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Elizabeth College provides a rich, diverse and exciting experience for pupils of all backgrounds, enabling them to flourish and make the very most of themselves. 2018 CONTENTS | EDITORIAL Editorial FOREWORDS & 2-5 DIRECTORS & STAFF 6-7 FOUNDATION Elizabeth College Junior School FOREWORD 9 SPORTS 32-34 NEWS 10-14 ARTS 35-43 ACTIVITIES 15-27 MUSIC 44-45 ACTIVITIES WEEK 28-31 Elizabeth College ACTIVITIES 49-73 SCOUT CAMP 67 FOOTBALL 91-93 CCF 49-53 CHARITY ACTIVITIES 68 GOLF 94 DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS 54-55 YEAR 11 PROM 69 HOCKEY 95 CCF ADVENTURE TRAINING 56 SIXTH FORM LEAVERS’ DINNER 70 SAILING 96 YOUNG ENTERPRISE 58 INVESTIGATION AND SHOOTING 98-99 72 YOUTH SPEAKS 58 DISCOVERY WEEK SWIMMING 100 SENIOR DEBATING 59 ECO TEAM 73 RACQUET SPORTS 101 DE PUTRON CHALLENGE 59 ARTS 74-84 TRIPS 102-108 IOD MANAGEMENT SHADOWING 60 A YEAR IN ART 74-76 YEAR 12 – 102 CAREERS AND GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP 61 DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY 77 WORK EXPERIENCE POTTERY 78 ART TRIP TO LONDON 103 IOD DIRECTORS OF 61 GUERNSEY LITERARY FESTIVAL 78 HISTORY TRIP TO LONDON 104 TOMORROW CREATIVE WRITING 79-80 CHOIR ST MALO 104-105 HISTORY – CROSS CURRICULAR DAY 62 A REVIEW OF THE KENYA TRIP 106 DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY 80 62 MUSICAL YEAR SKI TRIP 107 – CASTLES DAY Where are solutions MATHS ROADSHOW 64 THE ELIZABETHAN CONCERT 82 FRENCH EXCHANGE 108 DRAMA – GERMAN EXCHANGE 108 MATHS CHALLENGE 64 82-83 before they’re found? OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR THE RIEMANN SOCIETY 65 EDITORIAL 110-115 DRAMA TRIP TO LONDON 84 LOWER SIXTH FORM PRIZE WINNERS 110-111 65 Welcome to the home of the curious. PREFECT TRAINING SPORTS 86-101 LEAVERS 112-113 A place for those who know that imagination, ingenuity OUTDOOR PURSUITS 66 ATHLETICS 86-87 PREFECTS 113 and solution finding are what humans are made of. CRICKET 88-89 We offer life-changing careers and professional EXPLORERS 66 STAFF LEAVERS 114-115 qualifications, across all industries, to those who are 6TH GUERNSEY CUBS 66 FENCING 90-91 true to themselves. Those who set no limits to their dreams and ambitions. Old Elizabethans PRESIDENT’S WELCOME FIRST WORLD WAR EC STATUTES 134 Trying to decide which way to go: 119-121 130 continue studying or enter the world of work? AND COMMITTEE REMEMBRANCE ROWING THE 135 Wherever you are now, we have opportunities for you, DINNERS 122-125 THE FALLEN 131 INDIAN OCEAN designed to help you discover the fascinating world of BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AIR CHIEF MARSHAL OEA SPORTING FIXTURES 136 126 132 business and explore your unique potential. AND DEATHS SIR PETER LE CHEMINANT MASTERS HOCKEY 137 OE NEWS 127 MICHAEL MARSHALL 133 SHOOTING 138 Explore your opportunities in Guernsey. DEAD DONKEY CLUB 128-129 LIFE SAVING CUP 133 SWIMARATHON 140 deloitte.co.uk/careers What impact will you make? Design and production by Two Degrees North. www.twodegreesnorth.co.uk The Elizabethan is produced at no cost to the College through the generous support of our advertisers. THE ELIZABETHAN 2018 | 1 ELIZABETHAN 2018 | EDITORIAL Principal’s Foreword Let us show you the world Launch your career in the Channel Islands and explore the world through KPMG’s global network. Principal Jenny Palmer with the CCF Contingent The Elizabeth College community is very The academic results the students attain providing us with the opportunity to begin Find out more and apply: special and it extends far beyond the reflect more than just their knowledge this process of redesign: to include more school campus to encompass our parents, and ability in each subject area. They also opportunities for students to work on their bit.ly/2019trainee our alumni, who are spread around the demonstrate commitment, perseverance self-knowledge, emotional intelligence and globe, and the members of our wider island and the curiosity with which they approach strategies to support them in managing their community who are staunch supporters their work as well as highlighting where their mental health positively and proactively. of the College, its historic foundation and passions lie. As with most things in life, our This complements our students’ acquisition the benefits and opportunities it continues experiences along the way are as important of subject knowledge and IQ and will to provide more than 450 years after its as the destination at which we finally arrive, help them to develop their roles as inception. It has been my pleasure to meet and we aim to provide a wide variety of innovators and creators enabling them to many of the members of this community experiential learning at Elizabeth College. be competitive, to develop their unique over the last year and to see their ongoing qualities, to make a difference, to add value Positive relationships and effective contributions to the College in a number of and to find their purpose. the articles in this publication. communication are at