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Autumn term2018, Week 1

www.luctonschool.org7th SeptemberAutumn 2018, week 1

In this issue:l Prep School Newsl Boarding Newsl Lucton School

Shanghai opensthis week!

l CCF AnnualCamp

l Pupils’ summersports success

l Senior Prefectsl Equestrian News

A level pupils at Lucton School celebrateanother year of excellent exam resultsand Head of Sixth Form, Mr Goode,praised his pupils’ success, saying, “I amabsolutely delighted. Our pupils haveworked so hard and can now lookforward confidently to continuing intheir chosen fields of study.”With just under 20 candidates, this year’scohort achieved results that were aheadof their predicted grades. Ben Davies(pictured), Lucton’s Head Boy, who hasbeen at the school for 11 years, achievedA*AA.

At GCSE, again this year, sciences did very well atLucton and for the fifth year in a row, the separate sciencesubjects achieved a 100% pass rate. The separate scienceswere three of ten GCSE subjects that achieved a 100% passrate, compared with seven last year!

Taylor Mogford and Lewis Jones, both joined Luctonfive years ago in Year 7 and between them, they haveachieved 12 A* to A and equivalents (9 to 7). They bothcontinue into Lucton’s Sixth Form this September.

Excellent exam results at Lucton

Welcome Back! Lucton certainly camealive on Tuesday as over 70 children racedin through the gates looking really smartand raring to go. We welcomed 17 intoReception Class who boldly took over theplayground as if it were their own. Ihonestly think that it was their parents whowere more nervous. Shouted questions,comparisons of shoes, what had happenedover the holidays… and so it went on.With the parents looking on, they troopedin for their first day of the new year withnot only new uniforms but also new classteachers as well. We are now at the end ofthe week and all of our new starters havetaken to Lucton life like ducks to water.

So, what have they been up to? Well:biscuit tasting, number placing, life cycles,Romans, drama, painting (including somehair strands) learning to use a knife andfork, finding where the toilets are,Microsoft Office and where to put work,learning that computer screens aren’t likeiPads! Oh the days have been filled andpacked indeed and Year 1 have even sortedthe first Assembly of the School Year.Everyone has been swimming and hadGames lessons. French has been heard andthe sound of instruments being played. Year5 have discovered what instruments theyare going to be tackling from next week

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and we will hear them before the end ofterm in a Music Assembly. I have seen theHarvest script being discussed (and eventhe Nativity script!).

Plenty has been done and plenty hasbeen planned. In the short term we arelooking forward to seeing all the parents(no children) at the Curriculum Eveningnext Tuesday at 6:45 in the Prep SchoolHall followed by Welcome Drinks in theMemorial Hall at 7:30. This evening is achance for you to meet your son ordaughter’s class teacher and also otherparents across the school. Please do come asit is a) very informative and b) a lovelyevening.

To end the first of the News of the year,please remember that the Friday is themorning to have etched in your diary! Ourrenowned Friday Assemblies are back,beginning with Year 1. These Assemblies are

Prep School News


open to all parents and friends no matterwhich class your son or daughter is in. Weenjoy a wonderful performance from aclass, celebrate children’s achievements,catch up on School News all followed by acup of tea, a biscuit and a chat with friends.You can even enjoy using the School pool.What a wonderful way to start theweekend. See you then if not before!

Forest School A gamut of insects and seeds awaited us onour foray through the woods and grass.Crickets, moths, grasshoppers (we decidedthat there were two different types ofjumping insect and now need to find outwhich is which) and even a frog! Wediscovered that some trees are full of

berries and others not. We learnt that weshouldn’t eat anything that we didn’t know.We also stared in awe at the oak trees andtried to come to grips with the fact anacorn produces these! Oh and we jumpedand crashed through the undergrowth andeven found new dens – great fun!

