January/February 2010 - Magdalen College School

Oxbridge Offers - February 2010

The current haul of 32 offers from Oxford and Cambridge is the largest since 1986 when 33 boys received offers, which in turn surpassed the previous high of 28 in 1981.

These offers were achieved despite an increase in numbers applying to Oxford and Cambridge (by 12% and 1.3% respectively).

U14 Hockey success - 9th February 2010

The MCS U14 Hockey Team has qualified for the regional round of the National Schools Hockey Competition after coming runners up in the Oxfordshire County Cup. A very skilful and determined side started well, beating St Edwards 5-1 and then Bloxham 3-0. They fought a close game with Radley but lost 1-0. A 3-0 win over Abingdon saw MCS secure second place and qualification to the South of England round. This is the second year that the MCS U14 team has gone through to the South round, last year winning and continuing to the national finals. This year the team are preparing for the South round on a half term hockey camp coached by seven Olympic hockey players from England and Australia. The future for this team looks very exciting.

Picture courtesy of Stephen Sharp Photography

J4 Poetry - February 2010

Pupils in J4 have recently produced an anthology of writing on the First World War. J4 parents and boys voted Jerome Gasson’s poem ‘Tasting Death’ as their favourite piece of writing. It was a mark of how difficult it was to choose a winner by the fact that some twenty poems were nominated by the voters to be in first or second place.

Read 'Tasting Death'

EPSCA National U11 Team Championships: Regional qualifiers - February 2010

Magdalen College School’s U11 chess players had an exceptional day at the Somerset qualifier for this year’s national U11 team championships.

The U11A team won all five of its matches, finishing as clear champions and gold medal winners from the sixteen teams that were present. Alex Anderton, Richard Woods-Rogan and Jacob Coxon on boards 2,3 and 4 all won all of their games, while Daniel d’Souza-Eva scored 3½/5 on board 1 and Henry Phillips 4½/5 on board 5.

The team therefore qualifies for the national semi-finals at Brean Sands in May.

*Click here for the MCS Newsletter - Hilary Term 2010*

Chess News - January 2010

MCS won the National Schools zonal final against Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham, and proceed into the last fifteen in the country. The match resulted in a 3-3 draw, with wins by Jeffrey Levicki, Matthew Daggitt and Jacob Trefethen: MCS won on age handicap. Juniors Kirill Lasis, Cameron Hill and Jack Bancroft also fought bravely against their much older opponents.

Snow! - 8th January 2010

Getting to school was snow joke for this young band of Antarctic explorers! Having made the journey on this frosty Friday they were enthralled with tales of Scott's expedition and so they set out to make the most of their icey lunchtime - I think you'll agree, they did a fantastic job! Miss Liddiard and Mr Lemoine were more than happy to lend some expertise!

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