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Latymer Boat Club, with two NSR medals, a host of other grow. I look forward to encouraging new generations of J14sgreat performances, with a record number of rowers, to the sport of rowing at the Godolphin and Latymer Schoolseventy in number. The Boat Club has come a long way Boat Club, and working with Godolphin and Latymer Boatsince 2008, growing from seven rowers to seventy, our Club’s new Head of Rowing, Mrs Allison Duggan to ensurefirst ever overseas rowing camp at Easter in France in 2015 the Boat Club’s continued success.(subsequently in Portugal), Henley Women’s Regatta for Mr Edward Benton, Head of Rowing 2008 - 2018the first time 2013/14, with the Head of the Charles Regatta Boat Club Prizes 2018: Most Promising J18 - Libbyin 2016 and Henley Royal Regatta in 2017 for a first time, Bryant, Most Promising J16 - Alex Riddell-Webster, Mosta first ever Schools’ Head win in 2016 in the WJ16 fours, Promising J15 - Caroline Corrigan, Most Promising J14 -first ever top 50 at WEHORR in 2017, and six hard fought Catherine Benson, Senior Coxswain - Taz Thorowgood,NSR medals, with a silver medal in the WJ15 fours in 2011, Junior Coxswain - Sara Allinson-Agharokh, Sculler’s Shieldsilver in WJ18 fours in 2016, double gold in WJ18 fours - Louise Bonnor-Moris, Biggest Ergo - India Colegrave,and CHG2- in 2017, and the double bronzes in 2018. This Biggest J15 Ergo - Delilah Wilson, Biggest J14 Ergo -wouldn’t have been possible without the dedication of our Georgina Morrow, Most Committed - Florence Hockaday,coaching team, the hard work of the rowers and the support Most Improved J14 - Esther Tregear, Most Improved J15of parents and the school. The current rowing successes - Jasmine Rush, Fiercist Cox - Costi Giovene, PB on Ergowould not be possible without the amazing work done by - Maddie Grussing, Most Improved Technique - Maddyour Seniors and Lead Coach, Mr Dan Safdari, J16s coaches Macbeth, Best Attendance - Jacqueline Byun.Dr Fraser Harris and Mr Jack Elkington, J15s coach MrsAllison Duggan, and J14 coaches Mr Julian Egan-Shuttler,Ms Jess Chichester and Mr Ben Moore. Thank you all verymuch! It is with sadness that I am stepping down as Headof Rowing in 2018, as the program is now so much bigger.It has been a privilege and an honour to help the Boat Club 101

Library Throughout the last academic year, the Library has popular books at Godolphin and Latymer – Bubble Boy continued to offer fantastic support to students and staff and All the Things That Could Go Wrong. He started his with their information needs, as well as preparing for some talk by showing photos of people, and asked if the audience exciting changes in the near future. thought they were authors, or not. Year 7 enthusiastically With a wonderful collection of print, audiovisual and digital answer to the affirmative in most cases, especially when resources, the Library has a wealth of academically rigorous J. K. Rowling’s face came up! Stewart then tied in the last information, as well as a lively collection of quality fiction. photo of himself, aged eleven, to start his talk about writing, Students clamour to enter the Library before the official which Year 7 all enjoyed. opening time of 8am, and each day is busy with Sixth Throughout the year, the Library has hosted several Formers working hard in the Winterstoke Library, Lower departmental displays, where Biology, Classics, English, School pupils borrowing the latest books in the Fiction Chemistry, Economics, MFL and Stem Week all curated Library, and Middle School pupils working collaboratively fantastic book displays about their subjects. Pictures of in the Gallery or Dean Libraries. these displays are featured on the Library’s Twitter feed, In early October, two well respected authors visited @GandLLibrary. Displays have also been curated for Godolphin and Latymer to talk to students about writing Challenge Your Limits Week, World Empathy Day and and identity. Linda Newbery talked to Years 9 and 10, who Diversity Week. For World Book Day on Thursday 1 March, enjoyed her insights into writing, and how she is personally many of the staff dressed as Where’s Wally, which caused inspired to write stories. Years 7 and 8 heard Nikki Sheehan much amusement from the student body! talk about her latest book, Goodnight Boy, which was In late April, Godolphin and Latymer again hosted the nominated for the 2018 Carnegie Medal. Nikki gave a talk CWIZZ, a Literary Quiz for local Year 6 and 7 students. about creativity, and how it applies to us all as writers. Her Fifteen schools from Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing aim was to empower our Years 7 and 8 to understand why and Kensington and Chelsea sent teams to compete, and creativity is very important and relevant to them. a fun time was had by all, answering literature questions On Wednesday 31 January, the author Stewart Foster visited about both current and classic books. Latymer Upper won Godolphin, to talk to Year 7. Stewart has written two very this year, and we look forward to competing down the road at LUS in 2019!102

The end of June saw the 3rd annual Literature Week, where for House Points, students could “spot the teacher” wearingthis year’s theme was Identity. Lower School heard several coloured stickers, to engage them about their book choices.teachers, and the Librarian, talking about their favourite Over the course of the year, Reading Groups for all yearbooks, at the Literature Week launch assembly on Monday. groups have run. Years 8 and 9 Reading Group looked atAt lunch, a Summer Reading activity took place in the the Trinity Schools Book Awards shortlist, Middle SchoolLibrary Garden, where Sixth Formers shared their favourite looked at various Science Fiction and Fantasy Classics,books with their audience, and old-fashioned lemonade such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and the Sixthwent down a treat in the warm weather! On the Tuesday, Form Reading Group started off looking at the Man Bookerauthor Juno Dawson visited, first talking to Lower Sixth shortlist, before moving onto an exciting collection of newand then Years 9 and 10. Juno’s talk about her identity as a or classic fiction. Year 7 shadowed the 2018 Carnegie Medaltransgender author, and her books, was very well received by shortlist.all who heard her inspirational talk. On Wednesday, Irena This year the Library also weeded around 9000 booksBrignull visited to talk to Years 7 and 8 about writing books, to make space on the shelves. The introduction of a newand screenplays for popular films. On Thursday another Library system of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)Literature Week assembly addressed to Year 10 and LVI, was planned over the year, with installation over theshowcased teachers’ favourite books. At lunch time on this summer holiday 2018. This new technology will allowday, the ever popular Literary Cake Sale took place, with all students and staff to self-issue their books, using touchmonies raised going to the DoorStep Library charity. screen and biometric technology! The ground floor of theFriday was a very busy day, with Book Speed Dating for Year Library was also refurbished, with a new entrance to the10 at form time, the House Literature Quiz at lunch, and the Fiction Library created, improving the look of this area.Year 7 Mystery of the Golden Pen in the early evening. This The Library continues to offer a curated collection of printevening event was a great success, and our Year 7 detectives resources, alongside a strong collection of powerful onlinedid a great job of solving the Mystery. Literature Week databases, eBooks, Audiobooks and much more! Please seeencouraged both students and staff to investigate what the Library website for more information.books mean to them, and reading for pleasure. Reading By Mr Bentonfor pleasure can improve mental self-imagery, increaseempathy and strengthen your sense of self. Over this week, 103

