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Juddian2018_cover_7.5mmspine_v3.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 17:01 Page 3 December 2018 Contents Editorial Football Results ................................................52 Year 7 Physics Trip ..........................................114 U15 XI Football .................................................53 Year 10 Philosophy Trip .................................115 Editorial ..............................................................1 Judo ...................................................................53 Year 9 Language Outreach Day ...................115 U14 XI Football .................................................54 School Notes U13 XI Football .................................................54 Tours & Fixtures U12A XI Football ..............................................55 School Notes 2017/18 .....................................2-4 U12B XI Football ..............................................55 ISF World Cross Country ........................116-119 Visitation of Governors ..................................5-9 U13B XI Football ..............................................55 U15/U14 Rugby Tour ...............................120-121 Upper Sixth Prizewinners ...............................10 U16 Basketball .................................................56 Senior Cricket Tour ................................122-123 Lower Sixth Prizewinners ...............................11 U15 Basketball .................................................56 Year 11 Prizewinners ......................................11 U14 Basketball .................................................56 Summer Sports Headteacher’s Prizewinners ..........................11 U13 Basketball .................................................57 U12 Basketball .................................................57 Sports Awards .................................................124 National Champions Junior Hockey ...................................................58 Cricket Review ........................................124-125 Netball................................................................58 Cricket Top Performances .............................126 National Champions ..................................12-13 Indoor Athletics.................................................59 1st XI Cricket ..................................................127 Squash ...............................................................59 2nd XI Cricket ................................................127 Academia U15A XI Cricket ..............................................128 CCF U15B XI Cricket ............................................. 129 Maths Challenges .............................................14 U14A XI Cricket .......................................130-131 Maths in Action ................................................15 Contingent Report ............................................60 U14B XI Cricket ............................................. 131 Richard Henderson Lecture ...........................16 Adventure Training ..........................................61 U13A XI Cricket ..............................................132 Fly Lab................................................................16 Army Summer Camp...................................62-63 U12A XI Cricket ..............................................133 Young Scientists Journal .................................17 Army Section Report.........................................63 U13B XI Cricket ..............................................134 iGem..............................................................18-19 RAF Section Report............................................64 U12B XI Cricket ..............................................134 Year 7 Author Visit ............................................20 Flying Day .........................................................64 Rowing ............................................................135 Great Debate .....................................................21 RAF Summer Camps....................................65-67 Tennis Review .................................................135 Greek & Roman Religion ............................22-23 Wimbledon Diary ..........................................136 Careers Department Review............................24 Clubs & Societies Athletics Review........................................137-138 BAE Work Experience..................................24-25 Athletics Results .......................................139-140 Y12 German Work Experience ........................25 Garden Club......................................................68 Senior Athletics ...............................................140 Philosophy Club ................................................69 Intermediate Athletics ...................................141 Winter Games Greek Club.........................................................69 Junior Athletics ...............................................142 Athletics Club Records ...................................143 Sport Review ....................................................26 The Arts Sports Day .......................................................144 Sports Awards....................................................27 Sports Day Winners .......................................145 Rugby Review ...............................................27-28 Music Exam Results .........................................70 Rugby Results ....................................................29 Musical Notes ...................................................71 Community 1st XV Rugby ................................................30-31 National Concert Band Festival ....................71 2nd XV Rugby ...................................................32 Rockistry & Battle of the Bands .......................72 Y7 at Judd ................................................146-147 U16A XV Rugby ..................................................32 Music Groups ..............................................73-74 Head Prefects .................................................148 U16B XV Rugby..................................................33 The United Colours of Judd .............................75 