July 2011

400 Minute bounce

The 400 minute bounce was to celebrate

400 days till the Olympic Games. We, as a

school participated in bouncing on a

trampoline for 400 minutes solid, with the

help from year two pupils from Bishop

Creighton School. The event was enjoyed by

every pupil, and one student told us it was

nice to get involved in something different

and to feel part of the build up to the Olym-

pics in 2012.

Throughout the day, every student who had

a P.E lesson helped make this day

achievable, by bouncing during their lesson,

however this day would not have been

possible without the help of the P.E

teachers, who joined in at break and did

their bit.

Overall this day was a real success, and was

enjoyed by every participant. It was nice to

be a part of something different and give

our support to the Olympic Games.

Jess Amps and Georgia Harrison

City Athletics Championships

As you may be aware pupils from year 7 - 10 have been competing in the City Athletics Championships this

week competing against all the schools in Peterborough, it was a very successful event for the pupils.

Team results as follows:

Year 7 Girls’ 1st

Year 8 Girls’ 1st

Year 9 Girls’ 1st

Year 10 Girls’ 3rd

Year 7 and 8 Boys Report by Ollie Bowling 7CB

On the 5th July 2011 the Kings School took a team of year 7 and 8s’ to a fantastic athletics event at the

embankment in Peterborough. Amongst the schools competing were Ken Stimpson, Orton Longville school,

Stanground College and many more. The atmosphere at the event was great and everybody that went had a su-

perb time withal schools enthusiastically supporting their teams.

All Kings students participated in at least one event and many also did a new field event for the first time. Team

spirit was excellent with many participants having a go at events they weren’t confident in so that Kings could gain

valuable points. There were loads of great performances with wins, high placing and personal bests being

achieved. There were too many successes to mention all individuals by name but by working as a team Kings were

overall winners on the day

Year 7 Girls Report by Isobel Hopkins

Year 7 had an extremely successful day winning their year group against some hard competition. All the team

performed well, producing excellent results and Lizzie Pam and Sharon Bawa winning their individual events of

200m and 100m. The day ended with the 4 x 100m relay team winning the final. Many thanks to Mrs Harris.

Year 8 by Charlotte Hilton

In the sun of the afternoon of the 5th July 2011, the year 8 girls’ team ran, jumped and threw to yet another victory

in the Peterborough City Schools Athletics Championships. Our team filled every spot, which always helps to bring

the title ‘winners’ to the year group. There were many deserving victories in different events and a second place in

the relay, a very close 0.1 seconds behind TDA in the 4x100m relay final! We all had an excellent team spirit and

the chant ‘come on Kings’ was often heard however well people were doing in their event. It was a great day,

which ended in victory, and this was well deserved. Well done to everyone involved!

Year 9 boys

The year 9 boys won their year group with commendable performances from Artem Chymbai in the 800m, George

Burkes in the sprints, Abraham Johns in the 300m and Charlie Jones in all three events: hurdles, high jump and

triple jump.

Year 7 Boys’ 6th

Year 8 Boys’ 2nd

Year 9 Boys’ 1st

Year 10 Boys’ 5th.

Sports Prefect Page

Jacob

Lunn

12HEN

Sam Wood

12HEN

Sports: Football

Megan Stickland

12HEN

Sports:Football

Club: Netherton Diamonds

Luke Runacres

12HEN

Sports: Rugby,

Badminton

Michael Harris

12CJT

Sports: Rugby

Lottie Holmes

12SP

Sports: Swimming,

netball

Roxanne Monk

12AAR

Sports: Swimming

Sailing club and the regatta by Carys Randeria

Sailing club is definitely something you will either love or not like at all. I’m am fairly certain that all of my friends soon

became bored of my extensive and frequent corridor conversations about “kicking straps” and “mainsheets” until three

or four of them decided to have a go themselves. All of them have continued on and have already mastered the basic

techniques in a few months. It’s surprisingly easy to pick up but can be developed to an extremely complex level.

The best part of our King’s School Nautical year is probably the Peterborough School’s Regatta where sailors from all

over Peterborough join together for a few races and a barbeque. Expecting the light winds which have almost become

a tradition at our regatta, most were surprised by the 18mph wind gusting up 30 mph and this lead to two tiring but

thrilling morning races followed by an even windier third race in the afternoon which was cancelled after one lap after

more capsizes than could be counted.

After a lot of decision making by the instructors and teachers, experienced racers were allowed out for a non competi-

tive, crazy race in even stronger winds. I can safely say it is one of the most fun races I have ever had, with even the

instructors taking part (and capsizing) and part of my mast sheering off all leading to a very wet conclusion, to follow

the theme of the wind’s merciless ways of dumping us all in the water.

