Lent Term Programme 2021 - Marlborough College
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Lent Term Programme 2021
CO-CURRICULAR
We are pleased to be able to offer a rich co-curricular
programme to all Marlburians in this second round of
Virtual School. We have the benefit of experience, but we have
not had the benefit of time, learning of the second lockdown
on the eve of the start of term! Nonetheless beaks, coaches
and others have worked with speed, creativity and purpose to
offer as full a programme as we can. We know that our pupils’
experiences will vary greatly during this period of lockdown
and so we have looked to provide ample opportunity, whilst
keeping a degree of flexibility and the chance for pupils to do
what works for them.
Sport
Since the start of term, our Heads of Sport have been
working hard to provide a full and varied programme in all
the sports which would normally take place during the Lent
term. We hope that we have provided a programme which
takes into account our pupils’ varying circumstances and all
levels of expertise. Alongside supporting our pupils’ wellbeing
through keeping fit and active, we have also provided
opportunities for them to develop sport-specific skills.
Pupils will participate in the Focus Sports (hockey, football,
netball and lacrosse) which they had chosen for the Lent term,
and there will be the opportunity for first-hand feedback from
our sports’ professionals for those who so wish via our video
feedback provision. Yoga, pilates, aerobics and dance will be
offered as live Zoom options, with recordings also being made
available through Planet e-stream. We shall continue to offer
support and programmes in the other Lent term sport options
(rugby and rugby 7’s, winter cricket, basketball, tennis, squash,
fives, rackets, fencing and cross country), and in place of our
regular Saturday fixtures there will be weekly challenges for
those who wish to take part.
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Additionally, we invite any, who wish, to participate in the
Marlborough 0-5km challenge and on Tuesday afternoon we
will continue our provision for our sport scholars in a virtual
format with sessions on sports’ psychology, physiotherapy and
nutrition.
The generic programme of sporting activity is as follows, with
full details being sent to pupils regularly by Heads of Sport
and coaches:
• Monday: Focus Sport – skill/ drill of the day
(video feedback optional)
• Tuesday: Focus Sport
Optional – yoga/ pilates/ aerobics/ dance/
crosscountry/ basketball
• Wednesday: Focus Sport
Health and Wellbeing
including a Jazz Workshop for Shell and Remove on Sunday
• Thursday: Focus Sport 10th January and a Writing Day with Ben Clark from Leeds
Optional – yoga/ pilates/ aerobics/ dance/ Conservatoire on 23rd January.
crosscountry/ basketball
A number of events and programmes will move to a recorded
• Friday: Focus Sport – skill/ drill of the day format: the ‘Emerging Talent Concert’ will be a compilation
(video feedback optional) of pupil recordings to be released on 10th February; the
Liederabend will take place in a similar way on 26th January;
• Saturday: Weekly Challenge
and our Lunchtime Recitals will be recorded by pupils at
Extra options available: Rugby, rugby 7’s, winter cricket, home, being released every Thursday at 1.40pm, beginning on
tennis, squash, fencing, rackets and fives. Thursday 14th January.
The Music Department will continue to provide organ,
choral and instrumental pieces for the weekly Chapel Service
podcasts, and there will be weekly choral workshops for our
junior singers and performance workshops for our string and
woodwind players. The Upper School Sinfonia will begin an
exciting project rehearsing a setting of Sir John Betjeman’s
A Subaltern’s Love Song which has been written by our Choir
Master, Adam Meehan-Staines.
A range of other musical activities are available through the
Culture, Creativity and Clubs programme.
Music
As before, the Music Department will continue to offer
individual instrumental lessons via Zoom, and the department
has written to the parents of those who take music lessons
under separate cover.
Whilst much has changed from the published Almanac, and
we have had to postpone our music scholar auditions and
music festival, we will still host a number of special events
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Additionally, the department will be running sessions through
the Culture, Creativity and Clubs programme, again in
film-making and photography, and also in illustration and in
sustainable fashion.
Drama
The Drama Department is again running a Short Film
Competition, which proved very popular last summer, with
a category for the Lower School and the Upper School. This
is a long-term project, which involves making a five-minute
film based on the provided stimulus. The film can be a live
performance, but there is no requirement for that, so its appeal Shell Skills programme,
should hopefully be as broad as possible.
OA/CCF for Remove
Whilst the performance of His Dark Materials has had to be
Whilst the joy of our OA and CCF programmes is that they
postponed, there will nonetheless be some meetings for the
provide the opportunity for pupils to be in the great outdoors,
cast before half-term.
and to work together, we have nonetheless looked to preserve
something of the spirit of this during the period of lockdown.
Members of our OA and CCF teams have designed a weekly
programme of challenges, some a little wacky, for pupils in
Remove and we hope that these will provide some opportunity
for entertainment and teamwork within house groups.
Similarly, those who offer the Shell Skills programme have
found ways to make this available in an online format too.
In some cases, this has required a good deal of ingenuity and
Art
There is a rich and varied offering in art, textiles, photography
and film-making this term. Art scholars will have Zoom sessions
on a Thursday afternoon and the department will support those
in Remove studying for GCSE on Tuesday afternoons.
The Art Department will offer sessions to Shell and Remove
through the Skills programme in printmaking, film-making
and photography, and experimental use of materials.
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we hope that the scheme will provide our younger Marlburians
with something of a taste of those activities which they might
wish to pursue further as they head up the school.
Creativity, Culture and Clubs
Beaks and others have once again come up with a truly
varied host of activities to run under the umbrella title of
Creativity, Culture and Clubs. Most of these sessions will
take place during Studies (Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
at 5.30pm) after pupils have had the opportunity to make
use of the daylight and take some exercise outdoors. More
than 30 different courses are available, with some offering
academic enrichment and university advice, some providing
spiritual nourishment and support, others deepening pupils’
sporting understanding whilst yet more might provide the
Talks and Societies
chance to cook. It might be simpler to say what is not on offer, One of the benefits of the social distancing measures which
rather than what is… Marlburians are warmly invited to find had to be in place last term is that the great majority of our
something here to enliven their experience of lockdown, and planned talks had already had to move online. Many PSHEE
to hasten the coming weeks on their way. presentations are thus continuing online, as are the ‘Life after
Marlborough’ talks for U6. Plenty of society meetings will also
be taking place via Zoom, as will one-off enrichment talks,
such as the one for Shell from Janine Webber, a Holocaust
survivor. The Upper Sixth are also welcome to attend the
‘Marlburian Mondays’ series of talks which, funnily enough,
take place each Monday evening.
And finally…
If there is one pursuit that has perhaps discovered its vogue
during lockdown then it is quizzing! We are no exception, and
the House Challenge will continue to run this term. There will
also be fixtures against other schools.
Partnership work
Whilst much of our usual outreach work is difficult to
replicate away from physical school, we shall continue to offer
enrichment activities in Science to local primary school pupils
and to provide mentoring in Maths. With a steadily growing
number of Sixth Form volunteers, we are actively seeking new
partner schools to support in this way, with a view to enabling
more of our own pupils to benefit from this rewarding and
instructive activity.
In addition to this, we have already received some very
innovative ideas for charitable initiatives from some senior
pupils and we look forward to sharing news of those initiatives
which we are able to support.
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