A big thank you to everyone who generously donated to the collections for Brighter Futures over the weekend. We are really delighted to have raised £639 for this very worthwhile local charity, which aims to raise £2.9 million for a radiotherapy service in Swindon.
Our Year 8 Academic Scholars spent this morning shadowing a teacher in a subject (or subjects) of their choosing. They chose subjects ranging from Science to French to Art. Canford scholar Darci, for example, worked with Mrs Harrison in the Junior Art Room and did a fantastic job teaching the Year 3s how to draw a cartoon centurion.
Well done to everyone who took part in the whole school art competition, there were some beautiful pieces of art, and particular congratulations to our winners (it is noteworthy that our overall winner came from Year 2!):
Reception: Ella Spencer-Jones
Year 1: Jessica Ramage
Year 2: Charlotte Ramage (runners up: Louis Lopes, Timothy Smyth)
Year 3: Ollie Smith (runner up: Zara Spencer-Jones)
Year 4: Alexandra Edwards (runners up: Matilda Richards, Evie Page, Polly Lloyd)
Year 5: Emily Lyon Taylor (runner up: Tom Lawson)
Year 6: Hester Donald (runner up: Tara Lockhart)
Year 7: Lucia Harrison
OVERALL WINNER: Charlotte Ramage (Year 2)
The winning entries and some of the other entries are on display at the top of the stairs in Middle School (outside the Headmaster’s office).
Please go to the photo gallery to view more images.
Congratulations to the following, who have all received awards to their senior schools:
Lara Scudamore: Academic Scholarship and The Prain Scholarship for the top performance in Maths and Science to Cheltenham College
Lara Capps: Academic Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Eliza Birch: Academic Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Alicia Neilson: Academic Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Ferdie Borchardt: DT Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Lara Capps: Drama Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Dan Lockhart: Music Scholarship to Cokethorpe
They join the following, who have already received awards to their senior schools:
Amelia Stevens: Academic Scholarship to Bradfield College
Rufus Handley: Sports Scholarship to Rendcomb College
Sasha Wolcough: All-Rounder Award to St Edward’s Oxford
Phoebe Nettleton: All-Rounder Award to Sherborne Girls
Lily Laughton: Sports Scholarship to Westonbirt
Lara Capps: Choral Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Eliza Birch: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Elliot Donnellan-Pasos: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Lily Powell: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Kasper Mason-Phelps: Music Scholarship to Radley
Santi: DT Scholarship: Monkton Combe
Max Blackburn: Sports Scholarship to Milton Abbey
Alice Vyvyan-Robinson: Sports Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Serena O’Brien: Headmaster’s All-Rounder Award to Dauntsey’s
Millie Thompson: Headmaster’s Award for Art to Dauntsey’s
Ollie Tulloch: Sports Exhibition to Malvern College
Congratulations to the following, who have received awards to their senior schools:
Sasha Wolcough: All-Rounder Award to St Edward’s Oxford
Phoebe Nettleton: All-Rounder Award to Sherborne Girls
Sasha and Phoebe join the following, who have already received awards to their senior schools this year:
Lily Laughton: Sports Scholarship to Westonbirt.
Lara Capps: Choral Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Eliza Birch: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Elliot Donnellan-Pasos: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Lily Powell: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Kasper Mason-Phelps: Music Scholarship to Radley
Santi: DT Scholarship: Monkton Combe
Max Blackburn: Sports Scholarship to Milton Abbey
Alice Vyvyan-Robinson: Sports Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Serena O’Brien: Headmaster’s All-Rounder Award to Dauntsey’s
Millie Thompson: Headmaster’s Award for Art to Dauntsey’s
Ollie Tulloch: Sports Exhibition to Malvern College
Congratulations to our latest scholars:
Kasper Mason-Phelps: Music Scholarship to Radley
Santi – DT Scholarship: Monkton Combe
Max Blackburn – Sports Scholarship to Milton Abbey
They join the following, who have already received awards to their senior schools:
Alice Vyvyan-Robinson: Sports Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Serena O’Brien: Headmaster’s All-Rounder Award to Dauntsey’s
Millie Thompson: Headmaster’s Award for Art to Dauntsey’s
Ollie Tulloch: Sports Exhibition to Malvern College
We are excited to announce that this May will mark the first ever Bourton Arts Festival. The festival is a celebration of Music, Art, Drama and Dance, as well as many other creative activities from all of our local community.
