action-packed then invited to play in an informal heartfelt thanks and best wishes for by Mendelssohn, Rutter, Chilcott and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust charity. At the end of term, King’s Sings weekend that culminated in a per- evening concert with a prize on offer everything they do in the future. Bernstein, plus two solo performances once again showcased all three King’s formance for a supportive audience for the best performance. Our exter- IJC choirs performing a mix of sacred in the beautiful ancient Priory in nal adjudicator this year was David and secular works. Highlights in- Cartmel. Francis, Head of Academic Music at cluded the Songbirds’ performance The weekend started with a visit Manchester Grammar School. Mr of Stanford’s ‘The Blue Bird’, ac- to the Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Francis was hugely complimentary companied by Mrs Pyatt and with a a dizzying few hours flying round the about each of the performances and beautifully clear solo sung by Geor- theme park. The choirs then went gave each student detailed, consid- gina Bergman, a poignant ‘Daydream their separate ways, to stay at youth ered feedback. The competition was Believer’ from the Cambiata Group hostels in Windermere and Arnside. fierce, but on the day, the prize was accompanied by Mrs Barratt, and the The girls’ evening rehearsal consisted awarded to Will Fox (Y13) for his en- Foundation Choir’s performance of of singing on the steps of the hostel ergised, risk-taking performance.

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Les Misérables Victor Hugo’s epic tale of unre- and as a woman by Olivia Hamblyn. a crucial opportunity to avoid being sign of Danni Vickerstaff, Head of quited love and compulsive hatred, Her encounters with both the steely fatally re-arrested. Lighting at The New Vic Theatre, Les Misérables, was given a glorious eyed Ben Lynch and the heroic, Whilst the named parts undoubt- Newcastle-under-Lyme, gave us a technicolour treatment by King’s handsome victim of happenstance edly ensured that the story of the wonderfully textured palette that actors and musicians in our biggest- Henry Reavey reached out to every piece was communicated clearly helped throughout in enhancing the ever single production. emotion. and dynamically, the chorus of some moods and atmospheres of the ac- The stage and cinema classic of- As Cosette’s lover Marius, pain- 20 lower school boys and girls was tion, as did the collection of period fers a succession of tense, tear jerk- fully torn between love and revo- what underpinned this clarity. The costumes and a set designed and ing moments, spectacular tableaux lution, Aarian Mehrabani gave a months of thorough and at times constructed by The Debbies Threl- and rousing calls to action and performance full of commitment gruelling ensemble rehearsals was fall and Inman, Tina Campbell and demands touching humility, dour and passion. The flood of tears was truly reflected in a highly cohesive site-staff crew Lee Beaden and Peter courage and overweening exuber- compounded by Madeleine Phil- and wonderfully focused delivery of Jackson. Lights, sound, costumes ance from its players. lip’s performance as Eponine. She such well-known numbers as ‘At the were all enthusiastically enabled by We began our exciting and ambi- maturely and movingly portrayed a End of the Day’ and ‘The People’s a dedicated back-stage crew, care- tious journey back in June 2015 young woman desperately and self- Song’. fully corralled by Adam Garnett. with musical and acting auditions. lessly in love with the unattainable Under the up-beat leadership of DAF Eight months later Les Misérables Marius. Ian Crawford, strings, brass, wood- was successfully performed over Emma Maxwell and Dominic wind and percussion all combined four nights to packed and tremen- Corner both contributed hilariously gloriously to deliver a colourfully dously appreciative audiences, hav- and menacingly as Madame and tricky score. ing doggedly and defiantly negoti- Monsieur Thénardier, the husband The professional lighting de- ated the inevitable challenges such and wife landlords only ever out for a venture conjures up. There had their own self-gain. Their dynamic, been much to juggle: songs to be duetic energy and musicianship, learnt and indeed re-learnt; many supported by a highly focused and of them were so well known and in- engaged chorus, drove the show- grained, they had to be wiped clean stopping number ‘Master of the and re-interpreted within the con- House’ to sublime levels of exuber- text of the whole story in order to ance and humour. Sam Jones and avoid the temptation of simply cre- Oliver Rushton, sharing the role ating an evening of very hummable of the young revolutionary Gavro- tunes, without allowing those tunes che, perfectly found the balance of to honestly and powerfully tell the cheek and juvenile bravery in their story of each character as well as scenes on ‘the barricade’. They were the historical moment of which they supported by an ensemble of fiery are part. There was a great deal of revolutionaries - Sam Andresen as technical choreographic exactness leader Enjolras with Harry Wal- to master individually and as an lace, Kieran Cullen, Zak Al-Faham, ensemble. Each and every member Charlotte Abbott and Henry Strutt of the cast and backstage/technical as Bamatabois. The latter deserves team committed themselves whole- special mention for also delivering heartedly to the process. with poise and authority the role of The King’s production proved to the Bishop, whose altruistic gesture be memorable on all counts with a at the start of the tale, allows Valjean cast of 42 young actors from both the Senior Divisions and Sixth Form together with an orchestra of 18 players working hard to perfect the spectacle each night. With star performers Henry Reavey playing the humanitarian Jean Valjean; Ben Lynch the re- pressed Javert and the tragic Fantine played by Ellie McKenna, it was a cast that inspired, engaged and en- thused its audience, the actors mov- ing skillfully between the extremes of the dramatic narrative to give convincing, heart-rending perfor- mances, drawing both sympathy and disgust from those watching. At the heart was Cosette played in her younger days by Fiona Beeston

22 23 Academic Academic Highlights Highlights Spotlight on Infant & Junior Science Week

Our Learning Challenge Curriculum from Dr Rajendran and his colleague portance of mixing the right amounts aims to make learning more engaging, helped teach the children about the of ingredients in our medicines and to promote reasoning and problem- work of a Consultant Microbiolo- why we have to take them in modera- solving, to develop critical reasoning gist & Infection Control Doctor and tion. Finally, Ms Nutter talked to the and provide opportunities for enrich- explained about micro-organisms and children about her role developing ment and independent enquiry. ways in which to stay healthy. All chil- drugs at Astra Zeneca. She talked To this end, Infant and Junior dren had the opportunity to see how about the production of drugs and children enjoyed a wonderful week of clean their hands were using a special the bacteria that can be passed on in spectacular science during our enrich- machine, learning the importance of an unsterile environment. Pupils put ment focus week in January. “Science good handwashing. A special torch on the protective clothes worn by rocks!” was the universal opinion of also showed us germs all around the scientists to prevent contamination of our infants and juniors at the end of classroom! Dr Vital talked to the chil- their environment, and learned what the week, which saw all curriculum dren about their bodies. The children germs look like under a microscope. areas embrace exciting activities, talks made stomachs and watched how Using Petri dishes containing agar, and experiments. food is digested and listened to each pupils placed a fingerprint in the dish other’s hearts through real stetho- to see which germs would grow over Infants’ Awe and Wonder scopes. the following week. In addition, Year Reception pupils had the opportunity 5 pupils performed experiments to to investigate ice, magnets, bub- Juniors’ Thrilling Investigations find out about air pressure, gasses, bles and to create fossils. A local vet In Year 3, pupils were visited by Mr mould growth on old food, levers, and her nurse came in to talk about Dawson who taught them about the pulleys and gears. looking after our pets, plus Dr Oliver production of vaccines and how many The ‘Science Boffins’ assembly was came in to show the children where of them are developed within chicken a real highlight of the week. Children our heart and lungs sit in our bodies eggs. Some children were given the from Reception upwards participated and answer lots of very interesting chance to dress in the laboratory in the assembly which provided the questions. Pupils also enjoyed a talk overalls that are needed to ensure opportunity to witness and take part by dentist Mr Hannah about looking that everything is kept sterile. Fur- in a variety of experiments involving after their teeth. The children consid- thermore, Dr Williams and Mrs Oliver- mixing household chemicals, toilet ered ‘What is Science?’ and thought Williams introduced the children to roll and leaf blowers amongst other about what they may like to do when ‘What is snot?’ The children explored things! they grow up. the anatomy of the nose and how it Year 6 enjoyed a series of ‘Flashes Year 2 children started the week is connected to the throat and ears. & Bangs’ shows led by Mr Street, with a paper airplane competition, Through experiments they learned Head of Science. The children par- then advanced to making paper about the effect of smell on taste and ticipated in demonstrations involving helicopters and a balloon rocket. One how germs spread via sneezing. They rocket launching, mixing chemicals to of the children’s favourite activities also know how to stop a nose bleed! create light and sound, freezing flow- was designing and making a monster In Year 5, three parents came in to ers and bananas with liquid nitrogen which then, with the help of some talk to us about their jobs. Mrs Cas- and creating giant bubbles. vinegar, washing up liquid and bak- son taught the children all about the A fantastic and enriching time was ing powder, foamed at the mouth. ‘Square Kilometre Array’ project in had by all and I am sure that we will Another highlight was watching Mr which she is involved. The SKA forms have inspired some budding scientists Wallwork with a bottle of coke and a a part of a massive telescope that of the future. packet of Mentos: the two combine will be placed in the desert to help CJHM to explode instantly. The children scientists search for signs of life in made patterns on filter paper with felt outer space. Mrs Boothman talked to tip pens and then added water and pupils about her job as a pharmacist, watched their designs spread. A visit explaining about her role and the im-

24 25 Academic Academic Highlights Highlights ChemistrySpotlight on A weekly highlight in the Chemistry ing Chemistry and related degree at university. Eleanor Toms excelled Flashes & Bangs Department is undoubtedly Friday courses, such as Biochemistry and in achieving a Gold award, with the King’s very own Senior Science primary schools, ably assisted lunchtime when numerous excited Chemical Engineering at university. other entrants gaining Silver or Cop- Technician, Peter Jackson and Jim by Becky Williams and Sixth and enthusiastic pupils arrive for The well-resourced department al- per awards. Street, Head of Science, delivered Form students. The younger the next exhilarating instalment of lows our A Level students to familiar- Younger pupils also participated the Flashes & Bangs demonstration pupils enjoy making their own Chemistry Club. In their opinion, the ise themselves with procedures and in external Chemistry competitions at Chemquiz 2016; just one of the key rings from polymorph and louder the bang and the brighter the equipment that they might meet in an hosted by the University of Manches- stops on their annual tour! Around watching the methane and flash, the better! The club is student- undergraduate lab. ter. In June, pupils from Years 7 and 30 schools watched the show, with oxygen-filled rockets fly across led and attendees come up with Sixth Form students successfully 8 took part in the Salters’ Festival of the highlight being Jim setting fire to the room. Such is the success of their own ideas for investigation. extend their knowledge and under- Chemistry, which involved a competi- methane-filled soap bubbles on Pe- the King’s Flashes & Bangs Show Highlights have been the perfection standing beyond the confines of the tive practical activity, a practical inves- ter’s head. Next stop on the Flashes & that we have been invited to de- of the largest possible ammonium A Level specification by participating tigation chosen by the University and Bangs tour was the Barnaby Festival, liver the prestigious Royal Society dichromate volcano and making our in external competitions. In February, a fun demonstration lecture on solids, at which King’s was given its own per- of Chemistry Ernest Worthington own indoor fireworks. a group of Year 13 students com- liquids and gases. Pupils from Years formance tent to deliver two shows to Memorial Christmas Lecture, Dr Becky Williams (pictured) pleted the RSC Chemistry Olympiad, 8 – 10 also competed in Chemquiz the public. The audience particularly which will be attended by schools joined the department this year and a two-hour paper requiring students 2016, an annual event sponsored by enjoyed watching the home-made from across the North West. has already contributed a great deal, to apply their analytical and math- BASF, which allows students to com- bazookas fire tennis balls 150 feet ver- LCW including establishing our own Twit- ematical skills to novel, yet highly plete chemical quizzes, laboratory tically upwards, and the spooky effect ter feed to showcase the experiments relevant Chemistry problems. This exercises, multimedia competitions of pouring liquid nitrogen into a bowl carried out at both Chemistry and year, students achieved one Bronze and attend a Flashes & Bangs demon- of hot water and watching the vapour Science Club. award, five Silver awards and, for stration. spread over the surrounding grass. Practical experiments are at the Dmitri Whitmore, a highly coveted Jim Street also took the Flashes heart of our daily teaching in order Gold award. & Bangs Show to a number of local to stimulate and engage pupils’ Year 12 students completed the learning. Balancing a chemical equa- equally testing Cambridge Chemistry tion comes to life when students try Challenge, a paper designed to take to fill a drinks bottle with methane Lower Sixth students significantly and oxygen in the correct ratio for beyond their course specification complete combustion. and to encourage them to think Chemistry is a popular subject at about Science in the way they would A Level, with many students study-

26 27 Academic Academic Highlights Highlights Spotlight on History

This year saw something of a revolu- history magazine. Pupils in Years 7-9 Years 10-13, the lectures provided Dachau Concentration Camp and tion occur in King’s History depart- enthusiastically entered the Anniver- the opportunity to discuss ideas with experienced a tightly packed walk- ment, as new syllabi were introduced, sary Poster Competition, in which academics, which not only enhanced ing tour of Munich, as well as taking allowing for a fresh emphasis to be they had to design a poster to com- understanding of subject areas, but in numerous other sights along the placed upon the way the subject is memorate a particularly noteworthy also gave students an insight into way. As a consequence of changes to taught, especially at A Level. A large event. Many entries were submitted, university education. the curriculum next academic year, number of innovative techniques have with the winning designs coming The long-running Munich trip this was the last time for this trip, but been trialled within the department, from Jack Phillpotts (7SMP) and departed in October, with a group the department is already planning a with the aim of increasing pupils’ level Grace Harrison (9GRM). of Year 11 students visiting vari- replacement venture. of engagement with the subject and The Macclesfield Reflects project ous sites of particular relevance to GRB ensuring that they do not simply be- was a partnership between the His- their GCSE course. Pupils visited come passive observers of the subject tory Department and the local com- the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, and the world around them. The em- munity and was incredibly successful. phasis has always been placed upon It involved a group of Year 9 students higher-order thinking skills and it is (pictured below) visiting Macclesfield fair to say that the traditional task of Library to use original sources to re- simply making notes is not one which search the stories of a number of con- has been seen in a History classroom scientious objectors from World War this year. Our methods have received 1 who lived in the Macclesfield area. a great deal of positive attention This project taught those involved through our Twitter feed (@KingsMa- some valuable historical skills and cHistory) from a number of educa- provided them with a local context to tors within this country and abroad, their classroom studies. and we have recently been invited to The flagship offering by the depart- contribute to a blog on teaching and ment this year has been the History learning techniques. Forum, a series of lectures delivered Allied to this approach, we have by leading figures from the Universi- successfully expanded pupils’ involve- ties of Leeds, Lancaster, Manchester ment with the subject outside the and Edge Hill. Attended by pupils in classroom and have introduced a number of competitions throughout the school. Year 13 students had the opportunity to enter the Counterfac- tual History Essay Competition, which was eventually won by Rosana Wardle for her piece on what might have hap- pened if the two World Wars had not occurred. All 27 Year 12 historians en- tered the King’s History Essay Compe- tition, in which students researched and wrote about a topic entirely of their choosing. The winning entry was submitted by Ellie Hopewell, who produced an outstanding piece on the treatment of mental health illnesses in the twentieth century. The entries have since been published by an editorial board of Year 12 students as the King’s Standard, a Sixth Form

28 Academic Academic Highlights Highlights Spotlight on Mathematics

The Mathematics department at Certificate in Further Mathematics. resentative Jonathan Blackburn, who candidates reach this level and there King’s has seen multiple changes This places an emphasis on higher took on our top player in a very com- are subsequent rounds leading to an in recent years, with a new GCSE order technical proficiency, rigorous petitive game of speed Chess. eventual National Champion. course underway and a new A Level argument and problem-solving skills. Three challenges take place each course starting in September 2017. The course has been very successful UKMT Challenges year: Senior, Intermediate and Junior The department has come together in better preparing our students for A large number of King’s students with around 100-150 King’s pupils to tackle all challenges head-on and the level of Mathematics covered at participate each year in the Math- involved in each event. ensure a student-focussed provision A Level as well as supporting their ematic Challenges run by the UK We had great successes this year in remains at the forefront of all that GCSE Mathematics. Again, results Mathematics Trust. These challenges every age group. In the Senior Chal- we do. Whether it be stretching our are outstanding with 87% at A*/A this involve a large amount of problem- lenge, King’s students were awarded London. Dmitri and Matt managed to most able mathematicians or sup- year. solving and mental arithmetic. Taken 6 Gold, 24 Silver and 14 Bronze score an unprecedented 100% in the Bronze awards. porting those who find the subject We have had many successes to by school pupils across the country, awards. Our Senior team of four Senior Challenge, a first for any King’s In the Junior Challenge we challenging, we endeavour to enthuse celebrate in recent times with a large the difficulty of the papers is always (pictured) comprising Ben Lynch, student. Dmitri, Matt and James Sher- achieved 13 Gold, 23 Silver and 26 our young mathematicians to enjoy number of high achievers in the UK very high. Those who perform very Matt Harden, Eleanor Toms and ing also qualified to take part in the Bronze awards. A special mention the subject and investigate further Mathematics Trust Challenges. At this well are graded with certificates rang- Dmitri Whitmore, won the Manches- British Maths Olympiad. goes to Rowan Sutton, who qualified beyond the confines of the curricu- year’s event, our Senior Team won ing from Bronze to Gold. The highest ter regional heat, overcoming stiff In the Intermediate Challenge we for Junior British Maths Olympiad. lum. This is evidenced with the high the Manchester regional heat and accolade possible for each challenge competition from the top attaining achieved 14 Gold, 38 Silver and 44 SFM level of achievement in examination went on to compete in the national is to qualify for the British Maths schools in the North West. They went results, including averaging over 80% final in London. In recent years our Olympiad; the standard for this is on to compete in the national final in A*-B at both GCSE and A Level. On teams have also won the FMSP (Fur- exceptionally high. Only the very best top of this, several students have ther Maths Support Programme) Year gone on to study Mathematics at top 10 Challenge and the National Cipher universities including three offers Challenge amongst others. from Cambridge, a testimony to the The department continues to quality of the provision on offer for offer extracurricular opportuni- pupils. ties either directly within Teaching within the department Mathematics or within continues to develop in support of linked areas. Highlights the school’s vision to promote King’s this year include an in- Learning Habits. Last year the depart- ter-house Maths Team ment invited Mathematics specialist Challenge, STEM and published author, Richard Per- Club which saw ring, to spend time with staff dis- teams of students cussing ideas to further incorporate taking part in the the Learning Habits into our teach- Roller Coaster ing. Since then the department has Challenge, as well continued to develop new resource as Maths Enrich- banks to encourage the Learning ment Club and Habits as well as to promote variety, Card Club. Chess student engagement and more teach- Club continues ing by conceptual understanding, to thrive, and alongside traditional Mathematics recently the teaching. players were As has been the case for many visited by years, we continue to look for op- previous portunities to stretch our students. Wales rep- Whether it be through classroom ex- tension work, problem-solving tasks or external competitions we are keen to push our students to develop their understanding of Mathematics and become more aware of the variety of scenarios in which their skills can be applied. For our top GCSE set in both the Girls’ and Boys’ Divisions, we have introduced the AQA Level 2

30 31 Academic Academic Highlights Highlights SpanishSpotlight on

This year has been a brilliant year for tomb, and in theory a monument to Houghton led a fascinating trip to the liam Shakespeare. Dragon bookmarks Learning’s first ever ‘Poetry Out Loud’ the Spanish department with a huge all those who fell during the Spanish Roman Theatre at Cartagena and we were made in the Boys’ Division and competition at Bolton School. The range of activities and events taking Civil War. Both staff and students were visited the cathedral to see the floats red roses were crafted and shared by girls had to learn selected place including National Poetry Day affected by the visit, and it gave some being prepared for the Holy Week the girls (pictured). Year 9 Spanish poems by heart and recite celebrations, the annual MFL Debat- insight into the issues connected to Easter celebrations. The highlight for students joined the members of Span- them in Spanish before a ing Competition and our new Portu- this period of Spanish history that are the students was the afternoon water ish Club in the Juniors to read ‘La panel of judges. Whilst we guese Club amongst others. still to be resolved. sports activities - which included Oruga Muy Hambrienta’ (‘The Very did not win on this, our February saw the Sixth Form Span- In March, students in Years 9 - 11 sailing and kayaking in the sea – most Hungry Caterpillar’) together and first attempt, the girls were ish students head away to Madrid had the opportunity to visit a very dif- probably as these gave them the share their love of Spanish. fantastic competitors and with some of our Sixth Form Art ferent part of Spain – Murcia. A group chance to try and get the teachers In June, Katie Kitchen and Tasia we look forward to aiming students accompanied by Mr Seth, of 35 eager boys and girls (pictured) overboard. The trip was a great suc- Osborne from the Girls’ Division for future success in this Miss Connaughton and Miss Inman. enjoyed a trip to soak up the language cess and we look forward to running represented the Spanish Depart- competition. Visits to the Prado, the Thyssen- and culture of this delightful part it again next year. ment in the Association for Language SEJ Bornemisza and Reína Sofia museums of sunny Spain. Activities included Other highlights include the whole afforded pupils the chance to see traditional beach games, football with school celebration of Sant Jordi Day culturally significant works of art such the locals, a Salsa lesson from Leti- which happens to coincide with the as ‘Guernica’, Goya’s Black Paintings, cia, our Spanish group leader, and a anniversaries of the deaths of great Velazquez’s masterpieces, as well as a tapas tasting at a local restaurant. Mr writers, Miguel de Cervantes and Wil- host of other well-known pieces. After the whole group visited the ornate Palacio Real, the Spanish students visited another palace – that of Real Madrid’s Estadio Bernabéu. A lazy stroll in the Retiro and opportunities for shopping in Madrid’s well known shops were also on offer. No visit to Madrid is complete without a chance to see Real Madrid in action, and whilst it wasn’t in the actual stadium itself, watching them thoroughly trounce Roma away that evening was satisfying enough. The pupils’ perfor- mance in the Spanish/Art themed pub quiz was not quite as impressive! The final day was spent in the disturb- ing surroundings of the Valle de los Caídos. This is Francisco Franco’s

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the Spectacled Bear: they were told Gauntlet Birds of Prey that it was very rare to see him out In November, Year 1 children were and so visible. Towards the end of treated to a wonderful display of owls the day, the children were amazed at and birds of prey given by The Gaunt- the size of Darwin, the aptly named Events & let Birds of Prey Centre. The children Galapagos Giant Tortoise. saw the owls flying around the hall and some were able to catch the owls whilst wearing a special leather glove. Visit to a Gurdwara Everyone learnt some fascinating new facts about owls’ senses of sight, hear- Year 2 studied the culture, geography Activities ing, touch, taste and smell. and religion of India and were fortu- nate to be invited to visit a Sikh Tem- ple, known as a Gurdwara, in Stoke- on-Trent. Before setting off, pupils Visit to The Heritage Centre looked at a beautiful Sikh wedding Forest School Reception Trip to Manchester Year 2 visited the Heritage Centre dress, photographs of the Golden Reception children experienced a Reception had a very exciting day in Macclesfield to understand more found it was shocking to imagine that Temple in Amritsar and also learned full day of Forest School activities in at Manchester Museum, their main about the Victorian era. They walked young children used to work there. more about the Sikh religion. At the our beautiful Gingko Meadow. The aim being to see the real T-Rex. The across the town, including climbing The children also enjoyed designing Gurdwara they observed a blessing children collected bugs to examine first point of call was the Vivarium up 108 steps, stopping to look at the a tile in the style of William Morris taking place, tasted a variety of deli- closely in their bug catchers, before and here pupils spotted poisonous weavers’ garrets on Paradise Street. and then using it to make a print. The cious food and learned about the 5 Ks releasing them into their natural habi- dart frogs, a green tree python and At the Heritage Centre, the children Mill’s staff were very impressed with tats. They explored leaves, looking other interesting amphibians and learnt how life was different for a the children’s knowledge of the era. at the vast variety of colours, shapes, reptiles. The children were encour- Victorian child living and working in sizes and smells. They moulded clay aged to remember information about Macclesfield during that time. They onto trees and created faces and ani- the life cycles of frogs and butterflies experienced first-hand what a Victo- Year 2 Visit to Chester Zoo mals and collected natural resources and how different they look as adults. rian school would have been like, and to add features and details. The chil- They then had a ‘hands-on’ dinosaur attempted to write with both slate As part of their Learning Challenge dren particularly enjoyed making stick experience, role-playing being real life and ink pens. The children learnt topic on Animal Classification and Ad- men from twigs after listening to the paleontologists, uncovering genuine how to weave using paper, string and aptation, Year 2 visited Chester Zoo. ‘Stick Man’ story earlier in the week. dinosaur bones and teeth. Finally, fabric. The children had a relaxing start as A highlight was roasting bananas and they visited the huge T-Rex, nick- Later in the term, Year 2 learned they travelled around the South East toasting marshmallows on a fire for named Stan, that all the children had about the history of silk in Maccles- Asian Islands in long boats searching afternoon snack. The children then been waiting to see – a very exciting field by taking a tour of Paradise Mill. for the elusive tigers and the orang- set off to build dens, climb trees and and busy day was enjoyed by all. They saw some of the machinery utans’ new homes. Next they saw the search for the nocturnal animals that working and heard about some of the capybara pups, born only a couple of were hidden in the meadow. different jobs which were done; they hours earlier. Another surprise was

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- the articles of faith - and other Sikh Roman Extravaganza traditions. All children sketched some of the artefacts and symbols that they The Great Goddesses Diana and Min- saw. The day was a very special way erva hosted a Roman Extravaganza for to deepen their understanding of the Year 4 pupils, during which they expe- Sikh religion. rienced Roman school, a visit to the temple where they submitted prayers and offerings and prepared vegetables Visit by Gen Kelsang Sangye for a traditional Roman soup. The To deepen Year 3’s study of Bud- time travellers modelled toga wear, dhism, staff invited the Buddhist tunics and army uniform. The pupils teacher, Gen Kelsang Sangye to attended the Chariot Races and a visit. They took part in a meditation Roman banquet of homemade soup, session, concentrating on relaxing flatbreads, grapes and dates. Follow- and listening to their breathing to ing this, the children designed and help produce a calm and pure mind. created their own chariots in their Sangye read the story of ‘Angulimala D&T lessons (see page 7). and the Necklace of Fingers!’ from a Buddhist teaching on how to gain Year 5 French Trip peace. They watched as Sangye dem- onstrated one of the offering rituals A sizeable party of pupils in Year 5 en- and understood how trying to have joyed a fabulous 5-day trip to Le Châ- only positive thoughts can help us be teau du Broutel in Picardie, Northern happy. France. Activities included visiting Mersey for imports and exports such the town centres of Étaples for the Vikings for a day as sugar, tobacco, tea and cotton weekly market, Abbeville to interview Year 3 Trip to Liverpool which came from America, India and Year 4 spent a day at the Viking Village passers-by and the beautiful town of In May, Year 3 visited the city of China. At the Pier Head they boarded near York. The children donned a Vi- Rue to visit a pâtisserie and choose Liverpool as part of their topic which a ferry to enjoy a 50-minute excursion king dress or tunic and were divided their favourite cake. All the children asked, ‘Why is the Mersey important across the river and listened to the fa- into ‘families’ with a ‘mother’ and ‘fa- tried their hand at pétanque and mak- to Liverpool?’ They spent the morn- mous song, ‘Ferry ’cross the Mersey’. ther’; mothers wore aprons and held ing la mayonnaise à la Française and ing at the Museum of Liverpool which The ferry ride gave a wonderful view the keys to the family money box. most were brave enough to try some included a session about ‘Liverpool: of the impressive buildings along the The accompanying adults became snail pâté after a trip to the local snail Gateway to the World.’ They learned riverside, which inspired some super Saxon slaves for the day. The children farm. A highlight of the trip came dur- about the importance of the River art work back at school. then learned how Vikings lived very ing our memorable day visiting the WWI battlefields of the Somme. At the Thiepval Memorial, pupil Christian

different lifestyles - they were not only raiders but also traders, settlers, farmers and craftspeople. After looking at a large cross sec- tion of a Viking ship, they entered the Viking village and each family went off to begin their Viking life. The children trained as village guards, car- ried out household chores including collecting wood and grinding grain (hence the ‘daily grind’), hoed the fields and made small pots for burn- ing oil. Lunchtime was in the Lord’s hall and lunch was accompanied by volunteers telling jokes, dancing and entertaining the Lord. At the end of a busy day of chores, the children gathered in the Longhouse to reflect on how their own home compared to the Viking houses and how the Vikings, although they couldn’t read or write, had been clever enough to make their own houses, boats, and grow their food.

