SPEECH DAY & PRIZE GIVING Saturday 2 July 2022
Bunyan’s Hymn Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather; There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim. Who so beset him round With dismal stories, Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is. No lion can him fright, He’ll with a giant fight, But he will have the right To be a pilgrim. Hobgoblin nor foul fiend Can daunt his spirit; He knows he at the end Shall life inherit. Then, fancies fly away, He’ll fear not what men say, He’ll labour night and day To be a pilgrim. John Bunyan (1628-88)
Headmaster:
Welcome by Ian Silk
Headboy:
George Knight
Headmaster:
Ian Silk
Reading of Prizes
Charlotte Heywood
Guest of Honour
Alex Waller
Music:
Harry Brown and Charlie Gibson - Voice Consider Yourself by Lionel Bart Aryan Sohanpal - Piano The Cascades by Scott Joplin
Readings:
By the Deputy Head Boys, Josh Lincoln and Advik Mishra
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
Aauram Ganju
Y4
James Workman
Y5
Eben Clarke
Y6
Daniel Joaille-Burge
Y7
Lucien Carron
Y8
Emir Jack Kenrick
Fuller Mathematics Prizes Henry Howard Fuller was a member of the Mathematical Staff from 1900 to 1924.
Y3
Kian Fanning
Y4
Evan Byrne
Y5
Oscar McCartie
Y6
Alex O’Cearbhaill
Y7
Raihaan Adil
Y8
Thomas Mahony
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
Daniel Zuotong
Y4
Charlie Suthers
Y5
Eben Clarke
Y6
Hugo Morgan
Y7
Isaac Vincent-Emery
Y8
Emir Jack Kenrick
History Prizes Y5
Sebastian Bodfield
Y6
Abhay Raghunath
Y7
Dylan Uppal
Y8
Lewis Woodhouse
Geography Prizes Y5
Nikhil Das Gupta
Y6
Maximilian Wereszczynski
Y7
Arthur Fitzpatrick
Y8
Josh Lincoln
RE Prizes Y5
Freddy Burton
Y6
George McEntee
Y7
Gabriel Borelli
Y8
Lewis Woodhouse
Language Prizes French
Y5
Nikhil Das Gupta
Y6
Hugo Morgan
Y7
Gabriel Borelli
Y8
Ralph Franklin
German
Y8
Alex Turner
Latin
Y6
Caelan Standen
Y7
Abid Wasif
Y8
Qin Yang Wang
Spanish
Y8
Ralph Franklin
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Y8
Daniil Savelev
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
Arthur Macey White
Y4
Ellis Gosling
Y5
Oscar McCartie
Y6
Max Blake
Y7
Sam Keating-Anderson
Y8
Oliver Harris
Art Prizes Y3
Matt Barker
Y4
Jack Efe Taylor
Y5
Xavier Clark
Y6
Hugo Morgan
Y7
Jacob Adedeji
Y8
Harry Burns
Sylvester Art Cup John Sylvester was a highly respected Director of Art at Bedford School between 1970 and 1992.
Lewis Noble
Music Prizes Y3
Michael Piercy-Hughes
Y4
Hugo O’Boyle
Y5
Ilyas Hosein
Y6
Chris Gentry
Y7
Isaac West
Y8
Sam Yeomans
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.
Aryan Sohanpal
Drama Prize Oliver Quince Aryan Sohanpal
Sports Prizes Captain of Rugby
Alex Turner
Captain of Hockey
Freddie Bowis
Captain of Cricket
Alex Turner
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.
Benjamin Maddaford Jack Down George Knight Alfred Williams 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
Tommy Barker Oscar Craddock
Gurshaan Powar
Y4
Tom Hanbury Kuba Kopec
Matt Morgan Nayan Pattni
Y5
Leo Butler Oliver Gibson Henry Phillips
Austin Reddy Charlie Tillison
Y6
Matthew Byrne Joshua Edmundson Lucas Hill
Bora Ozbay Joshua Tsang
Y7
Semilore Apesin Daniel Lushchay Joshua McMurran
Aaryan Nair Aston Thygesen Isaac West
Y8
Sam Bulleyment Isaac Ferguson Eesa Jamil George Knight
Charlie Miller Advik Mishra Andrew Wright Sam Yeomans
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
Callum Smith
3L
Ethan Ashley
3W
Rupert McGuinness
4O
Dhillon Waterfall
4P
Oscar Goodeve
4V
Joseph Ram
5A
Oli Hudson
5DR
Ashley Bayley
5RR
James Holt
5SR
Ben Long
6C
Harry Kenmore
6H
Jake Woodrow
6L
Juvan Sivasenthan
6W
Alexander Woodhouse
7AG
James Angus
7B
Gus Willson
7EG
Lewis Pettengell
7K
Henry Davidson
7M
Arnav Tyagi
8B
Marcus Pateman-Hall
8F
Stirling Smallwood
8KD
Kasim Sheikh
8L
Oliver Surley
8PD
Benjamin Maddaford
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
William Saunders
Y4
Jeremy Dunn
Y5
Jacob Schouten
Y6
Chris Gentry
Y7
Oliver Barbour
Y8
Leo Mathew
Eagle House Award This is awarded to the Head of Eagle House.
Marcus Pateman-Hall Qin Yang Wang
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.
To be announced on the day
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.”
George Knight