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2012 Charity Number:1115884 by Guarantee: 5891198 Company LimitedRendcomb College, [email protected] www. rendcombcollege.org.uk Telephone: 01285 831213 GL7 7HA Gloucestershire Nr Cirencester, Rendcomb, & JuniorSchool Rendcomb College www.variouk.com Tel: 548944 01753 Slough Langley, Road, Mary’s St. Marish Wharf, Vario Press Limited Designed &Printed by andJuniorStaffCollege [email protected] Jo Thomason www.ashphotography.co.uk Ash Photography Additional Photography WatsonMr Martin Mr RolandMartin Mrs Kerri Martin Miss Cathy Hebert Mrs Anne Haas Mrs SueGilling Mrs Amanda Brealy Editorial Team Rendcombian Magazine Headmaster from the www.rendcomb.org.uk Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Stand still,yet wewill ...though wecannot make himrun. make oursun “ ” enormous given that weare arelatively the scopeofpupils’achievements isfrankly contexts during thecourseofyear and and Seniors-have showninanumberof pupils across thewholeSchool-Juniors have witnessedthecommitment that our can furnish them. withwhichaneducationpossibilities here are feeling confident aboutembracing the a-changing inapositive way andthat they people at Rendcombare seeingtimes I shouldalsolike to thinkthat theyoung that many ametaphor hasbeenmixed! haveopportunities comea-knocking.And nettles hasbeengrasped, that afair few and trulyseized, that agoodnumberof to thinkthat many days have beenwell after arriving at Rendcomb, Ishouldlike urging itsreader to ‘seize Ayear theday’. what Diem’poem, isknown asa‘Carpe making hay whilethesunstillshines.Itis our transient existence metaphorically the argument that we shouldspend Marvell’s To, proposes hisCoy Mistress One of my favourite poems, Andrew It hasbeenwithgreat pride that I telling meis‘theRendcombbubble’. picture beyond what many people keep that they willalways considerthewider of theSchoolasthey can.Moreover, Ihope the bestthat they canbeinasmany areas that Rendcombiansfeel anurgency to be that comestheirway.opportunity Ihope of seizingeachday andgrabbing every urge allofourpupilsto make themost winged chariot’doeshurrynearandIwould providing aninteresting read. should provide anaccurate record aswell achievements inaschool’smagazinewhich tois important record thesemagnificent community hasbeeninvolved. Ifeel that it many charitable endeavours inwhichour in detail key pupilachievements andthe Financial Statementyear’s whichoutline extracts that from Iaddedto thereport ofRendcomblife.distinctive part of communityserviceacross theSchoolisa time andenergy to helpothers:thestrength many ofourpupilsgive sowillinglyoftheir small community. Itisalsosignificant that so As Marvell would suggest, ‘Time’s ‘Time’s As Marvell wouldsuggest, You magazine, willfindinthis year’s 01 n

from the Headmaster Charity Number:1115884 by Guarantee: 5891198 Company LimitedRendcomb College, [email protected] www. rendcombcollege.org.uk Telephone: 01285 831213 GL7 7HA Gloucestershire Nr Cirencester, Rendcomb, & JuniorSchool Rendcomb College www.variouk.com Tel: 548944 01753 Slough Langley, Road, Mary’s St. Marish Wharf, Vario Press Limited Designed &Printed by andJuniorStaffCollege [email protected] Jo Thomason www.ashphotography.co.uk Ash Photography Additional Photography WatsonMr Martin Mr RolandMartin Mrs Kerri Martin Miss Cathy Hebert Mrs Anne Haas Mrs SueGilling Mrs Amanda Brealy Editorial Team Rendcombian Magazine Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Headmaster from the www.rendcomb.org.uk Stand still,yet wewill ...though wecannot make himrun. make oursun “ ” enormous given that weare arelatively the scopeofpupils’achievements isfrankly contexts during thecourseofyear and and Seniors-have showninanumberof pupils across thewholeSchool-Juniors have witnessedthecommitment that our can furnish them. withwhichaneducationpossibilities here are feeling confident aboutembracing the a-changing inapositive way andthat they people at Rendcombare seeingtimes I shouldalsolike to thinkthat theyoung that many ametaphor hasbeenmixed! haveopportunities comea-knocking.And nettles hasbeengrasped, that afair few and trulyseized, that agoodnumberof to thinkthat many days have beenwell after arriving at Rendcomb, Ishouldlike urging itsreader to ‘seize Ayear theday’. what Diem’poem, isknown asa‘Carpe making hay whilethesunstillshines.Itis our transient existence metaphorically the argument that we shouldspend Marvell’s To, proposes hisCoy Mistress One of my favourite poems, Andrew It hasbeenwithgreat pride that I telling meis‘theRendcombbubble’. picture beyond what many people keep that they willalways considerthewider of theSchoolasthey can.Moreover, Ihope the bestthat they canbeinasmany areas that Rendcombiansfeel anurgency to be that comestheirway.opportunity Ihope of seizingeachday andgrabbing every urge allofourpupilsto make themost winged chariot’doeshurrynearandIwould providing aninteresting read. should provide anaccurate record aswell achievements inaschool’smagazinewhich tois important record thesemagnificent community hasbeeninvolved. Ifeel that it many charitable endeavours inwhichour in detail key pupilachievements andthe Financial Statementyear’s whichoutline extracts that from Iaddedto thereport ofRendcomblife.distinctive part of communityserviceacross theSchoolisa time andenergy to helpothers:thestrength many ofourpupilsgive sowillinglyoftheir small community. Itisalsosignificant that so As Marvell would suggest, ‘Time’s ‘Time’s As Marvell wouldsuggest, You magazine, willfindinthis year’s 01 n

from the Headmaster Review of Activities & Achievements 02 expectations over regular lessonobservations. To Reviews we have withHeadsofDepartment; introduced we have putinplacepurposeful, yearly Departmental recruited first-rate practitioners into key positions; Development andReview programme for staff; wehave we have introduced ameaningful Professional Tutor; wehave widenedtheSixthForm curriculum; Scholarship; wehave to review started therole ofthe been introduced; wehave re-assessed thepurposeof and settargets. Anew Rewards policyhas andColours Juniors; MidYISandALISinSeniors)to monitor students utilize data more effectively (tracking andprofiling in expectations ofourpupils.We have beeneagerto well for next summer. attained were at by A*/A thiscohort grades bodingvery and Mathematics thissummer. 61%ofthegrades performance inthemodulesthat they took in Science Year 10students at produced theCollege arecord leading theway withfifteen A* grades betweenthem. place at Oxford to read EnglishLiterature. students’ destinations, includingahighlysought-after Universities figured strongly, accounting for 60%of establishments. High-flyingRusselland1994Group choices and90%secured theirfirstandsecondchoice secured places.74% ofstudents secured theirfirst education overfurther thesummer, 97% ofthem the secondyear insuccession. finalists intheUKMTSeniorMaths Team Challenge for this year thanin previous years. Sixthform pupilswere teachers. BothA*-B andA*-C percentages were higher grades says much oftheireffortsandthose taking A2s.That over 37% ofthemattained A* orA thisyearlarger thanlastwitheleven cohort more pupils year at ALevel. Asagrowing school,wehadamuch Governors through to thegrass roots community. helm andastrong senseof purposeemanating from year for theSchoolwithanew Headmaster at the was animportant transition The academicyear 2011/12 Activities &Achievements Review of We are working hard to raise academic ofgradesAt were GCSE,79% A*-C withtwopupils Of thestudents waitingto confirmoffers in Academically, successful thiswasaparticularly Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Champions at Lacrosse (for thesecondyear running); ARCH Trophy); winnersofNational SmallSchools Small SchoolsinDubai (Emirates AirlineSchool35 Winners ofInternational Cricket Tournament for Edinburgh’s GoldAward. Bronze Award schemeand14enrolled for Duke of fifteen with Merit. examinations were passed,three withDistinctionand lessons are given each weekto Seniorpupils;50music much praise from those whoattended. 119instrumental May. TheendofMichaelmasCarolServicebrought at TheCheltenham Jazz Festival’s JazzitUpevent in 57. Ajazzbandthat wasformed inSeptember opened ChoirhasgrownSenior choirs;theSeniors’College to all, Zimbe,that brought aconcert together Junior and students; Leavers’ andmostimpressive of concert musicians; Stars oftheEast, focused oninternational workshopsfrom internationallyconcerts; renowned thisyear: GCSEperformers; informalconcerts directed by twoofourFifth year boys. Penzance for Lowerplay written and Schoolandashort Goodfor UpperSchool;ThePirates of Our Country’s an initiative whichwillbeaccessedby pupilsof allages. utilised to create anarea for Outdoor Leadership work, children inschool.Our natural environment hasbeen to improve theindoor/outdoor flow for the youngest Nursery area underwent structural enhancements for oftheschool.The boarding pupilsintheupperpart previous year achieved itsaimofcreating more spaces year. Theworkcarriedoutto boarding housesinthe boarding houseinthecycle wascompleted duringthe of pupils.Thefull interior redecoration ofthelast and enhancethebuildingsgrounds for thebenefit we intend to meetthem. targets for thenext five years and ambitious set Wehave the Extended Project Qualification for theSixth Form. wehaveencourage introduced independent learning, Significant pupilachievements were numerous: 37 students enrolled intheDuke ofEdinburgh’s We have alsoenjoyed arange ofimpressive We have enjoyed three significant plays this year: We have continued towork undertake improve www.rendcomb.org.uk Choirs Festival at TheRoyalHall. Albert two current andoneformer pupilsangintheWelsh representation at BandwagonMusicEducation Project; Distinction at Cheltenham Festival (LAMDA); for Channel4,BBCandinthefilm, Ferrari KiSawaari; with Scallywagsagency, London; actingrepresentation representationstarred SchoolwithNinaGoldCasting; Region Men’sFoil; semi-finalist at ElletCup(Golf); at BritishYouth Championships;7thplaceinSouthern Series U14Foil; SouthernRegionU16Boys Champion Gloucestershire U16Boys’ Foil; third placeinPremier Gold medallistat U14Premier Foil; Silver medalin Talland; representation at National BHSCompetition; 1st and4thrankings at at BHSRegionalCompetition Medals; 8thRankingat Stonar National One Day Event; Gamesandthree Gold Arts at theEuropean Martial Stroud (1stplace);representation for Great Britain year 8and9girls’ race); Silver MileYouth road race in Association District Cross Country (First place inthe Country (Silver); Gloucestershire Schools’Athletics andSouthWestCounty Athletics (2/105) Schools’Cross Cross Country Championships (2/60),Gloucestershire AEGON GlosCounty Cup; representation for County Squad; representation as1of6girlsfor theUnder12LTA at U13Boys’ JuniorCounty Hockey Development representation (2)at U15Boys’ Hockey; representation Regional Performance Centre) U18Boys’ Hockey; Development Squad;representation at JRPC(Junior up); representation at U13Girls’JuniorCounty Hockey Performance oftheEnglandHockey Centre (part set at U14Girls’County Hockey andJuniorRegional County Hockey Development Squad;representation U16/U15 Rugby; representation at U15Girls’Junior Rugby Academy; representation at Stroud District in Lacrosse; representation at U17Gloucester girls from theSchoolwere awarded County places six girlsplayed Lacrosse for West ofEngland;thirteen England U18to compete at the HomeInternationals; representation (2)for Wales U18Bteam andIfor pilot’s licence! We alsohave ayoung manwhohasgainedhis n 03

Review of Activities & Achievements Review of Activities & Achievements 02 expectations over regular lessonobservations. To Reviews we have withHeadsofDepartment; introduced we have putinplacepurposeful, yearly Departmental recruited first-rate practitioners into key positions; Development andReview programme for staff; wehave we have introduced ameaningful Professional Tutor; wehave widenedtheSixthForm curriculum; Scholarship; wehave to review started therole ofthe been introduced; wehave re-assessed thepurposeof and settargets. Anew Rewards policyhas andColours Juniors; MidYISandALISinSeniors)to monitor students utilize data more effectively (tracking andprofiling in expectations ofourpupils.We have beeneagerto well for next summer. attained were at by A*/A thiscohort grades bodingvery and Mathematics thissummer. 61%ofthegrades performance inthemodulesthat they took in Science Year 10students at produced theCollege arecord leading theway withfifteen A* grades betweenthem. place at Oxford to read EnglishLiterature. students’ destinations, includingahighlysought-after Universities figured strongly, accounting for 60%of establishments. High-flyingRusselland1994Group choices and90%secured theirfirstandsecondchoice secured places.74% ofstudents secured theirfirst education overfurther thesummer, 97% ofthem the secondyear insuccession. finalists intheUKMTSeniorMaths Team Challenge for this year thanin previous years. Sixthform pupilswere teachers. BothA*-B andA*-C percentages were higher grades says much oftheireffortsandthose taking A2s.That over 37% ofthemattained A* orA thisyearlarger thanlastwitheleven cohort more pupils year at ALevel. Asagrowing school,wehadamuch Governors through to thegrass roots community. helm andastrong senseof purposeemanating from year for theSchoolwithanew Headmaster at the was animportant transition The academicyear 2011/12 Activities &Achievements Review of We are working hard to raise academic ofgradesAt were GCSE,79% A*-C withtwopupils Of thestudents waitingto confirmoffers in Academically, successful thiswasaparticularly Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Champions at Lacrosse (for thesecondyear running); ARCH Trophy); winnersofNational SmallSchools Small SchoolsinDubai (Emirates AirlineSchool35 Winners ofInternational Cricket Tournament for Edinburgh’s GoldAward. Bronze Award schemeand14enrolled for Duke of fifteen with Merit. examinations were passed,three withDistinctionand lessons are given each weekto Seniorpupils;50music much praise from those whoattended. 119instrumental May. TheendofMichaelmasCarolServicebrought at TheCheltenham Jazz Festival’s JazzitUpevent in 57. Ajazzbandthat wasformed inSeptember opened ChoirhasgrownSenior choirs;theSeniors’College to all, Zimbe,that brought aconcert together Junior and students; Leavers’ andmostimpressive of concert musicians; Stars oftheEast, focused oninternational workshopsfrom internationallyconcerts; renowned thisyear: GCSEperformers; informalconcerts directed by twoofourFifth year boys. Penzance for Lowerplay written and Schoolandashort Goodfor UpperSchool;ThePirates of Our Country’s an initiative whichwillbeaccessedby pupilsof allages. utilised to create anarea for Outdoor Leadership work, children inschool.Our natural environment hasbeen to improve theindoor/outdoor flow for the youngest Nursery area underwent structural enhancements for oftheschool.The boarding pupilsintheupperpart previous year achieved itsaimofcreating more spaces year. Theworkcarriedoutto boarding housesinthe boarding houseinthecycle wascompleted duringthe of pupils.Thefull interior redecoration ofthelast and enhancethebuildingsgrounds for thebenefit we intend to meetthem. targets for thenext five years and ambitious set Wehave the Extended Project Qualification for theSixth Form. wehaveencourage introduced independent learning, Significant pupilachievements were numerous: 37 students enrolled intheDuke ofEdinburgh’s We have alsoenjoyed arange ofimpressive We have enjoyed three significant plays this year: We have continued towork undertake improve www.rendcomb.org.uk pilot’s licence! Choirs Festival at TheRoyalHall. Albert two current andoneformer pupilsangintheWelsh representation at BandwagonMusicEducation Project; Distinction at Cheltenham Festival (LAMDA); for Channel4,BBCandinthefilm, Ferrari KiSawaari; with Scallywagsagency, London; actingrepresentation representationstarred SchoolwithNinaGoldCasting; Region Men’sFoil; semi-finalist at ElletCup(Golf); at BritishYouth Championships;7thplaceinSouthern Series U14Foil; SouthernRegionU16Boys Champion Gloucestershire U16Boys’ Foil; third placeinPremier Gold medallistat U14Premier Foil; Silver medalin Talland; representation at National BHSCompetition; 1st and4thrankings at at BHSRegionalCompetition Medals; 8thRankingat Stonar National One Day Event; Gamesandthree Gold Arts at theEuropean Martial Stroud (1stplace);representation for Great Britain year 8and9girls’ race); Silver MileYouth road race in Association District Cross Country (First place inthe Country (Silver); Gloucestershire Schools’Athletics andSouthWestCounty Athletics (2/105) Schools’Cross Cross Country Championships (2/60),Gloucestershire AEGON GlosCounty Cup; representation for County Squad; representation as1of6girlsfor theUnder12LTA at U13Boys’ JuniorCounty Hockey Development representation (2)at U15Boys’ Hockey; representation Regional Performance Centre) U18Boys’ Hockey; Development Squad;representation at JRPC(Junior up); representation at U13Girls’JuniorCounty Hockey Performance oftheEnglandHockey Centre (part set at U14Girls’County Hockey andJuniorRegional County Hockey Development Squad;representation U16/U15 Rugby; representation at U15Girls’Junior Rugby Academy; representation at Stroud District in Lacrosse; representation at U17Gloucester girls from theSchoolwere awarded County places six girlsplayed Lacrosse for West ofEngland;thirteen England U18to compete at the HomeInternationals; representation (2)for Wales U18Bteam andIfor We alsohave ayoung manwhohasgainedhis n 03

Review of Activities & Achievements Review of Activities & Achievements 04 Wildlife Decorate aWelly 5J6 Competition; aJ6pupilwinnerGlos Competition; Art commendation from NGOCharitable Trust of theYear 2011;aJ6pupilawarded a two regional winnersofJuniorPainter Junior Painter oftheYear 2012competition; Sightsavers withtheRoyal Academy ofArts Year 2012competition;National Winner JuniorPainterAcademy ofArts ofthe Regional Winner Sightsavers withtheRoyal been impressive: from J3upwards. the summer, aproduction involving allpupils relay race. Thepupilsproduced Peter Pan in Stadium, withateam offour competingina parade onSunday, 1stApril intheOlympic were abletointhepre-Olympic participate andlevel8pupils offundraising, our support, to Inrecognition experienceof newsports. challenge andhave committed theirchildren society. Many ofourfamilies have risento the to theyouththe desire toofour widen sport team ethic andhealthy competition. be very popular, strengthening further rather thanphysical, andhave proved to Dunwoody. Theseare administrative were introduced: Griffin, Corinium, achieved by February 2013. Three ‘Houses’ achievement, andhopefully thiswillbe Standard’, abenchmarkof Early Years high Work isbeing donetowards the‘Bristol scholarships inthe11+entrance exams. number of pupilsfrom Juniorsachieved and 10thacross theworld. Asignificant during Michaelmas,J5were 4thnationally maths programme, Mathletics, where were linked to aninternational online to from behigh.Theclasses J2upwards year. Academic achievement continues Juniors have hadasuccessful andbusy Achievements -Juniors Review ofActivities & Achievements from JuniorPupilshave ofthelegacyLondonPart 2012was 4000 viewsonline. e-book ‘HowLife Began’hashadalmost organised by Bloxham School;apupil’s Pony Championship; Eventers Challenge Final oftheBurghley miniOne Day Event SchoolsShowJumpingcompetition; Calne One Day Event; representation at StMary’s placed inStonar Schoolsinter schools Level; horseridingsuccessesincludebeing represented theKnex Challengeat Local Hero’ competition for herMandelaletter; Winner‘Write ofthePost Office about your J6pupil: many SeniorSchoolConcerts; Junior SchoolPianisthasperformed in leader board during2012;anexceptional featuredCollege 5thontheinternational the Gigafinal;Mathletics: Rendcomb past 3years; 2have thenmadeitonto it to theRegionalChessMegafinalin Chess Challenge:18pupilshave made awarded withGoldMedals/Distinctions; Ballet examinations in2012,many being Royal Academy ofDancing International installation 2012;25Childrenart passed workingonthesame Jubilee –mostartists ofFacepart Britain to celebrate theQueen’s Guinness World Records Record Holder– merit anddistinctionawards in2011; including aBronze medal,aswellhigh Cheltenham PerformingFestival Arts eachyear; BalletperformancesArts at the Cheltenham Festival ofperforming include several goldandsilver medalsat Applebee book;SpeechandDrama awards other pupilhadhisworkpublishedinthe oftheshowgarden andthe workaspart art competition–2Winnersart –onedisplayed Flower showgarden in 2011;Hampton Court competition in2012andwehad4winners pupils wereRadio winnersoftheCorinium n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk been supported bybeen supported theSchoolcommunity. The Scrubditch Care Farm Project have Operation ChristmasChild,RedNoseDay, and prostate cancerawareness), (testicular Jeans, MacMillan,‘Movember’ Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Jeansfor CHYP, Gloucester Rugby Community, Initiatives withABF, Children inNeed, 10-13 (e.g.coachingat Stratton FC). forcommunity opportunities Years £4000); Duke of Edinburgh provided charities (thefete andrunraised over of Soldiers’ from wholeSchool insupport byRun supported pupilsandparents bysupported wholeSchool;Rendcomb inaugural RendcombFete (March, 2012) life,in VillageCommunity including organisations; prefect involvement Year 12pupilsworking withseveral local of a‘GoVolunteer’ programme, with Charitable work included:theintroduction exhibited workat ManorHotel. Calcot We Holocaust Day, 2012andalsoprofessionally local state schoolsto display workto mark collaboratedRendcomb’s artists withtwo Nell Gifford ofGifford’s Circus fame. influential Gloucestershire womenincluding Year 11-13 girlsandattended by anumberof of International Women’s Day washeldfor enrichment to theSchool. Acelebration School, Tetbury bringing somecultural spent themorningat Leighterton Primary In December, aminibusofEALstudents and Spafor localconservation charities. runby Barnsleyconcert HouseHotel our musiciansperformed at acharitable Jazz Festival’s ‘Jazz itUp’event. Some of Jazz Bandperformed at TheCheltenham (Michael Morpurgo) andtheSchool’s sponsored anevent inSeptember 2011 thisyear:been strengthening Rendcomb Links withCheltenham Festivals have Community WorkCommunity Charitable & of Commerce,Cirencester Hockey Club, Chamber Choir, theCirencester Chamber Organisationssports. suchasCantores rugby andgeneral a memberofstaff), weeks includingathletics, cricket (runby many local children attend vacation sports Poetry Radio); andCorinium Compeition and TheRoyal AirForce Benevolent Funds the Royal Navy &Royal MarinesCharity competitions (ABFTheSoldiers’Charity, Classroom Area; been involved inlocal developmentthe further ofourWoodland nPower Climate andEco-schools) Cops in and theWoodland Trust, TheEDFPod, of Food Farming; Active KidsgetCooking School, TheRoyal Society, Horticultural Year Trust, Duchy Originals Garden Organic for organizations (Gloucestershire Wildlife been workingcloselywithanumberoflocal shoebox collection. Wellies Day; Operation ChristmasChild Gloucestershire’s Wildlife Trust Wear Your Care;MacMillan;RedNoseDay; Cancer Appeal; BreastResearch Cancer :Breast Slimbridge Wetland Centre; Sight Savers - Food for Life RoastDinnerDay; Partnership Young People; oldpeopleinourcommunity forSchool; CHYP-TheCouncil Homeless schoolinUganda,TheLords partner Meade have includedCirencester Food Bank;our of justtwoschoolsinvited; othercharities of theJuniorSchool’sfundraising –one Team GBHouse,Olympic Park inrecognition his wife attended aprize givingceremony at August 2012TheJuniors’Headmaster and National StarCheltenham College, –In the charitable linkswhichhave included: year wasoneoftheexchange years. School andrunbi-annual exchanges; this have awell-established linkwithaGerman In thecommunity, theschoolhas The Juniorspridethemselves in this School. pupilsandprovidedtransport mealsto (our nearest state primaryschool)to Cerney PrimarySchool minibuses to North good dealoftimeandeffort. while othershavewitha beensupported small amount of inputfrom RendcombStaff Some ofthesehave beenhosted witha and theCirencester children’s guitar club. Early Learning Group, Elizabeth Finn Trust Conservative Association, Gloucestershire Cerney BritishLegion,Cerney North North Dramatics Group, Gloucestershire Police, Citizens’ Amateur Advice Bureau, Purton Cirencester DistrictCouncil), (Cotswold Cirencester Youth For Cricket,Sport All Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust in2012. Wind intheWillows andawildlife ramble for we hosted bothathree performance runof organisations offering useofoursite and to several invitations to otherSchoolsand High Level Stewardship schemehasled Our involvement withNatural England’s fixtures andmeetingseach term. sports The Old RendcombianSociety, hasheld to holdmeetings/usefacilities thisyear. Victorian Societyhave accepted invitations Childminders’ Association, NCTandThe August), Gloucestershire andNational campsinDecember and (who ran sports’ Festivals, Gloucester Rugby Community Cirencester Lacrosse, Cheltenham In addition the College hasloaned In additiontheCollege hasbeengiven to Support n 05

Review of Activities & Achievements Review of Activities & Achievements 04 Wildlife Decorate aWelly 5J6 Competition; aJ6pupilwinnerGlos Competition; Art commendation from NGOCharitable Trust of theYear 2011;aJ6pupilawarded a two regional winnersofJuniorPainter Junior Painter oftheYear 2012competition; Sightsavers withtheRoyal Academy ofArts Year 2012competition;National Winner JuniorPainterAcademy ofArts ofthe Regional Winner Sightsavers withtheRoyal been impressive: from J3upwards. the summer, aproduction involving allpupils relay race. Thepupilsproduced Peter Pan in Stadium, withateam offour competingina parade onSunday, 1stApril intheOlympic were abletointhepre-Olympic participate andlevel8pupils offundraising, our support, to Inrecognition experienceof newsports. challenge andhave committed theirchildren society. Many ofourfamilies have risento the to theyouththe desire toofour widen sport team ethic andhealthy competition. be very popular, strengthening further rather thanphysical, andhave proved to Dunwoody. Theseare administrative were introduced: Griffin, Corinium, achieved by February 2013. Three ‘Houses’ achievement, andhopefully thiswillbe Standard’, abenchmarkof Early Years high Work isbeing donetowards the‘Bristol scholarships inthe11+entrance exams. number of pupilsfrom Juniorsachieved and 10thacross theworld. Asignificant during Michaelmas,J5were 4thnationally maths programme, Mathletics, where were linked to aninternational online to from behigh.Theclasses J2upwards year. Academic achievement continues Juniors have hadasuccessful andbusy Achievements -Juniors Review ofActivities & Achievements from JuniorPupilshave ofthelegacyLondonPart 2012was 4000 viewsonline. e-book ‘HowLife Began’hashadalmost organised by Bloxham School;apupil’s Pony Championship; Eventers Challenge Final oftheBurghley miniOne Day Event SchoolsShowJumpingcompetition; Calne One Day Event; representation at StMary’s placed inStonar Schoolsinter schools Level; horseridingsuccessesincludebeing represented theKnex Challengeat Local Hero’ competition for herMandelaletter; Winner‘Write ofthePost Office about your J6pupil: many SeniorSchoolConcerts; Junior SchoolPianisthasperformed in leader board during2012;anexceptional featuredCollege 5thontheinternational the Gigafinal;Mathletics: Rendcomb past 3years; 2have thenmadeitonto it to theRegionalChessMegafinalin Chess Challenge:18pupilshave made awarded withGoldMedals/Distinctions; Ballet examinations in2012,many being Royal Academy ofDancing International installation 2012;25Childrenart passed workingonthesame Jubilee –mostartists ofFacepart Britain to celebrate theQueen’s Guinness World Records Record Holder– merit anddistinctionawards in2011; including aBronze medal,aswellhigh Cheltenham PerformingFestival Arts eachyear; BalletperformancesArts at the Cheltenham Festival ofperforming include several goldandsilver medalsat Applebee book;SpeechandDrama awards other pupilhadhisworkpublishedinthe oftheshowgarden andthe workaspart art competition–2Winnersart –onedisplayed Flower showgarden in 2011;Hampton Court competition in2012andwehad4winners pupils wereRadio winnersoftheCorinium n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk exhibited workat ManorHotel. Calcot We Holocaust Day, 2012andalsoprofessionally local state schoolsto display workto mark collaboratedRendcomb’s artists withtwo Nell Gifford ofGifford’s Circus fame. influential Gloucestershire womenincluding Year 11-13 girlsandattended by anumberof of International Women’s Day washeldfor enrichment to theSchool. Acelebration School, Tetbury bringing somecultural spent themorningat Leighterton Primary In December, aminibusofEALstudents and Spafor localconservation charities. runby Barnsleyconcert HouseHotel our musiciansperformed at acharitable Jazz Festival’s ‘Jazz itUp’event. Some of Jazz Bandperformed at TheCheltenham (Michael Morpurgo) andtheSchool’s sponsored anevent inSeptember 2011 thisyear:been strengthening Rendcomb bybeen supported theSchoolcommunity. The Scrubditch Care Farm Project have Operation ChristmasChild,RedNoseDay, and prostate cancerawareness), (testicular Jeans, MacMillan,‘Movember’ Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Jeansfor CHYP, Gloucester Rugby Community, Initiatives withABF, Children inNeed, 10-13 (e.g.coachingat Stratton FC). forcommunity opportunities Years £4000); Duke of Edinburgh provided charities (thefete andrunraised over of Soldiers’ from wholeSchool insupport byRun supported pupilsandparents bysupported wholeSchool;Rendcomb inaugural RendcombFete (March, 2012) life,in VillageCommunity including organisations; prefect involvement Year 12pupilsworking withseveral local of a‘GoVolunteer’ programme, with Charitable work included:theintroduction Links withCheltenham Festivals have Community WorkCommunity Charitable & of Commerce,Cirencester Hockey Club, Chamber Choir, theCirencester Chamber Organisationssports. suchasCantores rugby andgeneral a memberofstaff), weeks includingathletics, cricket (runby many local children attend vacation sports Poetry Radio); andCorinium Compeition and TheRoyal AirForce Benevolent Funds the Royal Navy &Royal MarinesCharity competitions (ABFTheSoldiers’Charity, Classroom Area; been involved inlocal developmentthe further ofourWoodland nPower Climate andEco-schools) Cops in and theWoodland Trust, TheEDFPod, of Food Farming; Active KidsgetCooking School, TheRoyal Society, Horticultural Year Trust, Duchy Originals Garden Organic for organizations (Gloucestershire Wildlife been workingcloselywithanumberoflocal shoebox collection. Wellies Day; Operation ChristmasChild Gloucestershire’s Wildlife Trust Wear Your Care;MacMillan;RedNoseDay; Cancer Appeal; BreastResearch Cancer :Breast Slimbridge Wetland Centre; Sight Savers - Food for Life RoastDinnerDay; Partnership Young People; oldpeopleinourcommunity forSchool; CHYP-TheCouncil Homeless schoolinUganda,TheLords partner Meade have includedCirencester Food Bank;our of justtwoschoolsinvited; othercharities of theJuniorSchool’sfundraising –one Team GBHouse,Olympic Park inrecognition his wife attended aprize givingceremony at August 2012TheJuniors’Headmaster and National StarCheltenham College, –In the charitable linkswhichhave included: year wasoneoftheexchange years. School andrunbi-annual exchanges; this have awell-established linkwithaGerman In thecommunity, theschoolhas The Juniorspridethemselves in this School. pupilsandprovidedtransport mealsto (our nearest state primaryschool)to Cerney PrimarySchool minibuses to North good dealoftimeandeffort. while othershavewitha beensupported small amount of inputfrom RendcombStaff Some ofthesehave beenhosted witha and theCirencester children’s guitar club. Early Learning Group, Elizabeth Finn Trust Conservative Association, Gloucestershire Cerney BritishLegion,Cerney North North Dramatics Group, Gloucestershire Police, Citizens’ Amateur Advice Bureau, Purton Cirencester DistrictCouncil), (Cotswold Cirencester Youth For Cricket,Sport All Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust in2012. Wind intheWillows andawildlife ramble for we hosted bothathree performance runof organisations offering useofoursite and to several invitations to otherSchoolsand High Level Stewardship schemehasled Our involvement withNatural England’s fixtures andmeetingseach term. sports The Old RendcombianSociety, hasheld to holdmeetings/usefacilities thisyear. Victorian Societyhave accepted invitations Childminders’ Association, NCTandThe August), Gloucestershire andNational campsinDecember and (who ran sports’ Festivals, Gloucester Rugby Community Cirencester Lacrosse, Cheltenham In addition the College hasloaned In additiontheCollege hasbeengiven to Support n 05

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” Reflections... Chapel Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, master straight from University inhisAustin A40Somerset! inthe60s,whenhecamehereabout RendcombCollege asayoung member ofstaff. MrWhite spoke withgreat feeling to thestudents our privilegeto welcomebackto RendcombMr. BillWhite, aformer Also inOctober, onthelastFriday before half-term, itwasajoy and who preached at theCollege/Parish Evening ServiceonOctober 16th. ChapeltheVicarofCirencester,College Leonard Canon Doolan, of pruning-both literallyimportance andmetaphorically! of secateurs to alovely floral arrangement to illustrate the some membersof thecongregation whenhetook apair Archdeacon Ringrose, Governor, whoisalsoaCollege alarmed Cheltenham, theVenerable Hedley Ringrose, preached. Thanksgiving Serviceat whichtheformer Archdeacon of Michaelmas Term was theCollege/Parish Harvest Festival One of themainChapelServicesat thebeginningof the Reflections... Chapel www.rendcomb.org.uk planned Service.ThelastSunday Service oftheLent Term wasa Term onWednesday 21stMarch GodmanHouseledavery well- leads aChapelServiceonWednesday ora Friday, andinthe Lent Bishop ofTewkesbury. Itisalways goodwhenoneoftheHouses is oneoftheResidentiary ofGloucester Canons Cathedral and the Young Leaders’ Academy inLondon, Thompsonwho Celia Canon the Archdeacon ofCheltenham, MrRay Lewis from theEastside outstanding musicandthought-provoking readings. Term intheCirencester Parish Church, wastrulymagnificent,with to thestudents onthe meaningofAdvent. Diocese ofGloucester, theRevd Dr Sandra Millar, gave ariveting talk on Wednesday, 23rd November, whentheChildren’s Officer for the Finally inNovember, oneServicewewillnever forget wastheone PaulCanon Iles,aformer Residentiary ofHereford Canon Cathedral. Legion were present to hearanexcellent address delivered by Headmaster at whichmembersofthelocalbranch oftheBritish Chapel wasoverflowing for theServiceofRemembrance led by the Headmaster for encouraging meto holdit. on AllSouls’Day hadtaken placeat Rendcomb, andIthankthe out duringtheService.Thiswasfirsttimethat suchaService loved wasread ones(submitted beforehand by students andstaff) anumberofnamesdeparted place intheChapelthat morning; In theLent Term wehadquite afew visiting speakers including As always theCarolService,heldonlastday ofMichaelmas On Sunday, 13thNovember, Remembrance Sunday, the On November 2nd,AllSouls’Day, avery moving Servicetook Itwasgoodto welcomefor thefirsttime to Rendcomb

Reverend GSimpson Michaelmas Term), withgreat aplomb. a Chapelbellfive minutes prior to aService(first introduced inthe Benson, for carryingouttheirChapelduties,includingthetolling of our twovery dependableChapelPrefects, ChrisMinton andTom to worship. College Iwouldlike And, finallybutnotleast, to thank Wright somuchfor andMrRobinBaggs, theirmassive contribution organ music,andsowedothankourexcellent organists, MrJohn also leadingthePrayers whenwehave ServiceonaSunday. aCollege addressing theSchoolregularly inChapelthroughout theyear, and good to have Services. Ithasbeenparticularly hadtheHeadmaster Mr Peter sharingsomeoftheirthoughts Cairns) withusat ourChapel (Mr JamesStutchbury, MrsGeorgina Harford, MissMaryHarriesand House-led Services,wehave alsoenjoyed having membersofstaff regular feature inthecalendar. on aTuesday at 5pm.Itishopedthat suchServiceswillbecomea inthechancelof Chapel of Staff (teaching andnon-teaching) held forCommunion Services thefirsttimetwoHoly for members language, andvery moving itwas too. AlsointheSummerTerm, I Students to read thesamepassage ofscripture intheirown Service weinvited for thefirsttimesomeofourInternational and thoughtful address onmothers. the Revd JanMoore, aretired priestlivinginStratton, gave alively Mothering Sunday Family Servicefor andParish theCollege at which Chapel Services,needlessto say, wouldbevery dullwithout During thepastyear, from visitingspeakers apart andfive In theSummerTerm onSunday, 6thMay at ourEvening n 07

Chapel Reflections Chapel Reflections 06 outstanding musicand truly magnificent,with Parish Church, was thought-provoking Carol Service,held in theCirencester Michaelmas Term on thelastday of As alwaysAs the readings. “ ” Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, planned Service.ThelastSunday Service oftheLent Term wasa Term onWednesday 21stMarch GodmanHouseledavery well- leads aChapelServiceonWednesday ora Friday, andinthe Lent Bishop ofTewkesbury. Itisalways goodwhenoneoftheHouses is oneoftheResidentiary ofGloucester Canons Cathedral and the Young Leaders’ Academy inLondon, Thompsonwho Celia Canon the Archdeacon ofCheltenham, MrRay Lewis from theEastside outstanding musicandthought-provoking readings. Term intheCirencester Parish Church, wastrulymagnificent,with to thestudents onthe meaningofAdvent. Diocese ofGloucester, theRevd Dr Sandra Millar, gave ariveting talk on Wednesday, 23rd November, whentheChildren’s Officer for the Finally inNovember, oneServicewewillnever forget wastheone PaulCanon Iles,aformer Residentiary ofHereford Canon Cathedral. Legion were present to hearanexcellent address delivered by Headmaster at whichmembersofthelocalbranch oftheBritish Chapel wasoverflowing for theServiceofRemembrance led by the Headmaster for encouraging meto holdit. on AllSouls’Day hadtaken placeat Rendcomb, andIthankthe out duringtheService.Thiswasfirsttimethat suchaService loved wasread ones(submitted beforehand by students andstaff) anumberofnamesdeparted place intheChapelthat morning; master straight from University inhisAustin A40Somerset! inthe60s,whenhecamehereabout RendcombCollege asayoung member ofstaff. MrWhite spoke withgreat feeling to thestudents our privilegeto welcomebackto RendcombMr. BillWhite, aformer Also inOctober, onthelastFriday before half-term, itwasajoy and who preached at theCollege/Parish Evening ServiceonOctober 16th. ChapeltheVicarofCirencester,College Leonard Canon Doolan, of pruning-both literallyimportance andmetaphorically! of secateurs to alovely floral arrangement to illustrate the some membersof thecongregation whenhetook apair Archdeacon Ringrose, Governor, whoisalsoaCollege alarmed Cheltenham, theVenerable Hedley Ringrose, preached. Thanksgiving Serviceat whichtheformer Archdeacon of Michaelmas Term was theCollege/Parish Harvest Festival One of themainChapelServicesat thebeginningof the Reflections... Chapel www.rendcomb.org.uk In theLent Term wehadquite afew visiting speakers including As always theCarolService,heldonlastday ofMichaelmas On Sunday, 13thNovember, Remembrance Sunday, the On November 2nd,AllSouls’Day, avery moving Servicetook Itwasgoodto welcomefor thefirsttime to Rendcomb

Chapel Reflections Founder’s Day difficult thanrunningabusiness, or even difficult thanpeopleimagine– more children’s future too. future, andinduecourseitwillbeyour to make theworldabetter place.It’syour yourself inwhatever aboutsomeofit, way, going on.And you can also dosomething does matter. You needto understand what’s andit that. Butit’snottrue.It’sallboring, understand why andhowyou might feel like to you. Noneofitseems to matter much.I newsdoesn’tsay anything ofinterestTV andthe Politics andpoliticiansseemboring, relevantaway andnotparticularly to you. friends. Theworldoutsideseemsalongway relatively smallbubbleofschool,homeand in what isaround you. Itiseasyto live ina oftaking acloseinterestthe importance learned them.Sohere goes. are already too late by thetimeyou have is thebestteacher. Butsomelife lessons grey-haired gentlemen, andexperience to adviceat notfrom your age,certainly to doso. Iamnotsure Ilistened much occasions isto give you advice.Ihesitate philanthropy more thanever inthefuture. should not ignore orforget –we may need of a great philanthropic tradition whichwe School andtheFoundation are theresults to thevisionof SirDavid Wills. Both the was established thanks understanding, of transatlantic andwiderinternational Foundation, dedicated to thepromotion Wills family to another. TheDitchley of thegenerosity andvisionof the pleasure to becomingfrom oneexample you for inviting me.Itisaparticular It isagreat privilegeto behere. Thank Ladies andgentlemen, 08 Government muchmore is difficult, My messageis in fact simple.It’sabout The role ofaspeaker onthese Founder’s Day Founder’s Day Address Extracts from SirJohnHolmes’ the worldoutsidethiscountry too. Why is to important understand what isgoingonin remember this:always useyour vote. – andeven that wouldbeamiracle, Iguess- vote. Ifyou onlyremember onethingIsay than reason. And above allalways useyour politicians appealingto emotionrather of simplisticsolutionsandextremism, and try to understand what isgoingon,beware what itmeans.Sotake aninterest inpolitics, long timetake itfor granted anddon’tvalue understand this.Thosewhohave haditfor a throw themout. don’t like thegovernment, you canalways societies like ours anddictatorships. Ifyou it’s theessential difference betweenfree vote inanelectionisahugeprivilege.And and you may notlike itmuch.Theabilityto getthegovernmentcertainly you deserve all you needto vote. Ifyou don’tvote you will try to understand what isgoingon.And above matters anditmatters to you. Soyou needto including to eachoneofyou. What they do make willmake ahugedifference over time, are notthesameandchoicespoliticians one reason oranother. safety netfor for peoplewhoare struggling free market,health andschools,a of agreement aboutthebasicsofarelatively one way, military ruletheother. There isalot different ideologies–communistrevolution having to choosebetweentwocompletely matter. Luckilyfor us,at electionsweare not think. And thedecisionsgovernments take easy, whatever thebloke inthepubmay and complicated. Sogettingitright isnot potential consequencesare multiple, big to bemade.Thepressures andthe a school.There are many trickychoices My sermon goes further than this. It’s than this.It’s My sermongoesfurther People whodon’thave thevote But even inthiscountry theparties Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, I amnotsaying theworldisgoingto hell Don’t getmewrong.it andinfluenceit. We needto workharder to understand unpredictable andperhapsmore risky. adults, notidiots. freedom. They want to betreated like bank accounts. People are demanding resources to putinSwiss their country’s innocent civiliansinsecret andstealing all Dictators can’tgetaway withmassacring from shootingat them.Mostlythisisgood. of themare there to deter theauthorities where to turnupto make sure that enough Protestersit. tell eachotheronTwitter You Tube before even theBBCknowabout much. Thelatest massacre inSyriaison they didbefore. Frontiers don’tmatter so longer control information intheway that is changingeverything. Governments no away from us.Meanwhilethedigital age political powers,andinfluenceisslipping and many othersare risingeconomicand long gone.China,India,Brazil, Indonesia lectures abouthowto runtheiraffairs have world andcouldgive othercountries smug we controlled mostofwhat went oninthe of comfortable western superioritywhen everyone hasyet caught upto this.Thedays from even ten years ago, andIamnot sure we are allgettingfatter? people stillgoto bedhungryevery night while do more aboutaworldwhere aboutabillion about theglobalenvironment? Why don’twe governments stillnotseemto care very much despite more than60years oftrying? Why do the conflictbetweenIsraelis and Palestinians what canwedoaboutit?Why haven’t wefixed people revolting againsttheirgovernment and that oneoutletmeknow. Why are theSyrian the eurozone insuchamess?Ifyou figure But allthismakes theworldmore The worldisavery different placenow mostly for thebetter. influence onwhat happensintheworld, of like-minded people canhave ahuge by thesocialmedia. On-line communities dramatically. Individualsare empowered rights andenvironmental threats hasrisen still lotsofcivilwars.Awareness ofhuman probably at any timeinhistory, though are fewer warsbetweenstates than millions ofpeopleoutpoverty. There in ChinaandIndiahaslifted hundreds of happening outthere. Risingprosperity in ahandbasket.Lots ofgood thingsare www.rendcomb.org.uk leaving andtryingyour luckintheworld. world. We needallofthem. the Wills family make areal difference inthe bureaucrats. Philanthropists like those from idiots, andcivilservants are notallblinkered It hasitsownrewards. Politicians are not all too.helps. Butpublicserviceisimportant money can’tmake you happy, butitsure have It’sbeensaidthat nothingagainstit. wealth andjobs.Makingmoney isfine.I to dothat, to create thingsandcreate make money intheworld.We needpeople Many ofyoushape it. willwant to gooutand and you needto understand itandtryto challenging outthere. and comfortable itis.And it’sfun aswell retreat into ourlittleisland,however nice run more smoothly. We can’t afford to become diplomats to tryto make theworld out emergency relief ingrimplaces,even cultures, goandbehumanitarians handing study inothercountries, workinother understand, speakforeign languages, in theworld.Soweneedto engageand in theworld.You have to earnyour way country like Britain hasto earnitsway So goodluckto allofyou whowillbe So that’s my message.It’syour world But wecannotbecomplacent.A n thanks goto thebothofyou. form, andIknowmyself andtherest ofthehouseowealotto themfor that.So continuously HouseParents openandsupportive to allmembersofthe6th he received from Over MrandMrsCoups. thelasttwoyears, they have been place character feature asthemostimportant inareflection ofaperson. shows that,more thanever, Rendcombisstilllivingupto Noel Wills’ wishesto able to come to theendofourtimeat better RendcombAS people.Ithinkthis through thepassion,enthusiasm andfriendliness ofteachers andstudents, are my summer exams, andIcameto love thisplace,andthepeoplewithinit.’ into thisnewGermanboy. At that point Iwassurprisedat what easeIcouldrevise for and howhard andpassionately thoseteachers were tryingto press someknowledge affectionate allthosepeopleactuallywere, howstrong thissenseof communitywas, lifetime experience. at Iwasjustaboutto waste thisschool,what inthisonce-in-a- opportunities much ofachangeI’ve to made.Andseewhat Iactuallystarted Icanachieve differently. Every night hecameinto my room, cheered meup, andtold mehow be absolutelyto horrendous,give Istarted up.thought MrCoups Butacertain world gotturnedupside-down. Englishmenandmy withallthesefriendly littlelazy Cotswold’s andcheerful or self-confidence. Butsuddenly, there wasthisjollyol’collegeinthebeautiful academic wreckage, unconsciousofsuchvalues asresponsibility, diligence puts together intheirlastfew weeksbefore leaving school.Philwrites: Oepen’s Leavers’ a500-word farewell Article, eachmemberoftheuppersixth better, happierindividuals.At thispoint,I’d like to read anexcerpt from Phil profound positive changewithinaperson’scharacter, to helpthemto become thingsaboutRendcomb isitsabilitytothink oneofthemostimportant make a be involved inareas inwhichwemay notalready have atalent. everyone isableto fulfil their talents, butmorewhichweare importantly able to is prized over allotheraspectsofaperson;secondly, to beaschoolinwhich Noel Wills hopedfor from Rendcomb. Firstly, to beaschoolwhere character Looking at theoriginalethosofschool,there are twoprimaryfeatures that this question,wemustfirstknowwhat Mr Wills wanted hisschool to become. Rendcomb 92years onfrom when thefirsttwelve students arrived? To answer question that hasbeendiscussedby many: wouldNoelWills bejustasproud of making itlive upto thevision he hadinmind. simply found thisschoolasanestablishment; andsoulinto heput hisheart responsible for allthebrillianceof Rendcomb: NoelWills. NoelWills didnot more importantly, to give itactsasanopportunity thanksto themanwhois acts asatimeto remind usallof how fantastically lucky we are to behere. But There are two especiallygreat thingsaboutdays suchastoday; firstly, that it Founder’s Day Speech Head Boy’s Before Imovenotingwhat Philsaidaboutthesupport on,itisworth I thinkPhilexpresses what many peopleat Rendcombfeel: howwe, So Ibeganto realize what actuallyhappenedaround me,howwarmand I wasnotusedto rules,routines, andasmy Januaryexams turnedoutto Ifirstset ‘When foot inRendcomb, I felt Iwassomekindofsocialand In answerto thefirstconsiderationofcharacter, oftheimportance I Of course,aquestionthat to isimportant askourselves at thispoint isa 09

Founder’s Day Founder’s Day difficult thanrunningabusiness, or even difficult thanpeopleimagine– more children’s future too. future, andinduecourseitwillbeyour to make theworldabetter place.It’syour yourself inwhatever aboutsomeofit, way, going on.And you can also dosomething does matter. You needto understand what’s andit that. Butit’snottrue.It’sallboring, understand why andhowyou might feel like to you. Noneofitseems to matter much.I newsdoesn’tsay anything ofinterestTV andthe Politics andpoliticiansseemboring, relevantaway andnotparticularly to you. friends. Theworldoutsideseemsalongway relatively smallbubbleofschool,homeand in what isaround you. Itiseasyto live ina oftaking acloseinterestthe importance learned them.Sohere goes. are already too late by thetimeyou have is thebestteacher. Butsomelife lessons grey-haired gentlemen, andexperience to adviceat notfrom your age,certainly to doso. Iamnotsure Ilistened much occasions isto give you advice.Ihesitate philanthropy more thanever inthefuture. should not ignore orforget –we may need of a great philanthropic tradition whichwe School andtheFoundation are theresults to thevisionof SirDavid Wills. Both the was established thanks understanding, of transatlantic andwiderinternational Foundation, dedicated to thepromotion Wills family to another. TheDitchley of thegenerosity andvisionof the pleasure to becomingfrom oneexample you for inviting me.Itisaparticular It isagreat privilegeto behere. Thank Ladies andgentlemen, 08 Government muchmore is difficult, My messageis in fact simple.It’sabout The role ofaspeaker onthese Founder’s Day Founder’s Day Address Extracts from SirJohnHolmes’ the worldoutsidethiscountry too. Why is to important understand what isgoingonin remember this:always useyour vote. – andeven that wouldbeamiracle, Iguess- vote. Ifyou onlyremember onethingIsay than reason. And above allalways useyour politicians appealingto emotionrather of simplisticsolutionsandextremism, and try to understand what isgoingon,beware what itmeans.Sotake aninterest inpolitics, long timetake itfor granted anddon’tvalue understand this.Thosewhohave haditfor a throw themout. don’t like thegovernment, you canalways societies like ours anddictatorships. Ifyou it’s theessential difference betweenfree vote inanelectionisahugeprivilege.And and you may notlike itmuch.Theabilityto getthegovernmentcertainly you deserve all you needto vote. Ifyou don’tvote you will try to understand what isgoingon.And above matters anditmatters to you. Soyou needto including to eachoneofyou. What they do make willmake ahugedifference over time, are notthesameandchoicespoliticians one reason oranother. safety netfor for peoplewhoare struggling free market,health andschools,a of agreement aboutthebasicsofarelatively one way, military ruletheother. There isalot different ideologies–communistrevolution having to choosebetweentwocompletely matter. Luckilyfor us,at electionsweare not think. And thedecisionsgovernments take easy, whatever thebloke inthepubmay and complicated. Sogettingitright isnot potential consequencesare multiple, big to bemade.Thepressures andthe a school.There are many trickychoices My sermon goes further than this. It’s than this.It’s My sermongoesfurther People whodon’thave thevote But even inthiscountry theparties Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, I amnotsaying theworldisgoingto hell Don’t getmewrong.it andinfluenceit. We needto workharder to understand unpredictable andperhapsmore risky. adults, notidiots. freedom. They want to betreated like bank accounts. People are demanding resources to putinSwiss their country’s innocent civiliansinsecret andstealing all Dictators can’tgetaway withmassacring from shootingat them.Mostlythisisgood. of themare there to deter theauthorities where to turnupto make sure that enough Protestersit. tell eachotheronTwitter You Tube before even theBBCknowabout much. Thelatest massacre inSyriaison they didbefore. Frontiers don’tmatter so longer control information intheway that is changingeverything. Governments no away from us.Meanwhilethedigital age political powers,andinfluenceisslipping and many othersare risingeconomicand long gone.China,India,Brazil, Indonesia lectures abouthowto runtheiraffairs have world andcouldgive othercountries smug we controlled mostofwhat went oninthe of comfortable western superioritywhen everyone hasyet caught upto this.Thedays from even ten years ago, andIamnot sure we are allgettingfatter? people stillgoto bedhungryevery night while do more aboutaworldwhere aboutabillion about theglobalenvironment? Why don’twe governments stillnotseemto care very much despite more than60years oftrying? Why do the conflictbetweenIsraelis and Palestinians what canwedoaboutit?Why haven’t wefixed people revolting againsttheirgovernment and that oneoutletmeknow. Why are theSyrian the eurozone insuchamess?Ifyou figure But allthismakes theworldmore The worldisavery different placenow leaving andtryingyour luckintheworld. world. We needallofthem. the Wills family make areal difference inthe bureaucrats. Philanthropists like those from idiots, andcivilservants are notallblinkered It hasitsownrewards. Politicians are not all too.helps. Butpublicserviceisimportant money can’tmake you happy, butitsure have It’sbeensaidthat nothingagainstit. wealth andjobs.Makingmoney isfine.I to dothat, to create thingsandcreate make money intheworld.We needpeople Many ofyoushape it. willwant to gooutand and you needto understand itandtryto challenging outthere. and comfortable itis.And it’sfun aswell retreat into ourlittleisland,however nice run more smoothly. We can’t afford to become diplomats to tryto make theworld out emergency relief ingrimplaces,even cultures, goandbehumanitarians handing study inothercountries, workinother understand, speakforeign languages, in theworld.Soweneedto engageand in theworld.You have to earnyour way country like Britain hasto earnitsway mostly for thebetter. influence onwhat happensintheworld, of like-minded people canhave ahuge by thesocialmedia. On-line communities dramatically. Individualsare empowered rights andenvironmental threats hasrisen still lotsofcivilwars.Awareness ofhuman probably at any timeinhistory, though are fewer warsbetweenstates than millions ofpeopleoutpoverty. There in ChinaandIndiahaslifted hundreds of happening outthere. Risingprosperity in ahandbasket.Lots ofgood thingsare www.rendcomb.org.uk So goodluckto allofyou whowillbe So that’s my message.It’syour world But wecannotbecomplacent.A n thanks goto thebothofyou. form, andIknowmyself andtherest ofthehouseowealotto themfor that.So continuously HouseParents openandsupportive to allmembersofthe6th he received from Over MrandMrsCoups. thelasttwoyears, they have been place character feature asthemostimportant inareflection ofaperson. shows that,more thanever, Rendcombisstilllivingupto Noel Wills’ wishesto able to come to theendofourtimeat better RendcombAS people.Ithinkthis through thepassion,enthusiasm andfriendliness ofteachers andstudents, are my summer exams, andIcameto love thisplace,andthepeoplewithinit.’ into thisnewGermanboy. At that point Iwassurprisedat what easeIcouldrevise for and howhard andpassionately thoseteachers were tryingto press someknowledge affectionate allthosepeopleactuallywere, howstrong thissenseof communitywas, lifetime experience. at Iwasjustaboutto waste thisschool,what inthisonce-in-a- opportunities much ofachangeI’ve to made.Andseewhat Iactuallystarted Icanachieve differently. Every night hecameinto my room, cheered meup, andtold mehow be absolutelyto horrendous,give Istarted up.thought MrCoups Butacertain world gotturnedupside-down. Englishmenandmy withallthesefriendly littlelazy Cotswold’s andcheerful or self-confidence. Butsuddenly, there wasthisjollyol’collegeinthebeautiful academic wreckage, unconsciousofsuchvalues asresponsibility, diligence puts together intheirlastfew weeksbefore leaving school.Philwrites: Oepen’s Leavers’ a500-word farewell Article, eachmemberoftheuppersixth better, happierindividuals.At thispoint,I’d like to read anexcerpt from Phil profound positive changewithinaperson’scharacter, to helpthemto become thingsaboutRendcomb isitsabilitytothink oneofthemostimportant make a be involved inareas inwhichwemay notalready have atalent. everyone isableto fulfil their talents, butmorewhichweare importantly able to is prized over allotheraspectsofaperson;secondly, to beaschoolinwhich Noel Wills hopedfor from Rendcomb. Firstly, to beaschoolwhere character Looking at theoriginalethosofschool,there are twoprimaryfeatures that this question,wemustfirstknowwhat Mr Wills wanted hisschool to become. Rendcomb 92years onfrom when thefirsttwelve students arrived? To answer question that hasbeendiscussedby many: wouldNoelWills bejustasproud of making itlive upto thevision he hadinmind. simply found thisschoolasanestablishment; andsoulinto heput hisheart responsible for allthebrillianceof Rendcomb: NoelWills. NoelWills didnot more importantly, to give itactsasanopportunity thanksto themanwhois acts asatimeto remind usallof how fantastically lucky we are to behere. But There are two especiallygreat thingsaboutdays suchastoday; firstly, that it Founder’s Day Speech Head Boy’s Before Imovenotingwhat Philsaidaboutthesupport on,itisworth I thinkPhilexpresses what many peopleat Rendcombfeel: howwe, So Ibeganto realize what actuallyhappenedaround me,howwarmand I wasnotusedto rules,routines, andasmy Januaryexams turnedoutto Ifirstset ‘When foot inRendcomb, I felt Iwassomekindofsocialand In answerto thefirstconsiderationofcharacter, oftheimportance I Of course,aquestionthat to isimportant askourselves at thispoint isa 09

Founder’s Day Founder’s Day from aweaknesstoShehelped astrength. me. MrsHaashelpedmeturnmy dyslexia Junior Schoolstaff for allthat they did for It seemsanappropriate timeto thankthe School asHeadBoy andGirl.Who knows? in seven years’ timeaddressing thewhole great Perhaps doubleact. wewillseeyou Max* andEmily*whohave beensucha School hasbeendemonstrated today by may itcontinue. Thequality oftheJunior passion for andlong Rendcombstarted School grow up alongsideme. this year. Ihave loved watching theJunior three of whomwillbeleaving at thisendof there were sixpeopleinmygoing; class, the JuniorSchoolwas onlyjustgetting this current generation. When IjoinedJ3, through the schoolandIamthelastof the tenth memberof my family to come school; ithasbeenaway of life. Iam For me,Rendcombhasn’tjustbeena 10 It wasat thisyoung agethat my enormously luckyinthat webeeninpositionswhichhave a Rendcombian. itall,justasIammassivelywho started proud to say Iam look at thisschoolandacknowledgethat they were theones anyone inhispositionwouldbeinfinitely proud to beable to Rendcomb hasgotto, andwhat aforce ofgooditis,Ibelieve not to make assumptionsonhisbehalf, butlookingat where proud oftheschoolRendcombhasbecome?Imustbecareful skills neededthroughout life. openness andafriendliness intheirapproach to theworld:all needed to helplive afulfilling life. Students gainaneagerness, there isfar more thanacademicsuccessonitsownwhichis Rendcomb, you have to understand theschool’sbeliefthat living examples ofthisnotion.To beableto make themostof of theirshells,andmany ofthepeopleinthisroom serve as said that there isnothingbetter thanatalent to getpeopleout make themostofourtalents, aswelltryingnewones?Itis Head Boy’s Founder’s DayHead Boy’s Speechcont. Holly andI,aswellalltheotherprefects, have been So, returning to my overall question:wouldNoelWills be So howaboutthesecondconsideration: theabilityto Founder’s Day Speech Head Girl’s Jake, whoIknowwillbeatrulygreat teacher. Headmaster. ButImay have to leave that to then MrBrealy, MrThomasonandeven the and return asateacher! AsdidMrWood, Rendcomb? Imay justhave to come back hopefully thrive. has given metheskillsIneedto survive and ready to face theoutsideworld.Rendcomb moulded meinto theperson Iamtoday, time? Ithinkso, Ifeel Rendcombhas first year, andlongmay itcontinue. like to congratulate onasuccessful MrMartin and rewarding as possible.Iwouldespecially making my timeat Rendcombasenjoyable for allthetimeandeffortthey have putin, you willgetout ofit. the more you putinto somethingthemore succeed academically. Justlike mostthings, me realise that withalotofeffortIcould What happensifIjustcan’tlive without So amIready to leave after allthis I wouldto thanktheseniorschoolstaff, every moment ofit…you are allfantastically luckyto behere. and have longerthantwoweeksleftat thisbrilliant school,enjoy friendship strong. beautiful; thestudents optimistic;thesenseofcommunityand Wills founded wasby nomeansanordinary school.Thecampus until Igotto 6thform that Itrulyrealized that theschoolNoel hope you allrealize quite howgreat you are. For me,itwasnot goodbye to suchagenuinelygreat group ofpeople.And Ido having toit breaksleave my heart thisschool,saying afinal full ofenergy, and,ifIamto becompletely openand honest, been inaword, fantastic. the years, butalsoto thosefrom theyounger years whohave all only thoseUpperSixthwhohave beengreat friends to meover to say to every student inthisroom amassive thankyou: not Assemblies, I’d like to take thisfinaltimespeakingin front of you, and teachers at thisschool.After multipleHeadmaster’s allowed usto know, andtalk to, thelarge majorityof students Jake McKeown And to thoseofyou whoare more fortunate thanIam, This year more thanany before hasbeenaRendcomb meant that you wouldnaturally find me I mentioned that Ihaddyslexia, andthis between them,wasperfect for me.Earlier andnothave toopportunities choose and thefact that Icouldfollow allofthese narrow. Thisdiverse setofopportunities, the staff to keep usonthestraight and tours, tournaments andofcoursewehave trips, perform plays, musicevents, sports challenges, weplay Quidditch, wegoon Godman cake sales,Friday night We have acultural enrichment programme, open andengagewithoursurroundings. those years ago. We Rendcombiansare traits inpupilsthat theFounder set outall to teach anddevelop thosepersonality uniqueness liesinthefact that itcontinues and education. However, Ifeel Rendcomb’s gives eachpupil theskillto grow inlearning students. Asyou wouldexpect, theSchool to thrive, asitdoeswithallits opportunities Rendcomb hasdefinitely given methe n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Holly Phelps a Rendcombian. individual isacrucialingredient into making This ideathat eachpupilistreated asan working towards doingsomethingIloved. lines, wasaway ofhelpingmeread while the next play, andtherequirement to learn high onlife. Thismeant my enthusiasm for after aperformance, for me,isaboutbeing confident andopenindividual.Therush performing andhelpedmebecomeamore musicals at Rendcomblitmy passionfor including my reading. Theplays and developing thosethat were lessstrong, the talents in Ihad,yet alsosupported getting meto read abook,praised for beforeon thestage orplaying sport ever dance.’ Iknowwill...Thankyou. it outordance,Ihopeyou dance,Ihopeyou lyrics ofasong:‘Ifyou getthechanceto sit something back. to Sixth Form, you willbeableto helpgive Rendcomb experience andwhenyou get to stillbe apupil,take allyou canfrom the just beginning.To thoseofyou lucky enough my journey asanOld Rendcombianis only and me.Somy journey asapupilisover, but present andfuture, includingmy parents that isthefamily ofRendcomb, past, eachotherthrough thebad. support good times,butmoreto importantly the decades,comingtogether to celebrate eachotheroveryear groups, supporting will continue to keep incontact -withOR incredibly lovely year group andIthinkwe well-earned shared victory. We have hadan glory, butfor your team mates andthe and don’tplay for yourself andindividual get onthefield you are unifiedasa team, alongside your friends, soby thetimeyou that itmustbe down to thefact you live unfortunately Ithinkthiswillbetrue. asyou haveand heart at Rendcomb,’ and team that plays withthesamepassion to merecently, ‘you won’tplay inanother brother, nowanOld Rendcombian, said My on andoffthefieldwassoimportant. under pressure andhowcommunication helped melearnhowIcouldkeep my cool To conclude,Iwillleave you withthe network There is auniquesupport teams at RendcombhaveThe sports n 11

