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JANUARY 2018 NEWSLETTER
Helen Etherington née Burden JANUARY 2018 Somerville 1986 - 1995
Harriet Etherington Year 4 Pemberton Leo Etherington Year 2 Pemberton
[email protected] stfelix.co.uk SAINT FELIX SCHOOL SOUTHWOLD 01502 727048 EDITOR’S NOTE
We are most grateful to all those who have responded to the request for news and articles and to those who have taken time to write tributes for their family and friends. Please do keep sending them to us, either by post or email. We do, however, reserve the right to edit them if necessary.
Although every effort has been made to see that entries are correct, the Club cannot be held responsible for any errors that may have arisen.
We would especially like to hear from younger OFs, who have left school relatively recently. We welcome news of your studies, your travels, your families and your lives. We are always pleased to publish news of any OF gatherings or simply memories you have of your time at school. Please send your submissions to Deborah Digby at [email protected] and feel free to contact her if you have any queries on content of submissions.
We often receive requests from OFs for information about friends they have lost touch with over the years, so if there is anyone you would like to track down, please let us know and we will post it in the newsletter, if they are not on the OF database.
Our newsletters are now posted on the Old Felician section of the school website (www.stfelix.co.uk) and so are accessible to anyone using the site. If you do not wish your personal details to appear on line, please advise us when submitting your news.
Please note that the deadline for news for the 2019 newsletter is summer 2018 but we welcome submissions throughout the year.
Deborah Digby
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 1 OLD FELICIANS’ CLUB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2018
Life President Janet Buchanan‐Smith (Lawrie) Cockeden, Glenbrook, Balerno, Midlothian EH14 7JE [email protected] Tel: 0131 449 4242
Chairman Fran D’Alcorn 5 The Chestnuts, Wrentham, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 7EZ [email protected] Tel: 01502 675358
Hon Secretary Caroline Macmillan (Hayward) 36 Wendell Rd, London W12 9RS [email protected] Tel: 020 8749 3010 Mobile: 07979 751722
Membership Jean McArthur (Clarke) Secretary 30 Lytham Rd, Broadstone BH18 8JS [email protected] Tel: 01202 640066 Mobile: 07726 330376
Members Elizabeth Strowlger Foxbury House, Foxbury Lane, Westbourne PO10 8RN [email protected] Tel: 01243 373122 Mobile: 07730 893027
2 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Members Erica De Courcy (Salisbury) 43 Molyneux St, London W1H 5JB [email protected] Tel: 020 7262 1490
Deborah Digby (Wilkinson) Tancred House, Hessay, York YO26 8JR [email protected] Tel: 01904 738824 Mobile: 07711 947647
Sylvia Hillier (Winsnes) Bloomfield House, 1 Bloomfield Rd, London N6 4ET [email protected] Tel: 020 3665 5488 Mobile: 07805 957130
Carol Smithers (Watts Jones) 42 High St, Westoning, Bedfordshire MK45 5JH [email protected] Tel: 01525 753220 Mobile: 07721 030203
Christina Walmsley (Melvill) 41 Beltran Rd, London SW6 3AL [email protected] Tel: 020 7371 0121 Mobile: 07818 217507
Please note that we are looking for a new treasurer and new committee members, particularly younger ones, to keep the club alive – this is fast becoming urgent, so please do get in touch. It is a great way of keeping in touch with other OFs and the school and we do have a lot of fun too. Submit nominations for election to the Chairman of the Executive Committee in writing by 1 March 2018, having first obtained the candidate’s permission.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 3 REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
The Regional Representatives do a sterling job obtaining email addresses and contact details for local OFs and so ensuring our data base is kept up to date. They continue to arrange local social events including visits to cathedrals and gardens, coffee mornings, lunches in pubs and restaurants and London walks, which are open to ALL OFs, not just those living in their county or country. Why not contact a representative to see if she is organising a get-together?
And if your country or county is not represented yet, why don’t you volunteer? It is a great way of renewing friendships made during your time at Saint Felix. Just contact Caroline Macmillan at [email protected] and she will add you to the list.
UNITED KINGDOM Bedfordshire: Carol Smithers (Watts Jones) 01525 753220 [email protected] Berkshire: Sharon Upton 05600 496767 [email protected] Bristol: Erica Wildgoose (Budgen) 07901 646820 [email protected] Buckinghamshire: Alex How 01844 202478 [email protected] Cambridge: Liz Thomas (Thorogood) 01223 842400 [email protected] Cornwall: Hilary Price (Butters) 01803 813472 [email protected]
4 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Cumbria: Helen McKenzie [email protected] Devon: Hilary Price (Butters) 01803 813472 [email protected] Dorset: Jean McArthur (Clarke) 01202 640066 [email protected] and Mary Gosling (Hudson) 01935 812673 [email protected] Essex: Jill Griffths 01277 822224 [email protected] Gloucestershire: Lucy Josey (Adkinson) 01242 234888 [email protected] Hampshire: VACANT Herefordshire: Elizabeth Henderson 01568 616990 [email protected] Isle of Man: Jane Tatchell 01624 844949 [email protected] Kent: Elspeth Howell (Kellock) 01580 880361 [email protected] Leicestershire: Sue Read (Ashpole) 01780 721237 [email protected] Lincolnshire: Frances Carr (Mead) 01790 753561 [email protected]
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 5 London: Caroline MacMillan (Hayward) 020 8749 3010 [email protected] and Christina Walmsley (Melvill) 020 7371 0121 [email protected] Midlands: Jane Adams 01981 540695 [email protected] Norfolk: Alison Gibb (Berry) 01953 850606 [email protected] Northamptonshire: Sue Read (Ashpole) 01780 721237 [email protected] Oxfordshire: Sue Hitchcox (Adams) [email protected] Rutland: Sue Read (Ashpole) 01780 721237 [email protected] Scotland: Janet Buchanan Smith (Lawrie) 01314 494242 [email protected] Somerset South: Maggie Hague (Johnson) 01963 250108 [email protected] Somerset (rest of): Hilary Price (Butters) 01803 813472 [email protected] Suffolk West: Charlotte Hare 01359 250474 [email protected] Sussex East: Elspeth Howell (Kellock) 01580 880361 [email protected]
6 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Sussex West: Elizabeth Strowlger (Roberts) 01243 373122 [email protected] Warwickshire: Rosemary Hyde (Riley) 01789 298897 [email protected] Wiltshire: Jennie Slater (Thompson) 01672 564689 [email protected] Yorkshire: Deborah Digby (Wilkinson) 07711 647947 [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL Australia: Catherine Heap (Johnson) [email protected] Canada: Linda Wrigley [email protected] France: Jean McArthur (Clarke) 01202 640066 [email protected] Ireland: Fenella Begley [email protected] New Zealand: Cati Condon (Plaegaerts) [email protected] Portugal: Sarah Hockley (Kerrison) [email protected] South Africa: Sherley Southworth (North Lewis) [email protected] Switzerland: Jenny Haller (Ollington) [email protected] USA: Alison Partridge (Lawrie) [email protected]
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 7 WELCOME TO THE CLUB 2017 LEAVERS
We are delighted to welcome all Old Felicians who left Saint Felix during 2017 as members of the Old Felicians’ Club. We wish them every success and look forward to hearing their news and to meeting them at future events. Remember to use the OF website on the school website too!
OLD FELICIAN WEBSITE
Old Felicians have their own section on the school’s website www.stfelix.co.uk, which is currently being updated. There you will find news of forthcoming events as well as reports and photographs of reunions, etc. Contact the OF Club Secretary with contributions.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
Please let us know if you would prefer to receive the newsletter by email, especially if you live abroad, as the cost of posting out the newsletter is soaring. The newsletters are available in PDF form on the OF section of the school’s website.
8 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUTURE NEWSLETTERS
We look forward to receiving your contributions, which are one of the most popular features of the newsletter, be they reminiscences, news of what you have done since leaving Saint Felix, reports of get-togethers or reunions or articles of interest to Old Felicians. Please let us know who attended reunions, along with their maiden names and house/dates at Saint Felix.
DATABASE – THIS MEANS YOU
The latest database is only as good as the information YOU give us, and we are finding that changes, particularly to email addresses, are not kept up to date. This is very frustrating for the regional reps as well as for our membership secretary. PLEASE drop a quick email to [email protected] confirming your latest name, address, email and phone numbers, if any of these have changed.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 9 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 2017
Dear Old Felicians
This has been a relatively quiet year as far as the OFC is concerned after all the celebrations in 2016. I do feel very fortunate to have been let in gently and carefully guided through my first full year as your Chairman. Caroline has been remarkably tolerant of my many foibles and failings and, as always, she has been efficiency personified. I am grateful to her for providing all documentation well in advance and alerting me to any news about Old Felicians.
I attended the lunch at Leander which was so expertly and professionally organised by Rosemary Scott; it was a splendid occasion which I hope may be repeated in the not too distant future.
Margaret Angus and I set up an exhibition ‘The Way We Were’ in the Sports Hall foyer to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the founding
10 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 of Saint Felix. The exhibition coincided with the senior department’s summer production which enabled many parents and visitors to gain some knowledge of the school’s history and development. Fortunately Margaret has great expertise in organising display material and I thank her for the many hours she devoted to this and to the archives in the last year. It was very pleasing to hear Margaret Isabella Gardiner and Saint Felix being referred to on several occasions at the recent Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Festival in Aldeburgh – Miss Gardiner rented a house there from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson when she first established the school.
It has been good to hear of the many successes of the school over the past year – it is continuing to go from strength to strength under the leadership of James Harrison. On Parents’ Day the Old Felician prizes were awarded to Rose Sida and Jessica Westlake. Rose has gone on to study classics at King’s College, Cambridge and Jessica is at the University of Bath reading chemistry. Please do let us know of your achievements at university/college and beyond.
Now it is time to turn our thoughts to 2018 (I am conveniently skipping over the festive season!) and I do encourage as many of you as possible to attend the AGM and Lunch at the Mansion House in March. This promises to be a once in a lifetime experience and Caroline is already in full swing with plans for the occasion. I do thank Mrs Charles Bowman (Samantha Kemball, 1974-1984) for all her help with this event. Samantha is the 4th OF Lady Mayoress following in the footsteps of Ursula, Lady Bowater, Joyce, Lady Waley-Cohen and Anne, Lady Jenkins.
I hope that you will like the new format of this newsletter. Many thanks to Debbie Digby for collating the material and to those stalwarts who spent many hours proof-reading and formatting.
All good wishes
Fran D’Alcorn
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 11 MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD
Having been in the hot seat now for over a year and part of the school for over three years, (if I may be so bold) perhaps I could now claim to have a good understanding of what makes Saint Felix special. I am pleased that the entire school community embraced the opportunity presented by the 120th anniversary celebrations both to reflect and look forward simultaneously: I reminded all pupils of the history of the school and challenged them to carve out their own place within it.
Schools change. Some change is for good and strengthens a school; some is forced due to compliance and market forces, with varying degrees of benefit, and some change is regressive, despite masquerading as progressive. My job primarily is to make sure that
12 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 all pupils are safe and to develop their minds, encouraging them and providing them with the opportunities to grow intellectually and to aim high. But it is still crucial that the early history of the school, the aims of its founder and the experiences of all Felicians are remembered and enjoyed by our current pupils as well as future ones.
Fran D’Alcorn and Margaret Angus have spent a lot of time re-categorising and generally sorting out the school archives and for this I am most grateful. I hope that we can soon give the archives the space it deserves as its current location is far from ideal.
The school goes from strength to strength. Our A Level results were excellent and comparable with any other Independent school in East Anglia. Rose Sida, Reydon, secured her place to read Classics at King’s College Cambridge and there were other successes too, with pupils gaining places at other top institutions including Bath, Royal Holloway, Manchester, Reading, Leeds, Warwick and Norwich University of the Arts, studying a variety of courses including Ancient History, Economics, Drama, Maths, Chemistry, Musical theatre and Textiles. At GCSE we achieved a frightening 97% pass-rate in Maths (the national average was 68%) and 90% pass-rate in English (the national average was 64%). And so with the school anticipating significant capital investment over the next few years, things are looking healthy both inside and outside the classroom. Exciting times ahead!
