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Stowe Girls - National Tennis Champions e journey to victory began back in the Michaelmas Term 2017 when we won the group stage qualifying us for the knockout draw of LTA Senior Schools’ National Competition in the Lent Term 2018. In the rst round of the knockout, we found ourselves CSI Stowe back at Rugby School against the B team. Having beaten their A team in the previous round, expectations were high e outline of the body was taped to the oor of the careful observation, collaboration and the ability to and we were not disappointed as we won the match ve Science Building foyer, the grisly evidence around it work analytically and independently. e Science sets to one. More wins against Cheltenham Ladies secured carefully numbered and the young forensic experts teaching sta were pleased to see the ird Form our place at the nals in Bolton. called in - every single ird Former. engage with the activities with whole-hearted On ursday 8 March the team travelled up to Bolton To celebrate British Science Week (12-19 March), enthusiasm, and would also like to thank Mr Paul for the nals. is coincided with Exeat weekend and the Science Department staged the annual murder ompson for his skilful choreography of the a friend’s 18th birthday party but the girls gave up of the Head of Science, Mr Tearle, and seven storyline. everything without hesitation saying “Now we have made implicated teachers became the suspects. So, which villainous teacher committed the crime? the nals, we are going to win it!” In teams of four, pupils spent every science lesson Was it Dr Popplestone with his chalk-covered golf e weekend started well and by the end of Friday’s engaged in a series of rigorous forensic investigations club; or Dr Lakin with her our-coated rolling play we were the only school in our group to have won that eventually led to the elimination of six of the pin? Could it conceivably be Mr ompson with matches, however there was still a lot to do. roughout seven suspects. e pupils measured blood spatter the greased motorbike lock, Mr Malanaphy with the nals Kira and Vicky were unbeaten in doubles and patterns and analysed ve white powders found the large teapot or even Mr Donoghue with the Yasmin went through the whole weekend without losing a at the crime scene; chromatographed the ink of phone charger? No. Commendably by-passing the singles match. e team’s condence and self-belief, carried the apology note; decoded a secret cipher; DNA red-herring footprints of Dr Waine, some teams them to victory in the nals against Framlington. tested hair; matched ngerprints to the suspects; successfully determined that it was… Mrs Rawlins calculated the pressure of footprints on the oor; In closing I have to say this has been a journey that I am with the hiking pole. and examined potential weapon indentations. With proud to be associated with and I could not have asked no-one telling them whether their conclusions were Producing a superb case report with detailed for anything more from the team, they gave it their all. right or wrong, and erce competition between deductions and analytical conclusions, the Science CONGRALULATIONS! teams, there was pressure to pay attention to detail Department is pleased to award this year’s CSI 2018 e winning team were; Kira Evans (Upper Sixth, Nugent) and work together. At the end of the week each champion prizes to: Isabel Omotajo (Stanhope); (Captain), Vicky Beglin (Upper Sixth, Nugent), Yasmin team’s leader presented their case report, naming the George Carpmael (Chandos); Toby Buck (Bruce) Mama (Upper Sixth, Nugent), Elisabeth Pran (Lower culprit and giving evidence for their judgements. and Henry Hink (Walpole); well done to them. Sixth, West). e task was not an easy one. It required diligence, Sheilagh Rawlins, Science Department John Skinner, Head of Tennis CCF Mess Dinner Major Jan deGale, CCF ContingentCommander and behavedmanner, inanexemplary allthoroughly enjoying theirfirsttasteofa Mess Dinner. The NCOs lookedelegantanddashing. Without exception theyall rose totheformalityofoccasion (Lower Sixth, Grenville), whowasMr Vice, asthejuniorSubaltern equivalent. CSM Harris wasthePresident oftheMess Committee,PMC,ableassistedby SgtCameron Chambers employ we willleave justoneofhisobservations, asmall,butpositive printuponthis world. person intheroom ablyrelated tohishumbling,down salient,andinspiringwords. toearth, If we all duringhistimeintheInfantry,that hehadobserved includingsixoperationaltours inseven years. Every cadet CSMAlexHarris (Upper Sixth, Grafton)), came totalkaboutsomeofthebestqualitiesaleader Our Guest Speaker, CaptainAnthonyHarris, exRoyal Regiment ofFusiliers (andcousinofourHead food, whichwasadelightontheplateandpalate. Gallop andourHead Chef, Simon Quantock treated ustoskillfullycookedandbeautifullypresented and Thor Mager (Fifth Form, played usinto Bruce) Dinner withskillanddexteritytothe Post Horn usinstyle,linewithaformalRegimentalserved Dinner Night. Nigel Gibbon, Jonathan Kingston Room. Huge CateringandHouse thanksgotoourwonderful teams,wholaidthetablebeautifullyand dinner drinkspriortotheinauguralStowe CCFSixth Form NCOs’ Dinner Night, heldintheMusic On Tuesday 20March, 44Stowe CadetNCOs andOfficersgathered inthe Marble Saloonfor pre- Ben Weston, Studio Manager and Teacher ofMusic Technology standing ovation. thatthis venue hasever performances seen,whichwasmet the finestconcert by rapturous applauseand by Mali Aitchison(Upper Sixth, Nugent), played withvibrancyandexpression whichresulted inoneof magical experienceforthestunnedaudience.Theorchestra, conducted by DavanHilary Wetton andled precision, styleandgrace,whichwhencombinedwiththepower andfinesseoftheorchestra, createda technically challengingpianorepertoires whichwere insuperbfashion.Eachplayed with performed by Liszt,Finziperformances andGershwin respectively. Theprogramme includedsomeofthemost Walpole) andTheodore Hayes (Fifth Form, Chatham)delightedthepackedaudiencewithconcerto of Stowe’s mostgiftedmusicians.Jeffrey Au (Fifth Form, Walpole), Sebastian Foxwell (Third Form, On Sunday 18March theUgland Auditorium wasresonant withtheinspirationalsoundsofsome Concert Concerto

