DUNELMIAN 2000-2001 Jenny Griffin Robert Jennifer Cording(Sh) UNELMIAN 2000-2001 Essential Information Other School Activities 30 Debating Societies 30 Challenge of Industry Headmaster’s Notes 30 Heretics Society 30 Inter-House General Knowledge 31 Lower Sixth Geography Fieldwork House Reports 31 Shell Easter Trip to Paris World Challenge 6 The Caffinites 32 Expedition to Rajasthan - 2001 7 School House 8 Poole House 9 Ferens House Sport & Recreation Pimlico House 10 34 Director of Sport 34 1 st X V Rugby 36 1st X V Results 2000-2001 Speech Day 37 2nd X V Rugby 13 Headmaster’s Report 37 U 16 Rugby 16 Speech Day Prizes 38 U 15 Rugby 38 U 14 Rugby 39 Girl’s Games Introduction 40 1 st X I Hockey 40 2nd XI Hockey Chapel Notes 41 1st VII Netball 42 2nd VII Netball/1st IV Tennis 42 Girls’ Cross-country Running 43 Boat Club Report Music Notes 44 Regatta Wins Christmas Concert by Candlelight 45 1 st X I Cricket Director of Music 46 2nd X I Cricket/U 15 Cricket Music for a Summer’s Evening 47 U 1 3 Cricket 47 Cross-Country Club 48 Athletics/Basketball, Squash 49 Swimming Club Drama 50 W ater polo Our Day Out Macbeth - a visit by the Black Cat CCF Theatre w B S m s m W est End Theatre Trip 52 Commanding Officer The Canterbury Tales 53 Royal Navy Section 53 RAF Section 54 Cultrybraggan Army Camp Dun Dubh Highland Cattle Society Old Dunelmian Society Pupils Poetry Friends of Durham School Creative Writing Leaving Staff Durham School 2000-2001 Headmaster Governing Body N G Kern, MA (Oxford), MSc (Pretoria) The Venerable J D Hodgson Chairman o f Governor Dr R C, Baxter Deputy Headmaster P Bell D R Best, BA (Belfast) Head of History Miss J L Hobbs The Reverend Canon M Kitchen Bursar R A Langdon Mrs A McWilliams, BA, ACIS Dr J W Marshall Mr Frank Nicholson Director of Studies Dr S M Oliver J D Everatt, MA (Durham) Head o f Classics C M Watts Mrs H G Weston Director of Marketing The Right Reverend F Weston R Thomas, MA (St Andrews) Modern Languages Company Secretary and Clerk to the Governors Chaplain Mrs A McWilliams, BA, ACIS The Reverend T J E Fernyhough, BA (Leeds) Religious Education Academic Staff A H Adams, MA (Cambridge) Head of Mathematics King’s Scholars Miss P A Alpine, BA (Sunderland) Head o f Art Christopher Best The Caffinitd J E Bell, BSc (CNNA) Rowing & Physics Jonathan Best The Caffinitei J A Burgess, MA, BSc (St Andrews) Head o f Science and Biology Mark de Cates The Caffinitei M J Bushnell, BSc (Swansea) (Housemaster of Poole House) Economics Neil Duffitt The Caffinite\ D M Crook, BA (Hull) Head of Modern Languages George Eskander School Housi Miss H Cross, MA (Glasgow) English Robert Frater Poole Housi J Curry, BSc, MA (Durham) Head o f Physics & Careers Jennifer Griffin Pimlico Housi H S Dias, BA (Ulster) (Housemaster of School House) English Ruth Henniker-Major Pimlico Housi Gemma Kern Pimlico Housi Mrs K E Dougall, BA (Warwick) Geography and Girls’ Games Pimlico Housi Mrs J Duffitt, BSc (Durham) Mathematics Julie Kern Mark Lawrence Poole Housi G J Earnshaw, BSc (Loughborough) Design Technology Jansen Leung Poole Housi Mrs D Evans, MA (Oxford) Biology Julian MacBride Poole Housi M R Farmborough BA (Durham), MA (Lancaster) (Housemaster of Ferens House) Gareth Morris The Caffinitei Head o f English John O’Brien Poole Housi G R Froud, BA (Liverpool) Physical Education Sebastian Rae School Housi P C Gerrard, BEd (Leeds Metropolitan Carnegie College) Director o f Sport James Slade Poole Housi R Gibbon, BSc (Sheffield) Head o f Computer Studies Jonathan Slade Poole Hous^ G Hallam, BSc (Leeds) (Housemaster of The Caffinites) Mathematics Harry Smith Poole House Mrs E L P Hewitt, BA (London), MA (OU) (Housemistress of Pimlico House) History Graeme Westgate The Caffinitei R N Flewitt, BEd (Durham) Geography Hugh Whalley The Caffinitei A M Mawhinney, MA (Durham), ARCO, ARCM, LTCL Assistant Director o f Music R A Muttitt, BMus (Hull), ARCO, FRSA Director o f Music Mrs F M Parker, BEd (Oxford) Modern Languages Burkitt Scholars Mrs M F Proud, MA (Durham) Head o f Religious Studies Sarah Best Pimlico Housa J C Renshaw, BA (Durham) Head of Geography Helen Curry Pimlico Housa C N Riches, BA, MPhil (East Anglia) Head of Economics Pierre Gaudin The Caffinitek M O Stephens, BA, MColIT, DipTEFLA English & Director o f Drama Charles Green School Housa N H Vyse, MA (Aberdeen) (Housemaster of The Caffinites) Sam Stephens Poole Housa (until December) Modern Languages A R Wallace, BSc (Lancaster) Chemistry R N Waters, BSc (Manchester) (until December) Head of Chemistry Mrs R E Dyer, Dip.Dysl Special Educational Needs School Monitors I Hunter, NDD, ATD, CCDT Artist in Residence Ben O’Connell School H ohsJ Mrs J M Linthwaite, BA, MPhil, DipESL English as a Foreign Language Gordon