The Windsor Boys’ School Issue: 20- Friday 8th February 2013

To All Parents U14 County Cup: It’s been a great week for community involvement at The Boys’ Jack Davis braved very cold and dicult conditions and await School this week, beginning with two evenings of stunning perfor- decisions on selection for the regional round. It has been a dicult start for our U14’s so far this season. There are mances by youngsters from across the Middle and Upper Schools Finally, a mention for the House rowing event yesterday, Thursday, big expectations on them after the successes of the years above at in Windsor. I had the pleasure of sitting with some very proud after school, an absolutely staggering event. 96 rowers in teams of National, County and District level and unfortunately a relatively Headteachers of the Middle Schools and The Girls’ School on 4 from Year 9, Year 10 and combined teams from the senior school early exit from the National Cup in November has not helped Tuesday evening who had a thrilling evening of entertainment. all rowed 5,000 metres as a team. The energy, commitment and condence. The weather has also all but wiped out training since Christmas so we only had Monday afternoon to prepare for a very The now well established, annual, Windsor Sports College Gym and House spirit from the teams, their helpers and supporters was truly fantastic. dicult County Cup 1st round match away to Hugh Faringdon on Dance Show was held in the main hall at the school on Monday and Tuesday. HF have 2 county players and are a very physical side and Tuesday evening and the quality and variety of performances on All in a week’s work at TWBS to make matters worse we lost our number 1 goalkeeper to injury o er were an absolute delight. Great praise and credit must go to Regards over the weekend. The boys travelled in good spirits with the the teachers and Sports College sta for preparing the participants coaches instructions of playing with determination, desire and to to such a high level. Particular thanks should go to Claire Yeoman work hard ringing in their ears. What followed was my favourite and her team for the organisation and running of the event, and performance by any age group this season. The U14’s, or ‘Baby the team of Sports College Ambassadors behind the scenes, it was Tony Willis Barcelona’ as I will now call them ran out 4-2 winners with Josh a spectacular success. Headmaster Kelly getting all 4 goals. That event was quickly followed by an afternoon of sports It would be very harsh to just focus on Josh’s goals as the whole activities, on the school astro turf, again organised by the Windsor teams attitude and work rate is what won the match. The mideld Sports College and its Ambassadors, this time for the First School 3 of Maggs, Lisle and Iqbal worked together brilliantly to stop their youngsters. There was so much activity and excitement out there U16 & U15 County Cup success against best players settling and Crimmins and Mernagh at the back the youngsters didn’t even notice how cold it was. Football Reading School! defended like lions. This result has given myself and Mr Corder Our own calendar has seen the end of a frenetic period of mock huge hope that the County and District Cups are achievable for this and external exams, culminating in the National Maths Challenge Last week The Windsor Boys’ School U15 and U16 squads started the group of determined little maestro’s! for a number of our most talented mathematicians. The boys now defence of their County Cups with games against Reading School. await results and feedback from these in order to start to make the The U16’s started the week with a comprehensive 8-2 victory on nal preparations for the summer exam period. Tuesday. Our pitch has really su ered with the weather but it didn’t Mr Lewin stop the Year 11’s playing some good stu and with goals from Head of Football On the sporting front football success continues with the U14s Butler, Ward, Evered, Lazarczuk and Brad Jones. An own goal made following the U15s and U16s into the next round of the cup compe- it a simple victory. The U15’s had to play on the same pitch on Thurs- tition, the U14 Hockey boys continuing their winning ways against day where both teams struggled to achieve any real ow to their Mill Hill with the 2nd team managing a draw in the same xture. game. TWBS ended up winning 10-6 in one of the most incredible The Ist XI Hockey team participated in a very high powered games in recent years. Matt Stockill top scored with 4 goals, Jared Berkshire tournament, beating Wellington but very narrowly losing Paris-Matic added 3 and Oliver Murray edged ever closer to scoring Mobile Phones to Pangbourn, Eton and Bradeld, exulted company indeed and his 50th goal for the school by scoring another hat-trick taking his Students are not permitted to use their mobile our boys more than held their own. Our squash teams continue total for the school to 45. with a very successful season against very well respected opposi- phones to contact parents when they are unwell. tion and there is the latest report further on in this newsletter and Well done to all boys and sta , let’s hope the U14’s can get through All calls home should be made by Pupil Services. a mention for 3 of our boys who were selected to run in the County as well. Cross-Country Championships: Ricky Harvey, Michael Beer and Mr Lewin, Head of Football