Higher Education Medical Portal Training Day On Saturday 12 May aspiring medics and dentists were also joined by students from Greenford High School for the Medic Portal’s UKCAT and BMAT training day. This intense course offers students the opportunity to apply new strategies to solve problems at speed. The day was also a perfect opportunity for students to share the insight they have gained through work experience placements and recommend to each other the lectures, books and online courses that have inspired them the most over the last year. Oxford and Cambridge Workshop Last May, many of the Lower Sixth attended the Oxford London Free School, Greenford High, to participate in the and Cambridge workshop organised by the Higher workshop. Throughout the morning, we were given several Education team to explain the Oxbridge application opportunities to discuss our motivations with both our process, and also to give a taste of what it means to study peers and students from the other schools. This allowed at Oxbridge. Godolphin and Latymer, being a school that me to discover a variety of perspectives and opinions highly values the sharing of knowledge and opportunities that I would not have heard otherwise. One aspect of the among the community, also invited other local secondary workshop that I found particularly useful was the practice schools, including Kensington Aldridge Academy, West interview questions, as they pushed me outside of my104

Cross-curricular DayThe Higher Education and Careers team organises for Year We dived in and rapidly researched the work roles within9, every year, a Cross-Curricular Day. the company. Subsequently, we made an advertising boardThe event is a very useful platform to peruse a selection of and a film of IHG for the fair, which we presented to theroles within different business organisations and to visualize people in the audience. Other teams worked for JUST EAT,various career patterns. We were asked to work as Public Walt Disney and many more. I think our client would haveRelations companies, tasked by their corporation clients to been pleased as we were voted Most Informative Team ofcreate for them a Careers Fair display. The display would the fair! The day also included an interesting speech fromillustrate the meanders of the corporation, the different an Old Dolphin, now working at Deutsche Bank, about herdepartments, the roles, the career paths, and overall how work.the company functions and thrives. The format of the event is excellent as it is highly interactiveIn the team of six fellow pupils I was with, we quickly set up and promotes the direct understanding of so many differentour PR company, created our own logo and assigned roles businesses. I particularly enjoyed identifying various rolesto ourselves. Our first client was the International Hotel and responsibilities and being creative in making the videoGroup. and the board about our client. By Dilia Thovez, Year 9comfort zone by making me reflect on my thought process and thanks to the large amount of support at Godolphinin a way I never had before. We were also privileged to hear and Latymer, I am now finding the application much lessfrom a representative of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge daunting.who outlined the various steps in the application process, By Camilla Butters, Lower Sixthfocusing on the interview and personal statement, whilstalso speaking enthusiastically about life at Cambridge.Overall, the workshop was incredibly useful and effectivelylaid out the steps I should follow in my Oxbridge application 105

MusicChoir Tour to Venice Scholars’ ConcertOur choir tour to Venice included performances at St The first of its kind, our Scholars’ Concert was a sublimeMark’s Basilica, La Pietà (Vivaldi’s Church) and San celebration of the extraordinary musical talent of ourGiovanni Battista. The girls sang a classical programme of fifteen music scholars. With a programme ranging fromEnglish and Italian sacred and operatic repertoire ranging Mozart to Debussy and Elgar, the audience delighted infrom Palestrina to Rutter via Vivaldi. There was also time solo performances from different instrumental disciplinesfor a walking tour of the city, visits to the Palazzo Ducale, – five violinists, three flautists, two clarinettists, a pianist,Musical Museum, Gallerie dell’Accademia and the lagoon two cellists and one vocal performance. Every scholarislands of Murano, Burano and Torcello. performed with poise, confidence and a high level of musicality. It truly was a feast of exceptional music-making, enjoyed by all. Instrumental and Singing Staff Fundraiser Concert Our year of musical events was gloriously kick-started by a wonderful concert put on by members of the Music Department to raise money for the charity, Sarcoma UK. Girls got to see their teachers in action as they performed a recital of varied repertoire. We raised £677 and very much hope that this will be the start of many department fundraisers!106

ENO Opera Trip, ‘Aida’ Festival of LessonsGirls studying GCSE and A Level music had an enjoyable and Carolsnight at the opera to see Verdi’s iconic ‘Aida’ at the LondonColiseum. For some girls, this was their first experience of The annual ‘Festival of Lessons and Carols’ is always aseeing an opera, so they were mesmerised by the sublime particular highlight for our Sixth Form choristers andsoprano and tenor arias, grand choruses and poignant this year the standard of vocal talent was particularlytragic ending. high. Charlotte Moore in Year 7 confidently opened both services with the traditional first verse of ‘Once In RoyalAutumn Concert David’s City’ and the senior and junior choirs offered a wonderful programme of music to get everyone into theOn Wednesday 22 November the Music Department Christmas spirit. Particular highlights included the Yearpresented their Autumn Concert. The concert showcased 7 choir’s rendition of Gardner’s ‘The Holly and the Ivy’,Godolphin and Latymer’s orchestras (including the Senior Chamber Choir’s five-part arrangement of ‘Coventrynewly formed Junior Chamber Orchestra), a selection of Carol’ and Elgar’s ‘The Snow’ and Junior Chamber Choir’sinstrumental ensembles and our choirs. The programme rousing finale of ‘The Sussex Carol.’ All choirs and soloistsdisplayed a variety of repertoire from Concert Band’s performed to the highest standards and it really was a‘Phantom of the Opera’ medley to ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ festive end to a busy term.overture rousingly performed by the Senior ChamberOrchestra. The second half exhibited the dulcet tones of the Senior House Musicchoirs with music by Bob Chilcott (the Year 8 and 9 Choir’s Festivalrendition of ‘Like a Singing Bird’ was particularly moving)and some Ivor Novello to finish. The girls looked the part Musicians from Years 11-13 took part in the Senior Housein their new all-black concert dress and cheers of ‘encore’ Music Festival this year and the standard was incrediblysuggested that the audience really enjoyed all that they high. Girls competed in preliminary rounds throughoutheard. It really was a fabulous evening! the day and the top three from each category proceeded to the ‘Grand Final’, which was adjudicated this year by Leigh O’Hara, Director of Music at St Paul’s Girls’ School. Categories ranged from solo string and woodwind to vocal duet, musical theatre and ensemble groups. It was a most enjoyable evening displaying a very high level of musical talent. 107