We are brave and strong because of our past and I urge all Old Felicians to come back and visit the school whenever an opportunity presents itself. I have always felt supported by you all as a group, as well as by certain individuals on the committee. Past, present and future are all entwined at Saint Felix and our links with the past are as strong as ever.
Felix Quia Fortis
James Harrison, Headmaster
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 13 SAINT FELIX POSTCARDS
Both Alison Clark (Lathbury) and her mother, Margorie Thomasson, were in Clough, Margorie during the First World War and Alison in the 1950s. Postcards and pictures have been reproduced from the two delightful watercolours which Margorie kept from her time at the school, one of Clough and the other a long view towards Somerville, Gardiner and the main school buildings from the Sunken Garden You can view reproductions on the Old Felician section of the school’s website. Cost and ordering information is as follows:
POSTCARDS: £2.50 (pack of 10) plus p&p £1.00 (UK only) A4 PICTURE: £15 each plus p&p £3.00 (UK only) Cheques payable to: The Old Felicians’ Club Send order to: Caroline MacMillan 36 Wendell Road, London W12 9RS [email protected] 07979 751772
For larger quantities and overseas orders please contact Caroline for a quote.
THE ISABELLA GARDINER TRUST
For some years now, the Isabella Gardiner Trust has provided scholarships and bursaries to help with the advancement of education at Saint Felix School. It has also received generous financial donations from Old Felicians and from events such as the London Walks.
Caroline Macmillan, Trustee
14 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 15 FUTURE EVENT OLD FELICIANS’ ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND LUNCH AT MANSION HOUSE, LONDON ON MONDAY 12 MARCH 2018
The 2018 Old Felicians’ AGM and lunch will be held on Monday 12 March 2018, at Mansion House, London EC4N 8BH by kind invitation of the Lady Mayoress, Samantha Bowman (Kemball) who was at Saint Felix between 1974 and 1984.
The AGM will commence promptly at 11.00am in the ballroom with its elaborate plasterwork representing musical instruments. This will be followed by a drinks reception under the stunning row of crystal chandeliers in the Salon and then a three course lunch will be served in the magnificent Egyptian Hall, so named as the designs are based on those of classical architect Vitruvius’s Roman buildings in Egypt.
Samantha Bowman (née Kemball) riding with her daughters in the Lord Mayor’s procession for the installation of her husband, Charles Bowman, as Lord Mayor 11:11:17.
16 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Old Felicians to hold their annual gathering in such a splendid setting. There is a limitation on numbers to please return the booking form enclosed with this newsletter as soon as possible and, as in previous years, partners are welcome. We are most grateful to Samantha for inviting us to her London home and we look forward to Old Felicians of all generations joining us on this special occasion.
For further details, please contact Caroline Macmillan, [email protected], tel: 020 8749 3010.
RECENT EVENTS OLD FELICIANS’ LUNCH, LEANDER CLUB, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, 12 APRIL 2017
On the 12 April 2017, a splendid lunch for Old Felicians took place in a private dining room overlooking the river at the renowned Leander Club at Henley-on-Thames. Guests were warmly greeted from noon with a glass of Leander pink champagne and canapés and after Fran D’Alcorn said the Old Felicians’ Grace, which had been specially composed by Canon Fitch, Chaplain of Saint Felix School from 1951-1970, a delicious lunch followed, starting with fresh English asparagus, then duck marinated in honey and thyme and ending with Eton mess. The floral table decorations of yellow and white flowers echoed the school’s colours and before each place setting was an individual posy of sweet smelling hyacinths and yellow roses tied in a green ribbon on which was printed in gold the school’s motto: Felix Quia Fortis.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 17 The event had been efficiently organised by Rosemary Scott and many thanks are due to her for making it such a very special occasion. OFs had travelled from Suffolk, West Midlands, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, Berkshire, Dorset and Lancashire to renew friendships and remember years spent at Southwold. We were particularly pleased that Phoebe Lloyd was able to come as she had been at school during the war years, first at Tintagel and then Hinton St George and was then recruited to work at Bletchley Park, we were fascinated to hear her stories.
Those attending were: Fran D’Alcorn (Former Headmistress), Rosemary Scott (Lobban, Somerville 1961-66), Jean McArthur (Clarke, Somerville 1940-50), Phoebe Lloyd (Tyler, Fawcett 1938-43), Anne Froom (Charlesworth, Clough 1959-63), Lyn Kennedy (Noel, Clough 1960-64), Jayne Tracey (Forsythe, Gardiner 1950-57), Lizzie Strowlger (Roberts, Fawcett 1952-61), Liz Scott (Myers, Somerville 1961-66), Claire Weldon (Gessler, Somerville 1961-65), Carol Kershaw (Warford, Fawcett 1947-54), Caroline MacMillan (Hayward, Fawcett 1954-60) and in attendance Colin MacMillan, chief chauffeur and photographer.
18 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 LONDON REUNION
A reunion of Old Felicians took place at Brasserie Zedel in London on 1 April 2017 for Maria Lopez, who was visiting the UK from Bogota, Colombia. Those attending were Kelly Burrell Saunders (Burrell), Juliette Lawrence (Barker), Rachel Lambert (Newby), Ruth Nicholson (Robertson), Justine Ashby (McCarthy), Kate Rogers (Kemball), Lucy Rowbottom (Collier), Maria Louise Maxwell (Pomfrey), Alison Bailey (Britton) and Maria Lopez. They were all at Saint Felix between the years of 1975 and 1982.
OLD FELICIANS’ CLUB AGM 2017
The Old Felicians’ AGM was held at Saint Felix School on Saturday 17 June 2017. It was a smaller gathering than the previous year when so many Old Felicians returned to bid farewell to Fran D’Alcorn who retired as Headmistress of the school. However, as the new Chairman of the OF Club, she welcomed those who had journeyed to Southwold. James Harrison, Headmaster, reported that the school is doing well and pupil numbers continue to increase. After the meeting there was an opportunity to see the exhibition “The Way We Were”, a photographic history of the school since its founding in 1897 to the present day which had been created by Margaret Angus and Fran D’Alcorn.
LONDON REUNION LUNCH
Erica de Courcy (Salisbury, Somerville 1943-48) once again organised a reunion lunch for Old Felicians at the Ishta restaurant in Marylebone on 19 October 2017. It was a smaller gathering than in previous years and several OFs, who had been at the school when it was based at Hinton St George during the war years, sent their apologies as they were not able to journey to London, although Janet Buchanan-Smith (Lawrie, Gardiner 1942-46) once again travelled down from Scotland. It was a happy reunion with lots of chatting and laughter, in true Old Felician fashion!
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 19 SWISS REUNION
The annual lunch and reunion of Swiss OFs was held on Saturday 14 October 2017 at the Cafe de Grancy in Lausanne.
Those attending included: Ann Hadfield, Fawcett 1945-50, Jenny Heller Pratt (Ollington), Clough 1953-58, Jean McArthur (Clarke), Somerville 1946-50, Corinne Hirter (Thomason), Somerville 1965‐69, Sarah Nevill (Stinson) Clough 1963-68 and Corinne Rietmann.
We six had a most enjoyable brunch/lunch and happily Ann Hadfield was well enough to join us after suffering two strokes in the spring. We all plan to meet again next year in the same place as it’s relatively easily accessible for OFs from different parts of the country.
And who knows – maybe a few more OFs will move to Switzerland one day?
Jenny Heller Pratt
CLASS OF 78/80 CAMBRIDGE REUNION
On Friday 30 October, 12 Old Felicians, mostly from East Anglia, met in Cote Brasserie in Cambridge, for a dinner kindly arranged by Susan Perry. It was a warm night in a very warm restaurant and given our age, there were a number of red faces and a lot of waving of Spanish fans, but we had a wonderful evening.
Although some of us hadn’t seen each other for 37 years, time slipped away and it felt as if we’d all been together at school only last week. We didn’t have nearly enough time to catch up on everything that everyone
20 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 has been up to over the years, so unsurprisingly, the four OFs staying over in a hotel sat up till 2.30am chatting. It was agreed to do it again very soon and to try to track down more of our contemporaries to join us. Those attending were: Susan Perry (St G’s and Clough, 1970-80), Deborah Digby (Wilkinson, Bronte 1973-80), Charlotte Hare (St G’s and Fawcett, 1970-80), Mandy Perkins (Shardlow, Bronte 1975-78), Nicky Ellis (Rush, Somerville 1973-80), Penny Miller-Williams (Fawcett 1973-80), Vanessa Wheeler (Swift, Gardiner 1973-78), Mariette Nafig (Fowle, Clough 1978-80), Jane Stiles (Somerville 1973-78), Emma Green (Fotheringham, Clough 1973-80), Isabelle Grote (Gardiner, 1975-80), Claire Weeks (Beaumont, Gardiner 1973-80).
Deborah Digby
40 YEAR REUNION, LONDON
Despite the best efforts of the OF newsletter, it is a fact that many of our year had lost touch.
In the late 70s many people left school after O Levels. Some went to jobs or training while others were naturally enticed to boys’ public schools which were, by then, opening up their sixth forms to girls. This meant that the vast majority of girls packed their trunks and moved on to new schools and new lives. Some of us, still in contact, had not actually seen each other in the flesh for far too many years. Realising (with horror) that this was now 40 years ago, some serious effort was needed to actually get together rather than just hoping it would happen, as we wrote every year in our Christmas cards.
So it was that a group of 12 came together one July evening in London. It was truly wonderful to meet up with old friends with whom we had shared so much. Much reminiscing, laughter and general catching up was had and old, special friendships rekindled. We left wanting more time together and promising to do it all again soon!
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 21 We were: Lisa Wilkinson (Richardson) – Gardiner 1972-79, Philly Coghlan (Troughton) – St G’s & Clough 1970-77, Sophie Jolowicz – Somerville 1972-77, Gerry Irvine (Deller) – St G’s & Clough 1970-79, Judy Mawson (Hicks) – St G’s & Somerville 1969-77, Laura Jarratt (Gough) – Bronte 1972-79, Caroline Sprake – Somerville 1972-77, Pip Kemsley – Somerville 1972-77, Caroline Barkham – Somerville 1973-77, Emma Moore (Davies) – Somerville 1972-77, Deborah Digby (Wilkinson) – Bronte 1973-80, Fi Jones (Ferguson) – Clough 1977-79.
There were many old friends we were unable to get in touch with. If you would like to be part of our next reunion, please get in touch! [email protected]
Gerry Irvine
OLD FELICIAN GOLF
The OF golfers hold an annual meeting at different golf clubs around the country and take part in the Tassie competition and the Rudyard Trophy. We would welcome any new golfers to join us and all information can be obtained from Gilda Buckwell (Clarke), at [email protected] or Adur Lodge, The Street, Old Shoreham, West Sussex BN43 5NJ or Tessa Summers at [email protected]
TASSIE FOURSOMES
The OF golfers fielded a team of four players in this year’s Tassie Foursomes, which is held annually at the Berkshire Golf Club in June. Tessa Summers, Gilda Buckwell, Vicky Wheeler and Rachael Goldsmith represented Saint Felix. They came a creditable 12th out of 30 teams. For further information about the Tassie, a competition for the alumnae of independent girls’ schools, please contact Anthea Franklin at [email protected] or look at their website: www.thetassiefoursomes.co.uk
22 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 RUNYARD TROPHY – 4 SEPTEMBER 2017 AT THE THETFORD GOLF CLUB
Once again, Saint Felix entered a team in this mixed inter-schools’ golf competition, designed for ex-pupils of schools in Suffolk and Norfolk. Unfortunately we did not manage to win the beautiful claret jug shaped Runyard Trophy and very large bottle of claret like last year! Other schools that competed were Framlingham College, Woodbridge, Greshams, Culford, Ipswich and Norwich. All Stableford scores counted towards the team’s overall score. The 6 players representing Saint Felix were Liz Smith, Ann Lockheart, Anthea Franklin, Gilda, Buckwell, Vicky Wheeler and Tessa Summers.
