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MRG, Jim, Robyn, Ted and Will

Christmas is just around the corner and we'd like to let you all know about the Bedford School Chapel Choir's CD.  A few of our Talbots boys are featured on it!  For a preview, please click on the link below...

Video of 'Star Carol'

To purchase your own copy of the CD, please click here.

With one more week until EXEAT, the boys continue to work hard and look forward to their upcoming break.  They also enjoyed a trip to London to see Aladdin the muscial, which they really enjoyed.  Also, we go to host two OBs who were in Talbots in the 1940s; a big well done & thank you to Will, Niklas, and Alex K for showing them around the house.

In Teams on Saturday we have:
U14 -- house matches - good luck guys!
U15A -- Will; U15B -- Divine and Henry T
U16A -- Brady, Simon, and Alikhan; U16B -- Dan; U16D -- Moritz and Ruslan (Vice Captain)
5ths -- Leo, Frank, and Evgenni

Rowing - Niklas

The Merit count this week is as follows:
1:  Sebastian, Michael, David, Arron, Kevin, Dan, Ben, Lennart, Oscar, John, and Sasha P.
2:  Simon and Alikhan
3:  Alex E., Jason, Ruslan, and Moritz
4:  Orlando Our King of Merits!

Man-of-the-Week
Sasha P. for his amazing efforts with the balloon take-off!

We hope you all had an enjoyable half-term break.  This first week back has been an eventful one for the young men of Talbots.

On Tuesday, we had a fun night with some Halloween activities.  The props cupboard for house plays came in useful as 7 boys dressed up to trick-or-treat at Mr Hinkins house to surprise his children.   We also had a brain & skull cake and had a great fire in the evening.




Immediately prior to Friday celebration, more than half the house was out at the Bedford Blues fireworks & funfair where they met friends and enjoyed an evening of festivities.  Another group went out for dinner with returning house legend Simon Cheung OB!

On Thursday Marcus and Ben played wonderfully in the bass concert.  This was especially significant as it was Marcus' first concert at school.

In Teams on Saturday we have:
U14A -- Alex E. 
U15A -- Will; U15B -- Henry T. and Divine
U16C -- Simon and Alikhan; U16B -- Dan; U16A -- Andrew
1st -- George; 5th Team -- Evgenii, Leo, and FrankB!
And most importantly, in the U14E -- Theo, Roy, and Orlando.

In Badminton Justin and Adrian play for the 1st Team while Nathan is on the 2nd.

Merits this week are a mega-rollover as they include those awarded in the week prior to half-term as well.  Thus, there are some large totals:

1 - Kevin, Lennart, George
2 - Sebastian, Marcus, Oscar
3 - Dell, Edwin
4 - Will, Jason, Dan
5 - Divine, Tizian, Brady
6 - Arron, Ben, John
8-  Alex E. and Moritz Our Kings of Merits!

Top Bloke
Marcus for being in his first concert.

Man-of-the-Week
Andrew--who was seen by a school monitor helping a disabled man into a taxi in town: great Talbot's spirit!!

The live stream link is below and then there will be photos to follow at a later date.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKeuhrP_Zj8&feature=youtu.be

It's one week closer to half-term and we've got yet another batch of great news.

Congratulations are in order for Alex Edun for being the 4th Form Road Run champion!  Also, James performed amazingly well at another concert.

In sports news, Alex E. played with the U14 As while Theo & Roy are on the U14 Es.  Divine continues to play with the U15 B with Henry, and Will is on the U15 As!  On the U16 squad, we have Brady, Ruslan, & Simon on the Cs, Alikhan and Dan on the Bs, and Andrew on the As.  Sasha P. continues on the 3rd Team with George on the 1st.

In badminton, half of the 1st Team is comprised of Talbots men--Adrian, Justin,  and Nathan!

Merits
1 merit:  Theo, Dell, James, Marcus, Edwin, John, Frank, Sasha P.
2 merits:  Will, Arron, Curtis, Steven, Evgenii, Arthur, Igor, Niklas, George, Leo
3 merits:  Alex, Roy, Orlando, Divine, Ruslan, Tizian, Dan
4 merits:  Jason, Brady, Oscar, Henry N
5 merits:  Moritz
7 merits:  Henry T.
And 4 Commendations to Divine (House speech); Sebastian & Dell (incredible video preps for Geography); and Orlando (amazing classics notes)--A very big congratulations to these boys!

Man of the Week went to Nathan for making the 1st team in badminton in Remove form--a great accomplishment!

We hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

It's been an amazing & eventful first month of the school year; we can hardly believe we're almost half-way through the term.

