SPEECH DAY & PRIZE GIVING Saturday 26 June 2021
Headmaster:
Welcome by Ian Silk
Headboy:
Benjamin Cutts
Headmaster:
Ian Silk
Reading of Prizes
Jo Christian
Music:
Sammy Inman - Trumpet Chanson Napolitaine by Tchaikovsky Harry Townsend - Voice A Brown Bird Singing by Barrie/Wood Fraser Morgan - Cello Gavotte Humoristique Op. 6 by Squire Samuel McMurran - Piano Rondo by Bartok
Readings:
Joseph Edwards and Elio Lepore Friends and Flatterers by William Shakespeare Joseph Edwards and Elio Lepore On Friendship from Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
Organ:
James Watson
Subject Prizes Subject prizes are awarded to boys who have shown a consistently good attitude to work in the subject and have performed at a very high level in exams and assessments.
Phillpotts English Prizes James Surtees Phillpotts (1839-1930) was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where he was elected as a Fellow. He was Headmaster of Bedford School between 1875 and 1903 and was described in The Times as “one of the great Head Masters of the last century”.
Y3
Jeremy Dunn
Y4
Eben Clarke
Y5
Matthew Byrne
Y6
Lucien Carron
Y7
Rhys Brook
Y8
Fraser Morgan
Fuller Mathematics Prizes Henry Howard Fuller was a member of the Mathematical Staff from 1900 to 1924.
Y3
Evan Byrne
Y4
Veer Ramani
Y5
Matthew Byrne
Y6
Isaac Johnson
Y7
Thomas Mahony
Y8
Samuel McMurran
Wickens Science Prizes Geoff Wickens was a member of staff from 1979 to 2016 and was the Prep School’s first Head of Science. His last post was Deputy Headmaster of the Prep School. The winner of the Wickens Science Cup is awarded to the Year 8 boy who has performed the best in Science over the year.
Y3
Tom Hanbury
Y4
Austin Reddy
Y5
Alex O’Cearbhaill
Y6
Isaac West
Y7
Lewis Woodhouse
Y8
David Shirley
History Prizes Y5
Archie Fleming
Y6
Dylan Uppal
Y7
Lewis Woodhouse
Y8
George Sivills
Geography Prizes Y5
Abhay Raghunath
Y6
Joshua McMurran
Y7
Isaac Raddan
Y8
Ayaan Tarique
RE Prizes Y5
Cayo Sinclair
Y6
Gabriel Borelli
Y7
Arafat Rahman
Y8
Abuturab Turrabi
Language Prizes French
Y5
Henri Helm
Y6
Noe Simplicio
Y7
Ralph Franklin
Y8
Samuel McMurran
German
Y8
Jonathan Hall
Latin
Y6
Joshua McMurran
Y7
Seamus White
Y8
Tristan Cooper
Spanish
Y8
Isaac Adeyemi-Abere
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Y8
Nigel Ng
David Whatley Prizes for Technology David Whatley was an Oxford Scholar and an Athletics Blue; he won an MC in North Africa and at 21 was Acting Colonel of his Regiment. He came to Bedford School in 1952 to teach Classics, English and Geography in the Lower School.
Y3
Kuba Kopec
Y4
Xavier Clark
Y5
Cayo Sinclair
Y6
Oliver Barbour
Y7
Josh Lincoln
Y8
Sam Barnes
Art Prizes Y3
Nico Stewart
Y4
Sebastian Bodfield
Y5
Cayo Sinclair
Y6
Jacob Adedeji
Y7
Lewis Noble
Y8
Luka Ilic
Sylvester Art Cup John Sylvester was a highly respected Director of Art at Bedford School between 1970 and 1992.
Harrison Hughes
Music Prizes Y3
Hugo O’Boyle
Y4
Ashley Bayley
Y5
Chris Gentry
Y6
Sam Keating-Anderson
Y7
Leo Mathew
Y8
Charlie Spencer
Eva Fovargue Cup for Outstanding All Round Contribution to Music Eva Fovargue was the choir mistress and music teacher in the Lower School in the 1950s and 1960s.
