Saturday, 23 November 2013
Friday Celebration 22/11/13
We had a slightly different celebration this week as it is Exeat. The boys met for a surprise meeting in the TV room briefly before school to have a pain au chocolat and do the big 3 celebrations of the week.
The most merits went to Hodges with 4.
Top Bloke was awarded to Alikhan who arranged for the new punch bag, gloves and skipping rope to be put into the barn.
However, the main focus was for man of the week Jordie and his video for the school movember campaign. The boys got to watch it for the first time in the meeting and you can see it below. Now you will know why he was man of the week!
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
House Trip to the Lion King
On Thursday 14th, the whole of the house went on a trip to see the Lion King in the West End. The boys piled onto the bus at five o'clock, after the scramble for packed lunches, they hunkered down for the long drive through rush-hour traffic with the knowledge of a top quality show at the end of it all. Eventually, we reached our destination, however there were moments to spare, as the bouncer was calling the three minute warning as we clambered up the stairs to our seats. There was not an ounce of disappointment, however. The performance was of the highest quality, however the boys were sure that they would've given the cast a run for their money with the rendition of 'They Live In You'. After a thoroughly entertaining show, the boys returned to the coach, where a lively karaoke would brighten up the late night journey. We eventually returned to the house, where an exhausted, yet cheerful house went straight to bed. It was a very enjoyable evening, an entertaining night out by all accounts.
Michael Holroyd
House Fives
The St Peter's house fives team continued their unbeaten run on friday, with fantastic performances from Karan, Dom K, Michael and Jay-Jay. The opposition this week were Bromham, who proved to be no match for a superior, more experienced St Peter's side. There were comprehensive victories, with all but one match earning St Peter's a bonus point. As ever, the 'A' pairing were untouchable, as Karan continues to lead from the front as our captain, he was accompanied by Dom, who looks more and more confident in his fives as the weeks go on. The pairing of Michael and Jay-Jay was untested before the day's play, however they showed a good understanding and, most importantly, came away with the points. The boys have one hand on the trophy, they just need to see things through in the last few rounds, they will be quietly confident, however.
Michael Holroyd
Footage from our win against Bromham
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Friday Celebration 15/11/13
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| Top Bloke: Jack |
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| Man of the Week: Duncan |
This week's celebration saw fries as the accompanying snack, a welcome introduction into the Friday night hot food lineup. It has been a great week with many boys in sports matches and the house trip to the Lion king; writeup coming soon. Mrs Gracie also made her Friday night debut as Mr Gracie and a number of boys were at the St Cecilia's day concert, another writeup to come soon!
Outside of the main house awards, there have been some excellent achievements this week. Bob was on Mr Tighe's list of praiseworthy reports from half term. Mik and James.L represented the school as the two upper sixth formers in the Maths Challenge team, whilst James was also a member of the Physics Olympiad team the following day. Friday was also the exhibition of work from the Rome Art trip which featured the boys in the post below. The #talbotslife photo competition has kicked off with Josh leading the way in volume of posts so far.
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| Dom and Karan in the house Fives |
In the Merit competition, 3 was only enough for Kritt and Adrian.S to make it into second place, as Hodges won with 4.
James.L retained his cleanest room award with Ben.K joining him in a joint award.
Jack was the Top Bloke as he started the house Pool and Table Tennis ladders which have been hotly contested.
The man of the week was Duncan as he was given special mention by the matrons for his helpfulness, scored a try, wrote a blog article, earned 2 merits and was awarded Chemist of the week. That's quite a 7 days!
Friday, 15 November 2013
Rome Trip Art Exhibition
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| Alastair plays it straight for the camera, as ever! |
James with his work
Alastair's work close up
One of Charlie's fantastic sketches
Assan's Sketches
Kevin showing off his latest AS work
St Cecilia's Day Concert
On Friday the 15th
November, some boys accompanied by Mr Gracie, went to the St. Cecilia’s Day
concert to support those playing an instrument in one of the orchestras or
ensembles.
Our clear favourites
were the Bedford School Chamber Orchestra as well as the Bedford School First
Orchestra. They did a really great job, maybe because lots of St. Peters and
Talbot’s boys played in it!
But the other
performers also did very well, just like The Bedford School Dance Band which
delighted the audience with relaxing jazz songs.
The Bedford School
Brass Ensemble showed the familiar high standard as always.
The Bedford School
Second Orchestra performed a respectable act. It is amazing seeing boys
participating in a very good way although they’ve just started learning their
instrument only a few months ago.
