Week before the start of term
MONDAY 26 AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY 9.00 am Medical Centre opens 9.00 am Girls’ Hockey: 1st XI & U16 Pre-Season Training (Bradfield College) 2.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: 1st v Pangbourne College (A) 2.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: U16A v Pangbourne College (H)
TUESDAY 27 AUGUST Boys’ Football: 1st XI Pre-Season Training (Bradfield College) Girls’ Hockey: 1st XI & U16 Pre-Season Training (Bradfield College)
WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST Girls’ Hockey: 1st XI & U16 Pre-Season Training (Bradfield College) (ends at 4.00pm) 1.30 pm Boys’ Football: 1st v Reading FC (A)
Week before the start of term
THURSDAY 29 AUGUST NEW STAFF INDUCTION (see separate notice)
FRIDAY 30 AUGUST STAFF INSET (see separate notice) 12.30 pm All Staff BBQ (Crossways) 7.00 pm Beginning of Term Staff Service (Chapel): Chaplain 7.30 pm SCR Dinner (FDH)
SATURDAY 31 AUGUST
SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER AL-HIJRA 3.00 pm Boys’ Football: 1st v Old Bradfieldians (H) 4.30 pm Medical Centre closes Week 1 Duty Team: A
MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER STAFF CPD DAY (see separate notice) 8.00 am Medical Centre opens 10.00 am Oxbridge Preparation begins (see separate notice) (Garrett Library) 2.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: 1st XI Pre-Season Training (Bradfield College) 7.00 pm Prefects and Heads of House return 7.30 pm Prefects and Heads of House BBQ (Crossways) TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER Beginning of Term Arrangements (see separate notice) STAFF INSET (see separate notice) 10.00 am Chapel Choir: Workshop Day (Music School) 1.30 pm New LVI pupils arrive 2.00 pm Final arrival time for all LVI pupils 2.30 pm Final arrival time for Faulkner's (I & J) 2.45 pm Final arrival time for Faulkner's (K & M) 3.00 pm Faulkner's, LVI and JCR Photographs (Warden's Room) 4.00 pm Final arrival time for Faulkner's (A, C & D) 4.15 pm Final arrival time for Faulkner's (E, F, G & H) 4.30 pm New Shell arrives 5.00 pm Final arrival time for Shell pupils 6.00 pm New Fifth Form (Pre IB) arrive 6.00 pm Final arrival time for UVI pupils 7.00 pm Final arrival time for Fifth Form pupils 8.00 pm Term begins WEDNESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER SUMMER ROUTINE Deadline: IBDP UVI Final EE Submission (Firefly) UCAS Applications begin 7.30 am Faulkner’s Breakfast (FDH) 7.30 am Shell & Fifth Form Breakfast (Dining Hall) 8.00 am Sixth Form Breakfast (Dining Hall & FDH) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Headmaster 8.30 am IBDP LVI Pupil Induction (Periods 1 & 2) (Warden’s Room) 10.00 am Stevens Academic Scholars’ Mentor Meeting (SCR Dining Room) 7.30 pm Whole School Service and Handshaking (Greeker)
Week 1 Duty Team: A
THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 7.30 am Faulkner’s Breakfast (FDH) 7.30 am Shell & Fifth Form Breakfast (Dining Hall) 8.00 am Sixth Form Breakfast (Dining Hall & FDH) 8.10 am Faulkner’s Assembly: Faulkner’s (House Foyer) 2.00 pm Visiting Music Teachers’ INSET (MUE) 2.30 pm Boys’ Football: 1st v Kinetic (H) 2.30 pm Golf: 1st v Gordon’s School (Fox Hills G.C.) 5.00 pm Co-Curricular Fayre (Shell, Fifth & Sixth Form) (Old Gym) 6.00 pm All pupils taking instrumental lessons meet their teachers (Music School) 7.00 pm Academic Scholars’ Dinner (Crossways) 7.00 pm House Music Reps Meeting (MUE)
FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Headmaster 8.30 am Faulkner's Induction Carousel (see separate notice) 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 7.30 pm Film Studies: Pupils’ screening of Summer Film Projects (UVI A Level and IBDP pupils) (Q5)
SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Headmaster Boys’ Football: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, U16A v Bedes (A) (leave out 11.15am) Boys’ Football: 5th v 6th (H) Boys’ Football: U16B v U16C (H) Boys’ Football: U15A, B & C, U14A, B & C v Bedes (H) Boys’ Football: U14D, E & F v Cheam School (A) Girls’ Hockey: Inter-Team Fixtures and Trials
SUNDAY 8 SEPTEMBER UVI Resit Examinations (Old Gym) Boys’ Football: 1st XI ISFA National Sixes Tournament (Winchester College) CCF: Pringle Competition Training (RM Section) (all day) (Bradfield College Grounds) 5.00 pm Faulkner’s BBQ (pupils only) (Faulkner’s Green) 6.00 pm Stanley House: Meet the Tutor Evening 7.00 pm Headmaster’s Drinks Reception for Shell & Fifth Form Parents (Crossways)
Week 2 Duty Team: B
MONDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Road Safety 4.30 pm Opro Mouthguard Fittings 4.30 pm Academic Committee Meeting (Q2) 5.30 pm Sports Captains’ Meeting (Warden’s Room) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Faulkner’s Girls 8.00 pm LVI ALIS Tests (see separate notice)
TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER ASHURA 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Chaplain (A, G, H, I & J) 1.15 pm EPQ Supervisors’ Meeting (compulsory) (Q2) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2021 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 5.00 pm Tutor/Tutee CC Scheduling Tutorial (In Houses) 5.40 pm EPQ: Learn with US EPQ Talk (compulsory for all LVI A Level pupils) (Music School) 6.45 pm Pastoral House Visit to Faulkner’s 8.00 pm LVI ALIS Tests (see separate notice) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Holy Communion Service (optional) (Chapel) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.30 pm Divisions Teachers’ Meeting (compulsory) (H4) 7.00 pm IBDP LVI CAS Introduction Evening (Stunt Pavilion) 7.30 pm Head of Sixth Form and Head of Horizons House Visits to Army and Armstrong 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Loyd House) 8.00 pm LVI ALIS Tests (see separate notice) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 1 (Music School)
Week 2 Duty Team: B
THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Chaplain (C, D, E, F, K & M) 2.00 pm Golf: West Sussex Tournament (A) 2.15 pm Lacrosse: 1st v St Bartholomew’s School (A) 2.30 pm Badminton v Eton College (H) 2.30 pm Fencing v Winchester College (H) 4.00 pm Prep Schools’ 1st XI Boys’ Football Festival 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Faulkner’s Boys
FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Road Safety 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: Faulkner’s (Boys and Girls) 6.45 pm Evening Prayers: Chaplain (A, C, E, F, I & M) (no Faulkner’s) 7.30 pm Film Studies: Film Noir Screening ‘Double Indemnity’ (UVI only) (Q5) 8.30 pm Fisher Society (Science 3)
SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Co-Curricular 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils Boys’ Football: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, U14A, B & C v Repton (H) Boy’s Football: 5th, 6th, U16D, U15D & E, U14E & F v Charterhouse (A) Boys’ Football: U16A &B, U15A, B & C v Repton (A) (leave out 10.00am) Boy’s Football: U16C, U14D v Charterhouse (H) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, 2nd, U15A, B & C, U14C v St John’s Leatherhead (H) Girls’ Hockey: U16A & B, U14A & B v St John’s Leatherhead (A) Badminton v St Edward’s, Oxford (A) Shooting v Wellington College and Marlborough College (Bisley) 7.30 pm Jazz Performance at Pizza Express Live, Holborn (leave out 1.00pm) (London)
SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER Deadline: Final UCAS predicted grades and UCAS subject reports in iSAMS CCF: Pringle Competition Field Day (RM Section) (all day) (Aldershot) 1.00 pm Pupil BBQ and Picnic (Stunt Pavilion) 6.00 pm Hillside House: Meet the Tutor Evening 7.00 pm Headmaster’s Drinks Reception for Faulkner’s Parents (Crossways)
Week 3 Duty Team: C
MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Attitude to Learning 2.00 pm Health & Safety Meeting (College Office) 6.30 pm Physics: Problem Solving Challenge (LVI) (Escape, Reading) (return 9.30pm) 7.30 pm Compliance House Visit to Loyd House 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Palmer House
TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER ‘Clothes for Recycling’ Collection Day 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Mrs E Stannard (A, G, H, I & J) 12 noon LVI Athena Lecture (Music School) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Loyd House 1.20 pm Geography: GCSE Fieldwork (Fifth Form) (Reading) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2021 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior Leagues (1) 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Wellington College (A) 2.00 pm Golf: Girls v Bradfield College Golf Club (H) 4.30 pm Bradfield Horizons: ‘Applying to America’ (Fifth & Sixth Form) (Q4) 5.00 pm Netball: 1st v Pangbourne College (H) 7.30 pm Head of Sixth Form and Head of Horizons House Visits to House-on- the-Hill D and Stevens 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room) WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER Computer Science: Shell Trip to Bletchley Park (all day) 10.30 am English Literature: UVI Theatre Trip to ‘A Doll’s House’ (Hammersmith) (return 6.00pm) 12.15 pm Netball: U19A, U16A & U14A Tournament at Queen Anne’s School (A) 12.45 pm Bradfield Horizons: New LVI Pupil Lunch (Warden’s Room) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Stone House 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 1.30 pm Tutor Meeting: House-on-the-Hill G (SCR) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.30 pm GCSE PE Practical Examination 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Army House) 8.30 pm Open Book Society (Stunt Pavilion) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 2 (Music School)
Week 3 Duty Team: C
THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER Prep Schools’ Football Development Conference (all day) (Warden’s Room) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Mrs E Stannard (C, D, E, F, K & M) 10.30 am Bradfield Horizons: “Looking Forwards” (LVI) (Music School) 2.00 pm Admissions: Sixth Form Open Afternoon (Music School) 2.00 pm Badminton v Oratory (H) 2.00 pm Fencing v RGS High Wycombe (H) 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Reading Blue Coat (Calcot G.C.) (HMC Foursomes) 2.15 pm Boys’ Squash: Seniors and Juniors v Radley College (H) 4.00 pm Golf: Faulkner’s v Pinewood & Daneshill (H) 4.00 pm Water Polo v Marlborough College (H) 7.30 pm Head of Sixth Form and Head of Horizons House Visits to Stone and Stanley 7.30 pm Minerva Lecture (Biology): Dr Alexander Evans (Music School) FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER Bradfield Horizons: Oxford University Open Day (LVI potential Oxbridge applicants only) (all day) 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Co-Curricular 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: House-on-the-Hill D (SCR); Stevens House (SCR Dining Room); Stanley House (Bloods 6) 4.00 pm Netball: U19 ISNC Tournament (H) 4.40 pm Boys’ Football: Junior and Minor Leagues (1) 6.45 pm Evening Prayers: Chaplain (D, G, H, J & K) (no Faulkner’s) 8.00 pm Staff Charity Quiz (Big School)
SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER Deadline: IBDP UVI EE Viva Voce and Final Reflection (Managebac) MICHAELMAS GOOSE WEEKEND (see separate programme) No weekend leave for the Whole School 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Road Safety 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils Boys’ Football: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th v Ardingly (H) Boys’ Football: U16A, B & C, U14E v Winchester College (A) Boys’ Football: U16D, U15D & U14D v Winchester College (H) Boys’ Football: U15A, B & C, U14A, B & C v Ardingly (A) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, 2nd, U16A & B, U14C & D v Wellington College (H) Girl’s Hockey: 3rd, U15A, B & C, U14A & B v Wellington College (A)
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER MICHAELMAS GOOSE WEEKEND (see separate programme) Boys’ Football: Peter Riggs, Junior & Junior B Sixes (H) Girls’ Hockey: House Competition 7.15 pm House Song Competition (Greeker) Week 4 Duty Team: A
MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER Deadline: UCAS Personal Statements (final draft to HsMs) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Bradfield Horizons 12.55 pm STEM@lunch (Science 9) 1.00 pm Heads’ of Sport Meeting (CC Office) 4.30 pm E-Safety Meeting (Warden’s Room) 5.30 pm IBDP UVI Pupil Forum Group A (compulsory) (H1) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Loyd House 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Stevens House
TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER Film Production Day (coursework) (UVI A Level and IBDP) (all day) (Old Gym) followed by Film Screening at 7.30pm (for Film Studies pupils only) (Q5) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Mr A J Singh (A, G, H, I & J) 1.00 pm Design: Art, Design & Photography Sixth Form Trip to London (return 8.00pm) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Palmer House (SCR Dining Room) 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert (Music School) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2021 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior, Junior & Minor Leagues (2) 2.00 pm Golf: Girls Texas Scramble Competition (H) 2.15 pm Boys’ Squash: Seniors and Juniors v Winchester College (H) 3.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: U14B & D v Cheam School (H) 4.00 pm Lacrosse: 1st v Westonbirt (H) 4.30 pm HoDs Meeting (Upper Reading Room) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Stevens House 7.30 pm Head of Sixth Form and Head of Horizons House Visits to Hillside and House-on-the-Hill G 7.30 pm Spanish Society: Film Night (Big School) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER Computer Science: LVI Trip to Bletchley Park (all day) 12 noon Girls’ Hockey: U18 County Tournament (H) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: ISFA Cup: 1st v Rossall (Round 1) (A) (leave out 2.00pm on 24 September) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 5.30 pm IBDP UVI Pupil Forum Group B (compulsory) (H1) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (House-on-the-Hill D) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 3 (Music School)
Week 4 Duty Team: A
THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Mr A J Singh (C, D, E, F, K & M) 10.30 am Matrons’ Meeting (Warden’s Room) 2.00 pm Prep Schools' Science Challenge (Blackburn Science Centre) 2.00 pm Admissions: Sixth Form Open Afternoon (Music School) 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Winchester College (Goring G.C.) 2.30 pm Badminton v Radley College (H) 2.30 pm Fencing v Charterhouse (A) 3.00 pm Boys’ Football: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, U16D, U14A, B, C, D & E v Winchester College (A) 3.00 pm Boys’ Football: 6th, U16A, B & C, U15A, B, C, D & E v Winchester College (H) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Army House
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER Deadline: IBDP UVI CAS Tutor Progress Interview MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Bradfield Horizons 12 noon Faulkner’s and Shell depart 12.45 pm Fifth and Sixth Form depart 2.00 pm Exeat: College closed 2.00 pm Buses depart 2.30 pm Medical Centre closes SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER EXEAT WEEKEND
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER EXEAT WEEKEND 7.00 pm Medical Centre opens 8.00 pm Exeat weekend ends: Pupils return
Week 5 Duty Team: B
MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER ROSH HASHANAH 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Head of Sixth Form 4.30 pm Academic Committee Meeting (Q2) 5.30 pm IBDP LVI Pupil Forum Group A (compulsory) (H1) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Stanley House 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Loyd House
TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER ROSH HASHANAH Deadline: Final date for Cambridge Medicine BMAT Registration Geography: LVI A-Level Geographers’ Fieldwork Trip to Sussex (all day) Bradfield Horizons: UVI Oxbridge Prep Day at Marlborough College (all day) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Chaplain: Harvest (A, G, H, I & J) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2021 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm Golf: Juniors v Marlborough College and Winchester College (H) 3.00 pm Boys’ Football: 1st v Winchester College (A) 3.30 pm Boys’ Football: U15A & U14A v Lancing College (A) 5.30 pm IBDP LVI Pupil Forum Group B (compulsory) (H1) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Palmer House 7.30 pm Head of Sixth Form and Head of Horizons House Visits to The Close 7.30 pm Minerva Lecture (Science): 'Ryle Lecture' by Colin Stuart: "How we will live on Mars" (Music School) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 1.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: U16 County Tournament (H) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: Stone House; The Close (SCR Dining Room) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Upper Reading Room) 3.30 pm Boys’ Squash: Seniors and Juniors v Abingdon (A) 4.30pm Lacrosse: 1st v Queen Anne’s School (H) 4.30 pm Bradfield Horizons: Studying in Europe (Fifth & Sixth Form) (Warden’s Room) 5.00 pm Geography: GA Lecture on ‘Our Blue Planet’ by Izzy Bishop (selected Fifth Form pupils only) (St Edward’s, Oxford) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Stone House) 8.30 pm French Cheese Tasting Evening (Stunt Pavilion) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 4 (Music School) 9.00 pm JCR Meeting (Warden’s Room)
Week 5 Duty Team: B
THURSDAY 3 OCTOBER NATIONAL POETRY DAY Photography Coursework Trip to London (Sixth Form) (all day) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Chaplain: Harvest (C, D, E, F, K & M) 12 noon Wellbeing Lecture (Faulkner’s): ‘Anti-Bullying’ by Robert Higgs (Music School) 1.00 pm IBDP UVI Biology and ESS Field Trip to Dale Fort departs 1.00 pm Shooting v Marlborough College (A) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Army House 1.30 pm Music: GCSE Music Composition Coursework Workshop (MU2) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior, Junior & Minor Leagues (3) 2.00 pm Badminton Quadrangular v Oratory, Radley College & St Edward’s, Oxford (H) 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Eton College (Calcot G.C.) 2.30 pm Fencing v Marlborough College (H) 3.15 pm Boys and Girls’ Swimming: Senior and Junior Tri Schools Cup at Stowe (A) 5.00 pm Netball: U14 v Pangbourne College (H) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Armstrong House 7.30 pm “Berkshire Chamber Music Festival” Concert (Music School)
FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER FEAST OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Head of Sixth Form 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 12.30 pm CCF: Pringle Competition to Lympstone, Devon departs 4.15 pm IBDP Committee Meeting (SCR Dining Room) 4.20 pm Sports Team Photographs (Quad) 6.45 pm Evening Prayers: Miss L E Rowlands (A, C, E, F, I & M) (no Shell)
