Malvern Times December 2018

MALVERN TIMES COLLEGE

In this issue

DECEMBER 2018

Dear Parents

Academic Successes

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Musical Update

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Awards in Music

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Please find above the cover of the official Christmas card for 2018. The photograph of Malvern College by Jan Sedlacek: www.digitlight.co.uk is taken from a drone with the gentle morning sun shining from the East on the school. When one sees a picture of this nature, one must reflect that it is hardly surprising that a journalist, Thalia Thompson, writing in Independent School Parents recently identified Malvern as one of the five most enchanting and beautiful schools in the country. I write principally today to wish

Drama Production - Wolf Hall

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Awards in Drama

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Awards in Music

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you all a Happy Christmas with your families and a fulfilling and a rewarding 2019.

Academic Successes Congratulations to those who have recently been awarded academic scholarships for

MFL Debating Competition

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do not already hold scholarships. The Alan Duff Scholarship is awarded to Ben Chen,

The Oscar Foundation

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Society Scholarship to Charlotte Williams of Newport High School. Honorary

the Sixth Form. These are prestigious academic scholarships awarded to those who

Sporting Snippets

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Sporting Awards

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the Francis Aston Scholarship (for Science) to Felix Olschewski and the Malvernian Academic Scholarships go to James Francis, Lakshya Joshi and Jacob Perry.

Contact the College

e: mis@malverncollege.org.uk

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Academic Successes continued

Music Update

The following have been awarded Academic Colours as a result of having been on the Honour Roll on four occasions:

Our musicians have been very busy recently with the Advent

Remove: Emilio Dorai Raj, Kitty Holroyd and Saffy Wickes.

Hundred: Millie Kold, Olivia Forsberg, Francesco Totaro, Georgina Macakiage, Banita Dodhia, Tendo Kauma and Pablo Dorai Raj.

Carol Service involving our Chamber and Chapel Choirs as well as our own Carol Service. The Christmas Concert was a superb evening featuring the Orchestra, a Percussion Ensemble, the Jazz Band, the Chamber Orchestra, the Concert Band and the Chapel and Chamber Choirs, along with the winners of the House Singing competition (No.8) and the runners-up (No.2).

Upper Sixth: Hanna Gesang In introducing the Academic Honour Roll for the Autumn Term of 2018, I want to emphasise that being on this roll is not so difficult as to be out of the reach of most Malvernians. Well done to those who have reached that level this term:

Awards in Music

FY: Evelyn Kenrick, Cate Mercurio, Sam Shardlow, Chloe MacKellar, Amy Grammaticas, Lily Brown, Rosie Russell, Amelia Scott and Leo Westwood.

Remove: Louisa Marsden-Smedley, Josi Jebens, Robin de Plaa, Nin Ortiz-Jimenez, Sophie Roberts, Eileen Shen, Nayanna Sira, Tarush Agrawal, Johnnie Stephenson, Konrad Harmer, Lucy Marriott, Johnny Wan and Clemens Tuczka.

Hundred: Georgina Wood, Freja Bedell, Lakshya Joshi, Shea John, Edmund Thurlow, Jyothirmay Baldota, Natalie Fan, Agueda Ortiz-Flores, Ani King, Lisa Kern, Charlotte Welge, Ambra Bisagni, Ginny Lawrence, Felix Olschewski, Lisa Weierich, Valentina Samadani, George Kent, James Francis and Pablo Dorai Raj. Lower Sixth: Bonnie Green, Lucie Fletcher, Helen Wu, Harvey Gearon, Abigail Planterose, Esther Woods, Kira Angling, Robbie Hardwick, Aarya Romanj, Isobel Standen McDougal, Maxwell Horler, Cameron Coleman, Antonia Fetzer, Anna Doroshenko, Annabelle Moody, Evyanne Ewusie and Aodren Clemit.

Junior Colours in Music have been awarded to Eileen Shen, Banita Dodhia, Cameron Eldridge, Kitty Holroyd, Louisa Marsden-Smedley, Finley Morris, Devon Perry, Johnnie Stephenson, Josi Jebens, Jamie Hawkins and Nayanna Sira.

Half Colours in Music have been awarded to Gemma Luscombe, Molly McNicholas, Jasper Penrice, Jennifer Zhou, Felix Berger, Harrison Hudson, Darik de Jong, Otty Wyatt, Crystal Yip and Bradley Jones.

