MALVERN TIMES 1 DECEMBER 2019
IN THIS ISSUE
Dear Parents, 1
As the Autumn Term is almost at a close, I am pleased to report that Malvern College has had
Brunch 2
another busy term: academically, in sports, in drama, in music and in the usual multitude of CCA
Academic Success
opportunities.
IT Update
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Jesus Christ Superstar
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Rewards and Sanctions
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Sunday Activities
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I am delighted to report that Francesco
Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet
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Totaro achieved the highest mark in
Academic Success
the world for Cambridge IGCSE Foreign
‘Advent Calendar’ Series
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Christmas Concert
4
Town Carols
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Christmas Unplugged
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Creative Arts Colours
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The Malvernian Society
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OM Connect
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Malvern in London
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in each of their academic subjects twice a
OMFC Veterans Win
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Sports Colours
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Sport 7-8 Fund Raising Initiatives
Our Qualities
Language Italian in June 2019 Cambridge examinations! Congratulations!
Academic Colours The following have been awarded Academic Colours as a result of having been on the Honour Roll on four occasions: Remove: Lily Brown, Evelyn Kenrick,
Clark Cups At the end of each term, the Clark Cups are
Chloe MacKellar, Cate Mercurio and Sam Shardlow.
awarded to the girls’ house and the boys’
Hundred: Bella Cole, Robin de Plaa,
house with the highest aggregate mean
Konrad Harmer, Heather Harris, Nayanna
effort grade. Pupils are awarded effort grades
Sira, Floris Tjan and Clemens Tuczka.
term. In the Autumn term the Clark Cups
Lower Sixth: Isobel Standen McDougal
for effort were awarded to No.6 (Girls)
Upper Sixth: Aodren Clemit, Cameron
and No.7 (Boys).
Coleman, Antonia Fetzer and Jasper Penrice.
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Resilience | Self-awareness | Open-mindedness | Kindness | Collaboration Risk-taking | Curiosity | Ambition | Independence | Integrity | Humility
MALVERN TIMES Academic Honour Roll
2 IT Update
Well done to those pupils who have reached the Academic Honour Roll for the Autumn Term of 2019:
There are a few things IT-related which I would like to update
Foundation: Lily Angling, Aiza Aziz, Isabel Barrett, Noah
you on:
Goryn, Iona Lapsley, Charlotte Li, Freya Newman, Kipp Norbury, Matilda Pile, Hana Preston, Céline Reuther, Alice Sclater Constance Shardlow, George Skerrett, Abdul-Awwal Soetan, Isabelle Wilson and Emma Youngs.
Malvern College has a legal duty to have filtering systems in place for students on our network and parents should be aware that pupils using unlimited 3G or 4G means that they can bypass these systems. Pupils using VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are
Remove: Joel Cox, Millicent Dobson, Emily Guo, Max
also attempting to bypass systems which we cannot ignore. An
Rosam, Alek van Dam, Nicholas Wilson, Adina Yertayeva and
organisation is also more vulnerable to virus attack with pupils
Jessica Zhai.
using VPN facility. Lewis Faulkner, Deputy Head: Pastoral and
Hundred: Tarush Agrawal, Syuzanna Avanesova, Harriet
colleagues continue to educate pupils about this.
Carpenter, Angus Catto, Gloria Chan, Ruby Chen, Oli Doherty,
Over the next few months we are replacing the web filtering
Emilio Dorai Raj, Alice Gudkova, Kitty Holroyd, Catherine
system, primarily because the College has increased its internet
Horn, Josi Jebens, Lucy Marriott, Louisa Marsden-Smedley,
connection by a multiple of 10 over the past five years. The new
Morgann McGee, Sophie Roberts, Johnnie Stephenson, Rory
system will offer the same functionality as our current system,
Upton, Lara Wilson, Anna-Letizia Attolini, Jovana Bajkovic,
which is:
Pauline Buda, Victoria Heymann, Amelie Kantowsky, Vincent Leicher, Salomé Naef and Laura Westhoff.
Lower Sixth: JyothirmayBaldota,Virginia Lawrence, Georgina Macakiage, Agueda Ortiz Flores, Charlotte Welge, Charlotte Williams, Georgina Wood, Sixue Chen, Wei Tzu Chen, Cecilia, Gerber RhiannonGray, Missy Hingley, Shea John, Lakshya
• Web filtering policies based on year group for all pupils. • Scheduling of policies to allow pupils access to non-academic websites during free-time. • The ability to monitor search queries made by our pupils on the major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex).