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER Deadline: Oxford Law UCAS Applicants' final date for LNAT Registrations 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Head of Sixth Form 9.00 am Netball: U19, U16 & U14 County Netball Tournament (Theale) 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils Boys’ Football: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, U14A, B, C & D v Shrewsbury (A) (leave out 10.00am) Boys’ Football: U16A, B, C & D, U15A, B, C & D v Shrewsbury (H) Boys’ Football: 5th & 6th v Marlborough College (A) Boys’ Football: U15E, U14E & F v Eton College (A) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, 2nd, U16A, B & C v Dauntsey’s (A) Girls’ Hockey: U15A, B & C, U14A, B & C v Dauntsey’s (H) Badminton v Winchester College (H) Golf: Girls v Berkshire Girls (H)
SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 11.00 am Family Harvest Service (Chapel): Chaplain 12 noon Prep Schools' Football Tournament 1.00 pm Pupil Film Afternoon (Q1) 6.00 pm CCF: Pringle Competition to Lympstone, Devon returns 8.00 pm IBDP UVI Biology and ESS Field Trip to Dale Fort returns Week 6 Duty Team: C
MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 8.00 am Parent Coffee Morning (Stunt Pavilion) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): British Values 12.55 pm STEM@lunch (Science 9) 1.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: U14 County Tournament (Wellington College) 6.30 pm Bradfield Sixth Form Presents to Faulkner’s (Greeker) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to The Close 7.30 pm Minerva Lecture (Chemistry): ‘The Origin of the Laws of Nature’ by Professor Peter Atkins (Warden’s Room) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Army House
TUESDAY 8 OCTOBER Deadline: "Pay and Send" for Oxbridge, Dentistry, Medicine, and Veterinary UCAS Applicants 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Miss A M Cowan (A, G, H, I & J) 8.30 am Estates Committee Meeting (Crossways) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Loyd House 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert (Music School) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2021 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm House Music Instrumental Auditions (MUE) 2.00 pm Education Committee Meeting (Crossways) 2.00 pm Chemistry: Visit to Keit Spectrometers (LVI) (Didcot) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior, Junior & Minor Leagues (4) 2.00 pm Golf: HMC Singles Competition (The Berkshire G.C.) 2.00 pm Golf: Juniors v Radley College and Wellington College (Radley College) 3.30 pm Boys’ Football: ISFA Cup: U15A v Lancing College (Round 1) (A) (leave out 12 noon) 6.45 pm Pastoral House Visit to Faulkner’s 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to House-on-the-Hill G 7.30 pm Head of Sixth Form and Head of Horizons House Visits to Loyd and Palmer 7.30 pm Minerva Lecture (RPE): Professor June Boyce Tilmann (Winchester University) (Music School) 8.00 pm Stevens Academic Scholars (Faulkner’s, Shell & Fifth Form): An Evening of Fermi Questions (Warden’s Room) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Stunt Pavilion)
WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER YOM KIPPUR 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 1.30 pm Tutor Meeting: House-on-the-Hill G (SCR) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.15 pm House Group and Scholars' Photographs (Quad and Houses) 4.30 pm IBDP Teachers’ Meeting (H1) 4.30 pm Girls’ Squash: Seniors v Downe House (A) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Hillside) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 5 (Music School) Week 6 Duty Team: C
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY New Scientists Live at the ExCeL Centre (selected pupils only from all Year Groups) (London) (all day) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Miss A M Cowan (C, D, E, F, K & M) 9.00 am Bradfield College Enterprise Limited Meeting (Warden's Room) 12 noon UVI Athena Lecture (Music School) 12 noon Wellbeing Lecture (Fifth Form): ‘RAP Project’ (Big School) 12.45 pm Photography: Shell Trip to Lacock Abbey 1.15 pm Lacrosse: U15 v Marlborough College (A) 2.00 pm House Music Instrumental Auditions (MUE) 2.00 pm Admissions: Sixth Form Open Afternoon (Music School) 2.00 pm Hispanic Theatre Festival (UVI) (North London Collegiate School) 2.00 pm Badminton House Matches 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Charterhouse (Calcot G.C.) 2.15 pm Girls’ Squash: Seniors and Juniors v Wellington College (H) 2.30 pm Fencing v Harrow (A) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Hillside 7.30 pm “Admission of Scholars” Service (Chapel) FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): British Values 1.00 pm Prep Schools’ Girls’ Hockey Festival (U10) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: House-on-the-Hill D (SCR); Stevens House (SCR Dining Room); Stanley House (Bloods 6) 4.30 pm Whole School Photograph (Quad and Max) 6.45 pm Evening Prayers: The Revd Mike Oates (D, G, H, J & K) (no Shell) 7.30 pm Chapel Dinner with The Revd Mike Oates (Warden’s Room) 8.00 pm Bradfield Horizons: OB Careers Advice Evening (UVI) (Music School) 8.30 pm Fisher Society (Science 3) SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER Loyd House, House-on-the-Hill D, House-on-the-Hill G, and Stone House Fifth Form Academic Weekend 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): British Values 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils 2.00 pm CCF: Army Senior Cadet Training Day (Bradfield College Grounds) Boys’ Football: 1st, U16A & B, U14C & D v Hampton (A) Boys’ Football: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, U15A, B, C & D, U14A & B v Hampton (H) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, U16B, U15A & B, U14A, B, C & D v Cranleigh (A) Girls’ Hockey: 2nd, 3rd, U16A, U15C v Cranleigh (H) SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER Loyd House, House-on-the-Hill D, House-on-the-Hill G, and Stone House Fifth Form Academic Weekend CCF: Army and RAF Cadets Field Day (optional) (all day) (Aldershot) 6.00 pm LVI Parents’ Presentation (A, D, E, J & M) (Music School) followed by Parents’ Meeting at 6.30 pm (Sports Complex) 6.30 pm LVI Parents’ Presentation (C, F, G, H, I & K) (Music School) followed by Parents’ Meeting at 7.00 pm (Sports Complex) Week 7 Duty Team: A
