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The Hutchesonian 2008

Magazine Team Editorial

Editor: Sarah Hamilton It was a privilege to be Editor of the school magazine this year, after all, “a Melissa Thomas Jennifer Rieck million girls would kill for this job”. I have discovered that the magazine Stuart Williams Deputy Editor: Daniel Johnstone world is a tough industry; directives have to be given, meetings have to be Kamal Madhok Kirstie McAllister organised, the right journalists must be on the ground to get the good story Mhari MacDonald and deadlines have to be met. Everyone involved has a sense of Reporting team leaders: Mithi Ahmed achievement when everything comes together to produce ‘The Griff Williams Matthew MacDonald Alec O’Donoghue Hutchesonian’. Rebecca Scott Cover Design: Rachel Nolan Bradley Morrison ‘The Hutchesonian’ plays a pivotal role in the Hutchie community; it Calum MacDonald showcases our pupils’ work and ultimately encourages the up and coming Ronnie Palchaudhuri Photography: Hutchie students to take on new challenges. So the stars of this show have Jamie Turner H. Tempest, Ltd Anish Desphande SNS Group to be you, our multi- talented pupils and the teachers who inspire us to Jenna Alexander Gillman & Soame contribute to every aspect of school life - without your efforts, there would Sam Blackwood Karin Brookes be no story to report! Natalie Lane Jamie Turner Lauren Tait and many others, to I may have seemed like the “dragon lady” at times but this devil didn’t Ross McEwen whom we are wear Prada, (instead she wore a Hutchie uniform) but nevertheless she still Luke McIntosh most grateful. Amer Mobarik had the top people working for her. Behind the covers of this glossy Sarah Hanna Overview: magazine, there is a strong editorial team who were extremely committed, Malika Baig Mr D Campbell and they were the best in their craft. Once again, thank-you to Mr Campbell Prabhjot Nijjar Mrs C Hamilton whose invaluable support ensures that ‘The Hutchesonian’ continues to flourish and to perform its unique role in our school life.

“That’s all” … for this year, anyway! MelissaThomas

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Founders’ Beyond Kingarth House Prize List Day Hutchie Street Reports Sport 2007

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schools - the highest percentage of A grades and the highest number of A grades per pupil. I wrote last year about the need for some schools to push the academic boundaries ever higher, and it is therefore pleasing that Hutchesons’ is so demonstrably doing that.

But I also find myself taking pains to explain that there are many other parts of school life here which display excellence. It has become something of a headmaster’s cliché to talk about success in all the ‘other areas… such as sport, music and drama’, but it is one of these I want to write about this year. There are several reasons for this, but the most important is that I believe Hutchesons’ sport has made significant strides recently. All three areas have exciting developments ahead of them, which will strengthen them further, but sport has something very special indeed on the horizon.

Under Stuart Lang, our Director of Sport, a large and impressive team of teachers and coaches work incredibly hard, week in, week out, to motivate, train and coach hundreds of pupils in a wide range of sports. Most Saturday mornings during the first two terms will see 14 rugby teams and 18 girls’ hockey teams playing matches against other schools, and there are full fixture lists for boys’ hockey and football, too. The From the Rector standard is very high throughout. In rugby, this season has seen real improvement at all age groups, as we move towards a coherent Hutchesons’ tremendous lift, showing that the school find myself talking a lot in public style of play, based not on physical size, turns out more 5 A grade-achieving about Hutchesons’ academic but on our boys’ superb athleticism, pupils than any other, and - in case excellence. Since the last edition of handling and kicking skills and in many anyone is thinking that is just because this magazine, the Higher results cases, genuine pace. New match kit, Ipublished over the summer gave us a we are one of the largest independent

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new equipment and a forthcoming 1st supervision for marshalling, starting, benefits to school pupils, as they would XV tour to South Africa in the summer judging and timing being considered too be able to watch some of the world’s have raised the status of rugby, and there high. best hockey players and athletes train. is a growing expectation of winning, against any school. That is as it should We achieve these sporting successes By building the running track we will be. despite our relatively poor outdoor put ourselves out in front of other sporting facilities. Anyone who knows schools – no other independent school in I do get frustrated when people say that the Auldhouse playing fields will Scotland has one, and very few in the Hutchesons’ is good at sport because it is understand what I mean by this. It UK. By building the hockey pitch we a large school, and so we have a bigger would be lovely to think that we could will hopefully bring 1st team hockey pool of pupil talent to choose from. find a larger green field site closer to the closer to home and allow many more Experience of successful sporting teams school on which we could develop better interested spectators to watch our teams in much smaller schools tells me that it rugby facilities, but that seems out of perform. Our commitment to improving is the quality of coaching, above all, reach. We are also almost unique standards of hockey and athletics further, which makes the difference. This is amongst our hockey playing rivals in not from an already strong position, is thus clearly the case in our hockey, where having our own Astroturf pitch – we rely very clear. But in fact all of our sports both girls and boys benefit from highly on hiring time on the Clydesdale and will benefit from the track in some way, skilled coaches, who include our two Bellahouston pitches. Our success in as weekly PE lessons will be able to use former Olympians Rhona Simpson and athletics and running based on training it to raise the general fitness and stamina Graham Dunlop, and we can point to on the grass track at Beaton Road is of all our pupils – again a very strong match results which show our bolstered by many pupils being members school-wide statement about general dominance in this sport throughout of track-based clubs out of school hours. health and well-being. I have a vision of Scotland. The Hutchesons’ style is fast, While we may not be able to solve the rugby players practising handling moves skilful and tactically complex, with Auldhouse problem, we can at least round the final bend and into the home professional patterns of play and real improve the facilities for hockey and straight… shape to the game, particularly when it is athletics at Beaton Road. By the time played on Astroturf by the more senior this magazine is published, the full Such a major project, costing such a lot – teams. details of our plans will have been made estimates are of over £1 million – is not public. to be undertaken lightly, but I hope you One area where our sporting success is will agree that it is a good idea to reward particularly obvious is in cross-country In short, we intend to build our own success in areas where I have been running. This year our teams won Gold Astroturf hockey pitch, and surround asking for progress and the aim is to give in the Scottish Schools Championship in that with a synthetic ‘tartan’ running Hutchesons’ teachers and pupils the four out of the eight age categories – our track. There are some exciting means to build on that success. It would other four teams being 2nd, 4th, 5th and dimensions to this. By building both the be good to see Hutchesons’ more widely 6th. No other school comes remotely pitch and the track to much higher known as a centre for sporting close to that level of achievement. This technical specifications than a school excellence as well as maintaining its running success is equally evident in might usually attempt we are not only high reputation for academic learning. road-running competitions and in making a statement about how serious Dr K M Greig athletics, where we are rarely beaten in Hutchesons’ is about sport, but opening matches against other schools. Sadly, the possibility of our facilities being few other schools can manage to stage a used as a training venue for the Glasgow full inter-school athletics match Commonwealth Games in 2014. This nowadays, the demands on staff would of course have wonderful spin-off

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Pupils gaining five ‘A’ grade Highers in 2007 celebrate in style!

All these pupils gained 6 ‘A’ grade passes at Higher Grade in 2007

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Founders’ Day 2008 By Alec O’Donoghue

On Wednesday 12th March 2008, the Walter Ross flew from his home in Palm Andrew Carnegie as an example of 367th anniversary of the founding of Beach, Florida, to speak at the service. someone who built up a massive fortune Hutchesons’ in 1641 was celebrated by Since leaving Hutchesons’ in 1946, Mr through hard work, and then gave it pupils, staff and guests in a ceremony at Ross has enjoyed a distinguished away. Mr Ross praised some of today’s the majestic Glasgow Cathedral. George business career, most of which has been best known philanthropists. and Thomas Hutcheson worshipped at spent in the United States. the Cathedral, and they are buried there, Mr Ross encouraged all present to have so it is a fitting location for the occasion. His address showed his sense of humour, self-belief and determination, saying that with jokes peppered throughout as he this allows people to achieve more than Every year a former pupil gives an reminisced about his school days. He they otherwise could. He also expressed address at the service, and this year, also spoke about philanthropy, taking his gratitude to his parents for giving

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him a Hutchie education, which he said had helped him throughout his life.

This was the last year of many in which Mr MacAllister has organised Founders’ Day, as he nears retirement, and the occasion was a fitting celebration of the vision of George and Thomas Hutcheson.

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l-r: Douglas Herbert (deputy), Morag McLellan (head girl), Andrew Leslie (head boy) and StephanieWilson (deputy).

Head Boy and Girl

As Erica Jong once said, you ‘Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame’. As we look back on the year, our opportunities gained and lessons learned, the wisdom of these words becomes all too apparent.

From the very outset we were on our own, sprung from the safety of Fifth year into the fiery caldron of Sixth year. As the oldest in the school there was now no-one to copy, no-one waiting for us to catch up and certainly no-one guiding us by hand, we were already in the deep end and had to fend for ourselves. However, we quickly found our feet and firmly established ourselves in these new positions.

Having each personally seen out our first daunting challenge of the assembly Morag McLellan,Andrew Leslie, the Rector and Mr Graham MacAllister. readings, we handed the mantel over to the rest of the Prefect body to follow suit. With weekly Prefect meetings organized to keep everything in check, dances over the festive period. Prefects So it is with a real sense of achievement the Prefects quietly and efficiently enthusiastically leapt into action and that we reflect on what has been an fulfilled their duties. These included danced the night away, helping to make unforgettable experience for us all. Our manning the lunch queues and helping at the events a real success. Undoubtedly, special thanks go to our tutor, Mr no less than six Parents’ Evenings! the biggest highlights of the year were MacAllister, for his unfailing support Founders’ Day and the Former Pupils’ and encouragement, without whom However, it’s not all hard work, as our Dinner, events which we were honoured nothing would have been possible. whirl of social events came to a frenzied to attend. Thanks. climax with a range of ceilidhs and

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expeditions to Russia, China Roedean School in Departures and America, to name but Johnanesburg. On returning three destinations. to the UK, she was Director of Music at South Hampstead Although the role of Year High School from 1986, Tutor, initially in the middle before changing direction years of the senior school and and accepting a commercial latterly in the S5/S6 slot, took managerial position at Jean out of the ML Tonbridge School in Kent. before taking up the post of department in terms of her Another house move, this Principal Teacher of Music in office, she remained a very time to Troon in 1997, Albert Secondary. She left in Jean D. Paul loyal and conscientious brought her to the Music 1984 and joined us firstly at member of the department, Department at Hutchie. As Kingarth Street, and later as a (Modern Languages) never afraid to promote well as class teaching she has full time member of staff in traditional values and always coached many string players the Senior School. Jean D. Paul first came to willing to contribute at and ensembles – a most Throughout her time here, Hutchesons’ Grammar departmental meetings. memorable chamber Alison helped in the extra School as a parent and Supportive throughout her curricular life of the Music shortly afterwards as a supply career of pupils and Department – accompanying teacher, covering Irene colleagues, Jean will be the first ever School Choir Davis’ first maternity leave. remembered fondly and with trip to Luneburg, in Northern This maternity cover soon gratitude by a generation of Germany in 1990 and turned into a full-time Hutchesonians who benefited running the Theatregoers temporary post and after one from knowing her as a Club until the Drama session it became permanent. teacher at Kingarth Street or Department was fully The rest, as they say, is Beaton Road, or as a Year history. developed. Tutor or as an artiste and performance was a very supermodel at various charity enthusiastic version of the Jean’s enthusiasm and With a passion for choral events or as a friend. Schubert “ Trout” Quintet – dedication were evident from music, Alison was a founder not for the faint hearted! Her the beginning and it was not member of successful singing This session has seen Jean’s no nonsense approach, too long before Jean was group Capella Nova and career at Hutchesons’ come businesslike attitude and well promoted to the position of Principal Alto for Glasgow full circle and we have been honed sense of humour will Senior Teacher with Cathedral Choir for many fortunate in being able to be much missed by her responsibility for the years. She sings with several count her among us once colleagues. other groups – including European dimension within again, covering for Irene Hutchesons’, encouraging, Hutchesons’ Choral Society, Davis. Considered a serious amongst other things, an and indeed joins the ranks of “Foodie” by all who know awareness of International any school ensemble We are delighted to have had her, we wish Barbara (and Education. In this capacity whenever the occasion the privilege of working with Charles) well as they look she was involved in many demands. An active member Jean and wish her, and her forward to the time ahead and varied activities, of St Bride’s Church (expanding) family, well in and enjoy travelling to including the German Hyndland, she has recently her (early) retirement. experience the best of cuisine exchange and Euroscola, and taken up the post of Pastoral at home and abroad. was the instigator of the very EB Assistant to the successful Weihnachtsfeier ET Congregation. Barbara Pycraft for S2 German pupils. A Alison Gifford further promotion to the role (Music) Looking forward to her of Year Tutor did not mean (Music) retirement Alison is planning that Jean lost her appetite for Barbara began teaching to extend her gardening skills all things European; indeed, Music at Queens School Graduating from the Royal by taking on an allotment and she still found time to take Chester in 1977 before Scottish Academy of Music looks forward to continuing part in school trips organised following her husband in 1968, Alison began her her usual 6am morning by the Modern Languages Charles to the south of teaching career in Colston swimming sessions – just not department to European England and subsequently to Secondary School. In 1972 quite so early! destinations. Jean was also a South Africa, where she she became House Mistress ET stalwart of the yearly Easter became Director of Music at at Cathkin High School

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her colleagues and parents. all the stages she taught here, She was always a team namely P4, 5 and 7. Her player, generous with her demeanour was always calm, ideas and obliging to any kind and patient and she members of staff who needed earned affection and respect a favour. She was present at from pupils, parents and staff all evening and extra alike. curricular events. Jenny Fitzgerald In the early nineties she When Mrs. Hatfield took became a Senior Teacher and rep. Her previous career had (Physical Education) charge of the Infant took responsibility for been interesting. After Department, Carol shared a liaison with Beaton Road, in graduating with an honours Jenny joined the staff at P1 class with her before the gathering of pupils’ degree in French and Latin at Hutchesons’ in 2005. Jenny deciding to try her hand at photographs, articles and Edinburgh University, she was a very keen hockey Infant Support for Learning. items of interest for various completed a post-graduate player and distance runner. Her endless patience, concern school publications. She was diploma in Hotel and Distance was no object and for the children and Topic Resources Coordinator Catering Management, she frequently ran all the way dedication to any task she in Kingarth Street and her worked in various hotels and home to Balloch - a distance undertook made her work in this area was then became restaurant of very near 20 miles. Her eminently suitable for this invaluable. She also chaired manager at the BBC. If her youthful looks and petite size specialist area. a Maths Working Party career path was not quite the led to much fun in the which made an excellent usual, neither were her department and Jenny was We were all disappointed contribution to the interests – bridge, cross-stitch often misidentified as a pupil. when, for family reasons, she department. Christine could and belly dancing. However, Jenny’s other hobbies decided to take early always be relied on to play a Ann tackled everything with included all things pink and retirement at the end of last part in the extracurricular life enthusiasm, as a form her pet rabbits. session, but are delighted to of the school. She helped teacher, as a colleague who see her back in Kingarth with badminton and was a loved to hoover up, and She left last year to join the Street on a regular basis, regular attender at all evening spread, the gossip in the Staff staff at Lomond School and fulfilling our Infant supply events. Prep Room and as a member has recently, with her needs again, always in the of the Classics Department husband Dominic, taken on background and making a She decided in 2003 that she where she was always first to the role as Head of the contribution. Long may she would like to become part volunteer her skills in boarding house. continue. time and we were happy to developing new courses, especially involving ICT. SL LMcK have her for even part of the week, rather than none. She While here, she passed the job shared successfully for Advanced Driving and her last few years here and Minibus Tests- though she we were sorry when she needed high heels to reach decided to retire in June of the pedals- which enabled her last year. We all join in to run several trips to wishing her and her husband Hadrian’s Wall. Always keen Gwyn a long and happy to progress in her subject, retirement and much joy in Ann became involved with the SEB, taught Latin and Mrs. Carol Arthur Mrs. Christine their grandchildren. Their Classical Civilisation to A Kennedy gain is Kingarth Street’s loss! (Kingarth Street) Level, Classical Studies to LMcK (Kingarth Street) Higher and picked up some In 1990 Carol Arthur joined Greek along the way. us for 6 weeks supply to take Last June we said farewell to Ann McLeod Fittingly, her swansong , after responsibility for a P1 class. one of our most respected (Classics) she had moved to St She then became permanent and competent teachers. Aloysius, was a superbly and continued this Ann McLeod came to organised trip to Rome last commitment in P1 until 1996 Christine Kennedy joined us Hutchesons’ in the summer autumn which was when she became full time from Westbourne School for of 2003 from Earnock thoroughly enjoyed by all. and had experience with P2. Girls in 1986, and over the Academy where she had We wish her well. years here made an taught Latin and RE, was an MM Her reputation for hard work, outstanding contribution to acting senior teacher with a sense of duty and reliability the life of Kingarth Street. whole school remit for earned her the respect of all She was equally successful in Thinking Skills and the SSTA

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2001, Catherine joined the unobtrusively offered support staff at Beaton Road. One of to all in the department. Her her responsibilities was tact and wisdom enabled her Primary/ Secondary liaison to soothe all concerns and to and as a result, she give us all confidence in introduced the Pirates for P6 understanding the nuances of and Fun Maths for P7. She many arcane aspects of our was also involved in a subject. Catherine Watt Working Party that produced Kitty Kilday material for Thinking Skills. Outwith the Mathematics (Mathematics) Now that she has retired, (Mathematics) department, Kitty was widely Catherine will have more involved in all aspects of Throughout the nine years A native of Aberdeen, time to enjoy her many and school life. She was an active Kitty was with us at Catherine gained her degree varied interests – walking contributor in the school’s Hutchesons’, she was a most in Mathematics at Aberdeen long distance footpaths, charity work and gave much valued member of a vibrant University. After having her climbing Munros, cycling – of her time to young Bridge department. Her commitment children, she gained her to name but a few. Typically, players. to all aspects of departmental teaching qualification at Catherine has not relaxed work and her dedication to her training college in Norwich. since leaving Hutchie In the latter period of her time pupils make her irreplaceable. After teaching in Suffolk, spending quality time both with us, Kitty spent some time Greenock, Erskine and with her grand-daughter and on secondment to the In the classroom, Kitty used Renfrew, Catherine joined at the family cottage in Royal Education Department at her extensive knowledge, the staff at Laurel Park as Deeside. She even goes to Strathclyde University. With experience and deep love of Head of Mathematics. Salsa classes! Now that her her usual unselfishness, Kitty her subject to ensure that those During this time, her main husband, Alan, is also retired brought back to us many ideas in her care received the best focus was the pupils and as they are looking forward to on how we could better our possible opportunity to learn well as introducing new travelling around the UK and teaching and we are ever Mathematics, in all its guises. methodologies within the Europe in their newly grateful to her for her An outstanding classroom Department she also purchased campervan. guidance. teacher, Kitty provided her introduced Team Building Catherine is greatly missed pupils with self belief and weekends for the Sixth Year and we offer her every good We wish Kitty well on her proficiency in many aspects of and organised several trips to wish for a fulfilling and promotion to Saint Aloysius Mathematics. Unsparing of her Feishiebridge. With a group happy retirement. and know that she will of teachers and 32 pupils she time, Kitty was always continue to provide all around SBF led a very successful and available to help anyone in her with help and memorable trip to China. In need, not just her pupils. An encouragement. outstanding mathematician and MTF humanitarian, Kitty

Sandra Gifford S6 Henry Lee S5

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We have, once again, been Annelise has really enjoyed from Spain is her mum’s very fortunate in having her time at Hutchie and tortilla de patatas (Spanish New Staff excellent Foreign Language describes teaching pupils omelette). If she could meet Assistants this session. from S3 to S6 as a someone famous, she’d meet Karine Tomasello, from “wonderful experience” Fernando Fernán Gómez and Paris, started the session at which will stand her in good if she could have a wish Hutchesons’ and made a stead as she plans to become she’d spend a year travelling significant contribution to the a university lecturer. around the world. Next year department but for personal she’s sure she’ll miss reasons decided not to return Replacing Karine at the end Hutchie. to Scotland after the of January was Elodie Christmas holidays. Bourgault, also from the And last but not least, our Jim McDougall Paris area. (Geography/ Depute Rector – Ethos)

Jim McDougall is delighted to return to the staff of Hutchesons’ in his new role as Depute Rector (Ethos). Born in Greenock, Jim attended Greenock Academy and then read Geography and Annelise Jouannin, also Her hometown of Noisy-le- German assistant this year is Archaeology at Glasgow, from France, came to Grand is situated between Marina Holzheimer. She is where he gained MA (Hons). Hutchie at the beginning of Paris and Disneyland. She 22 years old and comes from Following his PGCE at the session and has stayed has been studying English for Glasgow’s twin city Jordanhill he started his with us the whole year. From eleven years and has Nuremberg in the south-east career at St Stephen’s High the “wee village” of Souillac travelled widely to different of Germany. Having learned School in Port Glasgow, near the Dordogne area in the English-speaking countries, English at school for nine teaching both Geography and South-West of France, she England, Ireland, Australia years, she decided to study Modern Studies. He learned studied English and Spanish and Scotland. She was a English and French at the much about the craft of the with Business for 4 years and French assistant last year in University of Erlangen in classroom and the then did a postgraduate the wee town of Kirriemuir, order to become a teacher. importance of ethos in these degree in Spanish language famous for its ginger bread Marina has particularly formative years, which he and culture at the University and the author of Peter Pan, enjoyed the warm welcome feels have stood him in good of Toulouse. During her time J. M. Barrie. She “really likes from everybody in Scotland stead ever since. A desire to as a student she lived in living in Scotland”, and and especially at Hutchie. work abroad led to a Spain (in Madrid) for a year. prefers the school system She’s used her spare time to fulfilling “tour of duty” at Annelise has always been over here so is thinking of travel around the country, get King’s School, Gutersloh, very passionate about becoming a French teacher in to know the Scottish people teaching the children of languages and foreign Scotland. and the customs. She is quite service personnel based in cultures and this year she sad she has to go back to Germany. Living in decided to come to Scotland. Germany to finish her the converted Luftwaffe Her first impressions of degree, but she is also officers’ mess was certainly Glasgow, which have stayed determined that her stay in an eye-opening experience, with her throughout the year, Glasgow will not have been he recalls. After this followed were wonderful as she found her last time in Scotland. a short spell at Tarbert people very welcoming and Marina has taught all levels Academy, before he was pleasant, always keen to help. from P5 to S5 and has been appointed Geography teacher During her year she has taken of particular help to Irene at Hutchesons’, initially some Ceilidh classes and Davis and a good friend to under Jimmy Ross, and then tasted haggis on Burns’ Superbär. Calvin Clarke. In 1997 Jim Night, but doesn’t say if she Our Spanish assistant this year is Lídia Gallego Balsà. then moved across to St liked it! She has also We wish all our assistants Columba’s School, enjoyed discovering She is from Catalunya and well and hope that the has been studying English Kilmacolm where he spent Scotland, making many trips friendships they have made ten very happy years as Head around Scotland and its and German Translation at in Scotland, and particularly University for 4 years. The of Geography, then Depute islands. at Hutchie, will mean that Rector, before returning to thing she likes the most in they will be back here soon. Scotland is its landscape and Hutchie in August 2007. A the thing she misses the most EB family man, Jim lives in 12 tf Notes Staff

Clarkston and enjoys reading, Tom is an accomplished photography, cycling, and musician and has been walking. Perhaps one of the performing as a drummer, few people he knows who guitarist and violinist doesn’t actually play golf, he (occasionally all at the same is passionate about music and time!) in numerous bands tends to spend his spare time since the age of fourteen. He trying to improve his piano currently plays professionally playing; Bach and most types from St Andrews University. in a wedding band and is a in 2004. Subsequently he of jazz are among his He worked on and off as a self-confessed karaoke spent a year as a fitness favourites. postman and also spent a addict. When not writing, instructor and was a personal year in the Civil Service. playing or listening to music, trainer for six times world More recently, he has During this time he decided Tom enjoys sketching, Tae Kwon Do champion, become a bit of an ICT addict to indulge his reputation as a painting and rustling up a Julia Cross, and Stephen and is fascinated by the pedant by working as a few culinary delights in the Gallagher, a European Tour impact of social networking, freelance proof-reader. It was kitchen. golfer. Duncan is a keen blogs and the whole web 2.0 in this capacity, teaching the Duncan McCleod rugby player, and spent three technology revolution on the peculiarities of English months in Auckland playing future of education. grammar to a university (Physical Education) for East Coats Bays RFC in student, that Tom developed 2002. Last year he made it Tom Ingham an interest in the processes of Duncan joins Hutchesons’ PE through to the Scottish cup (Classics) teaching. He completed a department from Linlithgow final at Murrayfield with PGCE in Classics at Academy, where he spent his Edinburgh Academicals, Raised in East Lothian, Tom Cambridge University, before own educational career. He unfortunately losing to was educated at The moving back to Scotland for studied Sport and Exercise Glasgow Hawks. Duncan Edinburgh Academy before his first teaching post, at Science at Napier University, now plays for Glasgow obtaining a degree in Classics Hutchesons’. graduating with a BSc Hons Hawks!

