THE HUTCHESONIAN 2019 The Hutchesonian Editorial Team 2019 The TeaM huTchesonian oF 2019 editors EDITORIAL Fiona Forster 2019 2 & Lauren Lilley Rcaochmelm Counndiiet y & Lucy Ronnie Global citizenship Lauren Lilley FROM THE HEAD BOY AND STAFF NOTES RECTOR 3 GIRL REPORT 5 6 MWorlliyt Binamg brough & Maia Mellentin Drama Emma Paterson Aanrnt a Lamb GLOBAL COMMUNITY WRITING Music 14 CITIZENSHIP 22 26 Claudia Nashef clubs, societies S&a rTar Ciphas udry s6 Iqra Ali DRAMA ART MUSIC MKoinllyg Baarmthbr osutgrhe et 32 36 39 & Helen Brown Fhioonua sFoe rster Lsopuoisret Buchan & Luke Pelosi CLUBS, SOCIETIES S6 KINGARTH STREET Photography AND TRIPS The School Photography 42 47 51 Company overview of Jmanaeg Raitzcihniee & Jenny Simpson Acnonva eLarm dbe &s iLguncy b Sym ith HOUSE OVERVIEW PRIZE LIST JUNE SPORT 2018-2019 71 74 2018 94 1 Editorial tories have always been the most fascinating part of It is incredibly bittersweet to be writing this and although I life for me. Ever since I was three and enthralled by look forward to the future and the opportunities it will Smy Grandpa’s storytelling, I have loved hearing other bring, I am incredibly sad to be leaving the school and the people’s experiences. Life has been a collection of stories people who welcomed me with open arms in June last and this year, I close the book on childhood and school year. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities it has and I will open a new book on university and my future. awarded me and I encourage everyone to cherish their time at school and be able to look back on this part of their A lot of things change in sixth year and getting used to the life story fondly. change and navigating all these options and choices has been challenging but incredibly rewarding. The decisions As Winnie the Pooh once said “How lucky I am to have have been difficult and although there have been many something that makes saying goodbye so hard”. instances of uncertainty and confusion, there have also been moments of pure joy and elation with them. As the wise Anne of Green Gables said “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet” and this incredibly hopeful and joyous sentiment is the one I want to take into my next year and as I attempt to navigate adulthood. f life is a set of books, then each section is a chapter. although we may be uneasy about these changes, it is an This final year at Hutchesons’ has been the end of a opportunity to try different things and discover who we Ichapter and one which we will never forget. Wherever are meant to be. we all end up next year, and whatever we end up doing, this is a part of our lives which has shaped us. Maybe you have no idea what you want to do next year, or maybe you have a contents page written out for the It can be unnerving coming to the end of your final year at rest of your life, but the rest of our chapters are not school and knowing that soon you will have to move on written yet. Whether we close this book and begin a new from what has come to be a comfortable routine. Some of one, or we write our own sequel, we now have the us have been overwhelmed with the decisions and freedom to write our own future. It may be the end of a choices we have had to make about next year, whilst book, but it is not the end of the story. others appear to be gliding into their next chapter, unfazed. “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” For many of us, this new chapter will be a fresh start and 2 From thE rEn the wacll of my offitce hangs oa picture that rI Calvin and Hobbes, each day brought “another mind- redrew from a Calvin and Hobbes collection. boggling adventure”. You may know the characters – Calvin, a young boy with a wonderful imagination and It seems to me that this is life, that life is what you make a stubborn streak a mile wide, and Hobbes, it. I always try to enjoy the little things that happen and Ohis sardonic stuffed tiger; the pair embarked on numerous trust that the bigger things will be made more enjoyable adventures during the time they were syndicated to a and less deadly-serious. If you follow my Twitter account national American newspaper, tackling everything from @HutchieRector this same pattern is replicated: it is not environmental issues to the biggest philosophical full of hugely important things, but full of small important questions, with characteristic fun and mischief. things. But what I was most engaged by was their sense of It is one of the enduring joys for us as teachers, that