News, Events and Activities
St Peter’s Challenge Senior Competition The Christmas term saw the welcome return of the ever popular St Peter’s Challenge competition. Each week, pairs of houses competed against each other, answering an array of general knowledge questions. It was very obvious from the start of the competition that this would be tightly-fought – and that its growth in popularity quickly moved us out of classrooms and into the arena that was the Lecture Theatre and Mr Smith’s lab! After five rounds we had reached the semi-finals where Queen’s took on Temple, and Linton played School. After impressive displays of knowledge and quick buzzer skills we saw Queen’s and Linton progress to the final, where Queen’s were victorious, winning by 580 to 230. Congratulations to the Queen’s team and to all involved in the competition. This is a superb house event and is always an impressive display of our pupils’ general knowledge and their wonderful house spirit! A huge thank-you to all who took part, helped out and came along to support!
Staff versus Monitors The end of term brought with it the entertainment that is the Staff versus Monitors match. The Monitors put up a very strong team of Alistair Duffey, Patrick Litten, Ben Turvill and Helen Megone but they were defeated 360-160 by the staff ‘dream team’ of Mrs Lawrence, Mrs Dawson, Mr Gwilliam and Mr Vann. Thank-you to all involved – and a special thanks to Mr Lawrence for writing the questions.
Junior Competition In the summer term it was the turn of the third and form forms to display their talents in the junior competition. Once again we witnessed some superb matches, displaying our wonderful house spirit and the breadth of our pupils’ knowledge. The semi-finals and final were much anticipated (as we had to wait until Exploration Week and exam week were over to conclude
the competition). The final was played out in the last week of term on a very hot Tuesday lunchtime. We saw very impressive teams from The Grove and Temple battle it out with The Grove winning 270 to 110. The interest and participation in this competition is a credit to the school as all houses managed to get many of their third and fourth form involved (many teams swapped players each week to allow many students to participate). It not only displays a great house spirit but also shows off the diverse (and numerous) talents of our pupils. Mrs Ella Mallard
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