ENGLAND SHIRT AWARDED TO SIXTH FORMER!
Liam Adams, Year 13 represented England in the UK School Games at the week-end.
This is a Hockey event for the future international players, who work with the national coaches and compete against other national teams.
The England team were awarded a Silver Medal after winning two of their three games. Liam will be presenting his shirt to the School's Sports Department 'Hall of Fame'.
YEAR 8 CRICKET STARS HELP LOCAL CLUB TO COUNTY VICTORY
7 boys from Year 8 (George Burton, Marcus Heath, Matthew James, Faisal Khalique, Rhys McCarthy, Oliver Nolan and Hari Patel) have played an instrumental part in the round of recent successes being celebrated by Radcliffe on Trent Cricket Club’s U13 cricket team. The team comfortably won the Nottinghamshire County Cup Final against Kimberley U13 at Caythorpe Cricket Club on 22nd June, then went on to defeat Lincoln Lindum CC in the first round of the MCC Spirit of Cricket U13 National Club Championships. The boys now go on to play the Leicestershire winners Medbourne CC on 19th July for a place in the Midland Regional Finals and then hope to go on to represent Nottinghamshire at the National Finals in August at OakhamSchool. We wish them the best of luck!
SCHOOL GOLF TEAM PLAYS IN WOODEN SPOON CHARITY COMPETITION
On 30th June the Golf team of Dominic Ader, Freddie Skelton and Simon Crowther, took part in the Wooden Spoon charity competition at Wollaton Park Golf Club. All the boys had birdies in the '2 from 4 to count' competition and finished with a very creditable 83 points - including 44 on the back nine. 86 points won the main competition and they lost the back nine on count back. All 3 boys were a credit to the School.
Wooden Spoon is one of the charities which will benefit from the School's fund-raising activities for the forthcoming Rugby Tour to South America in 2010; the other beneficiary will be CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), which has been specially chosen following the sudden death last summer of ON Simon McNamara, a keen school sportsman.
ANUJ TO REPRESENT ENGLAND IN AUSTRALIA
Anuj Dal in Year 8 has been selected to play for the U16 Indoor England Cricket World Cup squad at the Indoor World Cup due to be held in Brisbane, Australia in early October 2009. A superb achievement given Anuj is only 12!
THE TIMES SPELLING BEE SEMI-FINAL
Over half term, the school's Year 7 spelling team travelled to their national semi-final.
The team performed brilliantly in the first half of the competition, which was a knock-out series of rounds. We were the last school to have all three of our team spelling.
The second half saw our team playing safe with medium words, taking their score to a mighty 83 in total. Oundle then took the risk of hard words and edged us out. We are proud that the boys are the best team in Nottinghamshire and second in the entire Midlands.
PROFESSIONAL CRICKETERS PLAY AT VALLEY ROAD
On Monday 11th May the School was delighted to welcome two professional cricket teams, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2nd XI and Leicestershire CCC 2nd XI, to play at Valley Road. . Leicestershire scored 308 - 6 and Notts were 287-9. Leicester won by 21 runs. Both professional sides commented on the excellent facilities.
JUNIOR SCHOOLS' CHALLENGE - Regional Final
Last Friday after school, we hosted the regional final of the Junior Schools' Challenge against Trent College. It was very close, but we managed to win on the last question! The final score was 440 - 410.
Well done to Jack Hadfield, Robert Jackson, Oliver Woodhouse, and Quinin Luong.
NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST REPORTER
Will Orchard in Year 13 has been made the Nottingham Evening Post's Music Festival reporter for the Summer. He will be covering ten festivals including Glastonbury and Reading, and his reports will be used for publication in print and on the NEP's website.