Giggleswick School Chronicle 2011 CCF Centenary Year 1910 - 2010 Our Year as Heads of School Giggleswick Senior School here have been so many invited to the OG dinners. At one of won’t be looking into becoming responsibilities, events and the dinners, Mr Boult promised postmen in our later lives. things which we have done Catriona Bellis and Peter Wilden that Chronicle 2011 T Working closely with Mr Boult, Mr that have made this year special. we would have bacon butties at the Gemmell, Miss Williamson and the From standing at the front doors of next meeting. After they reported Praepostor group, we have learnt a Chapel to being postmen for an this to the rest of us, we waited lot: that we cannot do everything afternoon, it has truly been an anxiously to see if he remembered. Introduction ourselves and that teamwork is eventful year and one we will never Luckily, for his sake, he did and it crucial, and also that speech making forget. has become our little tradition. elcome to the turbine, happily producing is not easy, especially in front of the 2010/2011 edition electricity for us above the cricket Some of the responsibilities which But the best events were when we entire school community plus pavilion on Top Pitch. we at first found tedious became were all invited to Mr Boult’s house guests. We have learnt that friends Wof the Giggleswick Contents My thanks to all the contributors for our routine and we came to enjoy for dinner. This was a brilliant are important, whether it be for School Chronicle and I trust Speech Day 2010...........................................2-3 them. They were not all fun, like evening due to the company, Mrs support or just for a laugh. At Gigg you will find it a good read. their hard work and I am particularly having to get up to Chapel 20 Boult’s cooking and Mr Boult’s range we go through a lot with the others grateful to Mr Bill Bartlett who has The Chronicle records events, CCF Centenary Celebrations .............4-9 given me so much support over the minutes earlier than anyone else to of deadly cheeses. There have been in our year, as they are not just achievements and also open up and turn the lights on, light a few weird happenings that we can classmates, they are also years in helping me understand the the candles, put the hymn numbers mention. One has to be Peter housemates and teammates. personal opinions of life at Outdoor Curriculum.................................10-17 finer points of Chronicle making and up, set up the microphones and Wilden’s little dance, after getting We have learnt to respect each school so I hope you will find supplied innumerable wonderful open the doors, and making sure such satisfaction over locking other and we have made our friends that it gives you a flavour of photographs and wacky articles – Sports...................................................................18-35 his touch will be much missed in that the service runs smoothly. The others out of the Hobson Room. for life. some of what has gone on things that the students do not see Another is Miss Will’s weekly future editions, but is very much From sitting at the back of Chapel here during the past year. and expect to happen can be inspection of the boys’ unshaven Houses ...............................................................36-49 present in this year’s Chronicle. to our weekly Sharpe duties, we difficult, and setting up Chapel is faces, with Ed Buck and Sam Sharp There has been a lot to celebrate, have enjoyed every moment. Next year, of course, is the School’s just one. almost religiously failing the including the centenary of the In and Out of School ..........................50-67 Finally we would like to thank Mr quincentenary, so please come and inspection. founding of the CCF (or OTC as it Our Thursday break times were Boult, Mr Gemmell and Miss Will for support the many special events was back in 1910) which enabled us taken up by Praepostor meetings There have also been some helping us through this year and of Creative Arts: Music & Drama......68-79 that will happen throughout 2012, to boast a Royal Visit amongst the which aren’t just a time for us to interesting asks. We never thought course to the rest of the and then when you receive your celebrations. Staff and pupils have distinctive edition of the 2012 chat, drink tea or coffee while that we would have been asked to Praepostors. But most of all we Staff News.....................................................80-83 scaled heights and achieved great eating nice biscuits. Even though be a postman for an afternoon. thank the whole school community Chronicle you will be able to say ‘I things for charity, for each other we are a small group, we have had Having to post 60 envelopes each, for making our last year at Gigg a know because I was there!’ and for themselves, and new Lists .....................................................................84-85 many ‘moments’ that have made all over Settle and Giggleswick was good one. innovations include our own wind our Thursday breaks memorable. not the way we thought we would Mrs K Boult, Editor There have been some enjoyable spend our Monday afternoon. After times such as when we were this we can all safely say that we Julia Beaumont and Jamie Holtam Heads of School: James Holtam (S) and Julia Beaumont (St) Deputy Head of School: Christopher I'Anson (S) Praepostors: Catriona Bellis (C) and Peter Wilden (N). Heads of House: Carr: Josephine Hornsey, Morrison: Edward Buck, Nowell: Mitchell Rose, Paley: David Hickling, Shute: Samuel Sharp, Style: Rebecca Blake, Catteral House: Harry Morse & Alice Roberts Editor: Mrs K Boult Sub-Editors: Mr S Griffiths, Miss H Lindley, Miss L Stott, Mr G Wigfield, Mr D Muckalt, Miss S Clarke Produced by: Hollingwood Design & Print - Tel: 01422 205873 or Email: [email protected] Front cover: Giggleswick celebrates 100 years of CCF Back cover: Climbing, Y9 Art, HRH Duke of York waving goodbye and U15 hockey girls celebrate Speech Day 2011 Schools rely on partnerships between staff, pupils and Holtam. Collectively the U6 have exceeded , their parents. The U6 Leavers, many of whom have expectations, served the school with distinction, and been here since Y7 have not come to where they are been a credit to themselves. We have some fantastic Extracts from the Headmaster s today by chance. They have been shaped by events, junior years coming through the school from and I urge by you their parents, and the teachers and friends they them to model their standards on the majority of this have encountered at Giggleswick and other schools. year’s leavers. Address, Speech Day 2011 Last year the school will remember my mantra, ‘Live above the Line’ - take ownership and responsibility and I want to bring to your attention an OG I recently met in stop blaming others and living in denial. While in New Florida. In 1947, his end of year report from his form Speech Day 2011 011 has been a year of challenges and change. 2. A decade of improving and renewing our Zealand recently I read an interesting analysis of master, RWB Fuller, read: “He can do better than this. We have a lot to celebrate, but we have also sporting facilities changes in young people between 10 and 20, the He lacks concentration and determination”. His “2had moments of sadness within the ● 2001 Eshtons/Pavilion and All-weather surface teenage years. In simple terms it suggested most Headmaster, the legendary E H Partridge then wrote: Giggleswick family in this academic year with the loss ● 2001/2 Levelling of Lords, 1st XI rugby/football young people below age 12 live in a state of “I think he is one of the toughest propositions I have of friends, OGs and former teachers. second to none dependency. met. He is idle, slovenly, unpunctual, seldom ● 2003 New hard tennis courts remembers to wash and forgets everything possible. We have also had extremes of weather, with heavy ● 2004 Catteral Pavilion, vital for GJS and used Dependency Independent Mutual or Inter Dependency Life is bound to be a more or less continual round of snow in November, and then weeks of sub-zero by all areas of the School punishment for him at present…” Geoffrey Moore, OBE, temperatures testing the heating system and the ● 2007 New Sports Hall Then in their teenage years they become more still working at age 70+, has offices in Hawaii, the Grand humour of the Bursar like never before. Through it all ● 2008 Squash court refurbishment independent (a process a boarding school tries to Canaries and around all the Caribbean and has had a the school has shown character, perseverance, and ● 2010 Mountain Bike trail in the Ghyll Field encourage and even accelerate). This book however remarkable career in business and supporting the Arts. commitment. Lessons have been taught and pupils suggested independence is really only a ‘teenage state’ So if you are someone not getting a prize today, have been fed, watered and exercised. Giggleswick 3. A decade of Investing in our buildings and that maturity is reached when young people reach remember they are not, and never have been a does not close, one Y7 day pupil told me rather ● 2004 New Medical Centre in Huntsmans (warm and understand the idea of ‘inter or mutual guarantee of future success! That is not to say that wistfully. and cosy) dependency’. The analysis goes on to show how many success at any stage of life is not to be congratulated ● 2005 Chapel Organ rebuilt, completion of parents today can keep children dependent by doing and I know just how hard our prize winners have 2011 is the 499th year in the official school’s history, we Chapel refurbishment - our spiritual home everything for them, the ‘helicopter parents’, even worked, but it is never too late to set new targets for have a great story to tell and I would like briefly to ● 2005/06 Memorial Library/Brayshaw Library choosing University/careers for their offspring.