Despite the traditional British sailing image being calm and relaxing and rather like an extract from Swallow’s and Ama-

zons I can safely say the bruises, sunburn and aching limbs I as well as the rest of the competitors witnessed the next

day definitely contradicted this. The entire sailing club is looking forward to our residential weekend in Norfolk which I

am sure will be equally exhausting but also amazingly fun. Everyone at the club absolutely loves sailing.

The overall winner of the regatta was Ben Jennings 7TGR in his Topper, retiring sailing prefect and Captain Rebecca

Adamson won 1st Laser, most enthusiastic sailor was awarded to Tom White and most improved sailor went to Ed

Scaife.

Reza is Thorpe Wood’s Youngest Winner

Cricket Season Report

The King’s School year 8 cricket team: Stuart Dockerill (c), Ben Lomas, Oscar McAughtrie, Max Rippon,

Tommy Etheridge, Luke Bowers, Alfie Page, Umaer Mahood, Henry Bolton, James Maddigan (w), Harris

Javed-Akhtar, Nick Reddy, Daniel Chymbai, Rahul Seta and Thomas Smith have won the David Cross Cup

for 2011.

The first game of the season was against TDA. King’s battled first and Nick Reddy (27), Max Rippon (24)

and Stuart Dockerill (31) helped reach the score of around 120. The game went down to the last over by

Nick, thanks to some tight bowling and Kings won on the last ball.

The second game against Arthur Mellows (AMVC) was a 15 over game. AMVC battled first and got a

decent score and then some good aggressive battling by Oscar McAughtrie (20-retired) and Luke Bowers

(27) and Stuart Dockerill helped us reach the target with an over or two to spare.

The third game was a group decider against Jack Hunt, another 15 over game with the winner

progressing to the quarter finals. Jack Hunt battled first and thanks to some big hitting by them they

reached around 115. Henry Bolton ran out their captain from point with a brilliant direct hit with only

one stump to aim at. King’s reply did not start well when Oscar was bowled out in the first over but Ben

Lomas (19) and Stuart Dockerill (34) put on a good partnership (with a little help from the extras) to put

the innings back on track. We needed 39 runs to win from four overs when Ben got out and was re-

placed by Max who needed a runner. Max and Stuart finished the game in the final over to give King’s an

8 wicket and a quarter final place.

The quarter final was against Stanground College. They battled first in yet another 15 over game and

were restricted by some excellent bowling by Tommy Etheridge, who picked up 5 wickets and Umaer

Mahmood who got out their big hitter. King’s got the runs quite easily thanks to a 35 not out by Ben

Lomas.

The semi-final of the competition was against Hinchingbroke to be played the day before the final,

however due to horrific weather conditions, the pitch was deemed to be unplayable and King’s were

sportingly offered a bye to the final.

The final was on Friday 8th July 2011 at Nassington between Kings and George Farmers School. They

battled first and were bowled out in side around 15 overs for about 60 thanks to a great fielding

performance, Harris Javed-Akhtar (2 wickets), Tommy (2 wickets), Luke (1 wicket), Henry (1 wicket) and

Stuart ( 4 wickets) were all in with the wickets and Max and Umaer bowled well.

The trophy was presented to the team during a special presentation at Northamptonshire County

Cricket ground.

Sports Stars of the Term

Swimming– Zara Bailey, Matthew Brigham, Sam Holmes and

Molly Norman

City of Peterborough has 14 swimmers qualified for this year’s National Swimming

Championships held at ponds forge Sheffield. Four of these qualifiers are from Kings;

Sam Holmes, Matthew Brigham, Molly Norman and Zara Bailey are all competing in

Sheffield between the 25th and 31stJuly.

Rotherham open meet saw Matthew, Zara and Molly all qualify for nationals with 5 different events in total,

Molly gained the 400 metres Individual Medley and the 100 metres Butterfly, Matthew the 200 backstroke

and Zara the 200 and 100 metres freestyle. Along with those events Zara has qualified for the 400 and 200

metres IM, the 200 and 100 metres breaststroke and the 50 metre freestyle.

Rugby– Katie Trevarthen Year 10

At the start of this season the rugby player pathway was

altered to form a structure very different from before. This

was well received news as it gave me a challenge for my

last year of U15s. However it meant squads were more dif-

ficult to get into as the regional programme with 16 squads

nationwide became a divisional programme with just 4

squads.

I was lucky enough to get selected to represent the

midlands squad in the divisional programme, where we

played the other three divisions and after winning three of

the four games came out as the most successful team. At

the tournament where these games took place, there were development officers who took into account

coach feedback selected a number of U15 and U18 players for the talent development camp (TDC). I

managed to get selected for the U15 group and have an upcoming talent development camp in early au-

gust were they hope to train us alongside the U18 TDC members to see if any of us are of a level where we

can join the U18 group when we move up to U18s in September.