Autumn term 2018, Week 9 www.luctonschool.org 9th November Autumn 2018, week 9 In this issue: l Prep School News l Boarding News l Lucton Orchestral Day l Midlands Safari Park visit l Sports Report l Equestrian News The Chapel at Croft Castle was the venue for last night’s annual Words & Music for Remembrance. It was quite cosy, but we all squeezed in for a real treat, both musically and from the pupils’ readings presented with great confidence. Mr and Mrs Wall and their team of peripetetic music teachers have done a brilliant job, working with Lucton students to create some truly wonderful music. Mr Maxim accompanied many pieces brilliantly and the musical standard was quite simply, excellent. There were refreshments during an interval and all the proceeds will go towards the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. Many thanks also to Revd. Burgess and the Churchwardens for their hospitality. It was a truly wonderful setting for this moving event. Words & Music for Remembrance
In this issue:l Prep School Newsl Boarding Newsl Lucton Orchestral
Dayl Midlands Safari
Park visitl Sports Reportl Equestrian News
The Chapel at Croft Castlewas the venue for last night’sannual Words & Music forRemembrance. It was quitecosy, but we all squeezed infor a real treat, bothmusically and from thepupils’ readings presentedwith great confidence.Mr and Mrs Wall and theirteam of peripetetic musicteachers have done a brilliantjob, working with Luctonstudents to create some trulywonderful music. Mr Maximaccompanied many piecesbrilliantly and the musicalstandard was quite simply,excellent.There were refreshmentsduring an interval and all theproceeds will go towards theRoyal British Legion PoppyAppeal. Many thanks also toRevd. Burgess and theChurchwardens for their hospitality. It was a trulywonderful setting for this moving event.
Words & Music for Remembrance
Welcome back after a well-earned half-term. Recharged and raring to go is adefinite description of both the childrenand the teachers. We have an awful lot topack in over the next few weeks but let uscast our mind back to our last FridayAssembly performed with élan by MrsFower’s Reception class. The KitchenDisco was the book and we had somewonderful dancing and singing. There wasa serious message as well, to make sure thatwe have a healthy diet and look after theenvironment so that we can produce thefood. Big ideas delivered with humour,thank you Mrs Fower’s class!
Over half term the children were asked ifthey would produce something that wouldcommemorate the 100th Anniversary ofthe end of WWI. Well that ‘something’produced such creative ideas. It is fantastic.Miss Cockburn’s initial idea of a display hashad to change to accommodate all that hascome in. So a small ‘Thank You’ now readyfor a bigger one later on. Remembrancewas obviously on our minds this week andwe will be at the School’s annualRemembrance Parade on Friday. Nomatter how young the children are, theyreally get the sense of occasion even if theyare unsure of the reasons. Each year itprovokes good discussions in the classroomand out on the playground.
Open The Book came on their bi-weekly visit and we learnt all about Mosesand the Burning Bush. A great story where
we find that even though Moses was ‘..slowof speech and thought’ he would stand upin front of people and convince them to gowith him. As ever OTB were enthusiasticfinishing off with a very jazzy song that thechildren love to sing and dance to. We willbe seeing them in another two weeks forsome more stories and lessons and can’tthank them enough as they are allvolunteers.
Years 2 and 4 went off on a DiscoveryVisit to the safari park on Tuesday. Iunderstand that the big animals weren’tthat obvious on the trip around – well theweather was poor – but the food chainsession was excellent as were the smallanimals, insects, snakes and so on.Definitely bringing theory into real life! It’sall very well drawing a food chain butactually seeing it in action, that is worthmuch more.
The Nativity has really started this week:costume lists are being drawn up, props arebeing dusted off (I am sure that we havefound the manger) songs are being learntand will be coming home to practise. TheChristmas Cards have already returned
from the publishers and the ICT roomseems full of glitter baubles that are in the process of being made. We can’t hold back the tide any longer – Christmas is definitely coming!
As it is Children in Need next Friday, it is our tradition that we ask you to bring in cupcakes that we sell to the children after Friday’s Assembly. It is a very worthy charity
and one that the pupils connect with. Sowe do hope that you can come alongto Year 4’s Assembly. It doesn’t matterif your son or daughter isn’t in Year 4,
you are still invited. It is awonderful opportunity tocelebrate the children’s achieve-
ments, catch up on School news, have acup of tea (and a cupcake this time) andeven celebrate the odd birthday. A wonderful way to start the weekend.
LuctonOrchestral DayJust before half term wehosted our first LuctonOrchestral Day. It was awonderful occasion and allparticipants thoroughlyenjoyed themselves. In the endwe had about 80 children whoparticipated including 60children from five visitingschools. Musically, the day wasrun by four pros from theEnglish Symphony Orchestraincluding the leader ZoeBeyers ably assisted by ourown Mrs Ruth and MrsKinnaird. The day consisted of2 massed rehearsals and asectional rehearsal whichmeant music was coming outfrom all over the school. At theend of the day we had aconcert in which the massedorchestra played Mr Blue-Skyand Sibelius’ Finlandia. Thesenior strings also played apiece by themselves which wasa Czech dance. Floreat Luctona!