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Beyond Hutchie ‘Flying into the unknown’ Linda McIntosh (Depute Rector) visits South East Malawi

Standard five at Nansato Primary was From Blantyre we were driven through learning long multiplication when I sweeps of tea plantations to reach the visited their class. Just think about foot of Mount Mulanje, a mountain learning that in English when your home previously thought to be the home of a language is Chichewa. The teacher host of spirits which controlled the demonstrates a few examples on the weather. Given the height of the board - so far so good – and then sets the mountain above the plain, it certainly did class some work. But there are no books have an influence on the rainfall! The so he puts the questions on the board, forest and river by Mulanje Mountain just a few. The eighty children, sitting were beautiful and lush – we had arrived four pupils to a desk for two, get on with towards the end of the rainy season – it the task. Some cope, some don’t. Those was hard to understand any food who can, do, and then twiddle their shortages at first. We learned that a thumbs, those who can’t, struggle reasonable harvest was expected but the waiting for the teacher’s help. produce from the previous year had run out and it was too soon to bring in the Nansato Primary School is the village new harvest of maize and pumpkins. school for Likhubula which lies below Maize stalks, six feet high, crowded us Mount Mulanje in South East Malawi. on the paths leading to the village. I The governors of Hutchesons’ Grammar took the long way round. The road over School had given me leave of absence to the river had been washed away months travel to Malawi to support a partnership before and I was not ready to leap from between my home town of Dunblane and one slippy stone to another across the Likhubula. My main task was to explore river in torrent. There was always how our partnership could help children company on the way; it was regarded as access secondary education. Before discourteous to allow a visitor to go on leaving Scotland I had been fortunate to their way alone. discuss this with Josephine Munthali of the Child Support Project which Nansato Primary School has about one benefited from the Hutchie fund-raising thousand pupils, many more than in 2006-07. attended before the feeding programme. The Primary One class had two hundred Flying into Blantyre Airport was flying and ninety-five pupils in one classroom into the unknown. The people who – they ‘carpeted’ the floor. Parents are greeted us were unsurprised that we had eager that their children start, sometimes not visited Malawi before, but astounded earlier than they should, to be sure the that we had never visited Africa at all. child will get a meal. The teacher asked Of course we had heard about our me what should she do – turn them partner community but had that really away? Back to that Maths lesson, it was prepared us for the experience? Malawi typical of the facilities and resources is one of the ten poorest countries in the available to the seven teachers working world, and we were travelling right out there. They rely on visiting Gap Year into the bush. Malaria kills more people students because the school does not than Aids, and yet Aids still powerfully attract Malawian teachers, so far out in undermines any attempts at the bush. Last year it was two development. There are medicines Edinburgh girls who were making a real available for both of these illnesses but impact on the children. when you are on the ground you appreciate that a child may die while his At one point I thought the rains were parents desperately try to find transport going to defeat the plan to visit the Child to the nearest clinic. The woman tested Support Project in Dedza, but a few days HIV positive has to walk many miles to before the end of our visit I travelled receive her daily dose of retrovirals. north with a colleague of Josephine 15 eodHutchie Beyond

Munthali to visit the project which would receive over £30 000 from Hutchie. The three hour drive took us along the Mozambique border where, not many years ago, guerrilla soldiers had crossed back and forth, taking food from farms. Travelling north, farmland became less crowded, and livestock wandered across the roads. We drove over mud roads to reach the central village of Dedza. This community has been receiving Millenium fund money from the United Nations and its school has new buildings courtesy of the Hunter Foundation, but the families in its villages still need the Child Support Project. We spoke to the mothers who make breakfast for all the under-fives in the villages – out in the open, come rain or shine. A village elder took us into a sophisticated place than others we had went off for several days. Towards the dark, one room hut, the home of a family visited, we met there staff from Zomba end of our stay, there was much of five orphaned children, looked after University and heard about many discussion and planning about fresh by the eldest, thirteen years old. The connections with Scotland which have water supplies, training for women to journey back to Likhubula was along been kept alive since Malawi gained its start businesses and, of course, roads which carried many more people independence. There, too, the director of developing opportunities for secondary than vehicles – men and women walking World Vision in Malawi was able to tell education. The leave-taking as the at the side carrying their goods on their us about projects supported by business welcome, four weeks before, was warm, heads or on their bicycles. communities all round the noisy and touching. The youth band Commonwealth. played and we were given traditional We travelled to another mountain, clothes to wear. So many unforgettable Zomba Mountain, and to the town of Our weeks in Malawi were busy; the times. Beyond Hutchie? Beyond Zomba, the old colonial capital of only times to stop and take stock were anything I have experienced before or Malawi. Indeed the hotel where we the evenings when the dark comes down expect in the future. stayed had been the home of the British early and suddenly. Evenings were LMcI Governor General. A much more particularly long when the electricity 16 SCOTIA CLEANING LTD

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Alec O’Donoghue, Ross McEwen and Mhari MacDonald report on a thought provoking and inspiring series of Talking Points.

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QuestionTime Professor Anthony Slinn

This section offers a snapshot of the describing his formative years, he was After questions about binge drinking, broad range of high profile events which adopted only to be returned to his birth obesity levels and the minority SNP take place at the school over the course mother, who he took an instant dislike to. government, Mr Taylor brought in of the year. These range from fierce He fled home at 14, to spend two years questions on wider problems. Questions debates like Question Time to living on the streets of Blackpool, from Alec O’Donoghue and Daniel stimulating and entertaining lectures. surviving on scraps of food stolen from Johnstone sparked a predictably fierce Much hard work goes into arranging open kitchen windows. He described debate on Iraq. The session showed the these events and ensuring everything how, like all criminals, his initially small high level of interest in politics among a goes smoothly, and they are generally a crimes soon became morally justifiable large section of the year group, most of huge success, enjoyed by all. A mention to him and gang membership quickly whom will be able to vote in the next should go to Dr Hall who has ensured a followed. Scottish and General Elections. fantastic line up of Talking Points guest 26th October speakers ranging from Donald Findlay He began his many stints in prison in his QC to the mountaineer Jamie Andrews. late teens, a pattern that would permeate Peter Vardy returned to host the popular his life until a suicide attempt while in “Ethics of Genetic Engineering” 7th September prison, when he was in his 40’s. He told conference. Philosophy students from Our introduction to ‘Talking Points’ us how the realisation of how desperate across Scotland converged at Beaton began with an inspirational speech from his situation had become finally Road to hear Dr. Vardy of Heythrop mountaineer Jamie Andrews. He changed him, and he has not offended College, London, speak in his recounted his extraordinary escape and since. Mr. Bower continued to tell us of entertaining yet factual style. The talk recovery after being stranded for four how he believes the current prison was split into three main topics; nights at the top ridge of Les Droits in system is inept and that the crime is euthanasia, genetic testing and the French Alps. Jamie Fisher, Jamie’s often disproportionate to the punishment. engineering, and war. Dr. Vardy friend and climbing companion He spoke of how he had witnessed first- encouraged the audience to address these unfortunately never made it off the hand the state of disrepair that some issues from a philosophical viewpoint mountain and Jamie himself lost both his prisons in England are in, and how and to question the moral issues that hands and feet to frostbite. incarceration fails to change many of the permeate procedures such as IVF and However, Jamie has refused to let this people that go to prison, despite the eugenic engineering. The audience was ordeal set him back. He is still a keen initiatives implemented by the amazed by his ability to speak almost mountaineer, and has completed many government. constantly for over four hours without climbs all over the world, helping to consulting any notes. Jamie Goldberg 5th October raise both funds and awareness for (S6) said, “I liked the way that he charity in the process. Jamie’s talk was Topical debate came to Hutchesons’ in encouraged interaction between the an inspiration to us all. He showed that the form of ‘Question Time’. Chaired by audience and himself. It helped to even in the most unfortunate BBC Scotland’s political editor Brian break-up what would have otherwise circumstances, sheer determination and Taylor, the session featured a top class have been a lengthy talk.” belief can help us achieve anything. This panel, comprising Deputy First Minister 9th November was both a moving and memorable start Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Conservative to our ‘Talking Points’ experience. leader Annabel Goldie, Liberal Evan Williams is one of only two people Democrat Ross Finnie, and Ken from the UK to have been trained by Al 28th September Macintosh of Labour. Sixth year pupils Gore’s Climate Project in Nashville, TN. John Bowers spoke of a long and studying Politics were given a unique Mr Williams delivered a highly polished troubled life which included many opportunity to put their questions to presentation (after some early technical flirtations with the law, including some of the best known politicians in difficulties with the school equipment) frequent spells in prison. He began by Scotland. and his talk sought to deal with some of

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the spurious claims in the Channel 4 arguments of the hoax theories that have Makers’, delivered by Mike Hurst gave documentary “The Great Global come to light in recent years. He showed us all a new insight into the history and Warming Swindle”. Mr Williams’ lively various NASA video clips and images progression of music. Perhaps not presentation and impressive array of that claimed to support the hoaxes and everyone’s interest at first glance, but statistics was well received by the displayed their weaknesses. Dr this witty and thought provoking talk audience. The global warming debate is Sheldon’s rationality in the face of some proved to be entirely amusing not to one of the foremost issues of the 21st absurd theories made for a compelling mention extremely relevant to some of Century, and Mr Williams’ talk was a talk. Stephanie Wilson (S6) said, “I’d the issues and problems in the music valuable insight which will have seen some of the TV programs that industry today. Dealing as much with the clarified many people’s opinions. supported the hoax theories and wasn’t social and political issues as the music sure what to believe. But Dr Sheldon itself, we learned huge amounts about 16th November exposed the fundamental flaws in these the history of music, integration of races Building on a previous passion for the arguments.” in America, the slave trade and many art lovers amongst us, and enlightening other issues about which many of us 30th November the rest of us on some of the best art in would previously have been none the the last century; Masterpieces of the 21st Janette Anderson (C1982) returned to wiser. The sheer amount of knowledge Century, the Sir Alexander Stone Hutchesons’ to deliver the Lord he had about music was staggering and Memorial Lecture this year was McGowan Memorial Lecture. Lord the delivery made this a very comical interesting for all. Professor Anthony McGowan, one of Hutchesons’ most hour. However it did leave us all Slinn took us through some of the most successful alumni, had a distinguished thinking about some of the issues related famous, most exquisite and, well, career in business and was chairman of with music and also some of the perhaps more debatable ‘works of art’ the chemical giant ICI for 20 years. tediousness and monotony we are from the last 100 years. From Monet’s Janette also has enjoyed an extremely experiencing in the music industry today. water lilies to Tracy Emin’s ‘my bed’; successful career in business. She was Without doubt an inspiration for any we learned of a variety of artists, styles appointed Chief Executive of First aspiring musicians. and movements that reflect a diversity of Engineering in 2003. Janette first spoke 11th January tastes. If we didn’t know much about art about her life. This was inspiring, beforehand we were certainly more showing that focus and hard work can In January, Ian Yorston from Radley knowledgeable after this thoroughly open up exciting opportunities. She also College came in to give his presentation enjoyable talk. talked about leadership qualities. She has “The Future is Another Country: How led her company through difficult times technology will turn the world upside 23rd November to become one of the four largest railway down” about technology and the way it Dr Ken Sheldon of the University of engineering groups in Britain. After the is changing our lives. His enthusiasm Glasgow delivered a talk entitled “One talk, she took questions, most of which helped make this a fascinating talk. small step, many giant myths – focused on her assertions about women’s Packed with interesting facts and debunking the moon hoax theories.” Dr greater aptitude for business, which descriptions of new technology, he Sheldon began by giving a brief history proved unpopular among some male brought across a sense of how of space travel, before focusing on the members of the audience! technology can improve our lives, but inaugural space mission of Armstrong can also be scary – for example he spoke 14th December and Aldrin. He used simple scientific about the possibility that in the future we reasoning to dismantle the flawed The thoroughly entertaining ‘Music will record everything that ever happens

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in our lives. He also mentioned modern technology that is already established such as YouTube, and the talk was both educative and entertaining. 22nd February Catherine Deveney delivered the John Buchan Memorial Lecture. The Lecture has been led by some distinguished speakers in the past, and this year was no exception. Mrs Deveney is this year’s Scottish Arts and Entertainment Writer of the Year and 2005 Scottish Journalist of the Year. Her chosen topic was “The Cult of Celebrity” and she drew on her extensive experience of interviewing various public figures from pop stars to politicians to support her talk. Mrs Deveney spoke eloquently and often humorously while illustrating the many colourful personas that she meets through her job. She described the effects that fame has had on a number of her interviewees, namely Donny Osmond, who broke down during their interview and Marti Pellow, who described his disillusionment with the fame that he had achieved. Her message was not to actively seek fame, but to seek success, and if fame is a by- product, then so be it. 26th February Scotland’s leading defence barrister, Donald Findlay QC, has been the defence council in many of the most publicised murder trials of the past 20 years. He gave a stimulating talk in which he called on pupils to challenge Donald Findlay QC authority and not to accept things at face 28th March value. He also spoke about his role as a defence lawyer, and about the Martin Taylor is “the hypnotist who misconceptions many people have about doesn’t hypnotise”. We were fortunate this vital aspect of the justice system. He enough to be taken into his confidence as emphasised that everyone is innocent he revealed to us the trade secrets of his until proven guilty and explained that he enigmatic craft. On this unremarkable is passionate about making sure there are Friday afternoon, Mr Taylor showed us no miscarriages of justice. some remarkable theatre which involved our fellow peers taking to the stage; Mr Findlay faced a swarm of questions performing in imaginary jazz bands, at the end in which he showed his quick losing their identity and believing that a thinking and arguing skills. He stressed life size elephant was standing in the that he is against plans to extend the aisle of the Fotheringay auditorium. This period which people can be held without was a thoroughly entertaining visit and I charge for, to 42 days: he believes the hope that other pupils will have the state should not become too powerful opportunity to experience it next year or and infringe upon people’s hard won otherwise they won’t believe me! rights.

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The Sir Alexander Stone Essay Prize

Winner: Melissa Thomas S6

Question:- “A man ought to read just as inclination leads Tolstoy’s character Levin’s advice: “my whole life…has the him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” unquestionable meaning of good which it is in my power to put Do you agree? Explore by reference to a wide range of into it!” I believe that this maxim should be adopted by reading, both casual and taught. everyone and this demonstrates the timelessness of this novel.

It is as Virginia Woolf states: “Words should live in the mind Levin develops in Anna Karenina from being society’s harshest and not the dictionary.” Words need their liberty and it is critic to one who eloquently philosophises about acceptance; through words that we gain our liberty. It is for this reason that however, it is life which he has embraced, not society and he I feel that reading as a task is necessary, we must be nurtured in will continue to question its institutions. Reading, in my the art of unravelling the complexity of words. Otherwise opinion, should have the principal objective to challenge “words would be confined to one meaning and one attitude,” society’s authority and as Jostein Gaarder states, to stop us from the meaning which makes us pass exams. Without investigating becoming “buried too deep in the rabbit’s fur”. I feel that this is words’ ambiguities, we would have a self-imposed life time of very important and is the only measure left in preventing us oppression. Reading is like a puzzle, each time we uncover a from transforming into a “Brave New World” or a “Fahrenheit layer of symbolism, there is a sense of satisfaction but there 451” society where citizens are enslaved by their State. will always be many different meanings. The puzzle becomes Reading and studying these books at school made me more addictive and the themes from one book spiral and collide into conscious of this message, which is explored in a more subtle that of another. This exploration of similar issues within way in the books I now read for pleasure. Virginia Woolf’s different books is perhaps best summarised in the Noel “Mrs Dalloway” explores the theme of society’s oppression Harrison lyrics: “ Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a and this is conveyed most obviously through Woolf’s trademark wheel, never ending or beginning, on an ever-spinning stream-of-consciousness style. It makes her ideas flow like a reel…Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your subtle undercurrent, giving women their voice in 1920s mind.” England and challenging the conventional opinions of that time.

I was set the task of reading Thomas Hardy’s “Return of the Coleridge defined poetry as being “the best words in their best Native,” a novel which presents a powerful evocation of a order” and Sylvia Plath’s poetry is a fine example of this. I was passionate woman who is denied her dreams by society. This given the assignment to analyse Sylvia Plath’s poem evoked within me a desire to have justice for women and this “Snakecharmer,” which uses enjambment from stanza to stanza interest shaped my choice of books. Therefore my next venture to reflect the slithering movement of the snakes and conveys an became Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”. Although I travelled from extremely progressive perspective of the Garden of Eden. the primitive customs of Hardy’s fictional Wessex to the elite Plath’s unique style and her radical views of society inspired me society of Moscow and St Petersburg, both novels were to read her only novel, “The Bell Jar”. This semi - concerned with examining the same aspect of the human autobiographical novel explores the hypocrisy in 1950s condition: its contradictory nature. The two female protagonists America and it is this which ultimately causes madness to were suffocated by their environment but ironically they were descend, in the form of the bell jar, upon our already unstable also a part of it. I believe that reading these great works of heroine. Feminist literature appears to have a symbiotic fiction compels us to analyse our own human nature and make relationship with autobiography and as this type of literature us reassess our aims in life. In a memorial lecture for the usually deals with an intimate and painful experience, in a author John Buchan, the journalist Catherine Deveney advised male-dominated world, it helps to express the need for change. her audience to define what will make us happy in the long Reading has a magnificent power, it has the ability to spread term and warned us against pursuing superficial ambitions like important messages around the globe, and triggers in people the fame. This recalled me to the previously mentioned classic desire to ask questions. It is this which prevents us from texts; where the heroines’ deaths are tragically propelled as a becoming enslaved by a mechanized society that limits reason result of the emptiness of their ambition. The books that I had and free thinking. I look at my bookshelf and I feel it could read reinforced Deveney’s caveat and encouraged me to follow perhaps be perceived as a time line for social change: the 21st

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century slot is allocated to a successful, confident woman, It is my view that the number of people attending university Hillary Rodham Clinton who represents the next generation of today for the desire of expanding their knowledge is decreasing autobiographical authors. This clearly demonstrates the and instead the majority of students are seeking degrees for influence authors have upon society: the authors I have status and salary which will ultimately result in their complete discussed have given a voice to women and I feel that this was integration into society. This concept was explored forty years a major factor in improving their lifestyles. previously in the Sylvia Plath short story; “America! America!” In this story, the author employs an ironic tone which conveys In the majority of the novels which I have read, the protagonists the idea of society exploiting education. I feel that Plath’s possess a love of literature and of education, which makes them abundant use of commas gives college life a metallic sheen - we aware of the opportunities that exist in the world. Other feel that education now has a machine like quality; the input is a characters, who express a dislike of reading or who are not able free thinker while the output is the society friendly epsilon, to gain enjoyment from a book, are perceived as hollow and delta or gamma. Reading is a fundamental part of our unworthy and this direct contrast increases our admiration for education, reading as a task in school can inspire us to read the central characters. This is perhaps propaganda on the part of more for pleasure and so enhance our intellect but this is only the authors to encourage people to read but it should also true while we are still treated as individuals. After all, once highlight that reading is invaluable and once you have been “soothers and smootheners for the embryo rebel, the artist, the enthralled by books, you will grow as a person and will never odd” have been introduced and education becomes an relinquish this gift. Virginia Woolf elevates literature to an institution of conformity, we will not identify with issues raised extremely high level in her novel “Mrs Dalloway”. She conveys in books and so we will lose the ability to question our the power of Shakespeare’s language, from the play Cymbeline, surroundings. as it has the ability to transcend the page. It essentially helps Clarissa to accept her own mortality. In the novel “The Bell Jar” When reading a novel, we are accepting the author’s invitation Plath’s autobiographical heroine is torn between her desire to to enter their sub culture. It is as Charles Scribner states: become a poet or to accept the role of a wife and mother, which “Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind: it is society’s intention for her. It seems that society will be forces you to stretch your own.” This is why I am critical of the threatened by her ambition to become a poet, as that will mean new literary phenomenon “compact editions of the classics.” I that she will not be working for the survival of society but will feel it will create a gulf between the reader and the author and be an observer of its routine; she will not have “mind-forg’d reading will become impersonal and superficial. This is where I manacles” but will have the freedom to criticise the state. agree with Dr Johnson: reading will become a task, people will read just to say they have read another book and not for fulfillment or enjoyment.

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members, which proved invaluable in Mark Scott Leadership tackling the challenges we faced at 1344 metres above sea level…

Morale stayed high as we sang, and for Life Award laughed, yet I can’t say it helped that about every five minutes, a thermal-clad walking-pole-wielding septagenarian overtook us, looking slightly aghast at By Natalie Lane S6 our huffing and puffing. We weren’t aiming for the summit on that day, but planned to camp two thirds of the way up, which was lucky, as about three It was a bright summer morning when I Phase 1 of the Leadership for Life hours into our expedition, a thick fog received the news: Award; a teambuilding week of outdoors descended and visibility was reduced to activities which brought the participants a few metres. As we gained altitude, the ‘Congratulations on being chosen to from different schools together for the gathering dust, falling temperatures and participate in the Mark Scott Leadership first time. It was with some trepidation eerie mist made the mountainside for Life Award.’ that, stepping off the minibus at the Loch atmosphere a little ominous. It was with Eil Outward Bound Centre just outside a flood of relief that Chris announced we ‘Great,’ I thought, ‘This could be really Fort William, I prepared to meet the were nearing our campsite. Exhaustion fun…’ seven pupils from Holyrood Secondary made us choose to overlook the fact our who would be my team mates for the every step got a little squelchier, and Six weeks later, I was clinging to the next ten months. Thankfully, our group’s Chris kept peering through the mist, windswept cairn on the barren, freezing instructor, Chris, stepped in with some looking a little blank-faced. But, as our summit of Britain’s highest mountain. hilarious icebreaker exercises, such as entire boots started to sink into the mud, This, in a nutshell, is what being part of making us all hold hands and tangle we could not avoid the truth: we were in the Award is all about; facing challenges ourselves into a ‘human knot’, before the middle of a marsh. And Chris’s unlike those we had ever faced before untangling ourselves again. This proved words of wisdom? and being propelled well out of our extremely effective in promoting team comfort zones, fostering within us a new work, as we reached the joint decision ‘So, yeah, we can just camp here for the resilience and self-confidence. Back on that dishonesty was the best policy, so night, but don’t pitch your tents too far the mountaintop, the huge grins on our we all distracted Chris and quickly down because I reckon there’s a loch flushed faces showed that each one of us cheated while his back was turned! somewhere…’ thoroughly enjoyed the outdoor aspect of the Mark Scott experience. The organised team-building activities, He was right. The bright morning mist such as walking blindfolded in a line lifted for a moment to reveal a tranquil, Climbing Ben Nevis (or ‘The Ben’ as the through a forest, relying only on the smooth, silver lake, like something out locals call it, but I’m not sure I can quite person in front of you for directions, of a VisitScotland advert. Nearing the pull that off) was the culmination of build up a strong trust between group summit, I remember phoning my mum

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(Ben Nevis was the only place with any Both workshops were successful. We mountains, to controlling thirty 10 year- reception in the Highlands) and gushing initially explained to the pupils that the olds, has really proved what we are that the expedition had been tougher Award was set up by Mark Scott’s capable of if we work together. On top of than the Highers. I suspect this was the mother and father following the tragic this, my first thoughts on opening my endorphins talking, but nonetheless it sectarian murder of their 16-year old son acceptance letter have been vindicated as had been quite an ordeal. in 1995. Then we split into groups to run (almost) every minute of the project was art, drama and music sessions, with an enjoyable. But it’s not over yet; roll on Having survived the outdoor rigours, the anti-sectarian message running the glitzy award ceremony at the team felt confident going into the second throughout. From chatting to both the Radisson hotel in June… stage of the Award: Community Project. older and younger pupils about what In order to stay true to the aims of the they had learnt it was clear that they had Mark Scott Foundation (who set up the responded very well, which gave us Team A Award) of combating sectarianism and great satisfaction. Personally, the other prejudices amongst young people, highlight was when we asked the First Murray MacOwen we intended to run anti-sectarian Years for ‘before and after’ adjectives to Harry Pope workshops with Primary Sixes from describe how the workshop had changed Laura Young Kingarth Street and Holy Cross Primary, their views of one-another (Hutchie Natalie Lane a feeder school for Holyrood. Despite stereotypes were predictably ‘stuck up’ Team B some last minute hiccups, the need for a and ‘posh’). I’m glad to say the word little compromise and an unexpected chosen by both sets of pupils to sum up Chloe Jackson amount of paperwork the workshops their new opinions of each other was Emma Carr finally materialised in March, with one ‘SOUND!’. Sarah Hanna day spent with Hutchie Primary Sixes in Team C Kingarth Street, and the next day spent I speak for us all in saying that with a mixture of Hutchie and Holyrood completing the Mark Scott Leadership Mandy Caplan First Years over in Holyrood Secondary. for Life Award has given us a great sense Neil Fulton of satisfaction, and, from climbing Gordon Jack

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‘No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.’ Charles Dickens Natalie Lane reflects on a year’s fundraising:

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‘Uptown Boys!’

