Reflections Mag FINAL.indd - Handcross Park School

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2 CONTENTS From the Headmaster 1 From the Chair of the Governors 3 From the editor 3 Pre-Prep and Nursery 4 Art 6 Chess 9 Drama 10 A Christmas Carol (Upper School play) 10 Blue Crystal (Middle School play) 11 Alice in Wonderland (Lower School play) 12 English 13 Year 3 - Pirates 13 Year 4 – Recipes for Enjoying School 14 Year 5 - Iron Man 15 Year 6 – The Breadwinner 16 Year 7 – Rain Poems 17 History 18 Latin 20 Library 22 Maths 24 Modern Foreign Languages 26 French Breakfast / Petit-Déjeuner Français 26 Concours d’Art Oratoire at Lancing College – French Speaking Competition 27 Harry Potter Y La Piedra Filosofal 27 Music 28 Music-Examination Results during the year 30 Organic Life 32 Science 33 Wisley 33 Science Show 33 Sport – A Year In Pictures 34 Friends of Handcross Park 36 Goodbye to Staff 37 Valete 38
From the Chair of the Governors When my husband and I were taken on a tour of Handcross Park 22 years ago, we saw a typical, rather old fashioned but friendly, boarding/day school. There was no sports hall, swimming pool, music school or Secret Garden. In the meeting room next to Miss Lane’s classroom were four baths with no cubicles or curtains. That was where the boys washed after games! The buildings beyond the music school, over the wall, belonged to the school. There were flats for staff, classrooms and a lovely old theatre that doubled as the chapel. The Secret Garden was under construction in a walled kitchen garden and this was to be the beginning of a huge change for the school. To take children into a Pre-Prep to feed the Prep was a bold move. Next came the Music School that enabled the children to enjoy a more diverse curriculum. Selling off the redundant buildings behind the wall gave the Trustees From the editor The Magnificat, or Song of Mary, starts (in the King James English translation) with the line “My soul does magnify the Lord.” The meaning of this has been the subject of many an undergraduate theology essay – how can any human actually make God bigger, since God is already omnipotent? The best answer I’ve heard is that a magnifying glass doesn’t actually make anything bigger – it just causes us to zoom in on a particular aspect, and gives more space to that, at the expense of removing the focus from the other things that surround it. The role of an editor is similar – there are so many things that one could include about Handcross Park, but strong limitations of either space or, in the case of this edition, time. The focus, therefore is on the Glory of the school – its pupils. Thanks to all those who contributed different views of Handcross life in the academic year 2009-2010, but the thing that we will magnify is last years’ leavers. the ability to invest in major improvements to the main school. The Sports Hall was an exciting venture that has kept Handcross Park up with its competitors. So many children have passed through the school over the last twenty years; members of staff, too, have left their mark on what is truly a remarkable place. Despite the changes over the years, it is the people that have made the school what it is today. Let us look forward to the next twenty years with anticipation and confidence. - Emily Hutchings, February 2011 That having been said, I need to thank two people in particular. Firstly, Beverly Hipkin for helping get together so many contributions in so short a time. Secondly, to Lottie Brookes for proof-reading this (several times) and picking up many mistakes – Lottie - I hope I corrected them all. 3
Page 1 and 2: REFLECTIONS 2009-2010 1
Page 3: FROM THE HEADMASTER ‘Reflections
Page 8: 6 ART
Page 11 and 12: Our chess team began the season wit
Page 13 and 14: Blue Crystal (Middle School play) D
Page 15 and 16: Year 3 - Pirates Pirates, pirates,
Page 17 and 18: Year 5 - Iron Man In the Spring ter
Page 19 and 20: Year 7 - Rain Poems It is as loud a
Page 21 and 22: car to Buckingham Palace, before wa
Page 24 and 25: 22 LIBRARY The last year has been a
Page 26: 24 (ACTIVE) MATHS At Handcross, mat
Page 29 and 30: Concours d’Art Oratoire at Lancin
Page 31 and 32: These standards of performance are
Page 33 and 34: Merits - Caitlin York, Grade 1 sing
Page 35 and 36: Wisley In the Root Zone we learnt a
Page 38 and 39: 36 FRIENDS OF HANDCROSS PARK Two we
Page 40 and 41: 38 VALETE Aimee Taylor, now at Burg
Page 42 and 43: 40 VALETE The teachers were really
Page 44 and 45: 42 VALETE I am now going off to Lan
Page 46 and 47: 44 VALETE Hopes for the Future I ha
Page 48 and 49: 46 VALETE have made great friends d
Page 50 and 51: 48 VALETE will never forget and wil
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