Chamber Music PTFA Jazz Evening Concert On the evening of Friday 27 April, the Bishop Centre was transformed into a glitzy black and red themed Jazz To celebrate the many chamber groups that have formed Club, with parents enjoying a three-course meal to a this year, the Music Department hosted an informal programme of classic jazz repertoire organised by the concert for our small ensembles to perform their pieces. Music Department. Guests were greeted by Godolphin and Repertoire included a Faure Piano Trio, Mozart Sonata for Latymer’s lively Swing Band, who performed two medleys Violin and Piano, String Quartets and a vocal duet that will of jazz classics. As courses were served, vocal performances be performed as part of the Venice Choir Tour. from Abigail Turner, Bronwyn Lowe, Amelia White, Kate Devey, Alexandra Riklin, Molly Mantle, Mia Rolland- Spring Choral Bezem, Aimee Wilmot and Amy Snudden were enjoyed Concert featuring by the audience. The girls looked very glamorous in their a performance of full-length evening dresses, with songs ranging from Handel’s ‘Messiah: ‘Summertime’ to ‘I Put a Spell on You’ and ‘A Sunday kind Part One’ of Love’. We welcomed jazz pianist, Dominic Doutney, who provided background music as guests enjoyed their meal (professionally served by our World Challenge students), and Ariane Bardonnet, Nina Wittman and Sarah Bettis delighted the audience further with their saxophone and piano ensemble. The evening was a fabulous success and enjoyed by all. With huge thanks to the PTFA and Music Department staff. The annual Spring Choral Concert was a memorable Spring Instrumental celebration of singing within Godolphin and Latymer, Concert and an opportunity to bring girls, staff, parents and Old Dolphins together in our performance of Handel’s Godolphin and Latymer instrumentalists finally got to ‘Messiah: Part One’. With soloists given by girls and an perform repertoire they had been rehearsing for some accompanying orchestra comprising members of Senior time, due to this concert being postponed from the spring Chamber Orchestra, the evening was a real celebration term because of the snow! And it was well worth the wait. of community, ending on a particular high note with the The first half of the concert displayed some of our smaller famous ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus. The girls thoroughly enjoyed ensembles, including our lively Percussion Ensemble (‘The learning the famous choruses from Handel’s masterpiece, Pink Panther’), Flute Trio (Zempleni’s ‘Trio), Recorder and the staff, adult and Old Dolphin choir was the largest Ensemble (‘Once Upon a Dream’) and Swing Band (‘It’s the school has seen for several years. Congratulations to all Don’t Mean a Thing). Holsts’ ‘Mars’ and ‘Venus’ opened who took part. the second half, confidently played by Concert Band, and the focal point of our concert were the two concerto movements, Bach Concerto for Two Violins performed by Isabel Roberts and Katya Sloboda-Bolton, and Elgar’s Cello Concerto, First Movement, performed by Natalie Alfille-Cook. Our Lower Sixth Music Scholars performed with great musicality and professionalism, and we applaud them for working tremendously hard on such challenging repertoire. Junior Chamber Orchestra ended the evening with a rousing rendition of Bizet’s ‘L’Arlésienne’ – Suite No. 2. With thanks to all of our performers who took part, professional musicians who joined us, and our Music Department staff.108

Junior House Music Summer ConcertFestival The musical year came to a glorious finale with the SummerPart two of this year’s House Music Festivals took place Concert. As our older girls had left for the exam season,on a lovely summer’s eve in AMS for our junior year this concert was a celebration of younger talent within thegroups. Following record sign-up to this event, girls in school. One of the highlights was the presentation of theYear 7-10 performed their piece in the categories across Year 7 ‘Ukulele Band’ following a project that the whole yearthe preliminary rounds with the top three being selected to group had embarked upon this term. Their performance ofparticipate in the Grand Final. We welcomed adjudicator, ‘Wipe Out’ was really impressive and we thank Mr NevilleTony Henwood (Director of Music at Latymer Upper who accompanied on percussion! The audience were alsoSchool) who offered wonderful feedback to our performers delighted to a performance by our tour choir who will thisand commented on the very high standard of musicality. summer be performing in venues around Venice. We wishCongratulations to all girls who took part and particularly them a fantastic tour and the best of luck! With thanks tothose who made it through to the final. Miss Reid and the music department for organising this wonderful end of term event. By Lisa McAdam, Director of Music 109

Student Wellbeing Committee The Student Wellbeing Committee is a group of fifteen discussion on why the stigma exists and what we can do to sixth formers, Year 10 students and two staff members who reduce it. discuss challenges to positive welfare within Godolphin and Latymer and plan initiatives to address these issues. We The second talk in the lecture series was given by Georgia aim to increase awareness of methods of boosting positive Church on ‘Mental Health Mythbusting’, which was highly mental health as well as introducing new ideas to improve informative and sparked some very important conversations the wellbeing of students as a whole. The Student Wellbeing following the unravelling of common misconceptions Committee has been running since Autumn 2017, and is surrounding mental health from Georgia’s personal fully committed to improving student welfare for years to experiences. The final talk was on ‘Effectively Managing come. Stress through Goal Setting’. It was given by Annabel Howell This year, we have run several events around school and Millie White and provided an important practical including World Mental Health D ay, a wellbeing lecture solution to maintaining a good work balance. series and various assemblies that aimed to increase We will continue the lecture series in 2018-19 as a more discussion around mental wellbeing. regular occurrence; so look out for more talks on tackling World Mental Health Day aimed to address the issue of misconceptions and creating a positive environment what mental health meant to the Godolphin and Latymer next year. Our aim is to make a lasting impression on the community, and served as a platform to remind students wellbeing of Godolphin and Latymer students and instill and staff of the importance of looking after the mental practices that may help students throughout their whole aspect of their wellbeing. We started off the day by handing life. out yellow smiley face stickers to all students as they were By Xii Cin Lim, Lower Sixth coming into school and contributed to the Daily Dolphin so that we could get our message across. The Daily Dolphin highlighted our top tips for having good mental health and featured a calming playlist which was collated by committee members Sophia Wrede and Rosie Lowit. During break time and lunchtime, members of the committee stood in the corridor to get students to contribute to a ‘What does mental health mean to me?’ board. This enabled us to start the conversation about mental health and get people thinking about it. Our other initiative, the lecture series, started with the topic ‘What is mental health?’ This introductory talk by Hannah O’Keeffe, Maddie Grussing and Xii Lim focused on comparing emotional health and mental health as well as looking at ways to boost mental health. It was attended by staff and students, an important step in bridging the gap between the two in order to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. This encouraged some really interesting110