Can you imagine how difficult it Pollok Park last October, raising a Fourth Years who got a chance to don would be to blow up a balloon with a magnificent £12,865.80. kilts and dresses for the ‘Sixty Five drinking straw? Roses Ceilidh’. The dance was named The teachers, clearly not wishing to be after the title of a book which recalled Probably not something you have ever outdone, organised their own ‘Teacher’s how the author’s 4-year old sister had thought about, but this is the challenge Mile’. This hilarious event really drew in mispronounced her disease. By all we were faced with during one the crowds thanks to all the teachers who accounts the night was thoroughly unforgettable morning assembly at the got into the spirit of things by running in enjoyed by all, as one S4 pupil put it, start of term. After looking a bit silly for fancy dress. Despite a controversial ‘Everyone really got into the dancing a few minutes and going slightly red in photo-finish Mr McLeod (Computing) and the ‘mocktail’ bar with the rose the face, we gave up - exhausted, but and Mr McCulloch (Geography) were drinks was a nice touch’. able to empathise with the sheer effort announced as joint winners. of every breath for those with severe Congratulations! Refreshed after the holidays the good Cystic Fibrosis. Our speaker that work continued with the Second Year’s morning was Cara Dolan who is an As you can imagine, after all this ‘Spring Fling’ ceilidh and an Easter Egg Expert Patient Advisor with the Cystic exercise, we were overjoyed at the Raffle organised by Mrs Madden and Mr Fibrosis Trust, this session’s school prospect of raising money by doing Dewar for the First Years. charity. She is herself a CF sufferer and nothing more than eating sweets at the talked us through a day in the life of annual Second Year Tuckshop. As At time of writing (March) our grand someone with the disease, from morning always this event was a great success, total is a formidable £23,500, which, physiotherapy to evening medication. raising £500, allowing the Cystic knowing the creativity and ingenuity of Whilst starkly imparting a sense of what Fibrosis Trust to buy a new portable Hutchie pupils (especially when a burden the disease is, she also nebuliser, which will allow someone to encouraging people to part with their succeeded in relating to us the resilience administer medication to themselves or money), I have every faith will increase and courage of the young sufferers she their child much more quickly. further by the end of this session. meets. Each of us left the hall inspired to do our bit in raising funds for this As the term drew on fundraising took a But what will be done with this vast organisation, which does so much to festive turn with First Years setting up a amount? Considering the Cystic Fibrosis improve the quality of life of the 8,000 candy-cane delivery service, charging Trust’s reputation for funding ground- people in the UK with CF. the modest price of £1, with a promise of breaking medical research (particularly complete anonymity, if so desired. Not into gene therapy, which could Such was our enthusiasm that fewer forgetting the annual Carol Service, a potentially cure the disease) and people than usual seemed to have traditional celebration which brought providing practical, emotional and strategically timed dentist appointments/ together parents, pupils and FPs, whose financial support to those affected by the sprained ankles on the day of the outstanding generosity raised £1900. disease, we can rest assured that it will dreaded Cross Country Run. In fact, be put to very good use. more than 850 Primary Seven to Sixth The final days of the Winter Term were Year pupils splashed through the mud in particularly memorable for the Third and

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Talent Show

The talent show this year was yet another smooth event taking place during the Spring term of 2008. As expected, the event was a sold - out success with pupils, teachers and parents attending. A trio of 6th years - Jamie Goldberg, Fraser Black and Andrew Wallace kept the audience entertained with their charisma and humour during the opening of the show and in between acts. All years ranging from S1 to S6 are allowed to participate in the talent show and this year we were fortunate enough to watch a wide variety of acts including senior and junior pupils alike. welcomed with a frenzy of cheers from other popular indie songs before the Among some of the popular acts the excited audience as they prepared to night came to an end. Singing was only included a group of 5th year boys. These say goodbye to the exhilirating night. one of the many talents included in the were Stuart Dale, Kerr McEwan, Nathan The assembly hall was transformed into show. Two 4th years girls captivated the Denholm, Adam McLay and Oliver the Moulin Rouge as Alex Fitzpatrick, audience with their talent of dance and Krause who gave a strong rendition of Lindsay McNeil, Melanie Chuwen, rhythm as they performed to an upbeat Backstreet Boys’ “I want it that way” Sophie Watson and Lisa Donnelly took track which kept the audience on their and Westlife’s “Uptown Girl” as the the stage as they gave a unique feet while Harry Pope wowed the finale of the show. This was much performance of “Lady Marmalade”. This audience with his skills on the drums. appreciated by the audience which could was accompanied by rehearsed be felt from their loud reaction of cheers choreography and creative outfits put Overall, the night was an immense and applause. The real surprise though, together by the girls themselves. success which raised an impressive sum lay in an unexpected performance from a of money for the school charity this select group of teachers just as the night A handful of indie bands also captured session. was about to end. Their version of the audience on the night giving several Malika Baig “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls was powerful performances of original and

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Community Service

The main focus this year has been on school has been involved in discussions building up links with various voluntary with YCSA, a youth outreach organisations within the community. organisation, and through that is also Adopting the motto, “think global, act participating in the Southside Youth local”, we are keen to identify the ways in Strategy group. In these ways we are which pupils at Hutchesons’ can support hoping to create an ideal context for our specific projects and, at the same time, pupils to offer practical support at a time gain valuable experience and skills. Of that suits their busy school routine. course, many pupils already take part in some form of community service through Through connections with the Hidden the Duke of Edinburgh scheme or other Gardens we aim to provide volunteers on youth groups to which they belong. a regular basis to help tend the garden or Several Sixth year pupils are involved in to become involved in cleaning up the the Mark Scott leadership programme, in Quad and local parks. Commissioned by which they have carried out several Battlefield Community Council, some projects such as designing a garden for an S2 pupils are devising a podcast version old folks home and working with of the Langside Heritage Trail, and will youngsters to tackle sectarianism. We are be working alongside the Govan Youth exploring ways in which we can develop Theatre. In addition, they have invited contacts with Lambshill Court, a our EcoSchools committee to make a residential home in Kinning Park, presentation on ways in which we can managed by former pupil Arti Poddar. help create a pleasant environment in Recently two of our pipers played at the and around the school. Court’s 12th birthday celebrations. The JMcD Emily Stevenson S6 The 1957 Group

The 1957 Group has, as its title suggests, course, tea and cakes. We are always to see grow and are currently looking been in existence for the last 50 years. grateful to all parents, friends and local into a number of ideas to enhance this This session we have celebrated fifty businesses who support this event family day. Watch this space! years of uninterrupted fund raising on through their donations and attendance. behalf of the school. We continue to sell quality second hand In January, we held a soiree for 50 uniform and hold our main sale in June In the last three years we have raised in helpers which proved to be a lot of fun. which continues to be very popular. the region of £45,000. Our present This was a sociable gathering for our Throughout the year we have had a efforts are directed towards a fighting army of volunteers and we would number of smaller sales, mainly from fund to update the stage at Kingarth welcome a few male helpers to our our shop at Beaton Road, but also at Street. We have also purchased safety swelling throng. The committee is small parents’ events at Kingarth Street. We torches, folding tables and garden and relies heavily on people giving their intend to hold sales on a more regular benches this session. time and it was enjoyable basis next session. acknowledging this invaluable Our year’s activities started with the contribution. Throughout the session we have run a annual Winter Fair, raising over £7,400. number of raffles with prizes such as We had a record turnout, with many past March saw us kicking up our heels and cases of champagne, a laptop and a committee members joining us to joining forces with the School school blazer. Again, thanks to our very celebrate our Golden Jubilee. Our guests Association in hosting a Supper Dance. generous benefactors for these items. were impressed at the size of the event This was another highly successful and The committee would also like to thank today and delighted to see that we enjoyable evening raising substantial all parents, friends, pupils and members continue to be so well supported. This is funds, some of which have been used to of staff for all their help and support an event which is growing in strength purchase sheets of fairy lights for use at throughout this session. Further with several businesses taking craft school functions. information about the 1957 Group can stalls. Their range of quality products be obtained from the school website or have added to what is a fun family day At a very windy Junior sports day we from Lesley Russell (e-mail: with tombola stalls, face painting, sold ice cream, tuck, hot dogs, balloons, [email protected]). raffles, book, bottle and toy stalls and of and uniform. This is a day we would like LR

29 ueo dnug’ wr Scheme Award Edinburgh’s of Duke

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme

Matt McDonald reviews a year of true achievement:

One of the many opportunities which For the expedition section of the course, Hutchesons’ offers to its pupils is the a group had to plan and carry out an Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. S4 and S6 expedition, lasting three days with two pupils have the chance to participate in nights camping. Though this does not Silver and Gold courses, respectively. seem an obviously daunting task, the Scottish climate and wildlife (midges) The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a way made it more difficult. There are four for pupils to get fit, develop self- means of travelling: cycling, canoeing, discipline and make new friends (whilst walking and kayaking, and one of these strengthening old friendships). It also was chosen by each group. My group greatly enhances university applications, chose to walk, which, though widely as it shows that the applicant has considered the most boring and determination, good team-working skills strenuous selection, was incredibly and is a talented person outwith interesting and worthwhile. examinations. On top of that, it is a difficult and worthwhile challenge, in To achieve the Duke of Edinburgh which the participant is taken out of their Award, each pupil must also learn a skill, comfort zone and (despite often feeling engage in a physical activity and help in tired, cold and hungry) enjoys a fun and a community service task. Each of these memorable experience. must be done for an hour a week, for

Last year, some of my friends and I decided to create a group to complete the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award. At first, I felt a great sense of optimism, alongside a tingle of unfounded apprehension. This slowly turned into a buzz of excitement, however, when the first training weekend approached.

I stepped onto the bus with my companions, not fully knowing what to expect. On arrival at the Loch Eil training centre, we were told in no uncertain terms of the centre’s rules, which were (mostly) followed for the course of the year. We were also told the horror stories of past participants who didn’t achieve their award after a year of hard work, because they had failed to adhere to the rules set for them. This created a sense of grit and determination within the year group, who glanced around the room, wondering who, if anyone, would eventually be asked to leave the course, all determined that they themselves would pass. We were told what we had to do.

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around six months, and shows the pupil’s celebrated a birthday and engaged in motivation. These activities also help some (arranged) cliff jumping. My most create more well-rounded individuals. memorable experience was when around For example, after staying loyal to my twenty of us squeezed into a small selections for half a year, I am now fitter dormitory to listen to the Scotland- than before, play guitar in a band and France football match which Scotland enjoying helping out at the local Boys’ surprisingly won 1-0. Though we didn’t Brigade. Having said that, it was notice at the time, we had achieved undoubtedly the expedition which had personal victories as well. We had the greatest impact on my maturity. created a fantastic sense of togetherness which we had never experienced before. We arranged a scenic route throughout Whether this was due to Gary Caldwell’s the Glencoe area of Scotland, whilst goal or to our team building activities, I avoiding arduous mountains. Our route am not entirely sure. took us along clear, fast-flowing rivers, through eerily beautiful forests and over Achieving the Duke of Edinburgh’s rocky and marshy landscapes. Whilst Award is a hugely worthwhile and encountering these landscapes, however, fulfilling experience. It may not seem it should be remembered that we were wholly satisfying at the worst times, carrying huge, painful backpacks and when the freezing wind is biting harder were cold and bitten. Through these than the midges, but the lessons learnt shared hardships, strong friendships and the progress achieved provide a were forged, stories and songs were sense of contentment and wealth of written and exchanged and games were stories, which will be cherished for years created to pass the time. to come. much of the time was spent in the centre, Not all of the memorable experiences preparing and teambuilding. There was were had on the expedition, however, as also time for recreation, however, and I

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Young Enterprise

‘Money, Money, Money!’ presentation to their local area board. Abba Although not quite Dragons' Den, the firms can expect a tough time at the hands of the judges. Calum MacDonald looks at the success of this year’s Young Often before large events, such as the Enterprise companies: Winter Trade Fayre, activity can be frantic with daily meetings and the Bistro quickly coming to resemble a This year the Young Enterprise groups Of course, the skills required to keep a small warehouse or a sweatshop as firms have been as diverse as we have come to Young Enterprise company running are put tremendous effort into organising expect. With names varying from Midas much more than merely designing eye- their stock. Fortunately, all the signs to Synergy to Project Paradise and catching products. Managing Directors suggest that this hard work is paying off: unavoidable advertising, the firms have have to formulate business plans, one company, Acid Cherry, won the certainly been high profile. Moreover, Secretaries must keep up to date minutes Glasgow Area prize for their stall design, with successful product lines including and Finance Directors should ensure the while another – Ugreen – was featured in handmade Christmas cards, ties, cookery company accounts and cash flow are in a local newspaper. With the end of year books, wallets and bags the budding good order, lest there be another reports looming, it would be no surprise entrepreneurs stand to make a healthy Northern Rock. The firms must also if at least one of the firms emulated last return on their hard work. work together to complete a business year's success and made it to the national exam set by Strathclyde University and - finals. to cap the year off – they must give a

33 Excursions

great fun but it was also a great opportunity for us to improve our French Excursions and it ultimately encouraged us to continue with our modern languages. Paris, je t’aime MelissaThomas

Shopping, patisseries and of course all making the most of our limited time. We the famous historical monuments which visited the Musée de l’Orangerie to see Latin Trip to Rome make Paris unique - we were lucky Monet’s Les Nymphéas which were enough to experience it all, thanks to our remarkable and we also traversed the During the October Midterm Break in accomplished guide, Ms Thomson. streets of the old part of Paris, passing by the Pompidou Centre and Victor Hugo’s 2007, pupils were given the opportunity by the Classics Department to visit It all began on the 31st January 2008 house. During our stay, we successfully Rome for one week. Almost 30 pupils when our flight departed from Glasgow integrated ourselves into the French café travelled to the beautiful city, home to with ten 6th year Advanced Higher culture. One of the highlights was many of the world’s oldest and most French students onboard along with Ms drinking our chocolat chaud in Les Deux fascinating attractions, along with our Thomson, who was invaluable in making Moulins which was the café from the Classics teachers. Significant landmarks this trip a great success. Once landing at film “Amélie”. such as the Colosseum and the largest Charles de Gaulle airport, we took the amphitheatre ever built in the Roman metro to “Porte de Clichy” which was The main focus of our trip was the E.U. Empire were visited alongside the holy where our hotel was situated. The metro conference which featured many and beautiful Vatican and spectacular would be our mode of transport for the prominent political figures such as Roman Forum. Pupils were also given rest of the trip; it was economical and Michael Portillo and the “cheeky boy” the opportunity to enjoy Rome’s reliable but it did attract a few too many Lembit Opik who gave a talk on the renowned shopping experience and also “friendly” Parisians. importance of integrating and communicating with other countries and visited the Circus Maximus, a traditional chariot racing arena, where they Our first language, once there, became encouraged us to keep up our modern themselves participated in their own French not English. It was our aim to languages. The creative director for racing! The steep Spanish Steps of the speak as much conversational French as Innocent smoothies, Dan Germain, gave city were climbed by our pupils and possible. Our knowledge of the French us a motivational talk about good teachers while the busy and infamous language was essential for navigating business skills. He was extremely design of the Trevi Fountain was Paris. Our first stop in this glamorous entertaining and was a big success with admired, and no doubt coins were also city was the Bohemian quarter of Paris, everyone. After this, we still found time thrown into the divine fountain! With the so of course we had to pose for to go to the Champs-Élysées. After all, beautiful Italian weather, the pupils and photographs in front of the infamous we could not go to the fashion capital of teachers truly enjoyed their visit, “Moulin Rouge”. During our trip, we the world without going shopping. A few discovering the wonders of Rome and visited many other tourist attractions like of us went to the Cartier shop where we learning about its culture and history. the Sacré-Cœur, the Eiffel Tower and we peered in the glass cabinets to look at the Another visit to the city is to hopefully also went for an evening boat trip along dazzling diamonds and afterwards we take place next year during the Easter the river Seine. decided to take in a French movie, which added to this fantastic experience. break. The weather may have been inclement Mithi Ahmed but we did not let that stop us from We all had an amazing time in this wonderful, cosmopolitan city; it was 34 Excursions

Ski Trip 2008 Chemistry Trip to London

The annual ski trip was once again a In September 07, 50 4th year pupils and great success. On the 3rd April, 41 pupils 6 members of staff travelled to London with 5 members of staff undertook the for the Chemistry trip. The pupils visited mega 30 hour journey to Snowbasin, the Science Museum and the Natural Utah. History Museum, where they learned many interesting facts that were also The first stop of the trip was the site of relevant to the course they were the Winter Olympics - which was studying. The Chemistry students were fascinating! Then a visit to a real also able to experience the delights of American basketball match ensured that London, taking in the West End show, we made the best of our first day. The “The Lion King’’, going on the London rest of the week was spent skiing and Eye and visiting Madame Tussauds. boarding and the fresh, powder snow Everyone had a fantastic time and we made for perfect conditions. The evening hope the Chemistry department have entertainments proved to be just as fun another trip planned for next year. with ten pin bowling and crazy golf, not forgetting the world famous ski trip quiz!

Snowbasin 08 was a superb experience. A big thank-you must go to Mrs Crichton who was integral in making this a great trip. History trip to the Battlefields

It was on Sunday 20th May 07, when a group of 3rd years left Hutchie to retrace the events of WW1. They began their trip at the medieval town of Ypres, in Belgium, which was a site for many major battles – including the Battle of Passchendaele which is considered by many as one of the bloodiest of the First World War. Many of the other highlights of the trip included visiting “ The Trench of Death” (a famous memorial site), walking along the front lines and visiting the trenches and of course going shopping. The 3rd years had an unforgettable experience, thanks to the organisation of Dr Gaffney.

Business and Economics trip to London

From making ‘McFlurrys’ in McDonalds to learning about how the U.K.’s economy is run – the Business and Economics trip encompassed it all. As well as a few interesting extras like visiting the Emirates Stadium, which was greeted with awe by the Arsenal fans among them and also a trip on the London Eye and a West End show, all of which made this trip an overall success!

London 2007 35 Clubs Recycle, recycle, recycle!

Debating

This year the debating society, under Mr. Symington, has continued its strong performance. The senior team made the national final of the ESU Schools Mace and Hutchie has done well in the Law Society and Glasgow University competitions also. The motions this year have ranged from the topical (banning size zero models) to the deeply controversial (assassinating Robert Mugabe) but have always been extremely interesting. Lunchtime debates mean that younger students can hone their speaking skills in front of friends while morning workshops ensure that whatever topic pupils have to be arguing about, they are well prepared. Calum MacDonald won the National Final of the Historical Association’s Great Debate - his topic being the most important scientific advancement of the Clubs 20th Century. His argument about the integrated circuit was most convincing Calum MacDonald reports on a busy year and was delivered with clarity and passion. Eco-Schools

This year the Eco-Schools committee has been hard at work reducing Hutchie’s elephantine carbon footprint. No mean task but those involved have come up with a host of wide ranging initiatives to make the school more efficient and environmentally friendly.

Few in the school could have missed the two “Green Day” events, large fair like occasions held in the assembly hall - featuring competitions, stalls, recycling projects and perhaps the odd snack or two. As well as simply raising awareness, the events have helped finance the committee to take action across the school. Recycling bins for cans and plastic have sprung up across the school. The prodigious quantities of Fair Trade paper that Hutchie gets through are also being reduced and separated away for future reuse. Liaising with Hidden This year the school has been increasing money going to ensure that farmers in Gardens at Tramways about community its fair trade profile. Several fair trade developing countries receive a fair price projects along with improving the stalls, held in the Beaton Road foyer, for their crops. Organised by Mrs school’s conservation area complete the have been very successful. A McIntosh, the scheme shows that project’s considerable achievements so surprisingly wide selection of products ethically sourced goods need not be far. As if that was not enough, plans are can be found from jewellery and boring or terribly expensive either. With already in place to support a week of stationery to high quality fair trade this year’s success, it seems certain that taking public transport to school during chocolate (always a hit with teachers more and more Hutchie products will be the summer term. needing an afternoon caffeine boost). fair trade in the future. Sales are normally strong with the 36 Clubs

Film Club Greg Barnard, S4 Jennifer Rieck examines the rules of film club…

Film Club at Hutchesons’ has been running successfully since the beginning of the academic year 2006. The initial aim of the club was to give pupils the opportunity to take part in a social event outside of the academic curriculum which is culturally stimulating and a bit of fun!

The Club runs for 50 minutes on a Thursday lunch time and often attracts up to 20 or more pupils from different year groups. This way there is always a great atmosphere where pupils can mix Katie Fox, S5 and intertwine socially whilst enjoying their favourite film. In the Frame Since the beginning of the school year (2007/2008) the club has enjoyed the Stuart Williams reports: likes of Pan’s Labyrinth, Spellbound, Belleville Rendezvous, Road to Every year, Hutchie pupils benefit from Tyrabithia and Amelie amongst others. a wide-range of extra-curricular activities: this year has been no Film club has been a joy for everyone exception. Along with the usual involved. The club recently took a trip to favourites, senior pupils snapped up a the GFT (Glasgow Film Theatre) to see new activity – Photography Club came ‘The Kiterunner’. This trip was not only to the school this session. great fun but proved to be of immense educational and cultural value and Between 20 and 30 happy-snappers meet particularly relevant to today’s global up every Tuesday lunch time to take Alastair Ferrans, S4 climate. “The Kiterunner was amazing, it photos, discuss techniques and look for taught me so much about what really inspiration in photographic journals and goes on in some parts of the world. Film magazines. Mrs Hamilton, the teacher club has been great fun and responsible for the club, is very happy The fun is not restricted to within the insightful”(Anonymous Pupil S4). Due with everyone’s progress: “The pupils school gates: Mrs Hamilton has taken to the popularity of the trip, the Film have really grasped new techniques and the members on many trips. The group Club hopes to continue viewings at the enjoy experimenting with different has visited Street Level Photoworks – an GFT. styles. I have been really impressed by organisation based in Glasgow which the quality of everyone’s photographs”. hosts exhibitions and offers educational The Film Club is looking forward to outreach programmes – on three having themed viewing especially The PC (as it is known by regular occasions. Pupils were given the German Expressionist Films and attendees) does not only help aspiring opportunity to develop their own Hitchcock’s Classics and hopes it’ll go photographers to hone their skills – it is photographs professionally, as well as down a treat, just like the tasty popcorn also a lot of fun! Laura Young, of S6, is viewing established artists’ work. provided for your viewing pleasure. one of the club’s keenest members: “I’ve All in all it’s been a great year for Film enjoyed the opportunity to develop my It is clear that Photography Club has Club and I’m sure they’ll be many photography abilities and take part in enjoyed an incredible first year, more… competitions. I’m especially looking establishing a loyal core of members in a forward to displaying my work at an flash. Whether in sepia, monochrome or upcoming exhibition at Langside colour, the talents of its members and the Library.” Ditza Granat, also of S6, added dedication of Mrs Hamilton shine that the club allowed her “to meet many through. I believe that it is a club that new friends”. will last for many years to come. 37 htgah lbCompetition Club Photography

Blair Paul, S6

JamieTurner, S6 James Gilchrist, S4

Katie Fox, S5 SarahThomson, 2G

Calum Strang, 6A 38 Clubs

Creativity Crest Report 2008 discussed a character’s motivation, personality and the interplay between the Griff Williams finds two. I’ve seen actors struggling to Hutchesons’ Grammar has a reputable himself… understand a character, but the class track record of excellence in CREST. eagerly started psycho-analysing characters from Rowling and Horowitz CREST is open to all primary and … lost for words. As a writer, that is like pros. Harry Potter may not be as secondary students. It covers both most certainly not a good thing. The complex a character as Hamlet or scientific and technological areas of the passion and intelligence I have Othello, but we all have to start curriculum and encourages success and encountered since starting the creative somewhere, don’t we? To be honest, I the development of skills and processes. writing club has, quite simply, wasn’t too sure if I was teaching the It gives students an opportunity to overwhelmed me. great authors, or the next great pursue a topic of interest to them and is psychologists. The class, however, open – ended. Students are expected to I am, however, getting ahead of myself. assured me they were learning undertake real- life open- ended science Like all stories, I should start this one at something. and technology research projects which the beginning. It was forty five minutes involve three elements : creativity, past noon on November 9th. The As one said: perseverance and application. weather, as it is so often wont to be in Scotland, was miserable. Come to think ‘It is a fantastic opportunity for us to get Each year a special individual award is of it, I was miserable too. How many better at our English.’ made to the team which best captures the people had turned up for the inaugural spirit of CREST. This is across the whole day of the creative writing club so far? So the lessons carried on: plot, themes, field of the entry and at every level. inspiration and the occasional debate on None. the famous writers of today. As a club, This year, Kevin Xu, Michael Rose and we haven’t won any awards, as one Stephen Rose are the three members of It was not, I think you would agree, an might in debating, bridge or chess, but I the CREST club which stands for auspicious start. Ever since the idea had urge you to give us time. It is my creativity and research in science and been suggested to me, one nagging greatest hope that the creative writing technology. Being involved in CREST worry had been clawing at the back of club will become a new chapter in the involves mostly biological lab work. my mind: how many people in the school’s history. I’ve written the opening Once this lab work is complete, a report school are as thrilled by creative writing paragraph, so now it’s up to someone is written and this is submitted to the as I am? At that unhappy moment, as I else to carry on the tale. This, I have no annual CREST competition. stared out across the empty classroom, doubt, is to be continued... the answer once again appeared to be The annual competition is still to take none. place and we await the results with much anticipation and wish the team good Then a solitary, timid head poked around luck. the corner of the door and asked if this Malika Baig was the creative writing club. I replied, trying to fake a laconic calm, that it was. Another followed, then another, then another after that, until before I knew what had happened there were six eager students sitting before me.

Thus the creative writing club began. While the number of participants each week fluctuated, never dropping to zero but never rising to double figures, the enthusiasm remained a constant. The class, made up of first and second years, has, from that day to the day I write this report, thrown itself into every task I’ve set with an energy an old, plodding sixth year such as myself can only remember fondly.

Let’s use characterisation as an example. I devoted an entire session to this most crucial of facets. The class and I

Illustration by Emma Quail S3 39 Art

Art

…pencilled in by Rachel Nolan.