Founder’s Day Founder’s Day from aweaknesstoShehelped astrength. me. MrsHaashelpedmeturnmy dyslexia Junior Schoolstaff for allthat they did for It seemsanappropriate timeto thankthe School asHeadBoy andGirl.Who knows? in seven years’ timeaddressing thewhole great Perhaps doubleact. wewillseeyou Max* andEmily*whohave beensucha School hasbeendemonstrated today by may itcontinue. Thequality oftheJunior passion for andlong Rendcombstarted School grow up alongsideme. this year. Ihave loved watching theJunior three of whomwillbeleaving at thisendof there were sixpeopleinmygoing; class, the JuniorSchoolwas onlyjustgetting this current generation. When IjoinedJ3, through the schoolandIamthelastof the tenth memberof my family to come school; ithasbeenaway of life. Iam For me,Rendcombhasn’tjustbeena 10 It wasat thisyoung agethat my enormously luckyinthat webeeninpositionswhichhave a Rendcombian. itall,justasIammassivelywho started proud to say Iam look at thisschoolandacknowledgethat they were theones anyone inhispositionwouldbeinfinitely proud to beable to Rendcomb hasgotto, andwhat aforce ofgooditis,Ibelieve not to make assumptionsonhisbehalf, butlookingat where proud oftheschoolRendcombhasbecome?Imustbecareful skills neededthroughout life. openness andafriendliness intheirapproach to theworld:all needed to helplive afulfilling life. Students gainaneagerness, there isfar more thanacademicsuccessonitsownwhichis Rendcomb, you have to understand theschool’sbeliefthat living examples ofthisnotion.To beableto make themostof of theirshells,andmany ofthepeopleinthisroom serve as said that there isnothingbetter thanatalent to getpeopleout make themostofourtalents, aswelltryingnewones?Itis Head Boy’s Founder’s DayHead Boy’s Speechcont. Holly andI,aswellalltheotherprefects, have been So, returning to my overall question:wouldNoelWills be So howaboutthesecondconsideration: theabilityto Founder’s Day Speech Head Girl’s Jake, whoIknowwillbeatrulygreat teacher. Headmaster. ButImay have to leave that to then MrBrealy, MrThomasonandeven the and return asateacher! AsdidMrWood, Rendcomb? Imay justhave to come back hopefully thrive. has given metheskillsIneedto survive and ready to face theoutsideworld.Rendcomb moulded meinto theperson Iamtoday, time? Ithinkso, Ifeel Rendcombhas first year, andlongmay itcontinue. like to congratulate onasuccessful MrMartin and rewarding as possible.Iwouldespecially making my timeat Rendcombasenjoyable for allthetimeandeffortthey have putin, you willgetout ofit. the more you putinto somethingthemore succeed academically. Justlike mostthings, me realise that withalotofeffortIcould What happensifIjustcan’tlive without So amIready to leave after allthis I wouldto thanktheseniorschoolstaff, every moment ofit…you are allfantastically luckyto behere. and have longerthantwoweeksleftat thisbrilliant school,enjoy friendship strong. beautiful; thestudents optimistic;thesenseofcommunityand Wills founded wasby nomeansanordinary school.Thecampus until Igotto 6thform that Itrulyrealized that theschoolNoel hope you allrealize quite howgreat you are. For me,itwasnot goodbye to suchagenuinelygreat group ofpeople.And Ido having toit breaksleave my heart thisschool,saying afinal full ofenergy, and,ifIamto becompletely openand honest, been inaword, fantastic. the years, butalsoto thosefrom theyounger years whohave all only thoseUpperSixthwhohave beengreat friends to meover to say to every student inthisroom amassive thankyou: not Assemblies, I’d like to take thisfinaltimespeakingin front of you, and teachers at thisschool.After multipleHeadmaster’s allowed usto know, andtalk to, thelarge majorityof students Jake McKeown And to thoseofyou whoare more fortunate thanIam, This year more thanany before hasbeenaRendcomb meant that you wouldnaturally find me I mentioned that Ihaddyslexia, andthis between them,wasperfect for me.Earlier andnothave toopportunities choose and thefact that Icouldfollow allofthese narrow. Thisdiverse setofopportunities, the staff to keep usonthestraight and tours, tournaments andofcoursewehave trips, perform plays, musicevents, sports challenges, weplay Quidditch, wegoon Godman cake sales,Friday night We have acultural enrichment programme, open andengagewithoursurroundings. those years ago. We Rendcombiansare traits inpupilsthat theFounder set outall to teach anddevelop thosepersonality uniqueness liesinthefact that itcontinues and education. However, Ifeel Rendcomb’s gives eachpupil theskillto grow inlearning students. Asyou wouldexpect, theSchool to thrive, asitdoeswithallits opportunities Rendcomb hasdefinitely given methe n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Holly Phelps dance.’ Iknowwill...Thankyou. it outordance,Ihopeyou dance,Ihopeyou lyrics ofasong:‘Ifyou getthechanceto sit something back. to Sixth Form, you willbeableto helpgive Rendcomb experience andwhenyou get to stillbe apupil,take allyou canfrom the just beginning.To thoseofyou lucky enough my journey asanOld Rendcombianis only and me.Somy journey asapupilisover, but present andfuture, includingmy parents that isthefamily ofRendcomb, past, eachotherthrough thebad. support good times,butmoreto importantly the decades,comingtogether to celebrate eachotheroveryear groups, supporting will continue to keep incontact -withOR incredibly lovely year group andIthinkwe well-earned shared victory. We have hadan glory, butfor your team mates andthe and don’tplay for yourself andindividual get onthefield you are unifiedasa team, alongside your friends, soby thetimeyou that itmustbe down to thefact you live unfortunately Ithinkthiswillbetrue. asyou haveand heart at Rendcomb,’ and team that plays withthesamepassion to merecently, ‘you won’tplay inanother brother, nowanOld Rendcombian, said My on andoffthefieldwassoimportant. under pressure andhowcommunication helped melearnhowIcouldkeep my cool a Rendcombian. individual isacrucialingredient into making This ideathat eachpupilistreated asan working towards doingsomethingIloved. lines, wasaway ofhelpingmeread while the next play, andtherequirement to learn high onlife. Thismeant my enthusiasm for after aperformance, for me,isaboutbeing confident andopenindividual.Therush performing andhelpedmebecomeamore musicals at Rendcomblitmy passionfor including my reading. Theplays and developing thosethat were lessstrong, the talents in Ihad,yet alsosupported getting meto read abook,praised for beforeon thestage orplaying sport ever To conclude,Iwillleave you withthe network There is auniquesupport teams at RendcombhaveThe sports n 11

Founder’s Day Founder’s Day 12 Through reading hisCollectedVerse and is withtheFounder himself, NoelWills. and restorative relationship Ihave re-formed the eye’. However, themostinspirational helpedto ‘refresh members hascertainly of Old Rendcombiansandformer staff the School’shistory; speakingwithanumber backwards, becomingreacquainted with prime function oflookingforward’. Looking to restore andto render it, itmore fit for its backward for awhileisto refresh theeye, Christian meditations, reflected‘To look next few years. to where itcould andshouldbegoinginthe that term lightly –to helpto take theschool with asenseofvocation –andIdonotuse Rendcomb hasbeenthrough andreturn I remember someofthejourney that there isadegree ofcrossover at thispoint: course, for measanOld Rendcombian, and mostimportantly, where itisgoing.Of where ithascomefrom, where ithasbeen terms andinthecontext ofRendcomb: the lasteighteen months bothinpersonal have beenprominent inmy mindover going?’’ laughsRafikiin reply. ‘Oh, thebetter questionis,‘where are you ‘Hey, where didyou comefrom?’ asksTimon. wise oldmandrill,Rafiki for thefirsttime. accident-prone Meercat encounters the Timon,arathermembers may knowit. Matata. Someofouryounger audience myself thinkingofTheLionKing3,Hakuna it isperhapssurprisingthat Ihave found from whichto chooseanopeninggambit, refocused andreinvigorated. time for hisvisionfor Rendcombto be to agreat manof foresight at anexciting be so-doing onaday whenwe pay tribute it isatremendous honourandprivilegeto have thought thepossibility ludicrous. But standing at any point inmy future, Iwould that Iwould endupstanding where Iam when Iwas sitting where you are sitting Had you told metwenty-three years ago Margaret Fairless Barber, awriter of In essence,bothofthesequestions With thegreat canonofLiterature Founder’s Day Speech Extracts from Headmaster’s achieve that goal… that willmake RendcombaSchoolofwhichNoelWills wouldbeproud. Now, let’s us are tiny matters compared to what lieswithinus’ Ralph Waldo Emerson,anothervisionary:‘Whatliesbehindusandwhat liesbefore school benefit to theRendcombiansofpresent and future. foropportunities ourpupilsorthat weshouldbedeveloping facilities to give whole- for stating that weshouldbeusingoursite purposefully to provide educational we shouldbeproud. There willbemore oftheminthefuture. Imake noapologies individual andcollective achievements inallareas oftheSchoolthis year ofwhich can experience anenriching co-curricular programme. There have beenabundant dominant anddrivingculture intheschoolfrom whichallpupils–day andboarding – for life. Imake noapologiesfor emphasizing theboarding ethosthat shouldbethe having developed interests, skills,relationships andpassionsthat willstay withthem for ourchildren isthat they canbethebestthey canbeandthat they leave theSchool is to ensure that every decisionismotivated by aneducational purpose; ourambition ofeverythinglearning isat the heart that wedo; ourrole asmanagersandGovernors an academiccurriculum.Our role asteachers isto ensure that goodteaching and an academicagendaonthetable: RendcombisanacademicSchoolthat teaches a makeshift prospectus: itisadeclaration ofintent. Imake noapologiesfor putting of ourplansfor thenext five years for theSeniors.Itisnotjustaglossybrochure or Trustees andgoodGovernance. bylegacy hasbeensocarefully membersoftheWills nurtured family, of thesupport School that he founded. We shouldbethankfulofhis too that theongoingsupport the visionofNoelWills andasRendcombians,beproud toofthe have beenapart Wills School.We shouldcelebrate howfortunate weare to have benefitted from to Rendcombofbeinga Onward Journeytheimportance , beginsby asserting bybeen suggested theFounder ofthisvery Schoolalmostahundred years ago. some ofmy more esteemed andcarefully publicized fellow Headsthat couldnothave there is very littlethat wecanlearnfromlearning. Inshort, thepracticed rhetoric of supplementing learningwithaculture that encourages andpromotes alove of ofagoodeducational experience,of theworldinwhichwelive part wasanimportant believed outdoor activity, that music,Art, drama andanessential appreciation sports, – andIhave notmadeanerror there -ofwhat agoodeducation involved. NoelWills change someoftheinjusticesthat hebeheld.Healsoheldatwenty-first century view by talent, privilegeandanobleintegrity hewasdetermined to dowhat hecouldto class culture that wasunfair andaneducational landscapethat wasuneven. Blessed beyond what hecouldsee:asocietyravaged by thehorrors oftheFirst World War, a advice: ‘Look beyond what you see’.NoelWills wasblessedby beingableto look looking forward to where weare going. changed thedream that NoelWills hadfor theSchoolIhave felt fitter for thepurposeof Headmaster, andthrough learningabouttheways that thesetwomenshapedand and revolutionary Simpson,Rendcomb’s founding educationalist,JamesHerbert Prose thisyear; from tryingto tuneinto therelationship heformed withanothergreat Rendcombians, guests,colleagues, parents: weallhave ‘withinus’thestuff For allofushere, Ishouldlike to closeby commendingto you thewords of You have infront ofyou The It isnoaccident thenthat thedocument you have beengiven today, The part-existentialIn apart-spiritual, moment,Rafikigives hisstudent,Timonsome Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, n Onward Journey. Thedocument gives anoutline four timesevery day.” Carol Endersby who’smy secretary, andIprobably speakto thefour of themthree to Naylor theCommercial Operations manager, SusieWatkins theFinance manager, and “I have four mainpeoplethatto me:Pete report who’stheWorks Cairns manager, Mark many responsibilities, tasks andstaff to manageit’shard to fathom how shedoesitall. allthecleaningandadministrativecatering, tasks,” MrsSharmansaid.With so the school,I’mresponsible for allthebuildings,grounds, healthandsafety, allthe directly involved withteaching andlearning.“Ifyou work itoutIdothefinancialside of Rendcomb’sBursarshecontrolsimportant peopleoncampus.As everything that isnot While many may not know whoMrsEleanor Sharmanis,sheisactuallyoneof themost www.rendcomb.org.uk Staff News the grounds, theworksprobably takes a the size oftheplace,buildingsand require abitmore ofherattention. “Given can 230 acres sotheworksdepartment Rendcombisperched onroughly important, school asthey aren’t that different,” shesaid. dealing withaschool,especiallyboarding has probably stood meingoodform for background isHotel Management,which background isactuallynotinschools. My more complicated, version ofthat.Butmy own quirksbutthisisjustabigger, slightly at astate school.“All schoolshave their with thejobasshewaspreviously aBursar plenty allthat ofpractice juggling comes strong position.’’EleanorSharmanhas whilst makingsure we’re inafinancially and upgraded; andtryingto doallthis requirement to getthebuildingsmaintained increased demandfor thebuildingsand for me,comesforso thejuggling, andconferencesweddings, dinners,parties buildings for outsideuseaswell.We have more done;butofcoursewealsousethe there’s notpupilshere becausewecanget andare infact busierwhen on working, even whenthepupilsgoaway wecarry “Weas juggling. operate 52weeksayear, a BursarMrsSharmanrightly describedit for a Bursar Never anaverage day While allaspectsoftheschoolare When asked to describethejobof Miss CHebert Miss because itdoesn’tdoanything.’’ can achieve There’s nopoint it. increating pressure inany situation on things,that thanwe ifwealljustworktogether andgetonwith it, desk.” deal withthingsthat might otherwiselandontheHeadmaster’s what my role is.Fundamentally ourrole isjustto make sure wecan benefit from, like drivingtheshuttlebuson Open Day, thenthat’s theschool.“IfIcando somethingthat theschoolwill supporting ofherjobthey are connectedofficially part to her overall jobof up to Top Pitch andbackonOpen Day. While thesetasks are not Barbequeordrivingtheshuttle staff members at theHeadmaster’s once picked up, suchasstepping behindthepicnictables to serve little piecesthat canfall through thecracks andstillgounnoticed than wetryto prioritize that,”theBursartold us. something apupilneedsorthat isaffecting thepupils, it allcomesdownto thestudents.Ifthere’s “Pupilscomefirst. boarding housesover.” housing inLawn andStable Housesandwe’ve swappedthose renovation ofPark House,thecreation ofAssistant HouseParent “However, inprevious years we’veprojects withthe donebigger to beoverseen andhappenduringtheholiday period,”Eleanorsaid. Now nobodywould’ve noticedthat,butitwassomethingthat had we renovated oneoftheroofs ononeofthesidesStable Block. do peoplewouldn’teven notice.For example over the summer, year neededto domuchroutine asthey’ve work.Alotofwhat we largeteam. Theworksteamthis hasn’tdoneanything particularly Ifyousomeone out. needworkdonenormallyyou needaspecialist buildings soit’snever your average problem where you cancall little more time.Alsowe’re dealingwithquite oldandcomplicated “Idon’treally dopressure. Ihave view avery downto earth On top ofeverything elseMrsSharmanseemsto pick upthe When deciding whatorproject takes department priority

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Staff News Founder’s Day 12 Through reading hisCollectedVerse and is withtheFounder himself, NoelWills. and restorative relationship Ihave re-formed the eye’. However, themostinspirational helpedto ‘refresh members hascertainly of Old Rendcombiansandformer staff the School’shistory; speakingwithanumber backwards, becomingreacquainted with prime function oflookingforward’. Looking to restore andto render it, itmore fit for its backward for awhileisto refresh theeye, Christian meditations, reflected‘To look next few years. to where itcould andshouldbegoinginthe that term lightly –to helpto take theschool with asenseofvocation –andIdonotuse Rendcomb hasbeenthrough andreturn I remember someofthejourney that there isadegree ofcrossover at thispoint: course, for measanOld Rendcombian, and mostimportantly, where itisgoing.Of where ithascomefrom, where ithasbeen terms andinthecontext ofRendcomb: the lasteighteen months bothinpersonal have beenprominent inmy mindover going?’’ laughsRafikiin reply. ‘Oh, thebetter questionis,‘where are you ‘Hey, where didyou comefrom?’ asksTimon. wise oldmandrill,Rafiki for thefirsttime. accident-prone Meercat encounters the Timon,arathermembers may knowit. Matata. Someofouryounger audience myself thinkingofTheLionKing3,Hakuna it isperhapssurprisingthat Ihave found from whichto chooseanopeninggambit, refocused andreinvigorated. time for hisvisionfor Rendcombto be to agreat manof foresight at anexciting be so-doing onaday whenwe pay tribute it isatremendous honourandprivilegeto have thought thepossibility ludicrous. But standing at any point inmy future, Iwould that Iwould endupstanding where Iam when Iwas sitting where you are sitting Had you told metwenty-three years ago Margaret Fairless Barber, awriter of In essence,bothofthesequestions With thegreat canonofLiterature Founder’s Day Speech Extracts from Headmaster’s achieve that goal… that willmake RendcombaSchoolofwhichNoelWills wouldbeproud. Now, let’s us are tiny matters compared to what lieswithinus’ Ralph Waldo Emerson,anothervisionary:‘Whatliesbehindusandwhat liesbefore school benefit to theRendcombiansofpresent and future. foropportunities ourpupilsorthat weshouldbedeveloping facilities to give whole- for stating that weshouldbeusingoursite purposefully to provide educational we shouldbeproud. There willbemore oftheminthefuture. Imake noapologies individual andcollective achievements inallareas oftheSchoolthis year ofwhich can experience anenriching co-curricular programme. There have beenabundant dominant anddrivingculture intheschoolfrom whichallpupils–day andboarding – for life. Imake noapologiesfor emphasizing theboarding ethosthat shouldbethe having developed interests, skills,relationships andpassionsthat willstay withthem for ourchildren isthat they canbethebestthey canbeandthat they leave theSchool is to ensure that every decisionismotivated by aneducational purpose; ourambition ofeverythinglearning isat the heart that wedo; ourrole asmanagersandGovernors an academiccurriculum.Our role asteachers isto ensure that goodteaching and an academicagendaonthetable: RendcombisanacademicSchoolthat teaches a makeshift prospectus: itisadeclaration ofintent. Imake noapologiesfor putting of ourplansfor thenext five years for theSeniors.Itisnotjustaglossybrochure or Trustees andgoodGovernance. bylegacy hasbeensocarefully membersoftheWills nurtured family, of thesupport School that he founded. We shouldbethankfulofhis too that theongoingsupport the visionofNoelWills andasRendcombians,beproud toofthe have beenapart Wills School.We shouldcelebrate howfortunate weare to have benefitted from to Rendcombofbeinga Onward Journeytheimportance , beginsby asserting bybeen suggested theFounder ofthisvery Schoolalmostahundred years ago. some ofmy more esteemed andcarefully publicized fellow Headsthat couldnothave there is very littlethat wecanlearnfromlearning. Inshort, thepracticed rhetoric of supplementing learningwithaculture that encourages andpromotes alove of ofagoodeducational experience,of theworldinwhichwelive part wasanimportant believed outdoor activity, that music,Art, drama andanessential appreciation sports, – andIhave notmadeanerror there -ofwhat agoodeducation involved. NoelWills change someoftheinjusticesthat hebeheld.Healsoheldatwenty-first century view by talent, privilegeandanobleintegrity hewasdetermined to dowhat hecouldto class culture that wasunfair andaneducational landscapethat wasuneven. Blessed beyond what hecouldsee:asocietyravaged by thehorrors oftheFirst World War, a advice: ‘Look beyond what you see’.NoelWills wasblessedby beingableto look looking forward to where weare going. changed thedream that NoelWills hadfor theSchoolIhave felt fitter for thepurposeof Headmaster, andthrough learningabouttheways that thesetwomenshapedand and revolutionary Simpson,Rendcomb’s founding educationalist,JamesHerbert Prose thisyear; from tryingto tuneinto therelationship heformed withanothergreat Rendcombians, guests,colleagues, parents: weallhave ‘withinus’thestuff For allofushere, Ishouldlike to closeby commendingto you thewords of You have infront ofyou The It isnoaccident thenthat thedocument you have beengiven today, The part-existentialIn apart-spiritual, moment,Rafikigives hisstudent,Timonsome Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, n Onward Journey. Thedocument gives anoutline four timesevery day.” Carol Endersby who’smy secretary, andIprobably speakto thefour of themthree to Naylor theCommercial Operations manager, SusieWatkins theFinance manager, and “I have four mainpeoplethatto me:Pete report who’stheWorks Cairns manager, Mark many responsibilities, tasks andstaff to manageit’shard to fathom how shedoesitall. allthecleaningandadministrativecatering, tasks,” MrsSharmansaid.With so the school,I’mresponsible for allthebuildings,grounds, healthandsafety, allthe directly involved withteaching andlearning.“Ifyou work itoutIdothefinancialside of Rendcomb’sBursarshecontrolsimportant peopleoncampus.As everything that isnot While many may not know whoMrsEleanor Sharmanis,sheisactuallyoneof themost www.rendcomb.org.uk Staff News the grounds, theworksprobably takes a the size oftheplace,buildingsand require abitmore ofherattention. “Given can 230 acres sotheworksdepartment Rendcombisperched onroughly important, school asthey aren’t that different,” shesaid. dealing withaschool,especiallyboarding has probably stood meingoodform for background isHotel Management,which background isactuallynotinschools. My more complicated, version ofthat.Butmy own quirksbutthisisjustabigger, slightly at astate school.“All schoolshave their with thejobasshewaspreviously aBursar plenty allthat ofpractice juggling comes strong position.’’EleanorSharmanhas whilst makingsure we’re inafinancially and upgraded; andtryingto doallthis requirement to getthebuildingsmaintained increased demandfor thebuildingsand for me,comesforso thejuggling, andconferencesweddings, dinners,parties buildings for outsideuseaswell.We have more done;butofcoursewealsousethe there’s notpupilshere becausewecanget andare infact busierwhen on working, even whenthepupilsgoaway wecarry “Weas juggling. operate 52weeksayear, a BursarMrsSharmanrightly describedit for a Bursar Never anaverage day While allaspectsoftheschoolare When asked to describethejobof Miss CHebert Miss because itdoesn’tdoanything.’’ can achieve There’s nopoint it. increating pressure inany situation on things,that thanwe ifwealljustworktogether andgetonwith it, desk.” deal withthingsthat might otherwiselandontheHeadmaster’s what my role is.Fundamentally ourrole isjustto make sure wecan benefit from, like drivingtheshuttlebuson Open Day, thenthat’s theschool.“IfIcando somethingthat theschoolwill supporting ofherjobthey are connectedofficially part to her overall jobof up to Top Pitch andbackonOpen Day. While thesetasks are not Barbequeordrivingtheshuttle staff members at theHeadmaster’s once picked up, suchasstepping behindthepicnictables to serve little piecesthat canfall through thecracks andstillgounnoticed than wetryto prioritize that,”theBursartold us. something apupilneedsorthat isaffecting thepupils, it allcomesdownto thestudents.Ifthere’s “Pupilscomefirst. boarding housesover.” housing inLawn andStable Housesandwe’ve swappedthose renovation ofPark House,thecreation ofAssistant HouseParent “However, inprevious years we’veprojects withthe donebigger to beoverseen andhappenduringtheholiday period,”Eleanorsaid. Now nobodywould’ve noticedthat,butitwassomethingthat had we renovated oneoftheroofs ononeofthesidesStable Block. do peoplewouldn’teven notice.For example over the summer, year neededto domuchroutine asthey’ve work.Alotofwhat we largeteam. Theworksteamthis hasn’tdoneanything particularly Ifyousomeone out. needworkdonenormallyyou needaspecialist buildings soit’snever your average problem where you cancall little more time.Alsowe’re dealingwithquite oldandcomplicated “Idon’treally dopressure. Ihave view avery downto earth On top ofeverything elseMrsSharmanseemsto pick upthe When deciding whatorproject takes department priority

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Staff News Staff News 14 Sister JRogers Medical Centre News from the medical experience. Jill Church. Bothjoinuswithawealthof welcome Sister Fiona Stanford andSister is posted abroad, wehave beengladto is sadto loseSister Louise asherfamily happy, and,althoughtheMedical Centre the term to keep everyone healthy and andcare around theclockduring support in emergency situations. them theknowledgeandconfidence to help training sessionfor anumberofstaff to give hopefully helpyou through any tough times. worries andconcernsyou may have and and staff andishere to listen to allthe provides aconfidential service for students had asetday shewouldbeinschool.Sue would benefit from ifshe her expertise required for 20years butwefelt everyone School Listener. Shehashelpedoutwhen the medicalcentre onaregular basisasthe Students, you have beenwarned! games. We canusuallytell whoisgenuine. to why thestudents feel they shouldbeoff have alsohadagoodrange ofexcuses as sore throats, sore musclesandjoints. We of coughsandcolds,theheadaches rules! Iguessnever will. rugby for 25years andstilldonotknowthe way (even theball!). to tackle anything thatwaiting, comesour be found onthetouchline, ready and We assoonpossible. sport canusually the students upsothey couldget backon Julie andLouise have beenbusypatching for wear after onlythefirstmatch! Sisters year asmany students cameoffworse It was avery withtherugby busystart this Sisters Julie willcontinue to provide We hadanothersuccessful firstaid This year wewelcomed SueEllisto We have hadtheusualcomplaints I,Sister Julie,have beenwatching the n

periods inRendcomb’srecent history. Hethentransferred to running MinorGames, guidance, andhisperiodincharge coincidedwith oneofthemostsuccessful a jobhecontinued to dountil 2003. Cricket flourished underhisamiable,affable but withinayear hehadsucceededJohnWatson asMaster incharge ofCricket, he commandedgenuineaffection from thestudents underhischarge. every right to belividwiththeculprit’.That isthemarkofacaringHousemaster, and Lindsey displayed inhandlingsituations whenboys were introuble, even whenhehad with theirdisasters… Iwasalways struckby thesensitivityandcompassionthat – arespect andaffection for thepupilsinhischarge andendlesspatience indealing Morgan wrote intherecent ORNewsletter, Lindsey ‘hadtheessential requirements until thissummer. Beingahousemaster takes over your entire life, asBobby but, 2001, didthat for seven years, andfinally ran the3rd Form dayCollegeHouse, house, 1999, took onthejobofrunningStable Housefrom JohnandSandra Williams inSept three different housesinhistimeat Rendcomb. withSchoolHousein Hestarted scheme impossibleto continue. exchange schemefor many years until healthandsafety legislation madesucha tohe hastakenNormandy, schoolparties andheran theCheltenham/Annecy Lindsey isyour man.Norhave hislanguagesbeenconfined to theclassroom: is profound, andifyou want orMoliere, tothen knowaboutRacineorFlaubert hallmark ofthegoodteacher. HisknowledgeofEuropean culture andliterature And then there is sport. Lindsey beganbyAnd runningtheU15Bcricket thenthere issport. team, As aHousemaster, Lindsey haswhat Iimagineisauniquedistinction–running Lindsey North Farewell to Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, eccentricity which issooften the across withthat airofcultivated andputsit about hissubject, He isimmenselyknowledgeable with hislove ofmodernlanguages. of pupils,especiallythehigh-fliers, linguist Lindsey inspired generations Rich’s inGloucester. Inhisrole asa Cheltenham andSirThomas College as HeadofFrench after spellsat Lindsey cameto Rendcombin1996 sixteen years. played life inCollege over thelast give aflavour hehas of thepart to Rendcomb, butIhopeitwill cover allaspectsof hiscontribution suchasthisto article in ashort the endof anera. Itisimpossible retirementLindsey North’s marks Brought upinBarnsley, Chris Wood ORandformer staff Science Festival. interesting trips,includingtheannualvisitto theCheltenham practicals anddemonstrations. Shealsoarranged many to well organised worksheets andawealth of resources for School Science.Sheensured that thesciencestaff hadaccess teacher andsoonshetook onthecoordination of Lower immediately apparent that Joy isathorough andcommitted its highstandards andwhohadstrong practical skills.Itwas appoint Joy whohadtaught at Denmark Road,Gloucester with and share theteaching at alllevels. We were fortunate to well-qualified anddedicated Chemist to jointhedepartment Chemistry, itwas always goingto beachallenge to attract a When RonKelsey retired in1995andIbecameHeadof JoyMiss Gibson www.rendcomb.org.uk you for theChemistry andenjoy alongandhappy retirement’. miss herandIspeakfor many Old RendcombianswhenIsay ‘thank teacher ofChemistry, continuing alongtradition.will TheCollege Chemistry andPhysics departments. Finally shetook onthe responsibility ofcoordinating the Biology, and threw herselfinto theteaching of Chemistryonceagain. Despite anabsencedueto aseriousillness,Joy bouncedback and provided whenIbecameDirector great ofStudies. support Chemistry related degrees at university. she wasableto inspire many students to pursueChemistryor Olympiad orfor Advanced Extension papers.Consequently by entering themfor Chemical theRoyal SocietyofChemistry’s needed itandto findways ofstretching themore ablestudents Chemistry. Shealways triedto give extra timeto thosewho Mr MGraham pressed housestaff alike. taskan important inany school,andonceagainhiscontribution wasgreatly appreciated by pupilsandhard- all”. Hehasindeed,andwewishhimalonghappy retirement. Hewillbegenuinelymissed. intheORnewsletter:perfectly Lindsey at “can theendofhisarticle lookbackandsay that hereally hasdoneit greater praise inhisvocabulary Iknow, butthedescriptionfitshim exactly. Bobby Morgan, as ever, summeditup givingunstintingly‘schoolmaster’, ofhistalents andalways willingto helpoutwhenneeded.There canbeno basis ifheever decidesto ceaseteaching.” SoperhapsLindsey cannowconsideranewcareer path. ofVinceFonteyn,ridiculous wigandplay thepart whichIthinkheshouldconsiderplaying onafull-time apart Grease. TheRendcombianreviewer at thetime,Richard Murray, wrote “Itwasleftto Mr.North to wearthemost bewildered hippy inWe Will RockYou and,mostnotably ofall,astheElvisPresley look-alike, VinceFonteyn, in show wouldgowellwhenhewasinthehouse.Healsoappeared onstage himself: asPop, theagedandrather plays always looked forward beingintheaudience:withhisinfectious to MrNorth laughter, they knewthe –thoughperhapsoneshouldn’tmocktheafflicted. also ofcourseaLiverpool supporter Yorkshire walkingontheNorth guitarist inRendcombrock concerts; coastandenjoying agoodpint ofbitter. Heis Dylan; BruceSpringsteen; EricClapton; foreign travel (notably toandAustralia); theUSA cameoappearances asa Rendcomb hasbeenfortunate to have suchadedicated Joy took over from therunningofdepartment me Joy always strived for clarityinherexplanation of Looking backovertime at Rendcomb, Lindsey’s hehasbeenmore thanateacher –hehas beenatrue It was,however, inDrama that Lindsey found histruevocation beyond theclassroom. Thecastinschool interestsOutside theclassroom, Lindsey’s are legion,asthefollowing (selective) listmakes clear:Bob Headmaster from Rendcomb. French, notably at TheRoyal Agricultural College. skills inothereducational establishments where shetaught thorough inherapproach to teaching. veryperson Department seriouslyandwasconscientious and for many students. Hilarytook thedifficult role ofbeingaone- and hasbecomeanincreasingly popularchoiceat Rendcomb on full responsibility for teaching thissubjectupto GCSElevel. teacher of Spanishin2007as part-time andsubsequently took Hilary Hillwas recruited to theModern Languages Department Mrs HilaryHill We wishHilarywellwithherfuture plansonherretirement teacher here, Hilarywasableto useher As apart-time Spanish becomesavailable to students inthethird year n 15

periods inRendcomb’srecent history. Hethentransferred to running MinorGames, guidance, andhisperiodincharge coincidedwith oneofthemostsuccessful a jobhecontinued to dountil 2003. Cricket flourished underhisamiable,affable but withinayear hehadsucceededJohnWatson asMaster incharge ofCricket, he commandedgenuineaffection from thestudents underhischarge. every right to belividwiththeculprit’.That isthemarkofacaringHousemaster, and Lindsey displayed inhandlingsituations whenboys were introuble, even whenhehad with theirdisasters… Iwasalways struckby thesensitivityandcompassionthat – arespect andaffection for thepupilsinhischarge andendlesspatience indealing Morgan wrote intherecent ORNewsletter, Lindsey ‘hadtheessential requirements until thissummer. Beingahousemaster takes over your entire life, asBobby but, 2001, didthat for seven years, andfinally ran the3rd Form dayCollegeHouse, house, 1999, took onthejobofrunningStable Housefrom JohnandSandra Williams inSept three different housesinhistimeat Rendcomb. withSchoolHousein Hestarted scheme impossibleto continue. exchange schemefor many years until healthandsafety legislation madesucha tohe hastakenNormandy, schoolparties andheran theCheltenham/Annecy Lindsey isyour man.Norhave hislanguagesbeenconfined to theclassroom: is profound, andifyou want orMoliere, tothen knowaboutRacineorFlaubert hallmark ofthegoodteacher. HisknowledgeofEuropean culture andliterature And then there is sport. Lindsey beganbyAnd runningtheU15Bcricket thenthere issport. team, As aHousemaster, Lindsey haswhat Iimagineisauniquedistinction–running Lindsey North Farewell to Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, eccentricity which issooften the across withthat airofcultivated andputsit about hissubject, He isimmenselyknowledgeable with hislove ofmodernlanguages. of pupils,especiallythehigh-fliers, linguist Lindsey inspired generations Rich’s inGloucester. Inhisrole asa Cheltenham andSirThomas College as HeadofFrench after spellsat Lindsey cameto Rendcombin1996 sixteen years. played life inCollege over thelast give aflavour hehas of thepart to Rendcomb, butIhopeitwill cover allaspectsof hiscontribution suchasthisto article in ashort the endof anera. Itisimpossible retirementLindsey North’s marks Brought upinBarnsley, Chris Wood ORandformer staff you for theChemistry andenjoy alongandhappy retirement’. miss herandIspeakfor many Old RendcombianswhenIsay ‘thank teacher ofChemistry, continuing alongtradition.will TheCollege Chemistry andPhysics departments. Finally shetook onthe responsibility ofcoordinating the Biology, and threw herselfinto theteaching of Chemistryonceagain. Despite anabsencedueto aseriousillness,Joy bouncedback and provided whenIbecameDirector great ofStudies. support Chemistry related degrees at university. she wasableto inspire many students to pursueChemistryor Olympiad orfor Advanced Extension papers.Consequently by entering themfor Chemical theRoyal SocietyofChemistry’s needed itandto findways ofstretching themore ablestudents Chemistry. Shealways triedto give extra timeto thosewho Science Festival. interesting trips,includingtheannualvisitto theCheltenham practicals anddemonstrations. Shealsoarranged many to well organised worksheets andawealth of resources for School Science.Sheensured that thesciencestaff hadaccess teacher andsoonshetook onthecoordination of Lower immediately apparent that Joy isathorough andcommitted its highstandards andwhohadstrong practical skills.Itwas appoint Joy whohadtaught at Denmark Road,Gloucester with and share theteaching at alllevels. We were fortunate to well-qualified anddedicated Chemist to jointhedepartment Chemistry, itwas always goingto beachallenge to attract a When RonKelsey retired in1995andIbecameHeadof JoyMiss Gibson www.rendcomb.org.uk Mr MGraham all”. Hehasindeed,andwewishhimalonghappy retirement. Hewillbegenuinelymissed. intheORnewsletter:perfectly Lindsey at “can theendofhisarticle lookbackandsay that hereally hasdoneit greater praise inhisvocabulary Iknow, butthedescriptionfitshim exactly. Bobby Morgan, as ever, summeditup givingunstintingly‘schoolmaster’, ofhistalents andalways willingto helpoutwhenneeded.There canbeno basis ifheever decidesto ceaseteaching.” SoperhapsLindsey cannowconsideranewcareer path. ofVinceFonteyn,ridiculous wigandplay thepart whichIthinkheshouldconsiderplaying onafull-time apart Grease. TheRendcombianreviewer at thetime,Richard Murray, wrote “Itwasleftto Mr.North to wearthemost bewildered hippy inWe Will RockYou and,mostnotably ofall,astheElvisPresley look-alike, VinceFonteyn, in show wouldgowellwhenhewasinthehouse.Healsoappeared onstage himself: asPop, theagedandrather plays always looked forward beingintheaudience:withhisinfectious to MrNorth laughter, they knewthe –thoughperhapsoneshouldn’tmocktheafflicted. also ofcourseaLiverpool supporter Yorkshire walkingontheNorth guitarist inRendcombrock concerts; coastandenjoying agoodpint ofbitter. Heis Dylan; BruceSpringsteen; EricClapton; foreign travel (notably toandAustralia); theUSA cameoappearances asa pressed housestaff alike. taskan important inany school,andonceagainhiscontribution wasgreatly appreciated by pupilsandhard- Rendcomb hasbeenfortunate to have suchadedicated Joy took over from therunningofdepartment me Joy always strived for clarityinherexplanation of Looking backovertime at Rendcomb, Lindsey’s hehasbeenmore thanateacher –hehas beenatrue It was,however, inDrama that Lindsey found histruevocation beyond theclassroom. Thecastinschool interestsOutside theclassroom, Lindsey’s are legion,asthefollowing (selective) listmakes clear:Bob Headmaster from Rendcomb. French, notably at TheRoyal Agricultural College. skills inothereducational establishments where shetaught thorough inherapproach to teaching. veryperson Department seriouslyandwasconscientious and for many students. Hilarytook thedifficult role ofbeingaone- and hasbecomeanincreasingly popularchoiceat Rendcomb on full responsibility for teaching thissubjectupto GCSElevel. teacher of Spanishin2007as part-time andsubsequently took Hilary Hillwas recruited to theModern Languages Department Mrs HilaryHill We wishHilarywellwithherfuture plansonherretirement teacher here, Hilarywasableto useher As apart-time Spanish becomesavailable to students inthethird year n 15

Staff News Staff News 16 Tom Pethick Any songat all. Yes ILOVE Arcade Fire. Any songoftheirsismy favourite. And finally... do you have a favouriteBand? Or song? meant to live for twenty years -soI’ve madeabigcommitment! Well, I have apetgecko. He’scalledScoutandhe’ssixyears old.They’re tellPlease usafun fact aboutyourself? prizes butRendcomb’stop team willalsoreceive aprize. on thestock markets. It’sanational competitionwithnational students, where students cantake fake money andsellfor profits midst ofpromoting theStudent Investor Challengeto Rendcomb also runtheEconomics society, inaFriday Iaminthe activityslot. many teams, so itisreally goodto coachat the younger levels. I a county hockey player whenIwasyounger, andhave played for I coachHockey inForms oneandtwo, whichIreally enjoy. Iwas Are there any extra-curricular activities with whichyou re involved? so beautiful, andtheStable Blockisamazing. getting to knowthestaff. Ialsoreally love thebuildings,they are I love thesmallclasses-gettingto knowthekidswell,andalso What doyou like aboutRendcomb? Rendcomb for thefirsttime. the Economics asubjectthat isbeingoffered department, at years at DulwichinSouthLondon. College SheistheHeadof SmithrecentlyMiss cameto Rendcombafter spendingthree AmyMiss Smith New Staff BSc (Hons),PGCE *Mr JWTorbitt, ICT BA (Hons),PGCE SEJones, Miss English BA (Hons),PGCE ACSmith, *Miss Economics n MA, PGDip, PGCE,MSc MA, Mrs SKEO’Sullivan, Science DipED, AMBDA, BA, PGCE Mrs CNHossle, Learning Support BA Mrs ENoble, Latin BA (Hons),PGCE Mr DJAshman, Music PGCE MSt, MA, Mr DJPope, PGCE BA, JSLongbourne,Miss Modern Languages is anacousticversion ofEverlong. It’sgreat. I like theFoo Fighters. Ilike themsomuchthat my Wedding song Have you got afavourite orsong? Band holiday to Spain withinacoupleofyears, to test my skills! Iamhopefully goingonarockbeing outandabout. climbing my ambitionto helpwiththeDofEexpeditions, becauseIlove Rock climbing.Itrain onceaweekandIlove Itlinksinwith it. If there was one,what would you say isafun fact aboutyourself? spectacular. surroundings; thebeautiful countryside around here is – they are allsopolite andseemalways to smile! Ilove the It’s great! I’msettlinginto Rendcombvery well.Ilike thestudents How are you settlinginto life at Rendcomb? Old Rec.It’sextremely fun. Duke ofEdinburgh sideofthingstoo. Ialsohelpoutondutiesat throughout my timeat schoolandI’mlookingto move into the I love coachingthe4thForm Hockey though,asIplayed it What doyou doat inaddition Rendcomb to teaching? then becomeMrsRead. is getting marriedduringtheschool’shalfterm break andwill four years at theIsambard SchoolinSwindon.She Community JonesisteachingMiss English at Rendcombafter spending SarahMiss Jones(MrsRead) Tom Pethick Miss JKQuick,Miss BA Mr APonting AKellyMiss CHebert Miss Games n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk - aswelltheusualstudent socialising. Chapelandontour College inItaly 1stboat,singinKing’s College Edinburgh fringe andMinacktheatre row inCornwall, for my I wasableto play University lacrosse andathletics, actat the involved withbeyond thelectures, tutorials andpracticals, so third year. There isalso, aswithallUniversities, somuchto be you effectively keep studyingabroad dietofscienceuntil your you don’thave scienceearlyon,so to specialiseinaparticular I studiedNatural Sciencesat whichwasfantastic Cambridge, - What like was Cambridge andwhat didyou study? andrewardingwonderful things-Ilove my job! theeducation of young peoplewhohave thepotential to achieve think ofamoreorrewarding important jobthanbeinginvolved in a teacher at schoolorUniversity, yet,having becomeone,Ican’t pursued. Teaching isbetter thanIexpected. Inever wanted to be whichIamvery glad I led meto consideracareer inteaching, I thenmarriedateacher, whoseparents are teachers, andthis projects, meetingwithpupilsafter-school and intheholidays. Southmead, Bristol, Iwasinvolved insettingup participation As aSeniorYouth Worker, workingwithyoung peoplein When andwhy didyou decideto teach? Head of Science. Ribston HallHighSchoolyears before comingto Rendcombas O’SullivanMiss studiedat and taught Cambridge previously at Mrs SaskiaO’Sullivan n Dan Thomas with whomIshare ahouse. MissBerry particularly Rendcomb hasbeenespeciallywelcoming, ofsomethingnewisalwaysI thinkthatchallengingbut thestart career that have beenchallenging? momentsAny you’ve particular ateaching found starting but very positive! My firsttimestanding upin front ofaclasswasnerve wrecking What was your day first teaching like? itistoimportant challengeyourself. Ocean single-handedly. Sheisvery inspiringandsheshowshow Sarah Outen. Shewasthefirstwoman to sailaround theIndian influenceon Whoyour life? hasbeen the biggest in aschoolsothat Icancarryonlearning. of Edinburgh. Ireally enjoyed schoolmyself andIenjoy working (hockey to thealmighty U13sthisterm) andIhelpoutwithDuke me decideIdefinitely want to bea teacher! Ialso teach sport wanted to workinschoolsandcomingto Rendcombhasmade Ihave inMainCollege. I helpintheHistory department always Tell usabout life at Rendcomb? Assistant after studyingHistory at theUniversity of East Anglia. QuickMiss joinstheRendcombstaff asaGraduate Teaching Quick Jessica Miss n 17

Staff News Staff News 18 Don’t care, willtake themallon. duck-sized horses? Would you rather fight ahorse-sizedtwelve duckor computer systems withphotos onthem. single pupilto seeandby name,all1300, andthiswasbefore day school,theteacherswhilst itwasamuchbigger knewevery protests. However, insomerespects itwasvery similarthat school windowssmashedasaresult ofthemarching season and you would come backafter thesummerholidays to findthe In someways, very different. My schoolwasininnercityBelfast the teen years? How different isthisschoolfrom theoneyou went to during e)Positivec) Rewarding d)Supportive a) Outstanding b)Challenging How are you findingtheschool? for me.Itrustmy instinctsandamrarely wrong inthisregard. apply; whenIwalked into ReceptionIknewthat thiswastheplace a cut Two things:thechanceto designmy owncoursesandto provide Why Rendcomb? outstanding compre hensive schoolinBedfordshire More recently Ihave taught inan ICTandComputing SO3 PSYOPS(A) -Of Commanding ficer Tactical Team Alpha! (not ofthecultured type!).Possibly my coolestever jobtitlewas Group effecting stra tegic andtactical changeinvarious theatres Defence of 15(UK)Psychological Intelligence Operations aspart interesting inHelmand;finallyworked ‘on in thejobtraining’ former mujhaddeinintheAfghanistan National Army withsome as wellAirborne/AirAssaulttroops intheArmy; mentored designed logis tic systems for theApache Attack Helicopter logistics andhumanitarian aidinKosovo, MacedoniaandIraq; I have beenanArmy Officer– Trained recruit soldiers;delivered What have Jobs past you had? jobs intheArmy, mainlyworkingwiththeAfghanistan campaign. Officer, thenwithRecruitSoldiertraining andfinallyin mylasttwo intheArmy, teaching ofsorts I started asaRegimental train When andwhy didyou decideto teach? a teaching postinBedfordshire andacareer intheArmy. Mr Torbitt isRendcomb’snew Director of ICT. Hejoinsusfrom Mr Jonathan Torbitt ting-edge learning environment from scratch mademe n ing ing around the coast… around the coast… My favourite pastimeisbeinginmy seakayak andpaddling tellSurprise us.Please ussomething elseaboutyou? suffering from cancer. moneyimportantly wasraised to benefitthesiblingsofthose from cancer. Thisculminated event inawonderful butmore On Effect’ created by astudent RosieKilburn,whowassuffering schools, inorder to raise money for acharitycalled‘theKnock- Quite recently, Iorchestrated aCathedral Servicefor five family. God. My Christian faith issomethingIvalue strongly, butalsomy influenceon Whoyour life? hasbeen the biggest between themenonsquadron andmy ownclass. a boys’ prep school,asanewlymarriedRAFwife, Idrew parallels during teaching practice, Inever looked back.Inmy firstpost at Meeting amixofchildren from Somalia,IndiaandPakistan I waslaunchedinto atotally different life from MusicCollege. too sure …However, whenIembarked onmy PGCEinLondon, after my degree. Having parents whowere teachers, Iwasnot through. My Double Bassteacher advisedmeto getaPGCE playing theDou ble Bass,buthadnotthought everything I hadthought abouttravelling around withanorchestra and are very great. Idecidedto teach whenIwasat MusicCollege. special educa tion, there are always challenges,buttherewards a varied career withineducation. Working withinthefieldof I like newchallengesandhave beenluckyenoughto have diligent andputmore effortinto reading thebooksproperly. my Masters inEducation. Sec ond timearound, Iwasmuchmore My firstdegree isinMusicandasamature student,Istudied for tellPlease usaboutyour journey into teaching? variety of schools. comingwithawealth of experienceNeeds departments, ina joinsRendcomb’sMusicandSpecialEducationalMrs Hossle Mrs CherylHossle n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Kathryn Rew form Very pupilswere walkingpast. embarrassing.’ again, thecarjuststalled, at themoment whenalotofthe5th 15 timesonthedrive nearStable House.Every timeItriedto go Miss Kelly: wouldhave ‘This to bewhenIstalled thecaramere Works team -very funny butvery embarrassing.’ down ahill.Unfortunately thishappenedinfront ofmostthe managed to tripononeofthetree roots andwassent tumbling assoonI’dat thefloorand carriedonrunning; donethat,I of theroots spread allover thetrails. So, Ibrieflystopped looking the bottom, Ifelt pretty proud becauseIhadn’tfallen over any ‘Iwasoutonarun,downfrom TopMiss Hebert: Pitch, reaching moment at sofar? Rendcomb Finally, what would you say hasbeenyour embarrassing most creates adangerous combination.’ crunchy andsmooth.When itismixed together withNutella it Miss Kelly: ‘Ihave aconcerningaddictionto peanutbutter: both ‘Ihate Idon’tlike fruit. Miss Hebert: any typesoffruit at all.’ tellPlease usaninteresting fact aboutyourself: staffroom cakes. things aboutRendcomb; MissKellyfan isaparticular ofthe cites the‘prettyMiss Hebert beautiful grounds’ asherfavourite also helpingoutwithHouseduties,scienceandmarketing. are Graduate Assistants, coachinglacrosse andhockey while recently graduating from Universities intheUnited States. They Kelly andMiss Hebert Miss have cometo Rendcomb after Alexiaand Miss Kelly CathyMiss Hebert Miss JenniferMiss Longbourne about myself! about I tend to berather enigmatic –I’mnotoneto give muchaway Surprise us.Pleasetell ussomethingelseaboutyou fact, ifitwasn’t for him,Iprobably wouldn’tbehere. encouraged meto bedetermined to succeednomatter what.In It’s slightly sentimental, Iknow, but ithasto bemy father. Hehas influenceon Whoyour life? hasbeen the biggest out; andI’mnotsure howfunny itwasat thetime! there withhim.Ittook somethinkingto workouthowto gethim manage to turnoffthelight,butalsohehadcupboard key in lock himselfinmy classroom cupboard asajoke. Notonlydidhe A very naughty pupilat my lastschooltook ituponhimselfto Funniest moment ortwoeven? inyour career? the next day willbelike, however carefully you planyour lessons. Teaching isfull ofsurprises -it’shard to imagineaccurately even what Is teaching different from how you imaginedit would be? at times. and Tours; life-changing,even thiswascertainly ifalittlelonely should alsomention my third year whichIspent abroad inBonn whichtook upresidence intheoven.some mice…andaslug, I giving ourhomesomemuchneededlove, inthecompany of house withthree goodfriends. We spent muchofourfree time University. Thehighlight wasmy secondyear: Imoved into a I didaJoint Honoursdegree inFrench andGermanat Bristol What was University like andwhat didyou read? n 19

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Academic Reports Academic Reports 22 1 interpretation by all. creative thought and projects that inspired on avariety of students worked This year, theArt Art Review Jordan Thomaslooked at bygone days and as thesenseofbelongingstudents have. Metcalfe looked at thesenseofplace aswell memoriesofchildhood.Miles particularly refers to remembering positive memories, on aproject titled“Halcyon Days,” which inspired by nature. on thepoemsofTed Hughesthat were animals innature. Hertheme wasalsobased the ominous,sometimesviolent,personaof animals andinstinctswhilealsoexploring to painting. Kat waslookingat thenature of work that already hadsensitivity filmmaker’s and structure; soshewasinterpreting a really goodunderstanding oflight,forms the movie. The director, Tarvski, hada and created apictorial representation of Phelps andKat Daly. project were UpperSixthstudents Holly that really understood andexcelled inthe explain what itmeans.Two of thepupils combination of materials, finda way to by thephrase and,through theuseof any task was to understand what was meant topic of “Agony andEcstasy.” Thepupil’s The SixthForm students were art given the The A2Photography students worked Holly looked at“The Stalker” thefilm 2 Mr A O’Hanlon and Miss CHerbert Mr AO’HanlonandMiss Rendcomb Art exhibitionRendcomb Art at Manor. Calcot Parish Church; itwasalsoondisplay at the make aHolocaustShroud for Cirencester from years 8and9wascombinedto never repeated. Theworkof53students in away that itwouldbe remembered and to seehow they symbolized theHolocaust direct imagery. Usingsymbols,wewanted symbols often have more powerthan We hadthemfocus onsymbolsandhow to perceive thescaleofwhat happened. different peoplethat were persecuted and get themto understand thenumberof with theLower Schoolstudents to tryto and helpsuslearnfromWe ourpast. worked us oftheatrocity committed to humankind strong work. eclectic andindividualbutallproduced responses werestudents’ varied, artistic individual paintings andsculptures. The points andproducedstarting aseriesof course work.Thestudents chosedifferent colour andemotionoftheface andexam that hadhelped form thepersonheistoday. his childhood,consideringtheelements The HolocaustMemorialday reminds The GCSEstudents were workingon n www.rendcomb.org.uk Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, 4 3 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

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Academic Reports Academic Reports 24 2 1 exhibition, thestudents for theirhard workand theincredible staff at Manor. Calcot Peter andtheworksteamunwavering Cairns for support, creating theboards aswellloading andunloadingthe theexhibition, Parents theRendcombCollege supporting Association for funding theexhibition, especiallytheir like to thankMsRoffe for herdedication, hard workandteaching over thepasttwoyears, theHeadmaster for Mr A O’Hanlon and Miss CHerbert Mr AO’HanlonandMiss found at Manor Calcot a senseof placewas For Rendcombians, Art Review Mr O’Hanlonwouldlike to thankeveryone that Manorshowasuccessbutwouldespecially madetheCalcot 3 become abiannualevent for RendcombCollege. because itsetastrong foundation for what MrO’Hanlonhopeswill seen andsoldtoitwasasuccess thepublicbutmostimportantly so isRendcomb. There are somesimilaritiesbetweenthetwo’’. essentially Manorinthemiddleofcountryside, it’saCotswold and felt that theworkwasplacedreally wellat Manorbecause Calcot toimportant chooseaplacethat hadsimilaritiesto Rendcomb. “We essay about having asenseofplacewithintheirschool,itwas body ofwork.Everyone whocamewasvery enthused.” ofworkanditwasrepresentativeworth ofthosestudents andtheir style andcontext. Ifelt itwasareally goodculmination oftwoyears’ work that showed range interms ofmedia,materials, technique, We were lookingfor highqualityworkbutwewere alsolookingfor of workandthepresentation were professional andimpressive. go into theexhibition…I thinkmostpeoplethought that thestandard Roffe andI,aswellourUpperSixthstudents selected theworkto to bedisplayed.department “Itwasaselective exhibition inthat Ms drawings, sculptures, videosandphotographs selected by theArt thatwas important theshowbehandledinaprofessional manner.” Wegeneral publiccouldseeit. worksoit were alsosellingtheart school environment andinto thepublicsothat membersofthe O’Hanlon enthused. “Ialsowantedoutofthe to getthe artwork as aprofessional exhibition show,” rather thanasaschoolart Mr create exhibition workthat withstudentwasperceived anart art and bringrecognition to thestudents’ originalworks. designed by Mr. O’HanlonandMsRoffe, was meant to celebrate to seeat Manor. Calcot Theexhibition, titled“A Senseof Place”, Rendcombians’ GCSEandAlevel was displayed artwork for all In celebration of two years of hard work abatch of The event wasasuccessinthat thestudents’ workwas With thetitleofexhibition comingfrom atitleofstudent’s Students ages14-19 to gettheirpaintings, hadtheopportunity Manorexhibition“Calcot cameaboutbecauseIwanted to n 3. Hubbard 2. 1.

