The Junior School

St. Peter's School,

York.

To the Editors of " The Peterite." Dear Sirs,

In spite of the unusual lack of success this season, Mr. Stevenson has given us untiring coaching, for which I am deeply grateful. Thanks are also due to Mr. Rhodes for his excellent coaching of the Colts, while the Junior game has shown considerable promise under the combined supervision of Messrs. Stead, Smith and Wrenn.

Our enjoyment of the matches has been greatly increased by the teas which have been so kindly supplied by Mrs. Baird. Yours faithfully, V. L. F. DAVIN, Captain of Rugger.. St. Peter's School, York.

To the Editors of " The Peterite." Dear Sirs,

The success of the Squash matches is partly due to the splendid teas which have been so kindly provided by Mrs. Baird, whom I should like to thank. Yours faithfully, T. D. AMBLER, Captain : Squash Rackets.

The Christmas term is usually thought to be a long one, but so many things happen that the term actually appears to go very quickly. This term has been just like that!

An interesting and exciting event for all the boys of the Junior School was the day of the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to York. We were given a special place to stand on the mound of Clifford's Tower (old boys will not know that the huge gaol wall has been taken down), and after rather a long wait we had an excellent view of the Queen—who, we feel sure, waved her hand to us, but the King was looking the other way. We gave a hearty cheer and then threaded our way through the crowds back to the School. Some of us, however, were small enough and ubiquitous enough to find our way to the Mansion 53

House, where we had another good view of the Royal party and of the ceremonial by the soldiers.

In this account of the term we must mention the wonderfully fine Autumn weather which we had for our games days almost up to the end of November. Mr. Ping showed us a bunch of beautiful dahlia blooms he cut from the garden on November 13th. The Senior School, of course, found the hard, dry ground very unsuitable for playing Rugger, but we were able to have excellent games of Soccer on practically every one of our half-holidays.

The various preparations for our Annual Gym. Display occupied our attention after half-term, but we were rather upset when a case of measles occurred, and we were doubtful as to how far the infection would spread. Fortunately, quite the majority of boys had already had measles and all these kept clear from any second attack.

The Gym. Display was held on Wednesday, December 8th, and all but about a dozen boys were able to take part in it. In a short speech at the end of the Drill, the Headmaster said he was very pleased indeed with the work done by the boys, and that he was particularly impressed by the fact that all the boys did their bit and not just a special class. Sgt.-Major Puddick was heartily congratulated on his work and the choice of the graduated exercises.

Parents and visitors were then invited to afternoon tea, which was provided in the New Building, and afterwards to the French Play which had been specially written and produced by Mr. K. H. Rhodes and Mr. J. S. Cooper.

We were very pleased to welcome such a large number of parents and friends to our " show," an event which was first started in December, 1927.

Towards the end of term we learnt that we were to lose Miss D. Turner, our Art Mistress, as she was to be married to Mr. R. M. Cooper—who was formerly a master on the staff of St. Peter's. Miss Turner has been with us for five years, and has helped many Olavites in many ways : we felt that she must have some mark of appreciation from St. Olave's for all she has done, and so at a special gathering of the Junior School on December 15th, John Denison (Head Boy of the School) presented a silver salver suitably inscribed.

Of the many other doings of the term we may say that they would fill all the pages of " The Peterite " if they were written, and so we must omit detailed mention of the lectures and entertainments we attended, and of the earth work and demolitions we helped with, or of the crazes, clay 54

oven and paper aeroplanes, the snowballing and sledging, and we must take our leave of Christmas Term, 1937, with the hope that the Junior School will continue to flourish in work and in play no less successfully in the New Year.

ST. OLAVE'S GYMNASTIC DISPLAY. Wednesday, December 8th, 1937. PROGRAMME. 1. Song—" Where the bee sucks " Boys of Forms JIII and JIV

2. Drill

Forms JI and JII 3. Drill Form JIII 4. Songs— i " The Traction Engine " ii " The Huntsmen " Forms JI and JII 5. Drill Form JIV 6. Recitations Selected Boys 7. Drill Forms JV and JVI INTERVAL FOR TEA. 8. A Short Play in French ... Boys from Forms JV and JVI L'ASSASSINAT DU SULTAN OU LE CORPS DANS LE COFFRE-FORT. " God Save the King."

L'ASSASSINAT DU SULTAN OU LE CORPS DANS LE COFFRE-FORT. The Speaker: A. H. Terry. Characters in order of their appearance. La Princesse Haidee C. A. F. Cookson La Princesse Fatima R. E. Dodd Le Sultan d'Aboukir P. G. R. Dench Emile Conspir- W. H. Wellburn Eustace ateurs J. K. Andrew Abdul, Vizir du Sultan G. D. Smith La Sultane d'Aboukir N. T. Barnes Une Vieille Bonne R. A. Stratton Ignace, Amant de la Princesse Haidee W. Amos Un Assassin 9 Un Detective J. A. Denison Un Commis Voyageur Une Dame F. N. Goode R. T. Hey

Tin Gendarme G. F. Ruddock Le President de la Republique Frangaise J. R. Penty Le General Feu-de-Joie P. M. Steele La Foule M. J. Dunn, R. L. Murray, D. L. Pryer, A. H. Terry et R. B. Wharldall Directeur de Musique : P. H. Sykes, Esq. Robes par Mrs. A. W. Ping. Souris blanches par F. N. Goode. Bombe par Messrs. Krupp, Dusseldorf. Parasol du Sultan par H. A. Milburn. STORY OF THE PLAY.

The exiled Sultan of Aboukir, surrounded by his -enemies, awaits the help of the French at Marseilles. His daughter, Haidee, is just ready to run off with Ignace, a window-cleaner, when the Sultan is struck down by an unknown assassin. Two other plotters hide the body in order to escape suspicion, and the mystery is cleared up by the detective. All ends happily, as you are going to see.

G. F. Langdon. R. T. W. McDermid. J. R. Taylor.

J. D. Davis. F. N. Goode. C. B. Kay. SALVETE.

VALETE.

ST. OLAVE'S SCHOOL GAMES.

During the greater part of this term we ran four games each half-holiday, but later the bad weather made some of the School pitches unplayable, and two games and a walk across country became the order of the day.

We had two matches only, the first against Clifton House, Harrogate on Thursday, October 14th, whom we beat at York by 5 goals to nil. The outstanding feature of this match was the goalkeeping of our opponents. Our second match, again at York, was against Terrington Hall School on November 4th, and we won 4 goals to 1 on this occasion.