EQUESTRIAN last year’s titlesothepressure isreally on. warmer weather. England are alsohopingtoretain we toafantasticcompetitionand lookforward All roads now lead to Windsor inMay where her.and officialswhohadturnedouttosupport team andIsla’s localPony Clubbranchmembers called outtocheersofcelebrationfrom thehome was announced.Isla’s nameandnumberwere lined upinnumberorder andtheselectedteam wait,allthechildren werehands. Afteranervous the onlyoneandwe were now intheselectors’ appeared trial.However, tobeaperfect shewasn’t pony Casperhelditalltogethertocompletewhat hands (nocoatsorgloves allowed!) Isla andher fierce. Despite freezing conditionsandnumb place)andthecompetition was (and onereserve were vyingforthefivein thecountry teamplaces Thetop35children – nothelpfulforthenerves! andclearthesnow halfanhourtotry by afurther the snow wasdelayed tothetrialvenue, thestart On Saturday 18March journeyin afteranervous Racecourse, Ireland inOctober. Horse Show inMay andthenatThe Curragh International competitionatThe Royal Windsor represent England atmountedgamesinafive day of ridingforhercountry. She hasbeenselectedto Form, Nugent) willnow realise herlifetimedream weathers paidoffas Isla Holman West (Third All thetwiceweekly trainingandridinginall Success for Isla Holman West Angela Churcher, Equestrian Centre Manager the NSEAODEat Swailcliffe. to theirpopularity. Entries beingtakennow for Dillon clinicsnow beingmadeaweekly event due more competitionscomingup andwiththeErnest times forusattheEquestrian Centre withlots old horse,Alfie,forthefirsttime. Such exciting (Third Form, Stanhope) competedherfour year competition atMoulton Collegewhere BoJenkins and 4th,in2classes,attheunaffiliated dressage Coco Brooks (Lower Sixth, Lyttelton) came3rd Blazer championshipswithherponyRossi, andto Form, Stanhope) for qualifying fortheDenji Trail Park. Alsowell donetoEmma Wright (Third Eventing Open Novice under18classatPopular Sixth, Queen’s) and Yam forwinningtheBritish Huge congratulationstoLeiliaPaske (Lower Leila Paske WATER

Stowe compete at the Schools’ Head of the River Race is term’s rowing culminated at the Schools’ Arts@Stowe Head on Monday 12 March. e race is rowed over the Championship Boat Race course. e e Arts at Stowe season began with the taking pupils on a unique theatrical journey ROWING event sees nearly 2,500 pupils in the best school incredible Holocaust Memorial event and exploring disability, health and recovery. Next crews, together with crews from Italy and Ireland, our rising stars of Stowe continued to impress term sees eatre Ad Innitum’s, e Odyssey taking part. Stowe was represented by Oscar throughout the Season. e Lunchtime Concerts taking centre stage at the Roxy, followed Hill (Lower Sixth, Temple), Ayrton Patel (Upper have been a joy for the increasing number of by Junior Congreve with Face by Benjamin Sixth, Cobham), Archie Morley (Lower Sixth, members of the public who come to appreciate Zephaniah. We have a wonderful theatrical Walpole), Ilya Riskin (Lower Sixth, Chandos), our young musicians. For audiences large or nale on the South Front with Odd Sock’s Will Fox (Lower Sixth, Bruce), Elliott Patel (Fifth small the feedback for all of the School’s public performance of e Tempest in the last week of Form, Cobham), Barnaby Peppiatt (Fourth Form, performance by pupils has been tremendous. In term. Chatham) and Charlie Chick (Fourth Form, session with Mali Mae was a wonderful evening Grafton), with Fixy Hill (Fourth Form, Queen’s). and we are looking forward to supporting Working with our ‘young producer’, pupil Tom Shooting Chiswick Bridge, the Stowe crew looked individual Stoics to organise their own events to Mayhew (Upper Sixth, Grafton) we are very competent and composed, closely followed by showcase their talents. pleased to announce ‘An evening with Rory the top Irish crew, Enniskillen Royal Boat Club Bremner’, a fund raiser for two Charities, Tusk Other highlights for us have been the working and a closely packed bunch of established crews and Leonard Cheshire Disability. is will be a with the Fashion Show team and bringing in including Yarm, Windsor, Tideway Scullers, St members of the public to what they called “a full house so we recommend early booking for George’s and Pangbourne. Over the rst part of very special evening”. Our partnership with both the VIP dinner and the show. the course, from Chiswick Bridge to Barnes, Fixy the History Department promoting a new Finally, we are proud to be embarking on a steered a great course and although Enniskillen series of History Masterclass lectures for pupils new endeavour with a group of the very best were the second fastest 1st VIII of the day, and public got o to a fantastic start with the of our rock and pop musicians and the Music they had made little impression, with Stowe incredible Dr Sam Willis whose Nelson’s Navy Department to produce this year’s Eve of Speech approaching Barnes Bridge still ahead. Stowe Masterclass was truly entertaining, informative Day concert. SOUTHSIDE18 will feature eventually nished in a time of 19:55, placing and inspiring in equal measure. We are looking them 18th in School 1st VIIIs, ahead of Oratory, Old Stoics, HUX, current pupils including forward to Professor Frank McDonough’s a school who have contested and won rounds of Mali Aitchison (Upper Sixth, Nugent), Max lecture, e Gestapo: Hitler’s Secret Police