Containment Kat Daly Cat Emmeline Meborn- Textile Design Chriistine Khireccu Portrait Self Rose Holly Phelps Dove Emma Lavender Remains Christopher Minton Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, wooed theirwomen(more aboutthat later!). crew asthey merrilyfought theirfoe and ached from smiling asIbeheldthepirate pirate japesandcapers!Oh, howmy face did), at oncefilling thestage with rakish and Watson amerrydance(andthey Pearce, Timmis,Warhurst, Wason-Cooper Anderson, Jones,McGriff, McKeown , of Pethick, RewandWitts ledMessers with thealeofcontent asthetriumvirate bad acting.Howmy pirate cupoverflowed of successanddispelthebarnacles Witts to buffupandpolishtheMasthead Sam/Will Boy, Cabin thecrew looked to their steered to thefair shores ofsuccessby Led by Tom (PiratePethick, andably King) www.rendcomb.org.uk Such were Emma’salluringcharmsthat we maidens ,allledby Emma,Lauren andEve. charmed by themelodiousharmoniesof old distracted by thefancy footwork and a rehearsal Ifound myself like marinersof leadership oftheprincipalmaidens.Many straight andtrueifithadn’t beenfor the pirate shipwouldnothave kept itscourse East, soevery beautyhasitsday. Thegood forgetfulness? Justasthesunrisesin the albatross oftruthwith thearrow of me? Have ofsaltwater Ipartaken orfelled and kept thissadoldcap’nfrom goingmad. was thenutritionwhichstaved offscurvy and Summers?No, thiswater-biscuit ofjoy Brealy, Frost, McLaughlin, Suarez, Cruzat to dance?Hisworm? HisleadershipofPCs steps and‘do-as-I-do, attitude notas-I-say’ the Sergeant Geerah withhissassydance efforts. HowwillIever forget Eddie ‘Ten’tion’ so Irecharged my cupofhopewithothers’ note lineperfect perfect, singingdwindled, footed performance andthefresh water of likelihood ofreaching thedrylandofsure- The Pirates of Penzance

DRAMA REVIEW Or are my memoriesdeceiving Oh yes, aseachweekpassedandthe Mr JMarshall did more thanIcansay). Ienjoyed thevoyage. Thankyou! commissioned thevessel –MrsDodd (notto mention thebehindscenes helperswho moors intheBay ofContent, Iwouldlike to offer my enormousthanksto thepersonwho of theserpent ofsuccess–for whichIammostgrateful. Lastly, before my little speech harmonies; heforcedjigging themto walktheplankofpossibility into thehungryjaws press- ganging hercrew to submitto tuneful tidalwaveshornpipe- ofheadway-making, Franksthe swashbucklingsong-smithCap’n whoregularly commandeered thecraft , with thecostumes.Thenagain,noroll ofhonourwouldbecomplete without mentioning who created thecraft inthefirstplace –sospecialthanks to MrsScace for allherhelp in thegoodshipPOPs’casts’hearts. voyage embarked andthenanchored, sotheircharacters’ tale oflove andwoewove aweb and endmustbesettrue.Soitwaswithourhero andheroine, Edward andOlivia. Asour never rungtruer! interesting inter-action withthefixed digital score? Suffice to say the sextant ofsonghad I beginto summariseMajorGeneralmoves Pugh’smasterful aboutourvessel’s deck,orhis climbed themastofsyncopation single-handedlyto raise theflagof excellence? Howcan which kept the good shipPOPafloat every night ofitsrun– for this,thisoldseadogisgrateful. dresses, tunefultheir colourful voices ,synchronised dancesteps andqualityacting–allof was tempered by theinnocentmaidens.For loveliness ofthe‘younger’ thisensemble-with almost hadto re-christen thePirate KingBluebeard. Thankfully thecoracle ofpirate passion sailing over stormy seasthat’s not thedropping important, anchor). eventually sailedinto (for port asany seafarer willtell you –it’sthe ‘Pethic’ ularorder), Iknew that Iwould Rew theday whenwe soonasIbeheldmyAs trusty crew (of whomIspeakinno running aground, orcrashing ontherocks of self-doubt anddespair. be ableto steer thegoodshipfull steam aheadwithoutfalling foul, ThePiratesRendcomb College’s of Penzance ,Ithought that Imight When Ifirstheard that there might beachance of medirecting However, hisepaulettes ifhedidn’tmention theshipwright noCaptainwouldbeworth Even nowtheoceansofmemoryeludeme.For aswithevery voyage, thebeginning But what ofthe father to theseMaidens?What canbesaidaboutthemanwho n

Containment Kat Daly Cat Emmeline Meborn- Textile Design Chriistine Khireccu Portrait Self Rose Holly Phelps Dove Emma Lavender Remains Christopher Minton Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Such were Emma’salluringcharmsthat we maidens ,allledby Emma,Lauren andEve. charmed by themelodiousharmoniesof old distracted by thefancy footwork and a rehearsal Ifound myself like marinersof leadership oftheprincipalmaidens.Many straight andtrueifithadn’t beenfor the pirate shipwouldnothave kept itscourse East, soevery beautyhasitsday. Thegood forgetfulness? Justasthesunrisesin the albatross oftruthwith thearrow of me? Have ofsaltwater Ipartaken orfelled and kept thissadoldcap’nfrom goingmad. was thenutritionwhichstaved offscurvy and Summers?No, thiswater-biscuit ofjoy Brealy, Frost, McLaughlin, Suarez, Cruzat to dance?Hisworm? HisleadershipofPCs steps and‘do-as-I-do, attitude notas-I-say’ the Sergeant Geerah withhissassydance efforts. HowwillIever forget Eddie ‘Ten’tion’ so Irecharged my cupofhopewithothers’ note lineperfect perfect, singingdwindled, footed performance andthefresh water of likelihood ofreaching thedrylandofsure- wooed theirwomen(more aboutthat later!). crew asthey merrilyfought theirfoe and ached from smiling asIbeheldthepirate pirate japesandcapers!Oh, howmy face did), at oncefilling thestage with rakish and Watson amerrydance(andthey Pearce, Timmis,Warhurst, Wason-Cooper Anderson, Jones,McGriff, McKeown , of Pethick, RewandWitts ledMessers with thealeofcontent asthetriumvirate bad acting.Howmy pirate cupoverflowed of successanddispelthebarnacles Witts to buffupandpolishtheMasthead Sam/Will Boy, Cabin thecrew looked to their steered to thefair shores ofsuccessby Led by Tom (PiratePethick, andably King) www.rendcomb.org.uk The Pirates of Penzance

Academic Reports Academic Reports 26 Our Country’s Good Our Country’s convicts inaworld of darkness. a play isputonintheAustralian colony, bringinghopeto the story of life for thefirstconvicts to arrive in Australia. However, tormentwere andbrutality, replaced withwhipping, aswe told the Hairspray. Cheesysmiles,tap dancingandmusicalchoreography Goodwas instark contrast to ourpreviousOur show Country’s allowed convicts to shine,thisplay brought darkness oftheFirst Fleet inearlySydney. the twoofficersofdecencyinmoral Benson andJake McKeown, they acted as close to them.Opposing himwere Tom members wouldcowershouldhecome sneering inrage throughout –audience shoutingand shaking, a ruthlessthug, the stage, asEricLiwastransformed into convicts, proudly calling‘Empire!’ striding into themake-up room pushingpast mud. Thesegregation soonledto theofficers and were covered from headto toe infake Company, whileconvicts wore rippedrags red jackets from theRoyal Shakespeare rooms, andmake-up: theofficerswore grand roles, withdifferent costumes,changing or officer–andpeoplequickly took to these The castwassplitinto twoworlds–convict Just asthe‘play-within-a-play’ This performance continued on Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Mrs DDodd professional standard. Well doneeveryone! who pulledoffahighlychallenging play to a proved theversatility ofRendcomb actors, and for that alarge thanksiswelldeserved. to entertain hundreds offamily andfriends, to great oforganisation lengths andeffort had notattempted to showbefore, going directing took Rendcombto aworldthey of Drama –MrsDodd. Once againher all ofitwasRendcomb’svery ownQueen and herteam for make-up. Butbehind for thebrilliant costumes,to MissMills members to bethanked, from MrsScase smoothly aspossible. rehearsal andperformance went as years ofthejob, always ensuringeach for stage managingtheshowafter many of thisgentle hero. played RalphClarkwithafineunderstanding love interestMary’s wasHarryEllis,who to aremarkable character. Performing as Brenham, givingbothpoignancyandsubtely of eight.Hollyplayed theleadfemale Mary every showsinceLes Miserablesat theage role at Rendcombafter appearinginnearly performances, HollyPhelps,took to herlast officer-convict relationship. fantastically portrayedahighlycomplex well asAliSinfieldand Kathryn Rew, who Daly whowasthebumptiousDabby, as Rendcomb stars performed, suchasKat emotion.However,powerful many old-time she acted withgreat understanding and stage inthetragic role ofLizMorden, which who for thefirsttimeinherlife took to the to light newactors suchasMaria Highlands, This year’s brilliant performance This year’s Off stage there are many staff Thanks mustalsogoto MilesMetcalfe The legendofRendcomb

DRAMA REVIEW n www.rendcomb.org.uk Mrs DDodd Kemble Station andback,itwould stillbejustasfun”. to MrsDodd, “You know, even ifDrama Tour was justgoingto the register of theexperience. are allpart Infact, Dan Sandsaid workshops andtheplays, butthetrain journey, hotel rooms and everyone managesto find of thetrip everyfun –not justthe part on theannualdrama tour. Drama Tour isauniquetripinthat down thedays, the5thand6thform drama students went At theendof theLent Term, after weeks of literally counting Drama Tour the Bus’aswereturned home. serenade MrBevans with‘Jolly Wheels and‘The on GoodDriver’ However, we stillmanagedto muster upenoughenergy to had thechanceto goonstage andtryknockingon thedoor. into theFortune Theatre, home oftheterrifying Woman inBlackand Piccadilly Circus. Many peoplealsoshowedcourage asthey stepped sowequicklyrelocated audience stillgave to cheers ofsupport, were told to turnthemusic offby ‘the system’, butdespite thisthe group attempted aChaSlideflashmob at Trafalgar Square but a challenge,eating 20slicesofpizza, anewDrama Tour record; the determination: HarryPriestner took thewords “All You Eat” Can as Woman inBlack(althoughmany ofthosecamefrom theboys). in angeratElliott Billy , andmany girlyscreams were heard during of Oz, MrJenningsandMrsDodd hadto stop themselves shouting complete withouttheshows:nostalgia arose whilewatching Wizard the London Eye. Butofcourse,Drama Tour wouldn’t have been and photos after shows;wegotover-excited whenwejumpedonto superheroes; weattacked castmemberswith begsfor autographs on Theatre Hunt dressed asgangsters, Mariocharacters and After three days ofexcitement, wewere exhausted. Drama Tour wasalsoachancefor peopleto prove their During thethree days, groups dashedacross London n Miss ASmith Miss New York isupfor grabs for thewinnerssoGOODLUCK TRADERS! judgements onwhento buyandsellinorder to make Atrip a profit. to provided they by mustidentify Bloomberg, shares andmake the stock market.Byreading andforecasting market information Competitors are given £100,000 money to invest ofvirtual in to experience the opportunity dynamicworldofshare trading. intheIFSStudent Investortaking part Challengewhichgives them concerned withhowto allocate thoseresources mostefficiently. resources, economics plays akey role, inthat itisfundamentally a few. Inaworldwhere there isincreasing debate aboutscarcity of prices, genderpay gapsandfootball transfer prices,to namebut and onourowneveryday lives –interest rate fluctuations, energy decisions andactivitiesimpactonmany different areas ofsociety or peaksandtroughs infinancialmoney markets. Economic obesity. Economics doesnotrevolve solelyaround wealthcreation, how thegovernment shouldtackle issuessuchasbingedrinkingand world today such asclimate change,povertyandinequality, and on someofthemostpressing andchallengingproblems facing the why itfunctions asitdoes.Itcanalsogive you newperspectives look more deeplyinto theworldaround you, specificallyhowand newspaper thisweekend. towill beimpossible whenopeninga escapeeconomicissues governmentwarming, anduniversity debt, tuitionfees –it Youth unemployment, theEurozone crisis,petrol prices,global University of Nottingham. sector after gainingadegree inEconomics from the in SouthLondon, having previously worked inthebanking Smith, Headof Economics, joinsusfrom Dulwich College 20 students studyingthesubjectat A/SLevel. Amy Miss this year andisalready proving to beapopularchoicewith Economics Alevel isanew subjectoption at Rendcomb Outside oftheclassroom, teams ofstudents are currently Economics isafascinating subjectto study, asithelpsyou to Economics ” “ satisfies my curiosity. Studying economics happens around me. everything that I wascuriousabout A Level Economics student 27 n

DRAMA REVIEW n www.rendcomb.org.uk Mrs DDodd the Bus’aswereturned home. serenade MrBevans with‘Jolly Wheels and‘The on GoodDriver’ However, we stillmanagedto muster upenoughenergy to had thechanceto goonstage andtryknockingon thedoor. into theFortune Theatre, home oftheterrifying Woman inBlackand Piccadilly Circus. Many peoplealsoshowedcourage asthey stepped sowequicklyrelocated audience stillgave to cheers ofsupport, were told to turnthemusic offby ‘the system’, butdespite thisthe group attempted aChaSlideflashmob at Trafalgar Square but a challenge,eating 20slicesofpizza, anewDrama Tour record; the determination: HarryPriestner took thewords “All You Eat” Can as Woman inBlack(althoughmany ofthosecamefrom theboys). in angeratElliott Billy , andmany girlyscreams were heard during of Oz, MrJenningsandMrsDodd hadto stop themselves shouting complete withouttheshows:nostalgia arose whilewatching Wizard the London Eye. Butofcourse,Drama Tour wouldn’t have been and photos after shows;wegotover-excited whenwejumpedonto superheroes; weattacked castmemberswith begsfor autographs on Theatre Hunt dressed asgangsters, Mariocharacters and Kemble Station andback,itwould stillbejustasfun”. to MrsDodd, “You know, even ifDrama Tour was justgoingto the register of theexperience. are allpart Infact, Dan Sandsaid workshops andtheplays, butthetrain journey, hotel rooms and everyone managesto find of thetrip everyfun –not justthe part on theannualdrama tour. Drama Tour isauniquetripinthat down thedays, the5thand6thform drama students went At theendof theLent Term, after weeks of literally counting Drama Tour After three days ofexcitement, wewere exhausted. Drama Tour wasalsoachancefor peopleto prove their During thethree days, groups dashedacross London n Miss ASmith Miss New York isupfor grabs for thewinnerssoGOODLUCK TRADERS! judgements onwhento buyandsellinorder to make Atrip a profit. to provided they by mustidentify Bloomberg, shares andmake the stock market.Byreading andforecasting market information Competitors are given £100,000 money to invest ofvirtual in to experience the opportunity dynamicworldofshare trading. intheIFSStudent Investortaking part Challengewhichgives them concerned withhowto allocate thoseresources mostefficiently. resources, economics plays akey role, inthat itisfundamentally a few. Inaworldwhere there isincreasing debate aboutscarcity of prices, genderpay gapsandfootball transfer prices,to namebut and onourowneveryday lives –interest rate fluctuations, energy decisions andactivitiesimpactonmany different areas ofsociety or peaksandtroughs infinancialmoney markets. Economic obesity. Economics doesnotrevolve solelyaround wealthcreation, how thegovernment shouldtackle issuessuchasbingedrinkingand world today such asclimate change,povertyandinequality, and on someofthemostpressing andchallengingproblems facing the why itfunctions asitdoes.Itcanalsogive you newperspectives look more deeplyinto theworldaround you, specificallyhowand newspaper thisweekend. towill beimpossible whenopeninga escapeeconomicissues governmentwarming, anduniversity debt, tuitionfees –it Youth unemployment, theEurozone crisis,petrol prices,global University of Nottingham. sector after gainingadegree inEconomics from the in SouthLondon, having previously worked inthebanking Smith, Headof Economics, joinsusfrom Dulwich College 20 students studyingthesubjectat A/SLevel. Amy Miss this year andisalready proving to beapopularchoicewith Economics Alevel isanew subjectoption at Rendcomb Outside oftheclassroom, teams ofstudents are currently Economics isafascinating subjectto study, asithelpsyou to Economics ” “ satisfies my curiosity. Studying economics happens around me. everything that I wascuriousabout A Level Economics student 27 n

Academic Reports Academic Reports 28 English ‘English Matters’... indeeditdoes! the highestorder! entertainment; inventive creative of academicsuccess writing; tripsgalore;English department: challengingideasandLiterature; It hasbeenanother fantastically busyandsuccessful year inthe possibly areading weekend: watch thisspace! Experience’, butmore onthat at alater date. And themselves at work,took risksandhadfun. great year allround for students whothrew at leastthat’s what hetells me!Ithasbeena than me.Actually, Ithinkhealready does;well come backandhaunt mewhenheknowsmore Hall, Oxford, to studyEnglish;nodoubthewill to Tom Bensonfor gettinginto Lady Margaret Terrificgo results butourfinestaccolademust in EnglishLiterature for example. And ‘A’ level? IGCSEs whichhasbeenasuccess:92%A*-B preparing for thefirst folk to gothrough the class debating. On top ofthat,wehave been reciting poetrylive andengagingininter- being creative, scriptingplays for performance, book-swapping on‘World BookDay, writingwell, competitions, makingvideosandpresentations, were studyingfor theirsettext. brooding andterrifying piecetheSixthForm favourite, TheHomecomingat theRSC:a End,TwelfthJourney’s Night andmy particular plays suchasTheTempest, UnderMilkwood hugely significant visit. Malorie Blackmantalk aboutherwork,another were ableto listen to theworld-acclaimed Later inSeptember firstandsecond formers andhighprofilean important literature festival. committed to being akey insuch participant Anthony Horowitz. Rendcombisdedicated and by hostingtheuniversally acclaimedwriter intheLiteratureagain play aleadingpart Festival able to attend. willonce In2012theCollege and thoroughly enjoyed by allthosewhowere Cheltenham Literature festival; quite acoup was proud to hostMichaelMorpurgo at the 2011 beganat agallop(literally), astheschool Mr PJennings Next Well year? weare thinkingofalittle‘Irish In class,wehave beenwritingplays for Throughout theyear wehave beento see n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, – immediately Ihadagoodfeeling. was infull voiceJunior Schoolcarol concert the Christmastree was decorated andthe the Michaelmasterm whenIcameto visit, of this impressive school.Itwas theendof me to theimposingyet welcoming doors PGCE courseandmy goodfortune brought teaching experience before beginningmy I thought itwise to gainobservational dream for thepasttwo terms. teacher’s hasbeenatrainee Rendcomb College by agrateful geographer Six months inRendcomb www.rendcomb.org.uk topic to the2ndform. To begiven the at Rendcombincludeteaching thecoasts the field.Highlights of my geography work teaching bothintheclassroom andoutin different assistingand degrees; observing, of workingwithalmostallyear groups to this perfectly. Ihave hadthepleasure pupils learningitat Rendcombreflect subject andtheattitudes ofthestaff and is abroad, dynamic,relevant andexciting Geographyin theGeography Department. Michelle Lucas,Ihave had afantastic time always wingof encouraging andsupportive my time at Rendcomb justice.Underthe accurate, thisdescriptiondoesnotdo teaching assistantpart-time andwhilst Geography My contract depictsmy role as willingness and support. willingness andsupport. must goto membersofstaff for your do notexactly comenaturally to me!Thanks Science andMaths -bothsubjectareas that been ableto observe andassistinclude term. Senior schoollessonsinwhichI’ve lovely to seetheirimprovement over the the often freezing cold weather andit was was great fun, thegirlsworked hard despite an afternoon aweekwiththeyounger girls School duringtheirnetballsessions.Having a lessonat theriver withtheL6th. intheWorld’ ‘Where departmental quiz,and with, aBritishIslesquizwiththe1stform, our facedapproach almostanything they’re enthusiasm with whichthe4thform students Among othergeography highlights are the own resources have beeninvaluable. methods ofteaching anddesigningmy lessonstructure, I’ve learnedabout planning, their ideasandcreativity. Further, lessons them to learnwhilealsolearningmyself from and enthusiastic group ofstudents, helping great to really getto knowahard-working to happensoearlyinmy training. It’sbeen been brilliant and somethingIdidn’texpect responsibility ofteaching awholetopic has I spent aterm helpingwith theJunior Miss MLucas Miss beneath tropical seassome170 millionyears ago. sandwiched between theooliticlimestone deposited due to theFuller’sEarth Clay (volcanic ashdeposits) of oneof thespringsthat emitsfrom thevalley side be usedasbiofuel. Thestudents alsovisited thesite of thefarmland across thevalley for elephant grass to the plansfor estate theCollege’s grounds andtheuse treethe College’s planting program. Healsoalludedto sustainable practices suchasrecycling waste aswell as the year duringalunchbreak abouttheCollege’s heritage. Works MrCairns, Team Manager, spoke to mainbuildingtoas well astheCollege’s its discuss visited thevillagehallwhichusesgeothermal energy on thesettlement of Rendcomb. Thestudents also building aswell asthecrucialnature of theRiver Churn visited thisimportant theRendcombMillanddiscussed fieldwork around lessons thevillage.Thestudents geography of thevillageof Rendcomb, some undertook The First Year of aproject students, onthe aspart inspiration –what aluckygirlI’ve been! for your company, encouragement and career andthankallat RendcombCollege course. Ilookforward to thenext step inmy University onaPGCEsecondaryGeography enriched my timehere. unexpected pleasures whichhave only as welllivingat number15, have been exploring ourbeautiful surroundings, working ashiftat thevillagepuband shop, gettingto knowtheneighbours, Rendcomb village,too. Visitingthevillage IhaveCollege. enjoyedof beingpart advantage ofschoolslike Rendcomb beings seemsto beanunderappreciated and to recognise oneanotherashuman and pupilsto connectonadifferent level in, wherever Iwork.Achancefor staff of teaching Ihopeto always beinvolved students outside ofacademiclife isaside been involved in.Timespent withthe have alltheDuke ofEdinburgh trips I’ve highlight,as duties hasbeenaparticular the boys at Lawn houseduringmy evening myself inRendcomblife. Gettingto know Miss JBale Miss Next for meisayear at Newcastle I have thoroughly enjoyed immersing n 29 n

Academic Reports Academic Reports 28 English ‘English Matters’... indeeditdoes! the highestorder! entertainment; inventive creative of academicsuccess writing; tripsgalore;English department: challengingideasandLiterature; It hasbeenanother fantastically busyandsuccessful year inthe Mr PJennings possibly areading weekend: watch thisspace! Experience’, butmore onthat at alater date. And themselves at work,took risksandhadfun. great year allround for students whothrew at leastthat’s what hetells me!Ithasbeena than me.Actually, Ithinkhealready does;well come backandhaunt mewhenheknowsmore Hall, Oxford, to studyEnglish;nodoubthewill to Tom Bensonfor gettinginto Lady Margaret Terrificgo results butourfinestaccolademust in EnglishLiterature for example. And ‘A’ level? IGCSEs whichhasbeenasuccess:92%A*-B preparing for thefirst folk to gothrough the class debating. On top ofthat,wehave been reciting poetrylive andengagingininter- being creative, scriptingplays for performance, book-swapping on‘World BookDay, writingwell, competitions, makingvideosandpresentations, were studyingfor theirsettext. brooding andterrifying piecetheSixthForm favourite, TheHomecomingat theRSC:a End,TwelfthJourney’s Night andmy particular plays suchasTheTempest, UnderMilkwood hugely significant visit. Malorie Blackmantalk aboutherwork,another were ableto listen to theworld-acclaimed Later inSeptember firstandsecond formers andhighprofilean important literature festival. committed to being akey insuch participant Anthony Horowitz. Rendcombisdedicated and by hostingtheuniversally acclaimedwriter intheLiteratureagain play aleadingpart Festival able to attend. willonce In2012theCollege and thoroughly enjoyed by allthosewhowere Cheltenham Literature festival; quite acoup was proud to hostMichaelMorpurgo at the 2011 beganat agallop(literally), astheschool Next Well year? weare thinkingofalittle‘Irish In class,wehave beenwritingplays for Throughout theyear wehave beento see n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, topic to the2ndform. To begiven the at Rendcombincludeteaching thecoasts the field.Highlights of my geography work teaching bothintheclassroom andoutin different assistingand degrees; observing, of workingwithalmostallyear groups to this perfectly. Ihave hadthepleasure pupils learningitat Rendcombreflect subject andtheattitudes ofthestaff and is abroad, dynamic,relevant andexciting Geographyin theGeography Department. Michelle Lucas,Ihave had afantastic time always wingof encouraging andsupportive my time at Rendcomb justice.Underthe accurate, thisdescriptiondoesnotdo teaching assistantpart-time andwhilst – immediately Ihadagoodfeeling. was infull voiceJunior Schoolcarol concert the Christmastree was decorated andthe the Michaelmasterm whenIcameto visit, of this impressive school.Itwas theendof me to theimposingyet welcoming doors PGCE courseandmy goodfortune brought teaching experience before beginningmy I thought itwise to gainobservational dream for thepasttwo terms. teacher’s hasbeenatrainee Rendcomb College by agrateful geographer Six months inRendcomb www.rendcomb.org.uk Geography My contract depictsmy role as willingness and support. willingness andsupport. must goto membersofstaff for your do notexactly comenaturally to me!Thanks Science andMaths -bothsubjectareas that been ableto observe andassistinclude term. Senior schoollessonsinwhichI’ve lovely to seetheirimprovement over the the often freezing cold weather andit was was great fun, thegirlsworked hard despite an afternoon aweekwiththeyounger girls School duringtheirnetballsessions.Having a lessonat theriver withtheL6th. intheWorld’ ‘Where departmental quiz,and with, aBritishIslesquizwiththe1stform, our facedapproach almostanything they’re enthusiasm with whichthe4thform students Among othergeography highlights are the own resources have beeninvaluable. methods ofteaching anddesigningmy lessonstructure, I’ve learnedabout planning, their ideasandcreativity. Further, lessons them to learnwhilealsolearningmyself from and enthusiastic group ofstudents, helping great to really getto knowahard-working to happensoearlyinmy training. It’sbeen been brilliant and somethingIdidn’texpect responsibility ofteaching awholetopic has I spent aterm helpingwith theJunior Miss MLucas Miss beneath tropical seassome170 millionyears ago. sandwiched between theooliticlimestone deposited due to theFuller’sEarth Clay (volcanic ashdeposits) of oneof thespringsthat emitsfrom thevalley side be usedasbiofuel. Thestudents alsovisited thesite of thefarmland across thevalley for elephant grass to the plansfor estate theCollege’s grounds andtheuse treethe College’s planting program. Healsoalludedto sustainable practices suchasrecycling waste aswell as the year duringalunchbreak abouttheCollege’s heritage. Works MrCairns, Team Manager, spoke to mainbuildingtoas well astheCollege’s its discuss visited thevillagehallwhichusesgeothermal energy on thesettlement of Rendcomb. Thestudents also building aswell asthecrucialnature of theRiver Churn visited thisimportant theRendcombMillanddiscussed fieldwork around lessons thevillage.Thestudents geography of thevillageof Rendcomb, some undertook The First Year of aproject students, onthe aspart inspiration –what aluckygirlI’ve been! for your company, encouragement and career andthankallat RendcombCollege course. Ilookforward to thenext step inmy University onaPGCEsecondaryGeography enriched my timehere. unexpected pleasures whichhave only as welllivingat number15, have been exploring ourbeautiful surroundings, working ashiftat thevillagepuband shop, gettingto knowtheneighbours, Rendcomb village,too. Visitingthevillage IhaveCollege. enjoyedof beingpart advantage ofschoolslike Rendcomb beings seemsto beanunderappreciated and to recognise oneanotherashuman and pupilsto connectonadifferent level in, wherever Iwork.Achancefor staff of teaching Ihopeto always beinvolved students outside ofacademiclife isaside been involved in.Timespent withthe have alltheDuke ofEdinburgh trips I’ve highlight,as duties hasbeenaparticular the boys at Lawn houseduringmy evening myself inRendcomblife. Gettingto know Miss JBale Miss Next for meisayear at Newcastle I have thoroughly enjoyed immersing n 29 n

Academic Reports Academic Reports 30 as looking at how this part of thecountryas lookingat guards how thispart againstcoastal erosion. Somerset coastto undertake fieldwork measuring sanddunes,as North well processes. Thisyear we decidedto take thestudents Devon to North andthe students sitinMay butalsofor theirknowledge of key furthering ideasand fieldwork. Thisisessential not just for the techniques paperwhichthe Geography of theAS course,students part As are required to undertake Fieldwork GeographyAS managed to impress allwithhisnearencyclopaedic knowledge. areas, who there isreally onlyonepersonto ask….MrIllingworth, asking questionsaboutthegreat variety ofplants that inhabitsuch conducting suchfieldwork.They alsolearnedthat whenitcomes to itistobut alsohowimportant understand theproblems of learned notjustthetechniques neededto survey adunesystem (a mustfor any Geography fieldtrip)itwasagreat day. Students at Braunton Burrows nearBideford. Despite thewindandrain Rendcomb welike to dothingsinstyle!) (Who says Geography fieldtripsare allabout roughing it?– At off to bed-someeven hadthegoodfortuneto bagafour-poster. finished eating there wasnotimeleft for work,sowealltrampled treated to athree coursebanquetby ourhotel. Bythetimewehad taught intheday, however, onthisfieldtripthestudents were been employed inthisarea to stop coastal erosion. and taught aboutthespecificmanagement techniques whichhave time to buythat seasideice-cream allimportant andwere thenshown prevalent inthisarea. Itwasthenoffto Mineheadwhere students had to findandcollectthenumerous typesof opportunity fossils that are coastline. Asifthiswasn’texciting enoughthestudents thenhadthe specifically howthisaffected the rate oftheUK oferosion onthispart some amazingexamples offaults andfolds andwere taught to Kilve andthenonto Minehead.At Kilve thestudents were shown Miss MLucas Miss Day twowasspent studyingthedunesystem (Psammosere) Normally, evenings are spent goingover what hasbeen On dayspecifically onewetravelled Somerset, downto North n replacement level. as aresult ofthefertilitylevel falling below the difficulties facing Europe inparticular the fallingrates birth around theworldand which wasvery stimulating andaddressed Future“The ofHumanReproduction” Oxford’s Demography on Department) Professor David (University Coleman of result of climate change. increasing infrequency andmagnitudeasa flooding andothernatural hazards that are increasingly desensitisedto drought, normal” whereby weare becoming He putforward theconceptof“new to enablingsustainable development. slowing oftheworld’spopulation ascrucial world’s population andtheneedfor the about thechallengesthat lieaheadfor the humanity. MrPorritt spoke very eloquently resources required to sustain thislevel of 9 billioninthenext 40years) andthe issue ofglobalpopulation growth (reaching to thestudents’ studieswhichlookat the Sustainability”.The talk wasvery relevant on “PuttingPopulation of at theHeart Porritt, CBE,chairof“Forum for theFuture,” and Technology Society. hostedCollege by theCirencester Science impressive lectures at theRoyal Agricultural The SixthForm Geographers went to two Mr ABrealy Lectures College Agricultural Royal The secondlecture wasgiven by The firstwasgiven by Jonathon n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, arrived inthearea onTuesday. the many wreaths andbouquetswhenwe area ontheSunday butwere ableto witness on theceremonies heldacross theSomme of theBattle of the Somme.We missedout casualties with20,000 deadonthefirstday day that theBritishsuffered around 60,000 out onthejourney asitwas96years to the very poignant asmy GCSEstudents pointed We left Rendcombat 6.30am Sunday 1stJuly, www.rendcomb.org.uk J Condon, who is almost certainly the whoisalmost certainly J Condon, final visitoftheday to thegrave ofPrivate of ourBattlefields tour hithomeonthe adventure playground! Theseriousness visited theoutsidecafe orexplored the lovely weather wewalked around thelake, Passchendaele. Makingthemostof claustrophobic at theMemorial Museum accommodation leftusfeeling quite andsleeping first aidposts,headquarters dugout complete withcommunications and reconstruction ofa6metre-deep British into oneofthebunkers. Awalkthrough the felt inLondon, before thestudents climbed blown inJune1917, theshockofwhichwas see thecrater formed whenthemineswere followed by anunplannedvisitto Hill60to oftheBelgianfront. Thiswas remaining part the Trench ofDeath at Diksmuide,thelast asstudentsvery were earlystart letloosein the duration ofthetrip, wequicklyforgot the glorious sunshinewhichstayed withusfor History First World War Battlefield Trip 2012 hostel, they were acredit asalways to RendcombCollege. cemeteries, thenext fun andlaughter onthecoachorbackat the emotions that atriplike thisentails, oneminute visitingwartime studentssuccess, were exceptional dealingwiththedifferent students for yourThetripwas ahuge muchvalued support. oversubscribed andIwishtherefore to thankallparents and inpreviousAs years my Battlefields trip was very quickly Arriving inBelgiumat around 2pmto Mrs MKinson Kinson for before allyour support andduringthetrip. massive thankyou to thestaff team ofSarah White, AliceBerry, Frank Whitham and Simon downpours: welcomehome! brought usbackto butloandbeholdwithinhalfanhourwewere experiencing torrential sunshine wereminded ourdriver, Fred, that itwasEnglandhesupposedto have Europe, adelight for bothstudents andstaff! On arrivingbackinFolkestone to glorious the day onahigh. surpriseforbirthday oneofourstudents, balloons,presents andahugecake whichended a later evening meal,whichsawthestaff runningaround arranging thediningroom for a Lochnagar Crater andThiepval Memorialto theMissingbefore thelongjourney backand July 1916, withourlovely GAPstudent andknowledgeableCanadian guides.Afinalvisit to Newfoundland Regiment,oneofthefirstbrigades to go over the top onthat fateful day in tour oftheSommebattlefields, following inthe footsteps ofthe1stBattalion oftheRoyal Tower, sittingoutsideinthesunshinetaking inthescenerybefore ourguided walking a tribute towhofought the sonsofCanada anddiedthere, followed by lunchat theUlster underground tunnelsandtrenches at Vimy MemorialPark andtheVimy Ridge Memorial, another reminder oftheyoung boys wholiedabouttheirageto fight for theircountry. to thehostel to viewthegrave ofPrivate VJStrudwickkilledin1916at theageof15years, graves withbright flowers at Avisit to EssexCot. Tyne Farm wasmadeontheway back the blacksombre tombstones andmassgraves at Langemark compared to thewhite single Cemetery andTyne BritishCemetery. Cot found Students particularly itdifficult to take in boxes ofchocolate. An afternoon ofcontrasts ensuedwithvisitsto Langemark German to thechocolate shop!Students andstaff arrivingbackonthecoachloadedwithbagsand the Last Post Ceremony before freelunchandthemuchanticipated timefor visit shopping, experience ofwar. Awalkto theMeninGate for atalk inpreparation for theevening visitto crater before avisitto theInFlanders Field MuseuminYpres for aguidethrough thehuman trip whoare ofthesameage. when hewaskilledinactionMay 1915–avery sombre thought for my 45students onthe youngest British soldierto dieonactive serviceintheGreat War, hewasonly14years ofage A massive thankyou againto all45students, you were absolutely superb, anda The return journey would notbethesamewithoutafew hoursofshoppinginCite Tuesday andthelongerjourney to sawanearlystart theSomme area for visitsto the Monday stillontheYpres Salient sawustake inthePool ofPeace, awater filledmine n

Academic Reports Academic Reports 30 as looking at how this part of thecountryas lookingat guards how thispart againstcoastal erosion. Somerset coastto undertake fieldwork measuring sanddunes,as North well processes. Thisyear we decidedto take thestudents Devon to North andthe students sitinMay butalsofor theirknowledge of key furthering ideasand fieldwork. Thisisessential not just for the techniques paperwhichthe Geography of theAS course,students part As are required to undertake Fieldwork GeographyAS managed to impress allwithhisnearencyclopaedic knowledge. areas, who there isreally onlyonepersonto ask….MrIllingworth, asking questionsaboutthegreat variety ofplants that inhabitsuch conducting suchfieldwork.They alsolearnedthat whenitcomes to itistobut alsohowimportant understand theproblems of learned notjustthetechniques neededto survey adunesystem (a mustfor any Geography fieldtrip)itwasagreat day. Students at Braunton Burrows nearBideford. Despite thewindandrain Rendcomb welike to dothingsinstyle!) (Who says Geography fieldtripsare allabout roughing it?– At off to bed-someeven hadthegoodfortuneto bagafour-poster. finished eating there wasnotimeleft for work,sowealltrampled treated to athree coursebanquetby ourhotel. Bythetimewehad taught intheday, however, onthisfieldtripthestudents were been employed inthisarea to stop coastal erosion. and taught aboutthespecificmanagement techniques whichhave time to buythat seasideice-cream allimportant andwere thenshown prevalent inthisarea. Itwasthenoffto Mineheadwhere students had to findandcollectthenumerous typesof opportunity fossils that are coastline. Asifthiswasn’texciting enoughthestudents thenhadthe specifically howthisaffected the rate oftheUK oferosion onthispart some amazingexamples offaults andfolds andwere taught to Kilve andthenonto Minehead.At Kilve thestudents were shown Miss MLucas Miss Day twowasspent studyingthedunesystem (Psammosere) Normally, evenings are spent goingover what hasbeen On dayspecifically onewetravelled Somerset, downto North n Mr ABrealy replacement level. as aresult ofthefertilitylevel falling below the difficulties facing Europe inparticular the fallingrates birth around theworldand which wasvery stimulating andaddressed Future“The ofHumanReproduction” Oxford’s Demography on Department) Professor David (University Coleman of result of climate change. increasing infrequency andmagnitudeasa flooding andothernatural hazards that are increasingly desensitisedto drought, normal” whereby weare becoming He putforward theconceptof“new to enablingsustainable development. slowing oftheworld’spopulation ascrucial world’s population andtheneedfor the about thechallengesthat lieaheadfor the humanity. MrPorritt spoke very eloquently resources required to sustain thislevel of 9 billioninthenext 40years) andthe issue ofglobalpopulation growth (reaching to thestudents’ studieswhichlookat the Sustainability”.The talk wasvery relevant on “PuttingPopulation of at theHeart Porritt, CBE,chairof“Forum for theFuture,” and Technology Society. hostedCollege by theCirencester Science impressive lectures at theRoyal Agricultural The SixthForm Geographers went to two Lectures College Agricultural Royal The secondlecture wasgiven by The firstwasgiven by Jonathon n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, the whoisalmost certainly J Condon, final visitoftheday to thegrave ofPrivate of ourBattlefields tour hithomeonthe adventure playground! Theseriousness visited theoutsidecafe orexplored the lovely weather wewalked around thelake, Passchendaele. Makingthemostof claustrophobic at theMemorial Museum accommodation leftusfeeling quite andsleeping first aidposts,headquarters dugout complete withcommunications and reconstruction ofa6metre-deep British into oneofthebunkers. Awalkthrough the felt inLondon, before thestudents climbed blown inJune1917, theshockofwhichwas see thecrater formed whenthemineswere followed by anunplannedvisitto Hill60to oftheBelgianfront. Thiswas remaining part the Trench ofDeath at Diksmuide,thelast asstudentsvery were earlystart letloosein the duration ofthetrip, wequicklyforgot the glorious sunshinewhichstayed withusfor arrived inthearea onTuesday. the many wreaths andbouquetswhenwe area ontheSunday butwere ableto witness on theceremonies heldacross theSomme of theBattle of the Somme.We missedout casualties with20,000 deadonthefirstday day that theBritishsuffered around 60,000 out onthejourney asitwas96years to the very poignant asmy GCSEstudents pointed We left Rendcombat 6.30am Sunday 1stJuly, www.rendcomb.org.uk First World War Battlefield Trip 2012 hostel, they were acredit asalways to RendcombCollege. cemeteries, thenext fun andlaughter onthecoachorbackat the emotions that atriplike thisentails, oneminute visitingwartime studentssuccess, were exceptional dealingwiththedifferent students for yourThetripwas ahuge muchvalued support. oversubscribed andIwishtherefore to thankallparents and inpreviousAs years my Battlefields trip was very quickly History Arriving inBelgiumat around 2pmto Mrs MKinson Kinson for before allyour support andduringthetrip. massive thankyou to thestaff team ofSarah White, AliceBerry, Frank Whitham and Simon downpours: welcomehome! brought usbackto butloandbeholdwithinhalfanhourwewere experiencing torrential sunshine wereminded ourdriver, Fred, that itwasEnglandhesupposedto have Europe, adelight for bothstudents andstaff! On arrivingbackinFolkestone to glorious the day onahigh. surpriseforbirthday oneofourstudents, balloons,presents andahugecake whichended a later evening meal,whichsawthestaff runningaround arranging thediningroom for a Lochnagar Crater andThiepval Memorialto theMissingbefore thelongjourney backand July 1916, withourlovely GAPstudent andknowledgeableCanadian guides.Afinalvisit to Newfoundland Regiment,oneofthefirstbrigades to go over the top onthat fateful day in tour oftheSommebattlefields, following inthe footsteps ofthe1stBattalion oftheRoyal Tower, sittingoutsideinthesunshinetaking inthescenerybefore ourguided walking a tribute towhofought the sonsofCanada anddiedthere, followed by lunchat theUlster underground tunnelsandtrenches at Vimy MemorialPark andtheVimy Ridge Memorial, another reminder oftheyoung boys wholiedabouttheirageto fight for theircountry. to thehostel to viewthegrave ofPrivate VJStrudwickkilledin1916at theageof15years, graves withbright flowers at Avisit to EssexCot. Tyne Farm wasmadeontheway back the blacksombre tombstones andmassgraves at Langemark compared to thewhite single Cemetery andTyne BritishCemetery. Cot found Students particularly itdifficult to take in boxes ofchocolate. An afternoon ofcontrasts ensuedwithvisitsto Langemark German to thechocolate shop!Students andstaff arrivingbackonthecoachloadedwithbagsand the Last Post Ceremony before freelunchandthemuchanticipated timefor visit shopping, experience ofwar. Awalkto theMeninGate for atalk inpreparation for theevening visitto crater before avisitto theInFlanders Field MuseuminYpres for aguidethrough thehuman trip whoare ofthesameage. when hewaskilledinactionMay 1915–avery sombre thought for my 45students onthe youngest British soldierto dieonactive serviceintheGreat War, hewasonly14years ofage A massive thankyou againto all45students, you were absolutely superb, anda The return journey would notbethesamewithoutafew hoursofshoppinginCite Tuesday andthelongerjourney to sawanearlystart theSomme area for visitsto the Monday stillontheYpres Salient sawustake inthePool ofPeace, awater filledmine n

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The Battlefields trip was definitely a highlight of STUDENTS’ this year. Despite the early morning start everyone was excited to get onto the bus for the long drive to REFLECTIONS: Belgium. After a long cross under the sea, along the motorway and crossing the borders we finally ReportsAcademic BATTLEFIELDS TRIP ReportsAcademic reached our first site, the trenches. 1st - 4th JULY 2012 Exploring the trenches knowing that men had fought in such cramped conditions really gave us an insight on just how harsh it would have been to fight at war. We continued to visit Hill 60, Pool of Peace and walking through our first cemetery it The Battlefields trip was a mixture of emotions, from excitement became hard to deal with seeing the vast number of to empathy. Mornings at the hostel, coach trips and evenings had men lost at war. nothing but happiness and laughs. Trips to cemeteries and memorials We were all glad to reach the hostel that showed people’s emotional side with everyone walking around quietly first day and finally settle down and relax. Once with much respect. For me, the German cemetery Langemark was reaching our rooms we made ourselves at home and most saddening. Gravestones were dark and dull with an average although it had been a long day, some of us found it of around 15 soldiers each, approximately 10 unidentified. A hard to get to sleep… single row included around 500 German soldiers. These figures are We visited a Museum featuring an imitation unbelievable. In contrast the Allies were buried individually with of a dugout in WW1. Even knowing that we much brighter gravestones. Breaks from imagining the horror of were safe, I couldn’t face staying in the dimly lit, 1914-1918, included eating Belgium chocolate in the town of Ypres confined space for too long. and shopping in the Cite Europe. Visiting Ypres and Somme were Overall, it was interesting and helpful as both once in a life time experiences. we could understand just how the soldiers would Duncan Graham really feel being kept in such conditions. It was an amazing experience and it was lovely to have the teachers there to help us understand and enjoy the IN FLANDERS FIELDS’trip even more. THE POPPIES BLOW Imogen Pollard Between the crosses, row on row,

That Whenmark pupils goour abroad place:for school trips, and all that theyin can the think about sky is the fun of the trip; are we going to have hot weather? What will I wear for this day? Will there be a nice gift shop? But on the way to Belgium, not one The oflarks, us understood still the true bravelyextent of the horrors singing, of the Great War. fly Our first stop was at ‘The Trench of Death’ in Diksmuide, where the pupils were able to experience the Trench life, like how cramped the dugouts were. The roofs were low and muddy puddles covered the floor, giving a damp smell that hit you as soon as you entered the dugout. This gave excitement throughout the group, the first stop of the trip, and everyone getting their cameras out to pose next to the sniper holes or the monument. As soon as we left to carry on to our next visit, the pop music of the pupils choice was playing on the speakers, children were chatting and everyone was in an eager mood for more. However our coach pulled outside of Poelcapple Cemetery and that’s when the mood of the coach instantly changed. Rows and rows of white stone slabs were erected next to us, in a beautifully arranged allotment with flowers and shrubs positioned in between each row. We were explained to how the youngest soldier to fight and killed was located here in this cemetery, Private J. Condon, only 14 years old, the ages of some of us on the trip. We were left to walk around the gravestones, and experience our first Great War Cemetery. For most, it was an experience that left them saddened. Nevertheless, the friendship between the pupils showed and everyone began to comfort each other, taking some time to reflect on the stone benches provided on the side of the cemetery. Poelcapple had clearly caught the attention of the pupils and had made them understand the true horrors of the war; the amount of casualties and pain for the families of the soldiers. The Battfields Trip of 2012 will be something that many of us will remember for the rest of our lives, and will help us all to understand more clearly the First World War. Emmeline Meborn-Hubbard

32 Rendcombian - The Magazine for Rendcomb College, Juniors and Nursery 33 Academic Reports 32 1st -4thJULY 2012 BATTLEFIELDS TRIP REFLECTIONS: STUDENTS’ We shallnotsleep,though poppiesgrow To youfromfailinghandswethrow The torch;beyourstohold ithigh, Take upourquarrelwiththefoe; Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk If yebreakfaithwithuswho die earlier trainandarrivingbackinEnglandwithsomewonderfulmovingmemories.Anamazingenjoyabletrip! creepy reminderofthedangerswar. some youcouldseethefullextentofblast.Alongwiththesetherewereareascordonedoffduetounexplodedshells,a the BritishtodislodgeGermans,shockwavesofwhichcouldbefeltinLondon.Thesewereoftenfilledwithwaterbut in machine gunsandtheThiepvalMemorialtothousandsofmenmissinginSomme.Thereweremassiveholesblownby famed fortheirfearlessness.ThiswasmixedwiththesadtaleofNewfoundlanderswhowerecaughtincrossfiretwo when thelightswentout,gavearealfeelingforhardshipoflifeandstory“DevilsinQuilts,”Scottisharmy Somme andVimy Ridge,guidedbyourinterestingandfunnyCanadianguides.Thetripintothetunnels,coldpitchblack you realisethefullextentofwarandcanputintocontextnumberdead. were forunknownsoldiersyettheystillwellkeptwithflowersandinscriptions.Itisonlywhenyouseethegravesthat with oneforeachperson.Itshockedmehowmanygravestherewerebutalsospecialandwellcaredtheywere.Many though wastheGermancemeterywheretwentysoldierswereburiedunderonestone,astarkdifferencefromBritishgraves moving andsomethingIwon’t forget,especiallytheplayingofonemyViolin piecesonthebagpipes!Themostmovingsite on thewallsbutalsobyBelgiansexcellentEnglishthatIaccidentlytrodaman’s foot!TheLastPostwasincredibly Museum. Afteratriptothechocolateshopwelistenedlastpost,whereIwassoamazedbothbynumberofnames great tourguideanddriver. ThenextdaywevisitedYpres, wherenothingisolderthan100yearsandtheFlandersFields Death,” whereyoucouldwalkthroughthedugoutsfilledwithwater. ThentherewastabletennisandPoolagainstFred,our Cemetery wherePrivateJ.Condonwasburied,theyoungestsoldiertodieinwar, Hill60andtheBelgian“Trench of chocolate shop!Thereweresomebrilliantsitesonthefirstdaywhere,afteraveryearlystart,wevisitedPoelcapple The RendcombBattlefields Trip wasanamazingexperiencethatIwillneverforgetfromthemovingcemeteriesto Ypres on civilians,soldiersandleaders,butthosewholivedinthefuture. 25,000. Itwasmovingtoseethehorrorsandeffectsofwar, notjust buried undereachgrave,inthedarkcemetery, alongsideamassgraveof Langemark touchedmanypeoplethemost.Upto25Germansoldiers many cemeteries,parksandmonuments,buttheGermanCemetery situated inthecompletelyrenovatedClothHallofYpres. a keythemeinthefantastic‘In also theeffectGreatWar hadoncivilians’every day. Thiswas The tripcentrednotjustontacticalwarfareandthebarefacts,but The lastdaysawalongandsleepycouchjourneytoFrancemassshoppingtripCiteEuropebeforecatchingan Then onthesecondtolastdaywewentintoFranceSommeValley andwalkedaroundthetrenchesatboth In flanders’fields. Flanders FieldMuseum’,whichis Loved andwereloved,nowwelie We lived,feltdawn,sawsunsetglow, Scarce heardamidthegunsbelow. We arethedead.Shortdaysago We visited Tom Pethick In flanders’fields. from Quebec).Overallabrilliant trip! by Fréderic(averypassionateand knowledgeablestudent visits toVimy Ridgeandanextensivepracticaltour an almostparalleldimensionof lifeinthetrenches,with trip. We learnedmanyinterestingthingsandexperienced important ofall-Chocolate!!!!Ofcourseitisaveryserious full ofmuseums,cemeteries,battlefields,cratersandmost faint-hearted, itisanemotionalrollercoasterridepacked The battlefieldstripwasveryenlighteningbutnotforthe Amy Benson Ed Watkins , 33

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The battlefields trip was an emotional but very THE POPPIESenlightening BLOW trip that allowed us to look further into what we have been studying. The sites we visited Between the crosses,had anrow amazing on effect onrow, us all and really helped us to visualise the facts and figures we’d learnt in ReportsAcademic ReportsAcademic That mark our place:the and classroom in and reallythe emphasised sky the devastation of the First World War. In particular the grave of Private J. Condon, who died at just 14 years old The larks, still bravelywas a shocking singing, scene and the fly overall atmosphere amongst the students was of both honour and sadness that a boy, not even as old as us, had fought The Battlefields trip was very emotional and touching which brought so admirably in the war. peers closer to one another. But on the journeys back and forth Our trip took us to Tyne Cot Cemetery, to cemeteries and trenches etc… and at the hostel brought music, where there are graves of 11,871 soldiers and a laughs and happiness which extinguished all sadness. But as well as memorial to remember the names of almost 35,000 all the emotions lingering around it was also very educational and soldiers. The graves engraved ‘‘Known only to God’’ we learnt a lot about war, the conditions, tactics etc… and the huge were particularly upsetting and it was here that masses of people that gave their life for the great war which was as- most people found time to themselves to think. The tonishing especially Private J.Condon who died at the age of 14 and headstones included the soldiers name, regiment and Private Strudwick who died at age 15, this shocked everyone. But age. The innocence of the boys - and many were with all this sadness there was a relief in the form of a visit to Cite only boys - who suffered was truly heart wrench- Europe and also a deal at the chocolate shop in Ypres! ing. Throughout the visit you are accompanied by Overall it was a great trip which will be remembered for a long a lone girl’s voice reading the names and ages of the time thank you. missing, and it was truly moving. The cemetery Arjun Patel itself was a fitting testament to the heroes who died Scarce heard amid the guns below. at Passchendaele, and the whole experience is one of peaceful remembrance and admiration. We are the dead. Short days ago The trip did adopt a different atmosphere than the normal Rendcomb College trips which could only be expected and was really quite fitting to the situa- We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, tion. It was by far one of the more memorable and interesting trips of my time at Rendcomb. Loved and were loved, and now we lie Olivia Ellis In flanders’ fields.

The trip was a very interesting and moving experience. We visited a lot of cemeteries which were overwhelming and really moving. The one that was the most breath taking was Tyne Cot cemetery; it is the largest British cemetery which was hard to take in. The grave stones were endless and this really moved everyone. As soon as we entered the cemetery every single person on the trip went silent and respected the place without command which I think reflects the manner of Rendcomb students on this trip. Another part of the trip which was particularly interesting was the trenches at Vimy Ridge. We went down into the underground tunnels and experienced the conditions the soldiers went through. This was mind blowing to everyone and really helped the GCSE students visualise the conditions that we have been learning about. I am proud to say I have visited the battlefields and I feel that it is something that everyone must do. Overall, it was a very interesting trip and one which will be remembered throughout my life time. Florence Price

34 Rendcombian - The Magazine for Rendcomb College, Juniors and Nursery 35 Academic Reports 34 We shallnotsleep,though poppiesgrow To youfromfailinghandswethrow The torch;beyourstoholdithigh, Take upourquarrelwiththefoe; Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk If yebreakfaithwithuswhodie great busdriverandgivingusalaugh.ThistripwasincredibleIwouldlovetogoagain! really nicedespitethefactthateveryonewasextremelytiredaftervisitingsites.SothankyouFredforbeinga came withusandtoMrsKinsonfororganisingthisamazingtrip.AndFredthebusdriverwhowashilarious take alotoflovelymemoriesfromthistripthatwilllastmeforlifetime.Thankyouverymuchtothestaffwho trying onclothesandtestingdesignerperfumes. I thoughtitwouldbeandthefacilitieswereexcellent.TheshoppingtriptoCitéEuropewasenjoyableloved chocolate. Afterbusydayswereturnedtoacleanandmodernyouthhostel.Thehostel’s foodwasalotnicerthan worthwhile seeingandwereinspirational. had learntaboutandtowalkwherethesoldierswalkedinGreatWar. Alloftheothersiteswerereally the trenches,minesandonSommeVimy Ridgebattlefields.Itwasamazingtoseetheplacesthatwe Beaumont Hamel&NewfoundlandParkwerefascinatingandIthoughtitwasincrediblethatwewalkedthrough Langemarck GermanCemetery, therewas1massgravewhichhad25,000bodiesinit!! person, whereastheGermangravesarejustgreyslabsofstoneswhichhaveupto20peoplepergrave.At and lookingatthenamesongate’s walls. listening tothelastpostatMeninGatewasverythought-provokingandtouching.Ienjoyedbagpipes this. These2memorialscombinedshowedthattherewere128,000peoplewhohavenoknowngrave.Furthermore realise howmanypeoplehadnoknowngraves,memorialsliketheThiepvalMemorialandMeninGateillustrated were whofoughtinthewarforexamplePrivateJ.Condondiedactionatageof14!MoreoverIdidn’t Farm) wasamovingandfascinatingexperience.Thecemeteriesalsodemonstratedhowyoungsomeofthepeople was apointlesslossoflife.Howeverseeingallthesecemeteries(suchasthePoelcappleCemeteryandEssex showed howmanymendiedinthewarandIfoundthatextremelyupsettingforbelieveFirstWorld War because thecemeteries(particularlyTyne CotBritishWar CemeteryandtheLangemarckGermanCemetery) The Battlefields Trip wasreallyinterestingandIwillalwaysrememberthistrip.foundthecemeteriesdepressing So overall,Ifoundthistripmemorable,interestingandquitesad.Butenjoyedmyselfthoroughlycan The tripwasalsofunandwasn’t alldoomandgloom.IenjoyedshoppinginBelgiumeatingBelgian The museumswereveryinformativeandenlightening.AdditionallytheguidedtoursatVimy Ridgeandthe The triprevealedthatmanyoftheBritishandFrenchgravesarewell-keptelaboratewith1graveper In flanders’fields. because itwasveryenjoyableand weallhadalotoffun. Newfoundland ParkandVimy Ridge. Boiselle LochnagarCrater, UlsterTower andwereguidedshowedaroundBeaumont Hameland including attheSomme.Thiswasprobablymyfavouriteday as wesawtheThiepvalMemorial,La “Passchendaele”. Thesewereespeciallyinteresting.We alsovisitedbattlefieldsandsawlotsoftrenches average 12men,therewerenoflowers. smaller yethadupto30000morepeople;thegravestoneswere asmallblackcrosswhichrepresentedon white, allplacedinline,withflowersaroundandshortlycutgrass, howevertheGermancemeterieswere cemeteries andBritishyoucouldcertainlytellthedifference. TheBritishgravestoneswere to thecemeterieswesawnextday. Ifounditveryinterestinghowbyjustlooking attheGerman are untilyouseeallthegravestones.Ithoughtcemeterywas huge,butthenitwastinycompared shock asalthoughwehadlearntabouthowmanypeopledied,youcanhardlyseethere The firstdayaftertravellingwewenttoacemeterywithfourteenyearoldboyin,thiscameasreal lot anditwasoverwhelmingyetenjoyable. have previouslystudied.ThetripwasdefinitelysomethingIfeeleverybodyshouldexperience,learnta I reallyenjoyedgoingtoBelgiumandFrancelookaroundcemeteries,trenchesbattlefieldsthatwe The tripwasveryemotionaland itwasoftenhardtotakeallin.However, Iwouldrecommendit Not onlydidwevisitcemeteriesbutalsosomegreatmuseums including “InFlandersField”and Olivia Knapp Rozy Baynham 35

Academic Reports Academic Reports Maths andawful puns, you probably want to know what we actuallydid. always dealingwith‘naturallumberjacks, asthey’re logs’.Butenoughadvertisements for regardless of vocation, to gothrough life withoutneedinga‘degree’ of Maths, even is quintessential to theways inwhichtheworld works for anditisimpossible anyone, needed atour; we’re not referring to thebadquadratic roots pun,butbecauseMaths didn’t have any ‘real roots’ itwould fall over wouldn’t it?Thisiswhy theMaths Department Maths does,indeed,govern thelawsof theworld, theuniverse andnature, Imean,ifatree imagination andsomeof themeven have asenseof humour. Itistruewhat they say: brokeDepartment itscycle andshowed theworld that Mathematicians have personalities, Germany andwe thinktheThespiansgoto London orsomething. Yet thisyear theMaths The Biologistsfrequent zoos, theLinguistsgoandvisitdistant andbackward landslike important subjectoffered at Rendcomb, yet withoutproposing any tours, tripsoroutings. The Maths hasbeenunusualinprevious Department years: itisoneof, ifnot themost 36 rival Drama Tour At last!Somethingto Mathematics chance to goonasimilarTour. but alsohugelyinformative. We only hopesubsequent years will have the even more impressed whenheinformed them hewasn’tateacher. congratulating himonthebehaviour ofhisgroup ofchildren. They were for theRendcombwasoneofushersapproaching PhilipOepen and duck-sized horsesor1horse-sized duck?”Perhapsaccolade thebiggest “How bigisyour ‘BigOne’?” and“Would you rather beattacked by 12 questions raised, including:“Howmuchfor agoonyour ‘BigDipper’?”, the mostinteresting thingto comeabout from thistalk wassomeofthe Mr. Clarkson as theprogramme ledusto believe). However, arguably stunt that involved acarbeingdriven upsidedowninatunnel(notby Londonbehind ‘The Eye’, Bigone’at ‘The BlackpoolandtheTop Gear Rollercoasters”, oneoftheleadingEngineers atalk from JohnRoberts, doesn’t getusanywhere. ScienceBehind Thetalks concludedwith“The the oddsofgameshowsonourside,justincaseMaths qualification Mathsthis was“The behindGameshows”,whichshowedushowto get games work(for Xboxs, you don’tneedanything pastFirst form). Following needed to understand thetheorybehindhowGoogleandPlayStation presentation onhow, essentially, GCSEandAlevel maths isallthat is say, thespeechesat theBristol Hippodrome didnotdisappoint. anduponarrival theanticipationused to know”, wastangible. Needlessto Rendcomb to Bristol withtheMaths Tour 2012song:“some to infinitythatI day arrived, theexcitement curve wasat dydx=∞. Thebuswasshakingfrom growing exponentially intheweekspreceding thetrip, andby thetime excitement for thehighlight ofthemathematical calendarhadbeen so, unlike Drama Tour, wemaintained somedignityandwore suits.The Lance Baynham, 6L Maths Tour 2012wasacomplete success;notonlyextremely fun, The talks beganwith“From Googleto Graphics”, aninteresting Unfortunately, Maths Tour didn’tarrive ontime, 2012poloshirts n places to read maths related subjects. many students goingonto secure university gaining 10A* inMaths and3A* inFM, with pupils taking Alevel Maths andFurther Maths, Morgan achieving BestinSchoolat thislevel. sat theJuniorMaths ChallengewithMaddy regional final at Wootton BassettSchool. gained 10thplaceoutof26inavery tough Summers, Georgia Pethick andJared Wason consisting ofSamTushingham, Pascale scores and qualifiedfor thenext round. Daniel Gregory who achieved impressive a specialmention mustgoto SamScottand intheIntermediatetook part Maths Challenge, insecondplace. Rendcomb College Grammar Schoolfrom Newcastle,with competition, whichwaswonby theRoyal the morningthere wasalsoaposter scored avery respectableDuring 156/186. Hampshire; however RendcombCollege of thecompetitionwasAltonin College STMCFinal. Theoverall2011/12 winner London where 63teams competed inthe they travelled toCentre theCamden in a placeintheNational Final. SoinFebruary whichgaveamazing scorethem of169/176 won theregional final at Wycliffe withan Team SagandMark) Chang, (Connie, awarded adistinctioninthispaper. mention mustgoto Constance whowas Mathematical Olympiad Special Round1. through to thenext round, theBritish Gold certificates, withsixpupilsgoing and achieved analltimehighof ten intheUKMTSeniorMaths Challenge part Sixth Form at took RendcombCollege Last November, allmathematicians inthe Challenges Maths Mrs LGregory The year ended with a record number of The year endedwitharecord numberof In April, 30 firstandsecond form pupils In March, theJuniorMaths Team Also inFebruary form thefourthandfifth In December, theSeniorMaths n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, had to bepostponed. so thescavenger hunt that we hadplanned was bitterly to cold and started snow heavily unusual painted interior. Unfortunately, it around the church withitsstunningandvery old town wall. Thepupilsenjoyed looking traditional half-timbered buildingsandan is inavery attractive oldtown withmany school‘Gymnasium Calvarienberg’ partner met theHeadmaster, HerrSchülting.Our school printing workshop. Thepupilsalso and alsoproducing ourown postcards inthe school,goingto somelessons our partner school.On thefirstday,partner we visited stayed thewholeweek infamilies from our the Rhine.The3rd and4thform students nights Honnef inBad ontheother sideof school,andfor our partner thelastthree Neuenahr-Ahrweiler,in Bad very nearto Form stayed intwo youth hostels –firstly The1stand2nd once againahugesuccess. Neuenahr-Ahweiler, southofwas Bonn Rendcomb’s ninth Germantripto Bad Modern Languages www.rendcomb.org.uk little town, LinzamRhein.Here, thepupils spent afew hours inanothervery pretty the Rhine,took aferry across theriver and beautifully sunny afternoon wedrove to Asitwasa students andtheirpartners. also metupwithsomeoftheexchange pupils very muchenjoyed thisvisitandwe famous racing carsfromThe thepast. interactive activities,simulators, ridesand exhibition centre, where there were many Friday’s visitwasto theNürburgring February 2012 1st &2ndForm GermanTrip house (they do not allowlarge groups) and house. Someofthepupilswent insidethe the Minster, at thetown hallandBeethoven’s centre ofBonn,where wehadalookinside German History. After lunch,wewent into the der Geschichte’, amuseumof20thCentury for halfanhourbefore goingto the‘Haus Haribo outletstore inBonnwhere westayed visit to RendcombinMay. teachers whoaccompaniedtheexchange organised by Matthias Jashke, oneofthe we hadaGerman-English‘ChallengeNight’ came to theyouth hostel intheevening and school the shops.Pupilsfrom ourpartner to practise theirGermanin opportunity went onascavenger hunt andhadanother On Saturday, wefirststopped at the took thegroup up the598steps to thetop of the banksofRhineinto thecitycentre. We to theriver, sothat wecouldthenwalkalong animals inGerman.We thenmadeourway asked to findoutsomeofthenames popular. Thepupilswere given aquiz and at thezoo, starting Cologne, whichisalways given thisopportunity. The pupilswere really delighted to have been everything asthey went around theexhibition. having beensowellbehaved andinterested in she felt they deserved aspecialprivilegefor this wouldnotnormallybeallowed,butthat who invited them to dothismadeitclearthat on oneoftheoldpianosdisplay. Thelady at theendof tour, were allowedto play Sunday we set off to spend the day in Sunday wesetoffto spendtheday in 37