We have a number of boys that deserve praise.  Ben & Tizian showed off their amazing abilities in a singing concert, and Will & Henry T gave it their all in the cup rugby match

In the latest sports team news, Alex E. is on the U14A while Divine was promoted to U15B where he will join Henry T while Will is on the U1A!  For the U16, Simon was promoted to the Cs with Dan and Alikhan on the Bs and Andrew on the As.  Sasha P will be playing on the 3rd Team while George is a member of the 1st team again.  Making their debuts on the U14 E team are Theo, Orlando, Kabi, Roy, and Sebastian!  Overall, a great and talented bunch representing Talbots boys in rugby this season.  We're really looking forward to being able to watch so many of our young men on the pitch.


Four of the five men making their rugby debut!  L-R, Theo, Kabi, Roy, & Orlando




Merits numbers are in:
1 merit:  Edwin, Arthur, Niklas, Oscar, John, Justin
2 merits:  Nathan & Leo
3 merits:  Kabi, Sebastian, Jason, George
4 merits:  Stephen
5 merits:  Roy, Will, Sasha P
6 merits:  Dell, Michael, Brady, Ben
7merits:  Moritz
8 merits:  James
10 merits:  Orlando & Divine

There may be a pizza meal in store for the 4th and Removes...

Further to Sasha P's other accomplishments, he recently received a Commendation from the school--we're so proud of him!

In recognition of his superb conducting, Tizian received Top Bloke and Man of the Week went to Ben for his incredible, spine-tingling singing in the concert.

Ben Watson, ever the professional talent!

Well, the first Friday Celebration of 2017-18 has come!

Its been a manic week and the 4 days we've been back feels like about 3 weeks with all the new information, great new additions to the house community and activities happening.
This week saw sports hall on Wednesday and a fire in the house on Thursday with a BBQ accompanying tonight's celebration.

In tonight's celebration we praised Divine for results in his LAMDA exam and Ben.W for his efforts with the national youth choir.
Stephen, Adrian and Ben.W were selected for the 1st orchestra which is a big achievement.
In the first matches of the term we have the following:
U15B - Henry, U15A - Will, U16C - SImon, Moritz, Alikhan, Brady and Ruslan with Dan in the B side and Andy the A's.
In the Seniors Leo and Evgenii run out for the 5th team with Sasha.P in the 3rds and George in the 1st team for a second season. A special mention must go to Simon, Moritz and Evgenii who don the Bedford School eagle for the first time.

In merits this week the following all gained 1 before the meeting: Kabi, Alex, Seb, Orlando, Michael, Divine, Jo, Henry, Ben, Curtis, Stephen, Adrian, Frank, juston, George, John and Leo.

This week's king of merits though was Dell who gained 2!

The options chose Kabi as top bloke this week for a number of noted bouts of friendliness and being kind as a new member of the house.

Our man of the week is Niklas who gained the distinguished honour of an academic stripe in assembly today.

Below are some photos from this week's activities:

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We are so lucky that we can live stream events at school now and a special mention must go to Jo.P who ahs been invovled in filming these this week.

It's with great sadness that we enter the final week and say goodbye to some of our men who will be moving on to their chosen universities this summer. We will miss you all so much and hope you will sometimes come back and visit.

Here are a few of our highlights of our time with you over the last five years:

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It's been a short week but there is much to celebrate, especially the fact it is barbeque season again; this week's celebration night was around the BBQs in the garden!

Firstly, there were some excellent reports last term and in amongst those George, Leo, Sasha.P and David gained a personal best for their effort scores. There will be a pizza night for all those with an average indicating an excellent level of effort next week.

On a similar vein, the fourth form was the best merit per person earners in the school last term and so went out for dinner to celebrate yesterday.

In music, Ben.W was part of the national youth choir training events in the Easter holidays and Harry G was invited to the senior level of it too.

In sport this weekend, Lennart and Arthur are part of the J16 crew that ahs been invited to represent the East region in a national event on Saturday.

There is also the Basher rowing event which includes Brady in the J15C boat

George is playing for Northampton Saints U17 at Leicester

In cricket,  Dan plays for the U15A and Kighty and Sports are in the 2nds.

Whilst we are on the sporting note, a huge shout out to Tom Crowson (OB 2016) who played for England Hockey U21 against Austria last weekend.

This weeks merit competition goes from the last announcement of merits at the house Quiz:

1: Jason, Ruslan, Tizian, Stephen, Dan, Oscar, Leo, Harun, Ben.K, hodges, Szeets
2: David, Dan, Ben.W, Luca, Nik, J.Lo
3: Brady, Kostya, Edwin, Lennart
4: Divine
5: Henry

A special mention goes to Divine who has gained an award for 75 merits this year and Jason who is stranded on 99!

This week's man of the week for adding to his national youth choir exploits with not one but two distinctions at grade seven for singing and the piano is Ben.W!

 Last night was the traditional Talbots House Quiz night. Rounds included questions about the school (What was Philpotts previous name?); questions about the house (How many rooms are named after a previous House Master?) and some less fiercely contested rounds about sports, history, science, music and more.

