The year 4 class at the Junior Boys’ School, enjoyed an active an fun-filled trip to Patterdale Hall. Here they tried new and interesting challenges such as canoeing, rock climbing and archery. They had an eventful trip, bursting with activities and were able to develop their own skills such as team building.
Congratulations to Double British Champion Amber Gregson who won two golds at the WKKC British Championships yesterday and will represent England at the World Championships in Dublin later this year.
Merchant Taylors’ are the new Junior Schools Challenge Quiz North West Champions, having gone unbeaten against fifteen other schools at Bury Grammar School. With captain Ben Falconer in imperious form throughout and well supported by Marcus Baldwin, Daniel Naguib and George Farrar, the team defeated AKS in the final to lift the trophy for the first time since 2009.
Last week MTGS hosted an exciting violin recital with Italian virtuoso Marino Capulli. Marino, who flew in especially from Rome, is the lead player with the Italian string orchestra Gli Archi del Cherubino. The string orchestra had visited the School just before Christmas. The exciting opportunity came via Dr Alberto Sanna, who is the Senior Lecturer in Music at Liverpool Hope University.
To mark the occasion the Girls’ School adopted an Italian theme for the day and Dr Sanna came in to talk to the girls about Italian life, culture, language, history and food. All subjects adopted the Italian theme, for example the Maths Department looked at the works of Fiobonacci, and there was a football match at lunchtime between staff and girls. Pupils enjoyed an Italian lunch and gelato for dessert was a particular hit.
Liverpool artist and sculptor, Mike Badger, also got involved to work with pupils from each art group producing a stunning set of sculptures made up of broken violin pieces. These provided the backdrop to the recital.
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore visited Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School, Crosby on Wednesday 9th March to deliver a lecture to 440 guests on ‘The Adolescent Brain’. Professor Blakemore is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Her group’s research focuses on brain development in human adolescence and she mounted a very strong defence for every teenager in Britain who has ever slammed a door, smoked a cigarette or driven a car too fast!
The audience included visiting pupils from Birkdale High School, Chesterfield High School and Hillside High School in Bootle. Ojie Ekun, Year 11 from Hillside ‘found the lecture really interesting; at times fascinating, particularly when she was talking about peer influence on adolescents. I could relate to that and am glad to know that I will grow out of it!’ Anna Collins, also from Hillside, felt the same way and said that ‘the comments about risk taking and young people made a lot of sense and helped me to understand more about some of the decisions I make. Perhaps this is what being ‘older and wiser’ actually means!’ said Anna.
Merchant Taylors’ has been delighted to forge a close relationship with Hillside High School through the Ogden Trust. The Ogden Trust is a charitable Trust that exists to promote the teaching and learning of physics. This is done by providing individual scholarships to talented sixth formers and a number of Hillside pupils have transferred into the Merchants’ Sixth Form to study Physics and other Sciences.
‘Our Sixth Form caters, with considerable success, for those wishing to enter higher education but it also prepares our students for the rigours and demands of life after University; we are delighted to welcome pupils from Hillside and other surrounding High Schools’, commented David Cook, Headmaster.
If you would like to find out more about Professor Blakemore’s lecture on the Adolescent Brain, please follow this link: www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/sblakemore
Images from rehearsals for Joint Schools’ Production of Willy Russell’s ‘Our Day Out’! Students are continuing to work hard during rehearsals for this week’s performances taking place between 16th and 19th March.
Simon Brett leads a ‘ double life ‘ as he is the Regimental Sergeant Major at Merchant Taylors’ Schools Combined Cadet Force and also a Company Sergeant Major at Merseyside Army Cadet Force. As he has completed 17 years dedicated and good conduct service to both organisations he has been awarded the prestigious Army Cadet Force Medal. He has been presented with his Medal by his Company Commander Major Ian Tyrer, but it will be Officially Presented again at the Merseyside ACF Annual Camp in August by their Honorary Colonel and Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside, Dame Lorna Muirhead.
Simon’s continued hard work and dedication to MTSCCF is highly valued and appreciated and we congratulate him on this great achievement!
On 22nd February, 75 of our Year 7s joined in with an attempt to break the World Record of the most people simultaneously participating in a quiz about books. The previous record of 2679 was smashed by over 6000 children and adults across UK and Ireland. Well done to all involved.
Preview images from rehearsals for Joint Schools’ Production of Willy Russell’s ‘Our Day Out’! Students are continuing to work hard during rehearsals for this week’s performances taking place between 16th and 19th March.