Joshi, Ailing Liu and Charlotte Livesey.
The new system also offers the ability to monitor;
Upper Sixth: Sapphire Anderson, Anna Doroshenko, Evyanne
• Posts, chat messages, direct messages, comments made by
Ewusie, Annabelle Moody, Alexander Schulz, Izzy Crossland,
pupils on the major social networks (Facebook, Twitter and
Lucie Fletcher, Harvey Gearon, Bonnie Green, Georgina
Instagram).
Hartley, Nicholas Horn, Harrison Hudson, Louise Little, Isobel Lloyd, Aarya Ramanj, Annabel Slater, Viktoriia Usova and Helen Wu.
Brunch This term I have hosted Brunch for over 90 pupils from across all the year groups who have gone the extra mile in the attitude with which they have approached life, demonstrating the Malvernian Qualities in all areas of the school: academically, in the co-curricular or super-curricular or within their House. These have included
• Email content of emails sent / received by Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook and Mail.Ru. It should be noted that no-one watches or looks at the raw data being generated. Instead we rely on automatic searches based on keywords to generate searches for pupil welfare and our system looks for key words such as “suicide”, ‘bullying” etc. The capturing of this data, both search queries and social media, can only take place when the pupils are using the College network, when they go home, or go onto 3G or 4G then we have no ability to capture this data.
follow and act as leading lights in determining the strength and
Important change with regard to College email accounts:
success of the College. I look forward to continuing this initiative
As part of the planned evolution of our ICT systems, we have recently
with pupils during the Lent Term.
completed the process of migrating all email accounts to the
many of the key individuals who set the standards for others to
@malverncollege.org.uk format. Please could I encourage parents to delete any stored addresses in the old @malcol.org style as these messages will no longer be delivered to staff or to pupils.
MALVERN TIMES Rewards and Sanctions Update The ‘Sanctions and Rewards Working Group’, led by Lewis Faulkner, Deputy Head: Pastoral, has met with the School Council, Chapel Prefects, Heads of Houses and colleagues for feedback. They have studied the data and are reviewing the current systems. Conclusions so far are that there should be a greater emphasis on pupil reflection as well as clearer escalation and greater consistency
3 Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet As part of her role in CCF, Esther Woods, is acting as one of the Lord Lieutenant’s Cadets. This is recognised as one of the highest honours a cadet can achieve and recently Esther supported the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire at HRH The Princess Royal’s visit to Kimala (a local medical equipment manufacturer).
when sanctions are deemed appropriate. The aim is to continue the Working Group and departmental trials this year before rolling out changes more widely from September 2020.
Sunday Activities To complement the House trips and other school activities organised on a Sunday, Liam Smith, Activity Co-ordinator, centrally organises Sunday trips and recently pupils have enjoyed trips to Alton Towers and trampolining in Bristol. Trips for the Lent Term will include Xscape, Milton Keynes, which will include indoor skydiving, virtual reality experiences and ten pin bowling, as well as a trip to Drayton Manor theme park. Pupils are notified of these trips via their House notices and are encouraged to sign up in advance.
Jesus Christ Superstar In late November, the Drama department production of ‘Jesus
stunning and emotionally moving production. Jonny Tunstall as
Christ Superstar’ was performed in the Rogers Theatre to great
Caiaphas, ably supported by the Priestesses Morgann McGee,
acclaim. This was an outstanding production, a performance full
Boo Forbes, Syuzanna Avanesova and Kitty Holroyd, Cameron
of emotion, energy and verve. A tremendous amount of singing,
Eldridge as Peter, Missy Hingley as Mary, Jack Yeoward as Pilate,
dancing and acting talent was evident amongst our musical theatre
Oli Doherty as Judas and Nicholas Wilson as Jesus performed
pupils who clearly relished presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber and
their roles excellently. This was a very slick production by the
Tim Rice’s rock opera. Impressive vocals, vibrant choreography,
Drama department team which built towards its crescendo with
charming individual performances, a highly committed ensemble
utmost professionalism.
