Continuing Orchard success!

We’ve only been back a few days and already there has been cause for celebration amidst the Orchard boys and girls. Sophie Arnold picked up the Sportswoman of the Year award at Tuesday’s Girls’ Sports Dinner; recognition for two great years of sporting endeavour in a number of sporting activities. And there were further awards for Meg Barron-Cutts, Maddie Newman, Beth Jones and Chloe Reeder at that ceremony too. Well done, girls!

Our congratulations also extend to Charlie Sichel  who has picked up a Sixth Form Rugby Scholarship and, likewise, to Oliver May who is representing Bedfordshire this weekend at the Mounted Games Competition where he will be hoping to impress the England selectors with his horse-riding skills.

The Commonwealth Games are being held in Glasgow over the summer and I am pleased to inform you that Orchard House will be represented at those Games in the form of Ruaridh Sheppard. Ruaridh volunteered to assist in the running of those Games and was successfully selected from a huge number of applicants. I am sure you will have a great experience, Ruaridh!

Mr R.Curtis

Sports Dinner 15th March 2014

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR PARENTS. Exeat date change - November 2014.

Please be aware that we are moving the November exeat from 21^st – 23^rd November to 28^th - 30^th November.

Thank you.

A Night In The West End

Just before half term, Shiplake College (including a number of boys from Orchard House) teamed up with Queen Anne's School to put on 'A Night In The West End'.  The video below contains highlights of the concert and congratulations must go to Orchard Year 12 boys Ruaridh Sheppard, Reiss Simpson and Charles Marsden.

Seb Newman's rowing success

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Orchard students take leading roles in Young Enterprise group.

Shiplake College's Young Enterprise group began in September 2013 as a way of allowing students the opportunity to work as a business where they can brainstorm ideas, create a product and sell it to the public.  A number of Orchard Year 12 students are part of the group and each one has a specific responsibility to fulfill:

Harry Wiggins - Finance Director

Will Janes – Product development

Adib Wain – Human Resources

George Lawley - Secretary

Harry Chapples - Marketing

The group's first product was the Lumijar, which went on sale just before Christmas and the group had some success with sales figures.

Finance Director Harry Wiggins has this to say on the future of the group:

"We are looking to create a new product later in the year; hopefully around March.  We are not sure what it will be yet but we are looking for something that will generate some profit for all of us as we are all investors.

The ideal profit would be in the £150 – £200 range. We still have some Lumijars to sell and there are plans to visit trade fairs in March in Stratford and North Oxford."

YE members including Harry Chapples, Will Janes and George Lawley get to grips with another tricky business decision.

George, Harry and Harry Wiggins show off the Lumijars with Harry Marsden.

Bugsy Malone

Last week saw Shiplake's production of 'Bugsy Malone' take the stage.  The show featured a number of Orchard pupils taking part in roles as well as ensuring everything went smoothly behind the scenes:

Ruaridh Sheppard, Meaghan Barron-Cutts, Angus Meldrum, Seb Rivett, Oliver Riley, George Cowley and Aaron Khalfa.

If you missed the performance, below is a video of the chase scene featuring Ruaridh Sheppard among others, and the video was produced by Mr Milburn of Orchard House.