OLD FELICIAN GOLF DAY – 6 NOVEMBER 2017
It was a glorious sunny day for our annual Old Felician Golf Day which was held at Thorpeness in Suffolk this year. We had three teams of three playing a fun format of multiplying the two highest stableford points together plus the lowest stableford score for each hole. This did not prove quite as difficult to calculate as first thought (by some players) and not even a Maths A Level or even an O Level pass was needed to work out 3 points x 0 points + 0 points = nothing! However the winning team of Vicky Wheeler, Jackie Whitwell and Liz Ireson managed to score on every hole which is probably why they were the winning team!
The players in group photo left to right: Vicky Wheeler (Pickering) Somerville, Rachael Goldsmith (Podd) Clough, Di Taylor (Stannard) Bronte, Liz Ireson (Tinsley) Fawcett, Tessa Summers (Ellis) Gardiner, Sarah Rearden Fawcett, Gilda Buckwell (Clark) Clough, Liz Smith (Jones) Clough, Jackie Whitwell (McCloud) Gardiner.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 23 Just for fun the player with the highest individual score (Vicky with 35 points) was presented with the Saint Felix Green Cloak (Jacket) and Tunic (on loan from the School Drama Department)! She was thrilled …… to make sure it was returned safely!
Any OFs wishing to join us next year then please email me [email protected]
FIONA EDMOND Macdonald, Somerville 1974-84
Having turned 50 last year Fiona was persuaded to enter the English Senior Ladies Golf Championship. So, in May this year, following on from the County Championships at which she successfully defended her stroke play title, (which meant she didn’t have time for a practice round!), she travelled to South Staffordshire and played the course blind for the 2 stroke play rounds. Having safely qualified for the matchplay stages she enjoyed a fantastic run of form, through to knock out rounds, playing better each round, and beating 4 previous champions on the way. The final was close, and against a good friend, but Fiona held on to win by 2/1.
This victory gained her enough points on the order of merit to be selected to play for the England Ladies Senior Golf Team for the European Team Golf Championships in Slovakia. The team of 6 travelled to Skalica in September and 26 years on from the last time she represented England, Fiona was delighted to lead the qualifying competition with rounds of 72 and 73 helping England to qualify in 1st position. In the quarter final England beat Spain and the semi was
24 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 against Ireland who were last year’s European champions. Again it was very close but England squeaked home to earn a place in the final against France. The last day was unbelievably windy and sadly the French coped with the conditions better than the English did and won by a point, but nevertheless a silver medal was a good result.
In October Fiona travelled to Newport for the Home Internationals which were all keenly contested matches and England were pipped on the last day by Ireland to finish in second place. Fiona says “Twenty years ago when I was housebound with ME I would never have believed I would ever be well enough again to make it round a golf course let alone play competitively, which makes the successes of this year all the more special”.
MORE NEWS FROM OLD FELICIANS
LIBBY KOIVIO (Wire) Fawcett 1971-76
Currently working for a skincare company as EMEA Sales Director and travelling the world. Divorced, but in a long term partnership with a gorgeous Irishman.
Two children (left home) and one miniature Dachshund who hasn’t.
JUDITH RODDEN (Wilkins) Fawcett 1949-54
Judith has recently sent a selection of photographs taken during her time at Saint Felix which have been placed in the OF Archives. She writes:
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 25 “A number of them record occasions such as house picnics in the summer term, often at Thorpeness and also Saturday trips on bikes, which were permitted when we got to the Lower Sixth and often took us as far as Aldeburgh or even Bungay to go shopping. There was also the time we were in quarantine for polio, greatly feared in those days; fortunately we had only two mild cases.
I have very little information on what happened to the girls in the photographs once they left school. Alison Souper was one of the first students at what was then New Hall in Cambridge, a very considerable achievement, and I believe she was awarded a First in Classics. Janet Thomas-Davies read Geography at Girton, Angela Vartan, though studying languages at school, then took sciences at a tech., qualified as a doctor and became a haematologist in Oxford. Janet Weir, I think, went to St Andrews, Carol Warford to Bristol, Louise Rutterford to Nottingham, Pat Bromley studied Geography at Reading and Sarah Campbell Taylor went to the Royal College of Music. I read Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, worked on various excavations in Britain and later in northern Greece with my (American) husband. More recently I worked in publishing and journalism.
It’s quite interesting to acknowledge that school friendships didn’t seem to me to last, at least among this group. I now see something of both Pat Bromley (Kemsley) and Sarah Campbell Taylor (Green) though this has been due to chance meetings during the last 20 years or so and finding we enjoyed each other’s company and had interests in common. I have also seen Angela Vartan (Dike) because she got in touch with me through the Old Felician.
Thinking back over what is now a long stretch of time, I’m extremely grateful to the school for giving me the chance to work with two superb teachers, Beryl Brown for biology and Veronica Owen for history – the most that anyone can ask for – and in what was then an excellent library. I hated sports – freezing fields on that windswept plateau – and worked hard out of boredom. The boredom, and those two fine teachers, were
26 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 what gained me a place at university, which made all the difference in the world to my life subsequently.
I think Saint Felix turned us out, at that time, remarkably immature and unprepared for life in the real world: maybe that would have been the case whether we’d been at any other school, though perhaps one in a less remote location would have been different. The school ethos and regime were emotionally stultifying and I think the isolation from a ‘normal’ community was a disadvantage. I found out at Cambridge that there seemed to be a great contrast between what I’d gone through and the experiences of the men at boarding schools.
On the other hand, those bike rides and picnics were fun ... ”
POSTCRIPT. If anyone named above would care to get in touch with Judith, please contact Caroline MacMillan who will pass messages on to her.
BRENDA HANCOCK Somerville 1945-49
I have been asked to write a brief synopsis of my memoir, ‘Ever-Widening Circles or Road to BABA’, just published in New York and easily available from Amazon, etc. As the title suggests, the most important part of my book focuses on my enduring relationship with Mouni Baba, a truly extraordinary human being and a spiritual Master, who took a vow of lifelong silence at the age of 32.
Starting with early childhood in China, I recall growing up and being educated in England (including at Saint Felix) during and immediately after the Second World War. There followed in due course four years’ teaching in Nairobi, giving the opportunity for interesting travels in East Africa and ending with a drive from Nairobi to Cape Town in 1960.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 27 After that I was for ten years the head of the school founded in 1962 at Cobham Hall, in Kent. This in turn was followed by going to India, meeting Baba and a meaningfully different life. I returned to live and work in England, briefly trying my hand at politics, then joining the erstwhile Equal Opportunities Commission as one of its principal officers. I would describe my brief memories of Saint Felix as being rather more rueful than self-congratulatory!
I haven’t been a particularly active Old Felician, though I always read the magazine with a lot of interest, and Pam Clark (Chadwick) has taken me along to meetings with some of my contemporaries from time to time. We are all getting rather long in the tooth these days and don’t get about as much as we did! However, as I write this I am at Baba’s childhood home in North Kerala, India.
NICCI CARRUTHERS (Williamson) Gardiner 1975-83
I was in Gardiner from 1975 to 1983, active in lacrosse and other sport and Fran D’Alcorn and Karen Money (who I know sadly died) were really instrumental in my sport enjoyment and success at the time. After school I went to live in Africa for a while, then University in Southampton and have been living and working in London and the south from then on. Now living in a village close to Basingstoke, Hampshire.
JANE JAMES (Kendall) Clough 1953-58
Since leaving Saint Felix I have been married twice and had three children, Emma (52), Jonathan (50) and Amanda (38) and now also have eight grandchildren aged between 21 and 6 months. I am passionate about my grandchildren and gardening – in no particular order. Now living in Braintree.
28 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 MARGERY EAST Clough 1953-57
I am still living in Sydney, Australia. Unfortunately when I am in the UK I seem to be visiting friends and relatives around the country and my dates never seem to coincide with OF events.
I am a member of the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales, CWA, the equivalent to the WI in the UK. In August 2016 I attended the triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) at Warwick University. It is primarily a facilitating organisation to help women in the developing countries with projects to assist with their living conditions and to promote self help projects. In May 2017 I went to New Zealand for the ACWW Pacific area conference.
I am very happy for my email address to be passed on to OFs visiting Sydney and as a local tour guide I would be pleased to show them some of the sights. [email protected]
WILLIAM FOSTER Kay 2003-13
William Foster has been awarded a BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management (2.1) at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
MARGARET GILLIAN BLAKE (Dowing) Gardiner 1940-43
We were recently contacted by Simon Blake, Gillian’s son, who wrote to say that although his mother’s memory is not as good as it was, he enjoys talking to her about her school days at Saint Felix, which she spent first at Tintagel and then Hinton St George. Gillian went on to train as a physiotherapist in Birmingham and subsequently worked in
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 29 Salisbury and the Radcliffe Infirmary and after her marriage in 1951 the family lived in King’s Lynn. She now lives at Melton Mowbray. Gillian is still in touch with Erica Burgon (Bache) and at Simon’s request, we were able to contact some of her contemporaries including Betty Hay and Janet Buchanan-Smith and accordingly passed on messages to Simon for his mother.
JULIA NORTH BEM (Plumpton) Somerville 1948-54
Julia has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to the community on the Isle of Man. She received it from the Lord Lieutenant Governor, Sir Richard Gooney KCMG VSO, in the presence of fifty friends and relatives. Until this year, she has for sixteen years been Chairman of the Marown and District Branch of the Isle of Man Anti-Cancer Association. She has also been Poppy Appeal Organiser for her local branch of the Royal British Legion. She is still involved in these charities on the Island but has now felt that the time has come to pass the organising on to the younger generation.
Julia and her husband David now have more time to help with the school run for their grandchildren who live nearby.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
From time to time we receive requests for information about an OF as contact with them has been lost over the years. If anyone knows where the following are now, could you let Caroline MacMillan know?
Kay Arnold: Kay lived in Suffolk and was at Saint Felix around 1959-64 and it is believed she went to live in America.
30 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Nicci Carruthers (Williamson, Gardiner 1975-83): Would love to make contact with the following: Carolyn Ireson, Sarah Goldsmith, Judith Scargill, Marina Samad, Tanya Woolf, Amanda Wilkinson, Elizabeth Watson, Lee Hudson, Titilayo Maja, Sarah Rowell. Please contact her on [email protected]
TRIBUTES
MARION CORDY (Brown) Clough 1937-44
I am proud to write about my mother, Marion. Marion’s association with Saint Felix began when she attended Centre Cliff. With the onset of war, Marion moved to Jersey from her London home, to her grandparents as “a safe haven”. This did not prove to be the case, but thankfully Marion got out in time before Hitler saw fit to invade! Soon afterwards Saint Felix was evacuated, first to Tintagel and then to Hinton St George in Somerset. Marion developed many lifelong friends during these years and had lots of fun and high jinks including climbing across a large pipe over a reservoir; one of the group fell in and clothes were shared out. A member of staff saw them on the way back but was decent enough not to say anything. That would not happen today – Health and Safety.
I too was at Saint Felix and in my first summer term went into the swimming pool without permission; I was fearful of what my mother might say when she was told by the school. However, true to form, she said, “I did the same myself”.
Marion had a long and very full life, joining the Wrens upon leaving school and then trying her hand at many things including sailing on the
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 31 Walton backwaters, chemistry lab Mrs Alice Davies with Mrs Marion Cordy of the Surrey Circle. assistant, a guide at Sherborne Castle and at a butterfly farm. Marion entertained many of our friends and was always the life and soul of a party.
I leave you with some words left in her own handwriting – “Think deeply, speak gently, love much, laugh often, work hard, give freely and Be Kind”.
As many people told us after her death – Marion was a Great Lady (and mother).
