House Magazine Summer 2018

L6th IB drama pupils visit Chichester Festival Theatre to see ‘The Country Wife’. A spectacular version of the play The Country Wife was performed on Tuesday 19th June by the Chichester theatre company at the Minerva theatre, Chichester. The play, originally written in the seventeenth century...

Each week, Mr Sibachir, on behalf of the Mathematics Department, circulates a set of Maths Challenges for the School community. Here, he presents us with a series of problems which have proved most intriguing, enjoyable or challenging to pupils and...

For much of the last two thousand years of human history, the Christian Church has been at the forefront of human intellectual development: reading and writing were the preserve of monks and priests, and those who could afford to pay...

The very nature of Science education has the unwanted side-effect of stifling creativity; we spend our time teaching very specific skills and particular ways of going about the process of discovery. This is not in itself bad, but is designed...

The Carnegie Medal is the most highly esteemed prize for writers of literature for young people. Pupils from years 7-10 tracked the award this term, working alongside their teachers to appraise the competing works and speaking to other children about...

U6th IB pupil, Yahoo Ho, looks at The Handmaid’s Tale and A Doll’s House and explores the contention that the value of much literature lies in the warnings it presents. Literature has often been used throughout history as a medium...

The Composition This is a sampled piece of music with a sampled lead and drum kit. I have cut up existing songs and very small sections of them (for example, one hit of a snare from a song) and put...

Flüchtlingskrise in Deutschland Politik in Deutschland, wie ist es überhaupt dazu gekommen das so viele Flüchtlinge nach Deutschland reingelassen wurden? Deutschland ist eine Bundesrepublik, mit einem Bundespräsidenten, der Staatsoberhaupt ist und einem beziehungsweise einer Bundeskanzlerin die Regierungschefin ist. Zu Beginn...

12th February 2018, Tower Green Four hundred and sixty-four years later. This site constructed under the order of Henry VIII Outside the Chapel of St. Peter & Vincula: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were also Executed here – before her....

For all of its greatness as one of the first modern republics and as a vast empire, it is still almost impossible to imagine ancient Rome without also thinking about the spectacle of the gladitorial games; the two seem to...

‘Unfolded’ is the title of a series of works I have completed as part of my International Baccalaureate Diploma. They are currently on display at The Bunker Gallery at King Edward’s Witley. My work in this show is in part...

Luke Whatley-Bigg (3rd Form) presents a unique view in film of the battlefield at Ypres. His original film was shot during the 3rd Form History Trip earlier in the Summer Term, and he combines this with historic footage of the scarred town...