the heart of every successful society, organisation, department, Thank you to everyone who has been The sought-after skills of collaboration, class and friendship. We are working involved in compiling and creating this creativity and imagination and critical together to ensure that they continue to year’s edition under the careful editorship thinking and problem-solving must form part form part of the day-to-day life at the College of Dot Carruthers. Particular thanks also of a 21st Century education. At Elizabeth and are found across the campuses, across to Kate Garnett, Elizabethan Coordinator, College the acquisition of these skills is both junior and senior curriculum plans and who has worked extremely hard to collate not restricted to specific subject areas or throughout our extensive programme of all of the articles and images, and to Two activities as they are supported across enrichment activities. Degrees North and our advertisers whose the curriculum and co-curriculum, creating generous assistance allows us all to enjoy interdisciplinary connections alongside the The world is changing and as 21st Century this publication. I hope that you will enjoy development of knowledge and technical educators we must also be life-long discovering, or revisiting, the successes skills. The Elizabethan is a superb showcase learners, anticipating the future and ready and experiences of the last year. for all of the opportunities that students to look at things with fresh and creative have seized over the past year. eyes. Our current curriculum reviews are Mrs JM Palmer © 2018 KPMG Channel Islands Limited, a Jersey company and a member firm of the network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International 2 | THE ELIZABETHAN 2018 Cooperative ("KPMG International"), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. ELIZABETHAN 2018 | EDITORIAL ELIZABETHAN 2018 | EDITORIAL The Elizabeth College Foundation Aerial view of the Elizabeth College Campus showing Canada Court Principal Jenny Palmer outside the Royal Bank of Canada building Elizabeth College benefits hugely from enthusiastic fundraising means that The Elizabeth College Foundation was substantially enhance the facilities at the intended for 150 pupils. there are some substantial quick-wins which the extended network of parents, former they can provide financial support to established in 2007 specifically to help College at a relatively affordable price, Plans include not only the creation of new, can be achieved by a phased occupation of parents, former pupils, former staff, departmental or whole school initiatives, the College recognise and consolidate to ensure that the College is able to fully enhanced facilities within the Canada Court Canada Court. grandparents and other friends of the such as the recent development of the the tremendous support that the College support the educational demands of building, but also the re-purposing of the College alumni, current and former parents College. Together they form a strong Science Quad at the Upper School. enjoys from the extended College family. current and future pupils. The extension existing buildings to ensure that the entire community of support for the College and As mentioned above the Foundation and other supporters of the College will • Volunteers support the College will give a 40% increase in floor space and, enlarged site is used in the most effective the value of this support to students, staff has run two successful appeals where soon receive an invitation to hear more in a vast array of activities – from most importantly, the opportunity to create way and with the biggest possible benefits and the College in general is vast. This donations from our community have entirely about these plans and I hope you will be as enhancing the College’s career large, open spaces for a multitude of uses to our students and their educational needs. strength of our broader community is one paid for the development of excellent new excited about the opportunities as we are. provision to listening to reading in – something which has been impossible While the scale, complexity and cost of of the exceptional features of Elizabeth facilities for our students. We are now about Reception and from digging the garden in the constrained environs of a historic this mean that it is likely to be five to seven Ms DA Carruthers College and something many other schools to approach our loyal supporters once again at ECJS Beechwood to manning the College main building and site originally years before the vision is fully realised, Foundation Director would envy. to ask for help. GateHouse Gallery. • Generous individuals and companies Many of you will be aware that the College • The Dead Donkey Club is a group have donated more than £3.2 Million in has the opportunity to purchase the of former students, former parents, the last ten years towards improving adjacent building, Canada Court, currently grandparents and other supporters and developing the facilities at the occupied by the Royal Bank of Canada.