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Sport 4Much good Rugby was played. The 1st XV won 6 lost 5 and had good victories against Sherborne, Oundle, Bedford, Harrow. The real strength lies in JC 1st XV (won 10/11) and Midgets 1st XV (won 10/11). The 6th XV, Stonewall 2nds, remained unbeaten and unbowed. Nick Wood OR (Abberley Hall, h) played for England Saxons and was selected for a full international v. South Africa before injury robbed him of his cap. 4The Hockey was very strong. The 1st XI was unbeaten and there were wins over an otherwise unbeaten Eton XI, 2-0, Cheltenham 6-2, as well as hard fought away draws v. Wellington (3-3) and Charterhouse (4-4) were highlights. It was a really cohesive, spirited team. The top Midgets and JCs sides won the great majority of their games, as did the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th XIs. 4The Rowers have also had a good year. The 1st VIII came 2nd in the Schools Head, 3rd in the National Schools Championship VIIIs, won at Bedford Regatta and ended the season reaching the semi-finals of the Princess Elizabeth Cup at Henley. J15.2 won gold at National Schools. Captain of Boats Tom Taylour (Dragon, e) represented GB Juniors at the Munich International Regatta. Tom Parker OR (Pilgrims’, h) and Ollie Moore OR (St Hugh’s, e) both rowed for Great Britain during the course of the season. 4And there has been much good Cricket played. All matches were won v. St Edward’s and Bradfield, 15/16 won v. Marlborough, 12/14 v Winchester. The 1st XI had good wins v. Charterhouse, St Edward’s, Bradfield, Marlborough, the latter by 1 wicket. The Midgets 1st XI has been especially strong; JC XI won nearly all its matches as has Midgets 2 which have won 8, drawn 2 of their 10 matches. 4The Soccer teams improved steadily after a slow start and finished the Lent Term strongly. 4There has been good Sailing, and Sam Petty won the BSDRA Prism Trophy for the 2nd year running as part of a Radley Team which won Silver at the Midlands Championships. 4Edmund Parsons (Winchester House, h) is part of the Young England Polo team’s trip to Kenya this July. 4Thomas Windsor Clive took part in the final GB Equestrian trials in May. 4The Steeplechase winners were Archie Vey (Senior), Henry Tufnell (Inter), Oscar Richards (Junior). 4Mark Hubbard, Radley’s Master-in- Charge of Rackets won the World Rackets Doubles Championship. The 1st pair had a good season beating Wellington, Charterhouse and Clifton. The Shells rackets players look especially promising. 4The tennis players won the Oxist League Senior and Junior in 2007 and the Real Tennis players were 3rd in the National Schools. 4The Countryside Centre at Radley had a remarkable success at the Ardingly Show where Whiplash the beagle became champion doghound. 8 THE RADLEIAN NEWSLETTER
Greek Trips Classics at Radley remains strong with about sixty boys in each of the two GCSE years studying Latin, sixty taking Classical Civilisation and about 5 taking Greek. At A level, in any one year, between 6 and 10 boys take Latin, around 12 study Classical Civilisation and about 3 take Greek. Radleians have for many years been fortunate in the variety of opportunities available to them for travelling to lands near and far, but few destinations, if any, can claim to have been as regularly visited as Greece. Dons have led trips to the major sites of Attica, central Greece and the Peloponnese since at least the 1960s, with Hamish Aird, former Sub Warden, the man to tell of those halcyon days when a few drachmas took you a very long way. Even in the late 1970s one could put together a 17 day trip for comfortably under £300 – a great contrast with today’s trips in terms of length and pace, but probably on a par in terms of value for money. It is the phrase “good value” – in every sense – that sums up for me the Greek trips that I have been associated with since 1991. Boys undoubtedly come back from their week in Greece with a greatly enhanced appreciation of the culture of that country (both its ancient and modern aspects), packing in a remarkable variety of visits and experiences whilst benefiting from infrastructure and accommodation that improves with each visit. There may not necessarily be a directly beneficial impact on exam marks for all participants, but that would be to miss the point of such trips; the Greek trip has always felt like a greatly civilising occasion, with a relaxed atmosphere prevailing and boys more than playing their part in developing a tradition of finding the right balance between purposeful study and winding down after the rigours of the Lent Term. Each trip invariably throws up its major characters, with opportunities available for taking centre stage at venues as diverse as the ancient theatre of Epidaurus and the nearby, but culturally miles away, Gorilla Club in Tolon. In a world where teenagers can become a little blasé about new cultural experiences due to the ease of modern travel it is very warming that walking up onto the Acropolis or entering the site at Delphi still seems to generate the same “wow” factor that I remember very well from my own 1979 visit. The Greek trip is an excellent example of Radley at its best, with intellectual curiosity on the part of the boys matched by the passion of the accompanying dons, and an atmosphere of harmony, close co-operation and good humour prevailing, and another Greek trip is scheduled for March 2009. Paul Gamble, Head of Classics THE RADLEIAN NEWSLETTER 9
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