Academic Reports Academic Reports Maths andawful puns, you probably want to know what we actuallydid. always dealingwith‘naturallumberjacks, asthey’re logs’.Butenoughadvertisements for regardless of vocation, to gothrough life withoutneedinga‘degree’ of Maths, even is quintessential to theways inwhichtheworld works for anditisimpossible anyone, needed atour; we’re not referring to thebadquadratic roots pun,butbecauseMaths didn’t have any ‘real roots’ itwould fall over wouldn’t it?Thisiswhy theMaths Department Maths does,indeed,govern thelawsof theworld, theuniverse andnature, Imean,ifatree imagination andsomeof themeven have asenseof humour. Itistruewhat they say: brokeDepartment itscycle andshowed theworld that Mathematicians have personalities, Germany andwe thinktheThespiansgoto London orsomething. Yet thisyear theMaths The Biologistsfrequent zoos, theLinguistsgoandvisitdistant andbackward landslike important subjectoffered at Rendcomb, yet withoutproposing any tours, tripsoroutings. The Maths hasbeenunusualinprevious Department years: itisoneof, ifnot themost 36 rival Drama Tour At last!Somethingto Mathematics chance to goonasimilarTour. but alsohugelyinformative. We only hopesubsequent years will have the even more impressed whenheinformed them hewasn’tateacher. congratulating himonthebehaviour ofhisgroup ofchildren. They were for theRendcombwasoneofushersapproaching PhilipOepen and duck-sized horsesor1horse-sized duck?”Perhapsaccolade thebiggest “How bigisyour ‘BigOne’?” and“Would you rather beattacked by 12 questions raised, including:“Howmuchfor agoonyour ‘BigDipper’?”, the mostinteresting thingto comeabout from thistalk wassomeofthe Mr. Clarkson as theprogramme ledusto believe). However, arguably stunt that involved acarbeingdriven upsidedowninatunnel(notby Londonbehind ‘The Eye’, Bigone’at ‘The BlackpoolandtheTop Gear Rollercoasters”, oneoftheleadingEngineers atalk from JohnRoberts, doesn’t getusanywhere. ScienceBehind Thetalks concludedwith“The the oddsofgameshowsonourside,justincaseMaths qualification Mathsthis was“The behindGameshows”,whichshowedushowto get games work(for Xboxs, you don’tneedanything pastFirst form). Following needed to understand thetheorybehindhowGoogleandPlayStation presentation onhow, essentially, GCSEandAlevel maths isallthat is say, thespeechesat theBristol Hippodrome didnotdisappoint. anduponarrival theanticipationused to know”, wastangible. Needlessto Rendcomb to Bristol withtheMaths Tour 2012song:“some to infinitythatI day arrived, theexcitement curve wasat dydx=∞. Thebuswasshakingfrom growing exponentially intheweekspreceding thetrip, andby thetime excitement for thehighlight ofthemathematical calendarhadbeen so, unlike Drama Tour, wemaintained somedignityandwore suits.The Lance Baynham, 6L Maths Tour 2012wasacomplete success;notonlyextremely fun, The talks beganwith“From Googleto Graphics”, aninteresting Unfortunately, Maths Tour didn’tarrive ontime, 2012poloshirts n Mrs LGregory places to read maths related subjects. many students goingonto secure university gaining 10A* inMaths and3A* inFM, with pupils taking Alevel Maths andFurther Maths, Morgan achieving BestinSchoolat thislevel. sat theJuniorMaths ChallengewithMaddy regional final at Wootton BassettSchool. gained 10thplaceoutof26inavery tough Summers, Georgia Pethick andJared Wason consisting ofSamTushingham, Pascale scores and qualifiedfor thenext round. Daniel Gregory who achieved impressive a specialmention mustgoto SamScottand intheIntermediatetook part Maths Challenge, insecondplace. Rendcomb College Grammar Schoolfrom Newcastle,with competition, whichwaswonby theRoyal the morningthere wasalsoaposter scored avery respectableDuring 156/186. Hampshire; however RendcombCollege of thecompetitionwasAltonin College STMCFinal. Theoverall2011/12 winner London where 63teams competed inthe they travelled toCentre theCamden in a placeintheNational Final. SoinFebruary whichgaveamazing scorethem of169/176 won theregional final at Wycliffe withan Team SagandMark) Chang, (Connie, awarded adistinctioninthispaper. mention mustgoto Constance whowas Mathematical Olympiad Special Round1. through to thenext round, theBritish Gold certificates, withsixpupilsgoing and achieved analltimehighof ten intheUKMTSeniorMaths Challenge part Sixth Form at took RendcombCollege Last November, allmathematicians inthe Challenges Maths The year ended with a record number of The year endedwitharecord numberof In April, 30 firstandsecond form pupils In March, theJuniorMaths Team Also inFebruary form thefourthandfifth In December, theSeniorMaths n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, little town, LinzamRhein.Here, thepupils spent afew hours inanothervery pretty the Rhine,took aferry across theriver and beautifully sunny afternoon wedrove to Asitwasa students andtheirpartners. also metupwithsomeoftheexchange pupils very muchenjoyed thisvisitandwe famous racing carsfromThe thepast. interactive activities,simulators, ridesand exhibition centre, where there were many had to bepostponed. so thescavenger hunt that we hadplanned was bitterly to cold and started snow heavily unusual painted interior. Unfortunately, it around the church withitsstunningandvery old town wall. Thepupilsenjoyed looking traditional half-timbered buildingsandan is inavery attractive oldtown withmany school‘Gymnasium Calvarienberg’ partner met theHeadmaster, HerrSchülting.Our school printing workshop. Thepupilsalso and alsoproducing ourown postcards inthe school,goingto somelessons our partner school.On thefirstday,partner we visited stayed thewholeweek infamilies from our the Rhine.The3rd and4thform students nights Honnef inBad ontheother sideof school,andfor our partner thelastthree Neuenahr-Ahrweiler,in Bad very nearto Form stayed intwo youth hostels –firstly The1stand2nd once againahugesuccess. Neuenahr-Ahweiler, southofwas Bonn Rendcomb’s ninth Germantripto Bad Modern Languages www.rendcomb.org.uk Friday’s visitwasto theNürburgring February 2012 1st &2ndForm GermanTrip house (they do not allowlarge groups) and house. Someofthepupilswent insidethe the Minster, at thetown hallandBeethoven’s centre ofBonn,where wehadalookinside German History. After lunch,wewent into the der Geschichte’, amuseumof20thCentury for halfanhourbefore goingto the‘Haus Haribo outletstore inBonnwhere westayed visit to RendcombinMay. teachers whoaccompaniedtheexchange organised by Matthias Jashke, oneofthe we hadaGerman-English‘ChallengeNight’ came to theyouth hostel intheevening and school the shops.Pupilsfrom ourpartner to practise theirGermanin opportunity went onascavenger hunt andhadanother On Saturday, wefirststopped at the took thegroup up the598steps to thetop of the banksofRhineinto thecitycentre. We to theriver, sothat wecouldthenwalkalong animals inGerman.We thenmadeourway asked to findoutsomeofthenames popular. Thepupilswere given aquiz and at thezoo, starting Cologne, whichisalways given thisopportunity. The pupilswere really delighted to have been everything asthey went around theexhibition. having beensowellbehaved andinterested in she felt they deserved aspecialprivilegefor this wouldnotnormallybeallowed,butthat who invited them to dothismadeitclearthat on oneoftheoldpianosdisplay. Thelady at theendof tour, were allowedto play Sunday we set off to spend the day in Sunday wesetoffto spendtheday in 37

Academic Reports Academic Reports 38 view at thetop wasnon-existent, dueto theheavy mistandwe the dragon. Althoughthepupilsenjoyed thetrain rideup, the a mountain whichisfamous for beingwhere Siegfreid slayed and ahalf. We thenwalked to thefoot ofthenearby Drachenfels, for theSealife Centre inKönigswinter, where wespent anhour chocolate anditsproduction. and have alookaround themuseum exhibits onthehistory of to taste aswellwatchopportunity themanufacture ofchocolate This wasobviously avery popular visitandpupilswere given the through someoftheoldstreets to theLindtChocolate Museum. CathedralCologne to admire theviewandwalked backto theRhine Modern Languages On ourlastfull day inGermany, wesetoffbright andearly February 2012 3rd &4thForm German Exchange all theGermanstudents hadto getupto get very happy aboutwashowincredibly early smiling. Theonlythingthey didn’tseem theyon thefollowingwere all morning, we metupwithalltheexchange students many inthesurrounding villages. families for aweek, someinAhrweiler and They were allto bestaying withGerman nervous aboutwhat was instore for them. exchange they were partners, alittle they hadallbeenincontact withtheir practising useful phrases, as,although Germany andspent muchof thejourney unusually subduedinthecoachgoingto Most of theexchange students were They needn’thave worried.When Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Mrs SWhite andMrsRFielding hopefully having learnedsomevery useful German! arrived backat Rendcombrather exhausted, butvery happy and speak someFrench andspendtheirremaining Euros. We all forCalais to anhourorsoto give thepupilsopportunity impeccably behaved. We stopped offat theCitéEurope near informal talent contest, withmany ofthepupilstaking part. Again, thiswasaveryIntheevening popularvisit. wehadavery withindoorandoutdoorCologne pools,slidesanda‘crazy river’. to Aqualand,of ahugeswimmingpoolcomplex inthenorth the footpaths downwere very icy. Our lastactivitywasatrip went straight backdownonthetrain aswewere advisedthat The journey homewasuneventful andthepupilswere Rendcomb inMay. They allsaidthat they to welcometheGermangroup to sorry to have to leave at theendofweek. got onincredibly wellandeveryone wasvery by andlarge,in thearea. Thepartners, all had plenty oftimeto visit alltheattractions week. Asschoolfinishes at lunchtime, they their exchange for partners therest ofthe from that,they were infamilie sandwith Nürburgring thefollowing day, butapart and younger membersofthegroup at the afternoon. Somealsometupwiththestaff then given atour around Ahrweilerinthe spent themorning inlessonsandwere to schoolontime!Theexchange students We were very pleased,therefore, n www.rendcomb.org.uk Mrs SWhite andMrs RFielding close butvery beautiful to lookat. unpronounceable Eyjafjallajokull whichwas worryingly very volcano that twicebrought theworld to ahalt-theequally town of Hvolsvollur, afforded ussuperbviews of the cover. Our hostel, located neartheunpronounceable ice capsandglaciers,whichare sooften shieldedby cloud superb views across theMidAtlantic Ridgeaswell asamazing interruption. Thismeant that we were ableto appreciate enough to beableto visitallourintended venues withminimal was kindto usandasaresult we werethe mostpart, lucky Iceland took placeinthemiddleof April. Theweather, for The Geography firstvisitinseveral department’s years to April 2012 Iceland Trip Calvarienberg backto Rendcombsoon. and welcomingthepupilsfrom Gymnasium more successful exchanges in thefuture by thevery highstandards ofpersonalhygiene whichmustbe differences betweenthemandtheirhostcountry, illustrated best should beused.Thestudents alsocameto appreciate thecultural a real plusfor thestudents whoshowedthelocalsexactly howthey thermally heated swimmingpools,includingsomethat hadslides– a visitto theBlueLagoon aswellthedelights ofvarious Geo- shared Haribo withJ6. School, where they played gamesand enjoyedparticularly thevisitto theJunior scone bakingat Rendcomb. They also cricket,lacrosse and such asshooting, inactivities going to lessonsandtaking part trip to Bourton-on-the-Water aswell Cirencester andalsojoinedtheGeography many day trips:to Stratford, to Oxford, to whom they were staying. They went on complimentary aboutthefamilies with absolutely loved Rendcombandwere very We very muchlookforward to many In therelatively timewewere there, thegroup enjoyed short n pleasurable experience for Students andTeachers alike. for theirimpeccablebehaviour whichmadethetripavery capital intheWorld,most northern Reykjavik. geothermal powerplant aswelltheafternoon spent inthe because ofthehugeamount ofdebrisitcarries. -socalled finally onto thesnoutofSolheimjokull,‘Blackglacier’ drive on,took usto aseriesofwaterfalls includingSkogafoss and toIcelandiccardigans. buythoseall-important Ashort opportunity coastal town calledVikwhereand deserted students hadthe many aGeography lesson.From there, itwasonto atypicallyquiet that hasresulted intheclassic coastal sceneasdescribedin day took usto thecoastto observe basalticlandscape therugged Gullfoss, oneofthemostimpressive waterfalls inworld.Another Thingvellir region (RiftValley area) that includedavisitto Geysir and eyebrows amongthestudents andindeedtheTeachers! observed priorto entering thewater. raised afew Thiscertainly I wouldlike to to takethankthestudents thisopportunity Other highlights ofthetripwere thevisitaround the One ofthehighlights ofthevisitwasourtriparound the n

Academic Reports Academic Reports 38 view at thetop wasnon-existent, dueto theheavy mistandwe the dragon. Althoughthepupilsenjoyed thetrain rideup, the a mountain whichisfamous for beingwhere Siegfreid slayed and ahalf. We thenwalked to thefoot ofthenearby Drachenfels, for theSealife Centre inKönigswinter, where wespent anhour chocolate anditsproduction. and have alookaround themuseum exhibits onthehistory of to taste aswellwatchopportunity themanufacture ofchocolate This wasobviously avery popular visitandpupilswere given the through someoftheoldstreets to theLindtChocolate Museum. CathedralCologne to admire theviewandwalked backto theRhine Modern Languages On ourlastfull day inGermany, wesetoffbright andearly February 2012 3rd &4thForm German Exchange all theGermanstudents hadto getupto get very happy aboutwashowincredibly early smiling. Theonlythingthey didn’tseem theyon thefollowingwere all morning, we metupwithalltheexchange students many inthesurrounding villages. families for aweek, someinAhrweiler and They were allto bestaying withGerman nervous aboutwhat was instore for them. exchange they were partners, alittle they hadallbeenincontact withtheir practising useful phrases, as,although Germany andspent muchof thejourney unusually subduedinthecoachgoingto Most of theexchange students were They needn’thave worried.When Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Mrs SWhite andMrsRFielding hopefully having learnedsomevery useful German! arrived backat Rendcombrather exhausted, butvery happy and speak someFrench andspendtheirremaining Euros. We all forCalais to anhourorsoto give thepupilsopportunity impeccably behaved. We stopped offat theCitéEurope near informal talent contest, withmany ofthepupilstaking part. Again, thiswasaveryIntheevening popularvisit. wehadavery withindoorandoutdoorCologne pools,slidesanda‘crazy river’. to Aqualand,of ahugeswimmingpoolcomplex inthenorth the footpaths downwere very icy. Our lastactivitywasatrip went straight backdownonthetrain aswewere advisedthat The journey homewasuneventful andthepupilswere Rendcomb inMay. They allsaidthat they to welcometheGermangroup to sorry to have to leave at theendofweek. got onincredibly wellandeveryone wasvery by andlarge,in thearea. Thepartners, all had plenty oftimeto visit alltheattractions week. Asschoolfinishes at lunchtime, they their exchange for partners therest ofthe from that,they were infamilie sandwith Nürburgring thefollowing day, butapart and younger membersofthegroup at the afternoon. Somealsometupwiththestaff then given atour around Ahrweilerinthe spent themorning inlessonsandwere to schoolontime!Theexchange students We were very pleased,therefore, n www.rendcomb.org.uk Mrs SWhite andMrs RFielding Calvarienberg backto Rendcombsoon. and welcomingthepupilsfrom Gymnasium more successful exchanges in thefuture shared Haribo withJ6. School, where they played gamesand enjoyedparticularly thevisitto theJunior scone bakingat Rendcomb. They also cricket,lacrosse and such asshooting, inactivities going to lessonsandtaking part trip to Bourton-on-the-Water aswell Cirencester andalsojoinedtheGeography many day trips:to Stratford, to Oxford, to whom they were staying. They went on complimentary aboutthefamilies with absolutely loved Rendcombandwere very by thevery highstandards ofpersonalhygiene whichmustbe differences betweenthemandtheirhostcountry, illustrated best should beused.Thestudents alsocameto appreciate thecultural a real plusfor thestudents whoshowedthelocalsexactly howthey thermally heated swimmingpools,includingsomethat hadslides– a visitto theBlueLagoon aswellthedelights ofvarious Geo- close butvery beautiful to lookat. unpronounceable Eyjafjallajokull whichwas worryingly very volcano that twicebrought theworld to ahalt-theequally town of Hvolsvollur, afforded ussuperbviews of the cover. Our hostel, located neartheunpronounceable ice capsandglaciers,whichare sooften shieldedby cloud superb views across theMidAtlantic Ridgeaswell asamazing interruption. Thismeant that we were ableto appreciate enough to beableto visitallourintended venues withminimal was kindto usandasaresult we werethe mostpart, lucky Iceland took placeinthemiddleof April. Theweather, for The Geography firstvisitinseveral department’s years to April 2012 Iceland Trip We very muchlookforward to many In therelatively timewewere there, thegroup enjoyed short n pleasurable experience for Students andTeachers alike. for theirimpeccablebehaviour whichmadethetripavery capital intheWorld,most northern Reykjavik. geothermal powerplant aswelltheafternoon spent inthe because ofthehugeamount ofdebrisitcarries. -socalled finally onto thesnoutofSolheimjokull,‘Blackglacier’ drive on,took usto aseriesofwaterfalls includingSkogafoss and toIcelandiccardigans. buythoseall-important Ashort opportunity coastal town calledVikwhereand deserted students hadthe many aGeography lesson.From there, itwasonto atypicallyquiet that hasresulted intheclassic coastal sceneasdescribedin day took usto thecoastto observe basalticlandscape therugged Gullfoss, oneofthemostimpressive waterfalls inworld.Another Thingvellir region (RiftValley area) that includedavisitto Geysir and eyebrows amongthestudents andindeedtheTeachers! observed priorto entering thewater. raised afew Thiscertainly I wouldlike to to takethankthestudents thisopportunity Other highlights ofthetripwere thevisitaround the One ofthehighlights ofthevisitwasourtriparound the n

Academic Reports Academic Reports 40 Music heard from drifting thewindows of theMusicblock. there israrely can’tbe the department, amoment whenmusicof somesort music teachers andaplethora of extra-curricular clubsalltaking placein school students, instrumental andvocal tuitionfrom twenty-one visiting of theschool.Withheart for academicmusiclessons both SeniorandJunior continuesThe MusicDepartment to beabustlinghubof activity at the at Rendcomb Senior SchoolMusic in thepastyear. these students andto allotherswithmusicexams undertheirbelts Cheltenham Festival congratulations ofPerformingHearty to Arts. and Olivia Witts wonhonoursintheirrespective rounds at the results comingfrom otherstudents. Meanwhile,Daisy Little their Grade 6singingexaminations, withmany otherexcellent Rew andAmy Benson,bothofwhomscored highDistinctionsin Sam Tushingham’s DistinctioninhisGrade 5Recorder andKathryn instrumental andintheory. Stand outperformances have included have provided somenotable successesthisyear, bothvocal, from students from boththeJuniorsandSeniors. students, aswellhostingafestival ofpianoduetperformances chaired anunpredictably nail-bitingpianoscalescompetitionfor recital ofBrahms, Ravel andSchumanninthe Springterm, and inspired by HeadofKeyboards Mr. whogave avirtuosic Carter for February 2013. next year, withafull-scale staging of‘Footloose’ themusicallinedup comic operetta ‘Pirates ofPenzance’. It’stheturnofSeniors and Sullivan’sSchool springmusical,athree-night runofGilbert had achanceto flex their vocal andacting talent duringthe Lower entering Form 1. during next Easter 2013, supplemented by afresh intake ofsingers asitworkstowardspromising itsforthcomingtour start to Venice student Charlotte Jones.Thecurrent choirwill hopeto buildonthis performance of‘Crucifixus’,achoral anthem written by Lower 6th capping theyear at theannualFounder’s Day servicewiththedebut tackled Taverner’s Lamb’, harmonicallytrickysettingof‘The before contemporary choral work‘Zimbe!’. TheChamberChoirmeanwhile, alongside anextract from composerAlexander L’Estrange’s Choirperformedthe College aselectionoftraditional carols exquisiteCarol ServiceheldinCirencester’s parishchurch, where musicalhighlightsParticular thisyear have includedtheannual Mr DFranks Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Results inAssociated Board andTrinity Musicexaminations Keyboard players have beenkept ontheirtoes thisyear, On thesubjectofyounger singers,membersofForms 1-4 n www.rendcomb.org.uk an spirited debutonthe‘Jazz ItUp!’ stage andevents,school concerts andmaking since, performing at quite anumberof Ensemble have beeninhot demandever Alex Steele. Thestudents intheJazz and parents, accompaniedby pianist duorecital togiving avirtuosic students for theschoolJazzEnsemble, before in from theStates to hostaworkshop Ray Charlessaxophonist Greg Abate flew musicians. IntheMichaelmasterm former work alongsideworld-class professional be offered thechanceto listen to and that allstudents at Rendcombshould It’s ourfirmbelief intheMusic Department Music Workshop at Rendcomb Gwilym SimcockLeads Improvisation Mercury Prize-nominated pianist Rendcomb hadteamed upwithCheltenham draw Inanewinitiative onthepianocircuit. now firmlyestablished asaworld-class standing to Rendcomb, asthepianistis delight to welcomeamusicianofGwilym’s around Gloucestershire. Itwasaparticular talented improvisers drawn from ten schools spent aday at Rendcombworkingwith Prize-nominated pianistGwilymSimcock Stevens andLuke Witts. from saxophone Tristan sectionstalwarts acclaim,asdidsolos work drew particular nimbledoublebass Howard Auster’s of theCheltenham JazzFestival inApril. During theSpringTerm, Mercury Music Mr DFranks School at Rendcomb The Dutton JazzSummer together intheirowngroups. made andseveral vowing participants to continue playing weekend wasagreat success,withmany friendships Pete Rosser, andrisingWelsh guitar star Lee Jones.The accordionist andAssociated Board seniorjazzexaminer Loose Tubes flautistandcomposer Eddie Parker; pianist, being setuptoTutors honourhisrequest. includedformer one ofadeveloping programme ofeducational endeavours be developed at TheSummer Schoolwasjust theCollege. ofjazzimprovisationwith aspecific request that theart journalist andarchivist recently leftabequestto theschool, Dutton, aformer student ofRendcombandnoted jazz improvisation andinteraction inagroup setting.Frank andjamsessionsfocusedtutorials, concerts ondeveloping the lure wasanewsummerschoolfeaturing workshops, age. Drawn from allover Gloucestershire andbeyond, musicians, rangingto fromsixty-something thirteen in was one!),Rendcombplayed hostto adiverse group of On asun-blessedsummerweekend inAugust (yes, there Mr DFranks stimulating time for students. few months promise to beabusyand Theatre Director Peter Allwood,thenext and by former National Youth Music of theBrighton Symphony Orchestra, workshops for students ledby members andSarah Steele, andmusical Carter Michaelmas 2012from pianistsJeremy education team onfuture workshops. collaborate againwiththefestival’s alongside ourstudents. We hopeto send theirelite musiciansto participate schools from around Gloucestershire Festivals to present thisevent, andtwelve With recitals scheduledfor n n 41

Academic Reports Academic Reports included stand outperformances from vocalist HarryEllis with African percussion. InadditionanAfrican-themed firsthalf Oliver Baylis, whojoinedtheprofessional bandoncongasand of many at Rendcomb. Specialmention shouldgoto L6student Franks, produced aperformance that will lingerinthememories students rose admirably to theoccasionand,directed by Mr. warm-up ledby session thecomposerof Zimbe! himself, the Cheltenham ensembleTheOriel Singers.Spurred onby arousing London anda‘semi-chorus’ of musiciansfrom theacclaimed School choirto work alongsideaprofessional six-piece bandfrom from Choir, Rendcomb’sCollege ChamberChoirandJunior jazz bandaccompaniment,theperformance allowed singers chorales hushedclassical andsemi-improvisedAfrican song, African oratorio Zimbe!, Auniquefusion of exuberant traditional Hall to perform composerAlexander L’Estrange’s acclaimed singers andmusiciansjoinedtogether inRendcomb’sDulverton On an unexpectedly balmy evening inMarch 2012over eighty 42 Lent Term Friday 3rd Feb, TheReading Room Ukulele Concert: African Diaspora Songs ofthe Zimbe! Music of saxophone!).’ own MrFranks to play abit (whocouldn’tpassuptheopportunity six-piece band? pure happinessinaudioformat created by themassedchoirsand The raw enthusiasm ofMrMarshall?Or perhapsjusttheeffect of soprano solo? Thecute points garnered by theJuniorSchoolchoir? inducing emotionalrollercoaster. Was itthepowerofEve Jarman’s ... itbegan.Altogether theZimbe!acted asagoosebump- concert junior schoolsingerscombinedinbrightly coloured outfits,andthen Dulverton Hallto enjoy anight ofcheerandjoy. Seniorschooland Thursday night,ashundreds ofaudiencemembersflocked to the was watching theperformance andhadthisto say: newcomer Edwin Ward. Rendcomb’sHeadBoy, Jake McKeown, from the4thForm’s HenryMillsandpromising Juniorschool the RendcombJazzEnsemble, aswell asspirited pianoragtime Mr DFranks All inallthiswasabrilliant evening puttogether by ourvery ‘Months ofZimbe! rehearsals allcametogether onone Thank you to everyone whoparticipated. bow tiesandatriangle. Watkins andCameronRowecomplete withstripedshirts, Fix You,the hilariousperformance ofColdplay’s by Edward beautiful voices ofJohanna BockandEleanorBrealy, and and thestudents thoroughly enjoy inthem. participating alwayslunchtime prove concerts entertaining andpopular, to performing inarelatively informal environment. The understand chord progressions, andprovide easyaccess also to transfer musicalknowledge between instruments, only encouraged students to learn anew instrument,but first timeperformers. Inthis way, the UkuleleClubhasnot pleased that we had somereturning performers andsome in theReadingRoomonFriday 3rd February. Iwas very The students presented another successful ukuleleconcert Mr DFranks A few highlights of this year’s concert were the A fewconcert highlights ofthisyear’s n n (witness viavideoscreen). And thenwewere offto theZoo: the grounds for conviction for fraud (£9million);childabuse cases –decidingsentencing for adrug-related offence; determining eye-opening observing several morning at Bristol Crown Court, Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Mrs GHarford We have hadinteresting visits: semantic memory (knowledge) to episodicmemory(actions). firmly basedonthepsychology memorytheory of Loci, linking Junior Schoolclassrooms, to listjustafew. were Theselessons Room,theForestCommon Classroom, theWhite Room,several by individualstudents –we have beenwhisked offto Park House other was TheA2class lessons! taken onmagicalmystery tours the Thursday andtheA2students lessons, taught many of the Muccikindlytaught asMiss Psychology particularly Department, We have hadanother excellent andstimulating year inthe Psychology such avaluable experience for us! learnt from thetext bookthrough thispsychology trip, anditwas through anumberofscreens. We hadareal touch ofwhat we and thePolice are able to supervisenearlyeverywhere inStroud find that thecameras can nearlycover every singlearea inStroud, room was avery interesting andmemorable onefor me,wecould drunk people,incasethey might fall from thebed.Thesupervising is setupfor peoplewhoare inaconfused state ofmind,suchas different typesofoffenders. For instance ifthebedisvery lowit about cognitive interview. Thecellssetupsare speciallysetupfor interviewing rooms (for suspects),andlistened to apresentation suspects are interviewed. We room, visited thecells,CCTV we were studyingForensic psychology andspecificallyhow out where allofourteachers were onthescales! disadvantages wecouldtrynotto fall trap to, aswellworking and workoutwhere wemight beonthecategory scales,andwhat advantages anddisadvantages ofeach.From here wecouldtry type peoplecanfall into (aswellasto what degree) andthe about thefour different categories ofmanagement/leadership give usatalk onthepsychology behindmanagement.We learnt Rendcomb isalsoaManagement Specialist;shewasableto a visitfrom Mrs Hornby, whoaswellbeingaGovernor for Not to be left out, the AS psychologists theAS Not to hadaseriousand beleftout, We (A2 psychologists) visited Stroud Police Station as Our A2Psychology classwere luckyenoughto receive Shelly Hou Jack McKeown n whilst Form 5attended aSciencelecture inOxford. each stall andmarvelling at theengineering behindracing cars, the Cheltenham ScienceFestival, enjoying themini-challenges at sheer entertainment. During theSummerTerm, Form 1attended a widevariety of animals,withthemeerkats winningtheday for dinosaurs. Form 2alsoenjoyed atripto theWildlife Park, seeing in amber, inalively andtaking ontheextinction discussion part of Roadshow, discovering different types of fossils, includingthose for Forms 1and2,whojoinedtheJuniorSchoolinaFossils During 2011-12, Scienceenrichment featured prominently Science early through theSchoolReception. the day, thoughspacesare limited, sopleasedobook are very welcometo joinusfor asessionat the endof with theJuniors,andallassociated withRendcomb month, willhost aplanetarium, joining thedepartment regional competitioninMarch 2013. Also, inthat firms to buildahand-propelled glider, ready for a Challenge,workingwithengineersfrom local Start engineers inForms intheFlying 1-3are taking part of Bristol after thesummerexaminations. Keen inanenrichmentwill take day at part theUniversity in AS-level Chemistryand theSixth-Form Chemists 1 and2;Form 4,thoseForm 5pupilsinterested Science Festival andtheWildlife Park for thenewForm home. Repeat visits are plannedto theCheltenham delights ofvacuums andstatic electricitycloserto woodlands, whilstthePhysicists continue to enjoy the field trip, exploring rocky sea-shores andancient Lent Term to Snowdonia,totheirannual undertake Society. TheSixth-Form Biologists willheadoffinthe more locally, theCirencester Science andTechnology visits willincludetheUniversity ofBirminghamand, at theUniversity ofBristol next half-term, andfurther They planto findoutabouttheChemistryofSpace Head ofCommunications at theWellcome Trust. about why Sciencematters, from MarkHenderson, visited theCheltenham Literature Festival to hear explored thebenefitsof hydrogen fuel cellsand curriculum for Forms 5-6. TheSocietyhasalready committed to extending andenhancingthe with thefounding ofaSeniorChemistrySociety, Ms SO’Sullivan 2012-13 andbetter, lookssetto bebigger n 43

Academic Reports Academic Reports included stand outperformances from vocalist HarryEllis with African percussion. InadditionanAfrican-themed firsthalf Oliver Baylis, whojoinedtheprofessional bandoncongasand of many at Rendcomb. Specialmention shouldgoto L6student Franks, produced aperformance that will lingerinthememories students rose admirably to theoccasionand,directed by Mr. warm-up ledby session thecomposerof Zimbe! himself, the Cheltenham ensembleTheOriel Singers.Spurred onby arousing London anda‘semi-chorus’ of musiciansfrom theacclaimed School choirto work alongsideaprofessional six-piece bandfrom from Choir, Rendcomb’sCollege ChamberChoirandJunior jazz bandaccompaniment,theperformance allowed singers chorales hushedclassical andsemi-improvisedAfrican song, African oratorio Zimbe!, Auniquefusion of exuberant traditional Hall to perform composerAlexander L’Estrange’s acclaimed singers andmusiciansjoinedtogether inRendcomb’sDulverton On an unexpectedly balmy evening inMarch 2012over eighty 42 Lent Term Friday 3rd Feb, TheReading Room Ukulele Concert: African Diaspora Songs ofthe Zimbe! Music Mr DFranks of saxophone!).’ own MrFranks to play abit (whocouldn’tpassuptheopportunity six-piece band? pure happinessinaudioformat created by themassedchoirsand The raw enthusiasm ofMrMarshall?Or perhapsjusttheeffect of soprano solo? Thecute points garnered by theJuniorSchoolchoir? inducing emotionalrollercoaster. Was itthepowerofEve Jarman’s ... itbegan.Altogether theZimbe!acted asagoosebump- concert junior schoolsingerscombinedinbrightly coloured outfits,andthen Dulverton Hallto enjoy anight ofcheerandjoy. Seniorschooland Thursday night,ashundreds ofaudiencemembersflocked to the was watching theperformance andhadthisto say: newcomer Edwin Ward. Rendcomb’sHeadBoy, Jake McKeown, from the4thForm’s HenryMillsandpromising Juniorschool the RendcombJazzEnsemble, aswell asspirited pianoragtime All inallthiswasabrilliant evening puttogether by ourvery ‘Months ofZimbe! rehearsals allcametogether onone Thank you to everyone whoparticipated. bow tiesandatriangle. Watkins andCameronRowecomplete withstripedshirts, Fix You,the hilariousperformance ofColdplay’s by Edward beautiful voices ofJohanna BockandEleanorBrealy, and and thestudents thoroughly enjoy inthem. participating alwayslunchtime prove concerts entertaining andpopular, to performing inarelatively informal environment. The understand chord progressions, andprovide easyaccess also to transfer musicalknowledge between instruments, only encouraged students to learn anew instrument,but first timeperformers. Inthis way, the UkuleleClubhasnot pleased that we had somereturning performers andsome in theReadingRoomonFriday 3rd February. Iwas very The students presented another successful ukuleleconcert Mr DFranks A few highlights of this year’s concert were the A fewconcert highlights ofthisyear’s n n (witness viavideoscreen). And thenwewere offto theZoo: the grounds for conviction for fraud (£9million);childabuse cases –decidingsentencing for adrug-related offence; determining eye-opening observing several morning at Bristol Crown Court, Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Mrs GHarford We have hadinteresting visits: semantic memory (knowledge) to episodicmemory(actions). firmly basedonthepsychology memorytheory of Loci, linking Junior Schoolclassrooms, to listjustafew. were Theselessons Room,theForestCommon Classroom, theWhite Room,several by individualstudents –we have beenwhisked offto Park House other was TheA2class lessons! taken onmagicalmystery tours the Thursday andtheA2students lessons, taught many of the Muccikindlytaught asMiss Psychology particularly Department, We have hadanother excellent andstimulating year inthe Psychology such avaluable experience for us! learnt from thetext bookthrough thispsychology trip, anditwas through anumberofscreens. We hadareal touch ofwhat we and thePolice are able to supervisenearlyeverywhere inStroud find that thecameras can nearlycover every singlearea inStroud, room was avery interesting andmemorable onefor me,wecould drunk people,incasethey might fall from thebed.Thesupervising is setupfor peoplewhoare inaconfused state ofmind,suchas different typesofoffenders. For instance ifthebedisvery lowit about cognitive interview. Thecellssetupsare speciallysetupfor interviewing rooms (for suspects),andlistened to apresentation suspects are interviewed. We room, visited thecells,CCTV we were studyingForensic psychology andspecificallyhow out where allofourteachers were onthescales! disadvantages wecouldtrynotto fall trap to, aswellworking and workoutwhere wemight beonthecategory scales,andwhat advantages anddisadvantages ofeach.From here wecouldtry type peoplecanfall into (aswellasto what degree) andthe about thefour different categories ofmanagement/leadership give usatalk onthepsychology behindmanagement.We learnt Rendcomb isalsoaManagement Specialist;shewasableto a visitfrom Mrs Hornby, whoaswellbeingaGovernor for Not to be left out, the AS psychologists theAS Not to hadaseriousand beleftout, We (A2 psychologists) visited Stroud Police Station as Our A2Psychology classwere luckyenoughto receive Shelly Hou Jack McKeown n whilst Form 5attended aSciencelecture inOxford. each stall andmarvelling at theengineering behindracing cars, the Cheltenham ScienceFestival, enjoying themini-challenges at sheer entertainment. During theSummerTerm, Form 1attended a widevariety of animals,withthemeerkats winningtheday for dinosaurs. Form 2alsoenjoyed atripto theWildlife Park, seeing in amber, inalively andtaking ontheextinction discussion part of Roadshow, discovering different types of fossils, includingthose for Forms 1and2,whojoinedtheJuniorSchoolinaFossils During 2011-12, Scienceenrichment featured prominently Science early through theSchoolReception. the day, thoughspacesare limited, sopleasedobook are very welcometo joinusfor asessionat the endof with theJuniors,andallassociated withRendcomb month, willhost aplanetarium, joining thedepartment regional competitioninMarch 2013. Also, inthat firms to buildahand-propelled glider, ready for a Challenge,workingwithengineersfrom local Start engineers inForms intheFlying 1-3are taking part of Bristol after thesummerexaminations. Keen inanenrichmentwill take day at part theUniversity in AS-level Chemistryand theSixth-Form Chemists 1 and2;Form 4,thoseForm 5pupilsinterested Science Festival andtheWildlife Park for thenewForm home. Repeat visits are plannedto theCheltenham delights ofvacuums andstatic electricitycloserto woodlands, whilstthePhysicists continue to enjoy the field trip, exploring rocky sea-shores andancient Lent Term to Snowdonia,totheirannual undertake Society. TheSixth-Form Biologists willheadoffinthe more locally, theCirencester Science andTechnology visits willincludetheUniversity ofBirminghamand, at theUniversity ofBristol next half-term, andfurther They planto findoutabouttheChemistryofSpace Head ofCommunications at theWellcome Trust. about why Sciencematters, from MarkHenderson, visited theCheltenham Literature Festival to hear explored thebenefitsof hydrogen fuel cellsand curriculum for Forms 5-6. TheSocietyhasalready committed to extending andenhancingthe with thefounding ofaSeniorChemistrySociety, Ms SO’Sullivan 2012-13 andbetter, lookssetto bebigger n 43

Academic Reports Academic Reports of howthey became extinct. Itwasareally interesting hour. different from thosearound today. pieces ofamber. They were over onemillionyears oldandlooked no invertebrates, suchasants andflies,which had beentrapped in exciting, especiallyfinding fossil shark teeth. for fossils intrays filledwith various rocks andstones. Itwas very very entertaining talk to Forms 1and2. ‘Jules, thefossil man’cameto Rendcomb, inMarch, and gave a 44 We finished withadiscussionaboutdinosaursandthetheories We then looked at theperfectly preserved remains ofsmall We learned abouthowfossils were formed andthensearched Amber Look Backin Science n Rendcomb, tired andhappy. merchandise. After finishingourpurchases, wethen set offback to Thousands ofplushanimalsand choicesofcandywere amongthe told usmany interesting facts, andwelearnt alot. of reptile, andthat one onlycontains twoanimals?NeitherdidI.He to usabout Classification. Did you know that there are four orders noticed animalsthat they couldn’tseebefore. view wasbetter thanithadbeenonthepathway; somany people Mr.Vuolo, wesoonfound ourselves enjoying arideonthetrain. The facilities onoffer. However, after beingreluctantly hurriedaway by down theslide.We couldhave spent theentire day enjoying the to fightstart over aswing(funny asitmay be),orpush eachother was theplayground. Itcomesto somethingwhenmature children enjoyed interesting aparticularly episodewithgiraffe… foropportunities newknowledge.One memberofourgroup wackyanimalspresentedwonderful, abarrage ofinterest and know what they were uptillthisvisit!).Thearray ofcolourful, sights includedcamels,ratites andeven thetapirs (Ididn’treally minutes, whichwent incredibly quickly. we eagerlyawaited ourarrival. Thejourney took roughly forty Assembly,Headmaster’s andwithourlunchphonesat hand, Cotswold Wildlife Park onthe18thJune.Thetripleft soonafter The SecondForm enjoyed goingontheannualtripto the WildlifeCotswold Park Second Form tripto the Jared Wason-Cooper Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Finally, wevisited theWonderland that wasthegiftshop! AmannamedBobtalkedBut thencameaneven better part. Amazing astheanimalswere, themostexciting ofthetrip part Upon ourarrival, wesetoffaround themaincampus,whose n A level subjects,andsomesat asmany asfive orsixAlevels. grades across theirsubjects,inagroup where 38%took at leastfour fifteenbuild onacademicsuccesses, students gainedstraight A*-B Hall, Oxford University. Inayear where Rendcombcontinued to securingaplaceto read English atgrades Lady andanA, Margaret 2005, ledtheway onresults’ day at withtwo A* RendcombCollege Tom (A*A*A), Benson whohasbeenapupilat Rendcombsince Academic Results www.rendcomb.org.uk Mathematics modules:astunning achievement. Tommy Linwon of 1200UMSover apossible the12Mathematics/Further J Williams, iELScAd MPe H Williams, iEiELScAd ADtGHMSc A Tatara-Mills, iEiELScAd GHMPe Sc P Tarleton, iE*iEL*BCFGHMPe* P B Spurway, ACDtG N Sevastyanov, M J Rose,iEABCDGHMP* I Roettger, iEFGm** H Priestner, iE*iELBCDGMPe* P L Nixon, iEiEL*D*MMu A Metcalfe, iEiELScAd AGmHSc J Taylor, iE*iEL*ABCFG*HMP J Mudge,iE**iEL*B*C*DGHMP L Mernagh,iEiELABCDGM*Pe P* ABCMP T Martin, L Lochbihler, E*Gm**MP C Khirrecu, iE*iEL**A* BCDGHMPWLiM** B McFarlane, iEiELScAd AFGm L Kernon, iE*iEL*B*C**FG*H**M*Pe P* J Cropper, iE*iEL**AB**C**Dt**G**H**M*P** Pe O Cook, J Chen,A* BCM*P iE**iEL*B**C**DG*M**PeW Cai, P* Key: M Hyde, iE*iEL*A* BCGH**MPe P iEiELScAdG Hempleman-Adams, ABDtHSc T Hansel,iE*iEL*A* BDtGMPe P H Ewan, iEiELBC*FG*HMPe P Y Dimopoulos,iE*iELDHSc O Birden, iEiELScAd DGHMu A Belyaev, ABiEM*P FGm**M A Bagusat, H Auster, iE*iELBCFH**M*Mu*Pe* P Examinations 2012 GCSE-IGCSE D Gregory, Mad**iE**iELB**C**G**Gm*H*M**Pe** P** iE D iED C Greening, K Gibson,iEiEL*A* B*C*Dt*G*HMP A*-C; **=grade A*; *=grade APass Rate=79% Constance Xu (A*A*A*B) dropped only25UMSout

P=Physics, Pe=Physical Education, Py=Psychology, Sc=Science, ScAd=Additional Science. Ict=Information Communication Technology, M=Mathematics, Mf=Further Mathematics, Mad=Additional Mathematics, Ms=Music, iE=IGCSE EnglishLanguage, iEL=IGCSEEnglishLiterature, F=French, G=Geography,Literature, Gm=German,H=History,Ee=English Subject Key: B=Biology, A=Art, Bs=Business Studies,C=Chemistry, Cns=Chinese,Dr=Drama, Dt=Design &Technology, E=English,

Key: Cns**AM Zheng, Beryl P CnsM*Mf* Zheng, Bernice Erick Yu, CCnsM**Mf* P Constance Xu, C**M**Mf** Jolice Wong, Cns*ABsM Zoe Wang, CnsM**MfP Thomas Jordan, Ee** A* H P Charles Shi,CnM**Mf* Daniel Sadjadian,IctDM Holly Phelps,A** D*Pe* Philip Oepen, BsGm**MP Megan Mulhall,Ee BsH Kai Gm*M*P Missalla, Chris Minton, AGH Miles Metcalfe, AD Jake McKeown, Ee D*Py* Chanelle McGriff, A Nester Liu,CnsM**MfP Tommy P* Lin,B*CnsHM**Mf* Eric Li,CnsEe Dr Py** Betty Hu,B*C*M**Mf** Shelly Hou,Cns*MPy Maria Highlands,ABsPy Andrea Haas,AGPy Oliver Greenaway, IctEe Bs EePaddy BsH Gilling, Dan Geerah, BCM Deenah Faruque, Ee AH William Fang, Cns*M*MfP Kat Daly, Ee*A** G Ict*BsM** Chris Couch, CnsAM Echo Cheng, P C*CnsM**Mf** Chang Chang, P CnsM**Mf* Cai, Becky Charles Black,Ee AH Max Birden, BsPe Py Tom Ee** Benson, Fr* H** Examinations 2012 A Level *grade A;**grade A* of what canbeachieved lower down intheSchool. attained fifteen A* grades between themsetting highstandards contributing to amultitudeof other areas of life intheSchool. impressive results (A*AA respectively) andAAB, aswell as both of whomcameupthrough RendcombJuniors,attained A*A*AA. HeadGirl,HollyPhelps,andBoy, Jake McKeown, at ALevel. the metaphorical prize for quantity andquality withA*AAABB At GCSE,JoshCropper andDan Gregory impressively Chang attained A*A*ABB andBetty Husecured a bequestto theSchool. passionate abouthismusic. When hediedrecently hekindlyleft + Frank Dutton wasapupilhere, avery keen Jazzplayer whowas outstanding candidate from aState schoolinGloucestershire. annually by theWills family, inlinewithhisfounding vision,to an ** NoelWills wastheSchool’sFounder andthisaward ismade * Titular:nofinancialaward hasbeenmade. Howard Auster, RC Sixth Form MusicScholarship+ The Frank Dutton Katrina Webb, Deer Park School The NoelWills Scholarship** Tom Pethick, Drama*, RC Lauren Shipperbottom, Academic, RC Other Awards RC Georgia Pethick, Art, RC Ellie Jones,Sport, Eleanor Brealy, RC Sport*, RC Orlagh Brennan, Sport, 13+ Awards Max McKeown, Drama, RCJS Drama*, RCJS Jude Martin, Music,HolyTrinity,Marls Aspinall, Gt Cheverell, Devises MalmesburySecondarySchool James Nickson,Sport, RCJS Oliver Jones,Sport, Segrave-Daly,Robert Academic, Rosehill,Westonbirt Henry Holloway, Academic, RCJS Philip Harrison-Josey, Academic, RCJS Grace Tushingham, Academic, RCJS 11+ Awards Scholarship Awards: 2012/13 Rendcomb College 45

Academic Reports Academic Reports of howthey became extinct. Itwasareally interesting hour. different from thosearound today. pieces ofamber. They were over onemillionyears oldandlooked no invertebrates, suchasants andflies,which had beentrapped in exciting, especiallyfinding fossil shark teeth. for fossils intrays filledwith various rocks andstones. Itwas very very entertaining talk to Forms 1and2. ‘Jules, thefossil man’cameto Rendcomb, inMarch, and gave a 44 We finished withadiscussionaboutdinosaursandthetheories We then looked at theperfectly preserved remains ofsmall We learned abouthowfossils were formed andthensearched Amber Look Backin Science n enjoyed interesting aparticularly episodewithgiraffe… foropportunities newknowledge.One memberofourgroup wackyanimalspresentedwonderful, abarrage ofinterest and know what they were uptillthisvisit!).Thearray ofcolourful, sights includedcamels,ratites andeven thetapirs (Ididn’treally minutes, whichwent incredibly quickly. we eagerlyawaited ourarrival. Thejourney took roughly forty Assembly,Headmaster’s andwithourlunchphonesat hand, Cotswold Wildlife Park onthe18thJune.Thetripleft soonafter The SecondForm enjoyed goingontheannualtripto the WildlifeCotswold Park Second Form tripto the Jared Wason-Cooper Rendcomb, tired andhappy. merchandise. After finishingourpurchases, wethen set offback to Thousands ofplushanimalsand choicesofcandywere amongthe told usmany interesting facts, andwelearnt alot. of reptile, andthat one onlycontains twoanimals?NeitherdidI.He to usabout Classification. Did you know that there are four orders noticed animalsthat they couldn’tseebefore. view wasbetter thanithadbeenonthepathway; somany people Mr.Vuolo, wesoonfound ourselves enjoying arideonthetrain. The facilities onoffer. However, after beingreluctantly hurriedaway by down theslide.We couldhave spent theentire day enjoying the to fightstart over aswing(funny asitmay be),orpush eachother was theplayground. Itcomesto somethingwhenmature children Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Upon ourarrival, wesetoffaround themaincampus,whose Finally, wevisited theWonderland that wasthegiftshop! AmannamedBobtalkedBut thencameaneven better part. Amazing astheanimalswere, themostexciting ofthetrip part n Mathematics modules:astunning achievement. Tommy Linwon of 1200UMSover apossible the12Mathematics/Further A level subjects,andsomesat asmany asfive orsixAlevels. grades across theirsubjects,inagroup where 38%took at leastfour fifteenbuild onacademicsuccesses, students gainedstraight A*-B Hall, Oxford University. Inayear where Rendcombcontinued to securingaplaceto read English atgrades Lady andanA, Margaret 2005, ledtheway onresults’ day at withtwo A* RendcombCollege Tom (A*A*A), Benson whohasbeenapupilat Rendcombsince Academic Results www.rendcomb.org.uk Key: J Williams, iELScAd MPe H Williams, iEiELScAd ADtGHMSc J Taylor, iE*iEL*ABCFG*HMP A Tatara-Mills, iEiELScAd GHMPe Sc P Tarleton, iE*iEL*BCFGHMPe* P B Spurway, ACDtG N Sevastyanov, M J Rose,iEABCDGHMP* I Roettger, iEFGm** H Priestner, iE*iELBCDGMPe* P L Nixon, iEiEL*D*MMu J Mudge,iE**iEL*B*C*DGHMP A Metcalfe, iEiELScAd AGmHSc L Mernagh,iEiELABCDGM*Pe P* B McFarlane, iEiELScAd AFGm ABCMP T Martin, L Lochbihler, E*Gm**MP C Khirrecu, iE*iEL**A* BCDGHMPWLiM** L Kernon, iE*iEL*B*C**FG*H**M*Pe P* M Hyde, iE*iEL*A* BCGH**MPe P iEiELScAdG Hempleman-Adams, ABDtHSc T Hansel,iE*iEL*A* BDtGMPe P D Gregory, Mad**iE**iELB**C**G**Gm*H*M**Pe** P** iED C Greening, K Gibson,iEiEL*A* B*C*Dt*G*HMP H Ewan, iEiELBC*FG*HMPe P Y Dimopoulos,iE*iELDHSc J Cropper, iE*iEL**AB**C**Dt**G**H**M*P** Pe O Cook, J Chen,A* BCM*P iE**iEL*B**C**DG*M**PeW Cai, P* O Birden, iEiELScAd DGHMu A Belyaev, ABiEM*P FGm**M A Bagusat, H Auster, iE*iELBCFH**M*Mu*Pe* P Examinations 2012 GCSE-IGCSE A*-C; **=grade A*; *=grade APass Rate=79% Constance Xu (A*A*A*B) dropped only25UMSout

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House Reports House Reports 48 of anEra’ party, withlots offun joustingandbouncing. and hopethat they were given agoodsendoffat the‘End themed barnnight. Barn Night,anAmerican themedbarnnight andabeach and barnnights for the3rd form, includingaBurnsNight theteddy bears’picniconParadiseor treating, Island marshmallows andsingingaround thecampfire, trick food night. Hong Kong food night andMako andMiyuki’sJapanese with Jojo’sAustrian suppernight andfollowed by Coco’s themed suppernights withrecipes from home,starting and danceroutines at ourChristmasparty. choice -andwewere treated to ourusualwitty sketches our Christmastheatre tripto see‘Grease’-apopular yet, with62parents to cater for! ‘Winter parents’ Warmer’ andourbiggest dinnerparty buy sale,twofancy ‘Out ofthisWorld’ dress parties and evenings, cake sales,thecharitybringand the ‘bigsister’ and ahugesupport. gap tutors have likewise beenadelight to have inhouse Godman stylekept thegirlsbusybakingandmaking.Our responsibility ofdoingweekend dutiesandintrue in house. the extra mileandbeengreat fun andagreat support prefects inAndrea andMaria,whohave always gone We have onceagainwithwonderful beenblessed Godman Mrs RFielding We were very sadto say goodbye to the3rd form Other memorable events includetoasting Overseas boarders all prepared very successful Highlights of‘Friday Night Challenges’ included We have ofcoursehadourusualevents suchas Miss D’Amato andMissMuccitook ontheextra n www.rendcomb.org.uk Mr andMrsABrealy be anOld Recprefect. of ourteamtime that asheusedto hehasbeenpart Old Recteam asourresidential tutor. Itisthesecond We are delighted that MrThomasonhasjoinedthe Old Rectory and wishthemwellintheirfuture endeavours. 3rd Year Boys andOld RecTutor. We willmissthemall alsosaid‘au service. MrLindsey asHeadof North revoir’ lady andcleanerafter many, many years ofcommitted people. MrsMaureen Allenretired asourOld Reclaundry House, itwastimeto say farewell to twovery special Barbecue andfootball matches were enjoyed by all. year sawarecord 62parents attending onedinnerparty. learninglotsofvital liferewarding, skillsalongtheway. This lots offun. well attended, whichwere always full ofhighenergy and Bring andBuySaleCharityCake Sales. are always popularaswasHallowe’en!dress parties Prefects; andPhilipOepen. EricLi,ChristianCouch from ourdynamicOldwith theunceasingsupport Rec dunking duringraft building! rose to allthechallenges,includingcompulsory first form off to Shropshire for abondingweekend. They lucky withtheweather. lawn onthefirstSaturday after Games,wewere very the GodmanandOldon RectoryRec tea party As the3rd Form prepared to move onto Lawn The First Form and6thForm BuddyQuiz, wereThe parents’hard work,yet dinnerparties The Old Rectory andJ6BigBrother evenings were We raised lotsofmoney for charityat ourannual The boys love any excuse to dress up, sothefancy Friday Night Challengescamethickandfast By theendofsecondweekwewhisked the We were pleasedto seesomany parents attend n 49

House Reports House Reports 48 Mrs RFielding of anEra’ party, withlots offun joustingandbouncing. and hopethat they were given agoodsendoffat the‘End themed barnnight. Barn Night,anAmerican themedbarnnight andabeach and barnnights for the3rd form, includingaBurnsNight theteddy bears’picniconParadiseor treating, Island marshmallows andsingingaround thecampfire, trick food night. Hong Kong food night andMako andMiyuki’sJapanese with Jojo’sAustrian suppernight andfollowed by Coco’s themed suppernights withrecipes from home,starting and danceroutines at ourChristmasparty. choice -andwewere treated to ourusualwitty sketches our Christmastheatre tripto see‘Grease’-apopular yet, with62parents to cater for! ‘Winter parents’ Warmer’ andourbiggest dinnerparty buy sale,twofancy ‘Out ofthisWorld’ dress parties and evenings, cake sales,thecharitybringand the ‘bigsister’ and ahugesupport. gap tutors have likewise beenadelight to have inhouse Godman stylekept thegirlsbusybakingandmaking.Our responsibility ofdoingweekend dutiesandintrue in house. the extra mileandbeengreat fun andagreat support prefects inAndrea andMaria,whohave always gone We have onceagainwithwonderful beenblessed Godman We were very sadto say goodbye to the3rd form Other memorable events includetoasting Overseas boarders all prepared very successful Highlights of‘Friday Night Challenges’ included We have ofcoursehadourusualevents suchas Miss D’Amato andMissMuccitook ontheextra n www.rendcomb.org.uk Mr andMrsABrealy and wishthemwellintheirfuture endeavours. 3rd Year Boys andOld RecTutor. We willmissthemall alsosaid‘au service. MrLindsey asHeadof North revoir’ lady andcleanerafter many, many years ofcommitted people. MrsMaureen Allenretired asourOld Reclaundry House, itwastimeto say farewell to twovery special Barbecue andfootball matches were enjoyed by all. year sawarecord 62parents attending onedinnerparty. learninglotsofvital liferewarding, skillsalongtheway. This lots offun. well attended, whichwere always full ofhighenergy and Bring andBuySaleCharityCake Sales. are always popularaswasHallowe’en!dress parties Prefects; andPhilipOepen. EricLi,ChristianCouch from ourdynamicOldwith theunceasingsupport Rec dunking duringraft building! rose to allthechallenges,includingcompulsory first form off to Shropshire for abondingweekend. They lucky withtheweather. lawn onthefirstSaturday after Games,wewere very the GodmanandOldon RectoryRec tea party be anOld Recprefect. of ourteamtime that asheusedto hehasbeenpart Old Recteam asourresidential tutor. Itisthesecond We are delighted that MrThomasonhasjoinedthe Old Rectory As the3rd Form prepared to move onto Lawn The First Form and6thForm BuddyQuiz, wereThe parents’hard work,yet dinnerparties The Old Rectory andJ6BigBrother evenings were We raised lotsofmoney for charityat ourannual The boys love any excuse to dress up, sothefancy Friday Night Challengescamethickandfast By theendofsecondweekwewhisked the We were pleasedto seesomany parents attend n 49

House Reports House Reports 50 Dorothy Guo, Pre A in England-my secondhome.” Stable Houseisjustlike my home.“My home time Ifelt MrsF’wasjustlike my friend, and come backfrom thebananariding.At this and someotheractivities,I have just it’s really helpful. Stable House islike aPsychological Clinic, this timeIfelt MrsF’wasapsychiatrist, and of opinionsandasked meto relax; from upset at that timebutMrsF’gave mealot trouble withmakingfriends andIwasreally a really strict teacher for me. into thenewenvironment. Inthisway, sheis just wants to make usto integrate and settle in andgive methe reasons why. Iknowshe am feeling lazy,shewilltell meIneedto join afternoon, orIdonotgoto dinnerbecauseI for example ifIdonotjoinin,ingamesthe Sometimes, Ifeel MrsFerreira isreally strict, ofsocialskills. to dress, andthe importance about goodbehaviour, theappropriate way new way oflivingwithinacommunity. Ilearnt in. Itlater felt like aplacethat Icouldlearna House wasjusttheplacethat Iwant to live at home. Living inStable Houseisjustlike beingback Stable House Pre AStudent in Stable House This term, I joined in with Horse riding, This term, IjoinedinwithHorseriding, In thesecondterm, Ihadsome The firsttimeIcamehere, I felt Stable n Rendcomb Boarding at Olivia Watson, Form 4 that hassuchafriendly atmosphere. Rendcomb isnever dull,andIlove beingableto board at a school up, aswellhaving theHouseParents around for chats. Life at being away from home,wehave theotherboarders to cheerus I love roller-coasters, soIthoroughly enjoyed it! house’s day outto Drayton ManorPark -itwassomuchfun. Luckily, trip toWorld. Cadbury My favourite tripoftheyear hasto beStable be anything from shoppingorthemore days recent outiceskating, socialise andrelax for anhour. Stable and Lawn, aBarnsessiongives theboarders achanceto ina‘binbagfashion’taking part challengeafew years ago)andfor challenge takes place; these are always fun. (Iseemto remember activities that are onoffer. For GodmanandOld Rec,aFriday night Friday nights, anumberofday pupilsboard to enjoy theevening swim isputonintheevening for theboarders to make asplash.On different houses.Inthesummerterm (iftheweather isgood)a houses cangodownto Barnto socialize with theotherpupilsfrom out withfriendsnights, andotherboarders. Ontheolder certain decorations incrafting sessionsorsometimesjustto relax andchill squash andtennis, to make items suchasChristmasorEaster we have timebefore bedtimeto exercise, to visitthegym,to play there isanextra hourfrom 7to 8pm.Once allofourprep isdone, day isfinished.Prep runs from 5.15 to 6.15 pmand for olderpupils activities to various weekend events. you get to experience thefull life of Rendcombfrom evening Rendcomb isasecondhometo boarders. aboarder Being means Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Even thoughboarders sometimesfeel thestress ofworkor At weekends, days outare organised every Sunday. Thesecan Boarding inRendcombbeginsafter 5pm,whentheacademic n

www.rendcomb.org.uk Daisy Little, Form 3 that they willbewearing thesamethingasoneanother. stressful thantheother, where everyone isset into ablindpanic and fifth Ball form every other year. Ofcourseoneisslightly more out inStable. three ItcouldbeBarn timesaweek orthefourth hours Ispenddoingmy work, there isalways someway to chill It seemsthat no matter how muchwork Ihave orhowever many Stable House 4th Form in remembered for alongtimeafter we’ve allleftStable House. one. There have beensomefunny moments that I’msure willbe would stay onthebigwheelallafternoon. necessarily welcomethethrillof Shockwave andApocalypse but was atremendous hitwithallinvolved; even thosewhowouldn’t form leftfor studyleave wasaday outat Drayton Manor. This ofthecast. they were part the fourthform girlssuddenlyburstinginto songanddanceasif both housesenjoyed Maximumembarrassment it. wascausedby House choseto viewGrease. Icansafely say that everyone from Black. IntheMichaelmasterm of2011bothLawn HouseandStable to see.This couldbeanything from MammaMiato theWoman in stress iscausedby socializingwithyour peersafew timesaweek. This pastyear beenaneventful inStable hascertainly As afinaltrip for thehouseasawhole,before thefifth In theMichelmasterm every housechoosesashowthey wish Barn ontheotherhandisalotmore laidbackandalotless n Shelly Zheng, 6L Shelly Zheng, but Iwillnever forget my timeinStable House. Park HouseandIwilltryto improve my grades andEnglish, have worriedaboutmy grades. Next year Iwill move upto me, andhelpmeto improve my English. Stable have always taken theinitiative to communicate with not very good.Thehouseparents’ and students who live in me. Iwasvery shy to talk to otherpeopleasmy English was asked mehowmy mood wasandIfelt thishelpedto relax in Stable. in China.Iwas very nervous buteveryone was very friendly things. Itwas my firsttime for me to leave my hometown Living inStable Housethisyear hastaught memany Stable House L6 in This year Ihave beenvery happy inStable, except I They always took theinitiative to say helloto meand n 51

House Reports House Reports 50 Dorothy Guo, Pre A in England-my secondhome.” Stable Houseisjustlike my home.“My home time Ifelt MrsF’wasjustlike my friend, and come backfrom thebananariding.At this and someotheractivities,I have just it’s really helpful. Stable House islike aPsychological Clinic, this timeIfelt MrsF’wasapsychiatrist, and of opinionsandasked meto relax; from upset at that timebutMrsF’gave mealot trouble withmakingfriends andIwasreally a really strict teacher for me. into thenewenvironment. Inthisway, sheis just wants to make usto integrate and settle in andgive methe reasons why. Iknowshe am feeling lazy,shewilltell meIneedto join afternoon, orIdonotgoto dinnerbecauseI for example ifIdonotjoinin,ingamesthe Sometimes, Ifeel MrsFerreira isreally strict, ofsocialskills. to dress, andthe importance about goodbehaviour, theappropriate way new way oflivingwithinacommunity. Ilearnt in. Itlater felt like aplacethat Icouldlearna House wasjusttheplacethat Iwant to live at home. Living inStable Houseisjustlike beingback Stable House Pre AStudent in Stable House This term, I joined in with Horse riding, This term, IjoinedinwithHorseriding, In thesecondterm, Ihadsome The firsttimeIcamehere, I felt Stable n Olivia Watson, Form 4 that hassuchafriendly atmosphere. Rendcomb isnever dull,andIlove beingableto board at a school up, aswellhaving theHouseParents around for chats. Life at being away from home,wehave theotherboarders to cheerus I love roller-coasters, soIthoroughly enjoyed it! house’s day outto Drayton ManorPark -itwassomuchfun. Luckily, trip toWorld. Cadbury My favourite tripoftheyear hasto beStable be anything from shoppingorthemore days recent outiceskating, socialise andrelax for anhour. Stable and Lawn, aBarnsessiongives theboarders achanceto ina‘binbagfashion’taking part challengeafew years ago)andfor challenge takes place; these are always fun. (Iseemto remember activities that are onoffer. For GodmanandOld Rec,aFriday night Friday nights, anumberofday pupilsboard to enjoy theevening swim isputonintheevening for theboarders to make asplash.On different houses.Inthesummerterm (iftheweather isgood)a houses cangodownto Barnto socialize with theotherpupilsfrom out withfriendsnights, andotherboarders. Ontheolder certain decorations incrafting sessionsorsometimesjustto relax andchill squash andtennis, to make items suchasChristmasorEaster we have timebefore bedtimeto exercise, to visitthegym,to play there isanextra hourfrom 7to 8pm.Once allofourprep isdone, day isfinished.Prep runs from 5.15 to 6.15 pmand for olderpupils activities to various weekend events. you get to experience thefull life of Rendcombfrom evening Rendcomb isasecondhometo boarders. aboarder Being means Rendcomb Boarding at Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Even thoughboarders sometimesfeel thestress ofworkor At weekends, days outare organised every Sunday. Thesecan Boarding inRendcombbeginsafter 5pm,whentheacademic n

www.rendcomb.org.uk Daisy Little, Form 3 remembered for alongtimeafter we’ve allleftStable House. one. There have beensomefunny moments that I’msure willbe would stay onthebigwheelallafternoon. necessarily welcomethethrillof Shockwave andApocalypse but was atremendous hitwithallinvolved; even thosewhowouldn’t form leftfor studyleave wasaday outat Drayton Manor. This ofthecast. they were part the fourthform girlssuddenlyburstinginto songanddanceasif both housesenjoyed Maximumembarrassment it. wascausedby House choseto viewGrease. Icansafely say that everyone from Black. IntheMichaelmasterm of2011bothLawn HouseandStable to see.This couldbeanything from MammaMiato theWoman in stress iscausedby socializingwithyour peersafew timesaweek. that they willbewearing thesamethingasoneanother. stressful thantheother, where everyone isset into ablindpanic and fifth Ball form every other year. Ofcourseoneisslightly more out inStable. three ItcouldbeBarn timesaweek orthefourth hours Ispenddoingmy work, there isalways someway to chill It seemsthat no matter how muchwork Ihave orhowever many Stable House 4th Form in This pastyear beenaneventful inStable hascertainly As afinaltrip for thehouseasawhole,before thefifth In theMichelmasterm every housechoosesashowthey wish Barn ontheotherhandisalotmore laidbackandalotless n Shelly Zheng, 6L Shelly Zheng, but Iwillnever forget my timeinStable House. Park HouseandIwilltryto improve my grades andEnglish, have worriedaboutmy grades. Next year Iwill move upto me, andhelpmeto improve my English. Stable have always taken theinitiative to communicate with not very good.Thehouseparents’ and students who live in me. Iwasvery shy to talk to otherpeopleasmy English was asked mehowmy mood wasandIfelt thishelpedto relax in Stable. in China.Iwas very nervous buteveryone was very friendly things. Itwas my firsttime for me to leave my hometown Living inStable Housethisyear hastaught memany Stable House L6 in This year Ihave beenvery happy inStable, except I They always took theinitiative to say helloto meand n 51