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Tattum found the location of a lost The children were shown around by to learn first-hand about Formby’s quite the opposite. relative in the directory of the 73,000 two very knowledgeable wardens who fast-eroding coastline and its delicate In the Autumn term, the House soldiers whose names are inscribed provided a detailed tour of the many ecosystems. team joined forces with King’s Char- on the breath-taking monument. tunnels, the canteen, the medical cen- Pupils learned about all the differ- ity Committee and organised a Bake tre where you could also listen to the ent plants and various zones on the Off like no other, to raise money for wireless, the bunk beds and the Chief sand dunes as well as about wave ero- Macmillan Cancer Research. Each Stargazing at Jodrell Bank Warden’s office. sion, seeing where experts think the House was set the task of organising Year 5 children visited Jodrell Bank as The children experienced a total high tide line will be in 25 years’ time. and running a cake stall in the Hall part of their Learning Challenge topic ‘blackout’ and how they could lift up Walking north along the beach, at lunchtime. The night before the about the earth and beyond. The their spirits by singing popular songs pupils collected razor clams, cockle event, students were busily beat- children learned about the stars at from the era: ‘Run, Rabbit Run’ and shells, whelk egg casings and ‘mer- ing batter, chopping chocolate and night, whilst in the planetarium they ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’. At the maids’ purses’. They also learnt about creaming icing for their cakes. The explored the solar system by taking museum, the children were taught how the caravan park was moved in stalls saw the arrival of cupcakes, a planet walk, and they visited the by the Billeting Officer, Mrs Hodkin- 1983 because of the fast erosion rate caramel shortcakes, fruit cakes and planet and star pavilions where there son and her helper Mrs Grundy, the (of around 3-4 metres per year) and scones to name a few… with no were many interactive displays to ex- many jobs that would make them a how old Christmas trees are buried soggy bottoms to be seen. There was plore. A highlight was the Mars Rover useful asset to their new family once in the sand in places where there has a real buzz around the school and Challenge: given only two balloons, they had been selected at the Town been a blowout in order to re-estab- each House ‘rose’ to the challenge in sellotape, a straw and a few pieces Hall. The children practised putting lish the dunes. Pupils also saw an arti- true King’s fashion. of paper, the children had to design on their gas masks and doing chores ficial pond which was a habitat for the In conjunction with National Poetry something that would safely land an such as washing clothes, ironing, Natterjack toad, under threat because Day, our girls set to writing their own egg on Mars (in reality the floor – making rag rugs, beating the carpet larger common frogs eat their eggs. verses on the theme of ‘Light’. It was from the top of a set of ladders). A and their abilities. bles’, dressed in authentic 1940s-style and using a range of cooking utensils. no surprise that their entries were of couple of broken eggs were all part The final morning of sport saw costumes and spent the day at the Air an impressive standard. The star poet Senior House Activities of the fun. The children returned to our teams compete in The Jersey Raid Shelter and Museum as part of of this House competition was un- Year 6 Formby Trip school with a more in-depth knowl- Games, playing in a tournament a Learning Challenge topic on World This year’s Girls’ Division House doubtedly Sophie Vlissidis; her poem edge of our Solar System and an ap- format against several other English War II. Year 6 pupils went to Formby Point as events have not disappointed and was beautifully crafted and demon- preciation of the world’s third largest schools and Jersey teams. All received part of their Learning Challenge fo- have shone a light on the ‘close- strated superb technical skill. telescope on their doorstep. medals for their participation: one cus: “How do natural and man-made family’ feel we have in the Division. Christmas came early at the Girls’ of our girls’ teams was very proud to changes affect the world around us?” This is not to say however that our Division as 40 students from all year win the event and receive the trophy, On the exciting trip, pupils were able girls are devoid of competitive spirit: groups battled through rounds of Jersey Sports Tour after winning an exciting final with a 42 Year 6 pupils undertook a Sports golden goal winner in extra time. Tour to the beautiful island of Jersey Excursions included a trip to the over the Easter Break. The 5-day tour Gerald Durrell conservation zoo, an included football and netball coach- Aqua Centre, the beautiful Grev de ing clinics, a tournament and after- Lecq beach in the north of the island noon and evening excursions and and, of course, a Jersey ice-cream in activities. The sports coaching was the sun. of a high standard and all developed their skills in a positive atmosphere Stockport Air Raid Shelter amongst new friends. The children worked really hard and were com- In June, Year 6 pupils, staff and sev- mended on their attitude, behaviour eral parents ‘packed up their trou-

38 39 Events & Events & Activities Activities questions on the theme of Christmas high ropes course some 60m off the traditions in Spain, Germany and ground tested the nerves of even the France. The girls thoroughly enjoyed most confident. learning about the different Christmas The following week we once again traditions and also enjoyed sampling ordered the bright and sunny weather European delicacies while engaging for the Year 12 trip. This time the their brains to work out answers. focus was on renewable energy and World Book Day arrived in March rivers, with a visit to a community- and King’s Girls celebrated their love owned wind farm in the hills above of reading with several events, includ- Llanwrst. The next day was spent ing a book-themed baking competi- studying the upper course of the tion. Many wonderful and inventive River Conwy, and once more pupils cakes were on display, and some girls worked into the evening before en- had clearly discovered their inner joying a Chinese meal out. The final Mary Berry. There were a range of day saw students in the water, this entries from each House creating a time braving the icy river for the high- variety of different scenes. Mrs Alsop octane activity of ‘Gorge Scrambling’ was on hand to judge the competi- as everybody journeyed up a river tion professionally, which was won gorge on foot. Everyone was soaked by Charlotte Smith, from Gawsworth. within the first five minutes of this ac- Her cake incorporated the special tivity which saw students scrambling piñata technique for a surprise filling. up waterfalls, squeezing under rock This year the House teams have overhangs and plunging into deep Berlin trip ‘Kabale und Liebe’ thrown themselves into House net- pools. ball, hockey, rounders, core-strength A group of 19 Year 8 linguists, led by In March, a group of curious German- LAT (with an outstanding performance Mrs Seth and accompanied by Mrs ists attended the production ‘Kabale from May Broadley who held a ‘plank’ Houghton, headed for the German und Liebe’, staged by the German Spain and Gibraltar Sports Tour for an impressive 22 minutes), gym- capital Berlin in July. After a very early Society at the University of Manches- nastics and athletics. There really is start on the first day, we did a 4-mile ter. The play itself was a modern In the Easter holidays, 26 pupils and no end to our girls’ talents. walk following the route of the Berlin version of Friedrich Schiller’s clas- 4 staff spent 6 days in Gibraltar and Due to sheer enthusiasm, resil- Wall into East Berlin, finishing in the sical bourgeois tragedy: the tragic Spain on a successful netball and ience and commitment throughout now gentrified district of Prenzlaue romance acted out between two hockey tour which also incorporated the year, it was Capesthorne who Berg for a delicious and well-deserved high school students secretly in love. some educational and cultural experi- scooped top place and lifted the ice cream. We saw one of the remain- However, the play, true to its original, ences. House trophy. Led from the top by ing sections of the Berlin Wall and was mostly written in old-fashioned, The first three days were spent in Sophia Heywood, Emma Gosnay and learnt about people who had success- sophisticated German. The English Gibraltar where the girls had netball their Head of House, Miss Christie, it fully escaped from East Berlin into subtitles that were projected onto the and hockey training sessions and was a deserved win. West Berlin, as well as spotting Stolp- back of the stage were therefore, at played four netball fixtures on pictur- HMC ersteine, installations by artist Gunter least at some points, very welcome. esque courts beneath the backdrop Demnig which mark houses from Even though the story ended in a of the Rock of Gibraltar. The girls Boys’ Division House events en- which Jewish families were deported. tragedy, the evening certainly did not, quickly adjusted to their surround- compassed a huge range of sport- On the second day, we visited the leaving behind a rewarding linguistic ings and acclimatised to the warm ing, academic and artistic activities. main sites in central Berlin, including experience. temperatures. They played some The competition started with the the Brandenburg Gate, the Topog- Julian Karrer, Y10 superb netball against very competi- multi-sport morning at the end raphy of Terror and the Reichstag, tive Gibraltarian teams, winning 3 out of the last summer term featuring including its famous dome. The of 4 matches. The U15s narrowly lost a range of sports from softball to pupils had some hugely interesting one of their games by 2 goals, after a Geography Field trip in Wales boules. Lunchtime sports were hard discussions about the merits of the closely contested and exciting match. fought with once again football being Holocaust Memorial in comparison This year, Year 12 and 13 geographers Whilst in Gibraltar, we enjoyed an popular as was the speed climb up to the thought-provoking Memory attended field courses at the Field interesting and informative tour of the forbidding North West face of Void exhibit in the Jewish Museum. Studies Centre at Rhyd y Creau, near the Rock, learning about the history the Physical Science building, where The third day involved a guided Betws y Coed in North Wales. and military importance of Gibraltar. the impressive 16-second record was tour of the Story of Berlin Museum Year 13 were blessed with an A visit to St Michael’s Cave to see the threatened. University Challenge was – including a claustrophobic tour of unseasonably warm, crystal clear day limestone formations provided some also well-supported and successful the nuclear bunker underneath – and at the coast where they studied the geographical opportunities. Amongst in both upper and lower school and a lovely afternoon at the zoo, with Morfa Harlech dune system includ- the highlights were numerous close revealed impressive levels of gen- many enormous cuddly toys bought ing how the dunes form and exhibit up sightings of the Barbary macaque eral knowledge. In the final analysis, as souvenirs. vegetation diversity change as they monkeys that inhabit the Rock of Capesthorne came out on top to win On the final morning we visited the move inland. Pupils worked incredibly Gibraltar and Bottlenose, Common the House Cup and Christian Beeston famous Checkpoint Charlie landmark hard, working well into the evening and Striped dolphins whilst on the of 8DJD won the Percy Taylor trophy and museum, which featured escape analysing the data collected in the dolphin safari cruise. for the most individual House points stories and artefacts such as home- field. Of course, as geographers we Later in the week, we transferred to won over the year. made flying machines to take people not only work hard but play hard too. the beach resort of Benalmádena in PJP over the Wall. A meal out provided much enter- Spain for four days to play the hockey tainment and, on the second day, a fixtures. The girls coped well with

40 41 Events & Events & Activities Activities the heat and played some excellent and then the American and New York Liberty for iconic photo opportunities by the walkers on the slopes of Wh- German Exchange Outdoor Activities hockey against teams from Málaga, Stock Exchange. We then walked Lib- and an appreciation of the mass- ernside. They also witnessed a pir- winning 3 out of 4 matches. erty Street to see a first-hand account migration that made New York what it Im Oktober 2015 sind 19 Schüler der At the start of the Autumn term, the ouetting minibus containing another In addition to the sports fixtures, of the impact of 9/11 and the subse- is today. The evening was spent at the King’s Schule Macclesfield, England sun returned for the first Outdoor Ac- group, which had to be extracted from the girls appreciated relaxation on the quent redevelopment. After stopping bustling Times Square, known as ‘the nach Bad Wurzach gefahren. Wir sind tivities trip. We managed to exceed last the verge in Kingsdale by an obliging beach, swimming, playing volleyball, off to visit the famous Wall Street bull, crossroads of the world’, and the site am Freitagabend in Bad Wurzach year’s record number of pupils (27) farmer with tractor. It was windy both shopping and a cultural tour of the we made our way to the Museum of of so many iconic film moments. angekommen, und wir haben das for the stay at our favourite Anglesey days and it was impressive to see how city of Málaga. American Finance, before a talk from On Day 4, students visited the ganze Wochenende lang verschiedene camp site at Blackthorn Farm, requir- the pupils coped with the conditions. LB a finance professional, offering insight 9/11 Memorial site. This wonderful Aktivitäten mit unseren Gastfamilien ing the booking of another minibus January began promisingly, with into the world of mixed portfolio in- museum provided an impression of gemacht. Zum Beispiel sind einige and meaning there were many new some winter weather and snow on vestments on Wall Street. Then it was the scale of the financial, human and Schüler nach Legoland gefahren, und faces from the younger years, espe- the Lakeland hills; however, mild New York back to the hotel for a quick-change economic costs of the attacks, and einige haben ein Fußballspiel gese- cially from Y7 girls. The weather was temperatures and rain looked set to A group of 50 Sixth Form students as Broadway was calling. Our even- was undoubtedly the most poignant hen. Das Wochenende war wirklich perfect for camping and all enjoyed wreck our plans for Helvellyn until studying Business or Economics ing meal was in Planet Hollywood moment of the trip. The afternoon abenteurlich und es hat uns sehr gut a day of Kayaking on the inland sea a brief and hard cold spell brought visited New York City in October to on Times Square, before making the took the group up to 34th Street for gefallen, besonders die Gastfamilie and coasteering in the swell-free seas snow, blue skies and strong winds to observe the financial and commercial short walk up Broadway, for a sensa- a behind-the-scenes tour of Macy’s, kennenzulernen. Am Montag waren around Trearddur Bay followed by the set the backdrop for our trip to the capital of the world, experiencing all tional performance of ‘Jersey Boys’ at the world’s largest department store. wir mit unseren Austauschpartnern usual fish and chip supper laid on by youth hostel. After overnight snow, aspects of tourism and work life in the August Wilson Theatre. This was a fantastic insight into the in den Unterrichten unterwegs, was the campsite kitchen. On the second the weather turned to wintry showers the Big Apple. On day three, some of the group advanced marketing and operations ein ganz interessantes Erlebnis war. day, the new pupils were initiated into and we made our way up towards Red Staying in Midtown Manhattan, visited the Grand Central Terminal techniques being used across New Nachmittags sind wir zum Schloss the ever-popular Manhunt activities in Tarn via a devious route which kept us the students’ first trip was to walk on 42nd St. to observe the hustle and York. Later that evening, students Neuschwanstein gefahren. Trotz des the sand dunes of Newborough War- out of the wind for much of the way. over the famous Brooklyn Bridge. bustle of a New York rush hour, and visited Times Square and the Empire Nebels gab es einen wunderschönen ren and a happy group made the re- Once up high, the strong winds made Beautiful blue skies offered crystal grab some brilliant time-lapse videos State Building. From the 86th floor Blick auf die Bergen und die Wälderl. turn journey to Macclesfield in warm, themselves felt – half the group battled clear views of the Manhattan skyline from the balcony. After re-grouping at observatory deck, the bright lights of Während der Woche haben wir die sunny conditions. up Swirral Edge to be blown flat at the and plenty of photo opportunities. the hotel, we walked across Midtown Manhattan were laid out beneath us, a Stadt München und die Insel Mainau The dry and warm weather of the top, despite the excellent visibility. Un- Further stops were the South Seaport towards East River, and visited the sight that will live long in the memory. besichtigt. Wir haben viele Spezial- autumn came to an abrupt end with daunted, they battled on like drunken Retail area and then Chinatown for UN Headquarters. Here we were The final day began with the Rock- itäten aus der Gegend auch gegessen. the caving trip immediately after half men and did the circuit around to our evening meal. given a tour of the facility, including efeller Centre and a surprise trip to Wir fanden die Reise eine spannende term. Sixteen pupils, mostly girls, trav- Brown Cove and the descent track. Day two started with an American a history of the organisation’s role in the Top of the Rock observatory – a Erfarhrung, inder wir viele neue Fre- elled to Yorkshire with a dire forecast It was an exhilarating experience and breakfast in a nearby café – pancakes, economic development. This gave fantastic chance to see the beautiful unden kennen gelernt haben. Natür- which proved to be largely correct. one which grew with the telling. The bacon and maple syrup was a popular students the opportunity to sit in on autumnal colours of Central Park. lich während der Woche haben wir Despite this, the walkers managed to next day, everyone climbed Raise and choice. We went on to explore the active UN meetings in the smaller as- From the Rockefeller we made our viel Deutsch gesprochen und geübt, do routes from the bunkhouse which even sat on the ski tow up there – streets and buildings in the down- sembly chambers. The students then way through the notorious shopping jedoch war für mich am wichtigsten tied in nicely with the cavers exploring sadly, without sufficient snow to use town financial district and learn about had their passports stamped to show district of 5th Avenue, passing the die lebenslangen Freundschaften, die Great Douk, High Douk Holes and, skis. The winds had dropped and it life on Wall Street. With the help of that we had left American soil upon affluence of Rolex, the iconography of wir geknüpft haben. on Sunday, the Ribblehead Caves. The was an altogether calmer affair. At the two born and raised New Yorker tour entry to the building. After lunch, Apple and the indulgence of the Plaza cavers managed to go into the King- moment of departure, the wind speed guides, we saw the Supreme Courts we caught the subway downtown to Hotel for some free time in Central Lily Breese-Tovey sdale Master Cave via Valley Entrance was rising so the timing could not have (stopping to watch filming for an epi- Battery Park and hopped on the Ferry Park. on Saturday afternoon, neatly escaping been better. sode of ‘Law and Order’), Wall Street to Liberty Island to visit the Statue of DACW the torrential downpours experienced PME

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Enrichment Infants were thrilled to meet children’s author Caryl Hart, who explained how to write some simple poems about food using rhyming Infants & Juniors words. Caryl then set about whipping As a school community we have fo- the young minds into a frenzy about cused on identifying personal targets reading and writing and got them for growth, embracing the culture of excited about opening the next book change and seeing every day as an and turning the next page. opportunity and a challenge. Our ex- Year 2 studied Beatrix Potter and tensive range of musical and sporting the interesting characters she created opportunities are combined with a Goal-focused inspiration Book Week for her books. They went on a walk to full and varied programme of chal- England Women’s football interna- Pupils began the summer term with Swan’s Pool (below) to find inspira- lenge and enrichment activities. tional Isobel Christiansen, the 2016 Book Week, which offered a wide tion for characters for their own We have continued to develop Women’s PFA Player of the Year, variety of challenging and engag- books, which were written in the style our Learning Challenge Curriculum visited the infants to inspire them to ing activities to ignite the children’s of Beatrix Potter and included beauti- and refined the content of lessons ‘follow their dreams.’ The high-profile imagination. ful watercolour paintings. according to how the children have role model was a real inspiration to responded to this ‘topic-based’ ap- the youngsters. She said: ‘I could proach. We have continued to focus never have imagined when I was your on the development of skills to age that I would be able to have a ensure that pupils have both breadth career in football, but every day I have and depth of knowledge. Our child- fect in lessons and we are grateful to tion in September after competing in to pinch myself and think how lucky centred approach focuses on chal- Friends of King’s for funding a third the North West Megafinal and North I am. So, whatever your dream, go lenging each child to reach his or her set of these devices for use in Years Gigafinal stages in the summer. Both ahead and make it happen.’ potential across the curriculum whilst 1 - 3. competed extremely well in the Plate also comparing their achievements to The important issue of Internet to score 3 points out of a possible 5 Environmental action national expectations. Safety has also been prominent with against national standard players from Our Eco Officers have continued to three of our Year 5 pupils, Madi Bax- across the country. Christian will be spearhead ways to care for our local ICT ter, James Hartley and Jenny Wallace challenged to compete in the AJIS environment. In September, repre- Computing has been a major focus attending a CEOPs-accredited Safer Championship in November as the sentatives from Years 1 – 6 took part for development this year, with a new, Internet Ambassador training morn- reigning U10 Champion and Sam will in the Big Tidy Up litter pick-up in more challenging curriculum being ing at Cheshire Police Headquarters. become a formidable member of the Victoria Park. Year 6 also experienced introduced. iPads are used to great ef- On National Safer Internet Day, they Senior chess team. the Bin-it Roadshow, which helped led an excellent interactive assembly, them to consider the consequences highlighting the pros and cons of Year 4 meet author of dropping litter and challenged social media. Pupils from Year 4 went to the Plaza them to find ways to prevent littering. Theatre, Stockport, to hear the author Pupils observed ‘Switch Off Fortnight’ Clubs Cressida Cowell talking about the which was introduced via an assembly An extensive programme of extra- inspirations behind her amazing series by 6ST who asked us to ‘Switch On to curricular clubs and activities con- of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ books. Switching Off’ and gave us all some tinues to stimulate the interests of The entertaining, lively speaker helpful eco tips. our children, whatever they may be. shared photos from her childhood We also supported the RSPB’s In addition to the many sports and holidays on a deserted island in annual Big Birdwatch and children musical clubs, we have run Coding Scotland and talked about the adven- from Years 5 - 6 joined this year’s and Computing Clubs; Latin, Spanish tures she and her family shared, and event in Victoria Park, where they and German Clubs (pictured above); the way that the cliffs and old Viking learned to identify different birds. An Cookery and Gardening Clubs, to ruins set her imagination going. She impressive 17 different species were name but a few. Chess Club in particu- explained that all writers were 9 years spotted including a pair of Redwing, lar had a high level of success. Follow- old once, and so whatever your imagi- a Tree Creeper, a Dunnock and a ing a highly competitive inter-school nation can come up with could well Nuthatch. Many pupils then under- chess tournament, Christian Tattum be the start of something fantastic took their own one-hour birdwatch (Y5) and Sam Parry (Y6) both quali- further along in your life. at home, as part of the Big Garden fied for the National Plate Competi- Birdwatch.

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Further celebrations to help mark The author Alan Durant visited the students to construct knowledge Tom McCluskey and Harry Meadows National Book Week included pupils pupils to speak about his motivations co-operatively, which encourages debated against Brendan Jacot and dressing up as their favourite book and drivers as a writer and to get the ‘metacognition’ - students’ reflection Zoe Suarez, with the motion ‘Inter- characters, visiting the library, writing pupils doing some ingenious creative on their own thinking and problem- net es un invento más importante their own short stories and finding writing based around an everyday solving processes. Data analysis at que la rueda’. It was a closely fought out which children’s books inspired activity – with a horrifying twist. Quiz- King’s has revealed that it has hugely contest, leading to success for Tom their parents and teachers when they zes and national competitions were improved our students’ cognitive and Harry. The French finalists, Olivia were young. also dipped into to provide further growth and helped our pupils achieve Watkins and Zoe Suarez against Aiman Junior pupils also studied the stimulus and engagement. thinking levels equivalent to those of Aslam and Elise Boothroyd, debated storytelling properties of music. Year much older students. Pupils’ thinking ‘à l’école on n’apprend aucune des 3 listened to Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and levels at the end of Year 8, after two leçons importantes dans la salle de the Wolf’ and focused on the instru- years following the CASE programme, classe’. Again, it was an exciting match Senior Divisions ments which represent the different are well above the national average for spectators, and narrowly won by characters in the story. Year 4 learned Science for this age group and are in fact, the Elise and Aiman. about the exciting story of ‘William In April, Zachary Howdle, Matthew level of an average 18-year-old stu- Tell’; they created rhythm patterns Jackson and Raul Gomez in Year 12 dent who hasn’t followed CASE. The Debating Competition which sounded like horses charging attended the Engineering Education mean thinking level of our pupils has Sixth Formers went on to win the into battle and then listened to ‘Gal- Scheme assessment day at Liverpool increased by 1.48 levels in just under North West Schools’ German Speak- lop’ from the overture. Year 5 learned University. During the preceding four two years, compared with a national ing Competition which sees the best We tried many different sounds that does not surface in normal reading about Stravinsky’s ‘Petrushka’ which months, the students had worked on average increase of 0.5 levels for pu- A Level students debate topical issues would be used all over the globe in or writing. Dr Kimper showed us how retells a Russian folk story through a real-life engineering project with pils not following CASE. in German with only 10 minutes to many different languages. Another we ‘learn’ and adhere to the rules of music. Year 6 studied ‘The Empress John Blackwell of Opus Technical. prepare their arguments. Elise Boo- way to see how speech works was a language and apply them both to and the Pagodas,’ a fairytale written At the event the students presented Languages Debating Competition throyd, Will Fox and Zoe Richmond Palatography. This involved putting possible and impossible words. It was by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy in 1698 their project to a group of engineers In July, Year 12 linguists participated were the winning team after debating charcoal and oil in our mouths to a humorous and fascinating experi- and set to music by Maurice Ravel in and also produced a poster. They in a challenging enrichment activity the topics of “Green is Better than see what patterns the tongue makes ment, giving an insight as to what the 1917. They learned how the gamelan were commended upon their efforts to help hone their linguistic skills. Red”, “Nuclear Power is the Best En- inside the mouth, depending on study of linguistics really is, and of- from Indonesia and the pentatonic and awarded the best in their section. Mrs Houghton encouraged the stu- ergy Source” and “Tablet Computers what words we say. The third activity fered students an interesting look at scale influenced his music and then The students worked at a very high dents to have fun and approach the Can Ruin Your Life.” involved measuring. We can’t meas- their own perception of language. they composed music to accompany a standard solving complex problems in task with gusto. In the preliminary ure the size of our vocal traps without Brad Greatrex-Jordan, Y12 section of the story using the penta- a team and were all awarded a Gold debates, students contested titles German Stammtisch using electronic systems, so we used tonic scale. Crest Award for their efforts. such as ‘Á l’âge de l’internet, le droit German linguists from Years 11 - 13 a computer and a microphone to Smashing the Subjunctive à la vie privée est une idée dépassée’ gathered monthly for Stammtisch record our sound waves, applying a In March, Year 13 students were Shakespeare Anniversary Cognitive Acceleration and ‘Las estrellas del deporte son Club, which provides students with formula to obtain the final measure- treated to a whistle-stop tour of the Year 6 marked the 400th anniversary The introduction of Cognitive Ac- inspiradoras y merecen los sueldos an opportunity to develop skills and ment. The different activities were German Subjunctive delivered by a of the Bard’s death with a 3-week celeration through Science Educa- que ganan’. Teaching staff were vocabulary not usually explored in fascinating, as none of us had expe- visiting expert in the field: Mr Paul in-depth study of Shakespeare. Pupils tion (CASE) has had a significant unanimous in their delight at seeing the classroom, to work with other rienced this side of language study Stocker from the British-German As- were transfixed by the blood, gore, impact on improving pupils’ thinking the excellent accomplishments of year groups, and to be challenged in before. sociation. Paul previously worked for deceit and machinations in Macbeth. skills. CASE is designed to challenge their students. In the Spanish final, the language. One Stammtisch was Molly Ives, Y9 22 years as Head of Modern Languag- led by Lisa Ostermaier, our German es and Head of German at Upping- language assistant and, determined to Sixth Form linguists also received a ham School. However, King’s Sixth stretch students to the limit, Lisa pre- talk from Dr Kimper (below), this Formers are already familiar with his sented a German variant of Einstein’s time with a taster of university-level name for a different reason: as the infamous riddle, ‘The Zebra Puzzle’, linguistics focussing on expletive author of their German Wort für Wort or ‘Das Rätsel des Fisches’. Working infixation. By demonstrating the vocabulary guides. in groups of five, the race was on to infixation of ‘diddly’ into other words, The Year 13 Germanists warmed decode the puzzle: five houses and courtesy of Ned Flanders from the quickly to his humorous delivery, and one missing fish. The key was in col- Simpsons, Dr Kimper showed us how worked with enthusiasm through the lating the information effectively; this English speakers have a subconscious tasks prepared for them. Mr Stocker required pupils to share the individ- knowledge of the language which gave the students a number of useful ual clues and to ask others for hints. Fun was had by all – und viele Köpfe haben geraucht!

