King Edward Camp Hill Christmas Newsletter

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Headmaster’s letterDear Parents,

Another busy Autumn Term draws to a close. The accompanying newsletter, once again, documents the involvement and achievement of the boys this term in the vast range of curricular and extra-curricular activities available to them. The school website contains an excellent summary together with the presentations made by the prefects in their assemblies this term. They have been extremely varied in their nature, interesting and entertaining. I recommend you to take a look at them on the school website - http://web.camphillboys.bham.sch.uk/ke/pupil_news/pupil_assemblies .

This term we have enjoyed the two excellent drama productions involving pupils from Camp Hill Boys and Girls (‘The Canterbury Tales’ and the Sixth Form pantomime production of ‘Robin Hood and his Musical Merry Men’) as well as the regular music events of the school calendar – the Chamber Con-cert and the Carol Concert. We have hosted visits from an author and the ‘animal man’ enetertained Year 7’s. Camp Hill hosted and led a ‘Stimulating Physics’ Day. The interest in the Debating Society has grown so much that it is being sub-divided into Junior, Intermediate and Senior Groups. In Sep-tember we enjoyed the superbly organised Ifthar Dinner. The boys have also taken part in a diverse range of team competitions for example the Cambridge Debating Competition, South Birmingham Indoor Rowing, Schools’ Challenge Quiz, the Birmingham Mathematics Festival and the Millfield Chess Tournament. Boys have also taken part in the Education Engineering scheme, a CBI Sustainable Chal-lenge Project and the Economics 2.0 Challenge. Trips have taken place to Riom (Lower Sixth French Exchange), to Paris (Sixth Form Art), the Rotary Democracy Forum, to plays in Oxford and London. I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to the members of staff who have, as usual, shown tremendous commitment of time and energy to allow our extensive programme of events, trips and visits to take place once again this term.

We are making good progress in the implementation of this year’s school development plan. This term we have implemented the new reporting assessment system and have begun to explore the means by which we produce a detailed extra-curricular tracking and reporting system. The software which now allows us to communicate via e-mail with parents has been very useful in the recent extreme weather. There has been a significant delay caused by technical problems, but the new practical food building is expected to be completed in February. At the end of this term the new and increased electricity supply system to the school site should be completed.

I would like to thank and congratulate, once again, Hasan Ali, James Jordan and Sanjeevan Ghag who have produced another two excellent editions of ‘Pupil Voice’ (please visit their website - http://www.pupilsvoice.com from which you can view and download copies).

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those on the AFS (Association of Friends of the School) committee who have supported the school at a large number of events this term. All of those present enjoyed the dinner dance at the Uffculme Centre superbly organised by Vanessa Manley. On Thursday 3 February, at 7 p.m. it is the Annual General Meeting of the AFS – everyone is warmly in-vited.

All five Grammar Schools in the King Edward Foundation have now applied for ‘converter academy status’. Our applications have been received and we await further communication from the Depart-ment of Education. In common with other schools we also await confirmation of the budget situation for the next financial year. The continued level of specialist school funding is still unclear and, on top of this, the recent Education White Paper entitled ‘The Importance of Teaching’ indicated that, over the next four years, schools with Sixth Forms will be receiving a significant cut in their student funding levels. As I said at our recent Prize Giving Ceremony, ‘although our income may be under pressure, our strengths remain intact, as a strong community with a clear vision If any school can

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survive and indeed prosper, Camp Hill Boys is well placed to ride the economic and educational storm in which we find ourselves’. As we wait for the budgets to be set for 2011-12. I would like to take this opportunity to ask for your patience when you are trying to contact school by telephone. This is be-cause I have decided not to replace a member of the clerical staff, Mrs Frances Williams, who left us at half-term. This means that from Wednesday to Friday there are only two people available at any one time to deal with telephone enquiries.

One way in which you, as parents can support us in our endeavours is to contribute to the School Club Fund. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have been able and/or willing to do so following my start of term letter appeal. I’m delighted to say that the total we have received is £8 100. A significant number of parents did make very generous donations for which we are very grate-ful. However, in a time when your son’s school is likely to suffer significant cuts to its core funding, only 35% of families have contributed to School Fund – if this figure does not increase then I’m afraid in the near future we may be forced to significantly reduce our extra-curricular programme. If you are able still to make a contribution to the School Club Fund, at whatever level you can afford, it will be appreciated by the staff that do so much to provide our broad and balanced education.If you have any views on some of the issues I have raised in this letter or on any other matter con-cerning life at Camp Hill please write, e-mail or telephone the school and we will endeavour to ad-dress these as soon as possible.

Can I wish all members of the community of Camp Hill Boys a very happy Christmas holiday and, in these difficult times, a successful year ahead to you and your family.

Yours sincerely,

M Roden


ContentsHeadmaster’s letter - page 2Art Study Trip to Paris - page 5Careers - page 5CBI Sustainability Project - page 5Chess - page 5

Our Millfield Excursion - page 6Engineering In Education Scheme - page 7English Department Activities - page 8iPads in Education - page 10Maths Matters - page 10Music - page 11Pantomime - page 15

Robin Hood and his Musical Merry Men - page 15

Specialist College Community - page 17Saturday School - page 17Mathematics - page 17Primary Schools Mentoring Programme - page 17Author Visit - page 17Junior Drama Production (Canterbury Tales) - page 17Signing Classes - page 17ICT Support - page 17KE Camp Hill - Wheelers Lane Year 7 Enterprise and Technology Day at Aston University - page 17Forthcoming Events and Activities - page 17

Specialist College - School Targets - page 18Quiz News - page 18House Reports - page 20

Beaufort - page 20Howard - page 20Seymour - page 21Tudor - page 21

House Update - page 22Results Summary - page 231ST XV Rugby - page 232ND XV Rugby - page 24U16 XV Rugby - page 24

U15 XV Rugby - page 25U14 XV Rugby - page 25U13 XV Rugby - page 26U12 Rugby - page 261ST XI Hockey - page 272ND XI Hockey - page 27U15 XI Hockey - page 28U14 XI Hockey - page 28Badminton - page 28U16 Basketball - page 30U14 Basketball - page 301ST XI Football - page 302ND XI Football - page 31Cross Country - page 32Swimming - page 32Tennis - page 33

U.15 Tennis - page 33Senior Tennis - page 34


Art Study Trip to ParisOnce again our annual Paris trip, scheduled for October half term, was a resounding success. One or two venues were mysteriously closed but boys found plenty to occupy themselves. Key visits to the Musée d’Orsay and the Louvre as well as the Pompidou Centre and the Marmottan were enthu-siastically received. The regular stroll through Pére Lachaise Cemetery always arouses a variety of responses, as it did this year, and a number of boys “enjoyed” the delights of the Paris Catacombs, recently re-opened. Our thanks must go to Miss R Gowreesunker for her continued good humour and patience.

PTC

Careers Year 9 have begun their first careers work this term with the setting of a careers project which needs to be completed by the middle of next term. All pupils now have access to excellent careers soft-ware via the Internet – it is well worth a look. It is available through www.connexions-bs.co.uk and is called “Kudos Online”. Pupils (and parents) can logon with the password they have been given. Why not give it a go. The website also provides links to a wide range of other information such as university choices and funding arrangements.

Year 11 have begun preparation for work experience with a number having confirmed placements. Please encourage your son to continue this process, especially if he has not been able to get in to his first option. He should have a variety of addresses and telephone numbers to contact. ALL PLACE-MENTS NEED TO BE CONFIRMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and BY HALF TERM at the latest. Please note that last minutes changes to work experience should not be made. THE SCHOOL CANNOT AUTHORISE PLACEMENTS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN CHECKED FOR INSURANCE AND HEALTH AND SAFETY. A booklet explaining the process in more detail together with insurance arrangements has been sent to all par-ents of year 11 please refer to this for guidance about the programme or contact me if you need any further information.

TJL

CBI Sustainability ProjectThree teams of Year 12 students were selected to represent the school in a challenge to identify ways in which successful businesses could improve their environmental credentials (and save money). The twelve students visited the Head Offices of Gateley Waring Law Firm in the centre of Birmingham to assess the premises and working practices in order to identify areas for improvement and produce a report which will be presented to the company’s partners in the Spring Term.

GNH

ChessIn July we lost Aled, Clive, Beard, Nathan, BIG Nick, Chiraag, Indy and Kasim. So I didn’t expect very much this term. However, the main problem has not been lack of ability or enthusiasm, but lack of fixtures.

104 boys entered the Individual competition, which started in mid-September. 58 made it to the final round, and 30 of these qualified for the Megafinals in May. Zack Von-Schaxmann and Andrew Pearson tied for first place and will play off soon.

The Invitational Tournament at Five Ways came next, but we couldn’t go and defend our trophy, be-cause it clashed with Millfield, described in inimitable style below by Hok Chiu.The League Programme “swung” into action after half-term, and so far, we have played…one match at Solihull, in which the Year 8s won 5-1 and the third team narrowly lost to their first team. There may be one more match after the editorial deadline, but that’s it. Sorry. More next term.

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This year I was able to attend the Under 18 tournament at KES. Last year we won a trophy, but we didn’t come near that this year. Our eight players performed bravely, though, and Sulamaan Rahim and Kuran Rati did well to score 3½ out of 5.

Finally, the local portion of the Yateley Manor competition hasn’t got started yet, partly because two of the four e-mail addresses supplied to me by the organisers didn’t work.

