Promotions 2015-16

Congratulations to the following boys who were promoted today:

Chief Cadet Captain of Hesperus: Sebastian Bearn

Cadet Captain: Ed Winter

Cadet Captain: Hugo Dwerryhouse

Band Major and Cadet Captain: Tom Perring

Senior Scholar and Cadet Captain: Olly Rogers

New Entry Co: Ed Winter, Hugo Dwerryhouse, George Lacey

Cadet Leader: George Lacey, Finn Slevin, Alex O'Sullivan, Adam Cook, Matthew Montgomery, Jon Grieve, Rory Pearson

Merits last week

Another great week for Hesperus with the boys receiving more Merits than every other Division. Well done, in particular, to Nick Riley....

Hesperus	Merit
Winter, Louis	2
Holloway, Sam	3
Pearson, Cameron	1
van der Wyck, Luca	3
Hessian, Tomas	1
Xu, Kenny	2
White, Nick	1
Ellison, Finn	1
Pugh, Bertie	1
James, Jack	2
Grieve, Seth	1
Orton, Josh	1
Wang, Nathan	1
Digby, Ed	1
Chapman, Ed	1
Riley, Nick	7
Garnier, Philip	3
Li, Rylan	1
Rogers, Olly	1
Bearn, Sebastian	1

Rowing Report

Rowing Report for School Assembly  

Monday 22^nd June 2015

A large contingent of predominantly junior crews raced at Marlow Town regatta on Saturday 14^th June. On the boys’ front, two J14 octuples raced well, with the ‘A’ crew finishing a strong second in its heat, a J15 double nearly made the final, and a Novice eight rowed a spirited race. On the girls’ front, our two J14 crews had their first ever racing experience and the stars of the show were our J15 girls, who raced well in four finals, including two against National Schools’ medalists, and winning J15 eights over Bryanston. Yesterday, at Reading Town regatta, our J14 girls showed that they had already moved on, reaching the final in a quad, having beaten two crews in their heat to reach it. Felix Wahlberg did likewise, in reaching the final of J15 sculls.

A week ago, at Reading Amateur regatta, the Girls’ 1^st eight had a good row in Intermediate 2 eights but were eventually out powered by Kent School, USA, who showed their pedigree at Henley Women’s regatta yesterday in losing narrowly to Headington School in the final. Pangbourne had a fast start in their heat against Branksome Hall, Canada, stretching their lead to a length at one point, only to be overhauled by the fast finishing Canadians in the final third of the race. Two OPs, Georgia Francis and Emily Wilks, were in winning crews at the regatta.

A double of Felix Lammers and Rory Harris from our top boy’s quad won Intermediate 1 doubles at Reading Amateur, our highest status win in sculling to date, while Luke Towers was recovering from tonsillitis and Andrin Gulich away in Switzerland earning a place in the Swiss Junior team to race at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Szeged, Hungary this summer. Impressively, Andrin was in the fastest coxless four in all eleven 1500 metre trials.

Later this week, the Pangbourne eight will try to qualify for Henley Royal Regatta, to join the quad, which has pre-qualified.

MW

Total Merits

	Form
Div	3	4	5	L6	U6	Total
H	176	96	47	67	15	401	3
S	175	134	60	52	16	437	1
I	137	136	36	53	39	401	3
Q	159	102	56	60	27	404	2
PJ	132	89	55	43	9	328	5
ST G	139	75	51	57	30	352	4
	918	632	305	332	136	2323

Muster 16/06/2015

Hesperus Muster 

Praise

• Well done to the boys who helped with the Falkland Islands Memorial Service: Kenny Xu, Louis Winter, Rylan Li, Nathan Wang, Finn Slevin, Olly Chapman, Harry Farrant, Joe Holloran.
• The 3 & 4 Form Div. Cricket team played really well on Saturday and lost to Macquarie on the last ball. However, it was a good game. 
• A number of Silver Duke of Edinburgh certificates were handed out to Lower Sixth students.

