Monday, 13 January 2014

Recent House Achievements

My congratulations this week are heading to Orchard students in sport, drama and music, with awards and responsibilities for the following:

·         Harry Emmanuel has once again been selected for the Berkshire U15 Hockey Squad and I am sure he will be making some telling contributions to that team and, staying with hockey, also to Ben Peers for being honoured with the 1st XI Hockey Captaincy. We wish you both well in the term ahead.

·         Ben Tait’s talents on the stage are clearly gaining recognition as he has just been given the role Thuy in the Wilde Theatre’s production of Miss Saigon from 4-8 March. I would say ‘break a leg’ but that is literally the case with Ruaridh Sheppard playing a lead role in this week’s College production of Bugsy (Ruaridh broke his leg playing rugby just before Christmas but is still fulfilling his part this week). Good luck to both of you!

·         Charles Marsden has committed himself wholeheartedly to the extra-curricular programme here at Shiplake and it is really pleasing to see him gain his Grade 7 award in Singing over the Christmas holidays; a fantastic achievement in itself but it also has a degree of academic value too (being recognised in the UCAS tariff table for university entrance).


Well done to all of the above and I am sure we will have a number of students coming forward with more outstanding performances over the course of this term.

Mr Curtis

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