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THE NEWSLETTER OF ST EDMUND’S COLLEGE & ST HUGH’S SCHOOLWINTER 2010

College Life

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Service of Thanksgiving atCanterbury Cathedral

St Edmund’s Day Celebrations

Moon Rocks land at St Edmund's

Farewell to Mrs Hart

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Service of Thanksgiving atCanterbury Cathedral

St Edmund’s Day Celebrations

Moon Rocks land at St Edmund's

Farewell to Mrs Hart

On Sunday 15 November, a large number of formerstudents and guests gathered in the College Chapel forSolemn High Mass. The principal celebrant and preacherwas Father Francis Selman, currently Dean of Philosophyat Allen Hall Seminary in London. The Schola Cantorum,conducted by Mrs Salter-Kay,sang Herbert Howell's Hymn

to Saint Cecilia during theoffertory procession andThomas Tallis' If ye Love me

at communion. During thereception, the Chamber Choirentertained the Old Edmundianswith a selection of vocalarrangements, including Softly as I leave You andBarbershop Blues - complete with Kazoos!

A festal luncheon was held in the Refectory and theday finished with the customary Vespers, Veneration ofthe Relic of St Edmund and Benediction in the Chapel.

Headmaster’s Welcome & St Edmund’s News

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“Dear Parents and Friends of

St Edmund’s and St Hugh’s”

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Last term the Headmaster's Book was signed by the

following students:

Ciaran Humphreys, Jordan Scudder, Eleanor Gribben,

Louis Mowbray, Kishan Patel, Sarah Bellis, Isabella Hannah,

Jack Woolf, Rory Smith, Jose Mario Dellow, Sam Rose,

Sophie Lee (twice), Samuel Newbery, Selina Catherall,

Kristi Hewitt, Katie Hoban, Tara Castiglioni, Victoria Watts,

Harry Crow, Maria Christodoulou (twice), James Rutherford,

Annie Cave, Dillon Neale, Richard Tomlinson, Emily Loughrey,

Billie Donoghue, Alexander Clark, Briony Day, Lauren

Ziebart and Megan Evans.

As we approach the General Election, the way in whicheducation should be organised and carried out remainsas controversial as ever. Education has been a politicalfootball over the last 30 years, and while change is oftena good thing, too many recent decisions seem to havebeen lacking in integrity. Whatever they say, the threemain parties still seem committed to the slow deathboth of truly independent education and of faith schools,through the thousand cuts of excessive regulation.It seems that religion and independence are consideredtoo much of a threat to society. I have considered thatthis pessimistic thought may be a product of my agerather than reality, but then I turn to the table in mystudy to see folder after folder of paperwork required bythe authorities.

But optimism returns when I walk around the Collegeand talk to children and when I read of their achievements in this edition of College Life. Recently ithas also been my pleasure to observe many lessonswhere I have seen dedicated and talented staff focus onwhat really matters - the education of your children.St Edmund’s has been in existence in one form or another since 1568 and I have no doubt that those running the College in earlier times must have hadsimilar thoughts about how society was impinging ontheir faith and on their independence. The College is in very good health, both financially and in its number of students, and we are tackling the regulatory requirements. And in the firm belief that religion andindependence are good for society, we are looking forward to the next 450 years with confidence and optimism.

Chris Long

Headmaster

St Edmund’s Day

On 13 November, the College celebrated the Feast ofSaint Edmund with a Solemn High Mass attended by thewhole of the Senior School. The principal celebrant andpreacher was Father Mark Vickers. At the end of the Mass,as the hymn 'Sing, England's Son, the glories of St Edmund'was sung, Father Pinot de Moira took the Relic of St Edmund in procession around the Chapel, blessing thestudents with it as he went. After Mass, the studentswent out for trips to various places of entertainment,including a Leisure Centre, Paintballing and the London Eye.

Front cover photo:Service of Thanksgiving at Canterbury Cathedral: 17 November 2009.

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This term we are launching a new Service and LeadershipAward at the College. The aims of the awards are as follows:

New Service and Leadership Award

● To recognise the overall contribution made by students to the wider life of the College.

● To provide a stimulus for students to consider how and where else further contributions could be made.

● To provide, particularly with UCAS or similar in mind, a 'log' of hours (or other appropriate form of measurement) detailing time and commitment to the school.

Medals will be awarded to those students who completea certain number of hours service to the College, forexample: sitting on a Student Council, helping with charitable and community service activities, being aPrefect, or helping out with the Spiritual life of theCollege. A log will be kept in diaries and then Service andLeadership Medals will be awarded to students whocomplete the relevant number of hours service - atBronze, Silver and Gold level.

The award will therefore run alongside all the specificawards the College currently offers and will not replaceanything; the aim is simply to provide an ‘umbrella’ thatcovers all the wonderful things our students do to helpothers and in so doing, develop the leaderships skills thatwill serve them so well in the future. The College hasalways held up Christ as the ultimate servant leader, andone who surrenders all earthly power for the benefit of others, but we urge our students to think about any andall servant leaders that have inspired them, be itMahatma Gandhi, The Dalai Lama or even DavidBeckham (in his capacity as a footballer!). Or as thecliché puts it ‘Life is like a game of tennis: to win you need

to know how to serve’.

