Harry's birthday

It was Harry's birthday yesterday and thanks to his mum, the boys in the house enjoyed a mini birthday party with various varieties of crisps, fizzy drinks, sausages, mini scotch eggs, sausage rolls and cakes - real birthday food!!  Mr Harding somehow overlooked the actual birthday cake which will now be shared out this evening.  It is always nice to extend a birthday!

House rugby

Last weekend the boys in years 9 and 10 represented Hall in the house matches.  I was exceptionally proud of all of them.  Both year groups comfortably beat Upper house in their first games but lost to Middle in their second match to hand the crown to them for this year.  Congratulations to Middle but also well done to all of the boys who wore the Hall House badge with pride.

Year 10 playing Upper

The "final" against Middle

Year 9s on the attack

All three houses together at the end of the year 10 competition

Pizza Express with the 6th form

On Friday 29th September, the year 13 boys along with the girls from Fonthill went for a meal at Pizza Express.  It was a fun evening where we enjoyed each others company and lovely food! It was also an opportunity for Mrs Sergeant and I to say thank you to the year 13s for the work they have done so far as House prefects.

Circuit of Bath Walk

Since we have been back, many of the boys have kept themselves very busy with not just their academic studies but also lots of activities. Today was the Circuit of Bath Walk raising money for Julian House, one of the local Hospices.
Below are photographs of just some of the ways in which the boys have kept themselves busy.  Enjoy!

Year 12 boarders from all houses on the camping trip last weekend

Camping trip in the Forest of Dean

The whole group - years 9 and 12



Circuit of Bath walkers from Hall and Fonthill

The boys from Hall having a break during the Circuit of Bath Walk

The tents await the campers!

 

Table tennis in the house - winner stays on!  Colman winning here...but not for long! 

Welcome Back

Welcome back to all of the boys and WELCOME to our new students.  Whilst the weather has not been great the atmosphere and camaraderie in the house certainly has been.  We have nine new boys to Kingswood joining us in Hall this year along with the year 9 boys who have all come up from Westwood and they have all already made an impact. Reuben and Charlie both represented the school at rugby on the weekend, Reuben scoring on his debut against KES in a convincing win and Charlie being given Man of the Match in the second team's narrow loss to the same school. All of the boys then contributed towards House Music earlier today and as last year, WE WON!  A massive well done to all who took part and huge thank you to our sister house Fonthill for being such an integral part of the winning team. 
I hope to update the blog regularly so please keep checking for news and stories of house events over the following weeks.  Next weekend the year 9 and 12 students go camping and there are sure to be some great stories and photos to share.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy some of the photographs below from our victorious evening tonight at House Music!

The ensemble performing "Counting Stars"

Holding out for heroes!

The WINNERS!

Visitors from Peponi School

We welcomed a touring cricket team from Peponi School, Kenya this weekend and hosted them in Hall House on Friday and Saturday night. They were great company and enjoyed one loss and a narrow win over our year 10 team on Friday evening in a couple of 10/10 matches.  Good luck as you move onto the next leg of your tour boys.

The boys from Peponi enjoying breakfast

This weekend

Another busy weekend when the boys have been involved in tennis fixtures, circket matches, athletics meets and the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh tour.  The weather has been glorious and we look forward to seeing some of the photographs from the D of E expedition.  As the sun shone it was another chance to enjoy a barbecue!

Mr H - here to serve!

 

Some of the boys still managed to find time to play Monopoly

Colman makes sure the right amount of ketchup is applied