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Aluredian Michaelmas 2007

Volume XXXIX No 12 yEdited b Chris Holmes

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King’s College South Road Taunton TAl 3LA 01823 328200 www.kings-tauntor1.co.ul< Contents It’s been a year of unprecedented national success for King’s; our Chapel Choir won the School News BBC Songs of Praise Movingn O Senior School Choir of After King’s the Year competition, and BBC Songs of Praise our rugby players won Rosslyn Park Winners the Rosslyn Park Sevens. Chapel With our new headmaster Richard Biggs well into Textiles his first term with us, German Exchange King’s is indeed an Spanish Exchange exhilarating place to be. CCF He has already made a Chindit Camp markn o staff and pupils with his warmth, Adventure Training Camp humanity and sureness of Music Round-up touch. Drama Round-up §EJYTS Round-up Don’t forget to keep in Girls Hockey touch w ith day-to-day Rugby updatesn o news, as well as match reports on every Netball fixture played, by visiting Boys H ockey our w ebsite Football kings-taunton.co.uk Cross—Country We’re v ery proud of what

Girls Tennis our pupils achieve, and hope y ou enjoy reading Cricket about their successes BEE Teflf‘ii ,7 yweek b week. Athletics

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t was a great pleasure to welcome taff and pupils were celebrating Richard Biggs to King's as our new again when another excellent set of headmaster at the beginning of the examination results were published Michaelmas term. We wish him and in August. An impressive eleven I his family every possible success and S pupils achieved three or more A happiness. grades: Sarah Hill, David Snell, Terry Addo, Charlie Byles, Luke Capps, Nick de We welcomed several new members of staff at Figueiredo, Ryan Higgin, Pui-Yan Ng, Sascha the beginning of the new academic year. Anna Panayotopoulos, Caroline Tecks and Chris Man. Butler joins the English department, Kirsty Chris Man achieved a particularly impressive Davies joins the history department, and Paul four As in biology, maths, physics and Gamble is our new head of modern languages. chemistry. Chris Hamilton joins us to teach chemistry, Sara Harvey takes over as co-director of sport A quarter of all GCSEs taken resulted in A* and head of PE, while Toby Smith is our new grades, with 51% at A• and A grade. Amanda head of English. Bell, Alice Bevan, Harriet Clarke, Charles Close, The English department was celebrating three successful Oxbridge Zoe Round, Millie Smyth, Stacey Underdown applicants this year. Tom Elphinstone started at Corpus Christi College, Good luck too to Peter Dossett who takes over and Alex Thorne achieved straight A* grades in Oxford in October, James Walker is off to Queens' College, Cambridge, the chemistry department, Clare Flood our new all their subjects, and an impressive 17 pupils and Caroline Tecks is to read English at St John's College, Cambridge. head of geography, and Mary Hudson who achieved all A* or A grades. takes over as head of PSHE.

School As part of their leadership training, this year's prefects were given 24 hours to organise two News rival social events in an 'Apprentice'-type challenge.

We enjoyed two Royal visits in the first weeks of the Summer term. HRH The Earl of Wessex met members of the CCF and some of our participants in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

t the end of the Summer term Brigadier Alistair Fyfe retired as vice-custos, after 15 years as a governor, five of them as vice-custos. We thank him for the huge amount of time and energy he has devoted to King's in that time. He is succeeded as vice-custos by Gerry Mulder. We also record our debt of gratitude to Nigel Whinney and Julia Payne, both of whom retired as governors at the end of the year. The OT department won The 2006 Good Schools Guide A Level award for independent Just days after Prince Edward's visit, the We welcome to the school council former deputy head of King's Dr Roger Duchess of Gloucester met senior members of schools. In addition, GCSE student Simon A Mott. His insight into all things King's will be a great asset to the school, Baker was awarded a highly prestigious the school community, on her way to a series and we hope he thoroughly enjoys his new role. of engagements in Taunton. Arkwright Scholarship.

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Twelvef o our Under 15 girls tennis players spent a week of the Easter holidays in Portugaln o a pre-season warm w eather training camp.

CFOur C orienteering team swept all before them in the uring the King Alfred SomersetCF C Orienteering Competition. The girls won holiday in the Michaelmas both the Junior Girls event term, the lst XI football and the overall Junior Team squad flew to Spain, where event, w hile the boys won I they met and trained with Champions League stars the Senior Boys event. from Villareal. They're pictured here with former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan.

After the CCF Biennial Inspection, Inspecting Officer Colonel W Dunham commented on the impressive enthusiasm and excellent turnout of the contingent.

This y ear's Ten Tors was abandoned in atrocious weather conditions. Participants w ere airlifted off Dartmoor, n November Oliver Davies was with our two teams awarded a prestigious Army agonisingly close to Scholarship. After the Army finishing. sponsors him for the rest of his timet a King’s and through university, he gains an automatic placet a Sandhurst. Aiuredie 7%. fl Aluredian

emphasis. During the last five years, we have , fhe pen portraits of members How w ill I remember his time as chaplain? consistently topped the GCSE league tables for i ‘ of staff which are featured in For conducting a beautiful service for my son Somerset. An entire tutoring system has been l l the Aluredian, and most Robert's christening in the Lady Chapel, for his il l designed and Implemented for the lower three ‘ l particularly, those which talk magical Christmas Day services enjoyed by year groups of the school, and our academic l of lasting impressions upon adults and children alike, but most importantly results have reflected the shrewdness of Chris's . the community, generally deal as a great listener and support to our pupils, thinking and judgements. With those stalwarts who have seen many teaching and non-teaching staff. generations of pupils through the school. The entire school campus has been the subject By stark contrast, Father Craig Marshall's time Craig w ears his faith lightly but profoundly, and of reVIew and renewal. Two brand new here w as all too brief, but his contribution to it w as therefore sad, but not surprising, that he boarding houses were opened by HRH The Earl lifet a King's is remembered affectionately by felt himself drawn back to serving a wider of Wessex in Chris's time, the housemaster of staff and pupils alike. community. It was a privilege for a King Alfred house now has his own considerable number of staff and pupils to accommodation in the middle of his boarding I first met Craig on his pre~intervieW visit to the attend his induction as Rector of the Quantocks house, and Chris oversaw an investment in school in May 2004, and I knew instantly that Villages Benefice and we wish him, his wife excessf o half a million pounds in the he w ould fit into our community and ensure Jane and family (a fantastic source of support) Craig renovation and updating of our boarding that the Chapel was a vibrant part of the continued success in parish life, We are of accommodation. It was Chris who led the school. Craig came to Kings from the parishes course delighted that he remains part of our Marshall review into the future of the Convent site, of Staplegrove and Norton Fitzwarren, having community on the ‘other side of the fence', and linked w ith the potential of the main school been ordained to the priesthood only two years that his silky skills are still displayed when by Karen site, and this process is now promising to take prewously. Before his training at St John’s Craig ‘ Cruyff' Marshall turns out for Matt McSwiggan King's forward in the most exciting way. Theological College, Craig had enjoyed Bakewell’s 5~a-side team! considerable success as a primary school The school has many non-academic teacher, and his background in education achievements to celebrate in the last five years, would clearly serve him well at King's, not least in Chris’s final year as headmaster here. Very few schools in the country can Craig quickly slotted into our way of life and celebrate their Chapel Choir winning the BBC impressed as a senSItive and discerning Songsf o Praise Senior School Choir of the Year, listener. Approachable and accessible, his and their rugby players winning the Rosslyn caring manner made him universally popular, Park Sevens, let alone in the same year. This andn i our acts of formal and informal worship is a sure indication of both the breadth and the he demonstrated an ability to inspire and lead depthf o our school’s life. others. Out-going headmaster Chris hen Chris Ramsey Craig’s career at King's may have only spanned Ramsey at the presentations starteds a As Custos, | always found Chris an enthusiastic just over two years, but his contribution to our on Parents’ Day headmaster of King's colleague. Meticulous in both process and community w as hugely varied and highly College, | asked him attention to detail, but never losing sight of the ife h knew what a broader picture, he was never one to shirk a valued. In addition to leading the spiritual life of the school, Craig had a sizeable academic big job he was challenge, never one to say “if it isn't broken, taking on. After all, there were over 400 don't fix it”. This in many ways underpinned load, ran the Young Enterprise scheme, coached the Under 16 football side and was a pupils, some 800 parents, and over 200 staff his entire headship, and goes a long way to key member of the staff team running the and support staff, all of whom he would be explaining how so many facets of life at King’s Chindits. responsible for looking after. He seemed underwent reinvigoration and renewal under his completely at ease with this idea. And to think leadership. How w ill the school remember his contribution that King's School, Chester, is twice our size! But none of this would have been possible to Kings? For some, no doubt it Will be memories of him daubed in camouflage paint Looking back over five momentous years of without a prodigious effort, and a stamina seen on Chindit Camp on Exmoor, for others his (far Chris change, it is obvious to anyone that he has in few. How he ever found the time and energy too!) convmcing portrayal of Lieutenant Shrank dones u proud, and moved King's on to throw himself into everything with such in ‘ West Side Story', and for three generations significantly. The whole academic process has verve and commitment, we will never know. Ramsey of our leavers it Will be for leading movmg been completely rethought and reorganised. Chris,e w wish you, Lynne and your family walkabout services on the last Friday of the by Magnus Academic roles have been clarified, meticulous every good fortune at King's Chester, and salute school y ear. structures have been put in place, and the you and what you did for us here. Mowat work ethic of the school has been given fresh For8 2 years he edited. With great distinction, the obin FitzPatrick jomed Kings more isolated parts of the Lake District or Robin Aluredian magazme, a tour de force, believe me. at a time when life was Cornwall, u sually in slightly damper conditions Soone h was appomted administrative master, in K pretty u nstressful, and Which might frighten off the crowds. He is also chargef o seating at plays. Chapel seating at all reportsn a occasional a keen bird lover, particularly paintings, FitZPatrick the major festivals of the year, arrangements for eirritation. H retired as we drawings and woodcarvings of the same. school photographs, driVing lessons, and the E: "77 \ face y et another revamp of He w as understandably a stalwart of Easter by compilation of the school diary and list. our geography syllabus. Perhaps this time he'll Camp, and enjoyed the excellent sailing there Richard finally get published his immaculate sets of With generations of Royal Navy cadets. He served as tutor in King Alfred with Douglas notes w hich I used to envy so much, presented He loved the weeks towards the end of the Llewellyn— Snowden, and in Meynell With Peter Wood, beautifully in extended booklet form for his Lent term, when John Bartlett, a former CCF working during this time With two of his closest pupils. colleague, w ould say “those mountains are Eaton friends. In 1983 he became housemaster of getting closer Robin!" Meynell, a time remembered With enormous He has been much-loved by those he has affectiony b those pupils of Meynell he took such taught. Former pupils always came looking for Well, now he can visit them whenever he likes. caren i looking after. Michael was sad when he Robin w henever they Vi5it — if they can find the We all wish Robin and his wife Liz a long and hado t end his time in the house, as King’s went geography department that IS. It’s a extremely happy retirement. fully co-educational in 1991. department that has been muchetravelled in the last ten years or so. Still, I suppose we're the By now he had taken a degree in English at ideal people to find our way around, London University, and transferred full-time to the English department, Where he shared his He w as a meticulous and expert head of flove o English literature With generations of geography. Under his leadership the pupils. In the classroom, his scholarly integrity department thrived — geography was always a and burning pas5ion for the written word made a popular subject, attracting large numbers of huge impression on his charges. He was a both GCSE and A Level pupils. It was a meticulous and erudite head of English at King’s successful department too. With consistently from 1997 to 2003. excellent examination results. He was a sympathetic and supportive presence to a But a mere list of jobs and responsibilities does succeSSion of female colleagues along the way, scant Justice to the man and his contribution to from Jane Reece to Lucy Ellis, and now the Kings, Michael was, is still of course, a man of headf o geography-elect Clare. He helped huge w armth and humanity, and thousands of them find their feet in their new school, but King’s p upils recognised this intuitively. He truly was then anxious to learn all about their new

n era at King's came to an cared for each of his pupils, would spend hours and exciting ways of teaching. tend a the end of the Summer helping tutees With whatever problems they had, term 2007 with the and w as unswervingly on their side. Everything He Was also of course examinations officer for retirement after 36 years of he did was for them, and they knew, many y ears, taking over at a time when there serviceo t King's of Michael were only two year groups Sitting public exams, Rogers. Michael was an He w as deeply moved by the send-off given him there w ere no modules, and exams occurred just once a year. Now, scarcely a week goes by institution. a part of the fabric of the college, a by the Common Room at his black tie dinner, personality as full and varied as the and almost overwhelmed by the prolonged without exam desks being Wheeled into some hallr o theatre or library, followed by an extraordinary list of roles and positions that he standing ovation the school gave him at the final anxious-looking Robin, clutching a pile of filled during his time at King's. assembly. l w as honoured myself to be able to walk into the Common Room at 4.50pm on papers, bundles of sealed envelopes, and He w as appointed in 1971 to teach French and Parents’ Day and say “Michael, for probably the packets of treasury tags. German, and joined Carpenter house under very last time, there is a boy waiting outSIde to Robin carried out this unenviable role for more housemaster Ian Halford. He immediately see y ou.” years than he would probably like to remember, Michael involved himself with school fencing, and the following y ear took over the running of all Michael, thank you for all you gave of yourself to and his colleagues have always been immensely grateful for this hugely important Rogers internal school exams and the Oxford and the King's community, both pupils and staff. contribution to school life. Cambridge entrance exams. He ran the Thank y ou for the hours of your time, the paperback bookshop when the Unmack generosity of your wit, and the compassmn of by Robin has many interests outSIde school. extension w as opened, and took over the 287, your spirit. You Will be remembered With huge He loves walking and sailing, preferably in the Chris Holmes the Junior Seeial Club. affection — y our ovation said everything. ll) Aluredian Aluredian

Apart from the Latin dancung, there were his ne does not usually expect to Lucy as a formidable opponent if one ever organisational skills, which followed strict eto b discussmg literary met her in argument, for she quickly physrcal laws 7 those of chaos, complexity and j theory with Visiting staff at demolished w oolly or illogical thinking — as atrophy, leading to his farewell ditty: 3 ll the Prep Schools Athletics, speakers at Phoenix Society meetings I but such was my frequently discovered! Dr Foster went to Oakham 7 experience in 2001 when In a roar of ‘Shame!’ introduced to Lucy Elphinstone, then director of Lucy showed creditable commitment in other He left us his pigeonho/e, studies, head of English and senior mistress at areasf o school life: she was involved with Michael pstuffed u rn a muddle, St Michael’s, Tawstock. After subsequently Primary Schools Drama as a Monday afternoon So w e’d always remember his name! being director of drama and assistant head of activity, coached Under 14 and Under 15 Rogers English at Fettes College, Edinburgh. she was netball and some tennis. and was a popular eAs h is a fine chemist, one would expect him appointed as head of English at King's in and caring tutor, both to the 4th and 5th forms toe b able to handle unstable and volatile September 2003. in Meynell and to the large number of 6th form elements, and as head of the chemistry pupils w ho chose her as their academic tutor. department, he introduced major change From the outset Lucy proved herself an She w as highly respected because of the through skilful management of the committed inspiring, energetic and imaginative teacher, genuine interest she took in everybody, her and passionate members of his department. who elicited the highest motivation and results total sincerity and her generosity towards pupils He w as a major asset to the smence from the vast majority of her classes. and colleagues, always wanting fulfilment and department and to the school, bringing vitality A graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, happiness for each individual. and probing intelligence to his lessons, and Lucy has a profound grasp of her subject in all really looking after his students. | Witnessed its aspects, and in her teaching at King's was Lucy’s v ision was of a broad, vibrant and his dedication to his subject as the Woodard always concerned to explore the relationship of imaginative educational experience, and she house common room became Chris’s second literary texts to their wider philosophical, strove hard in every way she could to achieve classroom, w here a succession of keen sixth political and aesthetic contexts. this during her four years at King's, We wish formers w ould queue up for help with their her w ell in her new challenge as head of sixth homework w henever he was on duty. It w as largely owing to her scholarly approach tform a Downe House. Berkshire. She leaves and impressive leadership qualities that the many friends and affectionate memories behind And then of course as a girls' hockey coach, English department remained so successful, hert a King's, Chris hen | first moved l'm told he has no equal. What a sportsman 7 with commendable A Level results and three next door to Chris he once quoted me the line while lounging in a recent Oxbridge places. The frenetic pace of Foster Foster three years deck-chair and fighting a summer breeze for her lessons 7 as with her movement through Lucy Elphinstone ago, I saw, as most fcontrol o the Saturday Guardian by the lst XI the corridors — the volume of work she set and by Matthew of y ou no doubt did, outfield, “ I have no interest in cricket, or as it’s the speed With which she marked it were alike a committed and also called, football!" formidable, and she certainly set an excellent Bakewell efficient teacher, a conscientious head of example of efficiency to the rest of us in the department, a w illing house deputy and a l w ould like to thank Chris Foster for his department, and inspired confidence and good-humoured colleague, well turned-out and contribution to life at King's. As a tutor, he affection in pupils. purposeful in his business However, some was generous With his time and showed real things just didn't add up. care for his tutees. As the Woodard deputy he Lucy w as an immensely supportive colleague was Simply invaluable, offering to cover more and friend who will be much missed at King's. Firstly, there was the salsa dancing. How can thane h was asked, and as a solid support, She w as always a staunch defender of her libidinous Latin rhythms correspond to the sounding-board, talking a lot of sense, and, as beliefs,t a times against quite misguided and dapper fellow who wouldn't look out of place in a person, helping to put the world to rights over unnecessary opposition. Given the principles plus fours riding a penny farthing to his a cold Guinness at the Racehorse, or livening for w hich she had to fight she needed a strong classroom? In his attire, Chris seems to have up a dinner party or common room with his personality, and she will be long remembered been born 100 years beyond his time 7 he is keen sense of humour and quick wit. for the efforts she made to broaden pupils‘ the epitome of an Edwardian gentleman: he experience and enjoyment of culture in many has his shoes hand-made by a cobbler in We w ish him and his new wife Rachel well in forms, from encouraging trips to Tate Britain. Oxford, and found a milliner to shape his top the Far East (Lincolnshire) and in his future theSC R and other theatres, to organising visits ohat t wear at his wedding to fit his head. career w here his many talents wrll ensure him to the school by Transylvanian counts and eYet h also has on the dashboard of his Mazda success. romantic novelists. She was also a stalwart M5 a gyrating Elvis figurine! Chris taught advocate of the library as an attractive area for fdozens o teenagers the sensuous steps of salsa studying and reading rather than a general asn a activity. function room. The then headmaster referred I ? Al‘uredian

n her role as co»director of sport, Sam Sam w as recognised by all as a great motivator llie Barrs was a breath of fresh In her time here she brought many ideas for made a conSIderable impact on the of others, and both staff and pupils always air here at King's. Her the development of performing arts to the Elliea B rrs organisation, management and profile eagerly awaited her ‘thought for the week‘ on enthusiasm swayed even the table. She was always keen to explore new of girls’ games at King’s. She was the games noticeboard! She established the most recalcitrant child, and her ideas, expose her students to professional by always passionate about what she did, tradition of team breakfasts on match students adored her. She was drama, and introduce them to exciting texts Anne Sheehan and her enthusiasm and dedication mornings, and she always saw the benefit of ableo t draw on her years of and philosophies of practitioners. She will were addictive. critical self-analysis as a means of ensuring professional experience in the performing arts to indeede b sorely missed. success. Sam instilled in both her teams and bringn a extra element to her classroom Primarily of course, she coached the 1st XI coaches the need for teamwork, and I feel that teaching. She was knowledgeable, professional, hockey team, and with considerable success. her belief that you should always “be the best and w as able to communicate with her students Its i surely no coincidence that her first team you c an be" was contributory to Sides enjoying in a w ay that they responded to a they pushed captain, Maddie Hinch, was awarded her Great considerable local and national success. themselves to achieve their best. Britain Under 21 cap under Sam’s gmdance. In the summer of 2006 she organised a very Both pupils and colleagues respected Sam. She set very high standards, which her pupils successful hockey and netball tour to Singapore Her colleagues admired her professionalism, understood, and which they always met. She and Malaysia to widen the girls‘ sporting and and her pupils valued her advice and support. was incredibly supportive of both staff and cultural experience, and in the year leading up Sam w as always willing to give up much of her pupils, and had the ability to approach things to this she co-ordinated many ambitious fund» time for the sake of the pupils in her care, be it from different angles if a child was having raising v entures and sponsorship. ngiving a extra PE tutorial, enjoying a post- trouble mastering something. Her academic match pizza with her teams, or talking at results reflected her excellence in the She also crucially developed and launched a lengtho t an upset girl. l was very grateful to classroom. new programme of games for all pupils, have a ‘ second in command‘ whose opinion I enabling them to experience a wider range of valued and in whom I trusted. In addition to teaching, she was a deputy sporting activities She was very definitely housemistress, w hich is a very demanding job, sport for all, not just for a talented elite. l w ill have lots of memories of Sam’s time here she tutored a number of both junior and senior Sam Clark Many non-specialist performers were also able as she moves back ‘home’ to Kent; an irate or pupils, and yet she juggled her various to benefit from her talents in the classroom, excited Sam jumping up and down at the side responsibilities w ith grace and aplomb. by where latterly she took over the role of head of of the hockey pitch, her priceless Further, she was involved in myriad extra- academic PE, running the department shrewdly commentaries on the match in progress; curricular activities. She initiated and taught Gerri Fagan and expertly. a serious Sam as she scolds a girl for falling dance; she directed whole school plays; shortf o her rightly high expectations of her; she choreographed every musical production; her performance as Haiwatha, Sporty Spice or she played in the band for music department as a diminutive Oliver pickpocketing poor events, a natural environment for her as she is Michael Rogers in the Meynell Alfred Show, her an accomplished singer and dancer. She legendary bacon butties I could go on! createdn a atmosphere where the juniors work with the seniors in a supportive and inspiring sIt i all these images of Sam and more which environment. have made her the teacher, tutor, listener and motivator she is. We wish her all the very best in her new job at King's Canterbury, and if I am shortf o a dancer this December, she had better watch out because the Meynell / Alfred talent scout could well be on the phone!

l of“, ‘rkvwii‘y 9- w, At the end of the Summer term, we also said goodbye to Sara Liviero, who had been a dedicated and highly professional head of modern languages, to Kevin Parker, who had achieved great things as a part—time member of the Movingn o design technology department, and to Lee Emerson, who helped so many pupils through their GCSE religious studies.