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CCF NEWSThe Michaelmas Term was very busy for our Cadets with lots of activities, as well as background planning. OurDiving Expedition to the Red Sea is moving on nicely, as is the planning for our Easter Adventure Training Camp inNorth Wales. A big change has been the introduction of the new weapon system for the Cadet organisation - the‘L98A2 Cadet GP Rifle’; it is based on the rifle the regular Army uses with the difference that it does not fire automatically. This will make great difference in our training – it’s far easier for Cadets to use and has the advantageof the new Safe Training System for blank firing.

The term started with our annual Range Day at Fingeringhoe Ranges in Colchester; here the Senior Cadets competed in the Richard Gunn Memorial Shoot. Everyone who took part should be congratulated on their shooting.Our 92nd Foundation Dinner was a great success, with the Headmaster as our Guest of Honour. Over fifty of us

sat down to a fantastic meal in the College Refectory,with the newly restored Drum Majors Mace on thetop table. Special thanks go to Mark Leslie, Development Director, and the Edmundian Association,who arranged for this restoration to take place.

In October we headed tothe Peak District National

Park for a two-day climbing expedition.

We had some great climbing and we also went to Derwantwater to visit the 617 (Dambuster Squadron) Museum. We are going climbing again in May, this time staying at a Youth Hostel as opposed to camping.This will save a great deal of administration time, allowing us to do more climbing (weather permitting).Finally, five Senior Cadets attended exercise‘Steelback Cadet’, run by the 3rd Battalion,the Royal Anglian Regiment at STANTA Training Area in Thetford.

Sadly, at the end of term, we lost Lt Andy

Watson OC Army Section, when he left his role as Biology Teacher at the College to pursue other interests. Andy had been with the CCF for four years and accompanied the Cadets on many activities including Adventure Training, Field Days and Duke of Edinburgh expeditions.We would all like to wish Andy all the very best for the future and thank him for his efforts throughout his time in the CCF.

WO, A Jones

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CCF NEWS: The RAF SectionThis year we have seen an excellent increase in numbers in the RAF section. We now have our own senior section, with 17 Senior Cadets receiving their own dedicated programme taught by Flying Officer Hart. Ourtwo Junior sections – ‘Typhoon’ and ‘Merlin’ - have also grown with 44 Grammar students in total. InSeptember, 12 Cadets enjoyed a Flying Day at RAF Wyton and so far the Cadets have learnt about the RAFuniform, RAF ranks, aircraft recognition, orienteering, cooking, camouflage and weapons handling.

Twelve Senior Cadets also took part in a training day in November, during which they braved the cold weather to do some tactical and survival training. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate thefollowing Cadets on gaining a promotion this term:

Warrant Officer: Christopher Wade; Sergeant: Ishpal Moonga; Corporal: Jamie Leekham, Sam Perry andHenry Dennis.

Junior Corporal: Jonathan Taylor, AlexSimon-Lewis, Ryan Lee, Michael Gribben,Valentin Klemt and Alastair Wither.

This term we look forward to more flying,more training days and hopefully somegliding, weather permitting.

Flt Lt Simon

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CAFOD DayThanks go to all our students, staff and parents who supported our annual CAFOD Day in October.

By choosing to eat an ‘Economy Lunch’ in the Douay Hall and having an ‘Own Clothes Day’,a tremendous £1,674 was raised for CAFOD.

CAFOD Day

Farewell to Pat JohnsonLast term, we bid a fond farewell to one of our longestserving members of the Science Department, Mrs PatJohnson. Pat joined the College as a Science Technicianback in 1981 and later on also took on the role ofCollege Stationery Co-ordinator. Pat’s cheerful natureand 29 years’ of experience will be sorely missed andwe wish her a very happy and healthy retirement.

Bad Weather

ArrangementsJust a reminder that in the case of bad weatherseriously affecting our bus service, or any otheraspect of the College, you can be kept informedof what’s happening by listening to a recorded message on our Information Line:01920 824295, or by checking our websitewww.stedmundscollege.org.

Change of addressPlease can parents let the School Office know of anychanges of address/telephone numbers etc. so thatwe can keep our School database up-to-date at alltimes throughout the year.Please email any changes to-

[email protected]

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In December, the College held its annual ChristmasParty for Senior Citizens. Over 130 guests enjoyed asplendid Christmas Tea prepared by the catering teamand served by students and staff. They were also entertained to various musical vocal and instrumentalsolos, from individual performers and from St Hugh’s.The Schola Cantorum led the assembled gathering inthe singing of traditional carols and popular Christmassongs. This hastened the visit of Father Christmas, whodistributed raffle tickets for the Grand Draw.

Senior Citizens’ Christmas Party

There were more generous contributions from parentsand students than ever before, collected and organisedby Mrs Peirce and her team. There were six special prizesof large hampers, and every other guest with a raffleticket was given a 'goody bag' consisting of itemsdesigned to assist with Christmas cheer. Thanks go to allthe staff and students involved with the organisation ofthis wonderful occasion.