House Reports House Reports 52 Lawn House Life in Lawn House the bestasheleaves usfor newpastures. will bevery appreciative ofallhishard workandwewishCharlieall sure that whoever isluckyenoughto landCharlie’sroom next year, in boarding longenoughto appreciate hisefforts. However, weare professional finishanditwassuchashamethat hedidn’t remain that ambiance!We all-important were allwellimpressed withthe between prep sessionsandwellinto inorder to theevening, create hand; frantically applyingthree coats ofmagnoliamatt finishin- beavering away withmaskingtape, dustsheetandpaint roller in one andthat one personcouldonlybeCharlesGreening! that wedidn’tneed to urgently redecorate. However, there isalways unassuming acceptance andtherefore weallsighedwithgreat relief and day community. perhaps we are well onourway to outgrowing Lawn Houseaswell! numbers escalate …not only did we outgrow Stable House,but on 2012we reflect onthe year that hasseenourboarding andday Lawn Housegoesfrom towe As closethedoor strength strength! Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Our first few weeksofMichaelmas term witnessed Charlie The year beganwiththe‘lilac’themebeinggreeted witharather We mustbedoingsomethingright to beathrivingboarding canwehaveMr Cairns anextension please? in thedarkest corner ofthetoilet cubicle! in-case something supernatural waslurking the bathroom ingroups ofthree, just brave young men.They insisted onvisiting and theghoulies’hadstopped haunting our four hourssleepby thetime‘ghosties with MrB,whomostprobably onlymanaged through, endured itto thebitter endalong with thegritanddetermination to seeit andasdarknessclosedin,those ‘spookier’ to backmovies becameprogressively memorable Lawn Housesleepovers. Back else inthisrather busyacademicyear. of theday andthisleftvery littletimefor much the summerterm. Examinations were theorder boys didn’treally comeupfor airuntil theendof the story becomesrather monotonous asour examinations andI’mafraid that from hereon in catapulted straight into mockandmodular www.rendcomb.org.uk However, wedidmake timefor some Then cameLent term andtheboys were

response ofhispeersasthey rushedto was obviously quite overwhelmed by the hopes andaspirations? the new4thform andwhat wouldbetheir (house prefects)? Howwouldthey manage ‘management’those all-important positions take? Who wouldputthemselves forward for as to5thform what shapenext would year’s at theheadoftable. Discussionsensued stepping upto theplate andtaking itsplace sudden realisation that our4thform wasnow seemed to take onadifferent feel, itwasthe year. Asour5thform thehouse departed, the GCSEswere doneanddusted for another GCSEexaminations.important duringabreakday betweenthoseall- out, Park’‘Thorpe for theirfinal Funfair-Farewell intrepid 5thform boys, braved thethrills of Luca departed inthat final week!He Luca departed Before itwasallover weknewit, and Summer term andonceagainour

year andallitbrings. the nextstart stage oftheiracademiclives. the UpperSixth. returned to usasour6thform prefects in usintheirLowersupported Sixthyear and Minton, CharlesBlackand Tommy Lin,who we are especially grateful to Christopher in shapingtheseyoung individuals’lives and ItwasagreatCollege. privilegeto play apart outasHouseparentsstarted at Rendcomb of boys whowere placed inourcharge aswe thisyear.our hearts Thiswasourfirstgroup service andluncheonheldaspecialplacein his 5thform year at schoolinGermany. look forward to hisreturn, after hecompletes Germany. We wishLucaall thevery bestand him wellonhisfinaljourney backhome to hug himbefore waving himoffandwishing Mr PBevans andMrsMBevans We lookforward to thenewacademic Bravo to allofourboys wholeave usto Leavers Weekend andthe6Uchapel n 53

House Reports House Reports 54 Park House Park HouseEvents getting work donetoo. of our lastyears at Rendcomb, whileof coursegetting thebalancejustright and this pastyear, we’ve donejustabouteverything underthesun–makingmost ParkThe wonderful House:muchlike aprize for reaching theendof school.In Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, were extremely diverse, withsixthformers the sixthformers. These,like barnights, enlighteninginteresting, andenjoyable for civilised enrichment nights whichwere House alsoproduced anumberofmore Jasmine. course, Jordan Thomasdressed asPrincess firemen, nuns,lumberjacks,cowboys and,of dance floorconsistingofpenguins, yet, hat barwhichsawperhapsthestrangest as rave bar, superhero barandoutofthe themesforwonderful thebarnights, such did agreat jobofcoming upwithweird and highlight.Thesocialprefectsa particular calendar thisyear, withthemedbarsbeing played ahugerole intheSixthForm events civilised SixthForm enrichment nights. Ninjas barandinnuendobingo, to themore from wackyevents suchasthePirates vs. eventsof weird andwonderful thisyear, Park Househas produced ahugerange Away from thewackybarnights, Park The SixthForm bar, asalways, has www.rendcomb.org.uk Jack Pethick, 6L from inspiringpeople suchasRay Lewis. cookingandtalks inwinetasting, taking part for Park house -bringonthenext! bananaboating! shorts even ifsomepeopledidlosetheirswimming banana boating whichwere enjoyed by all- shopping trips,cinemaZorbing and weekends alsofilledwithactivitiessuchas to Rendcomb itselffor thesixthform, with Yellowshark recording studio. the fantastic prize ofarecording sessionat withasixthform bandwinning rock concert, bands thisyear for theannualRendcomb Park alsoproduced many hard rocking buddy quiz,barbecueandfootball match. great fun withtheirfirst form buddiesinthe This sawthePark Houseresidents having ofthesuccessful buddyscheme. part this year, withmany ofthesixthform being with otheryear groups across theschool What afun filledandsuccessful year Events thisyear were notconfined Park wasalsoinvolved inmany events n Tom 6U Benson, will notbehislast. properly applyourselves to thetask at hand. and to believe that we canchangetheworldaround us–ifonlywe by themessageshegave; notto simplyacceptthingsat face value, a figure inthemindsofSixth Form, many ofwhomare inspired before they are forgotten. However even now, Ray Lewis remains aim. Many ofourcultural enrichments inspire momentary interest more questions thananswers,thenRay Lewis achieved certainly his accomplished withapparent ease. while keeping theattention offifty teenagers -nomean feat, butone Laughter andseriouspoliticalthought contained withinonehour, all of humourthat compelledtheSixthForm to listen andparticipate. accomplished speaker, mixingcharismatic seriousnesswithasense how to improve oursocietyfor an thebenefitofusall.Hewascertainly apply ourselves to aproblem whichseemedinitiallytoo large to tackle; effected, fieldingsolutions from theaudience,andencouraging us to He thenchallengedusto thinkaboutways inwhichchangecouldbe complexities onbothsidesofaninitiallystraightforward argument. the riotsby Holly PhelpsandHarryEllis;heencouraged usto seethe somerousing speechesforparticular andagainstthejustification of riots, andwiththehelpofsomeenthusiasticin audienceparticipation; and to thinkinadifferent light.Hetook theexample oftheLondon something new-Ray Lewis encouraged usto usewhat wealready knew Boris Johnson. backgrounds placesinto high-end schools,andaformer assistant to in fact theleaderofacharitywhichgotboys from disadvantaged man himself. An acquaintance oftheHeadmaster, Ray Lewis was footballer wasquicklyquelledwhenwewere introduced to the from theNFL. of the boys into thinkingwe hadshippedhimover speciallyonloan an American Football player called‘Ray Lewis’, whichexcited some himself was. Internet searches were by thwarted theexistence of ignorance aboutthetopic of hisspeech,oreven whotheman Ray Lewis was different -amystery man.MrJennings professed topic,to whichwe talk know well aboutaparticular inadvance. straightforward athasbeenasked -aguest, MrJennings’behest, flurry of speculation.certain UsuallySixth Form enrichment is Ray Lewis’ entrance into was preceded Rendcomb College by a Ray Lewis This wasRay Lewis’ firstvisit to Rendcomb, but Iamsure that it If themarkofagood‘Enrichment’ isthat itleaves you with Most speakers for enrichment cometo teach theSixthForm Any disappointment felt that Ray Lewis infact, wasnot, a n 55

House Reports House Reports 54 Park House Park HouseEvents getting work donetoo. of our lastyears at Rendcomb, whileof coursegetting thebalancejustright and this pastyear, we’ve donejustabouteverything underthesun–makingmost ParkThe wonderful House:muchlike aprize for reaching theendof school.In Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, were extremely diverse, withsixthformers the sixthformers. These,like barnights, enlighteninginteresting, andenjoyable for civilised enrichment nights whichwere House alsoproduced anumberofmore Jasmine. course, Jordan Thomasdressed asPrincess firemen, nuns,lumberjacks,cowboys and,of dance floorconsistingofpenguins, yet, hat barwhichsawperhapsthestrangest as rave bar, superhero barandoutofthe themesforwonderful thebarnights, such did agreat jobofcoming upwithweird and highlight.Thesocialprefectsa particular calendar thisyear, withthemedbarsbeing played ahugerole intheSixthForm events civilised SixthForm enrichment nights. Ninjas barandinnuendobingo, to themore from wackyevents suchasthePirates vs. eventsof weird andwonderful thisyear, Park Househas produced ahugerange Away from thewackybarnights, Park The SixthForm bar, asalways, has www.rendcomb.org.uk Jack Pethick, 6L for Park house -bringonthenext! bananaboating! shorts even ifsomepeopledidlosetheirswimming banana boating whichwere enjoyed by all- shopping trips,cinemaZorbing and weekends alsofilledwithactivitiessuchas to Rendcomb itselffor thesixthform, with Yellowshark recording studio. the fantastic prize ofarecording sessionat withasixthform bandwinning rock concert, bands thisyear for theannualRendcomb Park alsoproduced many hard rocking buddy quiz,barbecueandfootball match. great fun withtheirfirst form buddiesinthe This sawthePark Houseresidents having ofthesuccessful buddyscheme. part this year, withmany ofthesixthform being with otheryear groups across theschool from inspiringpeople suchasRay Lewis. cookingandtalks inwinetasting, taking part What afun filledandsuccessful year Events thisyear were notconfined Park wasalsoinvolved inmany events n Tom 6U Benson, will notbehislast. properly applyourselves to thetask at hand. and to believe that we canchangetheworldaround us–ifonlywe by themessageshegave; notto simplyacceptthingsat face value, a figure inthemindsofSixth Form, many ofwhomare inspired before they are forgotten. However even now, Ray Lewis remains aim. Many ofourcultural enrichments inspire momentary interest more questions thananswers,thenRay Lewis achieved certainly his accomplished withapparent ease. while keeping theattention offifty teenagers -nomean feat, butone Laughter andseriouspoliticalthought contained withinonehour, all of humourthat compelledtheSixthForm to listen andparticipate. accomplished speaker, mixingcharismatic seriousnesswithasense how to improve oursocietyfor an thebenefitofusall.Hewascertainly apply ourselves to aproblem whichseemedinitiallytoo large to tackle; effected, fieldingsolutions from theaudience,andencouraging us to He thenchallengedusto thinkaboutways inwhichchangecouldbe complexities onbothsidesofaninitiallystraightforward argument. the riotsby Holly PhelpsandHarryEllis;heencouraged usto seethe somerousing speechesforparticular andagainstthejustification of riots, andwiththehelpofsomeenthusiasticin audienceparticipation; and to thinkinadifferent light.Hetook theexample oftheLondon something new-Ray Lewis encouraged usto usewhat wealready knew Boris Johnson. backgrounds placesinto high-end schools,andaformer assistant to in fact theleaderofacharitywhichgotboys from disadvantaged man himself. An acquaintance oftheHeadmaster, Ray Lewis was footballer wasquicklyquelledwhenwewere introduced to the from theNFL. of the boys into thinkingwe hadshippedhimover speciallyonloan an American Football player called‘Ray Lewis’, whichexcited some himself was. Internet searches were by thwarted theexistence of ignorance aboutthetopic of hisspeech,oreven whotheman Ray Lewis was different -amystery man.MrJennings professed topic,to whichwe talk know well aboutaparticular inadvance. straightforward athasbeenasked -aguest, MrJennings’behest, flurry of speculation.certain UsuallySixth Form enrichment is Ray Lewis’ entrance into was preceded Rendcomb College by a Ray Lewis This wasRay Lewis’ firstvisit to Rendcomb, but Iamsure that it If themarkofagood‘Enrichment’ isthat itleaves you with Most speakers for enrichment cometo teach theSixthForm Any disappointment felt that Ray Lewis infact, wasnot, a n 55

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Sports & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 58 draws, andscoringatotal of 1167 points. total of 53games,winning30withthree season onaregular basis,playing a hasfieldedfive TheCollege teamsthis Rugby 2011 Rendcomb Winter Sports Rendcomb rugby, every boy intheyear who played together before. Inthebestspirit of season especiallyasnotmany ofthem had showed significant improvement over the from sides,andthebacks also bigger was strong even whenunderpressure well captained by James Sinfield.Thepack considerably over theseasonandhas been against Stanbridge Earls. Thesideimproved three wins from eight gameswiththe best a tough season.Nevertheless,there were numerically andphysically, andendured really grand season. boys for theirgreat commitment andfor a and MrBrealy wouldlike to thankallofthe against Exeter Cathedral andKinghamHill, some real nail-biters suchasthematches news for next season’sU14s.There were the mostimproved players, andthisisgreat Dylan Evans andOli Heneghanwere twoof Sharmanto namebutacouple,and Robert watch next seasonintheU13s,JoelFrost and by MaxWatson. There are someplayers to feat, andtheforwards were very ablyled tries throughout theseason,anoutstanding of aplayer andskipper, scoringsome 38 McLaughlinRobert wasa‘man mountain’ that really galvanised into aformidable team. The U13squadwasagroup ofyoung men The U14swasavery smallsquad,both Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk of hisability. was fit to play, played, andplayed to thebest bigger opposition onthefield.Many ofthe bigger belief inthemselves, even whenthey met the boys played withpassionandatotal Greenaway, wholedfrom thefront, and years. Theteam wascaptained by Oliver hasrecordedCollege at thislevel for many to remember, withthebest results the of players. pleasure to coachsuchacommitted group Mr Vuolo wouldlike to record that itwasa their markinseniorrugby next year, and excellent players inthisteam whowillmake of thefinalmatch 12– 20. There are many scored twotriesto make thefinalscore Despite brave resistance theopposition injuries to JacobDavidge andBrodie Ash. when fate dealtacrueldoubleblowwith boys leading12 –10withten minutes left SchoolGloucester,defeat to King’s withthe The finalgameoftheseasonendedinbitter were closelyfought andkeenly contested. victories were recorded, theotherfive wins 18 tries,and,althoughthree comprehensive leading tryscorer wasJacobDavidge with characterised by great team cohesion.The enjoying awinning seasonthat was For, itwasaseason the2ndXV The U15swon8oftheir12matches, ‘county boys’, HarryandPaddy, asachieving down, andthefuture isfull ofpromise. fifth formers played and never lettheside Mills alsoforced theirway into theside. Other and, inaddition,JamesTaylor andAlex Tatara- XV players, already firmly established as1st Tarleton, Ollie andLouis Cook Mernaghare doing itsowellthat HarryPriestner, Paddy challenging transition from U15rugby, and with fifth formers makingthedifficultand on aperfect blendofyouth andexperience, matches. Thisseason’s successwasbuilt season withninewinsandadraw from 15 overRendcomb College hiscareer. all theeffortthat hehasputinto rugby at thank you must goto Oliver Greenaway for many by somany different people,butabig individual effortsbecausethere were so team. Itistoo hard to singleoutoutstanding took full responsibility for theirjobinthe times gothard and,secondly, everyone forshowed great support eachotherwhen the successofthisteam. First ofall,they two majorfeatures that underpinned this year. MrFerreira notes that there were talent that characterised theseniorsquad depthof season, showingthewonderful players represented duringthe the1stXV A specialmention mustgoto the enjoyedThe 1stXV anotherwinning Mr MSlark efforts thisseason. and to theplayers for theiroutstanding medical staff, above but, all,to thecoaches catering staff, to thegrounds men;to our all ofthefinesttraditions ofCollegerugby. been anoutstanding leaderwhopersonifies ‘halloffame’.Rendcomb rugby’s Dan has candidateand heisanotherworthy for in the1stXV, hecouldnothave given more captain, Daniel Geerah, inhisthird season for alloftheireffortsthroughout theseason. Saturday oftheseasonwasafitting reward magnificent victory over KSG onthelast The boys saved Their theirbestto thelast. highest qualityandwasadelight to watch. played rugby the20111stXV ofthe best, a simplelackofphysical presence. At their sides, never for want ofeffortbutthrough were andmature lostagainstmore powerful season to remember. and have beendeservedly rewarded witha outstanding commitment to thecause Max Birden andChristopher Minton showed Tommy Lin,PhilipOepen, CharlesBlack, rugby,season ofCollege ChristianCouch, been blighted by injurysofar. be Lance Baynham whoseseniorrugby has Alongsidethem will willbebuilt. XV year’s season andwillbetherock onwhichnext Will ScottandHarryEllisimproved all with suchdistinction. representing andtheCounty theCollege Many congratulations to bothofthemin this region isagenuine‘hotbed’ofrugby. truly outstanding achievement given that Gloucestershire county honours isa In conclusion,somethanks,to the ofallthiswasthe At theheart Occasionally, thephysical battles Finally, the‘senior pros’, intheirlast From thelowersixth,Tristan Stevens, n 59

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 58 draws, andscoringatotal of 1167 points. total of 53games,winning30withthree season onaregular basis,playing a hasfieldedfive TheCollege teamsthis Rugby 2011 Rendcomb Winter Sports Rendcomb rugby, every boy intheyear who played together before. Inthebestspirit of season especiallyasnotmany ofthem had showed significant improvement over the from sides,andthebacks also bigger was strong even whenunderpressure well captained by James Sinfield.Thepack considerably over theseasonandhas been against Stanbridge Earls. Thesideimproved three wins from eight gameswiththe best a tough season.Nevertheless,there were numerically andphysically, andendured really grand season. boys for theirgreat commitment andfor a and MrBrealy wouldlike to thankallofthe against Exeter Cathedral andKinghamHill, some real nail-biters suchasthematches news for next season’sU14s.There were the mostimproved players, andthisisgreat Dylan Evans andOli Heneghanwere twoof Sharmanto namebutacouple,and Robert watch next seasonintheU13s,JoelFrost and by MaxWatson. There are someplayers to feat, andtheforwards were very ablyled tries throughout theseason,anoutstanding of aplayer andskipper, scoringsome 38 McLaughlinRobert wasa‘man mountain’ that really galvanised into aformidable team. The U13squadwasagroup ofyoung men The U14swasavery smallsquad,both Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk bigger opposition onthefield.Many ofthe bigger belief inthemselves, even whenthey met the boys played withpassionandatotal Greenaway, wholedfrom thefront, and years. Theteam wascaptained by Oliver hasrecordedCollege at thislevel for many to remember, withthebest results the of players. pleasure to coachsuchacommitted group Mr Vuolo wouldlike to record that itwasa their markinseniorrugby next year, and excellent players inthisteam whowillmake of thefinalmatch 12– 20. There are many scored twotriesto make thefinalscore Despite brave resistance theopposition injuries to JacobDavidge andBrodie Ash. when fate dealtacrueldoubleblowwith boys leading12 –10withten minutes left SchoolGloucester,defeat to King’s withthe The finalgameoftheseasonendedinbitter were closelyfought andkeenly contested. victories were recorded, theotherfive wins 18 tries,and,althoughthree comprehensive leading tryscorer wasJacobDavidge with characterised by great team cohesion.The enjoying awinning seasonthat was of hisability. was fit to play, played, andplayed to thebest For, itwasaseason the2ndXV The U15swon8oftheir12matches, ‘county boys’, HarryandPaddy, asachieving down, andthefuture isfull ofpromise. fifth formers played and never lettheside Mills alsoforced theirway into theside. Other and, inaddition,JamesTaylor andAlex Tatara- XV players, already firmly established as1st Tarleton, Ollie andLouis Cook Mernaghare doing itsowellthat HarryPriestner, Paddy challenging transition from U15rugby, and with fifth formers makingthedifficultand on aperfect blendofyouth andexperience, matches. Thisseason’s successwasbuilt season withninewinsandadraw from 15 overRendcomb College hiscareer. all theeffortthat hehasputinto rugby at thank you must goto Oliver Greenaway for many by somany different people,butabig individual effortsbecausethere were so team. Itistoo hard to singleoutoutstanding took full responsibility for theirjobinthe times gothard and,secondly, everyone forshowed great support eachotherwhen the successofthisteam. First ofall,they two majorfeatures that underpinned this year. MrFerreira notes that there were talent that characterised theseniorsquad depthof season, showingthewonderful players represented duringthe the1stXV A specialmention mustgoto the enjoyedThe 1stXV anotherwinning Mr MSlark efforts thisseason. and to theplayers for theiroutstanding medical staff, above but, all,to thecoaches catering staff, to thegrounds men;to our all ofthefinesttraditions ofCollegerugby. been anoutstanding leaderwhopersonifies ‘halloffame’.Rendcomb rugby’s Dan has candidateand heisanotherworthy for in the1stXV, hecouldnothave given more captain, Daniel Geerah, inhisthird season for alloftheireffortsthroughout theseason. Saturday oftheseasonwasafitting reward magnificent victory over KSG onthelast The boys saved Their theirbestto thelast. highest qualityandwasadelight to watch. played rugby the20111stXV ofthe best, a simplelackofphysical presence. At their sides, never for want ofeffortbutthrough were andmature lostagainstmore powerful season to remember. and have beendeservedly rewarded witha outstanding commitment to thecause Max Birden andChristopher Minton showed Tommy Lin,PhilipOepen, CharlesBlack, rugby,season ofCollege ChristianCouch, been blighted by injurysofar. be Lance Baynham whoseseniorrugby has Alongsidethem will willbebuilt. XV year’s season andwillbetherock onwhichnext Will ScottandHarryEllisimproved all with suchdistinction. representing andtheCounty theCollege Many congratulations to bothofthemin this region isagenuine‘hotbed’ofrugby. truly outstanding achievement given that Gloucestershire county honours isa In conclusion,somethanks,to the ofallthiswasthe At theheart Occasionally, thephysical battles Finally, the‘senior pros’, intheirlast From thelowersixth,Tristan Stevens, n 59

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A wise man once told me, ‘to be truly great Back in 2008, I remember sitting at the rugby club dinner, as a on the rugby field, you ‘shandy boy’, looking up towards the 1st XV captain as he spoke have to have your mind about the triumphs of his season. He mentioned commitment and determination, words I had always thought spoken just because it in the fridge, and your is a good phrase to put in the final speech of a season’. However, Moving on to my lower sixth comrades, I would like to thank Harry men on the field and he would definitely be a contender for player of when reflecting on this season and the 1st XV of 2011, it is clear to Ellis, Will Scott, Tristan Stevens and Lance Baynham for the support the year. He has dramatically increased his intensity and has made body in the fire’. And me that these words fit better than any others. The players have they have provided for the team. With a year’s experience under their massive improvements in his all round game. Setting an example from this season, we have shown commitment and determination greater than I could ever belts, the lower sixth set out to get their shirts quickly and this produced the front seems to be what he does best, and I am grateful for his have asked of them. Committed to develop, determined to have a situation of competition for places, which is always fantastic to see commitment and I know the rest of the squad share my view. been truly great. fun, committed and determined to win. in the senior squad. I am in no doubt that the team next year is in good In conclusion, I would like to thank two gentlemen who have The squad was youthful, and this meant for some games, hands, and that the lower sixth boys will help Rendcomb Rugby grow led me all the way through my time in the 1st XV. Mr Marsden has having an entire back line made up of fifth formers, but this has from strength to strength. A mention must also go to the support been responsible this year for numerous things, above all for never been a disadvantage. Very strong bonds have been made provided by Josh Thomas as touch judge this season. coaching the forwards. He has shown an eagle eye when it mattered both on and off the pitch, and that is exactly the perfect building The senior players in this team have my uptmost respect. In most and his military experiences and knowledge has kept us block for a College senior rugby team. I recall one moment in this some cases, this was only the second year I played rugby with them, entertained up on top pitch. He has kept the forwards tight knit and 1. Lin season which perfectly sums up the mentality of the fifth form boys. although I have been in the company of others for five years. I am well trained, and this has proved a major asset to the team. 2. Couch This involved Patrick Tarleton in the game against Rougemont. It was not sure if I can actually describe how awesome it has been. All the The final person that I would like to thank is Mr Slark, whose half time in this close fought encounter, and after I had made my way through the school, both on and off the pitch, the support and thought process of rugby, rugby and more rugby has aided the 3. Oepen usual speech about ‘reducing mistakes and taking any opportunities entertainment they have provided me with has been enormous. development of individual players, and the team as a whole. As 4. Black we had’, Mr Slark offered his usual words of wisdom, and then he I will never forget the remarkable ‘duracell’ fitness of Paddy Director of Sport, he organises all the fixtures for all of the age 5. Tatara-Mills turned to Paddy and told him that, if the opportunity came, he Gilling, the Germanic energy of Philip Oepen, the understated groups, as well as everything else that makes the season work. should attempt a drop goal. And so twenty minutes into the second but rock like presence of Tommy Lin, the passion and reliability of Fortunately for us, this gentleman’s talents do not stop just at 6. Mernagh half, Paddy cleanly caught a kick from the opposition and slotted a Charles Black, the individuality and support of Chris Minton (so the organizational side of things, he also brings great experience 7. Stevens fantastic drop goal from our own half. desperate to start the last game of the season despite his injury). to the game and to the training sessions. His experience ranges 8. Ellis This year the fifth form has really stepped up to the mark, And then there was Max Birden - in the first match of the season, everywhere, from moves in the backs to the many gruelling ways to proving their skill and worth in the 1st XV. They have tried new things, he started, he scored, he broke his collar bone. That was pretty much keep the squad’s fitness levels peaking at the right time. I would like Gilling some of which have worked to great effect, others not quite so how Max’s season went. However, whenever he was on the field, he to personally thank him for all the support he has given me during 9. Geerah (capt) well, but these boys have always somehow, in one way or another, performed. Whether it was during training or a match he put in an senior rugby. He has enough passion and enthusiasm to share with 10. Cook made their mark during a game and of course during this season. enormous amount of dedication. His training didn’t just consist of the everyone, with still enough left over for the following seasons. mere five or so hours that are timetabled; he would regularly sneak As I have come to the end of my time playing rugby for 11. Scott W From Patrick Tarleton, Harry Priestner, Louis Mernagh and Ollie Cook who comfortably settled into the team early in the season, off to top pitch during his own free time to get some practice in. It was Rendcomb, I would like to say thank you for everything. It has 12. Priestner to James Taylor and Alex Tatara-Mills who managed to fight their such a shame that he stood on the sideline for 11 of our 15 matches, but contributed an enormous amount to my whole Rendcomb life, and 13. Birden M way to become well deserved first choices by the end of season. he was our greatest supporter, and he would come on a two hour bus brought me memories I know I will always treasure, especially those 1st XV 2012 Rugby Minton Another mention has to go to Yannis Dimopoulos for never letting journey, just to support the team. Overall, Max has had an outstanding from the last couple of years. I have learned so many new things, us down when called upon. Even against the biggest opposition, rugby career at Rendcomb, and it was fantastic that he was back on the and met so many people that are no longer just faces of Rendcomb, 14. Taylor these boys have fronted up, putting in some memorable tackles, pitch for the final victory of the season. but are friends. You all have my respect and I hope I have earned Dimopoulos and the skill and team work shown by these boys have exceeded Finally, for a player who has impressed everyone this season. yours. From the first to the last game, I have loved every moment. 15. Tarleton all expectations. I am immensely proud to have shared this season Chris Couch has gained respect from all corners of the pitch, proving Enjoy it while it lasts, guys, because it all goes way too quickly. I’ll with you all. Good luck for future seasons. his worth in the tight and in open play. He has been the leader of leave you with this, ‘29-17 to Rendcomb’. n Daniel Geerah

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A wise man once told me, ‘to be truly great Back in 2008, I remember sitting at the rugby club dinner, as a on the rugby field, you ‘shandy boy’, looking up towards the 1st XV captain as he spoke have to have your mind about the triumphs of his season. He mentioned commitment and determination, words I had always thought spoken just because it in the fridge, and your is a good phrase to put in the final speech of a season’. However, Moving on to my lower sixth comrades, I would like to thank Harry men on the field and he would definitely be a contender for player of when reflecting on this season and the 1st XV of 2011, it is clear to Ellis, Will Scott, Tristan Stevens and Lance Baynham for the support the year. He has dramatically increased his intensity and has made body in the fire’. And me that these words fit better than any others. The players have they have provided for the team. With a year’s experience under their massive improvements in his all round game. Setting an example from this season, we have shown commitment and determination greater than I could ever belts, the lower sixth set out to get their shirts quickly and this produced the front seems to be what he does best, and I am grateful for his have asked of them. Committed to develop, determined to have a situation of competition for places, which is always fantastic to see commitment and I know the rest of the squad share my view. been truly great. fun, committed and determined to win. in the senior squad. I am in no doubt that the team next year is in good In conclusion, I would like to thank two gentlemen who have The squad was youthful, and this meant for some games, hands, and that the lower sixth boys will help Rendcomb Rugby grow led me all the way through my time in the 1st XV. Mr Marsden has having an entire back line made up of fifth formers, but this has from strength to strength. A mention must also go to the support been responsible this year for numerous things, above all for never been a disadvantage. Very strong bonds have been made provided by Josh Thomas as touch judge this season. coaching the forwards. He has shown an eagle eye when it mattered both on and off the pitch, and that is exactly the perfect building The senior players in this team have my uptmost respect. In most and his military experiences and knowledge has kept us block for a College senior rugby team. I recall one moment in this some cases, this was only the second year I played rugby with them, entertained up on top pitch. He has kept the forwards tight knit and 1. Lin season which perfectly sums up the mentality of the fifth form boys. although I have been in the company of others for five years. I am well trained, and this has proved a major asset to the team. 2. Couch This involved Patrick Tarleton in the game against Rougemont. It was not sure if I can actually describe how awesome it has been. All the The final person that I would like to thank is Mr Slark, whose half time in this close fought encounter, and after I had made my way through the school, both on and off the pitch, the support and thought process of rugby, rugby and more rugby has aided the 3. Oepen usual speech about ‘reducing mistakes and taking any opportunities entertainment they have provided me with has been enormous. development of individual players, and the team as a whole. As 4. Black we had’, Mr Slark offered his usual words of wisdom, and then he I will never forget the remarkable ‘duracell’ fitness of Paddy Director of Sport, he organises all the fixtures for all of the age 5. Tatara-Mills turned to Paddy and told him that, if the opportunity came, he Gilling, the Germanic energy of Philip Oepen, the understated groups, as well as everything else that makes the season work. should attempt a drop goal. And so twenty minutes into the second but rock like presence of Tommy Lin, the passion and reliability of Fortunately for us, this gentleman’s talents do not stop just at 6. Mernagh half, Paddy cleanly caught a kick from the opposition and slotted a Charles Black, the individuality and support of Chris Minton (so the organizational side of things, he also brings great experience 7. Stevens fantastic drop goal from our own half. desperate to start the last game of the season despite his injury). to the game and to the training sessions. His experience ranges 8. Ellis This year the fifth form has really stepped up to the mark, And then there was Max Birden - in the first match of the season, everywhere, from moves in the backs to the many gruelling ways to proving their skill and worth in the 1st XV. They have tried new things, he started, he scored, he broke his collar bone. That was pretty much keep the squad’s fitness levels peaking at the right time. I would like Gilling some of which have worked to great effect, others not quite so how Max’s season went. However, whenever he was on the field, he to personally thank him for all the support he has given me during 9. Geerah (capt) well, but these boys have always somehow, in one way or another, performed. Whether it was during training or a match he put in an senior rugby. He has enough passion and enthusiasm to share with 10. Cook made their mark during a game and of course during this season. enormous amount of dedication. His training didn’t just consist of the everyone, with still enough left over for the following seasons. mere five or so hours that are timetabled; he would regularly sneak As I have come to the end of my time playing rugby for 11. Scott W From Patrick Tarleton, Harry Priestner, Louis Mernagh and Ollie Cook who comfortably settled into the team early in the season, off to top pitch during his own free time to get some practice in. It was Rendcomb, I would like to say thank you for everything. It has 12. Priestner to James Taylor and Alex Tatara-Mills who managed to fight their such a shame that he stood on the sideline for 11 of our 15 matches, but contributed an enormous amount to my whole Rendcomb life, and 13. Birden M way to become well deserved first choices by the end of season. he was our greatest supporter, and he would come on a two hour bus brought me memories I know I will always treasure, especially those Minton Another mention has to go to Yannis Dimopoulos for never letting journey, just to support the team. Overall, Max has had an outstanding from the last couple of years. I have learned so many new things, us down when called upon. Even against the biggest opposition, rugby career at Rendcomb, and it was fantastic that he was back on the and met so many people that are no longer just faces of Rendcomb, 14. Taylor these boys have fronted up, putting in some memorable tackles, pitch for the final victory of the season. but are friends. You all have my respect and I hope I have earned Dimopoulos and the skill and team work shown by these boys have exceeded Finally, for a player who has impressed everyone this season. yours. From the first to the last game, I have loved every moment. 15. Tarleton all expectations. I am immensely proud to have shared this season Chris Couch has gained respect from all corners of the pitch, proving Enjoy it while it lasts, guys, because it all goes way too quickly. I’ll with you all. Good luck for future seasons. his worth in the tight and in open play. He has been the leader of leave you with this, ‘29-17 to Rendcomb’. n Daniel Geerah

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62 1st X1 Hockey 2012 Khirrecu Spurway Kernon Clarke Jones Faruque Gibson Williams McFarlane Metcalfe Highlands Daly Mulhall Haas (vicecapt) Phelps (capt) be achieved withenthusiasm andhard work. providing agreat hockey. advertisement for lady’s They remind usallof what can chances andregain parity to convert goalsto reality, showcasing theirtalents and and usedtheirinitiative incompetitive nature themselves to to assert create advice given to themby theircoaches.They battled hard to keep possession very competitive andsuccessful season.Every year group took onboard the about thecollegefrom many opponents andparents at theendof what was a by allyears of thecollege.Itwas always lovely to hearvery positive comments This year we were onceagaintreated to afabulous exhibition of hockey produced Girls’ Hockey Report Played 34 Won 16Lost 9Drew 8 Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk and at timesvery pretty hockey. but statistics really donot tell thestory of 13weeks of fast, intense corners(Thankyouand scoring18goals,mostfrom Holly), short Well ithas been afineseason for the1stXI,playing eight matches enough, wecouldn’thave doneitwithoutyou. surprising yourself at times.To theLower 6th,how canwethankyou tree grown’’, you were taking onplayers andbeating them,even to besopolite onthefield.Vicky, also from the‘’acorn hastheoak a player somuch,your workrate has doubledandyou never forgot for your loyalty to theteam. Charlotte Jonesyou have matured as Hallforin theSports indoortraining. Thanksyou allsomuch actually playing butworkinginthewingsfor apossiblecallup, fierce have putinthisseason, itbodeswellfor next year. more games. To the5thform thankyou for workyou allthewonderful them scoringthree goals;andLucy, withoutwhomwewouldhave lost ball control ofKemi andBlissshowedthroughout theseason,eachof field and very able to push theoppositionbackwards. Theskilland needed. Hannah(until herinjury)andBarley were soeffective inmid- Abi worked sowell invarious positions,always willingto fitinwhere 5th form, seven players gave everything to theteam. Christineand players were ledby themore seniorexperienced lionesses.From the know wedon’tplay onpaper, weplay onastro andtheseyounger we clearlyhadsomeinexperienced players in thesquad,butaswe credit to theCollege. determined, tough andlinkingplay, theplayers have beensucha disgrace at all.Bothteams commented ontheplayers beingso teams: andStEdwards Christ’sCollege to nametwo. Certainly, no boding well.We didloseacoupleofgames,butonlyto very polished So to the Lower 6th.Firstly to Merle,IsobelleandPauline, not And soto theplayers. Onoftheseason, paperat thestart We opened theseasonwitha5-0wininKinghamHill,allwas (as summarisedat theHockey dinner) 1st XIHockey yourselves Thank you. andIamproud toofit. have been part takes andsucceeding.You are acredit toacredit theCollege, to as afighting team, you have been soprepared to do whatever it season. Ihave soenjoyed coachingyou. Iwillremember thisteam us allhappen,MissBell.You have worked sohard againthisterm. them wecouldn’tdothis,butmostofallto thepersonthat makes On behalf ofusall,Iwouldlike to thankallthecoachingstaff, without literally couldnothave donethiswithout you. Thank you somuch. into battle’ andyou have commandedtherespect ofusall.We youbut mostimportantly have ledtheteam from the front, ‘leading withafierce desire to win. outstanding, You have scored eight goals 1st XIteams over theyears andHollyyou have beensimply quite outstanding asaplayer, thankyou somuch. quite superb. Ifyou scored three you madedoublethat.You are suchakeygoals. Thequeenoftherightrole, you wing, have been wasquite superb, thankyou. and King’s influential inthe team’s success,thematch College versus Christ’s will never give up, like a‘nuclear powered hornet’.You have beenso Kat, sohard working,Ithinkyou ran amarathon ineachmatch, you and quite athletic, sovery welldone,even ifyou didkeep falling over. keeper; Ihave lostcount ofthetimesyou kept usinthegame,agile Kings Gloucester match sowelldeserved. Maria, what atalented way oftheoppositionandnever backoff. What afinale,goalinthe oftheterm butgrew andgrew,start always prepared to getinthe this season.Deenah (Smiler),whowasnotfull ofconfidence at the up ontimefor somepractices. Meganthankyou for allyour efforts scorer ofthree goalsandalways adangerinthe‘D’,didactuallyturn Mr JStutchbury 5. theball,smiledandran after it962. 4. 3. Players for the1stXI=17, goals=18 2. 1. Some statistics of theseason: Hoursonastro 87. Number of short cornerpractices =4284 Numberof short Number of timesMariafell over ingoal=26 Numberof timesCharlotte Jonesmissed To allthe1stXIof2011:my congratulations onsuchafine And soto ourCaptain,HollyPhelps,Ihave coachedmany And nowthedynamicduo.Captain),three Andrea Hass(Vice Onto theUpper6th,sixplayers, allreal class.Firstly Megan, 63 n

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 62 Khirrecu Spurway Kernon Clarke Jones Faruque Gibson Williams McFarlane Metcalfe Highlands Daly Mulhall Haas (vicecapt) Phelps (capt) be achieved withenthusiasm andhard work. providing agreat hockey. advertisement for lady’s They remind usallof what can chances andregain parity to convert goalsto reality, showcasing theirtalents and and usedtheirinitiative incompetitive nature themselves to to assert create advice given to themby theircoaches.They battled hard to keep possession very competitive andsuccessful season.Every year group took onboard the about thecollegefrom many opponents andparents at theendof what was a by allyears of thecollege.Itwas always lovely to hearvery positive comments This year we were onceagaintreated to afabulous exhibition of hockey produced Girls’ Hockey Report Played 34 Won 16Lost 9Drew 8 Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk enough, wecouldn’thave doneitwithoutyou. surprising yourself at times.To theLower 6th,how canwethankyou tree grown’’, you were taking onplayers andbeating them,even to besopolite onthefield.Vicky, also from the‘’acorn hastheoak a player somuch,your workrate has doubledandyou never forgot for your loyalty to theteam. Charlotte Jonesyou have matured as Hallforin theSports indoortraining. Thanksyou allsomuch actually playing butworkinginthewingsfor apossiblecallup, fierce have putinthisseason, itbodeswellfor next year. more games. To the5thform thankyou for workyou allthewonderful them scoringthree goals;andLucy, withoutwhomwewouldhave lost ball control ofKemi andBlissshowedthroughout theseason,eachof field and very able to push theoppositionbackwards. Theskilland needed. Hannah(until herinjury)andBarley were soeffective inmid- Abi worked sowell invarious positions,always willingto fitinwhere 5th form, seven players gave everything to theteam. Christineand players were ledby themore seniorexperienced lionesses.From the know wedon’tplay onpaper, weplay onastro andtheseyounger we clearlyhadsomeinexperienced players in thesquad,butaswe credit to theCollege. determined, tough andlinkingplay, theplayers have beensucha disgrace at all.Bothteams commented ontheplayers beingso teams: andStEdwards Christ’sCollege to nametwo. Certainly, no boding well.We didloseacoupleofgames,butonlyto very polished and at timesvery pretty hockey. but statistics really donot tell thestory of 13weeks of fast, intense corners(Thankyouand scoring18goals,mostfrom Holly), short Well ithas been afineseason for the1stXI,playing eight matches So to the Lower 6th.Firstly to Merle,IsobelleandPauline, not And soto theplayers. Onoftheseason, paperat thestart We opened theseasonwitha5-0wininKinghamHill,allwas (as summarisedat theHockey dinner) 1st XIHockey yourselves Thank you. andIamproud toofit. have been part takes andsucceeding.You are acredit toacredit theCollege, to as afighting team, you have been soprepared to do whatever it season. Ihave soenjoyed coachingyou. Iwillremember thisteam us allhappen,MissBell.You have worked sohard againthisterm. them wecouldn’tdothis,butmostofallto thepersonthat makes On behalf ofusall,Iwouldlike to thankallthecoachingstaff, without literally couldnothave donethiswithout you. Thank you somuch. into battle’ andyou have commandedtherespect ofusall.We youbut mostimportantly have ledtheteam from the front, ‘leading withafierce desire to win. outstanding, You have scored eight goals 1st XIteams over theyears andHollyyou have beensimply quite outstanding asaplayer, thankyou somuch. quite superb. Ifyou scored three you madedoublethat.You are suchakeygoals. Thequeenoftherightrole, you wing, have been wasquite superb, thankyou. and King’s influential inthe team’s success,thematch College versus Christ’s will never give up, like a‘nuclear powered hornet’.You have beenso Kat, sohard working,Ithinkyou ran amarathon ineachmatch, you and quite athletic, sovery welldone,even ifyou didkeep falling over. keeper; Ihave lostcount ofthetimesyou kept usinthegame,agile Kings Gloucester match sowelldeserved. Maria, what atalented way oftheoppositionandnever backoff. What afinale,goalinthe oftheterm butgrew andgrew,start always prepared to getinthe this season.Deenah (Smiler),whowasnotfull ofconfidence at the up ontimefor somepractices. Meganthankyou for allyour efforts scorer ofthree goalsandalways adangerinthe‘D’,didactuallyturn Mr JStutchbury 5. theball,smiledandran after it962. 4. 3. Players for the1stXI=17, goals=18 2. 1. Some statistics of theseason: Hoursonastro 87. Number of short cornerpractices =4284 Numberof short Number of timesMariafell over ingoal=26 Numberof timesCharlotte Jonesmissed To allthe1stXIof2011:my congratulations onsuchafine And soto ourCaptain,HollyPhelps,Ihave coachedmany And nowthedynamicduo.Captain),three Andrea Hass(Vice Onto theUpper6th,sixplayers, allreal class.Firstly Megan, 63 n

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 64 success forsuccess RendcombCollege This seasonhasbeenanother great Lacrosse International students many ofwhomhadnever field ofplay asthe team wasmadeupofRendcomb This team broke arecord before stepping onto the MVP award. to Davies Cerys for beingawarded themostdeserved victorious. Well doneladiesonafantastic seasonand them; they took themon intheirstridecominghome 2nd team orMarlborough 3rd team thisdidnotphase could notbekept downandwhenasked to play Canford they were unfortunate notto win.Themight ofthisteam schools suchasCheltenham Ladies’ where they drew; into awinningseason, they played gamesagainst fantastic saving thegameonnumerous occasions. on thepositionbetweenpipesandwasabsolutely this team hadto goto Eve Jarmanwhodecidedto take the team wasplaced11thintheRegion.TheMVPfor the term. At the U14RegionalSouthWest Tournament Katherines’ Helen’sandSt. win againstSt. Schoolto end draw andawinagainstMarlborough U14sandafantastic steep learningcurve for thegirlsitendedinglory, witha Miss Berryandalthoughmuchoftheseasonwasa and EllieJones. Valued Players for theyear at thislevel are Grace Knapp Region. Thisisagreat achievement for us.TheMost their abilitymanagingto getaranking ofseventh inthe not deter thegirlsandthey performed to thebestof only beenplaying for approximately sixweeks.Thisdid term, nomeanfeat consideringsomeofourgirlshad who play Lacrosse duringtheMichaelmasand Lent the team were up againstschoolslike SherborneGirls West Regionaltournament at U13level. Thismeant that of theseasonwasplaying for thefirsttimeinSouth year whohasachieved somegreat results. Thefinale The U12/U13team wascoachedby MissD’Amato this All teams U12/U13 2nd X11 1st X11 TEAM U14 U15 The 2ndX11wascoachedagain by MissD’Amato. andMissBellcoachedtheU15teamMr Coups The U14team wascoachedby MissMucciand PLAYED 82 37 14 13 11 7 WON 45 28 9 5 2 1 LOST 30 11 4 6 8 1 Megan for theirdevoted years ofserviceto thegame. Andrea Haaswhoreceived MVP. in three seasonswhistrepresenting the1stX11)and set anewschoolrecord thisyear by scoring335goals Best Midfield;MeganMulhall Attack (Meganalso who received theBest Defence Award; HollyPhelps, her brilliant display asGoalkeeper for thewholeterm, game 7-6. The awards for thisteam are: LucyKernon for to Megan Mulhall’sfantastic free positionwewonthe also went to doubleovertime andgoldengoal.Thanks Claremont (anotherrematch from lastyear). Thisgame of ourmatches onthe way to thefinal andmetupwith the SmallSchools’Championshipswhere wewonall Country. Thefollowing weekwehadto doitallagainin win butweare nowranked inthetop 30schoolsinthe overtime andgoldengoal.Unfortunately, wedidnot last year). This year however, thegamewent to double to thefinalwhere wemetSherborne(a rematch from We beat Marlborough3-1 College andthenadvanced we miraculously found ourselves inthesemi-finals. hard for ourselves by drawing three outofthesixgames Division Two ofthechampionships.After makinglife tournament wequalifiedafter thefirst day to play in Small SchoolsChampionships.At theNational Schools season hasto beplaying at National Schools and inthe formidable teams intheprocess. Thehighlight ofthis second consecutive unbeaten season,beating some a superbjobinGoalandherreward oftheteam’s MVP. their achievements butespeciallyChristineKhirrecu, for Canford 2nds.Thegirlsshouldallbeextremely proud of got better andbetter, endingtheseasononawinover play more games. Aseachgamewent ontheteam Hall. Althoughnotvictorious theteam waseagerto play theteam setofffor theirfirstgameagainst Tudor played before. After afew weeksoflearninghowto Mrs KCoups DREW I would particularly like to thankAndrea,I wouldparticularly Hollyand 1stcoachedtheX11throughMrs Coups its 7 5 1 1 GOALS FOR 450 253 40 54 91 12 GOALS AGAINST 243 103 49 49 94 52 n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk to 18, many of themGloucestershire residents. The 16player team consisted of amixof female students aged14 Team for departed itsfirst overseas tour to Hannover, Germany. On Saturday 22ndOctober, Lacrosse RendcombCollege 2011, October 2011 Lacrosse Tour attack andproducing thebestindividualperformance ofthetour a fantastic display oflacrosse withBliss McFarlane leadingthe with thescore being5-3. Inthesecondhalfwewent onto produce played asolidfirsthalfbutwewere twogoalsdown at halftime After alongwarmupto ridourselves ofthethree hourjourney we we arrived at theirclubready to play anothernight timegame. was onaparwiththeHannover team so withsometrepidation Warriors Lacrosse Club. We hadbeeninformed that thisteam all round performance. Andrea Hasswasnominated asMVPfor thisgamefor herexcellent scored by Delia Richinthelastminute for thegameto finish8-8. Lucy Kernon inthefinal few minutes andtheequalisinggoalbeing great defence unitat theback,withcriticalsaves beingmadeby Phelps, Andrea Haas,Barley Spurway andLauren Kraven were a inspirational goalsfrom MeganMulhallandBlissMcFarlane. Holly Hannover, after halftimeweequalisedandsoontook theleadwith rules andhadthree referees. Thescore at halftimewas3-1 to experience for themajorityofteam asweplayed International DaviesMulhall scoring5andCerys beingawarded MVP. the majorityofteam. Rendcombwonthegame8-4withMegan be played andunderfloodlights, onAstroturf anew experience for Lacrosse team. Thisgamewasthefirstof four gamesscheduled to The third gametook usbackto Hamburg to play the Hamburg Our secondgamewasagainstHannover andanothernew Black Pearl The firstgamewasscheduledagainstHamburg’s Mrs KCoups made thistour possible. a bigthankyou to allthose parents,andSponsorswho supporters Lacrosse clubsfor alltheirkindnessinhostingthetour andto send at for RendcombCollege thenext few years. showed by thislessexperienced team isexcellent newsfor lacrosse Maria Highlandsscoringherfirst ever goal.The attitude andability MVP. Thefinalscore was12-7 to uswith Delia Richscoringthree and defence andthey bothshowedgreat leadershipwithOlivia receiving Spurway stepped upto thechallengeofleadingattack and players to seeifthey couldmarshaltheteam. Olivia Witts andBarley the coachingstaff to give key responsibilities to lessexperienced not bequite asstrong astheotherswehadplayed, sothisenabled Rising Stars. Theexpectation ofthisgamewasthat theirteam would McFarlane wasMVPfor thisgame. given moment, especiallyinthesecondhalf, unsurprisinglyBliss exceptionally wellindefence closingdowntheoppositionat any Davies bothadded toBarley thescore sheet. Spurway alsoplayed scored anamazingfree positiongoal,andRozy Baynham andCerys the score of13-7. MeganMulhallscored five goals,HollyPhelps scoring five second halfgoalsandensuringwewonthegamewith pca eto Barley Spurway McFarlane Bliss andHollyPhelps Special Mention MVP for Tour MeganMulhall15 Top GoalScorer All thetouring team want to thankthe Hannover andHamburg Our finalmatch ofthe tour matched usagainstHamburg n 65

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 64 success forsuccess RendcombCollege This seasonhasbeenanother great Lacrosse International students many ofwhomhadnever field ofplay asthe team wasmadeupofRendcomb This team broke arecord before stepping onto the MVP award. to Davies Cerys for beingawarded themostdeserved victorious. Well doneladiesonafantastic seasonand them; they took themon intheirstridecominghome 2nd team orMarlborough 3rd team thisdidnotphase could notbekept downandwhenasked to play Canford they were unfortunate notto win.Themight ofthisteam schools suchasCheltenham Ladies’ where they drew; into awinningseason, they played gamesagainst fantastic saving thegameonnumerous occasions. on thepositionbetweenpipesandwasabsolutely this team hadto goto Eve Jarmanwhodecidedto take the team wasplaced11thintheRegion.TheMVPfor the term. At the U14RegionalSouthWest Tournament Katherines’ Helen’sandSt. win againstSt. Schoolto end draw andawinagainstMarlborough U14sandafantastic steep learningcurve for thegirlsitendedinglory, witha Miss Berryandalthoughmuchoftheseasonwasa and EllieJones. Valued Players for theyear at thislevel are Grace Knapp Region. Thisisagreat achievement for us.TheMost their abilitymanagingto getaranking ofseventh inthe not deter thegirlsandthey performed to thebestof only beenplaying for approximately sixweeks.Thisdid term, nomeanfeat consideringsomeofourgirlshad who play Lacrosse duringtheMichaelmasand Lent the team were up againstschoolslike SherborneGirls West Regionaltournament at U13level. Thismeant that of theseasonwasplaying for thefirsttimeinSouth year whohasachieved somegreat results. Thefinale The U12/U13team wascoachedby MissD’Amato this All teams U12/U13 2nd X11 1st X11 TEAM U14 U15 The 2ndX11wascoachedagain by MissD’Amato. andMissBellcoachedtheU15teamMr Coups The U14team wascoachedby MissMucciand PLAYED 82 37 14 13 11 7 WON 45 28 9 5 2 1 LOST 30 11 4 6 8 1 Mrs KCoups Megan for theirdevoted years ofserviceto thegame. Andrea Haaswhoreceived MVP. in three seasonswhistrepresenting the1stX11)and set anewschoolrecord thisyear by scoring335goals Best Midfield;MeganMulhall Attack (Meganalso who received theBest Defence Award; HollyPhelps, her brilliant display asGoalkeeper for thewholeterm, game 7-6. The awards for thisteam are: LucyKernon for to Megan Mulhall’sfantastic free positionwewonthe also went to doubleovertime andgoldengoal.Thanks Claremont (anotherrematch from lastyear). Thisgame of ourmatches onthe way to thefinal andmetupwith the SmallSchools’Championshipswhere wewonall Country. Thefollowing weekwehadto doitallagainin win butweare nowranked inthetop 30schoolsinthe overtime andgoldengoal.Unfortunately, wedidnot last year). This year however, thegamewent to double to thefinalwhere wemetSherborne(a rematch from We beat Marlborough3-1 College andthenadvanced we miraculously found ourselves inthesemi-finals. hard for ourselves by drawing three outofthesixgames Division Two ofthechampionships.After makinglife tournament wequalifiedafter thefirst day to play in Small SchoolsChampionships.At theNational Schools season hasto beplaying at National Schools and inthe formidable teams intheprocess. Thehighlight ofthis second consecutive unbeaten season,beating some a superbjobinGoalandherreward oftheteam’s MVP. their achievements butespeciallyChristineKhirrecu, for Canford 2nds.Thegirlsshouldallbeextremely proud of got better andbetter, endingtheseasononawinover play more games. Aseachgamewent ontheteam Hall. Althoughnotvictorious theteam waseagerto play theteam setofffor theirfirstgameagainst Tudor played before. After afew weeksoflearninghowto DREW I would particularly like to thankAndrea,I wouldparticularly Hollyand 1stcoachedtheX11throughMrs Coups its 7 5 1 1 GOALS FOR 450 253 40 54 91 12 GOALS AGAINST 243 103 94 49 49 52 n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk attack andproducing thebestindividualperformance ofthetour a fantastic display oflacrosse withBliss McFarlane leadingthe with thescore being5-3. Inthesecondhalfwewent onto produce played asolidfirsthalfbutwewere twogoalsdown at halftime After alongwarmupto ridourselves ofthethree hourjourney we we arrived at theirclubready to play anothernight timegame. was onaparwiththeHannover team so withsometrepidation Warriors Lacrosse Club. We hadbeeninformed that thisteam all round performance. Andrea Hasswasnominated asMVPfor thisgamefor herexcellent scored by Delia Richinthelastminute for thegameto finish8-8. Lucy Kernon inthefinal few minutes andtheequalisinggoalbeing great defence unitat theback,withcriticalsaves beingmadeby Phelps, Andrea Haas,Barley Spurway andLauren Kraven were a inspirational goalsfrom MeganMulhallandBlissMcFarlane. Holly Hannover, after halftimeweequalisedandsoontook theleadwith rules andhadthree referees. Thescore at halftimewas3-1 to experience for themajorityofteam asweplayed International DaviesMulhall scoring5andCerys beingawarded MVP. the majorityofteam. Rendcombwonthegame8-4withMegan be played andunderfloodlights, onAstroturf anew experience for Lacrosse team. Thisgamewasthefirstof four gamesscheduled to to 18, many of themGloucestershire residents. The 16player team consisted of amixof female students aged14 Team for departed itsfirst overseas tour to Hannover, Germany. On Saturday 22ndOctober, Lacrosse RendcombCollege 2011, October 2011 Lacrosse Tour The third gametook usbackto Hamburg to play the Hamburg Our secondgamewasagainstHannover andanothernew Black Pearl The firstgamewasscheduledagainstHamburg’s Mrs KCoups made thistour possible. a bigthankyou to allthose parents,andSponsorswho supporters Lacrosse clubsfor alltheirkindnessinhostingthetour andto send at for RendcombCollege thenext few years. showed by thislessexperienced team isexcellent newsfor lacrosse Maria Highlandsscoringherfirst ever goal.The attitude andability MVP. Thefinalscore was12-7 to uswith Delia Richscoringthree and defence andthey bothshowedgreat leadershipwithOlivia receiving Spurway stepped upto thechallengeofleadingattack and players to seeifthey couldmarshaltheteam. Olivia Witts andBarley the coachingstaff to give key responsibilities to lessexperienced not bequite asstrong astheotherswehadplayed, sothisenabled Rising Stars. Theexpectation ofthisgamewasthat theirteam would McFarlane wasMVPfor thisgame. given moment, especiallyinthesecondhalf, unsurprisinglyBliss exceptionally wellindefence closingdowntheoppositionat any Davies bothadded toBarley thescore sheet. Spurway alsoplayed scored anamazingfree positiongoal,andRozy Baynham andCerys the score of13-7. MeganMulhallscored five goals,HollyPhelps scoring five second halfgoalsandensuringwewonthegamewith pca eto Barley Spurway McFarlane Bliss andHollyPhelps Special Mention MVP for Tour MeganMulhall15 Top GoalScorer All thetouring team want to thankthe Hannover andHamburg Our finalmatch ofthe tour matched usagainstHamburg n 65

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66 1st X1 Hockey 2012 13. Lamble 12. Priestner 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. Tatara -Mills 2. 1. throughout theseason. and collective ambition deal of commitment once againshown agreat of theten squadshave players andthecoaches alive andwell. Allthe Rendcomb hockey is Boys’ Hockey Geerah (capt) Hansel Auster Couch Couch Williams Margesson Gregory Scott Birden Tarleton the very bestashepicksupthe‘hockey mantle’. hockey forward over thelastdecadeorso. IwishMrFerreira all staffCollege andplayers that have helpedto move Rendcomb tenure asHeadofBoys’ Hockey andIwouldlike to thank allthe with impressive statistics: P12W7D2L4GF33GA28. most outofthem,raising theirgamesomuchthat they endedup against muchlarger schools,butMrFerreira wasableto getthe composed ofmany U16’s,metwithsomevery tough tasks inthemixforcertainly mostimproved player. Thisyoung squad, beingMaxBirden, whowas captain ofthe1stXI,withhis‘Vice’ In histhird seasonwiththeFirst’s Dan Geerah wasnamed shared with three winsandthree draws outoftheirninegames. Josh Thomasandsoliddefender ChrisMinton. Thespoils were opposition. The2ndXIhadthejoint captaincy ofvocal keeper deal ofcharacter asthey took onmuchmore experienced winning ordrawing halfoftheirmatches. They showedagreat The 3rd XI,withEricLiat thehelm,played six very closegames enjoyment whilstat thesametimedeveloping theirtechniques. they conceded! fixtures –thesquadscoring28goals,almosttwiceasmany as Edward Brealy presided over seven victories outoftheireleven of theirmatches andtheU15Asquadalsoperformed very well; Alpine injuryat Half Term. MrBevans’ U15‘KillerBees”wonboth success severely hampered by thelossofPeter Gregory to an progressed, ending upwiththree winsintheireight fixtures; their Oliver Heneghan.TheU14sgrew inconfidenceastheseason difference; thecore ofthesquadwasSecond Years, ablyledby won ordrew over halfoftheir12gameswithapositive goal playing increasingly expansive andstructured play. TheU13As The U13ssquadshave achieved somevery goodresults, Mr ABrealy This has been a good season with which to ‘sign off’ my This hasbeenagoodseasonwithwhichto ‘sign off’ The Seniorsquadsalsogainedalotofpleasure and n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Basketball needs you, and wewillbebetter!! please signup! we needfresh men to joinus,ifyou are interested inthissport, basketball team haslostseveral players. important Therefore, itreally works. training, HeusuallyleadsustoCoups. doevery weekappropriate match marks inthat time. we neededamainstay, IthinkitwasBubblePan, hegotnearly30 significance ofthesensecompetitionandcooperation. Also, the lastgameweplayed wewon.Inthat time,werealized the to keepsport healthy. So, let’s enjoy playing basketball! andasyou know basketballup anddown thecourt, isafabulous Now basketball ismy favorite Ilike theway Icandribble sport, Hangyang 6L (Bao), Bao We love basketball! basketball team. This istheRendcomb You are welcometo joinus,Rendcomb Basketball Team Our captain isErick Yu, hewasUpperSixthlastyear, soour Normally, wepractice every Monday andourcoachisMr. There are several matches ineachterm. Iremember n 67