The Art Department was destined to Connelly, a pupil, could not help but have a great year after the phenomenal express how happy she was that she was success of the 2007 Art Show in June, able to study it: “I have always loved art displaying a massive variety of and wanted the subject in my life, but the outstanding art and design work from portfolio course sounded far too intense pupils in S1 to S6. The walls in certain and I simply didn’t have the hours to corridors in school were laden with dedicate to it as Drama is my first dynamic and colourful paintings of all priority. I was so relieved to discover sorts of wonderful objects in order to that Advanced Higher was available, it greet the eyes of the viewers as Jennifer has enabled me to continue with my art di Folco, SQA Qualifications Manager work without interfering with my other for Art and Design, opened the event. studies. I am really enjoying the course The show was generally perceived as and I’m so glad that I didn’t have to miss delightful and onlookers seemed out on all the fun in the Art department, pleasantly surprised at the broad that school trip was amazing!” selection of work; the pupils seemed to have covered everything from hard core In the following month of October the metal designs to the delicacy of a fine Glasgow School of Art Open Day was line feather drawing. The Sixth year attended by 5th and 6th year pupils studio featured a range of breath taking followed by a visit to the Gallery of textiles, sculpture and drawings by Modern Art to hear a talk given by Sandra Gifford, Emily Stevenson, Kirsty Dorothy Hodd, Head of the Jewellery Fraser and Thomas Clark, all of whom Department at Edinburgh College of Art. gained places at their selected School of The talk was extremely insightful and Art. interesting; it was very helpful to see the sketchbooks of art students. Pupils also With all this previous success I suppose visited Edinburgh College of Art Open the further refurbishment of the Art Day accompanied by Miss Lovell and Department was deserved, now Mr Emonds. “We were split into small providing four multi-functional, well lit groups and guided round the studios, art rooms for the pupils and the teachers they looked amazing and massive, it to make the most of. made me feel quite small”.

This year the art teachers arranged a There was also the SQA launch at the number of trips. On the 17th of National Gallery! And most recently September the S6 Portfolio and pupils in S4 and S5 were given the Advanced Higher pupils ventured out to opportunity to attend the annual Pollok Park and The Burrell Collection Glasgow School of Art Fashion Show on a location drawing trip with Mr featuring the work of 2nd and 3rd year McQueen and Mrs Breckenridge. It was textile students, a pretty amazing and a beautiful day with perfect blue-sky potentially inspirational event. All that drawing conditions and so the trip was a and the work is not over yet… So success. The Advanced Higher has been basically it has been a very busy year. introduced for the first time into the department curriculum and Mhairead

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Hutchesons’ Art displayed at the National Gallery

Not long before the end of the summer holidays I was sitting in town with some friends savouring the last few days of freedom and bracing myself for another year of hard work when I received a phone call from my mother. She was informing me that a letter had arrived from the SQA - as you can imagine panic struck. My first thought being that there was an error with my exam results that had to be corrected. But really it was a rather pleasant surprise - they had requested to display my Higher design work in the National Gallery in Edinburgh. It wasn’t until I returned to school that I discovered that four other pupils from the class, Jonathon Aird, Caitlin Curran, Laura Young and Natasha Kushi, had also been selected. Five candidates selected, out of the thousands that participated in Higher Art and Design, what an achievement for the school! On the 23rd of October we found our own separate ways to Edinburgh and met at the National Gallery where we heard a rather impressive speech and viewed a particularly interesting display. There was everything; paintings, bags, hats, jewellery, ceramics. The atmosphere was busy yet comfortable as people pored over the glass cabinets, both parents and students alike beaming with satisfaction and pride. A trigger- happy photographer rushed around snapping photos of the candidates with their work and later in the month we each received a commemorative print in order to bring back happy memories of the special day. After viewing the exhibition we collected a goody-bag which included coasters with prints of selected paintings, a fridge magnet, some postcards and, in my opinion, a very lovely pen (everyone was using them). Everyone appeared to have a good time and I think it’s fair to say that the SQA went “all out” to encourage young artists. Participant, Natasha Kushi, exclaimed that, “…it was a life changing experience, it truly was inspirational to see the work of so many young Scottish artists.” To say the least it was weird seeing my work behind glass in a well established gallery. Hopefully this bodes well for the future. Rachel Nolan

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42 We will, we will, rock you! Drama

Drama

A ‘Flash’ of this year’s session.

Rebecca Scott narrates on this year’s events:

Drama is a huge part of the school’s subject. Drama is becoming a more songs of Queen, it was written by curriculum both in class and as a part of widely renowned subject with Law comedian Ben Elton in collaboration some exciting and diverse extra- faculties actually listing it as one of their with Queen members Brian May and curricular activities. It never fails to be preferred subjects, finding students who Roger Taylor. The story follows young astounding just how much the Drama have studied Drama are among the most rebels who attempt to put a stop to a department can achieve with the fairly confident and dedicated. Higher Drama futuristic world where diversity is limited time they have. The school is is a very challenging but rewarding shunned. The audience members were already buzzing with excitement for this course and the Higher students are jiving in the aisles along to the booming year’s summer show, “Fiddler on the currently preparing for their acting exam Queen songs performed by the dazzling Roof” with the rehearsal process well where they explore Brian Friel’s Lovers cast of Bohemian rebels and electric underway. This is the main topic of and a variety of different Scottish pieces. Yuppies. conversation amongst senior pupils, Hopefully this year’s S4 will follow in showing how much enthusiasm they their footsteps and produce some June 2007 brought yet another have for drama! Not to forget the excellent results and this is expected masterpiece put together by the Drama successes of our younger pupils as there judging on their original pantomimes at and Music departments. have been many extremely successful Christmas time which provided a lot of productions throughout the course of the entertainment for the audience. The performance involved masses of year, such as the junior production of enthusiastic pupils as cast, crew, Joseph and the S3 Victorian pieces. Hutchesons’ pupils rocked the stage with technical team and band members and it However, as well as the public the annual summer show last session, the was sold out for the entire five night run. performances, there are always a lot of West End hit musical, “ We Will Rock The spectacular music, played by our interested pupils who take Drama as a You”. Based around the much-loved very own rock band and orchestra was a tribute to Queen’s music. It certainly isn’t simple to play!

Among the stars were Chris Hansell double cast with David Rutherford as the sweetly innocent Galileo and Sophie Clark and Simone Golumb who shared the role of Scaramouche, a wild rebellious rock chick. Rachel Fitzpatrick and Joelle Gerber both played the fiery Killer Queen. Also showcasing their talent were Logan Carlaw and Andrew Watson as Britney and Emily Stevenson and Fiona Scott who played Meat. Also starring in the all-singing, all-dancing cast was Jimmy Mitchell who brilliantly played the hilariously eccentric Kashoggi.

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The cast of ‘We will RockYou’

the old classic Fiddler on the Roof. Other new talents who shone include; pieces. The scene from ‘Lady There is no doubt that the pupils and Paul Smith and Graeme Pratt double cast Windermere’s Fan’, by Oscar Wilde, staff will put in enormous amounts of as the powerful millionaire Potiphar and included a small but talented cast who effort to create yet another hit! his evil, scheming wife played by certainly brought out the comedy of the Charlotte Sagnay De La Bastida. Not piece extremely well. Lady Windermere This year kicked off in technicolour forgetting Laurie Anderson and Connor was played by Rachel Smith. triumph and once again the Drama and Benson as Reuben and Andrew Jeffrey Music departments miraculously who transformed himself into the old, The warm, cosy family life of ‘Little produced a spectacular show. The junior loving father, Jacob. An inspiring twist Women’ (adapted from the novel by performance of the well-known hit was added to the story as Joseph’s Louise May Alcott) was portrayed by musical, Joseph and the Amazing brothers (or sisters!) were played by girls five girls playing the beloved “Marmee” Technicolor Dreamcoat, was sold out for for two of the performances. and her four daughters who were all all three evening performances this bubbling with life. November. As well as the all-singing, all-dancing young cast of nearly 130 on stage, we Scenes from the ever popular ‘My Fair Although the colourful musical by must acknowledge the massive Lady’ made up the majority of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice contribution the lively band made to the evening. Music, directed by Sarah was first produced almost 40 years ago performance as it is, after all, a musical. Stuart, added to making this and has been performed numerous times, The stage crew and technical team added performance so memorable. The it has lost none of its magic and the to making it such an outstanding event audience were delighted to hear that enthusiastic cast definitely did it justice. after an incredible amount of dedication famous song, “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” The story is based on the biblical tale of as shown by the dazzling lighting and The part of the brash, cockney Eliza Jacob’s favourite son, Joseph, and his sound effects which helped to stage the Doolittle was shared by Lauren Young eleven brothers. The role of Joseph was production in such a professional way, and Emma Hunter and both girls shared by Scott Meenan and Gregory making the audience forget the pupils are certainly did this important role justice. Clark who lead the audience from the as young as S1 and S2. Also appearing as the delightfully present day back to the ancient times so charming Freddy Eynsford Hill was they could witness his story unfolding. In December, an audience of parents and Drew Hollinshead who managed to win There is no doubt of a promising future friends enjoyed an Evening of Victorian a few laughs! Pupils as cast, crew and in drama ahead for both of these young Drama performed by an enthusiastic cast technical team, not to forget the Drama actors. However, watch out for Adam of S3 pupils. It was a night of corsets, Department all worked together to make Hunter and Jordan Roberts-Laverty who cockney accents and Victorian music and this special evening such a tremendous blew the audience away with their certainly not one to forget! success! gyrating hips playing the Elvis impersonating Pharaoh! The performance included extracts from Once again the annual Drama three well known and loved Victorian Competition was a huge success but this 44 Drama

National Certificate Drama Rachel Nolan reports

At the beginning of the academic year the S6 National Certificate Drama class was ecstatic to discover that Mrs Alderson, Head of Drama, had selected Oscar Wilde’s magnificently witty play, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, for us to perform. Every Friday afternoon the class meets in either the lecture theatre or the Georgeson Room for discussion and rehearsal with Mrs Alderson in the position of director and Mrs Sobolewska in charge of stage management (a fairly tough job considering it’s an understatement to say that both set and costume are going to be fairly refined - well, we are dealing with Victorian aristocracy!)

Although N/C Drama is hard work, it is an extremely enjoyable experience: “It’s time the contest was between S2 and S3. Morven Bremner for her performance in been amazing to get the chance to be part All performers showed more talent and “The Worst Witch” and “Daisy Pulls it of a small cast in a full-length enthusiasm than ever before! Pupils opt off.” production, we have all become really to perform in either of the monologue, close and the teachers truly have been duologue or group sections with some The competition was a combined effort inspirational.” Far too many cups of tea ambitious and committed stars with senior pupils in S4, 5 and 6 who and Victorian Sponge cakes and muffins participating in more than one category. showed off their directing skills by down the line and we will be ready for helping with the competition pieces. It our performance on the 6th and 7th of There is no doubt how much work these was a great opportunity to join the senior May: it definitely is a play for the light- pupils put in, however possibly the and junior drama clubs to produce a hearted and the humorous, just toughest task of the whole evening went spectacular event. remember, “In matters of grave to the very distinguished panel of judges. importance, style, not sincerity is the This year the tricky decisions were left vital thing.” to the much loved and well known Carol Smillie, Mary McCluskey who is the Bravo, once again, to the Hutchie Drama Artistic Director of Scottish Youth teachers and our budding Thespians, Theatre and Carter Ferguson who can be who continue to wow us with their seen on River City. The pieces were all dedication to produce impressive extremely varied but equally enjoyable. performances. They ranged from “The Vicar of Dibley” to “The Importance of Being Ernest.”

Although everyone deserves credit, prizes have to be given out. In Monologue, Gemma McLennan won for her performance as Mabel from “An Ideal Husband;” in Duologue, Scott Meenan and Jordan Roberts-Laverty won for their hilarious scene from “Bloodbrothers” and in group, Sarah Cooper, Iona Scott, Kate Galbraith and Kate Cameron won for their interpretation of “The Steamie.” This year the Judges’ Prize for overall outstanding performance was awarded to

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Overture

This academic year has shown great progress for Music at Hutchesons’, with successes in the Glasgow Music Festival, the strengthening and expansion of our links with schools from different countries such as Germany and Holland, and most notably the outstanding achievement of the BBC Music Young Chorister of the Year, Charlotte McKechnie in S4. This year’s musical notes orchestrated by Hutchie takes centre stage Ronnie Palchaudhuri and Luke McIntosh. This year’s WOSIS Music Weekend held during the 14th-16th of September at Hutchesons’ Grammar School was a tremendous success, the event consisting of rehearsals throughout the weekend, culminating in a concert on the final night. The WOSIS Concert Band, Jazz Band and String Orchestra hold two concerts each year, one of these was held on the 16th of September at Hutchie. This event was an excellent opportunity for our school to exhibit the superb music facilities on offer, the pupils across several independent schools all made full use of these and put their full effort into their rehearsals for the duration of the weekend; this clearly showed in the spectacular performance on the Sunday evening. New Vistas Composition Project

Three Hutchesons’ pupils in S4 are half way through a year long composition project masterminded by Scottish composer John Maxwell Geddes with the Paragon Ensemble, a professional group which develops and plays contemporary music. Along with another 15 pupils from across Scotland, Charlotte McKechnie, Gordon Biggart and Andrew Brown are each composing a trio for instrumentalists – in their case, flute, clarinet and bassoon – based on seascapes. Geddes will also compose a new piece for the Paragon Ensemble to stand along side the pupils’ compositions for the grand finale in the autumn.

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Nürnberg Exchange

Our connections with our partner school in Nürnberg, the Hans–Sachs Gymnasium were strengthened by the visit of the students to our school from the 27th of September to the 4th of October, where they stayed with students and gave a superb performance in the Tuesday evening concert, singing pieces from the “Little Shop of Horrors”, along with outstanding solos and quartets. The exchange was a successful venture, with students from the Gymnasium building friendships with other students, as well as learning a lot about the different countries and cultures. We hope to continue with our numerous exchanges with the Hans- Sachs Gymnasium and allow our links with Nürnberg to further flourish. Music Competition

The Fotheringay Auditorium audience enjoyed a wonderfully varied afternoon of music as 23 pupils performed in the final of the annual Music Competition, sponsored by Biggars Music. Winner of the Grades 4-5 class was classical guitarist Stuart McQuarrie [S1], who Amsterdam, Delft, and other towns, as played a Study by Matteo Carcassi. Neil well as pottery, clogs and cheese Colquhoun [S5] won the Grades 6-8 factories, whilst also engrossing class, playing the first movement of the themselves in the Dutch culture. The trip Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano by was enjoyed by all, with memorable and Phil Woods. Runners up were Scott amusing moments both on and off stage. Meenan [S1], Piano, and Jennifer On the whole, a ‘smashing’ experience! Lawrie [S6], Violin. The adjudicator was Steven Pedlar, Precentor of Music As well as all these special musical at King Edward’s School in Witley, occasions, the Music Department runs a Surrey. full and varied programme of events throughout the year show-casing the The Netherlands Trip musical talents of our pupils. This session alone provided an Orchestral concert, Christmas concert and Carol During the February week, members of concert in the autumn and in the Spring, the concert band and some vocalists, Founders’ Day, a Spring concert and the along with music staff, Edgar Trotter, now well established Jazz Concert . In Joanne Freeland, Rachel Forbes and addition to these musical events, the Simon Brown, took a 20-hour coach Department collaborated with the Drama trip, travelling through France and Department in producing two musicals. Belgium, to reach the coastal town of November saw the S1/2 production of Noordwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Throughout the trip, the group possible without the commitment and Dreamcoat. As the magazine goes to performed concerts at the British hard work of pupils and the enthusiasm press a Senior Production of ‘Fiddler on School in Amsterdam, and at a care of the departmental team (especially the the Roof’ is in rehearsal. home, the Willem Van Der Berg Centre peripatetic instrumental tutors)as well as in Noordwijk. These contrasting venues the cooperation and support of This report show-cases only a fraction of provided unforgettable experiences in colleagues across the School. Our thanks an impressive and comprehensive range different ways. The group also visited go to all of them! of activities, none of which would be various attractions and museums in 47 colLife School

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Senior Christmas Dance 07

Spray-tanned, coiffured and dressed to down the Cloisters Corridor which the other half probably had killer-heel impress - the Hutchie Seniors were ready glittered with fairy lights. Everyone was related injuries by the end of the first for the best Christmas Dance anyone can stunned when we reached the assembly dance. At one point the band, with the remember. The lovely ladies and eligible hall and found it transformed beyond help of the many teachers who helped bachelors of Fifth and Sixth Year recognition with sophisticated silver and out at this event, succeeded in setting up received the real red carpet treatment, white awnings hanging from the high a huge Orcadian Strip the Willow which complete with paparazzi and the ceiling, and stars and snowflakes involved four lines of dancers stretching December weather providing that sparkling from the walls. In this the entire length of the hall. To top this striking windswept look. Inside in the wonderful setting the ceilidh band struck we ended the night on a high with an warmth the night kicked off with a up a tune and got the dance underway enthusiastic rendition of Auld Lang Syne. champagne (or in our case Appletiser) with, as is tradition, the Gay Gordons. So, it is without a doubt that we all left reception held in the festively decorated Much to their credit the band managed to Beaton Road that winter night with lunchroom. After some excited keep us all on our feet for the whole many good stories, great memories and conversation and a few glasses of lightly night, no small achievement considering very sore feet. sparkling fruit juice we were ushered half of us were wearing killer heels and Natalie Lane

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raiewriting Creative

Instead of dreaming of a hard working, law abiding parliament, it should be the reality, the very least that we expect. Too many politicians behave like wily first years, doing what they can get away with. What is needed is a radical change in what the public demands of its representatives. The pressure of national expectations should be almost crushing; ready to squash those who stray. There will be those who rise to the new challenge while others will be revealed to have been totally inadequate.

Why on earth do we hold MPs and political parties to a lower standard? Their expenses make City bosses green, their ideas could be (and frequently are) the scribblings of an undergraduate researcher. Politically, morally and financially, politicians should be the best of the country. If in order to get a decent standard, we need to change the democratic system, raise salaries, let constituents sack their MPs or go even further, we shouldn’t hesitate. The bottom line is that it cannot be impossible to find 659 citizens who do their country credit. Dreaming Yes there will be much disappointment – and in that sense politics will actually start to resemble real life, where A decent politician should public treat it with a level of scorn claiming “an incompetence” can’t get not be a distant dream: normally only reserved for war criminals you off of fraud charges – but surely that or Heather Mills. The standard would be an improvement on the current British politics. justification for this attitude normally situation where nothing a politician does invokes politicians’ manipulative and can disappoint us. If the public can have It takes a brave writer to begin a piece sinful (or is that spinful?) ways or the higher expectations of MPs, then with those words. Half the readership corruption of a few parliamentarians. perhaps politics will become something will have glazed over and quickly busied When politicians promise action we to which more young people aspire to, to the next page. The remainder will be expect nothing, and when we expect not just the last resort of those who formulating glib one liners about the action politicians promise nothing. failed to get into Goldman Sachs. Above current inadequacies and failings of our all, we have to demand that politics politicians. However, what if the blame, in part, lies becomes a respectable profession and with the general public? This might seem that the term “Rt. Hon. M.P.” is not an Politicians are cynical, manipulative a rather unusual view given that many oxymoron. creatures devoid of ethical compunction, MPs are creating expenses claims as bent solely on gaining votes or, failing long as the queues at Heathrow Terminal This may all sound impossibly idealistic, that, a greater expenses allowance. 5. None the less, why are we holding and perhaps it is, but we must believe Gordon Brown’s famous moral compass MPs to such a low standard? Having all that a better standard can be achieved. must be getting so confused that it could but abandoned the hope of parliamentary For those of you who remain be used as a desk fan. integrity, we now don’t even expect unconvinced, I can only ask: do you ministers to come up with thoughtful really think Wendy Alexander is as good Although this is certainly an new ideas, indeed intelligent MPs (and as it gets? exaggeration, it is all too easy to believe. there must be a few) are scared to stick Calum MacDonald But why has it come to this? British their heads above the intellectual parapet lest they be caught in a volley of (The views outlined above are not necessarily politics is not rotten to the core (although those held by Hutchesons’ EducationalTrust!) a minority of incidents are highly visible disaffection. and totally disgraceful) yet the general

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The JC Murray Senior Magazine Prize

Tread Softly, Because I Paid For This Dream ‘Excuse me, could you ring up my dream?’ I realised I’d picked - A Corporate Dystopia up the Consumer’s injector. My head snapped up and once again those icy blue eyes drilled disapprovingly into the back of Roast chicken, five pounds. Packet of roast potatoes, three my head. ninety nine. Mixed vegetables, two fifty. Bottle of white wine, seven pounds. Dream of a second honeymoon, twenty three ‘Certainly, sir. Sorry, sir.’ I swiped the injector through and forty nine. shoved it into a plastic bag, suddenly eager to have the Consumer leave. My training-induced servility was wearing ‘Planning a Friday night in, sir?’ I looked up from the counter thin and unless I rid myself of this abrasive customer I’d and straight into my customer’s hostile eyes. The left side of his probably find myself getting my pay docked. Or worse, I’d be face tugged upwards, twisting into a sneer. demoted to a post at the leftover recycling facility.

‘Yes.’ If I hadn’t been used to daily hostility from my Mercifully, I wasn’t given any time to ponder the prospect of customers, that single word would have been a slap across the wading through neck-high waste. Only a few moments after the cheek. It had that accusatory tone to it, that undertone of ‘what customer had turned and left, the phone under my till began to business is it of yours?’ Just the sort of thing I’d come to expect ring. from the Consumer Class over the past ten years working at the OmniMart. It’s amazing what the privilege of choice can do to ‘Checkout two fifty two.’ someone’s ego. Take my class, the Vendors, for example: we work, go back to our state furnished apartment, eat a state ‘Mark, get down to aisle seventy. Management’s just told us to approved dinner and go to bed with the promise of a state mark down all the Somnitech products by fifteen percent.’ approved breakfast and another seventeen hours of check-out till duty the next day. ‘The flying dreams? I’m right on it.’ Hanging up, I stood and switched off the light above my till. None of the Consumers The glories of Conglomarchy. Most Vendors nowadays can’t choking the checkouts moved for me, I was after all just a recall what life was like for us in the old days, before the common Vendor, but over the years I’d learned to slip past Retailers took over. Back then, even the lowest in society had a without getting a trolley or basket in the ribs. When I reached choice. Then everything changed in 2009, when the Depression aisle seventy I slipped past the projected barrier that proclaimed hit. I was a child when the banks started closing, going under the aisle was closed for repricing, then stopped short. and taking the savings of every family in Britain with them. Billions, potentially trillions (I’m not good with numbers), were Someone else, in the same navy blue uniform of the Vendor lost. Families couldn’t afford to pay for anything save the barest Class, was already working his way down the aisle, a large necessities; tax bills were left gathering dust on the kitchen brown box full of injectors at his feet. ‘Spencer?’ I raised an counter and government funds quickly dried up. With no money eyebrow as I recognised my elderly instructor. He was the coming in, and more and more people requiring state assistance, oldest employee at the OmniMart and accordingly he was given Britain as a country had to file for bankruptcy. some special dispensations: his hair stretched far beyond the regulation length, down to his shoulders in fact, and a thin, So when the largest supermarket chains joined together and greying stubble covered his chin. offered to buy the British government, the country heaved a sigh of relief. While every other business had shrivelled up ‘Mark?’ He turned his gnarled features to look at me, eyebrows during the Depression, supermarkets had flourished. People, knotted as he tried to distinguish my identity. ‘That you? after all, still had to eat. What’re you doing here?’ The country totally changed after the sale. Instead of a Labour Party and a Conservative Party, we have a B.O.G.O.F. Party and ‘I’m here to mark down the flyers. What are you doing here?’ a Half Price Party. Our votes now come with loyalty points. Every last facet of society has become corporation orientated: ‘I… ah… came to restack the shelves. Some dreams are out-of- the Vending Class operate the checkouts, while the Consumer date, and you know what sort of problems they can cause,’ he Class fill the checkouts with the very same products they muttered, turning away and scratching the back of his neck. As advertise and market. We’re all company people, part of the if I was no longer there, Spencer continued along the shelves brand. Still, I do like the advertising - ‘The People’s Brand’ they with aching slowness, replacing the injectors one by one. call it. And a catchy jingle. ‘I wonder why they didn’t get me to restack the shelves as And the hottest product on the shelves at the moment is choose- well,’ I mused, more to myself, as I began to work my own way your-own-dreams. A concentrated hallucinogen injected straight down the aisle. into the bloodstream before falling asleep to create a vision - who’d have guessed it would be a bestseller? ‘Don’t ask me to make sense of the management. Those men have more buttons on their shirts than cells in their brains.’

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Spencer gave a wheezing chuckle. I laughed too, drawing up next to my old colleague. Now I was working right next to him, something didn’t seem right. At first, I wasn’t sure, but a decade of shelf stacking and repricing had sharpened my sight: Spencer was throwing away perfectly fine injectors.

‘Spencer, what’s going on?’ My hand snapped out and plucked the injector from his own. I turned it over and the date on the back of the cylinder confirmed my suspicions. That particular injector had another three months in it. ‘You must be getting senile, Spencer,’ I laughed, ‘this is perfectly fine.’

‘Of course it is, stupid boy.’ With an unexpected burst of speed, and strength, he snatched the injector back. ‘Use your brain, for once in your life.’ He dropped the injector into the box and replaced it with another. Illustration by Scott Robertson 2D

‘You…’ Realisation was dawning on me with the harsh light of an unwelcome revelation. ‘You’re a Freegan.’ My voice was a low hiss, filled with accusation and fear. Even fraternising with an anti-consumerist carried a five year sentence. ‘You’re The William Murray sabotaging the dreams, aren’t you?’ Prize for Poetry ‘Give the monkey a banana, the boy’s got it,’ he grumbled. Even though he’d been caught red handed, he continued replacing the dreams. Replacing them with nightmares. Loss

‘But why?’ I saw you yesterday, ‘Dreams are the biggest product at the moment. You take them Across the street from where we met down and you bring the retailers crashing down with them. If One autumn afternoon... people suddenly find themselves experiencing nightmares of giant spiders and whatnot, instead of winning the lottery, then customer satisfaction will plummet. Somnitech, Hypnos and all Before you went away the other dream manufacturing companies will collapse and with them this whole blasted system. Simple domino effect,’ he carried on. He reached into his Funny, now you’re gone, uniform and pulled out a crumpled, dog-eared piece of paper. The winters always seem to be Much colder now... ‘What’s this?’