Mr Walker has continued to run his Year 7 tuition, where Ashrit Chohan looks like our new star, and it has been very pleasing to welcome back John Emanuel who is running a weekly session for our more advanced players. And now, over to Hok!

AMR

Our Millfield ExcursionLast year, a force of immense power left for Millfield, and we ended 6th out of 13, a clearly com-mendable feat, it was most honourable to come so highly in an international tournament, where only us from the Midlands dared to enter this almost blood thirsty event. However, since six of our 12 strong team had left, we were to remobilise, train and to clash internationally again.

This year, it was 4 o’clock, our general and wise tactician, Mr Rogers and Mr Walker respectively, were on the scene waiting. And eventually 12 bold warriors appeared, there were Andrew the Cap-tain, Kyle, Marvin, Max, Me, Bache (Kieran), Fateh, Tom Perkins, Kuran, Sulamaan, Tom Meehan and not to forget, Jason. Since last year, we managed to “commercialise year 7s … for future purposes” and these happened to be Sulamaan and Tom, who are very young, but managed to represent the school at this incredible feat, which their skills proved most useful!

Our battle wagon, full of worthy warriors ambling across the motorway, approached our first base. This was a restaurant fitting only for great warriors, Winston’s Fish Bar! Soon, we arrived, and any normal person’s favourite dish was served, fish and chips, which was rather top quality, meanwhile, a few of us, strangely decided to take the Moby Dick challenge, which just included stuffing yourself with fish and chips, (Small print: includes mushy peas!) Andrew Pearson, Kyle, Fateh, Max, and Bache (Kieran) all decide to stuff themselves, with Max carving himself into the food, and finishing first amongst the Moby Dick competitors. Afterwards, we set off closer to tomorrow’s destination, on the outskirts of Taunton, lay our temporary barracks hidden from the prying eyes of our adversaries, was Holiday Inn Express, a clearly luxurious place.

On Saturday morning we journeyed across the fields and small roads, soon we arrived to our battle field, the country of Millfield. Millfield is where rich people send their children, if not to Eton, their warriors pay £25,000 to TRY and become warriors (not so great as ours). This multimillion pound micro-nation was to attract forces similar to ours, where once a year we duel and return with war spoils. However, this year, Millfield was extremely un-honourable, we found ourselves along with a few hundred other people in one sports hall, divided into two, with a table tennis and badminton court set up! With also a few rows of tables for chess teams to sit at after each round, trouble was probably waiting to be caused. A sports hall was Mr Rogers’ 369th place to put a chess tournament, but with the tables and courts set out, it was rather crazy. And there were no base rooms either? And they even demanded us to not talk even after you have finished playing, because other players were playing??? Well, say, every team had a HOK (me) and a JASON, and then you get quite some noise! Off course, Mr Rogers did inquire about the base room problems, but then Millfield craftily gave some excuse.

First, there were the first two rounds, the qualifying rounds; it divided us into different divisions afterwards. We in fact did great, and the achievement was most commendable. A lot of people got 1 out of 2, and one got 1½, the top scorer in the qualifying round (me). However, this commend-able score was in fact excellent; we got into the Major Division, in the same as Millfield themselves,


and some Irish schools and some others, Here onwards, everyone duelled valiantly, which I thought Mr Rogers was pleased about. Meanwhile between each game, we also went though our games with Mr Walker, which was very useful, especially, when I played an idiot twice in the competition and he used the same opening tactics twice, which I was to slowly grind him down, and then a quicker crush-ing, after Mr Walker told me what to do if someone else does that.

Not to forget there was lunch from a school where students pay £25,000 a year, so that was definitely not bad! After lunch and near dinner, with a total of 4 rounds, it was food and playtime!!! And we were doing very well! Up till then, high scorers included Andrew, Kyle, Max, Tom Perkins, Kieran and Me, all with only one defeat for the whole day, and with scores ranging from 2½ to 3. Supper, again was good, well, for a school with better facilities then some universities, it ought to be acceptable! Afterwards, was a simultaneous with Matthew Turner Grand Master, who also mentors chess for Mill-field. Grand master? Well, we have a real chess teacher, Mr Walker, that’s enough to cause havoc amongst our adversaries!

On Sunday, we returned to Millfield, and most of us fought valiantly. This also involved me playing a Millfield person, and I crushed him, therefore, I concluded, Mr Walker is better than Grandmaster Matthew Turner because he trained me good enough to beat, some dude trained by the Grandmas-ter. By the last round, something dawned on us, we were to fight to the last to get runners-up, and this meant if so, everyone in the team gets a trophy! And who was against us in getting runners up, well, guess… Millfield School themselves! Money seems to not buy chess skills. And finally we beat them by half a point!!! High scorer: Bache, with an overall of 5½, while the low scorer with ½, with no comment on whom. Overall high scorers included Andrew, 4½, Jason, 4½, Kyle, 5 and me, 5. Kyle and Bache got a Board prize adding onto our war spoils, which must be highly commended. Andrew (I think), Sulamaan (I think), Jason and I were runners up for board prizes, which Mr Walker decided to boost our mood, by specially buying mini medals for “almost board prizes”, which was very kind of him and we were very grateful. Kyle, Bache (Kieran) and I also were the only ones with only one lose. (Please note one lose does not mean all wins, you can draw in chess).And we were to return, to please Mr Roden, that a trip of around £70 a person was not just watching Marvin beat every else from other schools at Badminton or just letting a bunch of teenagers mess about, but we were to return with war spoils! This was great feat. But then we were back to our intellectualism again, as we lumbered across the motorway, feeling content, and we play “The Mafia”, a card game which involved lying.

We must thank everyone for coming, and thanks go to our leaders. Without Mr Rogers, we would not have gone to this tournament and won something, as well, many schools do not participate to such an event which demands so much of the staff, seeing that Mr Rogers gave given us clear support and dedication, we are to be most grateful. Next, we must thank Mr Walker for his also hard work to vol-unteer to train us, and teaching us to be wise, this clearly deserves most commendable praise. Final-ly, a word from me, it was a extremely successful feat achieved by a team which lost 6 senior players since last year, however next year, we’ll still be in the same team, as no one is the upper sixth yet.

Hok Chiu 10Y

Engineering In Education SchemeThis year, eight pupils have been chosen, to be part of the school’s representation, in this years Engineering in Education Scheme. The selection process took the form of the initial applicants been whittled down by the companies looking at their application forms and then sitting an interview in front of a panel of engineers.

The E.E.S is for Lower sixth pupils who are up for the challenge of working in a school-based team, to work on an engineering problem, set by an outside company. The two companies we are involved with this year are AEC and Eaton Aerospace.


Both of the problems set; see the teams working hard to look for an engineered solution that will be acceptable to both parties. The AEC project consists of the boys coming up with up with an applica-tor for an oil seal in a fuel pump for a jet engine and the Eaton Aerospace project is looking at de-signing a device to measure the depth of weld fill on aerospace pipes for quality control measures.

Both teams are now gearing up for the stage where we will be attending the residential section of the scheme (stopping in the Etap hotel on the Bristol Rd in the city centre), this will allow the teams the chance to give focused attention to their projects, as well as use Birmingham University’s engi-neering facilities. Oh! And of course, they will also be experiencing university life for three days.

AJN

English Department ActivitiesThis term the English Department has run another successful ‘Readathon’ in aid of the Roald Dahl Children’s Foundation, a record total of £2848 being raised by years 7 and 8 through sponsored read-ing. The top money raisers were Takhar Ekamroop in year 7 and Fraser Doshi-Keeble in year 8, with -- leading the field as whole-form fundraisers – both raising in excess of £600. The most avid readers included Aaditya Thakral (7M) and Thomas Wemyss (8M). A great effort all round – congratulations to the boys, and sincere thanks from Readathon.

October also saw the recurrence of the popular ‘author visit’: this time from acclaimed children’s writer Chris D’Lacey. Boys from years 7 and 8 were treated to a talk from this creative thinker, in which he explained both the origins of his most famous books, and, with plenty of good humour, his journey into authorship. Many thanks to Mrs Parmar and Mrs Law for organising this experience.

The weekly Drama club for years 7-9 has contin-ued to be popular throughout the term, run by Mrs

Lockyer with the help of older boys Kieran Ahern, Tom Dowling, Ankit Bhatt, Cameron Whitehead and Loughlan O’Doherty. The club exists to explore and develop crea-tive drama techniques through games, physical theatre and improvisation. Much of the work builds skills needed for productions, and the Junior Drama production, a modern adaptation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, was enjoyed by many pupils and parents in November. In all, 68 boys were involved in the production – an astonishing number – as cast, stage crew, and technical crew. As the performance aimed to get back to the heart of Chaucer’s cheeky sense of humour, there were many laughs enjoyed by both audience and the cast throughout rehearsals. Praise must go not only to the cast, but again to the sixth form directors named above, and to George Mather, Alan

Canterbury Tales

Author Visit - Chris D’Lacey


Egan and Andrew Soltan for leading the techni-cal wizardry, as well as to Hassan Mohammed for his organisation of a vast array of props.

There has been a fantastic growth in the de-bating society, with many joint debates with the Girls’ School proving very popular, under the guiding hand of Mrs Jackson. A Junior De-bating Society, run by sixth formers Jonathan Davies and George Mather, has also taken off, with many budding debaters honing their skills.The creative writing group which had floun-dered somewhat last year has been re-en-ergised under the leadership of Upper Sixth

formers Alex Jenkins and Alex Harden. The aim is to pool ideas, and support imagination from across the year groups, with all involved being both teachers and learners, sharing their writing and inspiring new projects.

