SCHOOL NOTES LENT 2014

SUNNINGDALE

Rugby 1st XVIn truth, the season should never have looked like this at all. On paper this was a talented set of boys whohad potential.The reality was that the wettest New Year in more than a century conspired to rob us offixtures and render training almost impossible.Thus, like lambs to the slaughter we took on our strongestopponents just when we were at our weakest and were made to pay severely for our naivety.Those weredark days then, in the midst of the season, having lost four games in a row by large and largely unjustifiedpoints margins. In adversity you tend to learn more about the characters around you and the truemettle of those manning the ship with you in a storm. Certainly those were bleak days, where very fewbelieved in the 1st XV. What was to come would prove nothing short of remarkable and show that evenwhen you reach your nadir, your zenith can be just around the corner.

The season started briskly with a game against a good although injury ravaged Brambletye. It was won bythe merest of margins 7 - 0. Then followed the floods and our winter of discontent. At least three of thefour cancelled fixtures were eminently winnable and we returned after Long Leave having only trainedonce on our own pitch and looking like rabbits in headlights. Beatings were taken from the monstrouslylarge sides of Ludgrove and Cothill and even more frustratingly we threw away matches against HorrisHill and Woodcote through a lack of belief, courage and plain old stupidity. Having lost four matches in arow it seemed that the season was a disaster and many might have given up there and then. However, the1stXV refused to lay down and die and redoubled their efforts in training and suddenly started to learnhow the game should be played and crucially how important it is to tackle properly. Next up cameMilbourne Lodge, a team that had run Woodcote very close and were on paper the much better side.They were clinically put to the sword and simply starved of the ball through aggressive, mistake free rugby.It was a sight to behold as suddenly things came to together and the whole side clicked and playersunderstood their job.The scoreline of 52 - 0 was nothing less than we deserved. Bishopsgate were sim-ilarly put to the sword by 50 points in a faultless display where the opposition were simply throttled byour superiority of play and power.This led to a season finale of epic proportions and how fitting that theweather gods should try to play their final card to ruin our season. St. George's were a good side andfancied that Sunningdale did not have the stomach for a fight. How wrong they were, as the hail fell weput on a gritty display of sheer determination and guts winning the match 19-0.The season had, againstall odds been saved. Colours were awarded toThomas, Sikorski, James, Morata, Hanif, Hardaker, andTitov.

Team from: Thomas, Sikorski, J.Kim, Pangin, James,Titov, de Carlos, Markous, Hanif, Hardaker, Morata-Reol, Hopton Ma, Clegg, Beckwith Moore,Allen, Loisel, Kim

B.W.R.H

COMMENT

What a term!The wettest in living memory butcertainly one of the most successful.

It was such a shame that we missed out onso many rugby matches due to the weather butwhen we did play we played very well indeedand the boys have so enjoyed their well-deserved success.

"Ye Ha!" was a triumph and it is always so goodto see a production which involves the wholeschool. The choir have also been busy andtheir concert in Our Lady Immaculate was ex-tremely well received.

Finally, let's not forget our five scholarships; animpressive record from a small school andwhat is so pleasing is that they encompass dif-ferent areas of school life; academic, art, musicand sport.Truly an all round education.

The National Prep SchoolGeneral Knowledge QuizThe national prep school general knowledge quizwas held at Elstree and was a great success.Hopton ma, Russell, Tirado, and Hobbs were thefour boys who competed.There were twelve otherschools in the competition and we did exceptionallywell, coming second with a very high score of 272points. Going into the semi-final round we had achance to win but the winning team just pipped usat the post - beating us by five points. Unfortunatelythat meant that we didn't have an automaticqualifying place in the final but we are hoping toqualify as the highest scoring runners-up.