Linguistics Expert Visit Pupils in Years 7 - 10 enjoyed lively Linguistics Workshops delivered by Dr Kimper, a Linguistics and English Language Lecturer from the Univer- sity of Manchester. Dr Wendell Kimper brought in an Ultrasound machine so that we could detect how our tongues move when we communicate. The aim was to learn how different sounds are made and how this can be detected.

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Literature award and since then she Sutton will have their thought- has penned another three best- provoking short stories published in selling books of fantasy adventure in an anthology of the country’s best The Hex Factor series. Speaking at young writers after coming in the top both the Boys’ and Girls’ Divisions, 30 from thousands of entries in the her workshops focused on how any ‘National Short Story Week’ competi- writer should capture the imagination tion. This year’s theme for entries was immediately with snappy openings ‘Lies’ with both Millie and Rowan pen- which asked questions and left the ning pieces between 900 and 1000 reader desperate to know more. words with twists, turns and dramatic In June, Grace Harrison, Year 9, denouement to leave the reader in a was awarded a Special Commenda- state of high suspense. The anthology tion for her book review for The will be published in November 2016. Portico Sadie Massey Awards for Young Readers/Writers, in the age 9-13 Classics category. Grace wrote a very mature In July, world authority on classical and insightful review of ‘A Thousand civilisation, Emily Hauser, gave a talk Splendid Suns,’ by Khaled Hosseini, to pupils on the beauty and barbar- and was invited to the awards presen- ity of the ancient world. Educated at tation at The Portico Library. Altogeth- Cambridge University, with a Fulbright er over 40 reviews were written for Scholarship at Harvard and now com- tricks and succeeded in presenting for alternative employment. which required translation in three the awards by King’s Year 9 students. earliest impressions. pleting her PhD at Yale, Emily said: ‘It one of the most complex aspects of Mr Stocker then joined the Lingua- languages. Aside from the traditional In February, pupil Lauren Hayward Lauren (pictured), who last year is important that Classics remains at German grammar as not only enjoy- vox editorial team in the lunch break languages, there was also the oppor- won second place in the National won the Cheshire Poetry Recital the heart of the curriculum because it able but remarkably easy. Proof was in to find out more about the forthcom- tunity for Star Wars fans to brush up Young Writers’ Competition with a competition, wrote: ‘Humanity has allows us to look at history through a the plenary, as students were able to ing issue, which took legend and on their Yodaspeak: ‘Much to learn powerful essay on sexism in the me- journeyed into outer space and made different lens.’ Emily’s book ‘For the use their knowledge to report back a folklore as its theme. you have!’ dia. From thousands of entries nation- medical advances that are nothing Most Beautiful’, eulogises an ancient variety of activities in all three tenses, The MFL Editorial Team: Edward wide, Lauren was picked out for her short of miracles - why not eradicate time of mischievous gods and mythic without referring to the lesson notes Linguavox Hammonds, Ben Lynch, Brad Grea- political insight and persuasive tone, sexism too? Sexism is dangerous, it is heroes, while delving deep into the – remarkable! Linguavox is a trilingual magazine trex-Jordan, Lily Breese-Tovey, Tanisha arguing in her 1500-word newspaper- infectious and it so frequently rears its jealousies, bitterness and sadism of After the rigorous teaching, Mr produced by the King’s MFL Editorial Orchard, Simon Wagner, Tom Carter, style feature for a complete revision hideous head. But it can, it absolutely that time. Emily’s talk to pupils fo- Stocker was then able to sit back Team (pictured), a fortnightly club John Daly and Julian Karrer. Editor: of gender stereotyping which dam- must, be destroyed.’ cussed on what little is known about and enjoy Kaffeekränzchen with the for Years 10 - 13 pupils led by Frau Callum Evans ages both girls and boys from their Pupils Millie Brierley and Rowan the women of that era. students. This is a weekly break time Houghton. The publication is now club, led by Lisa Ostermaier, and in its second year. The autumn term English provided a much-needed kaffee and edition focused on the theme of fes- In March, Year 7 English students en- a slice of homemade kuchen. Mean- tivals, topical to the Christmas season joyed a visit from multi-award winning while, the Sixth Form students had to at the time of print, however, articles children’s author, Harriet Goodwin, invent a story, speaking for as long as explored a wide range of cultural fes- who told pupils ‘to read voraciously, possible in German before the ticking tivals from the annual Indonesian rice keep a diary and learn to juggle,’ if bomb ‘exploded’, designating the cake war, to Halloween in Germany. they wanted to be successful writers. next speaker’s turn. It was a humor- The French article about Mardi Gras Harriet’s first novel ‘The Boy Who ous quarter of an hour, as the Easter was complemented by a quiz, and Fell Down Exit 43’ was shortlisted for Bunny suffered a job crisis and looked there was a mystery word riddle page, the influential Blue Peter Children’s

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Girls’ Division The Girls’ Division undertook a marathon fundraising drive in order to raise £4,239.75 for the Congleton- Community based charity Visyon, which provides support to children and young people who are dealing with a range of is- sues, from bereavement and bullying to abuse and self-harm. The girls’ fundraising efforts Activities spanned every year group: Year 7 held a sponsored Santa Dash; Year 8 had a stationery stall; Years 8 and 9 did a ‘Make a Pound Grow’ challenge; Year This year, our pupils and staff en- 10 held a luxury prize draw and the gaged in a wide range of activities to Year 11 prefects held a Christmas Par- raise £25,000 for charities close to ty. In addition, all girls designed and home and further afield. Pupils them- sold Christmas cards, held cake sales, selves helped to choose the charities, contributed to a church collection at often reflecting concern for children the end of term and some pupils’ art in the UK and abroad and a range of work was displayed and sold in local health-related charities. It is to our law firm Jobling Gowler. pupils’ credit that they embrace the In April, our senior girls organised opportunity to help and support oth- a ‘Raid My Wardrobe’ event and raised ers beyond the school community. £245 for The Samaritans. Girls also undertook a charity bag pack at the Tesco superstore on a busy Saturday Infants and Juniors morning and raised £414 for East Fundraising this year began with an Cheshire Hospice. The girls were a event organised by Year 6 pupils who credit to the school and received lots ran a cake sale to raise money for of positive feedback from shoppers those families affected by the Bosley on their good manners and industry. Mill fire disaster. This was a devastat- ing event for many local families and our children raised £181.77 for this Shop, and they raised a very impres- raised £133.75 which was donated to literary talent. The evening was a tre- enticing range of games and activities. appeal. sive £600 which was added to the the RFU Injured Players Foundation. mendous success, with a number of The charities prefects also organised As part of Harvest Festival cel- retiring collection after the Junior For Sport Relief, a non-uniform particularly memorable poetry recitals their own stall at the King’s Christmas ebrations, Year 2 pupils and their Christmas Carol Service, resulting in day and a sports fair raised a total of from boys in Years 7, 8 and 9. Fair, selling Christmas cards designed teachers delivered Harvest Festival £1100 being sent to Destiny Garden £479. These events, along with other The annual Boys’ Division Christ- as part of a House competition. gifts to Harry Lawson Court hous- School in Kenya. non-uniform days, meant that the In- mas Fair raised £706 – a reflection of Literary talent was again in evi- ing care facility. The children chatted Charity Monitors, Rebecca Foster fant and Junior Division raised a very the boys’ ingenuity in inventing an dence as boys in Years 7 and 8 took to residents and performed some and Taya Phillips, sold raffle tickets impressive £5384 for local, national traditional songs such as, ‘I’m a Little for the prize of a rugby ball signed by and international charities - a superb Teapot’ and the residents enjoyed tell- Sale Sharks player Mark Cueto. They effort. ing the children that they too used to sing this at school. They closed their concert with their Harvest song, ‘Let’s Celebrate’. Christmas was a very busy time for charity events. All of the Infants and Juniors participated in a Reindeer Run Boys’ Division in aid of East Cheshire Hospice which raised over £3000. Year 4 also organ- This year, the boys chose to support ised their annual Christmas postal the Cystic Fibrosis Trust after it was service, making stamps and delivering nominated by a Year 11 student in 2157 cards around the school, raising support of a close friend of his. A £64.71. These events meant that we range of fundraising activities were were able to donate £3,073.53 to East organised, including cake sales, Cheshire Hospice. sponsored silences and penalty shoot A sponsored run by pupils in Year outs. In October, the inaugural Poets 4 (pictured) also raised £250 for Teen- and Players Evening gave students age Cancer Trust. (pictured) the opportunity to organ- Year 5 were also busy selling vari- ise their first major fundraising event ous seasonal items in their Christmas whilst showcasing their musical and

50 51 Community Community Activities Activities part in a Poetry by Heart competition, came from organising clothes for all performing poems to their classmates the models. Hayleigh McCullough for a small fee. Form captains also managed to obtain all the outfits for worked hard to organise a wide range the guys at the last minute from M&S, of smaller fundraising events through- which was an excellent feat and Sam- out the year, whilst at the same time mie Rae procured many of the other supporting whole school projects male model outfits. such as the Silk FM Easter Egg Appeal. The set was designed and manu- In total, the boys raised £1367 for the factured by the Art and DT depart- Cystic Fibrosis Trust. ments, with many hours contributed by Honor Price, Harriet Rous and the Year 13 DT set. Sixth Form Fashion Show Good to be Green On the day of the show, the cast The Fashion Show was a highlight turned up suitably dressed for a day’s In September, 26 pupils from the of the winter months. Students rehearsals; the boys clearly having Infants & Juniors gave up their raised £3800 for The Christie and never spray-tanned before, came in lunchtime to grab litter-pickers and a £250 donation from Jaguar Land patchy and very orange. The dance high-viz tabards in order to help tidy Rover boosted the final total to over moves had clearly been practised as up Victoria Park. The Big Tidy Up is £4,000. much of it was in time, to the relief part of the Infant & Junior Division’s The sky was the limit for the show of the three choreographers Lucy ongoing commitment to being an themed around ‘Come Fly With Me’ Miller, Jess Milton Edwards and Mimi ‘Eco-School.’ Eco-monitors Xavier and the hard work put in by all the Stevens. Moore, Theo Adamski and Haroon contributors was extraordinary. The boys’ dance, of course, was Abassi were instrumental in organis- Preparations started in early spectacular as always, with this year ing and leading the initiative, which 7 upwards got busy with their litter girls in Years 5 – 8 to listen to a talk September with picking a theme, including an emotional preview video saw pupils and parents collect 4.6 pickers and bags around the school’s by international bestseller and teen-lit casting the models, singers and the expressing the boys’ love for dance kilograms of litter. Fence Avenue site and Victoria Park. author, Cathy Cassidy. Cathy is one presenters. In the end, Henry Reavy and the seriousness of their training! Later in the year, Senior Girls par- of Britain’s most popular writers and and his overbearing co-pilot, John This was followed by an eclectic mix ticipated in the national ‘Clean for the has written some 27 books and been International Author Le’Moignan and air steward Emma or tunes in which passion and love Queen’ campaign organised by the translated into 29 languages. Over all, Maxwell, prepared the flight for was captured in all their dance moves. Campaign to Keep Britain Tidy. Blue In the summer, pupils from Fallib- she has sold over two million books Easter Egg Appeal take-off. What a perfect mix, although The highlight had to be Ben ‘Titanic’ blazers were exchanged for tabards roome, All Hallows, Rainow and Hur- worldwide and was full of helpful rehearsal day seemed to run as Tatton floating elegantly towards the King’s pupils and parents showed and gardening gear as girls from Year dsfield Primary Schools joined King’s advice and inspiration for the girls. smoothly as turbulence on a flight. crowd in a dinghy. their generous sides with their dona- Many of our worst nightmares Evie Hancox Y13 tions of hundreds of Easter Eggs for local underprivileged children in East Cheshire. Pupils across all Divisions donated eggs of all shapes and sizes as part of the Silk FM Easter Egg Appeal. The re- sponse was so enormous that Silk FM named King’s as the school that had donated the most eggs and present- ers from the radio station presented the school with an award. Three local Children’s Charities distributed the eggs to hundreds of local children.

Connecting with Kids in Ghana At the end of the academic year, we were able to continue our work with Connecting Kids Education Founda- tion (CKEF), by organising a consign- ment of well over 3,000 text books and teaching aids to go to partner schools in Ghana. Following changes to national curriculum specifications, a huge number of textbooks have found new homes in a number of schools in villages in southern and central Ghana, where textbooks are often very hard to obtain.

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athlete and Lulu Griffiths scored 20 Junior points from her 1500m run alone. Junior Sports Day proved to be a Both teams qualified for the thoroughly enjoyable day of top class Regional B North West Finals where athletics and all pupils in Years 3 - 6 they improved upon their previous took part to represent their House. Sports performances. The Junior Girls’ team Field events included the conven- achieved 274 points, placing them tional Long Jump and Javelin and in fifth place overall. The Inter Girls’ the less conventional like the ever team increased their total by 20 points popular ‘tug of war’ event. Athletes to 291 and finished in fourth position. then competed on the track during Outstanding performances by Olivia the afternoon and impressed parents Moores in the Hurdles and Triple with some excellent racing in a range Athletics Jump gained her a personal points of events. Over 80 highly competi- Boys Girls total of 41 points, possibly our highest tive races were concluded with the The Athletics season began on a high A wet start to the season caused the individual score ever. 4x100m relays (with double points at note with victory in the annual King’s Macclesfield and District Athletics In the Macclesfield and District stake). Tatton were the overall win- Relays meeting - the first time the Championships to be abandoned but Minors championships, the Year 7 ners and House Captains Lily Cook boys from Years 7 - 10 have won the this didn’t dampen the girl’s spirits team finished in a very convincing and Toby Denton were proud to col- ping the pile by becoming U10 AJIS the U10 Girls (Iona Whaley, Phoebe trophy since its introduction in 2002. as they pursued their ‘personal bests’ first place. Six girls were selected to lect the cup on behalf of their team. High Jump Champion and U10 AJIS Thomson, Lucy Bambrook and So- Year 10 were outstanding on the day and some splendid performances represent Macclesfield at the Cheshire The athletics team trained hard 150m Champion. Thomas Danson phie Fletcher) who raised spirits with with good performances from Toby ensued throughout the season. County Minors Athletics Champion- throughout the season and were frus- had an excellent series of jumps to an excellent Bronze medal. Moule, Richard Griffiths and Will King’s Girls finished in second ships: Izzy Moores, Madeleine Holder, trated to miss out on some opportu- become U10 AJIS Long Jump Cham- Athletics Colours were awarded to Fosbrook. place overall by just 3 points against Scarlett Brough, Lottie Dennett, Katie nities to compete due to bad weather. pion and Sophie Fletcher is U10 AJIS Jake Leech, Luke Wilson, Lara Tabach- The inter-boys succeeded in Stockport Grammar, Cheadle Hulme Barr and Ella Jones. Izzy Moores However, a very successful track 150m Champion. Silver medals were nik and Rebecca Foster. qualifying for the Grade B regional and Withington in the Track Relays; finished in second position in the meeting against Stockport Grammar also in abundance with Edward Ro- DCB finals and came second overall. The Year 8 team came first and Years 7, 9 Hurdles and Madeleine Holder was School and Cheadle Hulme School den (U10) and Jake Leech (U11) mak- stand out performers included Will and 10 teams each finished in third also second in the Discus. Both repre- was a good rehearsal for the AJIS ing impressive runs in the challenging Basketball Fosbrook in the 300m race with a place. sented Cheshire in the Inter Coun- Championship in June. Our athletes 600m event and athletics Captain Lara great time of 38.5 seconds and Oscar In the first round of the ESAA Cup ties competition where they finished went on to acquit themselves very Tabachnik showing great speed in the This year was a transition period for Johnson who cleared 1m 65cm in competition the Junior Girls’ team fourth and third respectively. well at this quality meet at Stanley U11 150m. Our 4 x 100m Relay teams basketball at King’s with the retire- the high jump. In the throws James were third overall out of ten schools, Four girls qualified for the County Park in Blackpool. Athletes made very all made their finals and there were ment of legendary figure Bill Baxter Warr reached a huge 11m 16cm in scoring a team total of 261 points. Championships in June: Lulu Griffiths many finals with Oliver Davies top- some frustrating 4th places. It was and the introduction of new Basket- the shotput, whilst Angus Fiennes Susie Moores was our top scorer with was third in the Junior Girls 1500m ball Coach, John Trezvant (pictured and Harry Wheelton both went over 32 points from a brilliant 1500m run final, Olivia Moores (pictured) was below). The students have been given 30m in the discus and Sion Davenport and High Jump. fourth in the Inter Girls 80m Hurdles, the opportunity to develop new skills threw the javelin in excess of 35m. Similarly, the Inter Girls’ team Sophie Decker second in the Senior and gain greater understanding of the The Junior boys made it to the achieved an excellent points total of Girls Triple Jump and Katie Hughes game during their lunchtime and after Grade A regional final against the top 272 placing them in second posi- was 400m County Champion. school sessions. John has introduced a 12 schools in the north west. The tion out of 10 teams. With 32 points LB number of internal individual competi- boys conducted themselves impecca- Olivia Moores was our highest scoring tions, including ‘Hotshot’ and ‘Ten’, bly on the day and competed fantasti- to increase competition across the cally well. Stand-out performers on year groups. George Williams finished the day were Brandon Morgan with on top of the leaderboard in all year a quick time of 41.6s for 300m race groups at the end of the Summer with and Sam Worthington who ran a good 49 points. Next year, the focus will be 200m clocking 24.9 seconds. Sam on more internal and external com- Danson, Jack Bray, Lewis Johnson and petitions to help raise the standard of Oscar Robinson performed particu- play as well as the numbers involved. larly well as Year 7s in a Year 8 team. In the Cheshire School Champion- Cheerleading ship for the junior and inter boys, Richard Griffiths, Will Fosbrook, The King’s cheerleaders performed Oscar Johnson, Harry Wheelton, Sion some of their best routines to date at Davenport, Sam Worthington, James this year’s National Schools’ Cham- Warr and Ben Kersh all competed pionships. The Year 7 team King’s extremely well. Charles Morrison, Kittens performed a flawless routine Oscar Robinson, Lewis Johnson, Ollie achieving a score of 230 which is the Thompson, Billy Griffiths, Charlie highest score I have seen in over 10 Warr and Sam Danson all competed years. King’s Allstars performed the in the Minor Cheshire School Cham- most technically advanced routine pionship. ever performed by a school in the Overall a super effort from the boys championships. The Year 7 team also and the athletics club after school was entered Pom Dance for the first time, extremely well attended. where we placed an incredible 2nd. 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for the school. The girls all worked Throughout all the batting ups and cess against rivals Manchester Gram- Cup, and Sam Buckingham (4-11 in incredibly hard in the weeks leading down it was Will Hodgson that held mar School, twice. In the F15 Cup 4 overs) and Angus Thomson (31*) up to the championships to ensure everything together. People often we restricted MGS to 104 off the 15 helped to secure the quarter-final win they could perform their routines to talk about a captain’s innings; Will overs: Finlay Calder the pick of the against Cheadle Hulme School. A six a great standard. I am very proud of went out to bat in every game looking bowlers with 2 wickets. After a slow wicket victory over Bramhall set up the girls not only for what they have to play that innings. He curbed his start to the reply King’s ended up an eagerly awaited final with Birken- achieved, but for the immense sup- natural aggression and steered the edging the game on the last ball of head. Angus Thomson was the top port they have shown each other in rest of the batting order in the right the match with a blistering innings scorer with 39, Harry Elms impressed helping to master certain skills and direction. His ‘risk management’ as a from Josh Bryning (27 off 9 balls) and with the ball, and Louis Gruber took to remember dance, gymnastics and batter was excellent. Will’s final tally good runs from Zach Howdle (23 off a fantastic catch. With the opposition jump sections. of runs was four times higher than 16 balls). In the second match against requiring 17 off the last over Harry The results were phenomenal with the second leading run scorer which MGS the game took a similar course bowled exceptionally well for King’s three teams: King’s Kittens (Year shows how much he dominated the with Hashim Maan taking two wickets to secure a fantastic 7 run victory! 7), King’s Cubs (Year 9) and King’s batting. Will is one of only two leavers and James Hodges anchoring the in- The win earned the team (pictured) a Allstars all crowned National Cham- (together with Will Dowd) who has nings well. place at the North of England Schools pions. King’s Cats (Year 8) came 4th represented the school all the way Special mentions also go to Mi- T20 finals, where the boys lost out to and King’s Kittens Pom (Year 7) came up from Year 7, but the hole he will chael Abrahamse and Ollie Prior who Richmond, despite runs from Archie 2nd. leave will take a lot of filling. At the consistently shaped the ball well, Phillips and wickets for Angus Thom- RBJ start of the season the bowlers strug- which rewarded them with wick- son. gled. Bowlers started to bowl a better ets throughout the season. Also to During the season the team were line and to set better fields. Instead George Barker who was a bright spark unfortunate to lose the really tight Cricket of striving for wickets they started to in all areas, consistent with the ball, games, like the one against Lancas- 1st XI strive for consistency and economy. inventive with the bat, and an asset in ter Grammar School. King’s posted With seven key players leaving at the In overs cricket, tight bowling creates the field. a good total after 30 overs, Archie end of 2015 this season was always pressure on the batters who are then The 2nd team went from strength Phillips scoring 74, but sadly it wasn’t going to be a tricky one and early more likely to make mistakes. Sam to strength this season and players enough, and Lancaster just sneaked season defeats did nothing to allay Buckingham and Josh Bryning epito- improved and made their way into over the finishing line with 4 wickets the fears. In the end an excellent set mized the consistent approach when the 1st team. The team also played in to spare. Throughout the season of results in the second half of the the onus was on the batting team to great spirits from start to finish and it the opening bowling attack of Will season left the final statistics looking score runs and both picked up valu- has been a pleasure to captain them Fosbrook and Sam Cheetham was very respectable and, in fact, the final able wickets. James Hodges played a this year. excellent - bowling both quickly and tally of wins was considerably better key role in the second half of the sea- Paul Roberts accurately. George Connolly led the than in the previous year. son providing consistency and some spin attack and always bowled su- A genuine team ethic on match genuine wicket-taking deliveries. The U15 perbly, including a spell of 5-8 against days and hard work in practice com- leading wicket-taker with 27 victims The U15 cricket team had a very Stockport. bined to give the players hope at first was another U15, Harry Elms. As a successful season. Archie Phillips Sam Buckingham was a good Cap- and then victories. As well as victories leg-spin bowler Harry loves to attack (54*) and Tom Carter (24*) guided tain and contributed runs and wick- in all three festival games, the team the batsman in his search for wickets King’s to victory against Wilmslow ets. Leading run scorer Sam Crosby beat Bolton, Leeds, Merchant Taylors’ but it was the addition of patience to HS in the first round of the Cheshire amassed an impressive 325 runs, and a strong Former Pupils’ side. Cap- his armoury of leg-spinners, googlies tain, Will Hodgson (pictured here, (and quicker balls) that brought him driving for four) batted at three but most success. it wasn’t unusual for other players to The team were good fun to be move up and down the order on a around and Will Hodgson was an game by game basis. The difference excellent Captain, while Oliver Quinn between the ability of all the players was an excellent deputy. As well as the was slight and it was often the batters tactical decisions that had to be made coming in at the end of the inning on the field the two were also heavily who would create the chance of a involved in chasing players and help- victory. Josh Bryning, Sam Bryning, ing to create the atmosphere in the Harry Elms and James Hodges all changing rooms that the rest of the made significant contributions down side became part of. In the end no the order when all seemed to be lost. fewer than 25 players represented the In the middle order Sam Bucking- 1st XI; 23 should be back next season. ham hit the ball as well as anyone. SM Regardless of the situation, Sam 2nd XI batted without fear and struck the The 2nd Team had a mixed season, ball very hard; he will certainly be a with only 5 matches reaching a player to watch. As well as Sam, Angus conclusion due to the impact of bad Thomson and Archie Phillips both weather. U15s, played good innings without The season started with a narrow showing the consistency they would loss by 3 runs at Denstone College; have liked. Time is on their side and Dan Crosby gained the Man of the they have certainly shown they can Match award with a rapid 54. The score runs against the best bowlers. team responded with enjoyable suc-

