THE LCHS LEADER March 2019 Written and produced by students at Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School Sixth formers spread the word! MORE than 20 Sixth Form students from LCHS cele- brated World Book Day by sharing stories with young patients at Lincoln County Hospital. The students - many in fancy dress - called in at the hospital’s Rainforest and Safari wards to promote the importance of read- ing but also to bring smiles to children who were missing out on WBD celebrations due to being in hospital. Students took their favourite books and read to patients, and also talked about their favourite stories. Inspiring Said Sixth Form Progress Leader Laura Jones: “Seeing the Sixth Formers put so much effort into their costumes and their willingness to give up their time for others was truly inspiring. “We’ve had various ways of celebrating World Book Day but this has to be my favourite so far. Sharing a love of books with others brings so much happiness.” Pictured at the hospital are, left, Rowan Houghton and Faye Hall-Macdonald, and below, the students who took part in the special World Book Day event, with hospital staff. Page 2 News March 2019 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR WELCOME to the future… and to our first ever digital-only edition of The LCHS Leader. This latest edition of the school’s ever- popular newspaper is being made available to readers via email and the Internet, and also sets the scene for our next paper edition which is due out in June. Chris Jones, second from right, with Year 13 Law students Harrison Beech, Tyler Archer and But, in whatever for- Darcie Degorgio. mat the Leader is published, it remains committed to its core aims of reflecting the A fair cop for Law students life and achievements FORMER LCHS A Level Law student, Chris Student Elizabeth Davey said: “The presentation of the school and also Jones, returned to his old school to give a presen- was detailed and insightful” of giving students tation about the work of police to Year 13 Law Rachael Todd added: “The talk was funny and throughout all year students. interactive while effectively teaching us about groups an opportunity Chris studied A Level Law from 2011 until 2013 police powers.” to try their hands at and is now a PC with Lincolnshire Police. Said Michael Upcott: “Chris demonstrated how various journalistic He gave an excellent and entertaining talk about he would arrest someone and the proceedings and photographic the work of the police to help the students with following the arrest. He gave an excellent presen- skills and to see their their study of Human Rights law. tation on the work of a police officer.” work - and their name - in print. Interested? Fundraising is If you’d like to be part of the Leader team or in the bag simply want to find out more, just come SIXTH Form student Madi- along to one of our son Colley has an unusual weekly meetings on fundraising request: she Thursday lunch-time wants your old crisp pack- in Room R46 or ets! talk to Editor Madison, in Year 13, has a Mike Lyon in the ten-year-old nephew who has a visual impairment English or Media called Retinitis Pigmentosa. departments. He has already lost his pe- ripheral vision and is slowly THANK YOU losing his central vision. Because of this, she is rais- A HUGE thank you ing money for the Guide ROTA returns to Lincoln to everyone who Dog appeal… but with a FINAL preparations are being Government, and there will be a submitted material twist. made for the annual ROTA initia- series of workshops as well as or supported this Every 2kg of donated crisp tive. visits to Parliament, Lincoln City edition. packets will raise £4 for the ROTA gives Sixth Form students Council, Lincolnshire County Particular thanks appeal, as well as reducing the opportunity to work with teen- Council, and the Galleries of Jus- go to: Rachel litter. agers from other partner schools tice in Nottingham. Students can take their emp- across Europe, and LCHS is due * Representatives from the Lindsay, and Cath- ty packets to the school’s erine Forbes for to host the latest event from schools taking part are pictured SPS room where they will March 24-30. during a recent planning meet- the photographs. find a box for donations. The theme this year is People and ing at LCHS. March 2019 News Page 3 Fun is in the house! A HUGE number of fun events have A total of 40 captains and vice-captains Said teacher Craig Richardson, who is co been planned following a revamp and were elected after more than 70 students -ordinating the new house system: “I was relaunch of the school’s house system. submitted written applications and at- fortunate