The Chronicle 2017-18
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ChronicleTHE A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF 2017-18 J O R A P A R 2 From the Headmaster You have the latest edition of the Barrow Hills Chronicle in your hands… and what a treat you have in store! The following pages record the many, varied, fun, exciting, inspiring and amazing activities and achievements of our children in the last academic year. As a whole, The Chronicle proves how creative, curious, brave, responsible, compassionate and joyful the children have been. In the words of the Year 8 class of 2017-18, ‘Barrow Hill is an epic school!’ Mr Sean Skehan Headmaster 2017-18 Headmaster’s Welcome 2 Recitals, competitions, performances, quizzes House News 4 and memorable days Activities, competitions, memories and outstanding work, Children’s Work 11 including creative writing, art and study and clubs Performances, year group productions and concerts, Performing Arts 22 dance, ballet, LAMDA and music results Performances, competitions and achievements for girls and Sport 34 boys sporting activities Barrow Hills Community Committee, projects, fundraising, Charities 50 personal challenges and events Day trips and residentials, lectures and educational visits, Trips and Visits 56 competitions and theatre trips Life in the chapel, community outreach, Remembrance, The Chaplaincy 74 Service of Readings and Carols and festivals Bridewell Day, Olympic Champions, National Finalists and School Council 76 fundraising Gillie Nicholls 77 Captains 78 Prize Day 79 4 House News House Poetry All children at Barrow Hills spent part of time to judge our House competition. Well Feeling free is a great thing to be. their English lessons planning, drafting done to all the finalists for taking part. Racing and zooming through the sky. and writing poems on the theme of Exciting adventure was up high. The finalists were: Freedom, as part of National Poetry Day. Exciting views from up above. Kean: Year 3 Charlie ‘Freedom’; Their English teachers then had the very Doing work from flower to flower, McCormack: Year 3 Sam ‘Freedom’; difficult job of choosing a finalist from Collecting pollen from hour to hour. Murtough: Year 3 Hermione ‘Freedom’ Oh what a wonderful bees life. Kean, McCormack and Murtough. This Me in a beautiful world. was a real challenge as all the poems Kean: Year 4 Rose ‘Freedom’; were so good! Some were funny and McCormack: Year 4 Ruby ‘Freedom’; Charlie (3R) some tackled more serious subject matter, Murtough: Year 4 Nathaniel ‘Freedom’ but all were powerful and thoughtful, Kean: Year 5 James B ‘Freedom awaits’; Is it true am I free? with each word carefully chosen to make McCormack: Year 5 Theo ‘Freedom’; Lying awake night after night. an impact. The hall was silent as the The cold damp smell pollutes the air. Murtough: Year 5 Harry ‘Freedom’ finalists read their poems with confidence Bullet shots going off. Soldiers injured. Kean: Year 6 Will M ‘The Tweet of Joy’; and expression. Each poem was projected The rain comes down hard against my face. McCormack: Year 6 Charlotte ‘Running onto a large screen on the stage so the Mud and dirt sloshes around me. audience could read the words as they Free’; The raging noises from the guns. listened. Murtough: Year 6 Nicholas ‘All on my Food is scarce, rations clamping down. own’ Richard Everett, local playwright and My head buzzes; the whole world writer, was our guest judge and he had Kean: Year 7 Hermione ‘Freedom’; flips around. the very difficult task of choosing a McCormack: Year 7 Elena ‘Freedom’; Leaving me in a daze. winner from each year group. Murtough: Year 7 George ‘Freedom’ My family back home they’re so free. I want to be free! After a short interval children from Kean: Year 8 Eddie ‘The life of death You must treasure freedom like an Drama Club performed a range of awaits you’; old friend. poetry, Mr Everett announced the McCormack: Year 8 Flyn ‘Freedom’; Treat it carefully. winners and the winning house, Kean! Murtough: Year 8 Harry ‘Free’ I know I may never be free again. The winners were: Thank you to Mr Kriehn for creating an Ruby (4R) excellent PowerPoint, Mrs Goedkoop for Year 3 Charlie; adding up the scores and Drama Club Year 4 Ruby; for performing with such enthusiasm. Year 5 James; A special thanks must go to our guest Year 6 Nicholas; Judge, Richard Everett, for giving up his Year 7 Hermione; Year 8 Eddie. House News 5 I heard a slight Looking towards that ever beloved freedom faint voice, A happy exam free life. It said Freedom arrives “Quick run!” Enjoy it whilst you can. The voice gradually