The ronian issue 59 spring 2015 by Saint Ronan's School

The Ronian ISSUE 59 - Spring 2015

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Wizard of Oz • Forest School • • • Alumni

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The Headmaster writes...

Spring 2015 has been a good one for Saint Ronan’s and the mild winter allowed most things to go ahead as planned. In the final assembly of the term, I asked the children what they had most enjoyed. Many hands went up and, amongst other things, they listed the wonderful production of the Wizard of Oz, dressing up for World Book Day, the Brodie, the opening of the Astro, Maths (!), the House Swimming Gala, Rugby, Cross-Country, trips out, speakers in (especially Tracy Edwards) and building great ‘stuff’ in DT. One child got carried away and said that he’d enjoyed Sports’ Day - until I reminded him that this happened next term. The sentiment was

Congratulations to our S

right, anyway!

I also asked them what they had learnt beyond the classroom and was delighted that they listed ‘empathy’, which had been a theme for the term. The Pre-Prep represented this with an ‘Empathy Elephant’ (having graduated from a ‘Curiosity Cat’ in the Autumn Termpresumably curiosity killed it)! William

Jade

Tom

Ashenden

Beeching

I hope everyone has a suitably chocolatey Easter and that you are all looking forward to Summer. Saint Ronan’s is magical when the sun is shining!

With kind regards, Sebbie

Lily

Sam

Lund

Marsh

Pope

Battle Abbey: William Ashenden (Academic & Music). Bede’s: Thomas B

(Sport), Max Chesters (Drama & Music). Christ’s Hospital: Finlay Carve

Cranbrook: Arabella Stevens (Academic), Max Chesters (Music). King

Easton (Sport), Sam Pope (Drama and Music). Good

In this issue...

Harry Potter characters on World Book Day

School lectures

Shandy-Ba opening

Wizard of Oz

Forest School

Class 4 trip to the George

World Pi Day

Red Nose Day

This term in... Pembroke

Paradise Farm

The Nursery Bird Watch

Year 1 at Headcorn Aerodrome

Class 3 at the Painted House

Rabits and Hedgehogs visit Pizza Express

Ski Trip to Pila

Roll of Honour

A boy’s letter home

Spring Term Prizes

11-12

Fencing Report

Jonathan Rutland

Brodie Shield

Sport

Scholarship winners

13-16

Coming up... Next Term

Finlay

Max

Nat

Carver

Chesters

Easton

Term begins

23rd April

Friends of Saint Ronan’s Meeting

28th April

Shell trip to Finchcocks

29th April

Class 4 trip to Harry Potter World

1st May

Upper trip to Canterbury

5th May

Parents’ Forest School

13th May

Class 3 trip to Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

13th May

Sizzling Strings

15th May

Half term

22nd May - 1st June

Common Entrance Examinations Nursery trip to Bodiam

10th June

Informal Concert

12th June

ABRSM Examinations

Sos

Teddy

Stevens

Wilmoth

Beeching (All rounder), Jade Beeching (Art). Bethany: Sebbie Lund

1st - 4th June

15th - 17th June

Founder’s Day (inc. Sports Day)

20th June

Remove trip to Bude

21st June

Upper trip to Brittany

22nd June

Sponsored Walk

26th June

Shell Drama Display

30th June

Term ends

3rd July

Leavers’ Day

4th July

er (All rounder). Claremont: Lily Marsh (Art), Sebbie Lund (Sport).

’s, Canterbury: Teddy Wilmoth (Academic). Sutton Valence: Nat

See the Blue Book for a full programme.

d luck to all those sitting papers in the summer.

