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Rye St Antony School Magazine 2018 Rye St Antony School Magazine 2018 Rye St Antony School Magazine 2018 Contents Headmistress’s Report Senior Prize giving Headmistress’s Report Headmistress’s Report at Senior Prize Giving 3 Senior Prizes 7 Mrs Coode’s Report at Prep School Prize Giving 9 at Senior Prize Giving Prep School Prizes 11 Foundation and Early Years 13 ur 88th year began with the arrival of the 2017 The Ivy King Award A-level results – 55% grades A*, A or B and an was established by Year 1 14 average UCAS points score per candidate of 216.0 Gwen King in 1993 in Year 2 15 in the new tariff. University places were quickly memory of her sister, Year 3 16 Oconfirmed in a diversity of subjects. Lyn Yeoh with 3A* secured following Ivy’s death Year 4 17 her place to study Engineering here in Oxford at Christ Church. on 26 March that year. Anam Choudhry with 3A won her place to study Medicine at Gwen was specific Year 5 18 Cardiff. Veronica Huckstep’s 2A* and 2A have qualified her to about the purpose Year 6 19 read History at St Andrews. Anna Wooding with 2A and 2B of the award: it was Dick Whittington 21 and her place at Sussex is fulfilling her life-long ambition to to recognise merit Prep School Physical Education 23 study International Development. and support need. Of the GCSE candidates, almost everyone achieved grade C Gwen’s gift provided Senior Physical Education 24 or above in five or more subjects. Individual successes included the initial funding, Sports Awards 26 those for Valeria Chembartseva (4A* 3A), Alice Charles (2A* and many former Religious Life 27 7A), Clare Horden (9A* 2A) and Rachel Lo (11A*). Alice has pupils and friends of Religious Studies 28 recently been elected a Patrician and Sports Captain while Rye supported Gwen Clare has been elected Deputy Head Girl. With Barley Calcutt with contributions. Art, Design and Textiles: A-level 29 as Head Girl and a strong team of fellow Patricians working Following her death Music 30 alongside them, they and their fellow members of Sixth in 2000, the award was renamed the King Award, and over the School Production: Dido and Aeneas 32 Form are already stepping up to their new responsibilities in years many pupils have benefited from it in the development LAMDA 33 succession to the outgoing team led by Nicole Giramata and of individual interests and talents. A further award, the Roisin Seacole as Deputy Head Girls and Finella Hinton as Clifford Travel Award, was established in 2013 by Di Gibbons Drama 34 Head Girl, Finella also having served as Sports Captain. in memory of her parents, John and Marjorie Clifford, Rye’s Mathematics 36 Scholarships have been awarded this year at 16+ to Eloise first Bursars, and this £250 award is made each year within English 38 Fleming, Ga In Song and Hermione Watt, and it is Hermione the King Award. The 2018 Clifford Travel Award goes to Art, Design and Textiles: GCSE 41 who follows Clare Horden as winner of the Patsy Sumpter Ami Oscroft for her scout camp in Switzerland, and thirteen Scholarship. Two 16+ exhibitions have been won by Annabel other projects have been supported by the King Award for Politics 43 McLocklin and Kira Shell. A 13+ sports scholarship has been a range of sports, music and other activities. One project of History 44 awarded to Ruby Illsley, a 13+ science scholarship to Sasha particular note is that of Katherine Pritchard, a registered A Trip to the Battlefields 46 Khmelnitskaya and a 13+ academic scholarship to Olivia British Horse Society (BHS) gold member, who now seeks Library Life 48 Watt, Ruby, Sasha and Olivia all pupils currently in Year 8 at her BHS qualification to become a volunteer for the Riding Rye. Two 11+ sports scholarships have been awarded, one for the Disabled Association. Katherine’s wish to support Food and Nutrition 49 to Megan Jacobs who came to Rye from St Teresa’s School, young people with disabilities comes from her support of her Languages 51 Princes Risborough for the start of Year 6 and the other to younger sister, Lizzie, and Katherine and Lizzie were proud Information and Communication Technology, and Computing 53 Elizabeth Jelfs who is due to transfer from St Teresa’s to to have their entry for a Royal National Lifeboat Institution Science 54 Rye for the start of Year 7; an 11+ academic scholarship has (RNLI) competition selected by the RNLI and the Post Office been won by Frances Watt who came to Rye from St Aloysius as a postcard promoting the work of the RNLI. Operation Wallacea: Honduras 56 School, Oxford for the start of Year 5. Photography 58 Art, Design and Textiles: Key Stage 3 60 Geography 62 Business Studies, Economics and Young Enterprise 64 Sixth Form 65 Sixth Form Destinations 66 Boarding 67 King Award 69 Duke of Edinburgh’s Award 71 Invictus Games 72 Spy@Rye 73 PGL 74 Alison Jones 76 Last