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 66 13. Lamble 12. Priestner 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. Tatara -Mills 2. 1. throughout theseason. and collective ambition deal of commitment once againshown agreat of theten squadshave players andthecoaches alive andwell. Allthe Rendcomb hockey is Boys’ Hockey Geerah (capt) Hansel Auster Couch Couch Williams Margesson Gregory Scott Birden Tarleton Mr ABrealy the very bestashepicksupthe‘hockey mantle’. hockey forward over thelastdecadeorso. IwishMrFerreira all staffCollege andplayers that have helpedto move Rendcomb tenure asHeadofBoys’ Hockey andIwouldlike to thank allthe with impressive statistics: P12W7D2L4GF33GA28. most outofthem,raising theirgamesomuchthat they endedup against muchlarger schools,butMrFerreira wasableto getthe composed ofmany U16’s,metwithsomevery tough tasks inthemixforcertainly mostimproved player. Thisyoung squad, beingMaxBirden, whowas captain ofthe1stXI,withhis‘Vice’ In histhird seasonwiththeFirst’s Dan Geerah wasnamed shared with three winsandthree draws outoftheirninegames. Josh Thomasandsoliddefender ChrisMinton. Thespoils were opposition. The2ndXIhadthejoint captaincy ofvocal keeper deal ofcharacter asthey took onmuchmore experienced winning ordrawing halfoftheirmatches. They showedagreat The 3rd XI,withEricLiat thehelm,played six very closegames enjoyment whilstat thesametimedeveloping theirtechniques. they conceded! fixtures –thesquadscoring28goals,almosttwiceasmany as Edward Brealy presided over seven victories outoftheireleven of theirmatches andtheU15Asquadalsoperformed very well; Alpine injuryat Half Term. MrBevans’ U15‘KillerBees”wonboth success severely hampered by thelossofPeter Gregory to an progressed, ending upwiththree winsintheireight fixtures; their Oliver Heneghan.TheU14sgrew inconfidenceastheseason difference; thecore ofthesquadwasSecond Years, ablyledby won ordrew over halfoftheir12gameswithapositive goal playing increasingly expansive andstructured play. TheU13As The U13ssquadshave achieved somevery goodresults, This has been a good season with which to ‘sign off’ my This hasbeenagoodseasonwithwhichto ‘sign off’ The Seniorsquadsalsogainedalotofpleasure and n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Basketball needs you, and wewillbebetter!! please signup! we needfresh men to joinus,ifyou are interested inthissport, basketball team haslostseveral players. important Therefore, itreally works. training, HeusuallyleadsustoCoups. doevery weekappropriate match marks inthat time. we neededamainstay, IthinkitwasBubblePan, hegotnearly30 significance ofthesensecompetitionandcooperation. Also, the lastgameweplayed wewon.Inthat time,werealized the to keepsport healthy. So, let’s enjoy playing basketball! andasyou know basketballup anddown thecourt, isafabulous Now basketball ismy favorite Ilike theway Icandribble sport, Hangyang 6L (Bao), Bao We love basketball! basketball team. This istheRendcomb You are welcometo joinus,Rendcomb Basketball Team Our captain isErick Yu, hewasUpperSixthlastyear, soour Normally, wepractice every Monday andourcoachisMr. There are several matches ineachterm. Iremember n 67

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68 1st Team Cricket 2012 13. Baylis 12. Auster 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. Scott 2. 1. Summer Sports Birden (capt) Priestner Tatara-Mills Lamble Gregory Thomas Birden Oliver Pethick Geerah Tarleton rained for three years. tour inApril and,in particular, to ourmatch inAbuDhabi where, we were told, ithadnot a hugenumberof gameswere abandoned,’my thoughts gobackto ourDubai cricket Wisden stating that ‘itisrecognised that the2012seasonwas exceptionally wet andthat IwriteAs this,withtherain pouringdown, andhaving justreceived from amessage 1st XICricket 2012 1st team: Played 7Won 4Lost 3 they willbegreatly missed. thisyear andoverRendcomb hasbeenoutstanding, yearsand past, captain MaxBirden andDan Geerah. at Theircontribution to sport whohave nowplayed sport of College their finalmatches, 1st XI their considerable potential next season. that heisvery muchlookingforward to seeingtheseplayers fulfil at Rendcombinwhat hasbeenavery challengingseason.Iknow the team thisseason,aswellfor his overall organisation ofcricket be bright,aslongitstops raining. for oneand,inmany cases,twomore seasons,thefuture looksto depth ofallround abilityintheteam. Asmostoftheteam willreturn moments, andareally encouraging aspectofthisseasonwasthe Harry Priestner, Oliver Birden andPatrick Tarleton hadtheir Daniel Gregory. Otherplayers suchasJackPethick, JoshThomas, byreturn CharlesLamble of4-41,andhewaswellsupported and should beaspiringto scoringcenturies next season. dominant positions at thislevel ofcricket.TheXI’skey batsmen and turntheminto themore substantial scores that willestablish year isclearinthat there isapressing needto take scores like this scores were 36, 37 and48respectively, andthelessonfor next Auster, Alex Tatara-Mills andWilliam Theirhighestindividual Scott. Worcestershire. School, KinghamHillBloxham andtheGentlemen of XI prevailed infour ofthemwithwinsagainstPate’s Grammar without aballbeingbowled. especially hard hitwithtwoofthethree days beingwashedout but ofcancelledmatches. Theendofseasoncricket festival was Sadly, thestory hasnotbeenoneofrunsscored andwickets taken andskippered bymembers ofthevictorious tourMaxBirden. party domestic seasonfor a1stXIthat wouldbebuiltaround thekey Dubai astournament winners, andwithhighexpectations ofthe hasbeenratherThis English‘summer’ different. We returned from Mr MSlark Finally, wemustacknowledgetheeffortsoftwostalwarts Thanks mustgoto MrFerreira forof hiscoachingandsupport The leadingwicket taker wasAlex Tatara-Mills with abest The team’s mostprolific batsmen were top scorer Howard Nevertheless, sixmatches were completed andthe1st n

Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, U15 Cricket 2012 www.rendcomb.org.uk Mr DBaker understatement! How doyou describethisseason? ‘Rainaffected’ would bean hope next year theweather iskinder! before rain intervened againandthematch wasabandoned.Let’s summed uptheterm; 1over and1ballbowledrunscored to have played more matches butthelastgameofseason took someimpressiveSchuarte catches. Itwouldhave beennice JacobDavidge,we played; Oliver inparticular Baylis andChris bybowlers weresomeexcellent supported fieldinginthematches sure wouldhave contributed more, given theopportunity. success hedeserved. Healsoshowedpromise withthebat andIam regularly created problems for theoppositionbutnever gotthe and themostunluckybowlerwasprobably Damon Young who wickets at anaverage of8.6 runsperwicket. a great dealofproblems for theoppositionandhealsotook 5 this wasCameronRowe,whosemediumpaceandaccuracy caused normal season.However hewasnotthemostsuccessful bowler, have beeninteresting to seehowhewouldhave progressed ina becauseoftheweatherthat asitwould hisseasonwassocurtailed wicket. Theseare extremely impressive statistics anditisfrustrating the three gamesthat were completed at anaverage of10.8 runsper out onceandaveraged 93, whilewiththeballhetook five wickets in withthebat.Infourparticularly inningshescored 280runs,wasnot individuals. JamesTait wasthemostconsistent player intheside, weather, butthere were someimpressive performances by various Played 4Completed 3Won 2Lost 1Abandoned As ateam thissideiskeen to workanddevelop itsskills.The Both oftheseplayers by wereseveral ablysupported others I have never knownasummerterm to besointerrupted by the n U14 Cricket 2012 Mr NFerreira they cancarryonimproving andhopefully winafew more games. remember someofthenewskillsthat they have learnt,sothat next season contributions to theteam’s courseoftryingto winamatch ortwo. batting andbowlingbecamemore consistent withhimputtinginvital Archie Hinewasthemostimproved player duringtheseason.His a very quick53notoutwhenwewere chancingavery bigscore. any bowling attack. Thisshowedinourlastgamewhere hescored his besttalent; asahard hitter oftheball hecouldcausedamageto with Tom andimproved batting was throughout theseason.Peter’s power to take enoughwickets. Peter Gregory alsoopenedthebowling team and wouldnotgofor too many runsbutdidnot have thefire good talent whenitcame to bowling.Heopenedthebowlingfor the results, but allof theboys’ cricket skillsimproved over theseason. half theteam hadnot played cricket before andthisshowed inour the other handthere was alot of learningwhichtook place.Over This was rather adisappointing seasoninterms of results, buton Overall Ihopethat theboys enjoyed theircricket seasonand Tom Smithwascaptain oftheteam andshowedthat hehad Played 5Won 0Lost 4Abandoned1 69 n

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 68 13. Baylis 12. Auster 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. Scott 2. 1. Summer Sports Birden (capt) Priestner Tatara-Mills Lamble Gregory Thomas Birden Oliver Pethick Geerah Tarleton rained for three years. tour inApril and,in particular, to ourmatch inAbuDhabi where, we were told, ithadnot a hugenumberof gameswere abandoned,’my thoughts gobackto ourDubai cricket Wisden stating that ‘itisrecognised that the2012seasonwas exceptionally wet andthat IwriteAs this,withtherain pouringdown, andhaving justreceived from amessage 1st XICricket 2012 1st team: Played 7Won 4Lost 3 they willbegreatly missed. thisyear andoverRendcomb hasbeenoutstanding, yearsand past, captain MaxBirden andDan Geerah. at Theircontribution to sport whohave nowplayed sport of College their finalmatches, 1st XI their considerable potential next season. that heisvery muchlookingforward to seeingtheseplayers fulfil at Rendcombinwhat hasbeenavery challengingseason.Iknow the team thisseason,aswellfor his overall organisation ofcricket be bright,aslongitstops raining. for oneand,inmany cases,twomore seasons,thefuture looksto depth ofallround abilityintheteam. Asmostoftheteam willreturn moments, andareally encouraging aspectofthisseasonwasthe Harry Priestner, Oliver Birden andPatrick Tarleton hadtheir Daniel Gregory. Otherplayers suchasJackPethick, JoshThomas, byreturn CharlesLamble of4-41,andhewaswellsupported and should beaspiringto scoringcenturies next season. dominant positions at thislevel ofcricket.TheXI’skey batsmen and turntheminto themore substantial scores that willestablish year isclearinthat there isapressing needto take scores like this scores were 36, 37 and48respectively, andthelessonfor next Auster, Alex Tatara-Mills andWilliam Theirhighestindividual Scott. Worcestershire. School, KinghamHillBloxham andtheGentlemen of XI prevailed infour ofthemwithwinsagainstPate’s Grammar without aballbeingbowled. especially hard hitwithtwoofthethree days beingwashedout but ofcancelledmatches. Theendofseasoncricket festival was Sadly, thestory hasnotbeenoneofrunsscored andwickets taken andskippered bymembers ofthevictorious tourMaxBirden. party domestic seasonfor a1stXIthat wouldbebuiltaround thekey Dubai astournament winners, andwithhighexpectations ofthe hasbeenratherThis English‘summer’ different. We returned from Mr MSlark Finally, wemustacknowledgetheeffortsoftwostalwarts Thanks mustgoto MrFerreira forof hiscoachingandsupport The leadingwicket taker wasAlex Tatara-Mills with abest The team’s mostprolific batsmen were top scorer Howard Nevertheless, sixmatches were completed andthe1st n

Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, U15 Cricket 2012 www.rendcomb.org.uk Mr DBaker hope next year theweather iskinder! before rain intervened againandthematch wasabandoned.Let’s summed uptheterm; 1over and1ballbowledrunscored to have played more matches butthelastgameofseason took someimpressiveSchuarte catches. Itwouldhave beennice JacobDavidge,we played; Oliver inparticular Baylis andChris bybowlers weresomeexcellent supported fieldinginthematches sure wouldhave contributed more, given theopportunity. success hedeserved. Healsoshowedpromise withthebat andIam regularly created problems for theoppositionbutnever gotthe and themostunluckybowlerwasprobably Damon Young who wickets at anaverage of8.6 runsperwicket. a great dealofproblems for theoppositionandhealsotook 5 this wasCameronRowe,whosemediumpaceandaccuracy caused normal season.However hewasnotthemostsuccessful bowler, have beeninteresting to seehowhewouldhave progressed ina becauseoftheweatherthat asitwould hisseasonwassocurtailed wicket. Theseare extremely impressive statistics anditisfrustrating the three gamesthat were completed at anaverage of10.8 runsper out onceandaveraged 93, whilewiththeballhetook five wickets in withthebat.Infourparticularly inningshescored 280runs,wasnot individuals. JamesTait wasthemostconsistent player intheside, weather, butthere were someimpressive performances by various understatement! How doyou describethisseason? ‘Rainaffected’ would bean Played 4Completed 3Won 2Lost 1Abandoned As ateam thissideiskeen to workanddevelop itsskills.The Both oftheseplayers by wereseveral ablysupported others I have never knownasummerterm to besointerrupted by the n Mr NFerreira they cancarryonimproving andhopefully winafew more games. remember someofthenewskillsthat they have learnt,sothat next season contributions to theteam’s courseoftryingto winamatch ortwo. batting andbowlingbecamemore consistent withhimputtinginvital Archie Hinewasthemostimproved player duringtheseason.His a very quick53notoutwhenwewere chancingavery bigscore. any bowling attack. Thisshowedinourlastgamewhere hescored his besttalent; asahard hitter oftheball hecouldcausedamageto with Tom andimproved batting was throughout theseason.Peter’s power to take enoughwickets. Peter Gregory alsoopenedthebowling team and wouldnotgofor too many runsbutdidnot have thefire good talent whenitcame to bowling.Heopenedthebowlingfor the results, but allof theboys’ cricket skillsimproved over theseason. half theteam hadnot played cricket before andthisshowed inour the other handthere was alot of learningwhichtook place.Over This was rather adisappointing seasoninterms of results, buton U14 Cricket 2012 Overall Ihopethat theboys enjoyed theircricket seasonand Tom Smithwascaptain oftheteam andshowedthat hehad Played 5Won 0Lost 4Abandoned1 69 n

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 70 Mr NFerreira was theWicket Keeper for theteam. captained theteam very well.Heledfrom the front withhisbat and from thisseason. the team next year withsomeoftheexperience they have gained took sixwickets andahat-trick. but whenever hebowledtook wickets. AgainstKinghamHillhe and contributed to agoodseason. and DylanEvans whoallshowedpromise to becomegoodbatsmen Oliver McLaughlinDennett, Heneghan,JamesRobert some very good batting from JoelFrost, JamesNickson,Alexander Kingham Hilloutfor 18runs,winningby 122runs. batted firstandscored 140runsin20 overs andthenbowled The other onewas againstKinghamHillSchoolwhere Rendcomb they were playing againstwere oneortwo years olderthanthem. Close U14Bswhere Rendcombbeat thisteam even thoughtheboys be. Thiswas illustrated intwo of theirmatches. One, againstDean showed that they couldbeavery team ruthless ifthey wanted to for thenext ateam, U13season.As boys played well together and boys Thismeansthat init. there willbeanother goodyear to come This was ateam that hadavery goodmixture of Form 1andForm 2 was not very helpful withitbeingthewettest April to Julyonrecord. The U13Asquadhadabrilliant seasoneven thoughtheweather U13 Cricket 2012 Well done to alltheboys inthe2012U13squad! McLaughlinA specialmention mustgoto Robert who We had anumberofU12sinourteam. They willhave to lead Dylan Evans shonewiththeball.At timeshegothitfor runs We played sixmatches, wonfive andlostone.There was Played 6Won 5Lost 1 n some great memoriesfor alloftheboys. The tour wasahugesuccess,bothonand offthefield,with boys madetheircontribution over thecourseoftour. extraordinary inningsof85from just43ballsby Will Scott. Tatara-Mills andoneof4wickets for Tom Pethick, andan notable performances includeda5wicket haulfor Alex aswellskipperingtheside.Other catches andstumping’s, average ofover 60runs(andahighestscore of90),wickets, ‘player ofthetournament’, thoroughly well-deserved withan trophy wasawarded to theCollege. beaten YTCA inthepreliminary stage ofthetournament, the result of thefinalwasatie. With Rendcomb having already and JamesTait combinedto runoutYTCA’s lastman,andthe tense andexciting finale,withthescores level, Howard Auster control, took theCollege vital wickets andinan incredibly the batting side. Justastheiropponents threatened to take with great spiritandtenacity to create somereal pressure on Rendcomb boys rose to theoccasionandbowledfielded which appeared to bewellwithintheirgrasp. However, the which required a runrate oflessthan4runsan over and talented anddisciplinedbatting side,setabout thistarget two previous a occasions.Theiropponents, SharjahYTCA, the team hadcomfortably passedthe200runmarkon which wasrelatively disappointing inlight ofthefact that The Sevens Stadium inDubai, onthebasisof net runrate. tournament, Rendcombqualified for thefinal, staged at recorded two victories intheround robin stage of the of the Emirates AirlineSchool35ARCH Trophy. Having The cricket tour returned from Dubai asproud possessors Cricket Tour Dubai Mr NFerreira andMrMSlark Ultimately, thiswasagreat team effort andallofthe In addition,Howard Auster wasawarded thetrophy as battedThe College firstandposted ascore of139 n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Girls’ Tennis Report www.rendcomb.org.uk Miss SBell Miss provided uswithanincredible seasonofresults andsuccesses. great resilience, wethenupset ouropponents’ rhythms creating chancesthat and attacking volleys. When wewere downpoints weraised ourgameandshowed practice theirsweepingserves, forehands, cross-court down-the-linebackhands tremendous workethicwasnotdampenedandthey continued to worktirelessly to many matches were cancelleddueto theunreliable Britishsummer, butthegirls’ Sadly, andplay somephenomenalgameswithamazingspirit. step uponthecourt, teams showedthat they willnever give you aninch,willalways beaggressive and There isnoeasygameoftennis, noonethrows setsaway. tennis RendcombCollege n 71

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 72 J5, J6andSeniorforms 1-4 for‘Olympic themedday’ organisedThe College an Rendcomb GoesOlympic really didputanenormousamount ofworkinto theday. in any way and, above all,great credit goesto Sarah Bellwho close withatugofwarcompetition. community withOlympic connections.Theday cameto a as contributions from oneortwomembersofthelocal on thehistory anddevelopment oftheOlympics aswell tennis. Theopeningceremony consisted ofapresentation tennis; volleyball; shooting; waterarts; polo; wheelchair offered. We offered: archery; fencing;handball;martial pupils couldchooseto dofourthat were oftheninesports andbringinginoutsidecoaches.The ‘in-house expertise’ (essentially, nottrack andfield) by using to samplesomeofthelesshighprofile Olympic sports The essenceoftheday wasto give thepupilsopportunities A hugethankyou to allcolleagueswhohelpedwiththis First welearnt howto punchand,fortunately we learnedmany attack anddefence moves. Montreal Games. horse shoesfor thehorsescompetingin in theGamesbuthehadmadealuminium his prep school.Mr. didn’tcompete Cairns holds thebestrecord for thehighjumpat on barbedwire andcouldn’tgo. Buthe still weeks before hemanagedto cuthisleg compete inthehighjump. However, three going to goto theOlympics in1948to Games. Mr. Fisher explained that hewas what theirconnectionwasto theOlympic hadbeeninvitedCairns to comeandtell us from Greece in776BC.Mr. Fisher andMr. I learnt that theOlympic Gamesoriginated everyone learnedsomethingdifferent but they hadbeenheld eachyear. Iamsure history oftheOlympic Gamesandwhere where MrVuolo spoke to usaboutthe handball, water poloandwheelchairtennis. a rangearts, ofdifferent Ididmartial sports. where pupilsfrom J5to Form 4experienced On 4thJuly, RendcombhadanOlympic day My first sport was martial arts and here andhere arts was martial My firstsport First wehadan openingceremony Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, run away from ANYfight! and thenrun!Mylessoninthat biggest wasto such asto move outtheway ofthepunch wasto usethesimpletechniques yourself) (even thoughyou shouldnever beinone instructor told us thebestway to winafight a punchifsomeonedares to punchyou. The situation!). After thiswelearnt howto defend (This meant that weshouldjustruninany most likely dowas therunningtechnique. We were taught that thepunchwewould for some,noonegotpunchedproperly! www.rendcomb.org.uk it wasfreezing. After acoupleofrelays and in ouroutdoor swimmingpoolandat first match, muchasIwouldhave liked to. and we neverplaying any further gotinto a Unfortunately, theweather stopped usfrom team work like football (sometimes!). catching like netballand,mostimportantly, were dribbling like basketball, throwing and taught ustheskillsof game.These basketball ourteacher, allcombined.Scott, fast gameabitlike football, netballand was handball.Iknewthat handballwasa After lunch,Ididwater polo. This was My in that next Itook part sport Rebekah Breare, Form 1 organising theRendcombGoesOlympic Day. enjoyed themselves. Marsden. Itwasagreat day andeveryone tug ofwarcompetitionorganised by Mr was alotharder thantennis itself. Ifoundon thestrange backhandhit. that it especially easy butotherpeoplestruggled that played tennis hittingtheballwasquite Forout butweallgotthehangofit. people Driving the wheelchairtook awhileto figure are different. Also, you’re inawheelchair! allowed twobouncesandthebackhands fromsimilar toyou normaltennis apart are wheelchair tennis. Therulesofthegameare enjoyed myself! Itwascoldinthewaterdifficult. butI treading water) andthisproved extremely hand for throwing andcatching (thisiswhilst the gameyou are onlyallowedto useone had to tread water for alotofthematch. In the sidesofpoolfor arest andsoyou In water poloyou are notallowedto touch swimming exercises mostofuswere warm. Many thanks to Mr Slark and Miss Bell for Many thanksto MrSlarkandMissBellfor To day wehada finishthesporty oftheday was My lastsport n 73

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 72 J5, J6andSeniorforms 1-4 for‘Olympic themedday’ organisedThe College an Rendcomb GoesOlympic really didputanenormousamount ofworkinto theday. in any way and, above all,great credit goesto Sarah Bellwho close withatugofwarcompetition. community withOlympic connections.Theday cameto a as contributions from oneortwomembersofthelocal on thehistory anddevelopment oftheOlympics aswell tennis. Theopeningceremony consisted ofapresentation tennis; volleyball; shooting; waterarts; polo; wheelchair offered. We offered: archery; fencing;handball;martial pupils couldchooseto dofourthat were oftheninesports andbringinginoutsidecoaches.The ‘in-house expertise’ (essentially, nottrack andfield) by using to samplesomeofthelesshighprofile Olympic sports The essenceoftheday wasto give thepupilsopportunities A hugethankyou to allcolleagueswhohelpedwiththis First welearnt howto punchand,fortunately we learnedmany attack anddefence moves. Montreal Games. horse shoesfor thehorsescompetingin in theGamesbuthehadmadealuminium his prep school.Mr. didn’tcompete Cairns holds thebestrecord for thehighjumpat on barbedwire andcouldn’tgo. Buthe still weeks before hemanagedto cuthisleg compete inthehighjump. However, three going to goto theOlympics in1948to Games. Mr. Fisher explained that hewas what theirconnectionwasto theOlympic hadbeeninvitedCairns to comeandtell us from Greece in776BC.Mr. Fisher andMr. I learnt that theOlympic Gamesoriginated everyone learnedsomethingdifferent but they hadbeenheld eachyear. Iamsure history oftheOlympic Gamesandwhere where MrVuolo spoke to usaboutthe handball, water poloandwheelchairtennis. a rangearts, ofdifferent Ididmartial sports. where pupilsfrom J5to Form 4experienced On 4thJuly, RendcombhadanOlympic day My first sport was martial arts and here andhere arts was martial My firstsport First wehadan openingceremony Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, it wasfreezing. After acoupleofrelays and in ouroutdoor swimmingpoolandat first match, muchasIwouldhave liked to. and we neverplaying any further gotinto a Unfortunately, theweather stopped usfrom team work like football (sometimes!). catching like netballand,mostimportantly, were dribbling like basketball, throwing and taught ustheskillsof game.These basketball ourteacher, allcombined.Scott, fast gameabitlike football, netballand was handball.Iknewthat handballwasa run away from ANYfight! and thenrun!Mylessoninthat biggest wasto such asto move outtheway ofthepunch wasto usethesimpletechniques yourself) (even thoughyou shouldnever beinone instructor told us thebestway to winafight a punchifsomeonedares to punchyou. The situation!). After thiswelearnt howto defend (This meant that weshouldjustruninany most likely dowas therunningtechnique. We were taught that thepunchwewould for some,noonegotpunchedproperly! www.rendcomb.org.uk After lunch,Ididwater polo. This was My in that next Itook part sport Rebekah Breare, Form 1 organising theRendcombGoesOlympic Day. enjoyed themselves. Marsden. Itwasagreat day andeveryone tug ofwarcompetitionorganised by Mr was alotharder thantennis itself. Ifoundon thestrange backhandhit. that it especially easy butotherpeoplestruggled that played tennis hittingtheballwasquite Forout butweallgotthehangofit. people Driving the wheelchairtook awhileto figure are different. Also, you’re inawheelchair! allowed twobouncesandthebackhands fromsimilar toyou normaltennis apart are wheelchair tennis. Therulesofthegameare enjoyed myself! Itwascoldinthewaterdifficult. butI treading water) andthisproved extremely hand for throwing andcatching (thisiswhilst the gameyou are onlyallowedto useone had to tread water for alotofthematch. In the sidesofpoolfor arest andsoyou In water poloyou are notallowedto touch swimming exercises mostofuswere warm. Many thanks to Mr Slark and Miss Bell for Many thanksto MrSlarkandMissBellfor To day wehada finishthesporty oftheday was My lastsport n 73

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Palace; GaryBarlow wrote asong(of course);everyone found away to celebrate. heldintheMallfront thehugeconcert place: hundreds of Buckingham of street parties; patriotic moodfor theupcomingevents of theweekend. Across Britain, many events took school, we introduced amorningchapelserviceandbigfamily picnicto get everyone ina Founder’s day hadatwistthisyear, falling asitdidat of theJubileeweekend. thestart At Diamond Jubilee 74 Mrs KCoups are understanding andenthusiastic. have improved. we Thelessons have are trulyenjoyable andtheinstructors Talland Schoolof Equitation, we have weekly here lessons andourridingskills the way upto the6thform. During term timeschooltakes asmallgathering to both through schoolandoutsideof school.Our ridersrange theJuniorsall At Rendcombridingisenjoyed by We allwhotake part. have students involved Riding at Rendcomb n was thoroughly enjoyed by all. were worn.Itwasatrulyrare occasionand inside, cupcakes were madeandcrowns raised outsideourhouseandhungup excitement wasabounding.Bunting was extremely proud ofhim. World War Two plane.Liviandherfamily are fly over Buckingham Palace inthe Dakota, was luckyenoughto bethepilotchosento father, Squadron Leader JamieWatson, weekend claim.Fourth former LiviWatson’s World Record breaking event. ofthis submitted apicture andsowere part of theQueen’s face. RendcombJuniorsall front ofBuckinghamPalace, intheshape these pictures were projected onto the inany mediumthey wishedand portrait, between four andsixteen drew aself- Britain Project’, where children aged most ofthefestivity, Face thiswas‘The place wasactuallyafew weeksbefore Lauren Seatter-Messer, Form 4 Closer to home,inmy household, Rendcomb hasaspecialJubilee One ofmy favourite thingsthat took n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Duke of Edinburgh Bronze www.rendcomb.org.uk even moisturizers. My personalfavourite contents oftheirbagsincludedhairgeland we weren’t nearlyasbadtheboys, the time, Idofeel obligedto point outthat could dowithpackingalittlelighter next rucksacks onto theminibus. Thoughwe challenge; tryingto get11girlsandtheir of Rendcombbefore wefaced ourfirst real hemight callit. building’ river justto watch ‘Character usstruggle... if hemadeithisowngoalto meetusat every sympathetic, infact itwouldn’tsurpriseme think MrBevans wouldhave beenquite so route for somehowIdon’t us.Imustadmit, Mr. hadvery kindlyadjusted our Illingworth and rivers wehad intended to walkthrough, Due to theseveralto aflyingstart. buildings didn’texactlymy group inparticular getoff good way to spendourSaturday. hours stuckinafielddidn’tsoundlikea catastrophic astheirshadbeen,three our expedition couldnot beas possibly onethingwas Iguess definite; say theleast. our mindsandwere not very comforting to formers bronze experience were fresh in Thewordsbeen themostapt. of thefifth looking backIwonder whichwould have everyone was of excitement orhorror, and to determine whether thefeeling amongst packed andboots tightened, itwas hard be theappropriate placeto begin.Bags when we set offfrom Rendcombwould butwhere Perhaps tothe least, start? experienceD of Ewas a...colourful to say We hadn’teven managedto getout However, asmuchIhate to admitit, Olivia Ellis, Form 4 few bumpsalongtheroad. AllIcansay isbringonthegold! circumstance team membersonlycameclosertogether despite a quickly deteriorate insuchasituation, I’mproud to say inevery while therelationship betweenfive sleepdeprived teenagers could expedition. Teamwork wasundoubtedly thekey inoursuccess, sheer determination and gritevery singlegroup completed their thing to dowouldhave beento give up, butofcoursethrough presented manypoints challengesandat theeasiest certain of achievement Theexpedition madeeven it. theblisters worth skills, weallreturned backto schoolinonepiece,andthesense laughed sohard orfor solonginmy life. leaving the campsite. Walking back…it’sfair to say, Ihave never maintained even after we’d madethewrong turningbefore even inhighspiritsthatridiculous hourofhalfsevenwe inthemorning, quite asamused.Neverthelesswesetofffrom thecampsite at the shaking ofhertent, wefound ithilarious,butIdon’tthinkshewas sleep. Muchto LiviWitts’ horror shewaswoken upat seven by the get walkingandbackto schoolafter anotsocomfortable night’s without asingleoffer to any ofus. our pasta andnoodles,thestaff feasted upontheirfishandchips the right way. While allofuswhohadwalked 17kmplusthat day ate was actuallyaloteasierto assembleifthepoleswere inthetent we thought itwas abouttimeto enlighten them to thefact that it group spentafter thehouracertain attempting to pitch theirtent, drinking hotchocolate, andbeingofnohelpwhatsoever. Though had arrived earlier, sat intrueRendcombspirit, smuglyourtents, one thegroups collapsedinto thecampsite, andthoseofuswho we arrived at ourbasefor theevening;Stowe Rugby Club. One by sherbet lemons,five boxes ofcereal andasliceofbiscuitcake later to carryhomeagain.There mustbesomesenseinthat somewhere. every meal(agoodsource ofenergy) andthenthey wouldhave less ‘bargain’ andhehadconcludedthat hisgroup couldhave pasta for was Luca’s3kilogram bagofpasta, hisreasoning beingthat itwasa Miraculously, withRozy Baynham’s exceptional mapreading The following day wewere upat thecrack ofdawn,eagerto Five flapjacks, ten sandwiches,abagof raisins, apackof 75 n

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 76 Round ofapplause! making surehappened. Bravo! Theatresports Hats off! thanks mustgoto MrsDoddthe biggest whospent hours you infront of anaudience,youButofcourse, acceptit. Davidge. Thenext timeMrJenningswants to humiliate intheaudience. Except you,all thosesupporting Jacob judged, EricandDan asthescorekeeping-clowns and then entered lookingabsolutely gorgeous inaskirt. as JamesBondto save theday. HisBondgirl,HarryEllis, handsome andhighlyfetching Jake McKeown camein by theteam’s token female Kathryn Rew, before theever charmed theladies.They attacked JudiDench, played McLaughlin;villain Robert however, hisIrish accent still looked even creepier thanusualastheevil henchmanof entered withthethemeofJamesBond;Howard Auster theatrical underdogs: ALicenseto Slightly Entertain. They except Alex Pughwhoinstead went camp! while Phil’steam went mental, like actuallymental – umbrella andWill waswrapped around Luke asacoat, asAliwasliftedshowed theirstrength to becomean team was too much,leaving five peopledead.Holly’s in five seconds, while Ollie Birden felt beinginapineapple theatre games:Jake’s team ran around aconcave spoon butterflies. The teams thenwent on to play a range of to explainas Harryhadonlyjuststarted theflaming to getpeopleoutoftheround, whichwasagreat shame excuses aspoor“you fiddledwith your hair too much” successful ever, withMrJenningshaving to make up Dodd; andthe“grand fromage” himself, MrMartin. thespian, MissBerry;long-timerandQueen ofDrama, Mrs legend. Judgingtheperformances wastheexperienced and humour, proving onceagainthat heisaRendcomb who returned to compere theshowwithhisnatural wit remember my first time waking upinthetrumpet”. with laughter asLance proclaimed asaGladiator “I people institches, andIswear Iswore someonecry moments. Tom Pethick’s Peter Griffinimpression had despite this,there were –asalways –many fantastic nightmare! Yettrumpet to asmellysock:anactor’s ever, for withsuggestions locations ranging from a Ah, Theatresports.Thisyear challengethan abigger Theatre Sports Well doneto everyone whocompeted, thosewho The winnerswere, onceagain,theteam of The story round wasperhapsoneofthemost In many ways thestar oftheshowwasMrJennings, n Jake McKeown, 6U great buddyyear! daughter. Thanksto MrsDodd for alltheorganisation ofyet another – InowseeClare Farnham newadopted asDan andHolly’s many peoplehangingoutwiththeirbuddies outsideofthemeetings determined ‘Team asthewinner. Sporty’ came to atie.So, withtheHeadmaster ingoal,thepenaltyshootout Max every timehetouched theball. distract referee himby discussing gardening; MrThomasonsent off and Eleniattached themselves to Dan Geerah, andattempted to onlyto findthegoalhadmovedshot, halfway downthehill;Clare are different from thenormalrules:there are none.Players took a andhalfonDan’s ‘TeamSporty’ Lad’. match. Over 40peopletook to thepitch, halfonJake’s ‘Team of ice cream, thehighlight of thebuddyyear began:thefootball burgers andhotdogs andwe hadconsumedexcessive amounts than usual.After MrsDodd cooked up(withmuchburning) BuddyBBQwas evenThis meant that thisyear’s more mayhem year, andthisyear sawarecord numberof SixthForm volunteers. Form beingpaired upwithaFirst Former to be‘buddies’for the The RendcombBuddysystem involves avolunteer from theSixth Buddy System This year’s buddyinghasbeenatremendous success,with This year’s After some clever manipulation to ensure itwasadraw, it For thosewho haven’t played BuddyFootball before, therules Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Dance Challenge2011 large amount ofenergy to theevening. Night Fever, thetwocomperes managedto bringa own dance-off withOli Greenaway to thesoundof for theirpeers.From quickfire questions, to their audience, willingthemonto cheerand scream and confident approach, they warmed upthe Brave’ Stevens. With theirquick-witted nature Lance Noble’Baynham andTristan ‘The ‘The students were thetwo comperes for theevening; LeadingMiss MillsandMrMartin. thisforce of the judgingpanel,whichconsisted ofMrsDodd, to Body Popping Grandmas, inabidto impress wide range ofgenres, from aBreak Dance-off stepped’ and‘leapfrogged’theirway through a Dance Challenge,andwhat anight itwas... all agesunited intheDulverton Hallfor theAnnual in trueRendcombstyle, herds of students from enough troops to tackle thischallenge.However, Prefect Team asto whether there would be event, there was panicamongsttheStaff and As thetimeapproachedAs for thismonumental Throughout thenight,students ‘two- for theirfantastic lighting andsound.n involved. Bigthanksmustgoto Andy Webb andMilesMetcalfe while allowingstudentsspirit oftheCollege ofallagesto get incredible andbrought aboutawell-deserved win. Lopez. Thecoordination andskillinvolved inthisroutine was grandmas/grandpas, “gettingto Jennifer onthefloor” a.k.a thePrefects. Thisawesomeroutine wassimply:thirteen However, thewinnerofthisfantastic Elders”, showwas“The dancing JoliceWong andasuitably dressed BenMargesson. Sizzle DizzleMonkeys” includingaflyingAliSinfield, break First up, wasaroutine consistingofadanceofffrom “The by Louis Spence! original routine that appeared to have beenchoreographed Alex Pughandanimpressive Ed Davies, bringingtogether an by ahipDan Haas,ajawdropping arobotic ChrisShaurte, consisted ofawaist-coated Eddie Geerah, beingbacked up to theDavid Guetta track; Where ThemGirls At?, which Luke Nixon. Sevastianov, JamesRose,Mudge,Toby and Martin Breathing Dragons/ Awesome Razz’consisted ofNikolay a technical routine andname.‘Team SuperAwesome Fire Brigade’ wasableto incorporate somecreative manoeuvres. Equipped Wellington withtheirwelliesandumbrellas ‘The Third form girlshitthestage andpulledoffafaultless routine. when Snoophitthespeakers saying Sweat , andafloodof This atmosphere oftranquility andbeautywassoonbroken managed to float around thestage, stunninganaudience. to thevocals ofAdele’s SomeoneLike You. Thesegirls Girls, performed ahard-hitting andwell-rehearsed piece A most memorable evening, ithighlightedA mostmemorable evening, the fantastic This year, twoSixthform teams took to thestage. The ‘Edy 1492Fan Club’dancedanenergetic routine The Lawn Houseboys managedto comeupwithboth The‘RendcombGirlSaints’ that consisted ofGodman 77

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 78 Mako Kueo, 3rd Form Student from Japan visit again. o clock,Ithought itwastoo earlyfor schoolearly!! me,butwestart the kitchen, whenonduty. And tidytheirbed.Bedtimeisabout10 or someentertainment.Ihadagoodtime.Boarders have to clean a book,mobilephoneholder, andpicture withthecomputer. club wasvery interesting. Imadealotofthings whichare decorating kind inGodmanHouse. something. Our dormitory motherandotherstaff were very daySometimes wewouldhaveorbarnnight or sports something ordomy homeworkbecauseitwasfree time. played themafter school. them. Boarders often play tennis andbadminton. So, Ioften badminton inJapan,butIdidn’treally like them.Now, Ilove for meto acatch ball,butitwas very fun. Iplayed tennis and and lacrosse were my first experiences. At firstit wasdifficult once aweek andtheteacher, MrFranks, isvery kind.Hockey They have allbeenvery enjoyable. Iusuallypracticed choir these are tennis, hockey, choirandgardening. lacrosse, cooking, been avery specialtimefor me.Ihave triedto dolot of things; I have hadagoodtimethisyear at Ithas RendcombCollege. International Viewpoints I had good time in Rendcomb College andIwantI hadgoodtimeinRendcombCollege to On theweekend boarders couldgoto cinemaorshopping gardening Ihelpedto grow plants In andreally enjoyed it. craft I alsodidsomeactivities.craft clubandgardening; After dinnerIusuallywatch afilm,play tennis, bake n Miyuki Shizuta, 3rd Form Student from Japan England andat Rendcombvery much. guitar are very similarsoIunderstood thingsIthinkwillcontinue thembothinJapan. the guitar. Iwanted to learnotherinstrumentsto goto andIstarted theukuleleclub. Ukuleleand don’t play inJapan.Someuniversities have lacrosse clubs butIwon’tjointhere. every term. Ienjoyed lacrosse andhockey in thefirstandsecondthatterms. They we are sports funny andalways tryto make melaugh.Ienjoyed every evening andweekend. thought Iwouldn’t be ableto enjoy ithere. However, allof theboarders inmy dormitory are did not have any confidencebecauseIcouldnot speak English very well andIamshy,I so I cameto England, Iwas sonervous because Ihadnot lived in adormitory before. AlsoI I have beenat Rendcombfor 1year andIhave hadlots of valuable experiences here. When I hadsomechaellengingexperiences butIhadmore goodmemories. Ienjoyed my year in I didn’tlearnaninstrument before Icameto Englandbuthere Ihave begunto learnto play Also Ihadanactivityevery day. Iloved allofthemespeciallygames,whichare changed Rendcomb College. IwillstayRendcomb College. onto domy GCSE’s. conventional inEngland. delicious. They have fishandchipsona Friday; this food is very we canplay witheachotherat break. Rendcomb’sfood isvery groups. It’sthe1stform, 2ndform and3rd form inadormand when wehave finishedalesson. We always play withallthe year common here. Sometimeswecangooutsideto seethenature, see many plants andanimalslike cowsandsheep. Thisisvery school they are allvery kindto meandteach mewell. cookery, ICT, library etc. They have teachers inthis wonderful China. There are many activitiesat sport, RendcombCollege, your friends. Inclassweare more relaxed andtalk more thanin difficult; you mustwork very hard andspeakmore English to for onlytwoweeksIfelt settledintheschool.To settleinisvery good. Theairisniceandpeopleare very kind.After beinghere comfortable thantheChineseschool. Chinese school.They speakadifferent languageandit’smore and very nice.An English school isvery different from a form. In3rd form Ihave many friends; they are allvery friendly atI started RendcombinSeptember 2011andI’minthe3rd Jerry Li,3rd Form Student from China This year Ihave beenvery happy to have cometo issurroundedRendcomb College by hills,andwecan The firsttimeIcame to England my feeling wasthat it’s n

n Victoria Cao, 4thForm Student from China expect to explore more. I really enjoy theEnglishLiterature, culture and learnt alotfromAsanInternational it. student This bookisvery significant to my life andI have to valuesowedon’tregret it, itinthefuture. should realise howprecious thetimeisandtry accompany you through your wholelife. We was atragedy andIlearnt that no-one can The play endedupwithRaleigh’sdeath. It member ofthefamily joinsthewar. is alsoahugeimpactonthefamilies whena have to sacrificesomany people’slives. There for thereputation, territory andmoney they although they have donenothingwrong? Only war. Why shouldpeoplefight witheachother bravery. Ialsohave adeepthought aboutthe soon becameimpressed by theiroptimismand how they tryto copewithbadsituations andI personalities andemotions.Thestory told me Different characters have theirown found how interesting theplay is. understand thelanguageatbutIsoon first, at noman’sland. Itisvery difficult for me to One andisaboutaBritishfight withGermany English exam. Theplay isset inWorld War I learnt of my itinmy English asapart class book Ihave read sinceIcameto Rendcomb. Journeys End isthefirst English literature www.rendcomb.org.uk n this Ithinkwilldoitagain. remember my childhood,itwasaspecialfeeling. like Ifwehave anotheropportunity of teaching children, justlike whenwewere small.Looking at themmademe questions wedidn’teven knowhowto answer. They were theoldestchildren sothey asked uslotsofhard questions. Some and Ialmosthadnofree timebecausethey asked lotsandaboutthese. to askus howto write their namesinChinese.Itwashard workandBubble,Bao, her parents. knew alittleChinese.Iasked herwhy, andshesaidlearnedalittlebefore with numbers andsomeeasywords aswell.Inthat classroom there wasagirlwho were older thanthefirststudents weworked with,we taught themsomeChinese know whatteaching. Thesestudents the name inEnglishis),andthenwestarted couldn’t hearwhat wewere saying. Sowehadto wearathingto speakinto (Idon’t classroom. When wegotinthere theteacher told usthere wasachildwho learning aswellbecausesheasked ushowto pronounce somethings. It wastheway oftheancient!teacher was When thechildren were learning, side to theright side,andsomeofthemwrote from theright sideto theleft side. words wewere smilingbecauseitwassofunny. Someofthenwrote from theup they wrote Chinesesoitwasreally goodbutsometimeswhenthey wrote the we couldunderstand andwestillencouraged them.Ithinkitwasthefirsttime However, thewords whichwere copiedoutwere very different from Chinese;but didn’t knowhowto write sothey looked at ourwords andthencopiedthemout. pronunciation andstresses. Thenweasked them to write ontheboard. They with numbersinChinese,writing1to 10ontheboard, andthentaught the really cute. The teacher introduced teaching. We usandthen westarted started to teach. children. TheChineseteam went from theyoungest peopleto theoldestpeople welcomed us,andthey organised usinto eachdifferent classroom to teach to teach littlechildren. our firstopportunity When wegotthere, the teachers andMissHughes.WeMartin were lookingforward to thisexperience asitwas excited aboutthisexperience. reading andspeaking.Wethe children aboutChineselanguage,writing, were very Japanese andGermanRendcombians. educate thelittle children. There were three orfour teams of Chinese, Russian, Rendcomb organised atripfor ourstudents to goto another schooland Primary Visit Leighterton Park Throughout theprocess wewere very happy. Itwasourfirst experience Time wasnowflying by andbefore weknewitentered thelastclassroom. After break timewewent into thethird classroom. Inthisroom they started The above wasinthefirstclassroom, andthenweentered thesecond When wegotin thefirstclassroom thechildren smiled,andthey were At about8o’clock theteams went to theschoolwithMr inthemorning, Bubble, BaoandIwere intheChineseteam, andourlessonwasto teach n 79

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 80 and amulti-terrain run. 25th March, 2012to hostaVillageFete, afootball marathon further. We threw openthegates of theschoolonSunday for various charities,butthisyear we decidedto goabit charity. We regularly wear funny clothes andbake cakes The Rendcombcommunity hasalways donealot for Big Charity Day serious couldenjoy theirachievement. themselves andrace hard, whilsttheless which meant seriousrunnerswouldpush a 1Kfun run.We hadproper chiptiming, was the10K;followed by the5Kandfinally about runningintheriver crossing. First off enthused kit andwere notparticularly South Cerney. Several soldiersran infull soldiers from ARCCand29Regiment at and wewere delighted to welcomeserving fundraiser for ABFTheSoldiers’Charity is notfor thefaint Therunwasa hearted. hill. Old fashioned Cross Country running along thewater meadow andalongpullup the River Churn andthenthrough theChurn, withanicegentlestarted downhillsectionto orders. Theroute was calledto starter’s multi-terrain run around ourlovely grounds, this year allday. andhe played virtually has beenplaying andcoachingwithStratton and Lads session.Rendcomb’sownMaxBirden intrepid lotandgotthingsmoving withaDads was really 6am;butStratton Youth FCisan marathon. Theclockshadjustchangedsothis 7am ontheastro turf, witha12hourfootball In beautiful sunshine,theevent kicked offat At 9.30 amTheRendcombRun,a Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Thefastest boy inthe1krace was won by Mitchell (J3) Banks andthefastest girlwas Emily Sharman(J6). First Formers, andGrace Knappwon JamesDuckworth fastest maleandfemale inthe5k OR’sRoryGillingandLiza Dibblewinningfastest maleandfemale inthe10krace Highlights of theRendcombRun: will have real impactonlocalcharities. monies wouldbeused.Itwasgreat to knowthat ourefforts butmoving accounta short ofwhat they doandhowthe Summer Term for thechequepresentation. Each offered Assemblyat thebeginningof came to Headmaster’s andenjoyableworthwhile day. Thecharitable beneficiaries Stratton Youth FC. Douglas House,CHYP, Scrubditch CareFarm Aid/ andSport raised over £7,000 for ABFTheSoldiers’Charity, Helenand It wasafantastic day. Everyone enjoyed themselves, andwe and anxietywent into theday. Butweneednothave worried. band entertainedusfor avery relaxed afternoon. children. Asthesuncontinued to shine,theRendcombJazz eating skills.None,ofcourse,couldbeat small,determined runners, teachers andGovernors arrived to test theirdoughnut and offered Offdutyfootballers, goodphoto opportunities. Treasure Island anddoughnuteating stalls were very popular were runby pupilsandenjoyed by allbutasalways the Christian Couch, 6UandAndreaChristian Couch, Haas, 6U Thank youthis to allwhohelpedandsupported preparationAs withany newinitiative, alotofplanning, Meantime, thePrefects’ Fete gotunderway. Allstalls n 81

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After half term in the Summer Term all 6L had a taste of volunteering. International Women’s Day Opportunities included: In Cirencester This summer term, the Lower Sixth has been given the Sport & Co-Curricular Reports - chatting to elderly people ( Cirencester Young at Rendcomb Sport & Co-Curricular Reports opportunity to enrich the lives of members of the community Neighbours Scheme, Watermoor House) who required help in a scheme called ‘Go volunteer’. The scheme - helping in the Helen Douglas House Charity Shop. was developed to strengthen the links between the school and A new initiative for our girls, Oxfam’s International Women’s Day was marked by pink and blue bunting, decorated specially for local communities by the positive word of mouth that our actions At Scrubditch Care Farm the day – just how many tubes of fabric paint can one student use? – balloons galore and a host of special female guests arriving would receive. ‘Go Volunteer’ is a pilot scheme pioneered by Mrs - helping the clients with horticultural work. for lunch. Locally based women came from a variety of industries and backgrounds: medicine; web design; business; PR; armed Halford and Mrs Corkett in an attempt to establish whether or In Rendcomb Village forces; hospitality; journalism; management and sales; fashion and interior design, to cite a few. So many of the guests asked not a more permanent scheme would be feasible for students - for elderly people – cleaning windows, mowing lawns, to come again next year and an added bonus, an outcome of the day, was that contacts were made and retained; some girls to participate in next term. Based on the feedback we have walking dogs, helping at a lunch given by The Cotswold set up work experience with guests; BBC Radio Gloucester has featured us as a school of the week and been very supportive received, which has all been fantastically positive, the future 6th Friendship Group. of Charlotte Jones’ singing career! We were lucky to have Cotswold Life send along their female photographer too, so we had a lovely feature in the April issue. form can look forward to the same opportunity in the future that In the Junior School we have experienced this term. - helping with lots of lessons and activities. As well as the intrinsically ‘good’ feeling of knowing you Our Guests: Harriet Elwes Santus Circus, Chinese State Circus, Bobby In the younger years of theSenior School have brightened someone’s day, we gained vital life skills. The ‘Go Harriet set up Foodworks Cookery School Roberts Super Circus and Circus Roncalli. - helping with German, Art and Maths lessons. volunteer’ scheme gives us confidence in how to react to similar Cathy Ball in 2010 on the Colesbourne Estate in a Nell has written two books, Josser (about situations in real life. In other words, it is a win-win situation with the Cathy trained and worked in hotel purpose built and designed contemporary the secret life of a circus girl) and a volunteers also benefiting as well as the people we helped. management before opening the spa at space. Foodworks offers a wide variety children’s biography on the inventor of the One group of students, including myself, helped in the Junior Calcot Manor nine years ago. She now of courses tailored for all needs – from circus, Philip Astley. School. The first session we helped with, was what turned out to be has responsibility for the delightful spa at beginners to experienced cooks – including the only literal, dry run for their sports day. The subsequent sessions Barnsley House. ‘Aga Cooking’, ‘Bread Making’, ‘Fine Prue Hornby we spent helping in the classroom, in subjects slightly out of our Chocolates & Truffles’ and ‘Healthy Eating’. Prue ran her own Management and Sales comfort zones like, me helping in Art and Jonas Probest in Maths! Claire Carter training company for some years. After Similarly, a larger group of students went in to Rendcomb Claire applied for a two-month work Nell Gifford selling the company, she worked as HR village to assist the residents with household tasks from window placement at BBC Radio Gloucestershire Co-founder and executive producer of Director and as a Management Consultant cleaning to dog walking. The students performed amicably, with The People who had kindly offered the while studying Broadcast Journalism at the Giffords Circus, Nell’s life and dream - either specialising in Organisational Behaviour. every single report received being hugely positive. opportunities said: University’s Pittville Campus. She has now side of her Oxford University degree in Prue has served Rendcomb College as a Finally, a group of students were taken off school premise ‘We do hope you will come and see us again. It was fun!’ spent almost six years there and is not only English Literature - has been the circus. Governor since 1998. to work with various organisations with whom Rendcomb has Cotswold Friendship Group one of the voices of the weekday Breakfast She has worked on Circus Flora in the USA, continued on page 84 affiliations. The expedition to Scrubditch Care Farm involved two ‘The students were lovely! – very helpful and friendly’ show with Mark Cummings but also helps to students helping in the upkeep of an organisation which helps Rendcomb residents present her own Breakfast show on Saturday. people with disabilities to work relax in a rural idyll. Our students ‘I was very impressed by their maturity and empathy, helped keep the Care Farm in a wonderful state during their time and by the way they got on and worked with adults with Tanya De Leersnyder Tanya moved to the UK from South Africa working there. disabilities’ Scrubditch Care Farm Another group went in to Cirencester and this group was split nearly five years ago having started up ‘Lovely young people’ Watermoor House in two. Half went to a retirement home where our students were Kalya Aromatherapy in 2008. In June last required to simply chat to and get to know the senior citizens. The year, Tanya became a co-director of Feel The students said: other half worked in the Helen Douglas House Shop. The proceeds Good Factor Wellbeing Ltd in Stonehouse ‘had a fine time! – Ollie Baylis, cleaning windows from this shop go towards helping provide hospice care for children and continues to work on expanding Kalya and young adults in Oxfordshire and surround counties including ‘we got on well and talked about Tai Chi’ Martin He, nationally and into Europe. Gloucestershire. visiting George who is nearly 90. As the American author Harper Lee puts it in her novel To Kill ‘Scrubditch Care Farm was an eye-opener, and a lot Lexi Durtnell a Mockingbird: “You can never truly understand someone until you of fun!’ Harry Ellis Lexi studied locally at the RAC for a business climb in to their skin and walk around in it.” In the tranquil bubble of degree and a Masters in Business Management. Rendcomb life it is easy to forget about people with whom we have Charlotte Jones and Tristan Stevens are planning to She opened her first shop in 2005 selling her no contact and yet who need help. I feel the ‘Go Volunteer’ scheme continue visiting Watermoor House in the summer own handbags, which she designed and made, helps bridge this gap by the sharing of experience and, that is why, I holidays, and it is planned that much of this volunteering later up-sizing to the current ‘Lexi loves’ shop in believe, it is imperative for future 6th formers to do. n will continue in the Autumn term. n Cirencester in 2008. Charlie Lamble, 6L

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82 Rendcombian - The Magazine for Rendcomb College, Juniors and Nursery 83 Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 84 she’d dothisto me. schools inGloucestershire”. believe Gettingworriednow! Can’t Sunday 14th-Caught MumonGooglesearching for “Private snob. Yeah right! some fancy school.Thinksshe’sgonnaturnmeinto someposh Wednesday 10th-OMG!Mum’sgonnaspendALLthedoshon Dropped afew heavy hints aboutaniPad 2.Fingers crossed. Thursday 4th-Loads ofchat today aboutspendingthedosh. August2011 can’t helpthinkingaboutanewtelly andstuff. Friday 29th -OMG!Gramps leftusallhismoney. Stillsad…but Tuesday 26th-Gramps diedsuddenlytoday, everyone very sad. July 2011 groups and inallstyles of writing.Thewinnerwas 3rd Former SamTushingham. Here isSam’s winningentry. we were lookingfor interesting copy to beincludedonthenew website. We received goodentries from allage In theLent term, pupilswere invited to enter acompetition. Thetitleof thecompetition was ‘My Rendcomb’and Diary a Cynical Schoolboy’s My Rendcomb: Excerpts from writing theirpublications. boys for places,andfor theOld Etonian Association editingand English. At Eton, Kerri alsoworked for Admissions, interviewing andatCollege Heathfield School,Ascotwhere shewasHeadof variety ofschools, mostrecently at atheatre school,at Eton a teaching qualification fromCambridge. Shehas taught ina Kerri hasanEnglishdegree from theUniversity ofOxford and Kerri Martin attention oftheBritishmedia. 2008 to seefirsthandtheworkofcharityandbringit to the the cyclone-devastated SouthWest ofBangladeshinFebruary the aidagency, CareInternational. JackieandLaurence visited with many different charities,includingbeingambassadorsfor linen. Over thelast17years, the Llewelyn-Bowenshave worked year, designedherowncharmingrange oftable andkitchen in Television, Radioandproduct licensing.Jackiehas,inthelast designer andpresenter Laurence. Theirbusinessinvolves work Jackie runs‘LBLtd’ inCirencester alongwithherhusband, Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen chance to trytheirhandat shooting. Shotgun&ChelseaBunClub’whichgives‘The more girlsthe Australia. Victoria recently setupLadies-shooting.com andthe of Fashion, before taking twoyears outto travel around shooting. From Worcestershire, shestudiedat London College Victoria isareal lover ofcountryside pursuits,particularly Victoria Knowles-Lacks Vietnam by providing loan. abusiness £230 canchangethelife of awoman andfuture generations in whole generation withskillsto work their way outof poverty; teachers inMaliwhoturnteach over 250girlsandprovide a The day raised £461.87. To break that cantrain five down: £135 well asrecuitment andgeneral businessmanagement. advice, project management,welfare andHumanResources, as her Alevels. Shespecialisesin facilities management,financial awarded ascholarshipby theRoyal AirForce whenstudyingfor Air Force. ShehasbeenintheRAFfor 19years, having been Squadron Leader Rossi isaservingofficerintheRoyal Carrie Rossi Carrie brands. managed campaignsfor celebrities andnationally recognised of marketing andPRfor thepast15years andinthat timehas Trailblazer PR,eight years ago. Sabrinahasworked inthefield Sabrina launchedherGloucestershire based,PRagency, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys Juniors. College busy lookingafterher twoenergetic sons whoattend Rendcomb busy Cirencester practice. When notat surgery, hertimeiskept Alison isaGPwhohasbeenworkingfor thepast12years ina Dr. AlisonNichol just for alook…and alaughat alltheposhkids intheir‘cool’ ties. Tuesday 30th-Mum’soffered meaniPad. GuessI’llgo, Cool. but Veyron? another thingcoming…well,depends what’s on offer… Bugatti Monday 29th-Mumreckons shecan bribemebutshe’sgot around this poshschoolofhers.Nochance! Thursday 25th-Disaster! Mumsays shewants meto look decided to spendthecashonaface lift instead! Phew. Friday 19th-Nomore beensaidaboutschools,maybe Mum’s Gloucestershire. Seriouslyworriednow. the desk,Mumreckons it’soneofthebestprivate schoolsin Tuesday 16th-Found leaflet College” on for “Rendcomb n www.rendcomb.org.uk Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Mum’s spent alldayto bragging hermates about how herson’sgoing Thursday 2nd-OMGGotinto Rendcomb, nogoingbacknow. February 2012 can’t believe I’mdoingthisthough.Mumwillbegutted ifIdon’tgetin… Thursday 19th-Entrance exam for Rendcombtoday, went OK…still January 2012 future andyet Idon’thave asay inthematter! decided to signmeupfor theentrance exam! It’sSOunfair…it’s my Thursday -There’s 17th nochangingMum’smindnow…she’s edgeways! When willthe penny finallydrop? ILIKEbeingbored. to do, stop mefrom gettingbored etc.getaword Couldn’t in SCHOOL!!!!! …Went onandabouthowitwouldgive mesomething …mustbebad.Shediddropis Essex’ ahugebombshell:SATURDAY evening drooling over theprospectus, sheeven Only Way missed‘The Wednesday 16th-Mum’sobsessed…illeven. Spent allday and her to SHUTUP!!! was stillputtingonthat phoney poshaccent of hers.Ijustwanted Blimey thosekids were well-behaved. Brainwashed Ireckon. Mum Tuesday 15th-Went for aprivate tour of“RendcombCollege”. November 2011 “grammar”, whatever that is.It’slike livingwiththeQueen. reckons Ineedto improvecorrecting mewhenI’mspeaking, my Saturday 22nd-Gettingreally annoyed withMumnow:shekeeps woman whothinksKFCisaSunday roast! Gloucestershire” unlessIimprove my table manners!From the thinks Iwon’thave achanceat “one ofthebestprivate schoolsin tellingThursday meoffwhenI’meating. 20th-Mum’sstarted She finally gonnabea “sophisticated young man”. Deluded woman. Sunday 9th -Mumspent all day talking abouttheschool,says I’m posh voice on… SOembarrassing! scene at all.Mum ofcoursewascompletely over-the-top. Puther Gloucestershire. Looks more like apalacethanschool…notmy of Mum’s,supposedlyonethebestprivate schoolsin Saturday 8th-Went to openday at this“RendcombCollege” October 2011 Sam Tushingham, Form 3A thanks Gramps, andthanksRendcomb. For thefirsttime ever I feel excited about my future …. tinted windows. pickup. Shestillgrinslike aloony, butthankfully we’ve got Talking ofwhom, I’ve finallytrained her to stay inthecar at about pullingasickie!Hate to say itbut IthinkMumwasright. well it’sgone,have made great friends andnoteven thought Thursday 6th-Last day ofterm today, can’tbelieve how December 2012 not lettingonto Mumthough. Friday 16th-Weird howhappy Iamat schoolthesedays… November 2012 enjoy lessonsnow! obviously notas dumbasIthought Iwas,even beginningto Wednesday -Grades 17th today-best I’ve ever had,I’m October 2012 best private schoolsinGloucestershire. When willshelearn? ringing peopleupto tell themI’mplaying rugby for oneofthe team…apparently I’mreally goodat it!NowMum’sstarted Saturday 15th-Great day: beenpicked for therugby “A” simpleton at pickup. SOembarrassing! from having to weararidiculoustieandMumgrinninglike a Thursday 6th-First day at newschool.Went fine,apart September 2012 jealousy there methinks? jokes-wellloads ofstupid“poshannoying! boy” Abitof Thursday 19th-Last day at schooltoday, friends making July 2012 least someone’shappy. I’mdoomed. to oneofthebestprivate schoolsinGloucestershire…at 85