on the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley the 18 May. Campbell-Preston (Upper Sixth, Grafton) Royal Regatta. Henry Gauvain (Upper Sixth, Temple), Natasha is season has seen many inspiring A second crew of Tom Fox (Lower Sixth, Temple), Woods (Upper Sixth, Queen’s) and Mina Haas performances for Stoics and alike, the wonderful Daniil Samiev (Lower Sixth, Walpole), Katie (Upper Sixth, Stanhope) with their supporting piano performances by Martino Tirimo, Lee (Fourth Form, Nugent) and Ella Wright accompanied by Atsuko Kawakami and an bands. e evening will nish with Firing Line (Fourth Form, Queen’s) also represented Stowe, exquisite programme of Music titled ‘In Peace’ featuring our own Mr Ben Weston as lead going in the event for Mixed Quadruple Sculls. by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and singer/guitarist plus Mr Danny Mills on trumpet ey sculled neatly and competently, completing conductor Graham Ross. eir performance of and keys. is festival of music begins at 6pm the demanding course in 24:28. is was a big Vask’s Plainscapes took the pupil’s breath away. with time to settle in before the music begins at achievement for them - Daniil and Katie have only ‘To Helen Back’ was a terric One Woman show 7.15pm. Book tickets here. been rowing for one term - and Ella coped with that was both entertaining and mesmerising, Deborah Howe, Director Arts at Stowe the daunting task of bow-steering a coxless boat on the world-famous course. Overall the event was won by the Head of the Charles winners, the St Paul’s School boys, followed by Shiplake (second) and Eton (third). Henley Rowing Club were the fastest girls’ eight, followed by Headington (second) and Lady Eleanor Holles (third). Robotics season comes to a close Both teams have achieved some excellent results Scholarships are awarded to students throughout through the year bringing home four trophies the , Channel Islands and a from regional events (two judges awards, a growing number of British Overseas Schools, design award and a tournament champion who aspire to a career in engineering, computing trophy). Both teams also qualied for the and related areas of technical design. Valentine On Saturday 24 March James Cronie (Fourth National Finals against 58 other teams from has also been accepted into a summer school Form, Cobham) will travel to Derby County around the Country. Sadly however the recent program for engineering at Imperial College, Club where Bunbury trials will be held snow coincided with the National Finals and we London. Crispin Marshall-Rowan (Fourth for the Midlands Squad. James recently joined the were unable to travel. Only 34 teams of the 60 Form, Walpole) took the lead with the second Northants Cricket Academy so we wish him all qualied managed to get to Nationals due to the team and nished the season with a strong robot CRICKET the best on the next step in what promises to be a weather, but organisers continued with it and that gave us our tournament win at Stowe along bright future for this young cricketer. we have missed out for this year on the chance with the driving skills of Benjamin Li ( ird to be National Champions and qualify for the Form, Cobham). World Finals. However this year was largely a We look forward to the new game and season On ursday 15 March our rst ever female rebuilding year for the team after the departure after Easter which also brings some exciting Captain of Squash, Lottie Hopkinson (Upper of the founding team members who qualied for advances in the technology and equipment Sixth, Stanhope) led the 1st team to a 3 -2 the World nal for the past two years. e team available, with a new processor, new motors and win against a tough Uppingham side for their has learnt a lot and were very competitive over an object detecting camera system. It will also fth consecutive victory. She showed great the year. open up dierent options for programming and SQUASH determination to come through her match 3-1, e highlight of the season was winning the will make coding the robots more accessible to as did Josh Landau to come through his 3-2 after regional at Stowe and posting a game score not all students. e new equipment combined with being 2-0 and 9-6 down! A convincing 3-0 win far o the National record. e team is also very some strong talent moving up through the team for Hector Smiley later, and the xture belonged proud of its Judges and Design Awards for the means we are hopeful for another successful to Stowe. e 2nd team were also successful yet quality of the design and innovative solutions year of robotics at Stowe. We bid a fond farewell again with a comprehensive 4-1 victory. Lottie and to the game problems. We have also had some to Julian Hyams (Upper Sixth, Grenville) as Josh, both Upper Sixth, leave us with the future of individual success from the team with Valentin our longest standing member of the team, who squash at Stowe looking very bright indeed. Rummel (Fifth Form, Temple) using his design leaves Stowe to study at an American university. and engineering work on the robot as a basis for Jack Polturak (Upper Sixth, Chatham) and Max his application for the Arkwright Scholarship in Bishop (Upper Sixth, Grafton) who have helped Engineering, he passed the rst stage and sat the out as consultant engineers to the team this year In the lead up to the Micklem Trophy competition Arkwright Exam and has now moved onto the also leave us to pursue studies in Engineering at our Senior Golf team comprehensively beat Rugby nal stage of an interview which will take place university. School 6.5-0.5, achieved a superb 3.5-2.5 victory over the Easter holidays. Arkwright Engineering Paul ompson, MiC Robots GOLF against a very competitive Harrow and recorded an outstanding 6-0 victory against Radley.