Running successOn 16th August, The Oswestry OlympiansRunning Club held a relay event attracting100 teams of three per team at thebeautiful setting of Chirk Castle. Aoibhand Lorcan Clarke and Archie Jones madeup a very formidable team number 100and ran as Youths amongst a very strongfield of mixed ability. The three hundredrunners battled their way around thepicturesque Chirp Castle estate in whatwas a very well run event (No pun). Ourexcellent team came over the line in 25thplace, 6 minutes behind the winners, whichwas a fantastic achievement under thecircumstances.

On 2nd September Aoibh andLorcan Clarke competed in theUckfield Autumn Triathlon inEast Sussex. Aoibh achieved firstplace Youth Girl and Lorcanpositioned third Youth Male,both putting in very strongperformances, all times veryrespectable against a field of over200 athletes which included aselection of team GB triathletes.


Welcome back and a huge welcome to thenew boarders and their families! We havehad a super start to the new school yearand it has been a delight to see ourboarders return full of enthusiasm andwith lots of stories and photos of theiradventures in the summer holidays. Wehave welcomed some new faces to ourboarding community whom we are reallylooking forward to getting to know thisyear. We have had a frantic couple of daysunpacking and getting to know our newfriends with our old boarders quicklyhelping the new boarders and the term hasstarted smoothly. Everyone seems to haveadapted well to the routines of the housewith some invaluable help from ouramazing Gap students: Emily, Stuart, Joeand Tess.

Our first couple of prep sessions havebeen used to talk about ourselves with MrsGoode and Mrs Taxis giving the boardersthe opportunity to create a pictorialrepresentation in the ICT suite; these aregoing to be used to decorate corridors androoms in the boarding house.

The boarders have been enjoying usingthe facilities on offer to them in theevening and have been exploring the

sports hall and gym and chatting on thefield – the table tennis table has alreadyproved a favourite with our youngerboarders!

We would like to extend a very warmwelcome to Miss Roper who will beassisting Miss Duers in School Cottage; wehope that you will be very happy with us.

As always, please don’t hesitate to get intouch with us, should you need to on01568 782019 (School Cottage), 01568782010 (Croft House), [email protected]

Boarding News


CCF Annual Camp –Worcop 2018The highlight of the CCF Training Year isthe annual camp, initially booked for Tenbyin Wales. Due to unforeseen circumstancesand a burst gas main we had to head ooptut north to Cumbria and Worcop.

Luckily this year has seen some ofBritain’s best weather in 20 odd years, sothe climate and scenery were bothstunning, with bright blue skies and rollingdales in abundance.

The first day set the scene for the weekahead with our newly appointed Tier 5Operators been given the mission to searchand destroy for some zombies – all weretaken care of – and some of the luckycadets were given a jump scare by some ofthe undead.

The second day was taken up withadventurous training on and aroundUllswater. This included canoeing,kayaking, gorge walking and a little bit ofcliff jumping thrown in for good measure.

The rest of the week was taken up withmilitary skills such as section attacks,platoon attacks and the highlight for many– TIBUA, Training in Built Up Areas. Thisis where the Lucton CCF Platoon got toattack, storm and regain from enemy handsa large farm house. There was also ahostage to be rescued – Jeremy Hunt, the

UK’s Foreign Secretary. The cadets did asterling job and Mr Hunt is fine.

All of the cadets performed wellthroughout the week and althoughmischievous, their behaviour and represen-tation of Lucton School was excellent.Finally at the end of the week some awardsand promotions were given out:½ Red Star: Morgan Ferguson, LorcanClarke, Malachy Clarke, Jamie Woodfield,Katie Lewis, George Williams,Harriet Sneyd, Toby Payton, DominicYates, Tim White, Tom Marron, HarryDigwood, Toby GilmourRed Star: Alex Dawes, Guy BC, ArchieHarper, Aiobh Clarke, Georgia Brown,Olivia Kavanagh, Ella CampbellGold Star: Harriet McFarlaneShooting - GP Rifle Pass: OliviaKavanagh-Best shot from Lucton, LorcanClarke, Aaron Powell, Aiobh Clarke, Joe Lund Promotions to: LCpl: Alex Dawes, GuyBC, Olivia Kavanagh, Georgia Brown,Harry Digwood, Charlie ShepherdCpl: Ella Campbell, Ella Pillidge, KateCarpenterSgt: Harriet McFarlaneAdditional awards:Camp Stars: Jamie Woodfield, Katie Lewis,Harriet SneydBest Effort: Lorcan ClarkeFarewells: 2Lt Henry Llewellin, Cpl KateCarpenter


