The Heads of School enjoyed a wonderful evening last night at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London at the annual Doctors’ Dinner. The Guest Speaker for the evening was Old Boy Simon Jack – business editor for the BBC.
Merchant Taylors’ Doctors’ Dinner
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*Magical Maths After School Club*
As previously announced in our weekly newsletter, we are extremely excited to be able to offer Magical Maths, a new after school club to Year 1 and Year 2 starting in January 2017.
Professor Poopenshtinken, the mathematical genius, came in to assembly to visit KS1 and he was fantastic! He showed us some magic tricks using his mathematical magic. Year One and Two watched and they really loved it. The club will be running after Christmas for Years one and two and is already fully booked! The Professor’s friends will be coming back to school on Tuesdays, starting on 10th January 2017, to run this super Magical Maths Club. The club will run for 5 consecutive weeks and will be looked after by Mrs Bonner.
Please visit www.magicalmathsclub.com/haltonsthelensandwarrington for more information.
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Illustrator Marc Jackson visits to Launch Comic Club
To launch Stanfield Comic Club, Marc Jackson visited the children in Year 2 and chatted to them about his work as an illustrator. Marc illustrates for The Beano. He then carried out a workshop for the children who had great fun creating their own characters.
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Debut Author Visit
Five debut authors visited MTGS last week as part of their Lost and Found national tour. Author, Kathryn Jenkins, gave her thanks to our ‘amazing’ girls for a ‘wonderful afternoon’. Lots of students bought books. I am sure others will be added to Christmas lists.
Years 7, 8 and 9 received their recommended reading booklets this week so Mrs Cecil wishes everyone a happy holiday curled up with a good book!
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Christmas Nativities 2016
Its beginning to feel very much like Christmas throughout MTS after some fabulous Nativity performances by our infants and juniors!
For the full photo albums, please visit our facebook page at www.facebook.com/merchanttaylorscrosby/
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Faye Cook 2008 Leaver
Congratulations to former student Faye Cook who has gained her Masters Degree from Liverpool University in Modern Languages (Hispanic). Faye is now going on to do a PhD.
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A Christmas Round-Up from the Junior Boys
It’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas, as the song goes, in the Boys’ Junior School. Our Christmas Tree that was decorated by the School Councillors is presently on display in St Faith’s Church as part of their Christmas Tree Festival. This year the tree is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness and is festooned in all manner of decorations – all pink – to highlight this wonderful charity. The tree (and many others too!) can be seen by the general public; it is quite a sight!
The Year 4 (and Year 3) play is coming along nicely. Charlie and Jim and the Chocolate Factory follows the well-known Roald Dahl story. We have two boys who win the golden ticket (Charlie and his brother Jim) and are shown around the factory by the Wonka brothers (that’s Willy and Walter!). The boys have been rehearsing so very hard and it promises to be a great show. Tickets can be obtained by contacting Mrs Hodson, the Junior School Secretary.
There are other things happening too. Christmas lunch is happening next Thursday and rumour has it that there is a VERY special guest popping in to spread Christmas greetings. We have turkey and all the trimmings – one of the highlights of the school year. The boys traditionally make Christmas hats and these are worn during the lunch and are a sight to see, if previous years are anything to go by.
Our visit to the pantomime takes place soon too. This year we are off to the Liverpool Everyman Theatre to see Beauty and the Beast, a Rock ‘n’ Roll show. The whole school travels in to town next Monday morning, wearing their Christmas jumpers and I can imagine that excitement levels will reach fever pitch. When we return we will be having our Christmas parties. It will be a great day.
The following day the PTA have arranged a Christmas Party after school. It is all taking place in the Sports Centre and we hope that everyone who joins in will have a great time.
On the last day of term we have our annual Christmas service in St Faith’s Church. We sing carols, listen to readings about the nativity and really start to celebrate the Christmas season.
So as you can see, there is a lot going on in our Junior School and I hope that you will be able to join us sometime before the end of term.
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International Gymnastic Success for Caitlyn
Caitlyn Kavanagh has been achieving fantastic success with her gymnastics this year and has recently returned from 2016 Gymstars International Competition where she medalled both individually and within her team.
Caitlyn started gymnastics at 5 years old and began doing competition gymnastics when she was around 8 years old. In July 2014 she moved to The City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club, based in Toxteth. Caitlyn has been working extremely hard with the club, competing in Artistic gymnastics, which for females involves four pieces of apparatus; Bars, Beam, Floor and Vault.
On Sunday 25th September 2016 Caitlyn took part in the North West Individual Championships and achieved 2nd on bars, 2nd on floor and came 2nd overall in her category. Following this success, she took part in the Cheshire and Merseyside 4 Piece competition in November and achieved 1st on Vault, 1st on Bars, 2nd on Floor and 4th on Beam. These triumphs rewarded Caitlyn with 1st place overall meaning she is the Cheshire and Merseyside 4 piece Champion 2016 for her category.
On Friday 18th of November 2016 Caitlyn travelled to Malta and took part in Gymstars International Competition 2016. It was a team competition and she participated in a team of 5. There were 18 clubs taking part including teams from the Czech Republic, Zagreb, Spain, UK, Wales, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Australia. Caitlyn medalled individually, getting a Silver on Vault; and her team came overall first in their category, winning the Gymstars International 2016.
These are fantastic achievements for Caitlyn who is currently in year 8, we wish her all the best in her future competitions!
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Sophia is Runner Up at Regional Fencing Finals
Congratulations to Sophia Neophytou who has finished runner up in the Regional Fencing Finals. Sophia is a member of the Liverpool Fencing Club and has been competing in National competitions this year. She is currently ranked 24th nationally and by virtue of her performances and experience was able to participate in the regional finals for Epee, held at Weaverham High School in Northwich on 3rd December 2016. Sophia competed well in the poules stages of the competition and notably won her poule duel with the eventual winner, by a score of 5-3. In the DEs, she lost in the final by a score of 10-5 against the overall winner Stephanie Currie, to finish second place in the North West Junior Series.
This is a fantastic achievement for Sophia who has just begun competing in the past few months. Her medal reflects her efforts this year and it is hopeful that with the ranking points collected from this competition, Sophia will be placed in the top 20 nationally.
We wish Sophia every success in her future training and competitions!
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From Renewable Energy to Vineyards
What started as an idea to open a French office for City Windmills, ended up with a relocation to Bergerac and a new career investing in vineyards. “Dordogneshire” as it is more commonly known, is part of Aquitaine and was under English rule for 300 years until the end of the 100 years’ war (1154-1453). Bergerac was part of Bordeaux until the wine appellations split in 1936 and it became its own separate wine region, just to the east of Bordeaux’s famous St Emilion.
Bergerac Wine Holdings ( www.bergeracwine.com) was launched in April 2016, and I re-located there in August to operate my European businesses from a beautiful region full of chateaux and vineyards. (OC 1979) Jonathan Coulthard moved there in 2002, so there may even be an Old Boys re-union at some stage…
David Mapley 1978 leaver seen here with the Honorary Chairman, Comte Laurent de Bosredon
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