New Head Boy & Girl ....................................149 U16C XV Rugby..................................................33 Horsmonden Scarecrow Festival ....................76 William J.D.Bryant .........................................150 Caption Competition........................................33 Art Competition ................................................77 Bryant House .................................................151 U15A XV Rugby .................................................34 A Level Art Exhibition..................................78-79 John Evans ......................................................152 U15B XV Rugby .................................................35 GCSE Art Exhibition ....................................80-81 Evans House ...................................................153 U15C XV Rugby .................................................35 Y9 Art .................................................................82 Cecil Lloyd Morgan ........................................154 U14A XV Rugby .................................................36 Y8 Art .................................................................83 Morgan House ................................................155 U14B XV Rugby .................................................37 Y7 Art .................................................................84 FH Taylor ........................................................156 U14C XV Rugby .................................................37 Taylor House ..................................................157 U13A XIII Rugby ...............................................38 Features Denis Rendall .................................................158 U13B XIII Rugby ...............................................39 Rendall House ................................................159 U13C XIII Rugby ...............................................40 More Memories of Yeomans .......................85-87 Keith Starling ...........................................160-162 U13D XIII Rugby ...............................................40 Rugby Exchange ..........................................88-89 Starling House ................................................163 U12A XIII Rugby ...............................................41 Student Researchers ...................................90-92 Judd Parents Association ..............................164 U12B XIII Rugby ...............................................42 Football Fiesta ................................................164 U12C XIII Rugby ...............................................42 Trips & Outings Old Juddian Society .......................................165 U12D XIII Rugby ...............................................43 Old Juddian News ..................................166-167 U12E XIII Rugby ...............................................43 Year 7 Induction Trip .................................93-94 The Skinners’ Company ...............................168 U12F XIII Rugby ................................................43 The Student Investor Challenge .................95-97 Tonbridge Athletic Club .................................169 Cross Country Review ................................44-45 Classics Italy ................................................98-99 Cross Country Results .................................46-47 German Exchange ..................................100-102 Staff Room Whole School Run ............................................47 Art & History Trip ...........................................103 Senior Cross Country .................................48-49 Year 10 History Normandy Trip ............104-105 Staff News ................................................170-171 Intermediate Cross Country ...........................50 Ski Italy ....................................................106-107 Staff Leavers .............................................172-176 Junior Cross Country ......................................51 Sail France ..............................................108-109 Football Review ................................................52 World Challenge Expedition ..................110-113

Juddian2018_cover_7.5mmspine_v3.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 17:01 Page 3 December 2018 Contents Editorial Football Results ................................................52 Year 7 Physics Trip ..........................................114 U15 XI Football .................................................53 Year 10 Philosophy Trip .................................115 Editorial ..............................................................1 Judo ...................................................................53 Year 9 Language Outreach Day ...................115 U14 XI Football .................................................54 School Notes U13 XI Football .................................................54 Tours & Fixtures U12A XI Football ..............................................55 School Notes 2017/18 .....................................2-4 U12B XI Football ..............................................55 ISF World Cross Country ........................116-119 Visitation of Governors ..................................5-9 U13B XI Football ..............................................55 U15/U14 Rugby Tour ...............................120-121 Upper Sixth Prizewinners ...............................10 U16 Basketball .................................................56 Senior Cricket Tour ................................122-123 Lower Sixth Prizewinners ...............................11 U15 Basketball .................................................56 Year 11 Prizewinners ......................................11 U14 Basketball .................................................56 Summer Sports Headteacher’s Prizewinners ..........................11 U13 Basketball .................................................57 U12 Basketball .................................................57 Sports Awards .................................................124 National Champions Junior Hockey ...................................................58 Cricket Review ........................................124-125 Netball................................................................58 Cricket Top Performances .............................126 National Champions ..................................12-13 Indoor Athletics.................................................59 1st XI Cricket ..................................................127 Squash ...............................................................59 2nd XI Cricket ................................................127 Academia U15A XI Cricket ..............................................128 CCF U15B XI Cricket ............................................. 