Full Colours Awarded to Georgina Denham, Lucie Fletcher,

Upper Sixth: Isabelle Chastney, Crystal Yip, Ignacio Paris Meseguer, Julnar Alhilly, Ellie Blyth, Hannah Taylor, Poppy Delingpole, Bianca Gaeta, Emily Atherton, Matthew

Annabelle Moody, Ani King and Poppy Delingpole.

Bruce, Millie Cox, Beatriz Cunningham, Elisa Solvay, James Wakefield, Ariana Davison, Maria Decio, Fran Hsu, Gianpietro Ghidini, Jade Yang Zang, Ellie Calderwood, Helena Rose, Lili Solbach, Arina Znamenskaya and Anna Barth.

Congratulations to Louisa Marsden-Smedley who has been

Well done to No.6 and School House who have won the Clark Cups awarded for academic effort over the course of this term to the top girls’ and top boys’ Houses respectively.

Fantastic Singing Achievement offered a place in the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s training choir. This is a great achievement as the Choir is highly regarded.

MALVERN TIMES Drama Production - Wolf Hall It was really exciting to see the Rogers Theatre in its full splendour as the venue for a wonderful production of Wolf Hall, a play brilliantly adapted from the Hilary Mantel historical novel and carefully crafted by our Director of Drama, Mr Keith Packham, for our Malvern audience. There were some stirring lead performances from Ariana Davison, Otty Wyatt, Olivia Hyde, Lucie Fletcher, Harrison Hudson and Bonnie Green and they were well supported by an excellent ensemble cast of Ellen Berry, Toon de Melker, George Advani, Laura Browne, Lexie Clarke, Jonny Mather, Jack Yeoward, Otty Thomas, Lottie Bulley, Lara Davidson, Morgann McGee, Missy Hingley, Ani King, Oli Doherty, Syuzanna Avanesova, Bea Barnes, Boo Forbes, Jasmine Ellis, Nicholas Wilson, Harry Graydon, Oliver Beer, Eve Leslie, Ella Cooper and Gia Neath. Basil MarsdenSmedley, Daniel Cheng, Arthur de Brabandere and Emma Raycraft provided the technical support.

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Awards in Drama

Sporting Snippets

Junior Colours in Drama have been awarded to Lara Davidson,

Girls’ Hockey

Boo Forbes, Jasmine Ellis, Bea Barnes, Oli Doherty, Jack Yeoward, Morgann McGee, Otty Thomas and Syuzanna Avanesova, whilst Half Colours go to Olivia Hyde.

Awards in Art Junior Colours in Art go to Lucia Paris Meseguer, Kit Staley and Emma Raycraft. Half Colours go to Abi Montague Fuller, Ellie Blyth, Luc Crompton, Henry Gerber, Ava Emery, Georgina Inchbald, Kelsey Richmond and Nikki Stonham, whilst Full Colours have been awarded to Mallika Prakash,

Our Girls’ Hockey players continue to ride the crest of a wave:

Kitty Moyle, William Vernon, Hermione Martyn-Smith, Izzy

Hannah Atkinson and Jess Biddle have been selected to

Carter, Hamish Houghton and Harry Middleton.

register on the Level 3 BTEC Diploma in Sporting Excellence by England Hockey which is a signal that they are considered to

MFL Debating Competition

have the potential to reach the very highest levels in the game and our Under 18 team progressed to the third round of the England Hockey Cup with a 5-0 win over Clifton. Our Under

Ten of our Sixth Form linguists put their debating skills to the test

16 girls have gone through to the National Finals of the Indoor

in a competition featuring eight schools for those using a second

Championships in January and our top teams won all of their

or third language. Charles Izzard and Jasper Penrice achieved a

matches at the weekend against Wycliffe, the 1st XI winning 4-1.

creditable third place in the German section and Francesco and

There are six national players in the various age groups, the most

Alessandro Coppola won the Spanish competition, quoting

recent selection being Vicky Monllor-Bessio for the Spanish

Aristotle to good effect in their argument against mankind being

U14s!

inherently evil.

Rugby

The Oscar Foundation

Our Rugby players faced St Edward’s, Oxford, in their penultimate match of the season and performed creditably. At 1st XV level, we have tended to lack the fire power of other teams and their speed and agility, but have worked tremendously hard and there have been some special moments over the past months. Teddies beat us 36-5 in the top game whilst at U14A level we won 45-0. The U14A team deserve special congratulations on winning eight out of ten of their fixtures.