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Elements PuzzleChallenge DayElements and Rudiments took part in another PuzzleChallenge event in November. This year they worked inlarger groups, producing amazing domino stacks, withthe added challenge of the final domino having toknock a little penguin into a beaker of water! This reallydeveloped their team-building skills and ability to workunder time pressure too. They also tried a number ofindividual puzzles, optical illusions and logic problems, aswell as the tried and tested favourites from last year,such as the double-sided jigsaw challenge and the roadlayout puzzle.

On 24 November, the College held a presentationevening to recognise the achievements of those students undertaking the Duke of Edinburgh AwardScheme. It was a wonderful occasion with the studentsgiving excellent and entertaining accounts of their expeditions.

Thirty-two students received their Bronze Award, tenstudents received their Silver Award and EleanorGribben achieved her Gold Award. This was an excellentachievement for Eleanor and shows outstanding commitment and dedication.

Duke of Edinburgh Award Presentation Evening

For each award, students have to complete four key sections: Physical, Skill, Volunteering and an Expedition(by foot or canoe). At Gold Level, students also have tocomplete a residential section. The length of time foreach activity depends on which level students enterthe award. All the students have worked extremelyhard over the last year and we look forward to seeingmany of them moving onto Silver and Gold and welcoming students from Syntax into the Bronze Award.

Congratulations to

Eleanor Gribben on

achieving her Gold Award

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Future Chef Competition

Congratulations go to Rory Smith (Grammar, Poynter)who was runner up in the Hertfordshire final of theFuture Chef 2010 competition, which was held atOaklands College, in December. Competing againsteight other local schools, Rory had to cook a maincourse and a dessert for two people. The competitorshad one and half hour’s cooking time and all theirpreparation and cooking had to be done in front of fourjudges. He did exceptionally well - finishing as a runnerup in the top three.

Rory had won through the College heat of the competition back in October, when the budding chefsof St Edmund’s once again applied their talents to thelatest challenge: the preparation of a hot main courseto serve two people for under £4 and a dessert for under£2. Unlike previous events, the judges were tasting blindin that the menus were presented anonymously – andonly one contestant could go through. Ultimately, thisdistinction was awarded to Rory, but there was only onemark between him and his nearest rival, Sam Rose.Rory cooked a succulent Pork Schnitzel Kiev with atomato and red onion salsa. His dessert was a tangy CrepeSuzette. Sam prepared Sautéed Chicken with Chestnuts

and Mushrooms in a White Wine Sauce, which provideda delicious and sophisticated combination of subtleflavours and deservedly won him the ‘Best Main Dishaward’.‘Best Dessert’ was won by Mario Dellow, whomade a luscious, tropical confection of Salt-BakedPineapple.

As ever, the judges were amazed by the skill and ambi-tion of the contestants; so many of the dishes they wereprivileged to taste would not have been out of place in a quality restaurant – the great difference being that this was restaurant-standard food made on an almost ridiculously tight budget. Congratulations to all studentsand staff involved; Edmundian cuisine goes from strengthto strength.

Rory Smith

John Francis WadeComposer of the Congregational Hymn:

O Come all ye faithful

Many people may not be aware that theoriginal manuscript of ‘Adeste Fideles’

(O Come all ye faithful, 1760) is actuallykept in our own College Museum and is

displayed every year at the Carol Service. This hymn wascomposed by John Francis Wade and was first sung atthe English College, Douay, our first foundation.Little is actually known about Wade’s life. He is known tohave resided in Lancashire in 1751 and later on inLondon. In the ‘History of St Edmunds College’ (London

1883) Bernard Ward states that Wade was affiliated withthe English College in Douai. He claims that Wade “was

not a student at Douay College, but a man who made his

living by copying and selling plain chant and other music.

He carried out his business at Douay, simply because it was

a great Catholic centre.” These few references are all thatis known about Wade’s life. Nonetheless, his influenceamongst his peers was extensive, particularly amongstRoman Catholic publishers.


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His death is chronicled in the Obituary List of theCatholic Directory for 1787 “16 August 1786, Mr John

Francis Wade, a layman aged 75, with whose beautiful

manuscripts our chapel abound, in writing which and

teaching Latin and church song, he chiefly spent his time.

The book at St Edmund’s is entirely done by hand.

It contains all the tenabrae offices, matins, lauds and mass

for the dead and many pieces such as Adeste Fideles’ and

Rorate Coeli; the Tantum Ergo commonly known as

Webbe’s”.

In October, Elements students enjoyed anexplosive author event, when Chris Bradford,the author of the blockbuster Young Samuraiseries visited the College as part of a nationwide tour.

‘Young Samurai’ is the award winning adventureseries for boys and girls. Chris’s first book ‘The

Way of the Warrior’ tells the story of an Englishboy stranded in 17th century Japan, who trainsto become the first foreign samurai. His secondbook ‘The Way of the Sword’ continues theadventure, testing the young samurai’s courage,skill and spirit to the limit. Chris managed tobring his stories to life, captivating and inspiringthe students, enlightening them with a story ofEast meeting West and sharing with them positive philosophies that can be applied toeveryday living. Students also had theopportunity to have their books signed.