New YorkExchangeIn March, students from the Brearley school in NYC hadarrived in London (strangers to us at this point) waiting tofind us with banners and hugs. We spent a week showingthem round our favourite haunts and at JFK we weregreeted with much the same welcome.After the jet lag had been combated, the first weekend one Sephora. From reenacting Titanic on the Staten Islandwas spent whirling around the city. We got to know our Ferry to visiting a sample sale at the Chelsea Market, thisexchanges’ families, and were full of stories to tell each other part of the trip was the unexpected highlight, as the teacherswhen we met up on Tuesday to go to school. We tried ramen allowed us a lot of input into what we were doing and let usburgers (would highly recommend!), went record shopping stop at almost all of the food places we paused to marvel atin Brooklyn, picnicked in Central Park, watched Mean Girls on our way to various museums.the musical, and two girls even went outside the city to theirbuddies’ country houses, where they spent Memorial daywater skiing and swimming in lakes. It was daunting at first,being thrust into a foreign city not knowing what we wouldbe doing and staying with families we had never met butwe were reassured by the unwavering hospitality of all ourhosts.On the Tuesday, we spent the day at Brearley, a far cry from By the time we said an emotional goodbye to our buddiesthe schools that ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘High School Musical’ had at JFK and vowed to meet up soon, we felt almost like localsprepared us for. The school was right next to the river on and had our New York twangs down to a tee. We arrivedthe Upper East Side and just five minutes away from my home with dark circles under our eyes and leftover Sephoraexchange’s apartment. When we arrived we went downstairs samples smudged on our faces, not quite believing it wasto the cafeteria, where we feasted upon blueberry bagels, over. Since we’ve been home, we have kept in contact witha choice of ten different types of tea and even doughnuts! our buddies and often laugh with them over selfies with theThe first lesson was Science, here the students tapped away places we visited or the slew of inside jokes we developedat their apple laptops making notes. Next, we took the whilst we were there. But whether we text them everyday orschool elevator to an empty classroom to spend our free never see them again, we had an unforgettable trip and haveperiod. In the free period I saw some familiar faces, and been indelibly shaped by our experiences in the Big Apple.met some new ones as we chatted to our buddies’ friends By Phoebe Pascoe, Year 10who were thrilled by our ‘hilarious’ accents. The day rushedby (perhaps because they finish school a little after 2pm)and we spent lunch sitting on the steps of a park by theriver, drinking iced chai lattes and admiring the view. Theday was finished by a burger at JG Melon’s (the supposedbest burgers in all of Manhattan), cookies on the steps ofthe Metropolitan Museum of Art and a walk past a certainGossip Girl character’s Upper East Side mansion.The rest of the week was spent exploring the city withMiss Barac and Miss Coto Diaz during the day, and withour buddies in the evenings. We saw the statue of Liberty,the costume exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ofArt, the Tenement Museum and the inside of more than 111

Year 10 Bonding Day At the beginning of the year, Year 10 went on a bonding we had to go through certain tunnels and had to find trip to Hillingdon Outdoor Activities Centre. It was a trip to our way back to the same room. We did this a few times, develop each of our learning habits and to get to know each sometimes entering different tunnels, sometimes meeting other more as we switched classes from Year 9. in other rooms, until she told us that we had to do the same One of the first activities we did was high ropes. Although route but with our flashlights off, giving all of us a shock! it was quite terrifying, this was one of the highlights of the Next it was time to play a game! It was extremely difficult to day where we were able to grow as a class and for a few of us, contain our laughing being huddled together in pitch black face our fears. First, we had to do a course that was around playing Sardines with someone coming extremely close but ten to fifteen metres in the air. We climbed up a pole one by still unable to find us! one after our harnesses and carabiners had been attached, In the afternoon was Dragon-boat Racing. We split up into and started our journey. Everyone encouraged each other two teams and each team went on a different boat with an to not be afraid, and we all laughed as we traversed the instructor. The boats themselves seemed really big, with many challenging aspects of the course, such as crossing fifteen rowers on each side. The two teams worked hard to the climbing wall, crawling through the barrels and simply compete in several races, with a drummer at the front of the swinging along. Then came the end where every single one boat and songs to encourage us. The race was intense but of us had to really challenge our limits and leap off from also fun as we got splashed with water! the top of the frame onto a mat. After this, we went to the The other activity we took part in was raft building. We were second part of the high ropes: a race. We were divided into first taught a specific knot and how to assemble our raft. We two teams and would go up against each other in a scramble were quite limited in the resources that they provided us to be the first to reach the top as our team members chanted and some groups had some difficulty with ropes and such our names and congratulated us afterwards. The final part however none of the groups failed to make the perfect raft. of this activity, however, was the one where we were able to The resources included several ropes, wooden planks and bond the most as a group: the infamous Jacob’s Ladder. In barrels. When we were finished with our raft we pushed groups of four we helped each other as much as possible to it into the lake and were given paddles, helmets and life climb as high as we could without leaving anyone behind. jackets. Each group had to race towards a flag and get it Even the people who were on the ground would help by back to the bank as soon as possible. All the groups paddled telling us what we could do to climb even higher and as fast as they could while the instructors drove their speed supporting us all the way through. It was a huge amount boats to create small waves for us. After all the screaming of fun. and paddling, we all finally made it back to the bank! The caving activity was next. Two sections of tunnels were The trip was really helpful as it helped us develop shown to us just outside the caving area; although one was our learning habits even more. Especially teamwork, smaller than the other, both were still worryingly small (lots collaboration, listening, resilience and perseverance. of “how on earth am I supposed to crawl in that!?” could The students had a wonderful time and we would like to be heard from almost everyone). As soon as we put on our thank all the teachers who came with us on the trip and helmets similar to the ones we wore for the ropes (except the teachers who organised the trip for us. Thank you very for the flashlights which were very fun to switch in between much! We all had lots of fun! the types of light), we had to crawl through a short tunnel. By, Maria Baranova, Violette Chereau, Mee Reu Won and Then, we entered a surprisingly spacious room, only lit by Niki Yeang, Year 10 our flashlights. Most of us crawled on our knees, but some of us found it easier to slide along on our backs propelling forward with our legs. Our instructor then explained that112

Model UnitedNationsLast year at Model United Nations we went to three The Year 11 conference was a great success. With the helpconferences and ran our own conference for the Year 11s of fifteen MUN members to teach the syllabus createdhere at school. by the captains, we were able to teach the basics of MUNOur first external conference was at the London Oratory to Year 11. Over the course of a half-term we deliveredSchool. Representing Russia, Venezuela and Colombia, our lessons about the UN’s aims, importance, strengths andeleven Godolphin and Latymer MUNers quickly got into weaknesses, MUN language, procedure, clause writingthe debates, on topics ranging from extrajudicial killings and debating. After six weeks, everyone came togetherand child marriage to overcrowding in prisons. Sasha into six debates and a General Assembly. Notable momentsrounded up the day by giving an impassioned speech in the included North Korea making a patriotic statement withGeneral Assembly, whilst Nathalie and Sophia took home the national anthem blaring in the background and aHighly Commended and Best Delegate awards. dramatic crisis video by the not so ‘anonymous’ Dr SnookOur second conference was just around the corner, at St and Dr Woodbury, declaring war on oil-rich countries.Paul’s Boys. Another successful conference, Godolphin It was excellent to have so many Year 11s participatingreceived awards and everyone had lots of fun.. enthusiastically and especially great to see those that hadHABSMUN was our third conference. Battling all elements been shy at the beginning making impassioned speeches by- from snow to hail - we survived the trek up to Elstree. the end, truly demonstrating MUN’s purpose of buildingAgain, the Godolphin MUNers took to debating instantly public speaking skills and confidence.like dolphins to water, with breaks of rap battles, attempted By Sophia Dyvik Henke and Ella von Baeyer, Lower Sixthsnowball fights and pun-filled note passing to let off steamin between heated debates. 113