M Russell(FormVA)

SCHOOL NOTESFORM PRIZES

VI Hopton ma, Sikorski, Kim

VIa Pangin

V Reddyhough ma,Titov, Zhao

Va Delikatnyi, Beckwith-Moore, de Carlos

IV Goschen, Jegede

IVa Senior ma,Tirado

III Zakhir ma, Hopton mi

II Khan, Kuanyshev ma, Caddy

I Hobbs, Jackson mi

SCHOLARSHIPS awarded to:

J Kim (Music & Academic) - STOWE

James (Academic) - CANFORD

Hanif (Sport) - DUKE OF KENT

Allen (Art Exhibition) - WELLINGTON

The SHOWUP prize was won by Delikatnyi

The GENERAL KNOWLEDGE was wonby Buxton (Senior) & Dixon (Junior)

The COMPLIMENTS prize was won byMerrill

JUDO BELTS

YELLOW - Zakhir mi,Wallace, Caddy,Preston ma, Mountain,Warde-Norbury

ORANGE - Coen, Gourlay, Lamb, van Heus-den

BLUE - Lazaro

SKIING: CARRELET BELL was won byClegg

The DUNDAS CUP was won by Hoptonma

The SENIOR FIVES COMPETITIONwas won by James & Morata

The JUNIOR FIVES COMPETITIONwas won by Russell & Hopkins

The FIVES CUP was won by James

SQUASH: Hopton ma (Senior), Russell(Junior)

The MOST IMPROVED RUGBYPLAYER was won by Pangin

The RUGBY 7’s CUP was won by Hanif

The RUGBY CUP was won by Thomas

Ski RacesThis year's IAPS ski races were held in Passo Tonale, Italy for the 4th year in a row.The weather waswonderful with blue skies and perfect ski conditions for the duration of the week. Three days good, solidrace training yielded a Silver Medal in the Plate Competition, a great result considering the size of someof the opposition teams. Clegg, the team Captain, and Loisel put in excellent times that set us up nicelyfor our second place in the competition.

Team: Desmond, Kuznetsov, Loisel, Clegg (Capt.)

B.C

Science QuizWe arrived, fresh in the morning at HildenGrange, on the 28th of November, where 8other schools came to compete at the QuizClub for the trophy. At the beginning we got offto a fair start, we were fourth, however we werenot satisfied.We fought and fought, until we werethird.

It was only until we got full marks on a questionand moved to second place.Although at first wewere ahead by a hundred points, we still com-peted for the trophy! At the final stages, they didwin, beating us by 215 points, which is extremelyhigh! Yet we came second with a phenomenalscore of 2235! The week before, a school wonwith a score of 1800! So to come second with ascore higher than 1800 is immense!

Team: Malhamé, Efemuai, Dixon, and Buxton.

L Malhamé(FormVa)

MusicAnother busy term has gone by, a lot has beenachieved, and standards have been raised. I amalways so pleased when a pupil takes an examor plays in a concert and realises the sense ofachievement that giving a good performancecan provide, and we have certainly had our fairshare of those this term. We had two informalconcerts in the Library involving pupils from allyears of the school, a lot of them playing orsinging in public for the first time.

Our visiting musician this term was Dr KarenAplin from Oxford University who gave aninformative talk to the whole school aboutMusic and the Weather, Karen, whose researchhas been featured on BBC Radio 3, played anumber of different examples for us to listen to,and also brought her double bass to demon-strate some low sound waves.

A group of seven boys had the fantastic oppor-tunity of going to Stowe School to take part ina piano workshop on March 5th.This day wasactually a follow up to a visit to us by the Headof Keyboard from Stowe, Mr Ben Andrew, whovisited us for an interesting coaching session onputting together some of his own arrangementsfor 8 pianists on 4 pianos. When we went toStowe we had the chance to play on a hall fullof Steinways, and also to hear a recital andworkshop by Philip Fowke, one of the principalpiano teachers from Trinity College of Music,London.

The choir are on top form. They amaze us eachSunday with some lovely and inspiring singing inChapel, the dynamic range and sense of phrasingthey are producing is getting better all the timeand the supportive band of parents who supportthe Sunday services really enjoy the singing.

Next term we will look forward to moreschool concerts, the Festival of Song and Housesong competition, and our visiting musician willbe Mark James from London who will be givingan organ recital in the chapel on May 11th.

S.L

Charity ConcertOnThursday 20th March, the school choir trav-elled to Tolworth in Surrey to perform a con-cert in the church of Our Lady Immaculate. Theconcert was to raise money for the LentenProject. While it looked like a small audience,the large church was half full, and the retiringcollection yielded more than £500! Thank youto all the parents that came and supported us.

