Contents Chaplain’s Notes 1 Vales 2-7 Service & Public Benefit 8-10 Activities 11-19 Gap Year Report 20-22 Societies 23-27 Trips & Visits 28-35 Drama & Music 36-44 Arts Festival 45-50 Art & Design 51-52 Pupils’ Work 53-59 <strong>Sport</strong>s Reviews 60-84 Editors: A C Leamon & R J Smith Contributing editors: Ella Jackson & H G Steele-Bodger Special thanks to: A D Bradbury, S K Hill & D R S MacLean Designed & Printed by Neil Terry Printing, <strong>Rugby</strong>
Chaplain’s Notes Chaplain’s Notes One Friday morning, I was a victim of technology. It was E5 Divinity, and I’d got a new projector in my classroom. I plugged it in, switched on the computer, and pressed the key that sends the image from the computer screen on to the whiteboard. There on the laptop was a lovely neat Divinity worksheet. There on the wall was two-thirds of it. We tried rotating the projector but that didn’t work. Then someone in the class suggested I try changing the laptop settings. Fatal advice. Two clicks of a mouse, and the image on the screen was upside-down. And upside-down it remained. Nothing we tried could get it the right way up again. I clicked every possible menu I could find; I even resorted to picking up my laptop and turning it upside down with a little shake, but to no avail. Well, it was almost the end of the lesson, and they’d been working hard up to that point, so I thought we might as well watch a bit of a DVD. The Simpsons, of course, with the added twist of being upside-down. But what was interesting was this – that we very quickly found we could follow the film quite well. After a while we got used to it. It brought back a vague memory of something I had once heard about, and I went to look it up again. In the 1960s Dr Irwin Moon of the Moody Institute of Science in Los Angeles built himself a pair of inverting spectacles, which had the effect of turning everything upside-down. He wore the inverting glasses every waking moment for several weeks. At first he suffered seasickness and had great difficulty getting around. But it gradually improved and after eight days he began to perceive the image as the right way up. Note that – it was not that he learned how to cope with it after eight days, but that he actually saw the world the right way up. Here’s a short quotation from one of the reports of Dr Moon’s experiment, from the glorious days before health and safety and risk assessments: His problem was to devise a convincing demonstration showing that reorientation had been achieved. The riding of a motorcycle seemed a good test. Dr Moon mounted the motorcycle and rode as well as he would have done if seeing normally. Then it was decided to extend the experiment to flying an aeroplane where visual co-ordination and depth perception are even more critical. He piloted the plane for more than an hour, executing all the normal flight maneouvres. When we spend long enough looking at something that is wrong, it can begin to seem right. If we surround ourselves with upside-downness, that which is upside-down seems the right way up. If the values and the attitudes of the world around us are upside-down, then it is no wonder that we adopt them as normal. If our world suggests that beautiful people are better than plain people, and rich people are better than poor people, or that white-skinned people are better than brown-skinned people, then how are we to resist seeing that inversion of the truth as normal If we watch soap operas and reality shows which show human beings interact in an entirely morally neutral setting, in which sex is presented as a leisure activity, like badminton, and where people strive to put each other down in order to get a job or progress to the next round; well, no wonder that, like Professor Moon and his inverting spectacles, we get used to seeing things that way and even see them as normal. It is sometimes said of Jesus that his teaching turned the world upside-down. In fact, he turns it the right way up again. In his concern for the poor, the outcast and the underdog he shows us the proper way to look at the people around us, how to treat people with respect and how to make the world better. And in his teaching and example about the value and uniqueness of every single person, and the potential of holiness in all, he gives us hope that we too might be holy, and that there might be a different, a deeper and a better way to live. When a young girl, Mary, was told that she would be the Mother of Jesus. She responded in words that ring down to us through the centuries, rejoicing in God’s decisive action to put the world upright on its feet again: My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour… …for he has shown strength with his arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has put down the mighty from their thrones, And exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty. He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy, As He promised to our fathers, To Abraham and to his descendants for ever. (Luke 1:46-55) RMH Chaplain’s Notes
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Prize Winners 2010 Art Barnes Max S
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