*Notice to Parents*
Due to the bad weather we have made the decision to postpone tonight’s Year 9 Boys’ Parents’ Evening until next Wednesday 7th March (same time and venue).
Your appointments times will remain as before.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Regards,
MTBS
On Thursday 22nd February, the MTJBS Eco Council walked to Stanfield to meet with their Eco Council to discuss and share ideas on current topics we are all working on at the moment, previous projects we have completed and future projects we intend to look into.
We met in the meeting room and had a very successful discussion with both the boys and girls contributing. Amongst our discussions, the girls gave the boys some ideas about their ‘walk to school week’ and ‘healthy eating’ topic and the boys shared their views on their Energy Owl and Eco Code.
We will meet again in the Summer term to hear our next updates! Listen out for whole school projects coming soon!
Year 3 pupils enjoyed taking part in a Lego workshop where they learnt about motors, switches and circuits while building their own Lego city.
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We are looking for support for our upcoming sports tours for both the Senior Boys’ and Senior Girls’ School squads. The Boys’ Rugby Tour will see them travel to New Zealand and Fiji, while the Girls will play Hockey and Netball in Australia and Singapore.If you would be interested in sponsoring a pupil or the tour itself, please contact the Schools on the following addresses. We would welcome any support!
Boys: [email protected]
Girls: [email protected]
On Thursday 8th February, Year Four girls spent the day at the Catalyst Museum in Widnes. Here they learned all about reducing waste, recycling and re-using our rubbish! After an instructor-led workshop, the children all followed their own ‘Environment Trails’, finding out answers for themselves, using puzzles and investigations around the museum to help them. By the end of the trip, all had completed their quiz booklets and had had a really fun day out too!
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Merchant Taylors’ Junior Boys’ recently traveled along with Merchant Taylors’ Junior Girls’ School to the AJIS Athletics event at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan. It was a fun and competitive day which saw children from 33 schools participate in a variety of events throughout the day. All of the children who participated gave a fantastic effort in every event and thoroughly enjoyed the day. A huge well done to all our competitors, but an extra special well done to our podium finishers who we are extremely proud of:
Junior Boys’
1st- James Criddle (Y5) Balance (new record)
1st-James Moore (Y5) Chest Push
1st- James Thompson (Y6) Vertical Jump
2nd- Jaden Rose (Y6) 1 lap
2nd- Jayden Rose (Y6) Speed Bounce
2nd- Joseph Wake (Y5) 3 Laps
3rd-Oliver Byrne (Y6) Standing Long Jump
Junior Girls’
Lower Sixth student Eleanor Worthington Cox is currently starring in the hit Sky Series Britannia. Ellie (as she is known at School) plays Cait who is one of the main protagonists. Britannia is a British historical period drama written by Jez Butterworth. The series first aired in the UK last month and has been received with high acclaim.
Ellie has already built up an illustrious career as a young actress. She holds the record for the youngest recipient of a Laurence Olivier award, aged 10. The award was for Best Actress in ‘Matilda the Musical’ on the West End stage. More recently in 2016 she played Janet Hodgson in “The Enfield Haunting” and received a TV BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
As one of the main characters Ellie’s filming schedule for series, with 9 episodes, has been particularly demanding but she is adept at balancing her academic schedule with a busy career. She said, “I’m absolutely delighted to be part of such a huge new series for Sky. I’m extremely lucky to have worked with such a fantastic cast and that my role has developed so much along the way! Cait is a fascinating character to play and I’m just very grateful to be part of anything written by Jez Butterworth! One of the best things after working 15 hour days for months at a time is being able to come back to the normality and routine of my school and friends. Merchants have been consistently supportive throughout and helped me achieve a balance between my career and my studies. I’m very thankful for their ongoing support.”
Old Boy of the Schools, Philip Latham has been awarded the Alastair Ross Goobey Prize for overall best performance on the MPhil Real Estate Finance course at Cambridge University.
The prize is given in memory of Alastair Ross Goobey – one of the most prominent and respected fund managers of recent times, credited for developing institutional shareholder activism on the London Stock Exchange. After reading economics at Trinity College Cambridge, Alastair joined Kleinwort Benson as a graduate trainee. He was became chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management in 1993 and saw the fund grow to almost £50 billion by the time he stood down in 2001.
Philip received the award for his thesis ‘Euphoria and Despair: The Effect of Exogenous Variables on Residential Property Markets’, after securing cohort leading results in his examinations focused on financial modelling, econometrics, statistical techniques, real estate investment and corporate finance.
Since graduating he has joined the Reech Corporations Group, where under the guidance of seasoned Hedge Fund Manager, Christophe Reech he will be managing an opportunistic Closed End Fund deploying capital into UK real estate development projects.
Congratulations Philip!