56 57 Sports Sports including a top score of 78 not out in ly followed up by Matt Warham and there were only two B team games against MGS, despite encouraging drilled MGS and, despite a deter- This team showed great spirit and victory over Merchant Taylors’ where Griff Roberts. Warham finished the with others rained off. The squad performances including three late mined effort, came off worst by 8 togetherness and I am confident they he added 100 in 11 overs for the first season with 9 wickets while Roberts who trained hard were rewarded with wickets from Will Davies and good wickets. will grow individually and as a team. wicket with Tom Carter (35). Many had a stellar season with 16 wickets some practice matches mid-week batting from Ibby Ghaznavi (22) and With an attitude though that is typi- RL other boys contributed with both bat at an average of 6 and an incredible but the hope is for more competitive Tom Moorhouse (14). Further losses cal of this team they rallied superbly and ball; Charlie Toms, Louis Gruber, strike rate of just 10. Meanwhile spin- matches next year. came against Bolton and narrowly in their final two matches to finish the U12B Will Davies, Charlie Fogg and Freddie ners Tom Davies and George Muir- The boys have had a fun season to- to Merchant Taylors’. Still, most season in fine style. Firstly, by defeat- The enthusiasm by the Year 7s was Sass all putting in valuable contribu- head used their limited opportunities gether and it has been a joy to watch disappointing was the Cup defeat ing Birkenhead GS by 9 wickets and fantastic this year and we could have tions throughout the season. We to wrap up the tail consistently. The them develop. A special mention to to Birkenhead after the boys had then a comprehensive win at King’s easily put out three teams each week- would like to thank Mr Mason and the bowling group was supported by the George Holden who did a great job performed excellently in the field. Chester. They have come through end. Unfortunately, other schools effervescent Mr Dave Thomson, and variety of skipper George Holden as Captain and continues to grow as a Consistent and threatening opening with a great attitude, worked hard were unable to field as many teams so in the big finals we welcomed the wis- who switched the bowlers around leader. Thanks also to the parents for bowler Ben Kersh set the tone with and picked up several well-deserved the B team this year saw a rotation of dom of Colonel Sanders - thank you. tremendously showing experience the tremendous side-line support at two early wickets, as Charlie Boddy victories on the way. As ever their be- players throughout the season. This Sam Buckingham/ Tom Carter beyond his years. the matches in all weather conditions. and Charlie Murray also claimed two haviour and conduct was exemplary didn’t deter the players and after- As the season progressed the bats- I am sure this talented group of boys wickets apiece. Some great fielding and a credit to the school. In a season school practices were thriving each U14 men started to have more of an im- will win many more cricket matches helped to restrict Birkenhead to a when all the players performed well evening. The U14 cricket team had a good sea- pact and some fantastic partnerships for King’s in future seasons. Should manageable 81-8. Unfortunately, special mention must go to Hugo Ch- To give everyone the opportu- son following on from their Cheshire were the key to some successful run they collectively push each other to wickets fell regularly, and in the end inea-Rodriguez (Batsman of the Year) nity to shine we decided the B team Cup win as U13s. The team won 8 chases. Remy Miller and James Davis’ play at their best, another title is well only Dan Fosbrook (17) and Cyrus and Tate Dawson (Most Improved would play the majority of their matches but couldn’t quite repeat opening stand of 92 in just 12 overs within their grasps. Kerfoot threatened to lift King’s to Player) who were outstanding. The games as ‘pairs’ cricket. Some of the the heroics of the previous season, was the highlight of the win against St CAMS an unlikely victory. To their credit, boys were a pleasure to coach and pupils excelled in this type of game eventually losing to Birkenhead in Ambrose. Miller finished the season the boys ended the term with a fine manage and always good company. and showed off their skills in both the semi-final of the Cup. Many of the voted as the best batsman and if he U13A 35 run success at King’s Chester. FS batting and bowling. However, it was boys enjoyed breakthrough seasons can add consistency to his natural This was a successful season of Charlie Boddy top scored over the U12 a tough season and we went into and some fantastic individual per- talent, will be a tough proposition for development for the U13 A team. season and registered a season high The U12s embraced cricket with great the last game of the season against formances were very pleasing. The opposition bowlers. The side’s best Captain William Davies led the of 92 not out against Christleton as enthusiasm, with lots of boys attend- Merchant Taylors’ without a win. They team’s comradery was as high as ever win of the year came against RGS team well showing a growing well as some good bowling figures. ing after-school practices and want- boys showed courage and determi- and, with continued improvement, Lancaster as they chased down 147 understanding of the game to add Dan Fosbrook became increasingly ing more net sessions at lunchtime. nation and finished the season with this group of players should be a thanks to the power hitting of Jack to his all-round batting and bowling consistent, signing off with 24 The enthusiasm continued through a herculean win. There were some strong team again next season. Mayfield and George Holden. The skills. The season began slowly with a not out at King’s Chester, where the season and it was great having so notable performances, including two The side began the season with a two combined to put on 102 before disappointing defeat to SGS after rain Hayden Heath, another notable many boys representing the school at wicket hauls for Jack Phillpotts, Ben loss to Denstone before recording the calmness and clean striking of forced cancellation against Denstone. improver, scored an encouraging cricket. Wallace, Daniel Silva-Stafford, Nathan impressive victories versus SGS, Sand- Joey Chong and Murray Redpath saw However, the boys bounced back 20. Josh Rajendran bowled well and There is real potential within Harrop, William Worswick and Sam bach and Tarporley. The pace bowling the boys home. to record good victories over recorded an excellent hat-trick against the U12s A team and the boys will Heathcote. Of the batsmen, William contingent lead by Murray Redpath Unfortunately for the large squad Sandbach, Christleton, RGS Lancaster Christleton and also showed promise continue to develop and become a Worswick looked good and he top and Josh Wyatt proved the strength and St Ambrose. Defeat followed with the bat. Alex Davies made tough side to beat. This year they scored with 22 in the win over Mer- in these early matches with some important contributions with bat and had a mixed set of results, playing 10, chant Taylors’, whilst Santi Houghton extremely accurate outswing bowling. ball, finishing with an excellent spell winning 5 and losing 5, but the side and Ollie Thompson also showed This set the tone and was impressive- of four overs 2-4 at Chester. Charlie battled through some terrible weath- promise. Murray (48 against Lancaster), Ollie er and had some great achievements RL Gandy, Ben Kersh and Tom Knight with the bat and ball. Captain Ben also played their part with the bat, Willcock showed lovely technique at U11 whilst Cyrus Kerfoot did a good job as the top order scoring an impressive The U11s worked hard to develop wicket-keeper. Joey Chong (20 runs 82 against Birkenhead and getting 50 their skills throughout the season, and four wickets against Christleton) not out and 3 for 7 with his leg-spin showing an excellent attitude in was a key team member for cup against Altrincham Grammar in the lunchtime and after-school practices, matches, whilst other valuable efforts cup. Oscar Robinson chipped in with along with their conduct during came from Jack Ancell, Patrick Lovett some good bowling and batting, scor- competitive fixtures. The season and Tate Dawson. ing 50 in his first game. James Payne began with an annual fixture against CST opened the bowling with pace from Macclesfield Cricket Club. The ‘pairs’ a 4 step run-up and demonstrated format helped to give all players an U13B how he can hit the ball miles, scoring equal opportunity to bat and bowl in This was a challenging season for the a match winning 72 not out against readiness for the rest of the season. U13Bs, but their great character and a very good Lancaster side. Harry King’s first ‘proper’ game of cricket work ethic saw them improve with Owens, Jake Ogden, James Miller and was against Birkenhead Prep School every game. The season started with Ridley Partridge also contributed with in the AJIS Cup. After opting to field the narrowest of defeats with just bat and ball: Jake getting 3 wickets first, King’s bowled and fielded well two balls to go against SGS but they for 11 against King’s Chester; Harry to restrict the opposition to only 60-8 responded well winning by 10 runs 5 wickets for 10 against St Ambrose; from their 20 overs. Unfortunately, at Terra Nova. A cancelled game at James 2 wickets for 9 against The in reply the boys lost regular wickets CHS was followed by a 4 wicket vic- Grange; and Ridley 3 wickets for 5 and fell behind the required run rate tory over Sandbach. With confidence against Wilmslow HS. and could only muster 39 all out. The growing, the team faced a strong The U12s reached the Cheshire season took on a familiar pattern Lancaster GS team only to lose by 41 Cup semi-final but eventually fell after this, with the boys often batting runs. They then entertained a well short of the target set by Birkenhead. or bowling well, but failing to do so

58 59 Sports Sports in the same game. This resulted in a 287. Due to some huge cricket shots eever (11), Harry Norton (12) and position. number of narrow defeats, including from the first 4 Birkenhead batters, Jimmy Foxton (16). The final category In the Junior girls, commendable matches against SGS (by 9 runs) and no risks were needed in the final few was the Senior Boys with a field of runs from Susie Moores, Holly Burke, Bolton School (by 11 runs). overs of the match as Birkenhead 25. Another impressive performance Betty Kemp, Lottie Dennett, Izzy The B team were also involved in a made a very impressive 337, even from George Barker saw him finish Moores and Charlotte Smith placed some very exciting ‘pairs’ games too, after some very good bowling from 3rd with Tomos Rands (16) and Dan- the team in third position. with a number of players experienc- Jenny Wallace and Sophie Johnson, iel Batt (23). Both teams returned to the same ing their first taste of competitive who both took a wicket each. Peter Goodfellow, Tom Barker venue for the Regional Finals in No- cricket. The highlight of the season In the next fixture against SGS, and George Barker were chosen to vember where the Inter Girls finished came in an away fixture against SGS, the A team were defeated by 22 runs, represent Macclesfield District at the in third place, narrowly missing out during which time the boys batted, while the B team were involved in an Cheshire Schools’ County Champion- on qualifying for the ESAA National bowled and fielded in a very disci- exciting tied match, after both teams ships. Here, competing against the Finals. plined way, with the winning margin finished on 277. best runners in Cheshire, the three In the Macclesfield and District of 20 runs perhaps flattering the op- MW/NB King’s boys gave good performances. Cross Country championships the position somewhat. Peter and Tom ran for the Junior Year 7 runners proved themselves to Colours were awarded to Zac Boys, finishing 24th and 29th out of be very competent performers; Holly Cross Country Spencer-Pickup and Noah Reaney. 67 runners. George Barker ran in the Burke, Lottie Dennett, Izzy Moores, MW Boys Inter Boys and finished in an impres- Katie Barr; finishing in 4th, 7th, 8th & A strong group of boys represented sive 14th position out of 43. 21st place respectively. Their indi- U10 the school at the Macclesfield and Congratulations to all boys who vidual runs brought the team home in later in the month and Lulu Grif- representing each school for each age The U10s gained their first experi- District Cross Country. The ground took part and represented the school. 2nd place. fiths, having been placed 4th out of group in a field of up to 140 runners. ence of hard-ball cricket this season, was fairly heavy going and wet in RL The Year 8 - 9 team was third over- approximately 50 runners qualified Results this year were exceptional with regular lunch time, after-school parts, but the boys showed great all with Lulu Griffiths, Jodie Foxton, to represent Cheshire in the Eng- with King’s school able to celebrate and games practices helping them to strength and determination. There Girls Susie Moores, Imogen Curtis, Betty lish Schools National Cross Country two AJIS Champions and considerable hone their skills. Competitive fixtures were a total of 40 boys running in the The cross country season began with Kemp, May Broadley, Charlotte Smith Championships in Nottingham. team success too. were played against Birkenhead Prep Minor Boys’ category (Year 7) and the two teams of girls participating in (6th, 12th, 17th, 23rd, 29th, 31st & LB Year 6 Girls were very proud to and SGS, whilst others were cancelled team finished 5th with 66pts thanks the English Schools’ Cross Country 35th respectively). be placed 2nd overall and the girls due to bad weather. to the efforts of Jack Bray (12), Oscar Cup competition in Warrington. Lulu Holly Burke, Lulu Griffths and Juniors Rebecca Foster (9th), Lara Tabachnik In glorious cricketing conditions Robinson (13), Charles Morrison (19), Griffiths had a fantastic run, win- Jodie Foxton represented Maccles- A committed group of runners (17th), Aimee Knight (22nd), Hat- at Birkenhead, the squad fielded Ben Willcock (23) and Billy Griffiths ning the Inter Girls race with Olivia field in the County Cross Country trained hard and prepared well for tie Bailey (36th) and Cordelia Kight first but struggled to contain the (31). The Junior Boys (Year 8 - 9) Moores, Jodie Foxton, Imogen Curtis, Championships at Knights Grange in the cross country events. The AJIS (43rd) supported by Lottie Clark and expansive batters of the home team. claimed first place thanks to impres- Ffyona Booker and Chantelle Car- Winsford in January. Finishing in 20th Championship was held at the end Lily Cook. Captain Oliver Davies and Morgan sive performances from Tom Barker roll completing the run with great place, Holly went on to represent of September and involved a team Year 5 Boys were also 2nd and se- Davies sent down some testing deliv- (8), Peter Goodfellow (9), Fin McK- performances to finish in first team Cheshire in an Inter-Counties race of 7 competitors (with 5 to count) cured a very impressive set of results eries, but on the whole Birkenhead including Ollie Davies finishing as benefitted from confident calling and Champion (pictured). Ollie Davies running, gaps in the field and know- (1st), Ollie Farrer (7th), Thomas ing where their short boundaries Danson (8th), Edward Roden (13th) were. Despite a well-taken run-out by and Billy Birkett (28th) supported by Oliver Davies and a wicket by Morgan James Hartley and Morgan Davies. Davies, the boys were set a challeng- Year 6 Boys were able to go one ing target of 271. Ben Chong and Zak better and are the AJIS U11 Cross Wright pushed the total along well, Country Champions thanks to Luke but unfortunately two quick wickets Wilson (1st), Jake Leech (2nd), Louis from Birkenhead’s two talented - and Finnegan (10th), Sam Heath (21st) rapid - bowlers put King’s very much and Theo Adamski (28th), supported on the back foot. The final pairing of by Reece Grady and James Harman. Oliver Davies and Billy Bridgewater The Macclesfield and District race batted confidently but, in trying to go series was also an excellent standard for their shots, they also succumbed and King’s performed consistently to a couple of late wickets. The final well in all age groups. Unfortunately, total of 241 resulted in a 30 run the postponed Championship Day in defeat. March clashed with our Easter break In the B team match, King’s batted so we were unable to compete on this first and got off to a flying start thanks occasion. to some big hitting from Thomas All pupils from Years 3 - 6 en- Danson and Christian Tattum. How- joyed competing in the House Cross ever, the runs started to slow down Country events. Tatton House was as the opposition bowlers found the this year’s winner with the following right line and length to bowl and the runners winning their year events: fielders adapted to the very quick out- Year 3 - Max Wilson and Sophie Payne, field. During the final couple of overs, Year 4 - Oliver Bailey and Connie some quick running and glorious Roden, Year 5 - Oliver Davies and Iona cricket shots from Oliver Creighton Whaley and Year 6 - Luke Wilson and got the score to a very respectable Rebecca Foster.

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Cross country Captains Louis Finne- In the HMC foursomes, we didn’t up included Will McIlveen, Will Har- consequently won the Player of the gan and Rebecca Foster should be manage to progress beyond the first ris, Sean Neary, Ash Barret and Sam Season Award after showing terrific congratulated for their commitment round. However, in the ISGA singles Buckingham undertaking the front skills every game and doing a great and support throughout the sea- completion, both our teams reached line and providing the necessary goal job in captaining the team. son. Cross Country Colours were the regional final of the Plate event allowance whilst also applying pres- At the culmination of the season, awarded to: Rebecca Foster, Lara and Remy Miller, Jake Willshaw and sure and suffocating the opposition’s the team travelled to Bath and went Tabachnik, Aimee Knight, Louis Finne- Charlie Fogg represented us superbly back four. The midfield was diverse on to win all five games played over gan, Jake Leech, Sam Heath and Luke in the National Finals held in June at and dynamic, with players such as the weekend, an accomplishment not Wilson. the Magnolia Golf Club, Buckingham- Dan Allmand-Smith, Archie Phillips achieved in the past 15 years. They DCB shire. Our boys finished runners-up and Calan Collins on at left midfield, beat teams from across the country by just one meagre Stableford point. Chris Harrop in the centre and Cal- including Ratcliffe College, University lum Snook, Rhys Bowen or Max Rid- College School and Reigate Grammar Football ings on the right. On the final line we School, only conceding 3 goals and Hockey U11 had Paul Roberts and Olly MacFadyen scoring a total of 18 goals over the The U11 A football team enjoyed an Boys 1st XI in the centre, with Keeran Manoharan weekend. outstanding season, winning four The 1st team had a monumentally and Jack Lucas on the flanks. Harry Chris Harrop 12BW pieces of silverware. In the Autumn, successful season, with a range of Booton was his usual, very effective the boys retained the Macclesfield accomplishments including being the self in goal for the majority of the sea- U16 Primary Schools’ Tournament, held first King’s hockey team for 15 years son, with Tom Carter and Henry Ives It was a very successful season for the at Derby Fields. In the seven matches to go unbeaten on tour in Bath to also making their debuts this season. U16 Boys, with extensive cup runs played, King’s scored an incredible winning 16 of 26 games in the season. The team’s most successful game and success in indoor hockey. 27 goals and only conceded one. The team was very effective after us- was against NULS in which we won A sign of our success was the num- Shortly after this, the boys travelled ing a varied formation of 3-3-4 rather 7-1 with goals being scored from ber of players representing either the to Manchester City’s Etihad Campus than last season’s 3-4-3. In addition, Will McIlveen (3), Chris Harrop (2), 1st or 2nd XI during the mid-week for an U11 tournament against other we utilised a mixture of old and new Will Harris and Dan Allmand-Smith. fixtures; Sean Neary, Max Ridings, Cal- independent schools from the North players in order to fill in any gaps The Man of the Match was Callum lum Snook and U16 Captain Keeran West. Against high calibre opposition, caused by the loss of players from last Snook, providing a defensive flair and Manoharan all regularly featured the boys were again successful. After King’s faced Ludgrove and were saves and King’s remaining a threat season. disallowing any progression for the for the 1st XI. Neary displayed his qualifying from the group stage, the unfortunately beaten 3-0. However, to going forwards. Just before half-time The 1st team began the season opposition whilst playing in midfield. versatility throughout the season, boys defeated CHS in the semi-final, finish in 3rd place in the country was Billy Birkett scored his second goal unsure about how the team would Will McIlveen was also a contributing occupying a variety of roles for the 1st courtesy of an extra-time winner a magnificent achievement, capping for a 2-0 lead. After the break King’s cope after a discouraging loss of nine factor to the success of the match XI, ranging from central midfield to from Leo Chinea-Rodriguez; and then off an outstanding season! battled hard to remain in front, before of the key 1st team players. Places scoring nearly half of the goals and striker. Ridings eventually held down followed this with a late winner from Colours were awarded to Archie the prolific Billy Birkett wrapped had to be filled and younger players increasing our goal surplus via some the sweeper role, acting as a screen Harrison Milner to win the final 1-0 Little, Jake Leech, Tyler Keefe, Noah things up with two further goals. needed to step up. The team was not astounding reverse and open stick for the defence. Snook made the left against Altrincham Prep. Reaney, Daniel Williams, Harrison In the B team fixture against disheartened in any way and instead shots to deny Newcastle any hope of midfield position his own early in the In the Spring, this very talented Milner, Leo Chinea-Rodriguez and Newcastle, King’s were involved in an was quick to adapt and gel with many winning. Other honourable mentions season and Manoharan (left back) team performed magnificently to win Luke Wilson. 8 goal thriller! After only 5 minutes, new players coming up and adjusting include Olly MacFadyen who played quickly developed a budding partner- the ISFA North West title in Bolton. MW/NB Newcastle found themselves 3 goals well to the 1st team standard of play. his defensive role and provided a ship with Snook on the left flank. The tone was set in the first game up, but King’s responded with their The team mainly consisted of new good hustle, and Max Ridings who Max Gillson, Cameron MacKin- against CHS with a comfortable 3-0 U10 best football of the match to create players such as Jack Lucas, Sam Buck- was effective in applying himself in non and Henry Ives also made 1st victory. Thereafter the boys were well- The U10 A team began well against a some very good chances and were ingham, Archie Phillips and Calan Col- midfield and accelerating the speed XI appearances during the season, organised and difficult to break down, skilful SGS team with Oliver Davies unlucky not to score. Immediately lins to name a few, all of which greatly of attack. whilst also representing the 2nd XI; remaining unbeaten throughout and and Billy Birkett both going close, but after the break, King’s conceded strengthened the team by providing The top goal scorer this season was Ives converting from his outfield birth progressing into the semi-final in first they fell behind after a superb strike, another, but three quick goals from consistency and agility. A typical line- Will McIlveen with an impressive 15 to occupy the 2nd XI goal, as well as position. After beating SGS 3-0 in despite keeper James Hartley mak- Christian Tatton and Oliver Sapey (2) goals, which helped him achieve the Gillson and MacKinnon playing in the this, the boys faced King’s Chester in ing some impressive earlier saves. saw them pushing for the equaliser. team’s Most Valuable Player award. 2nd XI defence and midfield respec- the final. Our players were rewarded Morgan Davies and Billy Bridgewa- Unfortunately, Newcastle caught them He was closely followed by Sean tively. The likes of Joe Laughton, Alex for their solidity in defence, with a ter helped create a couple of good on the counter-attack and scored Neary and Ash Barret with the three Rogan, Kieran Jones and Marcus Wel- winning goal scored by Leo Chinea- chances after the break but the team another goal to end the match 5-3 combining to score 42 goals. The sey made up the defence of the 2nd Rodriguez. eventually went down 5-0. The B winners. player who received the most Man of The season culminated with secur- team fared a lot better, dominating King’s also participated in the AJIS the Matches was Chris Harrop and he ing the local Primary Schools’ League, a weak Stockport squad. They raced U10 Football Festival in which they followed by representing the North to a 2-0 lead at half time, courtesy of qualified from their group in 2nd West region in the ISFA National goals from Oliver Farrer and Thomas place. In the quarter-final they were Finals at St George’s Park. The boys Danson, and despite letting in a defeated 2-0 by a strong Grange team started impressively, winning their careless goal after the break, ran out who went on to win the competition. first three group matches without eventual winners 3-1. MW/ST/NB conceding a goal, and despite losing The highlight of the season for their final game, they proceeded into the A team came against Newcastle- the quarter-finals in 2nd place. In Under-Lyme School. The boys started Golf this match against Chigwell the boys well as they created some early chanc- dominated territorially and were es, and were rewarded with a smartly A mixed year for our golf teams, rewarded early in the second half taken goal by Billy Birkett. The rest partly due to the very wet condi- with an excellent winning goal from of the half was evenly contested, with tions over the winter creating havoc Daniel Williams. In the semi-final James Hartley making some great with fixtures and playing conditions.