and superb technical design combined to create this visually
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‘Advent Calendar’ Series
Christmas Concert
Cameron Eldridge, Missy Hingley, Morgann Mcgee, Jonny
The Christmas Concert is one of two showcases for the College’s
Tunstall, Oli Doherty, Amani Priddy and Nicholas Wilson
Music Ensembles and this year didn’t disappoint, despite a number
erformed in the Malvern Theatres foyer, to the audiences of
of pupils being affected by illness. With the College Orchestra,
‘My Cousin Rachel’ and ‘The Eagles’ tribute band as part of the
Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Percussion Ensemble
‘Advent Calendar’ series of performances from local arts groups. It
and both Chapel and Chamber Choirs all performing, there was a
presented an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the talents of
lovely range of repertoire from Renaissance polyphony, through
our pupils to the wider community!
to symphonic wind band Christmas music, so something for everyone. We were also treated to House 2 and House 8 reprising their excellent singing from the House Singing competition earlier on in the term. A rousing audience rendition of Hark the Herald accompanied by the Concert Band brought the concert to a fittingly festive close.
Town Carols The Chapel and Chamber Choirs were in extremely good voice for Town Carols on Wednesday 11th December. With carols ranging from arrangements of traditional carols through to the contemporary composer Eric Whitacre, there was some wonderful singing, whilst the readers spoke with great poise and clarity. The Brass Ensemble accompanied the hymn singing with aplomb and it was a real treat to hear the descants soaring above the hymn singing of the congregation. A perfect way to kick off the Christmas festivities.
MALVERN TIMES Christmas Unplugged
5 In Photography: Full Colours: Charlie Canton-Smith, Mouse Broughton,
This year’s Christmas Unplugged did a fantastic job of putting the college in celebratory mood, featuring some of our most talented musicians in an eclectic mix of popular music. From Guns N’ Roses to Billie Eilish, the appreciative audience were treated to some highly individual and accomplished performances. Several of the songs were very cleverly arranged, with stylish instrumental contributions. The event was live-streamed across the school, entertaining the lower school pupils and providing much-needed motivation for their packing!
Coco Anderson, Ned Norbury, Alice Gudkova and Bea Barnes. Senior Half-colours: Lucy Stocks, Annabel Russell and Hattie Sibthorpe.
The Malvernian Society I also want to update you on The Malvernian Society and the significant role they undertake at Malvern College both within the school life… and well beyond!
Creative Arts Colours
The Malvernian Society was established in 1895 as the alumni association for former pupils of Malvern College. More recently,
In Music: Full Colours: Jasper Penrice, Molly McNicholas, Jennifer Zhou, Shea John, Jacob Perry, Kitty Holroyd, Josi Jebens, Louisa Marsden-Smedley and Nalni Chen. Half Colours: Nick Horn, Missy Hingley, Ava Emery, Banita Dodhia, Jamie Hawkins, Robbie Hardwick, Honor Letts and Oliver Cook. Junior Colours: Harriet Carpenter, Lexie Darby, Emily Elgar, Sam Ingram, Leo Westwood, Georgie Clarke, Bea Barnes, Boo Forbes, Eve Leslie, Evelyn Kenrick, Syuzanna Avanesova, Jonny Tunstall, Nicholas Wilson, Tanush Sanghai and Jonny Wan.
the Society has also begun to engage with parents. The Society aims to promote life-long relationships between the College and the wider Malvernian community and to support the advancement of Malvern College. In particular, it seeks to: • enable Old Malvernians to keep in touch with one another and the College, and to promote the activities of the affiliated members clubs; • enable OMs and current pupils to benefit from a structured programme of careers advice, work experience and professional networking; • keep parents engaged with the school, during and after their child’s time at Malvern; • maintain a portfolio of traditional and digital communications
In Drama: Full Colours: Missy Hingley, Basil Marsden-Smedley and Max Horler. Half Colours: Cece Gerber, Ishbel Spencer-Nairn, Georgina Wood, Lottie Bulley, Ani King, Devon Perry, Louis Packham, Laksh Joshi, Jamie Hawkins, Jay Yang, Hattie Sibthorpe, Maissa De Oliviera and Shareek Oluwo. Junior Colours: Nicholas Wilson and Jonny Tunstall.
In Art: Full Colours: Jessica Biddle, Georgina Inchbald, Anastacia de Courcey Ireland, Natsumi Nakamura, Alara Taskin and Charlotte Ross . Half Colours: Merryn Jordan, (Luisa) Meret Kruger and Ishbel Spencer Nairn
for the benefit of the Malvernian community; • undertake fundraising activities in support of the strategic vision for the advancement of the College.
