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Chair of Governors awarded CBE

Posted on June 26, 2017 by MarquesAdemir


The Schools were delighted to receive news that the Chair of the Governors, Beverley Bell, has been awarded a CBE for her services to Road Safety and the Freight Industry.

Beverley is an Old Girl of MTS (1971 – 1978) and has served as the Chair of the Governors since July 2016. Her award comes in recognition of her years of service in the transport industry, having been an independent regulator of the commercial vehicle industry for 17 years. Having graduated from the University of Liverpool in Law, she qualified as a solicitor in 1985 and opened her own practice in 1990 specialising in criminal and transport law. She was appointed as North-West Traffic Commissioner in 2000 at that time being the youngest the first female to hold the role. She was later appointed as Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain in 2011, and she retired from both roles on 31st May 2017.

Speaking about receiving the award, Beverley said:

“I am surprised and delighted in equal measure. But this award is not just about my contribution but about the Traffic Commissioners and all they do to promote and champion the transport industry. The industry sometimes has a poor reputation which it doesn’t deserve and I have always been keen to promote the industry which literally keeps Great Britain moving”.

The Department for Transport also released the following statement, acknowledging Beverley’s commitment and dedication to the industry she has made her profession:

“We want to add our congratulations to Beverley Bell on this award following her retirement as Traffic Commissioner for the North West of England and latterly as Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain. She continues to champion the transport industries and will see this as a reflection of their importance to Great Britain. HGV and PSV operators make a major contribution to our economy, provide significant employment opportunities and strive to ensure the safety of our roads. It is right that this is recognised. We are delighted for all those working in the field of transport who have been recognised by the Queen this year and in particular to Beverley after 17 years of public service”.

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Merchants’ U15 through to National Final!

Posted on June 23, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

Merchants’ Under 15 cricket team continued their spectacular run in the English Schools national cricket competition with a thrilling victory against Stamford School from Lincolnshire on Wednesday. This semi-final win now puts the boys in the top two teams in England and ready to contest the final on 10th July at Oakham.

Having won the toss Merchants’ bravely elected to bat and try to post a challenging total. Openers Jackson Darkes Sutcliffe and Robert Rankin made a solid start to the innings with a partnership of 55 for the first wicket before Jackson was caught for 19. After another quick wicket George Politis and Robert Rankin rebuilt the innings and set a good platform for a high total, but when they both got out for 33 and 69 respectively another couple of wickets left Merchants with an uphill battle to get a good score. At this stage some excellent batting from Oliver Meadows, Scott Thomson and Josh Carberry in the last five overs enabled the boys to reach 180. This was about 20 short of what we had hoped to achieve, but much better than had seemed probable at one stage.

The opening bowlers, Alex Barker and Robert Rankin kept it tight early on and Alex bowled one of the openers which brought Joey Evison to the wicket, Stamford’s best player. He batted very assuredly, accumulating 36 while the other Stamford players, despite the loss of another wicket or two, helped him take the total to 120 for 3 with 11 overs left. Getting Evison out was absolutely vital and Josh Carberry sent the supporting crowd, as well as his own team mates, wild with excitement when he had Evison caught at mid wicket. His dismissal seemed to spread panic among the remaining Stamford batsmen as they played a series of poor shots to the excellent leg-spin bowling of Harvey Rankin. He took 6 wickets, including a hat-trick, and Merchants bowled their opponents out for 147. mention should e made of the outstanding fielding in this game. Every catch was taken, some of them very difficult, and the boys played as a unit very well indeed.

The match was a fantastic advert for Merchant Taylors’ cricket, indeed for cricket itself. The Stamford boys played very well until the last half hour and put Merchants under more pressure than any other school has done before. Although obviously disappointed their boys and coaches were gracious in defeat and wished us well for the final.

 

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MTGS Welcomes Back Recent Leavers for Returnees Day

Posted on June 23, 2017 by MarquesAdemir
The Girls’ School was pleased to welcome back recent leavers for its annual Returnees Day.
Returnees Day is an important date in the School calendar and serves a dual purpose. It allows recent leavers to return to the School following their first year of University and share their experiences with staff and friends, but also offers vital advice and guidance to the current Lower Sixth, as they begin their final year of study and start to make decisions about their own University choices.

Our returning girls were extremely generous in giving their time, and answered any questions the pupils had. Following this they assembled in the quad for refreshments and to meet with staff. During this service, they received a humorous and insightful speech from Marie-Clare Gervasoni about the benefits of the Old Girls Association, and how it can be a vital resource for them following the completion of their own studies and entry into the workplace.

