Anna and Rose give basketball team a thrashing!

Anna Proctor and Rose Parker showed the boys a thing or two about how to play netball when they played in a very convincing win over the Senior Basketball squad. The girls led by a big margin for most of the game, but the final score was 13-9, with the boys making a comeback in the last quarter, when they finally  worked out the rules and tactics!

 

College Prefects

Huge congratulations to Gus McCulloch and Oran Mehmet who have been made College Prefects for 2013-2014. After two rounds of rigorous interviews and voting by students and staff, Gus and Oran have been appointed along with eleven others.

Freddie Lang and Peter Baker also did very well to reach the final round interviews but narrowly missed out. Everyone in Everett is very proud of all of them.

School and House photographs

The whole school and Everett House photographs can now be ordered online at
www.gillmanandsoame.co.uk

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Head Chapel Warden - Gus MCulloch

On Wednesday of this week I was delighted to announce to the House that

Gus McCulloch had been appointed Head Chapel Warden for next academic year.

Rev Cousins let me know that -  “I am very pleased that Gus McCulloch from Everett House has accepted my invitation to be the Head Chapel Warden for Shiplake College for the academic year 2013/14.  This is a very important position within the College, not only with the liturgical responsibility but also leading the team of chapel wardens, meeting and introducing visiting speakers at our Chapel Services and assisting with the pastoral care of younger pupils in the College.  Gus is a very thoughtful young man and I am sure he will embrace this role with enthusiasm.  Well done Everett House.”

I would echo that with a very well done Gus, I am sure he will do a great job.

Gent regatta

The regatta season made a promising start for Shiplake College Boat Club at the International Gent Spring Regatta. Michael Glover, Jamie Mottram, Dom Marsh and Max Chandler were part of the Senior and J16 Squad that made the journey across to Belgium after completing an exhausting training camp at Shiplake. On the first day of racing all squads broke down into a variety of smaller boats and the first win did not take long to come as a Coxless Four made up of boys from the 1^st VIII won Under 23 Coxless Fours. The 1^st VIII was also delighted to have won J18 Eights in an event that contained crews from 4 different nations. In particular it was also pleasing to beat local rivals Pangbourne College by 8 seconds. Not to be outdone the J16 Squad also picked up medal performances to finish 3^rd in J16 Coxless Fours in what was a fantastic race against Westminster School and another 3^rd place in J16 Quads. Sunday proved to be an equally successful day with wins in the J18 Coxless Four in what Head Coach Mr Mackworth Praed called a ‘cracking race’. This crew had to work all the way down the course and finished 3 seconds ahead of a crew made up from the Belgium Junior National Team and just behind them was Pangbourne College. The Senior Squad also brought home a Silver medal in J18 Coxless Pairs and another Silver in J16-18 Coxed Fours narrowly being beaten by Pangbourne. The 1^st VIII decided to enter Senior Eights on Sunday to test themselves against some quicker opposition and they certainly did not disgrace themselves finishing in 5^th place but only with 5 seconds separating them and the winners of the event. The J16 Eight had a far better race on the Sunday although training camp and racing fatigue really kicked in at the 1000m marker but this has left this crew with plenty of optimism for the regatta season.

Several other Everett pupils were among those benefitting from and enjoying rowing camps at Shiplake College during the Easter holiday the hard work has been put in and hopefully the rewards will come at our first race of the season next week at the Eton Regatta.  

BMW Wellington Festival victories

Max Chandler played in all three England North (aka England U16 B) victories at the Wellington Festival during the Easter break. The first time that the England B side has won all its games in this tournament.

The first game was a tough one against France U16 B (picture of Max in action below), at 27-12 ahead with 15 minutes to go they looked to be strolling to a comfortable win. But France kicked into action and vindicated every stereotype and cliche about French rugby and unpredictability by staging a stunning comeback through some scintillating handling and offloading. Suddenly, with only a couple of minutes to go, England were facing a shot a goal from France to win the game. It was missed, and the relief was clear to see on the faces of the England players who have hopefully made their first and last mistake of dropping off against the French. The next came an 18-8  victory against Netherlands U17, followed by an emphatic 46-12 win over Belgium U17.

England B (North) head coach Peter Coke said: “The boys knew that they’d be up against it. You can call the Belgium’s and the Holland’s your weaker sides, but they gave us a lot of problems!
You look at this side, and it shows how much depth you have coming through the schools. Players develop at different stages, and you can definitely see a few of these boys moving onwards and upwards. The festival dinner night was fantastic, and shows what rugby is all about."

10K success

Over the Easter break Guy Pollard competed in a 10k run competition at Christ’s Hospital School. Guy did very well coming 2nd in his age group (15-17).