Earlier in the term, we had a visit from a group of girl footballers

from

parts of Mumbai.

the

poorer

They came

to us under the auspices of the OSCAR Foundation which has given them a new outlook on the world. Several of our pupils (Beatriz Cunningham, Ariana Davison, Millie Cox, Amber Anderson, Brenda Asein and Jasmine Jain) set about securing meaningful financial support for them through our school community and raised the magnificent sum of £10,647 as a very significant contribution to the ongoing well-being of the girls.

Golf Izzy Lloyd competed in the Junior European Open Golf Championships in Spain over a week and it was an amazing achievement for her to come 11th in a field drawn from the very best young female golfers in Europe. Congratulations, Izzy!

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Rackets

Rugby

In Rackets against Cheltenham, our first pair, Dan Holland and Gus Stephenson lost 3-0; the second pair, Aaron Tomson and Ed Mayell, lost 3-1, whilst the U15 pair, Olly Cox and Johnnie Stephenson won 3-1 and the U14s, Tommy Boorman and Joel Cox likewise won 3-1. Our top players are competing at Queen’s in London this week on the national stage and we wish them well.

In Rugby, Team Awards have gone to Tarush Agrawal, Harry Finch, Angus Catto, Rory Upton, Harry Sigley, Finley Morris, Oli Doherty, Zac Watson, Ed Freeman, Oli Tulloch, Charles Faujour, Sebastian Hood, Edward Carryer, Oliver Minter, William James, Oliver Kidson, Rodolphe Escudie, Abdul Lawal, Ehide Borha, Oliver Beer, Ben Myers and Tommy Boorman.

Sporting Awards

Junior Colours go to Harry Slater, Will Crossland, James Pickering, Joe Randall, Jack Yeoward, Max Hilton, Cameron Smith, Frankie Jefferies, Noah Hanke, Charles Hoyland, Monty Butwell, Luka Jansen van Vuuren and Tom Morison.

Here are the Sporting Awards for the term in Girls’ Hockey and Rugby:

Girls’ Hockey In Girls’ Hockey, Team Awards have gone to Amelia Broughton, Meghan Edwards, Catherine Horn, Jess Vickers, Bella Cole, Imogen Renaud, Lara Davidson, Kitty Holroyd, Pia FlynnJones, Evelyn Kenrick, Anna Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Chloe MacKellar, Amy Grammaticas, Millie Dobson, Lily Brown, Gia Neath, Lexie Darby, Lucy Underwood, Amelia Scott and Georgie Balfry.

Junior Colours have been awarded to Kinvara Clarke, Harriet Carpenter, Lucy Marriott, Sophie Roberts, Jasmine Ellis, Heather Harris, Jemima Martyn-Smith, Ruth Ettler, Otty Thomas, Vicky Monllor-Bessio and Lily Hutton.

Half Colours are awarded to Tonia Kuhr, Poppy Underwood, Georgina Hartley, Maddie Queen, Evie Dickinson, Charley Atkinson, Millie Kold, Charlotte Welge, Emily Atherton, Ariana Davison, Helen van Steenbrugghe, Amber Anderson, Scarlett Shaw, Izzy Wynn, Izzy Hammond, Hermione Martyn-Smith, Alice Day, Sassy Anderson, Lexie Clarke, Esther Woods and Annie Slater.

Full Colours have been awarded to Andrea Agut Artigas, Tonia Worrallo, Jess Biddle, Anna Barth, Ellie Calderwood, Fran Hsu and Hannah Atkinson.

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Half Colours have been awarded to Ethan Zhao, Jasper Penrice, Vansh Ladwa, Harry Sillence, Marco Garbi, Harvey Gearon, Vishal Koneru, Josh Sigley, Max Pickering, Ralph Sharp, Toby Hollis, George Standen McDougal, Harry Townsend, Seb Corry, Julian Loustric, Shamir Marshall, Urav Ladwa, Owen Carroll, Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Nicholas Booysen, Ethan Wang and Finlay Russell.

Well done to the recipients of Full Colours: Nick Yeoward, Monty Lampard, James Wakefield, Henry Forbes, Dylan Sillence, Ally Renton, Harry Bluck, Charles Izzard, Seb Grace, Tom Doherty, Ludo Staley, Imoesi Ogwemoh, Jack Onslow, Jock Catto and Oliver Cook.

I will end this Malvern Times by starting where I began: I wish you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful holiday with your sons and daughters.

Antony Clark | Headmaster