Our thanks to the girls for returning and to Head of Sixth Form Mr Lawell for organising the day.

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Junior Boys Book and Biscuit Sale

Posted on June 23, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

On Friday 9th June Mrs Wynne, Y4W and the PTA organised a book and biscuit sale.  This event gave pupils the opportunity to recycle old books, eat biscuits and read.  The tables were full of exciting books for all ages, the biscuits and cakes were delicious and due to their amazing selling techniques we managed to raise over £200 to spend on new books for the Junior School library.  A special thanks to the PTA members for all their hard work.

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Science Workshop Fun for Junior Boys

Posted on June 23, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

On Wednesday 7th June Year 4 and 6 where lucky enough to attend the hands on science workshop.  Working scientifically they explored the human body, considered why we need to exercise, have a good diet and dissected hearts.  As you can see from the photographs fun was had by all.

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U11 Cricket Team are Lancashire Champions

Posted on June 23, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

On Monday 19th June the U11 cricket team travelled to Blackburn to play in the final of the Lancashire Cup (Plate). Having won the main trophy the last two years the boys were keen to come home with some gold coloured medals.

It was a 12 over a side pairs match with each pair batting three overs. At the toss, the opposition- Hulme Court Grammar School from Oldham- elected to bat first. We bowled pretty well, although one or two of our lads were a bit rusty. In the first 9 overs we picked up five wickets effectively restricting their score (5 runs are deducted for each wicket). However their last pair contained a Lancashire U11 player who promptly laid into all our bowlers smashing 5 sixes and 2 fours in his short innings. This meant we faced the more daunting task of chasing 64 to win.

All our batsmen stepped up to the mark and we did not lose a wicket. After 9 overs we passed their score with ease. Oliver Raw then played sensibly and cautiously to see us through a tense last overs to win the game by two runs.

The boys were all delighted and enjoyed a tasty lunch provided by our hosts before travelling back to Crosby.

Team: M Clarke (wckt), O Raw, C McGowan (capt), H Sinker, J Rose, J Flanagan, H Baker,  M Whitehurst

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Outstanding Rowing Success for Nia

Posted on June 22, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

Over the past few weeks Nia Almond has raced in her single scull at Chester Regatta and at Henley Women’s Regatta. Due to her outstanding levels of hard work, commitment, drive and focus she has performed to an excellent standard.

At Chester Regatta Nia was the fastest female sculler over the whole day racing in Women’s Elite Single Sculls, a superb result and was awarded the ‘City of Chester Trophy’ by the Regatta Secretary and Lord Mayor of Chester Cllr Razia Daniels pictured below.

Nia then competed at Henley Women’s Regatta which held on the river Thames at Henley-on-Thames, an event targeted at elite women’s rowing. After completing a time trail down the 1500m course in the morning Nia qualified to race in the knockout stages of the regatta. Nia won the next round of the event by beating an accomplished sculler from Putney High School. In the quarter finals a Sculler from Agecroft Rowing Club, a centre of excellence in the North West, beat Nia to the finish in a tough and hard fought race. Nia has done a brilliant job to reach this high level of performance and competition after recovering from a severe back injury that ruled her out of racing for twelve months.

(Nia boating on the Thames)

Nia is one of a small number of pupils who are really leading the way and are an excellent example to the younger year groups and aspiring athletes.

report by Rowing Master James Carew

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Rhys Davies competes in National Table Tennis Championships

Posted on June 22, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

National Championships – report by Mark Davies

On Saturday June 17th, Rhys Davies participated in the Table Tennis U13 National Championships open to the best 48 players in the country.

The day began in the doubles where Rhys was joined by Naphong Boonyaprapa (Poww) from Nottinghamshire rekindling their partnership from the England Schools Team from 2016. As 2nd seeds they had a bye in the 1st round  and emphatically won their 2nd round match 11-4, 11-3, 11-7 to make the ¼ final where they had a similarly dominant win 11-2, 11-3, 11-9! The scheduling then switched to singles where Rhys won all 3 of his group matches by 3-0 to reach that last 16 before beating the 10th seed with his best performance to reach the ¼ final where he would meet his doubles partner, Poww – the timing couldn’t have been worse as their doubles semi-final would follow straight after. In a good match Poww came out on top, meaning Rhys would miss out on an individual medal for the 1st time at National Level.

