School news
Pre-term netball training
Senior girls from U5/L6/U6 began their preparation for the new season.
2010 Public Examination Results
Headlines: 23% A* at A-Level; 36% A* at GCSE; full results and press coverage here.
News from Ladakh
Mrs Saywack reports from a recent visit to the GTC Monastic School in Ladakh.
Key events
Chapel Choir: Welcome Service in the Cathedral for all new pupils and parents. Followed by refreshments in the Refectory
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Lower School: Norfolk Children's Book Centre talk followed by Parents' Drinks evening, finishes 9.00 pm
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
PTA Committee Meeting (16 The Close)
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Newsletters
Lower School Weekly Newsletter
Lower School Trinity Term Weekly News (week 10)
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School calendar
10 September 2010
Linz Exchange students return home
10 September 2010 08:45
Lower School: Opro dental guard fittings
10 September 2010 09:00
Senior School: Opro dental guard fittings
Term dates 10-11
Michaelmas term
Starts Mon 6 September, 2010
Half term: Thur 21 Oct - Sun 31 Oct, 2010
Finishes Fri 17 Dec, 2010
Lent term
Starts Tue 11 Jan, 2011
Half term: Sat 19 Feb - Sun 27 Feb, 2011
Finishes Fri 1 Apr, 2011
Trinity term
Starts Tue 26 Apr, 2011
Half term: Sat 28 May - Mon 6 Jun, 2011
Finishes Fri 8 July, 2011
Sports results
Norwich School vs MCC
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Losing the toss, being asked to field first and then finding ourselves leaking runs at almost 8 an over was not the best of starts. However, after Sam Plater got the first wicket, gradually, through determined, consistent bowling and some good ground fielding, the run rate decreased to 5 an over by lunch. After the break, due to more accurate bowling, the MCC struggled to accelerate as they would have liked and declared their innings at 244/3.
Best bowling performances: Lasith Ranasinghe - 8 overs 2 maidens 1 for 23, and Harry Bamber - 7 overs 1 for 25.
Knowing there was still plenty of time left in the day, James Hooper (18 runs) and Will Bryan (23 runs) negotiated the time until tea for the loss of only one wicket. Matthew Plater (26 runs) carried on the good work before the MCC struck back, reducing the School to 104/4. Will Jones (56 runs) and Will Kennard (26 runs) set to work on rebuilding the innings and steadily accelerated in a fine stand of 86 before both being dismissed in quick succession. It was left to Tom Randon (30*) and Harry Bamber (18*) to finish the job, playing some delightful strokes along the way.
Norwich School won by 4 wickets with 8 balls remaining in the day.
Repton
Housemaster and Tutors
| Housemaster | JC Fisher |
|---|---|
| U6 | MD Barber / Miss G MacArthur |
| L6 | Mrs RM Bolton / Miss L Evan |
| U5 | CA Banham |
| M5 | M Mulligan |
| L5 | SJ Gibbons |
| U4 | M James |
| L4-2 | Miss AE Boyt |
| Support of Co-Education | |
|---|---|
| Senior Mistress | Mrs NJ Hill |
REPTON HOUSE
Repton, the second youngest of the school’s houses, likes to call itself the “friendly house”. House members (“reptiles”) are encouraged to take part voluntarily in activities – one reason, perhaps, for the house’s frequent success.
Humphrey Repton (1752–1818) was born in Bury St Edmunds. His father was Collector of Taxes and the family intended that he should become one of the prosperous Norwich merchants whose trade was primarily with Holland. He married very young and engaged in several enterprises, all of which were failures. After a short interlude as confidential secretary to the Lord Lieutenant in Ireland he moved to Essex, where he failed in business as a gardener. One night after much worrying he decided to become a landscape gardener and the successor of "capability" Brown.
With his Red Books , collections of “before” and “after” drawings, he became a very popular and influential designer, fashionable enough to be satirised by Thomas Love Peacock and mentioned by Jane Austen in Mansfield Park , where we are informed that “his terms are five guineas a day”.
In later life he also practised as an architect, designing Sheringham Hall in Norfolk.
He is buried in the churchyard of Aylsham parish church. “In the churchyard, enclosed with iron rails, and planted with roses, hearts'-ease, is the grave of Humphrey Repton, the celebrated landscape gardener, who died in 1818.” from William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845 [Transcription copyright © Richard Johns]
Mr James {Reptons longest serving tutor} has also found a reference to a science fiction short story by Humphrey Repton, From a Private Mad-House , published in Variety , 1787, and collected in Far Boundaries, ed. August Derleth, Pellegrini Cudahy, 1951.
John Fisher, Housemaster