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HOUSE SUMMARIES

Seymour

his year was another great year on, and this year was no exception. The
for Seymour, where the spirit and theme of thrift shop was popular and,
T determination of the house was under the leadership of Ed Elgin and with
shown countless times. the DJ skills of Sam Deeley, it was a huge
success. The biggest hit of the night was the
As usual, the Michaelmas Term brought house karaoke performance of Summer Nights by
music, a competition for which we had high Matron, Avril and the tutors.
hopes. The whole house had a part to play and
were led by Sam Deeley and Tom Kentigern-Fox. This year the school introduced Bloxham’s Got Talent
Our unison entry was a cover of Take Me On, by Real Big show and the Seymour Band entered. After a successful
Fish, which came second in the category. Also second was the audition the band made it through to the final and managed
instrumental band’s performance of Dire Strait’s Money for a third place finish with tough competition. The band went
Nothing and Toto’s Hold the Line. Overall, we were runners- on to play at the Green Pastures care home as well as at Hook
up. However, we surely remain the people’s champion! Norton Brewery later that year.

The following day saw our junior rugby sides sweep all before Another success for Seymour was the annual cross country
them, winning the A, B and C competitions. It was a slightly race, where all top three senior spots went to our boys,
different afternoon for our seniors, who showed tremendous resulting in a massive win by over 200 points. The juniors
spirit throughout and won the award for best kit. followed suit with a superb team effort, also taking home
the trophy. In hockey, the juniors were also triumphant,
The end of the term brought Mr Yates’ time as Assistant defending their title in fantastic style.
Housemaster to a close. His exit was marked with the
Seymour band’s performance of his favourite song Call Me Al The Summer Term saw the juniors perform strongly in the
and a ceremonial handing down of the Seymour shirt to Mr house cricket, as well several notable individual sporting
Webber, who has done a brilliant job so far. successes: Charlie Yates was again selected to ride (and
win) for the Welsh polo-cross team and Sam Brodie, Teddy
By the beginning of the Lent Term, everyone had settled in. Westaway-Christopher and George Miley were all part
Seymour in Bloom returned, featuring a wide variety of plants of the victorious Bloxham clay pigeon shooting national
ranging from mini cacti to nine foot bamboos, but the stand championship team.
out winner was Ben Makin with his homemade mini garden.
Other highlights of the year include the installation of
Next was the legendary house drama. Tim Rowe set the a pizza oven, a pink lecture on the music industry from
standard high, with a passionate monologue which saw him Old Seymourian Walter Hudson Evans (Sy 04-09), the
finish second in an outstanding field. Next, was the group decoration (finally) of the TV room and the start of the Album
performance of Hook. We managed to break almost every of the Week initiative.
rule, but the performance, which included every member
of the house, was of such a high standard that we secured a The end of the year sees us say farewell to Mr Finch, who has
controversial and very satisfying win. been headhunted by another (lesser?) house. We have been
fortunate to have someone so diligent looking out for us over
In the house swimming competition Euan Wales took the year. We also say goodbye to an outstanding Upper Sixth,
charge of the team and their intense training preparations. who have helped to make Seymour a fantastic place to be for
Unfortunately, we missed out on a win by just one point, but the last twelve months. Thank you to all and I hope that we
never the less a good effort all round. will be able to continue your good work next year.

The house dance is always something we pride ourselves Josh Kentigern-Fox, Lower Sixth
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