THE ELLESMERIAN 2006 Contents VOLUME CXVI Prefects ............................................................................................................................................................................2 2006 Captains of School School Notes ..............................................................................................................................................................3 Head Boy: A. M. James Head Girl: E. V. Swinnerton Speech Day..............................................................................................................................................................12 School Prefects H. E. Baxter Prize List ......................................................................................................................................................................17 L. S. Button L. E. Clewlow D. J. Goodwin House Notes ..........................................................................................................................................................18 S. H. Griffiths M. J. Hinks Saints Houses ......................................................................................................................................................26 N. P. James S. J. Lamberton Pupil Notes................................................................................................................................................................29 S. F. Ng T. L. Salmon B. E. Sym Out and About ......................................................................................................................................................34 D. R. Thomas J. C. E. Upton In and Around........................................................................................................................................................38 C. E. Wigginton The Editor wishes to thank Sportsman Dinner ............................................................................................................................................42 all contributors. Charity Events ......................................................................................................................................................43 CCF ....................................................................................................................................................................................47 Gold Duke of Edinburgh Expedition ..........................................................................................52 The Chapel of Saint Oswald ..............................................................................................................54 www.ellesmere.com Music ................................................................................................................................................................................55 The College Website is updated regularly with information on sports fixtures, what’s on and Drama ..............................................................................................................................................................................57 news items. Art ........................................................................................................................................................................................60 What would you like to see on it? What do you think of it? Your views would be much Sport..................................................................................................................................................................................63 appreciated. Please contact us with your House Sport ............................................................................................................................................................89 suggestions. Shooting........................................................................................................................................................................92 By email at [email protected] or call 01691 626505 Lower School..........................................................................................................................................................93 Cover Picture Lower School In and Around..............................................................................................................94 2006 Lent Term Y7 &Y8 Play The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe White Witch - Charlotte Shearer Lower School Music ....................................................................................................................................96 Edmund - Oliver Thomas Dwarf - Jacob Edge Inside Cover Picture Lower School Sport........................................................................................................................................97 Year 10 GCSE Media Trip to Euro Disney 2006 THE ELLESMERIAN 2006 Prefects Ashley James, Head Boy & Elizabeth Swinnerton, Head Girl School Prefects 2 THE ELLESMERIAN 2006 School Notes Various arrivals in September 2005 were noted in the last DEPARTURES edition. In January three antipodean Gap students arrived in the form of Caitriona Cotter, Sam McKelvey and Laura Morton, TERRY LOWRY and they have been a lively presence ever since. As the year progressed there were new arrivals in the Davies and Thomas families, for which we offer them all our warmest congratulations. Marie Thomas has now decided to take a break from teaching, whilst her young son progresses and we wish her well for now, in the full expectation that such an innovative and enthusiastic teacher will return to the profession before too long. The end of the summer term also brought a number of other departures. These included Neil Price, who has been Head of Lower School for six years. Neil is a man of great energy and enthusiasm and these qualities have had a massive impact at Ellesmere. He loves sport and has fostered the success of Lower School teams tirelessly. For the Common Room he has been a stalwart of most sports teams that we run and I know that it gave him particular pleasure to open the batting for the Ravens this summer in their first ever victory over the First XI cricket team in the annual 20 over match. We wish him and his family success and happiness in Warwickshire, where Neil has become Headmaster of Bablake Preparatory School. Martin Digby OE returned to us for all too brief a period Terry joined Ellesmere College in 1993 following 30 years in the as Housemaster of St John’s for its first three years. A Armed Forces. His last job was to be Commander of Finance and dedicated young man of great stamina, Martin successfully re- responsible for the finances of all 3 Armed Services in Cyprus, launched Lower School boarding, whilst concurrently making a from which role he retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. huge contribution to the extra-curricular life of the College in athletics, cross-country and the CCF. Most especially Martin Following those 30 years he embarked upon his second career loved the adventurous training that he did with the cadets, and as Bursar at Ellesmere College. When he joined the school its he has left teaching to become a professional instructor. We financial fortunes were “flat”, and during his time at Ellesmere he helped put the school on a sound business footing from which it wish him and his family all success in their new life in the reaps the rewards today. beautiful Highlands of Scotland. Peter Wei from the Republic of China and Dan Sunderland our IT Gap student completed their Terry oversaw 2 major projects in his time at Ellesmere, the year in the summer also. Both have been very hard working construction of the Lower School in 1999 and the Sports Hall in and positive contributors to the life of the Common Room and 2004. He was rightly proud of the fact that both projects came in we wish them well as they continue with their studies. on budget: not an easy achievement for buildings costing in excess of £1m each. It is a measure of the scale of the task that In September 2006 we were very pleased to welcome Terry undertook that, upon his retirement, the decision was taken Sheelagh Abbots (English), Lynn Gunter (French), Bill to replace him not with one person but with two, and hence he is Hutchings (Head of Lower School), Gareth Owen (PE and the last Bursar of Ellesmere College, as he has been replaced by Housemaster), Ian Roberts (PE), Suzanne Ryan (Humanities) a Finance Director and an Operations Director. and Paul Swainson (Chemistry). Robin Townsend has now Throughout his time at the College he was ably supported by his become a full time class teacher in Lower School. Also arriving charming wife, Sheila, and we wish them all the best in their were IT Gap student Dinesh Makhija, Tao Hong Yin from the retirement – not too far away – in Lyneal. Republic of China plus Maura Van Voris from Tabor Academy in BJW the USA to help with drama. During the year Terry Lowry retired as Bursar and we are very pleased that he and Sheila are living in the area and we hope to see much of them in the future. Terry’s role has been split so that in the spring we were able to welcome Ken Brockless as Director of Operations and Nick Howarth as Director of Finance. We wish all new arrivals success and happiness here. GH 3 THE ELLESMERIAN 2006 NEIL PRICE 3 years as head of boarding at Formarke Hall (Repton Prep School), where he had also taught maths and science. On applying to teach maths at Ellesmere he was immediately