Inspiration, Politics, Bees and Peru: Prep School Lectures The Prep School holds a gathering every Friday, the nature of which varies: there are occasional Chapel services, concerts or Drama performances – but the “pick of the bunch” this term was our Prep School Lectures. Indeed, we were fortunate enough to welcome a fascinating range of visiting speakers: a world-famous yachtswoman, the Head of Politics in a neighbouring Senior School, an Old Ronian, one of our own teachers… and of course, our local Member of Parliament. Our first guest, back in January, was probably the most prestigious: Tracy Edwards MBE is hugely well-known in sailing circles, mostly for having skippered the first all-female

Greg Clark MP calls ‘Order’ in our Commons Debate

crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in 198990. She shared her experiences with the children most vividly and her main message was one of great encouragement – everyone can be really good at something, you just need to find it. A fortnight later, Mrs Harber, from Benenden School, spoke to the children about the British Political System. Her Lecture was both enormously informative and very engaging; it featured an impromptu Party Political Broadcast, with our top Prefects acting as high-profile politicians. Some sort of vote ensued – and the Labour “candidate”, unexpectedly perhaps, won the children’s vote!

Tracy Edwards MBE

The following Friday, a real-life MP was among us, and Greg Clark gave a brilliant talk, which the pupils will certainly remember. The Prep School was turned into a “mock” House of Commons and attempted to pass a bill on the thorny issue of chocolate consumption. Following a vigorous debate, pupils surprised us once again by deciding that children should be made to eat less chocolate. The other two Lectures were less high-profile, but just as interesting. Just before Half-Term, Dr Kossuth, the school’s own Beekeeper, spoke about beekeeping around the world,

Old Ronian Alice Gadd

and the crucial importance of bees for human survival. In March, we were delighted to welcome back Alice Gadd, who was a Leaver in 2007, and gave a talk about a charitable project in Peru. The theme very much echoed what Tracy Edwards had spoken about regarding the condition of children in other parts of the world, so we had more or less gone full-

Childrens’ Charity Projects Well done to William Ashenden who collected over 1,100 books from Saint Ronan’s friends and families in aid of the Education Futures Trust in Hastings.

circle, having explored a variety of topics through these five Lectures, each of which was both wonderfully educational and

Congratulations also to Luc Doane on raising more than

quite inspiring.

£1,000 in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital through sales of his CD of Christmas hymns.

Shandy-Ba pitch opened by Team GB hockey star

On Saturday 14th March Vice Captain of the GB ladies’

Luc Doane sang the World in Union, Mr TV thanked everyone

hockey team Alex Danson, who was just 16 when she made

and there were fireworks, marching bands and bagpipes.

her international hockey debut in 2001 and who has won more than 150 international caps, cut the tape to open our Astro Pitch and allow the match between ‘England’ and ‘Scotland’ to begin (well, it was Calcutta Cup Day)!

It was a great fun, ‘Saint Ronans-y’ day and the new pitch is well and truly christened - by both royalty and sports stars. It is now in daily use.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The term ended with our spring musical, The Wizard of Oz. An

of a special green screen that allowed their images to be

all-star cast included Lily Simpson as Dorothy, Max Chesters

superimposed on different backgrounds - just like in the

as Straw Man, Sam Pope as Tin Man, Caspar Cubitt as Lion,

movies!

Olive Clarke as the Wicked Witch and many others. A huge thank you to all those involved, especially Mrs For the first time the production included

Gibson, making her directing debut at Saint Ronan’s.

green screen filming, with the children recording sequences in front

A full write up will appear on the website early in the Summer term.

Singing birds attract our attention in Forest School

We are not the only ones glad to bid goodbye to the cold and wet this winter. The birds, who continued to offer a few tweets on the dullest of days, are now in full song. To help our feathered friends through the winter, the children made a variety of simple bird feeders that were rapidly devoured, although by who or what remains a mystery! A pair of robins have been regular visitors, joining us as closely as they dared around the fire and gratefully pecking at the small piles of seed the children put out each session. The Nursery and PrePrep children can already name the distinctive 'teacher teacher' song of the Great Tit and the ‘korrrk kok’ call of the Pheasants. The Forest School Club will tell you that it’s a female and male Tawny Owl who call 'kewick' and 'hoo hoo oooo' separately, in answer to each other, producing the ‘twit

We finished off the term making Easter trees and collecting

twoo’ we are familiar with.

chocolate ‘treasure’ dropped by the cheeky woodland pirates.

