KES CHRONICLE 2002 CHRONICLE Contents Helios and Goodbyes Features Drama Words & Pictures Trips Music Houses Societies Sport KES CHRONICLE 2002 CHRONICLE Editorial Staff Helios & Goodbyes David Hughes Features Michael Fanner Drama Chris Hedges Words Will Tattersdill Trips Chris Hindley & Jonathan Adamson Music Samir Deger-Sen Houses Tariq Hussain Societies Somanka Deb Sport Ravi Tiwari & Mitesh Jalota Editor Bhavesh Patel Cover Artwork Saman Ziaie Section Banner Artwork Jonathan Chan Staff Tom Hosty Page 3 KES CHRONICLE 2002 KES CHRONICLE 2002 CHRONICLE 11 Editoria What we do in life, echoes in eternity As editor of Chronicle 2002, it is my good fortune and indeed honour to open the magazine with a few choice words and the readers misfortune that he or she must pass through this before moving on to the magazine proper. I must start by thanking and congratulating in this year's editorial team for the effort and hard work they hâve put| into this publication. They have worked well together, applying subtle pressure where necessary to ensure deadlines are met and the magazine maintains its high standards. The Resources Centre staff are simply incredibile in transforming sheets of paper into the glossy masterpiece you see before you. Dr Hosty as editor in chief remained alarmingly cairn throughout, unless of course articles disappeared, there was a lack of photos or the quality of English feil short of what one might expect. His leadership and organisation was the driving force behind the good shin Chronicle, but I cannot stress enough how much this production is a team effort. Now, if I could implore you to resist turning straight to the Sport moos section to try and find that amusing photo of Oliver Goodwin playing hockey in a skirt, I would like to say a few words about our great school. KATE LAVENDER ART (part-time) In its 450th year, we have celebrated the successes ¡t has achieved, and we can all be proud of the réputation it has gained. Chronicle is a good read, capturing ali of the school's activities apart perhaps from the académie side. But surely that is the most important part of KES? Or is it? I have always felt that the variety of opportunities available Chronicle: Will you tell us a little about your childhood? here is what makes the place so special and successful. Sport, Drama, Music, Debating, Travel, Societies the list is Does it anger you that Art is often viewed as 'an easy endless. If you want to do something at KES, the chances are that someone somewhere has done it before and henee option'? Mrs Lavender: Well, Fin a Birmingham person, but in fact you can take it up. It is disappointing, though, to find people sitting in classrooms or in the tuck shop at lunchtìmes I went to school in Edinburgh, and I boarded there from Well, if people feel that way then they obviously haven't doing nothing but "hanging with my mates". My advice to everyone at KES: get involved in everything you can. Size just before I was seven years old until I went to Art School. ability and expérience are not decisive: just give it a go and don't be shy. Time here passes more quickly than you done Art in school recently, because most GCSE and A- think, and no one wants to leave with regrets for what they could have done. Never forget how lucky you are to be So my childhood was very much a northern childhood. level students find Art quite a heavy bürden. It is time- here, but more importantly never let to teachers forget how lucky they are to have taught people like you. consuming, and, quite disconcertingly for those bright Where else have you taught, apart from at King Edward's? pupils who walk into exams having done very little work in Bhavesh Patel préparation, the syllabus is mainly coursework. There is no Atthis moment I also teach at Camp Hill Girls' : Tve taught quick way of doing it. in many Birmingham schools and now I'm fortunate in I should begin, as always, by recording my obligation to the Sixth Form students who did the legwork for this édition being at the best. of Chronicle. The job of a Section Editor involves a fair amount of chasing around and nagging people (staff and fellow As a teacher of Art, I presume that a proportion of your pupils) in an attempt to persuade them to produce copy in time for publication, and it also involves a lot of slaving hobbies are Art-related? Why is Art a good subject to undertake, and indeed to over a hot keyboard, Converting some (occasionally) unnervingly inappropriate material into the finished text you see teach? here. This years editors, like last years, were a pleasure to work with, and rose uncomplainingly and ably to the Yes, nigh-on