L.F.S

Concert - ‘Ye Ha’

A Grandmother writes…

Hi folks, just wanted to tell you about a little play I saw lately at Sunningdale School - Ye Ha - all aboutthe Wild West where a doggone evil sheriff and his posse try’n seize some buried treasure from underthe noses of the townsfolk. Luckily a sweet gal (Beckwith Moore) rides into town and turns the tableson the baddies and helps the new greenhorn sheriff (Reddyhough) with a lovely voice and his ma, (Pear-son) to win the day.

Now the folks in the play were great. There wasone, Spooner (Arthur) who was the completeshowman. There were some real pretty gals whoworked at the local saloon but looked as if theycould have scored in that weird English game calledrugby if they had had half a mind to and as for theposse - well that one Butch (Titov) - well!

Mayor Truman also goes by the name of Delikatnyi- well I could tell he was a slippery one as soon ashe came on the stage and when he gets pushed outI was mighty surprised that the town picked a boywho liked cooking to take on the job. Mind you hisma was a rare one who, though she was small,would get her own way for her boy.

Now that sweet gal with the horse, (a real strangebreed called Thomas & Merrill ) well, she was clev-erer than a girl should be and she ended up - andthis ain't no lie - giving the credit for her cleverscheming to the sheriff boy who liked the cookingbut in the end he went back to the kitchen and shebecame the sheriff herself.

There was a lot of real good singing, the Injunsmade us laugh and the two guys from the funeralparlour, well they was measuring up every darn per-son on the stage. It seemed like everyone in theplay was having a real good time.There was a greatdeal of clapping when it ended so I guess othersenjoyed it as much as I did. Another triumph forAmy Dawson and Steven Lea.

World Book Day

Sunningdale celebrated World Book Day by askingall members of staff to write book reviews of theirfavourite books. Not only did this make for a fundisplay in the Reading Room but also providedsome fascinating insights into the reading habits andclandestine desires of Sunningdale staff.Who wouldhave thought, for instance, Mr Logue secretlyyearned for a swash-buckling life as a French peasantroaming the terrains of Dumas', Count of MonteCristo; or that Mrs Dawson was tucked up everynight with The Hunger Games? I might haveguessed that Mr Macpherson had ambitions tolead the British Army à la Sir Peter de la Billiere'sSAS to Gulf Command; but not that deep inside MrHowroyd was a crazed Saxon withViking sympathiesemployed in the protection of King Arthur's realm(The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell). Clearly,I spend my daydreams lost on the blasted land-scapes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road; but didyou know that Madam Gregg wishes she was amountaineer? (First on the Rope by Roger Frison-Roche.)

A.D.V

Team from: Neckel (c), Loisel, J. Kim, Malhame, Kuznetsov, Crespi, Merrill, Delikatnyi, Goschen, Cluff,Desmond, Iglesias, (Subs: Sasson, Bekar, Zhao)