We w ish them all the very best for the future, and thank them for everything they did for King‘s. Alurcdian Aluredian

Terry Addo Chemical Engineering Imperial College London Elizabeth Scanlan Ancient History Royal Holloway Alexander Agertoft Philosophy and Spanish Leeds Alexander Scott Psychology Birmingham After Charles Ajiborisha Business Hull Harriet Sheppard Product Design Nottingham Trent Natalie Arnold Nursing Brighton David Snell Accounting for Management Lancaster Hannah Barley Education Canterbury William Streatfelld Agriculture Royal Agricultural College King’s Minty Baylis Business Administration Oxford Brookes Alistair Taylor Sports Technology Loughborough Charles Bowditch History Lincoln Caroline Tecks Enghsh Cambridge Peter Brockwell Planning and Development Surveying Northumbria Lauren Thomas-Peter Marine Biology Bangor Callum Brown Environmental Sciences Southampton Hugo Turner Industrial Design and Technology Loughborough Samantha Brown Sports Science Bangor Ross Turner Industrial Design and Technology Loughborough Anna Bury Design and Marketing Eleanor Watts History Royal Holloway Emma Butler Music Durham James Yeabsley History Nottingham Trent Charlotte Butterfield Marketing Newcastle These details are accurate at the time of going to press, and are based on information received. Charlie Byles Linguistics and Modern Languages Edinburgh Charlie Campbell Mechanical Design and Manufacture Plymouth Luke Capps PPE York Aaron Chandler Foundation Law eNicholas d Figueiredo Law Cardiff Elmleye d la Cour Music Birmingham Charles Evans BioChemistry Surrey James Findlay War Studies Kent Catherine Graham Politics and History Newcastle Victoria Grantham Product Design Brunel Wayne Henaghen Criminology and Forensic Science Keele Ryan Higgin Medicine Southampton Sarah Hill Music Manchester Maddie Hinch Sports Science Loughborough Diana Hobbs Equine Studies and Agriculture Royal Agricultural College Andrew Holloway Countryside Management Harper Adams Annabel John French and German Cardiff Emily Johnstone Spanish Royal Holloway Georgia Kerr Theatre and Performance Leeds Jake Knowiton»Parry Sports Coaching Bath Christopher Langdon Business Management and Marketing Harper Adams Hannah Little Biology Leeds Vincent Mak Commercial Photography Derby Jessica Mason Medical Genetics Leicester James Masson Biology Manchester William McKean Marine Sport Science Plymouth Richard Morris Business Management Kingston Olivia Nash Art Foundation Kingston Pui—Yang N Medical Sciences Manchester George Painter History and Philosophy Cardiff James Palmer Medical Sciences King’s College, London Sascha Panayotopoulos Art Foundation Kingston Richard Platt Chemical Engineering Sheffield / Manchester Elizabeth Raleigh Publishing Oxford Brookes Jennifer Richmond Primary Education Roehampton David Salaman Chemical Engineering Leeds Megan Savage Biology Cardiff 16 Almost4 2 hours after our expedition had our trophy, and Mr Albery's tears really drove he King’s College Chapel singing and filming was perhaps not carried out home the enormity of our achievement! C Choir w as filled with to the letter! begun, the announcement of the winning chOirs finally arrived, and anticipation was running Courtesy of the BBC we started our excitement and antiCipation high. The tension was unbearable as the junior celebrations With a delicious meal, which Songsf o on the long coach journey up lnevitably, the early morning next day was became somewhat emotional as we were asked to Manchester, where we were accompanied by a panic to find our uniforms, Winners w ere announced first, with their name to sing our Winning rendition of the now Well- to take part in the BBC Songs and for the girls a struggle to get their hair being read from a golden envelope. As the Praise cheers and applause for Maltman's Green known ‘ Be Thou My Vision’. However it didn't of Praise School Choir of the Year Competition eready! W found our way to the University of School died down a Silence came over the hall, stop there, but carried on throughout the entire for 2007. Led by members of 62, we used the Manchester chaplaincy where the actual Senior The w ords “ the Songs of Praise Senior journey back to Taunton the next day! five»hour drive to practise our two songs ‘Angel competition took place, and having got over the School Choir of the Year are King’s College Voices' and ‘Be Thou My Vision', much to the exutement of seeing Aled Jones who presented School Taunton" w ere greeted With a brief moment of fNone o us will ever forget this incredible and pleasure of the accompanying teachers, as well the programme and our judges Malcolm Archer, Katherine Jenkins and Bazil Meade, we got disbelief preceding screams of jubilation and hardeearned success. It has really shown what as the bus driver. fChoir o ready for a busy morning literally tears of joy. we are capable of, and provided us with a chanceo t show off our talent and enthusiasm. We eventually arrived; however our exhaustion After the initial shock there was a flurry of It w ouldn’t have been the same Without the Year was short-lived when we saw the stunning After w atching our competitors for the senior sactivity a everyone congratulated each other. Mr Albery and Miss Fergussori's huge input, marble reception of our hotel, and the prize, admiring the adorable and talented junior Mr Albery, Miss Fergusson. Elmley de la Cour Mr Dossett’s company on the trip, and of by Amy Higgs suggestion that we go straight to bed and get a schools, and singing in unison with all of the and Alex Wynn went onto the stage to collect course the support of the school. good night‘s sleep ready for a long day of other choirs, it was finally our turn. A qmck warm-up, some nervous giggling and a whispered Nonef o us good luck to our soloist Alex Wynn, and we were on. Despite the cameras, the adrenaline kicked will ever in, and we gave a fantastic and well-deserved performance. However we were immediately forget this whisked off to the Royal Northern College of incredible and Music, ready for the show itself. The show was a fantastic experience, as it was bard-earned onef o our biggest public performances, as well as being recorded for TV. Our performance of success. 'Be Thou My Vision' was again spine-chilling, and the following collective pieces with the other participating choirs were superb The resounding sound we created was astounding, andt i really was an exhilarating and unforgettable feeling. Aluredtan Aluredian

s a player, and as a coach, This set us up With an all or nothing game at flaw, / n2 ,7 i 7 s“ T T‘v‘lifllnl l «.Jir‘, you can only ever wish to the end of the first day against Cranleigh, who achieve two things if you are had been very impressive during their pool. jiij ii -.i “I ll\ll ‘1“ (Li (‘3 serious about your rugby. However, w ord had begun to creep out, and it To play or coach at the was a massive lift to hear from parents, old highest possible level that boys and supporters around the ground that you are capable of, and to win something, to the chat in the hospitality tents was that King's win something big! I am extremely proud to be were the side to watch and to beat. in an ableo t say that l was able to be part of an exciting game Cranleigh were beaten with a amazing group of young men who cared superb performance, shackling their one main enough about their sport to dream about threat player and punishing turnover ball with achieving something incredible, and were able territory and points. to realise that dream on the biggest of national stages. After a relaxed evening in which the squad displayed great professionalism and dedication Despite only reaching the semi-finals of the West to their task, an early night was the order of the of England Sevens, losing narrowly to a Millfield day. I can still remember the faces, the nervous, side that went on to beat Colston’s (the eventual excited and expectant faces of all the players as winners of the Rosslyn Park Open Tournament), we had our last debrief before leaving for the the squad were able to learn lessons about ground. It was at this moment I began to feel playing the game at exceptional speed. To watch that they could achieve something special. players develop awareness and understanding for a game is one of the most thrilling aspects of We beat Cheltenham in the knockout stage, and then Sevenoaks in the quarter-finals. All of a coaching. To watch them put it into practice evident. With the first piece of clean possession We never realised how big it actually was, and esudden w were into the semis against Tonbridge. from the sidelines with pace, determination and we had, Quin Taylor scored. It unnerved how much it meant to so many people until we Yet still the players never panicked, they were ambition is quite another. This King's squad had Wellington. Ross Turner’s unbelievable try, full got back. all those special attributes. never u nsettled, they went about their tasks, they of v enom and unstoppable determination just assumed their roles, and took responsibility for after the half-time break was a major boost. Lastly, and I know this has been a very their performances. Not once had we gone Ase w set off for Rosslyn Park, we all dared to Wellington lost control, a player to the sin-bin. personal account, but thank you Pete, Tom, Ed, behind during the tournament. The players knew dream; little did we realise the road that lay Then from the penalty, patient build-up, Will, Quin, Tom, Will, Charlie, Jake, Ali, Ross, they w ere the form team, they knew that they ahead for us. probing, committing the defence, Charlie Clyde- Alex and Hugo for letting me be part of such a were playing the best brand of rugby sevens at the Smith's mix of sheer power and deft handling, special and emotional moment. To you the You sometimes get a feeling in sport; it is rare tournament, and were the team to beat. Yet they Tom Halliday’s vision and perfectly executed well»deserved honour of victory. It might only always returned to the foundations of teamwork, but happens nonetheless. A moment of clarity wide pass. Ed Dawson in space over the line, happen once in your lifetime but it will always hard w ork and quality basics. and focus, a moment of quiet and purposeful try. A conversion, and then one minute and the be y ours. Congratulations. ambition; not cocky, not arrogant, just final w histle. 17»14. Champions. unwavering confidence From the very first Tonbridge w as a difficult game, but three tries moment of the warm»up it was there, the from Ross Turner and amazing defence saw us There w ere so many things to describe during players w anted to achieve, and had the skills through to the final. A final against Wellington that day that it is nearly impossible to and abilities to make it happen. College. summarise it for a report. But here are a few ofy m personal favourites. The manner in which we qualified top of our I w ould like to let you know that l was the pool w as unprecedented. The opening most nervous i had ever been as a coach The lucky boot (fully signed) before that final. I was in fact lost for words, destruction of Marlborough was impressive, yet Ross Turner’s sniff of victory but l had no need of them. I watched in awe 71 points in 14 minutes against Giggleswick, Mr Griffiths shedding a tear with a heart swelling with pride as the players Rosslyn including three tries from Alex Penn, was Ali Taylor’s defence, no tries or points, but an incredible. Giggleswick were one of the best- themselves took control of their destiny. l have unbelievable rock never experienced a pre-match huddle like it. Park natured sides we encountered during the Every Single young man who was part of that tournament; the manner in which they played squad, and the manner in which they played I can only say please watch the video that Max Winners was testament to their school and coaches, and and w on they thoroughly deserved their last-minute try Barnes Yallowley has put together for us. It is The incredibly generous and heartfelt the best way to understand what occurred. We by Nick against u s, one which neither I, nor any of our congratulations that we received from were4 1 points down, we never panicked. The players could begrudge them because of their everyone at school, parents and governors Gresswell fantastic spirit. qualityf o our handling and running skills was 20 Aluredian Aluredian

t is a great privilege for me to write my The main service of the Lent term is first Chapel report as chaplain to King's Confirmation and First Communion. This year College. As in all schools in which I the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, The Right have worked, the Chapel at King's is a Reverend Peter Price, confirmed 13 candidates. I special place, and the school They are Peter Brockwell, Anna Bury, Hamish community which gathers in Chapel is Bury, Tom Danaher, Catherine Graham , Tom made up of people with a wide range of beliefs, Halliday, Jack Lawson, Georgia Kerr, Henry convictions, questions and ideas. That is the Potter, Lucy Thomas, Louise Webber, William way it should be and it is this that makes our Webster and Ricco Yeung. We pray for God's Chapel a vibrant place. God is worshipped continued blessing on them. The term was with a healthy diversity, and ideas about life brought to an end with a wonderful orchestral and faith are exchanged. and choral concert.

The Michaelmas term this year was marked by At the start of the Summer term, on Ascension a Remembrance Day service which, in the Day, I was installed as chaplain to King's absence of a chaplain, was kindly led by Canon College and King's Hall by the Provost of the Terry Stokes. It is the tradition at King's for an Western Region, The Right Reverend John Old Aluredian who is currently serving in HM Kirkham. It was a memorable service where forces, or who has military connections, to lay representatives of both schools presented me Textiles the wreath on behalf of the Old Aluredian Club. with symbols of the life of the schools to signify This year it was our privilege to welcome back the central role which the chaplain and the by Carol Richard Thurstan. The headmaster Chapel play. My family and I have been made Mr Christopher Ramsey preached. to feel so welcome and at home. Later in the Mackenzie term the choir led us in the singing of Choral The joy of the coming of Christ into the world Evensong. I enjoyed singing the priest's 'bits'. was celebrated with a service of nine lessons with carols at the end of term. The newly The Summer term was brought to an end with appointed Senior Provost of the Woodard the traditional 'walkabout' by the leavers. I Corporation, Canon Brendan Clover, and The invited Father Craig Marshall, my predecessor, Reverend Nigel Whinney, who was acting vice­ to lead it at the request of the leavers who had custos at that time, officiated. Our nationally benefited from his ministry. The following day Chapel acclaimed choir led the singing of carols and the out-going headmaster, Mr Christopher by Christmas hymns, and the nine lessons were Ramsey, spoke at the Leavers' Eucharist which read by representatives of the whole school brought the academic year to a close. Father Mark community. A true community occasion. During the year the Oasis meditations have attracted strong numbers. Oasis is a voluntary devotion in Chapel on a Tu esday evening, led by pupils and followed by hot chocolate and doughnuts in my study. It is most impressive that this continued to be strong even during the interregnum. Many thanks to the pupil leaders who led Chapel services so creatively in the rts Week 2007 provided the Look out Matthew absence of a chaplain. Thanks also to perfect opportunity for pupils Mr Polley and especially to Dr Lewis who took studying textiles to showcase Williamson and Gwen charge of all things related to the Chapel on their latest creations within top of all his other work. Senior pupils have their selected project option Ste(ani, the next commented that "he never once complained!" of 'Fashion'. Although the emphasis was necessarily on the 5th form in generation of inventive Finally, I would like to thank all those staff and their examination year, we were afforded a local clergy who stepped in to help so willingly sneak preview of future delights, with a vibrant and talented designers during the interregnum. The whole school Aand imaginative contribution from 4th form community is most grateful. pupils Verity Clark, Eleanor Baker, Jodie has arrived! Burrows, Mhairi Hall and Harriet Butterfield.

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A gown for Titania by Georgie Thomas. The dress is intentionally draped at the front, without the use of darts for shaping, a Some of the world's most prominent fashion garment that breaks the boundaries of designers are men, and Tom Foll looked at convention — it has been sewn by a fairy. The Dior Homme before using IT to develop this back is constructed asymmetrically and laced cool transfer~printed waistcoat together at one side with raffia and muslin. Alurediad Aluredian

he German Exchange 2007 On Friday we Visited the nearby town of Erfurt, hether first trip On Thursday we woke up earlier than usual was one rollercoaster of a a v ery old university town With a beautiful abroadr o Simply first and had a hurried breakfast before walking to ride!e W landed in Berlin at cathedral w hich we toured. After that we had tripo t Spain, the Carlos Canos. When everyone had arrived we about 9pm and drove to timeo t do some shopping and eat more atmosphere as we took the coach to Cadiz. On arriving we Sangerhausen in a blizzard Bratwurst before returning to Sangerhausen. metn i Bristol airport strolled around the beautiful city and eagerly wheree w met our partners for In the evening all the girls went to a party was buzzmg! soakedp u the relaxed atmosphere. We then Spanish the first time at Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium organised by the school and had a great time! No one in our set had done anything like this visited a v ast cathedral and marvelled at the at midnight. before,o s it was a new and exciting experience amount of gold which decorated the place. Exchange The following day was a trip into the mountains fors u all. With only contact by email with our Latern i the afternoon we visited the ‘Camera The next day we were able to catch up on which w as really exciting because there was exchange everybody was wondering what Obscura' w hich involved climbing a tower and by the group some sleep after our very late arrival, before still lots of snow so we all had snowball fights the w eek ahead was going to bring. looking into a pinhole camera in order to see themselves going into school First of all we were greeted and got rather wet. We took a breathtaking the entire city. by the headmaster, then given a tour of the riden o a chairlift up the mountain and had The flight was smooth and it was only 15 Another highlight was visiting Gibraltar to see The school before going to a couple of lessons With great fun on the bobsleigh at the top before minutes before the end when the panics our partners. The lessons were Similar to ours visiting the local wildlife park which it is started,s a we realised we had forgotten the the Barbary apes. Before we reached their Gennan excepte w had no idea what we were taught! rumoured is haunted by witches! Finally we common greeting of hello! After an eventful sanctuarye w were told to protect our It w as interesting though and a new experience came back down by cable car and returned to taxi ride we made it to Los Barnes, and the rucksacks and hide any food. The apes were toe b in school in casuals. Sangerhausen in time to attend a rock concert excitement of the week ahead broke out from particularly aggressive during this season and Exchange in the evening. the moment we arrived With hugs and kisses severalf o them jumped through the window, Thene w headed outside into a very cold, all round as we met our host families. over a petrified looking Miss Fagan and a by snowy day (at the end of March) and walked to Sunday w as a quiet day With our hosts before mother w ith two screaming children! Olivia Feilden, the local museum which houses an enormous travelling back to Berlin on Monday to explore The families varied greatly 7 Charlotte Davidson mammoth skeleton discovered very close to the capital. We visited the Berlin Wall East stayed w ith the mayor! 7 and we compared Alln i all this was an excellent experience experiences during the day. On the Saturday, ewhere w all learned about Spanish life and Ainsley Smith Sangerhausen. We also explored the town and Side Gallery and the Brandenburg Gate, had sheltered from the snow with a tasty Bratwurst timeo t do some shopping at Potsdamer Platz, the families could entertain us for the whole culture. improved our Spanish, made lots of and before w alking back to school to go home with and enjoyed ourselves in a very indulgent day, and most sent us to Sofia Tapia's birthday new friends and had lots of fun. our partners four hours earlier than we would chocolate shop which had display models of party, but lzzi spent the day supporting her Katie Butler at King’s. the Reichstag and the Titanic made out of partner Nairia at the beauty contest. It was chocolate, not forgetting the chocolate fountain! definitely a v ery beneficial experience to stay in a family and most of the families made it clear Our last day was spent at school With more thate w would be welcome to return in the lessons, followed by Bratwurst for lunch and a summer. very competitive Sportsfest in the afternoon. In the evening our partners had organised a During the week a number of different outings farewell party with a birthday cake for George, were v ery kindly organised for us, which, as ande w still had time for a trip down the local wells a being great fun, also gave us a real copper mine the next day before travelling tastef o the Spanish culture. One of the home. excursions w as to Seville, the capital of Andalusia, w here we saw the city's famous It w as a thrilling experience With much to learn cathedral, and trekked up (not that it was ande w all enjoyed ourselves immensely. Our difficult, of course) the 35 floors of the Giralda, thankso g to Mr and Mrs Wrobel and Tom for originally the cathedral's bell tower. After being organising the trip! allowed some free time to explore the City and the shops, we travelled back to Los Barrios onlyo t be immediately summoned for our next activity. That evening we all took part in a local cookery programme, which was broadcast liven o television! One memorable moment was w hen Oliver Jones’ partner's father rang into the programme and specifically asked to speako t Oliver. After not understanding a worde h had said, Oliver timidly answered With Our German Exchange party in front of the "Si", and to this day we still don't know if it Brandenburg Gate ever made sense! Alurcdiam Aluredian