Josephine Saunders (Clough 1965‐71)
ALICE DAVIES (Gardiner) Bronte 1936-38
Alice was the niece of Margaret Isabella Gardiner and was a pupil at Saint Felix for only a relatively brief time, leaving after successfully completing her General School Certificate.
In 1984 she was the guest speaker on Parents’ Day and delivered a very informative talk about her aunt’s life and career. She did admit that she did not know her very well personally as she only had the opportunity to meet her a few times before Miss Gardiner died in 1944.
Alice’s death means that the school’s last remaining direct link in the chain with Miss Gardiner has now been broken but her legacy continues and her philosophy and principles underpin the school’s ethos.
32 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 DIANA EATON (Hawkins) Fawcett 1965-74
Diana Hawkins’ funeral, which took place on 17 November 2016, was well-attended, with both central aisles of St Edmund’s full. Victor Scott played the organ and piano. There were about 12-15 OFs of her vintage there including: Sharon Upton, Tessa Sawyer, Penny Jenkins, Julie Hatch, Mary Pawle, Nicky Davidson, Caroline Logie, Mary-Ann Pugh, Philippa Brown and Vicki Snodgrass (sorry, I only know them by their maiden names as they were almost all my 1st XI hockey players when I first arrived at Saint Felix).
Fran D’Alcorn
ANNE GLYN-JONES Gardiner 1936-41
Anne was the eldest of 3 sisters, daughters of Sir Hildreth Glyn-Jones, a High Court judge. Aged 7 she ran away to sea but, having eaten all the cakes she had taken for the journey and not knowing where the sea was, she returned home. She came to Saint Felix in 1936 and became one of a select group of pupils who experienced the school on 3 different sites – Southwold, Tintagel and Hinton St George.
From an early stage she became involved in the Debating Society and arranged for her father to address it on the art of debating.
Anne played an active role in drama productions (one of her performances was described as ‘particularly good’) and play-readings and also represented her house and the school in hockey and tennis.
In her Sixth Form years she was a member of the Library Committee, Prefect, Senior Prefect, Second Head of School and also gained a certificate for Home Nursing together with her matriculation certificate.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 33 She contributed articles to the school magazine about Tanganyika’s contribution to the Second World War and her hiking trip in the Lake District.
In January 1942, just weeks after leaving school, she joined the WRNS and was recruited (unbeknown to herself and fellow colleagues) by Bletchley Park as a telephonist and, after spending several months at a Y-service listening station in Scarborough, was posted to Gibraltar. Her initial thought was of finding romance at the Rock where servicemen outnumbered Wrens by 200 to one but endless efforts to boost garrison morale and suffering from bruised feet at too many dances ended this dream. From a hut high on the Rock, Anne and fellow Wrens kept continuous watch, searched airwaves for More code and learned to recognize German operators’ ‘chat’.
After the war Anne read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford before working for the World Health Organisation in Geneva. After several years in Canada which included working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa, she returned to England and from 1964-71 was personal assistant, archivist and researcher to Harold Macmillan who was compiling his 6 volume memoirs, one of which he dedicated to Anne. From 1973-85 she was a research fellow at the University of Exeter.
Retiring to Topsham in Devon in 1996 she wrote ‘Holding up a Mirror: How Civilisations Decline’ and in 2017 published her memoir ‘Morse Code Wrens of Station X’. Anne was an enthusiastic gardener and became Chairman of Land Heritage, a charity promoting organic agriculture. She never married but maintained a great interest in the lives of her many nephews and nieces.
Caroline Macmillan
34 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 LUCY MATTHEWS Member of Staff 1975-85
Lucy Matthews joined the staff as Head of the English department in 1975, retiring in 1985 after cajoling and guiding many pupils into achieving high grades in their O Level and A Level examinations. In the school magazine of 1985 her successor, Iain Mathieson, wrote: ‘Her lessons will be long remembered for their emphasis on clarity and precision in the use of English. Many girls have cause to be grateful to her and they owe their success in public examinations to her painstaking care and concern.’
This comment was very much reflected in the tributes paid to her by Old Felicians on Facebook when they heard of her death. Her lessons were especially memorable for her vocal renditions of Shakespeare’s sonnets and ‘Who is Sylvia?’. She also perfected an unerring aim when throwing the board rubber.
In retirement Lucy was very active, pursuing her lifelong interests in ornithology and Dickens. Despite her advanced age, she was still attending retired staff coffee mornings at the Randolph, catching the bus from Southwold and then walking back downhill to town – and this was when she was in her early 90s!
MELODY PERKINS (Tannett) Clough 1959-62 Daughter of Helen Tanner (Morton) Clough 1929-34 Sister of Mary Myers
My dearest sister Melody died on 24 November 2016 aged 70 and her funeral took place in Waterbeach, Cambridge on 5 December 2016. She had battled with MS for many years but was a tremendous fighter, never giving up on anything and she lived a very full life.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 35 Melody was brought up in a hamlet in the beautiful countryside of the north Derbyshire Peak District and lived an idyllic childhood. She was one of five children and was sent to Saint Felix in 1959 as it was the school attended by our mother Helen. Following Saint Felix, she spent some time at school in Switzerland and then trained at secretarial college before starting a job at Coutts Bank in London in the international department.
Aged 21, Melody and I went to South Africa with our parents and Melody stayed in Cape Town to work. Here she sadly had a failed marriage and subsequently returned to England in 1982 with her two beloved children. She was incredibly tough and worked amazingly hard devoting her life to bringing up her children. She worked in Cambridge as a PA until, in her mid-forties, she decided to make the brave decision to return to education and took three years out to study for a degree at university in East Anglia. With her degree she became a professional Careers Advisor and worked for 20 years at Cambridgeshire schools helping students choose their career paths. She also worked for the MS Society on the helpline, helping other people with MS, and continued working right up until age 69, only finally retiring last year.
Melody lived in Waterbeach for 33 years and was an active member of the local church – singing in the choir as she had also done at Saint Felix. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and a wonderful aunt and sister.
Melody was always my best friend as well as my sister and as I live in Suffolk I was able to spend much time with her. She never moaned about her illness and was a truly inspirational person, who will be sadly missed by all her many friends and loving family. She was greatly loved and testament to this was the packed church in December with people of all ages and from all walks of life, including many of the students she had helped.
At school she was great friends with Barbara Lawton and Annette Rose but we have lost touch so if anyone knows them please pass on the news.
Mary Myers ([email protected])
36 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 ROSEMARY PAYNE (Bird) Somerville 1942-46
My mother arrived at Saint Felix and the cold wind of the North Sea in 1942. Clearly her arrival did not deter any possible German plans for the invasion of the Suffolk Coast, so she and the rest of the school soon decamped to Hinton St George for the rest of the war. There Rosemary helped the War Effort by milking cows with the Land Army.
Christopher Payne
Obituary in the Guardian 5 August 2015 My mother, Rosemary Payne, who has died aged 85, was a physiotherapist who achieved worldwide recognition for her book, “Payne’s Relaxation Techniques”, a bestseller that was published in five languages and is still referred to in NHS relaxation advice booklets.
Most people would be thinking of retiring at 60 or 65, but that is when Rosemary decided to write a comprehensive book for professionals on relaxation techniques. No such book existed. She diligently made herself familiar with an enormous body of scientific literature, and, at the age of 66, she published the first edition. The initial print run exhausted, the book was reprinted and her publishers, Churchill Livingstone, and later, Elsevier, kept asking for new editions. She wrote the fourth edition at the age of 81.
The eldest of five daughters of an industrialist, ship owner and the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Frank Bird, and his wife Edith, Rosemary attended Norfolk House School and Howell’s School in Cardiff, then went away to boarding school at various places in England – her schools were evacuated to different parts of the country during the war – and later Brillantmont School in Switzerland. She came back to Cardiff to retrain as a physiotherapist at Cardiff Royal Infirmary.
Aged 24, she married Captain (later Major) Edwin Rowland-Payne, who had served in the army in Normandy, Palestine, Malaya and Korea.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 37 As an army wife, she lived in Germany and Tobruk, Libya. Once divorced, aged 33, she returned to Cardiff and physiotherapy. When her children left home, she enrolled at the University of Wales in Cardiff and gained a BSc in psychology. In the evenings she ran classes for women with menopausal depression.
With strong convictions and an abiding concern for medical ethics and the dignity and independence of the individual, Rosemary was actively involved in both the Patients Association and the Voluntary Euthanasia Society. She took part in the Greenham Common women’s peace campaign in the 1980s. Much travelled and with a great facility for writing, she was widely published in journals and newspapers on subjects as wide-ranging as tree protection in Cardiff, travel in Burma and car seat design to aid the prevention of back pain. Rosemary was knowledgeable about art, furniture, architecture and geology. She was an accomplished sculptress and a pianist.
Passionately interested in gardening, walking and nature, she was never more content than when walking on a windy mountain or along a wooded path, but most beloved was her garden – a beautiful place in all seasons. She was graceful, warm and sensitive and enormously considerate. The feelings of others were never far from the front of her mind.
PAT THOBURN Centre Cliff & Fawcett 1936-46
Pat Thoburn was quite a star at Saint Felix – highly intelligent, a talented artist, also excelling at singing and lacrosse.
She was 5 years my senior so I never knew her well but her reputation filtered through and we sometimes bumped into each other in the Art Room. She was always friendly and on leaving Saint Felix she went to the Slade School of Art where William Coldstream (my father) was the Director. However, it was Reg Butler, her tutor, who made a great
38 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 impression and she confided that he once asked her to marry him. However, her first loyalty lay with her father and she looked after him for the rest of his life.
Some years ago Shelagh Montague Browne and I went over to an Old Felicians’ tea party at Pat’s beautiful historic house in Kent. We toured the house and then she proudly showed us round her remarkable azalea garden which was Pat’s pride and joy and then we were served a lavish tea.
In August Shelagh and I went to collect Pat for a lunch party. She was sitting on the sofa looking charming, albeit a little frail. After plying us with generous glasses of sherry, she looked up and half smiling asked ‘My dears, would you mind if I came in my gardening clothes?’
Juliet Collings-Wells (née Coldstream) Somerville 1944-50
MARGARET WILLIAMS (Platt) Clough 1940-44
My sister Margaret was the third sister of our family (I was the fourth) to go to Saint Felix. She was to have a very different experience to that of our sisters, Honor and Rosemary, as joining in the summer term of 1940 at Southwold, she was only there for a few weeks when the school closed in May, following the German invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands. 206 girls dispersed while Miss Williamson explored the possibilities of new premises. Within a fortnight, she assembled 206 girls at the spectacular King Arthur’s Castle Hotel, Tintagel, and extended the summer term into August to compensate for the lost time.
Margaret always told me what a glorious hot summer they spent there, with some lessons in huts on the rocks and beach and sleeping on the floor as there were not enough beds.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 39 Fortunately, more suitable accommodation was found for the autumn term in Hinton House, Hinton St George near Crewkerne, Somerset, about which much has been written in the book about Saint Felix by Bernard Keeling. I myself was to join her in summer 1944, so remember Hinton well.
Margaret was perhaps the cleverest of the sisters and excelled in English, which she loved. She fell in love with acting, playing Olivia in an open air performance of Twelfth Night played in the Sunk Garden in the summer of 1943. This led to her leaving in the autumn of 1944 before taking her Higher Certificate. She was accepted at the Webber Douglas School of Drama, winning the Silver Medal at the end of the two years there. She then went into Rep, as it was called, where actors were able to hone their skills.
Within a few years she met and married a young Marine Officer, Lawrence Williams, in 1952, after he had served in the Korean War, perhaps ending a budding acting career! However, a colourful and varied life was led as the wife of a serving officer. There were spells in Malta, during the Suez crisis, and Cyprus, at the time of the upheaval of the Greek/Turkish crisis. They made many service friends who were a part of their life for many years.
In 1958, Lawrence’s father died and he made the brave decision to resign his commission and try to save the impoverished estate in Anglesey which he had inherited. He and Margaret were to have a number of very hardworking years building up a very successful caravan park and farming the rest of the land, plus bringing up two daughters, not to mention the succession of beloved dogs. My husband and I spent many happy summer holidays there with our children of the same age.