Young Samurai

RHETORIC NEWS . . .Visit to the Houses of ParliamentIn November, eleven Rhetoric 2 History students attended alecture on ‘Mr Gladstone and Parliament 1833-94’. This was aspecial invitation from the Chairman and Trustees of theHistory of Parliament Trust, not extended to any other school in the country. The event took place at Portcullis HouseWestminster, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Containingthe offices of many MPs, the venue is not open to the publicand so our students had a very rare opportunity to inspect portraits of august individuals such as David Cameron andTony Blair displayed in its corridors.

The students took notes on the lecture to aid their coursework and at a reception held afterwards they were able to talk withSir Patrick Cormack, MP for Staffordshire and Chairman of the History of Parliament Trust. They were also able to have a longconversation with the guest speaker, Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute of Historical Research London and anexpert on Gladstone studies, who was able to provide tips for their essays.

Can many Brains link to form a Super Brain?This was the proposition explored by Professor Gowers at ‘The Larmor Lecture’, hosted by theCambridge Philosophical Society in the Department of Pure Mathematics. The Lecture was entitled ‘The Internet and New Forms of Mathematical Collaboration’ and thirteen Rhetoricians,accompanied by Mrs McCann and Mr Devine set off to attend, wondering just how many minutesit would take before they would become defeated by the Mathematics!

Professor Gowers set out a mathematical problem involving noughts and crosses played in increasing dimensions, which he had apparently been pondering for seven years. He told the audience how he had decided to establish a 'blog' for Mathematicians to share different views onthis mathematical challenge. To his astonishment, he found that by the end of the second month of this trial, he had gathered over 2,000 comments by Mathematicians each adding their ownexpertise to the problem. Despite mathematical setbacks (that he described and that we whollyfailed to understand!) a month later a solution was found.

The lecture highlighted the advantage of co-operative research, but also raised profound issues about the future of privateinvestigations being carried out in universities all over the world.

Talk on Renewable Energy SourcesIn November, guest speaker, Sandie Taylor gave Rhetoricians an eye-opening and sometimesshocking talk about some of the devastating effects that climate change could bring about.

Sandie outlined that in the UK, on average each one ofus emits about four tonnes of CO2 a year, compared topeople living in Malawi who emit less than one tonne.Indeed, if we all emitted as much carbon as we do herein the UK we would need several worlds. Climate

change is fast becoming a prominent environmental issue that needs to beaddressed before it’s too late. Even here at sunny Edmundia, there are manychanges we could make to decrease our carbon footprint, for example: turninglights off in classrooms, turning computers off at night instead of leaving them onstandby and recycling whatever we can. As individuals we cannot stop or make anydifference to prevent climate change; however, together we just might.


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Taster Days

Rare samples of Moon rock and lunar dust landed at theCollege last term, on loan from the UK’s Science andTechnology Facilities Council. Meteorites of differentkinds also formed part of the display and students wereable to handle and study them, seeing the obvious differences in the materials they are made from.

The lunar samples were collected during NASA’s mannedspace missions to the Moon in the late 1960’s and early1970’s. During these missions the Apollo astronautsbrought back to Earth 382 kilograms of lunar material.Miss Sophie Kobylec, the Physics teacher who organisedthe Moon Display, said: “It’s incredible to think, thatwhen you hold a meteorite, you are handling somethingthat may have travelled millions of miles to fall on theEarth. Our students really enjoyed examining themeteorites and learning about the work of the originalspace missions.”

Moon Rocksland at

St Edmund's!

Last term, we were delighted to welcome over 200 children from several of our feeder schools for a TasterDay at the College, where they sampled a variety of lessons and activities, plus lunch in the Refectory. Thesedays are very much welcomed by the parents ofprospective Year 7 students and it is always a delight tosee such well behaved and polite pupils spend the daywith us.

Loyola Prep School

Ilford Ursuline Prep School


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Edmonton, where they witnessed a global powerhouse who strives for operations perfection; the Edmonton plant boasts that they can transform apre-form into a finished product (stacked and stored) within 27 minutes.

Several more enterprise activities are planned for later this year including the‘Perse Enterprise Challenge’ and the Hertfordshire University ‘Dragon's Den’.Mr Davies would like to thank all those individuals who have kindly offeredto make Business presentations in the past and he will be calling on themagain shortly to contribute during Period 7 Activities or Business StudiesLessons.

Enterprise Week As part of the national ‘Enterprise

Week’ initiative, Business and

Economics students took an active

role in the promotion and

development of enterprise within

the school, by undertaking group

activities in a variety of forms.

The activities ranged from the

presentation of new business

ideas, to students raising funds

for charity by e-baying their

collective junk. Our World Trade

Fair took its usual place in the

proceedings, allowing students to

develop their knowledge and

understanding of the global

marketplace and encouraging a

multi-dimensional approach to

education and innovation.

External trips included the RhetoricBusiness trip to the Lotus Plant in

Norfolk, where students were shownhow an innovative and competitive niche manufacturer survives in the marketplace. Poetry students on theother hand visited Coca Cola in

Both students attend the ‘Starlight Stars’ stage school,run by our former Drama teacher, Alex De Bell. ‘StarlightStars’ has been running performing arts classes inPuckeridge and Standon since 2003 and now has over120 students attending. Last year, Starlight Stars’

introduced a Theatrical Agency to those children whowanted to experience what life is like in the

entertainment industry, and over thelast six monthsnumerous childrenhave auditioned forTV, film and theatrework.

