Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts
Monday, 21 November 2016
Karting Trip 2016
We had a great time karting last week in Milton Keynes. The boys raced in groups of 6-8 and in between had the chance to relax, play some Mario kart, cheer on the other racers and indulge in some hot pizza if they wanted. As ever, they all had a great time and it is after events such as these that the boys feel more part of the house and both deepen and grow new friendships.
It was, of course, a competitive event and the most important thing to know is that Mr Gracie came 4th!
He was unfortunately just pipped by George (3rd), Leo (2nd) and Niklas who won in one of the week's fastest times at the venue! The boys were a credit to the house and it was a trip appreciated all round!
There are a few photos below and a video at the bottom. many thanks to Jo in the 4th form who, we think you'll agree, has quite a skill with the camera!
It was, of course, a competitive event and the most important thing to know is that Mr Gracie came 4th!
He was unfortunately just pipped by George (3rd), Leo (2nd) and Niklas who won in one of the week's fastest times at the venue! The boys were a credit to the house and it was a trip appreciated all round!
There are a few photos below and a video at the bottom. many thanks to Jo in the 4th form who, we think you'll agree, has quite a skill with the camera!
Saturday, 5 November 2016
Movember 2016
 |
| Fresh faced boys on day one |
Movember is a charity dedicated to preventing early death in men and in the 13 years it's been running they have funded more than 1,200 male health projects helping to tackle issues like prostate and testicular cancers, mental health issues and suicide. They project that by 2030 they will have reduced the number of men dying prematurely by an incredible 25%!!
The boys are working as a team to raise money in several ways, but would greatly appreciate your sponsorship. You can donate on their Movember page by clicking here.
Friday, 15 April 2016
Friday Celebration 15/04/16
Well we're back in action for the summer term! Its amazing how the imminence of exams and the good weather has brought a relaxed but happy mood, seemingly universally.
A great highlight for this week was the return of Mr Chance to school this evening to open his new exhibition in the foyer gallery. As one would expect, the men of Talbot's demonstrated our house motto that 'We Value Everyone' by turning out in large numbers to support him. We are really proud of this; that's what we are all about!
The theme of showing value was also in evidence as we welcomed James Siu (OB 2015) back to the hosuse for a visit this week. It was also great for a number of lads to see Ali Blake (OB 2014) at Mr Chance's exhibition.
This term, apart from working towards exams, we are encouraging everyone to try something new. It was great to celebrate the following tonight, therefore, and their endeavours:
Benno - first after dinner speech at the CCF dinner tonight
George - 1st game for Northampton Saints U17
Brady - 1st ever Art exhibition (voluntarily)
Duncan - First time at Pythagoreans society
Charlie has taken up Volleyball
Alvin played serious Tennis for the first time
Tizian played Cricket for the first time
Other great news from the holidays was Tom adding to his U18 England Hockey caps in games against the Netherlands and has gained scholarships and strong uni offers for his Hoockey. George.S also played for Saints in the U16s national academies tournament. Alex.S and Dan.R represented the school in pre season cricket games with Lennart getting stuck into the Rowing camp. Ben.W participated in some stretching Musical courses too.
In assembly today it was a privilege to see Luke going up to shake Mr Hodgson's hand as one of only two boys who won Gold in the national Physics challenge (top 3% in the country).
In merits this week the following have worked hard enough to get some even though we've only been back for four days:
1: Charles, Oscar, Teepee, Nihat, Harun, Ben.M
2: Curtis,
3: Edwin, Luke
The summer term also means Cricket and its great to see Ben.K and Alex.S playing for the 2nds tomorrow with John primed to slam it to all corners for the thirds. Dan continues to go for the U14A team after bowling very tightly in the win vs Bedfordshire this week. Sunday may also be bringing house basketball, we'll wait and see...
This week's room of the week is Grindlay and so goes to Hodges and Harun.
Top Bloke is Ed for his efforts getting to the end of A level DT coursework.
Man of the week is Luke who is not only king of merits and was certificated for the Physics challenge but also found out he has been accepted onto the prestigious Ross Maths programme in China for this summer after a tough selection program! Well done Luke!
A great highlight for this week was the return of Mr Chance to school this evening to open his new exhibition in the foyer gallery. As one would expect, the men of Talbot's demonstrated our house motto that 'We Value Everyone' by turning out in large numbers to support him. We are really proud of this; that's what we are all about!
 |
| James' Visit this week |
This term, apart from working towards exams, we are encouraging everyone to try something new. It was great to celebrate the following tonight, therefore, and their endeavours:
Benno - first after dinner speech at the CCF dinner tonight
George - 1st game for Northampton Saints U17
Brady - 1st ever Art exhibition (voluntarily)
Duncan - First time at Pythagoreans society
Charlie has taken up Volleyball
 |
| Benno is speech-ready |
Tizian played Cricket for the first time
Other great news from the holidays was Tom adding to his U18 England Hockey caps in games against the Netherlands and has gained scholarships and strong uni offers for his Hoockey. George.S also played for Saints in the U16s national academies tournament. Alex.S and Dan.R represented the school in pre season cricket games with Lennart getting stuck into the Rowing camp. Ben.W participated in some stretching Musical courses too.
