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T he n a n Hu tc h e s o i 2020 hen Charlotte, Ryan and I decided that the way we are all connected by ‘long lines of blood and Neil DeGrasse Tyson declaration ‘We are, family’; Joni Mitchell sings ‘We are stardust’. These Weach of us, a little universe’ would guide this inside covers, front and back, I hope remind us of all year’s magazine, we hadn’t heard of Covid19. We this; that even as we are apart – and as I write, we still didn’t know that life as we knew it would be paused, are – we are a part of something so much bigger. Pompeii-like, frozen in time; that they would end their Thanks to Ryan, Charlotte, Charlotte B who school careers at home; that I would spend hours parachuted in to help us out, Mrs Ritchie and everyone teaching from my dining room table; that we would all who contributed when it was the last thing they had be exhausted looking at our own reflections in video time to do. We miss you; we can’t wait to see you in calls. DeGrasse Tyson observes the inter- August. connectedness of things; Fergal Keane talks about the JS The TEAM Hutchesonian OF 2020 Editors 2020 EDITORIAL 2 Charlotte Adams and Ryan Coyle Community Charlotte Adams Global Citizenship Sophie Barnett and Abigail Lindsay FROM THE HEAD BOY AND 3 5 STAFF NOTES 6 RECTOR GIRL REPORT Writing Charlotte Barry Drama Ryan Coyle and Meganne McCartney Art Charlotte Barry GLOBAL COMMUNITY MUSIC 15 CITIZENSHIP 19 26 Music Meganne McCartney and Megan Brown Clubs, societies & Trips Sophie Barnett and Abigail Lindsay CLUBS, S6 DRAMA 30 ART 33 SOCIETIES AND 37 Arun Uttamchandani TRIPS Kingarth Street Jane Ritchie House Charlotte Adams and Ryan Coyle Sport Zara Mason S6 HOUSE WRITING 43 OVERVIEW 46 48 Photography The School Photography Company Overview of magazine Jane Ritchie & Jenny Simpson Cover design by KINGARTH PRIZE LIST SPORT Emily Cowie STREET 56 76 JUNE 2019 94 1 Editorial This year at Hutchesons’ This year has proven to has been a year full of be one of the most new challenges. As Sixth challenging ever in the years, we have had to Hutchesons’ universe. make decisions about our The unprecedented future, shoulder new move to online responsibilities and get teaching, due to COVID- used to a new, more 19, left us all looking for independent style of direction, in this working. All of this whilst uncharted territory – spending half of the year this final frontier. under lockdown. When Neil de Grasse Tyson But we persevered, and declared ‘We are each of the entire Hutchesons’ us a little universe’ did he imagine we would be like family exemplified one of our core values: resilience. planets circling one another, but kept apart by forces outside our control? I suspect not, but the current global Even though this change has brought new obstacles to situation has meant we have lived our lives apart from the overcome, the sheer determination and grit displayed things we so much valued being a part of. We have by everyone has developed our sense of community, missed out on many of the events we realise we have and our drive to support one another in these come to treasure: our last ever music concerts, the last challenging times has helped us through. Though Founders’ Day, the last school show. communicating from a distance is tough, pupils and staff have embraced this new learning experience with It is in situations like these where we discover the true tenacity and diligence via Zoom, Firefly and Microsoft meaning of the Hutchie values: we have needed creativity Teams. We have refused to accept distance, and sent to find solutions such as online concerts and classes; we our messages out into the universe, confident they have needed resilience to stay strong in the face of a would be answered. And they were. global catastrophe; we have needed independence to motivate ourselves to attend online classes. Though the challenges we may face in the future are unnerving and daunting, if tackled with this same This spirit is what has made my time at Hutchie so positivity and boldness, we will continue to thrive and memorable. But all good things must come to an end and quench our thirst for knowledge and success. Maybe although I look forward to what lies ahead, my excitement this is a chance to try different things and discover who is marred slightly by the great sadness I feel at the we are really meant to be? And anyway, surely these thought of leaving Hutchie. I will be forever grateful for are the things that allow us to grow and fill our little everything the school has given me – the friends that I universes? Perhaps by the time our school experience have made, the memories I have and the wonderful is complete we will wonder why we were ever worried opportunities I have been given. Co-editing the in the first place. Hutchesonian has opened my eyes even further to the wealth of clubs, trips and societies that Hutchie has to Although my Hutchesons’ journey has come to an end, offer and it has been a truly rewarding, but challenging, I look forward to experiencing more little universes of experience. I would encourage everyone to cherish their my own in the future. Leaving school is agonizing yet I time at school so that they are always able to look back on am thankful for everything school has taught me, the this part of their life fondly. To go back to this year’s friends I have made and the jokes we have shared. I theme, we are each a little universe, teeming with infinite hope everyone is able to look back fondly at school and possibilities. And, if we use the lessons we have learnt takes every chance to experience as many during lockdown, the things we can go on to achieve are opportunities as they can. Take your universe, and fill it infinite. with substance. 2 From the Rector very year, the impact of Nature is writ large around the world – whether Ethrough earthquake, flood, drought or famine. Recent flooding aside, we are fortunate in the United Kingdom that we have such a temperate and mild climate that shields us greatly from other natural disasters. However, this year has been different. The Year of Covid-19 or to give its full name: SARS-CoV-2. Tennyson personifies Nature as “red in tooth and claw”, a comment on, and description of, the sometimes violent competition between organisms; he wrote these lines in consideration of the emergence of evolutionary theories in the 1850s. Having recently watched the rather hallucinogenic film Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, I re-read Conrad’s Heart of Darkness which it is based upon (a difficult text to read in many ways). It is full of such evocations: the looming jungle, Nature filled with malign purpose, invoking fear. Buried deep within Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is the role of chance. Students of Biology will be familiar with chance mutations occurring to DNA, changing the code in cells and so sometimes the very cells themselves. Viruses have a particular cannot have sentience nor, therefore, for the Carers, Captain Sir Thomas tendency to mutate fast, having purpose. But the impact of the Moore captured this spirit as he turned the infected cell into a virus coronavirus is deeper than this. walked his garden and raised tens of factory, but one that makes poor There is the immediate effect on our millions for the NHS. The charitable quality copies of the virus with many friends and families as well as on side of all of us in the Hutchie Family errors in their code of RNA or DNA. those we do not know; we think of has been demonstrated more locally More than one virus can infect an them all often. There is the wider and there are many examples to be organism, and this allows brand new impact on the global economy, and proud of: the school charity this year viruses to assemble and be released, the duration of this is still to be is Give a Dog a Bone and during and, possibly, to spread in new ways known. Yet at the heart of all these lockdown, children have been – and we await information about the troubles, the response has been sending cards and pictures to older origins and emergence of SARS- positive too. people who are more isolated in our CoV-2. community; Zara in P7 making The strength and depth of support for scrubs for NHS staff and many pupils The virus is not malign itself. The our unique NHS, for which we in the and staff playing versions of virus is a simple structure built of UK are always grateful, has really “Somewhere over the Rainbow”. chemicals and not even living. It shone. Along with the Thursday Clap 3 Educationally, the nation has found best time to complete their learning. the crisis difficult. Schools were In this way, the beats and rhythms of closed by the Scottish and our homes work with the beats and Westminster Governments, with only rhythms of your homes, and we can Key Worker Care allowed. I would find accord and shared purpose even take this opportunity to thank those in the middle of such disruption. staff who were able to volunteer to Supporting this throughout, our fill our rota, and to come in to fabulous team of resilient teachers Kingarth Street to work with those were on hand to guide and help children whose Key Worker parents students as they asked for help.