Characters of The 1st XVThomas* - (captain) To start with he found the captaincy of the team a heavy burden to bear and as aquiet man could find no voice to lead. However, he learnt that sometimes leading by example can give youthe roar of a lion. He was the most tremendous player, tougher than iron and a scrummager par excel-lence. His sheer strength and guile won the game against St. George's and few will forget his barnstorm-ing try from the halfway line against Bishopsgate.Sikorski* - (Vice captain) A competitor made of the sternest of stuff. His second year in the 1st XV andundoubtedly he proved himself to be the best hooker Sunningdale has had in many a year. He never, evertook a step backwards and expected nothing less of his team mates. With him the scrum provedundoubtedly the best on the circuit, even against much larger opposition. J.Kim - Through sheer deter-mination he made his way into the team late on and was arguably the find of the season. A wonderfulrunner, tackler and scrummager.Pangin - Undoubtedly the most improved player of the season, he has a flinty soul and became theengine that the pack was built around. A tackling machine.James* - A small player with an enormous impact. He played with cunning and raw aggression, oftenbouncing out of the tackle and relishing the pure physicality of the game. A sublime line out thrower whoalways gave us the edge against opponents in the set piece.Titov* - An excellent flanker whose meat and drink was the breakdown. A terror of all fly halves andnot a bad tackler when he got his head around it.de Carlos - One of the most naturally gifted players in the team, he has a willingness to throw himselfinto the fray above all others. His two tries against Horris Hill very nearly won us the game.A David whoslew many Goliaths.Markous - It was a great sadness that illness and injury robbed him of most of the first part of theseason as he has enormous potential and can be a ferocious runner. A top quality number eight.Hanif* - His quick feet and pass made him the scourge of many defences. His influence grew from gameto game. One to watch for the future.Hardaker*- Another who was barely distinguishable from the player who started the season. He hasvision and a turn of speed to change a game on its head.Morata-Reol* - Probably the best place kicker Sunningdale has produced in the last ten years.Astonishing to think this was his first season in the game. His successful kicks from the touchline were avision to behold and would warm the cockles of Jonny Wilkinson's heart.Hopton ma - A talented and deft player, we have high hopes for him next season.Clegg - The complete winger; fast, strong, and possessing a pair of hands that could scoop the ball upfrom his shoelaces at full tilt. A player who came on unbelievably over the season.Beckwith-Moore - The fastest and most elusive player in the side. His inside, outside running stylemade him slippier than an eel for defences.Allen - A doughty and unbreakable player who hit harder than a freight train and was quick on his feetwhen he had the ball in hand.An excellent fullback.Also played - Loisel, Kim.

B.W.R.H

Rugby 2nd XIIThis has been a fantastic term for the 2nd's rugby team. After a frustrating beginning to the season, withnumerous games cancelled due to the wettest winter on record the boys got off to a superb start withan emphatic win against Horris Hill at home.The next game against Ludgrove was made especially diffi-cult as four key players were visiting Stowe. After this loss they played with great gusto against Wood-cote House and after a Herculean effort the score was a very close 26-19 to the opponents. Unperturbedby this setback the team was victorious in their next game against Bishopsgate. The team's' greateststrength has been their ability to win the rucks and scrums and their physicality in driving forwards. Thefocus for the next few training sessions was on basic handling drills and spreading out across the pitch.This hard work paid off and the final game was a superlative victory of 41-0 against St Georges',Windsor. A fantastic way to close the season, especially for the leavers for whom this would be their lastgame of rugby at Sunningdale.

A.T.M

Rugby 3rd XIIWeather and illness conspired to ensure the 3rdsrugby season was restricted to just two matchesthis term. I was pleased the boys went for it andmade the most of the scoring opportunities in thetwo games they played, scoring plenty of tries andputting in some crunching tackles when needed.

Team from: Montiel, Ayzenshtat, Klein, Reddy-hough ma, Seal, Zhao,Tear ma, Sasson.

B.C

The boys on the Possibles Trip this termthat went to the John Nike Centre werePangin, Marshall Lee,Tirado, Zakhir ma., Zakhir mi.,Jackson mi., Wilson, Buxton, J. Kim, Kuznetsov,Boscowen

Old BoysCongratulations to Ed Maidment, Alexan-der Garton and Anthony Minoprio ontheir engagements, to Harry Chichesterand Henry Dixon on the birth of theirdaughters and toAlex Illingworth, CasparGilroy and Matthew Bothwick on thebirth of their sons.Harry Bannister is theleading National Hunt Jockey in the 2014Championship.William Amos is in the Cityworking for the SMBC Bank. VeryanBoscawen was an assistant referee at theVarsity Rugby Match.Aldwyn Boscawen isworking in banking. Hugh Boscawen is theFinance Director of the Officers AssociationCharity. Benjamin Templer has graduatedfrom King’s College and is now a Junior Doc-tor. Frederick Barratt has become ACAqualified through the Chartered Institute of Ac-countants.Ollie Plunket travelled the lengthof the Americas alone by motorbike and raised£100,000 for charity. Jamie Ingham Clarkwas seen at the Clothworkers’ Livery Dinner.Simon Miesegaes entertained TomHurd, James Greenwood, RichardChetwode, Mark Hodson, Nick Fel-lows and Nick and Tim Dawson at Ful-ham’s home game against Liverpool. We regretto announce the death of General DavidAlexander-Sinclair who was an EtonScholar in 1940 and Damien Ireland-Smith who left in 1995.Mr Don Werneralso sadly died, although not an old boy, MrWerner taught judo here for a long time. Hewas an internationally recognised judo coachand will be much missed.