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U18 Hockey U15 A/B Squash Team match against St Marys’ U16 A’s Windsor Boys’ U14 A Squash v Charters U14 A Squash On Wednesday 6th February the U18 hockey side travelled to The Windsor Boys U15 Squash team had a friendly on 5th February, in on Thursday 7th February 2013 Bradeld College to compete in the County Finals. which they encountered a hardworking and respectable St. Marys’ This was our rst game of our squash season; with only a few The school took on four large Public Schools, (Wellington College, U16 A Girls team. The U15 squash team was in the capable hands of months training this was a tough away xture as they've been Pangbourne, Bradeld and Eton) in shorter 25 minute games, with Mr Dollery and Captain Harrison Brown; both contributing to the 6 playing for over 2 years. the top two progressing to the South of England Finals. wins out of 6 Windsor Boys‘ achieved. The U15 squad played with Results: strength, intelligence and tactics to overcome their opponents. Wins WBS started positively and dominated a match against Alex Wilson (Seed 4) vs Charters Seed 4 0-3 by: Harrison Brown, Alex Johnson, Chris Neill, Michael Beer, Dominic Pangbourne in which the opposition only entered the Windsor ‘D’ Aaron Maggs (Seed 3) vs Charters Seed 3 3-0 Hastings and Toby Evans; all in all dropping only one game and once but scored! WBS continued to dominate winning short Barney Evans (Seed 5) vs Charters Seed 5 3-0 winning the friendly. This win is a condence boost to the U15 squad corners but could just not nd the target and the game nished 1.0 Alex Webb (Seed 2) vs Charters Seed 2 3-1 and will hopefully provide a winning streak for matches to come. to Pangborne. The next match saw the real highlight of the Toby Evans (Seed 1) vs Charters Seed 1 3-0 afternoon against a very well drilled Wellington College coached Dom Hastings, U15 Squash Team by two former Olympians! A very close game was decided by an The nal match score was 4-1, however as we had 7 players (2 excellent run by Miles Winter setting up Alex Hess for a ne nish! 1st V Squash Team V Charters 1st V Squash Team Windsor won 1.0 – a terric achievement. extra players) we managed to play two extra games. Which were: Wednesday 6th February 2013 By this stage though Windsor were tiring and they next faced the Sam Percy (Seed 7) vs Charters Seed 4 3-0 tournament favourites Bradeld. Again the boys were outstanding The Windsor Boys’ 1st Squash team hosted a very strong Charters 1st Marcus Ball (Seed 6) vs Charters Seed 2 1-3 battling for every ball. Warris Samrai incredible in the Windsor goal. team at the Windsor Squash Club. Even though Charters were unable Overall score: 4-3. to eld 5 players, their team consisted of 3 players that managed to Unfortunately the opposition caught us twice on the break and the This was a great match involving some really encouraging perfor- game nished 2.0 to Bradeld. progress into the National School’s Championship Semi-Finals last year. The match started promisingly with Oliver Coulton dispatching mances, which bodes well for the rest of the U14’s squash season. This set up our nal xture with Eton – knowing that if we could his 4th seed opponent 3 – 0, in what seemed to be record timing. The only disappointing part of the match was our 4th seed – Alex win 2.0 we could qualify for the South round. The game started well Unfortunately our 3rd seed Michael Ireland had a much stronger Wilson picking up a knee injury. Our next match is scheduled for for Windsor and the Eton keeper made several good stops, opponent, but Michael fought valiantly to prolong the inevitable 3 – next Thursday 14th February, away against Ludgrove Prep however Eton then had a good passage of play and manage to 0 loss. Oscar Eustace, our 2nd seed used his speed and agility to out School’s U 13 A team. convert through a well worked goal. Windsor did not give in and manoeuvre his opponent and won his match quite comfortably 3 – 0. Toby Evans pressed on, winning short corners, but two silly yellow cards meant This left our 1st seed and Captain to do battle next against their 1st U14 A Squash Team Captain that we had to play the last 8 minutes or so with 9 players and the seed. Unfortunately Greg didn’t play his best squash on the day and game zzled out leaving Eton the victors by 1.0! ended up losing 3 -1, to an opponent that he felt was beatable. After Although the team therefore didn’t qualify they showed immense the ocial match was concluded as a 2 -2 draw. Our 5th seed ‘Uno Animo’ spirit and I was very proud of them all. They were Jonathan Gilmour played a higher seeded opponent and played exceptionally well led by Amaraj Flora and Brad Upton and ably extremely well, however it wasn’t enough to beat his more skilful supported by Michael Lane and Jamie Tuthill. opponent and he lost his match 3-1. A 2-2 draw is a pleasing result Many congratulations to you all. when considering the strength of the Charters team that was elded. Mr Cardigan The 1st team face their biggest challenge yet when they travel to Head of Hockey Bishop Stortford School next Wednesday 13th February, for the next round of the National Schools’ Championships. Mr J Dollery, TWBS Squash Coach

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For Our Armed Forces Families: Garden Update In our continued desire to support our Forces Families TWBS has The Horticultural Club members have been busily constructing a become involved with the Schools Supporting Service Families cold frame from the plastic bottles and garden canes kindly Partnership who are working with a number of schools in Windsor. donated by you and we nished just in time before the snow came! The Partnership is working with “Family Friends” a long established The broad bean seeds we had planted manage to survive the snow local charity supporting families throughout the RBWM. We under- and are growing very well now. stand some of you may have members of your family deploying on operational tours in the near future and we would like to help We would like to start planting other vegetables but are very short where we can. We are attaching opposite an information card on seeds (and seed compost). We would be very grateful if you provided by Family Friends giving contact details for Kate Saunders could donate any spare seeds or compost. The boys are particu- who is the Home/School Liaison worker for 11-18 year olds. larly interested in growing potatoes so if you have any spare seed potatoes that would be brilliant! If you are going away, please do let tutors know so that we can o er your boys support when needed. Roll on spring! Pupil Services Miss Kerwood Teacher of Biology

Windsor Upper Schools Concert A Celebration of Music from The Windsor Upper Schools Thursday 14th February at 18.30 £5.00 on the door Students and children free of charge.

www.twbs.co.uk 01753 716060 Please contact me with any future events that you would [email protected] like to see in the School Newsletter. The Editor A calendar of events at The Windsor Boys’ School is now available online. A useful feature is a FebSept 128 map of away sporting xtures. Please check out: www.wbscalendar.org.uk

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