Sport & Co-Curricular Reports Sport & Co-Curricular Reports 84 she’d dothisto me. schools inGloucestershire”. believe Gettingworriednow! Can’t Sunday 14th-Caught MumonGooglesearching for “Private snob. Yeah right! some fancy school.Thinksshe’sgonnaturnmeinto someposh Wednesday 10th-OMG!Mum’sgonnaspendALLthedoshon Dropped afew heavy hints aboutaniPad 2.Fingers crossed. Thursday 4th-Loads ofchat today aboutspendingthedosh. August2011 can’t helpthinkingaboutanewtelly andstuff. Friday 29th -OMG!Gramps leftusallhismoney. Stillsad…but Tuesday 26th-Gramps diedsuddenlytoday, everyone very sad. July 2011 groups and inallstyles of writing.Thewinnerwas 3rd Former SamTushingham. Here isSam’s winningentry. we were lookingfor interesting copy to beincludedonthenew website. We received goodentries from allage In theLent term, pupilswere invited to enter acompetition. Thetitleof thecompetition was ‘My Rendcomb’and Diary a Cynical Schoolboy’s My Rendcomb: Excerpts from writing theirpublications. boys for places,andfor theOld Etonian Association editingand English. At Eton, Kerri alsoworked for Admissions, interviewing andatCollege Heathfield School,Ascotwhere shewasHeadof variety ofschools, mostrecently at atheatre school,at Eton a teaching qualification fromCambridge. Shehas taught ina Kerri hasanEnglishdegree from theUniversity ofOxford and Kerri Martin attention oftheBritishmedia. 2008 to seefirsthandtheworkofcharityandbringit to the the cyclone-devastated SouthWest ofBangladeshinFebruary the aidagency, CareInternational. JackieandLaurence visited with many different charities,includingbeingambassadorsfor linen. Over thelast17years, the Llewelyn-Bowenshave worked year, designedherowncharmingrange oftable andkitchen in Television, Radioandproduct licensing.Jackiehas,inthelast designer andpresenter Laurence. Theirbusinessinvolves work Jackie runs‘LBLtd’ inCirencester alongwithherhusband, Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen chance to trytheirhandat shooting. Shotgun&ChelseaBunClub’whichgives‘The more girlsthe Australia. Victoria recently setupLadies-shooting.com andthe of Fashion, before taking twoyears outto travel around shooting. From Worcestershire, shestudiedat London College Victoria isareal lover ofcountryside pursuits,particularly Victoria Knowles-Lacks just for alook…and alaughat alltheposhkids intheir‘cool’ ties. Tuesday 30th-Mum’soffered meaniPad. GuessI’llgo, Cool. but Veyron? another thingcoming…well,depends what’s on offer… Bugatti Monday 29th-Mumreckons shecan bribemebutshe’sgot around this poshschoolofhers.Nochance! Thursday 25th-Disaster! Mumsays shewants meto look decided to spendthecashonaface lift instead! Phew. Friday 19th-Nomore beensaidaboutschools,maybe Mum’s Gloucestershire. Seriouslyworriednow. the desk,Mumreckons it’soneofthebestprivate schoolsin Tuesday 16th-Found leaflet College” on for “Rendcomb Vietnam by providing loan. abusiness £230 canchangethelife of awoman andfuture generations in whole generation withskillsto work their way outof poverty; teachers inMaliwhoturnteach over 250girlsandprovide a The day raised £461.87. To break that cantrain five down: £135 well asrecuitment andgeneral businessmanagement. advice, project management,welfare andHumanResources, as her Alevels. Shespecialisesin facilities management,financial awarded ascholarshipby theRoyal AirForce whenstudyingfor Air Force. ShehasbeenintheRAFfor 19years, having been Squadron Leader Rossi isaservingofficerintheRoyal Carrie Rossi Carrie brands. managed campaignsfor celebrities andnationally recognised of marketing andPRfor thepast15years andinthat timehas Trailblazer PR,eight years ago. Sabrinahasworked inthefield Sabrina launchedherGloucestershire based,PRagency, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys Juniors. College busy lookingafterher twoenergetic sons whoattend Rendcomb busy Cirencester practice. When notat surgery, hertimeiskept Alison isaGPwhohasbeenworkingfor thepast12years ina Dr. AlisonNichol n Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Mum’s spent alldayto bragging hermates about how herson’sgoing Thursday 2nd-OMGGotinto Rendcomb, nogoingbacknow. February 2012 can’t believe I’mdoingthisthough.Mumwillbegutted ifIdon’tgetin… Thursday 19th-Entrance exam for Rendcombtoday, went OK…still January 2012 future andyet Idon’thave asay inthematter! decided to signmeupfor theentrance exam! It’sSOunfair…it’s my Thursday -There’s 17th nochangingMum’smindnow…she’s edgeways! When willthe penny finallydrop? ILIKEbeingbored. to do, stop mefrom gettingbored etc.getaword Couldn’t in SCHOOL!!!!! …Went onandabouthowitwouldgive mesomething …mustbebad.Shediddropis Essex’ ahugebombshell:SATURDAY evening drooling over theprospectus, sheeven Only Way missed‘The Wednesday 16th-Mum’sobsessed…illeven. Spent allday and her to SHUTUP!!! was stillputtingonthat phoney poshaccent of hers.Ijustwanted Blimey thosekids were well-behaved. Brainwashed Ireckon. Mum Tuesday 15th-Went for aprivate tour of“RendcombCollege”. November 2011 “grammar”, whatever that is.It’slike livingwiththeQueen. reckons Ineedto improvecorrecting mewhenI’mspeaking, my Saturday 22nd-Gettingreally annoyed withMumnow:shekeeps woman whothinksKFCisaSunday roast! Gloucestershire” unlessIimprove my table manners!From the thinks Iwon’thave achanceat “one ofthebestprivate schoolsin tellingThursday meoffwhenI’meating. 20th-Mum’sstarted She finally gonnabea “sophisticated young man”. Deluded woman. Sunday 9th -Mumspent all day talking abouttheschool,says I’m posh voice on… SOembarrassing! scene at all.Mum ofcoursewascompletely over-the-top. Puther Gloucestershire. Looks more like apalacethanschool…notmy of Mum’s,supposedlyonethebestprivate schoolsin Saturday 8th-Went to openday at this“RendcombCollege” October 2011 Sam Tushingham, Form 3A thanks Gramps, andthanksRendcomb. For thefirsttime ever I feel excited about my future …. tinted windows. pickup. Shestillgrinslike aloony, butthankfully we’ve got Talking ofwhom, I’ve finallytrained her to stay inthecar at about pullingasickie!Hate to say itbut IthinkMumwasright. well it’sgone,have made great friends andnoteven thought Thursday 6th-Last day ofterm today, can’tbelieve how December 2012 not lettingonto Mumthough. Friday 16th-Weird howhappy Iamat schoolthesedays… November 2012 enjoy lessonsnow! obviously notas dumbasIthought Iwas,even beginningto Wednesday -Grades 17th today-best I’ve ever had,I’m October 2012 best private schoolsinGloucestershire. When willshelearn? ringing peopleupto tell themI’mplaying rugby for oneofthe team…apparently I’mreally goodat it!NowMum’sstarted Saturday 15th-Great day: beenpicked for therugby “A” simpleton at pickup. SOembarrassing! from having to weararidiculoustieandMumgrinninglike a Thursday 6th-First day at newschool.Went fine,apart September 2012 jealousy there methinks? jokes-wellloads ofstupid“poshannoying! boy” Abitof Thursday 19th-Last day at schooltoday, friends making July 2012 least someone’shappy. I’mdoomed. to oneofthebestprivate schoolsinGloucestershire…at 85

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Junior School Junior School - Welcome 88 Junior School Welcome to the life-long memorieswere created there. race, inonly thesecondcompetitive race heldthere! Amazing and we wereCollege, allowed to putateam of into a4x100metre relay enough, asaresult of ourfundraising onbehalfof TheNational Star ofOlympic thewarm–up programme. Stadium aspart Ifthiswasn’t experiencedid thewonderful of beinginvited to parade around the 1972) andRichard Fisher (1948)helpedto buildtheexcitement as Olympians Laura B(2012),Richard Meade(GoldmedallistMunich reminder of thisspecialandhistoric moment.Three visitsfrom also planted aJubileehedgethat willhopefully flourishandactas lovely souvenir mugwas presented to every pupil.TheEco-team fabulous Jubileetea inamarvellously decorated marquee anda vibrant for many, many years. AlltheJuniorSchoolenjoyed a celebrations provided that willremain uswithopportunities Diamond JubileeandtheLondon Olympics. TheseNational moment(s) butfor methisacademicyear willmeanTheQueen’s and different. Looking back,we willallhave ourown favourite about eachyear, personalitiesandevents always make itunique Every year holdsspecialmemoriesfor whilethere isapattern Martin &LynneMartin Watson experiences that awaityou. and families asasnapshotofthewonderful record for thosehere andfor future pupils publication will serve asatremendous successful andenjoyable year. Ihopethis following pageswillhelpto re-live another Whatever your highlight,Iamsure that the it willhave alastingandup-liftingeffect. all thoseinvolved, orluckyenoughto watch, breathtaking inqualityandpassionfor single outZimbe! Thismusicaldelight was everything butitwouldbeamissnotto that onecannot recall andmention As inany, year somuchhappens became apparent. talentsfrom herartistic whichincreasingly and bondwithher. They alsobenefitted children soon developeda strong affection endeared herto theNurserywhere the self-confidence. gentle Herquiet, nature the year anditwas lovely to seehergrow in Assistant Tutor. Sheflourishedthroughout inGodmanHouseasan as supporting extended across theJuniorSchoolaswell time was spent inNurserybutherduties Australia for Themajority 2011. of her Georgie joined usfrom Tasmania, as sheresume herstudies. work andextend ourvery bestwishesto her of ourteam. We thankherfor allherhard became anestablished andvalued member Staff News www.rendcomb.org.uk Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, (Gap Tutor) Georgina Zacks Leavers In a short spaceoftime,Georgie In ashort happy andsuccessful future andthankyou. her withgreat fondness. GoodluckBex for a and mademany friends whowillremember JuniorSchool enriched RendcombCollege with Bex over thepasttwoyears andshe around the UKandEurope. the holidays andtravelled extensively adventure alsomeant that shemaximised stays withJ6. at Herpassionfor Kilve Court trips andvisits,includingtworesidential naturally played abigrole insupporting a Kiwi,Bex loved theoutdoors andshe programme where sheexcelled. Being more sothanwithintheGamesandPE was felt right across theschool,butnone whole experience. determination to getstuckinandenjoy the degree ofmaturity, bundlesofenergy anda still ateenager, shearrived withahigh rate atThough leastonaparwiththebest. very good‘Gappies’ butBex wouldhave to been fortunate to acquire theservicesof benefitted hugely from her extended stay. was sooutstanding we hadnoqualmsand is quite unusualfor aGapTutor butasshe Bex spent which two years withus,2010/11 (Gap Tutor) Rebecca Perry (Bex) It wasapleasure to have worked Over thetwoyears, herinfluence JuniorSchoolhas Rendcomb College been utilisedinNursery. J2 thisyear butat timesherexpertisehas practitioner. Primarily, Val hassupported children being aqualified Early Years’ considerable experience of working with lovely, smiley dispositionbutshehas team for not a onlydoesshepossess delighted to our to addMrsBartlett 2011 asaTeaching Assistant. We were Mrs Val joinedusinSeptember Bartlett Stanley Jamesbornonthe9thJuly2012. Laura Potter, of Francis onthebirth born on2ndNovember 2011. Katie Hockey, of Harriet Rose onthebirth Congratulations to... Mrs Val Bartlett Welcome 89

Junior School - Staff News Junior School - Welcome 88 Junior School Welcome to the life-long memorieswere created there. race, inonly thesecondcompetitive race heldthere! Amazing and we wereCollege, allowed to putateam of into a4x100metre relay enough, asaresult of ourfundraising onbehalfof TheNational Star ofOlympic thewarm–up programme. Stadium aspart Ifthiswasn’t experiencedid thewonderful of beinginvited to parade around the 1972) andRichard Fisher (1948)helpedto buildtheexcitement as Olympians Laura B(2012),Richard Meade(GoldmedallistMunich reminder of thisspecialandhistoric moment.Three visitsfrom also planted aJubileehedgethat willhopefully flourishandactas lovely souvenir mugwas presented to every pupil.TheEco-team fabulous Jubileetea inamarvellously decorated marquee anda vibrant for many, many years. AlltheJuniorSchoolenjoyed a celebrations provided that willremain uswithopportunities Diamond JubileeandtheLondon Olympics. TheseNational moment(s) butfor methisacademicyear willmeanTheQueen’s and different. Looking back,we willallhave ourown favourite about eachyear, personalitiesandevents always make itunique Every year holdsspecialmemoriesfor whilethere isapattern Martin &LynneMartin Watson experiences that awaityou. and families asasnapshotofthewonderful record for thosehere andfor future pupils publication will serve asatremendous successful andenjoyable year. Ihopethis following pageswillhelpto re-live another Whatever your highlight,Iamsure that the it willhave alastingandup-liftingeffect. all thoseinvolved, orluckyenoughto watch, breathtaking inqualityandpassionfor single outZimbe! Thismusicaldelight was everything butitwouldbeamissnotto that onecannot recall andmention As inany, year somuchhappens as sheresume herstudies. work andextend ourvery bestwishesto her of ourteam. We thankherfor allherhard became anestablished andvalued member became apparent. talentsfrom herartistic whichincreasingly and bondwithher. They alsobenefitted children soon developeda strong affection endeared herto theNurserywhere the self-confidence. gentle Herquiet, nature the year anditwas lovely to seehergrow in Assistant Tutor. Sheflourishedthroughout inGodmanHouseasan as supporting extended across theJuniorSchoolaswell time was spent inNurserybutherduties Australia for Themajority 2011. of her Georgie joined usfrom Tasmania, Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Staff News www.rendcomb.org.uk (Gap Tutor) Georgina Zacks Leavers In a short spaceoftime,Georgie In ashort happy andsuccessful future andthankyou. her withgreat fondness. GoodluckBex for a and mademany friends whowillremember JuniorSchool enriched RendcombCollege with Bex over thepasttwoyears andshe around the UKandEurope. the holidays andtravelled extensively adventure alsomeant that shemaximised stays withJ6. at Herpassionfor Kilve Court trips andvisits,includingtworesidential naturally played abigrole insupporting a Kiwi,Bex loved theoutdoors andshe programme where sheexcelled. Being more sothanwithintheGamesandPE was felt right across theschool,butnone whole experience. determination to getstuckinandenjoy the degree ofmaturity, bundlesofenergy anda still ateenager, shearrived withahigh rate atThough leastonaparwiththebest. very good‘Gappies’ butBex wouldhave to been fortunate to acquire theservicesof benefitted hugely from her extended stay. was sooutstanding we hadnoqualmsand is quite unusualfor aGapTutor butasshe Bex spent which two years withus,2010/11 (Gap Tutor) Rebecca Perry (Bex) It wasapleasure to have worked Over thetwoyears, herinfluence JuniorSchoolhas Rendcomb College been utilisedinNursery. J2 thisyear butat timesherexpertisehas practitioner. Primarily, Val hassupported children being aqualified Early Years’ considerable experience of working with lovely, smiley dispositionbutshehas team for not a onlydoesshepossess delighted to our to addMrsBartlett 2011 asaTeaching Assistant. We were Mrs Val joinedusinSeptember Bartlett Stanley Jamesbornonthe9thJuly2012. Laura Potter, of Francis onthebirth born on2ndNovember 2011. Katie Hockey, of Harriet Rose onthebirth Congratulations to... Mrs Val Bartlett Welcome 89

Junior School - Staff News Junior School - Jubilee 90 weekend celebrations. celebrations. weekend remarkable andeveryone leftuplifted andlookingforward to theofficial help insecuringthesewas muchappreciated. Thewholeafternoon was truly mug markingtheJubileeandLondon 2012Olympics. MrMcLaughlin’s more memorable, for eachchildwas presented withaspeciallycommissioned Majesty (!)visited for aphoto shoot Theevent witheachclass. was madeeven wearing theirred, white andblue.Theexcitement reached fever pitch whenHer Naylor andhisteam laidonaroyal banquet andthechildren hadasuperbtime decorated themarquee to create venue amostwonderful for ourtea party. Mr To markthe Queen’s Jubilee,theJuniorSchoolParents’ Association beautifully Jubilee cook therecipes asacelebratory lunch. judging thecompetition andagreeing to Palace! Thank you to MarkRobbinsfor a chanceof beingeaten at Buckingham to thenational competition andstand tasty willalsobesubmitted suggestions the DiamondJubileecelebrations. These to thewholeschoolduringweek before Lavender andHoney Flapjacks were served Her Gloucester Old Spot Porky and Puffs competition was Grace Tushingham. The winnerof theJubileecookery celebratory mosaic.Aroyal timewas hadby all. designed aJubileeGarden andalsohelpedcreate a flagsandcrowns and inmakingbunting, took part celebrate theQueen’s DiamondJubilee. Everyone J3 andJ4hadanafternoon of red, white andblueto 91

Junior School - Jubilee Junior School - Jubilee 90 weekend celebrations. celebrations. weekend remarkable andeveryone leftuplifted andlookingforward to theofficial help insecuringthesewas muchappreciated. Thewholeafternoon was truly mug markingtheJubileeandLondon 2012Olympics. MrMcLaughlin’s more memorable, for eachchildwas presented withaspeciallycommissioned Majesty (!)visited for aphoto shoot Theevent witheachclass. was madeeven wearing theirred, white andblue.Theexcitement reached fever pitch whenHer Naylor andhisteam laidonaroyal banquet andthechildren hadasuperbtime decorated themarquee to create venue amostwonderful for ourtea party. Mr To markthe Queen’s Jubilee,theJuniorSchoolParents’ Association beautifully Jubilee cook therecipes asacelebratory lunch. judging thecompetition andagreeing to Palace! Thank you to MarkRobbinsfor a chanceof beingeaten at Buckingham to thenational competition andstand tasty willalsobesubmitted suggestions the DiamondJubileecelebrations. These to thewholeschoolduringweek before Lavender andHoney Flapjacks were served Her Gloucester Old Spot Porky and Puffs competition was Grace Tushingham. The winnerof theJubileecookery celebratory mosaic.Aroyal timewas hadby all. designed aJubileeGarden andalsohelpedcreate a flagsandcrowns and inmakingbunting, took part celebrate theQueen’s DiamondJubilee. Everyone J3 andJ4hadanafternoon of red, white andblueto 91

Junior School - Jubilee Olympics Gold Challenge On Sunday, 1st April, Rendcomb College Junior School was thrilled to participate in the first pre-Olympic and Paralympic track event held at On 19th June, the Otters celebrated their Olympic Day the Olympic Stadium owing to their fantastic support of the Olympic in the sunshine! Everyone in the Otters, both staff and Gold Challenge and fund-raising on behalf of their nominated charity, pupils had a wonderful time including the Olympics into The National Star College, Ullenwood, Cheltenham.

Junior School - Olympics our learning. All the Otters dressed up as athletes and In front of an audience of 20 000 people, 8 pupils and 2 Junior School - Olympics rotated round a number of different activities which staff, along with representatives of the National Star College, included testing many different Olympic sports, such as joined the opening parade and experienced the thrill of entering Javelin, Hurdles, Long Jump, Basketball and Tennis, making this wonderful venue. Equally exciting, a team of four, 3 pupils and Olympic medals cut from the wood at forest school, one teacher ran a 4 x 100m relay race against other schools and producing a great display of a runner carrying the Olympic charitable organisations. torch, creating an Olympic dance and finally baking and Mr Watson said ‘2012 is such a special year and this event will icing their own Olympic themed fairy cakes and biscuits. provide lasting memories for everyone’. The whole day ran fantastically smoothly and everyone, One of our pupils, Harry Marsden, year 4, summed it up perfectly: ‘I both pupils and staff had an incredible day. will always remember warming up the track for Bolt and Mo Farah!’ On Wednesday 1st August Mr and Mrs Watson were honoured to attend a presentation at Team GB House, overlooking the Olympic Park in London, to mark our amazing support of The Gold Challenge and fundraising on behalf of The National Star College. London 2012 provided the perfect opportunity to encourage children to participate even more in sport and ideally try new ones. It was so pleasing to see so may participate and it was a delight to award so many Gold Certificates last term. On the fundraising front, we received fantastic support and the total of nearly £5000 was a superb achievement, with the auction of sporting memorabilia accounting for £2000 of this exceptional total. The presentation ceremony saw Rendcomb College Junior School as one of just two schools present and it was a great joy to be awarded with a Gold Medal as a top fundraiser by Olympic high- jumper Dalton Grant, British record holder with 2.37m, and Noel Thatcher MBE, 6 times paralympian and holder of 5 Gold medals! Olympian Visit Such recognition was wonderful and it was made even more special owing to the venue. Team GB House is the HQ for team The pupils were very excited when World number 2 and GB, providing a base for athletes and their families to relax and British number 1 dressage rider Laura Bechtolsheimer celebrate in the team’s success. The atmosphere was electric and agreed to come and talk to them about her preparations the Gold Medal won in the time trial by Bradley Wiggins, during our for the London Olympic Games this summer. visit, made for an even more significant visit. Last year, Laura and her horse Mistral Horjis (Alf to his friends) were part of the British dressage team that won the gold medal at the European Championships and the pair took the individual bronze as well. During her talk, Laura explained about how she looks Face Britain after Alf and just how much he likes big competitions. She also told the children about how proud she is to have the Pupils in J2–J6 drew self-portraits that were submitted to Face chance of representing team GB at Greenwich. Britain (for The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts). All the pupils agreed that Laura’s visit was fantastic, Over 200,000 young people from across the country entered some even got to wear her medals and everyone said they their portraits to form a record-breaking art display on the front would be cheering for her this summer. She of course went of Buckingham Palace. The portraits were also used on the Big on to win an Olympic gold medal in the team dressage and Screens across the country during the Jubilee and the Olympics. A a bronze medal in the individual dressage event. Some staff final piece of History will be made as all portraits and names of the and pupils from Rendcomb went to see her gold post box in participants will be kept in a special record in the British Library to Ampney St Peter the next day. The gold paint was still wet! recognise the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Well done everyone for making History! 92 93 Olympics Gold Challenge On Sunday, 1st April, Rendcomb College Junior School was thrilled to participate in the first pre-Olympic and Paralympic track event held at On 19th June, the Otters celebrated their Olympic Day the Olympic Stadium owing to their fantastic support of the Olympic in the sunshine! Everyone in the Otters, both staff and Gold Challenge and fund-raising on behalf of their nominated charity, pupils had a wonderful time including the Olympics into The National Star College, Ullenwood, Cheltenham.

Junior School - Olympics our learning. All the Otters dressed up as athletes and In front of an audience of 20 000 people, 8 pupils and 2 Junior School - Olympics rotated round a number of different activities which staff, along with representatives of the National Star College, included testing many different Olympic sports, such as joined the opening parade and experienced the thrill of entering Javelin, Hurdles, Long Jump, Basketball and Tennis, making this wonderful venue. Equally exciting, a team of four, 3 pupils and Olympic medals cut from the wood at forest school, one teacher ran a 4 x 100m relay race against other schools and producing a great display of a runner carrying the Olympic charitable organisations. torch, creating an Olympic dance and finally baking and Mr Watson said ‘2012 is such a special year and this event will icing their own Olympic themed fairy cakes and biscuits. provide lasting memories for everyone’. The whole day ran fantastically smoothly and everyone, One of our pupils, Harry Marsden, year 4, summed it up perfectly: ‘I both pupils and staff had an incredible day. will always remember warming up the track for Bolt and Mo Farah!’ On Wednesday 1st August Mr and Mrs Watson were honoured to attend a presentation at Team GB House, overlooking the Olympic Park in London, to mark our amazing support of The Gold Challenge and fundraising on behalf of The National Star College. London 2012 provided the perfect opportunity to encourage children to participate even more in sport and ideally try new ones. It was so pleasing to see so may participate and it was a delight to award so many Gold Certificates last term. On the fundraising front, we received fantastic support and the total of nearly £5000 was a superb achievement, with the auction of sporting memorabilia accounting for £2000 of this exceptional total. The presentation ceremony saw Rendcomb College Junior School as one of just two schools present and it was a great joy to be awarded with a Gold Medal as a top fundraiser by Olympic high- jumper Dalton Grant, British record holder with 2.37m, and Noel Thatcher MBE, 6 times paralympian and holder of 5 Gold medals! Olympian Visit Such recognition was wonderful and it was made even more special owing to the venue. Team GB House is the HQ for team The pupils were very excited when World number 2 and GB, providing a base for athletes and their families to relax and British number 1 dressage rider Laura Bechtolsheimer celebrate in the team’s success. The atmosphere was electric and agreed to come and talk to them about her preparations the Gold Medal won in the time trial by Bradley Wiggins, during our for the London Olympic Games this summer. visit, made for an even more significant visit. Last year, Laura and her horse Mistral Horjis (Alf to his friends) were part of the British dressage team that won the gold medal at the European Championships and the pair took the individual bronze as well. During her talk, Laura explained about how she looks Face Britain after Alf and just how much he likes big competitions. She also told the children about how proud she is to have the Pupils in J2–J6 drew self-portraits that were submitted to Face chance of representing team GB at Greenwich. Britain (for The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts). All the pupils agreed that Laura’s visit was fantastic, Over 200,000 young people from across the country entered some even got to wear her medals and everyone said they their portraits to form a record-breaking art display on the front would be cheering for her this summer. She of course went of Buckingham Palace. The portraits were also used on the Big on to win an Olympic gold medal in the team dressage and Screens across the country during the Jubilee and the Olympics. A a bronze medal in the individual dressage event. Some staff final piece of History will be made as all portraits and names of the and pupils from Rendcomb went to see her gold post box in participants will be kept in a special record in the British Library to Ampney St Peter the next day. The gold paint was still wet! recognise the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Well done everyone for making History! 92 93 Junior School - Eco Team 94 provide another richhabitat inthewoodland area. places was gooey clay whichsomepupilsloved! We hopethat asthehedgematures itwill andhisteam.with thehelpof MrCairns After thewet weather we have had,theground in and wildrose were suppliedby TheWoodland Trust andthepupilsenjoyed planting them May to plant JubileeHedge’.Thevarious anew hedgeto becalled‘The saplingsof holly, hazel the highlight was whentheEco Team met outsidetheWoodland Classroom onTuesday 8th outstanding work mustgoto theirEco Prefect, CharliePugh,andto Lynne Watson. Perhaps of theschoolandtheirparents inarange of Eco friendly initiatives. Muchof thecredit of their Once again theEco Team hadabusyyear promoting andhelpingto educate other members Eco Team www.rendcomb.org.uk 95

Junior School - Eco Team Junior School - Eco Team 94 provide another richhabitat inthewoodland area. places was gooey clay whichsomepupilsloved! We hopethat asthehedgematures itwill andhisteam.with thehelpof MrCairns After thewet weather we have had,theground in and wildrose were suppliedby TheWoodland Trust andthepupilsenjoyed planting them May to plant JubileeHedge’.Thevarious anew hedgeto becalled‘The saplingsof holly, hazel the highlight was whentheEco Team met outsidetheWoodland Classroom onTuesday 8th outstanding work mustgoto theirEco Prefect, CharliePugh,andto Lynne Watson. Perhaps of theschoolandtheirparents inarange of Eco friendly initiatives. Muchof thecredit of their Once again theEco Team hadabusyyear promoting andhelpingto educate other members Eco Team www.rendcomb.org.uk 95

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Junior School - Nursery Autumn We all arrived at school in September ready to learn. We started with the topic, ‘All about me.’ We had a fantastic visit from Sister Louise who bandaged us up and taught us all about Junior School - Reception Junior School - Reception our bodies. We made lots of friends and had a fantastic visit from Will’s tortoise, Hatty. We also started to learn our sounds and numbers. What a wonderful start to the year!

Winter Spring In the spring, we enjoyed some lovely weather. We had an In the winter, we found lots of A Year in Reception interesting trip to Butterfly World and loved seeing all of the ice and snow in Forest School. beautiful butterflies and other animals too! We celebrated our Our topic was ‘On the move’; 100th day at school with a yummy cake. We began learning about we learned all about transport ‘Minibeasts’ and we were very lucky that Ellen brought us some and space travel. We all really tadpoles into school. We all loved watching these tadpoles grow enjoyed visiting the moon in their legs and released them into our school pond. At this point ‘Apollo 11!’ We also had some in the year, all the children were getting very clever and were super visits from the police producing some super work! and fire engine. The highlight for many of us was a visit from Mrs Major’s dog, Radley. At Christmas we all took part in our lovely nativity, ‘The Bossy King.’ We also loved playing in Father Christmas’ sleigh.

Summer In the summer, we had a brilliant visit to Cotswold Farm Park; it was lovely to see how much all the children had matured. We began learning all about the Queen and celebrated her Diamond Jubilee with a big tea party. We also painted some wonderful pictures of the Queen either young or a little bit older! We even wrote letters to the Queen! After half term we all began to get very excited about the Olympics. The highlight of the summer was the Otters’ Olympic day. We enjoyed playing lots of sport, dancing, making cakes and producing a wonderful Olympic display. The children have all worked very hard throughout their year in Reception and can now all read, write and add numbers. What a lovely group of children they are. We all hope the weather is better for our 98 summer holidays! 99 Junior School - J1 100 animals ever to have lived onearth. to discover aworldofthemostfascinating Our journey backintimeallowedthechildren being themostpopulartopic. thisyear,success with‘dinosaurs’ Once again, J1hasbeenaroaring J1 and crumpetson areal fire. wooden discsandtoasting marshmellows enjoyed buildingdens,makingclay nests, outside at Forest School.They have J1 have hadavery fun timelearning Forest School and TheOlympics. UndertheSea, our planet, Dinosaurs andFossils, Save Ourselves, Light andDark, topics thisyear including, through avariety of The children have learnt excited to beableto feed theturtles. underneath leopard sharksandwere allvery were swimmingwithseahorses.They alsowalked The children gotto seeanOctopus andimaginethey new factsofour‘under thesea’topic. aspart different typesofcreatures andlearnt many trip to Bristol Aquarium inMay. We sawmany school butthehighlight oftheyear wasour The children have enjoyed many tripsoutof 101

Junior School - J1 Junior School - J1 100 animals ever to have lived onearth. to discover aworldofthemostfascinating Our journey backintimeallowedthechildren being themostpopulartopic. thisyear,success with‘dinosaurs’ Once again, J1hasbeenaroaring J1 and crumpetson areal fire. wooden discsandtoasting marshmellows enjoyed buildingdens,makingclay nests, outside at Forest School.They have J1 have hadavery fun timelearning Forest School and TheOlympics. UndertheSea, our planet, Dinosaurs andFossils, Save Ourselves, Light andDark, topics thisyear including, through avariety of The children have learnt excited to beableto feed theturtles. underneath leopard sharksandwere allvery were swimmingwithseahorses.They alsowalked The children gotto seeanOctopus andimaginethey new factsofour‘under thesea’topic. aspart different typesofcreatures andlearnt many trip to Bristol Aquarium inMay. We sawmany school butthehighlight oftheyear wasour The children have enjoyed many tripsoutof 101

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Junior School - J2 have come in and the whole year has been a Junior School - J2 fantastically long and windy learning journey. Back in March, the J2s had their first ever Katie Morag Day. Katie Morag is a fictional character created by Mairi Hedderwick, who lives on the Isle of Struay. Throughout the unit of work, we linked it in to many different areas of our learning including Geography, Science, Art and Literacy amongst others. On the day itself, we had a huge amount of fun dressing up and doing many different activities that linked in nicely to our study of Katie Morag. The children divided into groups and rotated round a number of stations including dance with Mrs Liebenberg, cooking shortbread with Mrs Smith and painting her home island with Mr Layton. We have done so much from going back in time with Florence Nightingale to getting involved and excited about London 2012. Just have a look for yourself!

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102 103 Junior School- RCJPA 104 Summer Fete. stars. sporting memorabilia donated top sporting by someofthecountry’s ofbiddinginasilent auctionforopportunity somewonderful organised bysports theSchoolwhilstparents hadthe toinmanyhave takedifferent hadtheopportunity part most oftheQueen’s Jubileewithourownfabulous tea party. collected for Operation ChristmasChildandwemadethe their introduction inJanuarythisyear; over 100boxes were includingDarren Baker.artists donatedevening by art local withanauctionofwonderful Street Dance Workshop andtheannualChristmasParty. our two nominated charities. pupils, parents for andstaff andthetremendous support terms of thesocialevents that have beenorganised for The RCJPA hashadanexceptional year thisyear both in Parents’ Association Report Junior Rendcomb College The year wasrounded offnicelywithourannual And withthisbeingOlympic year, thechildren We have soldover 150RendcombWater bottlessince For parents andstaffPlonk wehadaPortrait The children have enjoyed aFunky Monkey Disco, a Juniors’ Music at theendeveryone sanganonsensecountry yokel song. respectively; there were pianosolosfrom children inallyears and Grace Tushingham andHenryHolloway played oboeandbassoon Second World War, J5gave usandelightful version of. BlueSkies of Western musicalhistory. Inconnectionwiththeirwork onthe J6 amostunusualandentertaining take onthedifferent periods us sinceSeptember: for sheproduced for ourOctober concert, It hasbeenagreat pleasure to have Pamela Miss Crispworking with at Rendcomb. who make suchavaried contribution to musicallife colleagues for theirhelpand,ofcourse,allthechildren It wasamostfittingend to the term. the wholeproduction wasreceived enthusiastically. bass. MrsBrealy directed withherwonted passion,and playing saxophones andhersonHoward playing double assistance onpercussion, ofMrColdrick withMrsAuster pirate costumes.Iwasfortunate oncemore to have the dance routines andJ3J4acted asachorus,cladin with truecommitment; there were somefascinating nine songsinvarious styles.Theprincipalsperformed Peter Pan hasresulted inadelightful stage version with which wassungfrom memory. children were complimented upontheirfinecontribution, L’Estrange, whoplayed thekeyboard. Theyounger ensemble includingthepiece’scomposer, Alexander Choir, TheOriel Singersandanexcellent instrumental alongwiththeSeniorSchool children whotook part, Zimbe! captured theimagination oftheJuniorSchool Franks, thenewDirector ofMusicintheSeniorSchool. the lastminute becauseofsnow. well-received, althoughsomeofithadto bechangedat Turca by Mozart. MissCrisp’sworkwithinstruments was Edwin Ward’s oftheRondoalla flyingfingersplayed part ; thechoirwarmedusupwithBringMeSunshineand Joy withtheOrchestra givingusBeethoven’sconcert, Ode to the candlelitchurch. MrJohnWright wastheOrganist. Service, withbeautiful singingandexceptional readings in Mr PhilipColls In December, wehadourcustomary ChristmasCarol I wouldlike to extend my warmest thanksto allmy The enduringpopularityofJ. M.Barrie’sstory of March sawathrillinginnovation, thevisionofMr A similarvariety ofmusicalitems filledthe February 105

Junior School - Music Junior School- RCJPA 104 Summer Fete. stars. sporting memorabilia donated top sporting by someofthecountry’s ofbiddinginasilent auctionforopportunity somewonderful organised bysports theSchoolwhilstparents hadthe toinmanyhave takedifferent hadtheopportunity part most oftheQueen’s Jubileewithourownfabulous tea party. collected for Operation ChristmasChildandwemadethe their introduction inJanuarythisyear; over 100boxes were includingDarren Baker.artists donatedevening by art local withanauctionofwonderful Street Dance Workshop andtheannualChristmasParty. our two nominated charities. pupils, parents for andstaff andthetremendous support terms of thesocialevents that have beenorganised for The RCJPA hashadanexceptional year thisyear both in Parents’ Association Report Junior Rendcomb College The year wasrounded offnicelywithourannual And withthisbeingOlympic year, thechildren We have soldover 150RendcombWater bottlessince For parents andstaffPlonk wehadaPortrait The children have enjoyed aFunky Monkey Disco, a Juniors’ Music at theendeveryone sanganonsensecountry yokel song. respectively; there were pianosolosfrom children inallyears and Grace Tushingham andHenryHolloway played oboeandbassoon Second World War, J5gave usandelightful version of. BlueSkies of Western musicalhistory. Inconnectionwiththeirwork onthe J6 amostunusualandentertaining take onthedifferent periods us sinceSeptember: for sheproduced for ourOctober concert, It hasbeenagreat pleasure to have Pamela Miss Crispworking with at Rendcomb. who make suchavaried contribution to musicallife colleagues for theirhelpand,ofcourse,allthechildren It wasamostfittingend to the term. the wholeproduction wasreceived enthusiastically. bass. MrsBrealy directed withherwonted passion,and playing saxophones andhersonHoward playing double assistance onpercussion, ofMrColdrick withMrsAuster pirate costumes.Iwasfortunate oncemore to have the dance routines andJ3J4acted asachorus,cladin with truecommitment; there were somefascinating nine songsinvarious styles.Theprincipalsperformed Peter Pan hasresulted inadelightful stage version with which wassungfrom memory. children were complimented upontheirfinecontribution, L’Estrange, whoplayed thekeyboard. Theyounger ensemble includingthepiece’scomposer, Alexander Choir, TheOriel Singersandanexcellent instrumental alongwiththeSeniorSchool children whotook part, Zimbe! captured theimagination oftheJuniorSchool Franks, thenewDirector ofMusicintheSeniorSchool. the lastminute becauseofsnow. well-received, althoughsomeofithadto bechangedat Turca by Mozart. MissCrisp’sworkwithinstruments was Edwin Ward’s oftheRondoalla flyingfingersplayed part ; thechoirwarmedusupwithBringMeSunshineand Joy withtheOrchestra givingusBeethoven’sconcert, Ode to the candlelitchurch. MrJohnWright wastheOrganist. Service, withbeautiful singingandexceptional readings in Mr PhilipColls In December, wehadourcustomary ChristmasCarol I wouldlike to extend my warmest thanksto allmy The enduringpopularityofJ. M.Barrie’sstory of March sawathrillinginnovation, thevisionofMr A similarvariety ofmusicalitems filledthe February 105

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Junior School - J 3 Junior School - J4 108 J4 school tripever.school AGrand Day Out was hadby all! the television studioandFinn Dawson itwas said thebest the planetarium was ‘awesome’; Lucy Thomas really enjoyed Wallace andGromit- inspired animation. Alex Hendricksaid activities allin5hours!Somechildren even created theirown toand stillmanaged tryoutcountless hands-on Science attended two amazingworkshops, visited theplanetarium is, asJ4discovered ontheirtripto ‘At Bristol’. Thechildren launch arocket andmuch,much more, all inoneday? Yes it through thehumandigestive system, survive atornado, Is itreally possible to travel into outer onajourney space,go A Grand Day Out J4A andIsabelWateridge J4B. ground. Thewinningparachute designerswere RebeccaAllen parachute wastheonethat took thelongesttimeto reach the off thesteps leadingto thewoodlandclassroom. Thebest caused by airresistance. 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Junior School - J4 Junior School - J4 108 J4 school tripever.school AGrand Day Out was hadby all! the television studioandFinn Dawson itwas said thebest the planetarium was ‘awesome’; Lucy Thomas really enjoyed Wallace andGromit- inspired animation. Alex Hendricksaid activities allin5hours!Somechildren even created theirown toand stillmanaged tryoutcountless hands-on Science attended two amazingworkshops, visited theplanetarium is, asJ4discovered ontheirtripto ‘At Bristol’. Thechildren launch arocket andmuch,much more, all inoneday? Yes it through thehumandigestive system, survive atornado, Is itreally possible to travel into outer onajourney space,go A Grand Day Out J4A andIsabelWateridge J4B. ground. Thewinningparachute designerswere RebeccaAllen parachute wastheonethat took thelongesttimeto reach the off thesteps leadingto thewoodlandclassroom. Thebest caused by airresistance. We tested themby dropping them They designedthemto make gooduseofthefriction force Here, J4are having fun testing theirhomemadeparachutes. arranging thevisit. very grateful to MrsScasefor afternoon. Thechildren were It was atrulyinspiring handle andexamine closely. allowed the children to work whichshehappily of art countless exquisite pieces Ward. Shebrought withher author andillustrator, Helen to have avisitfrom the J4 were extremely fortunate even caught asmooth–backed newt. in apondwhichwasteeming withtadpoles andNedHanbury fortunate enoughto find toads. Thehighlight wasponddipping the mini-beasthunt Freddie Haynes andEdwin Ward were facts aboutthehabitats ofplants andcreatures. During magnificent settingaswediscovered of allsorts fascinating as ever. Abeautiful sunny day enhancedthealready J4’s annualtriptoTrust theErnestCook proved assuccessful TrustErnest Cook www.rendcomb.org.uk Rory Hughes news, they were soexcited aboutmewinning thecompetition. the competition. dressed upandsojoyful andIwassopleasedto have won win becausethey were sogood. good at theirpoemsandIthinkthat everybody deserved to I hadwon. was RoryHughes,that isme! they took awhilebuteventually they namedthewinnerwho the difficultdecisionofwhowouldwinpoetrycontest; the day again!ThenMrWatson andMissWann hadto make tried to loadtheclipagainanditfailed andMrAsaved saved theday withavery interesting story book,thenwe not watch itbecausewouldnotload!ThenMrAcameand speaking aboutWorld BookDay. Unfortunately, wecould down where wetriedto watch aninternet clipofanauthor to MrWatson andMissWann andthenitwasbreak. have won! group wontheclasspoem,butIdon’tthinkthat they should Hundred andOne Dalmations. Horse. MrsBreare dressed upasCruellaDe Villefrom One up asTom Sawyer andMrsAuster dressed upasWar On Thursday 1st March itwas World Day. Book Idressed World Day Book When Icamehomeandwhentold my parents the It wasagreat day becauseitwasfun to seeeverybody I wassosurprisedbecausemy Year wasamazingly I took a while to getupbecauseIwassosurprisedthat After break, we went into TheDulvertonandsat Then, thepeoplewhoread individualpoemsperformed All theclassesdidtheirclasspoemsandJ5yellow dressing upasamonkwasfab. teachingof allthe lots usbutmost nicelady to do, alsoavery Finn Dawson: Ienjoyed thetripbecausetherewaslots to learn, beautiful stained glasswindowinthechapel. all thesaints outsidetheentrance to thecathedral andthe Isabel Wateridge: favourite oftheday wasseeing My part cathedral andthechanceto dosomebrassrubbingwasexcellent. finding outaboutallthekingsandqueenswhovisited the Kitty: day was hadby all-includingtheteachers. brass whichherbswere rubbingandguessing which.Agood experience somewritingwithaquill,play ninemanMorris, in thechoirstalls. After lunch, thechildren were invited to monks performed whilstlivingthere includingsinginginLatin led into theCathedral andre-enacted several events the lot more Monks.Thechildren abouttheBenedictine were the children were keen to get into theirhabitsandlearna Cathedral was builtandwhy iswas never pulleddown. All all thechildren alittle background to whenandwhy the Cathedral. Thegroup were met by MrsLaws whogave was like asaTudor Monkandthegoingsonat Gloucester The J4’s went offto ontheirannualtripto discover what life J4 History Trip Finn Dawson chess don’tgive uphopethingscanchangevery quickly. to double checkwithschoolthenext day. Soifyour playing ThanksCharlie! sportsman. played really wellanddidn’thave ahuffy;Hewasgreat him up, andwith20secondsleftitwascheck-mate. Charlie up hopeMrs.Haasgave usonemore minute, inthat timeIset opponent (Charlie Pugh)hadmore points. JustasIwasgiving to winandbeagracious loser. Early oninthefinalgame, my this year was already over. beaten andhaving donefairly well lastyear Ithought winning get to thefinal,let alonewin. Early oninthechallenge,I was Winning challengewas thechess great. Inever thought I’d Winning Challenge theChess I really enjoyed looking at the wonderful cathedral, and enjoyed lookingatcathedral,I really thewonderful and When Igothome, my Mumdidn’tbelieve mesoshehad When itcameto thefinal my Mum told me to not expect 109

Junior School - J4 Junior School - Art 110 Joshua Carr, J5 Lauren Booth, J6 Art Nathan Roberts, J5 Nathan Roberts, Lucas Booth, J3 Freddie Haynes, J4 Art Club 111

Junior School - Art Junior School - Art 110 Joshua Carr, J5 Lauren Booth, J6 Art Nathan Roberts, J5 Nathan Roberts, Lucas Booth, J3 Freddie Haynes, J4 Art Club 111

Junior School - Art Junior School - J5 112 J5 Bailey Harris and took ourwelliesoffandwent backto class. miniature water fall andsawitfalling. saw thedroppings. After that,J5went downto a by twoJ5went intheriver withwelliesonand because there wassomeotters’ droppings. Two toldMr Cairns usthat theotters hadcomeback sheep ran away. When wegotdownto theriver River Churn.As wewere walkingdownallofthe Later onthat day, took MrCairns usdownto the old pipes,awellandplacecalledParadise. school, wesawsomeunusualobjectssuchas on thewater walk.Aswewere goinground the offeredMr Cairns to take usround Rendcomb J5 water walk Charlie Wade patients andmedicalstaff from thehospital. been empty. Itwouldhave felt to fitallthe bigger would have looked like becauseitwouldhave war. Itdidn’tlooklike anairraid shelter actually because itwasdecorated withartefacts from the into theairraid shelter to have alookaround home guard. During thesecondhalf, J5Wwent toys. Then,wesawadisplay of weaponsfrom the found inaWW2house,for example food and saw alltheeveryday objectsthat you wouldhave split into twohalves. Iwasinthefirsthalf, J5W. We went to theairraid shelter inCirencester wewere This tripwasahistory tripaboutWW2.When we Air raid shelter inCirencester Feeling tired buthappy, wereturned to school Emily Musgrave high mark. finished itespeciallywhenMrs Watson gave mea could. Ifelt very proud aboutmy project whenIhad coloured folder anddidasmany illustrations asI work inorder usingacontents page.Iusedabright interesting sothat Iputallmy allsectionsstand out. you mustremember to make and itcolourful the internet, books,friends andmy teachers. to illustrate myIresearched project. my topics using terrific leaflets,pictures andpostcards that Iused all aboutAncient Greek Pots; shegave mesome friend whohaswritten many booksandhaslectured dish calledTzatsiki withmy Mum.We have afamily warfare andIeven shopping, madeaGreek sports, chose somesubjectsthat interested us.Ichose the workwehadlearnt thenat homeeachofus we coulddoonourown.At school,wecollated topics somewewouldbedoinginclassand Ancient Greece to behandedinonthelastday. our task inHistory wasto puttogether aproject on At thebeginningofLent Term wewere told that Our Greek Projects When you are puttingyour project together To wewere ourproject, given alistof start Thomas Haynes an assemblyonfood waste. To make pupilsaware oftheproblem J5did for example saying only2potatoes please. to bemore clearaboutwhat they wouldlike ask for To it. stop thisproblem, pupilsneed put ontheirplates even thoughthey didnot offoodportions ontheplates orfood was food. One complaint wasthat chefsputbig The seniorpupilswere worstat wasting carbohydrates suchasriceandnoodles. wasted more than others.For example wasted ontheplates. to seehowmuchandwhat food wasbeing Forabout it. oneweek,wetook itinturns We know thisbecausetheJ5’sdidasurvey There isalotoffood waste at Rendcomb. Food Waste Assembly Certain typesoffoodCertain were

Imogen Kent ofGHOSTSonthepier.reportings is alsowellknownfor itsVictorian pier, butrecently there have been famous poetintheVictorian timeshadbeenburiedthere. Clevedon went to achurch at thetop ofthehill.There, wewere told that a Walk becausepoetsgottheirinspiration from here. After that we stopped becauseofaplacecalled‘Poets’ Walk’. Itwascalledpoets’ out wasaseadefence. Next wewent upahillandnearthetop we When wegotthere wewent andstood by awall,whichwelater found J5 went onacoastal trip. One oftheplaceswewent wasClevedon. Clevedon Czeska Sztuka for taking usonthetrip . school. Thankyou MrsWatson, MrsHaas,MrWatson andMrsBrealy We saidgoodbye to Weston andbeganthelongjourney backto ice cream shopandallgotanicecream! They were scrumptious! in theendGriffinwon!!!! At theendof the day wewalked over to the Queen’s JubileeortheOlympics. Everyone chosethe Olympics and We gotinto ourhousesandchoseweather wewanted to dothe sandwiches, theteachers hadorganised asanddesigncompetition. the darkclouds)andairsmeltofseaweed.After some‘tasty’ the sparklinggrey sea(a strange day, withsunstreaming through coastline, whichmadeagoodplaceeat lunch.We couldjustsee J5 went to Weston-super-Mare onacoasttrip. Itwasasandy Weston SuperMare

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She is a bookworm a is She Myself Harry Hale where Mr. Wastson bought usallanicecream!! boat. Ilikedbutmy favourite Portishead placewasWeston and doves. There wasamanplaying witharadio controlled pigeons,moorhens,ducks,swans,seagulls and wesawacoot, many typesofbirds. Mrs.Haaspointed outsomeofthem years orsothey hadbeenaddedtoo. 15 years they hadbeenbuildingtheseflats and over thelast2 the Bristol Channel.MrWatson explained that over thelast was lotsofnewflats whichmusthave hadaniceview over pleasure andfishingboats initsurrounding theMarinathere typical seasidetown. We sawamarinawhichhadlotsofsmall fortune outofoil. by sothey candeliver oilto hugecompanieswhichmake their west outto sea.MrWatson told usthat lotsofbigoilshipspass over thewater. We couldn’tseeoutto seavery far asthere wasmisthanging that there wasnobeachbutrocks leadingdowninto thesea. Mare, Clevedon andPortishead. trip for Geography. Theplaceswevisited were Western Super visited thecoastasafield of) Rendcomb year 5(whichIampart Portishead There isabiglake closeto theseashore whichattracts There werebutitisn’ta many smallshopsinPortishead When wearrived at wewere interested Portishead to find We sawabigcargo shippassingby heading 113

Junior School - J5 Junior School - J5 112 J5 Bailey Harris and took ourwelliesoffandwent backto class. miniature water fall andsawitfalling. saw thedroppings. After that,J5went downto a by twoJ5went intheriver withwelliesonand because there wassomeotters’ droppings. Two toldMr Cairns usthat theotters hadcomeback sheep ran away. When wegotdownto theriver River Churn.As wewere walkingdownallofthe Later onthat day, took MrCairns usdownto the old pipes,awellandplacecalledParadise. school, wesawsomeunusualobjectssuchas on thewater walk.Aswewere goinground the offeredMr Cairns to take usround Rendcomb J5 water walk Charlie Wade patients andmedicalstaff from thehospital. been empty. Itwouldhave felt to fitallthe bigger would have looked like becauseitwouldhave war. Itdidn’tlooklike anairraid shelter actually because itwasdecorated withartefacts from the into theairraid shelter to have alookaround home guard. During thesecondhalf, J5Wwent toys. Then,wesawadisplay of weaponsfrom the found inaWW2house,for example food and saw alltheeveryday objectsthat you wouldhave split into twohalves. Iwasinthefirsthalf, J5W. We went to theairraid shelter inCirencester wewere This tripwasahistory tripaboutWW2.When we Air raid shelter inCirencester Feeling tired buthappy, wereturned to school Emily Musgrave high mark. finished itespeciallywhenMrs Watson gave mea could. Ifelt very proud aboutmy project whenIhad coloured folder anddidasmany illustrations asI work inorder usingacontents page.Iusedabright interesting sothat Iputallmy allsectionsstand out. you mustremember to make and itcolourful the internet, books,friends andmy teachers. to illustrate myIresearched project. my topics using terrific leaflets,pictures andpostcards that Iused all aboutAncient Greek Pots; shegave mesome friend whohaswritten many booksandhaslectured dish calledTzatsiki withmy Mum.We have afamily warfare andIeven shopping, madeaGreek sports, chose somesubjectsthat interested us.Ichose the workwehadlearnt thenat homeeachofus we coulddoonourown.At school,wecollated topics somewewouldbedoinginclassand Ancient Greece to behandedinonthelastday. our task inHistory wasto puttogether aproject on At thebeginningofLent Term wewere told that Our Greek Projects When you are puttingyour project together To wewere ourproject, given alistof start Thomas Haynes an assemblyonfood waste. To make pupilsaware oftheproblem J5did for example saying only2potatoes please. to bemore clearaboutwhat they wouldlike ask for To it. stop thisproblem, pupilsneed put ontheirplates even thoughthey didnot offoodportions ontheplates orfood was food. One complaint wasthat chefsputbig The seniorpupilswere worstat wasting carbohydrates suchasriceandnoodles. wasted more than others.For example wasted ontheplates. to seehowmuchandwhat food wasbeing Forabout it. oneweek,wetook itinturns We know thisbecausetheJ5’sdidasurvey There isalotoffood waste at Rendcomb. Food Waste Assembly Certain typesoffoodCertain were

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Junior School - J5 Junior School - J6 114 J6 Max McKeown Seeing astar isthesameat night. Although itdoesn’ttwinkleat night, And Iknowthesunisastar. Now I’meleven Ilookinto heaven And you seethemat canonly night! Stars are far, andbright twinkly And thought: howcould thesunbeastar? When Iwasseven, Ilooked into heaven My Old Thoughts “Thatwasagreat schooltrip!” the way home,saying, a memorable day whichHarvey summedup well on the sinister witch’s cavern. Having saidthat,we had whole ofWarwick heard ourscreams escapefrom all putinthestocks. Ithinkitisfair to say that the andJ6were Nadia wasputontrialinthecourtroom surgery,Hayden hadherheadcutoffinthedoctor’s the deep, darkdepthsofthedungeon where Miss the castleto attack from. We thenventured into aspects, decidingwhichwouldbethebestsideof day, weviewedthecastlefrom many different bridges andinnerouter walls.Throughout the arrow loopsandbattlements over thegatehouses, tower, where wehadagreat look-out through the use, weclimbedthe530steps upto thetop ofthe term. With Rafael eagerto puthismaths skillsto castle at Warwick topic ofourCastle this aspart On Tuesday 19thJune,J6visited thegreat medieval Warwick Castle Madame Barker completely different culture andabeautiful country. outfit! Through theseJ6have gainedanappreciation ofa from afez, oil lamp, tribalaccessoriesandbelly dancing generously lent ussomefascinating artefacts ranging a childgrowing upinamountain village.Mr&MrsEvans alongside Arabic andhave discovered what itislike to be their French lessons.They have seenhow French isspoken In thesummerterm, J6have beenstudyingMorocco in J6 French Mr Arnold current to washthecontents ofthebedinto thenet. and kicked upthe bedinfront ofitallowingthe river adult wadedinto theriver, putanetontheriver bed method wassimple.Two children assisted by an there they conducted aninvertebrate study. The In outdoor week,J6visited theRiver Churn,whilst J6 Invertebrate Study location isawellkept secret! Churn seemsto have avery healthy ecosystem. specimens wefound andisindicative that the River an invertebrate butavertebrate. larvae, dragonfly nymphs, andafishwhichwasnot demoiselle, dragonfly nymphs, caselesscaddisfly mayfly nymphs, beetlelarvae, damselfly nymphs, hoglouse, swimmingmayfly nymphs, burrowing caddis flylarvae, fresh water shrimp, fresh water found were: hairworms,leeches,pond snails,cased trays usingthekeys andmagnifyingglassesprovided. to settle. nets into atray full ofwater andallowedthewater Maria Tatton And nowmy feargone! hasfinally I faced my fear headon And Ifeel muchbolder. Now Iameight years older But itwouldnot stop thetears Icry! I hadacalminglullaby, When Iwastwo, Iwasscaredofthedark. Followed bark itsgrizzly by dogwithathreatening howl. And theneighbour’s Out ofthewindowwasagiant grey owl Bedtime wassomethingthat gave meafright! When itwasdarkandlate at night, My Fear of theDark We may have that even seenatrout jumping, J6 were astounded ofhowmany live order,In noparticular theinvertebrates J6thenattempted to identify what wasintheir On doingthis,thechildren thenemptiedtheir Mr Arnold behaviour that thechildren exhibited throughout. Brealy for helpingmeto runthetripaswell for theenthusiasm andfantastic which willpassinto UrbanMyth over time.Many thanksto MissWann andMrs their mountain bikes. adventures andaccomplishments, even thosewhomanagedto fall offof Quiz. MrsBrealy wontheshootingcompetition. Court the tidiestroom prize, Four aConnect challengeandthenowlegendaryKilve night obligatory night walk.Suitably enthused thechildren alsocompeted for sledging andmountain bikingsessionsaswellabeachwalkandthefirst suffice to say that standards andsafety are high. border. Thisisaresidential centre administered andrunby SomersetLEA; In February, ontheSomerset J6madetheirannualpilgrimageto Kilve Court 2012 Kilve Court This residential tripwasagreat successandmany stories willbetold All ofthechildren were brimmingwithprideandenthusiasm abouttheir archery, inabseiling, grass The children took part highropes, shooting, 115

Junior School - J6 Junior School - J6 114 J6 Max McKeown Seeing astar isthesameat night. Although itdoesn’ttwinkleat night, And Iknowthesunisastar. Now I’meleven Ilookinto heaven And you seethemat canonly night! Stars are far, andbright twinkly And thought: howcould thesunbeastar? When Iwasseven, Ilooked into heaven My Old Thoughts “Thatwasagreat schooltrip!” the way home,saying, a memorable day whichHarvey summedup well on the sinister witch’s cavern. Having saidthat,we had whole ofWarwick heard ourscreams escapefrom all putinthestocks. Ithinkitisfair to say that the andJ6were Nadia wasputontrialinthecourtroom surgery,Hayden hadherheadcutoffinthedoctor’s the deep, darkdepthsofthedungeon where Miss the castleto attack from. We thenventured into aspects, decidingwhichwouldbethebestsideof day, weviewedthecastlefrom many different bridges andinnerouter walls.Throughout the arrow loopsandbattlements over thegatehouses, tower, where wehadagreat look-out through the use, weclimbedthe530steps upto thetop ofthe term. With Rafael eagerto puthismaths skillsto castle at Warwick topic ofourCastle this aspart On Tuesday 19thJune,J6visited thegreat medieval Warwick Castle Madame Barker completely different culture andabeautiful country. outfit! Through theseJ6have gainedanappreciation ofa from afez, oil lamp, tribalaccessoriesandbelly dancing generously lent ussomefascinating artefacts ranging a childgrowing upinamountain village.Mr&MrsEvans alongside Arabic andhave discovered what itislike to be their French lessons.They have seenhow French isspoken In thesummerterm, J6have beenstudyingMorocco in J6 French Mr Arnold location isawellkept secret! Churn seemsto have avery healthy ecosystem. specimens wefound andisindicative that the River an invertebrate butavertebrate. larvae, dragonfly nymphs, andafishwhichwasnot demoiselle, dragonfly nymphs, caselesscaddisfly mayfly nymphs, beetlelarvae, damselfly nymphs, hoglouse, swimmingmayfly nymphs, burrowing caddis flylarvae, fresh water shrimp, fresh water found were: hairworms,leeches,pond snails,cased trays usingthekeys andmagnifyingglassesprovided. to settle. nets into atray full ofwater andallowedthewater current to washthecontents ofthebedinto thenet. and kicked upthe bedinfront ofitallowingthe river adult wadedinto theriver, putanetontheriver bed method wassimple.Two children assisted by an there they conducted aninvertebrate study. The In outdoor week,J6visited theRiver Churn,whilst J6 Invertebrate Study Maria Tatton And nowmy feargone! hasfinally I faced my fear headon And Ifeel muchbolder. Now Iameight years older But itwouldnot stop thetears Icry! I hadacalminglullaby, When Iwastwo, Iwasscaredofthedark. Followed bark itsgrizzly by dogwithathreatening howl. And theneighbour’s Out ofthewindowwasagiant grey owl Bedtime wassomethingthat gave meafright! When itwasdarkandlate at night, My Fear of theDark We may have that even seenatrout jumping, J6 were astounded ofhowmany live order,In noparticular theinvertebrates J6thenattempted to identify what wasintheir On doingthis,thechildren thenemptiedtheir Mr Arnold behaviour that thechildren exhibited throughout. Brealy for helpingmeto runthetripaswell for theenthusiasm andfantastic which willpassinto UrbanMyth over time.Many thanksto MissWann andMrs their mountain bikes. adventures andaccomplishments, even thosewhomanagedto fall offof Quiz. MrsBrealy wontheshootingcompetition. Court the tidiestroom prize, Four aConnect challengeandthenowlegendaryKilve night obligatory night walk.Suitably enthused thechildren alsocompeted for sledging andmountain bikingsessionsaswellabeachwalkandthefirst suffice to say that standards andsafety are high. border. Thisisaresidential centre administered andrunby SomersetLEA; In February, ontheSomerset J6madetheirannualpilgrimageto Kilve Court 2012 Kilve Court This residential tripwasagreat successandmany stories willbetold All ofthechildren were brimmingwithprideandenthusiasm abouttheir archery, inabseiling, grass The children took part highropes, shooting, 115

Junior School - J6 Junior School - J6 116 J6 Germany andto seehowdifferent itisfrom England. this experience andIthinkwouldlike to goto Germany to seewhat peopledoin We were alsogiven packets ofHariboswhichwere delicious!Ireally, really enjoyed oftheexperience waswhenweplayedparts Ente, Ente, Gans,(duck,duck,goose). absolutely amazingat speakingEnglish,Iwasvery surprised!One ofmy favourite They were both15. Imanagedto say my nameandmy ageinGerman.There were out that they were calledVictoria andIcan’tremember theotherone’sname. know howthey spoke andhow muchEnglishthey knew. When Imenthemfound Before Imetmy Germanfriends Ifelt nervous, butvery excited. Ireally wanted to Dienstag den15Mai Max McKeown to dothe exchange. want when Iamoldenoughdefinitely managed to say alot aboutmyself and likereally GermansandGermany. I students butalso excited becauseI before ImettheGerman I wasnervous Harvey Drennen easy! really day speakinginGermanwasactually would say alot andwhenitgot to the butIpractisedwhat I nervous really excitedGerman friend werevery and expectationsMy ofmeetingmy Grace Tushingham Meeting my GermanFriends HARIBO! my sister says it’sgreat. Also, Ilove because Ihave never beenbefore and to stay. Iwouldlove to goto Germany Germanexchange my partner sister’s from Germany andeven morefun having fun thingtoIt wasareally meetpeople Charlie Pugh my vocabulary. would love to go to Germany andexpand will bepassedonto future generations. I brilliant ideaand Ihopethisopportunity I thought thewhole experience wasa Morgan Seatter-Messer