Anthony Horowitz Talkat EtonA lucky group of Sunningdale boys enjoyed anevening of literary hero worship after they werekindly invited by Eton College to hear AnthonyHorowitz talk about his books and life. It was afabulous night: Horowitz was a very engagingspeaker and gleefully recounted vaguely inap-propriate tales of his childhood and dispensedpearls of wisdom to budding young writers.

A.D.V

House DinnerGirdlestone were the winners of the Housecompetition this term. For their supper theychose prawn cocktail followed by duck breastwith potato dauphinoise and red cabbage andfor pudding chocolate fondant, all beautifullycooked by Darren and his team.

A.C.D

SundayOuting toHarlequins vWaspsRugbyMatchOn the Sunday before Long Leave, we jumped aboard the Sunningdale toTwickenham train and made ourway to theTwickenham Stoop, eager to witness some Aviva Premiership rugby! The day was bitterly coldwith flags thrown back and forth in the wind, not an ideal day for entertaining rugby! Buxton and Hinch-liffe commandeered the Harlequins mascot into a pre-match photo whilst the rest of us made ourselvescomfy in anticipation of the game. The away side, London Wasps dominated in defense, thwarting anymeaningful attack from their hosts, Harlequins. Half-time came and went with Wasps leading 10-6.Withlittle action to cheer, we were suddenly awoken in the final two minutes from time by a victory snatch-ing try from the home team! We left the stadium amidst scenes of jubilation as Harlequins came away witha less than deserved victory! It was a great day out and a fantastic opportunity to see the professionalsin action after our own rugby exertions in the term so far.The boys were able to see at close quartershow the players prepared for their match during warm-ups, as well as view the tactical decisions anddetail in organisation of attack and defense.

M.P.G

Rugby Trip - London Irish V Lusitanos

On Saturday 11th January, the 1st XV and the Under 11’s went to the Madejski Stadium, Reading, towatch a rugby match between London Irish and Lusitanos from Portugal. Before the match started, wehad our photo taken on the field and then watched the players in their warm-up.The final score was79-3 to London Irish who completely outclassed their visitors. It was very exciting to see so many pointsand gave us the opportunity to learn lots of good, new moves as well as study the players’ technique. Justafter half-time, the camera man showed us on the big screen! Many thanks to Mr Howroyd for organisingthis trip for us.

F James(FormVI)

Under 11A RugbyPlayed 9 Won 7 Lost 2

‘Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.’The Under 11 ‘A’ rugby team epitomised thisphrase. The course of the season witnessed her-culean defence, flamboyance in attack, as well as un-rivaled sportsmanship on the field of play. A seasonthat promised much, certainly delivered with arecord of 7 victories and 2 defeats.Brambletye werefirst to succumb as Senior ma and Boer led a fightbackto run out eventual winners 27-12. Dorset Houseprovided extremely stiff opposition.The boys’ de-fence was given the thoroughest of examinationsbut having seized momentum in the second half, alast gasp try from Boer proved vital. A clinical per-formance versusWoodcote followed with the highlight being a clean sheet in defence. Horris Hill arrivedon the back of an unbeaten season stretching back before Christmas and proved far too strong. Despitesharing possession and having our own opportunities, the physicality of the breakdown area played intothe hands of our visitors.This disappointment was quickly followed by another against a decent Ludgroveoutfit. Having controlled large periods of the game but failing to capitalise on golden opportunities withinthe opposition twenty-two, two charged down kicks led to a narrow 14-5 defeat.Woodcote away quicklymade up for the hurt of the Ludgrove defeat.The boys played their best rugby of the season en route toa scintillating 28-0 victory. Playing on a large pitch, the ball was swung left and right at tremendous pace.Although only four tries were scored, each boy performed their role to the best of their ability. Buxtoncontrolled proceedings from fly-half, with Senior ma and Reddyhough mi in fine fettle. Russell was at hisbest, utilising space and bringing other players into the game.This really was a genuine, whole team vic-tory and brought together all of the aims set out at the start of the season. Milbourne Lodge and Bish-opsgate were then defeated, amassing 68 points in the process, before St. George’s,Windsor provided thefinal fixture. A winning margin of 42-0 put the seal on what proved to be a very successful season.Theboys are to be applauded for the way in which they played their rugby. A high tempo, skills based ap-proach that relied on each boy setting extremely high standards for handling, tackling and fitness, allowedfor an adventurous style of rugby. They are each to be commended for providing some quitefantastic moments throughout the season. The boys and I would like to thank all of the parents whoturned out in support.