while the rest spent the day on the Quantocks, dampened though, and everyone enjoyed the stalking, Orienteering, and shelter budding. usual w eek of hill walking, trekking, climbing, sailing and mountain biking. On Remembrance Sunday the OA wreath was ylaid b Major Richard Thurstan RM. The Summer term school captains laid a wreath on behalf of the school, and the headmaster read the roll of A record 31 senior 62 NCOs were ’dined out' honour. The Last Post and Reveille were blown by the Officers of the CCF at our 6th annual by Tom Walters of the Army section. dinner. The OC gave the address and members of1 6 waited at table. The contingent's Biennial Inspection was carried out by Lt Colonel Bill Dunham RM OBE, For this year’s Ten Tors event we were limited to a King's parent, who is currently in charge of 35-mile and 45-mile teams due to pressure of Leadership Training at the Combined Services entries. The weather was extremely wet, and for College at Shrivenham. His report was the first time since I think 1992, the event was extremely posnive, and once again SSgt aborted and a very efficient evacuation of 2500 Mason's stores and Lt Belfield's AT equipment participants swung successfully into action. Training Team Sergeant Danny Pearson and for won special praise, He was also complimentary This w as especially galling for our teams, as the the Royal Marines by Sergeant Adie Davie RM. about the level of cadet and staff enthusiasm. 35-mile team had reached their 8th Tor and the W02 Bob Turner and Mr Andy Owen assisted 45-mile team their 7th by the Saturday night. with climbing instruction during the year. Later that week a group of senior cadets with an In recognition of the significant achievement of interest in a possible service career went to see surviving overnight, those competitors lifted off An action—packed year owed much once more to a Michaelmas term a demonstration of firepower put on annually by the moor were still awarded their medals. dedicated team of Officers and Civilian Assistants, CCF the Army on Salisbury Plain. The whole range to w hom my gratitude is again extended, I am of armaments was on view, from SABO rifle to With the Royal Navy section at Wimbleball for delighted that our new chaplain Father Mark nother hugely busy and Multiple Rocket Launcher, from Challenger 2 Field Weekend, the Royal Marines underwent Smith and Mrs Cole are now fully fledged Round-up successful y ear got under otanks t an Apache helicopter firing live rounds an overnight escape and evade exercise at members of the Chindits staff, Mr Steve Shaw has way w ith a whole host of onn a open range, showing just how terrifying Lillesdon Court Farm, by kind permission of been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the by Tim Hart activities for the October (and deafening) it would be in an actual conflict! Mr John Hebditch. The Army section were Army section, and rumour has it that Mr Grindle . ‘ Field Weekend. The seniors Our thanks to Major Morris, another King's overnight at Caerwent Training Area, South might take the Queen's shilling tool .; L r , Q‘LL; of the Royal Navy section parent, for obtaining tickets. Wales, now used mainly by the SAS for training. weret a Wimbleball overnight, followed by a Last but not least our 270 enthusiastic cadets day’s sailing, while the recruits spent the day Lent term The summer holiday Contingent Camp was are the ones for whom it exists and whom I at BRNC Dartmouth, The entire Royal Marine enjoyedy b 20 cadets and four officers. It was ohave t thank, as they learn in their first three and Army sections went on an overnight Training for this year’s Ten Tors started in to have been with 3rd Battalion the Rifles, but years and put back as NCOs in their final two. exercise at llton airfield, where the next day the earnest, and continued on three further owingo t operational commitments they were seniors ran the stances for a 4th form ‘round Sundays. With currently only two Field Days unablet a short notice to have us, and we were robin'n i basic military skills, Half our new per y ear, there was no weekend given over to fortunate to be squeezed in to Penhale Camp Chindits v isited RNAS Yeovilton Air Museum, the v arious sections for overnight exercises, but runy b 43 (Wessex) Brigade. Chindit Camp led at the Somerset CCF Orienteering Competition by Major Cole for 40 cadets on Exmoor is a team led by Zoe Round won the Under 16 reported elsewhere. county trophy, while Sister Alice won the individual Under 16 trophy. Two cadets attended the excellent RM Arduous Training Camp at Faslane, Scotland, which Lt Belfield organised an excellent Inter Section featured a w eek of military training and range Orienteering Competition, which took place on work, followed by a second week of adventure an interesting course around Vivary Park. The training and a 72»hour exercise with a dawn Army section won the senior competition, while attacky b rigid raider across the Garelochhead the Royal Marines again ran away with the estuary. intermediate competition. During the year, many cadets attended courses 24 cadets and 12 staff enjoyed varied weather ranging from survival to RYA sailing, from radio during the Easter holiday Adventure Training to canoeing. Also throughout the year we were Campt a Glennridding. Spirits weren't assisted in the Army section by 20 Cadet Aluredian Aluredian

hen | first heard all the Chindits came out of it keen to get on reSIstance from the vehicle driver! We then about Chindit Camp with the other activities still to come. returned to base and were taken to Minehead l have to say I didn't wheree w went shopping and were able to have think that sleeping in Unsurprisingly this keenness didn't extend to the a shower for the first time that week! a tent for a week next morning, when the drowsy Chindits had to and sneaking get out of bed at 7.30. After a fried breakfast Everyone returned refreshed and ready for the through bushes on Exmoor was going to be prepared by a few members of each group, most eagerly antiCipated actiVity of the week, much fun. Now, having experienced it first everyone w as slightly shocked to find that our ‘Night Fright'. Everyone had to use their recently hand, I realise I couldn’t have been more first task for the morning was to be blindfolded, learned stealth skills to creep through woodland wrong, and that l was very lucky to be one of dropped off in the surrounding countryside, and in almost pitch black conditions, avoiding NCOs the0 4 3rd formers who went. It was huge fun othen t have to make our own way back to base and trying to get into a small illuminated area. ands i the one of the best things I have done so (albeit v ia NCO checkpoints). in the afternoon Lucinda Smyth and Ginny Nash contributed to fart a King's! we w ere given a demonstration on how to be the tense atmosphere by screaming their heads off w hen they were caught, and everyone eventually got into bed at about midnight, tired but still buzzing with adrenaline. demanding stretcher run and assault course. he fourth day started with a The final exercise was in many ways the most Chmdfl rather less strenuous challenging, trying to get into a wooded area scavenger hunt called patrolled by NCOs. Everyone gave it their all, Camp ‘Eldorado', but went on to a with a large number of Chindits completing the competitive and fast-paced task successfully and being rewarded by not 2007 ‘Bomb Defusal' race around havingo t walk back to base! Exmoor to disarm the ‘bombs’. Henry Close by Freddie soon found out that choosing a route was just The last evening was a brilliant end to Chindit as important as being a good runner, as he Camp w ith a delicious BBQ, hilarious sketches Barker managed to wander off the map entirely before performed by each group, and the awarding of he w as picked up! the prizes, The team prize went to Red Group ledy b Henry Close (and his trusty side-kick!) Unfortunately during Chindit Camp we were and the best cadet prizes were awarded to Tom not that lucky with the weather, and we were Sharp and Olivia Taylor. The night concluded We set off on the day after the end of the ‘sneaky-sneaky' by the NCOs, and then given a Summer term brimming with anticipation. missiono t follow a complex trail of clues to stop wokeny b the sound of rain on our tents before with some guitar playing and everyone singing nArriving o Exmoor in the rain, we unloaded a bomb from detonating. The evening was the start of the second 24—hour exercise, heartily. When we eventually traipsed off to the equipment and put up the tents, which still spent preparing (i.e. stuffing as much food as However,e w soon forgot about the damp in a bed, I reflected on the past week and thought seemed to take forever, despite the training we possible into our packs!) for the next day, when fseries o teamwork exercises. These included how gladly I would do it all again. The next had received back at school. Having finished, we w ould be leaving base camp to go on a an observation alley, a blindfold leadership test morning w as spent packing up the tents and and a bridge building challenge which resulted preparing the lorries before leaving Exmoor and we w ere briefed on the week to come and split 24-hour expedition. returning to Kings, where we unloaded the into our four sections, Red, Blue, Green and inn a unexpected dip in the river for some unfortunate individuals! equipment and went off home for a much oYellow, t start our first task: an orienteering The 24-hour exercise was definitely one of the exercise w hich soon revealed who knew how to highlights of Chindit Camp, as it felt great to be needed rest! The w eather got so bad that the 24-hour was read a map and who didn’t! more self-dependent. We had many interesting and exciting activities to do, including a stalking actually cut short, which, I must confess, was Chindit Camp was incredible, but it could never a relief to most of us. Instead of the planned have happened without the help and support of Once everyone had been rounded up, each and ambush exercise, a task where we had to group had to prepare their evening meal and try and photograph all the other bases, and a night exercise, all the groups and NCOs took everyone w ho was involved. This includes the ‘look after' an NCO, providing them with some night exercise in which we defended our camps partn i a general knowledge quiz — a social NCOs,r M Bakewell, Mr Griffiths, Mr Shaw, event w hich lifted everyone’s spirits. Combined Mrs Cole and OAs Chris Pearson and Matthew in-meal entertainment. Amazingly, most of the from enemy infiltration! When we emerged with a steaming hot chocolate made by the Cole. All the Chindits really appreciate your food cooked was actually edible thanks to from our tents the next morning, each group's ever-enduring Mrs Cole, it finished off the day efforts and would like to thank you all very Mrs Cole's fantastic teaching, and we were all radio operator contacted main base to confirm perfectly, despite the weather Exmoor threw at much. Extra special thanks must be reserved sufficiently fed for our activity that evening. ethat w had survived the night. After a quick us. forr M Cole, the man who organised and ‘Ditch Delight' involved each group lying in breakfast from our fairly unappealing army guided this highly successful and memorable ditches w hilst enemies patrolled down the road standard ration packs, we were given the tough Happily, the penultimate day of Chindit Camp experience. Everyone is extremely grateful for tryingo t spot them. This was a very tense and taskf o ambushing a moving vehicle; a tricky started off bright and breezy, and the groups all y our efforts, and I for one will remember heart-pounding challenge, as the slightest task w hich required the whole group to work willingly engaged with the physically Chindit Camp for a long time, movement or sound could give you away, and together to surround it and defeat the heavy 30 Alumdiai‘i Aluredian

” s I stepped onto the minibus Mountain w alking is one of the main activrties sample all these activities and the option to do for the journey up to the on Easter Camp and totally transformed my fmore o our favourite. Sailing took place on /\ Lake District, my head was nideas o walking because it was so enjoyable. Ullswater only five minutes down the valley : filled with apprehenSIons, as Our first walk was perhaps one of the most from the hostel. The dinghies that we sailed 4 \ both ‘Bog-Squad' and the daunting, as it included an exposed scramble were Lasers with three students to one temperamental British up Sharp Edge. Many of us were instructor. The most spectacular sailing display weather became the forefront of the understandably apprehensive at such a of the week was undoubtedly performed by conversation. As someone who hadn't been on challenge, but everyone enjoyed the great Callum Stonier, who, on the trapeze, managed Adventure Training Camp before, l wasn't sure feelingf o satisfaction at the end of the climb, to submerge himself for several seconds, only what I had let myself in for! and the views at the top of Blencathra were to re-emerge and collide With the mast. This stunning, Left-over Winter snow gave was a source of great humour for both the ammunition for a snowball fight, and the witnesses and people who heard the story back infamous ‘ mine‘ game was introduced, as at camp. people battled for handing out the highest altitude presseups. This title was eventually Mountain biking was another popular activity won later in the week by Rob Seaboume atop that took place in Grizedale Forest, coupled Scafell Pike with orienteering. The forest provides perfect scenery for mountain biking as well as An integral part of the Adventure Training Camp orienteering, and certainly makes for a tiring is the 24ehour camping expedition. I had day. Rock climbing provided plenty of heard stories of the prevrous year's 24-hour opportunities for the natural monkeys amongst expedition and how the majority of the time us, and the challenge of a 100—foot scramble had been spent in tents due to torrential rain, mades u all appreciate the skill of OA Tim but this was not to be the case this time. Emmett. This good weather was most appreciated at the summit of Scafell Pike, a literal high paint for Altogether Easter Camp was incredible; it allf o the 5th form cadets. We enjoyed almost exceeded all my expectations as every minute perfect w eather the whole week, with only a was fun-filled and exciting, This is not a little drizzle on our ascent of Helvelyn on the military style camp; it is more laideback, but L 1 We had arrived in darkness ' so I had to wait till final day. incredibly challenging at the same time, AC the following morning for the View and I wasn't I w ould seriously recommend this to anyone in toe b disappointed. The hostel where we were You w ould be mistaken if you thought that the CCF, as it is something that you will look H n [l staying had an amaztng Vista, down to Ullswater Easter Camp revolved solely around walking, as forward to each and every year. pand u towards Helvelyn. The scenery was there are numerous other actiVIties, such as ca m p simply incredible and is one of the major mountain biking, climbing, sailing and _ I attractions of Easter Camp. orienteering. We had the opportunity to by Will Smlth :;;irediari

A feast of jazz was on offer at the end of the ur award-winning chapel Kings, and we all recognised and enjoyed Choir Michaelmas term, with the annual jazz chOIr gave an outstanding again her wondeiful tone and intensity of cabaret evening featuring both staff and pupils concert in Chapel Just performance Which brought us to the finale of in concert. before the summer half- the evening, Parry's | Was Glad, Howard Concert term. The BBC Songs of Goodall’s Psalm 23, better known as the theme Praise Senior School ChOir otune t The Vicar Of Dibley, and the song by of the Year had just spent two days filming Be Thou My Vision by Bob Chilcott, with which Chris Holmes with the BBC in school, for an edition of Songs the chow won the BBC competition. Conductor of Praise due to be broadcast in October. Colin Albery and his assistant Karen Fergusson They treated a packed house to a programme thoroughly deserved their bouquets presented of choral and vocal music with lots of variety, by the choir, and the stirring ovation from a nand a abundance of talent on display. thrilled audience.

Zadok the Priest was the opener, full of hurtling semiquaver runs, with tenors and basses in rousmg form. Two movements from Fauré's Requiem provided an effective contrast in atmosphere, and featured beautiful solo contributions from Alex Penn, Elmley de la Cour and DaVId Salaman. Solos were then very much the order of the day, as counter»tenor Peter Oakley took centre-stage With Fin2i’s Come Away Death and Virgam Virtutis by Handel. Peter is very much a regular in Hannah Cartwright, just one of 18 acts in the concert performances at Kings and all his ever-popular summer guitar based concert. characteristic hallmarks were on display, immaculate intonation and innate musical phrasing.

The Musical Highlights concert at the end of It w as back to the full choir then for Bach's Roundup the Summer term featured concertos by Sarah Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Malcolm Archer's Music Hill and Elmley de la Cour, and finished with And I Saw a New Heaven, and a new work, jazz and dancing in the marquee. The Lily, written by our own Alex Wynn. This nis a interesting and extremely accomplished work, drawing on several influences given her own individual twist, and it received a sensitive and convincing performance.

James Campbell, the college organist, provided the next interlude, with Cortege et Litanie by Marcel Dupré. This was a fine performance, both lyrical and exuberant, with constant changes of colour brought about by subtle registration. Further choral offerings followed: Love Divine by contemporary composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall, and Mozart's Laudate Dominum in which the soloist was Alex Wynn, whose voice soared movingly above both organ and choir,

She followed this with two more solos, Take 0 Take Those Lips Away by Madeleine Dring, and Peter Oakley was crowned the winner of | Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Eric Thiman. the highly competitive Taunton Young Alexs i no stranger to the concert platform at Musician of the Year Competition.

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“An inspirational evening" was how one parent The senior string quartet then delighted With he awardewinning chapel described the chamber concert, held in the two movements by the little»known Russian chorr, u nder their director Chapeln o the night before the February half composer Arshak Andriasov. The tightness of Colin Albery, put on a term holiday. Music for smaller forces the ensemble was remarkable, as was the memorable and deeply delighted the audience with its variety, and the varietyf o tone colours they produced. The moving evening of choral sheer quality of perfOrmance. From the first leader Sarah Hill then gave a hugely mature musicn o the last night of the fchord o Allegri's Miserere, we knew we were performance of Bloch's Vidur, a desperately Lent term, with a powerful performance of in for a memorable evening. difficult style to capture, but one With which ‘The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace' by Karl she obVIously totally identifies. Jenkins. he chamber choir, under their director Chris Holmes, were in This paved the way for the string orchestra, Following in the tradition set by Benjamin great form, with this and Corelli's multi-movement Concerto Grosso Britten in his ‘War Requiem’, the film score enormously challenging work. Opo 6 N 8‘ Changes of tempo and composer Karl Jenkins interpolated texts on the Though close on twelve atmosphere w ere managed beautifully, and the subject of the horrors of war into the liturgy of minutes of unaccompanied richness of the sound was qurte outstanding. the Mass. The armed man of the title draws singing, the intonation was immaculate, as was Leadings u back to choral music, Peter Oakley on the traditional L'Homme Arme, written in the balance of the chording, with powerful gave a faultless performance of the Agnus Dei sFrance a The Hundred Years War between singing from the full choir contrasting beautifully from Bach's 8 minor Mass v his intonation is England and France drew to a close in 1453. with the poignant solo sections. And of course remarkable, as is his totally intuitive sense of great credit goes to Alex Wynn and Katie Butler, phrasing. From the very first number, L'Homme Armé who alternated the solo soprano rOIe, their top itself, it was obvious that the choir were in Cs ringing out through the Chapel. The programme came full circle for the finale, sparkling form. Excellent diction and hugely with the return of the chamber choir, and the dramatic representations were gorng to be a Sarah Lovell's haunting cello obbligato set the Chamber Equally v irtuosic but occupying a totally last two movements from Handel's Messiah. hallmark of the evening. Beautiful chording scene perfectly for the wonderfully poised Choral different musical world was Jonas Daniels, with This w as a truly thrilling way to end the gave the Kyrie a calm nobility, while tenors and Benedictus, before we had the joyous optimism Charlese d Beriot’s Scene de Ballet for solo evening, w ith powerful choral textures basses w ere in belligerent mood for Save Me Concert of Better Is Peace, culminating in the serenity Concert violin. The incredibly difficult fast passagework underpinned by dramatic trumpets and From Bloody Men. of the choir‘s final passage from Revelations. was dispatched with ease in a truly balletic timpani. A w onderful evening of really by It w as a memorable and powerful evening, and performance, full of grace and charm, but impressive mu5icianship. The exquisite and much—loved Sanctus by reflected huge credit on these young Bob Currie totally theatrical when needed. contrasted perfectly its initial oasis of calm With performers. Chris Holmes the explosion of sound on “Hosanna in excelsis". The Charge, a setting of a poem by John Dryden, hurtled along at breakneck pace, With the virtuoso percussion section in full flow. As this plummets to its climax, there were terrifying screams, followed by a perfectly Judged Last Post by Stuart Paul.

Angry Flames, a lament for the victims of Hiroshima, featured wonderful solos from Alex Wynn, Peter Oakley and Elmley de la Cour, all displaying the most natural musicianship and phrasing. There were other excellent solo contributions during the evening from Emma Butler and Alex Penn, and particularly Olivia Nashn i the Kyrie. The dramatic rise and fall of this w ork was porgnantly signed with the calm fdignity o the beautiful Agnus Dei. Peter Oakley then gave the most mature performance imaginable of Guy Wilson’s Now The Guns Have Stopped — no professional could have done this piece more credit.

The chamber choir sings Allegri’s Miserere r' taff and pupils put on a dazzling a cleverly sardonic yet touching performance of A 3 evening of theatre in the second Dance Ten, Looks Three. halff o the Michaelmas term with a spectacular production of A Chorus But Jess Dalwood was a revelation as Cassie in Line, This is a notoriously The MUSIC and the Mirror. Commanding the challenging show to even consider, stage for something like ten minutes, her with a seemineg non-stop sequence of highly extended song and dance routine was one of choreographed dance routines, and an those moments you forgot you were in a school Gerri Fagan extremely complex score for the band to theatre. Murray Grindon’s monologue as Paul negotiate. But it worked on every level, and had the audience hanging on his every word. extremely successfully, What I Did for Love was one of those outstanding show ballads, beautifully sung by Freya Broughton (left), Sophie Hewitt, Alex The story concerns a group of hopeful dancers Sophie Hewitt, Emily Baker and Edward Wynn. Mason and Ben Jones in the 61 production of auditioning for a part in a chorus line. The ‘Suddenly Last Summer' by Tennessee director, given an all-powerful and at times The number of individual cast names that need Williams. slightly sinister performance by Steve Shaw, toe b mentioned is an indication of just what a asks each dancer to talk about themselves, true ensemble piece this was. And here lies their life history and their aspirations, as part of the irony at the centre of the show. These the audition process, A complex web of ‘gypsies’e w have come to know, and in many motivations and emotional baggage emerges. cases love during the evening, merge at the

The opening I Hope l Get It was a virtuoso ten minutes of theatre. Playing the part of the choreographer, Ellie Barrs, who actually choreographed the King's production, was Simply brilliant. The complex timingf o her instructions to the dancers dovetailed perfectly With the Our actors and actresses were out and about band, and the standard of the in local primary schools again. Here Katie dancing set the tone for the rest of the evening. Vickers leads a workshop production of ‘Hiawatha'. I Can Do That revealed a terrific Every single member of the 3rd form took part in a singing v oice in Dominic Stuckes, as staged production of their own adaption of children's wells a a rare tap-dancmg talent. storybooks, w hich was performed in front of 110 toa m Roonolaoip Jack Graham, Ronan Handcock, pupils from King's Hall and Thurlbear School. Megan Savage and Jess Mason all shone in And, while Emma Butler, Alex Wynn and Alice Bevan created an extremely touching At the Ballet. Ellie end into the faceless chorus line. And these Jack Graham in ‘Five Watts and Nick de Figueiredo showed Virtuoso ensemble scenes really did steal the show, with Kinds of Silence’. one of timing in Sing, the tone-deaf Kristine helped outstanding singing, and spectacular dance three 5th form plays through the number by husband AI. routines. performed in the first fhalf o the Summer term. Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love was a Nonef o which would have mattered of course sizzling montage. full of pace, with starring without another fine band put together by roles for Charlie Evans, Callum Brown, Elliott director of music Colin Albery and assistant Marchent, Jess Mason and Alice Bevan, only Karen Fergusson. Lighting by Will McKean and for Caroline Tecks as Diana almost to steal the soundy b Sascha Panayotopoulos belonged to a show w ith her unbelievany authentic show professional theatre, as did Maggie Vile’s voicen i Nothing. Ronan Handcock as Ritchie costumes. So much credit is due to director The Meynell Alfred Show this year raised over could almost have been a professional himself Anne Sheehan for producing such a fabulous £1200 for the National Autistic Society and as singer and dancer, while Megan Savage gave evening of theatre. the Women‘s Refuge in Taunton. Aluredian Aluredian

rom Cellu|0id To Stage was the Marchent and Alex Wynn. An hilarious Oompa l ‘ theme for this year’s Musical Loompa from Willy Wonka bordered on the i ‘ Revue — a brilliantly entertaining ironic, but if you thought about it too much on : l ; evening of song and dance that level, you would feel it was worn/ineg numbers from shows that made sinister! 'i . their reputation first on screen rather than on the stage. Director Anne Summer Lovin' from Grease really rocked, Sheehan and choreographer Ellie Barrs once counterpointing nicely the Elephant Love more teamed up to produce some moments of Medley from Moulin Rouge that followed. high quality theatre, and their efforts delighted Emma Butler and Ronan Handcock were in fine ovu two packed houses at the beginning of Arts voice. and blended superbly. Caroline Tecks’ Week. | Can Cook Too from On The Town was by Matthew unbelievably mature, really capturing a genre There w as an impressive full-throated chorus sophisticated on many levels. Bakewell opening to the show with Belle from Beauty and the Beast, followed by a cleverly crafted El Tango de Roxanne again from Moulin Rouge mixf o solos, duets and chorus numbers, that was outstanding, from Callum Brown’s produced both variety, and rise and fall in choreography, to Ellie Barrs' wonderful setting dramatic tension. Transitions between numbers of the scene, and the magnificent Sophia were u nbelievably slick, producing a seamless Warby. All of which set the stage for Fame, the flowf o dramatic entertainment. finale, led by Lucie Raleigh. Full of energy and punch, it brought an excellent evening to a There w ere too many numbers to mention each superb end. Full marks to musical director 7 highlights included Murray Grindon's eerily Colin Albery, and the band consisting of Karen accurate John Travolta in Stayin' Alive from Fergusson, Henry Drysdale, Elliott Marchent Saturday Night Fever, supported by highly and Tristan Marchent, for providing such a his w as the first fu|l~|ength Tybalt, played by Callum Brown, had a youthful professional backing vocals from Elliott professional musical backdrop. production of Shakespeare at intensity and passion, as did Harvey Morris' King’s for some while, and Mercutio, w hile Freddie Barker as Benvolio and whatn a outstanding success Henry Walker as Gregory made hugely they made of it. With a impressive debuts on the King's stage. beautifully designed set dappled in Tuscan earth colours, and tasteful Great credit goes to Emma Butler, Katie Butler subtle lighting, we were immediately transported and Georgia Kerr for all their work behind the into this world of both conflict and love. scenes, John Fisher for his lighting and set, and Maggie Vile, Judy Shaw, Leilani Chan and At the heart of the production though of course Rebecca Nutt for their beautifully Judged were two central performances of immense costumes. But mostly of course to director stature. Tom Halliday's Romeo was no strutting Elle Barrs for conceiving and making happen peacock in search of conquest, rather a thoughtful, this triumph of an evening. slightly troubled young man, This complemented perfectly Danielle Taylor’s Juliet, full of the Shakespearean v erse presents a challenge for innocence and charm of youth. Their scenes any company of actors, but even more so for a together ached with tenderness and longing. company of this youth. Yet it was handled effortlessly, w ith no huge show of histrionics, or And they were supported by many other display of declamatory melodrama. Rather it performances that impressed greatly, none occurred w ith a natural, almost conversational moreo s than Charis Elphinstone's Nurse. ease. And this in many ways set the tone for Romeo She has an intelligent and powerful stage the w hole production. It was beautifully presence that lights every scene she is in. understated; calm, measured, intensely and Juliet. Mel Palmer showed great depth and subtlety as atmospheric at times, but also full of the Lady Capulet, matched by husband Ronan essential innocence that lies at the heart of this by Handcock, full of energy and drive. Murray play. It was a production of great honesty and Grindon too cut an impressive figure as the integrity, and will have left a mark on all who Chris Holmes well-meaning Friar Laurence. saw it. 40 Alumdfian Aluredian

Tbe Under 155 enjoyed outstanding unbeaten seasons in botb netball and tennis.