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Staff Leavers Sue Adey A tribute from Anna Paul occasion when she saw Sue cross, and instead remembers Sue Adey worked at Godolphin and Latymer for an lots of laughter, which is something I think we all associate astonishing 31 years, but we were lucky that she ever worked with Sue. Apparently Sue’s least successful moment was for the school at all. Sue drove to her interview here with when she tried to introduce a non-competitive sports week, a friend who also had an interview scheduled with Miss which caused total misery to such a sporty year group and Rudland - the Headmistress at the time - but they got stuck which she quickly abandoned after day 2! She is a brilliant in traffic and her poor friend missed her interview entirely! badminton player and passionate about hockey. Kate recalls Fortunately for us, Sue arrived in time for her interview and the girls’ love of listening to her stories about playing for the was duly appointed as a PE teacher and the rest, as they say, National league side in Slough and all her famous England is history. hockey friends like Karen Brown. Sue’s reputation is, without question, spread far and wide It is clear from Kate’s memories that Sue was much loved beyond the confines of the Iffley Road gates. Stories abound by her students; she was highly committed to the inclusive about the years that she ran the Christmas Bazaar with such approach which marks out sport at Godolphin. Kate gusto and commitment that she would drum up support describes how she has never forgotten Sue’s faith in them by dressing up in a whole range of imaginative costumes. as a team to succeed, and they kept that feeling all the way These include the famous ‘cookie monster’ and the most through to the Sixth Form. A lot of the Old Dolphins still memorable ‘toothbrush’, with the message ‘don’t forget your play competitive sport and maintain a love of sport, and toothbrush and don’t forget the Christmas Bazaar’. Sue’s that is down to the experiences they had at Godolphin and love of the theatrical meant she embraced the staff dramatic Sue’s enthusiasm and commitment to her subject. More performances for the students, which were a feature of personally, Kate describes Sue as an inspiration to her and school life in Miss Rudland’s time as Head; one of Sue’s part of the reason she came back to Godolphin to teach - favourite memories of that is of the Head and her Deputy which I think is a wonderful tribute and testimony to Sue’s being Bill and Ben the flower pot men! As well as the Bazaar, great capacity to inspire others. Sue is famous for having organised more ski trips than she I would like to mention what Sue has meant to me personally has had hot dinners, and for organising them supremely in my time here. Sue has been an endless support to me. well. Despite her sense of fun, Sue was a colleague who My role as Deputy Head, Pastoral, can bring times that could be relied on to take on the more formal duties with involve dealing with quite complex situations. Sue brought the most diligent care: Sue assisted the examinations officer good humour, dedication, sensitivity and true wisdom during her time here and was assiduous in all aspects of the to the times we shared. Her humour saw us through a role – even when required to patiently measure the distance number of challenges in the pastoral team, and I know the between each and every desk in the examinations hall. Lower School team in particular will testify to this. She is Sue was instrumental in the introduction of a formal profoundly kind, warm and optimistic and her optimism is pastoral care structure at Godolphin that underpins much an inspiration: she always sees the good in people, always of the organisation of the school today; she was the first looks for the best to happen, always has goodness and Head of Lower School to be appointed when the decision generosity at her core and always sees the bright side of life. was taken to introduce Heads of Section in 1994. On behalf of the many hundreds - if not thousands - of girls For many Old Dolphins, Sue is most fondly remembered Sue has supported, and the many members of the pastoral for a role in the PE Department. One such Old Dolphin team she has worked with, I would like to offer Sue the is Ms Kate Frayling, our physics teacher, who was in Year most heartfelt thank you for everything she did in her time 9 here when Sue arrived at the school. Kate’s year group here, and to thank her for everything she has done for me. was the PE department’s dream – very keen on sport, and It was a privilege to work with Sue and we wish her every they lived in the sports department. Kate recalls how her happiness in her retirement. hockey team was always met by an energetic, enthusiastic Anna Paul, Deputy Head, Pastoral and very welcoming Miss Adey. Kate can’t recollect a single118

Ella Barden know what shredding involves, but I expect most of us would be exhausted by the mere description.We were very sorry to bid farewell last summer to Ella Barden, Another law of Physics states that an object will stay ina brilliant physicist and teacher, who had a huge impact on motion unless acted upon by an outside force. But whatthe school with particularly amazing contributions to the force could stop Ella’s momentum, drive and commitment?Sixth Form. Paying tribute to her scientific enthusiasms, We have no doubt that she will continue both demonstratingElla can be described as having arrived like the cosmic and defying the laws of Physics in her new job as Head ofBig Bang. Tthen, if there was space to expand into, Ella Sixth Form. We will miss her hugely wish her every success!was there, from the Sixth Form team, to Naidu House, the By Caroline DrennanCareers in Science Programme, Entrepreneurial Education,and Challenge your Limits to name but a few.Never shying away from evolutionary forces, she showed Katie Birdimmense appetite for learning, forever coming up withnew initiatives. Exhibiting huge gravitational pull, her Katie Bird may have only been with us for a year but indesk would attract, intriguing physics lesson plans and that time she showed much passion and enthusiasm inpresentations on a daily basis. Who else could get quite so everything she did. This manifested itself in a variety ofexcited about the possibilities of a spreadsheet! Ella’s desire ways, from creating new resources for the iPad to coachingto maximise student learning potential made her a key netball, tennis or rounders, or working with her form group.member of her Teaching and Learning Community, and on I know both the PE department and our students are sad tothe Extended Leadership Team, she engaged fully with the see her go. Katie’s interest in pastoral care has led her to takechallenges of whole-school issues. up a position as Head of Year 7. She will continue to teachSo what about Einstein’s theory of general relativity - that PE alongside her new responsibilities. We wish her the bestspace and time are not absolutes? Ella arrived looking of luck and thank her for all her efforts.young enough to be challenged at the staff room door, By Ellen Elfick, Director of Sportand despite pastoral wear and tear, she still looked prettymuch unscathed when she left. What she could staggeringly Katy Blattachieve in an hour, or a day, suggests that time simply ran ata different rate for her. Katy Blatt came to Godolphin and Latymer seven yearsIsaac Newton proposed that two objects will always exert ago half way through her PGCE in 16+ education at Citya gravitational force on each other. Ella has always drawn Lit. Bursting with energy and enthusiasm, she gained anpeople to her – students, colleagues across the school and immediate rapport with the students. Her performance asparents. She has been praised as ‘the most supportive and a classroom teacher in terms of knowledge and expertise,inspirational mentor a new teacher could have.’ Showing resourcing, preparing classes and delivering the syllabusimmense interest in everyone, she supported tutors, was equal to that of a much more experienced teacher.students and parents and remained unfailingly positive. During her time at G&L, Katy worked on the introductionThe law of Occam’s razor is the problem-solving principle of Art History to the IB programme, was responsiblethat the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. for the Oxbridge classes and shared the running of theInnovative, logical and thorough, Ella made problem ARTiculation competition and SPLAT society. Always verysolving simple, and as a natural coach, she delighted in tuned-in to individual students’ emotional and educationalfinding ways to empower staff and students to find their issues, the majority of her teaching last year focused on theown solutions. PSHE programme for younger girls.Ella was also able to defy the laws of Physics. The first law Her love of public performance was notorious and noof thermodynamics states that energy can’t be made out of one who saw her lower and middle school assemblies onnothing, but Ella could energise a room where previously Holbein’s Ambassadors, or Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Bethrothalthere was no energy at all – stirring reluctant LVI to tidy up will ever forget them. Just as memorable was her assemblythe common room was a perfect example. Her own energy on Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ - the topic of her recentreserves and her ability to smile seemed unlimited – evenafter an intense early morning shredding workout. I don’t 119

