Science Week This year’s science week programme involved plenty of practical activities as well as celebrating 150 years of the periodic table. Pupils wore tee shirts with the chemical elements’ symbols and entered into fun quizzes linked to the key stage 3, GCSE and A Level curriculum. At the pupils’ request, aspects of work involving the environment and how to protect it were also on the agenda.

Remarkable success for

international selection As previously reported, Chinoso Emeka, Success Makanjuola and Adebayo Ojo all were invited to Nigeria’s U20 and U23 camps with Adebayo Ojo making it into the U23 Squad for their game vs Libya.

Lazar Boyanov has been selected for the last 3 U16/17 camps for Bulgaria. Lazar played in the Development Cup vs Belgium, Lithuania and Slovakia as well as games vs Moldova. Lazar has also been selected for their camp over Easter.

Amal Shavketov was selected in a 30 man training camp for Uzbekistans U19s and was then selected in the main camp for their U19s where they played two fixtures vs U21 Lolokomotiv Tashket and U21 Dynamo Samarkand drawing 0-0 in the first game and 1-1 in the second playing full games in both fixtures.

Motorsport News Congratulations to Nikolas Taylor for his successes with the Arden young driver programme, and on recently passing his Karting Licence, which will enable him to compete this coming Summer. Next term we welcome Rito from Japan to the motorsport academy as well, to add a bit more competition

Issue No. 9 April 2019

International Day 2019 This year’s International Day was one of the best ever according to

seasoned observers. With pupils celebrating their cultures from over

40 different countries, the audience was treated to performances

from around the world, with many pupils in national dress.

After the show, the school enjoyed a wonderful buffet with food

cooked by the pupils themselves and staff giving everyone present a

real ‘taste of home.

At the end of the day there was a celebratory party in the PK building

to complete proceedings.

Co-Curricular

Activities As part of the college’s drive to continue to make

the boarding experience a memorable one, the

activity programme now offers something for

everyone.

With several sporting options, academic extension

clubs or something to simply enjoy and have a bit

of fun, there is a great deal on offer each Monday

and Friday afternoon.

Focus on Boarding It is really important for the college that we continue to improve and concentrate on one of our key areas, namely boarding. With dedicated staff in all age and gender appropriate accommodation and a continuation of the upgrading of furniture and decoration, there has a been a drive to create an atmosphere that leads to a truly happy and memorable boarding experience for our boys and girls. To that end, all resident tutors have continued to attend regular CPD through the BSA’s excellent Educare programme. Leading the way has been Mr Leo, our Head of Boarding and Pastoral care. We were delighted to receive news this term from Roehampton University that he has successfully passed his Certificate of professional practice and the certificate of professional development. In addition to the training of staff, more ‘boarding is fun’ events have taken place along with the usual celebration of birthdays and special events within each house. These events, when added to the schedule of School-Council organised activities, are making for a very happy boarding environment. It

Football Academy News

Cup Finals

Our U16 side have reached the ISFA U16 Shield Final vs Buckswood School after beating Priory School in the Quarter Final and Moorland School in the Semi Final. The final is to be hosted at the home of English football, St George’s Park, on the 25th of April. We are hoping to bring a big crowd to this game so any parents or agents who would like to watch get in touch for more details. Our U16s are also in the ESFA U16 Small Schools Cup Final on the 8th of May where they will face Our Lady’s Royal Catholic High School at the Manchester City Academy Stadium. The U16s beat Claremont School in the Quarter Finals and St Bernard’s Catholic School in the Semi Final.

Our 1st team are in the Semi Final of the ECFA Secondary Play off for category 1 teams playing Tyne Met College in Newcastle on the 3rd of May. Should they win, they will join the U16s at Manchester City on the 8th May to make what we hope will be a double celebration. Tournaments Our U14 side won the ISA 7-a-side National Cup and our U16s finished third in the same competition.

Next term we have a mixed U18s side playing in the Beaumont Park U18 11v11 Tournament on the 27th of April. Our U16s are playing in the Wisbech 11v11 Tournament and our U15s and 16s are also playing in the Pilgrim Cup based at Boston United.

Our U14s are going to Italy to play in the U14 Med cup in May where they have been drawn in group D vs IS Lausanne, Ambrit Rome, BIS, Jeddah, BIS Cairo and Riverside Prague.

As this edition is going to press, the college has sides playing in its own

international tournament at HTFC. Following on from earlier trials where we live-

streamed one of our Category 1 matches with the 1st XI, we are live-streaming the

tournament via our Facebook page.

Trips and Visits This term, we have again gone beyond

the classroom to enhance our teaching.

The artists have visited Tate Modern and

Tate Britain in preparation for the A level

and UFP examinations :-Developing

ideas through investigations informed

by contextual sources. The English

Literature pupils saw an exciting

production of Macbeth and met up with

Lady Macbeth after the show.

The A Level and UFP Psychologists

attended a memorable and truly

interesting masterclass in Birmingham.

Our Intensive English faculty has also

continued to travel out and about

enabling the pupils to practise their

English. This time on the unsuspecting

folk of the historic city of York. In

addition, the IELTS structure has again

benefitted from a further round of full

IELTS examination mocks in preparation

for the real things due to be taken next

term.

Calling All Alumni The College is looking to establish better links with our former pupils so that you can catch up with old friends, and reacquaint yourselves with the school and see how it is progressing now that we have moved into our second fifty years of existence. The school is undergoing an exciting period of change, which has seen the school grow, and develop into a place truly fit for education in the 21st century. With such an international group of past and present pupils, our attempts to reach you all have relied heavily of social media, and will involve several events taking place around the world. The first one of these will take place at the Four Points Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos on Saturday 13th April 19:00 – 23:00 If you know of any OBs who would like to attend this and our future events, please contact Rachel Caine, our International Partnerships Director. r.caine@brookehouse.com or Whats App +447437010201

Olympiads & Challenges

Following on from the good news received regarding more successes with our Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), we are delighted to report on further success with pupils taking the Intermediate Mathematics Challenge and science Olympiads. In total two thirds of all entrants passed the IMC with either a gold, silver or bronze award. Special mention must go to Ben Pich Sovicheth Chea for coming top out of the whole school cohort entering this year’s competition. In the Chemistry Olympiad, we were fortunate enough to see three pupils gain awards:- Duc Tri Dinh silver Le Thanh Phuong (Claudia) bronze Tu Do Hoang bronze We are still waiting on news from those who entered the Physics Olympiad and further mathematical challenges. Our Business and Economics students were also well represented in the online competition they entered.

Speech day 2019 This year’s Speech day will take place on Saturday the 25th May. The events of the week will take in the A Level and UFP Leavers’ Dinner on Wednesday 22nd May along with the annual party, this year held in the PK building on Friday 24th May, but incorporating a barbeque/buffet to add to the occasion.

On the Saturday, the speech day ceremony will take place in the Congregational Church, adjacent to the college, at 11:30 – 12:30 This will be followed by lunch within the grounds at 13:00 – 14:45.

Following on from lunch, there will be the annual old boys of the academy against a Leavers’ XI at HTFC. Kick Off 15:00

After the football, there will be high tea in the function room of HTFC

For any old boys wishing to play in the game, please contact the school. All parents, agents and guardians of current pupils and all former pupils are cordially invited to the event.