Interform Champions, Connection Corner & Have a great Summer!

Welcome to the Third Year Blog!

And so there it is.

The corridors fall silent. The classrooms are empty. The bells have no need to ring.

The teachers silently file into the downstairs bunker underneath the Hammond and ease themselves into their cryogenic chambers for summer storage.

All is peaceful. All is quiet.

A summer of wildly untucked shirts awaits.

All this is both wonderful and bittersweet.

So much has been achieved; so many friends have been made; so many challenges have been overcome.

There is so much to be proud of for all of you. But now it is complete.

So, what can there possibly be in the Third Year Blog when the Third Year has finished? If there are no actual Third Years anymore, does the Third Year Blog still exist? If a Third Year Blog fell in the forest and no one heard it, did it make a sound?

All valid questions.

As it is, the Third Year Blog does not yet need to face this existential crisis, as we still have to announce the final winner of the Interform competition – which form ultimately won the unfeasibly prestigious Williams Cup?

Heads of Year Message

Congratulations to 3J for winning the Interform Challenge this year. The final interform results table can be found further down this blog.

Thank you to all Third Year Form Tutors for your sterling efforts throughout this year – you have been amazing and wonderful in equal measure.

Well done to everyone for reaching the end of term in good order and high spirits. Thank you to the Third Year pupils for being good natured, collegiate, determined and innovative this academic year. As we said at the Prizegiving event last week, you have been great company.

We hope you all enjoy the summer holidays!

Best wishes

Mr T Rigby & Mr H Moore

Summer Holidays Laptops Reminder

School laptops are to be used for School work only. School laptops are not for social media, non-school related online activity, or playing games. Please remember that there is monitoring software on School laptops and that this operates even when the laptop is away from the School site – i.e. it still applies over the summer holidays.

 Williams Cup

And so the final announcement to be announced is the final result of the Interform Competition. Which form won?

In reverse order, here are the final standings:

9^th – 3C – 31 pts
8^th – 3H – 32 pts
7^th – 3A – 36 pts
6^th – 3E – 49 pts
5^th – 3F – 52 pts
4^th – 3G – 61 pts
3^rd – 3D – 63 pts
2^nd – 3B – 67 pts

And the winners…

1^st – 3J – 69 pts

A magnificent performance… well done 3J!

Two Truths and a Lie

Our final liar this year was the esteemed Mr Owen.

This is what she tried to convince us of…

• Mrs Owen went to school with Paddy McGuiness
• Mrs Owen is a lifelong Oldham Athletic supporter
• Mrs Owen used to play darts for her university darts team

So which was the lie?

Upon learning that Mrs Owen is, in fact, a lifelong Oldham Athletic supporter, the Third Year Blog was left marvelling at how positive her outlook on life is, in general. Perhaps what helps her feel more positive about things is her excellence at darts – she did represent her university. What this means is that she didn’t go to School with Paddy McGuinness. We will leave you to decide whether this would be positive for Mrs Owen or not.

Connection Corner

Time to reveal the answers to the very last Connection Corner of the year:

• What was the name of the bear adopted by the Brown family? Paddington
• Which park does Buckingham Palace overlook? Green Park
• What address did Sherlock Holmes live at? 221B Baker Street
• Which British monarch married their first cousin? Queen Victoria married Prince Albert

Connection: London Tube stations (Paddington, Victoria, Baker Street, Green Park)

Did you get the correct answers? Well done to Alex B, Will H, Mehrad M, Asher C, Reuben N, Toby B, Charlie F, Elliot P, Caeser C and Liangxu Z.

And all that’s left to say is…

Have a great summer and see you in September!

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