An Unbeaten Term of Football for the U12 Team

The U12 football team are celebrating an excellent term of football having finished their season 19 matches unbeaten, winning 17 and drawing two matches.

The U12s played their final match on their home patch on Wednesday versus Kings Leadership Academy, Warrington. The feedback from their school was that they were going to provide us with a tough match boasting some impressive results. Although the first half ended goalless, the College finishing unbeaten was never in doubt, as despite suffering the setback of hitting both the post and bar and having a goal disallowed in the first half, the U12s completely dominated the second half scoring two quick fire goals early on to allay any fears of defeat. The second half also showed that the importance of playing numerous matches and endless training sessions as our opposition ran out of steam and could not cope with the electrifying pace of the College forward line. Although it was our centre half who stole the show, Saadullah P provided much steeliness in defence and powering forward whenever the opportunity arose.

This has been a term of U12s football where every individual has played an important role in the team and each match has seen a different individual set up and demonstrate excellent leadership skills by taking charge of the game and encouraging others to improve their effort levels. The term of football has been an educational experience where they have learnt the importance of communication in the game, fighting to win each ball, tackle and playing football using the full width of the pitch to create numerous chances.

Well done to all the U12s, who are already planning for football in Y8 and playing 11-a-side.

Mr Cook (Sports Coordinator)

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Maths Ambassador Mastery Event

The Maths Ambassador Mastery Event took place on Thursday morning with our Year 7 pupils.

The Year 12 Maths Ambassadors were trained in how to deliver Mastery activities and then created their own mini maths lesson to teach groups of Year 7 pupils.

It was a huge success and all the Year 7s thoroughly enjoyed being taught by the Sixth Form pupils.

Miss Stone

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Durham Schools Debating Competition

We took two teams to the Durham Schools Debating competition, the largest residential debate in the world with 150 teams from nearly forty schools competing. We were one of only four non-fee paying or non-selective schools participating. This was a steep learning curve for our new debater Hajra K who, guided by the experienced hands of her team mate Cate D, improved rapidly across the two days.

Jan and Lehtu had a remarkable competition comfortably making the novice semi-finals. Along the way they beat more experienced senior teams from Westminster College, St Pauls Girls’ School and George Heriot’s School among many others. Both teams debated on six motions ranging from abolishing the minimum wage, removing patents from pharmaceutics, considering the rise of ‘cultural cancelling’, and examining the merits of introducing a ‘negative vote’.

In the end it was only their age which stopped them progressing even further. The sixth formers they were up against simply had more knowledge.

Ahead of the ICYD finals at the end of this month we will be doing some serious cramming of economic principles, free market policies and electoral systems.

Mr Barnicoat

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Opening of the Peach Centre for Business and Economics

Mr Roger Peach OL opened the eponymous Peach Centre for Business and Economics in our new Sixth Form Centre. Mr Peach was inspired to make a substantial donation to his old school by the memory of his old economics teacher Mr Chris McNally. After a career in banking, Mr Peach set up his own business. He is a great supporter of the OL Society and a Foundation Member. Pupils, teachers and friends of the College were on hand to tour the facility and thank Mr Peach for his generosity.

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U12 Football Team win the Battle of Merseyside in six goal thriller

On Monday afternoon, the U12 Football team played their seventeenth match of the term versus All Saint Kirkby. The College opposition came with a big football reputation and this academic year have beaten some of the top football schools in Merseyside. The sun was shining on a late Monday afternoon and the stage was set. The College quickly got into stride and produced some good passes, but it was All Saints who scored the first goal with a beautifully taken first time shot which whistled into the corner of the net. The College have been behind in a few previous matches and this was nothing new to them, and within minutes a push inside the All Saints penalty area earned the College a penalty, and Sam R scored from the rebound. The scores were finally balanced at half time, and the second half saw the College quickly out of their traps, as Sam R saw the All Saints goalkeeper off his line to beautifully lob into the top corner.

The defining moment came midway through the second half when All Saints were awarded a penalty for a push and College goalkeeper Manu B at full stretch managed to push the ball around the post. What a moment this turned out to be as the College scored their third within minutes with a bullet header from a corner from Oliver H. The forth came a short while later when left sided midfielder Harry H burst forward and rounded the keeper before finding the smallest of angles of the goal to spark jubilant scenes on the pitch and touchline. All Saints scored a consolation penalty at the end but this did not stop the College pupils from celebrating alongside watching families at the end.

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CICERO Competition

Liverpool College hosted the NW CICEROcompetition last Saturday. This international competition for sixth formers in all matters classical challenges students to demonstrate their mastery over the Latin language and classical civilization. The College is one of 4 national centres for the competition. Our teams won both classical civilization competitions. In addition, all contestants enjoyed a very interesting talk form Professor Alison Sharrock about the mythical beasts in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

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