Blog for Talbot's - a boarding house at Bedford School

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

#Talbotslife Christmas 2014

Who will win the coveted #Talbotslife competition this term...? You'll have to wait until the house dinner tomorrow night to find out, but in the meantime here's the entries for this term: ...

Sunday, 30 November 2014

Friday Celebration 28th Nov 2014

The roundup of this week's events are below in our storify story with the awards underneath it. (rememebr to hover over images to see the tweet that goes with them and to scroll with the arrows at the bottom of the square) [View the story "A week in...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

A week in the life 16th-25th Nov 2014

Another weekly (and a bit) update from the house... Use the arrows at the bottom of the window to scroll and hover over photos to see their descriptions [View the story "A week (and a bit) in the life of Talbot's 16-25th Nov 2014 " on Storif...

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Bowling Trip

Last Thursday (November 13) the fourths and removes when on a bowling trip. After getting shoes fitted and repeatedly bragging about past victories, we got underway. For the most of us, the quality of the bowling started out pretty...

Sunday, 16 November 2014

Water Polo Fixture vs Oundel, BGS and Northampton School

This exciting fixture against the three schools on Sunday the 16th of November, featured 6 players {Philip, Jonathan, Asan, Nihat, Fuga and Dom.B} from Talbot's, representing the first team of Bedford School. The first match was a tough one against...

Saturday, 15 November 2014

Friday Celebration 14/11/14

Term motors on fast, but there is always time to celebrate all the good things that happen (even of  this is written on the Saturday after the night before). We have produced a storify summary of the week below, let us know what you think via...

Friday, 14 November 2014

House Theatre Trip

We have our annual house theatre trip coming up and the boys have selected to see 'The Phantom of the Opera'. We won't be going until the third of December, but here's a little teaser trailer for those who don't know much about the show. ...

Friday, 7 November 2014

Friday Celebration 8/11/14

After a well deserved break over half term the Talbots family are back into the swing of things again this week. There have been a number of block tests and deadlines and there are a number of fixtures this weekend so everyone is immediately in the zone. Firstly...

Friday, 17 October 2014

House Singing 2014

Teamwork, Dedication, Passion, Energy, Commitment. These are all qualities that describe your typical Talbot's man. They are also what it takes to succeed in difficult circumstances and under pressure. This is what the men of Talbot's found themselves...

Monday, 13 October 2014

Joint House BBQ

Last Tuesday we hosted our joint day house, St peter's, for a barbecue to celebrate our winning start to the year in sports day and generally get to know each other a little better. The catering team from school did an amazing job with the catering and...

Saturday, 11 October 2014

Go Karting Trip

On Monday 6th October Talbot's house on a house trip to Daytona. In the house of Talbot's everyone is a winner , but Mr Gracie decided that the Race should decide the Absolute winner among us. Ben.M decided to give Go karting recruits...

Friday Celebration 10/10/14

This week began with a house trip on Monday evening to Daytona go karting in MK . Fun was had by all even though the day had been a wet one. Thankfully it dried up for the evening and the races began. Sasha's post about it is coming imminently! On Tuesdya...

Friday, 3 October 2014

Friday Celebration 03/10/14

We have had another busy week in Talbots. Preparation and rehersals for house singing are well under way and the boys are working hard at it. Huge congratulations go to Rufus who passed his driving test on Monday-well done! Mr Chance took his tutor...

Monday, 29 September 2014

Men who've turned 18...

We've had three boys (Rufus, Phillip and Kevin) who have turned 18 this term already so last night we held a small party in their honour and read seem encouraging emails, as well as sharing the best things we love about each of them. The night was...

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Star Actor in Othello

Teepee has been selected to play Othello in the upcoming school production of it. He did a fantastic version of the scene where Iago convinces him that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio in assembly to whet the appetite and is also in the trailer...

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Sports Day 18/09/14

Sports Day was a great success for St Peters this year. The fourth years came in third place, the Removes 1st place, the fifth year came in 2nd place while the 6th form came in 6th place.  St Peters/Talbots were the overall winners-well done lads. 1500...