Redland High School for Girls Magazine 2016 Accomplishment CONTENTS
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ACCOMPLISHMENT Redland High School For Girls Magazine 2016 ACCOMPLISHMENT CONTENTS Appreciation 2 – 4 Prize Winners 65 – 67 Belief 5 – 7 Questioning 68 – 70 Creativity 8 – 21 Ready for the Future 71 – 74 Determination 22 – 25 Success 75 – 80 Energetic 26 – 29 Travellers 81 – 85 Friendships 30 – 33 Unity 86 – 88 Giving 34 – 37 Visionary 89 – 91 Harmonious 38 – 41 Welcoming 92 – 94 Inspiration 42 – 43 X Factor 95 – 98 Joyful 44 – 46 Yule Tide 99 – 101 Keeping in Touch 47 – 51 Zest 102 – 104 Leadership 52 –54 Now have I than switch a condicioun, That, of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Switche as men callen daysies in our town. Memories 55 – 58 And whan that it is eve, I renne blyve, As sone as ever the sonne ginneth weste, To see this flour, how it wol go to Nostalgia 59 – 61 reste, For fere of night, so hateth she derknesse! From “The Legend of Good Women” Geoffrey Chaucer Out of this World 62 – 64 APPRECIATION FROM THE HEADMISTRESS Appreciation noun ap·pre·ci·a·tion \ə-ˌprē-shē-ˌā-shən, -ˌpri- also -ˌprē-sē-\ 1. 1 a : judgment, evaluation; especially : a favourable critical estimate b : sensitive awareness; especially : recognition of aesthetic values c : an expression of admiration, approval, or gratitude 2. increase in value When I was asked to write on the subject of ‘appreciation’, my mind kept recalling the childhood skipping chant: ‘Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate?’ And as I look back on my year at Redland High, that exhilaration and sheer enjoyment that I associate with that chant is what characterises the academic year 2015-16. At the start of the academic year, I encouraged the girls and staff in a senior school assembly to cultivate an ‘attitude of gratitude’. I asked whether we are people that practise being grumbly hateful or do we embrace being humbly grateful. Throughout the subsequent months I was struck by the eagerness with which the whole school community showed their appreciation and gratitude for the many blessings we have been given at Redland High School and can wholeheartedly attest to this being a school that values, recognises and rejoices in each other’s gifts and talents. Just as it would not be feasible ‘to see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower’, it is impossible to encapsulate my appreciation and admiration for the staff, pupils and members of the community that make up this quite extraordinarily wonderful school in a few words. However, as I reflect on a year which has been filled with so many beautiful, joyful and moving moments, I continue to be astounded at the privilege of leading such a distinctive group of people. My ‘appreciation calendar’ is crammed full of generous gifts: a pot of home-made jam, an invitation to lunch, a regular morning wave and cheery smile whilst sitting at my computer, a bag of coffee, an unexpected bunch of flowers, an email to say thank you for assembly, a CD, dark chocolate Brazil nuts, a stunning plant for my Study. The list is overflowing. Equally, it is chock-full of marvellous moments throughout the seasons: watching the autumn sunrises from my Study; the energy of the Spring Concert; seeing the maypole dancing for the first time; being accompanied to assembly and having my hymn book carried for me. The hands of kindness and friendship that have been held out to me during this year allow me to leave with a glad heart and the ability to look doubt in the eye. I am left with the sense that I am so much the richer for experiencing the fellowship of the Redland High community. Miss Stephanie Ferro www.redlandhigh.com 1 APPRECIATION FROM THE HEADTEACHER “All good things have to come to an end” My mother and father said this expression to my brother and me every summer at the end of our two week memorable and sun kissed holiday in Cornwall. We would all be very busy packing up our chalet and loading our sailing dinghy on to the road trailer whilst I was very preoccupied thinking … but why? I did not believe in this expression then and I still do not now - even after 40 years! The last ten years at Redland High School have not simply been filled with good things, they have been saturated with amazing, awesome things that will never ever come to an end as I have such colourful and vivid memories. The girls and boys at Redland High Infant and Junior School have been such a joy, and have created the best decade of my career so far. 2006 My first Christmas production of ‘A Star is Born’ in the Senior School gym. Mrs Cartwright gave me a crystal star as a gift afterwards with a note card saying a very simple message: “You are our star in the Junior School”. 