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Over the Exeat weekend of 9-11 March, eight cadets of Stowe CCF took part in the annual 11 Brigade Military Skills Competition down in Folkestone. In the build-up to this event, each cadet attended extra session during the week to hone their military skills and tness, displaying a high level of dedication for the approaching competition. e cadets who took part were Lower Sixth Formers, Max Whitehead (Grenville), Jess Potts (Nugent), Stu Johnston (Chandos), Hugo Robinson (Grenville), Cam Chambers (Grenville) and Alex Jones (Grenville). e rest of the team was made up of two Fourth Formers, Ned Ellison (Bruce) and Will Bursnall (Grafton), both of whom had exceptionally strong showings despite their age and limited experience within the CCF. e weekend comprised of various military skills on the Saturday, such as Pairs Fire and Manoeuvre, Section attacks, obstacle course, navigation skills, weapon drills and command tasks. e cadets did exceptionally well in displaying their breadth of knowledge and skills in every task set before them in some very adverse weather conditions, placing in the top ve in many stands and top in the night observation and second in the command task out of the 18 other CCFs and ACFs who also took part. Each individual who took part had their strengths and weaknesses but this is what made the team strong. ey supported each other throughout the entire weekend leading to a very commendable sixth place nish! Alex Sprules, CCF

CCF Field Exercises Cadets from the Army, Navy and RAF Nick Zammit had a choppy day on a yacht Sections enjoyed three very dierent, and motor cruiser on the Solent successful CCF trips. All cadets proved their ability to e Army Fifth Form (and eight Lower successfully chart their way from Sixth volunteers) went to Staordshire Portsmouth Harbour across the Solent to and enjoyed blank ring - ‘stacking up’ the Isle of Wight, steer a course, identify and clearing buildings of enemy; laser marker buoys and their meanings, tie knots shooting at dierent ‘scenarios’ on the and bring their boats alongside. Dismounted Close Combat Range; a long, physically and mentally challenging assault Rebecca Donaldson who kindly helped course and a complex exercise revolving out, commented: around a Northern Ireland counter- ‘ e yacht skipper gave Navy cadets the terrorist scenario. Lower Sixth Form cadets opportunity to show their skill and make employed their best amateur dramatic their own decisions with team work and skills, acting as Continuity IRA (CIRA). courage, on a day where the sea state e Fifth Form were challenged with provided a challenge. All of them stepped mounting Vehicle Check Points, using up to the mark, never once complaining intelligence and ‘mug shots’ to identify or refusing to do as directed. ey showed these known CIRA suspects. ey were grit, commitment and determination in all then tasked with appropriately controlling tasks… It was a privilege to see such young escalating mood, in a mock-up of a street adults excel.’ scene with houses and shops, dimming lights, a barricade and background white Regrettably, due to the wind strength on noise. A further twist was provided with Wednesday, RAF cadets were unable to the discovery of an Improvised Explosive y. Instead they enjoyed a visit to the Air Device. All cadets rose to and enjoyed the Museum at Shuttleworth in Bedfordshire. dierent challenges presented. Major Jan de Gale, Contingent Commander e Navy Section Fifth Form cadets, led by Stowe CCF Kristian Kay (Upper Sixth, Chandos) had the honour of being selected to represent Scotland’s U18s Team in their match against England U18s on Sunday 18 March. It was a

RUGBY tough game for the Scottish squad and England won 64 – 0 but it was still a proud moment to see Kristian in a Scotland shirt and as an individual he had a strong game. The match was originally due to be played at Stirling County RFC ground but due to the poor weather, it was moved to Edinburgh’s Murrayfield which was a fantastic experience for these young players. Kristian joined Stowe in the Fourth Form from The Royal Latin and had an immediate impact on the Rugby field for his year group. He has an excellent skill set for a scrum half. He has been involved with Wasps from the age of 12 and has worked on his game after several setbacks. His tenacity has been rewarded after dislocating his shoulder on pre-season for Stowe. He missed all of the 1st XV season but underwent rehab and slowly worked his way back into Wasps successful A Level Drama U18 squad after Xmas. He also received a late call up from Scotland after a good showing in their On Wednesday 14 March Lower Sixth A Level Emma Rød-Larsen (Lower Sixth, Stanhope), U17 squad last year. He will represent the School Theatre Studies pupils performed three extra- Polly French (Lower Sixth, Nugent), Alex King for the last time at Rosslyn Park before the end of ordinary devised pieces in The Dobinson Studio. (Lower Sixth, Queen’s) and Allie Jordan (Lower term and then will hopefully rejoin the Scotland Two pieces dealt with the effects of entrapment Sixth, Lyttelton) created a moving piece telling squad for the Home Nations U18s Championship. including psychosis and the Stockholm the tragic story of two sisters who were abducted Syndrome. Inspired by BBC series ‘13’ and the and held for years in captivity. Told through novel ‘Room’ by Emma Donaghue the pupils the eyes of the child born in captivity, played were interested to investigate the human psyche, sensitively by Polly French, the piece cleverly IN BRIEF looking at real life stories and fictional dramas woven together a timeline of events to reveal a that focused on entrapment as their stimuli. hidden secret. Equally intrigued to explore what fascinates us The third piece, inspired by Netflix series Black Stowe basketball finishes on a high! After two wins in the so much about this kind of suffering that we Mirror painted a dystopian picture of the future Wellington College Public Schools tournament against dramatise it and discovering that it is perhaps where happiness is only truly found through Pangbourne and BWS, the Senior boys’ team went on a process of understanding ourselves, the Virtual Reality. A cautionary tale the pupils to beat Akeley Wood, Oakham twice, Stamford and pupils shared some heart wrenching stories of were inspired to create invited audiences to Uppingham. Their only defeat came at the hands of human cruelty but also resilience and hope. contemplate the effects and potential dangers Bromsgrove after over-time 64-61. In the last match of Ellie Akeroyd Hunt (Lower Sixth, Nugent) we face in a digital age. Tom Fras (Lower Sixth, the season the team had an outstanding 94-37 win against created a brilliantly effective set of costumes Walpole) played a sinister character who ran the Bradfield. for a set of identical twins who were held, one Virtual Reality programme and also used it as a The U16s were not to be outdone and won their match method to ‘steal’ the identities of others. He was in a psychiatric unit and one by her captor. In against Bradfield 46-31. The Senior girls were only able to pursued and eventually duped by double agent the piece Tabi Sinclair (Lower Sixth, Stanhope) play the one match this term and beat Thornton College Una Barclay (Lower Sixth, Stanhope). Tavish and Imy Oliver (Lower Sixth, Queen’s) explored 45-37. the telepathic communication and invisible Struthers (Lower Sixth, Bruce) created effective, connection between twins, as well as tackling the futuristic lighting design. trauma of being held in captivity. Rebecca Clark, Director of Drama Boys’ Congratulations to the 1st XI who became County Champions on Wednesday 14 March beating RGS High Wycombe 4-0. They also had a fine 2-0 win against Pangbourne. In the other matches against Pangbourne the U16As won 2-1 and the U15As drew 1-1. The 2nd XI beat Cokethorpe 4-3. Rugby On Saturday 17 March the Yearlings recorded two fine wins against Oundle; the As won 34-19 and the Bs won 55-0.