M.P.G

Under 11B RugbyPlayed 8 Won 4 Lost 4

After two weeks training at the beginning of termthe boys were raring to go and recorded a goodvictory against Brambletye (21-0), even scoringafter only two minutes of play as Zakhir ma racedaway down the wing. After a cancellation the boysthen played against Woodcote House and in verywet and cold conditions lost by a try in the lastcouple of minutes of play. Unfortunately this dam-aged their confidence and a barren run of threelosses to Horris Hill (0-19), Ludgrove (0-35) andWoodcote House (0-52) followed. Something hadto change and after a hard team building session inCharlie Brown’s field the results picked up.

The team entered a purple patch and finished theseason on a high recording three superb victoriesagainst Milbourne Lodge (40-0), Bishopsgate (12-7) and St George’s Windsor (20-10).The perform-ance against St George’s was particularly pleasing asthe boys had to dig deep after going a try down indifficult weather conditions.

Team from: Arthur, Zakhir mi,Warde-Norbury,Preston ma, Treacher, Caddy, T Davies, Senior mi,Zakhir ma, Lazaro, Jegede, Boam, Neuhaus, Mar-shall-Lee & Kunitsyn.

D.P.W

Under 11C RugbyThe under 11C team had a frustrating start to theseason with several fixtures abandoned due to theweather. Undeterred though, we put our effort intoa strict training regime and developed quite askilled squad. We were outclassed against Lud-grove, but things started to turn our way after that.Bishopsgate narrowly beat us 25 to 20 in a gamethat we could have won had the luck gone our way.Finally, we entertained St Georges,Windsor and, ina thrilling game of grit and determination, cameaway with a 35 to 20 win in our last game of theseason. Special mention to Jonas who captainedwith aplomb through thick and thin.

Team from: Jonas (Captain), Dixon, Kuanyshevma, Coen, Grinling, Neuhaus, Marshall Lee, Lamb,Saville Sneath, Davenport Thomas, Gourlay, VanHeusden, Mountain, Tear mi., Pearson, Tirado,Dyachenko

D.C.S

Team from: Russell, Boer, Ker, Hinchliffe, Efemuai,Arthur,Warde-Norbury, Hopton, Buxton, Senior maReddyhough mi, Hagg-Davies, Hopkins, Zakhir ma.

Cross CountryAfter a biblically wet start to the season, whereby numerous fixtures have been cancelled the Senior andJunior teams of Hopton ma, Morata, Beckwith-Moore, Hanif, Titov, Hinchliffe, Jackson ma, Hopton mi,Hagg-Davies, Senior ma and mi, T. Davies and Hopkins travelled to Ludgrove for their first cross countrymeet against some extremely fierce competition. After a walk-through of the undulating and wet coursethe teams set off and all Sunningdale teams finished strongly after some excellent efforts. The final racewas at the Oratory School, where enshrouded by a thick cold mist the teams ran hard and performedwell. Whilst there were no podium places, there were some outstanding personal results, especiallyamong the junior team who are looking very strong for the future.

A.T.M

Under 9A RugbyThe U9A's have had a fantastic season and haveshown real passion and desire all throughout. Theirfirst game against Brambletye set the tone with anail biting 5-4 try win. Outstanding performancesfrom Jackson ma. and Boscawen. There was a littleslip up against Dorset House in the next match butthey soon bounced back to win their next threegames against Bishopsgate,Woodcote and Elstree.