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XI, with Dan Bergman, Oscar Jackson valiant attempt from Man of the hockey. Jack Ancell was his usual a host of keen keepers including Joe try and Annabel and Eleanor joining and Ben Robinson playing in the 2nd Match Paul Suarez. Another hat-trick consistent self in the net and was Bathurst and Santi Houghton. Along the NAGS Academy Squad. Most XI midfield. James Jordan, Michael from Sam Buckingham led the team well supported in defence by Luke with some tenacious defenders in the recently Eleanor Toms, Annabel Hebb, Naismith and Usman Qureshi played to a solid 4-0 win over Bolton and Stevens. Captain Charlie Boddy, Joe likes Jack Phillpotts, Nohan Alias and Olivia Moores, Allana Buckingham, in the 2nd XI forward line. wrapped up a very successful season. Tabachnik and Euan Currie worked all-rounder Will Worswick. Tori Blackwell and Natalie Stevens The cup squad also welcomed a The defence was outstanding all sea- tirelessly in the midfield to provide The highlight for the U12 group have all been selected for JRPC Tier 1 number of U15s such as Sam Buck- son with Tom Dennett and Louis Gru- both goals and interceptions. Hugh was when all 3 teams played Sand- where they will represent the Man- ingham, Archie Phillips, Charlie Toms, ber winning Player of the Year. Sam Horne and Nial O’Neill were attack- bach on 2 King’s Astros. All the boys chester Pumas. Tom Carter, Louis Gruber, Will Harrop Buckingham was the side’s top scorer ing threats all season each scoring had a great time and represented the The player of the season goes to Al- and Oli Clementson all representing with 20 goals. A big step forward for a handful of goals. Some new faces school brilliantly in the last fixture lana Buckingham, her work rate is in- the U16s within the cups at various the side was having Charlie Toms, included James Smith, Dan Fosbrook of the season. With continued hard credibly high both on and off the ball, points. Sam Buckingham, Archie Phillips, and Ben Sneddon, who also forced work and brimming enthusiasm, the she is a huge team player, extremely Another sign of the season’s suc- Tom Carter, Will Harrop, Louis Gruber their way into the line-up by the end hockey future at King’s looks bright! determined on the hockey pitch and cess was being ranked within the and Oliver Clementson being mem- of the season. The B team was not CAMS certainly has had a big impact on the top 12 teams in the nation, mainly bers of the successful U16 side. Archie to be outdone with some terrific Senior Team and the younger players due to our cup run, during which we Phillips, Sam Buckingham and Tom performances in their 3 wins. Helped Girls this year. The most improved players faced a number of tough opposition, Carter will also continue their devel- by the work of some very talented 1st XI of the season are Tori Blackwell and including Calday Grange, Thirsk and opment over the summer with their goalkeepers in Finn Ross and Finlay Some of this season’s successful wins Anna Cartwright, playing at either Sandbach. In addition, the boys had respective NAGS and JRPC squads. Blakemore, the defending aspects of included Rossall, NULS, St Edwards, ends of the pitch. Tori has superb surprising success during the indoor Tom Carter the team improved brilliantly over Lymm, St Bedes, and King’s and pace, incredible skill and has started hockey season, reaching the North the course of the year. Oliver Fitton, Queen’s Chester. It was great to to come out of her comfort zone Finals, despite never having played U14 Charlie Murray, Freddie Higginboth- welcome both Denstone and Queen trying new skills and really testing competitively before. The U14s got off to a good start with am and James Walters were consistent Ethelburga’s to our competitive fix- herself. She is extremely coachable The Player of the Season was Sean a 4-1 victory against Merchant Tay- players and should continue to push ture list this season. and has taken on board and improved Neary, who contributed both goals lors’. Having started on such a high, for places in the A team. With younger years being eligible different areas of her game. Anna has and assisted with the U16s and the 1st we were keen to keep it going for as The squad worked extremely hard for selection for the 1st XI we had grown in confidence this season, her XI; opposition often found him diffi- long as possible. While the 100% win at training under new and inspiring eight Year 11 girls and two Year 10 marking and tightness on the ball cult to contain due to his pace and off rate didn’t last as long as we might coach, Mr Deakin. Rewards came in girls represent the Senior Team in fix- model for the younger players, show- have improved hugely and she is a the ball movement, as well as his play- have hoped, we did end the season the way of 3 boys being selected for tures and tournaments. This is a great ing her determination on the pitch vital player. making ability. The Most Improved with some really promising results. JAC squads and many of the boys opportunity for them to develop their and how hard work can take you a It has been a terrific season coach- Player was Dan Bergman, who locked Perhaps the high point of the season playing regular hockey for school and skills, playing against older, more ex- long way. It will be sad to see our ing a great bunch of girls, we say down his central midfield birth early was our 5-1 victory against Sedbergh clubs. Special mention goes to Luke perienced opposition. It also puts us Year 13s leave us; hopefully they will goodbye and good luck to some and on for the 2nd XI, and significantly - one of the school’s greatest rivals. Stevens who was awarded East Chesh- in a strong position for next season. continue to play at university or club welcome new faces to the team next progressed as a player throughout the Highs also included a 0-0 draw with ire’s Most Improved Player and was The girls began to gel and become level. year. season, looking set to challenge for a CHS and a 7-1 win against Rydal. selected for the Tensworth U13 side. stronger as individuals and as a team. There have been many strong SAH 1st XI place in seasons to come. While last season’s regular players Joe Tabachnik In November we welcomed Queen performances from individuals: SM continued to improve their hockey, Ethelburga’s to King’s for the first congratulations must go to Eleanor U16 the squad was boosted by the inclu- U12 time. We knew they would be strong, Toms, Annabel Hebb, Natalie Stevens The Year 11 team have had a very U15 sion of Ben Jones and Reggie Booth. The U12s had a very enjoyable season however the girls came together, put and Olivia Moores (pictured below) tough season with results not reflect- The U15s started the season with Remy Miller and George Holden of hockey filled with plenty of good everything into this game and left who represented the Pennine Pumas ing the true extent of the girls’ deter- a comfortable win over Merchant also came into the team late, both goals and good skills on show. The nothing on the pitch. This was by far in October 2015 with Natalie Stevens mination, talent and team play. Their Taylors’, albeit with a little help from showing themselves to be very skilful squad was large and enthusiastic their strongest performance of the progressing to the last 36 in the coun- first game of the season started with Year 9 Ben Jones with a hat-trick. The players. Mentions also go to Jonny with some who play hockey at clubs season, with a win just being taken boys continued in this fashion with a Murray (Player of the Season) with through to many boys picking up a from us after the final whistle; QE be- 4-0 win over NULS and a well-fought some really strong defending in the hockey stick for the first time. Num- ing awarded a penalty corner and the 5-3 victory over a very strong Calday back four; Ben Jones playing well at bers regularly swelled to over 25 on a game finishing with a 3-3 draw. The Grange side. The team continued to the front scoring a total of 15 goals training night and by the end of the girls work rate was phenomenal, their rack up victories, including 8-0 over this season; and Mark Stevenson for 6 fixtures, over 30 Year 7 boys had final third attack was brilliant and Sandbach and a 5-0 victory over St. his inspirational team talks just before represented the school in an A, B or their defence could not be faulted. It Anselms. Archie Phillips was at his the matches, bringing us some of our C match. was a pleasure to watch. best with a hat-trick at Sandbach. A best victories. The team’s first match took place Other performances that stood out return fixture against a very vexed Sam Jones in November with the As having a fan- were against NULS, winning both at Newcastle side saw a narrow 4-3 victo- U13 tastic win over NULS. Both the A and home and away, and Rossall which ry, after problems in defence encour- The U13 team had a successful season B teams suffered defeats in their next finished 4-3 to King’s, an aggressive aged an attempted comeback from taking away 8 wins and 4 losses. As fixture before recording 5-3 and 4-3 and well-fought game. We finally got the opponent. Game of the season the season progressed, the boys victories over Rydal. These were the a well-deserved win against King’s potentially being a 10-1 victory over learned to work well with each other standout matches and with the talent Chester in the U19 County Tourna- Rydal School, their goal coming after and finished the last 3 games in im- on show, there are some great signs ment to come runners-up in Chesh- goalkeeper and captain Tom Carter pressive style. Ben McIlveen was the for the future. The Player of the Sea- ire. limped off injured. Goals from Sam outstanding Striker of the Year earn- son was Nathan Harrop; an enthusias- Abigail Johnston (pictured above) Buckingham (4) and Tom Dennett (3) ing 9 goals and contributing to the tic player who possesses all the skills has captained the Senior Team for sealed an easy win. superb final goal difference of +37. and scored 5 goals. Ben Wallace and two seasons, a great player who has The only loss of the season came It was very pleasing to see so many Ethan Moss also proved themselves developed her game hugely and against a strong Guernsey side, in of the players from last season carry to be deadly in front of goals with 3 recently been selected for the North which the boys lost 4-0 despite a on and continue to improve their for the year. The squad also includes of England U21s. She is a good role

64 65 Sports Sports a 7-0 defeat against Denstone who third win when playing St Edwards tunity to play against Stewart Melville until the final whistle, clinching a win A team are Isabel Moores and Holly a place in the North West finals for simply were too strong for the girls who narrowly won 2-1. Both teams who tour the North West every year. with 4-3 to King’s. Burke; again their work rate is high the second season in succession. The to compete. Unfortunately, the next were very skilful and tenacious in This fixture provided an excellent Every member of the U13 squad and their confidence in their own team then progressed through to the two games did not give the girls the their attack and defence. There was warm up for the County Finals which improved over the season, whether ability has grown which has allowed North finals, held in Leeds in March. results they were looking for and continuous outstanding play from the were played the day after; they played it was their fitness, core skills, or them to really push themselves to This was a fabulous achievement and came away with a 5-2 loss against Ros- whole squad during the season under very well as a team and created a host confidence in their own ability. Con- try new skills. All of the U12 players the girls enjoyed their day competing sall and a 4-0 loss against a very strong excellent captaincy of Olivia Moores of chances, finishing in third position. gratulations to Beth Henshaw (GK), have progressed this season with 5 of with the best teams in the North of Stoneyhurst despite some skillful in- who led the team with drive and de- The Player of the Season was Zoë Ella Thomson, Freya Shaughnessy and them being selected to represent East England, finishing 7th. terchanges. The girls moved on from termination. For their fourth game, Thomas; an extremely tenacious de- Flossie Blackwell who were selected Cheshire, including Scarlett Brough, Thanks to hockey Captain Hattie their disappointing run to play in a the girls met Stoneyhurst, who have fender, who distributes the ball well, to represent East Cheshire. Player of Holly Burke, Lottie Dennett, Katie Bailey for her support and leader- mixed 15/16 year group fixture and always been a force to be reckoned has some great individual skill, works the Season was Captain Flossie Black- Barr (GK) and Isabel Moores. ship throughout the season. Team drew 0-0 with St Edwards. The match with. The girls showed some excel- hard on the pitch and most of all is well who was consistent in her perfor- The player of the season for the B members progressing to the major featured some very strong and skilful lent set plays with several well worked a team player. The most improved mances on the pitch. She dominates team is Georgia Bills who also repre- tournaments were: Millie Crum- play, with Nat Stevens being named chances from players of the match Ol- Player of the Season was Alex Brooks, the right side of the pitch with her sented the A team in a few fixtures. mack, Eve Carter, Georgia Aspray, Player of the Game. Their fourth fix- ivia Moores and Hannah McCormick. after changing positions to become a attacking skills, provides many great She has some great skills which she Aimee Knight, Hattie Bailey, Amelia ture was against NULS and they finally However, King’s lost concentration midfielder, her work rate is one to be opportunities for other players to uses well to eliminate players and Robinson-Stanier, Molly Bridgewater, secured a very well deserved 5-3 win on several crucial occasions and lost admired. convert chances and is composed on has developed her overall game Lottie Clark, Ruby Callaghan and Lara in a very exciting match in which the the game 8-0. JLD the ball. The Most Improved Player this season. Charlotte Hudson and Tabachnik. We wish them all success girls really performed as a team. To Unfortunately, the season ended of the season was Charlotte Smith; Georgina Devon were awarded the as they progress to hockey in the finish the season, the girls travelled to with a 1-0 loss when playing West- U13 (A and B) she is one of the most hard-working Most Improved Players of the season Senior Division. Stoneyhurst for their annual U16 7-a- holme, which was very disappointing With a loss of 3-0 in their first game and determined individuals both in because they listen to feedback and Colours were awarded to: Aimee side tournament. The girls saved their as King’s controlled all of the play but to Denstone the girls were disap- training and in matches, always gives always take this on board and try to Knight, Lara Tabachnik, Millie Crum- best performance until last with some were unable to capitalise on chances pointed, but came back showing grit 100% effort and continuously strives implement it into a game situation. mack, Georgia Aspray and Hattie outstanding individual and team play. created and achieve a victory. and determination and won their to improve her game. All the U12 girls have been a pleas- Bailey. They set off at a ferocious intensity, Olivia Moores successfully repre- next five games against St Edwards, SAH ure to coach this season, they have DCB setting up some piercing attacks as sented the County and has reached Rossall, Rydal, Westholme and NULS, become a close-knit group who all well as defending as a unit. The girls the JRPC Level of the England Hockey which was a great way to boost their U12 (A and B) encourage one another and this trans- won three of their games and unfor- Single System along with Ffyona confidence. This season has been an extremely lates onto the pitch. Netball tunately lost one which was purely Booker who has represented East The U13 team are a lively close-knit successful one. After winning the SAH down to fatigue. The girls finished in Cheshire. group of players and this translates on North Finals last year, this would be Seniors a very well-deserved runners-up posi- VLJ to the hockey pitch. The team made hard to follow. The results for both U11 For many of the 1st team, this was to tion and showed the true potential of good progress over the season and the A and B teams were magnificent Junior hockey continues to improve be their final and most memorable of the squad. U14 were pushed in training which for with the As having 9 wins, 0 losses, and develop and the girls have had netball seasons. Early on, the squad Annabel Hebb, Victoria Blackwell The season began with some glorious some weeks was combined with the scoring 80 goals and conceding 0. another successful year, making their played some of their toughest op- and Natalie Stevens successfully weather and some fantastic hockey. U14 age groups to challenge them The Bs won 5 and lost 1 against an A mark on all major competitions dur- ponents, beating CHS 14-9 in a closely represented Cheshire this year as well The opening fixture against Denstone and compete with older players. team. This is an exceptional achieve- ing the season. Festivals and tourna- fought game. These early fixtures as reaching JRPC Level of the Eng- is always a highlight due to the mag- Being used to playing 7 or 8 aside ment which makes next year even ments, as well as friendly fixtures have enabled the team to familiarise them- land Hockey Single System. Natalie nificent facilities and fantastic hosting. the girls were tested against NULS more exciting when we enter the U13 helped all to improve their skills. selves with the new changes to the also went on to trial for the Full U16 The 8-0 victory showed the potential playing 11 aside for the first time in National Schools’ Tournament. The team performed well at the squad. The 2nds also won 15-10 in a England Squad and although she nar- of the team. a school fixture. For some this was a In March, to finish off the season, AJIS event and secured a very credit- heated match. rowly missed out on selection she is Other opposition over the Autumn new experience, due to a change in King’s Chester invited us to play in a able 4th place in the top group. Fast Within the Macclesfield and District now one of the top five Goalkeepers period included St Edwards, Rossall formation and a larger pitch, how- tournament with 12 other schools. and furious tournament games were Netball League the team had only one in the Country at U16 level. and Stoneyhurst. All games were nar- ever they soon realised this meant With many of the U12s unavailable closely contested and there was little loss to Fallibroome. Beating some VLJ row losses and some valuable lessons more running but potentially more we still entered a team with the view to separate the top teams. tough opposition from Wilmslow were learnt. After several tough train- time and space to run with the ball. of developing players and having At the Cheshire round of the IN- HS, AESG and Tytherington High, U15 ing sessions, the girls travelled to a This was an extremely close and well fun. The girls fought hard and played 2Hockey competition the girls were the girls played some brilliant, hard- The team’s first game took them to very wet Rydal where they faced their fought game which King’s deservedly some great hockey, finishing 2nd. runners up to Queen’s Chester and fought netball and King’s were overall Denstone, which is always a tough next opposition. This was their most won 2-1. A highlight of the season was at played with an ever improving confi- runners-up. opposition. The hockey played comprehensive team performance of The U13 IN2Hockey tournament Christmas in a fixture against CHS dence and belief. This earned them In October the successful formulae from both teams was tremendous. the season where they implemented was played in March where the girls with King’s dressing as elves and King’s defence held strong absorb- the perfect game plan and won 5-0. played some good hockey. It took a Cheadle as Santas. This was thor- ing some skilful attacks, which led Due to adverse weather conditions little time for the girls to warm up, oughly enjoyed by all the girls with to King’s gaining confidence and many games had to be cancelled and and unfortunately, with the games great imagination shown in the outfits allowed the girls to pull out some the girls showed their resilience by being so short with limited time to worn. Even better still were the post- excellent team work and achieve a training in torrential downpours. The score, a couple of narrow losses put match mince pies! very convincing 10-0 win. This set an girls were incredibly robust and were King’s in 4th place. The Player of the Season for the excellent tone for the season, giving willing to work hard in horrific condi- The U13 B team had a great start to A team goes to Charlotte Dennett the girls confidence in the fixtures tions. the season winning 8-0 against Den- who is an amazing young talent. She to come. The next two games held Our final Saturday fixture of the stone, playing at great facilities against has great individual skill, is a huge some tough lessons for the girls with season was played against NULS, but a strong opposition, this showed just team player and has been a fantastic first a win against Rossall ending 2-1. unfortunately we lost to a very strong how much potential the U13s had. Captain. Her work rate is incredible, In this game the girls fought to end side. Alex Brookes, Zoë Thomas and Next, they came up against Rossall, both on and off the ball and she has and really held out when Rossall Chantelle Carroll showed great fight another strong hockey school and represented both the Year 8 and 9 pushed hard to equalize. Unfortu- and tenacity in defence. always a close game. King’s played teams in competitions this season. nately, the girls could not secure a After Christmas, came the oppor- some superb hockey, playing hard The Most Improved Players for the

66 67 Sports Sports of the squad was evident once again 1st team cannot be questioned. It is 19-14, followed by Rydal which was a centre court players Olivia Moores, ment, were runners-up in the County league in 3rd place. as they achieved runners-up in the a squad that works tirelessly despite convincing victory of 36-9. The only Grace Gudgeon, Anna Kaczmarczyk Tournament after losing narrowly and The team progressed well through- Cheshire County Tournament. This some players multi-tasking many heavy defeat occurred at Stonyhurst being the crucial links throughout were runners-up at the Stoneyhurst out the rest of the season with further success was excellent preparation sports. I have been extremely proud when the girls met a very capable 1st the court. Hannah McCormick was Invitational Tournament in March. wins against Wilmslow, Westholme, for the County round of the National to have captained one of the most VII senior team, losing 32-10. the most versatile player having the The team worked hard together Rydal and SGS on Saturday mornings. Schools’ Tournament. On a freezing, successful King’s Netball squads. We At the Cheshire County Tourna- flexibility and skills to play in all three and individually with some excellent At the County Tournament in March, blustery day the first team stepped owe much of this success to Mrs Cole- ment, we had a slightly less successful areas of the court. The squad beat all defence work from Hannah Robinson, there was some excellent play against out on court, knowing that if they man who without doubt shaped us to day with some tough opposition. We the teams within the league except Frankie Sawyer and Freya Snook who Fallibroome and Helsby in particular. played to their maximum potential, be the squad we are today. were often ahead or even at half time, Wilmslow HS. The most memorable were able to work very effectively However, despite determined and they stood an excellent chance of Sophia Bird / CJC but then lost many games in the sec- and deserving match was against Falli- in both the attacking and defending tenacious play they narrowly missed qualifying for the North West regional ond half. Our final position was 5th broome winning 17-4. The U15s came circles. Freya Snook was the Most Im- out on reaching the semi-finals. rounds. They didn’t disappoint: the U16 having won 2 and lost 4. runners-up to Wilmslow HS, the most proved Player of the season. A special Throughout the season all squad shooters remained on target, the de- This age group has some very tal- The Coach’s Player of the Year successful result for three years. mention must go to Ellie Moreton members have been conscientious fence proved crucial in making many ented individuals and the squad have went to Sophie Jackson, who filled CJC who won the award for Player of the and energetic. The addition of Clau- important interceptions, while the enjoyed much success. The team the shoes of Antonia Bianchi (who Year and works tirelessly in whatever dia Freedman to the team has been a centre court were indispensable, be- consists of a formidable circle de- was promoted to the senior team) U14 position is asked of her and Mollie real advantage; she has strengthened ing the crucial link throughout. With fence in Frances Gurney, supported and worked tirelessly and consistently The girls were very energetic, very Pettit who was selected as Players’ the centre court with her speed and only one loss that day, we qualified for by Lauren Hayward, Maddie Dawson throughout every match. The Most excitable and very dedicated to the Player of the Year. There is an excess athletic ability. Flossie Blackwell and the North West Regional Round. and Nicole Fahey. Sophie Jackson has Improved Player went to Grace Hey- sport. The squad made team selec- of very capable circle attackers, in Susie Moores have proved themselves When it came to the North West stepped up to fill the role of Centre wood who is now an accomplished, tion difficult at times, however some particular Jayde Sharp and Chantelle to be strong defenders and Lauren Regionals, the first team increased with Mollie Gallagher, Katie Hast- confident athlete. Players’ Player went B team matches allowed more players Carroll who have produced excellent Harbige and Tash Fahey have worked the standard of netball and played ings and Grace Heywood in support, to Frances Gurney, who is relentless to display their skills in competitive performances at Wing Attack, and well together in the shooting circle to outstandingly well amongst some completing the hard work done in in her efforts to win every ball and matches. Alex Cairns finding superb shooting create some impressive goals. incredibly able teams. Despite numer- the centre court to link play. Charlotte repeatedly made game-changing The squad started the season with consistency. The Netball and Hockey Tour to ous teams having England U17 and Cramp, Natasha Salem and Jess Pettit interceptions. some impressive victories in the Mac- CLB Gibraltar and Spain provided a great U19 athletes in their squads, King’s have worked hard to improve the CLB clesfield and District League. They opportunity for players to develop finished in a very respectable 4th shooting statistics and develop strate- continued the run into the Saturday U13 their skills further, playing with older position, which is an achievement to gies to create options when bringing U15 fixtures beating King’s Chester 31-16, The U13 squad had a successful sea- girls and against foreign opposition. be proud of. the ball into the shooting circle. The U15 squad is a strong group of SGS 22-12, Westholme A team 32-1, son. In the Autumn term they began Elin Rands and Lauren Harbige blend- In the weekly afternoon fixtures, The County rounds of the National committed, enthusiastic and extreme- their B team 9-3, The Grange 17-10 playing fixtures in the Macclesfield ed nicely into the teams. Lauren’s the 1st team remained undefeated Schools’ Tournament was the squad’s ly able girls. The squad has worked and 16-4 respectively. In the second and District Netball league where shooting skills and Elin’s perceptive throughout the whole season with first major competition in which the tirelessly on their skills and have half of the MDNL matches and the they experienced some convincing defending and centre court play con- some astonishing results, such as 51- team finished in 4th place after play- embraced the strategies put in place three tournaments they did not victories against AESG, All Hallows, tributed highly to the success of our 11 V Lymm and 39-6 against SGS. ing some hard fought matches. Their to improve markedly over the year. disappoint either. They were placed Congleton, Knutsford, Macclesfield teams against the Gibraltarians. The season closed with the next opponents were King’s Chester To date, this was the most successful 3rd in the league after losing really Academy and Tytherington. A very The Player of the Season was Elin Stonyhurst Tournament and a slightly whom they beat 17-11. A particular season for the U15s. hard-fought matches against Fallib- close competitive game against Fallib- Rands. Vanessa Downes and Izzy depleted team. Even so the squad highlight was beating Wilmslow HS In the Cheshire County Tourna- roome and Wilmslow HS. They lost in roome unfortunately ended in a 12-13 Whittle achieved the Most Improved managed third place, losing by only by 1 goal in a very close match. On a ment, the squad didn’t play to their the semi-final at the County rounds defeat and another loss to Wilmslow Players award and Players’ Player was one goal to the runners-up, with cold night in December, we travelled full potential and lessons were learnt of The National Schools’ Tourna- HS meant that they finished the Claudia Freedman. some 2nd team proving instrumental to Manchester High School and man- from the experience. The squad won LB to our success. aged a 9-9 draw. The Grange were two matches, drew one match and The ceaseless commitment of the our next opponents whom we beat lost three to finish 4th overall. Anna U12 Kaczmarczyk was Player of the Tour- In the Autumn term, the U12s began nament. playing fixtures in the Macclesfield There were many highs and lows and District Netball league where throughout the year, although the they experienced some convincing development of the squad was hin- victories against Congleton, Mac- dered somewhat by terrible weather clesfield Academy, All Hallows and in January. In the fixtures that went Tytherington. They completed the ahead. The girls played Rydal Pen- first half of the league fixtures beating rhos, beating them convincingly 65-5. Fallibroome A team 17-7 and their B SGS proved to be a more competitive team 21-1, both very convincing wins match, narrowly beating them 13-11 over our biggest rivals. The second and then going on to lose to King Wil- half of the league fixtures didn’t start liam College 10-13. quite so well and both the A and B The Macclesfield and District teams suffered their first league de- Netball League gave the Under 15s feat against Wilmslow. However, the the confidence and self-belief they As went on to beat Eaton Bank, AESG needed to play some excellent net- and Knutsford. The Bs won all match- ball. Effective movement and shoot- es except a loss against AESG. This ing from Sophie Moss, Lizzy Adams meant that the A team were runners- and Adele Le Moignan. Brilliant up in the A League and the B team interceptions and defending from finished 3rd in the B League Ffyona Booker, Katie Hayward, Katie Pictured left to right: Mollie Pettit, Izzy Moores, Ellie Morten, Susie Moores and Antonia Bianchi The A team progressed well Hughes and Zara Schutt. While the who progressed into their County, Regional Squads or Development Squads. throughout the rest of the season

68 69 Sports Sports with some excellent Saturday fixtures of the Season for her tactical and With such a large squad to choose base, preventing many half rounders. with further wins against West- tenacious play and reliable captaincy from it was difficult making selections Deep fielders Sophie Miller, Claudia holme, Rydal, SGS and King William of the team, Hannah McCormick was each week, however with the strength Rodriguez Martinez and Holly Burke (IOW). The only defeats for the A awarded Most Improved Player and and depth of the squad we were able carried out their fielding duties with team came from Withington who beat Izzy Stevens was thoroughly deserv- to get a lot of the girls to represent an accurate throw and stopped many them in a close, hard fought game 13- ing of the Players’ Player award. the school. Both the A and B teams rounders being scored. 16 and The Grange. LB had narrow losses against Denstone, The whole squad were excellent At the Cheshire County Tourna- which is always a tough game at the with the bat, all scoring consistently. ment in March, only one team is U14 beginning of the season. Next was Scarlett Brough and Lottie Dennett allowed to represent the school so The U14 Squad has some excellent, CHS, where the A team won by one being the most successful scoring a squad of 10 girls played several dedicated players and with the high rounder and the B team lost by half a many half and full rounders. competitive matches finishing second numbers attending training, there rounder. The hard work, strategic play, com- in their group which meant they were were at least two girls competing for With a versatile squad we were able mitment and enthusiasm proved a through to the semi-finals. Unfortu- any one position. When called upon, to move players around to try differ- successful formula with the A squad nately, they lost to King’s Chester, but without exception, each girl played ent positions, allowing more girls to being unbeaten all season. The first were very keen to play for 3rd place, to the best of their ability. The season be involved. The girls’ decision-mak- fixture was a hard fought match a match which they won and display- began with a fixture against Den- ing improved over the season with against Denstone. After a fraught two ing excellent tenacity and dogged stone, who are always fierce opposi- accurate throws to bases from Ella innings King’s won 14-10; Player of determination. tion. Despite some excellent round- Thomson, Felicity Bailey and Susie the Match was Lottie Dennett. We The A team Player of the Season ers scored by Imogen Collinson and Moores and some quality consistent played CHS next and both squads was Lottie Dennett, who has worked Player of the Game, Alex Brooks, we bowling from Natasha Fahey, Zahira won; players of match were Isabel extremely hard all year and embraces could not manage to deprive them of Welsh and Elin Rands. Moores, Scarlett Brough and Claudia all coaching offered; she will play any scoring 22 to our 11. The final fixtures were held at Rodriguez Martinez. position and always wears a smile. Our next opponents were CHS King’s in a triangular tournament with Finally, the squad played an excel- The A team Most Improved Player and, despite losing 7 – 8½, this was a NULS and The Grange. The first game lent morning of rounders in a triangu- was Georgia Bills and Players’ Player match that could have so easily been against NULS resulted in a 13½ -13½ lar vs The Grange and NULS. The girls was a tie between Faye Fitzmaurice won – errors in the field cost us and draw with King’s displaying some played their best rounders to date, and Holly Burke. The B team Player of despite another good performance great batting in the first innings, with winning two extremely close-fought the Year was awarded to Izzy Watkins from Player of the Game Alex Brooks, May Broadley batting consistently well matches. This was a wonderful finish who works tirelessly in defence and it wasn’t enough to win. scoring 2½ rounders. In the second to a wonderful season. was promoted to the A team in latter Finally, we met NULS and played an innings King’s showed off their field- CJC matches. The Most Improved Player excellent first innings scoring 6½ and ing skills getting five of the Newcastle award went to Ella Jones who has limiting NULS to 4½ with excellent team out and limiting them to six Juniors developed into a very able centre fielding and fantastic catches from rounders; a great team performance. Junior rounders has, as always, been court player and Players’ Player went Frankie Sawyer, Lauren Gosling, Zoe The fixture vs The Grange began immensely popular and frustratingly to Claudia Rodriguez Martinez, which also won the ‘Jersey Games’, in which fielding skills, together with percep- Thomas and two very close to the with some great batting from Bethany weather-affected! Along with great was fitting as she too drifted between they competed whilst on the Jersey tive and tactical game play. Ffyona ground from Player of the Game, Alex Henshaw, Felicity Bailey and Charlotte enthusiasm, the standard of play and both squads improving along the way. Sports tour. Booker proved to be a formidable Cairns. Due to some excellent bowl- Smith giving us a score of 7 rounders level of skills in all year groups is very CLB In the AJIS U11 netball tournament bowler with fast and accurate bowling ing, we were unable to repeat the per- to their 4. In the second innings there strong. Many of our girls from Years the girls put up a sterling perfor- that made it very difficult for the op- formance in the 2nd innings and we were some excellent fielding skills 3-6 have enjoyed playing in fixtures Juniors mance against independent schools position to hit well. Great backstop- were unable to prevent the NULS girls from Lauren Harbige, Tula Houghton and achieved great success. 2015-2016 was an exciting season from all over the North West. Despite ping from Hannah McCormick with from racing away with a 9½-7½ win. and Freya Shaughnessy preventing The Year 6s have been a particular- for Junior netball. Friendly fixtures having to substitute two players fast linkage to first base enabled Ol- Coaches’ Player of the Year was Newcastle from matching our score, ly skilled and capable group of sports against local schools were played by before the tournament, they man- ivia Moores to stump several players. awarded to Alex Brooks who made leading to a 15-11½ win. players this year. The A team won all Years 4 - 6 and Year 3 practised hard aged to make it to the final, losing to Quick movement by bowler Ffyona the biggest contribution with the bat The Player of the Season was their fixtures, impressing staff with in preparation for their match season. Oldham Hulme by a narrow margin. Booker, moving on to 2nd base, ably and when fielding, she produced awarded to Claudia Freedman, a great their batting strength, tactical aware- The U11 A team were undefeated The girls came home sporting silver supported by the sure hands of Char- some excellent long throws from the all-rounder, and the Most Improved ness, brilliant catches and disciplined, in their local fixtures. Over the course medals which were well-deserved. lotte Wardle prevented many players deep. The Most Improved Player was Player was Charlotte Smith, an ex- skilful fielding. of the season they worked hard and The team was captained by Cord- scoring half rounders at second base, Ella McQuillan who made valuable tremely determined individual who The team was very excited to be developed as a team, growing in elia Kight and colours were awarded and great support play by all players contributions from the deep field and strives to improve her game. able to compete in the AJIS tourna- strength and ability. They played in to: Cordelia Kight, Aimee Knight, led to victories against Denstone Col- found form with the bat. The Play- SAH ment. Despite the long journey to the St Pius V Netball Tournament Madeleine Johnson, Eve Carter, Molly lege (11.5-9), CHS (12.5 -7) and NULS ers’ Player was a tie between Imogen Lytham St Annes, the girls made short in Leyland and competed to a high Bridgewater, Serena Panton and Har- (7.5-7). Collinson who was responsible for U12 work of their first, second and third standard against other independent riet Bailey. Anna Kaczmarczyk made three consistent bowling, taking superb The Rounders season is a short and round opponents and qualified for schools. They narrowly missed out on NS impressive catches in the game catches and scoring several rounders hectic one. The squad consisted of the final with only a few rounders a place in the final to Stoneyhurst, the against NULS earning herself Player of and Ellie Moreton who contributed approximately 25 extremely able, scored against them. The final was a eventual winners of the tournament. the Match and Adele le Moignan and well with the bat and was consistent enthusiastic and committed girls. thrilling draw with Kirkham School, Rounders Having been undefeated in all their Grace Gudgeon were consistent deep on 4th base. They embraced the technicalities which resulted in the two schools league matches, the U11 A team were U15 fielders with excellent long throws CB and strategies that have been put in agreeing to share the trophy and be named Macclesfield and District Pri- A talented and enthusiastic squad of back into the pitch. This year, Izzy place. Sophie Scott and Georgia Bills joint AJIS Champions. mary Schools’ League 1 champions. Year 10 girls consistently attended Stevens also made significant contri- U13 bowled efficiently and with variation. The players have shared the post In April they went on to win the Mac- training and enjoyed a short but suc- butions to the team’s success with This year we had around thirty pupils Scarlett Brough and Elizabeth Harris of team Captain; they have all made clesfield and District Primary Schools’ cessful rounders season. her strong and fast long throws from at after-school sessions and managed played backstop brilliantly, releasing valuable and individual contributions. Netball Tournament, adding to their Throughout the term there were the deep field. to play four fixtures against Denstone, the ball with accuracy and speed. Isa- Team members who represented the trophy collection (pictured). They impressive displays of batting and Ffyona Booker was awarded Player CHS, NULS and The Grange. bel Moores was a formidable second school at the AJIS tournament were:

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Eve Carter, Georgia Aspray, Aimee attack, with Tom McClusky, Stewart Knight, Molly Bridgewater, Hattie Gurney, Harold Blackwell, Cameron Bailey, Cordy Kite, Lily Cook, Mary Redpath, Joe Turner (DM Harbord Squire, Serena Panton and Madeleine Cup Winner), Will Fairclough, Sam Johnson. Colours were awarded to: Brindle, Jamie Dunkerley and of Aimee Knight, Georgia Aspray, Molly course the effervescent Kieran McK- Bridgewater, Eve Carter and Hattie eever (James Painton Award Winner) Bailey. making sure that territory resulted in points with some sumptuous back play. Rugby In the Cheshire 7s at St Ambrose 1st XV the boys won the trophy, amassing Mighty oaks from little acorns grow 165 points and only conceding 5. and this was definitely the case with From here the squad embarked on the performances of the 1st XV this the arduous journey to the North season. The seeds were sown with a East for the Durham 7s, whereby they superb pre-season trip to Limerick played some good group rugby only University, home to one of Ireland’s to lose to Sedbergh in the quarter fi- greatest rugby provinces, the mighty nals. A reserve 7s squad went down to Munster. After a week of intensive Solihull with many boys making their training the 1st XV played the Mun- 1st team debut. It was exceptionally ster Academy XV, narrowly going pleasing to watch them improve and down by 3 scores to 1. Injuries to develop over the day as they went on Will Hodgson and Cameron Redpath to win the Bowl Competition. Sadly meant they were unavailable until the weather led to the cancellation half term and subsequently the side son behind the pack Sedbergh were In training the boys worked hard on of both the North of England 7s and struggled early on with domestic bullied and battered and King’s won their skills and patterns of play to en- the Stonyhurst 7s – the latter being duties with a combination of injuries, the 2nd-half battle 17-5. This was sure that the rich and exciting brand a competition in which King’s has a scoring and converting. As time ran started off with strong winning per- poor game management and fixtures the catalyst to a much improved and of rugby they played was in keeping long history of success. out Sam Worthington led the cavalry formances against MGS and QEGS against particularly strong sides which rejuvenated level of performance with the King’s rugby tradition. There A well-rested team set off for the and was part of an 11 phase build up Wakefield, separated by a narrow resulted in rare defeats to Durham across the squad for the remainder were outstanding performances in annual pilgrimage to Rosslyn Park deep into injury time that ultimately defeat away at RGS Lancaster and dis- School, RGS Lancaster, Barnard Castle of the season; seeing the boys lose the pack from Dan Crosby, James for the National School 7s and with allowed Joe Turner to pick the ball up appointment at the hands of Wood- (Champions Trophy) and QEG’s only once in their next 11 games and Scott, Jack Rodgers, Simon Ridgway, a new-look World 7s Series type and scamper over the ruck to plant house Grove and Sedbergh. Wakefield, whilst the lowest point reaching the final of the Cheshire Sam Worthington (Peter Matthews competition there were 4 major the ball firmly beyond the try line and Following this difficult start, the of the season was losing heavily to Cup, which ended as a 17-17 draw 1st XV Cup Winner), Tim Phillips, trophies up for grabs. Optimism soon level the scores. Will Hodgson calmly 2nd XV beat two strong oppositions Woodhouse Grove 32-12. Despite against Wilmslow HS at the AJ Bell Matthew Peakman, Jack Hudson, Cal- turned to disappointment as King’s slotted the kick between the uprights away at Nottingham HS and at Adams these losses the green shoots of Stadium. lum Lavelle, Ben Tatton and Michael were well-beaten in their first game and for the first time in the school’s il- GS. The 2nd XV then continued their recovery were visible with emphatic Season highlights were impressive Abrahamse – most of whom are Year against Trinity, however impressive lustrious history, King’s were crowned winning streak with close victories midweek cup wins against Leeds GS, back-to-back wins against Solihull and 12 and will be a force to be reckoned wins against Uppingham (52-5) and a Rosslyn Park Bowl Champions for against Stonyhurst College (10-0) and Calday Grange, CHS and SGS. Stonyhurst in atrocious conditions. with next season across the northern famous victory over group favourites 2016 – a superb and fitting end to the Denstone College (19-15). In terrible The side produced their best 40 Performances against Nottingham HS, circuit. Behind this huge yet mo- KES Bath (19-17) set up a final group season and no better way for many weather the 2nd XV drew with Soli- minutes of the season against Sed- Adams GS, Queen Ethelburga’s and bile pack, Will Hodgson (Halewood showdown with Christ’s Hospital, of the boys to finish their schoolboy hull (5-5) before finishing the season bergh under lights at Priory Park. The Wirral GS were scintillating and the Cup Winner) pulled the strings and with King’s needing to record a win- rugby careers. with notable victories against Queen forwards led by Sam Worthington teams’ attack-minded instincts com- captained the side superbly and was ning margin of 21 points to proceed. GAJM/JPB Ethelburga’s (76-0) and a final game were immense and with Will Hodg- plimented the coaches’ game plan. the heartbeat behind every successful Perhaps not surprisingly the boys won win against Wirral GS (22-5). by 22 points (42-19) with Sam Brindle 2nd XV The team’s hunger for victory scoring a last play of the game try. The 2nd XV enjoyed another great played a major part in the success of Although losing to eventual Cup final- season, improving their skills, bond- the season. Despite the sometimes ists Bedford School in the elimina- ing as a team and making many relaxed atmosphere in training, come tor, it did mean that there would be memories in the process. The season match day the team showed the pas- knockout rugby to play on day two. The following morning saw emphatic wins over AKS Arnold, Gordon’s School and St Edward’s Oxford as the team progressed into the Bowl semi-final against the much fancied Worksop College. Once again the boys didn’t disappoint and were victorious 26-14. This set up a televised Bowl final against St Paul’s School and in front of a large crowd the boys were unable to get in the lead, conceding 2 tries and a conver- sion before taking the game by the scruff of the neck with Will Hodgson

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numbers of injuries and promotion to scribed as a waterlogged pitch. Trail- team must develop other avenues or lessly in the forwards, ably supported first and second teams. This turno- ing with 5 minutes left, Harry Wheel- become one dimensional and easily by Adam Humphreys, Harry Brough, ver of players allowed opportunities ton charged into the Stonyhurst 22 stopped. Reggie Booth, Matthew Warham and for others and meant that 30 players bumping off three defenders in his Other notable forward perfor- Ben Calvin, whilst Jamie Moule was represented the U16 at various times. pursuit of the winning score. With the mances were registered by an athletic hard working and uncompromising Special mention must go to Hamish try line beckoning, Wheelton breezed Joshua Laniado-Green and a work- in defence. Harri Bowen linked well Burke who grew as both stand-off and past two further defenders to splash man-like Max Hines who toiled in the with Josh Wyatt, who provided plenty Captain and a whole pack of previous down over the line and prompt a less fashionable regions of the ruck of attacking opportunities for Jake B team players who developed mag- fantastic celebration. The conversion with great spirit. In the backs the cut- Willshaw, Nico Caplin, Tom Davies, nificently and who it would be unfair was kicked and the final whistle was ting edge was rarely as sharp as it will Harry Norton and Will Ridgway. Some to list as individuals. The highlight of blown, which was followed by a fast need to be and this is a great frustra- fantastic team tries were created, and the year was a fine away win at Soli- run back to the changing room! tion as there is talent aplenty wide of remarkably, given the conditions, hull in appalling conditions, reversing The lads went on an unbeaten run 9. Murray Redpath was an enigmatic they were all converted by Captain last year’s home defeat. to the end of the season beating Den- and sometimes mercurial player with Wyatt. A mark of the improvement stone, Sollihull, Queen Ethelburga’s the ability to rip sides open whilst his in the squad was the number of boys U15A and Wirral GS. hard running centre Jack Mayfield graduating to play in the A team, The season got off to a fantastic start The 7s season started in the best terrorised defences. Wider out, the which should give real confidence with comprehensive victories over possible way with an amazing cup injury-beset James Warr may prove to and motivation ahead of next sea- Durham, MGS and LRGS as the boys victory at the national competition in be the key to this backline with his son. Frazer Loughran was a standout scored 128 points and conceded only Warwick (pictured below). The boys 2 and won 2. The second win was power and pace. performer during the season, whilst 24. Following this, we played the played outstanding 7s on the day and against a decent Adams Grammar side MDP Archie Fletcher, Luca Schurink, Isaac sion and determination required and three toughest games on the fixture everyone contributed to a fantastic and the score was an emphatic 50 Salisbury and Aidan Carman contrib- gave their all in every match. Sam card. The first against QEGS was a win. King’s also picked up the School points to 5. Following this there was U14B uted well, and Tom Keen also played. Bryning, Will Allen and Ollie Embley closely contested game but the team of the Tournament: another super a draw away at Stonyhurst in terrible This was a very encouraging season made for a dynamic front row, and didn’t take their chances. The defeats achievement. The U15s also won the conditions, finishing up 5-5 and I for the U14B squad, both in statistical U13A locks Ieuan Sanders and Matt Calvin against Woodhouse Grove and Sed- Plate in the Cheshire 7s. think both teams were happy to get and developmental terms. The team Following on from the success of proved invaluable in the lineout bare- bergh were disappointing as the boys SB off the field as quickly as possible. recorded 6 fine wins in 9 outings over last season, expectations were high. ly losing a single ball all year. Flankers conceded a lot of points and let early This was followed by a fantastic result QEGS Wakefield, Nottingham High To my delight the team stepped up Alex Galbraith, Rory Boyle, Ben Tatton season standards drop. U15B at home against Denstone 50-10. School, Adam’s Grammar, Stonyhurst, to the challenge with an incredible and Michael Abrahamse turned over After the half-term break the The season started with a tough A lot of credit must go to the lads Solihull and Queen Ethelburga’s, in- 100% win record this 15s season. Our large amounts of possession in the lads came back with some renewed fixture against MGS. It was a well con- who continued through the early part cluding a run of 6 wins in their last 7 first four fixtures were comfortable loose, whilst number eight Owen vigour and determination. King’s ran tested game but unfortunately King’s of the season when things were not games. However, the improvement in victories due to our clinical play in Thomas made ground from the base out convincing 55-0 winners against were on the wrong end of a 20-12 going brilliantly. The form they found skill level, technique and consistency both defence and attack; MGS 5-53, of the scrum. Big impact was brought Nottingham HS and followed this score line. The next couple of fixtures and points they scored were all down was the most pleasing element of the LRGS 10-64 and Woodhouse Grove from the bench by Josh Bryning and with a 44-0 victory against Adams GS. were also defeats and the season got to sticking together as a group and season. This was encapsulated in the 7-49. We knew QEGS would be tough Adam Musa. Not conceding even a single point off to a poor start. However, a lot of working very hard. performance at Stonyhurst where, opponents as we had lost to them In the backline Vice-Captain and in those two games took a fantastic hard work, resilience and determina- SB/TSJ in the face of driving rain and wind, during the previous season. They scrum-half Ollie Quinn controlled effort from everyone. We travelled to tion from the lads in training meant the execution of skills and team play didn’t disappoint, giving us what the forwards whilst fly-half Tom Hig- Stonyhurst in horrendous weather that the results soon started to turn U14A displayed impressive accuracy as the turned out to be one of our most ginson proved ever reliable with his and played on what can only be de- around. In November we played With a win ratio of over 75% there can hosts where blown away 56-0. Peter challenging games. The final score kicking both out of hand and off the be no doubt that this was a superb Goodfellow, Sam Wright and Joshua (King’s 28-0 QEGS) didn’t reflect our tee. In the centre Hector Tomlinson season. Notable victories over MGS, Allmand-Smith carried the ball relent- battle for victory which was a testa- and Peter Thorp were solid perform- Nottingham High and RGS Lancas- ers as was Tom Blackwell when he ter were the highlights of a season. stepped up from the U16 side. The The team was built on a mobile and combinations of wingers Ed Austin, highly competitive pack that were Will Thompson, Toby Sayle, Alex Kra- dominant in every encounter and jewski and Guy Harrington supported effective both in the loose and tight. by fullbacks Finley Calder and Jamie The key to this was the ubiquitous Dunkerley proved effective in both a and talented Oliver Leatherbarrow very strong offensive unit and an ag- whose impact in contact was stagger- gressive defensive line. ing, as was his work rate: a real talent. Matthew Price was undoubtedly Without doubt he was singlehandedly one of the finest 2nd XV Captains the reason for a number of victories we’ve had for many years and his and held together both attacks and performances were outstanding. This defences with his powerful running was a very rewarding season with a and committed defence. Latterly he team that developed their skills and was joined by the impressive and grew in confidence with every match. newly acquired Jamie Catto who was TSJ/DT magnificent in carrying and denying forward momentum to the opposi- U16 tion. The two together were nigh on The U16s enjoyed a fine season win- unstoppable and therein lay the ma- ning 9 out of 13 games and drawing 1. jor issue for this team; an overreliance This was especially pleasing given the on key players to do all the work. The

74 75 Sports Sports ment to how much the King’s side Rodriguez, Tom Knight, Hugh Porte- we had two knock-out games in the have progressed. ous, Finlay Saunders and Will Smith, afternoon of day one. The first was The subsequent four fixtures were with the gas on the wings supplied by with Bristol Grammar, winning 22 – 0. King’s 61-0 Nottingham High, King’s Will Davies and Patrick Lovett. In the final knock-out game on day 47-15 Adams GS, King’s 45-10 Den- Stockport GS came to Derby Fields one, we faced Hinchley Wood School stone, King’s 46-0 Solihull. At this for the semi-final of the Cheshire for Boys. In a nail-biting game that stage in the season the boys were in Cup. After a well-fought battle in the kept the supporters on the edge of full flow, having a good understanding first half, our class shone through their seats, we managed to win two of the style and level of intensity of taking us into the final to face St tries to nil. play required. The final two fixtures Ambrose. Due to our scheduled Progressing to the quarter-final after the Christmas break were: King’s fixture in January cancelled we faced game the following day, we faced a 41-5 Queen Ethelburga’s, King’s 44-0 St Ambrose for the first time in the very strong Ysgol Gyfun Glantaf who Wirral GS. The results demonstrate final. They were clearly up for the won the fixture. The boys were truly how the team had developed their challenge, playing very direct and professional throughout and should understanding of the game, not immediately asking questions from be immensely proud of all they only in attack, scoring an impressive our defence, thus taking us into half achieved. 478 points where they were clinical, time 19-17 down. All to play for in the Mr Walker/JS/TDS powerful and structured, but also in second half. Our resilience and team U13B defense showing determination, re- spirit shone through with strength Having only lost 2 games, the U13B silience and patience, only leaking 52 in depth we managed to stay true to team have once again had a great points. Huge credit to every member our form and were crowned Cheshire season. Many of the boys represented of the squad, for progressing both Cup Champions 2016. both the A and B teams, showing the as individuals and as a team. They As the season came to a close, strength in depth that the squad pos- were receptive to new ideas, showed focus shifted to the sevens calendar. sesses. It couldn’t have been a better commitment and professionalism and Warwick was the first port of call; the start to the season, with a thumping the season saw a narrow loss to St ised Wakefield team. Ben Wallace was game, King’s were victorious by 42 were self-critical and reflective. boys adapted well to the sevens style win against local rivals MGS (75-12). Ambrose by one try; a 22-5 win after a master playmaker in the backs, ably points to 28 to set up a quarter-final Special mentions to Cyrus Kerfoot, of play, their skills took them into the A week later, the boys were on the a long trip up to Queen Ethelburga’s; supported by Sam Danson whose fixture v King’s Chester. After draw- Hayden Heath and Joe Ward who final of the cup. Unfortunately they receiving end of heavy defeat losing and defeat to a big, physical Wirral pace and elusive angles of running ing 14-14 in very difficult weather formed a formidable back row team lost to a very strong Wimbledon Col- 50-5 to QEGS Wakefield. The boys Grammar team. enabled him to score many crucial conditions it was decided to replay often leading from the front with lege team. The following two tourna- bounced back from this and went on During the 7s season, their first tries. This was most obvious in the in Chester the following week. After strong ball-carrying and solid tackles ments were Solihull and Nottingham, to win the majority of their remaining tournament was at Warwick and first season’s final game against St. Am- another very hard-fought match, our and turnovers. Alex Davies, Ben Kersh which were met with mixed success. games. The U13s have been recog- opponents Millfield Prep - the school brose, where Sam’s two tries enabled boys were narrow victors, which set and Joey Chong were the spine of the The culmination of the sevens se- nised as one of the most talented which beat us in last year’s final. The us to snatch a draw having been up a semi-final match against MGS. team at 9, 10 and 15, orchestrating ries and the end of the rugby season in the school and their results this boys put into practice what they outplayed for long phases. In this match, the boys started slowly, each performance. James Haywood as a whole took us down to Rosslyn season would definitely support this learnt and probably should have won Derrin Scott, Archie Abrahams, Ol- and quickly found themselves 14-0 and Sam Worthington dominated in Park for the National Schools Sevens statement. There have been some the game but they dropped the ball lie Muirhead and Mackenzie Blackaby behind, but rallied to narrow the lead the centers. The engine room of the Competition. After topping our group outstanding performances all year twice over the line in losing by just worked tirelessly in the pack, carrying to just 7 points at half-time. The final team was made up of Hugo Chinea- in the morning in outstanding style, from certain individuals, such as Ollie 1 try. We got through our group and the ball purposefully to help establish score of 38-7 perhaps not fully reflect- Gandy and Harry Hulme, who is the into the plate semi-final but narrowly an attacking platform. Also, Ferdinand ing the competitiveness of the match. top try scorer for the B team this year. lost, although our performance in Boren deserves a special mention The U11s were also involved in the Matt Suarez pulled the strings at fly the tournament added to the school for his fearless, intelligent tackling annual AJIS 7s tournament. The boys half whilst others such as Brandon winning “Outstanding School of the - three times he stopped what ap- faced three matches in a very tough Morgan and Archie Cracknell lead Tournament.” Nottingham 7s was peared certain tries in that final match group and were unfortunate to lose within the forward pack. next and played under the new rules. at St. Ambrose. Charlie Sudweeks en- narrowly to Kirkham in the opening JEH The boys played 5 and won 3, losing joyed a rewarding season and his abil- match, before winning the next two to a big Solihull side and a good War- ity to play in a number of positions games against King’s Chester and St U12A wick side, and were complimented by was valuable. It was also heartening Ambrose to qualify for the knockout With a mixture of experience, speed other coaches and referees. to welcome back James Payne for the stage in second place. King’s played and enthusiasm we headed into our Congratulations on some great per- final matches after illness. their best rugby of the day in the first games against MGS, Lancaster, formances to Ollie Thompson, Oscar PW quarter-final against SGS. Unfortu- QEGS Wakefield and Woodhouse Robinson, James Miller, Billy Griffiths nately, all hopes of returning with Grove. Although we lost these games (C), Lewis Johnson, Harry Owens, U11 silverware were dented in the semi- there were signs of development Will Bray, Jack Bray, as well as Player of The U11 team were involved in a final against Birkenhead, with some and improvement. This continued the Season Ethan Quinn. number of fixtures throughout the poor defending enabling the opposi- throughout the season and the A RL season, fielding A, B and C teams tion to win. team went on a 5 game winning where possible. This enabled all Colours were awarded to Noah streak beating good rugby schools U12B players to develop their skills in a Reaney, Sam Heath & Toby Denton. like Nottingham High, Bromsgrove The squad enjoyed another unbeaten competitive environment, whilst also MW/NB and Denstone College. The team season, winning 10 of their matches experiencing playing in a number of started to understand the dynamics and drawing 2. As usual there was a different positions. U10 of the game, individual positions and great spirit and work ethic within the The A team recorded early sea- The U10s began their school rugby tactics. Their passing, catching, tack- group, with as many as 20 boys at- son victories over The Grange and career with A and B team fixtures ling and decision-making improved tending every B team session. St Ambrose, before beginning their against The Grange & Birkenhead and the team started to play some The season began with a hard AJIS Cup campaign at home against Schools. The A team match against great rugby. The last three games of fought 5-5 draw against a well organ- Merchant Taylors’. In an entertaining The Grange proved to be an end-to-

76 77 Sports Sports end affair, with both teams showing The Saturday sailing club has con- Sailing excellent running skills with ball in tinued this year with help from for- hand, and areas of defensive weak- The long-standing sailing tradition mer students and parents and as ever ness. At the final whistle, The Grange has continued this year at King’s with the support from Gary and Brenda were victorious by 40-30. The B team the next generation of sailors making Lowe has been essential. game proved to be similar, with their mark at both Redesmere and The annual trip to Cumbrae was Christian Tattum outstanding in attack Cumbrae. Students with a wide range a great success in which 33 students for King’s scoring 5 tries as King’s of abilities have enjoyed the challeng- achieved RYA recognised qualifica- were also defeated 40-30. In the es of sailing during games sessions, tions ranging from Level 1 Sailing fixture against Birkenhead, the boys with many of the more experienced qualifications to Advanced Sailing were greeted by strong winds and sailors taking on instructor roles. with Spinnakers and Powerboat snow! Both King’s sides did extremely Sailing presents a number of unique qualifications. A variety of boats were well and came out with wins. The A challenges both physical and mental, sailed ranging from Laser Picos to team were dangerous from the first and it has been a genuine pleasure high performance Dart catamarans whistle and looked like they could to watch the students develop their with the students enjoying every sec- score every time they got their hands confidence and skills in at times some ond on the water. on the ball. They eventually won the very challenging conditions. Resil- ARP game 50-0 with some impressive ience is one of the learning habits at long distance tries from Billy Birkett King’s and one that has been exten- and Oliver Davies. The B team also sively demonstrated by the students put in an excellent display winning who were willing to go out in any 30-15. Christian Tattum was the star weather. of the show running in 4 tries in the Particular thanks has to be made first half, there were some fantastic to Edward Hammonds, Rhodri Evans rucking skills by Raphael Pfister and and Callum Evans who have displayed strong running by both Giovanni a maturity beyond their years and Menga-Edwards and Harvey Warr. have been developing their instructor MW/NB skills in helping with the younger, less experienced students. Callum Barr has also proved himself to an excep- tionally able sailor and may be one to watch for the future.