Water Polo The Inter-House league was completed in style last weekend, with a gripping final seeing Grafton take the Senior Cup and Chatham the Junior Cup. Charity Fashion Show

A fashion show in aid of Leonard Cheshire Sixth, Lyttelton) and Myles Ryan (Fourth Form, Disability was held in the Marble Hall on Friday Grenville) displayed fashion as worn in 2018 16 March. e show sold out well ahead of time and beyond with their innovative and bold and Stoics and distinguished guests, including designer collections. Bringing their designs to Emma Pearce from the Leonard Cheshire the runway had taken a lot of hard work and Charity, the actress Tuppence Middleton, planning, and the Stoics had been working Nivaldo Santos from Selfridges London, constantly for the past few months on their and Linda Cooper the CEO and founder of collections. eir dedication, hard work and Unblock magazine were all treated to a spectacle air resulted in an exciting and stylish show of fashion air and fun. e models took the which entertained the audience and has so far audience on a nostalgic trip through the last 100 raised over £2,000 from ticket sales, donations years of fashion. Donated items were modelled and sales of clothes. A huge thank you must on the runway and these included iconic go to Emilia Pacia (Lower Sixth, Lyttelton) for Designer classics from Alexander McQueen, instigating the fundraising event and also to Balmain, Pringle of Scotland and Jean Patou all the Stoics who were part of the team eort circa 1950. Backstage, a big thank you must bringing the show together. Finally, thank you also go to Nip+Fab for their kind donation of to the Arts at Stowe team and Mrs Banks for cosmetics and skin care. all the help and expert advice in the Textiles Bringing the show right up to date, Ricky Li Department. (Lower Sixth, Grafton), Charlotte Bird (Upper Elena Hughes, Skills Development much neededimprovements and toScience,Art facilities suchastheMusic Schoolandmade a watchfuleye oncostsaswe have builtnew to a13-18girls’ Boarding house.She haskept conversion ofNugent from aSixth Form house projects suchasQueen’s andStanhope andthe managed thefinancesofcomplexbuilding barrier inSeptember). Janis hassuccessfully current roll of775(we hopetobreak the800 School hasexpandedfrom 590pupilstothe solutions toawelter offinancialissuesasthe years,Over Janis thelastfourteen hasfound get onwithallkindsofpeople. standards, efficiency, teamwork andabilityto personality, enormousintegrity, impeccablyhigh accountancy skillsare matchedby herwarm with considerableaplomb. Janis’ excellent Finance Director, arole whichshehasfulfilled Accountants. Janis swiftlyrose tobecomeStowe’s thefinancesof run Institute ofChartered we mightaswell recruit thepersonwhohas time thatifwe neededareliable accountant, Finance Director. Iremember thinkingat the where sheeventually heldthepositionof Chartered Accountants inEngland and Wales included anumberofyears attheInstitute of Bursar Finance in2003.Janis’ background at Stowe whenshewasrecruited asAssistant Janis Hill wasmyfirstmanagerialappointment Janis Hill Rachel Sherry,Rachel Head of Vocal Studies events likethishappen. for preparing theirpupils.Asever, atStowe gratefulthankstoArts forallthework theydotoensure Thanks to Ben Andrew forhissensitive accompaniment andto Paul Badley and Edwin Pitt Mansfield excellent performances. Haas (Upper Sixth, Stanhope) andGloria Carvalheira-Mobaraki (Lower Sixth, Stanhope)) allgave Queen’s), Helena Vince (Lower Sixth, Queen’s), Georgina Vallings (Upper Sixth, Lyttelton), Mina (Lower Sixth, Temple), Oliver Vince (Upper Sixth, Cobham),Isabella Leondiou(Upper Sixth, Stanhope), Emily Wilson (Fifth Form, Stanhope), Emily Banks (Fifth Form, Lyttelton), Oscar Hill Italian andGerman enthralledtheappreciative audience.Thesingers(Lula Goldsmith (Fifth Form, repertoire. Baroque, Classical,Romantic solosandduetsinEnglish, Latin, andtwentieth century England. It’s beenexciting toseetheenthusiasmfrom pupilswhoare keentocontinuesingingthis Madrigal Groups withtwodelightfultriosfrom earlyseventeenth framedtheconcert century programme, rangingfrom musicoftheRenaissance tothetwentieth century. formed Thenewly showcasedConcert someofthebestourclassicalsingers.There wasawide variety inthe Stowe hassingersstudyingawidevariety ofmusicalstylesandon7March, theClassical Vocal Classical Vocal James Tearle, Head ofScience Development Office. Stowe ashis wife,Cherry, worked formanyyears inthe We gratefultoPeter are very whoisknown tomany at hopefully inspire them ontheirwaytoPhysics lessons. in thePhysics Foyer socanbeseenmymanyStoics and donated hiswork now totheScienceDepartment, hangs Centre. Thepainting, by Peter Baker, kindly who very a paintingofProfessor Hawking inthe Worsley Science ofrelativity.the theory To mark theoccasionwe hung Society Meetings due tohiswork onblackholesand Scientist whohasbeenmentionedregularly atQuantum on Wednesday 14March. He great wasatruly British The world-famousphysicist Stephen Hawking sadlydied Hawking Stephen Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, Headmaster over years. thelastfourteen deep appreciation ofallthatshehasachieved leaves withourgoodwishes,great affectionand transformed underJanis’ stewardship andshe The School’s financeshave beencompletely withtheHeadmaster.works inpartnership functions.” Nowadays theFinance Director JF commented,illuminedtheirrespective behind toturnoffthelights.This procedure, of therooms, whiletheBursar followed closely on allthelightstopointoutmagnificence through thespaciouscorridors,JFwouldturn from JFRoxburgh’sof astory era:“as we walked Executive Management Team. 