‘The Freegan manifesto,’ he replied with a grin. ‘Go on, it Must have been your touch that kept me warm won’t bite.’ That voice I used to know, My hand hovered a few inches from the paper, as if the act of touching it was a crime in itself. In fact, it probably was. Still, It used to give me strength whenever curiosity drove my hand forward those fatal centimetres to take I was lost... Spencer’s manifesto. I frowned.

‘It’s blank.’ It seems so long ago

‘Mark, just turn it over,’ Spencer gave me an encouraging nod. Now I see you here, I never realised just how much I did as he asked. In a messy scrawl I recognised as Spencer’s own handwriting, eight simple words stood out against the I had lost... faded white of the paper. Now you’re gone, and now I need you near... ‘Everyone has a right to their own dreams.’ Daniel Brough S6 Griff Williams S6

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A Clear Blue Sky

Ella Watson sat at the back of the class, thoroughly bored and And then suddenly, the tide came in and drenched her. She wishing she was anywhere else in the world. She tried to focus looked around, seemingly soaking wet, as the beautiful beach on what the teacher was saying, but couldn’t; it was as though disappeared and her English classroom fell into place around something had fallen out of her brain or maybe she just wasn’t her with the cruel pinch of reality: particularly interested in what the teacher was saying about the literary techniques used by Shakespeare while writing ‘Romeo “Ella Watson, when will you learn? I will not tolerate and Juliet’. daydreaming in my class! If I have to tell you again you will be leaving this class with a punishment exercise!”

She slid out of the classroom and into her own daydreams. The “Oh well, thought Ella, I will reach there someday: a place white ceiling was replaced by a clear blue sky, exactly the same where people will notice me and appreciate me for who I am. shade as Ella’s own eyes. There was not a cloud in sight. The But for now...well it’s back to Shakespeare.” dark green linoleum floor changed into sparkling white sand, Anna Gaudoin 3C with palm trees sprouting all around. The desks and blackboards in front of her disappeared and in their place materialised a vast, blue ocean, crystal clear and shimmering in the sunlight, stretching out before her like a book waiting to be written. Before the War The waves gently lapped at her toes and the palm trees swayed from side to side in the light summer breeze. She was quite The children played in the street alone and that was how she liked it; no older brother to shadow her, forever winning prizes and coming top of his year; no little And cars sister, always causing trouble then blaming it on Ella. It was Trundled by. tough being the middle of three children; her parents never The country was calm, seemed to have time for her and she never had a moment’s All was safe and well peace from the nagging and boasting of her siblings. Nobody before the war began. could accept her for who she was or take notice of her own, however rare, achievements. She craved peace and tranquillity They bombed apart our cities and her imagination brought her to, what she thought must be, And tore apart our families. the calmest place on earth. She didn’t know exactly where her It ruined daydreams took her but she was determined to reach there one Our lives forever. day. Anna Gaudoin 3C

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The World Today Hope

Rubbish rolling on the ground, I look into the well People lost and never found. where I’ve tossed my coin Murder and war seem to be the norm I watch the ripples swell Then possessions washed away by a storm. with my wish there gone.

This is the world we live in today, Nomi Ali 3A But dreaming isn’t going to make it O.K.

Katie Gilles 3D

Dreaming The Tall Oak Swim seas of sky whilst in my bed A million worlds within my head A tall oak stood in the centre Yet when awake these worlds are lost Of the wood, it had many branches. Back to this place of cash and cost. The branches were lonely, The tall oak was dying. My chores I do to school I go Not soar the skies or swim below The tall oak started to timber. To go back there all day I wait Small creatures stood at its bark, Calmly sit, anticipate. They cut it with large swords. The tall oak fell. It’s over now the daily grind Finish homework; clear the mind The oak crunched to the ground. Climb into bed and fall asleep The small creatures surrounded it, To stroll the sand and dive the deep. They took it away in a large moving monster. The tall oak had died. Back once more to this world of mine The place I make, of my design She came. Our Mother of the Forest. Silently I drift away She blew the wind and rain fell. Soar all night, forget the day. Green sprouted out of the brown earth. A new oak was born. Chris Pexton S3

A tall oak stood in the centre Of the wood, it had many branches. The branches were blooming, Box of Dreams The tall oak was alive once more.

Victoria Stevenson 3H With your head upon the pillow, Your brain slowly turns to a brilliant box of dreams. Dreams are so important because they keep you sane, The Not-so Perfect World When you wake up in the morning, you start to rack your brain, For a dream that is forgotten, A dream as dark as rain. Climate change, Now the temperature has a high range, Katie Gilles 3C Ice caps melting, In other places, it’s sweltering Yet there is more rain and less of Sun But nearer and nearer the heat does comes Leaves of the trees are starting to fall As the damaged environment is taking its toll.

Colette Pickard 3J

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Dreams-Different things to Different People

Dreams are different things to different people. They can be hopes and ambitions or even fantasies. They can be one person’s ambition that motivates them to succeed or they can be the visions of great people that inspire them to change the world.

Martin Luther King gave a famous speech ‘I have a dream’ in August 1963 on the march in Washington. Dr King’s dream in this context was his vision of an America without racism. He inspired millions of oppressed African-American people in the 1960s with his speech outlining that white and black people would live in harmony and as equals in the world. It is amazing how one man’s dream changed the attitude to racism so radically even though it took another five years for the law to change.

Jesse Owens was a remarkable athlete in the 1930s, whose desire to succeed drove him to achieve great things in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens was from a poor background and was the only coloured athlete in Hitler’s ‘racially pure’ Olympics. He won a total of four gold medals in the 100 metres, 200 metres; long jump and 4x100 metre relay and by doing this demonstrated the lie behind Nazi thinking. I believe what helped Jesse Owens succeed under such pressure was a faith and belief in his ability and the dream that he would stand on the winners’ podium.

There is also the mystery of dreams in our sleep. No one really knows or understands why we have dreams. Neural scientists Illustration by Emily Patrick S5 have shown that we dream in a special kind of sleep, Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and that it is the period of our sleep when the most vivid dreams occur and we remember them when we A Dream of a Rose wake. Mystics believe that dreams occur when the soul leaves the body and experiences different perspectives. Throughout I had a dream, a dream of a rose. history dreams have been given importance thought by some A rose, which was dying people to be messages from the gods or predictions of the A long, green, slithering snake, future. Psychologists, on the other hand, think that dreams It wrapped around the stem. represent what is going on in our sub-conscious mind and relate to conscious experiences. I had a dream, a dream of a rose. The snake, strangling the stem. What is clear is that dreams are complicated in the sense of Petals fell from the flower, what causes them and what they mean. On one level, they are The flower drooped, awaiting death to strike. simply the electrical impulses of your brain but on the other, they can be the visions of great people that can change mankind My dream, the dream of a rose. forever. Joshua Rutnagur 3H It was long and painful. The flower touched the ground And the snake smiled successfully.

I had a dream, a dream of a rose. The rose is dead; a new bud bursts. The rose lives on in another. The snake’s smile soured.

My dream, the dream of a rose, Ended. Victoria Stevenson 3H

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People say we can save the planet, But we can’t, we can’t turn back time. The climate is changing, But we can’t change back. The weather is different, But not for the better. Until we improve our minds Nothing else is going to improve. Zoë Edelman 3C The JC Murray Junior Something so surreal Something so incredible Magazine Prize Finally held it Finally held my dream The leafy green trees standing tall Now cut down, stripped, the leaves all fall Out there in the limelight The bright yellow orb hovering in the sky Out there filling people’s hearts No longer seen as the days pass by and by The pretty plants, with splashes of vibrant colour It won’t last forever though Wither and twist and begin to grow duller It’ll slip away The clean sweet air, constantly swirling around It won’t last forever Grows dark and smoky, right to the level of the ground The factories all around giving out fumes as dark as night Zoë Edelman 3C The warm sunny days are no longer bright Good days are folded like letters, posted and sent She realises, she dreams and then she knows. All resulting in a darker environment. Realises what she wants, dreams of how to get it but knows she Sashrika Shetty 3H can’t. She wants a world that’s much different, a lot fairer. She dreams of this world, because dreams aren’t real. She knows she can’t have it, so the dreams will do. For now. But what if dreams were real, she wonders. And they can be. She realises co-operation, she dreams of it working and knows it can. She realises, she dreams and then she knows. Caitlin White 3J

The sunlight gleamed over the usually windy moor The glittering grass a delightful lure The brown even fences standing tall Over and over we throw the bright red ball The darker side dwells near the trees Where common animals are Wasps and bees The quiet laughter as we all play Mixing with the perfect day That was years ago, when the war was first born Now, I’ve realized The dream’s finally gone.

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Kingarth Street Compiled by Lauren Tait, Sarah Hamilton and Prabhjot Nijjar

It’s been yet another busy year at basic sign language, it looks like the thoroughly active. The Eco School Kingarth Street as both the pupils and pupils at Kingarth Street have never seen Committee has made tremendous staff have been kept on their toes with all a dull moment. progress whilst pupils have already of the fantastic events that have been started to achieve their Junior Duke going on over the course of the year. To really make them spoilt for choice Awards-all fantastic achievements! From a splendid new library opening to though, there are numerous societies for having the opportunity to learn some pupils to join and these have been

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Eco Schools Committee Junior Duke Following last year’s success, plans are already underway to hold another similar Over the past year, the Committee has event in May, as the Committee Junior Duke is a new motivational and seen a great amount of progress in recognise that there is still a lot of work challenging award scheme that is making Hutchesons’ Grammar more eco to be done around the school to make it a currently being run for P4-P7 at friendly. more eco-friendly environment. Kingarth Street. Its Patron, Gordon Scripture Union Bulloch, is a former pupil of They decided that the best way to start Hutchesons’. He not only captained the was to tackle two of the eight topics Scotland Rugby Team and the British proposed in the Eco School Initiative- Scripture Union has had another busy Lions but played in the Rugby World litter and waste minimisation. They year. Led by Mrs Crawford, the group Cup in 2003. started this difficult task by giving a regularly meets and were lucky enough powerpoint presentation to assemblies to to head off to Lendrick Muir in January The scheme’s key aims are to promote spread the message. for what was to be an action packed self-motivation, develop key life skills weekend. and for children to really challenge As well as this, the Committee at themselves in order to achieve their Kingarth Street organised a ‘Green Day’ There were plenty of activities on offer, goals. There are four different levels- fundraiser last February. The pupils were with the children enjoying mountain Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. asked to pay £1 so that they could wear biking, rope courses and disc golf. These Pupils have been kept very busy with the green clothes that day. At lunchtime, activities did prove to be very muddy but award; activities have ranged from they were also able to participate in eco- there were cleaner options at hand, as the reciting poetry, baking and writing to fun activities and buy unwanted toys, children could also play games in the swimming, preparing power points and books, CDs and games from the ‘Bring sports hall, sing songs and watch playing musical instruments. and Buy’ stalls. movies. Whatever they were doing, however, the weekend was a great So far many pupils have already This event was a huge success with over success and everyone thought it was a managed to complete the award- from £1000 being raised and the monies were great way of learning about God’s word. Primary four, Heather Stewart and Emily used to buy 2 large clear recycling bins Smith have both obtained the Bronze for our plastic bottles and 12 large green medal whilst Natasha Khan, from bins to enable everyone to recycle paper Primary 5, has received her Silver more efficiently. medal.

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The Opening of the Library The Scottish mood continued into the next week as well, as all Primary one classes took part in a ceilidh organised One of the main events at Kingarth by Mrs Yeoman on Monday, 4th Street this year was obviously the February. Everyone took part in the opening of the fantastic new library. To dancing, singing, poetry recitals and mark the official opening of the library were joined by Greg Phillips of S6 to for the pupils, as well as the start of pipe them in. To round it all off, Book Week 2008, Dalmatian Day hit everyone enjoyed a feast of haggis, Kingarth Street, making it an action neeps and tatties, followed by packed day for everyone. shortbread. British Sign Language More than 500 pupils, as well as staff, dressed up as Dalmatians on the 27th February and Miss Osler, with P6O, led Five classes were lucky enough to have a fabulous assembly to kick off the day. the opportunity to meet George Instead of 101 Dalmatians, the story was McGowan earlier in the year and had the adapted to fit its setting in Kingarth unique opportunity to learn some basic Street and so was rightly called ‘551 sign language. Dalmatians’-the exact number of pupils at the school! The big finale not only Before this special visit which the pupils saw the arrest of Mrs McKie, playing really enjoyed, pupils had raised over Cruella De Vil, but also the Rector £9000 for the BDA (British Deaf cutting the black and white spotted tape Associtation) by doing a sponsored declaring the library open. silence and also holding a ‘Learn To Sign’ week. The splendid new library offered the perfect place for the rest of Book Week All the pupils really valued what George to take place in, with several authors McGowan taught them as, at the end of visiting throughout the week. The author the day, they would be able to have a ten and illustrator Lindsey Gardiner visited minute conversation with a deaf person. Primary 1, whilst storyteller Wendy They all wish him a quick return! Woolfson kept Primary 2 and 3 busy. Meanwhile, Vivian French entertained Scottish Opera Primary 4 and 5 and Primary 6 and 7 Events enjoyed their talk from Alan Temperley. One the highlights for P6 pupils is when they get the opportunity to partake in the Overall, the new library has already seen Scots Verse and Music Scottish Opera workshop and production its fair share of action and will no doubt Competition and, yet again, it proved to be a great see more in the near future! success among pupils. This year, the Yet again, the annual Scots Verse and opera had an environmental theme and As the year comes to a close, the pupils Music competition was a brilliant the children went about learning all of at Kingarth Street are most likely success at Kingarth Street on 1st the various songs from the music exhausted after such an active year, with February. This year, the pupils were department. The production was about so many wonderful achievements gained judged by sculptor Professor Alexander the rainforest being torn down to make by so many. However, I’m sure it is safe Scott, who said how hard a decision it room for a theme park but, fortunately, to say they can only expect the same was picking a winner out from finalists everyone realises this is not a good idea again next year! with such high standards. However, just in time. eventually Aidan Bushnell of P7R won the verse category after his fantastic The pupils spent a busy day with the rendition of “Why do we idly waste our team from Scottish Opera and had the prime” by Robert Burns. Lucy chance to play roles from animals, tribes McCracken was awarded the winner of people, tourists or scientists. The the music competition after performing dramatic final show was just as much “Lass O’Bon Accord” splendidly. After fun for other primary classes to watch as this impressive showcase of young it was for the pupils to perform. talent, the Friday was topped off with some more fun by singing a medley of Scottish songs.

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Charity at Kingarth Street By Sarah Hamilton

This session, the youngsters at the Those in the Senior School could learn a Wellington boots to school! The Primary School have thrown themselves lot from the spirited performances of all assembly hall turned into a hive of into charitable events with as much involved! activity at lunchtime and, as a result of panache as ever. The School charity of their excitement, the children found the Cystic Fibrosis Trust has greatly It must also be mentioned that, in spite focusing on lessons a little difficult in benefitted from this enthusiasm. It must of the many school- organised events, the morning. The children “gave it be said, however, that the children some individuals have taken it upon welly”, singing “If it wisnae fir yer themselves have had fun in raising the themselves to raise money in their own wellies” as part of a karaoke competition much needed funds. The annual cross time. A big congratulations is owed to which was then judged by George country run was a chance for those in the Jenna Pexton, who swam 25 lengths of McEwan, the composer of the song. The Primary to don their trainers and see the Rutherglen swimming pool, raising inventive variety of stalls, including sights of Pollok Park. Whether running £68.25 for Cystic Fibrosis. “Throw a marble in the welly”, meant competitively or merely for “fun”, the that there was something for even the efforts of all were greatly appreciated. While the main school charity of the most eclectic taste. As a result, a massive Indeed, a fantastic total of £2243.70 was year is that of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, sum of £1150.15 was raised! raised. A particular mention is due to those at the Primary School are always Sapphire Le Sage and Colin Lowrey keen to raise money for other needy who came first in the individual events causes. For example, Children in Need and clearly went all out for the charity. Day saw the pupils wear wacky

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Kingarth Street Dreams ... Compiled by: Lauren Tait, Sarah Hamilton and Prabhjot Nijar

It is clear the Primary School is always up for a challenge. So when we presented them with the theme of “dreams” they took it with a smile and, with true Hutchie style, have moulded it into something truly unique.

Primary school pupils have a certain something that many senior pupils lack or forget about. That is, their own imagination! When faced with the theme, there have been a range of ideas enthusiastically put forward. Some about ambitions:

“My dream is to become a fashion editor” Primary 2

“My dream is to become a teacher” Primary 3

Others about world issues: “My dream is to end world hunger” Primary 7

Along with this, Kingarth Street has had one of its own dreams come true, a new library. With its rather modern looking glass wall, it adds character to what is already an extremely lively school.

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House Report 2007-2008

House Overview The Current scores for the Houses are: Argyll 254 Lochiel 231 At the conclusion of last year’s House activities, when pupils Montrose 225 fought hard on the tennis courts, in the athletics arena and on Stuart 224 the cricket square, points were tallied and trophies were There now follows a report from each awarded as follows: House detailing the events and results to date. Argyll House Report In tennis, Argyll took the honours with bat and ball, whereas in cricketing terms, the honours went to the weather. After winning the House Championship Unfortunately, for the second year running, all House cricket last year, we vowed that we wouldn’t let any other House take it away from us! was cancelled, which was a major disappointment to all the players. The start of the year brought basketball, one of the most enjoyable sessions to play in and to watch from the sidelines. Argyll House We had a shaky start to the season with Athletics endeavours resulted in a trophy for . repetitive losses in the games, but the House captains Andrew Campbell and Stephanie Legrand fourth year girls pulled it back for us, coming first in their House basketball. collected the Tercentenary Cup on behalf of all their athletes. Our little sports star, Karen Leslie, pulled it out of the bag with a series of baskets and excellent teamwork – always The WH Macdonald trophy was eventually awarded to Argyll willing to give her other team-mates a House at Prize-Giving, and House Captains Jimmy shot of the glory. The S5/6 girls’ basketball team also put in a stunning Mitchell, Adam Brown, Stephanie Legrand and Joanne performance, clinching first place yet Waddell collected it with great delight. again, leaving our rivals, Lochiel in last place!

This season has seen the appointment of a new set of sixteen After, a slow start to our House championship season, we moved onto House Captains from sixth year. They have worked very the biggest sporting event of the school cohesively to organise weekly lunchtime events, and have year, the cross country run. The S2 cross country run was our most successful, assisted in the running of large school extravaganzas, taking on with Lewis Walter coming first in the responsibilities with younger pupils and staff. The ethos of the boys’ race and Alan Tong coming third. There were also outstanding School is firmly based on caring for those less fortunate in the performances from Heather Lang (S3) world, and the House System is always keen to raise as much as who came second in the girls’ race and Michael Clark (S3) who came third in possible in the school charity effort. This year was no exception, the boys’ race. The senior run was also with a huge effort from each of 500 pupils and staff, wading successful with Andrew Allan (S6) coming third. These great performances through copious amounts of mud at Netherpollok, to raise helped us climb back up the points money for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust. They run, each and every ladder. one, because they can!! As we moved into the heady handball season, a favourite at Hutchie, the scores went up and up. Argyll proved to be unstoppable at heady handball across all

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House Captains 2007-08

This photograph has been reproduced by kind permission of Gillman & Soame photographers and can be re-ordered by visiting www.gsarchive.co.uk or by telephone 01865 263600. the age groups with wins coming from girls’ race, Abby Duff came an opportunity to achieve many points, with S3 girls, S2 boys and S4 boys. The S4 impressive 4th place. The whole of athletics and tennis championships, as boys in particular had a fast paced and Lochiel’s first and third years seem to be well as the Mile Cup. We hope that heated game, putting us for the first time gifted runners, as both year groups came through these events we can work our this season to the top of the leader board. first in the both the girls’ and boys’ races. way up to that top position and that We finally went ahead of leaders, A huge well done to everyone involved! trophy... We can do it Lochiel!! Lochiel, and we were determined to keep Montrose House Report it that way! With the pressure of being at Unfortunately, the other Houses the top spot, we had to keep up our good somehow managed to steal our place at performance and our S4 girls’ team did the top; however the house game In complete contrast to last year’s not let us down, winning all their games tournaments over the course of the year results, Montrose House started the first and adding another 10 points to the gained us many more points, leaving us term off very successfully, achieving leader-board. As usual our senior team, in second place over all. A special either 1st or 2nd places in its first four led by house captain Greg mention has to be made to our S3 boys, events. However, from there on in, Phillips, came out fighting and Argyll who managed to gain first place in both podium places seemed to be a thing of scooped yet another win! So, the heady the ‘A’ and ‘B’ soccer teams, as well as the past and Montrose started to see handball season was crucial for us to coming second in their house hockey, positions which were unknown to them. regain our rightful top spot but there is with an outstanding performance from Despite this, there have been superb still a long way to go! Alistair Macluskie. They further proved team performances combined with some their talent in the heady-hand ball lunch Lochiel House Report exceptional individual efforts to brighten time game in which they came first. up what has been a slightly Keep up the good work guys, and disappointing year. Lochiel started of the 2007-2008 session Lochiel will flourish in your senior with promise. Although in October, we years! Jamie Jackson and Miles McMillan were coming third and fourth in the were key contributors in securing 1st house team events, the Tuesday lunch The boys’ soccer teams continued to place in the second year boys’ basketball time activities managed to improve our prove themselves in S1 and S2 by both tournament, opening the session with a score, as in November we won the S1 receiving second place, and with the S3 flying start. Our list of achievements and S3 boys’ basketball. girls’ house netball ‘A’ team managing to was made more impressive when the S2 secure first place, our score was pushed and S3 girls were placed second and first Fortunately, thanks to the Charity Cross- up again! respectively in their basketball Country event, we upped our score tournaments. In the S3 girls’ event, first incredibly to first place over all, due to As the term progresses, the enthusiasm place was gained thanks to goals from the perseverance and amazing talent of slowly seems to have worn off, however Robyn Collins. Natalie Sharp, Kristina Greig, us as house captains continue to Catriona Lockie and Morag McLellan, motivate our troops in order for us to Our first disappointing result came when who came first to fourth respectively, walk away from this session with that the 4th year girls came to play their leading to Lochiel winning the senior trophy! There is a lot still to play for as basketball. A podium position was not girls’ race overall. In the second year the summer season is another awarded, however the girls still worked

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House Captains The New Year however has not brought With such talent shown at lunchtime 2007-2008 much luck to Montrose house. Both events, we were looking forward to the teams that were selected for 2nd year annual cross country championships. Argyll football came 4th place in their Flair for this was certainly shown, with Jenna Alexander respective tournaments, bringing the some excellent individual results being Peter Cartlidge overall score down, while other houses achieved in both the boys’ and the girls’ Kirstie Black took advantage and leapt ahead. events. In the S1 boys’ race an Greg Phillips impressive third, fourth and fifth place The swimming gala is traditionally were gained by Scott Young, Douglas Lochiel Montrose’s best event and this year was Britton and George Swankie Emma Carr no exception. Special mention goes to respectively. In the S1 girls’ race, Neil Fulton Johnny Wong who won the overall Helena McKelvie came a superb fourth Mandy Caplan junior championship and set a new place also. This success continued Struan Nisbet school record in the 50m back crawl. throughout the year groups as Anna Black gained a fantastic first place in the Montrose All Montrose House Captains have S2 girls’ race, seeing off some extremely Kimberley Dunlop thoroughly enjoyed their tasks tough competition and Emma Hunter Matthew Gaudoin throughout the past 10 months. Sincere achieving third place in the S3 event. Kate Hamilton thanks go to the whole of the P.E. Gordon Jack Department for all their support, and Despite the effort and individual talent of especially to Mr Graham Dunlop and Stuart House, our overall results did not Stuart Mrs Sheila Lang who have been reflect such achievements as we failed to Kate Morgan responsible for the House Captain Body. win any of the cross country house Murray MacOwan It has been a wonderful experience!! events. However we gained many Katherine Pearson second places earning valuable points for Stuart House Report Brandon Wamberg the House. Within the House Captains’ own competition, Katherine, Kate, Strong. Tactical. Unique. Ambitious. Murray and Brandon gave their all in the Ruthless. Totally determined to win. Just senior races, and went onto beat the one way of summing up Stuart House. other House Captains. Now does that very strongly together and a very show our ability or what? plausible effort was made by them, with This year started off as a successful one Susie Gillman scoring many of their for us, as we battled to gain an early With such a great start behind us, we goals. The second year girls earned their lead. With more confidence than ever were optimistic about the second half of house an honourable six points after and our mascot, “Tony” the tiger, behind the year. However this turned out to be gaining second place in basketball, with us, we set off with the House Trophy in disappointing, as we have not gained a an impressive performance by Sarah our sights. The House Captains were first place in any of the heady handball Ramage. delighted to find that their over- events. Having to adapt to a game made- competiveness was shared amongst the up by the P.E. teachers has been hard for The S4s also earned points for their rest of Stuart House and we were Stuart House as we thrive on competing House this year, winning the House confident that this would take us forward in real past-times as shown in our other Basketball competition thanks to a into a triumphant season. activities. spectacular three pointer by Mark Neilly. Fourth year also produced our Preparation for House events began well, Stuart are happily anticipating the best results in the senior cross country with Brandon and Murray organising the summer season, as we know we have championships with Mark Neilly first training sessions for Stuart House plenty of talent within the athletics, coming 5th and James Wilde winning basketball. This paid off as we gained tennis and mile cup events. Even though the event, a superb performance! first place in the S2 girls’ basketball, we currently sit in third place by nine captained by an enthusiastic Sarah points, we are confident that this will November saw the end of the basketball Burns who showed off her skills even change if we keep our high spirits and bonanza and it was closed with a great whilst fouling. We also gained first place determination right to the end. Good result from the 1st year boys, earning in the S5/6 boys’ basketball with an luck for the rest of this season and lets Montrose ten points having been experienced team who wanted to achieve bring home the Trophy to Stuart House! awarded 1st place. Johnny Wong was a victory in their last year. Other successes key player, as was Andrew Hobson, included second place in the S2 boys’ who also plays basketball outside of and S4 boys’ basketball. It was a great school for the West of Scotland team. effort overall! Their enthusiasm and teamwork is to be highly commended.