Muchall H ead o f The Caffinitesl Mrs J M Watkinson, MA (St Andrews), ALA (until December) Librarian Angus Borthwick Head of Poole Housa M E Hirsch Director of Sports Courses and Cricket Coach Tom Stockport H ead o f School HouseI Mrs S E Bell, MEd (Cardiff) DipTESL Librarian Chloe Trowbridge H ead o f Pimlico Housed Toni Chan Poole Housa Pastoral Staff Helen Curry Pimlico Housa Mark de Cates The Caffinitesi Dr B Docherty School Medical Officer Nicholas Hooper School hi ousel Mrs J Kipling Sanatorium Matron Joshua Krieger School House§ Mrs J Collins Sanatorium Nurse Holly Llewellyn Pimlico Housa Mrs E Sanderson School House Matron Christopher Miller School Housei M rs J Bellerby The Caffinites Matron Ian Morton Poole HouseI Mrs C Miller Poole House Matron Peter Rudd School HouseI Mrs J Haley Pimlico House Matron Jason Smithson School House1 Support Staff Sam Stephens Poole Housem Mrs S Spence Headmaster’s Secretary Mrs V Taylor Registrar Mrs A Wides Bursar’s Secretary Numbers in School D Holt Finance Officer Total Boarder Day Miss S Reilly Accounts Clerk School House 80 15 65 Caffinites 85 18 67 J Bradley Head Porter Poole House 79 38 41 Pimlico House 38 9 29 G Brown Chartwells Catering Manager Ferens House 44 7 37 A Rutherford Chartwells Senior Housekeeper 326 87 239 — 4 --------------------------- Headmaster’s Notes The academic year 2000-0 1 lias been a dramatic one for House has seen further sub-division of dormitories to the School in many exciting and challenging ways. One of study bedrooms and Pimlico House has been extended (a the most far-reaching events was the introduction of the process still continuing); this latter development has been new sixth form curriculum in the shape of AS levels for the necessitated by the huge rise in the number of girls in the Lower Sixth. Most pupils saw a 33% increase in their School. Ferens House has moved to new accommodation academic workload but coped with this superbly, as illus­ in the west wing of the Caffinites ground floor, accommo­ trated by the examination results: 39% of all AS results dation which represents a considerable improvement on were grade A, the A-B figure was 62% and the overall pass that available in the previous location. The Friends of rate 95%. Both staff and pupils thoroughly deserved this Durham School have generously funded the creation of a success. At the same time, A level results were of the same new lecture theatre: the site has been prepared and fitting general order of magnitude as in recent years while GCSE out will be completed during the first half of next year. results saw 36% A “'-A grades and the School’s best ever The theatre will provide a much needed and valuable average total points per candidate. resource for the School’s use. On the sports field the highlight of the year took As the School enters the academic year 2001-02, it place at Twickenham: the 1st XV reached the final of the does so with the highest pupil numbers for eight years, Daily Mail Cup. The match was lost but the achievement with a quarter of its population girls of all ages, with and the day itself were both memorable. Many other pleasing academic results and with the challenge of the teams and individual sportsmen and women enjoyed second half of the new sixth form curriculum to be over­ success during the year, such as the girls 1st IV Tennis team come. Ambitious plans are being developed for further winning the regional competition. The School’s music upgrading of facilities, notably for an astroturf hockey continued to astound in its variety and its quality, both pitch. Both pupils and staff will, therefore, continue to be aspects seen again and again in a succession of concerts. as busy as they have been and as clearly reported in the Large numbers of pupils produced outstanding work in pages that follow. the Art Department to go alongside music’s achievements in the arts. N G Kern The fabric of the School has also benefited: Poole September 2001 From the Editors This year (as always) has seen everyone involved with the Having been Master in charge of the Dunelmian School from pupils to Friends to Old Dunelmians, being since 1998, it behoves me to thank those pupils who have extremely busy. There have been particular highlights in devoted so much time to the production of this school many areas of School life, most notably the 1st XV Daily magazine. In particular, I would like to record my thanks Mail Cup Final at Twickenham, and the World Challenge to Mark and Paul de Cates and to Christopher Hilton for Expedition to Rajasthan during the summer months, all their efforts with typesetting and layout of the four images of which can be seen on the front cover of this most recent editions of the Dunelmian.