The A level English sets have enjoyed two theatre trips this term- the Upper Sixth visiting the Oxford Playhouse to see a production of Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, and a Lower Sixth trip to the West End to experience the new stage version of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong. Both were highly successful; it is a real inspiration to the boys who are studying these texts to see them performed live.

The school Public Speaking competition has thrived again this year, with many highly impressive speeches at both form, semi-final and final levels. Leading the field in the end were Hugh Sanders of 11Y who won the senior section, with Idris Mohammed (10Z as runner-up and Daunish Negargar (10W) being highly commended; the Junior sec-tion was won by Aatif Syed of 9J, with Jordan McDonagh of 9S as runner-up and Soumitra Chakravarti of 7S being highly commended. Congratulations to all involved for an excellent afternoon of dynamic and convincing speaking, greatly impressing the judges Mr John Waggott, Mrs Stella Morris, and Tom Dowling (last year’s senior winner).

Next term brings with it more theatre trips, the Junior Poetry and Music workshops and Performance Evening, the whole school Poetry Competition, the Rotary Public Speaking competition, more debat-ing, more drama club, more creative writing, and who knows what else from the ever-burgeoning literary minds of Camphillians?

RLL

Senior Debating Society - Christmas Special“This house believes Santa Claus is real.”

Canterbury Tales


iPads in EducationMay I offer my sincere apologies to any parents suffering a pestering at the hands of a pupil wanting Apple’s gadget du jour for Christmas. Students at Camp Hill Boys have been among the first to experience innovative tablet tech-nology and assess its usability in the classroom. Having taken two sets of iPads at the start of this half-term, the History and Geography de-partments have been keen to trail them across a variety of activities with as many students as possible. The iPads had been hired from Kings Norton City Learning Centre, a hub for interac-tive technology available to schools in south Birmingham. In spite of some teething prob-lems, which any cutting edge hardware experi-ences; they were soon put to full use. Using the tablets, students have been able to conduct research, listen to podcasts, make presenta-tions, contribute towards online discussion

forums and produce audio-visual resources for other students to use. As well as being able to use the iPads, students also contributed towards online research to enable future use of the technology to be more effec-tive. Within five years, I am confident the iPad and its emulators will become a commonplace in progressive schools. By the time you read this, the iPads will be returned, though many minds will have been filled by the potential of this new frontier in educational tech-nology. Maybe a few stockings will be filled too!

Footnote – Mr Hill is in no way responsible for the marketing of any Apple products and endorses a full range of Christmas gift ideas based on individual cir-cumstances.

GNH

Maths MattersA new term, a new year, but still lots to report on mathematical activities at Camp Hill!

In early November, by way of a welcome back from half term, AS level mathematicians and invited ‘others’, from years 10, 11 and 13, took part in the UK Senior Maths Challenge. This was a tough paper, testing the skills of students of all abilities. It was very pleasing, therefore, to see how well the boys had performed when the results were returned; between them they gained 35 bronze, 35 Silver and 24 Gold certificates. Ten boys qualified for the follow up BMOI, a challenge aimed at the


top 1000 or so students in the country; Max Cheung, of year 10, performed amazingly on his first at-tempt at this level of challenge and qualified as best in school (quite brilliant!). Jack Atack, Andrew Jeskins, James Jordan, Tony Song, Chris Carter, Tim Westwood, Karndeep Uppal, Marvin Mui and Sam Childs (year 11) were the other automatic qualifiers. In the end, 18 boys participated in the BMOI: Tim Shao, Staszek Welsh and Santosh Karri had either missed out narrowly or had been away at inter-view on the day of the SMC were entered by the school along with Terence Wu, Fateh Singh, Robert Smith, Robert Walters and Andrew Hawkin, all of year 10. We await details of their performance at this impressive level with interest. Many thanks to Mr Jack for providing lunch time and after school mentoring sessions on Algebra, Number Theory, Proof, Combinatorics and Geometry; topics that the students might meet in the BMO. He even found time to include some of our budding year 9 math-ematicians in one of the sessions!

Two weeks later four members of the sixth form travelled the short distance to the University of Birmingham to represent Camp Hill boys in the 2010/11 UKMT Senior Team Maths Challenge, midlands heat, where Tim Shao, Staszek Welsh, James Wallis and Marvin Mui were hoping to repeat last years’ first place.

They lined up against 19 other Midlands schools to answer problems over three time limited rounds; a team round consisting of 10 questions to be answered collaboratively, a Number Cross and a Relay round. Each successful solution gained points towards an overall total and Camp Hill started perfectly with 60 out of 60 in round 1. An incredible 79 out of 80 in the Number Cross puzzle put the boys in a strong position going in to the final round but they were not in the lead as King Edwards’ School had gained exactly the same scores. Two other teams were a mere 1 and 3 marks further back, so the final relay would be crucial.

The first of four relays produced identical scores among the top competitors but we failed to com-plete the second and fell behind KES. The third produced full marks for KES and us, with the other top competitors dropping back slightly. In the final relay we outscored KES but would it be by enough marks? Unfortunately it was not and we ended two points behind the heat winners, in second place. The team only lost 12 marks throughout the whole competition and we are hopeful that this will still be good enough to qualify them for the final in February. Well done!

Next term will see the boys in years 10 and 11 taking part in the UK IMC, with qualifiers then enjoy-ing the IMOK. We are also looking forward to hosting the Birmingham heat of the UKMT Team Maths Challenge here at Camp Hill in March. More news then!

PAB

MusicIt has been another very busy term for school musicians. In the first week of term instrumental lessons resumed, and then a week later all our orchestras, bands and other ensembles began rehearsing. Open Day was very early, and visitors to the school were entertained by some excellent pianists and lively band playing. In the Music Room there were displays of work and resources plus a chance to try karaoke using the Smart Board.

Chamber Concert


I am delighted that so many boys have places in the excellent City of Birmingham Music Service Orches-tras, Bands and other Ensembles. At present we have 41 boys playing in these groups. As well as this, we have boys in other prestigious en-sembles in Birmingham such as the CBSO Youth Orchestra and City Choir.

Our musicians rehearse weekly in school, but it is wonderful to see them also using their talents outside school. Before Half Term we had three examples of Camp Hill pupils performing within the community: In October we were asked if we could help with a recording for charity to aid relief for the floods in Pakistan. We were very pleased to be able to assist, and thus it was that ten pu-pils took part in a recording session for the group Shaam, who are one of the leading exponents of Nasheeds (Islamic songs). The CD is out shortly. Our Saxophone Ensemble performed in the Mall outside Symphony Hall before a CBSO Children’s Concert. Also, two of our sixth form trumpet-ers, Pete Brookes and Oliver Palmer played in Birmingham Cathedral for a Royal School of Church Music Festival Service. We are pleased that a school Brass Quartet will be performing for a Christmas Fair at West House School in December.

In November we held our Chamber Concert which is the first big joint concert of the year. We fea-ture the Training Orchestra and Training Band at this event, and for the Year 7 pupils in these groups, and their parents, this will have been their first Camp Hill Concert. The Training Ensembles did very

Horn Ensemble in the Chamber Concert

Chamber Concert


well, particularly as they had so little time to prepare. There were some excellent performances from ensembles directed by our instrumental teachers which included a vast dramatic ensemble of cellos and double basses, Clarinet Ensemble, Flute Choir, Oboes, Guitar and Tabla Ensembles. We also heard some fine performances by groups run by the pupils themselves, such as two songs from the rock band Acoustic Reveries (Chris Sherwood, David Warren & Kieran Darcy) which finished the first half.

We are extremely fortunate to have such a well qualified, experienced and dedicated team of in-strumental teachers. Their expertise was demonstrated in the many ensembles which performed at the Chamber Concert, but also in the continued excellent results in the ‘grade’ examinations of the Associated Board and Trinity Guildhall. These are the results which we have received this term:

Name Instrument GradeOliver Whitfield Trumpet 1 MeritSujaan Kang Guitar 2Peter Watson Guitar 2 MeritAshwin Thomas Violin 2 DistinctionCarl Lawrence Cello 3 MeritThomas Else Drum Kit 3 MeritArjun Varma Alto Saxophone 4Ciaran Fitzpatrick Violin 5Joseph Khalique-Brown Piano 5Jacob Bruten Trumpet 5Gaspard Bulso Trumpet 5 MeritAndrew Elliott Jazz Saxophone 5 DistinctionSumant Kapoor Violin 6Staszek Welsh Jazz Saxophone 6Arun Blaggan Guitar 6 MeritEdward Maclean Jazz Saxophone 6 MeritKyle Reed Piano 6 DistinctionBen Palmer Clarinet 7 Merit

We also have a number of outstanding musicians who have already passed ‘grade 8’ which is gener-ally thought of by people as being the highest grade taken in school. These boys are working on a diploma, the level above grade 8. I am delighted to report that by the beginning of this term four of our pupils have gained their piano diplomas. These are Marvin Miu (12), Robert Smith (13) and Andy Mei (13). The fourth is David Todd, who is now beginning his first year as organ scholar of University College, Oxford. Special congratulations to Andy Mei who this term, in addition to his piano diploma, also gained a diploma in violin!