2007 116 shoe boxes filled my office after a Christmas collection for Eleanor Child’s Charitable Trust. 2008 The opening of our Junior School Activity Hall 2009 'I love jackets', a UK winning poem by Ellen Chancellor being published in an anthology of poetry called Pound a Poem. 2010 Redland High headed The Times GCSE results 'value added' league table for Bristol girls' schools. 2011 An outstanding ISI inspection in every area of the inspection framework. 2012 An invitation with Mrs Bateson to watch the Diamond Jubilee flotilla on the Thames. 2013 Accompanying the chamber choir to sing at Chantilly Chapel, Paris and then the white out and blizzard at Euro Disney the next day. 2014 Redland High Infants with QEH opening their new bespoke pod and welcoming the boys into the Early Years Foundation Stage. 2015 The Junior School performing 'The Tempest' at the Redgrave Theatre. 2016 The Midsummer Picnic with Maypole Dancing and a Punch and Judy show to say a fond farewell to the end of this very busy academic year. I have been asked by so many parents on so many occasions how I feel about leaving Redland High. It has been very hard to find the words to articulate how I feel. On such occasions I turn to Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, and AA Milne, to help me! “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” Mr Joe Eyles 2 www.redlandhigh.com APPRECIATION Thank you and goodbye to Miss Ferro and Mr Eyles - From Mrs Davidson on behalf of the School Miss Ferro There is no doubt that Stephanie This is a feeling shared by Redland of the remarkable qualities in her Ferro is a memorable and remarkable High staff, girls, parents and former character. She has been with us person. Her CV shows that she is a members of the School. Many of you wholeheartedly in this crucial period high achiever, had a glittering career will have noticed that there has not of our history, bringing to ordinary already to her name and had served been a single day this year when she events and interactions a sense of in some of England’s most prestigious has not worn a piece of jewelry with reverence and celebration. establishments before she arrived at a daisy on it! Redland High. What we were not We thank you, Miss Ferro, for the prepared for, though, was her huge Miss Ferro has stood alongside us this light of your presence with us. We personal integrity and great warmth, year as a Headmistress who inspires recognize the strength that has been as well as the quality we have come confidence, admiration and respect. required of you and we are grateful to value so highly, her irrepressible She has needed strength and she has for the leadership, fellowship and sense of fun. This has made an been able to call upon the fortitude inspiration you have brought. We enormous difference to wish you well as you the time she has spent cox your boat forwards leading us, and I hope and hope that you will will have left its lasting remember your time at impression upon us all Redland as the year in when we look back on this which it was absolutely most memorable of years. clear that you were born to be an outstanding Miss Ferro has also been Headmistress. remarkable for the speed with which she has got to know us all. Mr Eyles Joe Eyles arrived at Redland High to 3.45 experience. Under his well regarded that they plan to bring Junior School ten years ago, and leadership learning opportunities him back from his new role overseas brought with him a freshness and were greatly extended, to include for governors’ meetings! We could energy that we were soon to find are regular residential trips, more than see at the harbour side as so many his hallmarks. Immediately children, 25 after-school clubs and 'forest of the school community flocked parents and staff found him to be a school' for the youngest pupils. He to wave Mr Eyles on his way at his passionate advocate of what he called welcomed boys back to our Early farewell cruise on the Matthew, ‘putting life into learning’. He believed Years stage and oversaw the building that he will be sorely missed in the that every part of the day at School of both the activity hall and the new city as he goes to the International should be packed with opportunities Infants centre. We have all enjoyed School in Prague in September.