Many of our LAMDA students are also members of theagency, with Lily and Grant being the main successstories so far. Lily's brother Jack, age 9, who used toattend St Hugh's, has just secured the part ofChristopher Robin in the Walt Disney Animation ofWinnie the Pooh and Tara Castiglioni (Grammar) recently appeared in Aladdin at The Rhodes Complex inBishop's Stortford. Well done to all our LAMDA students; we are very proud of your achievements.


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ArtTripsArtTrips

Poetry Art & Design students visited the Henry Moore Foundation inPerry Green last term. This trip was to inform both their coursework projects: Natural Form and War & Peace. Students were given a guidedtour of Moore's workshops, his designs, drawings and his sculpture displayed in his garden and grounds. The tours were highly informative;explaining and showing how Moore was influenced not only by naturalform, but also the Second World War.

Rhetoric Art & Design students visited London to inform theircoursework projects. They started at Liverpool St. Station whereRhetoric 1 had an excellent photo opportunity to create work for their buildings project. Rhetoric 2 selected specificcompositions related to their widely ranging personal studies.At The Gherkin building, students concentrated on reflectedimages and the contrast of old and new. The Lloyds of London

building presented the modern version of the VictorianIndustrial landscape and at St Paul's Cathedral, the interior gave inspiration to many. At the Tate Modern, the students examined selected works relevant to their particular themeranging from the Surrealists, to Anselm Keifer. The final stopwas the London Eye, where the students not only had London'lit up' to inspire them but also a 4D Virtual Learning experience of flying over London.

Starlight StarsTwo of our drama students have recently been involved in professional productions. Lily Boulter (Grammar) featured in the recent HPV Cancer Vaccinationawareness commercial, entitled 'Come Together' and overChristmas, Grant Sterry (Rhetoric 1 and our former BugsyMalone!) appeared as Charley Bates in ‘Oliver Twist’

with ‘Giant Olive Productions’ at the Lion and UnicornTheatre in Kentish Town. He was the youngest memberof the cast and gave a magnificent performance.


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Our Rhetoric production in October was J B Priestley's'An Inspector Calls'. A superb effort by Director, DrHacksley and all members of the cast ensured threenights of thought provoking entertainment of thehighest standard.

‘An Inspector Calls' is considered to be one ofPriestley's best known works and one of the classics ofmid-20th century English theatre. Long considered partof the repertory of classic “drawing room” theatre, theplay has also been hailed as a scathing critique of thehypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society. Thecast were tremendous, showing great commitment totheir individual characters, as well as to the play as awhole.

An Inspector Calls

Cast of Characters

Arthur Birling: Andrew Archibald

Sybil Birling: Emily Skinner

Sheila Birling: Charlotte Endersby/Eleanor Gribben

Eric Birling: Peter Vassilla

Edna: Charlotte Endersby/Eleanor Gribben

Gerald Croft: Grant Sterry

Inspector Goole: Joe Davidson


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Service of Thanksgiving at Canterbury Cathedral

A 75-strong Schola Cantorum left at the crack ofdawn on 17 November, to join forces with the St Edmund’s School Choir, Canterbury, to take part in a special Thanksgiving Service in CanterburyCathedral to celebrate the Feast of St Edmund, ourjoint patronal Saint. Accompanied by theHeadmaster, Father Pinot, Mr Gallie, Mr Petty,Mrs Peirce, Head Boy Joe Davidson, Mrs Salter-Kay,Mr Benham, Mr Howard (back from retirement!) andMrs Tinner from the Music department, we were privileged to take part in a truly memorable service inthis magnificent Cathedral. Each choir sang their own piece – our Schola sang

the Introit If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis and St Edmund’s School, Canterbury impressed us with a perfectly performed Bruckner’s Christus Factus Est

that seemed to fill every corner of the Cathedral.However, the pièce de résistance was the combiningof the choirs of the two St Edmund’s schools singingthe hauntingly beautiful Hymn for St Cecilia byHerbert Howells and conducted by Mr Bersey,Director of Music at St Edmund’s School,Canterbury.

The planning of this visit has been some years in themelting pot and as guests of St Edmund’s School,Canterbury, we were received with great warmth.Performing to a packed Cathedral, Mr Long delivereda reading from the writings of Cardinal Basil Hulme.Father Pinot then led prayers and Head Boy, JoeDavidson offered a well-delivered prayer for ourschool.

The second concert in the Music School recital programme was the Piano Recital. Again studentsfrom both St Hugh's and St Edmund's took part.The St Hugh's students were Katya Kosheleva,Kathryn Salter-Kay and Saskia Nannesbaum. Notableperformances from College students were SabrinaGold's Grumpy Trolls by Johnstone and Katie Forbe’sThe Headless Horseman by Montague, complete with its own backing track of a thunderstorm!We welcomed back BBC Young Musician of the Year

winner, pianist Erdem Misilioglu, who finished the evening with an outstanding and moving performance of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Opus 90.Piano Recital


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String Workshop and RecitalFollowing the success of the Woodwind Workshop last year, the MusicSchool and string peripatetic staff; Simon Smith, Samantha Slade, andJulia Watkins, held a String Workshop on Sunday 4 October. Forty Stringplayers from both St Hugh's and St Edmund's took part. The day endedwith a concert for parents in the Douay Hall, conducted by Mrs Slade.