In assembly today it was a privilege to see Luke going up to shake Mr Hodgson's hand as one of only two boys who won Gold in the national Physics challenge (top 3% in the country).
In merits this week the following have worked hard enough to get some even though we've only been back for four days:
1: Charles, Oscar, Teepee, Nihat, Harun, Ben.M
2: Curtis,
3: Edwin, Luke
The summer term also means Cricket and its great to see Ben.K and Alex.S playing for the 2nds tomorrow with John primed to slam it to all corners for the thirds. Dan continues to go for the U14A team after bowling very tightly in the win vs Bedfordshire this week. Sunday may also be bringing house basketball, we'll wait and see...
This week's room of the week is Grindlay and so goes to Hodges and Harun.
Top Bloke is Ed for his efforts getting to the end of A level DT coursework.
Man of the week is Luke who is not only king of merits and was certificated for the Physics challenge but also found out he has been accepted onto the prestigious Ross Maths programme in China for this summer after a tough selection program! Well done Luke!
 |
| Man of the week Luke with his fellow king of merits |
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Henry V
This week saw the grand opening of the school's new theatre, The Quarry at St Luke's. The play chosen for the occasion was Henry V which is no small ask. To take on the performing of Shakespeare with a cast of mostly fourth and Remove formers for the biggest theatre night in the school there will be for quite a while is a daunting task. Therefore when 5 men of Talbot's put themselves forward and were chosen to be in the cast we were immensely proud. To then see them perform on Thursday and hear how well the gala opening went is even better; they did a teriffic job, every one of them. We are so proud of the lads for their hard work and the courage it took them to put on such a big show. Congratulations therefore must go to Charles, Dom, Charlie, Dan.S and Lennart!!!
Below are some photos from the play and the video taken live on gala night:
Below are some photos from the play and the video taken live on gala night:
Official Video (Play starts at 1:32:00)
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Wake boarding trip
On Monday night we had a great trip to Box End park to do kneeboarding and wakeboard img on their cable tow. It is a great venue with very friendly staff by the way!
The night didn't start do well as the glorious sunshine that had been around all day immediately turned into showers and heavy rain as soon as we got into the minibuses! A little rain has never stood in the way of the men of talbot's before though and again we pressed on undaunted. Fortunately the water was also pretty warm.
As we arrived it became pretty obvious that John and Leonard had done plenty before - they were the stars, as shown below:
TWR was also not too far behind them to be fair!!!
Those of us who were a bit more novice started on knee boards and many then progressed up standing on the boards. It is a great activity as everyone who was there can say they developed and had a lot of goes. Having a cafe on site to be used once everyone needed warming up a bit was an added bonus too!
Sunday, 8 March 2015
A month in the life - February
February included a week off for half term and a week of exams but there was still plenty of excitement and action for team Talbot's.
Its all here below... What a great month!
Its all here below... What a great month!
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)
In merits:
Henry, Fuga and Darren got 3 which meant we had a new king of merits this week (though Darren maintains Mr Montgomery had given him on in evening before the celebration). it was Jonny with 4 for the week.
This week's top bloke was Justus awarded because he finally scored a try for the school this week which was (according to justus) an epic length of the field effort that is probably the best try ever scored...
The man of the week goes to Assan who represented the school at the pride in bedfordshire awards, where he met the Chief Exec of the Harpur trust, produced two artworks to be auctioned off for movember and gave an insightful and isnpired mini speech about his reasons for taking part in Movember.
The play was an absolutely fantastic performance and it was great to see Benno, Alikhan and honorary Talbot's man Harry B involved.
Next week sees the house Christmas play taking place and our trip to the theatre on Wednesday - there's never a dull week in Talbot's!
(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)
In merits:
Henry, Fuga and Darren got 3 which meant we had a new king of merits this week (though Darren maintains Mr Montgomery had given him on in evening before the celebration). it was Jonny with 4 for the week.
This week's top bloke was Justus awarded because he finally scored a try for the school this week which was (according to justus) an epic length of the field effort that is probably the best try ever scored...
The man of the week goes to Assan who represented the school at the pride in bedfordshire awards, where he met the Chief Exec of the Harpur trust, produced two artworks to be auctioned off for movember and gave an insightful and isnpired mini speech about his reasons for taking part in Movember.