Notices

• Make sure you hand your No. 1 uniform to Gail by the end of the week if you want it dry cleaned before Founders' Day. Uniform needs to be perfect so I strongly recommend. 
• Lower Sixth mock interviews are taking place today. Good luck and make sure you look smart! 
• The swimming pool is open tonight from 8.30 - 9.30. 
• Exam week for Forms 3 & 4 begins next week. 

Room Inspection - Headmaster, 12/6/15

Well done to the following boys who received 10/10:

Harri Doyle, Tommy Hessian, Nick White, Louis Winter, Kenny Xu, Ed Chapman, Tom Hird, Ollie Newcombe, Hugo Dwerryhouse, Alex O'Sullivan, Alex Carr, Charles Guest

Merits

See list on post below

Student of the Week

For his continued efforts and the selflessness he displayed when agreeing stay in on Saturday night in order to help on Sunday at the service - Student of the Week is Olly Chapman. 

Messages for the Week

Battle of Waterloo
On Thursday June 18 it is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. This is one of the most significant battles in British history and you should know why it took place and what happened. I have sent you a link which explains this so please take the time to research.

Cricket
Some of you have been watching the one day cricket matches between England and New Zealand. These have been interesting because England have finally caught up with the rest of the world and are playing more ambitious and attacking cricket.

Until this series England have not changed their style for many years and were happy scoring           
250-300 from 50 overs. New Zealand, Australia, India and South Africa were trying to score             
400 from 50 overs. England failed to react to this change and fell behind.

We can learn from this. You must never stand still and think 'what i'm doing works so i'll keep        
doing it' - you should always try to improve and think how can we get better. I hope you will             all think about this during the summer and come back in September with clear ideas.

SDCH

Merits

Well done to the following students who received Merits last week:

Hesperus
Holloway, Sam	1
Pearson, Cameron	1
Grieve, Seth	2
Chapman, Edward	1
Garnier, Philip	3
Guest, Seb	1

Orchestral Fun Day

The Pangbourne Orchestral Fun Day took place on Tuesday and it was a good opportunity for Pangbourne's musicians to play with students from some local prep schools.  

Well done to the two Hesperoids involved: Luca van der Wyck, and Louis Winter. 

House Council Minutes

Instead of a Muster today we held a House Council. The boys split into year groups and their comments and my responses are below:

3 Form

·        Can we have headboards on our beds? (SDCH: A very reasonable request, I will ask for this to be done)

·        The light in the big dorm is broken (SDCH: I’ve emailed for this to be fixed)

·        Can we put food from the tuck shop on the school bill? (SDCH: See what your parents say…)

·        Can we play football as a school sport? (SDCH: This is a decision for the Headmaster and Director of Sport – a good item for School Council.)

4 Form

·        Why don’t we have fruit anymore? (SDCH: We don’t have enough money in the Hesperus budget! Fruit will be back in September. You can still get fruit from the Mess Hall at breakfast, lunch and supper.)

·        We have a waffle machine but no batter (SDCH: Batter is provided on Friday nights but feel free to bring in your own batter if you’d like to use the waffle maker at lunchtime and evenings)

·        Can we have colour ink for the printer? (SDCH: Too expensive – see comment on fruit)

·        Why is Seth hair so bad? (SDCH: Very good question. Seth’s hair is an abomination)

·        Is the school planning to renovate the Study Block? (SDCH: Not sure – something to take to the school council. Like Hesperus the study block is a practical, not beautiful, building)

 5 Form

·        The galley tidying rota is annoying (SDCH: Wash up after yourselves then)

·        More toasties (SDCH: I suspect it would be too expensive – good item for the food committee though)

·        Can we replace the carpet downstairs? (SDCH: I will certainly request this for the summer)

·        Hesperus Flag (SDCH: Probably not)

·        Hesperus shorts (SDCH: We are getting new shirts so shorts will have to wait)

Lower 6

·        The showers on the middle floor are too hot (SDCH: I’ve emailed Lewis – they were too cold last time so hopefully we’ll find some middle ground)

·        We need a new carpet downstairs (SDCH: see above)

·        Can we end the house nights on a Friday – we’d rather go out (SDCH: I’ll speak to the other Housemasters about this_)

Upper 6

·        Hesperus needs a gravity chamber, slushy machine, soft ball pool and should be sound proofed (SDCH: Great ideas – when are you leaving?)

