An enthusiastic group of 36 art and photography students from the 5th and 6th Form enjoyed a fascinating trip to London, which included visiting Tate Britain, the National Gallery and the Portrait Gallery. They also managed to take in many of the London sights, such as Whitehall, the Houses of Parliament and Horse Guards’ Parade
Click here to read Mrs Holwill’s full report of the day.
The Inter-House Balloon Debate, run during Olympic Theme Week, saw each House represented by two “famous Olympians” who argued to stay in the balloon. Staff were also represented by Mr Ryder and Mr Page, as 1960′s British Bob Sleighing duo Nash and Dixon. After each contestant had presented a witty and fiercely argued point of view, the audience was asked to vote to keep only three famous Olympians in the balloon.
The winner was Mo Farah, represented by Newton House member Daisy Waggett. Three equal runners up were also chosen to stay in the balloon: Charles Howard (School House) as Eddie the Eagle, Ellen Riis-White (Newton House) as Jessica Ennis, and Lewis Phillips-Crowther (Courtenay House) as Tom Daly. A special mention must go to Harry Peake from Russell House, for his convincing interpretation of Miss Paula Radcliffe. Thank you to all the other contestants for sportingly taking part: Lauren Dawe, Selwyn Hulme-Teague, Beth Bourne, Tobias Clifford-Flower, Phil Sloman and Sam Cooper. Billy Allen did a splendid job of helping the event run smoothly and gave out the prizes. Thank you to Mrs Bridger and Mr Balfour for their invaluable assistance and to Mrs Tranfield for organising the event.
See below photos of some of the amazing events of last week’s Olympic Theme Week, including: The House Marathon – where each house had to complete a 26 mile course around the school field, with most pupils running 1 mile each. The House Competition – where each House set up their own Olympic themed activities (see if you can spot the Headmaster on the Ski Jump!). The amazingly decorated corridors in the main school, Olympic themed discos and a fabulous British feast, prepared by the catering staff, of a fish and chip supper – with all the trimmings – including mushy peas and pickled eggs!
It was a fantastic week of activities – and results of the Marathon and House Competitions will be announced next week. Well done to all who took part. Money was raised for charities including the Devon Air Ambulance, Breast Cancer Awareness and the Dartmoor Rescue Group.
Thank you to Mrs Stokes and Dillinger Lee for taking some great photographs.
This month Old Kelleian Liam Steevenson is attempting an extraordinary challenge – 36-year-old Liam is joining the most experienced ocean rowing crew ever assembled to attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean from Gran Canaria to Barbados.
The challenge is being made in the most technically advanced ocean rowing boat ever made in world record time, in under 32 days. Liam says ‘I am doing this challenge to try and raise money for CLIC Sargent, a children’s cancer charity that helped my family enormously when I went through cancer treatment with my middle son George.’ For more information, and to support Liam, go to www.liamsteevenson.com.
Five Kelly athletes competed in the South West Schools’ Cross Country event at Exeter Arena. In bitterly cold and wet conditions they competed against some of the best runners in the South West. They achieved the following:
Senior Boys – Josh Carnell 31st (a year underage)
Senior Girls – Ellen Riis White 24th (a year underage)
Junior Boys – Jordan Channon 16th
Minor Boys – Mateo Pearce 42nd
Both Mateo and Jordan’s Devon team won the overall team title.
Josh, Ellen and Jordan are likely to be selected for Devon to race at the English Schools’ Championships to be held in Somerset in March. Well done to all who took part.
The results of the December LAMDA examinations have now come in, with some very impressive marks being achieved.
162 examinations were taken, in Mime, Acting, Verse & Prose and Public Speaking and 111 of those were achieved with Distinction!
Waterside Race A has now been CANCELLED for this weekend.
The current thick ice status and with no prospect of any thaw means the conditions now will be the same on Sunday.
Their were a number of options considered but the one that would allow the most to benefit is to cancel Waterside A and move on to Waterside B, this to be run as planned on 26th Feb.
There is no entry limit to any of the remaining races and an announcement regarding refunds / transfer of entries etc will be made on the website in due course.
Message from Clive Williams, Chairman
On Saturday 4th February the house teams battled it our in the Annual Inter-house Netball Tournament. The final results were:
1st Russell – Drew 1 , Won 1 = 4 Points
2nd Marwood – Won 1, Lost 1 = 3 Points
3rd Newton – Lost 1, Drew 1 = 1 Point
Click here for the full report.
Olympic Theme Week begins on Monday 6th February and already the school has been adorned with flags, photographs and Olympic memorabilia – as well as a representation of the World Record Long Jump – 8.95m (29.4ft) - in the main school corridor! This record is held by Mike Powell (USA) and was set in 1991
There are loads of Olympic events this week – including the House Marathon competition, which runs throughout the week, Olympic art workshops and the Sights and Sounds Display in the main corridor.
Thanks to all in the Art Department for their impressive Olympic displays – let the games begin…
Kelly College South Africa Expedition 2012 are fundraising to buy sports equipment for under privileged children, in a school in a remote South African village.
15 students from Kelly are going out to South Africa in July 2012 and as part of the expedition they are going to run a sports camp for youngsters, who currently have no facilities.
They have created the Kelly College Wacky Sox to support the expedition – and they can be yours, for just £9 per pair – with all proceeds going to sports equipment for the South African children. Click here for the order form.