Snails and frogs legs? Class 4 tuck in at the George Most eight or nine year olds are fussy eaters, so why take them out to face odd-looking buttery snails and battered frogs? Pardon - frogs in batter. Perhaps it was the fantastic welcome we received at the George - or maybe the opportunity to practise our French with the friendly waiters, or the spacious and beautifully decorated room we had to ourselves, or maybe the interesting presentation on the differences in culture? There was something on the day to get everyone excited. The children gave each exotic dish a mark at the end of each tasting session. Marks were high, though the pancakes with Nutella won the most votes. By the time we’d tasted snails, frogs’ legs and pancakes there wasn’t much room left for the almond cake called ‘La Galette des Rois’.

The children honoured each dish with a fair trial and good table manners. A l'année prochaine et un grand merci des années 4!

World Pi Day Celebrations

The term in... PEMBROKE In a series of four articles, each house will take turns to showcase what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been up to this term.

This term has been a great one for Pembroke, with some very interesting talks. We celebrated Pi Day a day early this year (13th March rather than 14th) with Angela Gould, a specialist in making Maths fun. She came to visit and got us doing all sorts of maths-related activities such as playing dice games, solving puzzles, making Icosahedron paper footballs and creating origami concentric pyramids, to name but a few.

In our first House Assembly we had a talk on Tracey Edwards, who then came and visited the School. In the next

One of the Shell and Midway tasks was to see how many

Assembly we

concentric pyramids they could make, decreasing in size, using

welcomed James just 2 sheets of A4 paper. Here, Lizzie and Catherine managed Crombie, who to make pyramids from pieces of paper sized A4 down to A16 - joined Upper, and had a talk on the Pembroke symbol (the impressive! The Pi day House Challenge provided some thought-provoking questions for all and was won by Tongswood. A great day.

star shown above) by Dr. Kossuth. Pembroke was doing well in the House points - four weeks into the term and only one Minus in the whole House! The House bear has been shared around and we now have two Pembroke bears. Gus Statman

Red Nose Day 2015

has made an amazing contribution to the House, receiving the House bear four times! During the term we had six talks across all the year groups - a talk on the Shell trip to Portsmouth; Gus Statman talked about Vera Brittan; Tom Beeching, Tom Marsh and Edward Watson gave a presentation on the history of the motor car and Sam Thompson, James Lee and Sam Holden-Craufurd gave a presentation on the Six Nations. On a very cold Saturday the whole School arrived to celebrate the opening of the new Astro and later we all gathered for the Brodie. Pembroke did amazingly well; taking second and third

Hot on the heels of the Book Character Catwalk came Comic Relief, when we all had fun dressing up again, this time in

place in the Years 7 and 8 race (second James Crombie and third Seb Lund) and coming first place over all.

something red. The School was ablaze with colour as we

Thank you to Mrs Thompson and well done to all the

convened in the Great Space for the Informal Concert and

Pembrokians this term.

listened to those about to take their music exams playing so professionally. Through proceeds on the day, and the selling of

By Sos Stevens, Head of House.

merchandise during the week, we raised a very respectable ÂŁ920. A huge thanks to you all.

This term has been busy down at Paradise Farm! We sold two gilts for breeding purposes. Ted Hazebroek (3RB) summed up this termâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm news very well: A catastrophe called Mr Fox (not Tim!) got into the pen and took 90% of the chickens. We have been busy since then with a load of hatching eggs in the incubator. Lots of piglets have been born, courtesy of Scarlett. Scarlett had 8 and Lucky is in-pig at the moment. The monthly pork sale has gone very well and I really recommend it to you! learn how to show a pig. The chicks that have hatched so far Mrs Bright writes:

are beautiful Gold Laced Bantams and there are 18 eggs still

Thanks Ted! We have also entered one of our pigs for the

to hatch. Thank you to all farmers; we are so lucky to have

Heathfield Show. During the summer term the farmers will

your help down at the farm!