Margaret threw herself into the life of the island, serving on committees, taking an RHS diploma in gardening and having a social life. The garden became her great love and she was very knowledgeable up to the end of her life.
40 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Sadly, chronic arthritis set in some years ago, as well as internal problems, which meant she was unable to lead an active life, which frustrated her. She remained deeply interested in her six grand-children’s exploits and could talk on many subjects. A succession of operations finally took their toll and she gave up the long fight in November 2016. The family and I miss her amazing memory of the past, with a fund of stories, and her strong personality.
DEATHS
We have been advised of the deaths of the following Old Felicians. We are very sorry to bid them farewell.
Katherine Anderson (Simons) Somerville 1936-38 November 2016
Marion Cordy (Brown) Bronte 1937-44 February 2017
Alice Davies (Gardiner) Bronte 1936-38 September 2016
Jean Eaton (Hawkins) Fawcett 1961-74 October 2017
Anne Glyn-Jones Gardiner 1936-41 October 2017
Alison Hollick (Elias) Bronte 1929-35 March 2017
Lucy Matthews English Teacher October 2017
Melody Perkins (Platt) Clough 1940-44 November 2016
Pat Thoburn Fawcett 1936-46 October 2017
Joanna Williams (Baker) Fawcett 1941-51
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 41 DESTINATION OF LEAVERS 2017
Sophie Bodmer Warwick University – Hispanic Studies and Economics Michael Cross Reading University – Building Surveying Mathilda Davies Royal Holloway – Classical Studies and Drama Anna Harrod Leeds University – Nutrition Amelia Heard Year 14 – Gap Support Annabel Hood Leeds University – Biological Science Kaiqi Jiang Art Foundation Aliasger Karimjee Tanzania work Elisabeth Kiko Norwich University of the Arts – Fashion Rosie Lawrence Derby University – Photography Nuoer Li Foundation course Sze Ming Lo Manchester University – Aerospace Engineering Harry McLean Apprenticeship – Motor Trade Nathan Oniru Loughborough University – Economics Foundation Elora Parocki Gap Year Layla Rayner Apprenticeship – Architect Rose Sida Cambridge University – Classics Brooke Smith University of West London – Musical Theatre Abbie Summers Hartpury University – Equine Business Management Sheung Lai Tang Reading University – Finance and Investment Banking Darcy Vickers Sussex University – Drama Studies and English Zhean Wang Surrey University – Media, Culture and Society Sophie Webb Norwich City College – Art Jessica Westlake Bath University – Chemistry for drug discovery Yuwei Xiang Norwich University of the Arts – Fashion Xin Xie University of the Arts – Fine Art Youxing Ye University of the Arts – Foundation in Product Design Chengyi Zhang Gap Year
42 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 SAINT FELIX CELEBRATES 2016/17
SENIOR Art, Photography and Textiles
• Royal Academy Portraiture workshop for GCSE and A Level students • Year 10 and Year 11 Art trip to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts • Portfolio preparation presentation by NUA for A Level students applying for university courses • Landscape workshop with John Crossley for Year 10 and Year 12 • Senior Art, Photography and Textiles trip to the Tate Modern and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London • Exhibition of a range of students’ work at the annual Schools’ Exhibition at Halesworth Gallery • Year 12 Art trip to the Alde Valley Spring Festival Art Exhibition • Participation in the Southwold Street Parade, at the start of the Southwold Arts Festival, with a banner based on the theme ‘Take Flight’ and exhibitions of students’ work at the Sailors’ Reading Room during the Festival • All Art and Design A Level students have been offered places on their chosen degree courses, students will be embarking on: Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, Fashion and Textiles at NUA (this year we have two former students graduating in Fine Art and Printed Textiles), Photography at Derby and Fashion Accessory Design at Nottingham Trent.
Boarding
Events and activities this year have included:
• Thorpe Park • Remembrance Service • Cambridge
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 43 • Chinese New Year celebrations • High Altitude trampoline park • Valentine’s Dinner and Disco • London Grand Day Out: London Dungeons, SEA LIFE Centre, British Museum, Covent Garden and China Town • Coastal Voyager • Cinema trips • Paintballing • SEA LIFE Centre, Great Yarmouth.
Business Studies
GCSE students to Disneyland Paris for the Business Live Conference.
Classics
• Introduction of Latin throughout the school from Year 6 to A Level • Greece trip in April. Students from the ages of 11-18 explored classical sites throughout central Greece and the Peloponnese and a visit to the Island of Aegina • Introduction of GCSE Ancient History • Roman cooking with Year 9 • Exploration of the classical world with Year 6 and Year 7 including ‘myth time’ in the Sunk Garden • Rose Sida has received a conditional offer to read Classics at King’s College, Cambridge having studied A Level Ancient History and Latin.
Drama
• Senior Production of ‘The Girls, The Gang and The Gallery’ • GCSE Performance Evening: ‘Shakers’
44 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • A2 Performance Evening: ‘Dido’ • Dance and Drama performance from ‘Hairspray’ • Visit to Cambridge Arts Theatre to see Cheek by Jowl’s version of ‘A Winter’s Tale’ • Visit to Norwich Theatre Royal to see ‘The Woman in Black’ • Visit to Bury St Edmund’s Theatre Royal to see ‘Hamlet’ • Performance of monologues, duologues and group pieces by Speech & Drama pupils.
LAMDA Examination Results
Rose Sida PCertLAM Distinction Krzysztof Bisaga Grade 7 Silver Award (Acting) Distinction Crystal Ellis Grade 6 Bronze Award (Drama) Distinction Chloe Hillier Grade 6 Bronze Award (Drama) Distinction Joseph Barbrook Grade 5 (Drama) Distinction Tallulah Jary Grade 5 (Drama) Distinction Charlotte Sigsworth Grade 5 (Drama) Distinction Mollie Barrett-Kelly Grade 4 (Drama) Distinction Georgia Pleasants Grade 4 (Drama) Distinction Eirinn Cross Grade 4 (Acting) Distinction Jessica Ellis Grade 4 (Acting) Distinction Ellie Oliver Grade 4 (Acting) Distinction Lara Wise Grade 4 (Acting) Distinction Jack Barrett-Kelly Grade 4 (Acting) Merit Henry Cole Grade 4 (Acting) Merit George Walker Grade 4 (Acting) Merit Owen Webster Grade 4 (Acting) Merit
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 45 English
• Matt Dickinson, renowned explorer, adventurer and author gave a talk on his life and experiences and ran a creative writing workshop. Senior, Prep and local schools were invited and students wrote their own stories over the following weeks • The Key Stage 3 ghost story competition was won by Indira Gopee • The annual Spellathon, run over successive weeks and culminating in a grand final, was won by Rowell • South Cove Church was visited to launch a poetry month targeted at all students between Year 7 and Year 10. This has led to a poetry anthology which goes live in the last week of term • Year 9 students visited the Imperial War Museum, reinforcing their studies in GCSE conflict poetry which features in their examination.
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
• Pupils from a number of different countries including China, Germany and Spain took part in a range of activities for the EAL Induction, supported by three very capable Dutch trainee teachers • Sheung Lai Tang (Ronan) and Yin Nam Wong (Nathan) gave an insight into the Chinese New Year with an entertaining and informative assembly • Year 9 and Year 10 EAL pupils completed projects and gave presentations on their home countries.
Equestrianism
• Saint Felix has been represented at all National Schools’ Equestrian Association Championships this year and has won in team and individual events • Lucy Clarke, Mathilda Davies, Maria Donovan, Nathaniel Hurst, Georgia Pleasants and Jack Wilmot qualified in the four finals of the Eventers’ Challenge National Championships at Hickstead
46 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • 70cm team placed 2nd in the Hickstead Final • 70cm and 80cm teams qualified for NSEA Championship Plate to be held at Keysoe in December 2017 • Jack Wilmot won the 70cm Eventers’ Challenge qualifier • Jack Wilmot won the Hickstead Eventer’ Challenge Final to become Individual National Mini Champion 2017 • Jack Wilmot placed 4th in the Jumping with Style Championship Plate National Final • Georgia Pleasants placed 6th in the Grass Roots 70cm Regional Final • Georgia Pleasants placed 4th in the NSEA 80cm National Santa Stakes • Nathaniel Hurst represented Saint Felix and Suffolk at County Championships in April • Nathaniel Hurst placed 5th in the Jumping with Style National Championship • Nathaniel Hurst placed 4th in the Hickstead Eventers’ Challenge 1m Final • Nathaniel Hurst won the 90cm Windsor Class • Maria Donovan won the 70cm Eventers’ Challenge qualifier • Maria Donovan placed 10th in the Hickstead Eventers’ Challenge Mini Final • Honor Whyte placed 3rd in the East of England Ladies’ Novice Point to Point Championship in her first season 2016/2017 • Jack Wilmot had a successful season Point to Point Pony Racing • Abbie Summers achieved international show jumping success representing Great Britain at Vilamoura in Portugal competing in the Atlantic Tour. She has achieved two wins alongside a win at Valkenswaard, Holland as part of the recent Global Champions Tour. Abbie holds a place on the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence for show jumping • All equestrian team members have represented their local riding clubs and pony clubs at both National and Area Level in Dressage, Show Jumping or Eventing.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 47 Geography
Year 8 field trip to Southwold Pier to study coastal erosion and management along the Southwold coast.
History
• Year 7 trip to Framlingham Castle and Orford Castle • Visit by Mrs Jan Holloway from Southwold Museum with a range of artefacts for Year 7 to examine • Year 8 visit to Hampton Court Palace • Year 9 visit to the Imperial War Museum • Year 10 visit to Norwich Castle • Year 11 GCSE revision play at the Norwich Playhouse: ‘Hitler on Trial’ • Year 12 visited Wenhaston Church and Leiston Abbey.
Mathematics
• UK Maths Senior Challenge ‘Best in School’ – Liwen Jiang (Crystal) who also qualified for the European Kangaroo round • UK Maths Intermediate Challenge ‘Best in School’ – Scooter Statt • UK Maths Junior Challenge ‘Best in School’ – Marcus Moscuzza.
Modern Foreign Languages
• European Day of Languages: Assembly led by the Sixth Form and EAL students to promote language learning and diversity as well as celebrating all languages and cultures. A selection of European dishes was served at lunchtime • Have Your Say Languages Competition in French and Spanish: the District Finalists were: Harry Barbrook, Joseph Barbrook, Mollie Barrett-Kelly, Ryan Bland, Bradley Blaxhall, Ana Casais Cossio, Polly Chan, Oliver Currie, Smriti Gokarn, Alice Greenacre, Tallulah Jary,
48 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 George Walker, Elodie Whyte and Lara Wise. The East Anglia Regional Finalists were: Joseph Barbrook, Mollie Barrett-Kelly, Bradley Blaxhall, Ana Casais Cossio, Smriti Gokarn, Alice Greenacre, Tallulah Jary, George Walker, Elodie Whyte and Lara Wise • Spanish Food and Culture Day: Year 9 students made and sampled Spanish food giving them an insight into Spanish culture and history • French Food and Culture Day: Year 10 students made and sampled French food to experience some of the French culture and history • International Cuisine at the May Fayre: the Modern Foreign Languages Department staff, assisted by students, made and sold food and patisserie from France, Morocco and Spain at the PTA May Fayre • University of East Anglia Sixth Form Languages Day: Sophie Bodmer, Anna Harrod, Thomas Hill, Annabel Hood, Anton Perez Vilarino and Jessica Westlake represented Saint Felix.
