The Chronicle GIGGLESWICK SENIOR SCHOOL GIGGLESWICK The Chronicle GIGGLESWICK SENIOR SCHOOL 2019 In this issue Reflections La Mitrailleuse Holistic Education Young Enterprise The all-new think Jack Harrison’s award- Embracing ambition Nurturing tomorrow’s piece section winning ‘Write on Art’ entry beyond the classroom entrepreneurs 1 CONTENTS 4-8 Welcome Performing Arts 46-59 Headmasters Welcome If music be the food of love…? Editors Introduction Services with a smile Romeo and Juliet Reflections 9-30 Sweeney Todd Jack Harrison wins Top Prize Bugsy Malone Ash Can Art Miles shooting for the stars Physical or mental health? It’s no longer George is born for the USA an either or. Should rugby be played in schools? Sport 60-75 Greta Thunberg - No One Is Too Small The Elite Sports Programme Review to Make a Difference Jonny Brownlee opens our state-of-the-art Is sport the tool for improving quality of life in developing countries we think it is? fitness centre Organ donation: a time for change? A Year in a Sportswoman’s Life…. Digital Strategy: a plan for 21st Century Girls’ Hockey 1st XI Learning Boys’ Hockey 1st XI Giggleswick Remembers Rugby 1st XV Rugby 1st VII Review Netball 1st VII Why is co-curricular of such value Cricket 1st XI in holistic education? 32-33 CCF 76-81 Academic 34-45 Sixth Form Success Pastoral 82-103 GCSE results celebrate talent of every kind Pastoral Care at Giggleswick Art within the curriculum at Giggleswick Well-being done well Young Enterprise: Colour County Chaplaincy The Glover Lecture 2019 House Reports Paley Society Lecture 2019 The Record 104-150 3 THE CHRONICLE 2019 WELCOME WELCOME decades of neglect and to make Britain a 'learning society', final next month (Marie Lothian, Chris Thornton and Toby developing the talents and raising the ambitions of all our Weatherill), this is the second time in three years that we young people. Yes, at a good school, children gain the basic have had a team qualify for the final of this prestigious tools for life and work, but they ought also to learn the joy event. Congratulations also to the newly formed Young of life, the exhilaration of music, the excitement of sport, the Enterprise group for so far winning the county round of the beauty of art, the 'magic' of science. competition (and for eventually going on to take part in the So, where do we start with this vision at Giggleswick. Well national final). of course we should begin with the academic results. At a Perhaps the best example of ambition is seen in so many school like Giggleswick they should be a given, but I think of the EPQ projects - remember, we expect all our pupils to the pupils and staff deserve particular credit for sustaining engage in this project work - a daunting prospect for some, a pretty impressive improvement in our standards, summed but real ambition is always evident in how they respond to up by an educational agent in Hong Kong saying 'hey, what's this challenge. Feel free to catch up with: happened to Giggleswick?!' Jane Paul, Director of External Alice Stephens to ask her about her examination of political Relations, was slightly unnerved by such an exclamation bias by the BBC, and, asking for clarity, received the response 'Well they Eve Hutchinson on the impact of sport on development seem to have some great results.' I am delighted the word in Sri Lanka, taking herself out there to help support the is spreading but every pupil who took exams deserves disadvantaged, credit for this. My own daughter has been sitting her law Amir Hamrouni's investigation into the impact of climate finals over the last few weeks and I asked her how they change upon deep sea creatures; our largest and least were. She replied they were OK but nothing like GCSEs. explored habitat, Surely they are tougher, I asked. In concept, of course, she or how about Sophie Hume, a Year 11 pupil making a replied, but at least I don't have to take 30 of them. So well documentary to help explain the concept of infinity. done all those in the lower sixth on what you achieved last Doug Rice-Bowen has led the new formed Paley Society year, building further on the record numbers of A* grades (key stage 4 scholars) into examining how different subjects achieved at Giggleswick the previous year, with even more make their own claims to truth, culminating in a trip to see 9s and 8s. Taking GCSEs is tough and I know how much the Magic Flute performed by Opera North. Where is truth all the parents and teachers present will support all those in music? currently in Year 11 as they continue with their exams. A level Alison Earnshaw has embraced the iDEA awards sponsored and BTEC pupils also did brilliantly, raising