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Emily Myrtle, Horse of the Year Show Competitor

09 September 2008

Congratulations to Emily Myrtle whose team qualified for one of just six team places at this year's Horse of the Year Show, a prestigious national championship.  About 250 teams tried to qualify, so this is quite an achievement for Emily and her team.  

The team comprising Emily from Bedford High School for Girls, Katie Barrett, Jess Russell, Jess Warner and Jess Cox participated competitions across the country throughout the year.  Winning at the Zones at Wincanton Racecourse in July secured their place at the Horse of the Year Show.  Vicky Cox (Jess' twin) will be joining them as 6th member.  This will actually be the 4th year in a row that the Oakley Hunt (West) has qualified.

The team is now practising indoors again on a weekly basis for the lead up to the Horse of the Year Show and really looking forward to October.  As Emily's mother observes:  "It will be exhausting but great fun as well.  I have to say that Bedford High School for Girls have been very supportive and understanding!"

Oakley Hunt (West) Horse of the Year Team
Emily and The Oakley Hunt (West) Team

Emily joined Pony Club when she was 6.  Her two older brothers were already members so it just seemed a natural progression.  The family lived in Cardington at the time and their Pony Club then was the Ivel Valley.  When they moved to Stoke Goldington in 2001 they also moved Pony Clubs and changed to the Oakley Hunt (West). 

To start with Emily just attended rallies and entered local shows and did most disciplines ie, show jumping, tetrathlon, cross country, - albeit at a small height!  When Emily was around 8 years old, a mother of one of the junior girls in the PPC team (Prince Philip Cup) suggested that Emily should go along for one of the practices to see what it was like and they have been going ever since.

Emily started off in the junior team (must not have attained their 11th birthday by the beginning of the current year) and in her last year as a junior also started to ride for the senior B team.    Seniors must not have attained their 15th birthday by the beginning of the current year).  This is the first year she has ridden in the Senior A team. 

GCSE Results

Girls have once again achieved some truly excellent results in their GCSE examinations this summer. 29% of all results were at A* grade, 57% A*-A and 80% A*-B.

 Carla Barberio, Rebecca Murray, Hannah Short and Surina Taneja all achieved 10A* grades, Tessa Forbes and Chloe Scott 9A* grades, Connie Fan, Yasmin Jamil and Frances Whittaker-Wood 8A* and Emily Myrtle, Lauren Roberts and Georgia Austin Greenall 7 A* grades.

Eighteen girls were sitting their examinations having spent, in most cases, only 3 years studying in English, and yet between them they amassed results which closely mirrored the overall percentages: 21% A*, 54% A*-A and 76% A*-B.

Although I am sad that our boarders are unable to progress to Bedford Girls' School for their Sixth Form studies, I am delighted that most of our very top achievers will be going on to take A level or IB courses there.

I wish every girl who left Bedford High School at the end of Upper 5 the very best of luck for their future studies.                       

Julie Eldridge 

 
Dahs Bedford High School for Girls
Bromham Road, Bedford MK40 2BS UK
Tel: +44(0)1234 360221
Fax:+44(0)1234 353552
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