J6 Practise theirGerman Madame Barker different from theonessoldinEngland. Germany for theJ6s–Haribosweets,whichare with alittlepresent brought especiallyfrom who ran like lightning! Theafternoon ended match for thelight footed Ferreira brothers Ente, Gans).TheGermans were quickbutno game Duck, Duck, GooseinGerman(Ente, formed ahugecircle andplayed thepopular and hobbies. themselves andtalk alittle abouttheirfamily amazing English)they allmanagedto introduce were talking to mucholder students (with were very brave anddespite thefact that they pupils splitupinto smallgroups. TheJ6pupils the Germangroup to ourschoolthenallthe a few impromptu words inGerman. politeness andwillingnessoftheirguidesto say and students were very impressed by the some ofJ6. Both theaccompanying teachers treated to guidedtours oftheJuniorSchoolby Earlier intheday thevisitingGermanshadbeen German andfindoutaboutlife inGermany. Juniors afantastic to practise their opportunity Senior Schoolsetupameetingto give the learning GermansinceJanuarytheJunior& intheexchange.taking part AsJ6have been aged 14-15 from BadNeuenahr-Ahrweiler The third form recently hosted 17Germans After the introductions bothgroups In theafternoon, MrWatson welcomed J3L Academic andEffort Prizes Boys’ Cross Country Cup The following prizes were awarded inFinal Assembly:- Prizes J6W J6A J5W J5H J4B J4A J3H Potter Cupfor Overall Contribution The KindnessCup Trim Happy Cup Arkle Cupfor AllRoundImprovement Phelps Effort Cup - Palmer Cupfor Boys’ Sport Osborne Cupfor Girls’Sport Shark Cupfor MostPromising U9Sportsperson Shackel Cupfor Drama Dufosee Cup Art Carden Cupfor Music FamilyRoberts Cup(Otters Effort) Reeves Cupfor Improved Reading The Henniker-Gotley Boys’ Victor Ludorum The Meborn-Hubbard Girls’Victor Ludorum Girls’ Cross Country Cup Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort ------Grace Tushingham Philip HarrisonJosey Emily Sharman Henry Holloway William Nichol Milo Wills Joshua Carr Harvey Cole Freya Angus Lucy Thomas Rebecca Allen LeeCarmen Rosie Parkes John Ascough Soffie Rigby Amina Chambers Grace Tushingham Lauren Booth Daniel McLaughlin Percy Vincent Matthew Ferreira Oliver Jones Emily Sharman Finn Dawson Jude Martin Philip HarrisonJosey andMorgan Seatter- Messer Nadia Williamson andPhilipHarrison Josey Mahony Knight Chloe Freeman Rafael Torregrosa-Jones andMiloWills Emily Musgrave Emily Musgrave Oliver Jones 117

Junior School - Prizes Junior School - J6 116 J6 Germany andto seehowdifferent itisfrom England. this experience andIthinkwouldlike to goto Germany to seewhat peopledoin We were alsogiven packets ofHariboswhichwere delicious!Ireally, really enjoyed oftheexperience waswhenweplayedparts Ente, Ente, Gans,(duck,duck,goose). absolutely amazingat speakingEnglish,Iwasvery surprised!One ofmy favourite They were both15. Imanagedto say my nameandmy ageinGerman.There were out that they were calledVictoria andIcan’tremember theotherone’sname. know howthey spoke andhow muchEnglishthey knew. When Imenthemfound Before Imetmy Germanfriends Ifelt nervous, butvery excited. Ireally wanted to Dienstag den15Mai Max McKeown to dothe exchange. want when Iamoldenoughdefinitely managed to say alot aboutmyself and likereally GermansandGermany. I students butalso excited becauseI before ImettheGerman I wasnervous Harvey Drennen easy! really day speakinginGermanwasactually would say alot andwhenitgot to the butIpractisedwhat I nervous really excitedGerman friend werevery and expectationsMy ofmeetingmy Grace Tushingham Meeting my GermanFriends Morgan Seatter-Messer HARIBO! my sister says it’sgreat. Also, Ilove because Ihave never beenbefore and to stay. Iwouldlove to goto Germany Germanexchange my partner sister’s from Germany andeven morefun having fun thingtoIt wasareally meetpeople Charlie Pugh my vocabulary. would love to go to Germany andexpand will bepassedonto future generations. I brilliant ideaand Ihopethisopportunity I thought thewhole experience wasa

Madame Barker different from theonessoldinEngland. Germany for theJ6s–Haribosweets,whichare with alittlepresent brought especiallyfrom who ran like lightning! Theafternoon ended match for thelight footed Ferreira brothers Ente, Gans).TheGermans were quickbutno game Duck, Duck, GooseinGerman(Ente, formed ahugecircle andplayed thepopular and hobbies. themselves andtalk alittle abouttheirfamily amazing English)they allmanagedto introduce were talking to mucholder students (with were very brave anddespite thefact that they pupils splitupinto smallgroups. TheJ6pupils the Germangroup to ourschoolthenallthe a few impromptu words inGerman. politeness andwillingnessoftheirguidesto say and students were very impressed by the some ofJ6. Both theaccompanying teachers treated to guidedtours oftheJuniorSchoolby Earlier intheday thevisitingGermanshadbeen German andfindoutaboutlife inGermany. Juniors afantastic to practise their opportunity Senior Schoolsetupameetingto give the learning GermansinceJanuarytheJunior& intheexchange.taking part AsJ6have been aged 14-15 from BadNeuenahr-Ahrweiler The third form recently hosted 17Germans J6 Practise theirGerman After the introductions bothgroups In theafternoon, MrWatson welcomed J6W J6A J5W J5H J4B J4A J3H J3L Academic andEffort Prizes Potter Cupfor Overall Contribution The KindnessCup Trim Happy Cup Arkle Cupfor AllRoundImprovement Phelps Effort Cup - Palmer Cupfor Boys’ Sport Osborne Cupfor Girls’Sport Shark Cupfor MostPromising U9Sportsperson Shackel Cupfor Drama Dufosee Cup Art Carden Cupfor Music FamilyRoberts Cup(Otters Effort) Reeves Cupfor Improved Reading The Henniker-Gotley Boys’ Victor Ludorum The Meborn-Hubbard Girls’Victor Ludorum Girls’ Cross Country Cup Boys’ Cross Country Cup The following prizes were awarded inFinal Assembly:- Prizes Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic Effort Academic ------Grace Tushingham Philip HarrisonJosey Emily Sharman Henry Holloway William Nichol Milo Wills Joshua Carr Harvey Cole Freya Angus Lucy Thomas Rebecca Allen LeeCarmen Rosie Parkes John Ascough Soffie Rigby Amina Chambers Grace Tushingham Lauren Booth Daniel McLaughlin Percy Vincent Matthew Ferreira Oliver Jones Emily Sharman Finn Dawson Jude Martin Philip HarrisonJosey andMorgan Seatter- Messer Nadia Williamson andPhilipHarrison Josey Mahony Knight Chloe Freeman Rafael Torregrosa-Jones andMiloWills Emily Musgrave Emily Musgrave OliverOliver Jones Jones 117

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Junior School - Peter Pan Junior School - Drama 120 wrath ofHookasthey were soeasilyconfused. Peter Pan rescues TigerLilyby oftheshow! Iknowwashummingthetuneforrehearse that part days afterwards. taking ‘Pirates sword oftheCaribbean’ fights? Funnily enougheveryone always wanted to didnotdisappoint; whocanforgetscheming CaptainJamesHook(Jude Martin) thebreath- ground. Italsogave theLost Boys aplaceto hidefrom thedespicablepirates. (Rafael Torregrosa-Jones). warpath dancebefore TigerLilywaskidnappedby oneofthepesky pirates, Starkey (Henry Holloway, William Evans, Harvey andtheJ5girls)executed Cole adramatic were written especiallyfor MichaelandMatthew Ferreria! maintaining theirindividual characters. Anyone wouldhave thought that Twin parts Ferreira, CharliePughandHarvey Drennen) AlltheLost Boys enjoyed creating and the Lost PhilipHarrisonJosey, Boys; (CharlieRoberts, MichaelFerreira, Matthew by Andy Webb andWill Owen. white boxes, asmoke machineandafantastic provided, asever soundandlighting, and adelight to watch. Who needsexpensive wires andharnesseswhenyou have; galaxy ofstars to thelushjunglesofNeverland. The‘flyingscene’wastrulymagical some fairy magicto flythrough thewindow, across the London rooftops through a ‘Weapon ofChoice.’Peter Pan thenentices theDarling children, withthehelpof Harrison-Josey) culminating inanentertaining‘shadow dance’to Fat Boy Slim’s Tinkerbell (Nadia Williamson). Peter iseventually reunited withhis shadow(Philip (Morgan Seatter-Messer) fliesinto theirnurserywithhis ever-so glittery, fairy friend, children driftoffto sleep. ‘shadow’ which shecaught adrawer. Liza reads theirbedtimestory andoneby onethe seeing achildrecently ‘jumpout’oftheNurserywindow. Shethenshowsthemthe instructed to read thechildren abedtimestory butissidetracked by thememory of a nightLiza, out. themaid,(Lauren Booth)complete withagreat east-end accent is piano, whilstMrDarlingto (HenryHolloway)gethisbow-tietiedbefore isstruggling Darling (Grace Tushingham). MrsDarling (EmilySharman)iselegantly playing the swashbuckling pirates andgenerally annoying theiroldersister, Wendy Moira Angela McKeown) andMichaelDarling (Ollie Jones)are having apillowfight,pretending to be and solidperformances from allthepupils. fitting end to another amazing year intheJuniorSchoolwith fantastically strong always anenormousteam effort to putonashow of thissize anditwas atruly 1904playbased onSirJM.Barrie’s aboutaboy whorefused to grow up. Itis challenging production was Peter Pan , amusicalplayThis year’s by David Barrett, Peter Pan Drama Hook’s henchmen,Starkey andSmee(Daniel McLaughlin) often faced the The inevitable showdown withalltheblood-thirstypirates ledby masterfully theever- The staging cameinto itsownby cleverly creating 2levels, above andbelow The feisty TigerLily(MariaTutton) andherNative American Piccaninny tribe Wendy andherbrothers joinPeter Pan, Tinkerbell inNeverland andmeet But thechildren becometheheroes ofaneven greater story, whenPeter Pan nursery, intheDarling’s The showstarts inBloomsbury, London. John(Max done itwithoutyou. theshow-Icouldn’thavetime to support sane andto allthestaff whogave oftheir Haas, my Assistant Director, whokept me make my visionareality, to Mrs inparticular again many thanks. mermaids incostumesmadeby MrsSztuka, J5 girlsalsolooked absolutely gorgeous as thankyou somuch!The into worksofart, she canrecycle andtransform costumes her stunningcostumes.Itamazes mehow stage throughout thewholeshow. posse provided somuchenthusiasm on with thespectacular J3andJ4pirate chorus J5 andJ6pupilsmusically, asdidMrColls jobinpreparing the Music didawonderful to life. MissCrisp, theAssistant Director of difference andreally bringsthewholeshow during theperformances. Itmakes sucha bass whoprovided fantastic live music saxophone andHoward Auster ondouble onpercussion,Mr Coldrick MrsAuster on theDirectorMr Colls, ofMusiconkeyboards, performance -what anexperience for him. ofMoonshineonthefirstnight’s the part including Andrew Gallop, whohadto play upon to step up to themarkwhenrequired; throughout thewholeprocess couldberelied and Iamthankful to alltheunderstudieswho mere snackfor theCrocodile. his match withPeter Pan andendedupasa rivals. Unfortunately for Hook,hefinallymet between JudeandMorgan asthetwoarch Peter Pan. There wasalways great chemistry ‘snappy’ dresser) ashewasondefeating crocodile, played by MrWatson, (what a escaping theever-present tick-tocking overboard. Hookwasjustasintent from culminatingcast, inlotsofpirates falling was very exciting,involving thewhole entertainedtheaudiences. certainly of itsown)ad-libbingaway asherowed along, Max inaboat,HMSHook(whichhadmind promptly followed by thehilariousscenewith moment betweenGrace andMorgan, Rockproved to beaveryMarooner’s touching quite liked thimbles/kissesfrom Wendy at voice ofHook. cunningly pretending to bethedisembodied Mrs Amanda Brealy I amindebted to everyone whohelped Mrs Scaseexcelled herselfagainwith I amvery grateful to theamazingband: Every hadaunderstudy speakingpart The sceneonboard theJollyRoger The realisation that Peter Pan actually www.rendcomb.org.uk Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, Mr Layton have beendonewithoutthem. Smith for directing theplay, itsimplycouldn’t for allofhishelpwiththemusic,andto Mrs Otters’ staff are hugelygrateful to Mr Colls star Chocolate maker, The Jemima Martin. but aspecialmention hasto gooutto the children contributed fantastic performances, Allofthe timeproducing it. had awonderful performance wasagreat successandweall the endofLent term. Thewhole play -TheChocolateconcert Shopat The Otters performed theirspringtime The Chocolate Shop The Otters’ Easter Show: Mr Layton Edward Nichol,TheBossyKing! fantastic Nativity, andaspecialwelldoneto the parents! Everyone hadagreat timeperforming itto narrators told thestory very clearly. They allsangreally beautifully andthe fantastic intheirmake-up andcostumes. king. most important and realised that thetiny baby wasthe king intheland,until hesawbaby Jesus king wholoved telling everyone what to do. King! behaviour for theirNativity, TheBossy The Otters hadto beontheirbest King2011 The Bossy He belie

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Junior School - Otters’ Production Junior School - Drama 120 wrath ofHookasthey were soeasilyconfused. Peter Pan rescues TigerLilyby oftheshow! Iknowwashummingthetuneforrehearse that part days afterwards. taking ‘Pirates sword oftheCaribbean’ fights? Funnily enougheveryone always wanted to didnotdisappoint; whocanforgetscheming CaptainJamesHook(Jude Martin) thebreath- ground. Italsogave theLost Boys aplaceto hidefrom thedespicablepirates. (Rafael Torregrosa-Jones). warpath dancebefore TigerLilywaskidnappedby oneofthepesky pirates, Starkey (Henry Holloway, William Evans, Harvey andtheJ5girls)executed Cole adramatic were written especiallyfor MichaelandMatthew Ferreria! maintaining theirindividual characters. Anyone wouldhave thought that Twin parts Ferreira, CharliePughandHarvey Drennen) AlltheLost Boys enjoyed creating and the Lost PhilipHarrisonJosey, Boys; (CharlieRoberts, MichaelFerreira, Matthew by Andy Webb andWill Owen. white boxes, asmoke machineandafantastic provided, asever soundandlighting, and adelight to watch. Who needsexpensive wires andharnesseswhenyou have; galaxy ofstars to thelushjunglesofNeverland. The‘flyingscene’wastrulymagical some fairy magicto flythrough thewindow, across the London rooftops through a ‘Weapon ofChoice.’Peter Pan thenentices theDarling children, withthehelpof Harrison-Josey) culminating inanentertaining‘shadow dance’to Fat Boy Slim’s Tinkerbell (Nadia Williamson). Peter iseventually reunited withhis shadow(Philip (Morgan Seatter-Messer) fliesinto theirnurserywithhis ever-so glittery, fairy friend, children driftoffto sleep. ‘shadow’ which shecaught adrawer. Liza reads theirbedtimestory andoneby onethe seeing achildrecently ‘jumpout’oftheNurserywindow. Shethenshowsthemthe instructed to read thechildren abedtimestory butissidetracked by thememory of a nightLiza, out. themaid,(Lauren Booth)complete withagreat east-end accent is piano, whilstMrDarlingto (HenryHolloway)gethisbow-tietiedbefore isstruggling Darling (Grace Tushingham). MrsDarling (EmilySharman)iselegantly playing the swashbuckling pirates andgenerally annoying theiroldersister, Wendy Moira Angela McKeown) andMichaelDarling (Ollie Jones)are having apillowfight,pretending to be and solidperformances from allthepupils. fitting end to another amazing year intheJuniorSchoolwith fantastically strong always anenormousteam effort to putonashow of thissize anditwas atruly 1904playbased onSirJM.Barrie’s aboutaboy whorefused to grow up. Itis challenging production was Peter Pan , amusicalplayThis year’s by David Barrett, Peter Pan Drama Hook’s henchmen,Starkey andSmee(Daniel McLaughlin) often faced the The inevitable showdown withalltheblood-thirstypirates ledby masterfully theever- The staging cameinto itsownby cleverly creating 2levels, above andbelow The feisty TigerLily(MariaTutton) andherNative American Piccaninny tribe Wendy andherbrothers joinPeter Pan, Tinkerbell inNeverland andmeet But thechildren becometheheroes ofaneven greater story, whenPeter Pan nursery, intheDarling’s The showstarts inBloomsbury, London. John(Max done itwithoutyou. theshow-Icouldn’thavetime to support sane andto allthestaff whogave oftheir Haas, my Assistant Director, whokept me make my visionareality, to Mrs inparticular again many thanks. mermaids incostumesmadeby MrsSztuka, J5 girlsalsolooked absolutely gorgeous as thankyou somuch!The into worksofart, she canrecycle andtransform costumes her stunningcostumes.Itamazes mehow stage throughout thewholeshow. posse provided somuchenthusiasm on with thespectacular J3andJ4pirate chorus J5 andJ6pupilsmusically, asdidMrColls jobinpreparing the Music didawonderful to life. MissCrisp, theAssistant Director of difference andreally bringsthewholeshow during theperformances. Itmakes sucha bass whoprovided fantastic live music saxophone andHoward Auster ondouble onpercussion,Mr Coldrick MrsAuster on theDirectorMr Colls, ofMusiconkeyboards, performance -what anexperience for him. ofMoonshineonthefirstnight’s the part including Andrew Gallop, whohadto play upon to step up to themarkwhenrequired; throughout thewholeprocess couldberelied and Iamthankful to alltheunderstudieswho mere snackfor theCrocodile. his match withPeter Pan andendedupasa rivals. Unfortunately for Hook,hefinallymet between JudeandMorgan asthetwoarch Peter Pan. There wasalways great chemistry ‘snappy’ dresser) ashewasondefeating crocodile, played by MrWatson, (what a escaping theever-present tick-tocking overboard. Hookwasjustasintent from culminatingcast, inlotsofpirates falling was very exciting,involving thewhole entertainedtheaudiences. certainly of itsown)ad-libbingaway asherowed along, Max inaboat,HMSHook(whichhadmind promptly followed by thehilariousscenewith moment betweenGrace andMorgan, Rockproved to beaveryMarooner’s touching quite liked thimbles/kissesfrom Wendy at voice ofHook. cunningly pretending to bethedisembodied Mrs Amanda Brealy I amindebted to everyone whohelped Mrs Scaseexcelled herselfagainwith I amvery grateful to theamazingband: Every hadaunderstudy speakingpart The sceneonboard theJollyRoger The realisation that Peter Pan actually Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk Mr Layton have beendonewithoutthem. Smith for directing theplay, itsimplycouldn’t for allofhishelpwiththemusic,andto Mrs Otters’ staff are hugelygrateful to Mr Colls star Chocolate maker, The Jemima Martin. but aspecialmention hasto gooutto the children contributed fantastic performances, Allofthe timeproducing it. had awonderful performance wasagreat successandweall the endofLent term. Thewhole play -TheChocolateconcert Shopat The Otters performed theirspringtime The Chocolate Shop The Otters’ Easter Show: Mr Layton Edward Nichol,TheBossyKing! fantastic Nativity, andaspecialwelldoneto the parents! Everyone hadagreat timeperforming itto narrators told thestory very clearly. They allsangreally beautifully andthe fantastic intheirmake-up andcostumes. king. most important and realised that thetiny baby wasthe king intheland,until hesawbaby Jesus king wholoved telling everyone what to do. King! behaviour for theirNativity, TheBossy The Otters hadto beontheirbest King2011 The Bossy He belie

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Junior School - Otters’ Production Junior School - Dance 122 Mrs Liebenberg characterincluded ballet, andmoderndance. at Assembliesindifferent danceforms which to perform group dancepieces the opportunity examinations andfestivals somechildren had of Performingdidvery well.Otherthat Arts intheCheltenhamthat Festival took part and a100%passrate wasachieved. Allchildren Academy ofDancing graded ballet examinations intheirRoyalSchool. Children took part Dance isoffered allthroughout theJunior Dance 2012 (26th) inatimeof 10:48:86. inatimeof 9:27:39,(7th) andfirstU9girl was Isabel Wateridge in atimeof 8:57:00, (5th);thefirstU9boy was Edwin Ward new courserecord. ThefirstU11girlin was Emily Musgrave, race was Oliveryear’s Jonesinatimeof 8:35:14 whichwas a of ourcross-country tournament course.Thewinnerof this take easyandmakes upmost thecorners.Itisnot particularly course isaboutamile,dependent onhow closetherunners a record number of fifty-four children signedup The for it. year that thisrace hasbeenrun.Itispurely voluntary and The seasonbeganwiththeWinter Warmer; thisistheninth Cross Country Rendcomb U11scamein3rd place. Jones intheU11boys’ race, whofinishedinplace.Overall, fourth she stillraced well.Othernotable performances were Oliver last moment.Althoughshewasracing asanU9inU11field but IsabelWateridge from Year Four stepped into race at the had goodresults. Thegirlsraced missingoneteam member, Sharman camefirstandsecond respectively. TheU11’salso tournament. From theSeniors,Grace KnappandRobert cross-country team travelled to StFrancis toina take part Junior Sport In January, acombinedJuniorandSeniorSchool Mr JArnold 1st for thegirls. deserved their final placesinthecompetition:2nd for boys and Musgrave) hadstorming races. Allworked exceptionally hard and Tom Breare, MiloWills, Oliver Jones;Girls:MollieTice;Emily a year younger thantheotherteams. ThetwoU11teams (Boys: raced wellintheirrace andfinishedinacredible 5thplace.All ran relays. TheU9 boys (Raife Hackett,NickyMusgrave, JossBreare) 2nd overall. placings counted towards theteam event andRendcombAwas girls’ race andOliver Joneswhowas4thintheU11race. Combined afternoon wasachieved by EmilyMusgrave whowassecondinthe out to watch Themostnotable performance andhelpout. ofthe afternoon’s racing. Theweather waskindandmany parents turned Rendcomb. Agoodturnoutof schoolsensured avery competitive Colours wereColours awarded to EmilySharman. shame therain prevented usfrom playing more matches! to allwhohelpedmake thissuchasuccessful season,itisjust a team inkey positionsandcanonlybodewellfor next year. Well done contributions from astringofYear 5girlsalsocomplimented the and Grace Tushingham captained thesidefrom 4thBase.Excellent Westonbirt (13-6)andlastlyPinewood(13-7). Convincingflawless season.winsthen followed over Rosehill Gloucester ensuedbutproved to betheonlyglitch inanotherwise nail biting(5-5)draw withBerkhampstead. Anarrow defeat to King’s tactical superiorityimpressed. Theseasongotoffto abangwith as theseasonprogressed, sotheirmomentum increased andtheir forsport theU11girls.Spiritanddetermination shonethrough and worked hard. Thefinalscore was 8-8 to Hatherop. Lucy Thomas.Itwas anextremely closegameandallthegirls stayed focused, fielding well and were captained confidently by other on.At theendof thefirsthalf, Rendcombled4-3. Thegirls The girlsgelledwell asateam, encouraging andcheeringeach Rounders

In March, wecompeted at the Hatherop cross-country Later inLent, wehosted across-country tournament at Emily Sharmanbowledthroughout withpoiseandaccuracy Of thethree majorgames,thiswasdefinitely the favoured 123

Junior School - Sport Junior School - Dance 122 Mrs Liebenberg characterincluded ballet, andmoderndance. at Assembliesindifferent danceforms which to perform group dancepieces the opportunity examinations andfestivals somechildren had of Performingdidvery well.Otherthat Arts intheCheltenhamthat Festival took part and a100%passrate wasachieved. Allchildren Academy ofDancing graded ballet examinations intheirRoyalSchool. Children took part Dance isoffered allthroughout theJunior Dance 2012 Rendcomb U11scamein3rd place. Jones intheU11boys’ race, whofinishedinplace.Overall, fourth she stillraced well.Othernotable performances were Oliver last moment.Althoughshewasracing asanU9inU11field but IsabelWateridge from Year Four stepped into race at the had goodresults. Thegirlsraced missingoneteam member, Sharman camefirstandsecond respectively. TheU11’salso tournament. From theSeniors,Grace KnappandRobert cross-country team travelled to StFrancis toina take part (26th) inatimeof 10:48:86. inatimeof 9:27:39,(7th) andfirstU9girl was Isabel Wateridge in atimeof 8:57:00, (5th);thefirstU9boy was Edwin Ward new courserecord. ThefirstU11girlin was Emily Musgrave, race was Oliveryear’s Jonesinatimeof 8:35:14 whichwas a of ourcross-country tournament course.Thewinnerof this take easyandmakes upmost thecorners.Itisnot particularly course isaboutamile,dependent onhow closetherunners a record number of fifty-four children signedup The for it. year that thisrace hasbeenrun.Itispurely voluntary and The seasonbeganwiththeWinter Warmer; thisistheninth Cross Country Junior Sport In January, acombinedJuniorandSeniorSchool Mr JArnold 1st for thegirls. deserved their final placesinthecompetition:2nd for boys and Musgrave) hadstorming races. Allworked exceptionally hard and Tom Breare, MiloWills, Oliver Jones;Girls:MollieTice;Emily a year younger thantheotherteams. ThetwoU11teams (Boys: raced wellintheirrace andfinishedinacredible 5thplace.All ran relays. TheU9 boys (Raife Hackett,NickyMusgrave, JossBreare) 2nd overall. placings counted towards theteam event andRendcombAwas girls’ race andOliver Joneswhowas4thintheU11race. Combined afternoon wasachieved by EmilyMusgrave whowassecondinthe out to watch Themostnotable performance andhelpout. ofthe afternoon’s racing. Theweather waskindandmany parents turned Rendcomb. Agoodturnoutof schoolsensured avery competitive Colours wereColours awarded to EmilySharman. shame therain prevented usfrom playing more matches! to allwhohelpedmake thissuchasuccessful season,itisjust a team inkey positionsandcanonlybodewellfor next year. Well done contributions from astringofYear 5girlsalsocomplimented the and Grace Tushingham captained thesidefrom 4thBase.Excellent Westonbirt (13-6)andlastlyPinewood(13-7). Convincingflawless season.winsthen followed over Rosehill Gloucester ensuedbutproved to betheonlyglitch inanotherwise nail biting(5-5)draw withBerkhampstead. Anarrow defeat to King’s tactical superiorityimpressed. Theseasongotoffto abangwith as theseasonprogressed, sotheirmomentum increased andtheir forsport theU11girls.Spiritanddetermination shonethrough and worked hard. Thefinalscore was 8-8 to Hatherop. Lucy Thomas.Itwas anextremely closegameandallthegirls stayed focused, fielding well and were captained confidently by other on.At theendof thefirsthalf, Rendcombled4-3. Thegirls The girlsgelledwell asateam, encouraging andcheeringeach Rounders

Junior School - Sport Junior School - Sport visibly increased. It was particularly goodto visibly increased. Itwasparticularly to gel andourconfidence was really starting resulted. Bytheendofseason,team continued to workhard andgoodprogress girls maintained theirpositive approach, Clubs. Despite suffering heavy defeats, the opposition girlswere linked to localHockey were far more experienced; mostofthe saw uspitched againstteams which play neededto play ateam sport. terms with thegeneral tactics andmatch- learning theskillsandgradually cameto Inpractice, they workedsport. hard at participate inwhat for many was anew tremendous enthusiasm to learnand From theU9girlsdemonstrated theoutset, Girls’ Hockey 124 Unfortunately, thefirsttwomatches Everyone gave butspecialmention valuablegoesto support creativeCarr wasclinicalupfront. inmidfield,whileJoshua Haynes andThomasBreare were strong defensively, MiloWills spine to theside.IngoalWilliam Nicholwasreliable, Thomas enthusiasm augurs wellfor next year. Crucially, there isagood developed into afinesquadandthedepthof talent and U11A andU10A&Bteams remaining unbeaten. TheU10s played thegameagainststrong opposition. though theboys shouldbeproud ofthepositive way that they Sound familiar?Another defeat at Hatherop endedtheseason out adraw, althoughthey didhitthepostwhentaking apenalty! strong despite RoryHughes’finesaves. TheB team grounded pulled oneback.Unfortunately, Berkhampstead were too of 8sand9s.TheAsconcededsomeearlygoalsbutEdwin Berkhampstead, bothAandBteams were fieldingamixture the team, theboys received atough footballing lesson.Against Edward’s wasfar too strong andinspite ofvaliant effortsfrom Edward’s, captained by Finn Dawson. Unfortunately, St played withprideandpassion. Allof theboystheir best. worked hard for eachother and side, inourmatch againstStEdwards, buttheboys tried five minutes of thegame. We cameupagainstastrong scoring ahat-trick againstBerkhampstead withinthefirst The highlight of the U8seasonwas Raife (ourCaptain) Football 2012 proved to beourbestever seasonwiththe The U9team played theirfirst match away at St over Richard Pates (2-0) andSilverhill (1-0) were dulyrewarded withtwoexcellent wins fighting theircornerwellandefforts the secondhalfofterm, Rendcombwere making theirpresence knownat U11level. By Emily Musgrave andMollieTice,were soon along theway. Emerging talents inYear five, matches butsignificant progress wasmade Lessons were learnt insometough early last year to leadby example onthefield. role and usedallherexperience from team. Emily Sharmantook onthecaptaincy a year offuture team buildingfor theU11 five girls,thiswasinevitably going to be after schoolclubandeven joinlocalclubs. see more ofthegirlsmotivated to joinour With aYear Sixgroup containing just Torregrosa-Jones. Daniel McLaughlin, CharliePugh,Morgan Seatter-Messer, Rafael Matthew Ferreira, HenryHolloway, Oliver Jones(Captain), against avery useful Hatherop side! Pinewood 6-0(A’s) and4-0(B’s)the7-2 victory by theU11A’s most notably thedominant performance oftheU10’sindefeating totally reliable andstrong. Henry Holloway, CharliePughandHarvey Drennen ingoalwere were undersiege!Any team isonlyasgooditsdefence andhere amazing goalswere scored andfrequently opposition defences finishing prowess ofMorgan, Daniel andRafael to flourish.Some by theFerreirasupported twinsandthey allowedthepaceand sublime. Oliver Jones,Captain, controlled themidfield,ably a formidable team. At times,ourplay wassuperbandourpassing significantly throughout theseason. Michael Crofts whowastheU10player oftheyear for heimproved Colours wereColours awarded to Harvey Drennen, MichaelFerreira, There were many highlights seasonbut to thiswonderful The U11swere anexperienced sideandthey gelledto make England Champions! eight counties andwere crowned West of Cirencester wonthetournament, beating Regional Championshipsat MillfieldSchool. Gloucestershire intheWest ofEngland County Cup before moving onto represent Hockey Club. HerU10team wonthe Musgrave whoplays for Cirencester back onthehockey field! 5 girlswhoare champingat thebitto get experienced andenthusiastic group ofYear only lookforward inanticipation, to amore Rosehill Westonbirt (1-1). and adraw againstastrong team from Colours wereColours awarded to EmilySharman. Many congratulations to Emily Looking aheadto next year, onecan wonderful rugby.wonderful the finalstage. Alltheboys played very well andplayed some suffered onedefeat, sadlynot goodenoughto gothrough to afternoon, Rendcombgainedtwo wins,three draws andonly notably: Raife, Nicky, Mitchell, Throughout JohnandJoss. the with many excellent triesbeingscored amongstthesquad were drawn inatough group. Rendcombplayed sixmatches Rendcomb intheirannualtag tournament. Rendcomb The J3boys travelled to Hatherop to Castle represent Rugby U11 Rendcombperformance ever! Having emerged “Invicta” and thelevelwasajoy to watch. ofsupport Arguably thefinest St Edward’s! At times, thestandard of ourplay wasoutstanding amongst othersbutthehighlight wasthe33-0 victory against Berkhampstead, Gloucester Hatherop, PinewoodandKing’s secured us7points. season. Thereliable bootofOliver Jones meant that mosttries made significant contributions andprogressed throughout the Jones that undideven thesternest defence butalltheboys Frequently, itwastheawesome pace ofRafael Torregrosa- everyone runningwithfreedom, enjoyment andcommitment. all posedthreats to theoppositionanditwaslovely to see and provided agoodplatform from whichto attack. Thebacks ofPercythe strength Vincent,weoften dominated possession provided himwiththeperfectof JudeMartin foil. with Coupled brave hewasinstrumental inoursuccessandtherecruitment back divisionto theengineroom wascrucial.Fast, intelligent and generally weexcelled move here.from HenryHolloway’s the Seatter-Messer. group oftalent from ledablyby whichto select, ourCaptain,Morgan to Rendcomb. moved theballoutwideto goodeffect. Thefinalscore was 7-4 what wewere really capableof: welland wepassedand tagged We continued to play wellandinthe secondhalfweshowed dominated for thefirsthalfandwere in front 4-2 by halftime. Rendcomb wastoo strong andwonthematch 4-3. both teams displayed somefantastic runningrugby. However, end ofthefirsthalf. Thesecondhalfwashard fought and boys played incredibly wellandthescores were even at the score of7-4 to Rendcomb. out-played theoppositionandwoncomfortably withaneventual from theoffandby halftimewere 4-2up. Inthesecondhalf, we away at Rosehill,Westonbirt. Theboys dominated thegame It wasgoodto record strong victories against Games are wonandlostintheforward battle and This season,theU11swere very fortunate to have alarge Our lastgamewasagainstStEdward’s. Rendcomb Rendcomb hosted itsfirstU9match thisseason.The Later intheseason,Rendcomb’sU9rugby team played Mr Lawrence andMrWatson Morgan Seatter-Messer (Captain) Berkhampstead inOctober to bringtheseasonto arousing finale. This wasfollowed upby acomprehensive 31-14 victory over points that they scored. Thefinalscore was19-15 to Rendcomb. It wasahard fought match andtheboys hadto fight for allthe Rendcomb. RendcombU11Bsalsoplayed StEdward’s at home. conversion wassuccessfully kicked. Thefinalscore was 17-10 to half butRendcombbattled backandscored twotriesandone score was 5-5. Pinewood scored theopeningtryofsecond oftheseason.Allteam played start wellandby halftimethe achieved. Itwasgreat fun! rugby. Well doneboys you shouldbevery proud ofallyou finish withadefeat, itdidn’tdiminish from an excellent season’s we were notasclinicalusualandwelost14-21.Thoughsadto which afforded to win.Unfortunately, usmany opportunities Cathedral School. Itproved to beasuper, endto endmatch close ourcampaignagainstatouring team from Hereford weacceptedduring thenormalfixtureinvitation list, to Colours wereColours awarded to HenryHolloway, JudeMartin, The U11Bplayed rugby againstPinewood at homeat the coached usvery well! for coachingusandfor refereeing thematch? He team, may Isay abigthankyou to MrLawrence become afirstclassrugby team. On behalfofthe played sowellandifwekeep thisupweshould score was10-9to Rendcomb. try towards the endofthesecondhalf. Thefinal However, victory wasoursasJossscored our10th There wassomeexcellent by tagging allplayers. teams played very wellandwere equallymatched. towards theend ofthematch. To befair, both were very closeandbothsideswere level at 9-9 score was6-6at onestage. Berkhampstead caught upwiththetriesand talk at halftime,weimproved ourplaying but the endoffirsthalfwas5-4 to Rendcomb. tries by many membersoftheteam. Thescore at another school. Under 8sfirstbigrugby match at homeagainst school Under8sinNovember. Thiswas the Rugby team played againstBerkhampstead JuniorSchoolUnder8s Rendcomb College U8 Rugby I wasvery proud ofourteam –they all During afast moving secondhalf, thescores After somejuicyoranges andabigteam We offwellwithsomeoutstanding started 125

Junior School - Sport Junior School - Sport visibly increased. It was particularly goodto visibly increased. Itwasparticularly to gel andourconfidence was really starting resulted. Bytheendofseason,team continued to workhard andgoodprogress girls maintained theirpositive approach, Clubs. Despite suffering heavy defeats, the opposition girlswere linked to localHockey were far more experienced; mostofthe saw uspitched againstteams which play neededto play ateam sport. terms with thegeneral tactics andmatch- learning theskillsandgradually cameto Inpractice, they workedsport. hard at participate inwhat for many was anew tremendous enthusiasm to learnand From theU9girlsdemonstrated theoutset, Girls’ Hockey 124 Unfortunately, thefirsttwomatches Everyone gave butspecialmention valuablegoesto support creativeCarr wasclinicalupfront. inmidfield,whileJoshua Haynes andThomasBreare were strong defensively, MiloWills spine to theside.IngoalWilliam Nicholwasreliable, Thomas enthusiasm augurs wellfor next year. Crucially, there isagood developed into afinesquadandthedepthof talent and U11A andU10A&Bteams remaining unbeaten. TheU10s played thegameagainststrong opposition. though theboys shouldbeproud ofthepositive way that they Sound familiar?Another defeat at Hatherop endedtheseason out adraw, althoughthey didhitthepostwhentaking apenalty! strong despite RoryHughes’finesaves. TheB team grounded pulled oneback.Unfortunately, Berkhampstead were too of 8sand9s.TheAsconcededsomeearlygoalsbutEdwin Berkhampstead, bothAandBteams were fieldingamixture the team, theboys received atough footballing lesson.Against Edward’s wasfar too strong andinspite ofvaliant effortsfrom Edward’s, captained by Finn Dawson. Unfortunately, St played withprideandpassion. Allof theboystheir best. worked hard for eachother and side, inourmatch againstStEdwards, buttheboys tried five minutes of thegame. We cameupagainstastrong scoring ahat-trick againstBerkhampstead withinthefirst The highlight of the U8seasonwas Raife (ourCaptain) Football 2012 proved to beourbestever seasonwiththe The U9team played theirfirst match away at St over Richard Pates (2-0) andSilverhill (1-0) were dulyrewarded withtwoexcellent wins fighting theircornerwellandefforts the secondhalfofterm, Rendcombwere making theirpresence knownat U11level. By Emily Musgrave andMollieTice,were soon along theway. Emerging talents inYear five, matches butsignificant progress wasmade Lessons were learnt insometough early last year to leadby example onthefield. role and usedallherexperience from team. Emily Sharmantook onthecaptaincy a year offuture team buildingfor theU11 five girls,thiswasinevitably going to be after schoolclubandeven joinlocalclubs. see more ofthegirlsmotivated to joinour With aYear Sixgroup containing just Torregrosa-Jones. Daniel McLaughlin, CharliePugh,Morgan Seatter-Messer, Rafael Matthew Ferreira, HenryHolloway, Oliver Jones(Captain), against avery useful Hatherop side! Pinewood 6-0(A’s) and4-0(B’s)the7-2 victory by theU11A’s most notably thedominant performance oftheU10’sindefeating totally reliable andstrong. Henry Holloway, CharliePughandHarvey Drennen ingoalwere were undersiege!Any team isonlyasgooditsdefence andhere amazing goalswere scored andfrequently opposition defences finishing prowess ofMorgan, Daniel andRafael to flourish.Some by theFerreirasupported twinsandthey allowedthepaceand sublime. Oliver Jones,Captain, controlled themidfield,ably a formidable team. At times,ourplay wassuperbandourpassing significantly throughout theseason. Michael Crofts whowastheU10player oftheyear for heimproved Colours wereColours awarded to Harvey Drennen, MichaelFerreira, There were many highlights seasonbut to thiswonderful The U11swere anexperienced sideandthey gelledto make England Champions! eight counties andwere crowned West of Cirencester wonthetournament, beating Regional Championshipsat MillfieldSchool. Gloucestershire intheWest ofEngland County Cup before moving onto represent Hockey Club. HerU10team wonthe Musgrave whoplays for Cirencester back onthehockey field! 5 girlswhoare champingat thebitto get experienced andenthusiastic group ofYear only lookforward inanticipation, to amore Rosehill Westonbirt (1-1). and adraw againstastrong team from Colours wereColours awarded to EmilySharman. Many congratulations to Emily Looking aheadto next year, onecan U11 Rendcombperformance ever! Having emerged “Invicta” and thelevelwasajoy to watch. ofsupport Arguably thefinest St Edward’s! At times, thestandard of ourplay wasoutstanding amongst othersbutthehighlight wasthe33-0 victory against Berkhampstead, Gloucester Hatherop, PinewoodandKing’s secured us7points. season. Thereliable bootofOliver Jones meant that mosttries made significant contributions andprogressed throughout the Jones that undideven thesternest defence butalltheboys Frequently, itwastheawesome pace ofRafael Torregrosa- everyone runningwithfreedom, enjoyment andcommitment. all posedthreats to theoppositionanditwaslovely to see and provided agoodplatform from whichto attack. Thebacks ofPercythe strength Vincent,weoften dominated possession provided himwiththeperfectof JudeMartin foil. with Coupled brave hewasinstrumental inoursuccessandtherecruitment back divisionto theengineroom wascrucial.Fast, intelligent and generally weexcelled move here.from HenryHolloway’s the Seatter-Messer. group oftalent from ledablyby whichto select, ourCaptain,Morgan to Rendcomb. moved theballoutwideto goodeffect. Thefinalscore was 7-4 what wewere really capableof: welland wepassedand tagged We continued to play wellandinthe secondhalfweshowed dominated for thefirsthalfandwere in front 4-2 by halftime. Rendcomb wastoo strong andwonthematch 4-3. both teams displayed somefantastic runningrugby. However, end ofthefirsthalf. Thesecondhalfwashard fought and boys played incredibly wellandthescores were even at the score of7-4 to Rendcomb. out-played theoppositionandwoncomfortably withaneventual from theoffandby halftimewere 4-2up. Inthesecondhalf, we away at Rosehill,Westonbirt. Theboys dominated thegame rugby.wonderful the finalstage. Alltheboys played very well andplayed some suffered onedefeat, sadlynot goodenoughto gothrough to afternoon, Rendcombgainedtwo wins,three draws andonly notably: Raife, Nicky, Mitchell, Throughout JohnandJoss. the with many excellent triesbeingscored amongstthesquad were drawn inatough group. Rendcombplayed sixmatches Rendcomb intheirannualtag tournament. Rendcomb The J3boys travelled to Hatherop to Castle represent Rugby It wasgoodto record strong victories against Games are wonandlostintheforward battle and This season,theU11swere very fortunate to have alarge Our lastgamewasagainstStEdward’s. Rendcomb Rendcomb hosted itsfirstU9match thisseason.The Later intheseason,Rendcomb’sU9rugby team played Mr Lawrence andMrWatson Morgan Seatter-Messer (Captain) Berkhampstead inOctober to bringtheseasonto arousing finale. This wasfollowed upby acomprehensive 31-14 victory over points that they scored. Thefinalscore was19-15 to Rendcomb. It wasahard fought match andtheboys hadto fight for allthe Rendcomb. RendcombU11Bsalsoplayed StEdward’s at home. conversion wassuccessfully kicked. Thefinalscore was 17-10 to half butRendcombbattled backandscored twotriesandone score was 5-5. Pinewood scored theopeningtryofsecond oftheseason.Allteam played start wellandby halftimethe achieved. Itwasgreat fun! rugby. Well doneboys you shouldbevery proud ofallyou finish withadefeat, itdidn’tdiminish from an excellent season’s we were notasclinicalusualandwelost14-21.Thoughsadto which afforded to win.Unfortunately, usmany opportunities Cathedral School. Itproved to beasuper, endto endmatch close ourcampaignagainstatouring team from Hereford weacceptedduring thenormalfixtureinvitation list, to Colours wereColours awarded to HenryHolloway, JudeMartin, The U11Bplayed rugby againstPinewood at homeat the coached usvery well! for coachingusandfor refereeing thematch? He team, may Isay abigthankyou to MrLawrence become afirstclassrugby team. On behalfofthe played sowellandifwekeep thisupweshould score was10-9to Rendcomb. try towards the endofthesecondhalf. Thefinal However, victory wasoursasJossscored our10th There wassomeexcellent by tagging allplayers. teams played very wellandwere equallymatched. towards theend ofthematch. To befair, both were very closeandbothsideswere level at 9-9 score was6-6at onestage. Berkhampstead caught upwiththetriesand talk at halftime,weimproved ourplaying but the endoffirsthalfwas5-4 to Rendcomb. tries by many membersoftheteam. Thescore at another school. Under 8sfirstbigrugby match at homeagainst school Under8sinNovember. Thiswas the Rugby team played againstBerkhampstead JuniorSchoolUnder8s Rendcomb College U8 Rugby I wasvery proud ofourteam –they all During afast moving secondhalf, thescores After somejuicyoranges andabigteam We offwellwithsomeoutstanding started 125

Junior School - Sport Junior School - Sport Colours wereColours awarded to: Matthew Ferreira (Captain),MichaelFerreira, Oliver Jones. Victories over: Hatherop PriorPark Castle, andKingsGlos. weather, itwouldhave beenthebestever sincethe JuniorSchoolopeneditsdoors. formidable An excellent unit. Ifithadnotbeenfor seasonbutfar thepoor too short. enthusiasm, skillandgoodunderstanding ofthegame andthey proved to bea William NicholandThomasBreare. Theseboys trained andplayed withgreat catches andstumpingstoo. wicket-keepingSeatter–Messer’s shouldnot beforgotten, taking somesharp of ahighstandard with HenryHolloway taking thecatch of theseason.Morgan not to take ahat trickinconsecutive games.Thefieldinginall of thematches was score of 41 not outandby somefinebowling by Oliver Joneswho was unlucky bysupported hisbrother Michaelwhoscored somesuperrunswithhishighest taking somecrucialwickets.with hisbatting Hewas well and hisspinbowling, took hisresponsibilities onandoffthefield very seriously. Heled by example matches surviving.Rendcombthisyear was captained by Matthew Ferreria who The U11seasonwas badlydisrupted by withonlythree ‘thegreat Britishweather’ Cricket 126 The J5swhoplayed showed considerable promise for next season,notably, fantastic shotsby Czeska Sztuka thefinalscore was4-3 to Rendcomb. our confidencegrew wewere able to maintain possessionandwithsome with thewholeteam workingreally hard. Bothteams battled hard butas convincing 9–5winover Silverhill intheirfinalmatch oftheseason. and kept theirheads heldhigh.Finally, theireffortswere rewarded witha against Richard Pates andRosehill,Westonbirt thegirlsbuiltontheirskills margins narrowed andprogress wasmade.Withclosematches particularly Grace Tushingham shared theshootinghonours.Asseasonprogressed, Of ourYear 6girls,Lauren Boothcaptained thesideandEmilySharman and lacked experience butalsophysical presence againstsometall opponents. strong sides.With many Year 5girlsmakinguptheteam, Rendcombnotonly Glos. Isabel Wateridge. At theendofmatch, thefinalscore was 7-5 to King’s Both teams battled very hard anditwasavery closegame,captained wellby about markingtheirplayers andtaking theirtimebefore passingtheball. Glos. Thegirlsreally stepped uptheirgame,gellingasateam, thinkingmore Richard Pates. Freya Angus shot accurately andscored 2goalswiththefinalscore 8-2 to The finalscore for theA Team was 8-0 to Richard Pates. For the B team, B team was captained by Delilah Vincent,wholedtheirteams confidently. against Richard Pates. TheAteam was captained by Lee Carmen andthe The U9AandU9BNetball teams played theirfirstmatch of theseason Netball The U11Bteam played Silverhill. Itwasavery closeandtense match This wasatough seasonofnetballfor theU11Ateam againstsome The U9Ateam played theirsecond gameoftheseasonagainstKing’s victorious winningourfirstHousecompetition. three Housesfought hard Dunwoody proved levels ofcommitmentThoughthe andeffort. lovely to seesuchtalent onshow andincredible the mostsuccessful athletes ontheday. Itwas Sharman andEmilyMusgrave whoemerged as Milo Wills, Rafael T-Jones, Finn Dawson, Emily and specialmention mustgoto Mitchell Bankes, There were many remarkable performances and thisaddedextra spiceto alltheraces. were based around anInter-House competition and enthusiasm. For thefirst timethe events challenge andperformed withtremendous skill of Athletics andasusual,thepupilsrose to the rest oftheJuniorsto holdtheannualcelebration 2013. Well doneeverybody! organised event, here’s to abright andsunny clouds. fluffy and Another well-supported they leftthehallto bright sunshineandwhite delighted to begiven atraditional icecream as received amedalandcertificate and were spud onthespoon–surely not? Allthechildren the ‘grown-ups’ usingtheirthumbto keep the astewardssuggested inquiryaboutsomeof race. Both heats were very competitive, some of the day was theadults‘spud andspoon’ blue team winningtheevent. Thehighlight final race was aclosely-run relay race withthe many children receiving place stickers. The many close races andfinishesculminating in dripped inslowly forThere were the2pmstart. excitement andanticipation theirparents thechildren hall.As poured inwithgreatsports simply moved venue andwent insideto the day rain theannualOtters’ andlots ofsports it, Undeterred by thebadweather conditions– Days Sports A break intherain eventually allowedthe Catherine Breare much loved andwellusedForest Schoolarea. Brownless andhisfamily, whichnowhasprideofplaceat theentrance to our everyone involved for andhard work-thechildren yourlove support it! constructed, complete withwoodenseating andawillow‘wall’.Thankyou to stakes Alarge were madeandwoodendiskscut. shelter wasalsoexpertly hard labour!Theoriginalbird hideandshelters were given amake over, group ofenthusiastic volunteers ventured upinto thewoodsfor amorning’s mud at firsthave embraced it to the full! lots inbetweenIcancategorically say that even thosethat didn’trelish the washing!!) ofthisyear hasto betheMUD, from mudslidesto mudpiesand activities to provide extra cover from theoccasionaldownpour. Jubilee andtheOlympics andofcoursethere wastheessential shelter building animals survived thewinter. TheSummerterm’s activitieswere inspired by the feeders, tracking animalsinboththesnowandmudlearningabouthow nest buildingto namebutafew. TheLent term includedmakingsuccessful bird clothes, mainlywaterproofs, thechildren have hadanother amazingyear. However,‘wrong type of weather’! comerain orshineandtheright wrong type of clothes’. Thisyear have we certainly hadplenty of the One of the Forest Schoolsayings is‘itsnot thewrong weather it’sthe Forest School The finaladditionwasanew Forest Schoolsignmade by Harry This year alsosaw thereturn oftheForest –i.e. Schoolworkingparty a One ofthehighlights (orlowlights ofthoseresponsible for the and Autumn leafart The Michaelmasterm brought blackberrypicking, 127

Junior School - Forest School Junior School - Sport Colours wereColours awarded to: Matthew Ferreira (Captain),MichaelFerreira, Oliver Jones. Victories over: Hatherop PriorPark Castle, andKingsGlos. weather, itwouldhave beenthebestever sincethe JuniorSchoolopeneditsdoors. formidable An excellent unit. Ifithadnotbeenfor seasonbutfar thepoor too short. enthusiasm, skillandgoodunderstanding ofthegame andthey proved to bea William NicholandThomasBreare. Theseboys trained andplayed withgreat catches andstumpingstoo. wicket-keepingSeatter–Messer’s shouldnot beforgotten, taking somesharp of ahighstandard with HenryHolloway taking thecatch of theseason.Morgan not to take ahat trickinconsecutive games.Thefieldinginall of thematches was score of 41 not outandby somefinebowling by Oliver Joneswho was unlucky bysupported hisbrother Michaelwhoscored somesuperrunswithhishighest taking somecrucialwickets.with hisbatting Hewas well and hisspinbowling, took hisresponsibilities onandoffthefield very seriously. Heled by example matches surviving.Rendcombthisyear was captained by Matthew Ferreria who The U11seasonwas badlydisrupted by withonlythree ‘thegreat Britishweather’ Cricket 126 The J5swhoplayed showed considerable promise for next season,notably, fantastic shotsby Czeska Sztuka thefinalscore was4-3 to Rendcomb. our confidencegrew wewere able to maintain possessionandwithsome with thewholeteam workingreally hard. Bothteams battled hard butas convincing 9–5winover Silverhill intheirfinalmatch oftheseason. and kept theirheads heldhigh.Finally, theireffortswere rewarded witha against Richard Pates andRosehill,Westonbirt thegirlsbuiltontheirskills margins narrowed andprogress wasmade.Withclosematches particularly Grace Tushingham shared theshootinghonours.Asseasonprogressed, Of ourYear 6girls,Lauren Boothcaptained thesideandEmilySharman and lacked experience butalsophysical presence againstsometall opponents. strong sides.With many Year 5girlsmakinguptheteam, Rendcombnotonly Glos. Isabel Wateridge. At theendofmatch, thefinalscore was 7-5 to King’s Both teams battled very hard anditwasavery closegame,captained wellby about markingtheirplayers andtaking theirtimebefore passingtheball. Glos. Thegirlsreally stepped uptheirgame,gellingasateam, thinkingmore Richard Pates. Freya Angus shot accurately andscored 2goalswiththefinalscore 8-2 to The finalscore for theA Team was 8-0 to Richard Pates. For the B team, B team was captained by Delilah Vincent,wholedtheirteams confidently. against Richard Pates. TheAteam was captained by Lee Carmen andthe The U9AandU9BNetball teams played theirfirstmatch of theseason Netball The U11Bteam played Silverhill. Itwasavery closeandtense match This wasatough seasonofnetballfor theU11Ateam againstsome The U9Ateam played theirsecond gameoftheseasonagainstKing’s victorious winningourfirstHousecompetition. three Housesfought hard Dunwoody proved levels ofcommitmentThoughthe andeffort. lovely to seesuchtalent onshow andincredible the mostsuccessful athletes ontheday. Itwas Sharman andEmilyMusgrave whoemerged as Milo Wills, Rafael T-Jones, Finn Dawson, Emily and specialmention mustgoto Mitchell Bankes, There were many remarkable performances and thisaddedextra spiceto alltheraces. were based around anInter-House competition and enthusiasm. For thefirst timethe events challenge andperformed withtremendous skill of Athletics andasusual,thepupilsrose to the rest oftheJuniorsto holdtheannualcelebration 2013. Well doneeverybody! organised event, here’s to abright andsunny clouds. fluffy and Another well-supported they leftthehallto bright sunshineandwhite delighted to begiven atraditional icecream as received amedalandcertificate and were spud onthespoon–surely not? Allthechildren the ‘grown-ups’ usingtheirthumbto keep the astewardssuggested inquiryaboutsomeof race. Both heats were very competitive, some of the day was theadults‘spud andspoon’ blue team winningtheevent. Thehighlight final race was aclosely-run relay race withthe many children receiving place stickers. The many close races andfinishesculminating in dripped inslowly forThere were the2pmstart. excitement andanticipation theirparents thechildren hall.As poured inwithgreatsports simply moved venue andwent insideto the day rain theannualOtters’ andlots ofsports it, Undeterred by thebadweather conditions– Days Sports A break intherain eventually allowedthe Catherine Breare much loved andwellusedForest Schoolarea. Brownless andhisfamily, whichnowhasprideofplaceat theentrance to our everyone involved for andhard work-thechildren yourlove support it! constructed, complete withwoodenseating andawillow‘wall’.Thankyou to stakes Alarge were madeandwoodendiskscut. shelter wasalsoexpertly hard labour!Theoriginalbird hideandshelters were given amake over, group ofenthusiastic volunteers ventured upinto thewoodsfor amorning’s mud at firsthave embraced it to the full! lots inbetweenIcancategorically say that even thosethat didn’trelish the washing!!) ofthisyear hasto betheMUD, from mudslidesto mudpiesand activities to provide extra cover from theoccasionaldownpour. Jubilee andtheOlympics andofcoursethere wastheessential shelter building animals survived thewinter. TheSummerterm’s activitieswere inspired by the feeders, tracking animalsinboththesnowandmudlearningabouthow nest buildingto namebutafew. TheLent term includedmakingsuccessful bird clothes, mainlywaterproofs, thechildren have hadanother amazingyear. However,‘wrong type of weather’! comerain orshineandtheright wrong type of clothes’. Thisyear have we certainly hadplenty of the One of the Forest Schoolsayings is‘itsnot thewrong weather it’sthe Forest School The finaladditionwasanew Forest Schoolsignmade by Harry This year alsosaw thereturn oftheForest –i.e. Schoolworkingparty a One ofthehighlights (orlowlights ofthoseresponsible for the and Autumn leafart The Michaelmasterm brought blackberrypicking, 127

Junior School - Forest School Junior School - Special Days 128 jumping andcompleted alongtiringXcountry course. ShescoredRendcomb College. 30inthedressage, hadonestop intheshow Mollie competed at theOffchurch Bury2Day event onCobweb, representing Mollie Tice cross country whichisalongandtiringphaseofXC jumps. boxbox where where you you give give rate. rate. your your horsearest horsearest andcheckhisheart Thenit’sthebestpart andcheckhisheart Thenit’sthebestpart roadsroads andtracks andtracks whichis4kmin27minutes whichis4kmin27minutes to to coolthemdown.Thenthe10minute coolthemdown.Thenthe10minute roads andtracks whichis3kmin15minutes, 0.8 inthesteeplechase, 0inthe2nd riding clubtestriding clubtest andinthat andinthat Igotthescore Igotthescore 30. 30. Intheshowjumpingwestopped Intheshowjumpingwestopped once. once. onmyCollege pony Cobweb. On 26andthe27, Iwent to Offchurch to doatwo day event to represent Rendcomb Offchurch Bury2-day event themselvesthemselves to to betrueKnexperts! betrueKnexperts! WillsWills whowent whowent forward forward to to theGloucestershire theGloucestershire finalin finalin April, havingApril, having proved proved challenge. However, winningteam andMilo was JoshuaCarr thisyear’s array of fascinating vehicles whichallfulfilled the requirements of the across London. Theafternoon was extremely successful, resulting inan to designavehicle Olympians andParalympians whichcould transport J5 spent aninteresting afternoon puzzlingover aKnex challenge.They had Knex Challenge Special Days OnOn Sunday Sunday was theroads was theroads andtracks andtracks where where wegot0timefaults wegot0timefaults thephase1st thephase1st OnOn thefirstday thefirstday itwasdressage itwasdressage andshowjumping.Thedressage andshowjumping.Thedressage test wasHN1 test wasHN1 Sport Relief Sport Once Relief. again theJuniorschoolwere fully Sport committed to supporting With sweatbands beingadored andcostumesat theready they were ready With sweatbands beingadored andcostumesat theready they were ready forfor theFriday theFriday challenge.Acoursehadbeenset challenge.Acoursehadbeenset upacross upacross thegolfcourse thegolfcourse and aroundand around thejuniorplayground thejuniorplayground by by Wann Wann Miss Miss andMrLawrence. andMrLawrence. Who Who had sprinkledamongstthis1milecourseafew challengesto complete had sprinkledamongstthis1milecourseafew challengesto complete before carryingoffontheirrun.Allthechildren were keen to take onthese before carryingoffontheirrun.Allthechildren were keen to take onthese challenges, andafter two circuits theirrunwas over. Thetotal amount of challenges, andafter two circuits theirrunwas over. Thetotal amount of money raised was over £327.00 money raised was over £327.00 World Maths Day On World Maths Day, thechildren spent themorningcompleting challenges, speedmentalchallenges, speedmental arithmetic arithmetic gamesandsolving problems. gamesandsolving problems. They allworked really well inmixed agegroups andearned points for They allworked really well inmixed agegroups andearned points for their houses. John Ascough single-handedlyachievedtheir houses.JohnAscough 908correct their houses. John Ascough single-handedlyachievedtheir houses.JohnAscough 908correct The winningHousewas Dunwoody. answers intheon-linegames,contributing to aschooltotal of 21,673. The winningHousewas Dunwoody. answers intheon-linegames,contributing to aschooltotal of 21,673. www.rendcomb.org.uk Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, 129

Junior School Junior School - Special Days 128 jumping andcompleted alongtiringXcountry course. ShescoredRendcomb College. 30inthedressage, hadonestop intheshow Mollie competed at theOffchurch Bury2Day event onCobweb, representing Mollie Tice cross country whichisalongandtiringphaseofXC jumps. box where you give rate. your horsearest andcheckhisheart Thenit’sthebestpart roads andtracks whichis4kmin27minutes to coolthemdown.Thenthe10minute roads andtracks whichis3kmin15minutes, 0.8 inthesteeplechase, 0inthe2nd riding clubtest andinthat Igotthescore 30. Intheshowjumpingwestopped once. onmyCollege pony Cobweb. On 26andthe27, Iwent to Offchurch to doatwo day event to represent Rendcomb Offchurch Bury2-day event themselves to betrueKnexperts! Wills whowent forward to theGloucestershire finalin April, having proved challenge. However, winningteam andMilo was JoshuaCarr thisyear’s array of fascinating vehicles whichallfulfilled the requirements of the across London. Theafternoon was extremely successful, resulting inan to designavehicle Olympians andParalympians whichcould transport J5 spent aninteresting afternoon puzzlingover aKnex challenge.They had Knex Challenge Special Days On Sunday was theroads andtracks where wegot0timefaults thephase1st On thefirstday itwasdressage andshowjumping.Thedressage test wasHN1 Sport Relief Sport Once Relief. again theJuniorschoolwere fully Sport committed to supporting With sweatbands beingadored andcostumesat theready they were ready for theFriday challenge.Acoursehadbeenset upacross thegolfcourse and around thejuniorplayground by Wann Miss andMrLawrence. Who had sprinkledamongstthis1milecourseafew challengesto complete before carryingoffontheirrun.Allthechildren were keen to take onthese challenges, andafter two circuits theirrunwas over. Thetotal amount of money raised was over £327.00 World Maths Day On World Maths Day, thechildren spent themorningcompleting challenges, speedmental arithmetic gamesandsolving problems. They allworked really well inmixed agegroups andearned points for their houses. John Ascough single-handedlyachievedtheir houses.JohnAscough 908correct The winningHousewas Dunwoody. answers intheon-linegames,contributing to aschooltotal of 21,673. Rendcombian -TheMagazine for Juniorsand Nursery Rendcomb College, www.rendcomb.org.uk 129

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