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• Many prominent musicians played during the Subscription

Series. Highlights include the departmental Shakespeare

Concert and The Opera Café.

• Masterclasses continue and included a visit by Ronan O’Hara,

Head of Keyboard at The Guildhall School of Music. The Coffee

Concerts, the Informal Concert Series and The Scholars’ Concert have all been strong this year.

• RockIt had its biggest audience ever, raising £580.00 for

Teenage Cancer Trust.

• In the Repton Musician of the Year competition, the Junior

Prize went to Katie Jankinson (5M) and the Senior Prize to Katie

Guest (L6F).

• Christopher Hill (5L) got through to the category auditions of the BBC Young Musician Competition, and through the year has extended his collection of qualifications to Dip ABRSM, Dip

LCM Dists, ATCL Flute, ATCL Jazz Dists, ALCM Dists, LTCL Dists.

• Claudia Atkinson (4F), and Isabel Markham (4F) were both successful in their National Youth Choir auditions. Eve Thomas-

Davis (U6F) was a finalist in the Dalesmen Singing Competition.

• Joseph Jankinson (U6L) was awarded DipABRSM in Oboe.

Hannah Sherry (4G) won the U16 Piano prize at the Kerry Young

Musician of the Year.

• Joseph Jankinson (U6L) (oboe) Katie Jankinson (5M) (violin),

Matthew Jankinson (3L) (trombone) and Kyoko Canaway (4G) (bassoon) have been invited to play in the Royal Festival Hall, with the prestigious Duet Philharmonic Orchestra, drawn from schools across the UK.

• The 1st XI football team, captained by Ryan Binns (U6C), had another excellent season and were unbeaten in the regular season school games in the Michaelmas Term for the second successive season. In the process they retained the ISFA Northern

League title and were victorious in the Derbyshire County Cup.

They won 24 out of 31 games and scored a record 133 goals: a total that has never been bettered in the history of football at the School. They conceded only 28 goals, which also equalled the school record.

• The U15A team won the Burton & District Cup, whilst the U14A team won the Burton & District Cup and lifted the Staffordshire

U14 County Cup with a fabulous 3-1 win in the Final.

• The ISFA representative teams contained several Reptonians.

Ryan Binns (U6C), Stephen Kosmala (U6O), Lewis Ratcliffe (U6L) and Jack O’Callaghan (U6S) at U18 level and Jack Bull (4O) and

William Norcross (4S) both represented the ISFA U15 team at various points during the season. Max Gracie-Ainscough (3N),

Luke Tandy (3N) and James Parton (3C) were all selected to represent the ISFA U14 team this season.

• Old Reptonian footballer Will Hughes (N’08) was voted in the 2013/14 Championship Team of the Year. • The 1st VII netball team were crowned county champions and reached the Midlands finals finishing in fifth place. They also came third place in the prestigious Oundle tournament in which many of the top teams in the Midlands compete. The U16s were crowned county champions, regional champions and came a very respectable thirteenth place in the National Finals held near

Chester. They were undefeated in their inter school fixtures. The

U15A team were also crowned county champions, had an unbeaten season and were also crowned victors of the

Uppingham U15 tournament. The Under 15B team were hot on their heels and enjoyed an unbeaten season and came second in the Uppingham U15B tournament.

• The School enjoyed further extraordinary success on the hockey pitches this year. We reached six of the possible ten National

Finals and the season ended with three National Titles and two runners-up placings. The Girls' 1st XI, captained by Georgina

Whitehouse (U6M), became Midland U18 Champions for the twelfth consecutive year. They followed this up by winning both the National U18 Indoor and National Outdoor Titles. The Girls'

U16 team became National Indoor Champions.

• The Boys' 1st XI, captained by Jacob Bullock (U6P), reached the

National Quarter Final and played superbly at the National

Indoor Finals before being beaten at the semi-final stage. The

Boys' U16s played some fantastic hockey at the National Finals and were unlucky to lose 0-1 in the final itself. The national runners-up position was also claimed by the Boys' U14 XI this season.

• More Reptonians have been in international hockey action this year than in any other previous season: Dan Darby (U6L) with the England U21 team; Aaron Hibell (U6O), Andrew Oxburgh (L6O), Elliot Hibell (5O), Erica Sanders (L6G), Olivia Hopkisson (L6A), Flora Peel (L6F) and Lilie Lamacraft (L6G) with the England

U18s; Ben Clague (L6P) with Wales U18, Oliver Rogerson (4C),

Esme Burge (4G) and Amelia Tarrant (4M) with the England U16 team. James Sookias (4S) has recently been invited to train with the England U15 squad.

• Five Old Reptonians - Susie Gilbert (F’02), Georgie Twigg (F’03), Ellie Watton (M’05), Shona McCallin (A’08) and Jo

Leigh (G’09) - have been training with the Great Britain Hockey

Squads as part of the preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

• On Speech Day 2013, the 1st XI cricketers completed their 15th win of the season, the most wins in a season recorded since records began in 1866.

• The 2013 Captain of Cricket Nitish Kumar (N’11) won the

Cricket Society Award for Schools’ All rounder of the Year and

The Walter Lawrence Trophy for highest score for a school against the MCC. He has since scored his maiden first-class hundred for Canada against the UAE and made half centuries against South Africa and West Indies in the U19 Cricket World

Cup in February.

• The Girls’ U18 swimming Team became National Independent

Schools Medley Relay Champions in March, winning the title by over 2 seconds. Harriet Cooper (L6F) was placed 5th in the 50m

Freestyle and 7th in the 100m Freestyle at The British Senior

Swimming Championships in April.