Prizegiving was held at the beginning of December, and this year there was some outstanding musical performances. Before and after a Jazz Ensemble contributed Jazz Standards, then within the event there were three performances, all of a very high standard: Rupert Cole performed Valse Brillante by George Hamilton Green on the wonderful full sized Marimba with great panache. Robert Smith gave a controlled and most musical account of the third movement of Ravel’s Sonatine. Robert also ac-companied both other performances, the last of which was Andy Mei’s feisty and flamboyant reading of Manuel de Falla’s Danse Espagnole. All the more impressive is that between these three perform-ers there are three diplomas and numerous grade 8s!


The last week of the Christmas term is traditionally one of the busiest times for school musicians, and this term is no exception:

On Monday 13th we have our Christmas Concert at which the senior and intermediate orchestras and bands will perform, as well as choirs from both schools. We trust that we will again have our annual visit from Santa!

We are very pleased that on the last Tuesday of term the School Choir is again able to sing for The Hub at Hazelwell’s Old Folk’s Carol Service. This is an event in the community with which we have been involved for many years, and we know that our contribution is much appreciated by those present.

The term is brought to an atmos-pheric close with the School Carol Service on Thursday 16th. As well as popular well known carols for the congregation, the choir will sing a range of carols from quite well

Christmas Concert (Top left - Concert Band, Right - Saxaphone Ensemble, Bottom left - Concert Orchestra).


known piece such as Sans Day Carol by John Rutter and Stille Nacht with guitars, to more unfamiliar arrangements of Riu, riu, chiu – Anon, and Lullay, my liking by Gustav Holst. We are delighted to have a number of instrumentalists also taking part this year, and the whole service will be accompa-nied by Robert Smith (13)), who is organ scholar elect of Somerville College, Oxford for next year.

We can now look forward to a number of exciting events next term. These include the following:

Thursday 3 March 7pm Junior Poetry and Music EveningFriday 4 March 1pm Lunchtime concert at Bournville Friends’ MeetingSunday 6 March 11am Education Sunday Service, All Saint’s, King’s HeathTuesday 8 March 7pm Instrumental Parents’ EveningTuesday 15 March 5.30pm Teatime Concert (featuring Training Ensembles)

Tuesday 29 March- 7.15pm School Musical ‘Cabaret’Saturday 2 AprilTuesday 5 April 7pm Samba! Evening Concert and day-time workshop

May I congratulate and thank all school musicians for all that they have done to make our school music so successful this term. We can all now have a good rest!

SFP

PantomimeRobin Hood and his Musical Merry Men

Who needs The Birmingham Hippo-drome, Julian Clary and Joan Col-lins?

The 6th Form’s first foray into Pan-tomime provided a perfect dose of festive fun on the final weekend of the Autumn term. Under Tom Dowl-ing and Ankit Bhatt’s direction, the 6th Form served up a satisfying dish of panto fare. ‘Robin Hood and his Musical Merry Men’ combined the usual ingredients of: boys dressed as girls, girls dressed as boys, a bit of singing and dancing, plenty of audi-ence participation: ‘ Oh, no there wasn’t !’‘Oh, yes there was!’, slapstick comedy, corny jokes, some ‘health and safety free’ sweet throwing and all sprinkled with a liberal dose of


innuendo.

The whole cast threw themselves into their roles with gay abandon. Down in Sherwood Forest,Robin and his Merry Men in Tights were an interesting bunch: the bold and brash leader Robin (Verity Pitt), intellectually challenged fast food fanatic Big Paul ( David Williams), Medium- sized George (Miles Szabo), a very camp Little John ( Jacob Genders), love struck Ringo (Patrick Murray) and Red Riding Hood?

Ruling the roost at the castle was an appropriately deranged Prince John (Ian Firth) aided by the ‘put upon’ Sherriff of Nottingham ( Ollie Palmer) and faithful Sir Geoffrey ( Oliver Dawkins). Mostyn and Mal-colm ( Hassan Mohammed & Ben Dovey) gave an alarmingly realistic portrayal of the inept gay knights, who were obviously very much in love, culminating in their intimate take on ‘Dirty Dancing’.

Stealing the show, however, were Camp Hill Drama regulars Kieran Aherne and Tom Dowling as the larger than life Dame Twinklebot-tom and her ‘dewightful’rapping son, Tarquin. It was great to see Ki-eran keeping the pantomime dame tradition alive and he certainly gave the gentleman in the front

row more than he bargained for.

Thanks must go to the stage and lighting crew and the staff stalwarts of Camp Hill stage productions; Mr Southworth, Mrs James, Mr Downing and Mr Carman for all their help and support in creating a great evening’s entertainment

Apparently Pantomime is more popular than ever and on this evidence it’s alive and kicking at Camp Hill too, but just one gripe. Since when have a gorilla, Spiderman and the Pink Panther inhabited Sherwood Forest?

CMJ


Specialist College CommunitySaturday SchoolSaturday School sessions took place on the 13, 20 and 27 November. We offered 3 sessions of 3 hours each in English/Literacy, DT, ICT, and Science along with 3 sessions of 2 hours in Mathematics and Multisports. Sign Language classes were also provided by Mrs Jones. Classes were very well attend-ed, with around 80 Year 6 pupils attending each week. Primary Schools involved were: Allens Croft, Broadmeadow, Colmore, Kings Heath, Wheelers Lane and Woodthorpe. Feedback from parents and children involved was, once again, very positive indeed. The success of the sessions owed much to the effort and commitment of the Staff involved. Many thanks to Mr Caves, Mr Holland, Mrs Jones, Mrs Law, Mr Law, Miss Lynn, Mr Nash, Mr Pitt, Mr Turner, Mr Speake (Bishop Challoner) and Mr Wil-lis. Thanks are also due to the many students and pupil helpers who gave up their Saturday mornings and provided invaluable support. Mrs A. Cosimetti provided excellent administrative support and her efforts are very much appreciated. The programme will be repeated next term on 05, 12, 19 March 2011.

MathematicsA Master Classes for Gifted & Talented Year 10 mathematicians took place this term on Saturday 2 October. The session was delivered by Mr C. Wright (Mathematics of Juggling). The aim is to inspire youngsters with advanced mathematical concepts, introduced in an exciting and original way.

Primary Schools Mentoring ProgrammeA total of over 50 Sixth Form students have volunteered to work as mentors in our Partner Primary Schools. The Mentoring Programme is being coordinated by Mr Willis.

Author VisitChris Delacy visited Camp Hill on 27 September and entertained 90 Year 6 children from Colmore.

Junior Drama Production (Canterbury Tales)A total of 58 Primary School children attended a matinee performance on Wednesday 17 November at 2.00pm. Many thanks are due to Mrs Lockyer for all her efforts in producing and directing the play and to the boys involved in this successful and memorable event.

Signing ClassesMrs Jones has been teaching signing again this year in our Partner Primary Schools and has also deliv-ered Saturday Morning sessions. Many thanks for her tireless effort and boundless enthusiasm.

ICT SupportMiss Clark continues to be available to provide valuable support for our Partner Primary Schools. Many thanks for her efforts.

KE Camp Hill - Wheelers Lane Year 7 Enterprise and Technology Day at Aston UniversityThis event will take place on Wednesday 5 January 2011. Our boys will be working in mixed groups with Wheelers Lane boys to solve problems based on engineering, construction, communication and logistics. The boys will also be given a short tour of the Engineering Dept at the University. Many thanks to Messrs Lanckham and Mclean (Wheelers Lane) and Mr Law for their part in the organisation of the day.

Forthcoming Events and ActivitiesPoetry and Music EventA poetry and music workshop for selected primary school pupils will take on Monday 7 February 2011,


10.00-13.00, in preparation for the performances listed below.Matinee: Wednesday 2 March 2011, 2pm – Matinee. Primary schools will be invited to this perfor-mance.

Thursday 3 March 2011, 7pm – Evening performance.PFM

Specialist College - School TargetsOver the last 11 years the specialist school programme has made a huge impact on school life. We began as a Technology College working jointly with Wheelers Lane School. This was the only part-nership of its kind in the country and was considered as an innovative and forward thinking proposal by the government of the time. Four years later we redesignated with a science specialism whilst Wheelers Lane continued as a Technology College whilst maintaining strong links between us. Short-ly after this we were encouraged to apply for a second specialism because of our high performing status and three years ago we were asked to apply for a third specialism and chose Applied Learning to reflect the strong links we have business and universities and the high levels of involvement of parents in our work related programmes.

The funding provided through these specialisms has enabled to undertake projects both inside the school and with partners in the community that just would not have been possible otherwise. The list of activities we have run has impressed all those who have had the job of assessing our progress. These have included; Saturday Schools, Year 7 days with Wheelers Lane, Primary school science les-sons held in Camp Hill laboratories, opportunities for our students to mentor others from primary school children through to 6th form, the introduction of a forensics day and an enterprise day for year 9, media day for year 8 and an HE day for the 6th form whilst continuing to run our 6th form Challenge of Management and introducing a new interview preparation programme.. We have set up an allotment in the grounds, a nature club, a debating society with students travelling to a variety of competitions and many other activities all made possible through our specialisms.

With a change of government, education, along with many other aspects of our society, is under review. Specialisms in their current form will cease to exist. Whether budget will remain to continue all of the activities we have introduced is still uncertain but may I take the opportunity to thank all staff, students and parents who have contributed so much to the success of our specialist school pro-gramme

T J LawDirector of Specialisms

Quiz NewsThe House Quiz competition started this year with the senior rounds held over three successive weeks.

After two comprehensive wins earlier, Beaufort went on to complete the clean sweep having defeat-ed Seymour in all rounds but one (on footballing local derbies) to finish with a score of 36 to 26.

