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

Monday, 31 March 2014

Trip to see MK Dons

'Theatre of Dreams' - Stadium MK On the journey, everyone was thrilled and perhaps scared due to the imagination of Akinfenwa’s destruction. It was rather an amusing trip with Mr Davies’ company. We arrived just in time to the theatre of dreams,...

Friday, 28 March 2014

Spring Term Video

Spring term is (almost) over and here's a little look back: May your Easter holidays be as happy as Mr Rees is about Matron's room makeover! ...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Culture Evening

We decided to have a 10 minutes of culture slot on Monday evening where Dom.B played his commended piece from the senior piano prizes and Ali and Assan each gave 5 minutes of their recent school lectures on modern Art. The only problem was that 10...

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Charity Run

This Thursday is the school charity run. Each house is running for charities that they have chosen to support, and we are no exception. The men of Talbot's have chosen to support Barnardo's because they want to support young people who have not been...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Ben's London Marathon

We are really proud that our head of house Ben is going to run the London Marathon this year. See a message from him about how you can support him and why he is doing it below: "Hello and thank you for your time and interest. I will participate in...

French Play

Benno has written the article below about the recent French play at school. One of the things we love in the house is when boys go and support each other as they have done here: On the 13th of March, some men of Talbot’s went to the theatre to support...

Paintball Write Up

Justus has given another excellent writeup for this year's paintball trip below: Last Sunday the Mighty Talbot's House went on a trip to Luton for a friendly paintball match. After the arrival and the safety instructions, even teams where chosen. Team...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Paintball 2014

The wonderful Jordie has taken some fantastic photos of our house paintballing trip, and you can see them below here: ...

Friday, 7 March 2014

Friday Celebration 7/3/14

Wow! When you sit down to write up the Friday celebration, one really realises how much happens in the week in the house. There were some excellent highlights on the academic front as Ali.B introduced the speaker at this week's Gilbert Lloyd Art lecture...

Monday, 3 March 2014

Friday Celebration 28/2/14

First of all, a huge apology to all those who featured in Friday Celebrations before half term. There were many and they have gone unmentioned on here due to their housemaster's incompetence. However, what can one do but get right back to how things...

Sunday, 2 March 2014

TWR Tutor Group Meal

Jun has written a very personal account of Mr Rees' tutor group meal at Red Hot Buffet: Mik can't stay away from the weights! On the Thursday night before the end of the half term, our tutor group went to Red hot buffet in Milton Keynes. My expectation...