The Nursery Big School Bird Watch with the RSPB The Nursery children show a great deal of interest in birds and to keep them enthused we decided to take part in the RSPB Big School Bird Watch. This involved bird-watching over a couple of days, for ten minutes a group, and then adding the results to the RSPB database. To help the children recognise the birds we used the flashcards sent to us by the RSPB and learnt the most common ones every morning. The children soon recognised Blue Tits, Woodpigeons, Robins and Blackbirds, to name but a few. We are lucky at Saint Ronanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to have so much wildlife on offer; largely due to the caring team who look after our grounds. The bird feeders in the Nursery wildlife area are always topped up and the birds feel safe so we set up with our binoculars and bird checklists. The children sat quietly, watching and recording the birds. The most common birds were Blue Tits, Great Tits and the much bigger Chaffinches. The Robin only made a appearance once, preferring to visit the Forest.

Hold tight! Year 1 take the controls at Headcorn Aerodrome Year 1s spent a busy and rather blustery morning being shown around Headcorn Aerodrome by Mr Freeman. The children had made their own passports and these were given an official stamp, allowing them to travel. They were then shown around a hangar containing lots of bi-planes and saw the engine of an old Harvard aeroplane and fire engines on standby. They asked some interesting questions before going outside, where several planes landed and took off right in front of them! The children were lucky enough to be allowed to sit in a light aircraft and to become pilots as they took control of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and saw what happened when they steered to the right and left; as well as what happened when they pulled the yoke out and pushed it back.

runways. When many of them ran across the runway it looked like they were trying to take off themselves! Many thanks to

They discovered that Headcorn Aerodrome has two grass

Mr Freeman, parent of two Old Ronians.

Class 3 take a trip to the Roman Painted House When we arrived there, we sat on the carpet. First, Brian (an archaeologist) told us how his team found the villa and told us what equipment they used to dig. They found it when the Council wanted to build a car park, but Brian would not let them because he knew that there was a Roman town right on the spot where it was. The Council let them have seventy days. They dug down and down until they started to find oyster shells and bits of wall plaster. They found the Painted House in sixty-nine days. Then they had a party! After that, Lottie, Jaxson, Angus and Ace dressed up as four different Roman people. Lottie dressed up as a wealthy Roman woman, Jaxson dressed up as a slave, Angus dressed up as a senator and Ace was a legionary. Next we went downstairs and made mosaics. There were two types of mosaic: Ship and Pattern.

After that we went to the gift shop and got souvenirs such as mini-gladiator figures and Julius Ceaser coins. Then we had some artefacts and we drew them. There was Tudor pottery, tessera and an oyster shell. After lunch we got back on the coach to go home. It was a great day!

When we finished doing mosaics we went upstairs and we did brass rubbings. A brass rubbing is a piece of paper on carved

Joe Tyler and Finlay Wood

wood and you use a crayon to get the picture on your paper.

My favourite pizza topping?â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Rabbit and Hedgehog The Hedgehogs and Rabbits arrived at School in a high state of excitement - we were going to visit Pizza Express at the Designer Outlet in Ashford! The children arrived early and we were on our way by 8:45am. There were a few mishaps along the way, with children feeling ill and the drivers getting a little bit lost, but we arrived safely and were greeted by lovely staff. The chef delighted us, while we were having snack, with his pizza dough throwing and spinning. A few brave children had a go at throwing and spinning too! As you can imagine we had rather a lot of pizza dough lying on the floor! Making our own pizzas was so much fun. We had to knead the dough and spread it out onto a pizza pan. We had to use our three middle fingers to push the dough into the sides to

While waiting for our pizzas we were given all sorts of yummy toppings to taste. The red onion didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go down too well but the olives and mushrooms were loved.

create the crust. We then put lovely tomato puree and mozzarella cheese on top. The pizza was finished with a final

Finally our pizzas were finished and we climbed back on the

flourish of olive oil being dashed across the top. Into the

bus to go home. The pizzas were taken home for tea; all the

ovens they went.

children reported back that they were delicious!