Ideas for Sunday trips

·        Thorpe Park

·        Reading (but catch train in rather than minibus)

·        Punting in Oxford

·        Paintballing

·        Airsoft

·        Go ape

SDCH

Merits

Well done to the following boys who received a Merit last week.

Hesperus	Merit
Winter, Louis	3
Doyle, Harrison	1
Xu, Kenny	1
Pugh, Bertie	2
Owen, Hamish	1
Grieve, Seth	2
Orton, Josh	1
Digby, Ed	1
Chapman, Ed	2
Lawrance, Jake	1
Riley, Nick	2
Grieve, Jon	1
Dwerryhouse, Hugo	1
Lacey, George	1

Taking Responsibility - the high ropes

Taking Responsibility: Day 1

Boat Club: 60th Anniversary Celebrations

The Boat Club celebrated its 60^th Anniversary with an afternoon’s rowing that included any OPs who wished to take to the water, followed by a dinner in Mess Hall.

Having handed over the new eight “Spirit of ‘63” that they had so generously donated to the Boat Club, the crew, complete with their coach and with substitute Luke Towers, took to the water in it. Although septuagenarians (apart from Luke), they still showed the poise and teamwork that had taken them to victory in the Princess Elizabeth Cup at Henley and paved the way for future generations to achieve three further successes in that event to date, a record bettered only by Eton. They were then joined by another predominantly OP crew of mixed vintage and our girls’ 1^st VIII. To remind us of the biggest change in Pangbourne rowing in recent years – the addition of girls’ crews – the girls showed the other eights their sprinting ability in a series of short bursts.

Before the Dinner, “The Spirit of ‘63”, together with two other boats named after members of the ‘63 crew, was formally named by our Guest Speaker, reigning Olympic, World, World Cup, European and British champion, not to mention Olympic, World and European record holder, Captain Heather Stanning, MBE. Heather, who is successfully combining a career in the Royal Artillery with unprecedented rowing success, mirrored the path blazing of the ’63 crew, along with Helen Glover in a coxless pair their being the first ever British female Olympic Gold Medallists and the first Gold Medallists of the 2012 London Olympics.

The Dinner itself completed a memorable day, with nearly 160 OPs, Pangbournians, parents and coaches present. The Headmaster pulled off an impressive coup in borrowing the actual Princess Elizabeth Cup for the occasion – a magnificent trophy worth many thousands of pounds. There was an excellent atmosphere and four great speeches by Julian Coles, stroke of the ’63 crew, Tegan Foister and Luke Towers, the Captains of Boats, and by Heather Stanning.

Special thanks must go to our own Olympian, who has also been World Champion, ex-Sportsperson in Residence, Beth Rodford, who did much of the organising of this year’s dinner.

MW

Forms 3 & 4 - Top Effort Grades

Here are the top effort grades from the recent Grade Cards. These only applied to Forms 3 and 4.

Well done to the boys below - we are just short of a Hesperoid achieving a perfect 4.0!

Philip Garnier – 3.9

Kenny Xu – 3.6

Sam Holloway – 3.5

Ed Chapman – 3.4

Jack James – 3.4

Louis Winter – 3.3

Nick Riley – 3.2

Ed Digby – 3.1

Jake Lawrance – 3.1

Jamie Perring – 3.1

Harrison Doyle – 3.1

Nick White – 3.1

Seth Grieve – 3.0

Tommy Hessian – 3.0

Cameron Pearson – 3.0