Following the senior round of the quiz, Beaufort have steered themselves into a clear lead with three wins and six points towards the overall quiz prize. The other three houses are on two points each so there is still plenty to play for in the following intermediate and senior events in the Spring Term.

Congratulations to the winning Beaufort House Quiz team: Nafees Mujtaba; Peter Lui; Andrew Je-skins; Alex Riley; and the captain Robert Smith.

Some of our successful quizzers then went on to represent the school in the national Schools Chal-


lenge competition at King Edwards School. Two teams of four fought valiantly against stiff competi-tion, the second team lost out to the eventual winners King Edwards by an honourable margin and the first team were unlucky to be narrowly defeated in both their fixtures.

Having lost out in the main competition, both teams went on to successfully win rounds in the ‘plate’ competition against the other teams which did not quite make it. It was still valuable experience for future years. Many thanks to the teams: Robert Smith, Alec Walmsley-Mountford and Lewis Black-wood of Year 13, Hassam Uldin of Year 12, Edward Maclean, Andrew Hawkin and Robert Walters of Year 10 and Sulamaan Rahim from Year 8.

GNH


House ReportsBeaufortBeaufort boys have made an encouraging start to the House Championship campaign for the academ-ic year 2010-2011. The competition got under way with 5-a-side football. Beaufort football captain, Sean Miller, marshalled his troops in the senior event and tied with Howard for the section trophy. The intermediate team put in a commendable performance and were runners-up to a strong Howard team, and it was a similar result for the juniors who also came second to Howard in their competi-tion. In the House 11-a-side competition we witnessed the quality of football that demonstrates why we are a rugby-playing school with Beaufort coming joint third.

Honour was at stake in the senior House rugby, as Beaufort have a proud tradition in this event. The boys acquitted themselves well and, following some very tight games, ran out as eventual winners of the competition under the leadership of Dominic Fitzgerald with two wins and a draw. In the inter-mediate competition there was the unprecedented result of no outright winner but a 4-way tie. With Beaufort, captained by Ben Connolly, drawing all three of their games and the other houses each get-ting a win, a draw and a loss, all four houses finished on the same number of points.

Beaufort enjoyed a clean sweep in the basketball competition, winning at senior, intermediate and junior levels. The juniors were the last to play and completed the event on Friday, 3 December. After winning their first two games, they were up against Howard to decide who would become junior champions. At half-time they were 4-16 down and after a clearly inspiring team talk by stand-in captain, Matija Novovic and some dominant rebound play by Wesley Blackhurst, they came back to win 20-18. A special mention should also go to Danish Mirza, the Beaufort basketball captain, for his leadership and enthusiasm in running training and selection sessions.

The senior House quiz team, lead by Robert Smith, also did the House proud by winning all three of their head-to-heads to win the senior competition and thus demonstrate the breadth of talent at our disposal.

Beaufort went into the cross-country final on Friday, 10 December, with a slight advantage, as we had a narrow points lead following the cross-country standards, which were completed earlier in the term. It was an impressive performance by all the Beaufort runners in the final with Sean Miller win-ning he senior race and the Connolly brothers, Ben and Ed, winning the intermediate and junior races respectively. Beaufort regained the cross-country championship title with a score of 678 points over our nearest rivals, Howard, with 620 points.

The school has initiated an awards ceremony to recognise the achievement of boys in Year 10. At the first such event this year, James Giblin was awarded a prize for his outstanding contribution to Beau-fort House activities. I was pleased to make this nomination, as James has been a regular and reli-able member of many of our sports teams.

As we go into the Christmas break, Beaufort is in an encouraging position in the overall House cham-pionship table and we hope for further success in 2011. I wish all Beaufort boys, past and present, and their families a happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.

RAS

HowardA rather encouraging start to the year. We made excellent progress in all the 5-A-Side football finals and added to those results by winning the senior 11-A-Side competition for the first time in many years. Some individuals have compared us to “The Blues”, unusual since we aren’t anywhere near Chelsea. Who else could they have meant? Then on to Basketball competition and the less said about that, the better; except of course that certain individuals should be old enough now to take


some element of leadership on board and not always rely on others to do the work. A lesson for fu-ture years especially for the most regularly vocal amongst our community.

Nevertheless, we redeemed ourselves and gained a few valuable points by gaining second place over-all in the House Cross-Country Championship with several boys, notably Alex May and Robert George, senior, Oliver Paulin and David Watson, intermediate and Satnam Ajimal junior all of whom were placed in top four positions. A very encouraging team effort and especially the intermediate boys who won their section.

Thanks also to the Badminton boys who were up against some stiff opposition in their event. We need to continue our efforts next term and in particular I would like to see some improvement in the Swimming event, where we have not impressed in recent years. Something to ponder over the 112th showing of “Casablanca” in British TV.

PTC

SeymourThe year started with the football tournament. After the senior 11 a-side we had managed to put ourselves into second place behind Howard. Unfortunately after some bad luck the 5 a-side teams could not produce the stability seen earlier in the term. Seymour finished third from the top.

Next came the basketball. After a very promising senior tournament we struggled in both the in-termediate and junior basketball. Although in both tournaments we had numerous shots, very few dropped through the hoop. Again another third place for Seymour.

After the cross country standards Seymour were in last position. However, so to keep the consist-ency of results, the finals saw us leap ahead of Tudor and take third place overall. This showed an outstanding effort from Cameron Walker and Aqueel Zulfiqar of Year 7 finishing third and fifth respec-tively in the Juniors, and Jacob Bruten of Year 9 finishing top for Seymour in the Intermediates.

The silver lining for the term lay with the Badminton team. Number one pairing of Wai-Ming Yap and Aaron Hsu won all their matches. This left the number two pairing of Asim Shoaib and Kameran Ali in a strong position to get the title for Seymour. It went down to the last match with three very close games. Seymour managed to come out on top and walked away with the House Badminton trophy.

With many more events next term and an exciting conclusion to the House Rugby to come Seymour can be pleased with their start to this year.

TJW

TudorWell, here we are again at the end of another term, the first term for those in year 7 of course. So, how have we fared as a house? As far as us showing our sporting prowess, it’s been a mixed term, but I am sure that we have the ability to improve on this. It can be strange how twelve months can change things, this time last year we ended the year on top of the championship and winning every thing in our path. This term has been the opposite; we have not been able to put the results togeth-er. It has not been through the want of trying, or I believe the abilities of the house membership, this term we have not pushed on and got that vital score to swing the game.

We have had a few highlights this term, one of them was the battling spirit and team work that our intermediate rugby team showed by coming joint first in their competition. I must also say well done to the years 7 to 10, who by doing their bit allowed us to have a chance with the cross country, but unfortunately on the date of the finals we were not strong enough.


Can I thank those senior members of the house, who have taken part or all of a house assembly and, if other members feel that they can contribute to assemblies in any way then please contact me or let Jordan and Garen know.

I must also thank those members of the house who have worked hard cajoling, twisting arms etc in order to get teams out to represent the house. Well done Tudor, there are areas to be worked on, and areas to be proud of. Here’s looking forward to a great second term, come on the GREEN MA-CHINE!

AJN

House UpdateEvent B H S TIntermediate Rugby 1= 1= 1= 1=Senior Rugby 1 4 2 3Junior Soccer 2 1 3 4Inter Soccer 2 1 3 4Senior Soccer 1= 1= 4 311-a-side 3= 1 2 3=Junior Basketball 1 2 4 3Inter Basketball 1 4 3 2Senior Basketball 1 4 3 2Badminton 2 4 1 3Cross Country 1 2 3 4

OVERALL POINTS 25 17 14 11

Intermediate House Rugby


Results SummaryTEAMS PLAYED WON DRAWN LOST FOR AGAINSTRugby1st XV 9 3 0 7 138 2752nd XV 6 4 0 2 124 78U/16 4 2 0 2 112 56U/15B

82

40

00

42

13822

13236

U/14B

95

72

00

23

26684

136136

U/13B C

861

210

100

551

1725722

16323032

U/12B C D E

53221

30010

01000

22210

10620102510

5591873020

Hockey1st XI 9 1 1 6 6 342nd XI 9 3 0 6 15 19U/15 3 1 0 2 5 17U/14 1 1 0 0 4 2BasketballU/16 3 2 0 1 111 62U/14 2 1 0 1 52 35Soccer1st XI 4 0 1 3 4 152nd XI 3 1 1 1 4 5BadmintonU/16 4 4 0 0 18 2U/15 3 2 0 1 10 5U/14 4 4 0 0 20 0

1ST XV RugbySitting down to write this newsletter article, I’m struggling to remember much about senior rugby this term. The onset of old-age? Perhaps. But also because we are now into our third consecutive rugby free week because of frozen pitches. So all in all a fairly frustrating situation… which reminds me.

As ever, we went into the season very aware that we are a small and not particularly physical side but hoping that our superior fitness would see us racking up some success. Our difficult first away trip of the season to Stourbridge to face Old Swinford Hospital School again proved rather too stiff a challenge and we were soundly beaten. But we showed determination up front and got the backline moving fairly well at times and this was to see us through to victory in the next two fixtures against Wolverhampton Grammar and Friary School. With both centres and both wingers crossing the line against Wolverhampton we found ourselves playing a style of running rugby that had eluded us for much of last season. Consecutive wins had also been hard to come by!


Unfortunately the run came to a grinding halt against Bablake, where we were again soundly beaten without getting on the score-sheet ourselves. Confidence knocked, we then entered an incredibly frustrating sequence of four matches that were eminently winnable and contrived to lose them all. Perhaps most disappointing was the defeat against our nearest and dearest rivals KES, but losing by three points with the last kick of the game at Kenilworth was truly exasperating for all concerned.

We must recognise however, that there are positives that can be gleaned from these matches and the way in which the whole senior squad has conducted itself this year has been impressive. High at-tendance at training, positive attitudes and a will to win have seen us still enjoying our rugby and at times getting back to the running rugby that we desire to play. But I would maintain that our lack of confidence remains the key barrier to success.

Confidence was low against KE Aston and when, after a tense 65 minutes at Trinity Road, the referee awarded the opposition a penalty try (I wouldn’t be so unprofessional as to call it a dubious decision here – my speech at the end of season dinner mightn’t be so forgiving) the situation felt all too famil-iar. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory again? But the Camp Hill boys hadn’t read the script and, with a rallying cry from their captain, proceeded to press the Aston defence into submission; a Nathan Quadri try sealing victory for us in the dying seconds of the game. Rugby-wise it wasn’t pretty but ‘a win is a win’ and over KE Aston a win is imperative. This victory meant a lot to the whole team.

So whilst we have been frustrated in many of the games this year, there have certainly been some highlights. We hope that the New Year will see us building upon our strengths and enjoying our rugby. I would like to thank Dominic Fitzgerald and all of the senior rugby squad for their commit-ment, support and good humour this term. Thanks also must go to all who have supported from the touchline; we hope to give you plenty more to cheer about in 2011. In the meantime, if anyone knows someone who knows about cheap under-soil heating please get in touch.

AJC

2ND XV RugbyUnder the inspirational leadership of Tom Dowling the team has performed very well indeed, gaining some excellent victories, notably amongst which have been Old Swinford, KE Aston and Bablake. We hope to continue our form into 2011 and look forward to the remainder of the season with relish.

One observation needs to be made however. The regular training sessions have been very well at-tended and there is, as a result, real competition for almost all places. We would wish to record our appreciation to all players for their commitment and hard work since September. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed. Thanks very much!

PTC

U16 XV RugbyWith only relatively few U16 games played this season it is difficult to establish any meaningful com-ments. However, players have once again proved themselves very capable of facing any opposition and when we are able to field a full strength team we reasonably come off the very best outfits of recent years. Well done and we hope for a few more matches before the season ends.

PTC


U15 XV RugbyThis has been a strange term for the year 10 squad. The first six weeks are always busy with matches both at weekends and in midweek. Plus the House Tournament and Daily Mail Cup. Things tend to quieten down a little in November but to have only played one fixture since mid-October is hugely frustrating.

The squad have of course suffered during the cold weather as all sides have, but they have also been plagued by other teams cancelling and therefore when we return in January it will be more like the very beginning of the season rather than half way through. The players will be challenged to demon-strate their knowledge and skill to the degree it had been before the enforced lay off.

The season began with a pleasing 28-0 defeat of Fairfax. Then we faced perhaps the strongest op-ponents we shall meet all season as Old Swinford put us to the sword in a 0-51 defeat. Ben Connolly showed the spirit and attitude all others should aspire to though as he battled gainly throughout against a far bigger and stronger back row. Ben is a crucial part of the forwards, his brave and com-mitted style of play a huge value to the team, consistently winning possession at the break-down area.

The Daily Mail Cup drew us against Prince Henry’s and a convincing 43-0 win put us into round two to meet K E Stratford. A tight affair ensued and we were perhaps unfortunate to concede a strange try just minutes before the end to go down 14-17.

The two highlights of the term came in October. At Coundon Court in a 16-12 success the team demonstrated how skill and technique can be a match for power and bulk as we overcame a hard, physical team. This attitude and commitment was carried forward to the KES game, where the boys produced their most complete performance to date. Ben was again at the heart of our forward play, ably assisted by David Watson and the rapidly developing Fateh Singh and Joe Wallace. Lewis Hedges scored twice as our backline ran the ball with pace and precision to see us record a 29-10 success.

In the only match since then we lost to a fine Lawrence Sheriff team in an excellent contest, but we made crucial, costly errors and ultimately missed the players who were out injured.

The squad is a talented one and quite simply needs regular games in order to continue to progress. Andrew Plimmer and Oliver Lester have formed an effective half-back unit and there is much com-petition for places outside them in the centre and on the wing. Fraser West forcing himself into the equation has led to this competition being increased. Up front the team has its core in front and second rows, the back row again is an area of stiff competition for starting slots. Shuranjeet Takhar has shown recently that he merits consideration in that area.

Hopefully we shall return in 2011 to play more regularly and of course look forward to the annual tour of Cumbria in March.

MWD

U14 XV RugbyThe U14A team has made an encouraging start to the 2010-2011 season, losing only 2 of the nine full, competitive games thus far, the remaining fixtures being lost to the cold weather and frozen pitches. There have been some notable victories however, the most satisfying being away to KE Stratford and away to Lawrence Sherriff, when the boys played some of their most impressive, flowing rugby side.

On a cold and blustery Tuesday afternoon the U14A rugby team took part in the Greater Birmingham Cup at KES. Camp Hill were drawn in Pool 1 in the preliminary round and played Bishop Vesey and Fairfax. A strong performance in the team’s opening game against Vesey saw CHB run out winners


14-7 with tries from Jordan McDonagh, the team’sleading points scorer thus far this season, and Andy Elliot and conversions by David Yate. The game against Fairfax was an opportunity for all the replace-ments in the 20-man squad to play and a re-organised team won 27-0 with tries by Jordan McDonagh, Sam England, Jacob Bruten and Alex Zhang (2), there was one conversion by David Yate who only came on late in the game.

Having won their group, Camp Hill now faced a strong KES side in the final. Despite suffering a heavy defeat to KES some weeks before, the boys raised their game and showed determined resolve. If KES were expecting a comfortable ride in the final, they were in for a rude awakening and, following a well judged penalty taken by David Yate, Camp Hill went into the half-time break with a 3-0 lead. Most of the second half remained evenly matched but some inspirational play by the KES scrum-half earned them 2 well-worked tries and a conversion leading to a 12-3 victory for the host school.

We have seen the development of several more players in Block A rugby on Tuesday afternoons and competition for places in the team is now becoming quite keen. This is a healthy position to be in and the all the boys are to be congratulated for their commitment and enthusiasm, under the cap-taincy of Giles Moss. We would also like to say thank you to the parents who continue to support and encourage the team both home and away. We can now look forward with some optimism to the second half of the season.

RAS

U13 XV RugbyDespite a tough Autumn term the U.13 team have shown considerable commitment on the field and remained very positive in their approach. The highlights of the term have obviously been the two wins against Fairfax 24-0 and Bablake 43-17, but the team also showed great spirit in the 12-17 loss to Coundon Court and in the match against KES 7-22, where two late scores allowed our opponents to pull away in the final minutes. However, a 19-19 draw against Lawrence Sheriff, with a depleted team was perhaps the best performance of the term.

The strength of the team lies in a competitive pack of forwards, in which Wesley Blackhurst, Domi-nic Paver and Jacob Corr have played an influential role. Alex Lane at Scrum half has provided good service to a backline led by captain and centre William Houlden. Ed Saunders at Centre and Will Maclean on the Wing have also put in some strong performances.

The team have had an excellent attitude at training, with over 20 boys turning out regularly, and it has been encouraging to see a number of ‘B’ team players forcing themselves into contention for places. The squad can look forward to the Spring term with confidence.

CMJ

U12 RugbyThe new Year 7 A and B team rugby squad have, as normal, shown impressive commitment to their training on Friday afternoons and, of course on Wednesday evenings this term. It is a pity that the arrival of the cold weather has affected their playing development and forced the last two fixtures of the term to be cancelled.

The A team started the season in torrential rain and high winds at Bablake School. The weather forced the postponement of the Ryder Cup but the team were unfazed. In a game of ‘tap ball’, in spite of going behind to an early try the team rallied quickly. Based on some excellent tackling forc-ing pressure on their opponents, Camp Hill went on to dominate territory and possession. Camp Hill scored six tries (through Cameron Steel (2), Vasil Pirozek, Andreas Kavalieros, Beant Thandi, Arran Kingston) with five conversions (from Edward Connolly) to run out convincing 40 points to 7 winners. This was followed up with another victory (37-5) against Coundon Court in a game which saw Camp


Hill defend strongly against their key player in the centre and play some very attractive acting rugby. Tries were scored by Ahmed Ayad, Beant Thandi, Cameron Walker and two tries each from skipper Arran Kingston and Edward Connolly (who was successful with one conversion this time). The next game saw Camp Hill come up against a bigger, vastly more experienced and technically drilled side from Adams Grammar School. The opposition dominated possession in the first half and scored two tries. I was delighted to see Camp Hill respond in the second half in which we gained much more par-ity of possession and field position. Arran Kingston scored with a strong run from the base of a scrum. The second half was drawn but Camp Hill experienced their first defeat (5-19). We look forward to the return fixture in the new year. In the first of two matches in two days, Camp Hill defeated local rivals King Edward’s Aston 17-5 in a scrappy encounter with tries from Cameron Walker, Arran King-ston and Edward Connolly (who also added one conversion). The next day Camp Hill encountered a large, powerful and experienced Lawrence Sheriff team. Whilst we suffered a 12-0 defeat this score does not do justice to the quality of our performance in what proved to be our final match of the term. Camp Hill defended resolutely and this forced the opposition to use the boot as the only way of making ground – both tries resulted from long kicks. In the second half we failed to capitalise on a number of chances that were created.