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mers raced with great determination; Moores, Eleanor Collett and Oliver Swimming congratulations to all who made their Jones. King’s junior swimmers continue to finals and won medals. Swimming At the North of Britain Champion- enjoy opportunities to compete and colours were awarded to swim Cap- ships, the pupils’ performances were their enthusiasm for swimming con- tain Reece Grady and Elliot Naylor. consistently outstanding, ranking tinues to impress. DCB two of the teams 1st and 2nd. Oliver The swim team compete in a Jones also placed 3rd individually. number of friendly galas against local This meant that four out of five of the Trampolining schools. Children in Years 4-6 have teams and Oliver successfully quali- had the opportunity to compete and Once again King’s achieved excel- fied through to the National Finals, a our swimmers continue to improve lent results at North West, Zonal and phenomenal achievement. and learn from these encounters. National level this year. The compe- The National Finals was a tough The AJIS swim event was held tition season always starts with the day, but all pupils performed again in April and swimmers from Year 5 North West Championships at which under the pressure, placing all three and 6 were involved in competing competition was fierce but King’s junior teams on the podium and U14 at Darwin Leisure Centre. King’s dominated the podiums with consist- elite girls 4th. I am immensely proud were represented in most finals and ent performances. of all who have taken part throughout were delighted to come home with Rowena Moores achieved the the year and achieved so much for medals. Swim captain Reece Grady highest form score of the day with a King’s. Thanks go to the over whelm- demonstrated his immense talents in 9.6 in her compulsory routine (out ing support from all parents and the highly demanding 4x25m U11 In- of 10). Nine out of the eleven teams many teachers who volunteer their dividual Medley Relay final. He should who competed for King’s and eight time to make these opportunities be very proud of his Silver medal. Our individuals qualified to represent the possible. U10 boys’ team enjoyed a particu- school in the North of Britain Cham- Junior Trampoline Captains were larly successful afternoon and were pionships. Special mention goes to Jessica Burton and Edward Broadley. extremely proud of Oliver Jones (25m the exceptional achievement by the Junior Colours were awarded to: Ed- Backstroke) and Oliver Davies (25m U14 novice girls, placing 3rd in a huge ward Broadley, Jamie Pearce, Jessica Freestyle) who both secured Bronze category of 126 competitors and 32 Burton, Lottie Clark, Serena Panton, medals. There are always very small teams. King’s achieved three individ- Aimee Knight and Amelia Robinson- margins in the final touch and swim- ual North West Champions; Rowena Stanier.

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Christine Milburn Chris joined King’s Learning Support Farewell Team having spent nine years as an chology from the University of Bangor. HLTA in the Inclusion and Learning Hail Carey is a keen sportswoman who cur- Support Departments at Wilmslow Welcome to the following members rently plays netball for both Macclesfield High School. Having graduated with of staff, who joined King’s during the Pink Ladies and Wilmslow Lightning. a degree in Accountancy and Law and academic year 2015 – 2016: after a career in finance, she became Andrew Hillman interested in education as her children Julie Cocker Andrew joined as Assistant Head of progressed through the school system Dr Julie Cocker joined as Principal of Mathematics, having spent four years and studied ‘Inclusion in Education’ the Sixth Form from The Merchant teaching at Tytherington School. He and ‘Working with Young People’ with Taylors’ School in Northwood, where graduated from the University of the Open University. In her spare she was Head of Biology. She gradu- Nottingham in 2004 with a First Class time, she enjoys outdoor activities. ated from the University of Cambridge BSc in Mathematics and completed where she read Natural Sciences his PGCE at Keele University. Outside (Biochemistry) before studying cancer school, Andrew enjoys playing football Charlotte Paterson research for her PhD from Imperial and taking part in pub quizzes. Charlotte joined the Psychology College, London. She obtained a PGCE Department having spent two years from the University of Warwick shortly Amy Holland teaching at Tunbridge Wells Girls’ after being awarded a diploma in wine, Amy joined the Physics department Grammar School. She graduated from beer and spirits! Julie enjoys dining following completion of her PGCE Lancaster University with a First Class out, country pubs and all manner of in Manchester. She graduated from Honours Degree in Psychology and outdoor activities. the University of Liverpool with a this year completed her MA in Edu- First in Physics and was also awarded cation. Charlotte enjoys swimming, Daniel Deakin the Wynn Evans Memorial Prize for going to the gym and travelling. Daniel joined the Physics Department academic achievement. Amy holds having spent two years teaching at the Community Sports Leadership Jamie Pinnock The Kingsway School in Stockport. He Award and has experience of umpiring Jamie joined the History Depart- graduated from the University of Salford netball. In her spare time, Amy enjoys ment in 2015. He graduated from the where he studied Physics. He is also travelling and spending time with fam- University of Durham with a First Class a holder of a PCGE from The Univer- ily and friends. BA Honours in History and a Master’s sity of Manchester. Prior to teaching, degree in Medieval History. He has Daniel worked in the field of electrical Lianne Hughes previously worked in the voluntary engineering. He enjoys a wide range of Lianne joined the History Depart- sector with young students and young hobbies including football, hockey and ment having spent two years teach- offenders. In his spare time, Jamie en- outdoor pursuits and plays an active ing at Millfield Science & Performing joys blogging, travelling and the great role in the Scouting movement. Arts College. She graduated from the outdoors. University of Manchester with a First Joanne Foster Class BA in History. Whilst at university, Emma Thomson Joanne joined King’s Learning Sup- Lianne worked for an award-winning Emma joined as a Library assistant port team in September 2015, having wine merchants and gained a qualifi- in the Rock Resource Centre. Emma replaced Ann Eardley. She previously cation in wine tasting. In her youth, previously worked in the school shop worked at Ash Grove Academy for Lianne performed with the English at King’s. When she is not looking nearly 20 years where she was an Youth Ballet and continues this as a after her two children, she enjoys HLTA, supporting children with SEN. pastime to date. She also very much walking or running her dog in the local In her spare time, Joanne enjoys going enjoys travelling - her favourite coun- countryside. to the gym, running, cycling and has tries (so far) include Bolivia and India. recently taken up fell running. Alice Taylor Laura Marland Alice joined King’s as the Careers Carey Griffiths Laura joins the Infant Department Officer. She is a Psychology graduate Miss Griffiths joined the Psychology having previously worked in a range from Loughborough University and Department having spent three years of primary settings in Cheshire East is currently continuing her studies by teaching at Sandbach High School and and West. She holds a Masters and BEd working towards an MSc in Sport and Sixth Form College for Girls. She has a from Chester University and, when not Exercise Psychology. In her spare time, degree in Psychology and Criminology in the classroom, she enjoys art and Alice enjoys horse riding and com- and a Master’s degree in Consumer Psy- drama productions. petes regularly with British Eventing.

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Lisa Bright Rebecca Williams looking after her three children and Farewell Lisa joined as Reprographics and Rebecca joined the Chemistry Depart- pets, Mandi leads a St John Ambulance Jo Beesley Eileen has contributed greatly to the Administrative Assistant. Having gradu- ment following completion of her Cadet group, training 10-18 year olds Linda Pyatt Jo joined King’s in 1983 as Assistant History Department, being promoted ated with a Degree and a Diploma in PGCE, having spent time at King’s in First Aid. Linda’s association with King’s is long, Director of Music following a Music to Senior Subject Teacher, as well Landscape Architecture from Leeds during her teacher training year. She varied and much to be celebrated. A degree from Durham University and a asperforming the role of Acting Head Metropolitan University, Lisa qualified graduated from the University of Man- Cecilia O’Doherty proud Scot by birth, she was wrenched PGCE from Homerton College, Cam- of Department on a number of occa- as a Chartered Landscape Architect chester with a First Class degree in De- Cecilia joined the Early Years Depart- from her roots at the age of eleven bridge. Her impact on music-making at sions. She has an incredible knack for before forming her own practice, velopmental Biology and has recently ment after spending two years teach- and joined the High School on Fence King’s was profound and immediate. coaxing students to achieve their full which specialised in the restoration of been awarded a doctoral degree in the ing Pre-School at St Andrews Catholic Avenue. Following 3 years of study King’s was a single-sex school (boys) potential and this has been reflected in historic parks. Lisa resigned to have a field of breast cancer research. Whilst Primary School, London. She gradu- at the Royal Academy of Music, she at the time and such was Jo’s success the excellent examination results her family, and subsequently qualified as a completing her PhD, she was awarded ated from the University of Hull where was enticed back to marry her King’s at invigorating the choir and orchestra classes gained. Eileen has also brought Level 3 Teaching Assistant. In her spare the Young Researcher Science Com- she studied Education and Early Years. School sweetheart, John Pyatt. (not to mention inspiring individual history to life for many students by ac- time, Lisa enjoys walking and visiting munication national award from the She is also a holder of a PGCE special- Her early career saw her teaching students) that a member of the PE companying them on numerous trips historical parks and gardens with her Society of Biology. She is a keen skier, ising in Early Years from London South piano in various schools, including department was swift to declare her to the First World War Battlefields, family. netball player and runner. Bank University. Cecilia enjoys cycling, a spell back at Macclesfield High. In ‘the biggest threat to Rugby at King’s.’ Munich, Washington and New York. walking and going to the theatre. 1997 Linda was appointed Coordina- With the creation of the Girls’ Division Moreover, she had the vision and de- Sarah Holliday Joe Walker tor of Instrumental Studies at King’s. in 1992, Jo successfully applied for the termination to create brand new and Sarah joined as the Exams & Music Joe joined the PE and Games Depart- Temporary staff This role has been the glue of the job of Senior Subject Teacher in Music exciting experiences for students and Administrator from the Fallibroome ment as a rugby coach following his We are also grateful to a number Music Department for almost two at Fence Avenue; a post she has held staff alike, such as the highly successful Academy, where she was in charge of return from Brazil where he worked of temporary staff who assisted us decades. As the department adminis- ever since. Sixth Form visits to Russia and China. organising school trips and assisting with Premiership Rugby in preparation this year: Rebecca Wainwright, trator, accompanist and aural trainer, Jo’s contribution to King’s, both Pastorally, Eileen was a highly with arranging teaching cover. She has for the 2016 Olympics. He graduated Doranne Bide, Ashley Hanson, Linda has devoted great care to the inside and outside the classroom, has respected form tutor, establishing a Business Administration degree and from Leeds Carnegie University where Helen Croxford, Alicia Garcia, smooth-running of the Instrumental been an essential and inspirational part excellent working relationships with holds a Chartered Institute of Market- he gained a BSc (Hons) Sports Science Juliette Gorb, Joe Hale, Jan Tuition scheme and to rehearsing and of King’s life for literally thousands of her tutees. She contributed especially ing Diploma. Sarah has two daughters and Education degree. He is currently Hankinson, Julia Huber, Robert performing with generations of young students. Her contribution to extra- strongly to the development of the at King’s and enjoys running and going undertaking teacher training at King’s Morris, Lisa Ostermaier, Liz Syed, musicians, who have entered the exam curricular music is legendary: choirs pastoral system at Fence Avenue, to the theatre. with a view to gaining QTS through Rebecca Wainwright, Will Strutt, room or concert platform with the and choir tours, including the Foun- ensuring her promotion to the key Manchester Metropolitan University. Megan Tierney. We thank them all benefit of first-rate preparation. dation Choir winning BBC Songs of position of Head of Years 10 and 11. In Kimberley Richardson Joe also enjoys tennis, football, winter for their contribution to King’s and As the department has undertaken Praise School Choir of the Year in 2003 later years she was also Head of Year Kimberley joined as School Secretary sports and outdoor adventures. wish them well for their futures. more and more ventures at home and and, most recently, success with the 7, helping the girls to feel quickly at in the Boys’ Division. Kimberley has a abroad, Linda’s musical and organisa- Songbirds in the Alderley Edge Music home in their new environment. wealth of administration skills, having Tracy Aston tional input has been boundless and Festival; String and Chamber Orches- In 2008, Eileen was appointed Vice worked her way up from Receptionist Tracy joined the Mathematics Depart- essential. The success of the Lower tras (including numerous memorable Principal of the Girls’ Division, a role to Account Manager in the printing ment in 2015 having completed her School Music Festival is a tribute to her weekends away at Trigonos, Ilham Hall she carried out with an extremely industry. Kimberley has two children PGCE at MMU. She is a graduate from and she has not missed a single choir and beyond); chamber music, musi- high level of professionalism, guiding who take up most of her spare time the University of Bath with a First Class tour, or residential instrumental week- cals… the list goes on. However, Music the girls skilfully through their time at but she also loves to go out running. BSc in Mathematics, and worked as a end. A great support in both Junior is not just about extra-curricular activi- King’s, whilst simultaneously carrying Her major feat is to have completed chartered accountant for many years. and Senior schools, she has enjoyed ties. It is a rigorously academic subject out the role of Head of Year 7. the London Marathon in 2014. When she is not looking after her accompanying the many choirs. A and Jo was a passionate classroom Eileen has always given gener- three children, Tracy enjoys baking and great sport, Linda has entered into teacher who has inspired numerous ously of her time, accompanying many Anneka Sidderley swimming. games, fancy dress competitions and students to take music at A Level and trips outside her own Department, Anneka joined as the Foundation freezing water with remarkable zeal. beyond. as well as assisting with the Duke of Secretary having previously worked as Julia Breitwieser Linda’s experience as a Samaritan Last year, Jo took her first steps to- Edinburgh Award activities. Eileen has a Learning Support Assistant at Hazel Julia joined the Junior Division as a 1:1 helped her to train pupils as peer men- wards becoming a Methodist minister. played so many different and vital roles Grove High School and as a Library As- Learning Support Assistant. She has tors and to provide an empathetic ear She leaves us to continue her training within the school that she will inevita- sistant for Stockport Borough Council. experience of working with pupils with to colleagues and pupils. This sensitiv- on a more full-time basis and we wish bly be greatly missed by students and She is a History of Art graduate from various Special Educational Needs. ity and depth also underpinned her her every joy and success in what will colleagues alike. We wish her every Manchester University and enjoys Julia speaks fluent German and in her responsibility for planning the school’s doubtless be a hugely exciting journey. happiness for an exciting future. swimming, being creative, reading and spare time enjoys crafts such as uphol- services in St. Michael’s church and We are also delighted that she will LAC going for long walks. stery and printing. Chester Cathedral, and on Remem- continue to work across all divisions at brance Day. The beautiful readings, King’s as a peripatetic Piano Teacher. Rory Abbotson Emma Yoxall Amanda Fisher prayers and dignified execution of IJC Rory joined the English Department Emma joined the Junior Department Mandi joined the Early Years Depart- these occasions are a testament to in 2010 as a newly-qualified teacher. as a Year 3 class teacher. She has ment as a teaching assistant in Pre- Linda’s integrity and the importance of Eileen Olsen During his six years in the Boys’ Divi- recently graduated from Manchester School. She is a graduate from Man- her legacy. We wish Linda a very happy, Eileen initially joined the Girls’ sion, he proved himself to be a highly Metropolitan University with a First chester Metropolitan University with fulfilling, much-deserved retirement. Division in the mid-1990s as a cover skilled classroom practitioner, whose Class BA degree in Primary Education, a 2:1 BA (Hons) in Education. She has IJC teacher. However, her excellence in attention to detail secured outstand- with specialism in Computing. She en- over 15 years’ experience working with the classroom was soon recognised ing results at both GCSE and A Level. joys a range of sports including netball, Early Years children. When she is not and Eileen was given a permanent po- Rory’s students remember his lessons rounders and horse riding. sition, teaching History and Games. fondly, a testimony not only to his

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strengths as a teacher but also to his about the study of English. Inventive pecially Oxford and Cambridge where Matthew Perriss a sense of very good humour and colour-coded cone arrangements on warmth and humour. Rory was com- approaches to teaching and learning her skills in STEP papers came to the As a former pupil and School Captain support to the classroom. We were the rugby field and the ‘hyper organi- mitted to fostering a love of literature were celebrated and Lucy frequently fore. Her students will always remem- no less, King’s is part of Matt’s DNA fortunate to have stumbled across a sation’ of his desk in the PE office! Yet in his students and enjoyed sharing his shared examples of good practice. She ber the appearance of some quirky and he was unable to resist a short teacher of such warmth and pastoral this tells you something about the own favourite authors in lessons. He was always thrilled when the pupils visual aid or other which livened up stint teaching Geography here when care. He leaves us with best wishes, man: nothing is left to chance, and no established the popular English Plus produced outstanding work such the presentation of some of the less the opportunity arose two years ago. and hope for a shorter commute to stone has been left unturned in an at- reading group for A Level students as the occasion when a GCSE pupil exciting parts of the subject, as well Joining from Stowe School at Christ- and from home! tempt to achieve the best outcome for and also worked with younger pupils produced such a moving and insight- as her seemingly endless collection of mas 2014, his passion and expertise TSJ King’s and the pupils. to produce a series of gaming maga- ful film about a Gillian Clarke poem puzzles to start a lesson. Her tutees in in the subject was evident from the Perhaps most remarkable is the fact zines. Rory was a committed member that colleagues were almost reduced the Sixth Form may not always have outset, consistently delivering in- Guy Mason that Guy has managed to invest so of the silver Duke of Edinburgh team, to tears! Lucy was also deeply com- noticed her efforts, yet this ‘light hand novative and enjoyable lessons. His Suffice it to say that Guy Mason will much time in his job and give enough taking part in several camping and mitted to supporting and encouraging on the tiller’ did not stop her writing contribution to the progress of the be a very hard act to follow. As a time to maintain a long distance re- hiking expeditions. In 2014, he was those for whom the study of English excellent references and dealing with faculty, including assisting on numer- King’s old boy, with two brothers also lationship with his long-term partner appointed Challenge and Enrichment was more of a struggle. She made sure pastoral issues effectively as they came ous field visits, developing an overseas through the school, and with years of Sherin, which opened a new chapter Coordinator, implementing a range of that pupils were well-supported and to her. Outside the maths classroom, trip to Croatia and assisting with the positive school memories as a pupil in April when they were married. Guy initiatives including the Year 7 Learn- she was justifiably proud of the results she had a talent for music and played resourcing of the new Geography A and staff member behind him, Guy will leaves King’s to begin his new role at ing Challenge and the Percyvale Essay achieved by these pupils who flour- the viola in the orchestra as well as get- Level syllabus was also much appreci- always have King’s running through Lancaster Royal Grammar School. We Prize. We wish him well as he takes up ished under her guidance. ting involved in the Foundation Choir, ated. Significantly, there will not be his veins. This emotional connec- wish Guy and his family the very best his new post at Sandbach High School. Lucy had a particular love of English supporting the alto section in many a pupil who has passed through his tion has underpinned a personal and of luck in their new life together, and KB Language study and a fascination for performances as well as being another classroom that has not been inspired professional drive to do everything we hope the visits to family and friends language usage. Her inspiring ap- body to help in organising a lot of by his professional persona and in- possible to develop King’s rugby in and around Macclesfield will not be Helen Connaughton proach broadened the understanding young singers. She leaves with our depth knowledge of Political Geogra- and support those pupils playing the too far apart. Since her arrival in 2010, Helen made a of a whole generation of pupils and best wishes to look after her recently phy and World Affairs, particularly his sport during his five years as Head of CST big impression, both inside her colour- led to many students taking the study enlarged family and will be missed. Sixth Form pupils who were regularly Rugby. King’s rugby has a very strong Sam Quinn ful classroom and in wider school life. of linguistics further at university. She TSJ in awe of his intelligent delivery. King’s reputation on the back of some high Samantha joined the English Depart- Even on the cloudiest of days, Helen offered shrewd and helpful advice to Sport and the U14s also lose a skillful quality input from a range of staff ment in 2011, having already spent brightened up the MFL corridors, both all those seeking to study for degrees Lucy Ward rugby coach. He will be greatly missed and coaches over a number of years. her first years as a teacher at Cheadle with her colourful outfits and her bub- in English as well as guiding many Lucy Ward (formerly Lucy Hopper) left by all and we wish him much success However, there can be little doubt that Hulme School. During her years in bly personality. Helen was involved in students through their A Level years as King’s following a successful six years in his exciting venture into property the national reputation it enjoys has the Boys’ Division, Samantha worked many trips; not just to Nantes, Murcia a Sixth Form tutor. teaching Maths within the Girl’s Divi- management. been enhanced during Guy’s tenure. with passion and enthusiasm, inspiring and Madrid but also to Bad Wurzach in During her time at the school, Lucy sion. Lucy has contributed significantly ASP It is therefore highly appropriate that many of her students to study Eng- Germany as part of the exchange, and was involved in the wider life of King’s to the success of the department both Guy’s rugby involvement at King’s lish to A Level and beyond. She was a has willingly offered her free time by as a hockey coach; leading writing with supporting the less able as well as Kirsten Hinds should climax with the outstanding popular and much-loved form tutor, contributing to activities such as the retreats and workshops; running the stretching the top achievers with her Kirsten first joined the Psychology success of the Under 18s in the Ross- skilfully guiding her tutees through Sixth Form Fashion Show, the Duke of BBC school news project; working on extension and ‘killer’ questions. department in 2002. She left in 2006 lyn Park Bowl in March. their formative years. Outside the Edinburgh expeditions and the cook- Literacy Across the Curriculum; men- Her teaching was always engaging to start a family. Since then she has First and foremost, Guy is a PE classroom, Samantha made a valuable ery masterclasses. In addition, Helen toring Newly Qualified teachers and and pupils have looked forward to her returned several times to cover for teacher, with years of experience at contribution to netball, coaching Year set up the popular Film Club. Helen’s PGCE students and running a raft of lessons. staff illness and maternity leave. Pupils Cheadle Hulme and Denstone before 7 and Year 10 girls. She also organised enthusiasm and her willingness to of- theatre trips as well as finding the time She had considerable success with and colleagues alike have benefitted his return to his alma mater. He has the first Poets and Players’ Evening in fer extra support to those who needed to study for an MA in Education. examination classes both at GCSE and from her thorough subject knowledge, brought all that experience to bear 2015; an outstanding event which saw it has made an impact on those she Lucy leaves us to take up a post at at A Level and her experience in these examining experience and general in preparing and delivering quality students from across the Divisions has taught as well as those she has tu- William Hulme school in Manchester year groups will be missed. enthusiasm. She has been involved core PE and academic PE lessons that showcasing their talent to raise money tored and mentored in the Sixth Form. and to convert her MA into a Doctor- It will be difficult to maintain the in a programme of mentoring stu- have challenged and stimulated the for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Samantha It is, however, for her love of Almodó- ate in Education. quality of classroom displays as Lucy dents and contributed extensively to students. However, it is through his will be missed by students and col- var and all things cultural that Helen is RHR takes away her considerable Origami resources in the department. We will leadership and rugby coaching where leagues alike. particularly well known. Helen leaves skills which have led to the creation of all miss her positive attitude and good Guy has left his biggest mark. This is KB us to join the new Dean Trust school Anna Hazel many flapping swans, jumping frogs humour and wish her every success in not surprising given the number of in Ardwick where she will no doubt During her six years in the Maths and Christmas trees over the years. the future. timetabled and extra-curricular hours Ciaran Sanders make an equally big impression. department, Anna developed a strong As a form tutor Lucy worked tire- MJB involved. Ciaran joined in 2014 as a sports SEJ grasp of classroom management and lessly to ensure the happiness and But, it is the time he has invested coach, primarily to help with hockey showed herself capable of teaching all well-being of her tutees, something Guy Montgomery outside these regular elements of the and cricket. A qualified Australian Lucy Derby levels and abilities. Her patience and that was always appreciated by the Guy leaves King’s after nearly two role which has made Guy different PE teacher, Ciaran brought a wealth Lucy joined as Head of English in good humour came into play with pupils and parents. years of service. Initially appointed from most others and which has made of expertise in both sports but he is 2005. Her support and encourage- the less able and she had a very sharp Outside the classroom, Lucy ran the on a temporary basis, Guy quickly King’s rugby what it is today. Guy’s much more than just a sports coach. ment of colleagues in the department mind, which meant that she could sup- Equestrian squad allowing the pupils established himself as a popular and drive, thoroughness and attention to Ciaran has always managed to get the was outstanding from the outset and port the most capable in their efforts to compete with success both locally engaging member of the Mathemat- detail have truly been something to best out of the pupils and his calm and she fostered a warm and co-operative to gain places at top universities, es- and at a national level. ics department, based mainly in the behold. Those of us who have worked unflustered character commanded atmosphere in which colleagues were TSJ Girls’ Division. With a wide array of life closely with him have enjoyed the respect on the sports field and in the encouraged to share their excitement experience behind him, Guy brought opportunity to tease him about his classroom without having to raise his

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voice. The students, staff and parents cated service within the IT Support de- The pupils noted that Sarah was all enjoyed and benefited from his partment. Throughout this service, he endlessly helpful and patient when approach. has been enthusiastic, efficient and his researching career and course options; Ciaran gives the utmost care and atten- humour will be greatly missed. Tech- many of them could be seen leaving tion to all he does. The fact that he will nology has developed rapidly during her office wreathed in smiles as Sarah be missed as much as he will be is a this time and Steve has been instru- had found the perfect course for them testament to how much he did for the mental in the changes and progression in the perfect location. She was always school and how firmly he became part made in recent years. Steve is moving happy to research less typical paths of the establishment in a short space on to become Network Manager for and quickly became well-informed of time. Ciaran was never destined to Bramhall High School. We wish him all about any new area. Her advice was stay long with us but he never ap- the very best for the future. invariably shrewd and always delivered proached his position as though it was CJS with good-humour and understanding. a temporary one. We wish Ciaran all Sarah also got involved in a whole the luck, happiness and success in his Liz Rosenfield host of activities including World Chal- future travels with Louise. Liz joined the Learning Support lenge expeditions, sailing, diving, the SM department in 2008 as a specialist Sixth Form Fashion Show and Duke of Dyslexia teacher and assessor. She Edinburgh award. Sarah leaves King’s Ben White developed a tremendous rapport with to take up a post at Salford University Ben joined the Business & Economics her students, offering support from in student outreach. Department three years ago from Sal- the Infants through to the Sixth Form. RHR ford City College. Ben is a strong class- Not only was Liz a qualified primary room practitioner who has been an school teacher, specialist dyslexia Liz Hall asset to the department and who has teacher, specialist assessor and tutor, Liz made an impact from the very start fully involved himself in life at King’s. she is also well known on the folk as Head of Biology. Galvanising the In addition to numerous departmental music circuit where she organises folk team with her upbeat and enthusiastic extra-curricular commitments, Ben music festivals and is lead singer in a attitude, she was immediately liked also turned his hand to coaching, help- popular band called Bitter and Twisted. and respected. Her relations with pu- ing out with rugby teams and being a Liz is leaving us not, as she originally pils were equally warm and good hu- vital member of the staff football team. claimed, to join One Direction, but moured but reflective also of her no- He has also racked up an impres- to join One Education as a specialist nonsense attitude. Liz’s teaching and sive globetrotting resume helping on SEN teacher and assessor. Liz will be approach made a real impact on all ski trips and heading off to China and greatly missed, however we all wish those in her classes. Her organisation New York. Ben leaves us to take up a her every success in the next chapter and drive in the Biology department teaching post at Collège Alpin Interna- of her career. also led to noticeable change, drawing tional Beau Soleil in Switzerland where NSD praise even from the hardest of task hopefully he can work on his skiing masters in IJR! Her impact beyond the skills. Chris Lawson classroom was also noticeable and her JSM Chris came to King’s in 2010 as a commitment to sport in particular was Teaching Assistant for a Year 7 boy of huge value to the school. Wayne Swinson whom she had supported since he was TDS Wayne joined King’s in 2013 after in primary school. Chris played an im- completing a degree in IT at Stoke portant role in helping him to achieve University and was a key contributor to a range of As and A* in his GCSEs. She the successful implementation of the was hard-working and carried out her school’s iSAMS management informa- role efficiently and with good humour. tion system. He brought a calm and Chris was always prepared to support helpful approach to system queries her colleagues, in particular she was from both staff and parents and we a regular attendee of Music at Mike’s. wish him well in his new role as part of We wish her well in her new ventures Stoke City Council’s IT development which include mastering the Chinese team, which also takes him closer martial art Tai Chi! to his beloved Stoke City’s Britannia NSD Stadium. Sarah Graham Steve Barber Sarah joined in 2012 as Careers Officer Steve was a long-standing member of and quickly proved to be an invaluable the support staff and joined the school member of staff with a superb ‘can do’ in April 2002 as an IT Technician. He attitude and a determination to get has provided over 13 years of dedi- fully involved in the life of the school.