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GOLF Radley, Rugby andHarrow. results –ourSenior 1stteamsecured winsagainst run ofLent capsoffasuperb performance Term real credit toboththemselves andStowe. Thisfine intense tournamentat Woking –theywere alla extremely proud oftheStoics throughout avery Although we didn’t quitemanagevictory, Iwas who played offahandicapof+1. against Wellington’sa superb2-1victory captain player 3-2,alongwithMax Smith, whorecorded go toMax Faulkner, whobeat Wellington’s No.1 wire eventually losing2-3.Special mentionmust golfing schoolintheUK–andtookthemto against Wellington –currently rankednumberone paved ourjourneytothefinal. We thencameup by Max Faulkner, Pierse Odell andMax Smith –superbwins faced anexperiencedCharterhouse Rugby. We thenprogressed tothesemifinaland and capitalisedwithamagnificent5-0win over first round ofthechampionshipingoodspirits against theOld Stoic Golf Society, we entered the Following asolidandwell earned4-1victory Scholar Max Faulkner (Third Form, Temple). (Fifth Form, Cobham)andStowe’s inaugural Golf James Watkins (Lower Sixth, Grafton), Max Smith of LochieShillington (Lower Sixth, Grafton), Pierse Odell (Upper Sixth Grenville) and consisted This year ourteamoffive wasled byCaptain, than anyotherschool. the record ofwinningtheMicklem more times Bradfield and Winchester with Stowe stillholding Eton, Harrow, Wellington, Rugby, Charterhouse, Public Schools.Eachyear we competeagainst yearGolf between Clubevery eightofthetop invitational golftournamentplayed at Woking 1954 andisatraditionalextremely prestigious The Gerald Micklem Trophy wasinauguratedin intheUnitedparticularly States. Internationally hewasahighlyrespected figure, in thepromotion oftheOpen Championship. of whatwasbestforthegame,mostnotably visionary administration ofgolfandwasatrue Member in1982.He played apivotal role inthe He Captainin1968andwasmadeanHonorary The Royal andAncient Golf Clubof St Andrews. Gerald Micklem wasanoutstandingmemberof singles andfoursomes. medals,match playtitlesandcompetitionsinboth Home Internationals. He wonsomesixtyscratch years asakeymemberoftheEngland teaminthe played fourtimesinthe Walker Cup andforten of thelate1940sand1950sduringwhichhe reached hisprimeasagolferinthepost-waryears ofthegame.Gerald amateur golfersinthehistory Gerald Micklem wasoneofthemostremarkable The 2018GeraldMicklem Trophy London Piano Concert

The Church of St Lawrence Jewry is one of the finest been faultlessly memorised. This was followed by Jeffrey Wren Churches in the City of London and the official Au (Fifth Form, Walpole) playing the first movement Church of the Lord Mayor of London and the City of Mozart’s A Minor Sonata; he played it with great of London Corporation. It stands in the yard of the technical certainty and plenty of light and shade. Again Guildhall and is a well-known venue for weekly piano it might have benefited from a slightly more restrained recitals on Mondays and organ recitals on Tuesdays. It tempo in the resonance of the Church but its energy was here that five Stoic pianists gave a recital on Monday carried the audience through from beginning to end. 12 March 2018. Most of these concerts are given either For me the high point of the concert was Billy Baker’s by professional musicians or conservatoire students (Lower Sixth, Chatham) performance of Chopin’s so it was with some apprehension that I went to hear Fantasie Inpromptu. This famous show piece was our Stoic musicians strut their stuff on this occasion. delivered with style and conviction and above all, with Unlike most instrumentalists, pianists cannot take a real sense that Billy was listening acutely to what was their instrument with them and are often performing actually emerging from the piano. One sensed him on unfamiliar pianos. St Lawrence has an attractive adapting his dynamics to the unfamiliar instrument Steinway grand but it is of a different generation and equally unfamiliar acoustic in a most sophisticated from the fine new pianos at Stowe and required the way. More Chopin ended the concert: the Ballade No performers to adjust their to the different action 3 played by David Choo (Lower Sixth, Chatham). This characteristics of an older instrument. This they did with was another assured and well memorised performance remarkable success; the sounds I heard on this occasion in which the sweep of the music carried all before it. were engaging and attractive. Occasionally, the big moments over extended the piano’s The concert began with the Prelude and Fugue in F comfortable dynamic but the intensity of the experience Sharp Minor from Book 1 of the 48 Preludes and made for riveting listening. Fugues by Bach. Annabel Hing (Third Form, Stanhope) This was a challenging event for our young pianists, played with excellent clarity and control; though the particularly for Jeffrey who was to play the Liszt 1st spacious acoustic of the Church might have benefitted Concerto with Orchestra only a week later but the from a slightly slower tempo in the Prelude, but she consistent quality of the performances and the fact that held it all together with aplomb. This was followed by there were five young musicians contributing to the Rosia Li (Fourth Form, Stanhope) playing Beethoven’s concert was an impressive indication of the quality of famous Pathetique Sonata, she produced the necessary pianists at Stowe. The substantial audience were visibly drama in the outer movements and a wide range of tone impressed and the applause for all five musicians at the - indeed she occasionally went past the piano’s optimum end was sustained and enthusiastic - rightly so. fortissimo level. Rosia shaped the brief slow movement Hilary Davan Wetton, in the most attractive way and the entire sonata had Interim