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The Victorian 2015 QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL 10 14 The Victorian 2015 QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL 10 14 Contents 1 Vision Statement 2 From the Head, Wendy Bellars 7 Address from the Chairman of Her Majesty’s Commissioners 24 36 9 From the Senior Monitor 11 The Norman MacLeod MacNeil Trust Fund 12 Grand Day 14 Prize Giving 16 The Houses – Cunningham House 19 Haig House 20 Trenchard House 22 Wavell House 40 60 26 Sport – Rugby, Hockey, Football, Athletics, Sports Day, Cross Country 40 Field Trips – Peru, French, Geography, S2 Maths, Roslyn Chapel 52 School Activities 55 Fundraising 60 Primary 7 67 English 77 Maths 78 88 80 Music 84 Duke of Edinburgh Award 86 CCF 102 Drill Competition 104 Staf QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL 1 Vision Statement Ethos of Defence, and through it to the personnel of the Queen Victoria School embodies, demonstrates Armed Forces. It provides a Service beneft by and promotes the following values: ofering stability and continuity of valued Scottish • Integrity and honesty education to the children of serving military • Respect and responsibility personnel who are Scottish or who have served • Justice and equality in Scotland. • Compassion and empathy Pastoral Academic Queen Victoria School aims to ensure that at least The School strives to help each pupil realise his or one adult member of staf takes a continuous, her individual academic potential to the full at each proactive interest in the development of each pupil, stage of his or her school life. meeting with him or her regularly and providing both structured and responsive discussion. Through its Non-Academic boarding house structures the School provides a The School strives to provide a wide and diverse valid and valuable alternative to the pupil’s home range of extra-curricular activities to develop the environment during term times. Partnership with whole person. parents and carers is welcomed. The School encourages parents and carers to involve Civic and Service Responsibility themselves actively in their children’s learning and Queen Victoria School is an asset to the Ministry in the life of the School. Board of Her Majesty’s Commissioners For The Government of Queen Victoria School, Dunblane Patron Mr C Ross HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE Mrs Linda Hepburn Mr J Cummings Chairman Major Gen (Retd) D A H Shaw CBE MDA Mr A J C Plumtree Esq Mr I K Ritchie FRCSEd Mrs C L Ford Commissioners Mrs K Forsyth The Rt Hon Lord Carloway QC The Lord Justice Clerk Col C Knightley Major General N H Eeles CBE (GOC Scotland) Capt P E Du Vivier RN Head Professor B McGettrick Mrs W Bellars Col (Retd) A P W Campbell Gp Capt J G Leggat Secretary and Treasurer to HM Commissioners R Adm R Lockwood CB Mr N Cunningham 2 QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL Colour Party. From the Head – Grand Day 2015 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of all ages. Thank you for being Dunblane and Bridge of Allan the following day; raising awareness with us for our 2015 Prize-giving ceremony. with a Buddhist-themed, meditative Sunday service and a weekday Assembly presentation; organising a cofee morning and cake sale. It At Christmas I was reading the latest instalment of Stephen Fry’s was heartfelt; it was done with conviction and an understated autobiography, called More Fool Me. The link between that volume confdence; it was extremely impressive, and it was very efective. and his previous one was to recall that most of the signifcant things in Stephen Fry’s earlier life began with the letter C. If you know Other charity work this year has included lots of cakes (Stephen Fry anything of Stephen Fry’s earlier years, you’ll understand why the would approve); a “Beat Beethoven” fun run, to the accompaniment only one of his c-words that I can mention in public is CHOCOLATE. of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; and a Hallowe’en fancy dress day in I was reminded of that focus when I began to think about what I aid of the Huntingdon’s Disease Association. Both staf and pupils wanted to say this morning. What I want most to refect about the took part in each one. Ms Downey reported her “best ever 5k time” past year at QVS also begins with the letter C: two words, in fact: after the run; and one of the highlights of the fancy dress day was COMPASSION and COMMITMENT. Mrs Rodger dressed up as Princess Fiona from Shrek. And then, the more I thought about it, the more I realised that almost Commitment is also shown, of course, on the Games feld, and this everything we do can be described under a heading that begins with year as well as the much appreciated weekly fxtures in rugby and the letter C … . hockey, and many in football, we hosted two days of the Stirling County Cross-Country Championships; had