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House Reports
from The Stag Issue 2
by TheStag.
HOUSE REPORTS Your House Reporters share what you have been getting up to in house this term.
Year Nine Drama - The Year Nine’s performed the piece ‘The Franklin’s Tale’. Well done to those who performed, including; Asfandiyar Seitkassymov, Fergus Lawson Johnson, Harry Wieynk and Archie Jones. This scene shows Franklin, played by Fergus telling The Pilgrim’s Tale.
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Year 12s competed in house basketball; with Abylay Orazbek as captain of the team. Well done to Pennell who report they won most of the matches they played. Pennell have been getting into the Christmas spirit, with a Secret Santa under the Christmas tree. For COVID 19 safety reasons, all presents shall be quarantined for 48 hours before being handed out. Here, you can see Leonardo Fu, with his Santa outfit on next to the tree in Pennell House!
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Year Nine Drama - The Year tions to the year nines! Nines from Watt House performed in a successful year nine drama performance. After a long debate over the winner, the girls from Watt were announced the winners! Many thanks goes to the Year 12’s for organising it and congratulaCoffee morning has also been a huge success in Watt House, with allocated years providing the cakes for the morning break snack. It has proved a huge success, with a good way to relax in between the intense day to day lessons. We
Speaking as their Head of House, the Powell boys have been a pleasure to lead this term during “the new normal”. This year’s addition of new boys in Year Ten and Year Eleven have joined alongside the range of scholars in Years Nine and Twelve. They have enhanced the competitiveness within house and raised our already high standards to the next level.
This year’s mash up of Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale and Mamma Mia for Year Nine drama has been a great way for the Year 9’s to settle into the house and bond with people they will share the next five years of school with. Whether they were drama scholars or very new to drama, each of the boys worked hard, while often testing the patience of the Lower 6th directors, to add unique additions to The Pardoner’s Tale. Most notably, a rendition of Mamma Mia is now relentlessly being played on their speakers in house.
In terms of sports, the Powell boys have excelled so far this term. The rugby players have trained hard all season and many players, whether having a lot of experience or very little, have made big improvements in their game. This was represented well in house rugby for all years. We’ve also had multiple boys training in the football, tennis and horse riding teams.
During lockdown some of the boys took part in the rise of Tik Tok. The original content they created and new dance moves they learnt have made for some great entertainment in house and some excellent material for our up-coming house concert. A special mention goes out to Ali AlShamaa for his heartfelt reworking of the famous WAP dance and the Lower Sixth for using Tik Tok production as a means to stay together whilst not being able to meet during lockdown.
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In light of last year’s three-month peri- university applications with some year five minutes (equivalent to roughly 15 od of online learning, retrospective- 13s considering prospects abroad seconds in real-time) to level the score ly Wargrave students showed great (shout-out to Guilherme Rio-Tinto). and the went on to win on penalties –promise and steadfast perseverance with many eRC effort levels going up during the lockdown. As we progressed through the year, we were met with the unfortunate but inevitable news that there would be impressive. In terms of our resistance to Covid, the deployment of a one-way Although last year was effec- a second nationwide lockdown. Alt- system and also the remarkable work tively cut in half, Wargrave students hough this news was hard to done by the cleaners have helped imhave returned with great enthusiasm take, Wargrave students embraced it mensely. and are raring to go. This year we wel- well and it was further brightened by comed 10 new Year 9’s initially with the introduction of two new house the further addition of Jason Mo. tournaments: Fifa and Darts to go Things to look out for in the In an interview with our team, along with the usual Darts, Table Ten- coming terms for Wargrave: Theo Cruttenden said in that he felt he nis and Pool. This was met with much House Review was welcomed into a warm, fun and excitement across the house. (Can caring community from the first day. someone dethrone Mr Laverack and Annual house rowing When asked how it felt being away prevent him from winning threefrom his parents and boarding full-time consecutive pool championships?) for the first time, he said that he ex- There have been some exciting pected to feel homesick but instead felt safe and welcomed. As we began this points so far notably the thrilling comeback of Toby Clarke in house Wargrave year, the pressure and excitement of Fifa who scored two goals in the last
The past week in School House has phere and demonstrating team spirbeen one of great teamwork and it. Year 13 placed second in their achievement. Jiayu Sun scored 102 game of End Zone 360 an interestin the British Olympiad Senior ing mixture of netball and rugby Mathematics Challenge, earn- with Eleanor Daniel and Mel Grifing herself a gold medal placing fiths performing exceptionally her top in the year, an incredible well. accomplishment. There have been Planning ahead, we have many interhouse fixtures taking found a “Covid secure” way to do place across all year groups with a our part for those less fortunate wide variety of sports being by organising a charity raffle as a played. Year 10s played netball means to raise money for domestic placing a respectable fourth after abuse victims, an issue which fighting fierce, close matches. The has become ever more apparent year 11 Hockey during COVID-19. We will be team triumphed their way to first bringing in items to contribute to place in their inter house match, our raffle and tickets should be on our highest placers in house. Year sale soon. 12 battled hard in their interhouse netball with the whole year group coming together to play and support creating an inclusive atmos- School