book aimed at Sixth Form students. Although Art History This superb organisation, commitment and dedication was her day job, Katy’s heart was in music. As a professional extended to her pastoral work where she was a lower school violinist, she incorporated music within her teaching, tutor for the majority of her career. It was always impressive for example using pace and rhythm to help understand how well she instantly got to know her pupils; she spotted architecture.. Several staff became willing “groupies” for her their character traits and made sure that each pupil gypsy band Los Pelos Rizos, which even played at the staff progressed pastorally or academically as an individual. Christmas party. We wish her all the best in her new role in They equally knew her so well, a fact demonstrated by charge of Art History at Queen’s College. how personal her many thank-you presents were.A prolific By Caroline Osborne reader and museum-goer, Mattie took it upon herself to expand all of our horizons; she shared her views on books Mattie Cockbain and exhibitions with the department and the girls, many of whom take the opportunity to follow her recommendations. Mattie Cockbain has been a wonderful teacher, colleague ong before the term dual coding became popular. Mattie and friend throughout her 27 years at Godolphin and brought art into the classroom as a way of accessing history! Latymer. Having been a Medieval Historian at Oxford, One of the most amazing things about her lessons was she quickly demonstrated her capacity to turn her hand to lovely atmosphere of shared academic growth is that the anything as she taught a whole range of early modern and lessons begin with the girls sharing their reading and visits modern subjects all the way to A Level. There is no finer with Mattie and vice versa – there is a. accolade that can be paid to Mattie than the number of Mattie’s colleagues are eternally grateful for her support. students and parents who expressed sorrow at her leaving.. Despite not being officially required Mattie helped to induct Pupils have sought her out personally to say a ‘proper many a new historian into the department.Equally, Mattie goodbye’ over the recent weeks and her former pupils who had many a new teacher as her form deputy, inducting them are now staff members have remembered her lessons with into the pastoral life of the school. The annual residential fondness. Victoria Robinson remembers Mattie’s neat and battlefields trip is another area where Mattie excelled and diligent lines of text on the board in Year 7 and 8 back in will be sorely missed: Head counting, sandwich making the day when computers were the size of cars and hence the duty and ‘don’t go near the barbed wire and unexploded teacher’s brain and what it could retain and produce in an devices duty’ will be very different next year without Mattie, instant were key! Victoria also remembers, which is true to although I hold out hopes that we may be able to persuade this very day, how confidently Mattie commanded a room her to join us! – firm and always fair. Lessons involving a spot of acting Godolphin has been somewhat of a family affair for Mattie out were always a winner; apparently Victoria’s Norman as her two daughters, Bea and Ella attended the school French accent is memorable! and then followed their mother’s clearly fantastic genes to Amongst Mattie’s many qualities were commitment, Oxford University. In keeping with the family theme, her dedication and organisation. Every lesson was planned supportive nature meant many staff viewed her as “work meticulously and there was not a single thing an mum” with one even known to have called her ‘mum’ on examination board could bury in a document that was several occasions -- , a finer accolade to how much of an hidden from Mattie. No stone was left unturned when it impact she has had, there is not. I thank Mattie for all she came to preparing pupils for their external examination; has done academically and pastorally for the school, and the girls were very lucky to have been shepherded through wish her the best in her retirement. several difficult topic areas by her. Mattie had a bit of a soft By Amanda Triccas spot for Cromwell and the interregnum, soldiering through, teaching one of the most complex periods of history in Caitriona Crosby political terms with considerable aplomb. The department as a whole relied on her fantastic skills of prediction with Caitriona was a highly valued member of the Godolphin IGCSE and A Level questions. Her pupils were always and Latymer community knitting together the plethora of so well prepared, that it became somewhat of a department events and activities seamlessly. An incredibly calm exterior challenge to beat Mattie’s students’ strings of A* and absorbed all requests and enabled just about everything A grades. that all stakeholders wanted – an impressive rate! Caitriona displayed an efficiency rate of almost perfection and, as she120

became more experienced in the role, began to develop Rachel rose to Head of Modern Languages (MFL)at a timedistinct traits of telepathy – something that is extremely when the panorama of language teaching was shifting anduseful in such a crucial organisation role. We will miss her there was great demand for Mandarin on the curriculum.hugely as she explores a new life in Ireland and I am sure all She encouraged all MFL teachers to share good practiceof the school community would wish her well in these new by participating in mutual lesson observations and sheadventures. founded MFL Week to celebrate the many wonderful facetsBy John Carroll of languages, from dance, to food to academic lectures. Rachel took on the posts of joint-EPQ Coordinator andNikhil Dholakia joint-OxCam Coordinator, and in both roles, worked with, supported, supervised and mentored a huge number of SixthNikhil gave so much in his five years at Godolphin.I have Formers as they embarked on their individual journeys intoso many memories of what a dedicated and innovative Higher Education and adulthood. Many of these girls keepteacher he is as well asn his cheeky sense of humour that in touch with Rachel, evidence of the impact she has hadhad the whole department laughing ourselves silly. He was on them.also sensitive and compassionate and was always willing to In the department, Rachel’s friendship and mischievoussacrifice for other people. sense of humour will be greatly missed. She always hadHe will be missed not only by his colleagues but also by the the human touch, and her delicious cakes brightened upmany students he taught. His passion for his job, and his any meeting; with four children at home, we never quitekind, caring and patient nature will stand him in good stead knew how she managed to find the time to bake. Perhaps itin his new post at John Lyon where he will enjoy a much was her way of keeping a healthy perspective on things, noreduced commute to work. The maths department here will matter how busy school life was. Rachel leaves Godolphinbe a much sadder place without him. and Latymer to take some much-deserved time out withBy Daniela Malone her family and to explore new avenues in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, an aspect of working with young people that became increasingly important to her during her time as a teacher at Godolphin.Rachel Hart Helena Matthews, Head of SpanishRachel joined Godolphin and Latymer in 2003 to lead a Lisa Hendersonmodest Spanish department of two and quickly set aboutexpanding the subject by introducing it into the Lower Lisa left Godolphin and Latymer on a high, after anSchool, overhauling textbooks and resources, and infusing exceptional set of examination results. Her extraordinaryeverything with joy, stickers and stampers. It is now a large organisational skills and her unflappable nature not onlyand thriving department, in no small part thanks to the love aided the smooth running of exams this year but every yearand care she put in to nurturing her growing team. since she started work at Godolphin and Latymer.All girls were warmly welcomed into her classroom and The role of examination officer is varied and requires awere encouraged to enjoy the subject from the start, as this unique set of skills, from liaising with examination boards,way they would grow to love it as much as she did. With the to organising the logistics of the process itself, all the whileSixth Form, she shared her particular passions for Hispanic managing staff, students, parents and invigilators -- underliterature, especially Lorca, and the changing role of women pressure and with the need to have contingency plans forin Spanish society during and after the Franco dictatorship. all eventualities. Lisa excelled at this. Walking into theIt was not Rachel’s style to put pressure on herstudents, and calmness of the Bishop Centre or the Sports Hall where fourinstead, she nurtured each and every one to explore and different GSCE and A level exams were going on, one wouldfollow her unique interests. In this respect, she was a most never know that Lisa had already tended to numerous miniskilled oral teacher and examiner who consistently enabled crisis, from ill students to technical malfunctions.them to reach their potential in discussing their chosen Her work carried on post exam result day, organising andtopics. 121

