We’d like to congratulate Year 12 student Zach Sturgess on winning second place in the U17 Spanish International Badminton Tournament, which took place during the 16-18 September.

He and his partner played incredibly well and beat both the No 4 and No 1 seeds to advance to the final. They sadly lost against their opposition in the final round, but a second-place win is an incredible result from the pair. Well done Zach 🎉

Year 9 student Katie has recently won the Northamptonshire County Cricket 'Girls Pathway Player of the Season' award.  

Following an impressive season, Katie was the leading run scorer for the U13s and the Girls Pathway with 381 runs at an average of 34.64. She was also 2nd in the wickets tally for the u13’s with 16 wickets. 

Her fantastic achievements do not stop there, Katie has also been selected for the Loughborough Lightning Emerging Player Pathway award.

In September, Cayde K joined the Northampton Volleyball Club and quickly progressed to playing in their Men’s team in the local League (they won the League with all wins and only one defeat). He also does additional training with East Northants Volleyball Club and has participated in a number of U16 and U15 Tournaments for them in Nottingham.

At one of these Tournaments he was talent spotted by a Volleyball England Talent Scout and was invited to a Closed Trial with the U17 England Squad over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. He had a very successful trial and will be joining the squad on the Volleyball England Talent Pathway and will attend their Summer Training Camp in August in Leeds. The team are now in training preparation for the new season to start in the autumn.

Introducing our Year 12 Student, Céadach Staff who is being recognised for his talented writing. Below, is from his own words: 

I started writing for the stage in Year 9, having written and directed my group's end of year performance, I ended up penning a couple of plays over that summer. Reading these back, my early work has some poor dialogue, characters with no depth, but some basic understanding of ideas of structure. I’ve continued writing plays, and my more recent work has become more abstract and surrealist. I would cite Alfred Hitchcock, Franz Kafka and the noir genre as influences to my concurrent work.  After Year 13, I hope to go to York University to study playwriting.

These are some stills from my short play "Untitled", which follows a man as he becomes increasingly obsessed with a light. On the surface, "Untitled" appears as a very abstract vignette, but, as the title suggests, it is designed for the audience to take any interpretation of the light they wish. Among others, some interpretations see the light as the ghost of a loved one, a metaphor for hope, and a retelling of the Myth of Tantalus.