The play was an absolutely fantastic performance and it was great to see Benno, Alikhan and honorary Talbot's man Harry B involved.
Next week sees the house Christmas play taking place and our trip to the theatre on Wednesday - there's never a dull week in Talbot's!
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 the experienced
squad from Oundle. Having caught an early lead of 3:0, it forced us to give every
full potential within us. Hence I was able to score an early penalty in the
second half, followed by a half-way longshot by me, to get us back into the
game. Finally, Jonny scored a brilliant shot after a genius combination
of passes from our team, setting the score to 3-3. Although receiving a late
goal, making Oundle the winner, lead us to conclude that, as a team, we are
succesful given that we omitted any critical mistakes.
Both games against BGS and Northampton were easy wins
with top scores at:
Philip...4
Jonny...2
Dima...1
Stewart...1
Special recognition to Dom.B with his first
appearance in Water Polo, especially with the first school team. Congrats!
Thank you to all who have visited and supported us!
By Philip
Saturday, 15 November 2014
Friday Celebration 14/11/14
In addition to the info above, Jack was awarded minor colours for his efforts for the 2nd XV this week - a fantastic achievement.
In the pool, Jonny and Philip represented the school tremendously both securing wins in their races in Thursday's meet.
They are both in action this Sunday in a home water polo fixture along with Nihat and Assan.
In Rugby, two of the men of Talbot's were promoted to higher teams this week, Alex.G from the U15D to the U15C and Lennart to the U14C, having started in the E team! Alongside him in the U14s, Leon played for the A team away at Radley.
In the U15s Adrian, Jonny and Frank.L were in the D team whilst Sasha.P, Teepee and George played for the B team, including an epic try which was scored as a result of the three of them combining - a genuine team Talbot's try! Frankie played for the U15A. In the U16s, matthew continued in the D team whilst Bob and Alex both scored for the U16C, who Nihat was also playing for. This left no men of Talbot's in the B team, but Ben.K lead the U16s to another victory, adding further to his ludicrous try tally this term.
In the seniors, Nico played and scored for the 5ths whilst Ed turned out for the 4ths. Charlie, John and Justus played for the 3rds, with Charlie saying Justus was particularly good. Jack was in the 2nds whilst Rufus was part of the 1sts, the only team to win away today at Radley.
It was great that Philip and Leo went out to watch lads from the house in action too.
This week's lunchtime concert was for 5th form music students and Matthew, Hodges and Kritt all performed well, watched by Jonny who went along to support.
In the awards of the week, Henderson was pipped into 2nd place in the room of the week by John in room 1!
In the merit comp the following were awarded merits in the past 7 days:
1: Leo, Rufus, Tom, Fuga, Duncan, Hodges, Kritt, Jun, Sasha, Henry, Leon
2: Charlie, Ben.M
3: Bob
4 and king of merits: Darren
This week's Top Blokme was chosen by the options to be Michael as a result of his performance in the open mic night for charity in Wednesday and his being offered a place at warwick Uni.
This week's man of the week was Nikita who not only secured 5 merits but also was tremendously helpfula tm bowling with William.
Though all of the above are great, the absolute highlight at Friday Celebration this week was finishing off with the opportunity for lads in the house to nominate others to get a sweet prize for great stuff they have done. The list was enormous and highlighted the depth of appreciation the guys have for each other. This is a house where we value everyone and it was awesome to see it in action in such a tangible way. Bring on Exeat next!....
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 metres was run by Duncan, Lennart and Leon.
800 metres-Alex and Tom
400 metres-Charles, Sasha P. Ben and Nico
200 mtres-Frankie, Simon and John
100 metres-Leon and Teepee
Relay was run by Leon, Charles, Teepee, Frankie, Ben, Sasha P. Duncan, Tom, Nico and John while Leon, Sasha P. Nihat, Bob and Charlie all took part in shot. Justus took on the discus while Dom and Benno threw the javelin. Michael H. and Duncan took part in high jump-Duncan taking first place. John did long jump while Teepee, Dan S. and Kritt smashed the triple jump.
We are so proud of them all!
Matron
1500 metres was run by Duncan, Lennart and Leon.
800 metres-Alex and Tom
400 metres-Charles, Sasha P. Ben and Nico
200 mtres-Frankie, Simon and John
100 metres-Leon and Teepee
Relay was run by Leon, Charles, Teepee, Frankie, Ben, Sasha P. Duncan, Tom, Nico and John while Leon, Sasha P. Nihat, Bob and Charlie all took part in shot. Justus took on the discus while Dom and Benno threw the javelin. Michael H. and Duncan took part in high jump-Duncan taking first place. John did long jump while Teepee, Dan S. and Kritt smashed the triple jump.
We are so proud of them all!
Matron
.JPG)