Maddie Hinch spent the first three weeks of the Lent term in Australia, where she was representing the gold medal winning Great Britain Under 21 side in the Australian Youth Olympics.

Also u nbeaten were tbe 2nd VII netball and the Under 15 B tennis Di Hobbs, Ryan Higgin, ; " _ V. _ x ’ ' ‘ > v ‘ , " teams. CharlieacLean,M Olivia ' -- - ” a» ‘ ‘ . v ' Taylor and Mhairi Hall were all selected for the English Schools Cross- Country Championships held at Temple Newsam W ‘ 1,‘ ‘ ‘ ’ , Jos Buttler was selected for England Under Park, eeds, L at the end 2 ‘ V l ‘ 17s in the summer holidays, and played two of the I:ent term. ‘ ‘ . ~ ‘ matches against Pakistan Under 195, top- " scoring with 60.

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Another tough and competitive game was Hattie against a side King's have not played for a long time, Bryanston. We dominated the first half, Cunning/0am but could not break the deadlock despite some fantastic runs by Cat Graham down the right- scores Iver hand side. Late in the second half we eventually scored With a fantastic goal from wonder—goal Hattie Cunningham. Some great defensive worky b Minty Baylis and Hannah Barley, who against were both really solid, kept the game to a 171 B ryanston draw.

For our last home game of the season, we played Sherborne School for Girls. Everyone went out hard from the start and an early goal from Victoria Canning stood us in good stead for the rest of the game. Katie Vickers and Charlotte Butterfield both put in dominant second-half performances, enabling them both to get their names onto the scoresheet 7 final score 3-0 to King’s, a great result!

We finished off the season With another very successful trip to Canterbury, which gave us an Maddie Hinch in the thick of his w as a great season for us opportunity to spend some time together as a the action against Taunton — seven victories, two draws team off the hockey pitch. On the Saturday School and two losses was not bad at morninge w played the East Schools all.e W managed to become champions, Kent College, and a 20 victory the only 1st XI squad in a was a fantastic result against a side of such long time to overcome all four high quality. Lizzie Scanlan and Heather local schools in one season, but this McKenZIe both worked tirelessly in defence to achievement w as no easy task. cope w ith their extremely skilful and nippy forwards, w hilst at the other end of the pitch We had convincing victories over Richard Huish Alex Mason made some great attacking runs, and Wellington to get the season off to a good creating space for the other forwards. On the start, but the most exciting game of them all Sunday morning we played King’s Canterbury hado t be against Taunton School. It was a and another victory was a great way to finish a great all-round performance, the team showed very successful season, which we all thoroughly both spirit and skill, eventually running out 2—1 enjoyed. winners. We’d all like to say a great big thank you to We played Queen's the day after our victory Miss Clark, for not only the legendary tour to over Taunton School, so everyone was still on a Canterbury, but for being such a great coach. Girls high, but we knew Queen's were certainly not a This season wouldn’t have been as successful sideo t be underestimated and unless we without her, the inspirational team talks kept us settled down and got our heads into the game, going, and we'd like to wish her all the best of Hockey a v ictory would not be possible. Fortunately, luckt a her new school in September. She will even after quite a slow start, we rose to the be thoroughly missed by us all. challenge. The midfield were a strong unit 15% Xll withi D Hobbs and Lauren Thomas-Peter playing extremely well. At the back we were by Maddie exceptional, w ith Hannah Little and Louise Webber showing good defensive work against a Hinch distinctly rapid Queen’s attack. 44 Alurcdrano Alurcdian

he 2nds started the season half w as a more even game With both sides t first it took a while to Sweeper Tess Bloomfield and the defence slowly, trying to adjust to our creating chances. and Sam Brown again choose this season’s team, conSIsting of Stacey Underdown, myself, Girls new formation. We began the scoring the only goal of the game, as we ran as there were some old faces Annabel John, Sophie Wilson and Georgie season w ith Rosie Main out0 1 winners. and a few keen new ones, Thomas always worked hard. Together we scoring a great goal on her who w ere all willing to play. were a solid brick wall and only the best of the Hockey 2ndI X debut against Richard Our game against Bryanston was a little After a few gruelling training opposition managed to sneak past and score! Huish. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their first disjointed, and it looked as if we might be on games the ‘Mighty Birds From The 3rds’ were match and felt that the final result, a 20 win, to our first loss. Bryanston scored Within the selected and the season turned out to be We finished the season with a very enjoyable l3rd X was w orth the fight. first two minutes of the match. We then tremendous. It was thoroughly enjoyable and match against Richard Huish. We lost 4-3 in seemed to wake up and started to dominate. pretty successful in the end. With much the dying seconds but it was a great match to by Victoria This w in gave us confidence for the next few This led to the first goal of a great comeback perseverance and team spirit we managed to end w ith, and the final season for Tess. 2ndI X matches against Wellington, Millfield and by Rosie Main, which enhanced our passion battlen o and see out some fantastic victories. Annabel and myself was great fun! The Grantham Taunton School, all of which we won. The and belief, and with a further goal from Rosie undisputed player of the season was Danni by Anna Bury match against Millfield started quickly, and and the final goal from Lauren Higgin with a After a few team bonding sessions with our Taylor,s a she just grew stronger and stronger they created many chances, but the only goal reverse stick finish, we finished 3-3. inspirational coach Mr Hopwood, our spirits and she was always there when needed. came from Sam Brown with a firm low shot were high and ready for our match against right through the keeper. There were excellent Our match against Canford started off well with eWellington. W looked extremely professional Finally a special thanks to Mr Hopwood; once performances from Mel Palmer for some great King's dominating. As we pushed for the Win becausee w had brand new red tops to play in again y ou are a true ‘Bird from the 3rds!!’ and |ast»ditch tackles, and Harriet Sheppard for though w ith a tactical change it left the backs and w ere hungry to win. After an early goal a legend of a coach! Don't give up just yet as intercepting nearly everything that Millfield exposed, and Canford finished winning 4»1 in from Elle Marr we were on a high, but Alex there are still a couple more years left in the could throw at her — even shoulder and waist- the last ten minutes. We bounced back against Parris scored a further two goals. We had our old legs Don't stop the tough fitness high balls! Wells, w ith a slow first half leading to a 3—1 first triumph of the season! This was followed sessions (running to the tree and back!!), victory, goals coming from Anna Bury and by successes against Wells Cathedral School althoughn o occasions we did actually have In the next match against Taunton School, the Lucie Raleigh. There was some excellent play (4-0), Blundell's (3-2) and Sherborne (2-1). some hardcore sessions kindly taken by Mrs team showed a lot of passion and resolute from Laura May and Lizzie Raleigh, with some and bravely fought losses to Millfield (2-0) and Harrison! By the end of the season, the team Harriet Sheppard takes defending.e W managed to get to half-time physical and well-executed defending. Canford (4-0). had bonded fully and Mr Hopwood giggled just evasive action during the 0—0 w ith the defence of Zoe Round and Lizzie likee h was one of the girls! We also improved 1-0 v ictonj over Wellington Raleigh particularly standing out. The second In a bruising encounter against Blundell's, As the season progressed, the team improved immensely w ith regard to our skills and devious King’s secured a draw after leading early in the massively and almost everyone had player of tactics! Anyway thanks again Mr Hopwood for second half, but we were unable to hold the the match at some point! There were some puttingp u with us and making the season advantage. An excellent display by Alex awesome goals scored by Annabel John, Elle spectacular and probably one of your best yet! McKean w on her player of the match with her Marr, Danielle Taylor, Amanda Bell and Alex We (Tess, Annie and myself) are proud to leave determination to get the ball back. Parris during the season, The midfield of Sarah the team on such a high and wish you all the Gardener, Danni Taylor and Elle Marr were the bestf o luck next year it will have to be truly We finished the season With a loss against strongest bunch the 3rds have ever seen and awesome to come close to beating this season! Sherborne in a see-saw game with goals constantly u pset the opposition! coming in pairs. We just failed to win in a 4-3 thriller, Some excellent play came from India Amanda Bell Fear and Lucy Barker who were strong in defence and kept on fighting back, Our fights for outstanding goalie Alex Wynn just got better and better throughout the season, saving some possession spectacular goals and contributing to our successful season. Well played everyone and a against special thank you to Mr Shaw for being so patient w ith us and coaching with such great Blandell’s determination. Aimedian

his w as another very I think the best match of the season was successful season for the against Canford. We won this 4-2, though the Under 155, With the team match w as harder than the scoreline suggests. Winning the majority of our We came back from conceding an early goal, ematches. W started off the and scored twrce through Alex Taylor and Jodie season With a hardyfought Burrows. They then went on to equalise but match against Wellington, but eventually came we scored tWice more through Hattie outn o top With a 2-1 Win, With Emma Clyde~ Cunningham and Holly Domellof. There was Smith and Alex Taylor playing espeCIally well some great tackling from Nikki ChadWIck! outn o the wing. After this phenomenal performance we came We w ent on to play Taunton School — this was a up against one of our toughest opposrtions, Under great display of hockey, with everyone playing to Millfield. This was not our best performance of their full potential. Although we were the the season, but there was some good hockey 15l\ stronger side the whole match, unfortunately we playedy b both sides, Millfield making the most found it difficult to score. leaving us 2-1 down. of their chances. by Hattie There w ere terrific performances though from Holly Domellof in attack and Harriet Butterfield After this loss we picked ourselves up for the Cunningham in defence. Throughout the season Rebecca next match against Wells Cathedral. We didn't Potter w orked hard in midfield, movmg the ball play our best hockey, but still enjoyed a effectively from defence to attack. convmcing 4-0 win. Here the backs played Ellie Baker challenges for very w ell keeping the ball away from our the Under 15 85 against defending half and catching Wells on their Millfield breaks. Isabel Petri was playing with huge confidence and making some excellent tackles.

lt w as a very evenly matched game against t the start of the season it fhalf o the match was played with a bit of Blundell's, With a beautifully taken goal by felt like we were playing in caution, after all we were playing Bryanston, Under Jodie Burrows, The defence worked hard all summer almost, with the the team which supposedly all played for the through the match, stopping many breaks from temperatures so high! This county. There was a superb performance by 14l\ the Blundell’s attack. Our memorable last was our first season Lqu Smyth, but half-time came just at the match w as against Sherborne. This was the together, and during the right time for us. by Olivia final match that the team would be playing terme w learnt to work together better as a Taylor altogether. Spirits were not dampened by the team, and throughout the season from the first On right defence we had Harriet Johnstone, in horrible w eather that was thrown at us. matcho t the last, we saw the progress we the centre of the defence Elle Domellof, and at Everyone played exceptionally well, and we were making as a team. left defence Izzy Arliss. But now the second finally came out on top With a 441 Win. I will half w as here and the game got furious, with always remember the warm down, us running Ginny Nash was probably the main goalscorer nparents o both sides shouting and screaming. around the pitch with “Eye of the Tiger’ blaring in the team, closely followed by Sophie When the final whistle blew it was a loss for out, and getting some very odd looks from the Pearson-Miles. Hannah Cartwright as goalie Kings, but all the while we had fun! spectators, got through to the county Somerset team — it was a real help having a county goalie on our The team’s confidence just grew and grew, and Finally I w ould like to say a huge thank you to team. Elle Domellof played really well at by next year I’m sure we will have a better Holly Matthews tussles for Queen’s w as won in a thriller of a game. Both Mr Lloyd for making this one of the most fun, centre-back, w orking well together with Hatti chance against these all-county teamsl! Our the ball against Millfield teams played excellent hockey; in a real team memorable and successful seasons ever. Masons a sweeper. achievement in winning four matches gave us performance there was a hat-trick from Alex the pleasure of getting delicious doughnuts Taylor, this was after she had made the move Onef o the most memorable games of the from our coach Mrs Berry, otherwise known as from w ing to the centre. Charis Elphinstone season w as against Bryanston. The coach Mummy 8! She gave us excellent coaching, excelled in defence with her great speed and journey took forever, and you would have Alice, which I'm sure we’ll use in seasons to come, agility — she can usually be spotted on the Girls Kitty and Lulu every five minutes asking “Are and w hich will help us to get better results in horizon during cross-country runs while Mr we there yet?” We finally got to Bryanston and the future. Lloyd and the squad were still to start. after taking another half an hour driving up the Whereas Holly Domellof was only just emerging Hockey drivewaye w got to our destination. The first Thankso t everyone involved — it was great fun! from the changing rooms. 49 Aluredian Aluredian

ith a new coach, a The squad was ably captained by Ali Taylor, handful of returning supported by individuals such as Ross Turner, senior players wrth Terry Addo, Charlie ClydeASmith and Will 1stV X experience McKegney. The work ethic and honesty of the and a large number players w as nowhere better highlighted than by of hungry and Doug Love and Will Webster in the second row, talented 61 players used to winning matches, it a pairing which worked so hard throughout the was always going to be an exciting season if season for the team. nothing else, Canford and Clifton at home were tight affairs Collectively there was much to admire about with b oth teams trying to find their feet early in this 1st XV squad. We all wanted to play an the season. A virtuoso performance by Will exciting, open and dynamic brand of rugby, and McKegney at fly-half saw the team home many objectives were achieved. 25 players against Canford, and a hugely physical represented the lsts at some stage. Not all defensive effort led by the ever tenacious Quin who played will get the credit that they Taylor stopped Clifton. Injuries then meant deserve, but I would like to offer my own enforced changes; Tom Danaher stepped in to gratitude to Luke Childs, Ben Thomas, Ed scrummage at hooker while Charlie Clyde- Walker, Sascha Panayotopoulos, Henry Smith threw in at the lineout, and most Cunningham, Henry Potter, Richard Platt, and improved player of the season, Charles Ross Turner drives forward Max Barnes Yallowley, without whom the lst Ajiborisha, stepped up from the 2nd XV to in the 25-5 victory over XV w ould not have had the excellent season excelt a prop. Sam Warren offered a big physical presence in piece, deserving his man of the match award, James Yeabsley protects the Blundell's that it did. midfield, and when he was put into space, the while James Yeabsley was fantastic yet again ball against Taunton School team w ere able to work well with quick ball. at scrum-half. However, all the team played nIn a exciting 38-22 victory over Wellington, the game of the season in what was a the team cut loose in attack with Charlie Clyde- tremendous display of schoolboy rugby from Smith and Tom Halliday both scoring two both sides. apiece, w hile Alex Penn collected an audacious cross-field kick to claim a well~deserved score. Aftern a aggressive Monmouth side pushed us hardt a home, more changes were afoot, with The first loss of the season came against King’s the loss of Will McKegney for the remainder of Worcester in a dour 14-3 game which could the season. Ross Turner stepped in at fly-half, have gone either way. The team were visibly and against King Edward's, Bath the squad yupset b the loss and it was the only game showed enormous class, with two tries from Rugby during the season where they underperformed. Yeabsley, a brilliant performance from Ed Normal service resumed after half-term when a Dawson and a man of the match display from tricky w eek saw back to back games against Tom Danaher. lstV X Taunton School and Millfield. Jake Knowlton— Parry moved to full-back and was an instant The last word has to go to the Turner brothers. by Nick success in both attack and defence. Torn Despite his injury during the summer, and Halliday moved to the wing where his speed never actually playing, Hugo was an integral Gresswell and agility was an everaconstant threat to the member of the squad. Acting as anything from opposition. linesman to physio to water-carrier, his enthusiasm w as infectious and inspirational. Millfield away was the absolute highlight; with Ross w as outstanding against King’s Bruton, Peter Hale returning as a recognised hooker. nwith a amazing three try, 23—point haul, stability w as added to the lineout, and Ali which confirmed his status as the overall player Taylor took his chance superbly on his full of the season return from injury. An outstanding individual effort brought King's to within four points of a The purpose and passion the players brought to wel|~0rganised Millfield side. King’s hit form training and matches was invigorating. They and could have won the match but failed to put were a pleasure to work with, and things look away a difficult two on one. Charles Ajiborisha good for next year too. was incredible both in open play and at set- 31 Aluredian Aluredian

ollowing the tremendous success of match saw Oli Davies breaking every tackle must admit that when I went down to the 1st XV pitch, with 1st XV shirts, with 2005, the 2nds had another thrown at him to cross the line, followed by the first practice for the 3rds, the hopefully a large crowd to cheer us on - we 3rd XV triumphant season, losing just Ben Ta ylor's second ever score at King's. outlook for our season did not look were going to win. How wrong could we be? three of the ten matches. This was promising. With certain members of On the day, there was a mix-up with shirts, we by Fa team full of determination. skill The first loss of the season came against a the squad enthusiastically pretending took the pitch all wearing different variations of Charlie Byles and dynamism, with the forwards physical Blundell's team - not even Nick to be aeroplanes and a handful of white, with three number sevens, and dominating up front, and the backs all over the Dusting's committed tackling could ward off Germans who weren't entirely sure what sport performed to a crowd of about six. The opposition with their overriding flair and pace. their attacks. The team came back towards they were playing, the hidden talent of this Millfield side were massive, and within minutes the end but it was too little too late. This team of mismatches was yet to be unveiled. they were running rings around our backs. Up Much of the season's success was down to game also saw the debut of Chris Langdon, IMr Johnson, our coach, started us off with a front it was impossible to secure good ball, but some dedicated games of touch rugby in who became a great asset to the backline even series of fitness sessions, and soon the majority despite the heavy scoreline against us, we did Rugby training, where Mr Jones' skills and pace shone though he was in at No 8. of the squad (except super-fit Rick Morris) were not lose all hope, and put in a much better through, and Coach Gresswell's conditioning on the floor gasping for breath. second-half performance. sessions, which gave us the edge over the However, King's were soon back on form with a 2nd XV overwhelming majority of the opposition teams. huge victory over King's Worcester, 43-0, which However our first match against a strong Canlord Playing away to Monmonth the next week by saw a terrific display from the backs, with well­ side proved what 3rd team rugby is all about - again proved a difficult task against the sheer The season started with a physical encounter worked tries in particular from our vice-captain team spirit and having fun. Although our line-up might of the burly Welsh forwards - our rather David Snell against Canford, which saw captain Platt line-cutting gap-spotting Alex Scott. and our was somewhat unorthodox, with the slowest lightweight front row of James Pope, Alex leading by example with a phenomenal always reliable powerhouse Walker and pace member of the team as our fly-hall and our Johnstone and Mburu Njoba did not have an and Henry forwards try, winning the match 31-17. This man Potter producing the magic. A 50-15 hooker as the kicker, King's showed real ounce of fat on them. Our last match though was followed by another two victories, 17-12 victory in the local derby against Ta unton School determination and although the game was lost in saw us bow out with an easy 54-0 victory over Cunningham over Clifton, and 27-0 over Wellington. This saw an excellent forwards' display, led by sturdy the last minute, our spirits were not dampened. Bruton which was a good end to a hard-fought pack leader Dave Snell. However, this also let and spirited season. Cunningham show his true skills at scrum-half, Against Wellington the beast was unleashed putting in some excellent kicks to set up several and we were rapidly becoming a force to be Other important players not mentioned above tries, including Josh Brooksbank's perfect chase reckoned with. In a display of champagne were Charlie Bowditch, who was a rock in the Charlie Byles and pick up to score under the posts. rugby, the tries just kept flowing, and with an second row, Ian Hargreaves at scrum-half, Andy aggressive hat-trick from Jim Masson, we Holloway in the back row, Matt Butterfield in charges With Coach Jones having to return suddenly to finished the game 59-0 up with heads held the centre, and Lee Paisley who tried his South Africa, the team went down heavily to high. Our midweek fixture against West hardest to score a try all season but never quite forward Millfield, and just lost out to Monmouth, 3-17. Somerset 1st XV gave some of the players who made it! 'Special' mention must go to Jamie However the team still played with great spirit, don't usually play a chance to show off their Findlay; despite his belief that he is Jonny against with particularly notable performances from talent, and they did it with style. Jon Plummer Wilkinson, with his loopy pass but huge lack of 2nd XV veteran Nick de Figueiredo and the took his opportunity to spectacularly dive at the pace, he did try his hardest all season. Blundell's physical presence of Max Barnes Yallowley. line from about seven metres out, unfortunately Then came the return of Coach Jones, which falling short by about live, Leo Feilden's grunts saw King's back on track with a great win at could be heard from the other end of the pitch, King Edward's, Bath, 15-5, featuring a try from Michael Ellis used his gangly legs to run from utility player Harry Brimacombe. a back-row one side of the pitch to the other, gaining no forward playing at full-back breaking the lines territory, and Murray Grindon, with his puffy of the opposition backs. Luke Childs too put cherub cheeks, had the opposition trembling! his body on the line for the team. Our next three matches against Blundell's, Alex Scott launches another attack against Clifton The last match of the season against King's King's Worcester and Ta unton - all three strong Bruton was also the closest match of the sides - showed us in our best light, as we won From the coach's corner season. A 27-22 victory saw Ryan Higgins' by over thirty points on each occasion. Tries first, second and third tries of the season, and were from Kristian King, skipper Charlie further tries from Cunningham and Oli Davies. Campbell, Rick Morris. Dave Salaman, and Jim Firstly to Scotty, our points machine this year, you were a true gem at fly­ A special thanks to those who were there when Masson, and even I was able to crash a few half! A special thanks to five incredibly dedicated and wonderfully 'gifted' times were hard with injuries. Thanks to Ben over the line. rugby players for two great seasons. Dave Snell, Richard Platt, Fig, Pookie Thomas, Dave Salaman, Wayne Henaghen, and Sasch: your positive attitude and great determination, in winning and Nick Ward, Matt Butterfield, Kristian King, Rick The next week was the one we had all been losing, has been a key ingredient in creating a winning culture and played a Morris, Simon Close, Harry Slater, Charles waiting for: Millfield. The week leading up to major part in our successes over the past two years. Ajiborisha, Alex Penn and Lee Paisley. it was full of anticipation; we were playing on