planning assessments throughout the year. We wish Lisa she wasfull of creative talent. She taught German dative all the best in her new endeavours and thank her for her prepositions, normally a serious grammatical matter, by dedication to the smooth running of our examinations. organising an Easter egg hunt around the school! Her organisational skills were also remarkable: the quiz in Marie-Louise different languages for the entire Year 8 as part of the MFL Henham week proved to be a logistical feat. One of the reasons we allloved working with her was her Marie-Louise joined us initially for one year to cover for modesty. Lorna was low key about her many achievements, Lucy Wallace’s maternity leave. When Lucy decided not never boasting about an original lesson she had taught or to return to Godolphin, we would have liked her to stay; the trips she had been on or organised herself. According to however, she decided to move to Hong Kong to be with her Year 8 and 9 girls, the Cologne trip was the event they will partner. not forget in their lifetime and this wasdue to Lorna’s fun- Right from the first day, Marie-Louise fitted in to the packed and skilled navigation through the busy Cologne English department like a hand into a glove. Her openness, Christmas markets after a sleepless night on the coach. her warmth and her friendliness made her exceptionally Lorna wasalsoa valued member of the Friday morning popular with both girls and staff. She was always at her social running club. I witnessed her impressive running ease with the girls, and they were always at their ease with speed, green with envy when she was overtaking me whilst her. Her passion for her subject was very evident, and her I was driving down Glenthorne Road. She will be sorely scholarship very deep, though lightly worn. She coped with missed, especially her woolly gloves! all the many demands of her job with an effortless grace As a formidable member of the kickboxing club, she enjoyed and calm. punching and kicking her colleagues on a Wednesday We shall miss Marie-Louise very much. We hope that one afternoon after school. She looked so sweet but don’t be day she might be tempted back from the South China Sea to fooled: she has a mean left hook, so don’t cross her – she is these shores; Hong Kong’s gain is our loss. the queen of the plank! By Julian Bell It is not surprising that Lornalanded a Head of Department post in a prestigious boarding school. We wish her all the best for her future life in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside. Auf Wiedersehen Lorna! By Ursula Fenton Lorna Jones Eva Lerche- Lerchenborg Lorna was an exceptionally enterprising, dynamic and ‘can do’ young colleague. During her two years here she Eva, an Old Dolphin who left Godolphin and Latymer in participated in many MFL trips, sometimes two in one 2008, joined the Art Department to cover a sequence of holiday, for example when she jumped in for a colleague maternity leaves. Prior to re-joining us as a teacher, Eva to accompany the Granada trip after she had already spent graduated from the world renowned Royal College of 6 days on the Hamburg exchange. The Dof E team speaks Art with a Master’s Degree in printmaking. She was also equally highly of her delightful company and we will all awarded the Danish Embassy Art Prize. Her thoughtful, miss her tremendously. meticulous approach to planning and executing project work enabled students of all ages to grasp a broad range Lorna’ great sense of humour meant she wasalways game of technical skills and creative thinking. Alongside our for a laugh. One of Steffi von Haniel’s abiding memories scholars, she established the Art and Design Society where of the summer term was how much they laughed whilst current staff as well as former students spoke of their work coming to terms with drawing up the schemes of work for in a range of creativity industries. Her passion for teaching September. I cannot imagine anything funny about this and learning was inspiring, and I have no doubt that she rather uninspiring task! The girls really appreciated Lorna’s lessons, and no wonder:122

will make a superb addition to the teaching profession. Eva Thania Troyaleaves us to take up a full time Art and Design post at StAlbans School and to continue with her own practice. We Thania joined the Spanish department in 2006 bringingwish her every success and thank her very much for what passion and energy into every aspect of school life. The girlsshe has done to support our artists and to promote the value thoroughly enjoyed her teaching, as she was unfailinglyof the creative arts in education. happy, warm and encouraging, and always determinedBy Lucy Cooper to get the best out of them. She was a hugely creative and patient language teacher who ensured lessons were filledLaura Pryer with songs and games as well as plenty of serious learning. What her pupils most appreciated was the time she wouldLaura worked as my PA for four years and left us in July take to support those needing extra help and the lengths2018 to join Cameron House School as Registrar/School to which she would go to provide stimulating material forSecretary. those eager to explore beyond the syllabus.Laura was my right-hand woman. She understood the needfor absolute discretion and confidentiality; she was calm and Thania inspired many to continue with Spanish in the Sixthconsiderate and handled difficult situations with sensitivity. Form, where she opened up for them a whole new world ofLaura transformed the role of Bursar’s PA, streamlining topics surrounding Hispanic culture and history, infusingthe working practices of the whole department. As a lessons with first-hand experience and wisdom. Alwaysvalued member of the bursary team, we all admired Laura’s ready to enjoy a fiesta, Thania made spectacular alcohol-efficiency and her drive and determination to get things free mojitos during MFL Week. As a Tutor, Thania’s chargesdone. trusted her implicitly to support them whatever the issue,Laura’s role involved interaction with many stakeholders while her calm demeanour helped them to navigate periods– pupils, staff, parents and governors. One of the most of flux in their lives. Indeed, she was always dedicated toimportant aspects of Laura’s role was dealing with the well-being of each individual and brought in manyapplications for bursary assistance. In recent years, this initiatives during her time as Deputy Head of Middle Schoolhad become a major task as the number of applications to encourage girls to take more ownership of their learning.increased each year. Laura took on this additional work Thania led many school visits, notably to Granada,with the minimum of fuss, which was a tribute to her Salamanca and Brearley, and girls remember thesevisitsprofessionalism. with great fondness and appreciation. Thania has moved with her family to County Durham, where they are enjoying a fresh start and a great deal more space than in Hammersmith. A loyal colleague and great friend to many, Thania is already sorely missed in the staff room.Unfortunately, one of the things Laura did not quite Helena Matthews, Head of Spanishmanage to achieve wasis to convert the Bursary Office intoa paperless one, which I am sure she now realises, was an Rik Werkerimpossible task!Laura was also happy to assist in other areas of the school, Rik exhibited so many of the characteristics we desire inincluding the Library and Reception, where help was often our students. He had a formidable brain for Mathematicsrequired at short notice. She was willing to turn her hand but was also incredibly modest and discreet about this.to anything. Extremely independent, he also worked harmoniously withDuring her time at Godolphin and Latymer, Laura also everyone around him.immersed herself in school life, attending various lectures Given how much Rik embodied the spirit of this school, Iand events as well as yoga on a weekly basis. thought it might be appropriate to use some of the attributesWe all miss her hugely. we hope define our student body to describe him today. IBy Diana Lynch am sure you will recognise these as qualities that we value deeply. Rik was fully engaged with school life from day one. 123

