In this issue

Dear Parents

MALVERN TIMESSPECIAL EDITION

I am writing to you for the last time in an e-letter, reflecting eclectically on some of

the recent activities at Malvern. Firstly, however, I would like to thank you all for your

support over the past eleven years. Such support has been evident in many ways and

notably recently in your response to the Service held at the Malvern Priory to mark the

end of my tenure at Malvern. My wife, Brigitte, and I were deeply moved by it and by

the response of many pupils, staff, parents and others. We appreciate so much the good

wishes of the wonderful Malvern community as we embark on another challenge in

South Africa. It has been a privilege to play a role in developing the school and Malvern

is well set to go from strength to strength under the leadership of the new Headmaster,

Keith Metcalfe.

We are in the season of Lent and valued the thoughts of our two Lenten Speakers,

James Baron and Simon Austen, soon after half-term as they enriched our lives and

challenged us to grow spiritually.

Lea-Smith Reading Competition 2

Careers and Futures evening 2

Maths Challenge 3

CCF 3

Biology Olympiad 3

National Coding Challenge 3

Drama and Musical Theatre 4

Music 5

Unplugged Concert final 5

Science Photography Competition 6

Art Focus: Laetitia Watts 6

Sporting Snippets 7

COLLEGE

Resilience | Self-awareness | Open-mindedness | Kindness | Collaboration

Risk-taking | Curiosity | Ambition | Independence | Integrity | HumilityOur Qualities

The Headmaster of Malvern College, Antony Clark and his wife Brigitte, pictured with the Chairman of Council, Robin Black and former Chairman of Council Lord MacLaurin, together with senior pupils, at the Farewell Service held at the Priory on Friday 8th March 2019.

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Lea-Smith Reading Competition

The Lea-Smith Reading competition brought to us, as an

adjudicator, Professor David Punter, Emeritus Professor of

Poetry at the University of Bristol. The FY winner was Oliver Beer

(No.7) who read Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, whilst the

Remove winner, reading an extract from the Rocky Balboa script,

was Syuzanna Avanesova (EH). The Hundred winner, Ani King,

(No.3) was praised for her reading from Atonement by Ian McEwan.

The Lower Sixth winner was Lucie Fletcher, (No.8), for her

nuanced reading of After Juliet and the Upper Sixth winner was

Hamish Houghton, (SH) with his poignant reading of Stop

Saying I love You. Congratulations to No.3 who won the overall

competition and bore off the most magnificent and valuable

trophy in the school.

Careers and Futures evening

In our Careers and Futures evening, open to all year cohorts in the school, our pupils were introduced to a range of different speakers

from more traditional professions such as Law, Medicine, Finance and Journalism through to areas which are relatively new such as hostage

negotiation. One would hope that there were relatively few career opportunities in the last of these areas, but it is of huge interest and value

for our pupils to know how the job market is evolving.

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Maths Challenge

In the Intermediate Maths Challenge, our pupils achieved more gold awards than at any time since 2011. Well done to Ruby Chen, Natalie

Fan, Ben Chen, Robin de Plaa, Tarush Aggrawal, Jay Yang, Sophie Roberts, Ginny Lawrence, Sacha Maslennikova, George Kent,

Georgina Wang, Clemens Tuczka, Steve Hu, Emilio Dorai Raj, Kitty Holroyd, Jamie Hawkins, Georg Wendelstadt, Konrad Harmer,

Jonathan Tunstall and Tish Watt. The first five of the above have been selected to participate in the National Mathematics Olympiad.

Good luck to them.

CCF

The CCF have been busy with Exercise Malvern Rifles, the culmination of the basic training programme of the Remove which takes place

under the sharp eye of Senior Cadets. Our Duke of Edinburgh Award candidates have braved the most recent storm to carry out their training

in very difficult conditions.

Biology Olympiad

In the Biology Olympiad, an extremely challenging competition,

James Wakefield gained a silver medal, placing him in the top ten

percent of entrants in the UK, whilst Robbie Hardwick achieved

a bronze medal. Well done to Konrad Barbers who achieved a

silver certificate in the UK Linguistics Olympiad.

National Coding Challenge

In the National Coding challenge, Lakshya Joshi, Ani King,

George Kent, James Francis, Basil Marsden-Smedley and

Ben Chen all achieved merit passes, whilst Felix Olschewski and

Paras Ladwa achieved distinctions.

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Drama and Musical Theatre

In the field of Drama and Musical Theatre there have been several notable successes. Helene Trouvain and Ellie Cooper passed Grade 5

Acting with Merit, whilst Georgina Clarke and Beatriz Quevedo-Carbello passed with Distinction. In the Silver section of Grade 7 Acting,

Jayda Khimji, Maissa de Oliveira, Liv Davies and Lottie Bulley passed with Merit whilst Lexie Clark passed with Distinction. In the Silver

section of Grade 7 Musical Theatre, Otty Wyatt passed with Merit, and in the Gold Section of Grade 8 Musical Theatre, Lucie Fletcher

passed with Distinction.

We look forward, next week, to the official opening of the refurbished Rogers Theatre and the production of Chicago.