129 Maths Challenges .............................................14 U14A XI Cricket .......................................130-131 Maths in Action ................................................15 Contingent Report ............................................60 U14B XI Cricket ............................................. 131 Richard Henderson Lecture ...........................16 Adventure Training ..........................................61 U13A XI Cricket ..............................................132 Fly Lab................................................................16 Army Summer Camp...................................62-63 U12A XI Cricket ..............................................133 Young Scientists Journal .................................17 Army Section Report.........................................63 U13B XI Cricket ..............................................134 iGem..............................................................18-19 RAF Section Report............................................64 U12B XI Cricket ..............................................134 Year 7 Author Visit ............................................20 Flying Day .........................................................64 Rowing ............................................................135 Great Debate .....................................................21 RAF Summer Camps....................................65-67 Tennis Review .................................................135 Greek & Roman Religion ............................22-23 Wimbledon Diary ..........................................136 Careers Department Review............................24 Clubs & Societies Athletics Review........................................137-138 BAE Work Experience..................................24-25 Athletics Results .......................................139-140 Y12 German Work Experience ........................25 Garden Club......................................................68 Senior Athletics ...............................................140 Philosophy Club ................................................69 Intermediate Athletics ...................................141 Winter Games Greek Club.........................................................69 Junior Athletics ...............................................142 Athletics Club Records ...................................143 Sport Review ....................................................26 The Arts Sports Day .......................................................144 Sports Awards....................................................27 Sports Day Winners .......................................145 Rugby Review ...............................................27-28 Music Exam Results .........................................70 Rugby Results ....................................................29 Musical Notes ...................................................71 Community 1st XV Rugby ................................................30-31 National Concert Band Festival ....................71 2nd XV Rugby ...................................................32 Rockistry & Battle of the Bands .......................72 Y7 at Judd ................................................146-147 U16A XV Rugby ..................................................32 Music Groups ..............................................73-74 Head Prefects .................................................148 U16B XV Rugby..................................................33 The United Colours of Judd .............................75 New Head Boy & Girl ....................................149 U16C XV Rugby..................................................33 Horsmonden Scarecrow Festival ....................76 William J.D.Bryant .........................................150 Caption Competition........................................33 Art Competition ................................................77 Bryant House .................................................151 U15A XV Rugby .................................................34 A Level Art Exhibition..................................78-79 John Evans ......................................................152 U15B XV Rugby .................................................35 GCSE Art Exhibition ....................................80-81 Evans House ...................................................153 U15C XV Rugby .................................................35 Y9 Art .................................................................82 Cecil Lloyd Morgan ........................................154 U14A XV Rugby .................................................36 Y8 Art .................................................................83 Morgan House ................................................155 U14B XV Rugby .................................................37 Y7 Art .................................................................84 FH Taylor ........................................................156 U14C XV Rugby .................................................37 Taylor House ..................................................157 U13A XIII Rugby ...............................................38 Features Denis Rendall .................................................158 U13B XIII Rugby ...............................................39 Rendall House ................................................159 U13C XIII Rugby ...............................................40 More Memories of Yeomans .......................85-87 Keith Starling ...........................................160-162 U13D XIII Rugby ...............................................40 Rugby Exchange ..........................................88-89 