Burn's Night Celebrations and Celidh

year 13 trying to look cool at the meal!

Some of the boys helping the bagpipe player

The whole boarding community dancing at the celidh

The boys had a great night this evening celebrating the life of the great Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Although the 25th January is actually the official Burn's night, we were all able to enjoy the traditional meal of haggis, neeps and tatties before we listened to a toast to the lassie, from our Head of House Tom, followed by a response form Prapti from Summerhill.  We then all went over to the sports hall to dance the celidh accompanied by the staff band of Mr Burgeon, Mr Knights and Mr Chua.  Mrs Brown did a superb job explaining each dance and then calling the moves. Great fun had by the whole boarding community!

Congratulations Josh

Huge Congratulations to Josh in year 11 who has just been offered a professional football contract with Bristol Rovers.  This is a superb achievement bearing in mind the huge competition for these contracts.  A just reward for all the hard work that Josh has put in so far. Best of luck in the future Josh as a professional footballer.

The dream!

Trampolining visit to Swindon

The boys had a great time at Airhop, Swindon bouncing around on a trip organized by Mr Chua!  They then spent time purchasing bargains at the factory Outlet centre

Oscar aiming to break the land speed record

Misha playing it cool

Lizzie with Veleslav, Play and Vlad enjoying themselves

Hockey captains

Congratulations to Jez being made captain of the first eleven hockey team with Calum as his vice.  Just like last season with the rugby, Hall House has provided the captain and vice captain for the first team.  Well done boys and good luck this season

House Entertainment

The annual Christmas entertainment took place the day before we broke up for the holidays.  We went ice skating with the girls from Fonthill and then onto Jimmy's for a fantastic buffet meal.  The evening was a great way to round off the first term.  Below are some of the boys and girls having fun.

Roomies John and Corby

Jez just about keeping his feet!

It's the most wonderful time...of the year!

The week kicked off with three of our 6th form being awarded their full colours for rugby.  Really well done to Ollie M, Lucas and Ollie A.

We are now into the final two weeks of the term and things are busier than ever for the Hall boys.  On Saturday night, year 10 and 11 had their annual Christmas ball which went very well with all of the boarders attending and the vast majority of the day boys also there.

The year 10 and 11 boys ready for the ball

Today, several of the boys rehearsed for the senior school production of "Spamalot", which is on next week and looks like being another fantastic Kingswood production.  The 6th form watched the film of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and then "The Life of Brian" on Saturday evening, to get us in the mood for the show.

Hugo as "brave" Sir Robin

Ed, James and John in the tower (along with Nathan from Middle)

This evening we started our Christmas celebrations with the Advent service and dinner.  Veleslav and Freddy gave two of the readings in the service and then we were treated to a superb Chicken curry supper by our fantastic Catering Department. There will be lots more news and photographs coming soon about the success of the production, house entertainment and everything else that happens very soon. As they say: "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....!"

In our thoughts and prayers