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This year there were a number of senior pupils who were presented with an international shield, upholding the school’s successful record.

In the field of athletics, Matthew Kerr (S3) was selected for and won a gold medal in the high jump at the Indoor Celtic International in Cardiff. Natalie Sharpe (S5) has continued to enjoy International success and represented Catriona Lockie and Natalie Sharpe Scotland last summer in the 3000m at the SIAB International in Newport. Catriona Lockie (S5) U17 and Max Lott (S3) U15 were selected to run for Scotland in the Celtic Cross Country Championship at Strathallan School in Perthshire. They both ran extremely well finishing 15th and 23rd respectively. In the team events in Scotland the girls were 2nd and the boys 3rd. These are excellent results and we hope to see these pupils continue with their athletic success.

There has also been notable success in cricket; in March Shreyas Chitnis (S4) went on Tour in South Africa with the Scotland Under 15 Cricket team, playing 8 matches and winning 5. It was a great experience for Shreyas who is now

Independent Schools at Tynecastle in the Internationalists 2008 annual international against England. In a very exciting match Scotland unfortunately lost 5 – 0 but the boys relished the experience and thoroughly looking forward to a season in the After a very successful season for the S3 enjoyed playing on a Premier League School 1st X1. hockey team which lost only once, in the ground. The boys are planning their final of the Scottish Under 16 revenge for next year’s fixture! Christy Once again, Hutchesons’ pupils have Championships. Two of the team’s MacKinnon (S5) has continued to enjoy shown great skill on the hockey pitch. members, Robyn Collins and Heather her skiing career and has represented Lang have been selected to represent Scotland and Britain in skiing Scotland Under 16 in International championships. matches in June. Robyn has been selected for matches against Wales, As the tennis season gets in to full swing Ireland and Belgium and Heather for our successes of last season were Ireland and Belgium. At Under 18 level, recognised by Tennis Scotland and we Morag McLellan (S6), Nicola Lowrey, were awarded the School of the Year Fiona Bruce and Rachel Malcolm ( all 2007 award. The presentation of the S5) have been working hard in the plaque was made to Mr Stuart Lang, our training squad and are awaiting details of Director of Sport, at the recent annual the final selection in May. Neil Fulton awards ceremony in Stirling. (S6), the boys’ captain has been selected for the boys Under 18 team, building on These are fantastic achievements and as last year’s achievement. a school, we are very proud of our pupils’ dedication and skill. Other successful areas include soccer; SL David Aitken and Scott Lang (both S5) were selected to play for the Scottish

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Rugby Season 2007/08 players. In addition to a rigorous training In August our 1st XV are travelling to schedule, we attended lectures on diet, South Africa on our first rugby trip of Season 2007/08 has been a strange sports psychology and team building. this scale. We wish them the very best of season with a very successful and The core strength coaching from Steve luck and look forward to seeing the buoyant first half pre-Christmas and then Frew the Commonwealth Gold winning benefits of this truly exciting experience. a second half of the season blighted by gymnast – the “lord of the rings”, was a the weather. If the experts are to be highlight. The camp was professional in The S3 team had an excellent cup run believed and these weather patterns are every way and a great success. We and defeated Dundee High School, because of global warming, this is very certainly feel it was key to the success of North Berwick High ( in a bizarre 0 – 0 worrying and I hope that it is not the the senior sides this season. The players draw) and St Aloysius College on there case. greatly appreciated the work all the way to a repeat of last years semi final coaches and staff and particularly of with George Watson’s College. Although The aim of our season was to make all Miss Simpson the organiser and fitness the venue this year was different, alas the our teams more competitive playing our guru. The staff also enjoyed themselves, result was the same and the victors own “ hutchie”style of dynamic and although the 7.00am run was progressed on to win the final at expansive rugby. The emphasis on being undoubtedly a shock to their systems as Murrayfield. Bring on next year ! much more attack minded and being well as to the players. much more proactive to the winning of The S2 and S1 teams also enjoyed fine possession in tackle situations. Mr Plans have already been made for 2008! seasons and there is undoubtedly both Lang’s call “the tackle area is a war talent and expectation coming through zone” was key to what we were about In terms of performance we are certain the ranks. The S1 A XV played 17 and the forwards were drilled in that we have gone along way in being matches winning twelve and drawing aggressive and positive rucking ! The much more competitive at all stages. The two, a very impressive record and a ball won here would be used to release changes were probably most apparent in significant improvement on their the ball wide and use our traditional the senior sides where the 1st XV had a performance in Primary Seven. The team speedy back lines. This high tempo style very good season and produced the have been awarded the Burnside Trophy of play placed much greater demands on statistics which we should expect from in recognition of their achievement. The the fitness levels of the squads and the our sides. The defeats they had were by Primary 7 teams had a much improved stamina work was to the fore pre and the narrowest of margins and indeed we season and I was very pleased with their early season. The S1 – 3 squads spent could have had with a bit of luck had an performance at the end of season St three days at Auldhouse in the holidays even better set of results. The pattern Columbas season where we narrowly to both work towards match fitness and achieved was mirrored by the other lost in the final. The Primary 6 teams to also begin to develop our pattern of senior teams who all enjoyed successful have worked hard and have improved. I play. The 1st and 2nd XV squad seasons . The 2nds and 3rds often am sure with more games post Christmas followed up their Auldhouse training playing against other schools’ senior their results would have been much with our first ever residential training teams. A highlight for me was oddly better. camp at Largs. The boys joined forces enough the last day of the season when with the girls’ 1st and 2nd X1 hockey the 1st, 2nd and 3rd XV’s all played This season the school teams have been squad. This was an excellent move against 1st XV opposition from other involved in a total of 208 matches. forward and a great experience for the schools. A testimony of our strength and Endless hours of hard work, grit and depth. 70 Sport

determination have been put in by the game. Yet defiantly we never gave up free flowing rugby, which we narrowly players staff, helpers and parents. To all and pushed them right to the end. With but deservedly won 29-28. The result of them we are extremely grateful! the next time the ball went dead the against Strathallan was one that we game would be over, we managed to controlled and dominated, playing well SL regain possession and use it effectively in all departments winning 33-7. Though for Scott Lang to put a delicate little chip we have performed well in most of our 1st XV Report through only for us to fail to convert by games we had some tough losses against the narrowest of margins and were faced St Aloysius, High School of Glasgow Let me start off by saying that it truly with the most bitter disappointment. Yet and Marr College; however, our biggest has been an honour being involved in it truly was a case of ‘what does not kill losing margin this season was only 14 this year’s 1st XV, not only due to our me can only make me stronger’. We had points. The eagerly anticipated match major achievements on the field but also tasted the bitterness of defeat and were against St Aloysius, certainly lived up to the experiences that it has brought off it. determined to never let it happen again, its expectations. The match was hotly and it didn’t. contested and in truth could have been Rugby in the school this year is different won by either side. Unfortunately the to the years that preceded it. Hutchie 1st All of this would not have been possible game ended in disappointment as we XV is now back where it should be right without Mr Lang. A true motivator who were finally beaten 9-20. The game at at the very top of school rugby. We are has installed a winning mentality a drive Marr College was another huge now a team that opposition fear due to and a focus in the team. He has formed a disappointment as we under-performed the fact that we have developed a style strong bond with the team which has in many areas of the game losing 22-30. of play that is fast, ferocious and been essential in his quest for success. extremely difficult to play against. The team has produced many talented To the seniors in the team, who have individuals from all year groups: we It all began this year with the team been immense in their input into the have had emerging S4 and S5 stars such attending our first ever residential squad. I can only wish them the best for as backs, Iain Brown and Lewis Tait training camp in Largs. Here we the future whatever lies in store. (S4), Dougie Kyle and Stephen Mullen participated in a rigorous training However, for next year’s squad, the (S5) and forwards, James Wilde (S4), programme in addition to attending gauntlet has been laid down and the bar Rory Skinner and Andrew Brass (S5), lectures on sport psychology and reset at a very high height, the potential who all consistently preformed very nutrition. A highlight was a core is there and I can only wish you the best well, and will almost definitely be flexibility session with Steve Frew, of luck next year. challenging for a place in the 1st XV Commonwealth gold medallist. We next year. The S6 leavers have also made returned from this fit, ready and with It has been an honour and a privilege to their mark on the team with the ever expectations of a successful season. have been involved in a successful squad present Jonny ‘Percy Montgomery’ with a good team spirit and plenty of Ramsay at full-back, and numerous What followed was more than banter. I am sure all the boys will say the forwards especially Chris Wong and impressive, 12 wins to 4 losses. One of same. Long may this success continue. Douglas Chiah for their scavenging at the best 1st XV records in a significant S.Blackwood the breakdown and ferocious tackling, as number of years. Not only this but we well as Campbell Stewart who whilst achieved our aim of ‘the best in the 2nd XV Report lacking in pace, excelled in his goal west’. High scoring wins this year kicking duties. A real sense of unity has included, 78-7 against St Columbas, been felt within the team this year, both 47-0 against Queen Victoria and 47-3 Fortunately this year we have had the on the pitch and in the changing room. against Jordanhill. pleasure of playing more or less the same team week in week out for the The strength and depth of the team has The cup run this year was looked back whole season due to fewer players being been emphasised by competing against upon with fond memories but yet we pulled up to the 1st XV and taking part the 1st XVs from Lomond, Wellington, wonder what might have been. It started in Duke of Edinburgh. Thus we have had St Columbus and Jordanhill. Out of the 6 out with a comfortable slaughtering of the opportunity to familiarise ourselves games we played against 1st XV Trinity 116-0. In the next round reigning with the team’s strengths and opposition we won 3 and lost 3. In champions Bell Baxter lay in wait, and weaknesses and therefore become an conclusion this season has been a very we were confident of a win. That night overall more talented team. This season satisfying one for the 2nd XV, playing 14 under the lights of Braidholm, piped can only be compared to a roller coaster games, winning 7 and drawing 1. Due to onto the park and fuelled by the noise of ride. There have been some highs and a the poor weather in the second half of the crowd we took them on. In a few lows. the season many games were cancelled pulsating, eventful game with plenty of and our progression was hampered. twists and turns, one final sting in the tail There have been some great games - in lay in store for us. In the final minute particular against George Heriot’s, Thanks must go once again to Mr. Wyatt Bell Baxter crossed the line to take a George Watson’s and Strathallan. The for coaching the team and to all other 15-13 lead and what seemed like the Heriot’s game was an enjoyable game of members of staff involved with the 2nds.

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Next season sees 14 of the 20 squad Arguably we played our best match in opposition whose handling and pressure members return, and the departing our last outing of the season, and in an kept us pinned in our own twenty two players wish them the best of luck for excellent match we drew 12 – 12 against for the majority of the game but a tried the remainder of their playing career. Wellington School 1st XV. and tested defence held fast. A major C.Wong factor in this game was our fitness which Many thanks have to go to Mr Stirling the entire squad had been building up at 3rd & 4th XV’s and Mr Brunton for their coaching and training alongside our ball work skills. support throughout the season. Amongst these additional cup ties, the C.Horne/R.Heelis regular Saturday morning games were This season has been a very successful proceeding well, with our defence being one for the 3rds and 4ths who have won S3 Rugby Report the shining aspect of these games. A most of their games. Containing a good cancellation of the Quarter Final match mix of 4th and 5th and 6th Years, the against local rivals St. Aloysius College team has come together well despite The S3 squad this year has had mixed built up the tension and desire to win the numerous changes to personnel due to fortunes with some monumental wins cup intensified. These emotions led us Duke of Edinburgh commitments. The and disappointing defeats. The squad into arguably to play our most

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results before Christmas involved good was fired up for the start of a new season impressive game of the season, where wins against Strathallan School and St having come off terrific form at the end we dominated the field coming away Columbas for the 3rd XV. There were a of last season, but early anticipation was with a 12-0 win away from home in once number of notable performances from crushed by a loss to a strong Marr more terrible weather conditions. The the promsing 4th year players including College side in the first game of the team went into the Semis with high Matthew Lindsay, James Wilde, Douglas season. This was followed by a hopes considering our current form and Dunlop and Andrew O’Donnell as well disappointing run when we won only our “zero tries against” in the Cup run. as memorable contributions by the 6th two games from six. This was the low in However the cup was not to be ours as Years especially our colossal pie-eating our season before slowly gaining we were outdone 15-0 by a strong props Richard Soblewski and Fraser momentum again with a win in the first George Watson’s side that eventually Milloy! Scottish Cup game: a 10-0 win over a went on to win the cup. Dundee High side on their home ground. Since January there have been very few From here, our confidence grew and After our good run in the cup, a friendly matches due to the disappointing with intensive training and commitment, rugby tour to Ireland was the next task weather. The team showed great spirit we gained a massive win over a North on the agenda. This was the first tour for and commitment throughout this time Berwick High School team. This was many boys and a completely new and when we did play we recorded a fine our most challenging game of the season experience for them. This consisted of 41 – O win over Jordanhill School. in gale force winds against a well-drilled three games and many fun activities such 72 Sport

as go-carting. On the rugby field, our Academy and High School. Our defeats Robbie Blackwood also came on and stout defence showed through as, have come against very strong made a big impact. between both touring teams, only two opposition in George Watson’s and tries were let in, in a match that was won Edinburgh Academy. As our season The A team then fought two hard games against a previously undefeated side. progressed into the later stages we against St Aloysius’ and Kelvinside. Our final match of the tour was against a played our best Rugby which saw us win Winning by a last minute try against St team who had visited us twice before, convincingly against High school and Als and beating Kelvinside by two Down High School. They introduced us Marr College which boosted our points. to a new tactic with the opposition fly confidence. This year we have improved half and captain kicking in behind our our line outs, rucking and the back have Hutchie’s next game was against the wingers and chasing up quickly to learned new moves which we hope to George Watsons. The Bs did very well pressure us into making mistakes. build on next season. Thanks must go to and were leading at half time, but Although we won the match, it was by Mr Russell and Mr Dewar for tuition, unfortunately lost by a try. The As were no means a comfortable victory with a help and support and I would also like to torn to pieces and lost 39-8. final score of 7-6. Many thanks to Mr thank the whole team for the time and Lang and the coaches for all their hard effort they have put in to help each other The A team bounced back and won their work organising this great experience. become better players and work as a next game 16-4 against Glasgow team. This season for the second year ‘B’ Academy. Our top class set play performance was a team has been up and down but very testament to the commitment in training enjoyable. The confidence of the team The A team then continued their good of both forwards and coaches. The was lifted by great performance against performance by beating George Heriot’s backs patterns of play were quickly High School and Marr College. The 5 tries to nil, the 5 tries coming from 5 perfected due to their determination and game against High School was not only different people. Also very good was the help of ex- First XV captain Andrew a brilliant result but also finished in very rucking from the team with Hutchie Gillman. The team’s strengths include a exciting fashion with a match winning turning over a lot of ball. phenomenal defensive record letting in try in the last play of the game from our only four tries in fourteen games, three winger. The team continues to improve The next game was against Edinburgh of which in our cup loss to George and thanks to coaches Mr Uprichard, Mr Academy and the Bs did very well in Watson’s. Sen, Mr Dewar and Mr Russell the this game losing narrowly, but they future looks very bright for the ‘B’ team. deserved a win. The A’s result was It has been a gruelling season and could G.MacDonald similar to the Watson’s score. not have been made as successful as it has been without the coaching of Mr. S1 Rugby Report Games against Lomond and Jordanhill Dewar and Andrew Gillman. We must followed. Two mixed teams went out and also thank Mr. McCulloch and Mr. demolished the opposition, with Toby McDougall for their help in refereeing The S1 rugby squad started well this scoring the quickest of the season in 10 training games and watching over season with two of the three teams seconds against Lomond. Saturday morning games. We hope that winning their first games against Marr many boys will stay with rugby through and Wellington. The As captained by There followed a game against the High till next year and hopefully will be in the Scott Young won their game 12-6 with School of Glasgow. The Bs won their first XV shortly. tries coming from Jonny T, Toby game convincingly, but the As were not Buchan, Scott Young and Leo Milton. J.Haughney so fortunate and drew 6 all. The As could The Cs came away with a convincing have lost the game if it was not for a last S2 Rugby Report win against Marr. Unfortunately the Bs minute try from Ross Cooper. We may captained by Jacob Bird, lost narrowly 4- also have lost the game if our Scrum 3 but proved that there were lots of new Half Robbie Blackwood had not played This has been a very successful season potential players in the squad with the well and won Mvp (Most Valued for the ‘A’ team with 12 wins from 17 likes of George Swankie, Robbie Player). games. Our success was based on our Blackwood, Gordon Campbell and ability to move the ball wide into open Lewis Kerr. The As then won their next four games, space, our very strong defence which has only conceding one try. George Swankie had to cope with real physical The squad’s next fixture was a midweek achieved an impressive achievement by opposition, especially from High School, game against Douglas Academy. The Bs kicking 15 out of 15 against Queen and the fact that we have more depth in got a convincing win, but the As drew Victoria. our squad with players that were in the 15-15. Some players moved up from the ‘B’ or ‘C’ team last year pushing up and Bs due to their excellent performance There was then a wet spell in the year really contending for a regular place against Douglas. These players included where a few games were cancelled. It which makes everyone work harder to George, Gordon and Robbie. Gordon wasn’t until the 2nd of February until we play week in and week out. 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Primary 6 Rugby with a feeling of confidence. We went and Hutchie won by a conversion with out there and put the best defensive the score 4-3. We then went on to go performance of the season and reduced against Wellington who we beat 7-0. We This has been a hard season for Primary the point deficit of the last game by 20 waited a while until the final match 6 and we have not won very many points with the score being 19-0. against the High School of Glasgow. The games, but we have improved in every High School got the first try and the one. At the start of the season most of us We took that performance into the Marr conversion and then went on to score had not played much rugby but we tried game by winning 12-0. twice more. Sadly Hutchie didn’t score very hard and after a couple of weeks we so the game ended with 11-0 to High began to understand the game better. In our penultimate game we played The School. In the end, St Aloysius came in Some of our more experienced players High School again and we were looking third, Hutchie in second and High got us through those first few tough for a win. We went out there and showed School in first. weeks. Most of these players had been them what we were made of and won playing for clubs such as GHA and 27-0 making us one of the best teams in The B team enjoyed mixed feelings Cartha. Glasgow. during this year’s rugby season. The season started with some very tough We are now looking forward in doing The season started with a disappointing games though a few weeks in, the Bs got well in the Seven’s tournament and hammering from George Watson’s. The a their first win with the help of our winning our last game of the season 0-10 loss to our rivals Glasgow coaches Mr. West, Mr. Dewar and Mr. against Kelvinside. Academy set our morale low. However Lang. Our main players, Harris S.Young we picked ourselves up and improved Macarthur-Crompton (back), Walker massively and beat Jordanhill 22-0. A 0- Graham (forward) and Campbell Scott Primary 7 Rugby 0 draw to High School of Glasgow was (stand off) were there for the team when an impressive result, despite the score. we needed them most. We had The highlight of our season was beating challenging games and soon saw many The Primary 7 rugby squad has had a George Watson’s 6-0. We rounded up our players moving from the lower squad to very enjoyable season and has improved season with a 12-9 win away at Belmont. the higher. We believe that the players considerably in terms of performance Overall a mixed season which was who made the most progress are Euan and results. The team has worked very enjoyed by all. Nugent Kirkland and Marc Devanney. hard to develop a pattern of play using We all agreed that our most difficult the potential of our dynamic forwards A massive thanks to Mr McCrossan, Mr games were against George Watson’s. In and fast skilful backs. The highlight of Lang and Mr Harrow who have coached these fixtures, the A team benefited from the season for us was when we went to us this year and to the parents who have strong runs by Andrew MacFadyen. We St Columbas to play against several supported us in all weathers. have all played in a number of positions other schools for a cup. The first match J.Bingham/A.Lawrence and that has helped us to develop for the was Hutchesons’ against St Aloysius’ future. Over the season we had our

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Rugby Results 2007-08 chances though we sometimes misused them. We have improved tremendously and are looking forward to our P7 Team PWDL FA season. We would like to thank Mrs Mungall and Mr West and our parents 1st XV 18 13 5 561 142 who have come to our matches to 2nd XV 14 716204 194 support us. 3rd XV 16 10 15476 188 M.Johnston, C.McIntyre and A.MacFadyen 4th XV 85 3189 179 U16 XV 11 58 0

Sen XV 11814 Jun XV 11 41 0

3rd Yr A 19 11 8 385 216 3rd Yr B 16 11 5 387 224

2nd Yr A 16 10 15214 111 2nd Yr B 12 516122 198 2nd Yr C 42 239 37 2nd Yr A/B 42 249 31

Rugby Club Trophy Winners 1st Yr A 17 12 23302 110 2007/08 1st Yr B 16 97178 91 1st Yr C 431 63 26 1st XV Rugby Captain 1st Yr A/B 22 66 0 Sam Blackwood P7 A 13 85210 92 The Philip Noble Trophy P7 B 541251 67 Jamie Christine

Commitment in Rugby P6 A 13 2 11 13 55 Brandon Wamberg P6 B 12 42633 44

The Willie Wilson Award Sam Blackwood for Leadership in Rugby

Hutchesons’ Grammar School Senior Goal Kicking F.P. Trophy Scott Lang S5

Hutchesons’ Grammar School Junior Goal Kicking Euan Baillie Trophy Callum Sheilds S2

Burnside Trophy – Team of the Year 1st Year A XV Captain Scott Young

Representatives Glasgow Rugby

Under 18 Sam Blackwood, Jamie Christine, Jamie Cameron

Under 17 Sam Bingham, Fraser McLeod, Adam Sinclair

Under 16 Lewis Tait Illustration by Douglas Connell 1T

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Hockey Report 2007-2008

work on their defensive play and Every team has had its fair share of Overview strategies. The journey across the Irish triumphs and disaster, and there now Sea had approximately 150 follows a report from each year group August 2007 saw the inaugural pre- Hutchesonians on board, with 3 girls’ detailing their progress. There is also a season training camp at Inverclyde for hockey teams, 2 boys’ hockey teams and table of results, and a list of those who the senior hockey and rugby squads and two S3 boys’ rugby teams. The journey have achieved district and international at school for the boys’ hockey squad. was not however all ‘plain sailing’ with honours. The PE department wishes to This venture proved very successful, and many, including the ever resilient Miss acknowledge the contribution made by gave a great kick-start to the clubs, Simpson, feeling the effects of each and every member of the hockey ensuring a repetition of the event this seasickness during a very windy club, from Primary 6 to Secondary 6, coming August. crossing! and to wish those leaving every happiness in their hockey. All teams worked hard during the Another new event this year was a 3rd opening weeks of the season, raising XI and 4th XI tour weekend to Perth, fitness levels, improving stick skills and with Mrs McNeil leading a very excited Girls tactical awareness, whilst bonding within and intrepid band of girls off to their new teams. Stamina sessions, experience the delights of touring. As 1st XI Report footwork sessions and skills workshops always, the players were a credit to the have continued in each age group and school and they ‘had a ball’! both girls (22 teams) and boys (4 teams) American footballer Herschel Walker have acquitted themselves extremely The girls 1st XI won the BP Cup in once said ‘If you train hard, you’ll not well, recording some excellent victories December, thus qualifying them for the only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat’ and and some defeats from which much can Scottish Finals in March. At the finals, as we look back on the season, which be learned. the girls displayed an extremely mature has been one of the most successful for and talented game, arriving in the final the girls in recent years, it would be Commitment from players, parents, after beating George Watson’s College. difficult to disagree. The season began former pupils, grounds-men and school Unfortunately, in the final they could not with fireworks as the fourth years staff has been superb, and the PE staff quite convert their superiority over joining the squad were thrust in at the would like to take this opportunity to Robert Gordon’s into goals, and deepest of ends at the pre-season ‘boot thank all those involved with the club. conceded one, thus winning the silver camp’ in Inverclyde. This experience medals - a magnificent achievement, but was, however, a memorable one and the This year, there was an extravaganza not the one they wanted! relentless training gave us the best tour to both Ballymena and Belfast in possible kick start into the season. Northern Ireland. Three girls’ teams The boys 1st XI narrowly lost to Robert descended upon Ballymena Academy Gordon’s on strokes in the quarter final The theme of hard training was a and played three matches each in three of the Scottish Cup, but have won other recurring one throughout the season, days. Hutchesons’ won three matches, silverware in the course of the season. with the girls attending sessions on both drew three and lost three, whilst With many experienced sixth years Mondays and Wednesdays, together with rekindling old friendships and firmly leaving, next year’s team looks like the infamous ‘stamina’ sessions on a establishing new ones. Two boys’ teams being a youthful affair. Thursday. Our midweek exertions played a variety of extremely strong allowed us to perform to the highest of opposition in Belfast, and were able to standards at the weekends, which gave

