Talbot's House

It's been a musical & dramatic couple of weeks!  Many of our boys participated in the Bedfordshire Festival and other events around school.  We'd like to give special recognition to Ben, James, and Stephen for their amazing work!  Additionally, Orlando gained an award for earning an impressive 75 academic merits this year.

A special 'Well Done' to Adrian, Frank, Justin, Alex K., Leo, and John as they will be participating in their last ever sports fixtures for the school this weekend.

This past week also saw some phenomenal accomplishments in rowing.  Alex E., Orlando, Sebastian, Roy, Henry T., Evegenii, Edwin, Arthur, Niklas, and Lennart all participated in the National Schools Head.  Niklas, Edwin, and Arthur all gained minor colours while Lennart received his majors for being part of the victorious 1st VIII.

Looking ahead, we are getting excited for next Wednesday's House Quiz Night and the charity run on Thursday.

In Teams this week:

Badminton
1st:  Adrian and Justin
2nd:  Nathan

Football
2nd:  Leo and  John
U16A:  Alikhan
U16B:  Tizian
U15A:  Felix

Hockey
4ths:  Frank
U15B:  Divine
U14C:  Kabi
U14D:  Zakhar

7s
Nationals at Rosslyn Park:  George and Alikhan
U15s:  Will
U16s:  Alikhan

Merits (a double rollover from before Exeat)
1:  Theo, Edwin, Arthur, and Igor
2: Tizian
3: Marcus, Jason, Ruslan, Dan, and Niklas
4:  Roy, Michael, and Will
6:  Orlando
7:  Simon
8:  Divine and Moritz -- Joint King of Merits

Theo received a commendation for an excellent piece of written work.

Top Bloke
--Pending--

Man of the Week
Adrian for his commendation for being one of the best Badminton  captains in recent years.

It's been a week of freezing temperatures and snowfall!  The boys have been rather resilient in soldiering on despite the cold.  Hopefully, they'll get a chance to enjoy it once lessons are finished Saturday afternoon!

Many of the sports fixtures have been canceled or postponed due to the weather so there is not much to report on there. 

House Competitions
A number of boys helped out with house competitions this week.  Some boys rose to the occasion at short notice, as well, and we'd like to give special recognition to Zakhar and Joe for their efforts with house drama.

Merits
1: Michael, Jason, Simon, Richard, Tizian, Dan, Moritz, Alikhan, and Igor
2:  Theo, Dell, Divine, Joe, Nathan, Ruslan, Ben, and Niklas
3:  Zakhar
4:  Alex and Roy
8:  Orlando!!

Divine has received another commendation; his sixth this academic year, which is simply amazing!

The 4th Form have qualified for another meal our for averaging more than 3 merits per person in a week--Well Done, Boys.

Man of the Week
Edwin for being shortlisted for an Oxford Essay prize.