The skill level was improving daily and what was sopleasing to see was their wonderful commitmentand team spirit. The afore mentioned boys weregetting better and better, however, Field, Hobbsand Jackson mi also 'came to the party' by puttingin some crunching tackles and scoring some amazingtries. The next four games were extremely closewith two wins and two loses recorded. The finalgame against Bishopsgate saw the best rugby allseason and it was great to see J. Davies, Berridge,Wallace and Crewe-Read mi putting in someimmense performances.A superb season boys, verywell done indeed!

Team from: Boscawen (C), Jackson ma., Field,Hobbs, Jackson mi., Horton, Wallace, J. Davies,Crewe-Read mi.

A.J.L

U9B RugbyAfter most opposition cried off at the last minute,it was great to play a the three games we didagainst those who dared!We had a friendly againstBishopsgate A team, a match against Ludgrove andthen finally Bishopsgate B team.They really enjoyedtheir matches and Khan was great at running withthe ball.

Team from: Khan,Ardern-Norris, Dawson, Pre-ston mi, Ropeid, Kuanyshev mi,Wilson

G.J.S-B

Sunningdale Rugby TournamentSunningdale hosted its inaugural Under 11 7s tournament on the last Saturday of term. Teams from HallGrove,Woodcote House, Brockhurst, Bishopsgate and St. George’s,Windsor, visited and enjoyed somefast paced action as the sun shone high above. Our Under 11 boys played some rugby that would rivalthe 7s greats from Fiji and beyond as they swept all before them en route to winning the tournament. Scor-ing an aggregate of 149 points with no points conceded across all five of their matches, the boys were indominant form. It was particularly pleasing to see theboys perform with huge amounts of speed anddetermination, as well as show flare in wanting toentertain.Very well done to the following: Russell,Buxton, Boer, Hinchliffe, Hopton, Senior ma, Ker,Zakhir ma, Hagg-Davies, Efemuai.

M.P.G

Scores:

33-0 v Woodcote

29-0 v Bishopsgate 28-0 v Brockhurst

24-0 v Hall Grove 35-0 v St.George’s,Windsor

FivesThe first pair in every match we played this term were unbeaten. James and Russell beat Eton twice,triumphed over Harrow, dominated Ludgrove in both fixtures and the U11 first pair (Russell & Hop-ton ma) beat Highgate. They have had a terrific term. Other team members performed well beatingLudgrove and Harrow.We had a good day at the Prep School Fives, losing only 1 point in the initialround robin round but then came up short against Summer Fields in the quarter-final. In the U12Championships, Russell and Hopton ma lost to Highgate in the semi-final of the main event.We hada promising start but they were too powerful in the end.

Team from: James & Russell, Morata & Hopton ma, Beckwith-Moore & Hopkins, Senior ma &Buxton, Ker & Hinchliffe, Senior mi & Hopton mi

G.J.S-B

Under 9A winning table.

Polo ClubLego Club

Some of the Evening Activities at Sunningdale…..

Under 12 Cricket Visit to Bradfield CollegeWith the cricket season looming large on the horizon,eight of our boys took time-out from rugby in orderto attend a coaching day at Bradfield College. The boys took part in a net session,as well as having the chanceto play against ‘Merlin’ the bowling machine. ‘Merlin’ became famous as the bowling machine that England’splayers practised against in order to try and combat Sri Lanka’s spin superstar Muttiah Muralitharan.Following this, the boys took part in strength and conditioning activities and also fielding drills.To concludethe day, an indoor cricket tournament was held where, having seen off Thorngrove and St.George’s, Wind-sor, we lost to Lambrook in the final. The boys enjoyed a wonderful day out,and one that hopefully will whetthe appetite for the cricket to come after Easter.

Talk: ‘The History ofthe Ashes’On the penultimate Sunday of term, we welcomedPeter and Christopher Pyemont as they gave ariveting talk on everything to do with the game ofcricket,and in particular theAshes contests betweenEngland and Australia. No stone was left unturnedas we travelled back in time to the 17th Century,right through to the modern day professional era.The boys listened intently to tales from the Bodylineseries of 1932, as well as more recent eventswhere Australia have regained possession of thefamous little Urn. It was tremendous to be privyto such passion and enthusiasm regarding this topicand we hope that it will inspire our boys when theydon their whites during the Summer Term.

Air Rifle Club

Fitness Club

Reptile Club

Spanish Club

Poker Club