At the String Recital, the first Music School concert of the year, onceagain students from both St Hugh's and St Edmund's took part. Therewere notable performances from Georgia Ziebart (guitar) playing Havre

Gosselin from Pictures of Sark by Lindsey-Clark, Joseph Cutteridge (cello)playing Tarantella by Squire, Terimelda Kyohumendo (viola) playing amovement form O' Rieding's Concerto, and Clara Bush (violin) playingSpring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The College Guitar Ensemble, led byMr Stephen Waters, also performed two pieces by Staak and Whitworth.

GlaxoSmithKline Christmas Party

In December, the Chamber Choir visited NorthMimms Park to sing at GlaxoSmithKline’s ChristmasDinner, on the invitation of Mr Bayliss, father of HeadGirl, Lorna. The students, accompanied by Mr Benhamand Mrs Salter-Kay, performed a selection of favouritesongs and Carols to a very receptive audience. TheChamber Choir, who have sung at weddings andfunerals in the past, are very happy to perform atfunctions. Please contact the Music School Office fordetails.

Chapel BandThis term the instrumentalists of the Boarding Communityformed a Chapel Band. Rehearsals take place on aWednesday evening for the Boarding Prayers the nextevening. The group consists of two flutes, oboe, two clarinets, tenor saxophone, piano, lead and bass guitars anddrums.

Various hymns have been specially arranged by Mrs Salter-Kay over the term. These include, Look Around You,In Bread We Being You Lord, The Servant King, Sing It In The

Valleys and the Psalm, We Shall Bring Water Joyfully. TheBand has also led the music at two Masses this term forPoynter House Mass and Dinner and the final Sunday

This year's Carol Service had an instrumental twist.Rhetoric 1 student Sophie Artner and her teacherCatherine Wild gave a very moving performance of amovement from Albinoni's Double Oboe Concerto,accompanied by Mr Benham on the organ. Two Carols;This Little Babe & Deo Gratias from Benjamin Britten'sCeremony of Carols were accompanied by professionalHarpist Jolante Cole. The Schola Cantorum added these toan eclectic collection of Carols: And the Glory of the Lord

from Handel's Messiah, Chilcott's Away in a Manger,Willcox's famous arrangement of The Sussex Carol, with theChamber choir performing a beautiful arrangement ofDarke's In The Bleak Midwinter.

Three Rhetoricians; Abigail Robinson, Andrew Archibald

and Christopher Wade also gave an unaccompanied performance of the 15th Century Coventry Carol. TheCongregation were given the opportunity to join in thesinging with all the old favourites , including the CollegeCarol O’ Come All Ye Faithful, with Verse One being sung inthe original Latin Adeste Fidele (see History File on page 10).

Carol ServiceCarol Service

Afterwards, the students weretreated to a delicious traditionalIndian meal, which consisted ofchicken curry and variousaccompaniments, finishingwith traditional Indian sweets.A big thank you to Mr Mohanafor once again organising sucha wonderful event. Not only didthe students enjoy a lovelymeal but they also learnt a lotabout Indian culture as well.


St Edmund’sBoarders Activities

It was another busy term for the boarding community.The academic year began with the Induction Weekend

in September, where the students participated in a number of on-site team building games, a welcomeDinner and Disco, plus a day out in Cambridge.

There has been good interest in the weekend trips so farthis year and students have enjoyed Saturday visits toLondon, Oxford, Windsor, Canterbury, Bluewater,Westfield, St Alban's and Bishop’s Stortford. On Sundayafternoons, students have been Paintballing, Go Karting,Skiing, Snowboarding and Top Golf. The half-termly Fridaynight cinema trips remain very popular and the highlightof last term was seeing 'New Moon' on its opening night.

In November, the boarders enjoyed a trip to London towatch a Gaelic football match between Ulster andMunster. This was a first for many of our students and thehighlight was seeing Mr Devine's brother playing in goal!

The boarders also enjoyed two themed evenings thisterm. Firstly, a Diwali evening (see below), plus a newaddition this year - a Medieval Night, where the cateringteam worked extremely hard to put on a wonderful banquet and decorated the Refectory beautifully. A discowas also organised and the whole evening raised moneyfor ‘Children in Need’.

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On Saturday 17 October, the boarders celebratedDiwali, the Hindu festival of lights.The festival celebratesthe victory of good over evil, light over darkness, andknowledge over ignorance. Mr Mohana and a group ofboarders spent the day preparing an Indian meal for theboarding community. The celebrations began when agroup of students who visited India this year, gave apresentation on their experiences in the schools outthere, as well as giving a background to Diwali.