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S3 Report us a fierce reputation, not to mention an successful one for all members of the unbeaten record in our Saturday morning 2nd XI and I would like to thank our games. coaches, Miss Simpson and Mrs Lang, This season has once again been both a for all their help and support throughout very enjoyable and extremely successful Having won the BP cup in December, the season. one. Regularly fielding four S3 teams, beating the High School 1-0 in the final, Kimberley Dunlop often against a mixture of schools, the we never looked back, pressing on in results speak for themselves. What the search of our ultimate goal. The climax 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th results do not tell us is of the enormous of the season was undoubtedly the XI Report enjoyment and team bonding which went Scottish finals and though the Scottish on both during training sessions, (yes cup, in the end, eluded us (we lost and that included ‘horseshoe running’ as narrowly by a single goal to Robert This year the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th teams well), and on Saturday morning match Gordon’s in the final of the event) the have had a very rewarding season. It days. The season has gone so fast, that team left the stage with no regrets and began with the introduction of stamina, a we are all shell shocked to have reached the reassuring knowledge that we could running session during lunch that was of the end of an era so soon. It just seems have given no more. course seen by the players as the epitome like yesterday when we all assembled in of their lunchtime, who can think of a first year, ready to take on the world. One of the real highlights of the season better way of spending their break doing Now we face the reality that we was our trip to Ballymena, Northern excruciating sprint drills! However as approach the ‘senior club’ with a mixture Ireland. While the choppy crossing threw the weeks went on and the sessions of sadness and excitement: sadness at up some of its own surprises, on the continued the players noticed a great leaving the comfort of our year group, pitch the team returned to its routine improvement in their game as we were and excitement at entering the next best, battling hard against the tough able to play hockey continuously and phase. opposition to achieve well earned draws with great skill. in all three matches. The A team this year had a fantastic The 3rd XI started off the season well season, winning the S3 West District The season drew to a close with the and as the training sessions continued we Tournament in impressive style, with annual sevens tournaments and the progressed together as a team, learning outstanding performances from Hollie collection of yet more silverware. On the skills from each other, and of course, Guttridge in goal, and impressive back of the assurance that ‘it doesn’t from the teachers. The most memorable ‘attacking’ defending from Katie, always need to be pretty hockey’ we moment of the season was when our Kirsten, Christie and Heather C. The fought hard winning both our own team’s defender and goalie jointly helped work-rate of the midfield has been good Hutchie Sevens and the West District the ball into the goal, but for the other all season with Robyn, Heather L, Ailsa Sevens, to round off a hugely successful team! After this, however, the team won and Elaine always willing to do the leg- year. every match they played. work. Tenacious tackling and good leading from Lucy, Eleanor and Colette Our thanks go to the PE staff for their The 4th, 5th & 6th XIs have played a created many opportunities for the team support but especially to Miss Simpson, great year of hockey and have proceeded to score lots of goals. At the West for her dedication and encouragement to every game with great determination District Tournament, the team was most pushing us to train harder and making us and strength. Together they have ably supported by our very unfortunate ultimately a team that was hard to beat. improved, which is clearly shown in injured players, Catriona ‘speedy’ Thank you. their well-deserved results. Herbert and Emma ‘Irn Bru’ Hunter, 2nd XI Report who had done so much to help us arrive For the first time this year, as well as the at our peak at this point in the season. introduction of stamina training, the The tournament reflected our very This year has been a successful one for senior players of this division have been successful season and tour, when we the 2nd XI, who have worked extremely asked to represent the school and go on a travelled to Belfast led by our own Miss hard throughout the season, resulting in hockey tour. For this we owe a great Simpson, and played three senior teams, many worthwhile performances against thanks to Mrs McNeill, and the other winning all three matches, much to our different opposition. The effort that we hockey staff members, for giving us this delight. In winning the District put into training and particularly our opportunity to represent the school, as Tournament, the team qualified for The Thursday lunchtime stamina sessions has most of the players in the 3rd, 4th, 5th & Scottish Championship and the scene helped us to perform well against many 6th teams have never been on a tour was set for our last games of the season. 1st XI sides. The standard of hockey was before. We played very well throughout the day, consistently high throughout the season but unfortunately could not manage our and it ended well with the much Throughout the year the teams have best in the final, and lost the match in anticipated 2nd XI tournament. We really progressed together. Great thanks ‘golden goal’. This was disappointing at worked well as a team and managed to are due to Mrs McNeill and Mrs the time, but on reflection, we have get to the final however despite our Crichton for all the time and help they learned a lot, and still had a great season. efforts we unfortunately lost to the High have given us to develop our game. School on penalty strokes. This season Anna Hastie has been an extremely enjoyable and 77 Sport

The B team, captained by Laura out in the semi-finals by The High results on most of them. The teams have Campbell has also had a wonderfully School of Glasgow. been mixed up a lot but we still work successful season, regularly beating together well and have learnt great skills other Schools’A teams. As with the other This season the whole squad has worked on how to play as a team. teams, their commitment to training and extremely hard on reaching their goals: improving was astonishing and there stronger, faster, tougher. Using these Unfortunately the P7 tournaments this were good consistent performances from methods, the ‘A’ team has made year have been cancelled due to bad Laura, Rhona, Ayesha and Victoria. excellent progress, playing a much more weather which is a great disappointment fluent and skilful game than at the to all as we were looking forward to The C and D team squad, captained by beginning of the season. Their stamina is them. Hopefully we will have a lot more Naomi Angus worked just as hard in vastly improved and they should be to look forward to in S1. their skills and fitness sessions and proud of their progress. They have only consequently, their results and team lost two of their Saturday matches. Some matches have had good weather, morale were truly excellent. The whole but some bad, though altogether we S3 squad seems to have been very close, The ‘B’ team has benefitted from think that the P7 girl hockey teams have and therefore everyone seemed to get committing themselves to training as a highly enjoyed the experience of playing loads out of every session and match. team, and this has paid dividends in their against the other schools. This year we results. have definitely boosted our confidence Throughout the season, S3 have had a lot in hockey thanks to the P.E staff. of support from many different staff. To The ‘C’ and ‘D’ squads have worked just Caroline Henderson and Mia Cruikshank our initial coach, Miss Williamson, we as hard and have been unlucky to lose say thank you not only for her input at several matches to the weather. Their the beginning of this session, but for her enthusiasm however has not waned. Boys unfailing support at every stage of our development. We are all sorry to hear Thanks must go to all the PE staff and she is not well at present. To Miss also to Miss Bright for her help. In 1st XI Report Simpson, who has encouraged, berated particular, we would like to thank Mrs and helped us massively, we say thank Crichton for all her help and patience. Hockey season 2007/8 was a successful you too. To all the PE staff over the Kate Cameron and Rebecca Patrick. one for the Boys’ First XI. We won all of years, we acknowledge your help, our games apart from the penultimate especially those who have helped the S1 Report one which we lost by a single goal squad at training and matches. A special against Stewart’s Melville whom we had mention must go however to Mrs previously comprehensively beaten 5-1. Mitchell. We could not have done what What fun all the S1 hockey players have we did without her expert coaching and had this season. Fun and commitment The team, predominately 6th Year constant encouragement. Thanks a ensured the season ended with a good set pupils, ably assisted by our 4th and 5th million Mrs. M. of results, for the ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ teams. The ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ teams won year stars, enjoyed success in the High Heather Lang & Kirsten McIntosh most of their games and the ‘A’ team School and George Watson’s sevens, won or drew 75% of their matches. lifting the silverware on both occasions. S2 Report Our own sevens could have been added Our training, primarily under Mrs Lang to that tally but for woeful penalty This season the 2nd year hockey ‘A’ and Miss Gibson, has helped us improve flicking. team went on their first tour. We weren’t our skills through the year and this has very successful but we learnt a lot about shown in our results against for example, We progressed to the quarter finals of the possession and marking. We also had a the Edinburgh teams, like George Scottish Cup where we came up against great experience which we will help us Watson’s , Mary Erskine and George the only other unbeaten school team in for the rest of our hockey days. From Heriot’s, always great rivals. Scotland for this season, Robert going on tour we have learned that we Gordon’s. The Granite City witnessed need to communicate more and trust our Our thanks go to the coaches for their our unbeaten run coming to an end other team members. help and encouragement and providing allowing them to go forward into the the motivation to be at the bus bays early next round. We went two goals down in In March the whole of the 2nd year on Saturday mornings through the winter the first ten minutes but showed great hockey squad participated in the months. character to level the score and create chances which could have won the Hutchesons’ Invitational Tournament. Jennifer Eadie All teams played hockey of a great game. The draw forced a penalty shoot out which did not go well for us, Andrew standard but Mary Erskine reigned P7 Report supreme and came out top to take the Barnet being the only one to score! trophy. Our ‘A’team sadly got knocked This year the girls’ P7 hockey teams The highlight of the season was, as have played lots of games and got good always, the February tour. This year saw

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2nd XI Report

After a disappointing start to the season, a heavy loss to Robert Gordon’s College, the team displayed great teamwork and determination to bounce back and win back-to-back matches against rivals Glasgow Academy and the High School of Glasgow. The team then performed heroically against the tougher Edinburgh sides. Although dominating these games, the team’s failure to convert numerous chances cost us dearly.

Overall, it was a successful season. Through time, the team grew in spirit and work rate and this showed on the pitch. Credit has to go the 6th year Hockey on Tour contingent, whose excellent performances were vital to the team’s success. In addition, the team comprised of many more highly skilled 4th year us travelling overseas…to Belfast. We likewise played for West District and boys than usual. A few of these boys, did not have the luck of the Irish on this also made it into the preliminary such as Jonathan Leslie, Robin and tour (they reserved this for themselves) Scotland U18 squad. Daryl Jarvis, displayed great potential but, despite two defeats we had a for future years. The 2nd XI this year fantastic time. Much could be brought up It has been a privilege to captain the was a stepping stone for many players about the tour and indeed much was team in my final year at Hutchesons’. who will be in the 1st XI next season. brought up on the tour predominately on Thanks to one and all for their These players gained vital experience for the ferry crossings there and back and commitment to the team. My personal their future endeavours. A special especially by experienced sailor, Darryl thanks are due to Mr Dunlop for the mention to Mr Dunlop and Mr Hart for Jarvis, who seemed to have left his sea time, encouragement and assistance their enthusiasm, time and effort legs at home that week-end. Thanks to which he has given to us over the last throughout this season. Mr Hart and Mr West for giving of their five years and for all the hard work he time to accompany us. has put in with the team to make this This season has been full of highs and such a successful year. His most lows, laughs and memories that none of Modesty prevents me naming our top important match is scheduled for 12th the boys will ever forget. Well done scorer but well done to Johnny McKay April and we wish him and Ms Forrest lads. who slotted in the second highest well for their future together. Adnan Ali number of goals. Congratulations also go Neil Fulton to Andrew Allan on his West District selection and to Andrew Scobie who

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Hockey Representative Honours Hockey Results 2007-08 2007-2008 TEAM PWDLFAOFF Outdoor International U18 1st XI 18 11 5247 13 Morag McLellan (S6) in Training squad 2nd X1 17 74632 22 Rachel Malcolm (S5) in Training squad 3rd X1 19 13 3337 10 Nicola Lowrey (S5) in Training squad 4th X1 16 11 2330 12 Fiona Bruce (S5) in Training squad 5th X1 11 51511 13 Andrew Scobie (S6) in Training squad 6th X1 4 11256 Neil Fulton (S6) in Scotland squad 3rd Yr ‘A’ 17 17 86 1 3rd Yr ‘B’ 18 14 3157 9 Outdoor International U16 3rd Yr ‘C’ 13 81419 9 Robyn Collins (S3) in Scotland squad 3rd Yr ‘D’ 5 1418 Heather Lang (S3) in Scotland squad Lucy Lanigan (S3) in Training squad 2nd Yr ‘A’ 21 10 9250 11 2nd Yr ‘B’ 19 13 2436 11 Outdoor West District U18 2nd Yr ‘C’ 10 9120 5 Morag McLellan© S6 2nd Yr ‘D’ 8 215613 Neil Fulton S6 Andrew Allan S6 1st Yr ‘A’ 15 10 1436 12 Andrew Scobie S6 1st Yr ‘B’ 17 76429 12 Rachel Malcolm S5 1st Yr ‘C’ 13 54428 18 Nicola Lowrey S5 1st Yr ‘D’ 82 6830 Fiona Bruce S5 1st Yr ‘E’

P7 ‘A’ 13 8531 15 Outdoor West District U16 P7 ‘B’ 13 92229 11 Karen Leslie S4 P7 ‘C’ 71 6215 Marianne Adams S4 P7 ‘D’ 612312 15 Susie Gillman S4 Katie Gardner S4 P6 Girls Emma Hunter S3 Lucy Lanigan S3 Boys 1st XI 14 11 2152 15 3 Robyn Collins S3 Boys 2nd XI 8 4-410 14 4 Heather Lang S3 Boys Junior XI 4 2-211 56 Katie Fulton S3 Boys 2nd Yr Boys Develop 22--10 11 Indoor West District U18 Boys Indoor 42 219 8 Nicola Lowrey© S5 Fiona Bruce S5

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Athletics Report 2008 By Daniel Johnstone

The 2007 school year proved to be an excellent one for the Hutchesons’ Grammar School athletics team. The team recorded several impressive individual and team medals in both the Glasgow and Scottish Schools competitions, as well as breaking some long-standing records in the process. The girls started the season by winning the Auldhouse Cup and the boys retained the Minerva Cup at the Kelvin Hall. In the Independent Schools league, our S2 Boys, S2 Girls and S1 Girls all won their team trophies.

The Glasgow Schools is always a prolific fixture on the athletics calendar, providing the first real stage to exhibit Hutchesons’ strength and depth within its athletics department. The school is used to the high standards achieved in this event and the 2007 season proved no exception. In the boys’ competition Hutchesons’ won gold team medals in the Secondary 2 and 3 events, as well as achieving silver team medals in the Senior and Secondary 1 competitions. In the senior contest the stand out performances were put in by Douglas Campbell, winning the 200m final and by Oliver Krause who was first to finish in the 400m Hurdle final. In the Secondary 3 year group Lewis Tait, James Wilde, Gavin Weir and Andrew Campbell all illustrated profound athletic ability winning gold medals on the day and contributing to their age group gold team medal. In the Secondary 2 contest Michael Dodds won the 400m hurdle final and Matthew Kerr won the high jump final with a very impressive height of 1.45m. The high standards were maintained in the Secondary 1 age group with Andrew Foxworthy, Calum Purdie, Lewis Walter, Darren Tang, Blake Sinclair and Freddie Lusk putting in stalwart performances against opposition from other schools.

The girls contingent of the athletics team also excelled in the Glasgow Schools competition winning three out of four team medals in the team competition. In

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1500m final, finishing 4th. In the U15 age group Robyn Collins achieved silver Cross in the Javelin, Catriona Herbert was awarded a bronze medal in both the 75m Hurdles and the Long Jump events, and Michael Dodds won the 400m Hurdles. Country Matthew Kerr’s efforts were also well rewarded with two silver medals in the By Daniel Johnstone U14 High Jump and the Triple Jump. Max Lott was also a double medalist the senior events, athletics captain Amy winning the gold in the U14 1500m and The Cross Country season began as it Morrice was very prominent gaining the silver medal in the U14 800m event. always has and most probably always silver in the High Jump, and a noticeable Max’s achievements also extend the will on the precariously muddy and performance was achieved by Rebecca sphere of the mere medal. Max is now water-logged pitches of Nether Pollok. Morrison who came 3rd in the 300m the holder of the School’s Age Group The effort exhibited by the pupils, and final. The Secondary 3 girl’s competition and Year Group record for 1500m, a the sheer number of them on this was a very eventful one with a number truly remarkable achievement. Taylor occasion was definitely a credit to the of exceptional performances achieved. Speirs was also a gold medal winner, school and a clear illustration of the high Karen Leslie won the 100m final with a beating the rest of the competition in the participation and important role that very quick time and Robyn Collins won U14 Triple Jump and also coming sports play at Hutchesons’ Grammar the javelin with a tremendous throw. second to claim the silver medal in the School. However, Catriona Lockie who achieved U14 Long Jump. In total the School won a championship best performance in the 3 gold medals, 6 silver and 2 bronze. It The course was typically challenging, 800m captured the day. The Secondary 2 was a terrific performance by all, and a with many muddy paths to negotiate, age group was dominated by Hutchie very proud and memorable day for immensely large (and not to mention pupils with Eleanor Quigley winning Hutchesons’ Grammar School. deep) puddles to cross and of course the both the 200m and the Shot Putt. unforgiving distance to overcome. The Catriona Herbert came out on top in the mud and weather were met with Long Jump winning the gold medal and sceptical eye-brows by a few, but as the adding even more points towards the Sports Champions pupils congregated on the line the effort, team medal. The Secondary 1 Girls commitment to finish and enthusiasm maintained the rich vein of form winning Primary 7 was very clearly evident. The more medals with Abi Duff and Sarah Jonathan Wong intimidating conditions and challenging Burns both winning gold individual Helena McKelvie course proved to be of little consequence medals. as the pupils overcame the course and S1 finished in significant numbers. The The Scottish Schools Athletics Andrew Spowart school earned a huge amount for the Championships is the most prestigious Lucy Patrick school’s charity - £12, 865.80 - a and undoubtedly the most challenging S2 fantastic effort. competition of the year. However, Taylor Speirs Hutchesons’ pupils were not phased by Catriona Herbert The stand out performances on the day the magnitude of the event or the high in the Primary 6 race were: Dewi Gould standard of competition, in fact, they S3 (1st), Jamie Cook (2nd), and Campbell seemed to thrive on the competition Lewis Tait Scott (3rd) and in the girls’ race: Lucy meeting it head-on, and often coming out Karen Leslie Davidson (1st), Alex Pope (2nd), and on top. Natalie Sharp performed Katie Turnbull (3rd). The Primary 7 exceptionally well winning a silver Seniors boys’ race was a very close and medal in the U17 3000m, as well as Andrew Gillman entertaining affair with five boys narrowly missing out on a medal in the Amy Morrice contending for the win. A hard fought

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victory was won by Colin Lowrey (1st), Nether-Pollok races was the senior race, circuit. However, despite the challenging closely followed by Fraser O’Rouke in which 4th, 5th, and 6th year compete course Hutchesons’ did exceedingly well (2nd), and then Harry Bremmner (3rd). in. A memorable victory was achieved in winning four gold team medals and one The winners of the medals in the the boys’ race when the young runner silver team medal, truly asserting the Primary 7 girls’ race were Sapphire Le James Wilde beat Daniel Johnstone school as a cross-country heavy-weight. Sage (1st), Zara Robinson (2nd) and (2nd) who was followed by Andrew On the day there were two stand out Nicola Wilde (3rd). In the Secondary 1 Allan (3rd). The senior girls’ race was performances, with Max Lott and events the medallists were Jamie won by Natalie Sharp, another very Catriona Lockie both being selected to Crawford (1st), Jonathan Wong (2nd) promising athlete, who was then represent the Scottish Schools in the and Scott Young (3rd) and for the girls, followed by Catriona Lockie and then British Schools race. In this event Max Vanessa Hogan (1st), Jennifer Eadie Kristina Greig. and Catriona did their potential justice (2nd) and Paige Denholm (3rd). The and ran very well. Max achieved 23rd Secondary 2 boys’ race was won by The cross-country season took a turn place overall, coming 5th Scot. Catriona Lewis Walter, followed by Elliot Martin towards road running in February with finishing 15th overall, and 4th Scot. and Allan Tong and the girls’ race was the annual St.Aloysius’ Road Relays. won by Anna Black followed by The girls did very well by retaining their The season finished on a successful note Rebecca Patrick and then by her sister trophy with another win. The girls’ team with the Glasgow Schools Cross- Lucy. The Secondary 3 race always consisting of Vanessa Hogan, Jennifer Country Championships. The school is proves to be an exciting race due to the Eadie, Elaine Eadie, Rebecca Patrick, used to dominating this event and the abundance of athletic talent. The winner Catriona Lockie and Natalie Sharp. The year 2007 proved to be no exception. of the 3rd year boys’ race was the boys put in a very respectable Every Hutchesons’ age group won a immensely promising Max Lott, who performance coming 4th overall, their medal, five achieving a gold medal, was closely followed by Sandy Nimmo. team including Scott Young, Jonathan another four gaining silver and the last Both of these runners have competed at Wong, Max Lott, Sandy Nimmo, Mark one winning a bronze. Max Lott, James the highest district level and have Neilly and James Wilde. Wilde and Catriona Lockie all won their exhibited real talent and dedication to respective age-groups. The highly cross-country. They have also proven to The climax of the cross-country season successful Glasgow Schools Cross- be very useful members of the cross- followed the road running, with the country Championships pushed the country team over recent years, as you Scottish Schools Cross-Country status of the cross-country season of can imagine. Michael Clark, who also Championships, held in Irvine. The race 2007/08 from being a good year to being put in a very respectable performance, is held on the Irvine sea-front and a great year. Not only judged on the took 3rd place. In the 3rd year girls’ race therefore the harsh sea-breeze provides a individual merit of few, but by the a stalwart performance was put in by vital role in the race, adding that extra bit attitude of many, which was highlighted Elaine Eadie (1st), followed by Heather of resistance, helping to create the by the high levels of enthusiasm, Lang and then by Emma Hunter. The general opinion that the Irvine course is determination and participation. final, and arguably the climax of the the hardest in the school cross-country

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1st XI Cricket By Anish Deshpande

The 2007 cricket season promised to be an exciting one, building on the experiences gained from the previous season and the range of exceptional talent emerging. The loss of many key players, most notably Under-23 internationalist Zeeshan Bashir, at the end of the 2005/2006 session immediately posed a challenge for the left the High School with a monumental after travelling to South Africa as part of teams. However, under the new score to chase. The reliable bowling the Scotland Under-15’s team. management of Mr Dunlop, many from Umair Chaudry and Shreyas familiar faces returned to the cricket Chitnis which followed was enough to Our junior teams have continued to scene with renewed enthusiasm. secure the win and keep team morale produce excellent performances on the high. field. In S3, despite losing players to the The First XI began the season with a win 1st XI, the squad enjoyed a successful in the Andrew Wood Memorial Match On a windy day, the team went on to summer with notable performances from against George Heriot’s. On a bright play against the MCC. Unfortunately, a Captain Sidarth Sharma, Arun Krishna day, the team got off to a slow start with dangerous score of over 200 by the and Ben Tung. We also witnessed some some inconsistent fielding, allowing the opposition proved to be too large a total very big hitting from debutant Ruairidh opposition to build a strong total. to chase, and so the team fell to a Carpenter. S1 and S2 have a crop of However, a change in bowling attack disappointing defeat. Undeterred, few emerging talent with David Henderson saw Heriot’s run rate fall, and soon changes were made to the line-up for the (S2), Joshua Rutnagur (S2) and Saif Ali wickets fell too. With a target of 112 next matches against Kelvinside and (S1) all showing promise with both bat runs, the team opened batting with Anjan Glasgow Academy, and after regaining and ball. The Primary school has a Luthra, who managed to achieve the their form and some fine individual hugely enthusiastic group of players who highest score of the match with 49 runs. performances from Neil Fulton, the team have developed their skills through With ten overs left, the target was achieved convincing victories. KWIK cricket and pairs, onto the full reached, capping off a fine batting hard ball game by the end of Primary 7. display. The whole squad had many positives to take from this season. The experience of Special thanks are made to Mr Dunlop, The next match for the First XI was a the senior players and the energy of the Mr Wyatt, Mr Dewar and all other staff derby match against the High School of younger players proved to be an who have helped the teams and Glasgow. A muddy pitch made both excellent combination. Impressively, individuals progress, creating a very bowling and batting difficult, but a both Anjan Luthra and Shreyas Chitnis bright future indeed for cricket at ruthless total of 68 from Andrew Allan were awarded Internationalists awards Hutchesons’.

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Football By Anish Deshpandee

This season had both highs and lows in Top goal scorer Scott Lang (10) and store for the First XI football team. A David Aitken were selected to play for relatively inexperienced squad lacked the Scottish Indepentent Schools against consistency, and poor concentration in England at Tynecastle in April. The team the latter stages of matches was a unfortunately lost 5 – 0. Special thanks recurring theme. In contrast to previous are given to all the PE staff who have years, much more emphasis was placed supported the team, in particular Mr on the development of the younger Russell whose continued dedication players this season. The team was maintains a very positive outlook for relying more on players such as Scott football at Hutchie. Lang, who played alongside sixth year David Aitken and Scott Lang Gavin Weanie in a Scottish Independent Senior Curling Schools match against England in April 2007, and David Aitken.