Benno Schulz
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
U15 D - Rugby
On Saturday afternoon, Nihat, Duncan, and Matthew represented the U15 D Rugby team against Warwick. The team performed excellently, with the three Talbot's boys very much at the heart of operations. The scoring opened with a superb try from Duncan and was soon followed up by a try from Matthew. However, this was just the start, as Nihat scored a magnificent hat trick that secured a crushing 40-5 victory for Bedford. It was a fantastic match for Bedford and the Talbot's lads in particular, the victory was thoroughly enjoyed, with the three boys much the talk of Talbot's on Saturday afternoon.
Duncan Keyworth
(ed. Michael Holroyd)
Nihat on the charge, with Matthew in support
Saturday, 9 November 2013
#TalbotsLife
Last night we launched a new house photo competition on instagram for the best photo that represents an aspect of life in Talbots. It will be a rolling competition with a winner each half term. You can keep up with the entries by searching #talbotslife on instagram or "instagram.com #talbotslife" twitter.
Winners and runners up will be posted here on the blog each half-term.
Friday, 8 November 2013
Friday Night Celebration
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| Man of the Week - Alistair |
The first university offers cam in for James L and Mik, no doubt the first of very many for this year's talented upper sixth. Those two also came top of the school in the UK Maths Challenge, earning them the right to represent the school at the next level. Assan went to the front of the school in assembly today too, to collect his prize for coming third in the ARTiculation public speaking competition.
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| Top Bloke - Ben |
Sporting wise, there were some excellent achievements. After his team won their Futures Cup group convincingly, Tom has been selected for the next stage of England Hockey trials. Ben Kight grabbed just five tries in the Natwest cup game, which also earned him top bloke from the options, whilst Karan led the Fives first team admirably, winning all his games despite the team going down. Earlier in the week, Aaron and Benson won their rubbers for the badminton team whilst Jonny grabbed second in his swimming races. The U15D Rugby team will be our best represented side tomorrow with Duncan, Matthew and Nihat all playing.
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| There's a new King of Merits in town... Mik |
This week's merit contest was hotly contested as they have rolled over from the start of half term. Since we broke up, Hodges has had seven merits but was discounted this week. This left Mik as the top merit winner with 5, one more than Krit.
In the cleanest room stakes, James Loewenthal was the winner, a great turnaround for him, whilst the matrons also singled out Adrian Ho as having done a sterling job in his responsibilities this week. After the meeting Alex.G and Philip deserve special praise for voluntarily cleaning the kitchen on behalf of the house.
By the way, can you tell Mrs Gracie did the photos this week...? She is demonstrating well the talent needed to feature well in the new house photo competition which boys can enter by tagging photos of the house with #talbotslife. There will be a halftermly prize.
Sunday, 3 November 2013
Housemaster's thoughts: Winter Half Term
It has been such a joy to welcome everyone back this evening. Strangely, the boys have been missed, though the peace of a 2 week half term is also not to be sniffed at of course!
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I am really proud of the way the house has quickly settled into routines and a solid identity. You would find it very hard, I imagine, to pick out those boys who started this year and those who are seasoned campaigners, which is a sign that the first half term was very successful to my mind. The 4th form have made a real impact as they have won both sports day and house Rugby and they have set a pace for the rest of St Peter's to keep up with. We also competed valiantly in house swimming and water Polo and started a strong march in the senior house Fives.
Of course, house singing did not go as hoped in terms of results, but there was much to be proud of.
Over half term, we have rejigged the barn, thanks to some donated furniture from Mr Holroyd and added a much demanded freezer to the kitchen. We have also put a pull up and dip station along with a punch bag in the boot room. the boys seem pleased with them thus far, but all of these developments pale into insignificance compared to the awesome super hero posters now adorning the Boot Room walls!
Now we have returned it is the 3rd of Movember. Mr Rees, myself and Head of House, Dom Brett are part of the Bedford School team for this excellent charity event. Mr Rees has the best Mo thus far but I have a sneaking suspicion he has been cheating and growing it over half term... Please take a look at the Bedford school team page if you get the chance and follow our regular facial hair growth updates on twitter; Hulk Hogan watch out!
This half term sees us visiting the Lion King in London, as chosen by the boys, and going to see Dylan, Rio and Ilya performing in Grease. The dramatic theme will be continued in the house where Mr Rees will be directing the juniors and new boys in our traditional house Christmas play on the 8th of December. I heard the previous director was outstanding so he has a lot to live up to, but I am sure with the help of Mike, Assan and Charlie it will be another roaring success. This is followed by the Christmas dinner on the 12th. we would love to see you at one or both of the events.
I am also particularly looking forward to the school's second TEDx event, organised by our very own Karan. We may also be hosting some special guests prior to this event...
In between all of this, there are many lessons to be done, Preps to complete, concerts to perform in and matches to play, so do keep returning to here to see what is going on.
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Mr Gracie
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