Diwali Celebrations


St Edmund’s Sport

Focus on RugbyRugby Results Michaelmas Term 2009

Team P W D L Cancelled Pts +/-

1st XV 9 3 1 5 3 -35

2nd XV 2 2 0 0 1 +37

U16 3 2 0 1 0 +35

U15 9 0 0 9 0 -37

U14 10 4 0 6 0 +79

U13 9 1 0 8 0 -176

U12 6 4 0 2 1 +94

1st XVThe 1st XV endured a difficult season with some upsand downs. With an average age of 161

⁄2, the squadshould be proud of their efforts this season.Commitment in training as well as on match days wasa joy to behold.

The team's mentality of free flowing rugby was set upand there were moments in the season where both thebacks and forwards produced fantastic rugby. Standoutperformances from James Ayrton, Chris Wade, AndrewArchibald and Alex Tinchev early in the season alloweda good base to be developed. The victory againstHitchin was a particular highlight, although the teamwas hit with injury when powerful centre MarcoBozovic badly injured his knee. The team wishes him thebest of luck in his recovery.

As the season continued, the squad continued to be hitwith a number of injuries to key players, and CaptainJames Stockman continued his fine leadership in theFloodlit Semi -Final against Simon Balle. This match sawthe team play their best rugby, with fine forwards play

both in the scrum and ruck, as well as dominating backsplay, with a number of fantastic tries being scored. Thematch demonstrated the capabilities of the side, andthey were unlucky to lose against an experiencedRichard Hale side in the final. The squad have put in fantastic efforts this season, and we hope to see furtherdevelopments next season.

2nd XVThe 2nd Team had an excellent season. Whilstmany of the second teamwent on to represent the1st Team, the playersinvolved demonstratedtheir ability to step intothe 1st team whencounted on. The 2ndTeam dominated both oftheir fixtures this season,and showed strength throughout. A dominant scrum inboth fixtures allowed the backs to play their rugby withplenty of time and space. Many of the 2nd team shouldstrive to represent the 1st team next season, and withthe appropriate attitude and training, this should beachievable with a great deal of success. The team havethe capabilities to produce fine rugby and we hope thiscontinues next season.

SyntaxThis proved to be a difficult season, however a number ofboys battled hard throughout the year in typical St Edmund’s spirit. Charlie Hempstead, Alfie Jones, GeorgeEdwards, Charlie Hodges and Josh Mann performed well inevery game. Hopefully, the core of the team can make thestep up to senior rugby next year.

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GrammarAfter a slow start to the season, losing their first twogames by just one score on each occasion, the team produced a very solid display in beating Bancroft's 48-14.Two further defeats followed against tough opposition in the form of Saffron Waldonand Haileybury. However, on bothoccasions the boys produced a highlevel of effort and endeavour losing22-43 and 25-42 respectively.

The boys re-grouped and somehard work on the training fieldproduced a string of three consecutive wins; the highlight ofwhich was a 72-10 victory overRichard Hale. Unfortunately, the season ended with defeat againstVerulum, 12-36. In all, the season has hadsome great successes with the boys playing somefantastic running rugby. Credit must go to Euan Davies who has led the side superbly throughout, Ben Lawrencewho has made real progress in all areas of his game thisyear, Nile Watson who scored 16 tries in the season andHarry Da Costa Frazer for his 5 tries against Richard Hale.Let’s hope that the side can hit the ground running this term - ready for the Daily Mail Cup!

RudimentsThe team have worked very hard this year on improvingtheir skills producing a number of good performances.The boys have played with great determination and

enthusiasm proving to be a credit to the College.Louis Sjoberg, Niall Coates and Josh

Newledum have had excellent seasonsand have been well supported by the

rest of the team.

ElementsThe new Elements have made a

great start to their Rugby careershere at St Edmund’s. They finished

the season winning 4 matches and losing just 2. However both defeats saw

a severely depleted team take the field dueto illnesses and injuries! The highlight of the

season was a fine 46-5 victory over Davenant. The futurelooks bright for the team with good leadership comingfrom Matthew Applebee and excellent forward play fromOliver Byrne, Chris Larkin-Collins and Charlie Bryant. Creditmust also go to John Bannerman who continues to makeexcellent progress at Fly-half and Morgan Whitley for histry scoring exploits.

Tommie joinsWatford FC!Having represented the Club for a number of years,Tommie Hoban (Poetry, Poynter) has recently beenawarded a two-year Scholarship at Watford FootballClub, to commence in July 2010. Tommie will be leaving St Edmund’s in the summer to take up thisopportunity and we wish him every success with hisfuture career.

U16 FootballThe Poetry Football Team performed well in the ‘U16 English Schools Cup’ regional competition this year,progressing to the quarter final with victories over John Warner (6-0) and Marriotts (4-0). The team lost atight game in the last minute 3-2 against Chancellors in the quarter final. The team hope to make furtherprogress in the County Cup which they remain in having won the first round 3-2 against Sir John Laws.Particular praise goes to James Ayrton, Rhys Hunt, Connor Bolton and Sammy Radley for consistently highstandards of performance.

The U13's participated in the Forest Open Day tournament at thestart of the year and played extremely well to finish fourth in thetournament, after a very tight game with Bancrofts in the semi-final. The U13's have began playing some 11 a-side matchesand have beaten both Herts & Essex and Presdales. The U15's haveparticipated in the County Cup,winning three matches and losingone so far. They have another fourgames to play this term. The U12'shave played matches againstAldenham, Newhall and SWCHSand are beginning to work well asa team.

