Boyne House Prefect Dinner
On Saturday 5th November, Mr and Mrs Bullock kindly hosted a black tie dinner for the house prefects and tutors. The evening was highly enjoyable with all the tutors, especially Mr Pepperman, in fine form. It was also a nice chance to welcome new tutor Miss Wofford to Boyne House. The evening provided a great start to the half of term and to our final year, once again thanks must go to Mr and Mrs Bullock for a wonderful night.
House Paintballing
The first weekend after half term Mr McKegney took Boyne House paintballing just outside Bristol. Luckily the weather prevailed allowing for some intense paintballing to occur - kitted out in some rather large overalls and face masks - we did battle. The captains were head of house, Will Charlesworth, and unofficial head of gaming, Luca Lobjanidze. As usual the level of entertainment was high with many trips, falls and missed opportunities and Mr McKegney continued his fine form winning for the third year in a row, as Charlesworth's team won by a convincing 800-250 points.
Rugby House Pots
This half term saw the beginning of the 2011 Rugby house Pots. The Seniors started off brilliantly with a trouncing of a below par Southwood side 47-3 with three tries from Will Charlesworth and also from debutants Ross Oliver and Tarin Muangkrachang. Next came a much tougher opponent Newick, having lost to them last year Boyne were ready for revenge. Even though everyone put in 100% Newick came out on top 18-8. The dream was all over for another year but with a strong 4th form coming through and the then U6th coming to the boil a victory next year could be on the cards.
In the junior competition, Boyne house have managed to reach the final after two convincing victories against Christowe and Leconfield thanks to the help especially of Ollie Thorley but also the other Junior Colts and Yearlings A's players. After half term the juniors will play Newick in the final, good luck to them.
Boyne House Chess Competition Group Stages
The group stages have been drawn for the inaugural Boyne House Chess Competition, they are as follows:
GROUP A: K.Kuenne, M.Jadovich, N.Bondarenko and L.Millar
GROUP B: K.Evers, S.Walkinshaw, A.Chang and D.Beachus
GROUP C: H.Morshead, L.Graves, M.Oehling, J.Wheeler and A.Whitehead
GROUP D: O.Giuseppetti, D.Rozanov, B.Croft, Mr.McKegney and G.Abingdon
GROUP E: X.MacInnes, L.Lobjanidze, H.Stannett and T.Elliott
GROUP F: H.Millar, J.Forrester, H.Taylor and O.Soames
GROUP G: B.Baybutt-Redicliffe, H.Whiteman, S.Wilson and Mr.Bullock
GROUP H: O.Thorley, P.Suwannakarn, A.Lowe and W.Charlesworth
House Goals Competition
The final of this years competition saw Sean Wilson (4th) take on Angus Lowe (U6th) just before the House Christmas Dinner. Sean was a semi-finalist in his debut last year and after some confident performances in the group stages and latter rounds, including beating Ben Croft the top seed from the groups, and had to be considered favourite as Angus had come from behind twice to win quarter and semi final matches.
Sean lived up to his billing to take a 2-0 victory in emphatic style. I hope Sean enjoys his win and his trophy to go with it.
The plate competition is yet to be completed James Wheeler (L6th) has booked himself in the final to play either Mr.McKegney, Dan Beachus or Benji B-R.
Boyne Christmas Dinner
This year's Christmas Dinner was again held at the Green Dragon, Cowley. There were fantastic speeches from Mr.Bullock, Will Charlesworth, Harry Taylor, Matron and Mr.McKegney all giving a humorous and accurate analysis of the previous year in Boyne.
Junior sports colours were given to Monty Chapman, Dan Beachus, Willie Weston, Henry Morshead and Arthur Whitehead for their impressive efforts on the rugby pitch this term. House sports colours were awarded to Sean Walkinshaw and Oliver Soames for their seasons for the 3XV and Colts A's respectively. The owl tie for academic and extra-curricular achievements were given to Will Charlesworth, Harry Taylor and Hector Millar.