Music
• At the Gorleston Festival Brooke Smith won two classes and Chloe Hillier won three classes. Chloe received the only three ‘Outstanding’ category classifications of the afternoon • Year 7 performed at the Young Voices Concert in the O2 Arena as a part of a 8,000 voice choir • Anthea Turner, this year’s House Shout adjudicator, praised all students for their high standard of performance • A series of concerts was established showcasing the talents of individual performers • The Music Studio was established. Individual students have been able to record their own work including all the Year 9 students who produced their own tracks on the professional standard equipment • Performances were warmly received at the Spring Concert held in Blythburgh Church sung by 80 voices of the massed school choirs and Saint Felix Choral Society
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 49 • Chloe Hillier and Brooke Smith competed in the Colchester Rotary Music Festival against students from the Royal College of Music. Both girls excelled themselves against a very high standard of competition. Chloe won two bronze medals • Oliver Oldrey performed solo roles with the Jubilee Opera in Aldeburgh • Polly Chan is currently working with the Aldeburgh Youth Music Scheme • Chloe Hillier continues to sing with the Aldeburgh Music Group A. Performances have included the Aldeburgh Festival Christmas Concert and following their success at the Music for Youth Regional Festival at Snape Maltings, Chloe will perform at the Music for Youth National Festival at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. • Saint Felix School Chamber Choir performed at the Southwold Arts Festival • Chloe Hillier and Brooke Smith performed in the Southwold Arts Festival Service.
Senior Department Music Examination Entries
Matilda Farrands Grade 7 Singing Merit Matilda Farrands Grade 7 Flute Pass Polly Chan Grade 6 Piano Distinction Chloe Hillier Grade 6 Singing Distinction Polly Chan Grade 5 Theory Distinction Lucy Rainer Grade 5 Piano Distinction Matilda Farrands Grade 5 Theory Pass Matilda Farrands Grade 5 Piano Pass Joanna Jia Qi Lin Grade 5 Violin Pass Smriti Gokarn Grade 5 Theory (Result Pending) Chloe Hillier Grade 5 Theory (Result Pending) Jing Li (Ellen) Grade 5 Theory (Result Pending) Polly Chan Grade 4 Jazz Trumpet Distinction Indira Gopee Grade 4 Electronic Keyboard Distinction
50 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Alice Greenacre Grade 4 Electronic Keyboard Pass Xinwen Zhang (Nicole) Grade 4 Piano Pass Zhuolin Yang (Bruce) Grade 4 Piano Merit Polly Chan Grade 3 General Musicianship Distinction Joanna Jia Qi Lin Grade 3 Piano Distinction Lucy Rainer Grade 3 Singing Merit Fiona Adcroft Grade 3 Singing Pass Jack Wilmot Grade 2 Singing Merit Oliver Currie Grade 2 Guitar Pass Owen Webster Grade 2 Guitar Pass Lucy Rainer Grade 1 Violoncello Distinction Mia Devonshire Grade 1 Singing Merit Ryan Bland Grade 1 Singing Merit
Science
• Anna Harrod achieved a bronze medal and Jessica Westlake achieved a gold medal in the Biology Olympiad • Eirinn Cross, Brooke Oram, Joshua Stephens and Elodie Whyte (Year 8) took part in the National Science and Engineering Competition in Birmingham, having won the regional competition last year • Brooke Oram, Joshua Stephens, Elodie Whyte and Lara Wise took part in the Salters Festival of Chemistry Competition at the University of East Anglia, winning the University Challenge competition • Students from Year 8-Year 10 travelled to Geneva, Switzerland to visit the world’s largest physics research centre CERN.
Sixth Form
• Child Protection training • Safe Driver training • Higher Education Fair at UEA.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 51 2016 University Destinations
Tom Collis Durham and Newcastle – Medicine Caitlin Dobson Cambridge – English & Education Katie Greengrass Norwich University of Arts – Photography Timothy Hill Reading – Ancient History – Gap Year Australia Hanwen Jin (Jimmy) Imperial – Materials Science & Engineering Helena Keeble Royal Holloway – English Nicholas Lambarth Leicester – Chemistry Hugo Minta Nottingham – Ancient History Megan Pleasants Hull – Sport Rehabilitation Ailsa Plummer Oxford Brookes – Real Estate Management Ellie Rayner Kent – Economics Isbah Saeed Wolverhampton – Accounting & Finance Elizabeth Sillett Birmingham – Political Science & International Relations Daisy Slater Nottingham – Spanish & International Media Josephine West Anglia Ruskin University (West Anglia campus) - Childhood Studies Emily Whyte Exeter – Classics – Gap Year Xu Yue (Josh) Durham – Accounting & Finance
Other Destinations
Henry Ball Gap Year Juan Jose Borras Martin Spain – Business Studies Alfie Laughland Gap Year – Thail –an d Brittany Portillo USA – Forensic Science Deanna Provis Ottley College – Animal Management Yihang Nui (Arno) China – Accountancy
52 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Sport
Aquathlon • Poppy Branton finished 1st in the Basildon Aquathlon • Rose Branton finished 4th and Poppy Branton finished 3rd in the Infinity Aquathlon in Chelmsford • Poppy Branton finished 1st in the Stradbroke Aquathlon competition.
Athletics • Joshua Oshunrinde has been selected to represent Suffolk in the 100m at the ESAA National Championships in July • Brooke Oram will represent the East area in the 1500m at the National Prep School Athletics Championships in Birmingham in July • Maxwell Birtwistle, Joshua Oshunrinde and Thomas Owusu-Brew represented Suffolk at the Anglian Schools’ Athletics Championships. Joshua finished 2nd in the Inter Boys’ 100m with a time of 10.8s. Maxwell Birtwistle finished 3rd in the Junior Boys’ Long Jump with a distance of 5m 43cm and a new personal best. Thomas Owusu-Brew finished 3rd in the Senior Boys’ Long Jump with a distance of 5m 99cm • Results from the East Area Prep Schools’ Athletics Championships in Bedford: Finley Barbrook 5th in 1500m, Harry Barbrook 8th in 800m, Poppy Branton 4th in 800m, Joab Carr 5th in Shot and 6th in Javelin, Lee Yao Qi Lin finished 5th and competed in the 100m finals, Marcus Moscuzza 5th in 200m heats, Brooke Oram 2nd in 1500m and 8th in Javelin and Oluwaseun Elijah Oridupa (Seun) finished 6th in the 100m heats • Joshua Oshunrinde competed at the Lee Valley Athletics Competition in the U20 age group. He finished 2nd achieving a new personal best of 10.89 seconds. Joshua was ranked 1st in the country for the 100m in the U17 age group • Joshua Oshunrinde competed against some of the best competitors in the country at the London Indoor Games. He finished 4th/60 athletes in the U17 60m sprint
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 53 • Brooke Oram completed the one mile race at the Great Yarmouth Athletics Club Performance Evening. She finished in 5 minutes 50 seconds and was the 1st girl in the U15 age group • Poppy Branton 1st in U15 at the Inter Club Athletics 5k Beach Race • Brooke Oram 3rd in U17 at the Inter Club Athletics 5k Beach Race • Results from the East Anglian League Track and Field Athletics Competition Round 1: Maxwell Birtwistle 3rd in 100m with a time of 12.3s and 4th in 200m with a time of 26.2s, Brooke Oram 3rd in 1500m, 2nd in Javelin with a distance of 22.21m and 6th in Discus, Lauren Oram 6th in Javelin with a distance of 21.67m, 6th in 800m and 6th in Discus • Results from the East Anglian League Track and Field Athletics Competition Round 2: Brooke Oram 3rd overall in 1500m in U15-U17 category and was 2nd for her age group and 2nd in Javelin • Lauren Oram finished 2nd in Javelin • Results from the Suffolk Schools’ County Athletics Championships in Bury St Edmunds: Joshua Oshunrinde 1st in 100m finals, Thomas Owusu-Brew 1st in Long Jump, Maxwell Birtwistle 3rd in 100m and 200m finals, Brooke Oram 3rd in 1500m, Lauren Oram 3rd in 800m, Madeleine Chambers 3rd in Shot Putt, Poppy Branton 4th in 1500m, Rose Branton 5th in 100m heats and Mariia Vakhrusheva 6th in Shot Putt • Brooke Oram was awarded the best athlete in her age category for the East Anglian League at the Great Yarmouth Athletics Club Presentation Evening. She was 3 points away from winning the League. Brooke Oram and Lauren Oram both finished 2nd in their age groups for the club championships • Brooke Oram finished 3rd in 1500m and Poppy Branton finished 4th in the Suffolk Track and Field Championships in lpswich. Brooke also finished 2nd in the Javelin and 3rd in the Discus. Lauren Oram finished 2nd in the Discus and 800m. She also finished 3rd in the 1500m and Javelin. Rose Branton finished 4th in the 100m and 6th in the 800m
54 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • In the Inter-Club Athletics Competition in Great Yarmouth Brooke Oram finished 1st in U15 Girls’ Javelin with a throw that was also longer than those of the U15 and the U17 boys. Brooke finished 6th overall in the 800m for girls and boys and was the first girl in the U15 and U17 age group.
Basketball • U18 team 1st in the first round qualifier for the Suffolk Schools’ Plate Competition • U13 Girls’ Basketball team won the North Suffolk Schools’ Basketball Competition. The team consisted of Poppy Branton, Eirinn Cross, Jessica Ellis, Ellie Oliver, Brooke Oram, Eimear Rattenbury, Elodie Whyte and Lara Wise. The team progressed to the semi-finals but lost in the next round • The U13 Boys’ Basketball team won the North Suffolk Schools’ Basketball Competition. The team consisted of Finley Barbrook, Harry Barbrook, Warren Buist, Liam Cordeschi, Oliver Currie, Reuben Harvey, Sebastian Hills, Oluwaseun Elijah Oridupa (Seun). The team progressed to the semi-finals but lost in the next round.
Biathlon • Results from the Biathlon time trials held at Saint Felix: Elodie Whyte 2nd (U13 Girls), Joshua Stephens 1st, Samuel Stephens 2nd (U14 Boys), Amelia Heard 1st (U19 Girls) • Kamie Lowe finished 2nd at the Eastern Region Biathlon • Kamie Lowe, Joshua Stephens and Samuel Stephens qualified for the British Modern Biathlon Championships. Kamie finished in 15th place, Joshua in 21st place and Samuel in 33rd place • The following pupils qualified for the British Schools’ Modern Biathlon Championships at Crystal Palace: Kamie Lowe – 5th/27, Poppy Brandon – 28th/83, Joshua Stephens – 30th/66, Samuel Stephens – 56th/66 and Elodie Whyte 61th/83.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 55 Cricket • The U12 boys’ cricket team consisting of Finley Barbrook, Harry Barbrook, Ryan Bland, Joab Carr, Oliver Currie, Theodore Ellis, Reuben Harvey, Marcus Moscuzza, Oliver Oldrey, Oluwaseun Elijah Oridupa (Seun), Jack Wilmot and Zhuolin Yang (Bruce) won the Bunbury Cup defeating Framlingham College Prep School in the semi-final and Ipswich School in the final to be crowned Suffolk Champions • Harry De Coteau Spring has again been selected for the Norfolk Cricket Squad • Harry Barbrook, Finley Barbrook and Reuben Harvey were selected for Suffolk Cricket Squad.
