*Reminder* Occasional Holiday Monday 3rd December

Reminder to all parents across Merchant Taylors’ Schools:

The Occasional Holiday this year is on Monday 3rd December 2018.

All Schools will be closed on that day.

Thank you.

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Cross Country Success

On Wednesday 14th November, the first of three races in the Sefton Schools’ Cross Country League was held at Birkdale common. In the 2km Year 7 race, most of our boys were competing for the first time. Overall the team scored 54 points with great performances from Sammy Pickerill who came 3rd and Monty Barr who won the race. The Year 8 and 9 boys competed together over a slightly longer course and again Merchants’ had a runner who won the race; well done to Andrew Storch.

The team performed well with notable runs from Thomas Cunliffe who was competing in his first cross country race and Joe Cosgrove.

In the Merseyside Schools’ X Country on Saturday 17th November Monty Barr came 1st and Sammy Pickerill came 2nd in the year 7 race. Both boys have now been selected to represent Merseyside in the Northern Inter-County Schools’ Competition to be held in Cheshire in December.

Well done boys!

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Sixth Form Student Visits Menin Gate on Remembrance Sunday

Email from Archivist Mr Hildrey

An MTBS Sixth Form student, Dominic, was chosen to attend the 100 year anniversary of WWI service at the Menin Gate in Belgium, on behalf of West Lancashire Scouts this month. It was a huge honour to be invited to landmark event, with many dignitaries attending.

Dominic travelled to Belgium and visited various WWI sites in the area, attending the 100 year commemoration ceremony on Sunday 11th November. Whilst Dominic was there, he sent us some photos of the Menin Gate, where he found many of our Old Boys’ names after talking to our Archivist, Mr Hildrey.

Thank you Dominic for sharing your findings with the Merchants’ community and what a memorable occasion to be a part of.

 

 

 

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Year 5 Pupil Ranked 5th Nationally in Fencing

Michael Neophytou of Year 5 is now ranked 5th nationally in fencing following his recent success this week. He competed and managed to win a bronze medal in the Leon Paul Junior Series, a prestigious national competition which took place in Oldham in October. Michael competed in the under 9 (U9s) boys epee category and started well winning 3 of his poule fights. In the knock-out stages, he narrowly missed a place in the final losing by a very close 10-9 against the eventual gold medal winner. Due to his success this week Michael is now ranked number 5 nationally.

Well done Michael!

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Students Raise Money for St. Joseph’s Hospice

Six pupils from MTS and a group of international students, spent last week fundraising for St. Joseph’s hospice through the NCS programme. The students did a bake sale, street collections and a sponsored walk. The group raised an incredible £530, well done!

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Year Two Visit MTBS to Learn About The Great Fire of London!

Year Two were thrilled to visit MTBS science laboratories last week, on what has become an annual trip for the year group. Linking to our History topic of The Great Fire of London, we wanted to explore the reasons why the fire spread so easily though London and why it was so difficult to contain. An afternoon at the Senior Boys’ School was a wonderful way to bring to life our History topic and explore practically the reasons why so much of London burned during the Great Fire.

We were invited to don our safety goggles, whilst the Senior School teachers helped the children to understand the effects of burning different materials, whilst exploring different methods to extinguish a flame. We concluded that water can be used to extinguish a fire and that flames needs oxygen to burn. We were able to watch a super experiment showing how fire spread along a row of connected houses and how a fire break can stop this.

The children also enjoyed other exciting demonstrations. Dr Clay held out his palm filled with bubbles. He chose a child to take a lighted taper and place it in the bubbles mixture on his hand. Imagine our surprise as he held a ball of flames in his palm. In a further experiment, the children watched in eager anticipation as she was able to make flour explode. The miracle of science!

All teachers emphasised the importance of safety at all times. Whilst enjoying ourselves immensely, we were constantly reminded that these experiments were only safe to conduct, because we were in the school science laboratories, watching demonstrations by fully trained scientists, who were using the correct safety equipment.

