Print Post approved PP 739016/00028 THE HUTCHINS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Number 98 NOVEMBER 2013 MAGENTA and BLACK INSIDE: • History of Hutchins launched! • Heads of School reveal: why we are the School for boys • Year book feature: Old Boys across the decades • International accreditation: the Hutchins journey FROM THE HEADMASTER HEA f CONTENTS & BLACK MAGENTA – A School of International Best ROM THE Practice: the Hutchins journey 2 – CIS visits Hutchins: an historic moment 4 d REPORT FROM THE CHAPLAIN MASTER – The power of gratitude Rev. Canon Matthew Gray – School Chaplain 6 A SCHOOL Of FROM THE Heads OF SCHOOL – Why a boys’ School? Interviews with our Heads of School 7 International FEATURE: Year BOOK StorIES – From an island to an archipelago: one Old Boy’s novel adventure 10 BEST Practice: – Life by design 11 – A brave man of character 12 – Surgical snapshots: a lifelong dream the Hutchins journey Warwick Dean - Headmaster realised and classmates re-unite 13 – The sky’s the limit: Old Boy leads the charge in raptor care 14 – From Burbury House to the hallowed halls of Cambridge: a boarder returns for a visit 15 Why have we from the whole school community and MAGENTA & BLACK COMMUNITY become a member? the volume, detail and depth of their – Reunions go from strength to strength 16 excellent work has led to The Hutchins In mid-2010 our school was engaged – Melbourne and Sydney Reunions 18 School becoming a member of the in detailed discussion and questions – Anniversary Lunch and Unveiling Council of International Schools. of the newest Hutchins Lion 19 surrounding future strategic directions This is our first exciting and major step – Our newest Hutchins Lion 19 and it was then we agreed our school on that journey. – Hutchins Community Directory was at a point where the challenge to lift is in business! 20 our collective focus from local through Schools around the world join CIS for – The Hutchins School Race Day 20 national to international accredited guidance, support and access to like- – 1983 HSOBA Football minded high performance schools Premier’s Reunion 21 standards of school best practice should – A Special Presentation 21 be our future. Successive strategic plans as they develop challenging and ON THuRSdAY 5 SEpTEMBER – Hutchins Old Boys’ Football Club 2013 22 have endorsed such intent. international programmes for their – Hobart Hutchins Rugby Club 22 WE PROUDLy LAUNCHED students. As a global organisation CIS The Hutchins School at a subsequent – Get Connected 22 helps schools access new international Board and Executive Strategic Planning WREHERE A THEY Now: educational practices, gain recognition The Hutchins Day in 2012 made the commitment – A coffee with Chris Rae for accomplishments, attract qualified to challenge ourselves to acquire Staff Member: Stuart ‘Daffa’ Cripps 24 School’s staff, facilitate student connections with acknowledgement as an internationally HIstory OF HUTCHINS LauNCHED leading universities around the world, known best practice school to be – Character Unbound: A History of ar membership of and provide a quality international f School, Macquarie Street,1965. the old Hutchins crowd, ewell The Hutchins School (1966 – 2007) 25 accredited by the Council of International education experience to students HUTCHINS DONORS 29 the Council Schools. and parents. I look forward to further FROM THE ARCHIVES 31 of International This project has been and continues to successes as we work to benchmark be a mighty undertaking; it has involved Cover photo Cover MAGENTA & BLACK VALE 33 The Hutchins School against world’s Schools (CIS). remarkable teams of representatives best practice schools. 2 3 HEA f HEA f ROM THE ROM THE d d MASTER CIS VISITS MASTER Hutchins: an historic moment Alan Jones Deputy Headmaster from 9-12 September we hosted two Council of International members of CIS for our Preliminary Visit. This is the first step in a 5-stage Schools (CIS) accreditation process which will see Hutchins become a CIS accredited school. The Council of International Schools (CIS) is a non-profit membership organisation that provides services to schools Ray Davis, Associate Director Accreditation and higher education institutions around the world that have and Regional Accreditation Officer of the following in common: Council of International Schools and 1. a desire to provide students with the knowledge, skills Panayoula Parha, Principal of Norwood and abilities to pursue their lives as global citizens; Morialta High School in Adelaide, SA visited 2. an internationally-minded culture; and as supportive partners in our improvement 3. a commitment to high quality education process. This visit provided us with an improvement framework, which will inform Why CIS for Hutchins? the whole school community and deliver • To improve what we are doing as a us with full ownership of bettering our “The Hutchins School has made the commitment to challenge ourselves high-performing school practice. The visit was aimed at working to acquire acknowledgement as an internationally known best practice school.” – Warwick Dean, Headmaster. with our strengths and also looking at • To benchmark ourselves against other and managing the educational challenges world-class high-performing schools that lie ahead. The major goal of any • To become part of a world-class school is how to analyse and track data on benchmarked group of schools students to provide continual progress and • To provide our students with the knowledge, skills and improvement. abilities to pursue their lives as global citizens to compete on the international stage As an education community it is important for us to equip our students with the skills • To have the ability to exchange students, staff and curriculum internationally they require to compete in the international market. We need to decide what skills we want our boys to graduate with in Accreditation Process order to enable them to be global citizens Five basiC steps: and how we are going to achieve this. 1. Preliminary Visit 2. The Self-Study Warwick Dean and Alan Jones with Ray Davis from the Council of 3. The Team Visit International Schools (centre). Deputy Headmaster Alan Jones at the official 4. Decision on Accreditation launch of Hutchins’ CIS membership. 5. Subsequent Procedures 4 5 THE C R H f ROM THE EPORT THE WHy A BOyS’ SCHOOL? EA Interviews with our Heads of School d S HA power f ROM We chatted to the Heads of School about what’s special about teaching at a boys’ school…. O p and in particular what makes Hutchins the School for boys. Of f S LAI GRATITudE CHOOL N Rev. Canon Matthew Gray - School Chaplain academically. Boys like and need clear JENNy MANTHEy boundaries and structure which we provide. HEAD Of JUNIOR SCHOOL The practise of restorative justice works well as boys accept responsibility for themselves and the decisions they are making and are given Because Hutchins is an all boys school we have the the chance to get a hearing and reflect, repair ability to revel in and celebrate the business of boys and reconnect. and we can focus completely on boys’ issues. Boys need good strong male role models (as At the AfL Grand final Breakfast recently I spoke The latest research on boys’ development reveals well as good female role models.) The struggle of a man we met at Risdon Prison who has a long what our teachers already know; that boys and girls to attract male teachers into the primary area of schooling in Australia is well known. We are sentence and counts his years via the Grand final develop and learn differently and boys have distinct learning styles and learning needs. Boys are often lucky at Hutchins as we have almost a 50/50 We want them to know that each year. He loves this time of the year – the quieter in the presence of girls and are less willing ratio in ELC and JS. there are many roads to manhood and many to participate in discussions and certain activities. festival of the Boot as Roy and HG call it. Another different paths to success. There is a much higher participation rate here at Boys learn best year of his sentence drops off and there is light at Hutchins in performing arts activities such as choir when they are encouraged to move around and perform hands on-activities and experiential the end of his dark tunnel. and dancing than in co-ed schools. for example, all of our boys in ELC and JS sing and we have around learning. Sport provides friendly competition in a safe and supportive environment and is an The Power of 9 boys meet people from very 70 in our Pride Gold Singers – years 3 to 6. We also have a huge number of boys that take part in integral part of the journey to manhood because different life experiences and we plan to inspire Dance after school with specialist Dance Instructor of its competitive nature as well as giving boys a sense of being part of ‘something bigger’ than empathy for others as they engage with them. Jacquie Coad. themselves. It also provides a way for boys to use Walking a mile in another man’s shoes is a key Teachers in ELC and JS (and in the rest of their high energy levels in a good way. On the the school) work hard to understand boys’ component of the Spirituality option. whole, Hutchins as a successful school for boys, developmental needs at every stage. They know has the power to focus active minds and channel how to engage boys and challenge them The boys also go to the prison to understand boundless energy. grace; that there is great beauty in a second chance. This is one of the reasons we have sponsored a prize in the Prison Art Show, cleverly called Artists with Conviction! It is a reminder that we are all one mistake away from their predicament and encourages compassion for those who struggle in life, whatever their circumstances.