House Magazine Winter 2017

Maxim Agrest, 3rd Form pupil, takes a personal journey of discovery through the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) through conversation with his Ukrainian born mother. The UK and the USSR are two very differnt places.  Or, were two very different places...

On 25 December 1991, the red flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time in history. At the same time, Mikhail Gorbachev (the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union) announced his resignation as Soviet President live on...

Schools have long been adept at keeping a record of their activities. The annual school magazine or termly newsletter are integral and familiar aspects of School life. We know and love Kestrel well as our own record of events and...

U6th IB pupil Victor De Thuin Gaviao’s original short story mirrors ‘The story of an Hour’ (1894) by Kate Chopin. It offers a parallel scene, in which Mr Mallard has just been relocated to a different place of work. The...

 The first cohort of A-level Art candidates exhibited their work in a stunning end of year show in June 2017. The Private View took place on 16 June with an excellent turn out of visitors who were clearly extremely...

I’ve been here for so long; It’s been a while. I can’t remember your face but, I can remember your smile I think back to when we first met, that’s when life was so good. I wouldn’t change anything, even...

Forget your preconceptions of GEOGRAPHY; I’d be so bold as to suggest that there is no subject that is more important to study in the World today… We live in a world changing beyond previous recognition, at a rate which is...

Did Shakespeare use Poetic Licence? The Richard III Story RICHARD III’s DEFORMITY & CHARACTER: Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most notable plays, infamous for the protagonist: King Richard III. Laurence Olivier famously played Richard in a 1955 film adaption....

 A group of our 1st and 2nd Form pupils have collaborated with their teaching assistant in Art, who is a local artist from Credigion. Having exhibited twice before at the Arad Goch centre in Wales, Miss Annie Edwards has...

Free to Act as I Must Imagine feeling that you are completely in control of yourself. Completely, utterly, wholly in control. What you think, you actualise. You are the captain of your corporeal vessel. The immaterial part of you, the...

U6th IB pupil Jasper Whitefield’s prize-winning entry for the Fitzwilliam College Cambridge Land Economy Essay Competition. “The Paris Climate Change Agreement is a ‘game-changer’ and will ensure global action to limit carbon emission.” Discuss Land Economy Essay It is important,...

Depending On How You See It. It’s all about your point of view. I see now that Obsession is the Devil’s tool I will not concede that Obsession is a sweeping look I know that Obsession preaches about the shallows...

Last Sunday: My Best Friend, There was nothing better than the time we spent, Nights and days in a blissful place, Before you departed to Heaven’s Gate. I refuse to dilapidate our memories, not cease our story here, For you...