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layed 16, won 15, lost 1. A Jos Buttler at scrum-half and Charlie Man at ]05 Buttler fantastic season for the Senior fly»ha|f formed a great partnership which saw Colt As! The front row created us through the grittiest of situations. Jos has scores u nder the platform for our success. the Sidevstep of a demon and also the ability to A tremendous ball carrier, Will make matchewinning deciSions. Charlie was the posts for Sharp w as a formidable physical justs a good, constantly putting people into npresence o the pitch. Moving up from the 85, space and pinning the opposition back With his the Senior Will Savage had tremendous spirit and was a trusty right boot. Vital rucking force especially against larger Colts A opponents. Lastly Rob Seabourne, not the James Scanlan was an inspirational centre who against biggest of props but technically one of the best, always put the team on the front foot. He was was a rock in the scrums, dominant in rucks greatly missed and all our ‘get wells’ go out to Blundell’s and mauls and versatile as well, moving to him.d E Nash moving from full-back made an scrum-half for the last few matches due to immense impression in the centre. Not the injury The second row consisted of the ever biggest centre but definitely one of the fastest, present Chris Morris and Charlie Close who had he w as able to dodge defenders and cut moved from centre. Solid in scrums, both are fantastic lines when running moves. Gavin amazing ball carriers, With the rare ability to Penn w as a very aggressive centre and was offload out of the tackle. always able to punch holes in defences creating space for others to score tries. Not being the biggest flanker in the world Richard Dawson makes up for this by covering At the back, Tim Foden was an elusrve runner, Rugby a lot of ground and putting in tackle after and his tremendous strength enabled him to tackle. Isaac Jay for me was the stand-out break many tackles. Jean-Paul Westgate also n the face of, it a tally of Matt Simpson, Matt Peek, Jean-Paul Westgate, forward 7 he never stopped working and was a possessed an elusive running ability allowing three w ins, two draws and Charlie Dunningham and Ollie Chambers all Senior Senior prolific tackler as well as helping out with the himo t break the line on more than one five defeats does not make played in various positions in the backs. lineout jumping. Moving from the front row, occasion, especially against Queen's. Ben de forn a epic season, but this Colts B Grant Little had an awesome season, stealing Figueiredo left a lasting impression on more Colts A squad w as a pleasure to This kaleidoscope of talent always enjoyed the the ball, and a tremendous tackler. Graham than one team with his immense acceleration coach and the players match training but felt most at home in the by Steve Gray sGiles i a very versatile player who played and prolific tackling, hitting the line with great by Callum enjoyed their rugby. In total 26 players regular inter»squad Tuesday game featuring everywhere in the pack at one time or another, pace. Towards the latter part of the season represented this team and it was a very rare some v ariety of union, league or sevens rules, Stonier an awesome ball carrier and a good stealer. Will Everett and Hugo Sacks were promoted luxuwo t be able to put out the same team in two with sometimes a combination of all three. from the Bs and both made a great impact. matches in succession. As is so often the case, I hope that most of them will continue with William Everett scores for oinjuries t the A team led to promotion of stronger their rugby next year. the Senior Colt 85 Highlights of the season included dominant B team players, sometimes just before the match victories over Blundell's and King's Bruton, started. These players often pulled above their 64-12 and 48»O, gritty Victories over Taunton weight but left the B team below strength. School and Monmouth, 17»14 and 17-15, and dramatic v ictories over King's Worcester 35—0. Henry Tottle, Ben Foll, Will Savage, James and Uffculme in the Floodlit Cup Final. There Miller and Alex Wayman competed for places in wille b many memories for the players, not just a competent front row, with Tom Dunham, from matches but also training sessions, Charlie Duke, Ricco Yeung or Harry Lang often espeCially the dreaded pyramid and Mr in the second row. The back-row forwards were Griffiths' hill-running sessions. Special thanks usually some permutation of Jack Graham, shouldo g to Mr Griffiths our coach, and the Finlay Brown, Simon Baker, Tom Jennings and parents w ho travelled all over the country to Frank James, until he migrated to full-back. swatch u play thank you. l was honoured toe b captain of this team and thoroughly Tom Shapland played most of the season at enjoyed it. scrum-half With Rob Thompson, who also playedt a centre, replacing him in some matches. Hugo Sacks captained the side from fly-half u ntil he joined the promoted ranks, with

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he Junior Colts were not team effort, albeit a narrow defeat, With the 7e h Junior Colt Bs had a we w ere at local rivals Queen's, two tries down physically the biggest of sides players really working for each other, and this difficult season filled With at half-time. Had hope finally deserted us? Junior to coach, and lacked selfe helped them gain enormous confidence for the many highs (and also some Never! The team roared out in the second half, belief early on, which made restf o the season lows), but with Mr Haynes as sunlight broke through the dark clouds to flood (Colts the tough start to the fixture coach this really was a season the pitch and we were unstoppable. Our pack list challenging However as Either side of the halftime interval against to remember. battered the Queen's side into submission and, by the team gelled and a structured game plan King's Worcester, we picked up two iniuries thankso t two great tries from lan Giles, we evolved, they started to play some really good within five minutes, which threw us out of our The first match against Canford was an recorded our first win of the season. Tom Lawson rugby, taking the bigger teams to task. stride. The forwards continued to make enjoyable close match (even though it ended in and improvements and disrupted scrums, but a loss); the team gelled well, having had only There then followed a masterclass in how to play It w as tough going against far more physical struggled in the lineouts. The backs made real three training sessions prior to the match and rugby w hen we blew away our other local rivals, Oliver Dent nsides i the first two games against Canford inroads all game and contained a strong also losing William Hardwick to a broken arm Taunton School. We were on a roll. Could we and Clifton. However we competed in the Worcester back line. Luke Gavin finished off a in the second training session of the term. now beat Millfield? Maybe next year lineout and held our own in the scrums. Both well—worked try for the team In the second half, opposition back lines were far quicker and which w as duly converted by Harvey Morris as Harvey Morris was fierce in defence, with Toby Despite losing skipper Torn Lawson to yet more direct in their attack. They also caused replacement place kicker! Barnes Yallowley and George Lock impressive another injuw we finished the season in problems at the breakdown as we were far too in attack, and you cannot forget Ben Foll who fantastic form. Ollie Dent rose to the challenge tentative in clearing out. King Edward’s, Bath was probably the best scoredn a Impressive try when we only had 14 of captaincy with ease. The team ended on a Rugby team performance of the season After Sitting menn o the pitch! The low point of the game high w ith huge wins against King Edward’s, Our scrum more than matched Millfield's, but on the bus for what seemed like hours, a was w hen Tom Garwood tore ligaments in his Bath and King's Bruton, with some great scores Junior lineouts w ere a bit of a lottery! Rucking was sluggish start saw us waste three scoring knee leavmg him out for the rest of the term, from Bertie Broughton, Tom Parris and Harvey greatly improved and this resulted in quicker opportunities in the first 15 minutes. However Morris. Newcomer (and International) player of ball, and the backs were given opportunities to once the team got going tries started to come. The season rolled on with our brave side losing the y ear has to be Chanin Chaipraditrak, who Colts A spint i wide, as well as managing to exert Forwards set up an excellent platform and earlyn o to gigantic (and surely much older !) will play for the lst XV one day. Felix Ameye by Ian Lundie pressure in closing down their backs, thus cleaned out well at rucks which resulted in six opposition and sustaining more injuries to key also deserves a mention for tackle of the year, forcing them into errors. It was a fantastic tries being scored in the game. Confident and players.e W never stopped fighting and spirits whene h brought down a seven-foot Millfield Aggressive running from lan more direct running lines from the backs did not drop. Then, half-way through the term, player, proving size does not matter. Giles against Millfield caused trouble for the opposition all afternoon.

it w as very disappointing to lose in the final of the local floodlit cup. Three simple unforced errors over the try line meant we went into the interval w ith scores level 7-7. We struggled to contain Heathfield's simple direct game, came back strongly in the last ten minutes, but it was too little too late,

The last game of the season was a fitting way to finish. In a one-sided affair, King's Bruton struggled in the set piece; our forwards turned over scrums and gave the backs numerous opportunities to run in tries, It was good for the team to finish on a high. I would like to thank all the players for their efforts, and all the parents who week in week out came loyally to support the team, and i wish the boys best of luck for the 2007 season.

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fter the first two games of played loosehead prop and can be a force to he Under 14 8s 2006 the season you would have be reckoned With on the rugby field. His ability season w as controversial and thought this wasn't gomg to really shone through towards the end of the tough. nevertheless all be an easy season. Two season,s a his commitment levels increased. members of the team heavy defeats to two big performed w ith great . v schools meant that the Will Pope and Chris Griffiths both played lock determination and spirit confidence w as already low before we had even for the majority of the season. Both possess throughout the term. Our first fixture was got going. However an excellent win against a excellent distribution skills and both performed against a physical Cantord Slde. A poor first strong Wellington side gave us the momentum admirably. Freddie Barker moved from prop to half left us 1470 down. An improved second- we needed to kick-start the season, From there flankere — h possesses an excellent tackling half performance saw us put some pomts on we w ent on to win the majority of our technique, and did a lot of hard, unnoticed work the board With tries from Joe Watts and remaining games. and only conceded defeats to at the breakdown. Jamie Grantham was the William Walters. Blundell's, Millfield and Monmouth. The other flanker, very mobile and skilful, fantastic improvement shown by the whole team With ball in hand, and reads the game well. Our next match was against Clifton. The telling collectively w as massive and was a huge credit factor between the two sides was their to their work ethic and commitment. George Wayman played scrum-half and worked handling and ball pace, but Will Walters scored very hard on improving his passing. His decision a good try. For our third fixture against The team were very ably led by Henry Close making got better and better and he has now Wellington, fresh pairs of legs were added to Rugby who w as outstanding. He was very much a turned into an excellent all—round rugby player, the team, with Andy Leung and Dave McNeill leader from the front, and as well as being a Dominic Bracher was his outside-half and making therr debuts, However, they had one superb ball carrier and tackler, showed a huge although not naturally suited to this position very strong player, who dominated much of the Under amount of commitment every time he stepped performed admirably throughout the season and game. ono t the field. Hikaru lchikawa played tight- scored some breathtaking tries, His running 14l\ head prop and proved himself an excellent ability is phenomenal and his ability to win games Nextp u was Blundell’s, which was the tightest scrummager and made some really hard yards made him the undisputed player of the season, matchf o the season. The team put in their by Phil Lewis with the ball in hand. His pace for a big chap best performance of the term up till then, and Our next victory was against Downside, where Aron Marshall takes the is exceptional and allows him to break endless Nick Mason played at insrde-centre and began were Winning until the last two minutes, when we ran out winners 176, Tom Woolacott attacko t Blundell's tackles,n a excellent prospect for the future. to show real class towards the end of the they scored, making the score 14-15. Dave scoredn o his debut, and further tries were season.e H possesses a killer pass which McNeill kicked superbly, Aron Marshall scored addedy b skipper Toby Catton and Dave Taylor Buller played hooker and had a very always set his Wingers or outside-centre into with aggression, and Joe Watts took us to 14 McNeill. Henry Close scores under consistent season. He does everything you ask space, and his running lines are excellent, points w ith style and pace. the posts against Castle of him and he place-kicked superbly, especially Tom Sharp played outsrde-centre and had a Our final match was a crushing victory over School towards the end of the season. Milo Reynolds very c onsistent season. A jinky runner with After a tough introduction to Kings rugby, the King’s Bruton. Not a contest, the score was Under lotsf o ability, he made an excellent side never lost spirit and picked up their first 69-5, Tries were scored by Andy Leung, Tom contribution to the team. Furthermore Tom Win against Queen's. A fantastically well» Drysdale, Ben Ferguson, Rob Geraghty, Alan 14-B I". should b e praised for his fair play and deserved, albeit slightly unexpected 43-0 win Lennox-Boyd, Tom Farrow, Henry Walker, and sportsmanship, setting an excellent example of inspired the team. Tries were scored by ex-A Dave McNeill again. It turned out this was the by how King’s sport should be played. Alex team player Ben Ferguson who scored twice, biggest away score of any King’s team that Dathan and Jordan Webb both played on the Aron Marshall, Dave McNeill, Alan Lennox- season! Toby Carton wing and showed similar strengths. They are Boyd and Will Walters. both devastating with the ball in hand and On behalf of the Under 14 Bs l would like to have lots of pace to finish well-worked moves. Soon after we had a thrilling victory in the local thank the team and the lst XV fly-half Will Joe Watts played full-back for most of the derby against Taunton School. The score was McKegney for training us during the last month season and showed a very level head in some 36-22, w ith Will Walters, Ben Ferguson, and of the season. But most of all, a massive tough situations. He has all-round ability and Dave McNeill scoring, but the biggest tally of thank y ou to our coach Mr Grindle. lwish him could play anywhere in the back line if his points came from George Lang, who scored a and the rest of the team good luck and all the confidence in defence improves, hat-trick! There were then defeats against very best for next season. strong Millfield and Monmouth sides. but there Thanks must also go to Sam Merriweather were exceptional performances from Robert (who w as a big loss for the majority of the Geraghty and Dave McNeill. The Monmouth season through injury), Aron Marshall, Alan game saw the tackle of the season from Will Lennox-Boyd, David McNeill and William Gerwat. Walters for their contributions to the As at some stage during the season. 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usual 100% at WD and made numerous Vital %— he 2nd Vll's motto throughout However, due to injuries in the lsts she was interceptions. The shooters OliVia Nash and the netball term was to oforced t abandon our team for some matches, 2l H c Vi Elle Marr both shot superbly against King's ensure that every match and but always returned for all the fun of the 2nds! b Bruton and managed to dominate the circle. training ses3ion was In the event of Alex's absence Lou Webber y We w orked very well as a team in this match enjoyable. It was in this stepped in admirably, and played a huge role in Cat Graham and played some of the best netball of the aspect and working as a team helpings u to retain our unbeaten status. season. Unfortunately the match was called off ethat w proved most successful. With this three-quarters of the way through as it started tremendous sense of unity and appreciation of AtA W Mel Palmer, although like most of our hailing! each other, success on the court followed and team lacking in height, created havoc amongst our season ended as it had begun: unbeaten! the opposition’s defence with her supreme turn After King's Bruton we had a very busy two of pace, leaving opposmg defenders trailing in weeks, With matches every Wednesday and In defence Tess Bloomfield provided an her w ake. The pairing of India Fear and Tori eSaturday. W went to the Rossholme example of never-failing commitment, putting Cannings a GS and GA was another Tournament w ith confidence, and although we her body on the line, right up to the point fundamental ingredient to our sucess; having lost our first game against Queen’s by one goal, where she had to be airlifted to hospital in one played w ith each other since their prep school we picked ourselves up and went on to beat game! Lauren Thomas~Peter and Cat Graham days, the fluidity of their movement and both Millfield B and Richard Huish in the pool proved a dynamic duo at GD and WD, soaring knowledge of each other's play was too much rounds. Everyone played extremely well and through the air to intercept opposing attacks for any opposition to cope with! Georgia Kerr launches an his y ear we had an extremely whene w went through to the next round this with great success, despite a clear lack of attack against Blundell's successful season, winning all continued, though unfortunately we lost to vertical stature! An angry word was never uttered even against but one of our matches, Millfield A, but we all kept playing right the toughest of opposition, and this was what something the lsts haven’t through to the final whistle. Alex McKean was inspirational as centre, made the 2nds so great this year; we were Tess Bloomfield gets the done for a few years. We had improving w ith every game and rightfully only e ver interested in enjoying ourselves! unbeaten 2nds on the move an awesome 508 win in our Our only loss was against Clifton, which was a earning the award of most improved player. against Richard Huish first match of the season against West closely-fought match in the first three quarters, Somerset Community College, which was a with Hannah Little and Katie Vickers feeding great base to set the rest of the season off the shooters well and creating space for the ewith. W enjoyed wins over all three of the defence to bring the ball up the court. We Taunton schools, most notably against Taunton were ahead at the end of the third quarter but School w hom we haven't beaten at lst team in the last quarter we switched off and allowed level for a number of years. Lizzre Scanlan Cliftono t pull back and wm. We went into our worked tirelessly in this match and didn’t allow last match determined to win, as last year we her shooters any space to move. ylost b just one goal to Blundell's. Everyone gave 100% from the start and although it was

We also had a very close match against closet a first we managed to pull ahead in the Queen's, w ith everyone managing to play second quarter. This gave us more confidence consistent netball the whole match; Minty ande w were able to move the ball around the Baylis w as strong at WD in both her defensive court With ease. It was quite an emotional and attacking play. In our annual triangular matchs a it was six out of eight players’ last against Millfield and West Buckland, we were match, but we didn’t show this until the end. taken slightly by surprise by the quickness of An enormous thank you must go to our coach West Buckland’s game, but we soon settled Mrs Mills, who was such a huge part of our down and played at our own pace winning 21-9. success this season. Against Millfield everyone gave 100%, with Georgia Kerr putting in a strong game as GD making many crucial interceptions in the circle.