two teams reaching the A light-hearted one to start with: Creative Thinking. Dunblane isn’t semi-fnals in the Brewin Dolphin Rugby Plate Competition; and had known for its vast stretches of sandy beach. So what do QVS pupils two boys represent Scotland in the Independent Schools’ match do on the rare summer Saturdays when the sun is shining and there’s against England. Although Kyle Rowe and James Work’s Scotland no breeze? A few creatively minded ones decided to sun-bathe in the team lost the match, James did score Scotland’s only goal. long-jump pit. Superb! On the subject of Games, I’d like to thank all the staf who make More seriously: Compassion and Commitment. We’ve long been those events possible, and in particular this year Mrs Scott-Laing, good at raising money and awareness for charitable causes, here at who has been Acting Principal Teacher for several months; and QVS – and I know that that is an Armed Forces characteristic as well Ms Sharon Crossan, who has taught in the PE Department during – but this year the pupils excelled themselves. Sadly, several of our that same time. Gurkha community had relatives and friends who were afected by the earthquakes in Nepal this spring. It was no surprise that they and Ms Crossan has also thrown herself into work for the Peru expedition their friends wanted to do something to help those who were this summer. She and Mr Stacey will be taking a small group of pupils homeless, injured and in need of supplies. The extent to which they on what promises to be the experience of a lifetime including Machu did so, however, was remarkable: collecting clothes and blankets, in Picchu and some project work with a local community. Preparation the frst instance; collecting cash with the Rotary club members in for the expedition included a spring weekend of camping here in QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL 3 Cunningham House prefects. Scotland, where the overnight temperature was such that the tents class of eight to which it had been promoted; and at the wonderful were frozen solid the following morning. Commitment indeed! Piping, Drumming and Dancing Christmas Concert No.3. Commitment was shown too – as always – by the pupils and staf QVS pipers, drummers and dancers also performed at the Palace of undertaking the Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions this term. Holyrood House, with the CCF Combined Bands. You may remember Pupils came back absolutely soaked through, and one member of my mentioning last year that for the frst time ever a female – our own staf said she’d never been so cold in all her life! Lucy McNair – led the Combined Bands at Holyrood. Lucy was awarded the Commander’s Coin for Excellence as a result; and I’m Another important “C” in our lives is Chapel, which I mentioned delighted to say that this year, once again, a QVS girl was Senior earlier in connection with the Nepalese focus. One of the best events Drum Major: Navino Gurung – who had also spearheaded the Nepal of this academic year was defnitely the Blue Christmas service assistance campaign – led the bands superbly and could be heard organised by our Chaplain, Mr Boyd. An innovation this year, but across the courtyard even when facing in the opposite direction! likely to become a permanent feature, it allowed pupils, staf and family members who had experienced loss in the past year to come C is for CADETS, of course, and the Commander’s Coin for to a quiet service of refection, and to light a candle if they would like Excellence was also awarded – by Brigadier Harkness of 51 Bde – to to do so. It was both efective and movingly well attended. the eight QVS cadets who took part in the Welbeck College Leadership Challenge this term. It was the frst time that QVS had C is also for Christmas, and we enjoyed this year the Candlelit entered a team in the competition, which had 15 entries, from across Service; the Carol Concert; The Match Girl’s Christmas – an excellent the United Kingdom. Impressively – they came frst; a great musical staged by Primary 7 under Mr King’s expert guidance; and achievement both for the cadets and for Lt Scott Harrison who had the Christingle service. trained them. The Christingle Service coincides with Rookies’ Parade, which brings Cadets are of to Summer Camp and to Bisley once again this me to another important C – Ceremonial. As well as another excellent summer, and I’d like to pay tribute to the hours of work put in by the Rookies’ Parade, we enjoyed our other Parade Sundays and latterly staf who support our cadet activities: not only Mr Harrison, who has introduced Morning Music on the Parade Square – a development done so much to revive and develop rife shooting, but also that proved so popular with visitors that we hope to repeat it from Mr Shannon – in charge of CCF; Mr Stacey; Mr Gilhooly; Ms McBlain; now on.
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