enough to deliver the idea to Every student and member of staff has tended interviews. They will be responsi- each year group in assembly, and there been placed in one of the school’s four ble for organising teams for various has been an absolutely amazing uptake of houses - Lindum, Greyfriars, Bluecoats events and encouraging students to get the positions on offer.” and Minster - and each house has a new involved in a wide variety of house com- The most recent house competition was a captain and vice-captain. petitions. six-a-side football competition for Year 9 boys. More than 40 students took part with top honours going to Bluecoats, followed by Minster, Lindum and Greyfriars. Other events, either current or in the pipeline, include: Year 7 mixed dodge- ball, Year 7 girls’ netball, Year 8 mixed dodgeball, Year 8 six-a-side football, Year 9 doubles badminton, a reading competition, a logo design competition, an animation competition, the forthcom- ing Slam Jam poetry competition, and there are even plans for a house darts competition! Mr Richardson added: “There is so much to get involved in and hopefully this will continue to grow and filter into our school culture.” * Pictured left are some of the newly elected house captains and vice- captains. Snap is something to chat about LANGUAGES teacher Catherine Turner got more than she bargained for when she entered this picture taken during a recent school trip to Berlin in a competi- tion… and won! The picture, featuring a group of Year 10 students on the trip in December, The chase is on! Joe Thompson, centre, in action during the Year 9 six-a-side clinched the £200 top prize in a competi- competition won by Bluecoats. tion organised by Halsbury Travel. Page 4 Holocaust March 2019 Remembering the Holocaust SIXTH Form students Molly Jones and Hema Asodia recently returned from Auschwitz. Here in an article specially written for The Leader, they recount their experience. One of the guard towers. ON FEBRUARY 27 we visited the sites directly opposite the camp. Although we Auschwitz. When the camp was liberated of Oświęcim, Auschwitz 1 and Ausch- understand that life goes on for modern by the Soviets, they decided to leave the witz-Birkenau as part of the Lessons Poles, this was an odd sight to see. camp relatively untouched, only taking from Auschwitz programme run by the We went through the famous ‘Arbeit wood for fires. To us, it was a poignant Holocaust Educational Trust. Macht Frei’ gate and to us it felt strange sight to behold the scale of the camp and Before we went, we listened to a testimo- how we chose to visit and how we could the atrocity that occurred there. It was ny from Zigi Shipper who survived the leave freely when millions didn’t have almost unbelievable. ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau, Stutthof and that option. We visited bunkers which are The gas chambers were all in ruins, a a death march before he was finally liber- now exhibitions and memorials contain- result of the Nazis trying to cover up the ated. This helped us fulfil the aim of the ing possessions that were stolen from crimes they had committed. HET project which is to re-humanise victims. Unearthed every single victim of the Holocaust, to One such exhibition showed the masses The next vivid moment was when we think of them as people rather than just of hair that were stripped from the vic- visited the Kanada section at Auschwitz numbers and statistics. tims upon arrival. A particularly thought- where to this day items and belongings Upon arrival we went to Oświęcim, the provoking moment was when we visited are being unearthed. We saw items such town Auschwitz was named after, to visit the gas chamber and crematorium; not as spoons, buttons and glasses lenses the synagogue which has been converted only could we see where hundreds of coming up from under the ground. into a museum. Here we learnt about thousands of people were murdered but A moment that will stay with us forever Jewish life before Nazi occupation. also the house of Rudolf Höss which was was when our guide told us that we were Then we went to Auschwitz 1 which has only 50 metres away from the crematori- probably standing upon masses and been turned into a museum. We found it um. masses of human ashes, carelessly shocking how close the camp was to the Afterwards we visited Auschwitz- dumped there by the Nazi perpetrators. town with restaurants and hotels being Birkenau, the death camp section of Lastly we attended a memorial service to remember the victims. It was led by a Rabbi who told us to remember that ‘we are special with hopes and aspirations which are unique to us but so were they’.