Cross Country • Finley Barbrook, Poppy Branton, Michael Cross, Kamie Lowe, Brooke Oram and Lauren Oram were selected to represent Suffolk at the Anglian Schools’ Cross Country Championships in Northampton. The Suffolk Minor Girls’ team (Poppy Branton and Brooke Oram) finished 2nd out of the 5 counties. The Suffolk Inter Girls’ team (Kamie Lowe) also finished 2nd out of the 5 counties. The Suffolk Senior Girls’ team (Lauren Oram) finished 1st. Suffolk was the overall winner for the 11th consecutive year • Poppy Branton was first on the reserve list to represent Suffolk at the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships • Poppy Branton represented Suffolk in the Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships • The girls’ team consisting of Eirinn Cross, Jessica Ellis, Brooke Oram, Eimear Rattenbury, Elodie Whyte and Lara Wise finished in 2nd place in the ESAA Cross Country Cup Competition. Brooke Oram won her race. The boys’ team consisting of Finley Barbrook, Harry Barbrook, Oliver Currie, Marcus Moscuzza, Joshua Stephens and Samuel Stephens finished 3rd in their races. Both teams progressed to the Regional finals
56 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • Poppy Branton, Rose Branton and Elodie Whyte took part in the ECCA National Cross Country Championships in Nottingham • The results of the Suffolk Cross Country Championships at Heveningham Hall: Poppy Branton 5th, Brooke Oram 7th and Elodie Whyte 17th (Girls’ U13), Rose Branton 12th (Girls’ U15) and Lauren Oram 8th (U17 women’s) • The results of the East Anglian Prep Schools’ Cross Country Competition: Poppy Branton 3rd, Brooke Oram 4th, Elodie Whyte 8th and Eirinn Cross 19th. The U13 girls’ team won the team competition • In the Saint Felix Schools’ Cross Country Competition: U12 Boys Finley Barbrook 1st, Harry Barbrook 2nd, Marcus Moscuzza 3rd, Oliver Currie 7th (Team A) Joab Carr 8th, Jack Wilmot 12th, Zhuolin Yang (Bruce) 13th, Ryan Bland 16th (Team B) Saint Felix Team A 1st U13 Girls Poppy Branton 1st, Brooke Oram 2nd, Elodie Whyte 3rd, Eirinn Cross 5th (Team A) Lara Wise 6th, Eimear Rattenbury 7th, Jessica Ellis 8th, Ellie Oliver 11th (Team B) Saint Felix Team A 1st, Saint Felix Team B 2nd U13 Boys Joshua Stephens 2nd, Samuel Stephens 9th, Lee Yao Qi Lin 10th, Harry De Coteau Spring 12th The U13 boys’ team 3rd • At the Houghton Hall Cross Country Competition Brooke Oram 1st in girls’ U13 and U15 categories. Lauren Oram 1st in the girls’ U17 category and 17th overall in U17, Senior and Veterans’ categories • At the Framlingham Castle Cross Country Competition boys and girls aged 11-16 years old ran together: Brooke Oram 43rd and Elodie Whyte 61st • At the Royston Cross Country Competition Brooke Oram 5th, Lauren Oram 2nd and Jeremias Tacke 2nd
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 57 • Brooke Oram and Lauren Oram competed at the Eastern Athletic Association Cross Country Championships. Brooke in 2nd in U13 girls’ race and Lauren 4th in U17 girls’ race • Brooke Oram and Lauren Oram competed at the Horsford Cross Country Competition. Brooke Oram 1st in U13 category for boys and girls. Lauren Oram 2nd in U17 age group and 6th for women overall • At the Inter Club Cross Country Competition at Framlingham: Poppy Branton 3rd, Brooke Oram 4th (U13 Girls) and Rose Branton 1st and Lauren Oram 5th (U15/U17 Girls) • Brooke Oram 2nd overall in the Suffolk Cross Country Winter League 2016/2017 • In the Bungay Boxing Day Groggy Doggy Cross Country Race are as follows: Brooke Oram finished 4th overall and 3rd in the girls’ category Elodie Whyte finished 9th overall and 4th in the girls’ category Lauren Oram finished 6th overall (U17) and 5th in the women’s category.
Cycling Eirinn Cross took part in the Big Bike Ride and rode 200 miles.
Duathlon Poppy Branton finished 2nd in the 1st event of the Tri-Season at the Bedford Autodrome Duathlon 2017 Eastern Region League.
Football • Harry Barbrook and Finley Barbrook continue to play for Ipswich Town Academy competing against teams such as Colchester United, Queens Park Rangers, Southend, Swindon Town and West Ham United • The U12 5-a-side football team qualified for the English Schools’ Regional Finals. The team consisted of Harry Barbrook, Finley Barbrook, Ryan Bland, Oliver Currie, Reuben Harvey and Oluwaseun Elijah Oridupa (Seun).
Games Mark Award Saint Felix School Senior PE Department has been awarded the Sainsbury’s School Games Silver Mark.
58 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Golf • Jessica Buck won the Bungay Golf Girls’ Nett prize • Jessica Buck and Benjamin Newman took part in the Junior Schools’ Golf Cup at Sunningdale Golf Club. They finished 6th out of twenty schools • Jessica Buck finished 3rd out of 27 girls in the Junior Ladies’ Cup Competition at Sunningdale Golf Club with a Nett Score of 60 • Benjamin Newman won the Suffolk County Golf U14 Skills Challenge • Jessica Buck and Benjamin Newman took part in the Suffolk Schools’ Golf Association Championships at Fynn Valley. Benjamin won the Best Boys’ Nett Division 1 Score and Jessica won the Girls’ Stableford Award • Jessica Buck and Benjamin Newman finished 10th out of 25 schools in the National Junior Schools’ Finals at Radley College. Benjamin finished 4th overall out of 50 in the individual competition.
Hockey • Oliver Currie was selected for the Norfolk Hockey Academy • Oliver Currie won the East of England Region Cup as part of the Norfolk U12 Hockey team, beating Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire and Suffolk • Oliver Currie won Player of the Season at Harleston Magpies’ Presentation Evening.
Modern Triathlon • Kamie Lowe is ranked 3rd in the National Youth Ranking Competitions for the Modern Triathlon in the U17 age group • Kamie Lowe was selected for the Great Britain Youth Team to compete at the International Youth Competition in March at Solihull • Kamie Lowe represented Great Britain at the U17 National Championships in Lisbon, Portugal and finished in 3rd place • Kamie Lowe has been selected to represent Great Britain in the European U17 Modern Triathlon Championships in Bulgaria in July.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 59 Moto Cross Reuben Harvey competed in the Fast Eddy Enduro Championship in Shrewsbury and finished 5th.
Netball Maria Donovan represents Norfolk. She received 3 awards: Player of The Season for her team in the Norwich Junior Development League, Player of the Season for the U14 Norfolk United Academy Squad and Most Improved Player for the Ruby Adult Summer League Team.
Pentathlon • Joshua Stephens has been invited to attend the English Talent Programme for Pentathlon GB • Joshua Stephens has progressed from the Bronze Level Programme to the Silver Level Programme • Kamie Lowe is on the English Talent Programme for Pentathlon GB and has progressed to the Gold Level Programme. Kamie will be on the Great Britain Talent Programme from October.
Rounders The U13 girls’ Rounders team qualified for the County Finals.
Rugby Maxwell Birtwistle has been selected for the Leicester Tigers Development Player Programme.
Sailing • Joseph Drake finished 17th in the Laser World and European Qualifiers at Hayling Island • Joseph Drake finished 6th in the U19 Youth National Sailing Championships at Hayling Island • Joseph Drake finished 10th in the World and European Championships qualifying event at Weymouth • Joseph Drake 35th World and European Championship Qualifiers at Weymouth
60 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • Joseph Drake finished 12th overall from the qualifying events and 7th youth overall which means he has qualified for the World championships in Holland in the summer • Joseph Drake finished 16th Inland Championships Rutland Water • Joseph Drake finished 10th in the World and European Championships qualifying events at Pwllheli • Joseph Drake finished 1st in the Royal Lymington Yacht Club Competition.
Tennis • Three teams competed in the LTA Leagues this year: U13 girls, U13 boys and U15 boys • All teams were unbeaten at home this year • The U15 boys’ tennis team remained unbeaten all season and won their league. They qualified for the Division 2 County Finals. The team consisted of Maxwell Birtwistle, Joshua Cordeschi, Finn Jeffrey and Benjamin Newman • The U13 boys’ tennis team remained unbeaten all season and won their league. The team consisted of Finley Barbrook, Harry Barbrook, Oliver Currie, Reuben Harvey and Joshua Stephens • The U15 girls’ team of Eirinn Cross, Brooke Oram, Lara Wise and Elodie Whyte finished second in their league • The U13 and U15 boys’ tennis teams qualified for the Tennis County Finals. Both teams made it through to the final but finished runners up.
Tetrathlon • Joshua Stephens and Samuel Stephens took part in the East Region Tetrathlon Championships in Watford. Joshua finished 3rd and Samuel finished 4th • Kamie Lowe, Joshua Stephens and Samuel Stephens took part in the British Modern Tetrathlon Championships in Solihull. Joshua finished 9th, Samuel finished 11th and Kamie finished 8th • Kamie Lowe represented Great Britain in the U19 GB Youth Tetrathlon International competition. Kamie finished 13th out of 22 competitors. She was 7th GB team athlete and 3rd U17 GB girl.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 61 Triathlon • Rose Branton finished 4th in the Stradbroke Triathlon • Rose Branton finished 4th and Poppy Branton finished 3rd in the Walden Junior Triathlon • Joseph Drake took part in the East Coast Triathlon. He finished 6th overall and 1st in his age category • Poppy Branton won the East Essex Triathlon • Joseph Drake and Madeleine Chambers took part in the Fritton Lake Triathlon. Joseph won his age group in the Lake Sprint triathlon (750m swim, 20km bike and 5km run) and finished 13th overall out of 177. Madeleine took part in the relay triathlon competing in the 1500m open water swim. She was 2nd fastest with a time of 20.06 • Poppy Branton finished 2nd in the T3 category of the Norwich Triathlon • Rose Branton finished 3rd in the Youth category of the Norwich Triathlon • Poppy Branton finished 2nd in the T3 category at Cambridge Triathlon • Rose Branton finished 5th in Youth category at Cambridge Triathlon.
Swimming British National & Home Counties Summer Championships • In the National Open Water Championships Madeleine Chambers swam in the 3000m and finished a creditable 6th place at the Rother Valley Country Park • Finn Jeffery competed at the British National Championships, Collins Saliboko and Sophie Taylor competed at the ASA English Summer Championships in Sheffield • This year has seen more swimmers qualify for these Championships: Finn Jeffery and Collins Saliboko have qualified in three events each at the British Championships, Chester Leeming, Owen Webster, Katy Chambers, Sophie Taylor and Sonia Tumiotto have qualified for the English and Jessica Westlake for the Welsh Summer Championships • Chester Leeming and Owen Webster have achieved automatic qualification for the Open Water event, with several swimmers hoping to attend the East Region Open Water Championships in Norwich to gain qualification for the National event.
62 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 North Suffolk Swimming Saint Felix hosted the Senior Schools’ event and the A Team finished 1st and the B Team finished 2nd. A Team: Joab Carr, Katy Chambers, Eirinn Cross, Finn Jeffery, Chester Leeming, Georgia Pleasants, Daniel White and Lara Wise. B Team: Polly Chan, Liana Moore, Benjamin Newman, Eimear Rattenbury, Joshua Stephens, Samuel Stephens, Owen Webster and Elodie Whyte.
County Level • Joab Carr, Katy Chambers, Finn Jeffery, Chester Leeming and Clara Watson-Flowers represented Suffolk at the Junior Inter-Counties Gala in Luton • Finn Jeffery, Freya Lines, Jake Thomas-Mansfield, Jessica Westlake, Daniel White (Suffolk) and Kamie Lowe (Bedfordshire) were selected for the National County Championships held in Sheffield • A squad of 41 swimmers from Senior, Prep Department and club members competed in 420 events winning 39 gold medals, 41 silver medals, 38 bronze medals and achieving 164 Regional Qualifying Times at this year’s ASA Suffolk County Championships finishing 3rd in the Top Club Challenge.
East Region Level • Winter Short Course Championships held in Luton saw 12 swimmers qualify • Summer Championships – these are split into two x three day competitions for U14 and 15 years and over. The first weekend for the older swimmers saw 10 swimmers travel to Luton and compete in 71 events winning 3 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze and 14 other finalists and finishing 9th in the medal table. The second weekend proved to be even better with 14 swimmers competing in 88 events winning 8 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze and 19 other finalist finishing 5th in the medal table. The combined medal table saw the club finish in 6th place in the Club Top Medal Table out of over 85 clubs.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 63 International • Collins Saliboko, Sonia Tumiotto, Smriti Gokarn and Anjani Taylor participated in the Tanzania National Championships winning 27 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals and broke 20 National Records • Sonia Tumiotto represented Tanzania at the FINA World Short Course Championships in Canada and has been selected for the FINA World Long Course Championships in Budapest in July 2017 • Collins Saliboko has been selected to represent Tanzania in the Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in the Bahamas in July • Collins Saliboko and Sonia Tumiotto have been selected to swim at the FINA World Junior Championship in Indianapolis, USA in August 2017.