ISA Arts CompetitionMidlandsFor the first time the Art departmententered the ISA arts completion forthe Midlands. We entered the keystage 4 category in Art and Textiles.We are proud to announce ElliePainter-Black was awarded a 1st and2nd with her textiles entry. Herwinning piece has now been enteredfor the national awards later in theyear. Well done, Ellie!
West MidlandsSafari ParkOn Tuesday 6 November, Year2 and Year 4 wrapped up andwent on an animal and habitatinspired visit to West MidlandsSafari Park. We saw lots ofanimals, despite the rain, andwere absolutely enthralled bythe baby rhino who wasn’tbothered by the weather in theslightest. After lunch we had alearning session on food chainsand what animals eat and gotto touch or hold: a giantAfrican millipede, beardedlizard and ferret. A wonderfultime was had by all!
NSEA qualifier atKeysoeWhat a fabulous, if not hectic couple ofdays we have had attending the NSEAShow Jumping Championships at KeysoeEquestrian Centre in Bedfordshire withFreya L on Cindy, Scarlett B on Mr Sox,Hannah L on Trooper, Jess L on Owen andMegan F on Romeo. Thursday started withthe 75cm warm up class which had over100 entries. Freya on Cindy had a brilliantclear round but sadly not quite fast enoughto get in the top six for a rosette. Aftersettling the ponies and a rather chilly nightstaying in the lorries we were up brightand early Friday morning to plait and thenoff to walk the course. First was the 75cmSJ class, again massive entries with over 35teams of four riders in each. Jess on Owenwas on top form and did a fantastic clearround with Scarlett having 4 faults andHannah having 8 faults. Later in the day wehad the 85cm class. Loads of entries with43 teams and the jumps were absolutelyhuge! Megan on Romeo did a lovely clearround with Scarlett and Jess having four
faults each. The team finished on just eightfaults which we were all very proud of. Itwas a great experience and thoroughlyenjoyable couple of days for everyone.Now we are all looking forward toHickstead next May to do it all again!
Sports ReportU15 Shropshire County LacrosseTrialsOver the half term we had Ella Campbell,Grace Marriot and Edith Jones attend theU15 Shropshire County Lacrosse Trials atMoreton Hall. It was an intense 3 hours ofplaying matches back to back and makingsure they did what they could do to makethe team. These girls all showed theirdedication to lacrosse and came in duringthe half term. Ella Campbell is now part ofthe U15 Shropshire Lacrosse A team andGrace Marriot is now part of the U15Shropshire Lacrosse B team. Well donegirls!U13/U12 NETBALL v Lady HawkinsA mixed team of girls played LadyHawkins on Wednesday. This was a toughgame for us considering we had predomi-nantly U12s playing and they had U13splaying. The girls took some time to getused to playing with each other. The girlsreally progressed with their ball movementas the game progressed and this allowed usto have more attacking play. Ester Millerhad some great goals and made them lookeffortless. Megan Radnor played amazinglyin centre and was giving it her all, all overthe court. She was nominated player of thematch.U13 ISA HOCKEY TournamentThe U13 girls played in the ISA hockeytournament on Thursday. Their poolconsisted of Tettenhall College, OldVicarage, Bedstone and MSJ.
The first match they played TettenhallCollege. This was a tough match to start offthe tournament. Tettenhall had a verystrong defence and we struggled to breakthem down. The girls were very good atkeeping their heads up and keeping thepressure up.
The second match that they played wasagainst Old Vicarage. It was clear from thestart that the girls had to play a verydefensive game. Old Vicarage were winning5-0 by half time. After half time, the girls
had more fight in them and were playingvery well as a team. This allowed them notto concede any goals. Annalise was awardedplayer of the match.
The third game was against Bedstone.Their girls applied pressure as soon as thegame started, and they were all getting intogood spaces. Annalise made some amazingsaves. Darcy scored a brilliant goal whichgot us to half time 1-0 up. Bedstone weredriven and determined to get a goal in thesecond half, but our defence were doing agood job of keeping them out. Unfortu-nately with minutes to spare, Bedstonescored an equaliser. Eleanor Butler wasawarded player of the match.
