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We are, as you all know, about to be faced with about a month’s worth of FOOTBALL. The World Cup is here, as is everything that comes with it. This is, of course, something to be celebrated. The Third Year Blog enjoys football as much as the next text-based-representative-of-a-school-year-group.

But, there is a ubiquity to football which can occasionally become a little overbearing. So, while the start of the World Cup and the uncomfortably Anglocentric question of whether it (and, indeed, football itself) will be coming ‘home’ or not is exciting, it is hard not to feel that we could at least try to focus on other things as well, at least for the first 50 matches or so (there are 104 of them in this new, larger World Cup).

Which leads the Third Year Blog to ask you to consider Cricket.

Cricket is undoubtedly a polarising activity and the Third Year Blog would not pretend to have either the persuasive power or the reach to make anyone feel any differently about it, but, having offered that magnanimous nonsense, the reality is that cricket is awesome and if you disagree, then respectfully, you are wrong, and you have never experienced the sheer emotional and physical beauty of someone making no attempt to score at all in the sport of their choice for several hours and yet still finding themselves feted as a hero because they got a draw. A draw.

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As we travelled up for our well anticipated U14 cup match game against Mill Hill, everyone was slightly nervous. When we arrived, they were having a full net session warming up and we only had 20 minutes before play.

Despite us losing the toss and bowling first, we put on a decent bowling display with slips of bad fielding but still managed to keep them to 130 runs with very good bowling from Kailan S and Oscar C at the end.

We then went out to bat with Devan S and Rey J opening. We started off strongly, despite losing a relatively early wicket, but Rey J kept ticking over the scoreboard and, in the 19th over, he scored the final runs for an impressive 90 not out.

We are looking forward to the next game on Monday (against Merchant Taylors’ School) and, if we win, hopefully a final on Tuesday.

When I went to the Arsenal parade a few weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of Arsenal fans were there – there were so many of them it was hard to see! We turned North London into a sea of red for the mighty Arsenal’s historic parade, with the whole crowd singing songs celebrating our first Premier League title in 22 years.

Despite our heart breaking loss a day earlier in the Champions League Final, the atmosphere from the crowd and the players was nothing but joy. The smoke from the red flares that we all threw was very cool (although they stank!), while the loud roar of chants echoed through the streets of Islington.

The supporters showed passion, with people of all ages who had patiently waited like me and my father for this amazing moment. As the open-top buses carrying Mikel Arteta and the squad passed by, I got the opportunity to see the beautiful trophy for the first time.

It was an amazing experience!

By Finn T (3G)

Star Club Regatta

by Laura Jones

Last Saturday, me and 27 others went to the Great River Ouse in Bedford to race at the Star Club Regatta.

This race is done with two boats racing side by side, over a 1.2km course through the town. It is a knockout competition, with you needing to win your race to avoid getting knocked out.

Originally, my Quad (four rowers sculling + cox) was to be the earliest race, requiring us to leave the boathouse, along with the boats in the early hours of that morning; however, our opposition pulled out.

Unfortunately, all of our other boats got knocked out first round, but the one which I was in made it to the final and won in the end, winning all our races ‘easily’ (as per the results), with us taking home a ‘Star Club Regatta’ mug.

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Test table

Student ID	First Name	Last Name	Year Group	Maths	English
1001	Emma	Thompson	Year 7	A	A-
1002	Liam	Patel	Year 7	B+	B
1003	Sophia	Clarke	Year 7	A-	A
1004	Noah	Williams	Year 7	B	B+
1005	Olivia	Johnson	Year 8	A	A
1006	James	Brown	Year 8	C+	B
1007	Isabella	Davis	Year 8	B+	A-
1008	Oliver	Wilson	Year 8	A-	B+
1009	Amelia	Moore	Year 9	A	A-
1010	Harry	Taylor	Year 9	B	B-
1011	Mia	Anderson	Year 9	C+	B
1012	George	Thomas	Year 9	B+	B+
1013	Isla	Jackson	Year 10	A-	A
1014	Ethan	White	Year 10	B	B+
1015	Grace	Harris	Year 10	A	B+