The B team have played three matches this term, drawing 15-15 with Bablake, suffering a heavy defeat (0-54) to Adams and a narrower loss (5-22) to Aston. However, five members of the team have represented the A team in matches this term I look forward to the side gaining their first victory in the new year. After the Christmas break I am sure the whole squad will continue to work hard to develop further their skills. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents who have provided the boys with support both home and away. Let us hope the weather will relent !

MRo

1ST XI HockeyP 9 W 1 D 1 L 7A difficult term for the hockey 1st XI. Starting the season with the Bill Buttle tournament gave a good indication of the quality of some of the teams we play during the season. The new, inexperienced team put in an excellent effort but were not strong enough to compete. The squad has had to battle hard against all the teams and have gone beyond expectations against two opponents. Losing 6-3 to Wolverhampton Grammar School was an excellent result as the half time score was 4-0. Also a draw against Queen Marys Grammar School saw for the first time in over 4 years Camp Hill not losing this fixture.

These two results especially showed the capability of the team and after the Christmas break the team should be looking forward with confidence.

TJW

2ND XI HockeyThe 2nd XI team started the season with plenty of ups and downs, but has shown performances of real quality and teamwork in several fixtures. It began with two tough matches at Bablake and Soli-hull, with Camp Hill fielding a side which was learning to play together for the first time. From there on, the team began to gel, and produced two brilliant showings at King Henry VIII and KES winning 3-1 and 5-2 respectively, with special credit going to Tony Song who scored a hat-trick against KES. After a long trip to play Newcastle, which ended unsuccessfully, a wonderful team performance at Old Swinford gave the side a 3-2 victory; involving slick passing and superb defending. Over the next two weeks losing centre-back Ben Harvey to interviews gave David Mason a chance to play in the main defensive role. Despite David giving two Man-of-the-Match displays the team couldn’t find the attacking options and incurred a couple of losses. A final game at Queen Mary’s allowed Tony to over-take Bharath Varadharajan as top goal scorer but didn’t provide the final winning result for the term. In summary, the year 11 players have asserted themselves well throughout the squad; from defenders


such as Tom Perkins, to more attack minded players with Jamal Uddin as the top scorer of the new players. We hope that the weather relents and we can field our strongest side from the start of the New Year.

Ben Harvey U6

U15 XI HockeyThe aim in Year 10 is to build upon the skills, techniques and match play experienced in Year 9. To compete against those schools who regularly practise on Astroturf pitches is a tough challenge and preparation is very important therefore. We hope that the more our boys play the more they de-velop.

The U15 team have unfortunately had just three fixtures this term. The recent cold snap has trans-formed the pitches into skate rinks! Heavy defeats to KES and Bablake were followed by a decent win against Old Swinford. Next term the squad will hope to practise and play more regularly as well as looking forward to the tour of Cumbria in March. There are seven fixtures appointed and we hope that these will allow the boys the opportunity to make progress as a team.MWD

U14 XI HockeyP 1 W 1 D 0 L 0

A great start for the under 14 hockey team. With an inexperience side they have worked especially well to develop into what could be a promising squad. The one game played ended up with Camp Hill beating Old Swinford 4-2 in an end-to-end encounter.

The squad should look forward to the rest of the season with many more games to be played after the Christmas break.

TJW

BadmintonOn Tuesday November 2nd, the Partnership Round of the Badminton Nationals Competition for Key Stage 4 took place at Camp Hill. The challenge was to qualify for the City Finals next February by de-feating the south Birmingham sides.

We entered an A team made up of year 11 players : Faheem Malik, Kameron Ali, Osama Hamid, Danny Szucs and Gi-lad Grant.

Sadly, in the warm up, Gilad suf-fered from a recurrent injury and had to withdraw.

The rising popularity of badminton allowed us to enter a B team made up of year 10 players : Jalees Hamid, Devjeet Bhomra, Saif Ahmed, Perrie Chew and Varun Deshpande. Badminton U14 Team


The teams were placed in each of two groups.

The B team started out against Kings Norton. The opening two singles matches were shared but Camp Hill then won all three of the doubles matches to win 4-1 overall. Against Bishop Challoner there were no slip-ups and the side stormed to a con-vincing 5-0 victory. This meant they had won the group and would play the winners of the A league for the right to progress next year. Would it be against the Camp Hill A team??

The A team first played King’s Nor-ton. Faheem Malik at number 1 seed, took time to find his form. This proved stressful as the matches had been shortened. However, Faheem kept his nerve, rallied and came back to win 11-8

This result relaxed the rest of the team who went on to win the remaining four matches. At one point, Danny and Osama were drawing 10-10. Danny served, the shuttle clipped the top of the net and fell in court but outside the reach of the opponents. We were not too proud to accept the point.

The next opponents, Baverstock, were young and inexperienced. Camp Hill overpowered them with ease.

The deciding fixture in this group was played last, against Bishop Challoners. By now, Camp Hill were in their stride. In the face of vocal opposition support - which happily put their own players off - Camp Hill swept the opponents aside to win comfortably 5-0.

The two group winners played in the final - Camp Hill A against Camp Hill B. The year’s difference in age, strength and experience clearly showed and the A team won 4-1. Congratulations are due to

Jalees who won his singles match.

It was a splendid achievement to provide both teams in the final. The B team’s day will come next year. The A team will go on to play in the City Finals on February 3rd. They will be defending the title we have held for two years.

Thanks are due to the Sports Leaders who handled an at times complex organisation with polite and quiet efficiency. Thanks too to Mr Smith who turned up to support the teams. He is already looking forward eagerly to the February clash!

MRBadminton Yr 10 Team

Badminton U16 Team


U16 BasketballThe first game of the season, against Bishop Challoner, tipped off with many of us not having played basketball for over a year! Despite this we managed to keep the score board ticking and took a con-vincing lead over our opponents in the first quarter. Our opponents then stepped up to the mark in the second quarter and fought back to win the quarter. The score was now 16-10 to Camp Hill. Real-ising we’d become complacent we started the second half knowing we had to do more. We defended hard and didn’t concede a single point in the second half. On the other side of the court we contin-ued to net points as we ran out 37-10 victors. Special mentions go to Tom Kostuch top scoring with 16 points and Rory Luscombe who defended aggressively as well as scoring 4 points.

Although we were full of confidence after our first performance we knew beating our next opponent would be a much harder task. The game started evenly with Baverstock leading at the end of the first quarter 6-4. However the second quarter would decide the game as Baverstock, despite fac-ing strong defence, managed to score 15 points in the quarter, leading 21-6 at half time. Try as we might we could not close the deficit and the game ended 41-26 to Baverstock. Umar Ahmed top scored with 14 points.

Our final game this term was much easier. Yardleys had a few talented players but lacked height and pace. All players troubled the scorers, some more than others, and we came out strong winners with 48 points to 11.

There have been encouraging performances from Jawaad Farooq, Akshay Nathwani and Gilad Grant as guards, Calum Paver as a forward and Amar Elaydi as a versatility player; however the most valu-able member of the squad so far is James Giblin.

With 4 games to play, we hope to secure sufficient wins to qualify for the play-offs in March.

Umar Ahmed 11X

U14 BasketballThe season in the Birmingham League runs from November to February. This year we began training sessions back in September. Despite some Tuesdays being taken up by other activities the boys were more than ready to play as November dawned. A small but keen number of year 9 pupils were sup-plemented by a few from year 8 in making up the squad.

In the end we had to wait until December before the serious action took place. Baverstock were the visitors and the boys quickly settled into their debut game and went on to secure a 39-8 victory. Samson Gahir scored 8 points with Ali Ismail and Jacob Smith each hitting 6. Yardleys were a differ-ent prospect as they had a more skilful and technical team and we lost 13-27. Ali and Mohammed Abed each contributed 4 points.

The boys can look forward to further matches in 2011, training recommences after school on 4 Janu-ary.

MWD

1ST XI FootballThe 1st XI has played four games this term; a couple of others have been postponed or cancelled. The balance sheet reads ‘Lost 4’. Some might consider that disappointing.

Our first match was a West Midlands Schools Cup match. We know we are never going to go far in the cup, because sooner or later (generally sooner) we will come up against a serious football-playing


school. On the other hand, we have found ourselves playing some very enjoyable games against schools which are not on our usual fixture list. This year was one of those. We were drawn against Bournville School. An excellent first half saw us two nil up at the interval (Kay, Miller). A poor sec-ond half changed that to two all. The boys lifted themselves for extra time and could well have taken the match. However, it did not happen and the drawn game went on to penalties. We are not well drilled in this skill (we struggle to hit a rugby goal at ten paces) so, given the excellent Bourn-ville keeper, our defeat by five goals to four was not an embarrassment.

Our fixture against King Edward’s 6th Form College in Stourbridge was a new one. We did play them in the cup a few years ago and were soundly beaten. On this occasion our captain, Sean Miller, and Alistair Carr, our strongest defender, were away on a French exchange. Our weakened team was seriously outclassed and lost 7-1 on this occasion (Lyall, penalty). However, the boys played well and need not be ashamed of this performance. Sukhvir Lyall and Josh Distin both deserve mention for their hard work on not very much ball.