their average by the Duke of York. These are the inspiring Digital UCAS points score and, for the third year running, achieving Enterprise Awards, where pupils can take online courses HEADMASTER’S overall results at A level comparable with selective schools. that help develop digital skills through looking at topics But the outcome from these programmes is better described not by grades but how these results carried pupils on to future ambitions. While nearly 70 percent of last year's WELCOME upper sixth went on to a Russell Group university, I believe what is more telling is that 94 percent of them achieved their first or second choice. This is testament to a team of Our theme for this year’s Speech Day was ‘Embracing staff, led by Anne Coward, who have taken time to really get to know their pupils and who help ensure that ambition ambition’ in learning is met with success. And we all now recognise that there are plenty of other routes to reaching your ambition that may better match your skillset, with a growing number of his is not about targets for the school, for real the endless transmission of social media. Where debate apprenticeships in courses such as surveying, HR, motor education cannot be measured in numbers. and discussion are based too much upon emotion and not sport, or finance. Ambition is a core value at Giggleswick, and it enough upon fact, where there always seems to be a need What really separates out the ambition in Giggleswick's Tmeans the personal ambition to develop as a to cast a victim and an oppressor. Where the government's learners is how each person is supported to achieve learner. It comes from within and is about the wish to see principle educational priority seems to be tackling social their goals. Yes, there is some fantastic department yourself improve, the sense to value the support of your injustice, thereby overlooking so much about what education enrichment going on as ever: the exchange programmes teachers and opportunities available to help build a future should be about. Where governments in waiting will seek to Switzerland, Spain and Germany, the MUN, the vibrant for yourself. It is not about seeking success at any price to bring down so much of what is good in our education, debate of ‘All Talk’ and how brilliantly they performed like the murderous ambitions of Macbeth, nor is about the with the inability to afford replacing it with a system that in the local 'Youth Speaks' competition. The Chemistry self-serving hubris of our political leaders - just look where values the individual, that recognises learning for its own analysts at Bradford University, or Lancaster University that is not getting any of us – it is about having the time sake, and which understands that different pupils learn in coming in for spectroscopy in a suitcase, and the upper to work out who we are and see how we can make the different ways. Where real education cannot be quantified or sixth biologists visiting the Newcastle Life Centre Genetic best of our talents. given Key Performance Indicators. We have gone a long way Profiling laboratory. Well done to the team who entered We live in challenging times. The rise of popularism, the from a past Prime Minister's promise, in 2001, of 'education, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2019 Schools Analyst death of adversarial politics, weak political leadership and education, education'; a vision to overcome what he saw as Competition and who have been selected for the national 4 5 THE CHRONICLE 2019 THE CHRONICLE 2019 WELCOME WELCOME their country in European championships, and how fantastic included charity shops, the local library and supporting it was to see him winning the National Schools Fell Running the local arts festival that is SettleStories. Two boys have Championships on home turf. But anybody who knows also been involved with the Folly Museum, and recently Euan will know just what it means to create such success, completed their own exhibition looking at the history and and how much dedication has gone into achieving his development of religion within the craven area. We also have ambitions. And quietly, modestly, there has been somebody a dedicated band of volunteers working in all weathers to else in the school always on his heels equally committed to help make the local area cleaner. Some pupils from Year 11 improvement. As the earthquake, wind and fire of the tug of and the sixth form have been giving their time at the Junior war subsided last weekend, there was one still small voice School helping with sports sessions, class work and reading of calm as Tom Humphries quietly jogged round the track with the pupils.