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Fd-2602 Ee.Indd 26 February 2010 £1.70 Schools issue the DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY Quaker Schools write for the Friend the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 9 I Am 3 A Quaker-educated perspective on I am the light and the dark the world I am life and death I am hope when there is no hope 4-6 Ackworth School I am solitude and a great crowd I am joy and sorrow 7-9 Bootham School I am a friendly word and look 10-12 Friends School Saffron Walden I am a kiss and a touch I am first love and love after many years 13-15 Leighton Park School I am the wind that touches your face I am the thunder and the lightning 16-18 The Mount School York I am the bird in the sky and the fish in the sea I am spring summer autumn winter 19-21 Sibford School I am the sun on a cloudy day I am the seas and the rivers 22-24 Sidcot School I am the land and the creatures 25 Spirit Rising I am the beginning and the end 26/28 Letters I am Gayle Yeomans 29 Friends & Meetings Gayle attends Stafford Meeting. Taken from Spirit Rising: Young Quakers Speak. See page 25. Cover image: Danielle Peach on the World Challenge Expedition to Namibia taken by students from Ackworth School. Photo: Henrietta Lebetter. See page 4. The Friend Subscriptions Advertising Editorial UK £72 per year by all payment types Advertisement manager: Editor: including annual direct debit; George Penaluna Judy Kirby monthly payment by direct debit £6.50; online only £45 per year. Articles, images correspondence For details of other rates, Tel/fax: 01535 630230 should be emailed to contact Penny Dunn on [email protected] [email protected] 020 7663 1178 or [email protected] www.thefriend.org/advertise.asp or sent to the address below. the Friend 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Tel: 020 7663 1010 Fax: 020 7663 1182 www.thefriend.org Editor: Judy Kirby [email protected] • Production editor: Jez Smith [email protected] • Sub-editor: Trish Carn [email protected] • News reporter: Symon Hill [email protected] • Arts editor: Rowena Loverance [email protected] • Environment editor: Laurie Michaelis [email protected] • Subscriptions officer: Penny Dunn [email protected] Tel: 020 7663 1178 • Advertisement manager: George Penaluna, Ad department, 54a Main Street, Cononley, Keighley BD20 8LL Tel: 01535 630230 [email protected] • Clerk of the trustees: A David Olver • ISSN: 0016-1268 The Friend Publications Limited is a registered charity, number 211649 • Printed by Headley Bros Ltd, Queens Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8HH 2 the Friend, 26 February 2010 Young journalism A Quaker-educated perspective on the world Judy Kirby introduces the Quaker schools special edition and explains why she commissioned it We can all remember this… ‘we York Youth Council, the PeaceJam hope you will simply listen to the trudge to school, and we complain conferences and awareness of our young voices in these pages and that it’s too early, or too dark, or environment and others. But I was judge whether, with their candid too wet, or quite possibly all three’. heartened to glimpse through this approach, they are worthy future We’ve slept till the last minute the stirrings of individual attitudes bearers of the Quaker way. ‘and not many of us bother with to war and peace and spirituality. the luxury of the morning news’. Our sleepy pupil above reflected on We hope to carry features on other Oblivious then, to the wider world. how the clutter of his daily routine Quaker schools in Britain and This is a pupil at Sibford Quaker evaporated on hearing the suffering Ireland Yearly Meetings in due School describing one of his days. of others. course. But it is a Friday and ‘everyone Honesty in spiritual gathers to attend the last obstacle matters is surely a Quaker that lies between them and the trait? Listen to this pupil, weekend, the Friday Meeting’. And owning up to atheism – ‘I it is here that the awfulness of the am, and I believe I will world intrudes, as the gathered always be an atheist…’ school Meeting hears recordings Many modern Quakers from eyewitnesses of the Haitian are atheists, he says (I earthquake. Our scholar responds can almost hear some – ‘the weary travellers of the world of you seething!). After start to wake’. four years at his school, For a Friend editor, Quaker however, one can only schools are up there with ‘Are marvel at the place he’s Quakers Christian?’ as a bone of reached, describing a contention. So it is with some Quaker Week round- trepidation we present this special up meeting: ‘There was Schools’ issue, in which we have energy in the room, invited seven Friends schools in energy for change, to be Britain to write their own mini involved, all influenced versions of the magazine. They by Quakerism. I found were each given the same briefing myself on my feet, talking – produce three pages of comment, about this, my heart opinion, feature material and thumping, giving the first reviews. We thought the Eye page ministry of my life…’ a bit too idiosyncratic for kids to Whatever your views reproduce, but that could have about Quaker education, been a mistake! and I understand There is of course a lot about the controversy that school activities in here – the surrounds this issue, I Young gardeners at Sibford. the Friend, 26 February 2010 3 Ackworth adventure World Challenge Expedition to Namibia a few days though, we could stretched to the horizon. recognise people and talk to the We travelled further north to pupils individually rather than one of the largest safari parks in being mobbed! the world, only feet from rhino, Being at the school was elephant, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, the most important part of lions, kudo, springbok; it was so the expedition to me. It is different seeing these animals in something I have always wanted the wild. Our driver, Taz, had seen to do and it was brilliant. Seeing one leopard in seven years; we saw I have only just finished putting how thankful the teachers and three in an hour. all of my Namibia pictures up in pupils were for our work was really Our journey continued, but my study. It is strange looking at special. We were asked so many due to Taz becoming quite ill, we how much we actually experienced questions, ‘how many cows do you had to miss out on a few things in while we were there. own in England?’, ‘can you take me order to get him to hospital. We Our adventure starts back in to your school?’, ‘is it very green?’, still managed to visit the Himba Fifth Year, the first interest, the ‘is building your profession?’ The tribe, a tribe that hasn’t changed impossibility of raising well over Head even wanted Ackworth to its traditions in hundreds of years. £28,000 as a group, the first feelings be their sister school. We had a We learnt about their lives, met of excitement. After months and three-hour welcome with singing, their leaders and used some of the months of letters, bag packs, school dancing and speeches and an even dye they used to protect themselves fund-raisers, marathons, saving, longer goodbye with a barbecue, from the sun. It was really part-time jobs and generous which tasted so nice after porridge, interesting and so surreal. friends and family, we were on a bread and pasta. Heading south, eight hours plane to Namibia. We arrived in A highlight of the trip was this time. It was time for some Windloek – it was so cold, which the game of football and how relaxation – sandboarding. Sitting we were not expecting – dressed in important it was for the students. on top of a 110-metre dune, shorts and t-shirts like real tourists. To become so friendly and close to strapped to a piece of wood and We were met by Doo Doo, our the people we met was so nice. So attempting to survive the drop! driver, who took us to buy enough much happened at the school, and We then all had a go on the body food for ten days and also to buy I don’t have enough space to write boards, hurtling down on your a cement mixer, paint brushes, about it! front, reaching speeds of up to 80 varnish, rags, tiles, blackboard, After leaving in our new truck, km/h was such an adrenaline rush. paint, hammers, screwdrivers and a Mamba, we then went on a four- There is so much more that we lot more. day trek in the wild, evading bands did, and so many more stories we After a night in ‘the cardboard of baboons, being silent for up can tell. It was a fantastic trip, I box’, cold showers due to Rhys’ to an hour to avoid black rhino, had an insane month, spending it thirty-minute warm shower, and which would have been pretty scary with some really good friends and pancakes in the morning, we to see. Although the scariest thing helping change people’s lives. I am got on the truck for a five-hour I saw was the toilet we had to use. definitely going back to Namibia journey north. As we got off the Actually, it shouldn’t even be called and I really want to experience truck at Okakarara, Waterberg a toilet – a rusty, stinky, maggot the rest of Africa.
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