Chairman, Music Department Debating Society The Debate Society this term has been very busy the final by only one point. They beat many schools on organising the Junior House Debating Competition and the day which was especially impressive as they were the attending several external competitions. youngest team there and had never debated before. And In the John Bercow debate at Akeley Wood School finally, a last minute team of Samai Lamberti (Lower our Fifth Form team of Ben Edeh (Grenville), Octavia Sixth, Queen’s) and Veronika Phillips (Lower Sixth, Comerford (Stanhope) and Ed Pickering (Grenville) West) debated in the ESU Mace against local schools on were impressive in both their speeches and the floor the issue of Freedom of Expression at universities. debate. Ben Edeh was commended by the judges for his The final of the Junior Debate Competition will insightful questioning. take place in the first week of the Summer Term and The ICYD Young Debaters’ Competition at Oxford last culminates with the motion “I have the right to offend Saturday saw Matthew Ackroyd (Third Form, Bruce) you?” and Josh Farchie (Third Form, Temple) narrowly miss Emma Ackroyd, Head of Media and Film Studies On Tuesday 14 March the U14As got the opportunity to have a coaching session with Wasps Pro, Renske Stoltz. Originally from South Africa, Renske joined Wasps in the Superleague as a GA/GS at the

NETBALL beginning of this season whilst also playing Dance Show internationally for South Africa. Renske has nine caps for South Africa. She has previously played for Loughborough Lightening in the British Fast5 The evening of Thursday 15 March saw the barrel-jumped across the floor. They showed All Stars Netball Championship, helping them win Roxy come alive with Stowe’s second ever Dance a real diversity of skill as they executed quick the championship title by sinking a last-minute Show. With an impressively sized audience, changes to return and perform another well- shot in the grand final against Team Bath whilst the dancers rose to the occasion, spurred on choreographed routine. also being awarded the Player of the Series award. by a really appreciative crowd who whooped, Back by popular demand: If you missed the She also got selected to represent South Africa cheered and even started dancing in the aisles. display, don’t worry as you will have another in the Fast5 Netball World Series in Australia in The programme included Ballet, Contemporary, chance to see it on Speech Day in the Roxy at 2017. Commercial, Jazz and a Physical Theatre piece 10.00am. inspired by Frantic Assembly’s Chair Duets During the afternoon session, Renske focused on performed by Miss Clark’s Fourth Form GCSE If you would like to take dance lessons at Stowe drills that are regularly part of her own training Drama set. The talented dancers including Kizzy please contact Miss Clark, Melloney Owen or sessions with Wasps. She started with a game of Clark-Jones (Upper Sixth, Queen’s), Emily Chris Bradley to find out details. In September basketball, which the girls thoroughly enjoyed. Barrett (Upper Sixth, Queen’s), Olivia Omotajo the programme will also include Tap, Acro, She then broke down frequently used skills to the (Fourth Form, Stanhope), Iryna Muravska Cheer and Ballet grades. most basic level and then throughout the session (Third Form, Lyttelton) and Inez Banson (Upper Rebecca Clark, Acting Faculty Chair built them back up again, finishing the session on Sixth, Queen’s) amazed as they pirouetted and Arts & Culture a shooting game that became very competitive. On behalf of the girls I would like to thank Renske for coming to Stowe and giving the girls this fantastic opportunity. What an excellent way to wrap up their first netball term at Stowe! Megan Wright, Netball Coach

Stowe took boys U18 boys’ and girls’ teams to Quantum the Olympic pool in London to compete in the Bath Cup. It was a tough field for the girls Rebecca Snell (Third Form, Stanhope), Emily King (Fourth Form, Lyttelton), Holly Stradling Society (Fifth Form, Lytellton) and Jaimie McIntosh (Upper Sixth, Stanhope) swimming against larger Stowe’s Quantum Society held their annual SWIMMING schools. The Boys’ team of Jack Polturak (Upper dinner on Tuesday 13 March to mark what has Sixth, Chatham), Guy Woodhouse (Upper Sixth, been another significant year for the society with Chatham), Sascha Clark-Jones (Fifth Form, Bruce) more Stoics turning up for more Quantum events and Lucas Davis (Fifth Form, Bruce) swam their than ever. Before the dinner, Dr Samuel Henry hearts out in the 4 x 100m Freestyle and were from Oxford University gave a very well attended pipped to the post for the final, being 1st Reserves. lecture on “The Search for Dark Matter”. A world President, Freddie Woods (Upper Sixth, Chatham), gave a speech and thanked the leading expert in the field, he gave a fascinating Cheryl Davies, Head of Swimming talk on the staggering efforts that scientists are members, especially the committee, for their making to try to find dark matter which, along shared love of Science and their commitment with dark energy, is believed from theory to make to the Society. He also thanked Mr Malling up over 95% of the universe. Dark matter has who played an important part in setting up the never been directly detected but the efforts to do society and who retires this year. Mr Malling so are remarkable and require much international was presented with a Quantum Society tie, co-operation which is good news for Physicists along with other members who have made great wanting to work both home and abroad. contributions and given lectures. At the end of the dinner the Quantum Society James Tearle, Head of Science New Director of