Year Two thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon and really appreciated the time, effort and care shown by our colleagues in the Senior school. We are greatly looking forward to our next trip!

A full album of photos can be found here on our Facebook page.

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‘Fame!’ – A Joint School Production

You are warmly invited to the Merchant Taylors’ School production of ‘Fame’, running from 28th November – 1st December 2018.

Dr Gill and Mr Holroyd directed ‘Fame’ in 2002; they are revisiting the experience in November this year but this time, with the assistance of Louise Edge, the choreographer. Rehearsals are going well and the cast of 28 are working very hard.

The show presents fame in two opposite ways: as an inspirational dream for characters like Nick (played by Cameron Avann) and Serena (Angelina Bennett), and as a dangerously intoxicating demon which tempts characters like Carmen (Charlotte Hulme) into over-reaching themselves. Other characters such as Tyrone Jackson (Daniel Naguib) face different hurdles such as learning difficulties. The show is  dominated by powerful dancing and singing as well as humour and we hope it will be a sell-out as in 2002!

Tickets are available from Pritchard’s Bookshop, the School or you can purchase them online by clicking here.

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Talking Minds – A Mental Health Symposium for Educators

Merchant Taylors’ is proud to be hosting “Talking Minds – A Mental Health Symposium for Educators” on Friday 24th May 2019 from 09.30 – 15.45.

Keynote speakers include:
Natasha Devon MBE
Jonny Benjamin MBE
Danny Sculthorpe
Dick Moore

The cost of the event is £100 per delegate. We are offering one FREE place for every maintained sector school in Sefton (only 10 free places available available).

For more information, or if you are an educational professional interested in reserving a place, please click the link below.

Talking minds conference booking form.

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Three Peaks Challenge in Memory of Old Boy John Sutcliffe

A team led by Kingsley legal and property recruitment firm, successfully completed the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge, smashing their fundraising target for Cancer Research UK, in memory of Old Boy John Sutcliffe.

3 peaks

John, a former pupil and Governor of the school, passed away in 2017 after a successful career in engineering, founding his company in 1985 and growing it to a nationally recognised technical engineering firm as well as becoming Chairman of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. John was a popular member of the Liverpool business community, and the challenge was organised by staff from Kingsley who began training in May with the aim of raising £3,500 for Cancer Research UK

In pretty terrible conditions, including temperatures of -6 degrees Celsius, 30 miles-per-hour winds, torrential rain and even sleet, the famous endurance challenge took place on Thursday 13th September. Thirteen brave and hardy souls from Kingsley, Sutcliffe Engineering, and various friends, clients and associates took on 26 miles of rough terrain to climb the three largest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales (Ben Nevis, Scarfell Pike and Snowdon).

Having left Liverpool at 7am, the team started their climb of Ben Nevis at exactly 6pm, and despite a couple of the team being forced to drop out the core group successfully negotiated the peaks and completed the descent from Snowdon at the following evening. In total, they climbed approximately 3,000m – the equivalent of walking one third of the way up Mount Everest.

Caroline Kingsley, MD at Kingsley said: “The 3 Peaks Challenge really was challenging! I expected it to be hard, but it was much harder than I ever thought, and I think it’s a real achievement by the team. I’m so proud of the team spirit, determination and sense of humour that the team showed, and obviously we’re delighted to have raised money for such a great cause and grateful to everyone who has supported us, in particular Moorcrofts Solicitors who were our main sponsor.”

The efforts of the team have so far raised more than £5000, including gift aid, all of which will be donated to Cancer Research UK.

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MTGS Pupil Merseyside Squash Champion!

Congratulations to Eleanor Sinker in Year 10 who recently competed in the Merseyside Squash Championship.

We are pleased to announce that Eleanor won the championship and is now the Under-15 Merseyside squash champion. Well done Eleanor!

 

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