86 Awards & Prizes

Distinctions in Public Examinations Special Prizes A Level Headmaster’s Prize, Mathematics: Single, Biology Prizes Aiman Aslam Pupils with 4 A*/A grades Headmaster’s Prize, Selwyn Russell Jones Aiman Aslam Callum Lavelle Sports Prize William Hodgson Elise Boothroyd Theo Roffe Principal’s Award Oliver Meads Oliver Davies James Shering Principal’s Award, William Broster Sarah Laughton Dmitri Whitmore French Prize Olivia Watkins Pupils with 3 A*/A grades School Prizes (all age groups) Thomas Andresen Imogen McCance Maimi Wright Prize for Computing, Dr Norman Maurice “Arclex” Prize Evelyn Hancox Edward Austin Thomas McClusky Ben Davies Poetry Prize, Holly Brierley Henry Meadows 8DJD Form Prize Rowan Sutton Karina Chopra Oliver Nowak Thornber Chemistry Develoment Prize, Ella Denny Samuel O’Brien Mathematics: Double Prize Dmitri Whitmore William Fox Oliver Plant Marcall-Costello Award for Evelyn Hancox Zoë Richmond Endeavour in German Bradley Greatrex-Jordan Matthew Harden Harriet Rous Ken Brookfield Elizabethan Prize, William Harris Adam Russ J O Nicholson German Prize Holly Kitching William Hodgson Matthew Smith I A Wilson Economics Prize Daniel Noxon The Alex Anderson Memorial Quaich Melissa Sharp Nicole Hughes Edward Thompson Madeline Townley David Pook Poetry Prize, Brendan Jacot Macclesfield High School Susan Oliver Kenny Rose Turner Russell Jones Cup for German, Holly Kitching Rosana Wardle 9CPT Form Prize Lottie Thomas Harry Lumsden Olivia Watkins Boys’ Division Robert Batchelor Prize Archie Abraham Girls’ Division Robert Batchelor Prize Constance Jordan GCSE Junior Division Robert Batchelor Prize Haroon Abbasi Junior Division Robert Batchelor Prize Cordelia Kight Pupils with at least 11 A*/As Infant & Junior Division Enquiry Prize John McDermott Rebecca Austin Highly Commended Madeleine Baxter Kieran Bailey Lauren Hayward Highly Commended Robert Mack Lewis Bell Chloe Henshaw Molly Bessell Angus Homer Retiring Prizes Georgina Boden Pari Mehrabani Jo Beesley Prize Frances Laker Eileen Olsen Prize Ella Thomson Fionn Carman Helen Nixon Linda Pyatt Prize, Year 9 Achiever’s Cup Timothy Parkinson Alexandra Clarke Marcus Nowak Samuel Cockayne Isabelle Nuttall Former Pupils’ Association Prizes James Crummack Caitlin Plant Alan Cooper Prize, Sainter Prize for Scientific Research, EPQ Prize Zoë Richmond Eleanor Fielding Thea Preston Alan Cooper Prize, Wilmot Classics Prize Henry Meadows Alexander Fray Hannah Ruskin TT Shaw Sixth Form Prize, Tanisha Orchard Emma Gosnay Hannah Wilcock Nancy Xia TT Shaw Sixth Form Prize Oliver Quinn Sorrel Haughton TT Shaw Boys’ Division Prize Hamish Burke TT Shaw Girls’ Division Prize, Pupils with at least 10 A*/As Girls’ Division Council Cup Francesca Southern Rachel Anderson Keeran Manoharan Antonia Bianchi Evie O’Brien Upper School Prizes Hamish Burke James Quinn Selwyn Russell Jones Art Prize Scott Pavitt Daniel Earl Molly Robinson Business Studies Prize Grace Pulley Callum Evans Francesca Southern Product Design Prize Claire Dixon Grace Heywood Tristan Taale Chemistry Prize Callum Lavelle William Kemp Sophie Vlissidis Canon F W Paul Economic Prize, Siraj Lyons Spanish Prize Brendan Jacot English Language Prize Thomas McClusky Pupils with at least 9 A*/As English Literature, History Prizes Rosana Wardle Verity Griffin Joseph Moores Geography Prize Sarah Laughton Daisy Hammersley Sophie Pope Geology Prize Alexander Richmond Rebecca Ions Saffron Rossi C A Bradley History Prize Elise Boothroyd Liberty Kirk Luke Smith Music Prize, Ron Darlington Jazz Prize William Fox Joseph Laughton Natalie Stevens Music Prize Henry Reavey Anushka Lithgow Katie Wray Physical Education Prize Abigail Johnston Physics Prize Henry McKenna Politics Prize Thomas Ballantyne-Rowland

87 Awards & Prizes Awards & Prizes

Psychology Prize Polly Cartwright Year 7 Achiever’s Cup Emma Graham Form Prizes Music Examinations Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Louise Earl Year 8 Achiever’s Cup Amanda Vel Academic Achievement Prizes Autumn Term 2015 Senior Choral Prize Eleanor McKenna Year 9 Achiever’s Cup Aisling Day 5SM Jenny Wallace Associated Board Practical Examinations Senior Orchestral Prize Henry Strutt Victrix Ludorum Cup, History Essay Prize Antonia Bianchi Ben Chong Senior Reading Prize Louise Marchington Macclesfield High School Somerville 5MW Madi Baxter Sixth Form Simon Schuler Computing Prize Lilian Breese-Tovey Challenge Cup, Modern Languages Prize Nancy Xia Name...... Instrument Grade Result John McDermott Theatre Arts Prize Aarian Mehrabani Jenny Lee Mathematics Prize (joint) Beth Whiteley Henry Strutt...... Piano 5 111 Pass Jenny Lee Mathematics Prize (joint) Megan Whiteley 5NS Thomas Danson Sophie Vlissidis...... Singing 4 116 Pass Middle School Prizes (Boys’ Division) Macclesfield High School Isobel Day Leah Shadwell Head Boy’s Prize, German Prize Alexander Fray Boys’ Division Cup for French, Dual Award Science Prize Tilly Davis Principal’s Prize (joint) William Fosbrook 4JC Frances Green Name...... Instrument Grade Result Sue Bream Crystal Star Phoebe Pool Principal’s Prize (joint) Samuel Cheetham Eryn Gravett Josh Blake...... Piano 2 124 Merit Anne Craig French Prize, Music Prize Alexandra Clarke Deryck Siddall Cup Marcus Nowak 4BA Tasha Clark Euan Davies...... Piano 4 111 Pass Year 7 General Science Prize Holly Burke Alex Fray...... Guitar 5 118 Pass Best All-Rounder Cup, Theatre Arts Prize Sean Neary Eleanor Mitchell Year 8 General Science Prize, Tom Langham...... Clarinet 5 116 Pass Macclesfield Grammar School 8MDP Form Prize Molly Robertson 3CK/LC Alexander Townsend Oliver Rushton...... Singing 3 130 Dist Challenge Cup Fionn Carman Art & Design Prize Molly Bessell Marianne Knuckey Girls’ Division Boys’ Division Council Cup Keeran Manoharan Biology, Theatre Arts Prizes Helen Nixon 3EY James Waters Name...... Instrument Grade Result Year 7 Achiever’s Cup Jack Phillpotts English, German, Orchestral Prizes Chloe Henshaw Abdullah Atif Abigail Breese-Tovey...... Piano 4 106 Pass Year 8 Achiever’s Cup Joshua Rajendran History Prize Sophie Pope Bethany Henshaw...... Piano 5 115 Pass Year 10 Challenge Cup John Daly Endeavour Prizes Megan Huddy...... Violin 7 120 Merit Latin Prize Rebecca Austin Year 7 General Science Prize, 6JEB Mary Squire Beth Whiteley...... Flute 5 125 Merit Mathematics Prize Hannah Wilcock 7SLH Form Prize Oliver Hall Serena Panton Isabella Johnson...... Singing 2 132 Dist Middle School Reading Prize Grace Harrison Year 8 General Science Prize Finn Knudsen Ella Thomson...... Singing 2 132 Dist Physical Education Prize Annabel Hebb 6ST Luke Wilson Emily Friston...... Singing 3 122 Merit Art & Design Prize Leo Skinner Physics Prize Sorrel Haughton Eve Carter Merridy Russell...... Singing 3 111 Pass Biology Prize Siraj Lyons Product Design Prize Natalie Stevens 6SC Lara Tabachnik Meredith Stephenson...... Singing 4 115 Pass Chemistry Prize Kieran Bailey Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Eleanor Hammonds Georgia Aspray Junior Division Dual Award Science Prize Usman Qureshi Spanish Prize Eleanor Fielding 5SM Phoebe Thomson Name...... Instrument Grade Result French, History Prizes James Crummack Harriet Bailey...... Piano 1 138 Dist GCSE Physical Education Prize Thomas Blackwell Lower School Prizes (Girls’ Division) Shabd Shrivastava Poppy Fletcher...... Piano 1 127 Merit Geography Prize Robert Devon Choral Prize Georgina Bergman 5MW James Hartley Sam Parry...... Piano 1 110 Pass Latin (joint) Prize James Quinn Lydia Hine Sophie Fletcher...... Piano 2 124 Merit Form Prizes (Girls’ Division) Millie Crummack...... Piano 2 124 Merit Latin (joint) Prize Luke Smith 10RAA Hannah McCormick 5NS William Barrett Cicely Homer...... Violin 2 118 Pass Lower School Reading Prize Misha Higham 10LCh Anna Kaczmarczyk Poppy Robinson Lydia Hine...... Flute 3 116 Pass Music Prize Angus Homer 10ARP Charlotte Wardle 4JC Emily Barrett Eve Carter...... Flute 4 111 Pass Physics Prize Lewis Bell 10ESc Anisa Choudry Carlie Lau Ted Broadley...... Clarinet 2 103 Pass Product Design, Mathematics Prizes Samuel Cockayne 9LB Zoë Thomas Christian Tattum...... Singing 2 131 Dist 4BA Alistair Fitzmaurice Edward Gandy...... Alto Saxophone 4 118 Pass Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Oliver Stevenson 9GRM Julia Trier Sebastian Fitzgerald Spanish Prize Callum Evans Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Mia Macnab Associated Board Theory Examinations 3CK/LC Fleur Foster Lower School Prizes (Boys’ Division) 8LFA Georgina Bloomfield Name Grade Result William Gandy Choral Prize Kieran Cullen Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Charlotte Warren Sam Andresen...... Music Theory 5 78 Pass 7EB Claudia Rodriguez Martinez 3EY Georgia Smalley Isobel Taylor...... Music Theory 5 88 Merit Orchestral Prize Samuel Stokes Madeline Holden...... Music Theory 5 66 Pass 7ECS, Tigerlily Dawson Megan Whiteley...... Music Theory 5 93 Dist Form Prizes (Boys’ Division) Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Madeline Holden 10TSJ Joseph Gardner Year 4 Young Artist Award Beth Whiteley...... Music Theory 5 90 Dist Hugo Wayman...... Music Theory 5 67 Pass 10GAJM Toby Moule Infant & Junior Division Prizes (Mrs P J Aspinwall Trophy) Hannah Langslow Bethany Hughes...... Music Theory 5 92 Dist 10CP James Bunker English: Reading Rebecca Foster Mrs C J Hulme Y6 Tom Carter...... Music Theory 5 79 Pass 10LAT Jack Crichton English: Speaking Thomas Whitney Musical Production Prize Loryn Robinson Trinity/Guildhall Examinations 9MTH James Moule English: Writing Edie Waters Cricket Trophy Noah Reaney 9PJP Peter Goodfellow Mathematics Toby Denton Chess Trophy Sam Parry Sixth Form 9SLQ Samuel Jones Name...... Instrument Grade Result Science Adam Rowley Ridings Best All-Rounder Cups Lily Cook Bradley Greatrex-Jordan..Electronic Keyboard 5 63 Pass Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Harri Bowen Geography Thomas Sheridan Zac Spencer Pickup Eleanor Tunick...... Flute 7 61 Pass 8ARH Thomas Turner History Maddie Johnson 8LSH Shuji Imai (and the Martin Badger Cup for All-Round Endeavour) Boys’ Division Name...... Instrument Grade Result 8SEJ Joseph Larner French Molly Bridgewater Art, Design & Technology Amelia Robinson-Stanier Mason Bell...... Electronic Keyboard 1 68 Pass Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Charles Boddy Siraj Lyons...... Piano 6 75 Merit 7JAIH James Miller Music Edward Gandy Marcus Wesley...... Drum Kit 4 76 Merit 7SMP Mackenzie Blackaby Millie Crummack Freddie Sass...... Drum Kit 2 75 Merit Religious Studies (Thorneycroft) Prize Benjamin Piper ICT Archie Little Misha Higham...... Electronic Keyboard 4 65 Pass Middle School Prizes (Girls’ Division) Religious Education Xavier Moore Junior Division Head Girl’s Prize, Chemistry, Physical Education Louis Finnegan Name...... Instrument Grade Result Lottie Clark Rudi Abraham...... Drum Kit 2 76 Merit Geography Prizes Lauren Hayward Theo Adamski...... Drum Kit 3 87 Dist Principal’s Prize Charlotte Green Swimming Reece Grady Jake Leech...... Electronic Keyboard 3 79 Merit Macclesfield High School Best Games: Boys Jake Leech All-Rounder Cup Verity Griffin Games: Girls Aimee Knight

88 89 Awards & Prizes Leaver Destinations 2016

Spring Term 2016 Boys’ Division In 2016, more than 70% of our Sixth Form students achieved their first choice of university and, of those, more than 61% joined Associated Board Practical Examinations Name...... Instrument Grade Result Samuel Andresen...... Jazz Trumpet 5 121 Merit Russell Group institutions. The full list of leavers’ destinations Sixth Form Samuel Andresen...... Singing 6 130 Dist can be read below: Name...... Instrument Grade Result Bryn Barker...... Guitar 5 122 Merit Josh Clayfield...... Singing 5 103 Pass Frances Laker...... Cello 6 101 Pass Bath (The University of) Chemical Engineering Rachel Catlin...... Cello 8 111 Pass Harry Collett...... Jazz Trumpet 5 136 Dist Dan Crosby...... Singing 7 124 Merit Rhodri Evans...... Guitar 5 102 Pass Bath Spa University Criminology/Psychology Ben Lynch...... Singing 7 126 Merit Toby Gray...... Flute 5 120 Merit Birmingham (The University of) Business Management Adam Murray...... Trumpet 5 103 Pass Boys’ Division Birmingham (The University of) Chemical Engineering (Industrial Experience) (5 Years) Name...... Instrument Grade Result Girls’ Division Birmingham (The University of) Chemical Engineering (International Study) (4 Years) Josh Howdle...... Piano 1 114 Pass Name...... Instrument Grade Result Birmingham (The University of) Geography Flossie Blackwell...... Singing 4 116 Pass Harry Pinches...... Piano 5 111 Pass Birmingham (The University of) Music Ben Sneddon...... Piano 5 127 Merit Emily Friston...... Singing 4 123 Merit Callum Barr...... Tuba 3 125 Merit Daisy Holden...... Bassoon 3 130 Dist Birmingham (The University of) Policy, Politics and Economics with Year Abroad Josh Allmand-Smith...... Euphonium 2 127 Merit Madeleine Holder...... Singing 3 109 Pass Bradford College Media Make Up with Special Effects Harry Wallace...... Singing 4 133 Dist Aggie Homer...... Singing 4 125 Merit Bristol (The University of) Biochemistry Rosie Ibberson...... Clarinet 3 117 Pass Bristol (The University of) Chemistry Girls’ Division Fiza Kokan...... Piano 5 115 Pass Name...... Instrument Grade Result Zuva Mutambasere...... Singing 1 116 Pass Bristol (The University of) Chemistry with Industrial Experience Emily Higginbottom...... Piano 3 120 Merit Francesca Sawyer...... Piano 5 110 Pass Bristol (The University of) Chemistry with Study in Continental Europe Sarah Catlin...... Piano 5 109 Pass Sophie Scott...... Singing 1 127 Merit Alexandra Clarke...... Piano 8 131 Dist Bristol (The University of) Chemistry with Study in Continental Europe Josephine Whiteley...... Piano 2 133 Dist Amanda Vel...... Oboe 4 122 Merit Bristol (The University of) Medicine Megan Whiteley...... Piano 2 127 Merit Mila Waseem...... Singing 3 122 Merit Megan Whiteley...... Oboe 5 131 Dist Bristol (The University of) Medicine Miya Grady...... Singing 3 115 Pass Bristol (University of West England) Filmmaking Jasmine England...... Singing 5 134 Dist Junior Division Name...... Instrument Grade Result Bristol (University of West England) Real Estate Junior Division Georgia Aspray...... Trumpet 2 112 Pass Cambridge (The University of) Geography Name...... Instrument Grade Result Sam Booth...... Violin 1 120 Merit Jenny Wallace...... Piano 1 127 Merit Cambridge (The University of) Mathematics Jessica Burton...... Singing 2 123 Merit Sebastian Fitzgerald...... Piano 1 131 Dist Cambridge (The University of) Medicine Ruby Callaghan...... Singing 3 124 Merit Jessica Morgan-Hoole...... Guitar 1 120 Merit Emily Carter...... Descant Recorder 1 114 Pass Cambridge (The University of) Natural Sciences Ellie Adamski...... Guitar 2 120 Merit Oliver Carter...... Oboe 2 116 Pass Cardiff University Exploration and Resource Geology Billy Bridgewater...... Trumpet 1 114 Pass Charlotte Clark...... Treble Recorder 3 111 Pass Lara Tabachnik...... B Flat Cornet 2 111 Pass Cardiff University Sociology Charlotte Clark...... Piano 2 114 Pass Rebecca Foster...... Trombone 1 127 Merit Durham University English Literature Tasha Clark...... Guitar 1 113 Pass Fraser Day...... Trombone 2 131 Dist Lily Cook...... Singing 2 137 Dist Durham University General Engineering Edward Roden...... Descant Recorder 2 109 Pass Millie Crummack...... Singing 3 124 Merit Durham University Geology Daisy Sutton...... Descant Recorder 2 106 Pass Thomas Danson...... Singing 3 112 Pass Poppy Barber...... Singing 1 124 Merit Durham University History Matthew Ennis...... Guitar 1 114 Pass Molly Bridgewater...... Singing 3 128 Merit Durham University Music Sophie Fletcher...... Flute 1 134 Dist Lucy Evans...... Singing 4 103 Pass Toby Fraser...... Alto Saxophone 2 101 Pass Exeter (The University of) Business Economics Thomas Sheridan...... Jazz Alto Sax 1 127 Merit Frances Green...... Guitar 2 120 Merit Exeter (The University of) English and Modern Languages Associated Board Theory Examinations Cordelia Kight...... Violin 1 124 Merit Exeter (The University of) Modern Languages (4 Years) Nithida Langhorn-Neillans.Flute 2 111 Pass Name Grade Result Oliver Sapey...... Oboe 2 120 Merit Falmouth University Animation and Visual Effects Harry Collett...... Music Theory 5 71 Pass Edie Waters...... Singing 3 124 Merit Keele University Astrophysics with Science Foundation Year Eleanor Tunick...... Music Theory 5 82 Merit Keele University Business Management and Mathematics Angus Homer...... Music Theory 5 81 Merit Associated Board Theory Examinations Daisy Holden...... Music Theory 5 70 Pass Name Grade Result Lancaster University Business Studies Rachel Catlin...... Music Theory 8 69 Pass Fiona Beeston...... Music Theory 5 77 Pass Lancaster University Psychology Sebastian Bye...... Music Theory 1 84 Merit Lancaster University Theoretical Physics Trinity/Guildhall Examinations Lydia Hine...... Music Theory 1 80 Merit Leeds Beckett University Retail Management Sixth Form Frances Laker...... Music Theory 8 74 Pass Name...... Instrument Grade Result Serena Panton...... Music Theory 1 79 Pass Leeds (The University of) Business Economics Jack Lucas...... Singing 7 71 Pass Timothy Parkinson...... Music Theory 8 86 Merit Leeds (The University of) Economics Josephine Whiteley...... Music Theory 5 82 Merit Boys' Division Leeds (The University of) English Literature Name...... Instrument Grade Result Trinity/Guildhall Examinations Leeds (The University of) Environmental Science Simon Wagner...... Drum Kit 2 75 Merit Sixth Form Leeds (The University of) History Alec Welch...... Drum Kit 2 70 Pass Name...... Instrument Grade Result Leeds (The University of) International History and Politics Junior Division Zoe Richmond...... Flute AC 85 Dist Leeds (The University of) Psychology Name...... Instrument Grade Result Girls’ Division Leicester (The University of) Geology James Brauckman...... Drum Kit 1 61 Pass Name...... Instrument Grade Result Liverpool (The University of) Business Economics with a Year in Industry Madeline Holden...... Drum Kit 4 94 Dist Summer Term 2016 Liverpool (The University of) English Associated Board Practical Examinations Junior Division Liverpool (The University of) English Language and Philosophy Name...... Instrument Grade Result Liverpool (The University of) History and Criminology Sixth Form Samuel Wain...... Drum Kit 3 75 Merit Name...... Instrument Grade Result Liverpool (The University of) Nursing Eleanor Tunick...... Singing 7 117 Pass Liverpool (The University of) Psychology Liverpool (The University of) Veterinary Science

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Liverpool Hope University Philosophy, Religion, and Economics The King’s School in Macclesfield Loughborough University Foundation Studies in Art and Design Loughborough University Graphics (Foundation) Registered Charity: 1137204 Loughborough University Management Sciences Founded by Sir John Percyvale, Kt, Loughborough University Physics with Astrophysics and Cosmology by his Will dated 25th January, 1502. Manchester (The University of) Architecture Re-established by Royal Charter granted Manchester (The University of) Chemical Engineering with Industrial Experience by King Edward VI, 26th April, 1552. Manchester (The University of) Pharmacy Supplemental Royal Charter granted by Manchester Metropolitan University Art Foundation Elizabeth II, 11th February 2009. Manchester Metropolitan University Computer and Network Technology Manchester Metropolitan University Fashion Business and Management Governing Body as at 31st August 2016 Manchester Metropolitan University International Business/Marketing Chairman: Manchester Metropolitan University Product Design and Technology Dr J W Kennerley, BPharm, MRPharmS, PhD Newcastle University Accounting and Finance Vice Chairman: Newcastle University Accounting and Finance J R Sugden MA, FIMechE, CEng Newcastle University Biology and Psychology Newcastle University Business Management Co-opted Governors: Newcastle University Economics S Barriskell BSc, CIMA, MBA Newcastle University Economics Mrs A Chowdrey Newcastle University Food and Human Nutrition (with Placement) R A Greenham FRICS Newcastle University Law Prof N Hanley BSc (Hons), MBCHB, MRCP, PhD Newcastle University Modern Languages Dr J W Kennerley BPharm, MRPharmS, PhD, Northumbria University Sport Management C King MA PGCE Nottingham (The University of) Architecture Nottingham (The University of) Biotechnology Ms M Longden BSc, MBA Nottingham (The University of) Economics Mrs A E Nesbitt BA Nottingham (The University of) English Language and Literature C R W Petty MA (Cantab) Nottingham (The University of) Philosophy, Politics and Economics Mrs J Spinks MA, PGCE Nottingham (The University of) Plant Science J R Sugden MA, FIMechE, CEng Nottingham (The University of) Plant Science J Watkins MA, LLB Nottingham Trent University Business Management and Marketing Ms J White BSc Nottingham Trent University Product Design Oxford (The University of) Philosophy, Politics and Economics S Wright MA Portsmouth (The University of) Palaeontology Ex-officio Governor Reading (The University of) English Language Royal Holloway University London English and Creative Writing Mayor of Macclesfield Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia, USA) Graphics Nominated Governors Sheffield (The University of) Archaeology and History Appointed by the University of Manchester Sheffield (The University of) Business Management I Bradley BSc Sheffield (The University of) Business Management Sheffield (The University of) Chemical Engineering (4 Years) Appointed by Cheshire East Council Sheffield (The University of) Chemical Engineering with a Year in Industry J P Findlow LLB Sheffield (The University of) English Language and Linguistics Mrs H Gaddum Sheffield (The University of) Geography Appointed by the Rt Revd the Lord Bishop of Chester Sheffield (The University of) Medicine M Strutt BA Sheffield (The University of) Psychology Officers of the Foundation as at 31st August 2016 Sheffield (The University of) Psychology Sheffield Hallam University Business Studies Head of Foundation: Sheffield Hallam University Real Estate Dr S Hyde MA, DPhil St Andrews (The University of) Arabic and Spanish Director of Finance and Clerk to the Governors: Surrey (The University of) Veterinary Medicine and Science J M Spencer Pickup BSc, ACA University College London European Social and Political Studies (4 Years) Solicitors: Wales, Trinity St David (University of) Classical Civilisation sas daniels LLP, County Chambers, 6 Chestergate, Macclesfield Warwick (The University of) Law (with Study Abroad in English) Warwick (The University of) Mathematics Auditors: York (The University of) Geography Crowe Clarke Whitehill LLP, Chartered Accountants, Manchester York (The University of) Law Bankers: York (The University of) Psychology National Westminster Bank PLC, Macclesfield York St John University Psychology

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