Rugby We are delighted to announce our new Director of Rugby from September 2018 will be Grant Seely. Grant went to Aylesbury where, in his nal year he was asked to go for a trial at Northampton Saints. He was introduced to the coaches of the Colts side which is when he rst met a certain Mr Alan Hughes. He was very fortunate in the timing of rugby, turning professional in 1995 which coincided with him nishing University at Northampton. His rst professional coach was Sir Ian McGeechan who was an inspirational and hugely passionate coach and along with Wayne Smith (current All Blacks coach) he enjoyed 15 unbelievably enjoyable seasons at Northampton before retiring in 2006. He represented England at U21, Students, A XV and Full XV against the Barbarians in 2002 where they were lined up against Jonah Lomu at Twickenham. He has also played in various 7s tournaments all over the world for England including the World Cup in Argentina in 2001. Having a lengthy playing career in professional sport presented him with many opportunities for which he is eternally grateful but the most valued is the lifelong friendships and memories. He enjoyed four years as Academy coach where he was awarded the RFU Level 4 in coaching, having recruited the likes of Courtney Lawes into the professional game. In 2010 he moved into the education sector, becoming rugby professional and then Head of Rugby at Magdalen College School in Oxford. He is extremely passionate about working and developing young players and his coaching philosophy is about developing players on and o the pitch, equipping them with life skills for the lessons we all have to face up to. He lives locally, near Towcester with his wife Jane and three children; Louis (8), Henry (7) and Rosie (5). In his spare time he enjoys cycling, personal tness, golf and horse racing. He also helped coach his son’s U9s at Towcester RFC on Sundays. His other roles include being the Head Coach for Wasps DPP in Oxfordshire and recently qualied to become an RFU Citing Commissioner. Grant is delighted to be taking on this role at Stowe. He is looking forward to working with all the pupils and sta and cannot wait to build on the great work Alan Hughes has done over the last 20 years in the role. Chapel Confirmation Lent Addresses Waking up on the morning of the We were delighted to welcome e Revd Rupert Model United Nations Conrmation, it was alarming to see that the Shelley to come and give our Lent Addresses ‘beast from the east’ had returned, with snow- at the end of February. Rupert gave three talks On 16 March, nine Stoics travelled to Cambridge covered roads and a biting wind threatening in the Watson Art Gallery on the theme of to join the CamMUN conference, organised by the Stephen Perse Foundation. During the next two days, our annual Conrmation service. Quite apart Real Lives, and with each talk he interviewed a we would experience what it means to be a delegate from parents and supporters making their way dierent person whose life story connected with of the United Nations. Our debating skills were to Stowe from all corners of the country, we an event in the Gospels. developed greatly as we had to argue for ideas that anxiously awaited the arrival of the Bishop of So when speaking on Real Suering we met our countries might support, but that we personally , without whom the service could Christian Hacking who had been paralysed in might not have believed in. Along with our debating not take place. a climbing accident; when speaking on Real skills, we also improved our public speaking skills. We need not have feared. e Bishop duly Satisfaction we met Marie El-Khazen, a life In order to inuence other delegates to vote for our arrived; skidding around sundry snowdrifts coach; and when speaking on Real Success we resolutions or amendments, we had to frequently across and 28 Church of met Gregg Pietersen, a successful banker. It was stand up to speak in front of a committee of around England candidates were conrmed by Bishop an interesting and popular format, marrying the thirty people we did not know. Four of the resolutions Alan Wilson, a long-standing visitor to Stowe. historic stories of the Bible with contemporary we put forward were debated, of which three passed. Special congratulations go to Anya Cook (Lower It was good to see candidates from across the lives and issues. 50-60 Stoics attended each Sixth, Lyttelton), who won awards for Best Spoken School, from the Head Girl to a group of night and animated discussion followed each talk. Delegate in ECOSOC and Highly Commended Fourth Formers, and as many candidates from Delegate. the Fifth Form as there were from the Lower On top of the three evening talks, Rupert School. Shelley also spoke twice in Chapel. We are most Stefano Beni (Lower Sixth, Chandos) I would like to thank the various members grateful to him for giving us so much of his of sta who have helped to prepare these time and for challenging us to realise that the Christian message is as relevant for today as it candidates at their weekly groups. We trust Stowe that this will be an experience that has life-long has ever been. Buckingham value for each candidate. e Revd Tim Mullins, School Chaplain MK18 5EH

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Arts at Stowe Presents this years’ Eve of Speech Day Concert SOUTHSIDE18 showcasing a group of the very best of our rock and pop musicians. Food and drink will be available to purchase on the night or pre-book tickets and enjoy a Fork Supper and Bubbles with Stowe Parents in the Music Room prior to the Concert. This festival of music starts at 6pm with time to settle in before the music begins at 7.15pm. Further information and bookings