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Chronicle 2017 2 3 Contents 1 Hellos and goodbyes 05 2 School news 17 3 Performing arts 23 4 Art gallery 31 5 Trips 55 6 Outreach 65 7 Leadership 69 8 CCF 73 9 Words 81 10 Societies 85 11 Houses 97 12 Sport 103 4 Editorial team 1 Hellos and goodbyes Sam Miah and Zain Rishi Performing arts Angus Forshaw Trips Kunal Dalal and Akil Khalid Hellos and Leadership Aloysius Lip goodbyes CCF Gabriel Wong and Ashish Patel Societies Luqman Abu El Foul, Hayaan Choudhury and Aloysius Lip Houses Jared Tang Sport Tushar Roy, Marcus Holding and Altay Gardiner Staff Editor Matthew Bartlett Art Editor Bradley Spencer Words Editors Gemma Babb and Mercedes Romon-Alonso Many thanks to David Ash and Chris Boardman for providing many of the photographs used in Chronicle. 6 Hellos Hellos 7 Rosie Morris Swimming and water polo Roxanne Irani Andrew Langlands Life before KES Mark Fenton I’m originally from Moseley, and I studied at King Edward VI Biology Director of Hockey Handsworth School for Girls. I was managing to play water polo Chief Master and history at a rather high level for my age, and when I eventually started Life before KES to get really quite involved with the sport, I ended up moving to Manchester to train full-time with the Great Britain women’s I did my first degree in life sciences at the Life before KES I was born in Scotland and moved to England when I was team. During my eight years in Manchester, I had some time to Life before KES University of Mumbai in India, and after I was born in the East End of London, (so I can in theory call myself cockney, three. I’ve spent most of my life living in Bromsgrove, study at the Open University for a degree in maths and finance that I came to the UK to do my masters in even though nobody has ever heard my voice and thought that was the case!). though for my degree I went to Loughborough University and also worked part-time at Manchester Grammar School in a environmental science at UCL. I then worked Having two parents who were both doctors led me to rather lazily assume that I to study PE and sports science – initially alongside maths. similar teaching role to what I’m now doing here at KES. as a sustainability consultant at KPMG for two too would grow up to be a medic. Fortunately, I had a biology teacher with whom I was fortunate to win some hockey titles during my time at years, but I eventually decided that I wanted I really did not get along, which encouraged me to change my plans. I moved on university, and when I moved on to do premiership hockey to move into teaching, and taught at an IB Why swimming and water polo? to study something that I actually enjoyed: history at Peterhouse College, for Cannock Hockey Club, the team won the premiership school in Mumbai for two years before coming I’ve always loved them. I swam competitively until I was about Cambridge. After I graduated, I went to the UCL Institute of Education to do my three times as well as two European Silver Medals. I then back to England to teach biology here at KES. 15 and have been playing water polo ever since I was very teacher training and spent nine years after that teaching in two schools in began my teaching career at Bromsgrove School, where I young. During my career, I’ve competed at the London Olympic Chelmsford and then as the deputy head of Sir Joseph Williamson’s taught for 13 years before eventually coming to work at KES. Why biology? Games, the Commonwealth Games, where I was fortunate to Mathematical School in Kent. Finally, I was headmaster of Dr Challoner’s win gold, as well as other European Championships and World There’s just so much happening in biology, Grammar School in Amersham for 15 years. Championships. So, they have both been sports that I have and it never ceases to fascinate me that we Why hockey? When I was around seven years old, the head of PE at my always been good at and really enjoyed. As a swimming teacher, keep learning more and more about how school gave me the chance to join in a game of hockey with it’s also incredibly rewarding to be able to train a complete Why history? our bodies and the bodies of animals work, I’ve always enjoyed political history in particular and understanding what some of the older boys. I was quite shy back then, but I non-swimmer to develop their confidence in the water. I find (especially with the recent advances that are motivated people in the past, why people behave in particular ways, how thought I would give it a go, and I ended up getting hooked it quite special when I see the first moment it clicks for them occurring in genetics and health). Oh, and it’s societies work, as well as how the balance of power between the rulers and the after the first session! From then on, I just wanted to get and they manage to swim their first width or begin to cope in the best subject! ruled has changed over time. It’s something that I’ve always found fascinating, better, which involved doing a lot of hard work and practice deeper water. along with the multifaceted nature of the subject itself and how there exists such on my own. I was also asked to coach some regional sides a variety of interesting periods and types of history in which almost everyone can Hobbies in hockey when I was 16, which is something I thoroughly I like to paint in my spare time, usually with Hobbies take an interest. enjoyed. I would say that it was through coaching the I really enjoy being outdoors, so I like to go for walks on watercolours. I’m hoping to do an art course sport that I then became interested in teaching it in a weekends and travel as much as I can. I’m also a big lover of over the summer and get back into painting school environment. food, so I enjoy cooking and going out to eat when I’m free. Hobbies with oils, which is something that I haven’t Music has always been a big interest of mine. I have run a choir called The Having spent so much time with different teams around the actually done since GCSEs. I also love scuba Ramsey Singers for 30 years, ever since I was a student, and twice a year we globe, I’ve been fortunate to develop a strong group of friends in diving, but only ever in warm waters that have Hobbies sing in various cathedrals, go abroad on tour or sometimes even stand in for I like to play golf in my spare time, usually in the summer both the UK and the rest of the world. Currently, my best friends lots of fish, so nowhere here unfortunately! professional choirs when they are on their breaks. We’ve also got some songs holidays, when it’s a bit warmer! I’ve got a wife and two are in Spain, Australia and New Zealand, which leaves me quite a that you can download from iTunes if you’re interested! Cricket is another of my young children, so I also enjoy spending as much time as I few opportunities for travelling and catching up at the same time! favourites. I have been coaching county cricket for Buckinghamshire for the past Favourite... can with them. Food: Anything Italian. 15 years, and that takes up a lot of my time during the summer. Favourite… Book: Growing up, I loved reading The Diary Favourite… Food: I’ve got a real sweet tooth, so it’s unfortunately cakes and Favourite… of Anne Frank. But if I had to name a favourite Food: I always look forward to fish and chips on a chocolate, which is probably not something you want to hear Food: I like a lot of things, but if you pushed me then I would probably go for a now, I would probably say Freakonomics by Friday lunchtime. from a PE teacher! But I reckon that it has actually given me a Steven D Levitt, just because of all of the fairly rare steak with a nice bottle of Merlot. Book: I’m quite into psychology books. So Matthew Syed’s surprisingly good incentive to train harder, as it means that I can interesting connections that he makes about Book: I don’t really think that anybody should be able to answer this question, Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice and afford to have the odd treat. our world today. As a biologist, I also like to as hopefully you’ll have read so many books over your lifetime that you struggle Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow are among my Book: I can’t really find a favourite. However, I loved reading read anything by Richard Dawkins, and to name just one as your favourite. However, I was recently prompted to read favourites. But as a father of two, I don’t currently get a great Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka and also Rose Tremain’s another recent favourite would probably be Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh when I noticed there was a TV adaptation of it deal of time for reading! The Road Home.