Ski Trip to Pila 2015

Despite the snow not being too good in Europe, the School skiers were spoilt with the conditions in Pila and the unusually warm weather. Once again there were some wonderful skiing, huge jumps and massive crashes!

Roll of Honour profiles completed for World War I The school remembers with pride each year those Old Ronians who gave their lives in the service of their country. As mentioned in a previous issue, we have been working to expand the ‘Roll of Honour’ section of the website to include a profile of each and every individual who died. Using our own archives as well as publicly available sources, we have been able to build fairly comprehensive stories of the majority of Old Ronians. The World War I section is now complete and work is well underway on World War II, which we hope to begin posting shortly. As well as being of historical interest and part of the

An example profile from the Roll of Honour

school’s history, there is much educational value in

our cross-curricular days on

Many thanks must go to

the project. The resource has

World War I during the

Caroline Redmayne and

already been put to use by

Autumn term.

Terry Stickney, who have

members of Midway during

together the pages.

researched, compiled and put

A boy’s letter home Michael Bray (OR 1946-51) writes to tell us that when he

shilling to send for your birthday. I have just remembered that

visited the school in 1983 for the Centenary celebrations, he

it is her birthday next week; would you please send me 1/6d

found displayed a letter written by a boy to his father in 1912.

to send her, as ladies always ought to be thought more of than

This letter is an amusing classic, which he reads to his family

men, oughtn’t they? And you might suggest to her what a nice

at Christmas gatherings. The text is below:

thing if she bought some sweets some time during the holidays. How are the rabbits? Do you think I might sell the one that cost me 1/6d for 2/6d to the gardener?

Dearest Dad,

Best love, your loving son, RLT

I hope you are well. I am. I am sending you 1 shilling in stamps for your birthday, with many happy returns. Will you get something you like with it; don’t you think that it would be a

Who was RLT? Presumably he went on to make a fortune in

good idea to wait till the holidays and then get yourself a box

business.