We suffered a few injuries just before half-term but everyone was back playing after the break, Netball We took a long time to settle into our match against Stoodley Knowle, as our normal defenders w ere both away and we had the lstII V 2nds' defence playing, but both settled in and played w ell. Charlotte Butterfield gave her by Hannah Little 60 Attrt'edi 23:: Aluredian

t certainly was a hugely successful the season winning 27-2 against Wellington fter such a strong season determined not to break our, so far, unbeaten Under season that seemed to simply fly by. and finished winning 32-9 against Blundell's! last y ear, we began the term season,e w went back on court ready to fight it feels like only the other day that feeling confident and very hard. With superb moral support from the everyone w as getting selected into Each game and training sessron was so much .\ , determined. A comfortable sideline,e w pushed ahead, preventing them A teams. This season we played nine fun, even on the day when there were 100mph L w rn against West Somerset from scoring a goal until the dying minutes of games and won eight of them, only winds. Heather and Annabel worked very well r, r if .. at the start of the season the game, the score ending up 13—10. The by Emma losingo t Taunton School narrowly. Between together, both being our rocks in defence, helpeds u to settle down and display great confidence gained from pulling back the lead Clyde—Smith Natalie Arnold and myself we scored 194 goals continuously w orking hard and making some teamwork. resulted in good team spirit as we started off overall, and only conceded 84, so well done Vital interceptions Our WD Natasha Germain against Millfield. Expecting the usual fast- Annabel John and Heather McKenzie our goal also made many interceptions and constantly Emily Baker and Holly Domellof, though they paced Millfield side, we were surprised to find defence and goalkeeper, provided support to the attack. Alex Wynn had never played together before, had a ourselves leading from the beginning. Everyone reallys i the hardest person to pass through 7 brilliant season, hardly ever missing the goal. played w ell with some outstanding movement Throughout the season there were absences, her huge starfish mark constantly meant it was They w ere great assets to the team, both and teamwork, making sure that Millfield never losing some people to the 2nds due to injuries, impossible for opponents to get through her. complementing each other with their shooting had the chance to convert their play into goals, Natasha Germain weighs up and Annabel being off games, and this added As the game went on Alex would become more abilities, Holly slotting shots from the edge of resulting in an 18-2 win to us. her options in the match to the pressure a little bit, but we still managed and more excited, and she certainly added the Circle whilst Emily persistently scored from against Richard Huish to fight on and play as a team. We started off speedo t our play. close u p. The Deacon Cup brought out some of the best playe w displayed all season, beating Millfield Sophia Warby was certainly the most angelic With a strong centre court made up of Jodie A and West Somerset to get a place in the on the team, constantly floating up and down Burrows, Hattie Cunningham. and Charis semi-final against Taunton School. After a the court, always providing support to Natalie Elphinstone, the opposition found it hard to hard»worked comeback in the second half, we eand m when in the circle. Then we move on keep u p. Charis and Hattie showed total pended u in second place to Millfield, finishing to Natalie, our goal shoot. Throughout the determination and focus throughout every just one goal down. Despite just losing out we season Nat worked very hard to make sure she match, continually intercepting the opposition's were all very proud of ourselves. only ever performed at her maximum ability. attacking play. Jodie never failed to feed an She’sn a excellent shooter, and this always excellent ball into Holly and Emily, and moved Mrs Mills was an amazing coach throughout encourages the team; she has been a star to remarkably w ell around the circle to offer the season, working us very hard, and I’d like shoot w ith over the past three years! We seem passes from Hattie. to say a massive thank you to her, not only for Hattie Cunninham puts to have some strange connection where we can always encouraging us, but also for putting up pressuren o King's Bruton read each other‘s mind, and without that we Bex Turner and Becca Doyle stuck to their withs u all! possession certainly w ouldn’t have scored as many goals. attack throughout every game. As a team we could always rely on them to put the opposition Mrs Berry our coach was amazing, almost a through misery. They constantly surprised us legend, constantly giving up her time to coach with their amazing interceptions and improved and u mpire us. Mrs B always manages to immensely as the season went on. Our first bring a smile to the team even on the lowest of tough game was against Queen's, but we days; she puts up with the complaints and the remained ahead by a few goals securing an whinging, w hich I admire so much. I wish you 18-15 w in. Becca Doyle put pressure on the all the best of luck in the future and hope you Queen’s shooters throughout the match, never all carry on playing netball. letting them have a chance to get ahead.

The hardest game of the season forced all the teamo t commit 100% every quarter. Taunton School had a well-drilled, powerful side and, being our local rivals, meant that all the girls Netball on the court were very much focused on winning. Becca Doyle's tight marking in defence, w ith Holly's brilliant shooting in 3niVH attack, pulled us comfortably ahead by the final by Hannah Barley whistle, w ith the final score being 21-14. We w ere to play Millfield and West Buckland on the same day. By half-time in Our match against West Buckland we were 9-4 down, but Aluredian Aluredian

~Jhis term the Under 14s had we came out of the game in high spirits and quIte a successful season. learnt from our mistakes! Even though we did tinder We started off well, with the not Wln against Stoodley Knowle, we kept our first match against West hopes high right until the end, and played 14JA Somerset resulting in a 30-6 some really good netball. :47 v ictory — Olivia Taylor being by playerf o the match. I think as we moved on At Clifton, we did not play at our best, but Alice Davies through the term the matches got harder, and came out of the game knowing what we had to we found it difficult to establish control in doo t improve. In our last match, against games. Against Wellington we lost, just, Blundell's,e w played very well, losing only 17—18. but played well. Castle was probably narrowly due to their excellent shooters. We our best game, which we won 41-8, but it was had a swap around of posmons, changing the not just the goals, there was great play in the shapef o the team, and we had to learn to play centref o the court by Hattie Johnstone. in new and unfamiliar positions, but still managed to play very well. We also won against Queen's, with some awesome play by Hannah Cartwright and Alice Just a quick thank you to everyone in the Brooksbank. After this good start, we lost team: Lucy Chapman, Beccy Jackson, Hattie against West Buckland and Millfield. Our Johnstone, Olivia Taylor, Kate Taylor, Hannah Isabel Petri shoots for the passrng lacked control, and we just couldn’t Cartwright and Alice Brooksbank! Although 5Under 1 85 against i l score goals, but this was not just the shooters’ everyone swapped around quite a bit, they all Queen's 4 Cm" fault, both teams espeCIally Millfield had did really well. Congratulations to everyone! extremely good markers in the circle. However verall our Under 15 B we got our game together, we started to come netball season was pretty through w ith style. We dominated the second respectable w ith Victories half, popping in goal after goal. Such was our Lucy and losses, but definitely domination, they did not score a Single goal in Chapman every single member put the second half. Overall, we won 15-6. 100% effort into every nshoots i the training session and match! We started the Next w as our penultimate match against season against close neighbours Wellington. Clifton.e W dominated the entire court again, 4Under 1 A We w ere a bit shaky having not played together and w ere flying in attack. In the last quarter for a w hole year, and some not at all. Overall, we lost a bit of concentration due to the fixture against lotsf o determination and fighting spirit led to sweltering heat but we ended with good good ball skills, especially in windy conditions composure, getting us over the finishing line Queen’s Unfortunately, w e'narrowly lost by a minute, 1677 ahead. one goal bringing the overall score to 9-10. Finally came Blundell's where we showed lots A v ery tense game against Queen’s was next, of good game play with quick accurate passes neck and neck all the way until the last quarter, into the circle and great teamwork gomg on. when accurate passing and shooting pulled us Personally, I w ould like to mention Holly 15 B ahead. Excellent teamwork from Harri Matthews and her awesome marking in the Butterfield and lzi Petri dominated the middle second half against a strong opponent. She by Harriet court. Another special mention for Holly probably w orked harder than everybody else Matthews is in order for her awesome backing put together. We so nearly caught them up in Butterfield up and excellent interceptions The end score, the last two minutes but could not quite make 16—11o t us. it, losing our last game 16-19.

Then came Taunton School, our arch rivals, but There w as something about most of our having beaten them last year we were matches that definitely kept our spectators on determined to keep the title, Unfortunately, we the v ery edge of their seats A we had great ofailed t play our own game, which was support all season. I would really like to thank disappointing, because we knew we could have lZl Petri for being my right-hand woman / co» won. Next we played King’s Bruton — they captain, and the rest of the team for their were fast! We just could not keep up, but as commitment and loads of good laughs. 64 Aluredian Aluredian

s a coach, I might have been 2-0p u away to Sherborne, With goals from t w as a desperately frustrating season Ali Klinkenberg scored a fine goal against Exeter, forgiven in thinking that after Charlie Campbell and Ross Turner, and I in many ways, with several injuries to as did Richard Morris and Michael Ellis in the a 572 Win at home against thought that the tide had turned, but again we key players and a change of goalkeeper victory against Wellington (20). Cheltenham, it was going to squandered too many chances, and despite halfway through the season. be a good season. This even another goal from Tom Halliday, we managed Nevertheless a crew of about 13 kept By now both Tom Danaher and Callum Brown without three of the stars to concede two late goals, which sealed our .gfi the ship afloat and when the wind was had settled down in the team and were playing until half»term, namely captain James Yeabsley fatet a 3-5. The most disappointing defeat in the right direction several good goals were very w ell indeed, with strong performances and Tom Halliday (still suffering rugby injuries) camet a Canford — havrng beaten them scored, not least by that striker supreme — against Sherborne and Taunton (won 5-1). In and Hugo Turner still recovering from his previously two years in a row, this was Henry Cunningham. Special mention must the Taunton game two goals from maestro broken neck. Goals were shared amongst the particularly frustrating. However, it proved to ealso b made of Richard Morris whose designer Cunningham, a Simon Close deflection and a team, notably two from Ross Turner, a first- be y et another turning point in the team‘s shirts raised the morale of the team at a crucial Kai Kunnecke reverse strike set the seal on a minute strike by Alex Scott and a debut goal for fortunes moment in the middle of the season (actually great team performance. Luke Childs was King'sy b Kai Kunnecke. they lost the next two matches but did so, it always busy in defence while Ben Taylor's and Goals from Charlie Campbell and Tom Halliday muste b said, with some style and not a little eNick d Figueiredo's timing in the tackle was A rather dour, goalless draw at Queen's was and a superb debut performance by James panache). increasingly impressive. Goals by Tom Danaher followedy b an exciting first half against Scanlan saw us victors against Taunton School. and Kai Kunnecke against Bruton should have Millfield, w ith King's leading 3-2 at half-time. This w as followed by a convincing victory over Harry Brlmacombe's goalkeeping against been enough to win the game but an injury to Charlie Campbell and Kai Kunnecke scored King’s Bruton with a brace from Charlie Cheltenham at the start of the season was Luke Childs disrupted the defence and Bruton their second goals in two matches and Ben de Campbell. The last game of the season was a outstanding and it was not long before he was came back to earn an unlikely draw. Figueiredo a superb individual debut goal. see-saw battle against Clifton. Hugo Turner representing the lst XI. Then it was the turn of Unfortunately the second half was a different and Ben de Figueiredo scored their second Nick Dusting, whose performance against Overall the season will be remembered, by me affair and began a series of defeats which had ngoals i two matches and Charlie Campbell Queens w as so impressive, first to be injured and at least, for Richard Morris’ kit, Michael Ellis’ 2ndi X both coaches, Cole and Berry, hopping mad scored another brace, ending up as the theno t leave the scene altogether. As if these clinical short corners, Harry Brimacombe's by Patrick with frustration. At Exeter King’s completely season’s top scorer. losses w ere not enough the captain, Richard goalkeeping, Henry Cunningham’s opportunism dominated for 20 minutes, missed half a dozen Platt, also succumbed to injury which caused in front of goal and Luke Childs’ tireless Scanlan Will McKegney puts easy chances and lost 1-4. Against Wellington lnjuries aside, the team had the potential to do himo t miss several games. In the meantime the scampering around in defence (with or without npressure o 3 Clifton we gave them a two-goal lead before we very w ell this season When James Yeabsley ship sailed on with Michael Ellis and David the correct footwear). It will also be opponent during the lst Xl's started playing, eventually losing 2-3, Charlie was able to play (often hobbling) his Salaman scoring goals against Queen's and both remembered for the great team spirit which thrilling 6-4 victory Campbell and Alex Scott scoring. contribution w as inspirational, but too often the David Salaman and Simon Close scoring goals in enabled everyone to enjoy the season more experienced ‘old hands’ did not take on a hard-fought game against Millfield. regardless of the results. enough responsibility The approach in the last three games was completely different and the results spoke for themselves Hopefully this lesson w ill have been learnt and next season the older players will ensure a competitive edge in every game.

Major Colours for Hockey were awarded to James Yeabsley, Alex Scott and Ross Turner. A big thank you to honorary secretary Tom Halliday, w ho did an excellent job chasing up coaches and publishing team lists. Boys Hockey lstl X by David Cole

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f one was to look at the results from skill. His pushing at short corners was superb this season then some could perceive it and his commitment throughout the season Senior to be a disappomtment. However, I always stood out. Charlie Marr and Connor still firmly believe that the season was O'Dell played in the midfield for most of the Colts A a huge success and will hopefully season, Both possess excellent ability on the produce some excellent 1st XI players ball and provided plenty of good scoring by Phil Lewis next season. The side lost key players from the opportunities throughout the season. ACT/Oil fro/ii previous season to injury and to the 1st XI, but f/Jri 277(15" this did not prevent us playing some excellent Jean-Paul Westgate and Tim Foden played up hockey. Highlights from the season included front. Both possess excellent fitness and f/xmm ago/1757? an excellent performance in the county cup created some terrific goals through their wheree w drew With Millfield in the group constant rotation. Rob Seabourne played in Exci’cr School stages and eventually lost out to Wellington in goal all season and was superb. He has the semi-finals after penalty flicks. Three excellent qualities for a goalkeeper. His players w ho particularly stood out during the reactions are excellent and his ability to county cup were Ben de Figueiredo, James communicate w ith the defence enabled us to Scanlan and Callum Stonier. They missed the stay organised for the majority of the season. remainder of the season for various reasons but Many thanks to Jack Graham, Tom Shapland i thank them again for their efforts when they and Gavin Penn for their contributions, and played Further highlights included a very thanks again to all who played in what I would Connor O’Dell on the ball for dominant v ictory over King's Bruton and losing likeo t call a very successful developmental the senior Colts against only 3-1 to a very talented Millfield side. season. Canford

Jos Buttler led the side along with Charlie Close for the majority of the season, Jos has got a huge amount of talent when he has the ball. He has superb skills and excellent finishing ability. Hopefully he will take the step up to the 1stI X next year should he continue to show the progress and improved understanding he has this y ear. Charlie Close was a rock in defence all season and took quickly to a slight change in defenswe organisation from the previous season, Hes i a very composed player and can strike the ball v ery well.

AlongSIde him in defence were Grant Little and Tome l Gallais. Grant came up from the 8 team early season and showed a huge amount of espite only one win to performance against Canford in which he was 3rdI X improvement, His basic skills were good but show for all their never out of the action. Ed Dawson was able his knowledge of the game lacked depth. As efforts, the 3rds always to u se his speed to great effect down the wing by the season went on this improved immensely played w ith great spirit and Doug Love, Elliott Marchent and Karl ands i a credit to his application and dedication. and obviously enjoyed Lemm w ere all goalscorers. Colin Albeijy Tome I Gallais improved immensely as the their hockey. Ably season w ent on and began to realise what to do captained by Charlie Evans who provided a Matt Billing played consistently well and never in certain Situations. His understanding of the solid defensive barrier, the team had gavep u the chase, and Murray Grindon along game w as very limited towards the beginning of numerous chances to take the lead in with Max Barnes Yallowley provided additional the season and it was excellent to see how keen games, but were all too often out- support in the defence. Will Streatfeild and he w as to work and improve. manoeuvred by superior stick skills. Hamish Bury contributed ably to the midfield, and Ronan Handcock's persistence in tackling Will Everett filled a Crucial role playing at James Pope, in goal, was outstanding all and chasing was a thorn in the side of many sweeper for most of the season. Will, although season and saved the day on many opposition attacks. not the strongest tackler, has excellent timing occasions, including his dramatic which is a key component for a sweeper. He is a natural With the ball and possesses excellent 68 Aluredian Aluredian

hroughout the season our wasn't enough and the side went down I \1, fter a really difficult season eventually, he found the technical side of the hockey tactician Coach Shaw narrowly. as Under 145, this team game v ery difficult, to the extremely skilful but oys r’ll/7\ \‘t tried a number of tactics, approached the term with a somewhat lightweight Nick Akiwumi who formations and captains, A serioust depleted squad battled hard against commendable degree of scored our only hatrtrick of the season against namely Rob Thompson, Tom Sherborne, losing by only one goal. The game energy and optimism that Queen’s.e H has all the ability to do very well \ Dunham, Simon Baker, Jack allowed more players to shine such as Alex Wdid them considerable credit. in the future when he grows and develops a Graham and Tom Shapland. The first match Wayman, described as a wall in defence, and A number of results were improved significantly phySical side to his game. Ben Broadhurst was was against Cheltenham. Although going down Chris Morris, in goal for the first time since although the Side still found it very difficult to in some ways the outstanding player . in this Junior narrowly it was a good first game for the side, prep school, making some great saves to keep competen o a couple of occasions, particularly, Side and in others the most frustrating, He had finding the net twice via Rob Thompson and usn i the game, along With a fantastic roof it must be said. against a very impressive the ability to beat players and score goals but a A Tim Foden. netting goal from Will Smith. Canford Slde, although wins or draws were frustrating lack of discipline and vision at recorded against Queen's, Sherborne, Exeter others that prevented him contributing as much Peter The next game against Queen's brought the We w ere highly relieved to find out that the and King's Bruton. ase h might have done. teamp u against a far larger team, mainly sixth next game was against Canford — at home! On Dossett form. The game was a true tale of two halves; a day more swted to rugby, the team battled In goal Shane Scott was at times superb and Alex Raleigh was something of a revelation. He in the first the team struggled to get to grips hard against Wind, rain, hail and opposmon. kept the Side in more than one game with developed his game considerably during the with a more powerful game, ending 3-0 down The team defended fiercely With strong some outstanding shot stopping. His at half—time. After a rallying break the side performances from Graham Giles and Ricco agility and courage were most came out fighting to pull it back to 32, Yeung in goal; regrettably a couple of unforced impressive and he worked hard to skilfully gliding around the opposition; a great errors led to two goals which sealed the game. motivate the rest of the defence. aggressive team performance, especially in the The team were looking forward to the next Dominic Stuckes, Richard Elliot and second half, unlucky not to force a draw. The game, desperate for a Win, and what would be Felix Ameye played in the three main next game was an early start at Wellington a better time than the local derby against defensive positions. Dominic is Colts B wheree w came up against yet another sixth Taunton School. Some excellent attacking play improving his individual skills and has form side, Although being outpaced, the team from Isaac Jay and Matt Simpson led to two a good deal of pace and athleticism, by defended w ell with great saves from Harvey goals giving King’s a 20 lead at halftime. The Richard played in a really disciplined Morris and promise up front, Tom Shapland pressure w as on for the second half, Just way and worked very hard at Simon Baker finishing w ith a goal. However unfortunately it defend the goal and it was a sure win. developing his marking and tackling Unfortunately after some great defending skills, w hile Felix showed touches of Taunton made it through producing two goals real quality at times on the left-hand in the final ten minutes. Though disappomting, sidef o the defence, always a most a draw was the fair result. difficult position to fill.

During a nervous start in our last game at In front of them Miles Lenygon worked Bruton, some great defending by Tom Foll kept very hard as sweeper and did a great usn i the game; then the attack woke up and dealf o effective defending, although quickly scored twice, and the team wasn't he didn't perhaps always manage to gOingo t let it slip this time. In the second half sact a a pivot as effectively as we Bruton came back to 2-1, until Harry Lang would have liked. Nevertheless he slotted a beautiful goal to give us the comfort did extremely well and improved his of a two-goal lead. Again Bruton came back, positional play significantly. George but experience in the Slde took over, leading to Lock, Harry Canning and Will a thrilling and welledeserved victory, ending the Hardwick made up the midfield trio and all term, and by the last few games was not only Nick Akiwumi battles for seasonn o a high. showed the ability to make effective passes, outpacing defenders but beginning to make possession on his way to a and all certainly covered huge amounts of telling and intelligent passes. David Richmond hat-trick against Queen's The season was full of laughs, great hockey, ground during the season, even if Harry had to played a number of games in the defence and great morale, but most of all a great show of be reminded occasionally about his defensive he too was a real team man. He fulfilled a sportsmanship and spirit. responsibilities. He also acted as the short number of rOIes with determination and great corner stopper and did so very effectively. good humour and certainly never let the side down through lack of effort. All teams need In attack we had a great variety of performer, players like David and I am very grateful to him from the athletic, hard-working rather raw for his efforts. Overall this was a season of version in Luke Gavin, whose commitment to considerable improvement and one that this Tim Foden distributes the ball well the side was quite outstanding even if, group should feel extremely pleased with. for the As against Taunton School