Words 79 First Words 80 3 Senior Prize giving Headmistress’s Report Headmistress’s Report Senior Prize giving In art and design, Rye has been involved for the first time does her playing during a morning assembly of one of her From Year 7 Alice Parkin-Wickens has been selected in the intermediate section, Miriam Attou, Nailah Choudhury in the Royal Academy outreach programme, a programme own compositions, a reflective dreamlike piece with echoes for the Oxfordshire County Football Development Squad; and Maddie Shell gave a persuasive invitation to ‘Be of good bringing artists and art historians into schools to share their of Debussy, and it is Sabrina whose exceptional talent as a Charlotte Rothery won a silver medal in the 50m breaststroke cheer’. The Sugg Cup Reading competition was begun by Joyce expertise, while the introduction of A-level Photography last pianist has distinguished the music of our Sunday Masses. at the Wycombe Meet in February and has been selected Sugg, the Newman scholar, during her teaching years at Rye year has generated some powerful images, in particular from The musical year came to a glorious conclusion with Heritage as a county swimmer for Oxfordshire; Maria Moore plays before she went on to become Principal of Newman College, Izzy Boitoult, Tamzin Keown, Ella Matthews, Bella Toms and Opera’s latest production of Cosi fan tutte, translated into for Buckinghamshire County Cricket; Rachel Moore plays Birmingham. Annabel Gracey, Nell Needham and Natlie Erin Forsyth, Tamzin, Ella and Erin’s work being selected for English and conducted by Rye’s Director of Music, Chris Gill, with Oxfordshire Ladies’ Golf. From Year 8 Ruby Illsley in Njumbe gave a memorable rap version of Jack Prelutsky’s The the Oxford Brookes University Founders Day exhibition and with Serenna Wagner, a professional opera singer and one of her South Oxfordshire Hunt Central team competed in the Vampire, Imogen Clark won the intermediate section with an Erin winning first prize in the U18 section. Pieces by Charlotte Rye’s Visiting Teachers of Singing, as Dorabella and the Isis Blenheim Eventer Challenge, a popular competition with evocative reading of Jon Stallworthy’s The Trap and Maddie Gracey and Charlene Sarushi were chosen for this year’s Young Chamber Orchestra led by Andrew Lack, father of Margaret over 40 pony clubs from all over the county taking part, and Shell, this year’s overall winner, captured her audience with Art Oxford exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in May, and (who would have been playing with the orchestra had she she is also a member of the school team that rides in events a wonderfully nuanced and sinister presentation of Patrick on display in the more modest setting of our Reception are not been away on the Long Mynd for a Duke of Edinburgh’s organised by the National Schools’ Equestrian Association, Ness’s A Monster Calls. The final days of the school year brought Poppy Macfarlane’s Dancers and Mia Scott-Symonds’ Woman Silver Award expedition) with twelve fellow pupils providing all of us appreciative of the work of Ruby’s mother as team the annual debating competition, with lively arguments, not with Poppies, a sculpture exploring the resonances of objects in a sparkling chorus of maids: a more joyous evening could not manager. Ami Oscroft in Year 7, Georgie Bristow in Year 9 and least from Maddie Shell, Sapphire Pridsam and Millie Wogan, relation to time and memory. have been wished for. Felicity Clark in Year 10 each won events in the Oxford City and commandingly from Olivia Watt, this year’s winner. The 2017 London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Rye has a long history of achievement through the Duke of athletics competition, leading to their selection for the county In the annual UK Mathematics Challenge, at junior level (LAMDA) examinations brought 10 merits and 46 distinctions Edinburgh’s Award. This year, Year 9 have been working for competition, and Georgie, meeting the national standard, was there were bronze certificates for Ella Barclay, Lois Bendor- for the 56 pupils who participated - nine groups across the the Bronze Award, Year 10 have been working towards the selected to compete in the forthcoming English schools’ finals, Samuel and Katja Siemen in Year 7 and Joey Tang and Mandy age range of Years 4-9 with three groups entering at the Silver Award, and six members of Year 12 are completing their hurdles being her particular speciality. From Year 9 Imogen Wang in Year 8, with silver certificates for Iris Bennett, Clara highest level, Grade 8. Some of these people were also work for the Gold Award, having just recently met with Prince Clark achieved her 1st Kyu grading in Shotokan karate and Duncan and Sasha Khmelnitskaya in Year 8 and a gold members of the cast of Dido and Aeneas.
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