Thankfully Rhys bounced back to partner Poww and win the doubles semi-final by 3-0 against the 3rd seeds. This set up a final against the top seeds (who were also the Individual finalists) Jamie Liu and Louis Price – In a high quality match Rhys & Poww looked on course to win after taking the first 2 sets and building a big lead in the 3rd. Unfortunately, despite having 6 match points they couldn’t quite finish the opposition off and eventually had to settle for silver.

I’ve attached the official photo and link to TTE’s video and report – it was streamed live (with commentary) and then posted on their youtube page

https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/archived/twins-peak-at-nationals-two-titles-for-liu/

Carter Cup

Just to cap off the season, we moved down the road to Wellingborough on the Sunday to take part in the finals of the English Leagues Cup – this is an U/18 team event and Rhys was joined by 14 year old Harry Watson (Bluecoats) to form the Liverpool Team – as the youngest 2 players in the event they were expected to finish between 5th and 8th but after some exceptional play they surpassed expectations to pick up the bronze medals. As a team they won 4 out of 5 doubles matches only losing to the champions and backed this up with strong singles results – Harry winning 4 form 7 and Rhys 6 from 7 – both only losing out to much higher ranked older players!

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Reception Careers Day

Posted on June 22, 2017 by MarquesAdemir
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Year 4 Aztec Day – reports by Lucy Edey and Coco Millar

Posted on June 22, 2017 by MarquesAdemir

Year 4 Aztec Day!  by Lucy Edey

On Thursday 15th June the Year 4 girls at Stanfield had an Aztec Day at Calmecac Aztec School.  We had to wear a sheet tied over our shoulder with a belt and a t-shirt.

When we got into school we had to write our names backwards on a sticky label so Mrs Richardson would call us our Aztec name.  Mrs Richardson’s name was Arabrab and mine was Ycul.  When we had done that we designed headbands with felt pen.  After we finished Arabrab made it fit on our heads and added a feather.

When everybody had finished, Arabrab prepared some tortillas, peppers, avocado and tomato.  I only got a tortilla and some pepper.  Afterwards, Arabrab poured us a cup of Aztec chocolate milk and we also had Aztec chocolate, I really like it.

Just before break time, Tony the school photographer came in and took some photos.  He did a really cool one and he asked us to slowly move forwards.  He took a lot of pictures very quickly and I think it’s going to look amazing!

After morning break time we had to make a menu for Montezuma.  Montezuma was expecting at least 30 courses but Arabrab said she wanted about 15 courses!  I found out that the Aztecs ate doe, rabbit, frogs and even turtle!  I DEFINITELY will not eat any of them.  We wrote the menu in our GWB.  We also learnt the good manners.  They sound very strict.

Then we had lunch.  After lunch we did some Aztec art.  We made Gods Eyes.  It was quite hard at first but then I got the hang of it.  Arabrab cut us some coloured wool for us to make it with.  We got some twigs and put them in a cross.  We tied the twigs together with a piece of wool.  Different colours of wool mean different things, like blue wool means rain and green wool means the crops growing.

After break time we went straight to the hall to do an Aztec dance.  The other year 4 teacher Haras taught us the dance.  It was really fun.  We had to do a sequence of moves to an Aztec piece of music.

At the end of the day one person from each class got sacrificed.  The person from Haras’s class was Enraef.  Because the Aztecs weren’t very fait we made it fair.  Arabrab cut up some pieces of paper and put a cross on one, whoever got ht epiece of paper with the cross on got sacrificed.

My favourite part of the day was making gods Eyes because it was fun.  I really enjoyed that and I will never forget it.

 

Aztec Day by Coco Millar

On Thursday 15th June year 4 had Aztec day. We came in authentic costumes and attended Calmacac school. To start off we decorated paper and made hats. A little later we tasted Aztec food. We tried avocado, tortillas, peppers, tomato, a chocolate drink and dark chocolate. Then, we wrote the rules of Calmcac school. Eiddam had been naught and was hung over the chilli fire. We learned more about what the Aztecs lived like and ate. Then we prepared a sixteen course meal for a God. After Lunch, we went to do some dancing in the hall it was great fun! We were split up into four different groups and we made different dances. To finish off the day Eiddam and Enraef were sacrificed by me and Alleb. My favourite part of Aztec day was the food tasting because I got to try new things! Everybody said they really enjoyed the experience and thought it was fun to step back I time.

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