MONDAY 14 OCTOBER SUKKOT ABRSM Mock Examinations (all day) (Music School) IBDP Chemistry and Physics Practical Day (UVI) (all day) (Blackburn Science Centre) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Commendation Assembly 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to House-on-the-Hill D 7.30 pm Council Dinner (Bradfield College) 7.30 pm Compliance House Visit to Army House 8.45 pm Meditative Compline (Chapel) TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER Deadline: Final date for all Oxford, Cambridge, Dentistry, Medicine, and Veterinary UCAS Applications to be sent through to UCAS Deadline: Final date for Oxbridge Applicants to register for pre-interview entrance tests at Oxford and Cambridge 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Commendation Assembly 8.30 am Bradfield Horizons: Medical Careers Seminar (Fifth & Sixth Form) (am only) (The Ark, Basingstoke and North Hants Hospital) 9.00 am Council Strategy Day (Bradfield College) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Palmer House (SCR Dining Room) 2.00 pm Music: Fifth Form GCSE Solo Recording Sessions (1) (Music School) 2.00 pm DSL Meeting (Pastoral Office) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: House Firsts and House Colts (Quarter and Semi-Finals) 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Radley College (Frilford G.C.) 2.30 pm Basketball: U18 v Radley College (A) 3.30 pm Lacrosse: 1st v St George’s Ascot (H) 7.15 pm Head of UCAS House Visit to Stone House 7.30 pm Compliance House Visit to Palmer House 7.30 pm German Society: Sixth Form Film Night (Stunt Pavilion) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to House-on-the-Hill D 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room) WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Commendation Assembly 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Stone House 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 2.00 pm Health & Safety Meeting (College Office) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.30 pm GCSE PE Practical Examination 4.30 pm Boys’ Hockey: Indoor Triangular (H) 4.30 pm Girls’ Squash: Juniors v Downe House (H) 5.00 pm HoCC Meeting (Warden’s Room) 5.00 pm Geography: GA Lecture on ‘Climate Change and Tectonic Hazards’ by Professor Bill McGuire (LVI) (St Edward’s, Oxford) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (House-on-the-Hill G) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 6 (Music School) 8.30 pm Open Mic Night (Junior School) (Stunt Pavilion) Week 7 Duty Team: A
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 8.10 am Faulkner's: End of Half Term Service (Chapel) 10.30 am Bradfield Horizons: Interview Techniques (UVI) with Steve Simmance (Music School) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: Faulkner’s (Boys and Girls) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: House Firsts and House Colts (Finals) 2.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: Junior Inter-House 2.30 pm Pupil Welfare Committee Meeting (Upper Reading Room) 2.30 pm Golf: A Team v Gordon’s School (H) 3.30pm Girls’ Hockey: Senior Girls’ Trip to Singapore and Malaysia departs 4.00 pm Water Polo v Cranleigh (A) 4.30 pm Chemistry: ASE Science TeachMeet (Blackburn Science Centre) 5.00 pm Drama: A Level Theatre Studies Trip to “Blood Wedding” (London) (return 11.00pm) 6.30 pm Faulkner’s Parents’ Presentation for Bu & Ya (Music School) followed by Faulkner’s Parents’ Meeting at 7.00pm (Sports Complex) 7.00 pm Faulkner’s Parents’ Presentation for En & So (Music School) followed by Faulkner’s Parents’ Meeting at 7.30pm (Sports Complex) Faulkner's depart for Long Leave after parents' meeting
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER Deadline: IBDP LVI CAS Tutor Progress Interview 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form: End of Half Term Service (Chapel) 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 12 noon Shell & Fifth Form depart after Period 4 12 noon Sixth Form: End of Half Term Service (Chapel) (Sixth Form depart after service) 1.20 pm Buses depart 1.30 pm Headmaster’s Strategic Update for All Staff (Old Gym) 2.00 pm Kirk Baltz Acting Workshop (Dance Studio) 2.30 pm Teaching Staff Cohort Consultation Groups (see separate notice) 4.00 pm College closes 6.30 pm Medical Centre closes SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE 9.00 am Kirk Baltz Acting Workshop (Old Gym) 9.00 am Medical Centre opens 5.30 pm Medical Centre closes
SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE Deadline: Final date for Oxford Law Applicants to take LNAT test 9.00 am Kirk Baltz Acting Workshop (Old Gym) 9.00 am Medical Centre opens 5.30 pm Medical Centre closes Week 8 Duty Team:
MONDAY 21 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE
TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER SIMCHAT TORAH LONG LEAVE Deadline: Cambridge SAQ online (different dates may apply for schools outside UK) Fauré Requiem Recording and Filming (Chapel)
WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE Fauré Requiem Recording and Filming (Chapel) Week 8 Duty Team:
THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE Fauré Requiem Recording and Filming (Chapel)
FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE
SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER DIWALI LONG LEAVE Week 9 Duty Team:
MONDAY 28 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE
TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE 9.00 am Science Trip (Y11 – Y13) to Iceland departs
WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER LONG LEAVE 6.00 am Girls’ Hockey: Senior Girls’ Trip to Singapore and Malaysia returns 8.00 am Medical Centre opens 8.45 am Oxford and Cambridge pre-interview Entrance Tests (including BMAT) (Bradfield College) 1.00 pm Medical Centre closes Week 9 Duty Team:
THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER ALL SAINTS' EVE LONG LEAVE
FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER ALL SAINTS’ DAY LONG LEAVE
SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER ALL SOULS’ DAY LONG LEAVE
SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 6.00 pm Medical Centre opens 8.00 pm Science Trip (Y11 – Y13) to Iceland returns 8.00 pm Long Leave Ends
Week 10 Duty Team: B
MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER WINTER ROUTINE (excluding Wednesdays) Music Award Holders’ Review Week 8.00 am Parent Coffee Morning (Stunt Pavilion) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Sixth Form 2.00 pm Academic Committee Meeting (Q2) 2.00 pm EPQ Supervisors’ Meeting (compulsory) (Q2)
TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Miss L E Rowlands: Remembrance (A, G, H, I & J) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Loyd House 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2022 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm GCSE PE Practical Examination 2.00 pm Golf: 1st v Bradfield College Golf Club (H) 3.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: U14B & D v Cheam School (H) 5.30 pm IBDP UVI ToK Workshop (1) (Bloods 9) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Holy Communion Service (optional) (Chapel) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: Stone House; The Close (SCR Dining Room) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.30 pm GCSE PE Practical Examination 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (The Close) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 7 (Music School)
Week 10 Duty Team: B
THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Miss L E Rowlands: Remembrance (C, D, E, F, K & M) 8.30 am Senior Mathematical Challenge (Sixth Form pupils) (P1 & P2) (Old Gym) 1.00 pm Shooting v Charterhouse (A) 2.00 pm Staff Welfare Committee Meeting (Warden’s Room) 2.00 pm Admissions: Sixth Form Open Afternoon (Music School) 2.00 pm Badminton v Radley College (A) 2.30 pm Fives v Marlborough College (H) 3.00 pm Rehearsals for House Music Instrumental Finals (Music School) 7.30 pm Stevens Academic Scholars: Philosophy Seminar by Dr Jumbly Grindrod (University of Reading) (Warden’s Room) 7.30 pm House Music Instrumental Finals (Music School)
FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER Deadline: Final Entries to Lent Term 2020 Calendar 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Sixth Form 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: House-on-the-Hill D (SCR); Stevens House (SCR Dining Room); Stanley House (Bloods 6) 6.45 pm Evening Prayers: Mr P J Clegg: Remembrance (A, C, E, F, I & M) (no Fifth Form) 7.00 pm Boys’ Football: 1st v Millfield (A) (leave out 3.15pm) 8.00 pm MOSAIC Evening of International Entertainment (Big School) 8.30 pm Fisher Society (Science 3) SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER Sixth Form Assessment 2020 Entry 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Sixth Form 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils Boys’ Football: 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th v Millfield (H) Boys’ Football: 6th, U16C, U15B, D & E v Millfield (A) (leave out 11.15am) Boys’ Football: U16A & B, U15A & C v Whitgift School (H) Boys’ Football: U14A & B v Whitgift School (A) (leave out 11.15am) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, 2nd, U16A, U14A, B & C v St Edward’s, Oxford (H) Girls’ Hockey: U16B, U15A, B & C v St Edward’s, Oxford (A) Girls’ Hockey: U14D v Lord Wandsworth College (H) Badminton v St Edward’s, Oxford (H) Lacrosse: 1st v Downe House (A) Shooting v Epsom College (A) 7.30 pm Shell Michaelmas Ball (Warden's Room and Dining Hall) SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY Deadline: Final date for Oxford & Cambridge written work 10.45 am Remembrance Service: Dr Susannah Wright (Chapel and Memorial) 12 noon Sunday lunch for Staff, Old Bradfieldians, Parents and Pupils attending Remembrance Sunday 7.00 pm House-on-the-Hill G Evening of Entertainment (Old Gym) 7.30 pm Stone House Evening of Entertainment (Stunt Pavilion) Week 11 Duty Team: C
MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER Sixth Form Scholarship Assessments 2020 Entry MFL Mock Oral Examinations Week (Fifth Form) (MFL) IBDP UVI English HL IOC Week 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): E-Safety 9.00 am “Getting The Third Degree”: Play by Dougie Blaxland (all day) (Big School) 10.30 am College Act of Remembrance (no Period 3) (War Memorial, Quad) 12 noon All LVI to Safe Drive Stay Alive presentation at The Hexagon (leave out 12 noon) 12.55 pm STEM@lunch (Science 9) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Stone House 8.45 pm Remembrance Compline (Chapel) TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER GURU NANAK JAYANTI CCF: Introductory Field Day (Shell Cadets - optional) (all day) (Bramley Training Area) Sixth Form Scholarship Assessments 2020 Entry 8.10 am Morning Prayers: House-on-the-Hill G (A, G, H, I & J) 12 noon Wellbeing Lecture (Shell): ‘Drugs Education’ by Peter Andrews (Music School) 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert (Chapel) 1.30 pm IBDP Committee Meeting (SCR Dining Room) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior Leagues (5) 2.15 pm Boys and Girls’ Squash: Seniors v St Edward’s, Oxford (A) 2.30 pm Pastoral Committee Meeting (Warden's Room) 5.30 pm IBDP UVI ToK Workshop (2) (Bloods 9) 7.30 pm Minerva Lecture (Film): 'Inside the Movie Industry' Q&A with Mr Steve Hamilton Shaw (Warden’s Room) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Stunt Pavilion) WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER Sixth Form Scholarship Assessments 2020 Entry 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.30 pm Divisions Teachers’ Meeting (compulsory) (H4) 5.00 pm Geography: GA Lecture on ’10 Ways to Save the World’ by Edward Davey (Sixth Form) (St Edward’s, Oxford) 7.00 pm Spanish Society: Tapas Evening (LVI) (off-site) 7.30 pm Ensemble Concert: Dress Rehearsal (Music School) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Palmer House) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 8 (Warden’s Room) 9.00 pm JCR Meeting (Stunt Pavilion)
Week 11 Duty Team: C
THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Stevens House (C, D, E, F, K & M) 9.00 am Finance and General Purposes Committee Meeting (London) 12 noon LVI Athena Lecture (Music School) 2.00 pm Badminton v Oratory (A) 2.15 pm Girls’ Hockey: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, U16A& B, U14D v Marlborough College (H) 2.15pm Girls’ Hockey: U15A, B & C, U14A, B & C v Marlborough College (A) 2.15 pm Boys’ Squash: U17 v Oratory (A) 4.00 pm Water Polo v Marlborough College (A) 6.30 pm Bradfield Horizons: Interview Practice Sessions (UVI) (Warden’s Room and various classrooms) 7.30 pm Ensemble Concert (Music School) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Hillside
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER PUPIL TAKEOVER DAY 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): E-Safety 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Junior & Minor Leagues (5) 6.45 pm Evening Prayers: Pupils (D, G, H, J & K) (no Fifth Form)
SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): E-Safety 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils 11.00 am Shooting: English Schools’ Long Range Championships (A) Boys’ Football: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, U16E, U15A, B, C, D & E, U14F v Eton College (A) Boys’ Football: U16A, B, C & D, U14A, B, C, D & E v Eton College (H) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, U16A & B, U15A, U14B & C v Epsom College (H) Girls’ Hockey: 2nd, U15B & C, U14A v Epsom College (A) Girls’ Hockey: U14D v Wellington College (A) Badminton v Epsom College (A) 5.00 pm Loyd House 24 Hour Charity Event (Loyd House) 7.30 pm House-on-the-Hill D Dinner (Warden's Room and Dining Hall)
SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 9.00 am Michaelmas Play: ‘Yerma’ (Technical Rehearsal) (all day) (Old Gym) 1.00 pm Music at Douai Abbey (leave out 12 noon)
Week 12 Duty Team: A
MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER IBDP UVI German Literature IOC Examinations Week (MFL) 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Sixth Form 12 noon UVI Athena Lecture (Music School) 2.00 pm Health & Safety Meeting (College Office) 7.30 pm Compliance House Visit to Faulkner’s Boys 8.00 pm IBDP Pupil Forum (LVI): Introduction to EE (Music School) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Stanley House 8.15 pm Michaelmas Play: ‘Yerma’ (Old Gym)
TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Charity Chapel (A, G, H, I & J) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Palmer House (SCR Dining Room) 1.30 pm Calendar Committee Meeting 1 (College Office) 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert: Spotlight on Steinway (Music School) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2022 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm Music: Fifth Form GCSE Solo Recordings Session (2) (MUE) 2.00 pm Bradfield Horizons: Business Start Up (LVI) (various classrooms) 2.30 pm Basketball: U18 v Winchester College (H) 4.30 pm HoDs Meeting (Upper Reading Room) 7.30 pm Compliance House Visit to Faulkner’s Girls 8.15 pm Michaelmas Play: ‘Yerma’ (Old Gym) 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER Bradfield Horizons: Oxbridge Interview Practice (UVI) (Horizons Library) (all day) 11.15 am Chemistry: Royal Society of Chemistry’s Year 9 – 11 ‘Top of the Bench’ Competition (University of Oxford) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Stone House 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 1.30 pm Tutor Meeting: House-on-the-Hill G (SCR) 2.00 pm Michaelmas Play: ‘Yerma’ (Matinee) (Old Gym) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 4.30 pm Girls’ Squash: U18 & U16 v Wycombe Abbey (A) 5.00 pm Geography: GA Lecture on ‘Decolonising Geography’ by Professor Patricia Daley (UVI only) (St Edward’s, Oxford) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Armstrong House) 8.15 pm Michaelmas Play: ‘Yerma’ (Old Gym) 8.30 pm Open Book Society (Stunt Pavilion) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 9 (Music School)
Week 12 Duty Team: A
THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER Psychology in Action Conference (IBDP LVI) (all day) (Warwick University) Bradfield Horizons: Mock Trail – The Lawyer Portal (Fifth & Sixth Form) (Big School) (all day) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Charity Chapel (C, D, E, F, K & M) 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Army House 1.30 pm Audit and Risk Committee Meeting (Warden's Room) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior, Junior & Minor Leagues (6) 2.00 pm Girls’ Hockey: Senior Inter-House 2.30 pm Fencing v Wellington College (A) 2.30 pm Badminton v Wellington College (A) 4.30 pm Boys and Girls’ Swimming: Senior and Juniors v Cranleigh (H) 7.45 pm HsMs Meeting and Supper (Crossways)
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER SATURDAY TIMETABLE English: Dracula Study Day (all day) (London) 8.10 am Shell and Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Sixth Form 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 2.00 pm Exeat: College closed 2.00 pm Buses depart 2.30 pm Medical Centre closes SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER EXEAT WEEKEND
SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER EXEAT WEEKEND 7.00 pm Medical Centre opens 8.00 pm Exeat weekend ends: College re-opens Week 13 Duty Team: B
MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER FIFTH FORM GCSE TRIAL EXAMINATIONS BEGIN (provisional) (OLD GYM) ToK Presentation Week 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Mr M M Etherington 1.00 pm Heads’ of Sport Meeting (CC Office) 2.00 pm E-Safety Meeting (Warden’s Room) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to House-on-the-Hill G
TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Loyd House (A, G, H, I & J) 1.30 pm Calendar Committee Meeting 2 (College Office) 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert (Music School) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2022 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm Music: Shell Solo Recordings Session (Mocks) (MUE) 2.00 pm Boys’ Football: Senior, Junior & Minor Leagues (7) 5.30 pm IBDP Teachers’ Meeting (H1) 8.00 pm Pastoral House Visit to Faulkner’s Boys 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 2.00 pm MFL Debating at Cheltenham College (return 9.00pm) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Stevens House) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 10 (Music School) 9.00 pm College Forum (Warden’s Room)
Week 13 Duty Team: B
THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER THANKSGIVING Economics: IEA Student Conference (UVI) (all day) (London) 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Stone House (C, D, E, F, K & M) 9.00 am Full Council Meeting (London) 1.00 pm Lacrosse: 1st v Charterhouse (A) 1.30 pm Spanish and German A Level Mock Oral Examinations (MFL) 2.15 pm Boys’ Squash: Seniors and Juniors v Wellington College (H) 2.30 pm Badminton v Eton College (A) 3.15 pm Girls’ Hockey: 1st v Dean Close (H) 3.15 pm Boys and Girls’ Swimming: Senior and Junior Swimming Gala at Marlborough College (A) 7.30 pm Bradfield Horizons: Networking Evening (LVI) (Warden’s Room) 8.00 pm Stevens Academic Scholars (UVI only): ‘ Desert Island Discs’ Evening (Hillside Private Side) 8.30 pm Open Mic Night (Sixth Form) (Stunt Pavilion) FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER Deadline: IBDP LVI EE Initial Subject and Topic Area (Firefly) 8.10 am Shell Assembly (Chapel): Mr M M Etherington 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: House-on-the-Hill D (SCR); Stevens House (SCR Dining Room); Stanley House (Bloods 6) 1.30 pm Spanish A Level Mock Oral Examinations (MFL) 6.00 pm St. Andrew’s Day Services (see separate notice) 7.15 pm Firework Display (Bradfield College) 8.00 pm JCR Christmas Dinner (Warden's Room and Dining Hall)
SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Mr M M Etherington 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils 11.00 am Shooting: British Schools’ Smallbore RA Open (A) Boys’ Football: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, U15A, B, C, D & E v Charterhouse (H) Boys’ Football: 5th, 6th, U16A, B, C & D, U14A, B, C, D, E & F v Charterhouse (A) (leave out 12 noon) Girls’ Hockey: 2nd, 3rd, U16A &B v Dean Close (H) Girls’ Hockey: U15A & B, U14A & B v Dean Close (A) Girls’ Hockey: U14D v Wellington College (H) Badminton v Magdalen College School (H) 7.30 pm Army House Dinner (Warden’s Room and Dining Hall)
SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER ADVENT SUNDAY
Week 14 Duty Team: C
MONDAY 2 DECEMBER FIFTH FORM GCSE TRIAL EXAMINATIONS END (provisional) Sports Scholarship Final Assessment 2020 Entry 8.00 am Parent Coffee Morning (Stunt Pavilion) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Mrs E Stannard 12.55 pm STEM@lunch (Science 9) 2.00 pm Academic Committee Meeting (Q2) 7.00 pm Carol Concert (Dress Rehearsal) for The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust (Chapel) 7.30 pm Compliance House Visit to House-on-the-Hill D 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to The Close
TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Mr G M Turner (A, G, H, I & J) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Loyd House 1.30 pm French A Level Mock Oral Examinations (Classics) 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert (Music School) 1.45 pm Admissions Assessment Faulkner's 2022 Entry (Stunt Pavilion & Science Centre) 2.00 pm CCF: Shell Section Trials (optional) (CCF Store) 3.15 pm Girls’ Hockey: 1st, U16A v Pangbourne College (H) 3.15 pm Girls’ Hockey: 2nd v Pangbourne College (A) 4.00 pm Water Polo v Cranleigh (H) 5.00 pm HoCC Meeting (New Dining Room) 7.30 pm Carol Concert for The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust (Chapel) 8.00 pm Pastoral House Visit to Faulkner’s Girls 8.30 pm Swinbank Society (Warden’s Room)
WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 8.10 am Holy Communion Service for Advent (optional) (Chapel) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: Stone House; The Close (SCR Dining Room) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 1.30 pm Tutor Meeting: House-on-the-Hill G (SCR) 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Upper Reading Room) 8.00 pm Pastoral Forum (Stanley House) 8.30 pm Inter-House Debating Round 11 (Music School)
Week 14 Duty Team: C
THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER 8.10 am Morning Prayers: Mr G M Turner (C, D, E, F, K & M) 1.00 pm Shooting v Wellington College (A) 1.15 pm Tutor Meetings: Army House; Faulkner’s (Boys and Girls) 2.00 pm DSL Meeting (Pastoral Office) 2.00 pm Michaelmas Concert: Technical Rehearsal (Old Gym) 2.30 pm Badminton v Wellington College (H) 3.15 pm Girls’ Hockey: U14A & B v Pangbourne College (H) 3.15 pm Girls’ Hockey: U14C v Pangbourne College (A) 8.00 pm Second Master Visit to Armstrong House
FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER Book Fair (Upper Reading Room) 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Mrs E Stannard 8.30 am SMT Meeting (Stunt Pavilion) 2.00 pm Michaelmas Concert: Dress Rehearsal (Old Gym) 7.30 pm Michaelmas Concert (Old Gym) 8.30 pm German Society: ‘Nikolausfeier’ (MFL Rooms) 8.30 pm Fisher Society (Science 3) SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER Book Fair (Upper Reading Room) 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Mrs E Stannard 10.00 am Tours for Prospective Faulkner's Pupils Boys’ Football: 1st v Royal Russell (H) Boys’ Football: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, U14B v Highgate School (H) Boys’ Football: U16A & B, U15A & U15E, U14A & U14E v Royal Russell (A) (leave out 11.15am) Boys’ Football: U15B, C & D, U14C & D v Highgate School (A) (leave out 11.15am) Girls’ Hockey: 1st, 2nd, U16A & B, U15C, U14C v Cheltenham College (A) Girls’ Hockey: 3rd, U15A & B, U14A & B v Cheltenham College (H) Girls’ Hockey: U14D v Marlborough College (H) Lacrosse: 1st v Marlborough College (H) Shooting v RGS Guildford (A)
SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER Book Fair (Upper Reading Room) CCF: RAF Museum Visit (all day) 10.30 am Bradfield Society: Winter Bradfield Day: OB Shooting Match, Hockey and Huxham Runs 1.00 pm Winchester Christmas Market Trip (Winchester) 5.00 pm Bradfield Society: Carols by Candlelight (Chapel)
Week 15 Duty Team: A
MONDAY 9 DECEMBER Book Fair (Upper Reading Room) Economics: Stretch & Challenge Conference (UVI) (all day) (London) 8.10 am Faulkner's Assembly (Chapel): Commendation (P1 cancelled for Faulkner’s) 1.00 pm Sports Committee Meeting (CC Office) 7.30 pm Bradfield Society: Carols in London Combined College & OB Carol Service at St James' Paddington (leave out 1.00pm)
TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER Deadline: IBDP UVI & LVI CAS Michaelmas Activity sign-off 1.15 pm Tutor Meeting: Palmer House (SCR Dining Room) 5.30 pm Chapel Choir Rehearsals for Carol Services (Chapel) 7.30 pm College Carol Service (Chapel)
WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 8.10 am Shell & Fifth Form Assembly (Chapel): Commendation (P1 cancelled for Shell & Fifth Form) 1.20 pm Tutor Meeting: Hillside 3.30 pm HsMs Meeting (Warden’s Room) 3.30 pm Upper Sixth Study Skills Session: Revision (Music School) 7.30 pm College Carol Service (Chapel)
Week 15 Duty Team: A
THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 8.10 am Sixth Form Assembly (Chapel): Commendation (P1 cancelled for Sixth Form) 12 noon Pupil Christmas Lunch (Dining Hall) 12 noon Staff Lunch in Faulkner’s (FDH) 2.00 pm House outings may depart 6.00 pm Faulkner's Evening of Entertainment (Music School) 7.30 pm Faulkner's Christmas Dinner (Dining Hall)
FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER Casual Clothes Day (lessons run as normal until P4) 9.15 am Faulkner's End of Term Service (Chapel) (followed by departure) 10.00 am Shell & Fifth Form End of Term Services (Chapel) (followed by departure) 11.15 am Sixth Form End of Term Services (Chapel) (followed by departure) 12 noon Operational Staff Christmas Lunch (Dining Hall) 2.00 pm Term Ends 3.00 pm Medical Centre closes 7.30 pm SCR Christmas Dinner (Warden's Room and Dining Hall) SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER 3.30 pm Christingle Service (Chapel)
SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER