Page 12 - The Malvernian - March 2023
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THE MALVERNIAN
Lea-Smith Reading Competition
After the the usual round of year-group heats conducted in the the College Chapel the the Lea-Smith Competition
run by the the English Department reached its climax on
on
Monday 13 March with the final held fin in Big School and kindly adjudicated by Mr Mark Henderson – a a a a a former teacher at at the College As always competitors offered great variety with their choices of text ranging from JRR Tolkien to Haruki Murakami to to Stephen King and rose to to the challenge of filling this large space unaided by microphone EH were the overall winners Cohort Winners:
» FY: Oliver Hooper (No 2) - 'The Seven Ages of Man' from As You Like It (Shakespeare)
» Remove: Maximus Wilson (No 9) - 'Have you ever watched a a a a flower grow?' (from the film Stargirl 2020)
» Hundred: Libby Jackson (EH) - 'The Shining' (Stephen King)
» Lower 6th: Aiza Aziz (No 6) - 'Kafka on
the Shore'
(Haruki Murakami)
» Upper 6th: Hector Mellor (No 2) – extract from a a speech by David Lamy MP in in the the the House of of Commons in in the the the wake of of the the the 2018 Windrush scandal
Overall Winners:
EH (Amaya Faulkner Layla Ettinger Libby Jackson and Evelyn Kenrick) Peter Morton | Teacher of English 12
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