1985 - What's On at Hutchins...

FROM THE HEADMASTER4SCHOOL SONGHutchins! Hutchins! grand and fair!The only school we serve;For thee till death we'll do and dare,And nought can make us swerve.REFRAINLet your voices ring, lads!'Tis the old School's due;Sing her praises, sing lads ­Hutchins! Hutchins! tried and true.Thy name adown the ages pastThy sons salute and cheer;And so shall we while life doth lastWith lips and lives revere.We learn thine ivied tower beneathTo play the game of life,And know they only win the wreathWho strive in honour's strife.Mayall thy sons prove evertrue,Whate'er their gifts and powers,That man may yield to thee thy due,Beloved school of ours.SCHOOL HYMNLord God, from whom all life,And all true gladness springs,Whose love and care shine everywhere.Among Earth's common things,Be present while we liftOur song to Thee, and payHeart gratitude for all things goodAbout our paths today.We thank Thee for the graceIn friend and brotherfound;For human love that points aboveTo where all love is crowned;Oh, may such friendship hereTo us Thy sons be given,As shall endure, deep, fair, and pure,Till all be one in heaven!But most we bless Thee, Lord,That here Thy Spirit's breathBlows clear and strong to baffle wrongAnd win our lives from death,Oh, may each heart acceptThe entrance of Thy power,And take Thee hence for sure defenceAnd help in evil hour!So, when the lives todayWithin our circle brought,Are sundered wide along the tideOf human work and thought,One song shall yet be ours,One life, one family,One pathway still, by vale or hill,Shall lead us home to Thee.We must recognise that when pupils enter a school theycome into a place whose ethos is or should be quite differentfrom the culture from which they have come. Secondly, wemust search more diligently for a coherent image of what itmeans to be human in the 1980s, so that human beings canagain feel potent and passionate. Just when when there isincreasing pressure for more science, more maths, morecomputer studies, more technology, we must revive thehumanities. Teachers and students need desperately todiscover and appreciate the image that others have had,images of humanity from other times and other worlds. In thelegacy of history and of literature there is one common thread.However different the images are, they all attest to somethingthat can be called the human spirit.•Self-esteem is said to be vital if any person is to make progress in the educational enterprise.But self-esteem can only be engendered in the context of world esteem. We need to believethat the world is a friendly place which has boundless possibilities for mankind. That may involveredemption, but the important thing is to believe that wholeness is possible, that we can be betterand do better, that we can make the world right for those who follow after us.In school the forum for this endeavour is the humanities. In the scramble to put more mathsand science and technology into the timetable the humanities must not be allowed to suffer. It isstill easier in our chaotic world to send a ship to the moon than it is to send a shipload of food tostarving people in the north of Ethiopia. However, thousands of young people have shown thatthey are sensitive to that dilemma, and in that demonstration of the human spirit shining throughthe gloom lies our hope and our inspiration.Out of the meaningless practical shapes of all that is living or lifelessJoined with the artist's eye, new life, new form, new colour.Out of the sea of sound the life of music,Out oft~e slimy mud of words, out of the sleet and hail of verbal imprecisions,ApprOXimate thoughts and feelings, words that have taken the place ofthought and feelings,There spring the perfect order of speech, and the beauty of incantation.LORD, shall we not bring these gifts to Your service?Shall we not bring to Your service all our powersFor life, for dignity, grace and order,And intellectual pleasures of the senses?T. S. Eliot, "The Rock"The opening of the Ray Vincent Wing has been a highlight of 1985. It recognises thestalwart service of our long time secretary of the Old Boys Association whose contribution to theHutchins School has been phenomenal. The new wing also provides much needed facilities andshould mark a big step forward in academic aspirations and achievements.The relocation of the Sub-Primary School and the extension and upgrading of the boardinghouse will occupy the Board of Management and the builders in 1986. Beyond this we haveplans to extend Music and the Manual Arts, to extend the cultural facilities in the Junior School toprovide outdoor seating for recess times, and to refurbish the original buildings.'It ~ives ~e great satisfaction to have seen the school grow in its capacity to provide a propereducation for Its students. I shall have had a hand in twenty-three major capital developments andit has been inspiring to see the way in which the Board of Management and the Hutchins familyhave risen to the challenge year after year.Those who live and work in a place so caringly and sacrificially provided have a responsibilityto use their gifts and talents in the best way possible. 5