It was a great night with some rather vocal performances of some of the answers for the music round and some hotly argued scoring (you had to spell each answer correctly to receive the points).

It was a really well put together quiz and we are grateful for the huge amount of work that the lower sixth had put into creating it for us.

We also had an unexpected visitor, as old boy Jonas, turned up to say hello and hand out some of the prizes for the evening.

The winning team was Alex's with Duncan's team in second and Harun's team third place. Obviously the staff team probably smashed them all, but we withdrew from the competition entry, largely because chocolate prizes don't seem to hold the same value once you reach the grand old age of 21+




We also handed out our prizes for the term, with some fantastic efforts for the King of Merits title. In joint third place we had Kostya and Henry with 17 merits.

In second place it was Andrew with 22 merits.

But in joint first, with an incredible 38 merits each it was Jason and Divine.







Speaking of Divine, he also won our Man of the Term prize not just for his continued attitude of getting involved with everything, performing well in all areas, but for doing so with an air of humility and approach-ability that  embodies everything we want to see in boys as they grow through the house. His commitment to bettering himself, without making others feel less is something special that we really wanted to honour.





We also gave out two sets of house colours last night, for boys who have been consistently exhibiting the character qualities we love throughout their time in the house. The first set went to Adrian in the lower sixth. Adrian is someone who draws others in and makes them feel included. He's a man who younger boys consistently tell us feels like a 'safe' person to talk to if they are unsure or need help with anything. His nurturing qualities and ability to make others look to him for guidance is something we wanted to celebrate.



The second set of colours went to Matthew. Matthew has been with us since the fourth form and over that time his contributions to the house have been too many to count in terms of the number of competitions he has represented us in, the number of competitions he has gone to support others in, the number of football matches and games he has organised in the back garden, and his cheeky smile that changes the atmosphere of a room into a place where others can experience relaxed fun. These are definitely character qualities that we want to set as an example to others and we are proud to see him finally wearing his colours tie.

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It's taken a while to get around to posting, but here's a video with all of our photos from the MK Bounce trip a few weeks ago:

Its a double rollover week for celebration night and so we have wrapped up many things in the past couple of weeks that our terrific boys have done in meetings and the like.

These include:
Arron making his debut for the Basketball 1st team as a remove former!
Ben.W taking third place in the Bedfordshire festival grade 7 piano slot
Many sports matches played already
Alvin, J.lo and Adrian being part of the champion senior house badminton team

In teams tomorrow are the following:
Hockey:
1st: Ben.K and Gabe, 4th: Big Frank, U14C: Divine, U14D: Jo

Football:
2nds: John and Leo and a promotion for Hodges!
U15A: Andrew, Alikhan and a promotion for Tizian!

Rowing:
Henry will go in the J14 octo match

In a double rollover week for the merit competition, the following have been gained:

1: Harun, Matthew
2: Tizian, Edwin, John
3: David, Brady, Nik
6: Divine
7: Jason - King of merits!

Man of the week for his great basketball feat and humility is Arron!

Where's MOW Arron?

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Its been a really good start to term with boys getting straight down to business. its great seeing them arrive back refreshed and raring to go. Even those going into exams have ahd a smile on their face and the atmosphere around them has been productive. Today also saw the arrival of snow whilst we were in boarders singing but unfortunately most of the cover was gone by the end of the school day.

During this week Jo did a fantastic job filming the play 'Topcat' at the theatre which had a special appearance from two of our chairs! On Thursday Ben.W played the piano terrifically in the music scholars concert. Ben,Gabe and Dan.R all played cup hockey games with Dan putting in an excellent performance in the U15 victory according to Mr Herring. The basketball team won by a mere 82-18 which included Nik's debut for the team as well as Harun and Simon. Ben.k also has a call up to play his 3rd game for Northampton Saints in the U18 league this weekend.
Alex.S also had his first medical interview today which we are sure he nailed. The big academic news this week though was that Harry and Luke were awarded offers to go to Cambridge - massive achievements!


In teams tomorrow are:
Hockey - U15A - Dan, 1sts - Gabe, U14C - Divine, U14D - Jo
Football - 3rds: Leo, John, Sasha.K and Hodges, 4th: Nihat, Sasha.P, J.lo and Simon, U16B - Stephen and Dan.s, U15A - Andrew, U15B - Ben.W, Tizian and Alikhan.Y

On Sunday Lennart and Arthur are racing in the J16A 4 man boat in Bedford and we hope some of the lads will be down to watch them.

In merits this week the following were awarded:
1: Ruslan, Dan.R, Arthur, Henry, Luke
4: Divine, Kostya
7: Jason which makes him king of merits, not for the first time!

Joint top bloke and man of the week this week goes to Harry and Luke

Harry

Luke

Snowmen made by minitalbots today

Watching the grand tour tonight