of chocolates, and please thank Mummy for sending me the 1

Spring Term Prizes Senior Prefects

E. Hastilow, J. Crawley,

Head Prefect

E. Wilmoth

Z. Barker, A. Balfour,

Second Prefects

Z. Barker, N. Easton

T. Beeching, A. Hsuan

House Captains

Boys Hockey Prizes

Bicton

F. Carver

U13 Player of the Season

O. Addis

Pembroke

S. Lund

U13 Most Improved

B. Hall

Selden

O. Addis

U11 Player of the Season

J.P. Shaw

Tongswood

D. Holden-Crauford

U11 Most Improved

S. Thompson

Half Colours

N. Easton, Z. Barker,

School Appointments Captain of Cricket

G. Jones

Captain of Rounders

D. Holden-Crauford

F. Joarder-White, JP. Shaw, J. Crombie, F. Kirkland Full Colours

Headmaster’s Special Prizes

O. Addis, G. Jones, S. Lund, O. Milborne

J. Verschuur, L. Doane, G. Parsley, H. Gutteridge, C. Ellison, Netball Prizes

H. Andrew

U13 Player of the Season

S. Charlesworth

Most Shows

Best Effort

U13 Most Improved

E. Sayers

Remove

A. Statman

D. Holden-Crauford

U11 Player of the Season

E. Cooper

Upper

O. Skeet

C. Stewart

U11 Most Improved

T. Tweedie

Midway

D. Dent

T. Tweedie

Half Colours

S. Charlesworth, A. Stevens,

Shell

C. Milborne

L. Stewart

C. Goodacre, A. Durtnell,

Class 4

E. Sanderson

D. Cooper

M. Clarke, A. Bottle,

Class 3

E. Symons

C. Parker

L. Marsh, E. Wooff, E. Cooper

Exams - Best Average

Full Colours

Remove

A. Stevens

Upper

F. McConachie

Exams - Most Improved Remove

W. Ashenden

Upper

A. Plugge

Music & Perfoming Arts Prizes

D. Holden-Crauford

Lacrosse Prizes U13 Player of the Season

L. Marsh

U13 Most Improved

A. Stevens

U11 Player of the Season

E. Wooff

U11 Most Improved

M. Kirby

Half Colours

L. Marsh, A. Stevens,

Sight Reading

A, Cotter

M. Clarke, I. Bolton-Ferret,

Acting Cup

L. Simpson, S. Pope,

C. Goodacre, O. Hancock,

M. Chesters, C. Cubitt,

R. Honychurch, E. Wooff,

O. Clarke

M. McDonald Handwriting Competition

Rugby Prizes U13 Player of the Season

S. Lund

A. Hay, N. Atkinson, A. Codd, C. Nieto-Parr, M. Clarke,

U13 Most Improved

E. Wilmoth

S. Lund

U11 Player of the Season

A. Rutter

U11 Most Improved

K. Bottle

Full Colours

O. Addis, O. Chatterton,

Jevons Projects L. Doane, O. Skeet, J. Braxton

F. Carver, B. Booth-Clibborn,

House and Form Prizes

G. Jones, F. Joarder-White,

Senior Form

Remove KK

N. Easton, S. Lund, J. Gotts,

Junior Form

4 LS

E. Wilmoth, O. Milborne,

House Cup

Pembroke

Spring Term Prizes Bicton Prize

L. Marsh

Pembroke Prize

K. Bottle

Selden Prize

T. Tweedie

Tongswood Prize

E. Wooff

Fighting their way to the top

Form Tutors Prizes Remove KK

S. Charlesworth

Remove PG

B. Booth-Clibborn

Upper BC

L. Carnell

Upper DB

I. Black

Upper GV

J. Gotts

Midway SC

B. Bonner-Davies

Midway RVS

L. Simpson

Midway IP

M. McDonald

Shell AT

G. Price

Shell NH

J. Woodhouse

The Leon Paul Junior Series, with competitions spread around

Shell RT

H. Taggart

the country, is the benchmark against which all young fencers

4 AW

M. Routledge

measure themselves.

4 EM

H. Collins

4 LS

H. Wyllie

3 EP

G. Tweedie

3 RB

J. Lewis

3 TT

E. Symons

The fencing season has got off to a flying start for Saint Ronan’s, with a veritable cascade of medals and accolades.

The first competition of the season, in Moulsford, was Emma Beart’s first competition ever and she came back jumping for joy and a silver medal. JP Shaw won gold – and this pattern was repeated a month later in London. The Ashton Sabre made it a hat-trick for JP’s gold rush. Bertie Lambert and William Ashenden both put in strong performances, so that current nationwide rankings are:

Jonathan Rutland

U13 boys

William Ashenden

20th

U11 boys

John-Paul Shaw

1st

Bertie Lambert

10th

Emma Beart

1st

U9 girls

William fenced in the U14 South-East qualifiers for a place in the British Youth Championships and won gold, making him the best U14 fencer in the region. Former Ronian Daisy Hutton will fence in the British girls’ sabre team in the Cadet and Junior Commonwealth Games in Saint Ronan’s was saddened by the death of Mr Rutland

South Africa in July.

after a short illness in February this year. He has taught Clarinet, Saxophone and Bassoon at Saint Ronan’s for over 20 years and many children have been inspired by him in the Music Department. He believed in everyone who walked through his door and worked tirelessly to help each child succeed on their chosen instrument. We look forward to a time of remembrance in our Chapel next term when we will celebrate his life. He is very sadly missed.

Closer to home again, the fencers fought two fixtures: one against Marlborough House and one against Solefield. India Black and James Woodhouse put in spectacular performances against MHS. William and JP lost only 7 points between them against Solefield and Luc Doane fenced tenaciously to turn the tide. In both fixtures the A team won clearly and the B team lost honourably. Well done to all fencers!

