House Music

The boys and girls of Burr did themselves proud in House Music yesterday competing for top spot with Orchard. Unfortunately we came second but the performances they put in were very strong and special mention has to go to Robbie Rayne for his solo performance. Below are some videos of the event:

Pancakes, Pudding and Bingo!

A number of the Burr boys went to have pancakes and pudding in the Pavilion followed by a game of bingo which was kindly put on by the Rev with the support of Lower School and Orchard Matrons for Pancake Day. Burr did very well in the bingo with Louis Robinson winning some Chocolate and William Yan winning a £5 Tuck Shop voucher. Well Done boys!

Year 10 Geography Field Trip

Last week a number of the boys from Year 10 went on a Geography field trip to Dorset. More information can be found on the school website: http://www.shiplake.org.uk/news/2014/03/03/geographers_investigate_coastal_landscapes

Below are some pictures of Burr boys on the trip:

Million Metres - Match Report

Some of the boys will be reading the below match report in assemblies this week:

"The challenge began just after 1:00pm on the Saturday with the senior lead out crew consisting

of Y13 & Y12 boys and girls. They went out at a ferocious pace managing to achieve 100,000

metres in the first 1 hour and 15 minutes. This continued until 3:00pm when the rest of the senior

boys and the juniors took over. The fast pace continued once the teams had perfected their

changeovers and by 4:15pm we had reached 250,000 metres and were a quarter of the way

through the challenge. The ergos didn’t stop moving until dinner when we were pleased to see a

crew of staff come and relieve us to allow us to have break and digest our dinner before the

evening slog began.

We reached halfway by 7:30pm but a bigger milestone was around the corner as the Domino’s

delivery man arrived to a huge roar as he had not only come to deliver pizzas but he also rowed

a few metres. As we got further into the night the music spurred us on despite Mr Dix putting on

songs from his teenage years. When we had finished rowing for the evening we had rowed over

750,000 metres.

We started rowing again early on Sunday morning knowing that our target of finishing for brunch

was in sight. As the boys started to wake up the rowing got faster and faster and before we knew

it we only had 100,000 metres left. At this point Olympic bronze medalist Sarah Winckless joined

us for the final stint.

As the final few metres were rowed there was a big cheer before we had a celebratory huddle

and a well deserved brunch.

We would like to thank Mr Beaumont and his team for the catering, Dominos for the pizza and all

of the staff and pupils who came by and rowed some metres on the guest ergo."

Million Metres - Storify

Million Metres!

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Million Metres

At 1:00pm today Burr are going to start their Million Metres Challenge. We will keep adding pictures and updates to the Blog and Twitter throughout the weekend!