The season started off in September with Curling a tough game against Mearns Castle High School in the Scottish Cup. This session the school’s curling club taster session of the sport, giving them a Unfortunately, the team were unable to has experienced a very successful chance to learn about the game before gel and lost 3-1, a consolation goal season. On Friday afternoons the junior giving them the opportunity to join the coming in the form of a penalty. The club meets to get coaching from trained club in S1. season’s initial enthusiasm was not to be Curltec coaches at Braehead. This has lost however, and just a fortnight later helped the players to improve their game The school curling team, this year the team achieved a resounding 9-3 win and learn about curling rules and the consisted of Karen McQuarrie (Lead, in a friendly against Belmont House. background of the game. As the season S5), Laura Yule (Second, S4), Luke This match showed an excellent team progressed it was evident from the Mclntosh (Third, S6) and Andrew performance and several fine individual games played that all the players not Grieve (Skip, S4). The team successfully performances, most notably Calum only enjoyed the games but also had played in many matches with schools Maclean’s hat-trick. The team’s next improved immeasurably. across Glasgow and central Scotland, match was also a success, beating the our most memorable victory being 12 - 0 High School of Glasgow 2-1. The senior curling club, which meets on against Merchiston Castle School. Wednesdays during the senior games This successful run was unfortunately period, consisted mainly of players who The final match of the year was the short-lived, and of the remaining five were new to the game. This gave them a Bonspiel competition, where all the matches, one was drawn and four were chance to learn through playing actual players from the Glasgow schools, were lost. Credit must be given though to games, not only just with each other, but randomly assorted into new teams. Andrew Scobie, whose solid within the Glasgow Schools’ Curling Where Hutchesons’ players, were mixed goalkeeping and outstanding captaincy league. with their counterparts from Kelvinside have kept high hopes for the squad’s and Glasgow Academy, and played upcoming matches. Curling success within Hutchie, exceptionally well. however, is not limited to the senior Luke Mclntosh school. Primary 7 pupils experienced a 86 Sport

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The Under 14 girls’ relay team won a Junior Squad bronze medal, congratulations to Amy Cummings, Ailysh Cockburn, Nancy Haniford and Stephanie Kerr. The boys finished one place behind in their race Swimming finishing 4th. The Under 16 boys’ team of Jonathon Lott, Max Lott, Chris Pexton and Peter Aitkin finished in third place. At the Glasgow schools swimming finals In the under 16 years category, Rachel this year, held at Whitehall Swimming Smithers (S4) and Robyn Collins (S3) The Open Girls’ team of Rachel Pool, the swimming teams did very well finished 1st and 2nd respectively in the Smithers, Lucy Laniganm, Robyn winning 6 Gold, 2 Silver and 9 Bronze 100m Breaststroke. Rachel then went on Collins and Katie Sloan finished third. medals. to gain a second place in the 100m The very young Open boys’ team of Backstroke. Chris Pexton’s (S3) 50m Scott Young, Jordan Roberts- Laverty, In the 14 years and under category, Butterfly was swum as a straight final on Mazen Allam and Austin McKenzie also amongst the medal winners were Max the heats night and he finished in bronze finished third. Lott (S3) with a bronze in the 100m position. The lifesaving teams; Ailysh Breaststroke and Jonathon Wong (S1) Cockburn (S2), Stephanie Kerr (S2) and Both of the Over 16 relay teams finished also with a bronze in the 100m for the boys Chris Pexton (S3) and Peter in 1st place. Well done to Chloe Jackson, Backstroke. Declan Molinari (S2) was Aitken (S3) both finished in 3rd place. Seonaid Hyslop-Parsons and Emma 3rd in the 50m Backstroke. Just missing Tomkins all in S6 who have swum in a out on the medals were Mazam Allam Andrew Park (S5) had a very successful relay every year since S1. Special (S1) who finished 4th in the 50m evening in the 16 and over age group: he congratulations must go to Ross Breaststroke and Jordan Roberts-Lavery was 1st in the 100m Breaststroke, 1st in McEwen, Chris Wong, Nathan Denholm (S2) who was also 4th in the 50m the 100m Backstroke and 1st in the and Andrew Park who won the Lewis Backstroke. 200m Individual Medley. Polytechnic Trophy.

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TENNIS CHAMPIONS 2007

P6 Girls Rally Competition Winners Kirsty Tennis Forgie & Zara Robinson P6 Girls Rally Competition Runner-up By Kate Hamilton Chloe Grabiner & Nicola Wilde P7 Rally Competition Winners Paige Denholm & Carly Jacobs This year has proved to be another The U15 and U13 league teams also had successful one for the school’s tennis a busy and exciting season. The Boys’ P7 Rally Competition Runner-up teams. Players who have represented the U13 team, consisting of Richard Prentice Ansley Clark & Emily Barr school in various events have shown (S2), Matthew Stout (S1), Calum Forgie S1 Girls Winner great enthusiasm and talent, standing us (S2) and Ross McLeod (S2), won all Caitlin Russell in good stead for the forthcoming their section matched and reach the season. Scottish Final where they beat George S1 Boys Winner Matthew Stout Heriot’s School in order to progress to The senior boys’ team, comprising of the National Quarter Finals of the Nestle S1 Girls Runner-up Alan Conroy (S4), Anjan Luthra (S4), Championship. The boys travelled to Laurie Anderson Scott Lang (S4), Richard Prentice (S3) Sunderland for this event, where they S1 Boys Runner-up and Robert Robinson (S5) were had a great time but unfortunately lost Finlay Walker disappointed last season as they once their quarter final match. again missed the Scottish finals day, S2 Girls Winner Heather Lang narrowly going out at the quarter-finals For the second year in succession, the stage. However, the boys made a good girls’ U15 team, comprising of Fiona S2 Boys Winner start to this season, beating Bearsden Bruce (S4), Heather Lang (S2), Kate Richard Prentice Academy 4-0 in the first round and then Flannigan (S4) and Nicola Lowrey (S4), S2 Girls Runner-up going on to beat Glasgow Academy 4-1 played well and reached the Scottish Emma Quail in the second round, setting up a quarter finals where they beat The High School final match in April against The High of Glasgow. They then went on to S2 Boys Runner-up Calum Forgie School of Glasgow. represent Scotland at the National Quarter Finals of the Nestle S3 Girls Winner Last season the girls’ team, comprising Championships in Sunderland, where Karen Leslie of Kate Hamilton (S5), Fiona Bruce they had a great time, winning their S3 Boys Winner (S4), Heather Lang (S2) and Kirsty quarter final but losing out in the semi- James Wilde Black (S5) did exceptionally well to final. S3 Girls Runner-up reach the Scottish Finals. After a titanic Emma Laing battle in the semi-final against Robert The Boys’ U15 team and Girls’ U13 Gordon’s College, Hutchesons’ team showed great commitment but S3 Boys Runner-up succumbed, but regained their unfortunately did not qualify for the Martin Black composure in the 3rd/4th place playoff to finals. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP beat Dunblane High in a tie break shoot out. This year, the same team of girls has The school has also enjoyed taking part Girls Winner Heather Lang (S2) progressed to the quarter finals, and will in a number of other tournaments. In the play Jordanhill in the summer term. High School Tournament for girls, the Girls Runner-up Karen Leslie (S3) Boys Winner Richard Prentice (S2) Boys Runner-up Matthew Stout (S1) SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

Girls Winner Fiona Bruce (S4) Girls Runner-up Kate Hamilton (S4)

Boys Winner Alan Conroy (S4) Boys Runner-up Scott Lang (S4)

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team, consisting of Gillian Black and Recreational Sports: Rebecca Dodds (U13), Karen Leslie and Heather Lang (U15) and Kate Hamilton and Fiona Bruce (O15), came second Fitness and Fun by Luke McIntosh overall. The Craigholme Invitation Tournament provided another Hutchie has always been known for the opponents and the type of match opportunity for a girls’ team to compete. variety of sports it offers its pupils. This (singles, or doubles). The players have In this event, the team came first overall, cannot only be seen in the competitive great enthusiasm, which can be seen on retaining the trophy for another year. sports, in which we achieve so much, but the courts and it is obvious they enjoy Primary and Secondary pupils have also also through the selection of recreational the social aspect of the sport. competed in various inter-school fixtures sports, which the senior pupils are given against High School of Glasgow, the chance to play in, during their games The tennis group play at Titwood Tennis Glasgow Academy, Belmont House and period. Many thanks must be given to Club, where they have been fortunate St Columbas. the staff and dedicated coaches who enough to benefit from the good weather. devote their time and expertise to The high numbers of people who attend This term, House tennis events will take helping the pupils to enjoy and get the have been an obvious indicator as to the place in various venues in Glasgow all most out of a long list of activities, sports popularity. morning. Good weather is hoped for this which include sports as diverse as street sociable event which provides the dancing and karate. Recreational sports are a good opportunity for players to have good fun. opportunity for senior pupils to have fun The eventual winners of this event last The badminton group is one of the most and it allows them to try a variety of year were Argyll House players. popular of these activities. The pupils are sports which otherwise they may not given the independence to arrange their have had the chance to do. This year, all players and the school own matches with each other, choosing should be proud, as the School has been awarded the School Team of the Year award at the Tennis Scotland dinner at Stirling in March. Despite the fact that the school has only two tennis courts, they have played a considerable amount of tennis at both ends of the spectrum, and Mr Lang, Director of Sport, received the award on behalf of all of us.

Finally, the School tennis Championships were held at Newlands and Titwood Tennis Clubs last year and produced the results opposite.

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Prize List June 2007

Physical Education Third Year Girls’ Champion Tennis Awards The 1957 Group Quaich Junior Girls’ Tennis Champion Athletic Awards Karen E Leslie The Kingarth Trophy Girls’ Primary School Sports Champion Heather S Lang The Jean C Bain Trophy Third Year Boys’ Champion Helena J McKelvie The Alan S Paterson Cup Junior Boys’ Tennis Champion Lewis R Tait The Burnside Cup Boys’ Primary School Sports Champion Richard T Prentice The Jardine Cup Senior Girls’ Champion Jonathon Wong The Eleanor Howie Trophy Senior Girls’ Tennis Champion Amy C Morrice The Butters Cup First Year Girls’ Champion Fiona L Bruce The Kingarth Cup Senior Boys’ Champion Lucy Patrick The Governors’ Cup Senior Boys’ Tennis Champion Andrew M Gillman The School Cup First Year Boys’ Champion Alan J Conroy The D B M Charleson Cup Athletics House Championship Andrew M Spowart Rugby Football Junior The Willie Wilson Memorial Award for Second Year Girls’ Champion The Junior House Cup awarded to Lochiel Leadership in Rugby The Elspeth B Cowan Trophy House represented by Gillian L Wark and Murray D Houston Catriona M A Herbert Sam S Chirrey Hockey Second Year Boys’ Champion Senior The Watt Stevens Shield for Leadership in The John A Braidwood Cup The Tercentenary Cup awarded to Argyll Hockey Taylor J W Speirs House represented by Andrew J Campbell Kimberley L Dunlop and Stéphanie C Legrand

The Rector and Mrs Greig with Boys’ Dux Peter Reader-Harris and Girls’ Dux Felicity Louden along with the Chairman of Governors and Mrs Denholm and guests of honour Lord and Lady Gill.

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Special Prizes for the Junior School Form III Subject Prizes Gymnastics The Gymnastics Cup, the 1917 Trophy awarded to the best section in Form I The William and Mary Arbuckle Prizes for Modern Studies 3rd equal awarded to Class 1 J represented by Handwriting Andrew T O’Donnell T Ruairidh Bottomley Primary 5 French 3rd equal House Competition Lucy J Kenwell, Katie F Paul Andrew S MacFadyen, The Junior House Shield Euan Nugent-Kirkland, Modern Studies 3rd equal Winning House Katie S Turnbull Rachel Smithers Montrose Primary 6 French 2nd Captains Seher R Ackrim, Marianne S Adams Paige C M Denholm Caroline J Henderson, Physics 2nd equal Roderick McCrea Amelia G Howison, Andrew D Brown Gopikrishnan S Nair, The House Cup, the W H Macdonald Trophy Isabella H McP Ross Business Management 2nd Winning House Victoria G Lawton Argyll Primary 7 Rebecca E Agliolo, Mathematics 2nd equal Captains Charlotte A McKelvie, Varshini Manoharan Adam Brown Helena J McKelvie, Physics 2nd equal Stéphanie C Legrand Oyiza Momoh, Andrew M Macrae James Mitchell Benjamin McP White Joanne M Waddell Primary 7 Awards for General Excellence Mathematics 2nd equal Public Speaking Prizes Neil I Watson Primary 7L Drama 2nd First Year Rebecca Dodds The First Year Trophy Sarah R Wilkie Kate S Galbraith Primary 7J Music 1st Hebba N Benyaghla Second Year Gordon A Biggart The I G McIver Memorial Trophy Primary 7M Computing 1st equal Catriona M A Herbert Joshua B Lewis Jack Donaghy Third Year Primary 7R Business Management 1st The John M Hutchison Cup Stuart J McQuarrie Stuart Fraser Bilal Shah Primary 7D Modern Studies 1st equal Senior Oyiza Momoh Lauren Y Halley The 1957 Group Trophy The Terries-Neil Quaich for outstanding Victoria E Kerr History 1st equal contribution to the life of the Primary School Jocelyn C Hickey The Isabel Turnbull Memorial Prize for the Blair J McCarte Speaking of Verse Special Prizes for Form I Drama 1st First Gregor C A Hogan Ailsa J Doak The Four Generations Prize for Excellence in History 1st equal English and History in S1 awarded jointly to Second Alasdair J Lane Louise Mealyea Cressida R O’Donoghue Catriona F Reid Technology 1st The Mrs J C Nicol Memorial Prize for Clear Alan A McKechnie Speech The Anne Gemmill Memorial Prize for Oral Louise Mealyea French Greek 1st Hannah R Todd Music Competition Charlotte L McKechnie The Millennium Prizes for General Excellence Art and Design 1st equal Ensemble Matthew J Henson Lauren A McKelvie Leader of The Flute Ensemble Holly G Lau Tina H Jeong Special Prizes for Form II Economics 1st Jennifer J Plunkett Intermediate Charlotte L McKechnie The Marion G MacNeill Prizes for General Geography 1st equal Excellence Bethany J Robertson Senior Catriona M A Herbert The Biggars Trophy Sandy Nimmo Graphic Communication 1st Jennifer J S Lawrie Luke McB Smith The Webster Trophy for Citizenship Drama Competition B Barnes and Peter J Aitken awarded to English 4th, History 1st equal Form 2J represented by Ellie S B Barnes and two prizes The Junior Drama Cup awarded jointly to Rachel A Smith Karen E Leslie Connor A Benson Philippa C Haughney The Neil MacDonald Medal for the Most Economics 2nd, Promising Mathematics Pupil in Secondary 2 Graphic Communication 1st equal Sandy Nimmo two prizes Graeme Wallace

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French 3rd equal, The Marion G MacNeill Prize for General French 3rd equal, Physics 2nd equal, Excellence and the Whittome Cup English 2nd Latin 1st Matilda L Greig two prizes three prizes Victoria E Kerr Gavin W Grant The Sutherland Prize for General Excellence Sidharth Sharma Spanish 2nd, English 3rd, Art and Design 1st equal Computing 1st equal, The Dr John Hutchison Prize for Meritorious two prizes Spanish 1st Performance in English, Mathematics, Nadia B Catena three prizes Geography, Physics and Chemistry Anna J O’Donoghue Katherine J Gardner Computing 2nd, Form IV Subject Prizes English 1st Biology 3rd, two prizes Chemistry 2nd, French 3rd equal Sophie R Fox Mathematics 1st Fiona L Bruce three prizes Mathematics 4th equal, Russell L Park Geography 3rd Technology 1st equal Calum A Crichton two prizes Mathematics 2nd equal, Jared E L Lewis Spanish 2nd equal, Spanish 3rd Modern Studies 1st equal Kirsten G L MacQuarrie Technology 1st equal, three prizes Mathematics 1st Modern Studies 3rd Katherine A Sloan two prizes Hannah H Newton Peter A R Malcolm English 2nd, Physics 3rd equal Art and Design 1st equal, Physics 3rd equal, Kirsty L Wallace French 1st, German 1st Chemistry 2nd, Prize for Higher French in Form IV four prizes Business Management 2nd three prizes Matilda L Greig Adam P Beach Graeme R Sneddon Biology 2nd, French 2nd Chemistry 3rd equal, Mathematics 2nd equal, Rachel A Malcolm Physics 2nd equal, Biology 2nd, Geography 1st equal, Physics 2nd Modern Studies 1st Chemistry 1st, Clifford D H Murray three prizes Charlotte Read five prizes Drama 2nd Sidharth Sharma Caroline E Dunlop Chemistry 3rd equal, Chemistry 3rd, Biology 3rd, German 2nd English 3rd, Geography 3rd, Katie H Fox Mathematics 2nd equal, Mathematics 3rd Spanish 2nd equal, History 2nd four prizes Biology 1st, Rebecca S M Watson Richard S Newman English 1st, English 4th equal, Physics 1st Home Economics 1st Emily M Patrick Mathematics 4th equal, seven prizes French 1st, Katherine J Gardner Fabric Skills 1st Latin 1st Donated & Endowed Prizes for Form III Anne E Hastie four prizes Rachel Dodds 1946 Sixth Form Quaich for significant general Spanish 1st progress Melissa N Gordon English 4th equal, Rebecca H Kondol Modern Studies 2nd, Music 1st Geography 1st equal, The Jean Cunningham Smith Prize for Jennifer G Hansell Economics 1st Drawing Geography 1st equal four prizes Jacquelyn N Burnside Douglas W Kyle Joshua Fields The Sayers Cup for Oral French Art and Design 1st equal Mathematics 2nd, Hartesh S Battu Ruoxi Lin Physics 1st, Biology 1st, The Middle School Quaich for Spoken German Business Management 1st Chemistry 1st, Matilda L Greig David MacMillan Drama 1st five prizes The Low Cup for Oral Spanish History 1st Stephen M Rose Leoni G M Bennett Andrew G Park Form V Subject Prizes The Helen M McMillan Prize for Excellence in Computing 1st Modern Languages Euan F Reid Modern Studies 2nd Matilda L Greig Madeleine Barratt Graphic Communication 1st The Marco Prize for Excellence in Modern Steven Runciman Home Economics, Languages The Jess F Whyte Prize German 1st Gregor C A Hogan Kirstie V Black Rebecca A Scott

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Spanish Chemistry 3rd, The International Rescue Corps Trophy for 2nd Mathematics 1st equal, outstanding charity work Mandy L Caplan The Houston Prize and the Edward George Awarded this session to Form 3C who Prize, organised the Teachers’ Mile Biology Physics 1st represented by Katherine J Gardner and 2nd three prizes Stuart Fraser Niall J Grant Douglas K K M Chiah The Fiona C Wood Prize for Meritorious Geography English 4th, Performance 2nd French 3rd equal, Andrew M Gillman Kate L Hamilton Economics 1st The Peter Howie Memorial Prizes for the Business Management three prizes Sarah B Hamilton playing of the Violin 2nd Junior Award Daniel J Johnstone Human Biology 1st, Senior Award English Chemistry 1st, Mark A Haughton 2nd equal Mathematics 1st equal, Shona A Biggart Gabi L Lewis The Houston Prize and the Edward George Prize The Alyssa Bentley Prize for Singing Drama 1st three prizes Charlotte L McKechnie Simone A Golumb Anish P Deshpande The Black and Lizars Prizes for the most Music 1st French 1st, imaginative and innovative Projects in the Jennifer J S Lawrie The Nancy W McLay Prize, Sciences in Form 6 awarded jointly to Spanish 1st, David R W MacDonald Philosophy 1st equal, History 1st, Catriona L McWhirter The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow The Margaret Dunbar Memorial Prize James Mitchell Prize awarded jointly to three prizes Margaret E McClean The J C Murray Magazine Prizes Stuart L Williams Rhea C Wolfson Junior Award French 3rd equal, Computing 1st, Michael Dodds Human Biology 2nd equal, The Edinburgh F P Club Prize English 2nd equal, Senior Award Keith D Miller Physics 2nd equal Hannah Čulík four prizes Art and Design 1st The Dr J A McCallum Prize for Physical Morag A McLellan Rachel E Nolan Education and the Matthew Cup for All-Round Modern Studies 1st Human Biology 2nd equal, Excellence in PE Prabhjot P K Nijjar Chemistry 2nd, Louise M Dale French 2nd, The Magnus Houston Prize for Sports Mathematics 1st equal, Geography 1st, Andrew M Gillman The Houston Prize and the Edward George The Margaret Dunbar Memorial Prize, Prize Mathematics 1st equal, The FP Club London Section 350th Robert W M Robinson The Houston Prize and the Jessie M Younger Anniversary Cup to be awarded to a group of History 2nd equal, Prize pupils which has most distinguished itself English 1st, five prizes during a session Ailsa J Doak The J S Jack Prize The Young Enterprise Company Sinful two prizes School Prizes, Donated & Endowed Prizes represented by Natalie L Lane Fiona Scott History 2nd equal, The Rector’s Prize awarded to the editors of The John Marco Memorial Prize for Business Management 1st the S6 Yearbook for their outstanding work this Citizenship two prizes year: Calum C MacDonald Robert W B Murdoch, Junior Award Aamina Rafiq Physics 2nd equal, Emily L Stevenson, Technology 1st, Victoria E Edwards, Senior Award The Weir Prize for Technology Jennifer M E Martin Elliot J Gold two prizes The Freda Brown Award Jon E Strang The School Prize for Accounting and Finance Felicity M M Loudon Christopher A Stewart Biology 1st, The Dr Spence W Alexander Memorial Award German 1st, The School Prize for Art for Community Service Emily L Stevenson The Rosalie Harris Prize The Mark Scott Group represented by Arfan two prizes Akram and Elaine Cooper The Marjory Blyth Memorial Prize for Biology Ronnie Palchaudhuri Sophie G Jackson The Lesley Anderson Memorial Prize for a Latin 1st, pupil, having returned to Form VI, who makes The School Prize for Business Management The Pringle Prize, a really significant effort to improve and build Arfan S Akram Greek 1st upon previous academic results two prizes Yvonne M Macintyre The School Prize for “Crash” Higher R Griff Williams Economics Christopher A Stewart

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The School Prize for National Certificate The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow Dux in Economics Drama awarded jointly to Prize for Philosophy The School Prize Rachel E Fitzpatrick awarded jointly to Stuart J McColl Fiona M A MacKenzie Catriona R Gibbs Alexandra J H T M Pittock Dux in French The Alexander Stone Foundation Essay Prize The Margaret Kennedy Memorial Prize Rachel E Hanretty The School Prizes for Psychology Felicity M M Loudon The John M Biggar Memorial Prize for English First Dux in General Studies Iain J Oates Awess T Sawati The School Prize Douglas C Campbell The Houston Prize for English Second Harriet N Clapham Lisa A Kenny Dux in Geography The Rona McAdam Prize for Science The David J Dunbar Memorial Prize The Esther M Legge Prize for English Catriona L McWhirter Gillian E Steell Jennika Virhia The André Yacoubian Prize for the best student Dux in German The W B Henderson Prize for Greek going forward to Engineering The Dr J A McCallum Memorial Prize Hannah Čulík Calum N J Costello Felicity M M Loudon The Bailie Violet Roberton Prize for Oral The Alexander Stone Scholarship for the best Dux in Government and Political Studies French student going forward to Law The School Prize and the McLennan Quaich Stéphanie C Legrand Christopher J Henderson Kirsty McDougall The Isabel Turnbull Prize for Oral German The Peter Whyte Prize for the best student Dux in History Rachel A Morrison going forward to Mathematics and the The Old Boys’ Prize The Robert Hillman Memorial Prize for Rutherford Medal Mark M Davidson David J S Boyle Languages Dux in Mathematics Christopher J Henderson The J Desmond Milligan Prize for the best The Baillie Prize The Duncan Fletcher Prize for Geography student going forward to Medicine David J S Boyle David R W MacDonald Pamela A Turner Dux in Music The Nan M and Ian B Scott Memorial Essay The Baird Salvers and the FP Club Prizes for The Edinburgh FP Club Prize Prize awarded jointly to Leadership awarded to the Head Boy and Head Malcolm J MacKenzie Girl Yvonne M Macintyre Dux in Physics Andrew M Watson Douglas C Campbell Victoria E Maciver The The John M Biggar Memorial Prize Peter J Reader-Harris The Dr J A McCallum Prize for History Dux Awards Heather K Ramsay Dux in Spanish The School Prize for “Crash” Higher Human Dux in Art The J D Pearson Memorial Prize Biology The Edinburgh FP Club Prize Catriona L McWhirter Sandra Gifford Alison L Wright Dux in Technology The Dr I K Cosgrove Memorial Prize for Dux in Biology The School Prize Services to the Jewish Community in School The Gillian Macpherson Prize Andrew M Wallace Tina H Jeong Chloe L Jackson Proxime Accessit to the Boys’ Dux The School Prize for A Level Mathematics Dux in Business Studies The Fairweather Prize awarded jointly to The School Prize David J S Boyle Jonathan J S Moorhead Emile G M Bouaziz Proxime Accesserunt to the Girls’ Dux Peter J Reader-Harris Duces in Chemistry The Helen M McMillan Prize awarded jointly The School Prize for Further Mathematics The Edinburgh FP Club Prizes to David J S Boyle Catriona R Gibbs Hannah Čulík Peter J Reader-Harris Catriona R Gibbs The School Prize for Media Studies Gregory P Manson Dux in Classical Civilisation The Girls’ Dux The School Prize The Mary McMillan Kerr Prize & Gold Medal The School Prize for Modern Studies Hannah Čulík Felicity M M Loudon Emma Williamson Dux in Drama The Boys’ Dux The Flora Malvenan Prize for Music The School Prize The Rector’s Prize & 1829 Silver Medal Fiona M A MacKenzie Adam Leonard-Burns Peter J Reader-Harris The Mary V McGregor Cup for Excellence in Dux in Classics Academic Work, Artistic Enterprise and The John M Biggar Memorial Prize Leadership Hannah Čulík Amy C Morrice Duces in English The School Prize for Physics The Arthur E Meikle Prize awarded jointly to Catriona R Gibbs Rachel C Hanretty Felicity M M Loudon The William W Murray Prize for Poetry Yvonne M Macintyre

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