Sport Saint Ronan’s Superb Cross Country Season

The Brodie Shield

Saint Ronan’s has enjoyed unprecedented success in Cross Country this term. In January, five pupils took part in the KSAA Cross Country Championships at Wilmington. James Crombie won the Year 7 race, with James Crawley in fourth, both boys earning their County vests. Running at Hilden Grange in February, Hope Rutter brought home a bronze medal in the U9 girls’ race. The U9 team of Hope, Rebecca Redmayne, Poppy Barker and Ruby Balcombe were the day’s most successful, finishing fourth. In March, at Northbourne Park School the U13 Boys (James Crombie, James Crawley, Sebbie Lund, Guy Pryke and Oli Addis) won the Stevens Cup at our debut in the event.

After the excitement of watching England beat Scotland in the hockey Calcutta Cup, the pupils ran in the annual Cross-

The determination and tenacity of the schools’ athletes bore

Country race. With a lovely mix of colours racing round the

more fruit later that same week as the combined boys’ teams

course, there were impressive individual performances; not

were awarded second place in the Bracken Cup at Somerhill.

just from those winning the races. Every pupil’s position

Highlights of the afternoon included Carlos Nieto-Parr coming

counted towards their House score and, when all the maths

third in the U11 boys’ race; Hope Rutter, 7th in the U9 girls;

was completed, the green of Pembroke was victorious.

Lily Stewart, 9th in the U11 girls and Wilf Wyatt, 9th in the U11 boys. Our ‘ladies’ team of Lily Marsh, Sophie Charlesworth, Alice Durtnell and Alice Clapp, the sole entries in the U13 girls’ race earned the biggest cheer of the afternoon as they competed with the U13 boys over the tough 3km course. Next was Malvern College, in Worcester, where Saint Ronan’s competed for the first time in the IAPS National Cross Country Championships. The journey was long, the course challenging and the competition fierce, but the effort put in by the six boys

The individual races were won by: Caterpillars N1

Caterpillars N2

1. T. Kennedy

1. F. Furnival

2. A. Scott

2. J. Le Vine

Frogs N1

Frogs N2

1. G. Morris

1. F. Grierson Rickford

2=. J. Bromley,

2. J. Meredith

2=. M. Taylor-Young

who undertook the challenge, outstanding. Carlos Nieto-Parr finished superbly in fourth place in the U11 boys’ race with

Reception Girls

Reception Boys

Archie MacLeod, 128th. In the U13 boys’, James Crombie ran

1. M. Van Den Berghe

1. O. Hinchliffe

fantastically to finish 21st; George ‘one-shoe’ Kidd (racing ‘up’

2. A. May

2. W. Bromley

Y1 Girls

Y1 Boys

1. L. Hunn

1. C. Beart

2. O. Bottle

2. L. Routledge

Y2 Girls

Y2 Boys

1. L. Harrison

1. N. Taggart

2. A. Burrows

2. B. Bolton-Ferret

U9 Girls

U9 Boys

1. H. Rutter

1. J. Fuller

2. B. Wyatt

2. T. Hills

3. R. Redmayne

3. H. Braxton

as an U11) stunning in 77th, and Guy and Algie Pryke making up a team that came 18th overall. Finally, on 21st March, twenty-six young runners from Years 3 to 6 took part in the Kent Junior Schools Championships at Detling. Saint Ronan’s ‘podiumed’ five times, with Bronze team medals awarded to the Year 3 boys (Archie McDonald, Jack Kirkland and Barnaby Dear) and the Year 4 boys (Tom Hills, Charlie Ellison and Joseph Fuller); Silver to the Year 3 girls (Bea Wyatt, Mathilda Featherstone and Lettice Allchorne) and Year 5 boys (George Kidd, Kaspar Bottle, Felix Dear and Archie MacLeod) and individual Bronze to Carlos Nieto-Parr. A fine end to a superb season of Cross Country.