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his y ear’s Under 14 A Side strokes of genius at times when driving forward he Under 14 Bs started the movement both with and off the ball. In our nhad a interesting season. With the ball. Our defenswe line consisted of season w ith great enthusiasm, next game, against Taunton School, we Under We pulled out some great Chris Griffiths, Milo Reynolds, and Alex Dathan, with a v ery large group of managed to snatch a draw from the jaws of results against sides that were With Sam Merriweather at sweeper. They all players v ying for selection. Victory.e W dominated the first half and went 14-B better than us, and we did a good job of defending the goal and Sam After two good training into half-time 2-1 up. A lack of concentration performed less well against proved a real grafter, winning tackles and sessionse w played our first and silly mistakes led to Taunton's equaliser, by the sides that were perhaps not as good. The always trying to get the ball moving forwards. match against Cheltenham. Considering it was butt i was a great effort, particularly from Toby high point of the season was against Millfield their first outing, the boys gave a good overall Catton and Tom Sharp. A similar pattern Andy Jones ewhom w beat in the open season 4-3. It was Our season started With Will Pope in goal, performance, but lacked the clinical edge in followed against Wellington; we led the entire a real feast of goalscoring, the most memorable although a late challenge came through from finishing. Henry Close and Tom Drysdale game, but conceded the equaliser in the last coming from Nick Mason who stroked the ball Hikaru Ichikawa. Both played well and helped worked hard, and Hikaru Ichikawa impressed in minute! Tom Farrow and Jordan Webb were beautifully into the top of the net from a hard keep the ball out of the net. Other challenges goal. The team had taken their first step and very impressive with their high work rate and cross off the right wing comingp u from the Bs came in the form of Joe basedn o the enthusiasm and energy of this willingness to act on advice given to them. Watts and Henry Close, both of whom proved group I looked forward to the rest of the season. The team gelled well after the first tournament toe b players of some ability. With the Our match against King’s Bruton was Without and it was at this stage that the team took exception of Taunton School we beat all of our In somewhat strange circumstances Queen's doubt the highlight of the season. Not only did pshape. U front we had Nick Mason and local rivals in Somerset, although the two brought their Under 15 B side to play against we w in, but we managed to implement all our Boys Taylor Buller sharing the left wing, with Dom Dorset schools proved too strong for us. We our4 1 85! We played some superb hockey training drills into an incredible display of vintage Bracher and his lightning pace in the middle were runners-up in the county tournament and against a physically bigger team, and showed hockey! In the previous two matches, we had Our right-wing was William Walters, who drove losto t a vengeful Millfield in the final, but the great perseverance and team spirit to go down struggled to finish but very w ell up the wing and round the byeline to boys enjoyed the experience of playing a good by just the one goal. Joe Watts announced his the massive Hockey cause defensive problems for even the best of levelf o tournament hockey and benefited arrivaly b effectively controlling the midfield improvement in our opponents. The midfield was held in place greatly from the experience. and successfully stamping his authority on this finishing skills helped Under by our centre»half Jamie Grantham, who also area, against a group that was a year older us s ecure a 6-1 captained the side and gave 100% at all times, In all we won three, drew three and lost four, than him. Olly Mason made some excellent victory! There was a in all situations and came through as the second best team in tackles and was a very effective source of hat-trick for David 14l\ the county, which for a team of boys who have distribution from right»back. McNeill, two from He w as ably assisted by Will Griffiths on the left not played a lot of hockey was pretty good! Tom Farrow and one by Ollie Lloyd and George Wayman on the right, who showed They have a lot to be proud of. Awayo t Millfield we started to develop structure for Tom Drysdale. to our play and controlled most of the game, Our defence was but rather disappointingly the end result was a particularly impressive draw. It was a case of missed opportunities, with Olly Harris, along and if we had taken our chances could easily with Toby Catton, have w on the game. Nevertheless, a fantastic putting in a massive resultn i what was only our third match as a effort. It was particularly pleasing to have seen Will Griffiths shields the ball team. In a pleasing performance, Henry Close the amount of completed passes and the for the As in their fixture and David McNeill scored the goals. development from a ‘hit»and-hope’ approach that against Wellington was evident in the early training sessions. Against Exeter School we won a very even contest w ith some excellent hockey, and great Clifton w ere our final opponents. After going defence from Freddie Barker. Torn Drysdale 1-0 down, Howard Hollis on debut for the Bs and David McNeill scored the King's goals. scored the equaliser with virtually his first After this very pleasing result we went down by touch. Brilliant play and an excellent finish by a goal to Sherborne, but learnt a lot from that Tom Drysdale ensured we ended the term game. In some ways this defeat helped us unbeaten f rom half—term and thereby achieving refocus our energy on playing structured our target set earlier in the term. hockey, and after this match we set ourselves the target (along with others) of remaining A big thank you and congratulations to all the Dominic Bracher runs unbeaten for the rest of the season. boys involved! it was very satisfying as a the ball with pace coacho t see the tremendous progress that was through the Millfield After some very productive training sessions, made, and just as impressive the focused and defence we w ent on to beat Canford, thanks to a committed effort from each individual. 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ith most of the A former coach at Blundell's once said he verything starts with the look for options (before having a crack himself). squad v eterans of would measure their season on their result defence,o s we'll start with After Andy Holloway left the 2nds, James 2ndI X the Autumn Villarreal against King’s. Let’s hope the current coach goalkeeper Aaron Chandler. He Masson claimed the captaincy and he was truly by Ben Jones Tour, spirits were did not use the same standard, as the scoreline pulled off some wonderful exceptional. Player of the Season Masson hight a the beginning of 7-2 to King's reflected a game where the saves, and we knew that he put sometimes played out left but mostly in the of the season and opposition never got into the game. Sherborne, all his effort into his football centre. Although his stamina was not seen at its competition for places in the 1st XI was fierce. as u sual, provided a fiery encounter, but and cherished his goal like a child. Right—back best towards the end, he did however put his For the first time in many years, the coach had Kristian King, the team’s top scorer, put away varied from Terry Addo to Simeon Evans and whole heart into winning and always wanted to a w ealth of talent from which to pick, and the the only goal in the dying minutes. then Leo Feilden. Terry started off as right— come back and help the defence, even if he 2nds could boast quality ex-lst team players, back w ith his dynamic frame and his delightful literally couldn't. Ben Jones had an inspirational as fresh talent such as that held by Matt A good season turned to disappointment when back heels, then Simeon Evans rewarded us season, combining aggression and skill to Butterfield and Charlie Clyde-Smith emerged. Bristol Grammar School outfought us and with a 3-1 win at QEH. However, it wasn't constantly w orry midfielders. Every performance Monmouth hit us for six amidst a series of long before he started playing right midfield, so a cross between Zidane and Ronaldinho. The team was, however, missing its defensive blunders, before the OAs muscled Leo Feilden stepped up into the position. He inspirational leader from the Spanish campaign their w ay to victory for the fourth year running was solid in all challenges, and in practices the The attackers consisted of Will Webster, Henry for the first game of the season, which is in two enjoyable endaof-season ‘friendlies'. team w ere treated to a show of kick-ups that Potter, Quinton Taylor and Charles Ajiborisha. always a trial by fire against Clifton. King’s All hopes of ultimate glory rested then on the made Ronaldinho look like Chubby! Will's muscular presence was particularly were always in the game, With a beautiful Monmouth six-a-side tournament played on the effective in holding off challenges by Clifton’s volleyy b Ali Taylor disappointingly disallowed, final Sunday of term, when every footballing Kabir Kohli was an absolute revelation for the defenders. Henry was top goalscorer of the but w ere beaten in a good game. With the school in the West of England sends its best 2ndst a left»back v in no way left back in the season in one game. Scoring five goals against returnf o Captain Marvel, George Painter, the nine players to thrash out frantic 12-minute changing room. His ‘Riise’ type shots were his Bristol Grammar School was good for him, but team started to act as a unit, arriving early to games in a Welsh valley. However a series of trademark, particularly his 40-yard daisy

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fhis w as a very young team In event, but had to fight very hard coming 6th in very inexperienced team this Cat always brought bundles of energy and a ‘1 the main, led by the highly the County Champs, when a flu Virus made itself year, none of whom had smileo t every practice and match, Always Girls experienced Ryan Higgin and felt and brought his season to an early end. played lst team tennis such fun to play with, Cat’s sudden moments the quiet but purposeful Zoe Mhairi also showed her gritty determination at before and were perhaps of absolute brilliance catching our opponents Round. It was instructive to the County event, fighting her way into the unaware of the standard to off guard, teamed with Hannah's consistency Tennis . . see this small group of runners county team and eventually to the Nationals which they were required to and competitive edge, made them the perfect working hard together, then many of them going where she ran against her Surrey domiciled perform, However, it can be said that at no pair. Hannah is a keen and skilled player ono t represent the county at either the South cousm, Mhairi also finished 3rd in the Areas point did any member of this year’s team not whose support I couldn't have done without lstl V Westr o English Schools Championships. and w as leading girl at the King’s Cup. riseo t the challenge. throughout the whole season. by Charlotte Charlie MacLean joined King's in the 4th form Meanwhile, OliVia Taylor won the Area event, The team consisted of Charlotte Butterfield. Lou w as an absolute pleasure to play with. and quickly announced himself by finishing the and w as selected for the county team. despite Louise Webber, Katie Vickers, Mel Palmer, Cat Her powerful, deep yet accurate ground strokes Butterfield seasons a reserve for the England Schools illness, cementing her place With a fine 4th in Graham and Hannah Barley. more often than not proved difficult for the International team, having come 10th in the the extremely wet and muddy conditions at the opposition to return. Nationals a y ear early and 4th in the indiVidual South West Championships at Stonar. Our first match of the season was Blundell's, year group at the National Inter-Counties. En which after just one training session and a Most importantly it was a thoroughly enjoyable routee h set course records when winning at Throughout the season, club captain Ryan Higgin long, lazy Easter holiday behind us, proved to termf o tennis. Good luck to everyone for next Clatworthy and Budleigh, besides coming 2nd in kept his targets in mind and was able to use the be quite a challenge. However Charlotte and year! the County, 3rd at the Kings Cup and 4th at the strength obtained through many miles of training 6Lou‘s 7 win against their equivalent pair South West Championships. He then ran in the for the London Marathon He finished 2nd in the really started off the season in the way this London Mini-Marathon with Tom Lawson and County, 4th at the Kings Cup and 4th at year’s lst team meant to continue; with Mhairi Hall, Budleigh, helping us to a team win at Budleigh, determination and perseverance. Louise Webber in action against Blundell’s and a good 2nd at the Quantocks Relay. Tom had started the season in excellent form in Another great illustration of our team spirit, the English Schools Cup and won the Area In each of these events, the solid team members which w ent from strength to strength provided the support necessary for success. throughout the season, was in our match .i : itiiuiiiii'iti‘y Both Zoe and Alice Round qualified as reserves against Canford, and Charlotte and Lou's epic for the county team whilst sharpening their battlen i two of their three games. Although it by Richard Llewellyn-Eaton running skills for orienteering events, Kitty eventually resulted in the loss of two ven/ close Monks and Lucy Chapman also appeared in tie-breaks, this was in no way a reflection of r more local events, doing well on the Quantocks, the immense input of effort, as can be said for / but Matt Peek really began to realise that he all six members of the team throughout the ‘Charlie MacLean, who came 10th could run against the better athletes, and after at the English Schools against the season. his 5th place in the Areas and a very good 8th year group above him " at Budleigh it is to be hoped that he comes back During the term we also took on Clifton, to school in January 2008 fitter than last year, Wellington, Canford, Millfield and Queen’s. A becausee h can go on to better things, perhaps definite highlight for me was a slight reshuffle taking inspiration from the rise and rise of Di of pairings which proved successful, as Hobbs, w ho started training really Just to get fit. Charlotte and Katie won all three of their sets against Millfield. Queen's as our last match of She then went on to raise a lot of money at the the season was fitting, and a nice way to end London Marathon, Along the way, Di was with each pair taking one set and challenging quickest girl in the house steeplechases, and at every single other game. Budleigh and on the Quantocks, then 3rd at the County Champs before contributing to Katie could always be counted on never to give Somerset's Winning girls team at both South up any ball, no matter how unreasonable her West and English Schools level 7 despite nursing reaching it seemed, This paid off on many injuries from a fall when horseracing. Di also occasions. Any match, whether we were did w ell in the Biathlon qualifying events 7 winning or losing, she could be seen running all inexhaustible and fOrever smiling! Meynell and over the court. Usually partnered by Mel, a Tuckwell w on the appropriate inter-house little demon on court, the pair worked the court competitions, and my thanks as ever to Messrs brilliantly as a team effort. Their styles of play Lee and Round, to Mrs Wrobel and Ms Fagan for although slightly unorthodox complemented their invaluable assistance throughout the year, each other totally. mu m 1Au 6 f m A If (D sgnfi

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espite the terrible weather, 7: he Under 15 As had another Against Wellington the whole team dropped especially in the second only four games all afternoon. Charis unbeaten season this year, Girls halff o term, the Under 15 Elphinstone and Isabel Petri took all their sets Everyone w ho played enjoyed all their matches and played Bs still, somehow, got to to love, and Caroline Lloyd and Harriet play seven fixtures, and some stunning tennis. The Butterfleld dropped only one game, and that managed to match the As Tennis pairings consisted of Alex was against their first pair, Throughout the in recording another outstanding unbeaten term the contribution made by Rebecca Potter Taylor and Holly Domellof as first pair, Hattie oseason! T have both teams in the same year Cunningham and Jodie Burrows as second pair, and Verity Clark was invaluable, and the Under groupo g through a term without conceding standard of their play improved enormously. and third pair was Charis Elphinstone and Isabel Petri. defeat is testament to a terrific work ethic, and no small amount of talent. Millfield is traditionally our toughest fixture, but 15l3 in the end we enjoyed a comfortable win, and During Easter we all went to Portugal for a The match against Taunton School was never really looked under any pressure. This by week's solid training which obviously paid off: probably our toughest challenge, but after some our first match against Blundell’s was a time Caroline and Harriet managed a clean Clare Flood whitewash! tight sets, we still managed to come out on top sweep, w hich seemed to please them quite a 5-4. Throughout the term there were other tbit a the time! more comfortable wins, including a 9-0 Charis Elphinstone Against Clifton only six games were lost out of a whitewash of Wellington, and two 8-1 victories Our last match was against Queen‘s on a tricky totalf o 60 games played, and the first pair against Blundell's and Queen's. surface, w hich meant that we couldn't really and Holly Domellof in action during the finished losing only one game. Millfield — the show our tennis at its best. However everyone Under 155' 9-0 whitewash over Clifton ematch w waited for all term — arrived, and the Against Blundell‘s all the pairs worked really battled really hard, and the pairings of Caroline results w ere outstanding. Charis and lzi pulled well, and produced a display of high quality and Harriet, Emma and Rebecca did especially out all the stops in their first two matches, tennis. Emma Clyde-Smith and Rebecca Turner welln i not dropping a single set. beating both the first and second pairs. Sadly, were the standout pairing, but there were no after these two exhausting and well-desen/ed weak links in this team! Emma and Rebecca n80 a unbeaten season, and one I hope the wins, they dropped the last set. This was dominated again in our next match against girls w ill never forget, but most of all, it was another fantastic win overall for the team. Clifton, not dropping a set all afternoon, and great fun along the way, with lots of laughs all Caroline Lloyd stretches to as» battling really hard in one match to win 7-5, the time in practices and in matches. It was a volley during the 9-0 victory Nerves w ere building as our last match pleasure to work with such a great team! over Wellington dawned.e W all desperately wanted an unbeaten season, and we were playing Queen’s. Fortunately, with Jodie and Hattie playing outstandingly, we had another great triumph w ithout dropping a set all afternoon, leaving the final score at another impressive 90 w hitewash.

We also took part in the Girls’ BSTA cup tournament. The top four from the Under 15 As played, and we ended up winning 5-1. Alex Taylor f inished her singles with a 6—0 win, Jodie Burrows dropped only one game in her singles, and Hattie Cunningham only two. Jodie and Hattie w ent on to take their doubles to love.

Overall I think we had a fantastic season, and I thoroughly enjoyed playing as a part of this great team.

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he Under 14 girls tennis team ueo t us experiencing one going, keep an eye out for him in the Dutch enjoyedn a encouraging first of the wettest summers national side! Jamie Findlay and Alex Scott season together, showrng ever, the lst XI managed to when given the opportunity never let us down. definite improvement as the complete v ery few of the term progressed. Although we fixtures that we would 1Our 6 contingent of Will Webster, Will got off to a slow start, losing to [ normally play. It was with McKegney, Calvin Smith, Ross Chadwick and Blundell's and Clifton, we worked on our great frustration that time and time again the Tom Halliday all made a valuable contribution. weaknesses, and pulled off some excellent wins, rain led to the cancellation of fixtures with no Ross Chadwick and Will McKegney's sublime notably against Wellington, Queen’s and Taunton or v ery little play. Nevertheless there were a catches deservineg won catch of the season. School.e W also played some very competitive few highlights from a very short season. Both contributed with the bat and ball, even tennis against both Millfield and Canford. though Will never quite matched his 3 for 4 As a team we showed a lot of promise thate h achieved in the first match! Ross There w ere some excellent performances from throughout the season. Winning 70% of our showed glimpses of his class and justified his Elle—Louise Domellof and Jessie Zilkha, who matches in a tough fixture list means this was impressive selection to the Warwickshire won three sets against Queen’s and Millfield on a v ery successful season and credit must be Academy. Will Webster with his determined their return visit. Milla Bell and Hatti Mason giveno t the team for this. A special mention attitude scored some useful runs, particularly nhad a impressrve three-set Victory against the muste b made of our 62 players. Alex Penn led his quickfire 60 against Christ’s Hospital. three Taunton pairs, and Hollie Bell and Kate well from the front and managed to bamboozle Calvin and Tom did what was asked of them Taylor played extremely well against Queen’s, opposition batsmen with his range of bowling and always provided the team with a lot of winning two out of three of their sets. deliveries. He ended up as our leading wicket- energy. Calvin proved a useful off-spinner and taker and also made a very valuable Tom made the extra-cover position his own. We are all greatly looking forward to the 2008 contribution w ith the bat. His best bowling tennis season! came against the Aussie touring side with Onef o the outstanding moments of the season figuresf o 5 for 37. This brings to an end his was the unbeaten opening stand of 173 by Alex fourth season in the 1sts! Chris Langdon, who Barrow and Jos Buttler against Victoria College. Tennis wasn a excellent hon sec, bowled with pace Throughout the season Jos dominated Winning 70% and aggression, and when he combined this opposition attacks and as a result he was our Under with control he was very effective. leading run—scorer. This was just the beginning of our however,s a he hit a rich vein of form in the matches in a 14A Jake Knowlton-Parry was probably the most summer holidays with the bat, resulting in him underrated player in our side, who quietly got being selected for the England Under 17 team tough fixture by Josceline on w ith his business be it with bat or ball or in to play Pakistan Under 19s — a fantastic the field, and even though at times got achievement for Jos, a proud moment for Kings list means this Zilkha frustrated w ith himself, kept working at his cricket, and a just reward for his excellent work game and came out with excellent results. ethic and determined attitude to succeed. Alex was a v ery Kabir Kohli took some great catches through Barrow is another exciting prospect, who made the season, and when he had the self-belief to a successful transition as an Under 15 to lst successful succeede h could make a useful contribution team cricket. Ed Nash, affectionately named with the bat. An elegant batter when he gets our specialist fielder, even though he scored season

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0 say this was a season of the side, His bowling was the most consistent two halves would be and economical, and not without pace and Cricket overstating things somewhat, devil, and he set an excellent example at all as there was very little cricket times. possible after halfAterm due to 2ndl X almost incessant rain. Other players who made important However this year’s side met with considerable contributions included Ali Taylor who brought a by Andrew success in the first half of term, and many loto t the side. He is an outstanding fielder, players found their feet qwckly. and ended up top wicketataker against Canford. Hopwood Duncan Rosewarn had his moments, There w as a good solid core of players who had particularly at Wells, where he took 5 for 10. and played for the 2nds last year. Ed Walker Gavin Penn too impressed, and will be a really Chris Holmes showed the benefit of this extra experience, handy all-rounder — his innings against Millfield and looked a more confident and solid opening in difficult conditions showed what he is bat. His 34 against Millfield and 35 against capable of, and he will achieve much next year, Sherborne w ere highlights Ali Klinkenberg too as should Harry Lang. has made progress, and possesses in his repertOIre some cracking shots, which he There w as a terrific spirit in the side, and they displayed to good effect against Sherborne (40) had a great work ethic in the nets. It was and Canford (61). tremendous to see so many seniors consistently available for fixtures, and they were a New recruit Ed Kean looked a class act all thoroughly entertaining bunch for us both to term, With a straight bat and high left elbow work w ith. And many will be back next year! straight out of the coaching manual. His 56 against Yeovil and 63 against King's Bruton were classic examples of good technique and temperament, and his bowling has much to offer too. Ben de Figueiredo perhaps was one to suffer from the lack of continuity in match play. He was unlucky a couple of times, but looks a really good player. is an excellent fielder, and will achieve great things.