He is the first member of staff in every morning and the measured voice in our department whose experience and last to leave at the end of the day. We often hypothesised wisdom will be greatly missed. that Rik must have had a hidden room in school where he We wish Rik all the best in his move to South Africa to start secretly lived which would explain why no one ever saw his so-called retirement – so-called because he is far too him leave the building. youthful and energetic. Rik’s real strength was actually his ability to inspire By Daniela Malone resilience in others. He always knew exactly what to say to students who were feeling down. Hearing them talk about Alastair Wood how he helped students overcome their confidence issues really showed me what an incredibly positive impact he has Alastair Wood joined Godolphin in 2016 to teach had on their lives. Philosophy and Religion along with the Theory of Rik.worked collaboratively with everyone, with all members Knowledge (ToK) element of the IB course. From 2017, he of the Maths department queuing up to share an A Level was joint Head of Department for Philosophy and Religion class with him. Rik remained consistently interested until his departure. During his time here, he contributed in exploring new ideas in teaching and was a calm and124

widely to school life, assisting with hockey as well as being their full potential. He was always prepared to go the extraa house leader. In this latter role, he was seen to embrace a mile to support them in their quest for academic success.huge range of activities, from cake baking to knitting. As a colleague, Ali was well known and well liked withinAli taught across all the year groups and enjoyed a great the school community. Reliable and always willing to helprapport with all his classes. His greatest influence was with others whenever needed, all tasks were completed withthe Sixth Form, however, where he taught IB Philosophy, patience and a good sense of humour.ToK and A Level Religious Studies as well as had a tutor We wish Alastair every success in his new role as Head ofgroup. Every lesson was delivered with his signature Department for Philosophy and Religion at King’s Collegerelentless energy. Ali had a passion for the IB course and School Wimbledon.relished leading the ToK course, always seeking to find By Marianne Davisinnovative ways to deliver the syllabus and to develop hisown teaching and ignite a love of the subject within thegroup. His students recognised his ability to couple hisenthusiasm for the subject with academic rigour. Theyappreciated the safe environment he created in the class,where they felt they could challenge themselves to achieve 125

Prize List WINTERSTOKE SCHOLARSHIPS MACNAIR TRAVEL AWARD Anastasia Blamey HARVARD BOOK PRIZE Hannah Girma JEFFERSON BOOK PRIZE Cäcilie Habbel Aisha Straker-Grimes VELLUTINI PRIZE (FOR YEAR 11 ENGLISH) Anna Tippett Erica Weiler GERTRUDE CLEMENT BOOKS Emilia Bryant SUBJECT PRIZES Asha Eborn ART AND DESIGN PRIZE Isabel Hawes Heather Smith Alice Horrell BIOLOGY - ENNIS PRIZE Arabella Vickers Karma El Chalabi MARSHALL HAYS PRIZES CHEMISTRY - WINIFRED WATKINS Isabella Daniel Aime Keane Layla Ettinghausen CLASSICS - DOWNER JOLLIFFE PRIZE Sarah Hobson Cordelia de Mitry and Eleanor Flanagan Emily Jones CREATIVITY - REISS PRIZE Bryony Streets Sophia Free DEAN PRIZE DRAMA LEAVERS’ PRIZE Verity Walker Not awarded Maria Zemtsov ECONOMICS - MASON PRIZE THE DAWE PRIZE FOR ACHIEVEMENT Harriet Symons Amelia Frei ENGLISH - TITMUSS PRIZE Bronwyn Lowe Marlia Van’t Sant Paria Malekahmadi FRENCH - DIXON SPOKEN PRIZE WHITE PRIZE FOR SIXTH FORM SERVICE Georgia Church Imogen Francis FRENCH - HOMAN PRIZE STRATTA PRIZE FOR SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL Jessica Baird Kate Devey GEOGRAPHY – HOBBS PRIZE HEAD GIRL’S PRIZE Abigail Turner Edith Elliott Granger GERMAN - PRYNNE PRIZE SPONG MODERN LANGUAGE TRAVEL Isabel Yurdakul SCHOLARSHIP Isobel Taylor LVI CHAPLIN FRENCH PRIZE Polly Dacam LVI WILSON HISTORY PRIZE Alessandra Waggoner Charlotte Wilson126

HISTORY - CLAIRE ECCLES PTFA LEAVING PRIZE: GOOD WORKMila Prest Annabelle DavidHISTORY – GILLILAND PRIZE Tatiana DickinsIsabelle Kenney-Herbert and Eva Magyar Maia FarrellHISTORY OF ART - CHARLTON PRIZE Ines GhaliaEleanor Campbell Isabelle HallITALIAN - SANDRA WILLIAMS PRIZE Katie HuckettLauren Keller Justine Lepic Chloe Monaghan Imogen Treger Helena YurdakulMATHEMATICS - BELL PRIZE PTFA LEAVING PRIZE: SERVICEJaviera Quiroz Fernandez Clea Audin Angelica Bowden JonesMATHEMATICS - SELSKY PURE PRIZE Rubin CelesnikAnnabel Howell India Colegrave Amelia LackMFL - JESSI STAFFORD PRIZE Roma LewisSorcha Gorman Michelle Messerer Victoria NewellMUSIC - MCTAVISH PRIZE Reagen ReadingerNot awarded Justine Stummel Nicole SzelagMUSIC - SARAH ILLINGWORTH MEMORIAL Danielle SutherlandCHORAL PRIZE India WeirBronwyn Lowe Kosana Weir Amelia WhitePHILOSOPHY - BELLEW PRIZEAmber DaviesPHYSICAL EDUCATION - WALSH AWARDSophia FreeSCIENCE - BEARMAN MEDICINE PRIZEJuliet CraigSCIENCE - RICHARDS PRIZESarah PalmerSPANISH - FROST PRIZESimran PatelSPEECH AND DRAMA - MANTLE PRIZEAbigail TurnerSPORT - COX PRIZEHannah Allchurch 127

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