27th & 28th MARCH 2019

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PRESENTS

HIGH SCHOOL EDITION

BOOK BY FRED EBB & BOB FOSSE | MUSIC BY JOHN KANDER | LYRICS BY FRED EBB BASED ON THE PLAY BY MAURINE DALLAS WATKINS | SCRIPT ADAPTATION BY DAVID THOMPSON | MUSIC EDITING BY PAUL MCKIBBINS

27TH & 28TH MARCH 2019

PRESENTS

HIGH SCHOOL EDITION

BOOK BY FRED EBB & BOB FOSSE | MUSIC BY JOHN KANDER | LYRICS BY FRED EBB BASED ON THE PLAY BY MAURINE DALLAS WATKINS | SCRIPT ADAPTATION BY DAVID THOMPSON | MUSIC EDITING BY PAUL MCKIBBINS

PRESENTS

27th & 28th MARCH 2019

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Music

Our musicians have been extremely busy at various concerts

where Felix Berger, Alice Day, Helena Rose, Imogen Cole,

Annabelle Moody, Sofia Hsu, Johnny Wan, James Francis

and Louisa Marsden-Smedley have all performed admirably.

Kitty Holroyd has won a highly prized place on the National

Schools Symphony Orchestra, although only being in the

Remove and our Jazz Band has been to the fore playing at the

prep schools such as The Elms.

Unplugged Concert final

Congratulations to Eily Lo (No.3) who came first in this year’s

Unplugged Concert final with her rendition of Ed Sheeran’s

‘Cold Coffee’.

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Science Photography Competition

The Science Photography competition has seen very high quality images submitted with Ava Emery the winner and Coco Anderson

placed second with Isabelle Chastney and Ani King joint third.

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Art Focus

Laetitia WattsLaetitia is looking at portraiture for her GCSE course work.

Initially she was working on some great large-scale charcoal

drawings of dancers and has now turned her attention to

more personal drawings of her classmates, deconstructing

her drawings trying to find a much freer style. These are

looking fantastic so far.

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Sporting Snippets

CricketOver half-term, our 1st X1 Cricketers were touring South Africa.

Considering the strength of our opposition, we did well to win

two fixtures against top schools. Josh Baker was our best bowler

and Sean Aggrawal our best batsman.

Cross Country | 132nd LedderOn the Sporting front, we have recently hosted over 3,000 visitors

on our campus for the National Prep Schools Cross Country event;

Malvern is well-known for this throughout the UK and prep school

children come from as far afield as Scotland, the Isle of Man and

the Channel Islands to compete in this annual event. We have

also staged the 132nd Ledder and, once again, the competitive

spirit and determination of participants encapsulated many of

the Malvern Qualities and led to a memorable afternoon. The first

boy home was Lawrence Hooker in a time of 54 minutes and

52 seconds. He was followed by Harry Myddelton and Tom

Doherty, whilst the first girl back was Ariana Davison in 64

minutes and 54 seconds, with Esther Woods and Megan Jones

in hot pursuit. In the girls’ House competition, No.4 finished in

fourth place, with No.6 in second place and the winners were

No.8. In the boys’ competition, No.5 finished third with SH

second. No.2 were the winners. Ultimately, the Ledder is about

so much more than points or trophies; it is a physical challenge

taken on by many and the rewards are there when pupils come

onto the Senior to the applause of fellow-competitors and others

in the school.

In the Junior Race, Tom Birley put in a commanding performance

to win the boys’ event with Edward Carryer coming second and

Archie Bailey third. The first girl home was Harriet Carpenter,

with Chloe MacKellar second and Lily Hutton third.

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Sporting Snippets continued

EquestrianWarmest congratulations go to Otty Thomas who was selected in

Equestrian sports as part of the England Prince Philip Cup Team for

2019. Such national recognition is a tremendous honour for her.

HockeyOur 1st Hockey XI beat Christ College Brecon 6-4 with a hat trick

from Tristan Hubbard,

NetballIn Netball, our 1st team lost narrowly 25-27 to Cheltenham College.

Girls FootballOur Girls 1st Football Team finished their season with a convincing

6-1 victory over Cheltenham College with Vivien Kruse scoring

four goals and being our Player of the Match.

Boys FootballOur Boys’ 1st Team drew 4-4 with a competitive and experienced

Old Malvernians team with two goals from Jonny Asamoah and

one from each of Henry Forbes and Luke Tulacz.

Canoe PoloIn the relatively new sport of Canoe Polo, our A team have finished

second in the league overall which is a very impressive result

against teams which feed the Great Britain squad.

GolfIn Golf our team has won the Area Cup semi-final with a 2-1

win over Cheltenham College, Ally Renton and Marco Garbi

winning 4 and 3 and Izzy Lloyd and Josh Baker winning at the

twentieth hole.

RugbyThere have been two Rugby Sevens tournaments recently:

the U14As reached the final of the tournament at Old Swinford

Hospital with Charles Hoyland, Tom Morison and Frankie

Jefferies excelling, along with Ben Myers, Noah Hanke, Ed

Carryer and Sam Lafferty. In the U16 tournament played at

Stowe, we were up against schools such as Millfield to whom

we narrowly lost. Vansh Ladwa, Joe Randall, Minty Murray,

Jack Yeoward, Harry Sigley, Will Crossland and Louis and Kit

Staley took us through to the final of the Vase Trophy which we

won very narrowly by 22-21 over the Royal Latin School.

RacketsFinally, in Rackets against Cheltenham College, our first pair,

Dan Holland and Gus Stephenson, saw us home to a 3-2 victory,

whilst Myles Holland and Olly Cox won the U15A event 3-1 and

Tommy Boorman and Joel Cox the U14A match 3-0.

All of these results reflect great endeavour on the part of our

pupils who enjoy the huge variety offered by our co-curricular

programme and are proud to represent their school against similar

opposition.

May I wish you everything of the best for future terms and years.

Antony Clark | Headmaster