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Netball Open Day Tournament

On Saturday 26 September, St Edmund's hosted three tournaments: U12 Netball, U13 Hockey and Rugby.Twenty-two teams participated in total and the students enjoyed an excellent morning of sport. Richard Hale wonthe Rugby tournament, Forest won the Netball tournament and Haileybury won the Hockey tournament.St Edmund's managed to secure 4th place in the Hockey tournament after a close fought game with Haileybury inthe semi-final, which went to penalty flicks.

Hockey Tournament

Boxing Champion!Hadleigh Jalil (Syntax, Poynter) won through four regional competitions to reach thefinal of ABA National Novice Championships 2009 - 57 kg class. In the Pre-QuarterFinals in Reading, he was selected to go through to the Home County Final held inLuton. This meant that he was awarded the title ‘Home County Champion’ and gavehim a place in the National Quarter final in Bristol, where he beat his opponent towin through to the National semi-final. The semi-final was held in Romford, wherehe beat the London County Champion, to win a place in the National final inLiverpool. At this premier event, Hadleigh boxed superbly to beat his opponent fromBolton, to win the title Junior ABA National Novice Champion 2009. Well doneHadleigh!

St Hugh’s News


Farewell toMrs HartAt the end of term, we said a sadfarewell to Mrs Hart at a Festive Teaheld in the College Refectory,following the Nativity production.Many parents, staff and pupilsattended this special event to markMrs Hart leaving St Hugh's afterseven successful years. We would liketo thank Mrs Hart for all she hasachieved at St Hugh’s and wish herevery success when she takes up herpost as Headmistress of WoodfordGreen Prep later this year. DeputyHead, Mr Steven Cartwright, is currently Acting Head until the arrival of Mr Leonard Blom as thenew Head of St Hugh’s in April 2010.

St Hugh's celebrated its Patron Saint’s Feast Day in November in a variety of ways, including linking the celebrations with a ‘Science Blast’. The children came to school in fancy dress with the theme of space or science, so there were lots of colourful costumes including astronauts, eccentric scientists and even a few Time Lords!

It was an action-packed fun day which included Space Workshops, where the children studied the Earth and the Moon with materials supplied by the National Space Centre, a bread making and gingerbread men decorating lesson with theCollege Chefs, plus a visit from the Arty-Fact Theatre Company, who gave a performance entitled ‘Eureka’, based on thefamous words of Archimedes. A special lunch was served in the Refectory, which was beautifully decorated with balloonsand white table cloths. Thanks go to all the children, parents and staff for helping to make it another very special St Hugh's Day.

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AdventCelebrationsThis year the whole school, from Nurseryto Year 6, participated in the Nativity production ‘Jesus’s Christmas Party’performed in the Douay Hall. Year 2starred in the spoken roles as the familiarNativity characters, whilst Year 1,Reception and Nursery, colourfully dressedas kings, shepherds and stable animals,took centre-stage as dancers during severalof the songs. Each Junior year group wereable to shine on stage in their own songand all children enjoyed the opportunityto sing and dance together in the livelyopening and closing numbers. The varietyof styles, including reggae, rock & roll andpop ballad, performed to rhythmical backing tracks, appealed to all ages.

St Hugh’s News &Calendar of Events

Published by St Edmund’s College February 2010 Tel: 01920 821504 www.stedmundscollege.org24

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Lent Term 2010

Tuesday 9, 10 and 11 February, 7.30pm Performance of ‘The Sound of Music’

Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 February, 2.30pm St Hugh’s Junior Concert

Wednesday 10 - Friday 12 February Charity Week

Friday 12 – Sunday 21 February HALF TERM

Monday 22 February, 7pm Asian New Year Celebrations

Saturday 27 February, 7pm ‘Friends’ Race Night

Monday 1 March, 2-4.30pm St Hugh’s Open Afternoon for new and current parents

Wednesday 3 -10 March World Book Week

Tuesday 23 March, 7.30pm Orchestral Concert

Wednesday 24 March, 2.30pm St Hugh’s Lenten Mass

Friday 26 March END OF TERM

For the first time ever, St Hugh’s musicians participatedalongside College students in the music-making at theSenior Citizens’ Christmas Party. Dressed in their schooluniform, adorned with Santa hats and tinsel, eleven Year5 and 6 children assisted the Schola Cantorum in theleading of Carols and Christmas songs. Favourites were‘Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer’, with comical additional words, and ‘White Christmas’. Several bravechildren performed seasonal solo songs and instrumentalpieces to a packed audience from the stage of theDouay Hall. We all enjoyed the afternoon tremendouslyand we hope to take part again in future years.

Senior Citizens’ Christmas Party

U11s win the ForestTournament!Congratulations to the St Hugh’s Under11s Football team who won the ForestTournament back in September. After playing extremely well throughout thetournament, the team collected the coveted trophy by beating Chigwell 2-0,with goals from Harry Brislen-Hall andAndrew Byrne.

Further details of this, and all our otherSports News, can be found on our websitewww.stedmundscollege.org – under theSt Hugh's section.

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