News In Brief

ANUJ TO REPRESENT ENGLAND IN AUSTRALIA

Anuj Dal in Year 8 has been selected to play for the U16 Indoor England Cricket World Cup squad at the Indoor World Cup due to be held in Brisbane, Australia in early October 2009. A superb achievement given Anuj is only 12!

THE TIMES SPELLING BEE SEMI-FINAL

Over half term, the school's Year 7 spelling team travelled to their national semi-final.

The team performed brilliantly in the first half of the competition, which was a knock-out series of rounds.  We were the last school to have all three of our team spelling.

The second half saw our team playing safe with medium words, taking their score to a mighty 83 in total. Oundle then took the risk of hard words and edged us out.  We are proud that the boys are the best team in Nottinghamshire and second in the entire Midlands. 

PROFESSIONAL CRICKETERS PLAY AT VALLEY ROAD

On Monday 11th May the School was delighted to welcome two professional cricket teams, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2nd XI and Leicestershire CCC 2nd XI, to play at Valley Road. . Leicestershire scored 308 - 6 and Notts were 287-9. Leicester won by 21 runs. Both professional sides commented on the excellent facilities.

JUNIOR SCHOOLS' CHALLENGE - Regional Final

Last Friday after school, we hosted the regional final of the Junior Schools' Challenge against Trent College.  It was very close, but we managed to win on the last question!  The final score was 440 - 410.

Well done to Jack Hadfield, Robert Jackson, Oliver Woodhouse, and Quinin Luong. 

NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST REPORTER

Will Orchard in Year 13 has been made the Nottingham Evening Post's Music Festival reporter for the Summer. He will be covering ten festivals including Glastonbury and Reading, and his reports will be used for publication in print and on the NEP's website.

 PHYSICS AS CHALLENGE RESULTS

The AS Challenge consists of a 1 hour examination based on much more difficult applications of AS Physics.

Bronze awards are awarded to:

Victor Ferdinando, Alex McDonald, Pruthvikar Reddy, Abhinav Settipalli.

Silver awards are awarded to:

Will Robinson, Samuel Baldry, Vivek Chidambraham, Tom Millington. 

 RUGBY

During the Easter holidays Alex Lewington (Year 12) travelled to Toulon in France as part of the England U18 rugby squad. 32 international sides competed in the knockout competition, and Alex played in the semi-final against Ireland, which England won 7-0, and again in the final against the hosts, France. In a fast and furious match, England were unlucky to lose out by just one point, with victory going to the host side 20-19.

Alex has kindly presented his England squad shirt to the School.

PATRICK PLAYS KEY ROLE IN REDS'  GREEK VICTORY

During the Easter holidays Patrick Bamford (Year 11) helped Nottingham Forest U16s to secure victory in the Fifth Annual Atreus U16 soccer tournament in Argilodo, Greece. They defeated top Greek side Olympiakos 2-1, coming from behind after succumbing to an early goal in the first minute. Patrick not only played exceptionally well, but also scored the winning goal, ten minutes into the second half, beating the keeper with a 30yd effort on the half volley.

TENNIS

 On Saturday 25th April, thirty boys competed in the School Tennis Competitions.

In the U13's, Tom Mumby beat Fergus Wills to win the Plate event, and the main competition was won by Seb Harwood who beat Tim Venkatesan in the final.

The U15's Plate was won by Matthew Rosenberg, and Joe Mellors beat Henry Ellis in the final of the cup.

The U18's Plate was won by Ashton Alfred.  In the final of the U18 cup, Alex Henderson beat Nic Killips, in a fantastic match.  Well done to all who participated. 

HOUSE SWIMMING GALA

At the end of last term the annual House Gala took place.  The evening produced some fantastic swimming and some very close races.

Seb Smith broke yet more School records on the 25m butterfly and the 100m individual mendley.

The Gala came down to the last race of the evening, the 6*50m cannon - before it White's were leading Mellers' by 5 points, it came down to the very last leg of the race when Matthew Berrington of Mellers' managed to hold off Cooper's and White's to claim victory for Mellers' by one point!    

UK MATHS CHALLENGE 

On Thursday, 26th March a team of 4 Year 7-9s took part in the Regional final of the UK Mathematics Trust 2009 Maths Team Challenge. The team excelled themselves and won, beating 30 other schools (including NGHS who came 3rd). Our team, which comprised of Max Bowling (Year 7), Kevin Pan (Year 8) and Peter Horton and Michael Zhang (both Year 9), will now go on to represent the region in the National Final on 22nd June in London.

TOP OF THE BENCH CHEMISTRY COMPETITION

A team of 4 boys (Kyle Lam 11S, David Bennett 10Y, Tom Kent 9W and Ben Gates 9W) went to Loughborough University on Saturday 28th March to compete in the National Final of the Royal Society of Chemistry's prestigious 'Top of the Bench' competition, the boys having won the East Midlands regional final in January. 

The event was very well organised, with 28 schools present, each having qualified to represent their region.  We were quite fortunate with the competition being almost on 'home turf', as teams had travelled from Scotland, Wales all over England and even Brussels! 

The boys excelled themselves, finishing second, so national runners up, which was a quite superb achievement for them, the department and the School.  They were awarded a plate trophy by former olympic high jumper Geoff Parsons.

SWIMMING TEAM NEWS

On Thursday, 13th March the team swam in the annual Otter Challenge, winning the trophy for the first time in 3 years. Seb Smith (Year 9) won his individual race, and the rest of them team swam extremely well to gain overall vistory.

On Friday 14th March the team swam in the Bath Cup (a 4 x 100m freestyle relay), where the team finished in 8th place in the final.

Also on the Friday the team competed in the Otter Medley (a 4 x 50m medley relay), claiming the National Bronze medal in the final. Seb Smith also broke the School record for the 50m backstroke in this race.