We always enjoy our games against Baverstock: they are generally evenly matched, played in a good spirit and we do not have to travel very far. All these facts were true this time; we came out 2-1 los-ers in a closely fought game (Lyall). We have not been good at converting a reasonable percentage of chances, and that was our undoing in this game.

The only match we are ashamed of is the one against Kings Norton Boys. I did not see the game and the boys felt so disgraced that they would not even write a report for assembly! We were soundly beaten 4-0 by a side not particularly better than us. I understand from Mr Speake that some boys, especially Sean Miller, can hold their heads high, but others did not do themselves justice.

The team this year has been built around several very strong players who were already in the 1st XI last year. In particular, captain Sean Miller has been outstanding in all the games in which he played; our midfield and defence has been well organised and reliable, thanks to Alistair Carr and Tom Hol-lywood in particular, but well aided and abetted by Kieran Patel and Michael Koppel. We have strug-gled a bit in the goal-scoring department, although Sukhvir Lyall has shown promise (and certainly worked hard).

Let us hope the rest of the season brings us the results we want.MJG

2ND XI FootballThe 2nd XI has played three games this season – won 1, drawn 1, lost 1, GF 4, GA 5.

Our first game was against King Edward’s 6th Form College in Stourbridge. They filed a strong 1st XI, but their 2nd XI is a little more recreational. But then so is ours! We played well, but in fairness they played better. The 4-1 score line flatters them, but we cannot really argue with the overall result. Nathan Cornwall pounced on a defensive error to score our goal.

Nathan’s excellent form continued into our match against Baverstock. Traditionally, both sides try to outdo each other in this fixture for having the more shambolic defence. On this occasion Baverstock won that battle, so we won the match 2-0 (Uppal, Cornwall). There would have been more defen-sive haemorrhaging on both sides, but the referee wanted to go so the match was greatly reduced in length. Simon Atkins had a superb game in goal, which, given the score line, saved (or even won) the game for us.

Our third match was against Kings Norton Boys. The teams were evenly matched; there were parts of


the game when we looked on top and parts when Kings Norton was dominating. Paradoxically, Kings Norton scored at a time when we were in charge, while our goal (Blackwood) came against the run of play as well. 1-1 was probably a fair result; however, it was frustrating, as the Kings Norton goal was the result of some very sloppy defending (perhaps we thought we were still playing Baverstock) and we put in some of our best passages of play all term and saw them come to nothing.

James Jordan has proved himself an excellent captain, working hard throughout all matches and showing himself particularly strong in the tackle. Nathan Cornwall has been the most exciting play-er in the team; if his finishing was as good as his ability to create his own chances, he would have scored a hatful. Other reliable stalwarts have been Patrick McElroy with a lot of hard work and some lovely runs, Lewis Blackwood with some strong tackling and an ability to find space, Sam Tedstone with his excellent awareness of the game and resultant distribution and Karndeep Uppal who can show some of the nicest touches on the ball.

MJG

Cross CountryOn Wednesday 22nd September, the School took part in the annual South Birmingham Cross-Country Championships near Becketts Farm. On a dry and hard surface the boys ran very strongly. In their first competition representing the school, despite nervous tummies and last minute toilet visits to the hedgerow, the Year 7 team ran hard to achieve overall first place. Team scorers were Aqueel Zulfi-kar, Aaron Drinkall, Ed Connolly and Cameron Walker. Individual exemplary performances came from Cameron who placed 2nd and Ed 3rd. In the eldest age group, but with a reduced competition, the Year 11 team also won with Ben Evans coming 2nd, Sumant Kapoor 6th, Will Higgins 7th and Oliver Tonks 8th.

The pinnacle achievement of the afternoon came in the combined year 8 and 9 race. The team placed 3rd, however there was a real battle at the front. Oliver Paulin competed with another runner who was at least 14 and a half inches taller, with a stride length double Oliver’s! Oliver was in second place until the final lap when he pushed ahead on the last steep climb and, once in the lead, never looked back; a superb win.

From this competition, many qualified for the West Midland Championships on October 2nd. Unfor-tunately this coincided with rugby matches, so only a few brave, determined ones chose the more challenging activity. Cameron Walker ran well against tough opposition but Ed Connolly really pushed hard from the start and finished strongly to qualify for the county team. There has only been one inter-county race, but against the best in the country, Ed performed admirably. There is another West Midland Championship race next term. Hopefully this will not conflict with rugby and more will enjoy the test of the ultimate school sport!

GH

SwimmingOn Tuesday 21st September, Camp Hill’s swimming team made their first appearance of the year in an exciting 6-team gala. Competing against Solihull and Warwick Schools, the team acquitted them-selves well and there were several fine performances. Fabian Evans, on his debut for the school won the U15 breast-stroke and there were second place finishes for Luka Novovic, Charlie Song and Matija Novovic, with Robby Williams and Alex Owen tying for second on the senior back-stroke. Josh O’Donnell went well under 30 seconds on his freestyle relay leg, and it was also pleasing to see Adam Titchen and Stephen Mander of Year 7 swim well in their first performance for the school.

A fortnight later, our U14, U16 and U18 swimmers travelled to Bromsgrove School in high hopes, not for victory, instead for the post-match feast. In the pool, competition was going to be tough against a team led by a swimmer who is part of Team GB’s 2012 Development Squad, but there were excellent


wins from Ben Griffin, Sumant Kapoor and Andrew Jeskins. Camp Hill’s greater strength in depth told in the U16’s where we won both the freestyle and medley relays to snatch victory in that age group. The junior and senior teams also swam well but had to settle for second place. Although Bromsgrove won overall, Camp Hill could be pleased with individual contributions, and the team were glad to report that the sandwiches, Jaffa Cakes and crisps were up to standard.

Towards the end of term, Camp Hill swimmers took to the pool to face off against none other than Camp Hill Girls, in a match where reputation was at stake. As was expected, competition was fierce, but the boys from Years 7 to 10 did not let us down and there were many fine swims. The Years 9 and 10 led the way, storming to victory in their age group with wins from Fabian Evans, Gully Bates and Kieran Bakhtiari. The Year 7 team also performed well with pleasing debuts from Vasil Pirozek, Thom-as Haddon and Harry Wilson. However top billing went to the Year 8’s two-man team of Matija Novo-vic and Alex Lane, who somehow managed to find the energy to race 30 lengths between them. Not content with winning all five individual events, they then proceeded to win the 4 x 1 length freestyle relay as well, confirming overall team victory for Camp Hill Boys. Thanks must go to Mr Jack for a superbly organised gala, and to Sports Leaders Tom Perkins and Ben Griffin who ably helped with the timing and scoring.

Andrew Jeskins U5

September saw the swimming team travelling to Warwick School for a mixed five school gala. The competition was tough, with Camp Hill eventually taking third place behind Warwick and Solihull School. There were some excellent swims including superb wins by Robbie Williams on senior back-stroke and Lewis Hedges on intermediate breast stroke. It was good to see Jack Wishart (Y12) and Matija Novovic and Alex Lane of Year 7 making effective debuts for the school. Nine days later, the Camp Hill Schools took part in anther mixed gala against a strong Bromsgrove School team who came out eventual winners. Captain Vinson Yeung led by example, winning the senior butterfly, but our best results came in the U16 age group. Sumant Kapoor reduced his 50m freestyle time to 28.7 secs. Alex Owen and Benedict Evans won their back and breast respectively, and these three together with Ben Smith won their freestyle relay. This win, together with valuable swims by Ben Griffin, Tom Perkins and Jack Bristow helped clinch victory in their age group. This year our regional heats of the English Schools’ Relay Championship were held, not in the wilds of Telford, but conveniently at King Edwards School. With some swimmers absent, and others recovering from injury, we were not at our strongest. We did manage to gain some second placings, but times will need to be significantly im-proved for a chance of a top twelve national final spot. Keep training!

PRJ

TennisU.15 TennisHaving won their area league during the summer term, the U.15 Tennis team ( Charlie Song, Kameran Ali, Ben Palmer and Oliver Tonks) met Kenilworth School in the second regional round of the Aegon Year 10 Competition in October. The winners would gain a place in the Midlands regional final and be one step away from the National Finals at Bolton Arena.

Our opponents had qualified for the National Finals last year and provided formidable opposition. Kameran gained a convincing victory with some ruthless attacking play in his singles to put Camp Hill in the lead, but Ben and Ollie came up against strong players and the lead changed to 1-2, in Kenil-worth’s favour.

Clearly, the result of Charlie’s singles match would have a significant impact on the overall match re-sult. Charlie and his opponent produced a set of high quality singles play. At 2-5 down, Charlie began an exciting comeback which saw him regain the lead at 6-5. The loss of a crucial point gave Charlie’s opponent the impetus to draw level and then win the ensuing tie break.


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This put Kenilworth in a strong position after the singles 1-3, with them only needing to win one of the doubles matches to secure overall victory. Although Charlie and Kameran won their doubles 6-2, Ben and Oliver were once again up against it and lost 2-6.

The overall match score was Camp Hill 2 Kenilworth 4. Despite losing the match the U.15 team can be proud of reaching this stage of such a large nationwide competition.

Senior TennisBefore the winter weather arrived the Senior Tennis team completed their Senior Students league programme this term with two matches against Bishop Vesey and Haybridge HS, Hagley. Unfortunate-ly both teams proved to be strong opposition and Camp Hill lost both matches. The squad comprised of school Tennis stalwarts Kameran Ali, Tony Song, Oliver Palmer, Chris Williams, and Amit Joshi and Mark Gilbert, who both made their debuts for the school team.

CMJ

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