Sport Saint Ronan’s

Netball

Junior Hockey

Lacrosse

An exciting season, with great attacking

The U8 and U9 girls had an exciting

The girls have enjoyed a short but

and defensive play at both ends of the

season, not least because they were

sweet lacrosse season, managing to

court. The girls played 85 matches; won

able to christen the new all-weather

play 62 matches in various festivals and

45, drew 5, and scored 386 goals. The

pitch and conclude their matches with

triangular fixtures, winning 40 and

U10A team were the unbeaten heroes

some fitting victories on the new

drawing 3. They played some great

this year, winning 10 and drawing 1 of

surface. Their confidence and the

open running, attacking lacrosse,

their 11 matches; the standard of their

improvement in their play was

scoring lots of goals (228). Our U8 and

play being quite overwhelming.

measurable, even after just a few

U9 teams really show promise for the

training sessions.

future and went almost unbeaten. Our

The U11B team were also close to

U11 girls also demonstrate exciting

achieving an unbeaten record, winning

The teams won 9 and drew 1 of their 15

8 of their 10 matches.

matches, scoring 28 goals.

All teams made very encouraging

Congratulations to the U8B team who

The after school club has been

progress and should be proud of what

were unbeaten, and the U9A team who

instrumental in supporting this transition

they have achieved.

lost only one of their matches.

and in preparing the girls for the

potential as they get ready to progress from pop to field lacrosse next year.

season. The U13/12 girls faced strong opposition but retained their fighting spirit and commitment throughout.

Brodie Results (continued)

Maxing-out on the ski slopes

U11 Girls

U11 Boys

Max Laughland competed in

1. E. Wooff

1. Wilf Wyatt

the English Giant Slalom

2. L. Stewart

2. K. Bottle

Championships in Italy, where

3. M. Macdonald

3. G. Kidd

he came an impressive 3rd in

U13 Girls

U13 Boys

1. L. Marsh

1. J. Crawley

2. M. Hopper

2. J. Crombie

3. S. Charlesworth

3. S. Lund

the U12s. He then took part in the Inter-School Giant Slalom where, representing Saint Ronan’s, he came 5th out of a field of 67. Well done, Max - 2022 Winter Olympics (in Kazakhstan or China) here we come!

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Sport Saint Ronan’s The Rugby season proves to be the best yet!

This year the 1st XV recorded their best results since rugby

Sebbie Lund and George Jones worked tirelessly in the

was re-introduced to Saint Ronan’s in 2003. They won 6 out of

forwards, while Oli Chatterton was a powerful runner in the

7 matches, beating the likes of Marlborough House, Vinehall

back line.

and, for the first time, Holmewood House. In the Solefield tournament they lost to Yardley Court in the semi-final.

The Colts A team won 4 out of 6 matches and became stronger as the season progressed, showing a lot of flare as

The team, well-coached once again by Charlie Sloane, played

they passed the ball around, looking to exploit space in the

an exciting brand of rugby which enabled them to score lots of

opposition defences.

good team tries. Captain Nat Easton and Finlay Carver were at the heart of it all and fully deserved their selection for the Kent district squad (Nat) and Kent squad (Finlay). In addition,

Well done to all the boys for battling through the wind, rain and mud on behalf of their respective teams.

New Astro helps teams produce goals galore

The new Shandy-Ba astro proved to be an instant hit with the

their League with three wins and two draws. This put them

boys, who enjoyed the opportunity to display their hockey

through to the Cup. Two more matches needed to be won for

skills.

them to make it through to the final but, against some strong

The aim of the 1st VII this year was to be more clinical in the

sides, they lost narrowly 0-1 and 1-2.

opposing D, to make sure they took plenty of shots and were

This year the team have been very well-led by Olly Addis,

in the correct position to deflect or attack the rebound. They

whose impressive performances both at School and for

managed to do this in the first couple of matches without

Marden Hockey Club have won him a place in the Kent U13

troubling the scorer. However it all came together and a 6-0

side.

win was closely followed by a 9-3 victory. With confidence high, they headed off to the East Grinstead Tournament for the first time. The 18 teams were divided into three groups and after the round robin stage, Saint Ronan’s managed to win

Other successes were the U13 mixed hockey team, which came second to DCPS at the Rose Hill Tournament, and the Colts A which beat DCPS 6-4 in a very entertaining game.