Saturday, 18 May 2019
Friday Celebration 17/05/2019
The weeks continue to give many awesome Talbot's memories. As we had some sunny evenings and the days got longer there has been some epic backyard football, especially on Wednesday when we finished prep early for it.
We also had the traditional Dr Seuss reading for our leavers on Thursday. Big well done to Luca who was the first man to finish all his exams. The A level guys also finished lessons forever on Thursday!
In the last week Ben and Dan gave lectures to the Adrian Boult and Investment Societies respectively and Moritz lectured to the German Society and boys and parents for 4th form revision this week.
1: Divine, Henry, Arron, Richard, Brady, Dan
2: Leo, Roy
3: Will, Simon
4: Aslan
5: Alex, Dell
The Remove form absolutely cleaned up this week, averaging 3.75 merits per person with all of them contributing at least 2!
The winning tutor group was Mr Hinkins by a huge margin
In Sports
In tennis
Desmond is promoted back to join Moritz, Simon and Tizian in the 1st teamIn Rowing, Lennart races for the 1st boat and Orlando in the top J15 boat at Eton Dorney. Aslan and Max are off to Peterborough for a training day as well.
Man of the week nominees were:
James for helping with preps and music,
Ben for helping with preps,
Moritz for his revision session and ...
Tizian for helping with preps.
Man of the week though was Leo who gave a fantastic performance to some of the house on his violin on Monday evening which has wowed a number of people
Saturday, 11 May 2019
Friday Celebration 10/05/2019
Our musicians have been to the fore with James, Ben and Tizian singing at new college Oxford on Tuesday and then James and Ben performing in the music scholars' concert.
A big accolade was Ben being named head of brass for the upcoming year, well done!
Academically, Ben and Dan both gave school society lectures today--Ben on links between mathematics and music and Dan on the Zimbabwean currency crisis. Others used this as an opportunity to extend their scores for the 'new things' tutor group challenge.
In sports this week we have had lots of fixtures already. This weekend we have:
Cricket
U16B: Will
2nds: Dan
1st: Tom
M is in the 1st team golf
Tennis
Tizian, Simon and Desmond
Simon will be playing for the 1sts against Kimbolton.
It is also the Bedford Regatta and we have lots of guys involved:
U14A - Max
u14D - Aslan
u15A - Orlando
U16B - Henry
1st 8 and 4 - Lennart
This week's merit comp was a rollover with the following being gained:
1: Curtis, Stephen, Desmond, Ben, Will, Jason, M, Max, Makar
2: Simon, Moritz, Divine, Roy, Magomed
3: Joe
5: James, and Alex
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