Skipper Charlie Close is a positive, attacking presence at the crease, always willing to take the game to the bowlers, as he did With his 48 against Sherborne. He took useful Wickets too, Jake Knowlton-Parry cuts many u seful runs, showed exactly what it maintain our ECB Centre of Excellence status. and showed a keen cricketing brain as captain. behind square during the meanso t be part of a team. Whatever was And thank you to the parents who always show Henry Cunningham, plucked from last year's Sherborne game askedf o Ed he would gladly accept the their loyal support for the team. It is greatly 4ths, w as the discovery of the season. He kept challenge and always put the team needs appreciated! Wicket extremely tidin at all times, and his 38 above his own, a rare quality greatly admired against Yeovrl showed how capable he is with and respected by all in the team. The core of the team remains behind and I the bat. hopey b the time you read next year’s report, Special thanks must go once again to Dennis, you w ill find how we have built on this Henry Potter was an outstanding opening for his immense contribution to all things season's success to achieve even greater bowler, qUIck, accurate and hostile, and always tcricket a King’s. We are very lucky to have success, for ourselves, for each other and for eto b relied on for an early strike. He scored this ’ gem' on our coaching / groundstatf and it Kings cricket. his first 50 at King's against Yeovil, and his is thanks to him that we have earned and delight w as plain to see! He was joined in the new ball strike force by Jamie Findlay, who in many w ays adopted the role of senior player in

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his season will surely go down Gavin Penn secured the sides only award, e season started With high eventually stumbled to 105 all out With yet in the annals as one of the taking 5 for 25 against King's Bruton, but hopess a we knew we had again some very sensible bowling and fielding. Cricket most raineaffected of all time, James Yeabsley deserves recognition for his 58 strength in our line-up. The In reply both openers went early on, but Will as the side could play only not out against Wellington and 49 against standard w as set by us all Hardwick and George Lock batted superbly four matches, all before half Bruton, w hich left him With the splendid during preseason and we had together finishing off the game just two wickets Junior term. In those four matches a average of 60 in his three games, as well as for some realistic targets set by Mr down and With 14 overs to spare. ftotal o 17 players took part; out of these 17 his contribution to the humorous banter which Lewrs both indwidually and as a team. The Colts A four (Charlie Evans, Jack Graham, Tom never (of course) degenerated into sledging. success of the season can be seen by the fact that The final game of the season was against Jennings and Doug Love) played in all four Jack Graham also kept up the volume, and was we all achieved these targets, individual or not. Blundell's.e W were missing both Alex Barrow by matches; six (Tim Foden, Ian Hargreaves, highly successful as wicket-keeper, particularly and Miles Lenygon who had been called up to Richard Morris, Gavm Penn, Ali Taylor and in bringing off very sharp stumpings when We started extremely well against King's strengthen the lst XI, and unfortunately the Alex Barrow James Yeabsley) played in three; three (Peter standingp u to the spinners. Bruton. Harvey Morris scored a quick 40 consistency and team performance we had Hale, Will Smith and Harry Lang) appeared in givmgs u momentum at the end of the innings created throughout the season were lost. two; and four (Matt Butterfield, Aaron Other batsmen who made an impression were and Alex Barrow (54) helped us to a very Howevere w competed superbly against a full- Chandler, Will Everett and Leo Feilden) featured Tim Foden, with 35 not out against Wells competitive target. We started well with the strength Blundell's team and lost narrowly by in one. The side's record of success is Cathedral; Ian Hargreaves With 31 not out ball, Will Hardwick and Rich Elliott both taking just three runs. impressive: three victories, against King's against Sherborne and 23 not out against Wells early w ickets before Miles Lenygon finished off 3rdl X Bruton 3rd XI (by six wickets), Wellington 2nd (he also scored 3 not out against Wellington, the Bruton innings With figures of 5»O-20-4, Overall this was a fantastic season, especially X! (by eight wickets) and Wells Cathedral 2nd thus becoming the only batsman not to be bowling out Bruton for 98. with the success in the county cup. Having by XI (by seven wickets), as opposed to one loss, dismissed at all); Matt Butterfield, who scored beaten Millfield and Taunton School in the cup, at the hands of Sherborne 3rd Xl (by 138 runs, 25 against Sherborne; Richard Morris with 22 Against Sherborne, much tougher opponents away it w as evident that an unbeaten season could Mick Polley almost all scored by their captain). not out against Bruton; and Doug Love, who from home, King’s elected to bat and picked up have been quite realistic and it is only a shame recorded7 1 against both Bruton and momentum w ith an excellent opening stand that a large chunk of the season was rained off. Sherborne. between Miles Lenygon (58) and Alex Barrow (60). Miles smashed the new ball around before Our biggest success of the season was reaching On the bowling side, as well as the feat already the partnership was broken at 98. Rich Elliott the regional finals of the national 20/20 cup. noted, Gavin Penn took 3 for 23 against started the bowling brilliantly, dismissing We w ere by far and away the favourites to Wellington; Charlie Evans 4 for 16 against Sherborne and Dorset opening batsman with his reach the national finals at Headingley, but Bruton and 1 for 6 from four overs against first ball. The fielding standard was superb and unfortunately lost out due to the unfortunate Wellington; Tom Jennings 2 for 14 against we knew it had to be against Sherborne. We weather causing us to play an indoor Wellington and 2 for 25 against Wells eventually w on easily by 50 runs, and that is tournament instead. We won our semi—final Cathedral; Richard Morris 2 for 11 against credito t a fantastic team performance. with Miles Lenygon smashing the ball to all both Wellington and Wells Cathedral; and parts but unfortunately we lost out in the final. Peter Hale 2 for 12 in one over at the end of We then played Wellington in a 20/20 game. the Sherborne run-fest, Will HardWIck and Rich Elliott bowled tidily. Overalln a excellent effort throughout the however u nlike our preVIous two matches the season from all involved. Thanks again must Alex Barrow and George Fielding? Sometimes brilliant, but more often back-up bowling wasn't as impressive, allowing ogo t Mr Lewis for coaching us and to Dennis Lock posting a total of 207 less than polished 7 something to work on next Wellington to reach 126 from their 20 overs. for providing such fantastic facilities to play on. against King’s Bruton year for those still in the Slde. Targets set beforehand were not met by the bowling u nit or in the field, which left a much My thanks to everybody who played for the more demanding task than we had anticipated team, and particularly to captain Charlie Evans before the game started. However Miles for setting the tone and leading by example. Lenygon carried on his excellent form from the Umpiring such a lively and cheerful side was a prevrous match, launching an attack from the positive pleasure, and I shall remember my first very first over where he hit four fours. Alex season w ith the 3rds for much more than Barrow played the anchor role before Miles simply the rain. Lenygon fell for 58. Alex was 48 not out and finished the game with George Lock 15 not out. The batting was convincing, winning in 16 overs and by nine Wickets.

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s a novice cricket coach the excellent c ontests. The JCBs began to earn a f autumn IS the season of mists and mighty JCBs, as they became reputation as the meanest of Sides; either that mellow fruitfulness then last summer affectionately known, were or they were Just very hungry, often polishing was the season of floods and angry an absolute pleasure to work off the game before tea. Bruton (all out for downpours. In the end, eight games with. Enthusrastic, fun 54), Wellington (all out for 93), Wells were played of which half were won loving and with no shortage Cathedral School As (all out for 101) and so, overall, not too bad then. The most of talent, it was a very successful season. The Canford (all out for 71) were games in which impressive thing about the half a season we stylef o play was determined early on, no there w as excellent bowling and fielding. The had though was the good nature of this side running between the wickets, only 4s and 65 boys w orked extremely hard on this area of and their Willingness to learn. From ’Slogger’ woulde b the order of the day. This certainly their game and it really showed as the season Masono t ‘Block and Paddle' Merriweather to suited the carefree batting of James Moore, Ben progressed. Archie Berrow took 3 for 14 ‘Stonewall' Sharp this was a great bunch to Foll and Patrick Lai who revelled in this against Bruton, Kelvin Chan took 3 for 8 work With. attacking ethos, However, after taking careful against Wellington, Ollie Jones took 3 for 9 notef o Mr Lewis’ excellent JCA trainrng sessions against Wells and followed it up With 5 for 23 Sam Merriweather opened the innings often we did have a stab at playing with a bit more against Canford. They were ably supported in with Dominic Bracher and both had their speed between the wickets. the field by great athleticism and throwing moments; Sam against Canford, Dom in the skills. Ross Wright averaged at least one game against Wellington, but both will probably Toby Barnes Yallowley, Phil Downie, Tom amazing catch a game from close range, and feel they have more to offer. Sam needs to Garwood, Ollie Dent and Ross Wright all Felix Ameye was a revelation as wicket-keeper, broaden his range of scoring shots and Dominic showed superb touches with the bat, and our and the likes of Thor Lawson, Ed Bates, Seb needso t work at not allowing his head to ‘fall Junior great strength was to chase, which we often Worthington and Shane Scott were excellent. over' if they are to move to the next level. but Wickets w ere shared almost equally among the Sam Merriweather steers the did comfortably. Tom Adcock, renowned spin they both certainly improved during the term. main five bowlers. all of whom did their bit. Canford bowling down to bowler and secret high-order batsman, batted The two best games were, first, against a very Colts B Taylor can swing the ball on his day, and third man superbly to close out the Bruton game; Phil strong Sherborne srde who set a great target to Taylor Buller captained the side and batted at although Dom is a bit of a novice, there is Downie secred an excellent unbeaten 43 by Nick chase. Even the coach could not help but get three. His captaincy was generally excellent. something there that might develop in time. against Canford and Ross Wright an involved (stopping a near certain boundary with I could rarely have disagreed with his bowling Milo Reynolds was at one moment devastating, Grcsswell outstanding half»century against Monmouth in his shins — purely accidental). Monmouth too changes and, although he could be a little slow and then managed to spray the ball everywhere. the last game of the season. wasn a amazing game; they were unbeaten in to react to developing situations, he was He must not lose confidence and concentration Kelvin Chan bowling for the their season and posted 167 in their innings definitely among the better Under 14 captains when a batsman starts to play shots against Junior Colt 35 during their Unfortunately it was a very rain interrupted during w hich Ben Brett bowled his heart out, I have seen. He threatened to score runs but him. Will Walters was the steady Eddie of the nine-wicket v ictory over season and we lost a number of games to the We w ere actually able to have tea and then play had one of those seasons When he got out just bowlers and bowled a number of accurate Canford weather, y et those which we played were often on afterwards which was novel. Then the ase h seemed set to score heavily. Jamie nigeg spells that often got good players out, batting, incredibly close as both innings were on Grantham w as another who threatened but and the two off-spinners both have potential. Cricket a par for run rate and wickets down, Coming didn’t really deliver. I am sure both he and Joe needs to bowl a little less flat I think and into the last over Ross Wright and Ed Bates Taylor w ill contribute a great deal in the future. Chris needs to bowl a fuller length at times. weret a the crease and in an incredible turn of Under events King’s levelled the scores on the very last Ollie Mason had a number of innings of effort and The only regular member of the side I haven’t ball after a superb display of batting nerve. energy, and George Wayman played some very mentioned y et is Tom Sharp and for good 14A useful innings in the middle order. As a keeper reason, Tom batted a few times, bowled a few Ima extremely proud to have spent time with ands a a batsman he has great promise if he quite u seful spells and managed to drop a few by Peter the mighty JCBs and very sorry that not olearns t concentrate better. He did some great catches but boy, could he teach some senior everyone w ho trained so hard got a game after things w ith the gloves and occasionally played players about attitude. He was always Dossett the disruption due to the weather, A special exciting shots but greater consistency must be his positive, always did his best whatever he was thank y ou to Tom Garwood who was elected aim for the future. Chris Griffiths had a quiet asked, and was a really important member of captain, but played so well for us that he got season w ith the bat until the Clifton game when this team. ln general the fielding was pretty picked for the JCAs. Tom always helped me he, w ith Jamie, led a revival that almost won the good. The ground fielding was generally very out,s a well as all of the boys, and they game from What seemed an impossible situation, enthusiastic led by the superb efforts of Jamie, deserved to have a great season. only for us to fall agonisingly one run short of and the catching at times quite outstanding. victory. Such experiences make players, and This report would not be complete without a One thing I must remember for next season — Chris w ill become a player I am sure, The single mention of the quite astonishing catches taken who w ould have thought that the ball striking outstanding innings of the season though was by Sam Merriweather, particularly the one at the w icket-keeper's helmet whilst on the floor playedy b Joe Watts at Sherborne, Where we fell Bruton. Overall then a decent season in terms is w orth five runs! We must practise that one just short of a demanding target in a of results. a great season in terms of attitude, for next time. tremendously exciting game, and plenty of potential for the future. 89 Aluredian

t w as marvellous once again to see so The second fixture against Millfield was lost by many 3rd form boys showing such only9 3 runs, George Hall making 35 and Toby enthusiasm and commitment during Catton 26, and at Cantord we won convmcmgly the 2007 cricket season, and the B by 116 runs: Hall and Catton each made 40 and C squad could not have been more runs, the latter also taking 4 Wickets for 7, and pleasant and cooperative to work with William Pope taking 3 for 9. irounolaujo in practice sessions throughout the term, whethern o the square or in the nets. The C Successive masters in charge of cricket have by Peter Belfield team rarely have many fixtures, and striveno t increase the number of fixtures in unfortunately, w ith the Exeter Cathedral match ordero t cater for the keenness of the young being cancelled because of the weather, and cricketers at King's, and lam sure Mr Jones Taunton School failing to raise a team, the boys Willo d his utmost for next year's group. I have were reduced to three school matches thoroughly enjoyed being involved with umpiring junior cricket throughout my time at My dream of having an unbeaten season like Kings, and am grateful to all those colleagues thatf o 2005 soon foundered in the game who have supported me in recent years, against Sherborner The opposition made 299 especially Messrs Breakwell, Dossett, Jones, Under nfor 5 i 30 overs, and despite a gallant effort Lang and Trump, but above all to the various B by opening batsman Ben Ferguson (37) we and C squads, whose consistent enthusiasm 14-C inevitably failed in our well-nigh impossible and enjoyment have made it all so rewarding. mission to score 300. However, I was pleased I hope many of them will continue With cricket by Michael with the team's posmve attitude and lack of in future years, defeatism as well as Trehane Drayson's his season we continued to Rogers sensible approach as captain. field teams of six in the lst team, 2nds, Under 16s and Under 155, which is excellent to see. Week by week in coaching y ou could see significant improvement, both with the players' skill levels and tactics,

All teams played the format of doubles throughout the term, except for the specific cup games w here singles and doubles were played

Thank y ou to all those who have contributed to the tennis season at King’s, and I do hope next y ear brings as 1,; much enjoyment and . _ ‘ success if not more. Ben Everett takes one of his two w Well done! Aluredian Aluredian

2nle KINGS VISITORS The 2nd team was led strongly through the termy b the formidable partnership of Charlie Marr and Tom Walters. Matt Eglen, Hamish Bury, Ben Jones, Ricco Yeung, John Pitcher 53 it and Tom Lau also contributed well, to enable King's 2nds to have an excellent season. Matt Eglen must also be thanked for his contribution to and enthu5iasm for tennis at King's, and he Wille b greatly missed.

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The Under 16 team had a memorable unbeaten season, mainly due to the high level tennis some of the team had experienced whilst playing some 1st team matches. The games were aggressive, skilful and enjoyable. The team played well together, communicated with one another. and put w hat they learnt in practice into the real match situations. Well clone! One excellent addition to the team was Nick Akiwumi, He was steady throughout the term and made his opponents fight for every ball,

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The lst team had a rather difficult season, The Under 15 team had a rather difficult mainly due to younger players playing a year or season, but excelled when they played in the two above their age group. They continued BSTA competition, They competed well and throughout the term to train hard with huge managed to get to the area final. The team enthusiasm, w hich was great to see. They had played solid tennis, in a variety of weather an excellent win against Sherborne, which was conditions, and learnt that steady play is the significantly helped by our nationally ranked key, not always hitting the ball at IOOmph! player James Marsalek. Close matches against Blundell’s and Wells Cathedral School were Thank y ou to all those who have contributed to extremely enjoyable to watch. the tennis season at King's, and l do hope next year brings as much enjoyment and success it Ben Taylor captained the team well, and not more. Well done! Boystennk seemed to motivate everyone he played with. The debut of Matt Butterfield was great to see, ase h was highly consistent and enjoyable to nmundaup play against in practices. Jean—Paul Westgate continued his excellent form and Michael Ellis showed the team some of his hidden magic. Torn Lau, Ricco Yeung, Thomas Walters and Charlie Marr also played matches as 3rd pair if . for the 1st team, which was a great introduction for them to a higher level tennis. 9? Alurediah Aluredian

The theme of less well-known athletes With a fair smattering of Sports Day records. To round off a rollercoaster term, most of the continued at the Millfield Juniors meeting With Carpenter, Meynell, Woodard, Tuckwell and juniors jomed Kristian King in the festivities at eTom I Gallais. Tom Dunham and Will Savage Bishop Fox picked up house trophies, whilst the evening meeting in Exeter, Where George all announcing their arrival With wins, whilst individual trophies went to Olivia Nash, Tori Palmer w as the final, and very tired performer, Ben Phillips and Olivia Taylor both improved Canning, Virginia Nash, Hugo Turner, Kristian setting his own personal best to Wide acclaim their personal bests at the nationally acclaimed King, Callum Stonier, Charlie MacLean and in the 3000 metres. BMC distance meeting. Dominic Bracher. The reaily big record to go was thatf o the House Medley, set in 1978 by Many thanks for a superlative term are due to Further improvements were made by Joe Carpenter, and destroyed this year by Tuckwell, the efforts of the indefatigable David Cole, Jane Sharpe, Alice Round and Alice Davies, who despite last-minute team changes. Other records Berry, Steve Shaw, Julie Singleton, John Lee, scored big pomts in the National Schools Cup were taken by Tom Danaher, Alex Raleigh, Joe Lisa Wrobel, John Round, Julie Harrison and match in support of Charlie MacLean and Alex Sharpe, OIiVia Nash and Charlie MacLean, along the everlasting Graham Hall. Raleigh, w ith the same performers in eVIdence With the Meynell Junior Girls relay. tagain a the 10 Schools meeting jomtly hosted at Millfield, but so many others were successful, including Lauren Higgin, Holly Matthews, Emma Clyde»Smith, Ian Giles, Ed Wynn, Jordan Webb, Matt Peek, Chris Morris and Tom Drysdale — yet still the senior boys he golfing season began with The big event of the year is the annual match Charlie MacLean on his way signed off with a win over their arch rivals. the inter-house competition between the School, the GA Club and Staff he summer of 2007 saw a Golf to w inning the steeplechase playedt a Taunton and playedt a Burnham and Berrow on the final long goodbye to a very special at the County A little later, Chalita Kaorattana demonstrated Pickeridge Golf Club. This Sundayf o the summer half»term. Impending groupf o athletes who have by Peter Championships her continuing development as a hurdler, and was w on by the Woodard exams meant that a number of the boys felt contributed so much to King's the junior boys their strength in depth with a teamf o Connor O’Dell, Rob ounable t play, but a team of six including Dossett athletics in very different nwin i the 3 x 800m relay at the Queen’s event. Seabourne and Henry Cunningham, with a Harvey Morris and Charlie Campbell went on to ways. School captain Terry Stableford score of 110 points, Connor win the competition, with the staff in second Addo and his soul-brothers Ross and Hugo The championship trail saW quite a Wide range achieving the highest individual score of 38. place and the OAs this year bringing up the rear. Turner, together with the ever reliable Ryan of athletes pick up titles at area and county The school team then played Plymouth College Higgin, and on the distaff side, Maddie Hinch, level including Kristian King, Graham Giles, Torn in the HMC foursomes competition and lost a Following this we played our first international Olivia Nash and Samantha Brown all continued Lawson, Alice Brooksbank, Sam Warren and very close encounter 2-1. James Sinclair and fixture, w ith Mr Lewis leading a mixed team of to contribute to the end, though ill-health Lee Paisley, though all the usual suspects also Jon Pitcher won their match and Messrs O’Dell staff and pupils to play Clifton College Durban reduced Ross, Olivia and Ryan to support roles won through With Addo, Paisley, Maddie Hinch, and Seabourne took their opponents to the final from South Africa. An excellent match played and lessened Hugo's effectiveness. Hugo Turner, Graham Giles and Tori Canning all green, but both they and third pair Mike Ellis at Taunton and Pickeridge resulted in a win for being selected to represent Somerset at the and Will Smith lost narrowly. the v isitors, but James Sinclair finished his year The fixture at the new Castle School track saw South West or English Schools Championships. as captain by winning his match comfortany 5 the re-emergence of Jack Lawson, who soon Charlie MacLean won in the steeplechase at the There w as a better result in the ISGU &. 4 There was a suggestion from Clifton that made the transition to his new event, the South Wests, before finishing a fine 4th in the competition w ith a win against Taunton School, a return match (as in Ryder Cups) was needed 400m. In the Combined Events nationals, teleVIsed live on Sky TV from 25%, leading to a second-round match against within the next year or two! Championships, Olivia Nash contributed ably to Birmingham, w hilst Maddie also made it Millfield girls at Burnham. Against a team of the county team, together with Hugo Turner, through to Birmingham, despite shoulder lower handicappers Who also had the The season finished with a short tour to who overcame many problems to win the problems, having come 2nd in both the discus advantage of playing off the ladies' tees making Scotland to play and watch both the Open The South West title, but could not take up his and javelin at the South Wests. the course significantly shorter, the King‘s team Championship at Carnoustie and the Scottish championship placen i the national event at Exeter. of Jon Pitcher, Rob Seabourne and Connor tOpen a Loch Lomond. Three rounds were A v ery busy Sports Day saw a Wide distribution O’Dell d id extremely well and only lost very playedt a Pitlochry, Crieff and Taymouth Castle The Blundell’s match saw a very big turn—out of trophies in a very good atmosphere, together ynarrowly b 2 matches to 1, Jon Pitcher being Golf clubs, all three boys playing some excellent trail saw quite from both boys and girls teams, with the Under the w inner on this occasion. golf. Connor O’Dell and Jon Pitcher both played 16 girls enjoying a fine first place through wins a w ide range below their handicaps of eight and nine, and postedy b Amelia Jones, Olivia Taylor, Rebecca In the Somerset championships a team of three Will Smith belied his 20 handicap with some Potter, Lucy Chapman and Rebecca Doyle, of athletes plus one individual was entered and although stunning shots, particularly the three—wood to though other successes were also recorded by Rob Seabourne had to retire, the team put in a within two feet of the flag on a 275 yard par 4! pic/2p u titles Mhairi Hall, Zoe Round, Maddie Hinch and Tori Athletics respectable performance, with James Sinclair My own memories will be mainly about the Canning for the seniors, whilst the boys also and Connor O'Dell handing in net scores of just standards of driving (of motor cars) and a rather chipped in through Alex Raleigh, Matt Enright, at area and By Richard one over par to give the team a net total of surreal image of two squirrels on a tandem, but Dominic Stuckes, Ben Phillips, Charlie 144. thats i another story! county level MacLean, and the inspirational Hugo Turner. 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he SWimming season kicked Other notable swmmers through the season offn o a high With an exCIting were Tim Foden who blitzed the opposnion in and narrow win over the 25m butterfly in that four-way fixture, Wellington, the winner of all Howard Hollis who was dedicated and the Silverware at last year's performed w ell throughout the season, All Meade King event. and as the Taylor w ho managed to come and race in one term progressed, despite the team not being at fixture despite being in the middle of a cricket full strength all the time, the season was one to matcht a the same time, Lucy Chapman who be proud of Some excellent individual improved massively over the season and performances throughout the season helped the notchedp u some convincing and well-deserved teamo t success in many of the matches, and wrns, Elle Marr whose constantly improving allf o the swimmers were seen to do their very backstroke earned the team some very valuable best and improved greatly on their personal points, and Rebecca Turner who performed an best times from the beginning of the season or outstanding 50m breaststroke in the Meade last y ear. King and left the opposition well behind her,

Swimming A particular highlight of the season was the The Meade King itself, the last match of the opening match against Wellington who had not season and a high point for the swimmers, was by Ian Lundie only dominated the Meade King last year, but heavily contested as always and a good fight had also beaten King’s by a comfortable 30 or was put up by all‘ The main competition was so points when we swam against them alone. between Wellington and Kings and it's a To start off the season with an exciting three- testament to the team that, again with players point v ictory over them was a very welcome emissing, w only lost to them by a single point high point. in the boys, while the girls were hugely impressive in winning both the overall girls rose Other highlights included the four-way meet with bowl trophy and the open girls relay cup, Blundell’s, Clifton and Sherborne in which, despite being a few swimmers short and coming Alln i all a very successful season for the team, a narrow second to Blundell’s, there were very and one that all the swimmers can be proud of. The v ictorious open girls well-fought races by all, particularly Tom Parris relay team. winners of the and Felicity Perris, both winning two races apiece Meade King Cup and continuing their very impressive seasons.

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