Old Felician News
• Fiona Edmond (née Macdonald) won the English Women’s Senior Golf Championship held at South Staffordshire Golf Club at her fi rst attempt • The Old Felician Golf Team won the Runyard Trophy and fi nished 4th in the Tassie Cup, their best result for many years • Jakob Goodman has been selected for the GB Team at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Israel and for England at the Commonwealth Youth Games, Bahamas.
64 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT Academic
• Fifteen pieces of creative writing were selected for publication in the Young Writers’ National Competition entitled Crazy Creatures: Freya Attwell, Hamish Barnes, Rufus Carr, Lewis Dunn, Sophie Everett, Lara Fisher, Rory Hunt, Emily Oldman, Roshan Piratheepan, Francisco Sanchez, Esmae Shaw-Clutten, Reo Snowling, Isla Webster, Freddie Whyte-Wood and Aaron Zhang • The Preparatory Department celebrated European Day of Languages • The Preparatory Department celebrated National Poetry Day by writing a departmental poem.
Art
Fourteen pieces of art work were chosen to be exhibited at the Young Art East Anglia Exhibition at the Peter Pears Gallery in Aldeburgh: Sophie Everett (Highly Commended), Benjamin Every (Highly Commended), Daniel Franco-Key, Tia Hillier, Mustafa Jaohar, Ava Lines, Emily Oldman, Edward Oldrey, Amelia Prowse, Reo Snowling (Highly Commended), Nonhlanhla Thole (Noni), Clara Watson-Flowers, Rose Webster (Highly Commended) and Imogen Whyte. Amelia Prowse’s work was awarded third place in her category.
Charitable Activities
• Harvest Festival collection of food and Chapel collection • Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Appeal • Staff took part in ‘Movember’ and raised nearly £600 for charity • Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day • Children in Need day raised £235 • RNLI SOS Day raised £263 • Readathon raised £269.10 for children’s charities • Year 4 Cake Sale raised £75 for Diabetic Charity JDRF.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 65 Cultural
• The Department celebrated ‘Roald Dahl Day’ in September • Year 5 and Year 6 attended a talk hosted by Matt Dickinson, award winning author and explorer • All four classes presented Chapel Services which they wrote themselves • Year 6 visited Broadland Care Home in Oulton Broad to sing Christmas Carols to residents • West Midlands Children’s Theatre production of ‘The Legend of the Golden Dragon’ • Valentine’s Disco • World Book Day and book swap • Saint Felix Day celebrated with Assembly and Chapel Service • The children created their own costumes for the Southwold Arts Festival parade entitled ‘Take Flight’ • The children took part in the art project on sea waste in conjunction with Gallery Thea.
Equestrianism
• Louisa Everett won 6th place in the Grass Roots Regional Final • Louisa Everett is a member of RPL and the qualifying teams 2016/17 and also a member of a team placed 2nd at Hickstead in the 70cm National Eventers’ Challenge Final • All equestrian team members have represented their local riding clubs and pony clubs at both National and Area Level in Dressage, Show Jumping or Eventing.
Music
• String Group established with weekly rehearsals • Autumn Concert with a wide variety of solo and ensemble performances • Choir sang at the Southwold Christmas Lights Switch-On • Choir sang on the dray as part of the Southwold Arts Festival opening celebration
66 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • Choir sang with the Senior Department and the Saint Felix Choral Society at the Spring Concert in Blythburgh Church • Theodore Meldrum sang with the Jubilee Opera at Aldeburgh.
Examination Results
Ava Lines Grade 3 Singing Distinction Emily Oldman Grade 3 Violin Merit Emily Oldman Grade 3 Piano Pass Charlotte Rainer Grade 2 Musical Theatre Distinction George Goodby Grade 2 Piano Merit Lara Fisher Grade 2 Piano Pass Ryan Kennedy Grade 2 Piano Pass Charlotte Rainer Grade 1 Piano Merit Lara Fisher Grade 1 Singing Merit Isla Webster Grade 1 Singing Merit Samuel Parle Grade 1 Electronic Keyboard Pass Louisa Everett Grade 1 Flute Pass Ava Lines Grade 1 Flute Pass Mustafa Jaohar Grade 1 Piano Pass Priyangga Piratheepan Grade 1 Piano Pass Saffron Vine Grade 1 Piano Pass Isla Webster Grade 1 Piano Pass Sophie Everett Grade 1 Singing Pass Saffron Vine Grade 1 Violin Pass Rima Jaohar Preparatory Test* Piano Roshan Piratheepan Preparatory Test* Piano *Preparatory Level Music tests are not graded
Speech and Drama
• ‘The Keymaster’ production was performed over two nights to nearly 400 people. All Preparatory Department pupils performed and played a total of 148 characters
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 67 • Speech and Drama students performed in the Senior Department Drama Performance Evening • All LAMDA Speech and Drama students achieved Distinctions: Ryan Kennedy Grade 1 Acting Distinction Emily Oldman Grade 1 Acting Distinction Ethan Rattenbury Grade 1 Acting Distinction Leyla Sanchez Grade 1 Acting Distinction Clara Watson-Flowers Grade 1 Acting Distinction Imogen Whyte Grade 1 Acting Distinction Alice Barker-Harrison Entry Level Drama Distinction Harrison Bell Entry Level Drama Distinction Jacob Hart Entry Level Drama Distinction Tia Hillier Entry Level Drama Distinction James Hunt Entry Level Drama Distinction Amelia Prowse Entry Level Drama Distinction Rose Webster Entry Level Drama Distinction
Sport
The Preparatory Department was awarded the School Games Gold Kite Mark Award.
Athletics • Ethan Rattenbury 9th in the British Modern Biathlon Championships in Solihull • The Year 5 and Year 6 athletics team 3rd in the Lowestoft and Beccles School Sport Partnership Indoor Athletics Competition • Ethan Rattenbury has been selected to represent Norfolk in the Regional Sportshall Athletics Championships • Ethan Rattenbury, Rose Webster and Imogen Whyte competed at the British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships at Crystal Palace • Ethan Rattenbury 1st in 100m and 800m, Ben Currie 2nd in 800m and Daniel Franco-Key 3rd in the Long Jump at the Eastern Area Prep Schools’ Athletics Competition. Ava Lines equalled the school record for U10 girls’ Ball Throw at this event
68 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • Ethan Rattenbury is the Norfolk U11 Quadkids Athletics Champion • Harrison Bell has qualified for the National Prep Schools’ Athletics Final in the Shot Putt.
Cricket The Year 6 cricket team won the LBSSP Kwik Cricket Tournament.
Cross Country • Five runners qualified for the East Area Prep School Cross Country Championships • Louisa Everett was selected to represent the U11 Suffolk Cross Country Team at the Anglian Championships • Norwich Lower School Cross-Country Competition: U8 and U10 boys 1st, U11 girls 2nd. Individuals: Benjamin Every 1st, Ethan Rattenbury 1st, Ben Currie 3rd, Louisa Everett 3rd • Saint Felix Cross Country Event: Benjamin Every 1st, Harriet Etherington 1st, Ethan Rattenbury 1st, Ben Currie 2nd, Louisa Everett 1st. The teams also won U8 boys, U10 boys and U11 girls • Louisa Everett 2nd at East Anglia Prep Schools’ Cross Country • The U9 boys, U11 girls and U11 boys all won their events at the LBSSP Cross Country Competition at Worlingham Primary School. The U9 girls finished 3rd in their competition. Benjamin Every finished 2nd, Sophie Everett 3rd, Ethan Rattenbury 1st, Ben Currie 2nd, Louisa Everett 1st and Imogen Whyte 2nd.
Cycling All Year 5 children passed their Level 2 Bikeability training.
Football • The U11 boys’ team 2nd in the Saint Felix Football Tournament • The U11 boys’ team won the tournament at Moreton Hall • The U11 boys’ team went on an overnight football tour to Finborough School.
Hockey Ben Currie was named Harsleston Magpies U10 hockey player of the season.
JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 69 Rugby • The U10 rugby team defeated Town Close 30-0 • The U10 rugby team 2nd at the Norwich School Rugby Tournament • Five Year 5 boys represented Southwold U10 rugby team at Welford Road (home of Leicester Tigers) in the final of the Prima Tiger Bowl and finished runners up out of the original 84 teams that entered.
Swimming • The Preparatory Department qualified for the ESSA Primary School Relay Championships in Sheffield and after another amazing day of racing they returned triumphant by winning the Freestyle relay, finishing 2nd in the mixed stroke relay and achieved equal 1st as the Overall Small Schools’ Team for the third consecutive year. Congratulations to Harrison Bell, Oscar Cole, Nonhlanhla Thole (Noni), Clara Watson-Flowers and Imogen Whyte • Following changes to the competition rules in the North Suffolk Swimming Junior Schools’ Gala, Saint Felix has been able to enter a team of Harrison Bell, Oscar Cole, Keanan Cross, Jacob Hart, Ava Lines, Nonhlanhla Thole (Noni), Clara Watson-Flowers and Imogen Whyte, winning seven of the eight races and 2nd in the other.
Tennis Daniel Franco-Key has been selected to play tennis for Suffolk and has taken part in regional training days.
Trips
• Year 3 visited Southwold Museum to test their historical skills • Year 6 visited The Crucial Crew • Pupils from Year 5 and Year 6 went to Twickenham for the Varsity Match • Representatives from Year 6 took part in The Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey • Year 3 visited Stonham Barns Owl Sanctuary for book study • Year 5 visited Sutton Hoo – Anglo Saxon History • Year 3 visited Norwich Castle – A day with the Ancient Egyptians
70 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 • Year 4 visited Norwich Castle – A day with the Romans • Year 6 visited Gressenhall – WWII Evacuee day • Year 3 and Year 4 enjoyed three days at Hilltop • Year 5 enjoyed four days at Kingswood • Year 6 enjoyed a week at Hautbois House.
PRE-PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT
Art
• Art work has been selected for the ‘Out of This World’ exhibition at Peter Pears Gallery in aid of Cancer Research. The successful pupils were Seyomeh Adzaku, Darcey Impson, Sebastian O’Connell and Joshua Tallamy (Year 2) • Southwold Summer Art Exhibition – ‘Take Flight’.
Events
• Harvest Festival • Children in Need • Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Appeal • Nativity – ‘Babushka’ • West Midlands Children’s Theatre visit • RNLI Fundraising SOS Day • World Book Day celebration – ‘Traditional Tales’ • Easter celebration of poetry and song • French Assembly and Breakfast • Grandparents’ Day with lunch.
Music
Darcey Impson took her Preparatory Test for Piano.
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• Year 2 girls competed in a skittleball competition in Lowestoft • U7 Open Day Invitation Football Tournament.
Visits
• Field trips to the Benacre Estate and Southwold Beach • Year 2 visited Orford Castle, Framlingham Castle, the Alfred Cory Lifeboat Museum and the Benacre Estate Open Day • Year 1 visited Sam Cole’s Fish Plant, Southwold Cannons, the Sailors’ Reading Room and Museum.
Nursery
• Celebrated Shrove Tuesday making, tossing and eating pancakes • RNLI visit by Mr Rudd • Celebration of Chinese New Year • The children dressed up as their favourite traditional tale character and paraded in a Bronte Assembly on World Book Day • Wrentham Fire Fighters came to visit • Fund raiser for Children In Need by wearing yellow and/or spotty clothes • Fund raiser for Red Nose Day by wearing red clothing • The children celebrated the Queen’s 90th Birthday • The children stayed silent for two minutes to mark Remembrance Day • We celebrated Saint Felix Day • Swimming Gala • Sports Day and Family Picnic in the Nursery Garden.
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