everytiiing. I am so lucky, as challenges of the task. my hobbies are my job. My family knows Well, everything we look at has been that holidays are spent looking for visual I should like to offer a special thank you to Bhavesh Patel for his cheerful designed by someone, and I think Art is aids for the next Art project. I spend my contributions as Editor, especially since he will be the last KES Student to hold necessary to make people visually time doing photography, lino-cutting, this post, at least under the current dispensation. The tradition of having a literate and chscriminating. pupil as Editor of Chronicle goes back to the days of seventh-term Oxbridge drawing - everything I do is visual. entry: in those days third-year Upper Sixth boys had the time at their disposai Do you think that Art has sufficient to superintend the final préparation of the magazine, which occupies the first Finally, are you going to follow the prominence at King Edward's? half of the Autumn Term. But the position is an anachronism now that the example set by other part-time teachers Sixth Former who is editing Chronicle actually leaves school in July, before the It's difficult for me to say. I teach groups who have taught here over the years by major work on the magazine begins. who seem very keen, and we have quite disappearing into the sunset a mere year FinaIly, thanks must go as usual to the Resources Centre staff, and especially substantial A-level groups. So, as far as after arrìving? to Diane Smith, who assembles the pages of the magazine; to Bradley Spencer I can tell, Art is a fully-fledged subject for producing the Pictures section; to David Ash and Tamara Hodgin for their nere. However, I am aware sometimes I regret to say, yes! I didn't plan to leave assistance with items in French and German. Most of all, thanks must go to ali that boys will use the excuse of so promptly, but I have just found a of you who wrote the articles, reviews, poems, reports and interviews which homework for other subjects for not lovely old Georgian cottage in Devon, so constitute this snapshot of King Edwards Schools 450th year. having spent long on my homework. I am leaving teaching behind, most probably permanently, to pursue my Tom Hosty photography. Page 4 HELLOS Page 5 KES CHRONICLE 2002 KES CHRONICLE 2002 CHRONICLE 11 Editoria What we do in life, echoes in eternity As editor of Chronicle 2002, it is my good fortune and indeed honour to open the magazine with a few choice words and the readers misfortune that he or she must pass through this before moving on to the magazine proper. I must start by thanking and congratulating in this year's editorial team for the effort and hard work they hâve put| into this publication. They have worked well together, applying subtle pressure where necessary to ensure deadlines are met and the magazine maintains its high standards. The Resources Centre staff are simply incredibile in transforming sheets of paper into the glossy masterpiece you see before you. Dr Hosty as editor in chief remained alarmingly cairn throughout, unless of course articles disappeared, there was a lack of photos or the quality of English feil short of what one might expect. His leadership and organisation was the driving force behind the good shin Chronicle, but I cannot stress enough how much this production is a team effort. Now, if I could implore you to resist turning straight to the Sport moos section to try and find that amusing photo of Oliver Goodwin playing hockey in a skirt, I would like to say a few words about our great school. KATE LAVENDER ART (part-time) In its 450th year, we have celebrated the successes ¡t has achieved, and we can all be proud of the réputation it has gained. Chronicle is a good read, capturing ali of the school's activities apart perhaps from the académie side. But surely that is the most important part of KES? Or is it? I have always felt that the variety of opportunities available Chronicle: Will you tell us a little about your childhood? here is what makes the place so special and successful. Sport, Drama, Music, Debating, Travel, Societies the list is Does it anger you that Art is often viewed as 'an easy endless. If you want to do something at KES, the chances are that someone somewhere has done it before and henee option'? Mrs Lavender: Well, Fin a Birmingham person, but in fact you can take it up. It is disappointing, though, to find people sitting in classrooms or in the tuck shop at lunchtìmes I went to school in Edinburgh, and I boarded there from Well, if people feel that way then they obviously haven't doing nothing but "hanging with my mates".