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

Saturday, 24 February 2018

Friday Celebration 23/02

It's been a busy start to the second half of term!  Despite the cold weather, the boys are in great spirits.

In Teams this week:

Football
2nd - John Chan
U16B - Tizian
U15A - Felix

Hockey
U14C - Kabi
U14D - Zakhar
U16A - Dan
4ths - Frank

Badminton
2nd - Adrian
1st - Justin and Nathan

We want to give special recognition to Michael for playing basketball on the senior side earlier this week--Well done, Michael!

Also, we have a number of boys in the Detweiler competition.  James and Ben entered a composition while Divine, Alex, Oscar, Kabi and Dan entered artwork.
Merits
1:  Alex Edun, Sebastian, Will, Edwin, Arthur, and Henry N.
2:  Felix, Nathan, and Ruslan
3:  Theo, James, Divine, Jason, Moritz,  and Simon
4:  Kabi and Adrian
5:  Roy

Man of the Week
Marcus had his composition selected as one of the top 25 in the country for the Royal Opera House!






Saturday, 13 January 2018

Friday Celebration 12/01

Happy New Year!  We hope you all enjoyed the much-deserved break.  The boys have settled back in the house now and have almost finished their first week of school for 2018.  We also welcomed new Talbots boy Felix Barth.  All the boys have done exceptionally well this week especially considering many battled jet lag while the Upper Sixth and Fifth Form returned to mock exams.

In Sports we have:
Hockey:
U16A -- Dan
U15B  -- Divine
U15C -- Will
U14C -- Kabi
U14D -- Zakhar, his school debut!

Football:
U15A -- Felix, his school debut!
U16A -- Alkihan
3rd -- Stephen
2nd -- Leo & Alex K.
1st -- John, his 1st Team debut!

Merits:
1:  Kabi, Dell, Sebastian, Alex E., Felix, Marcus, Jason, Oscar
2:  Orlando and Henry T.

Commendation:
Divine for an amzing RS poster on Nelson Mandela that is now showcased in the department.

Top Bloke:
Felix Barth for having such an amazing start in the house.

Man of the Week:
Adrian for having such a great chat with the headmaster, that the headmaster felt compelled to tell Mr. Gracie how impressive he is.

We also celebrated George's award of a Headmaster's Scarf last term as well as commending Sasha P. for being awarded Colours for his 5 years service to the house and becoming a positive influence in the U6th.