Samuel McMurran Fraser Morgan
Drama Prize Benjamin Cutts Henry Gillham
Sports Prizes Captain of Rugby
Sam Barnes
Captain of Hockey
Henry Whitfield
Captain of Cricket
Danny Chapman
Service to Bedford Prep School Sport Award These are awarded to boys who have represented the school at a high level in various sports and have shown an excellent attitude.
Dylan French Sammy Inman Jamie Maling George Sivills Further sports awards are presented during final assembly. Sports Colours are also awarded to boys who have shown a consistently good attitude to sport and have performed at a very high level.
Prizes for All Round Academic Excellence These are awarded to boys who have not won an academic subject prize but who have performed at a consistently high level and have shown an excellent attitude to work.
Y3
Joshua Featherstone Henry Van Rensburg
Nayan Pattni James Workman
Y4
Samarth Serish Charlie Tillison
George Steed Joe Willard
Y5
Joshua Edmundson Lucas Hill Bora Ozbay Maximilian Wereszczynski
Oliver Gauntlett Hugo Morgan Joshua Tsang
Y6
Jacob Adedeji Tom Gray Matthew Moretto Aled Wright
Berkley Barnicoat Erik Knutsson Aston Thygesen
Y7
Charlie Gandesha Josh Lincoln Mihai Memet Advik Mishra Rocco Sarro Andrew Wright
Eesa Jamil Leo Mathew Sam Millar Lewis Noble Aryan Sohanpal Sam Yeomans
Y8
Eeshan Agrawal Sam Barnes Benjamin Cutts Sammy Inman John Logan Ben Rioch Ben Ulvert
Neo Bantock Felix Beckmann Sebastian Fairhead Joseph Lee Jamie Maling Noah Silk Jacob Yau
Prizes for All Round Academic Progress These are awarded to the boy in each tutor group who has made the most progress in his tutor group throughout the year, and has shown a consistently good attitude to work (two prizes are only awarded when boys have made exactly the same progress).
3C
Samuel Chittenden
3V
Thomas McDonald
3W
Gabe Stone
4L
Jasper Stone
4M
Jonathan Pugsley
4O
Gabriel Holland
5DR
Joshua Worboys
5M
Albie Hanbury
5RR
Harry Spencer
5SR
Sebastian Pointer
6C
Thomas Davidson
6JL
Rory Stewart-Jones
6KL
Freddie Barnes
6O
Dominic Fairhead
7AG
Harry Adams
7EG
Ollie Cochrane
7H
Thomas Noble
7JG
Isaac Ferguson
7T
Oliver Harris
8A
Bertie Sayer
8B
Jacob Anderson
8D
Ander Mokhtar-Esteban
8F
Misha Savitski
8H
Ben Coomber
Highest Academic Performer This is our most prestigious academic award, which is given to the boy in each year group who was the highest performer across all academic subjects for the whole year.
Y3
Charlie Suthers
Y4
Oscar McCartie
Y5
Chris Gentry
Y6
Oliver Barbour
Y7
George Knight
Y8
Joseph Edwards
Eagle House Award This is awarded to the Head of Eagle House.
Ben Rioch Ariyan Flora
Arthur Tisdall Award This award is in honour of an OB, Arthur St Clair Tisdall, who died in action in the First World War in 1915. The Master of Trinity College Cambridge, where he received a double first, describes him as being “our foremost scholar … a man of generous intellectual culture and also of high ideals. He seemed made for distinction in life, and that not of the selfish kind.” He was awarded a Victoria Cross in Gallipoli for saving many lives under heavy fire. The award has a sum of money associated to it so that the recipient can spend it on a beneficial and worthwhile endeavour. It is given to a Y8 pupil who is respected by peers and teachers alike, who most embodies the school’s ethos, and in particular displays kindness to others.
Henry Gillham
Canon H C Perry’s Prize for Headboy The Rev. Canon Henry Charles Perry was a teacher of the Lower School, appointed in 1913, and was remembered as “throwing himself into every activity with a zest that never flagged.”
Benjamin Cutts