OM Connect One key recent initiative is closer liaison with the College careers staff, who now have access to OM Connect, which holds details of thousands of OMs and parents across a range of professions who have volunteered to offer professional advice, whether a pupil need help writing a CV, or is looking for a work placement. OMs in aviation, law, media, international relations, medical science, finance, sustainable development and the military, to name but a few, can help. Perhaps you too might help? Please register at hiips://malverniansociety.global/
Junior Colours: Nayanna Sira, Megan Smyth, Laticia Watt,
Please contact Paul Godsland, Director of Operations:
Lea Marie Nusser, Charlie Canton Smith, Anastasia Gura,
paul.godsland@malverncollege.org.uk
Cate Mucurio and Chloe McKeller.
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Sports Colours Hockey
Rugby
Team Awards: Evelyn Kenrick, Anna Wentworth-Fitzwilliam,
Team Awards: Tomas Pilika, Callum Wigley Jones, Will
Millie Dobson, Lily Brown, Lexie Darby, Amelia Scott, Erin
Clayton, Will Hughes, Jeremy Horton, Oscar Miao, Fergus
Wakefield, Harriet Sneyd and Mary Needha.
Morris, Willian Millard, Daniel Bailey, Matt Vickers, Toby
Issy Wilson, Lucy Platnauer, Grace Seedhouse, Emma Youngs, Molly Standen McDougal, Lily Angling, Harriet
Hawkins, Toby Newman, Archie Davies, Josh Postles, Freddie Sharp, Kip Norbury, Harry Tsiquaye and Gus Hartnell-Beavis.
Francis, Maddie Francis, Connie Shardlow, Issy Barrett, Freya
Junior Colours: Oliver Kidson, Abdul Lawal, George Kidson,
Newman, Arabella Shuttleworth, Alice Scalter, Matilda Pile
Luka van Vuuren, William James, Monty Butwell, Charles
Isla Grammaticas and Lucy Underwood.
Hoyland, Tom Morison, Frankie Jeffries, Ben Myers, Noah
Junior Colours: Lily Hutton, Vicky Monllor, Amy Grammaticas, Gia Neath and Chloe MacKellar. Half Colours:
Jasmine Ellis, Heather Harris, Kinny Clarke,
Charlotte Welge, Otty Thomas, Lucy Marriott, Milly Kold, Evie Dickinson, Jemima Martyn-Smith, Harriet Carpenter, Gemma Luscombe, Freya Saxton, Siima Rukandema, Imogen Cole, Lexie Clarke, Izzy Crossland, Annie Slater (re-award), Esther Woods, Sassy Anderson, Bonnie Green, Charlotte Livesey and Valentina Samandani. Full Colours: Jess Biddle (re-award), Hannah Atkinson (reaward) Charlotte Atkinson, Toni Kuhr, Tonia Worrallo, Poppy Underwood and Georgie Hartley.
Hanke, Sebastian Hood, Cam Smith, Sam Cook, Jack Randall, Ethan Corbett and George Skerrett. Half Colours: Tom Long, Devon Perry, Minty Murray, Joe Randall, Will Crossland, Finley Morris, James Pickering, Harry Sigley, Oli Doherty, Harry Slater, Harry Finch, Charlie Williams, Harvey Freeman, Floris van der Werff, Seki Prasad, Harry Brough, Jonny Mather, Paddy Norman, Max Marnane and Ade Oladegbami. Full Colours: Tom Hughes, Harry Smith, Ludo Staley (reaward), Imoesi Ogwemoh (re-award, Jock Catto (re-award), Oliver Cook (re-award), Kit Staley, Louis Staley, Lewis McMurdo, Vansh Ladwa, Harry Sillence, Josh Marsden, Josh Preston, Jasper Penrice, Harry Sillence, Marco Garbi and Harvey Gearon.
