"Where to begin in our Ten to Watch? Perhaps with the side already commonly acknowledged as the best state school in the country who put in a performance that validated what many have said privately, that they could prove to be the best side in the country full stop, Northampton School for Boys. With three year groups of U15 Continental Tyres Schools Cup winners and finalists, several England internationals, and a whole host of Northampton Saints players in their ranks, they were always going to be good, on Saturday against Mill Hill they demonstrated just how good en route to a 57-7 victory. Two sets of brothers lined up Howie and Ferdi Barnett Vincent and Fin and skipper Hugh Shields, the England U18 international. All four were outstanding, the Shields’ scoring a brace each while England forwards Jack Lewis and Aiden Reid were superb, Lewis carrying hard and Reid revelling in the scrum, with George Tonga’uiha behind him performing right up at his best. An outstanding display, NSB are going to have a big say this season. It’s a tough one for Mill Hill, who are going to be a very good side, but they will know this was a mighty challenge to begin the season with."

 

Year 12 Parental Information Evening

It was a pleasure to welcome such a large number of parents and carers to the Year 12 Parental Information Evening on Thursday. The event provided an important opportunity to outline key aspects of life within the NSB Sixth Form, share details regarding the forthcoming Bournemouth residential, and enable parents and carers to meet with their child’s Form Tutor. The strong turnout and positive engagement have set an excellent tone for the academic year ahead and further strengthened the vital partnership between home and school, which plays such a crucial role in supporting student progress and wellbeing.

Those of you who listen to Radio Northampton may well have picked up on an exceptional achievement by one of our Year 11 students Michal Wojcik. The school is immensely proud of Michal's achievements - Mrs Greenaway reports:

 

BBC Radio Northampton Make A Difference Awards

Young Hero - Michal Wojcik 

Michal  was awarded this accolade from BBC Radio Northampton on Wednesday 10th September at a ceremony at The Royal and Derngate. It is awarded to someone under 16 who has made a positive impact in their community or achieved something exceptional and Michal is definitely a worthy winner.

Currently in Year 11, he has already made a significant impact within school and the wider community. He is a dedicated and proactive young man who demonstrates respect, kindness and compassion alongside hard work, determination and drive. He received NSB's 'Junior Personal Development  Award' for services to the school in March as well as 'Most valuable contribution to Washington House' and 'Entrepreneurial/Enterprise Student of the Year'. He ensured that NSB were part of UK Parliament Week and is the school's representative as a youth councillor at Northampton's Youth Council. He is also part of NSB's Water Polo Team alongside the County Team.

Earlier this year he travelled to Poland with his family and spent some time teaching English to students and he attends Air Cadets where he regularly undertakes numerous fundraising events. And to top it off he has joined the youth advisory group for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust and it is in relation to the latter that he was nominated by his Mother, Beata - citation below.  

"His kindness, resilience, and dedication to his younger brother, Jakub, who has cystic fibrosis (CF) and type 1 diabetes. Whatever he does, he always has other people at heart and is always looking for solutions when grown-ups are not seeing the issue." 

For more details and Michal's and his brother Jakub's responses, please see the online article about Michal and other winners. 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23p5y6134o

Northants swimming teacher honoured with Make a Difference Award - BBC Other winners of the Make a Difference Awards include a range of inspirational people of all ages. www.bbc.co.uk

 

Ollie was also a member of the Northamptonshire County Under 14s team alongside NSB Year 7 student Harry ODell, that won the 'Keith Trip' Trophy in the summer, which is a tournament held between Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire.  The tournament was played at Lingdale in Leicestershire and it was the first time Northamptonshire had won the trophy for 13 years.

 

Well done also to our two resident Pokoman experts - Shan and Ethan Church who both fought valiantly in The World championships held in Anaheim, California over the recent holidays. There were 515 total invitations given out Worldwide and both boys qualified for the tournament with ease based on their season's overall results. Shan finished in the top 50 only narrowly missing out on getting through to a play off for the top ten positions as well as finishing with the 3^rd highest UK Senior entrant.

The school is immensely proud of its rich extracurricular programme and the full offer for Term 1 has now been placed on the website for parents / students to access.

 

 

Richard Bernard

Headteacher