Spring Term Newsletter 10.3.23
Another ‘interesting’ week at Bowbrook:
Next week appears as busy as ever, ten team sheets attached and with five parental tours, invigilator training and with extra GCSE session coming on line the focus for our Year 11s is now very firmly on their forthcoming GCSEs.
Don’t forget: Prep School parents’ Evening Thursday 23rd. Details tbc.
- Chocolate Bingo on Friday 24th 7.00 – 9.00 p.m.
- PC Prep School Disco on Wednesday 29th March for N/R – J6. 4.00 – 5.15pm
- And our end of term Chocolate Raffle…
- The Ski Trip departs in 21 days… and counting!
News from the Prep School
This week pupils in Year 4, 5 and 6 had a visitor from Evesham Abbey to talk about the history of the Abbey and all of the wonderful recent restorations that have been taking place there. We were kindly gifted some lovely books also.
- N - Hudson Hartwell for a fantastic focus on a fire engine picture.
- R - Roux Moss for great effort in handwriting.
- I1 - Iris Cates for brilliant concentration in Maths.
- I2 - Amelia Siviter for a fantastic comparison of London and Tokyo in Geography.
- J3 - Beau Clarke for being much more focused.
- J4 - Leo Maciej-Clarke for brilliant perseverance.
- J5 - Jasmine Wright for being more confident reading aloud.
- 6NS - Mabel Phillips for working so hard.
- 6SR - Olly Peacop for an improved effort in presentation.
We also commended Bobby Rushton for his performance in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and his certificate for Best New comer at PODY’s. Penny Heaume has also achieved her level 3 trampolining certificate. Many congratulations to everybody.
Please note that our Parent’s Committee will be holding a Prep School Disco on Wednesday 29th March for all pupils in N – Year 6, 4.00 – 5.15pm. There is no theme this time, just come dressed to show us your disco moves!!
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs. Ridge
PE Department News
U15’s ISA National 7’s @ Market Bosworth RFC
Despite the weather this week making fixtures difficult, the U15’s made the journey to Market Bosworth to take part in the National 7’s competition. We were placed into a group with Princethorpe, Finborough, St David’s College and Alton School and game of the first game of the day saw us take on Alton.
After the experience of the 7’s tournament in school, the team realised that moving the ball into space was key and started the day off nicely moving the ball into the hands of Sid, who was unstoppable in space, and got the game rolling with the first try going to Bowbrook. Sid continued with top running form throughout this game, earning himself a hat trick, whilst Theo also crossed the line making the first game a good win for Bowbrook, 24-12.
The next number of games proved themselves to be more challenging as St David’s attempted to play a very physical game of sevens and ran directly at the defence line. The game didn’t go our way in terms of results but some brave tackling from Myles, helped out with a slight nudge from teammate Tom, kept St David’s in touching distance with the score. Similarly in the rest of our pool games, Bowbrook were always in the fight but the final try and conversions ultimately saw us make our way through into the plate competition.
In the plate we were greeted in the first game by St David’s college once again, in what proved to be a very exciting game of 7’s. Myles showed his pace in space to open the try scoring, running around the Welsh side to score in the corner twice with Theo converting. With seconds to go on the clock Bowbrook looked to be in control with a 12-10 lead, but as the nature of sevens and rugby is, the bounce of a stray ball fell perfectly to a St David’s player who scored in the last play to make the score 12-15.
A tough result for the boys to take in the final game, who ended the day taking home bronze medals in the plate competition, but they should all be hugely proud of the way they played against some very experienced opposition and where we finished at the end of the competition, with some great examples of running rugby on display.
Also, thank you very much to The Vale Golf and Country Club who have kindly sponsored our new senior rugby kit. The team looked very smart wearing the new shirts and we all very much appreciate your sponsorship and support.
Students should check the PE notice board to see if they are involved in fixtures.
Monday 13th March
U11’s Football vs Holy Redeemer (H)
Tuesday 14th March
U12’s Netball vs Kingham Hill (H)
U13’s Netball vs Kingham Hill (H)
U11’s Football vs Tettenhall (A)
Wednesday 15th March
U16’s Netball vs Kingham Hill (A)
ISA Midlands U15’s Football @ Stafford
Thursday 16th March
U14’s A & B Netball vs Kingham Hill (A)
U14’s Football vs Stafford (A)
Friday 17th March
ISA Midlands U11’s Tag Rugby @ Princethorpe
And finally…following on from International Women’s Day:
Have a good weekend everyone…