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Sport Fencing
Indoor: All three of our teams entered the National Hockey Indoor competition with all three making it to the Regional Finals. The U18 and U16 girls’ teams did very well to make it through to the semi-finals and the boys just missed out on a semi-final place after finishing third in their group. England Single System: Currently we have players in both the Junior Academy Centres (County) and Junior Regional Performance Centres. JAC: Connie Shardlow, Izzy Barrett, Freya Newman Isla Grammaticas, Arabella Shuttleworth, Lily Angling, Matilda Pile, Molly Standen-McDougal, Georgie Clarke, Amelia Scott, Heather Harris, Kinvara Clarke, Lucy Marriott, Jemima Martyn-
Noah Goryn (House 7) has been fencing and winning in various
Smith, Chloe MacKellar, Jasper Cleaver, Fergus Morris, Guy
competitions, with his most recent win at the Cocksmoor Fencing
Sharp, Finley Morris, Will Brinkman and Shyam Sira.
Championships. This has earned him a place on the England U14
JRPC: Lily Hutton, Jasmine Ellis, Gia Neath and Amy
Epee 2020 team with their first tournament in Finland in January.
Grammaticas.
Hockey In this busy hockey season the girls competed in no fewer than 83 games of hockey (outdoor) with around 155 girls representing the College each week. Our U18 boys’ and girls’ teams and our U16s, have competed in 7 indoor hockey tournaments between them.
Club Players: Two of our 1st team players also represent clubs in the National League Jess Biddle (Bristol Uni) and Hannah Atkinson (Stourport Hockey Club).
Netball Despite not being the netball term, our 1st VII have been competing in
Outdoor: The 1st XI are competing in the National League Tier
the Sisters in Sport U18 National Competition. A loss in the first round
1 competition, whilst our U16s have recently got through to the
has meant that they are now competing in the plate competition,
4th round of the plate competition which will continue in January.
which they are taking by storm with some thrilling matches and close
The 1 XI have had excellent wins against Clifton College, Dean
wins against Bishops Veseys and Princethorpe College.
Close and Cheltenham College and the 2nd XI having won 6 of their
Millie Page has been selected for the Severn Stars U19 squad,
9 matches this season.
a National Performance League team.
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Rackets
Canoe Polo
Our rackets teams take part in the Public Schools Championships
In Outdoor Pursuits, following a tough term of training for the Canoe
which started at Queens club on Sunday. This term our boys take
Polo Bs that included playing in their first regional tournament, the
part in the singles competitions whilst our girls’ pair of Maddie
squad spent their final session of the term having a go at submarine
Queen and Ishbel Spencer-Nairn are competing in the Girls’
canoe polo. A little harder to manoeuvre but an excellent activity
Doubles Competition, this will be their second tournament
for gaining confidence in and under the water!
following their debut playing for Malvern in The Ladies British Open back in November. We look forward to hearing how they get on.
Rugby The rugby boys have had a busy and tough season, but it has been good to see them playing some excellent rugby with good performances across the age groups, playing over 60 games of rugby over the course of this term. The 1st XV’s win against Monmouth to retain the “Border Shield” was a particular highlight. The U15As in particular have had a great season. They played 12
Fund Raising Initiatives At Malvern we actively encourage pupils to getting involved with the local and wider community, and overseas. They have held several initiatives and am delighted to announce that they have raised £25k over the year, spread across various charities which they support including: Cancer Research, Alzheimer’s, St Richards Hospice, Medical Detection Dogs, British Red Cross, British Heart Foundation, Acorns Hospice, Toilet Twinning, OSCAR Foundation and MIND.
games (9 wins, 3 losses) and scored 357 points, conceding only 102, and made it to the 3rd Round of the NatWest Cup Competition, where they narrowly lost by 1 point to Old Swinford Hospital in a
We continue to encourage our pupils to read over the holidays – I hope there are some good books on their Christmas lists!
thrilling encounter. Boys in Academies: Currently we have several players playing across three different premiership academies at various age groups. Worcester Warriors: Imoesi Ogwemoh, Harry Smith, Josh Marsden, Tom Hughes, Vansh Ladwa, Frankie Jefferies, Luka
This has been a very busy term and I thank pupils and staff for
Jansen van Vuuren , George Kidson, Oliver Kidson, Noah
all they have undertaken. May I take this opportunity to wish
Hanke, Sam Cook, Cameron Smith, Ethan Corbett, Fergus
you all a happy and relaxing Christmas,
Morris, Freddie Sharp, Jem Horton, Harry Tsiquaye and George Skerrett. Wasps: Joe Randall Gloucester: Harry Sigley Exiles Teams: Tom Morrison (Irish Exiles) and Charles Hoyland
Keith Metcalfe Headmaster
(Welsh Exiles)
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