STAY CONNECTED WITH Inside 6 REMEMBRANCE WEEKEND THE OB COMMUNITY 13 BARNARDIAN NEWS Visit us online 16 1980S REUNION Page 3 19 NEWS IN BRIEF ISSUE 06 BARNEY TRINITY 2019 Magazine for Barnard Castle School CONNECT alumni and supporters REMEMBERING THE FALLEN 2 ISSUE 06 Contact Contents BARNEY CONNECT CHAIRMAN ISSUE 06 REFLECTS TRINITY 2019 An active year for the Club 4 Alumni & Archive Miss Dorothy Jones REMEMBRANCE +44 (0)1833 696025 WEEKEND [email protected] Commemorating 100 years since the end of WW1 Foundation Director Mr Christopher Enticknap +44 (0)1833 696099 6 [email protected] Published in partnership with the Old Barnardians’ Club BARNARDIAN NEWS Round up of news from the OB community 13 All correspondence to be directed through the OB Club Secretary OBITUARIES President In memoriam Mr Tony Jackson Vice President Mr Gerry Camozzi 22 Chairman Mr John Hunter OB Representative Governor DATES FOR THE Mr Peter Hodges DIARY Join us at a forthcoming event OB Club Secretary Miss Dorothy Jones +44 (0)1833 696025 [email protected] 27 Barnard Castle School Barnard Castle County Durham DL12 8UN Tel: +44 (0)1833 690222 Email: [email protected] BARNEY CONNECT TRINITY 2019 3 Welcome TONY ‘STAY CONNECTED’ JACKSON There are a number Headmaster Barnard Castle School of ways you can keep Welcome to this year’s edition of Barney Connect, and my thanks to up-to-date with School Dot Jones for all her hard work in compiling this magazine. I hope it gives you a flavour of the work that is done to keep OBs informed and and OB news and events connected, and gives you time to put dates in the diary for events in the coming year, of which there are plenty. School As I wrote last year, one of the genuine highlights of my first year was meeting so many OBs, and that continues to be a real privilege of being Twitter: @barney_school Headmaster of this magnificent school. The meetings have been plentiful, with another gathering in Hong Kong followed by the inaugural Dubai dinner in Facebook: Barnard Castle School December. There, we had 15 OBs attend with their partners, and my thanks to Peter and Matthew Hodges for their organisation. We hosted the London Dinner Instagram: Barnardcastleschool for the first time in the Lansdowne Club, and held a Northumberland Lunch at the County Hotel in Newcastle. I write this shortly before the 1980s reunion at which Website: www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk a large number of you are expected to return. This also coincides with the OB Summer Gathering, and regardless of the weather, these are always lovely affairs. Old Barnardians Looking ahead there are plans for another drinks gathering in Hong Kong later this year, in addition to our first ever dinner in New York, so please do keep an Twitter: @barney_ob eye out for those dates if you are in the area. Our Annual Dinner returns to School next March, and it would be lovely if you could join us, regardless of whether you Facebook: are a regular or if you have not been back since you left. You are guaranteed a very Old Barnardians Club warm welcome. Old Barnardians Womens Sports Teams Elsewhere we have been humbled and heartened by the generosity a Old Barnardians Rugby number of you have shown since the publication of the School Masterplan brochure, looking at development plans to continue to improve our school, both LinkedIn: with regards to capital projects and transformational bursaries. If you have any www.linkedin.com/company/barnard-castle-school ideas or think you can help, please do get in touch and I would be delighted to meet and speak with you. To help with this project, we have appointed Andrea Sutton, Website: www.barnardiansreconnected.org.uk a former parent and highly experienced individual in the world of development, and I know you will welcome her into our community. YouTube: We are pleased to announce that there As for the bigger picture, it remains a challenging marketplace, with plans is now an OB YouTube Channel showing clips of in the House of Commons to form an all-party parliamentary group looking at individual OBs and the School film from the late abolishing independent schools and the usually supportive Conservative Party 1940s with an ‘update’ from the 1990s. even floating the idea of adding VAT onto school fees in recent months. As a result, this is no doubt a tricky time for schools such as ours. However, I am a strong The Alumni Privacy Notice of Barnard Castle School believer that adversity offers opportunity, and with such exciting development is available at www.barnardiansreconnected.org.uk plans afoot, and with the support of our entire Barnardian community, we can and will become stronger. Thank you for your ongoing support, and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in the coming months. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the read. With best wishes, Tony Jackson Headmaster and President of the Old Barnardians’ Club 4 ISSUE 06 WELCOME MESSAGES Welcome to the latest edition of Looking ahead, I hope you all received the Barney Connect, another year of great brochure earlier in the year on the future interaction between the School and of Barney. If any of you are interested in the Old Barnardian community. With contributing to turning this vision into a Tony at the helm, relations between reality, we would be very grateful. We have the School and the OBs are going from a very ambitious plan for the years ahead but strength to strength. none of this will be possible without the assistance of the Old Barnardian community. As I write this, the Summer Gathering and reunion of OBs from the 1980s is just over Finally, I would like to thank my fellow a week away. Last year saw the return of the committee members for their time and effort, 1970s cohort and a fantastic day was had by all of whom have made an invaluable all with a strong showing at the Old Well on contribution both in maintaining strong the Friday evening followed by a morning of relations with the School and also helping to reminiscing and a very pleasant afternoon in grow the reach of the Club and ensuring its front of the beer tent whilst various teams continuing relevance. Last and certainly not competed against the School at cricket, least I’d like to thank Dot Jones, without netball, football and shooting. Then in whom none of this would be possible. Her September, the Autumn Gathering saw tireless work goes above and beyond, and OBs compete in touch rugby, golf and ladies’ on behalf of the Club and Committee I extend hockey whilst spectators were able to watch my sincere and heartfelt thanks to her for as they drank pints of Pepperpot and Top everything that she does to make the Club Tree. Speaking of Top Tree it was sent off to the success that it is. be cut up last July and by the time you read Message from the this, pieces of it should be available for sale Kind regards, Chairman in various formats. In addition to the sporting reunions there were a number of both impromptu and formal social gatherings throughout the year. Notable highlights included the Hong Kong gathering in October, the Dubai dinner in John Hunter November and the London dinner in March Chairman of the Old Barnardians’ Club at the Lansdowne Club after many years at the East India Club. With a good turnout of all ages and excellent speeches from the Head and guest speaker David Soanes (Du,’87), everyone was in agreement that this was one of the best dinners yet. Looking ahead, next year’s dinner will be at the school on 28 March – do put it in your diaries as it is sure to be another good event. The long-awaited New York dinner has now been arranged for 28 September 2019, with the venue still to be confirmed. Social media remains a wonderful tool for keeping people up to date on news and events and if you haven’t already joined the Facebook or LinkedIn groups I urge you to do so. The Facebook group is particularly interesting. With over 1,600 members there are photos and stories being added most days. BARNEY CONNECT TRINITY 2019 5 Message from the Heads of School Our Barney experience couldn’t be The School has massively helped with our represent the Barney badge in everything more different. Charlotte joined Prep own personal development. We have been we do, whether it is on the sports pitch, on School in Year 6 whilst Tomás only very lucky by being encouraged to take part stage or inside the classroom. Characterised initially joined for a term in Year 12. in and lead so many different opportunities. by loyalty and honour, every Barnardian And yet, for as different as they might Taking risks that might have seemed out of will always be happy to help with a smile on be, we both agree that the School has our comfort zone like taking part in the their face. completely changed our lives and we musical, public speaking in Lectern Club couldn’t be more grateful for our or representing our Houses in the many As we have grown, we have seen the School School experience. The School’s activities such as the never-ending Barney develop too. We are excited about the future strong ethos, based on endeavour, Bash or the fiercely competitive cake and confident that the School is going in the integrity, compassion and community decorating, has transformed us into more right direction.