the adventure – Calvin sometimes metamorphosed into a pupils are so fresh and innocent. Not having made dinosaur and sometimes into the fearless Spaceman mistakes yet – or not too many. But of course, we make Spiff. In fact, Artist Bill Watterson suggested that, for mistakes as we learn and we make mistakes to learn. Teaching brings with it a constant exposure to the sense 3 FRoM The RecToR of can-do, the grit of will-do and the triumph of have-now- over-written, but that should not assume a proportion that done – and this is why I particularly enjoyed the work I is out of keeping with their importance. I would argue used to do with the Teacher Training Agency, where I that although we can never change history, never alter the would advocate to undergraduates this finest of mistake that was made, we can always make amends. professions. And I have always wanted to be the sort of We can use the blank slate that is tomorrow to change Headteacher who still teaches: to me that is the fun bit. how our mistakes are viewed or the effect that those mistakes may have had. Surely, that is what it is to learn? So I am delighted with the theme chosen by this year’s Hutchesonian committee “ Tomorrow is always fresh, So, read on, and enjoy this year’s publication. Don’t fret with no mistakes in it yet ”. I would urge you all to have about mistakes from yesterday, learn from them, and plan the strength of mind to not overly worry about yesterday, to make amends, today. It would seem therefore that which will have mistakes, mistakes that can never be tomorrow has never seemed brighter: a mind-boggling adventure awaits us. Eleanor by Ava Milton Eleanor Hall Eleanor Hall Eleanor Hall 4 hEad Boy and Girl rEport drifting around corners with the tea trolley and attempting to play curling down the corridors; our beverage service was second to none. With Remembrance Day and the George and Thomas Hutcheson Awards falling on the same day and being given our speeches what felt like two minutes before, it’s fair to say we had a bit of a stressful day. Nevertheless, we managed to get through the day successfully with no hiccups. On Founders’ Day we wore our kilts with a lot more dignity and pride than we did at the St Columba’s Burns dinner, where our efforts went largely unappreciated. Ultimately, all four of us agree that the highlight of the year was the much anticipated Christmas tree shopping expedition: an annual ritual which includes lots of hot chocolate, cake and chat. We would like to extend our thanks to our fantastic deputies, with whom we have shared every awkward silence at tutor meetings: Carla for her tireless attempts to organise a ‘Sound Prefects’ outing and always n June 2018, we were given the would otherwise have fallen flat. Our having her head screwed on, even honour of becoming the Head Girl teachers also got used to us being when the rest of us had no clue what Iand Boy of the school, supported late or absent from most classes on was going on, and Suhit for dodging by our deputies, Suhit Amin and ‘official duty’. Carla’s every attempt and having an Carla Foxworthy . As survivors all extensive network of contacts to call the way from Primary 1, we were all Open Day was our first logistical upon at any moment (dishing out his delighted to be presented with this nightmare as we scrambled to gather business card at every available opportunity for the year ahead. enough (un)willing prefects to help opportunity really did help.) out. Although our many spreadsheets The reality of our positions came to detailing everyone’s every movement Sixth year has been the pinnacle of light on the first day of Sixth Year didn’t quite go to plan, the our long and happy 13 years at the after the summer holidays ‘Prefection’ groupchat school, and we have enjoyed every as we took to the stage was certainly put to minute. From meeting an array of in front of all of our Ultimately, good use. A huge incredible people to getting an insight peers. Along with ur of us thanks and even into the inner workings of the school, assemblies, public all fo bigger apology this year truly has been a formative speaking became agree that the goes to the 42 experience. For this, we would like to an everyday threat light of the year prefects who thank the Rector, Mr Martin, and all as Mr Martin high endured our of the wonderful staff for their relentlessly tried was the much constant guidance and support throughout our to perfect our anticipated Christmas nagging about time at Hutchie.