Edith at the EnduranceHome InternationalsOver the summer Edith represented Walesat the EGB Endurance Home Interna-tionals Championships, held at BrodieCastle, Inverness. Edith competed on ahorse she had never met and competed herfirst ever endurance competitive ride. Aftercompleting her ride, Edith gained anindividual silver and team silver.

Harriet makes herdebut for Team GBDressageA Lucton student is making huge strides inthe dressage world after being selected tocompete in her first event as part of TeamGB.

Harriet and her horse named WorldDancer or ‘Ginge’ as he is known at home,represented Great Britain at the HicksteadCDI.

Despite only moving up to the juniorclassification this year, Harriet was selectedby British Dressage for the prestigiousevent where she competed against athletesfrom around the world. Her achievementwas made even more remarkable after onlycompeting on World Dancer sinceFebruary.

Harriet gained top 10 placings in both

the team and individual test on Thursdayand Friday, despite nearly 40 degree heat,which qualified her to ride in the freestyleto music on Sunday. Despite horrendousweather conditions and having neverridden the freestyle to music test before,Harriet and World Dancer scored 69.225%and took fourth place. An incredibleperformance at her first Team GB outing!

Ella’s lacrosse Ella attended her first training camp withthe South West Region for the EnglandLacrosse Talent Pathway at CheltenhamLadies College.


Big win for Thomasat national levelThomas competed at the NDTL NationalClassic Championships at Bywell duringthe summer and shot an incredible200/200 clays, with a point score of582/600. A fantastic achievement!With this performance, he won thefollowing categories:• Clay Shooting DTL Championship 2018 • High Gun A Class – T Burns 200/582 •High Gun Junior – T Burns 200/582 •Bywell 400 Results: High Gun Junior TBurns 924/1000.

Ellie’s swimmingOn the first weekend of the holidays Ellierepresented her newly formed club LuctonTyphoon, at their first ever ASA event. Elliewon 5 medals overall, gaining a bronze inthe 50m front crawl and in the 200mbreaststroke, a silver in the 50m breaststrokeand 50m backstroke and a gold in the100m backstroke. This led to her comingsecond overall in her age group missing outon a first by 1 point. The club only took 5swimmers but finished 4th overall.

SeniorPrefectsfor2018/19As announced byMrs Thorne onSpeech Day, thisis the new teamfor the comingacademic year.


Lucton School has joined aselect group of UK schoolsfollowing the opening ofLucton School Shanghaithis Monday. Lucton’sHeadmistress, Mrs Thorne,the Chairman of trustees,Dr Tony Paterson, and Vice-Chairman, Peter Morris,along with Lucton’s Bursar,Mr Thorne, who managesLucton’s overseasdevelopments, were inShanghai to be part of theopening celebrations. Theopening ceremony includedpraise and support for thenew school from John Edwards, the BritishConsul-General of Shanghai.

The new purpose-built campus isdesigned to take 300 full boarding pupilsand is situated just a few miles fromShanghai International Airport. This isLucton’s first overseas senior campus.Lucton School already has a presence in

Lucton Shanghai now open

Shanghai, having opened Lucton Kinder-garten Shanghai in January 2018, with asecond Kindergarten already set to open inMarch 2019. All of these developments donot just raise Lucton School’s internationalprofile, but represent great news forHerefordshire and UK Education ingeneral.

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