Responsibilities. got louder A job, car, home. and louder, A family. then I realised … You have created the freedom of life. They were after me! Back to work. I dashed past the kitchen Back on a desk. then past the prisoners Trapped. It seemed like there You change. was an army of gods Grey. behind me Old. chasing me. I, Lonely. I sped round Just a little girl going to school one day. Friends gone, the corner glancing back I, Family nowhere as I did so at Just wearing my blue and yellow dungarees, Like you’re nothing. the huge crowd behind me And Hello Kitty top. Enclosed in your own world I crawled through Watching yourself fade I walked in the door to school, the hole at the bottom Fade. Everyone laughed at me. of the fence Fade away … That was only the start, before I sprinted up to the top of the hill Of my horrifi c life at middle school. Every day, pills upon pills. I looked at the wonderful The only thing that helps. Things got much worse. sea below me, An illness standing up against you. The thing that upset me most, as I said to myself Like a brick wall. Was that I got bullied. “I’m Free!” Always waiting for that freedom. That life went on for a while, James (5G) All because of the way I dressed. You had all those years ago … But now I am, Freedom Standing on the edge of the world. Free. The life of death awaits you. Weightlessly fl oating freely as a bird. I am a normal fourteen year old girl, Free from the world. Eddie (8G) Free. All on my own. The scenic view of the planet. I didnt let those people change, Like a giant ball. Me. House Quiz All on my own. That is why now, On Monday 11th December, 18 Darkness all around except the ball of I am still wearing, eager children took part in the annual bright lights. My blue and yellow dungarees, House quiz fi nal, having qualifi ed Europe all asleep. And Hello Kitty top. from the heats in October. Twelve Lights as bright as the sun everywhere. rounds of questions on a variety of Just watching them. I am now, topics, from history to famous faces, All on my own. Free. began and it was very tight all the Nicholas (6G) Hermione (7G) way through. Kean were generally the quickest to buzz and answer The crowd stopped. Born from an Oyster, and this paid dividends, as they were Everyone went silent. A pearl appears, crowned champions for the second I came onto the stage, Free from the dark hole you leave behind. year in a row. Thank you to Miss Took a deep breath, Lifted up to your mother to say hello to Young and Mr Kriehn for setting the Started. your innocent face. questions and making it so much fun! Not knowing what is ahead. I started telling everyone my story. My story. Next, My life. A calculated society, My story of how I became, Numbers and letters, letters and numbers No one. Endless Like a hamster wheel 6 Nicholas (6G), Thomas F (6G) and Lily (6G). Some interesting points were made and again there were lively contributions from the fl oor. The motion was defeated at the vote, so Murtough won. A Kean team of Jake (6G), Fern (6G) and Matilda (6R) debated against Rupert (6R), Annabel (6R) and Ben (6R) for Murtough. The motion was ‘This house believes that vegetarianism is kinder to the planet’. The for the motion and McCormack against. arguments were ingenious, and again the House Debating Both teams presented good points and fl oor contributions were many and varied. For three weeks towards the end of the there were some great contributions from As the majority voted to abstain, this autumn term, Year 6 competed in our the fl oor. At the vote the motion was debate was a draw. fi rst House debating competition. defeated, so McCormack were the winners. So the overall result in the Year 6 House The fi rst debate was between a Kean The second round saw Isobel (6G), debates was a tie, between McCormack team made up of Alexander (6G), Maddie William B (6G) and Xavier (6R) for and Murtough, with Kean in third place. (6G) and Edward (6R), and a McCormack McCormack proposing the motion that Well done to all the Year 6 children and team of Emma (6R) and Oscar (6R). The ‘This house believes the school summer in particular those who represented their motion was: ‘This house believes that holidays are too long’. They were House as speakers. school uniform is outdated’. Kean spoke opposed by a Murtough team of “fantastic sound and great diction” House Music during the hymn. ‘I’m a Believer’ was Thursday, 8th March dawned and the credited for being “upbeat and having a three Houses gathered in the chapel great sound”. Murtough were committed for the hotly contested House Music to the words, phrases were neat, crisp Competition.