Summer Term
Exeat Weekend
Parents’ evenings
Pocklington School takes centre stage on BBC Breakfast
The media spotlight descended on our school in January when OP Kyle Edmund reached the semi-final of the Australian Open, beating some of the world’ s top players along the way.
BBC Breakfast broadcast from the Sports Hall and the Prep School, interviewing staff and pupils in the build-up to the biggest game of the 23 year-old’ s career so far. Pupils arrived at 6am to be part of the broadcast.
Mark Ronan, Headmaster, said:“ It was an exciting day for us all. Not only did our shared pride in the achievements of an Old Pocklingtonian lift the spirits of the school, but the BBC’ s visit gave pupils a fascinating insight
Students transform unsold food into a feast
A Masterchef-style challenge brought out the inventive culinary skills of Sixth Formers when they transformed out-of-sell-by-date food donated by Tesco’ s into appetising meals.
Eight Lower Sixth Formers competed in pairs to create dishes from ingredients including pork, peppers and sweet potatoes, strawberries and mangoes, plus a few store cupboard essentials.
Their creations, made without prior knowledge of the ingredients, were taste-tested by judges from Tesco and Pocklington School. They declared it a very close-run contest, with Tiger Brash and Peter Massey’ s pork & mango curry into the world of TV news and the challenges of outside broadcasts.”
Pocklington School also featured in coverage by BBC Newsround, Radio 5 Live, BBC Look North, Capital and Heart Radio, Radio 1 Newsbeat, BBC2’ s Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio York, The Times, Daily Mail and stories in the national and regional press distributed by the Press Association.
Kyle suffered a hip injury and was defeated in the game, but his successful run helped elevate him to British No 1 and a career-high 24th in the world rankings.
with a side of Indian spiced vegetable crisps the narrow winner.
Economics and Business Studies teacher Phil Donaldson was the third judge at the Masterchef Challenge, and Cookery Teacher Anne-Marie Salmon liaised with Tesco.
Mrs Salmon said:“ The students come to my after-school cookery club and have made tremendous progress. There’ s always a lot of teamwork and friendly competition- and this challenge was no exception. I’ m very grateful to Tesco for getting so enthusiastically involved.”
Diary Dates
Summer Term
Monday 16 April – Boarders return to school Tuesday 17 April – Start of Summer Term
Tuesday 24 April – House Bake-off Competition, 4pm
Friday 27 April – A Level Music: The Marriage of Figaro, Educational Workshop
Thursday 3 May – CCF Biennial Inspection
Exeat Weekend
Friday 4 May( Including Bank Holiday)
Saturday 12 May – Fifth Year begin study leave
Friday 18 May – Official opening of the new Art and Design Technology Centre
Week commencing Monday 21 May – Internal Exams( First-Forth Year & Lower Sixth)
Friday 25 May – Start of Half Term Monday 4 June – Start of 2nd Half of Term
Friday 8 June – Annual Pocklingtonian Golf Day
Saturday 9 June – Pocklington and Pocklington Prep Schools: Come and See Us at Work Morning
Monday 11 June – Drop Everything and Read, 2pm
Thursday 21 June – School Walk
Tuesday 26 / Wednesday 27 June – Lower School Play – Around the world in 80 days.
Saturday 30 June – Sports Day and Picnic Sunday 1 July – OPA Summer Reunion Monday 2 July – Summer Concert Thursday 5 July – School Picnic Friday 6 July – Prizegiving and Reception Friday 6 July – End of term and Leavers’ Ball Friday 7 July – Lower School House Camp
Wednesday 18 July – Pocklington School will be at Driffield Show
Friday 27 July – Sports Tour to South Africa Thursday 16 August – A Level Results Day Thursday 23 August – GCSE Results Day
Parents’ evenings
Wednesday 25 April – Lower Sixth Parents’ Evening
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