Over the course of the weekend there will be displays, events and concerts – all of which will be held either at the School, Bourton Village Hall or Bourton Church. Pinewood children will obviously be contributing to the festival, but we are hoping that it will attract participation from our friends and neighbours as well.
Although plans are still in development, we can confirm Saturday night’s musical entertainment will be the Rock Bands, with a performance of Fauré’s Requiem, and the Mozart Flute and Harp concerto will close the weekend on Sunday evening in the Church.
We are also delighted that Sir James Galway has agreed to be our Patron this year and we look forward to welcoming him to the concert.
The dates of our festival coincide with the long established Oxfordshire open studios event “Artweeks” and the school is sponsoring an exhibition in the Village Hall. Professional artists from the Vale of the White Horse area have been invited to showcase paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography, ceramics, jewellery, and much more.
We want the weekend to be action packed and well supported, so would welcome any suggestions, participation or sponsorship. More details will follow as we get closer to the event.
The Bourton Arts Festival Committee
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Congratulations to the following, who have received awards from their senior schools:
Alice Vyvyan-Robinson: Sports Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Serena O’Brien: Headmaster’s All-Rounder Award to Dauntsey’s
Millie Thompson: Headmaster’s Award for Art to Dauntsey’s
Ollie Tulloch: Sports Exhibition to Malvern College
The response to the art competition on the theme of SUN AND MOON was amazing and some fantastic work has been produced.
For the first time there has been insufficient room to display all the entries on the board at the top of the main stairs, and the display does look very impressive.
The work has been very varied and often showed considerable effort and thoughtfulness of approach. I do encourage everyone to take a moment if they can to come and see the display.
Rather than pick winners I have awarded a prize to every child who entered the competition, but did ask some individual pupils and members of staff, selected at random, to pick some favourite pieces of work.
Pupils who were mentioned included:
Mahony Knight, Liggy Lawson, Tom Pritchard, Dorothy Johnstone, Hector French, Marina Prichard-Jones, Amelia Edwards and Alexandra Edwards.
The pupil whose work was most often admired was Cosmo del Mar for his Eclipse Over Tower Bridge and by this reckoning that makes him our winner. A splendid result for Cosmo, who always enters the art competition and has not won until now.
For more photos of the competition entries please go to the Photo Gallery.
Congratulations to the following, who have received awards to their senior schools:
Imogen Mason: Colin Cocks All-Rounder Scholarship to Dean Close
Emily Stephens: Headmaster’s Award to Cheltenham College
Henry Scrimshaw-Wright: Sports Scholarship to Cokethorpe
Jonathan Cowie: Music Scholarship to Cokethorpe
Alex Taylor: Drama Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Ed Hartley: Drama Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Emily Conner: Art Exhibition to Cheltenham College
They join the following, who have all received awards to their senior schools this year:
Max Owen: Academic Scholarship & Drama Scholarship
Max Moseley: The Jolie Brise All-Rounder Scholarship & The Desmond Morris Science Scholarship
Charlie Robinson: Music Exhibition to Strathallan
Olivia Lawson: Art Scholarship to St Helen’s & St Katharine’s
Charlotte Hannon: Music Scholarship to Bradfield
Meredith Powell-Turner: Music Scholarship to Rendcomb
Jonathan Cowie: Music Exhibition to Rendcomb
Madeleine Banfield: Music Exhibition to Bradfield
Arabella Robinson: Academic Scholarship to Strathallan
Sebbie Kimber: Music Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Meredith Powell-Turner: Music Exhibition to Shrewsbury
Imogen Mason: Sports Scholarship to Dean Close
Emily Stephens: Sports Scholarship to Dean Close
Flora Fletcher: Sports Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Rose Dillon: Sports Scholarship to Cheltenham College
Will Taylor: Sports Exhibition to Cheltenham College
Sebbie Kimber: Sports Exhibition to Cheltenham College