In our last game of the pool, we playedMSJ. By this game, the team had gelled andgot used to each other and were making itvery hard for MSJ to get into theirattacking circle. Lucton made some greatbreaks but unfortunately we couldn’t finishit with a goal. Annalise once again madesome brilliant saves. Darcy was awardedplayer of the match which was deserved.Unfortunately we lost this game, whichmeant we didn’t make it through to anyplay offs. A big well done to the girls alwaystrying their hardest and never giving up, nomatter the score. U18 NETBALL LEAGUEWe arrived in pouring rain and the generalcomment was "We're not feeling the lovefor netball at the moment, Miss!" I have tosay I was agreeing but out we got andwarmed up. Our first game was againstLudlow and Hereford College. We started
very well but they came back at us in thesecond half for a 5-5 draw. Millie played inthe next against John Masefield 1st to seehow her finger was. All was well but wewere caught a bit off guard by there speedup the court! Harriet and Alice were strongin defence but their shooting was superband we lost 12-3. Then came the SixthForm College and Millie and holly reallygot their eye in and shot really well. Wehad a move around in defence puttingChing Mae in at centre. Amelia had a greatgame as did and Ella and Grace also playedsolid netball. Megan came on to give Hollya break and we won 9-1. Our last gamewas John Masefield 2nd team and again wewere dominant and had another changearound giving Alice a quarter off. We won8-3. All in all a solid set of results andstrong netball played with the opportunityto try several combinations for futuregames! Luckily the rain moved on andalthough the court was a little slippery, allplayed well and we enjoyed our afternoon!U15 NETBALL v TenburyAfter a slow start and a slender 2-1 lead atthe end of the first quarter, the girls uppedthe speed of their game to claim a 17-7victory. This was a real team effort, withFaith moving effortlessly through thecentre court, with consistent support fromMolly and Amelia-Sky. Defensively, Felicityadapted to her new role as goal keeperwith relative ease by taking some goodrebounds, whilst Edith moved to goaldefense where she kept the pressure on heropponent and was instrumental in takingthe ball up the court. Although Ella (playerof the match) was dominant in theattacking circle, with an excellent display ofshooting she had good support fromNatalie and Honey, who not only helpedcreate space, but scored some goals as well!U13 HOCKEY v Monmouth.The U13s warmed up for the ISA regionalhockey tournament by playing round robinmatches against Monmouth Girls U13 Aand B teams. Although we lost 5-0 to the Ateam, much was learnt and put into
practice against the B team, where, due tosome excellent saves by Annalise, lots ofdetermined work by Darcy (both players ofthe match) and strong defending Rosy, thescore line was reduced to a 2-0 loss.Improved team play and movement of theball around the pitch, created some goalscoring opportunities for Darcy andEleanor, whose goals were denied by someinspired goal keeping!BADMINTON v Ludlow CollegeWe have played Ludlow College threetimes over the term, and on each occasionthe result has been very close. This weekwas no exception. We had a bright startwith Enbo winning the girls singles, whichwas balanced by a narrow loss by the boysdoubles pair of Gilbert and Justin over athree game series. The match proceeded toand fro with Lucton establishing a narrowone game lead heading into the last round.In this game Justin and Lek held theirnerve brilliantly to win 22-20, thussecuring a 6 – 4 win overall.Other noteworthy performances were byHarold, winning in his very first match forthe school team, Mike for his win atsingles, and Gilbert in his singles match.Monday 5th NovemberU9 HOCKEY v The ElmsThe U9 girls visited the Elms for an awayfixtures on Monday. This was the first gameback after half term and the girls all playedreally well. The Elms school commentedon how well our students played. Unfortu-nately the girls lost 1-0 but this does notreflect on the effort and skill of the girlsperformance. Poppy Crawford did someexcellent attacking play and was awardedplayer of the match by the Elms.
Equestrian NewsKings Inter-school Showjumping,40cm team qualify!We set off on a very cold morning withsome very excited boys! It wasn't runningas smoothly as it could as Mr Chips (Ted’spony) had gone lame so Mouse was draftedin last minute for Ted and Henry! It wasHenry's first time in a proper jumpingcompetition but he jumped a solid clear,then Mattie riding Jake and first time againin a school team jumped clear putting thepressure on Ted and Mouse but theycoped and came away with anotherclear meaning as a team they where4th and qualify for the finals inDecember! The 50 wasn't so good.Jake and Mattie went the scenicroute but just had one down, Sophiewas quick but had a few down andTed and Jake just didn't do the lastwhich was a great shame!Then we went for the 60 withGeorge and Sophie C going clearand Sophie H eliminated at fence 7and with no 4th team memberwhich eliminated the team!Hannah took us into the 80 but it
wasn’t her day, Trooper had 8 faults andCindy stopped at the same one Trooperdid! Well you can't win them all!
Jake’s BlogWe have had a good week back, I showedoff about going jumping as did Mouse! Weall feel better having had our backs doneand a rest, and Charlie and Billy seemrefreshed from going home. We are now starting to practise for the PrepSchool Christmas Show Jumping in acouple of weeks’ time!
U14 NETBALL v TenburyThe U14 had an outstanding performanceagainst Tenbury winning the netball fixture18-1. The girls had a brilliant first halfstopping the other team from scoring. Thedefending players were working extremelyhard man-on-man marking theopposition. The attacking players showed agreat work rate and were practising theirskills they have been learning in games andactivities session. Harriet Sneyd wasawarded player of the match and this waswell deserved as she played a full game atcentre.