Starling House ................................................163 U12A XIII Rugby ...............................................41 Student Researchers ...................................90-92 Judd Parents Association ..............................164 U12B XIII Rugby ...............................................42 Football Fiesta ................................................164 U12C XIII Rugby ...............................................42 Trips & Outings Old Juddian Society .......................................165 U12D XIII Rugby ...............................................43 Old Juddian News ..................................166-167 U12E XIII Rugby ...............................................43 Year 7 Induction Trip .................................93-94 The Skinners’ Company ...............................168 U12F XIII Rugby ................................................43 The Student Investor Challenge .................95-97 Tonbridge Athletic Club .................................169 Cross Country Review ................................44-45 Classics Italy ................................................98-99 Cross Country Results .................................46-47 German Exchange ..................................100-102 Staff Room Whole School Run ............................................47 Art & History Trip ...........................................103 Senior Cross Country .................................48-49 Year 10 History Normandy Trip ............104-105 Staff News ................................................170-171 Intermediate Cross Country ...........................50 Ski Italy ....................................................106-107 Staff Leavers .............................................172-176 Junior Cross Country ......................................51 Sail France ..............................................108-109 Football Review ................................................52 World Challenge Expedition ..................110-113

Editorial The Juddian No. 187 Editorial A belated welcome to the biggest Juddian ever and surely the most delayed Juddian ever. This magazine is your passport around the world - this year has seen perhaps more international travel for Judd students than any year to date. You can read more in the revived Trips and Outings chapter. We have re-organised the sections a little this year to (hopefully) make for easier reading. Most of the usual information is included though I fear some details were missed as the year became rather hectic, and my focus was often elsewhere. Sadly, I feel I am no longer able to give the time that is needed to make this magazine a success. I must admit that the stress of producing two very late editions, having earlier almost succeeded in getting the magazine ‘back on track’, has tested my motivation. Therefore, I am taking a sabbatical from editorship in 2019. I leave the magazine in the capable hands of a student team, many of whom have taken increasing responsibility for recent issues. Many thanks for their help, and to all of you who have contributed, advised or just enjoyed reading the magazine over the last four years. Best wishes – J R C Taylor Editor 2015-18 Thank you to all staff, students, parents and friends of EDITORIAL BOARD the School who contributed in any way. Editor J R C Taylor Thank you to the Headteacher and Mrs Clare Morey Editor-at-large G Fitzgerald for their support. Copy Editors M Peacock, T Mansell, J Mulford, D Choudhury Any feedback on this magazine would be welcome. Section Editors: Contact: [email protected] Academia N Mitchell The Arts C McBride CCF C McBride The Editor c/o The Judd School, Brook St, Winter Games M Dubery Summer Sports C Costello Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2PN Trips & Outings H Swaite / N Robson Cover Design Jo Walker Photographs J Gray, H Bretz, J Conway, Gordon Emm, Mark Waterstone, Jacquie Wines (Apologies to anyone missed) Proof Reading Mrs M R K Taylor Technical Support Mr B Headon, Mr P Newman Distribution Mrs J Boreham, Mrs L Martin, Ms J Bates, Mrs H Winter, Mrs S Moore, Mrs L Tipler, Mr A Griffin, Mr G Thomson Additional help from Mr S Fraser, Mr R Richardson, Mrs V Baldock, Mrs B Kendall, Mr N Maunder, Mrs Peermohamed, Mrs D O’Grady, Ms K Legedz Designed by Jo Walker of Walker Spring Printed by Ray Bushell of Wyndeham Grange The Juddian l December 18 1

Juddian2018_School Notes National Champions pgs_001-013_v17.qxp_001-043 05/11/2019 16:05 Page 2 School Notes SCHOOL NOTES 2017/18 Preceding this section traditionally appears a list of university entrants from the previous year, but unfortunately stricter data regulations mean we are no longer able to publish this information. The School celebrated excellent A Level results. Again, more than a quarter of all entries were graded A*, and 85% of grades were A*-B for the 3rd successive year. Almost half of all students achieved 4 passes, an unusual sight as most students nationally only study 3 subjects. 16 students achieved straight A*s (or equivalent): Oliver Crowe, Sam Dixon, Elodie Harbourne, Tom Hayward, Mateo Hoare, Elizabeth Hopkins, Olivia Kehoe, Isaac Murphy, Vishrut Pundir, Edith Ranson, Rohan Shiatis, James Smith, Daniel Starkey, Gabriel Swallow and Joe Wheeler. Stephen Leadbitter and Peter Mathieson notably achieved 4A*s and an A. Particular congratulations to Tobias Chatfield on his incredible results: 4 A*s and a Distinction in Chemistry Pre-U, securing his place to read Physics at Oxford. For the 5th successive year, over 50% of GCSE results were graded A*, 8 or 9, an excellent achievement given the promise of harder exams this year. Special mentions to Felix Baker, Aidan Birdi, Noah Bradley, Isaac Holloway and Matthew Politz who managed a 9 or A* in all subjects. A further 7 students achieved the equivalent of straight A*s with 8, 9 or A* in all subjects: Ludovico Adams, Joe Cunningham, Charlie Curtis, Fynn Davies, Stephen Eastmond, Douglas McCulloch and Jatin Rastogi. Additionally, the following will achieve a coveted place on our honours board with 10 top grades in their exams: Jack Binning, Lewis Blakeborough, Harrison Brockway, Ronnie Day, Alex Holmes, Oli Lee, Henry Mayne, Jamie Todd, Johannes Vogelberg and Sam Ward. By mid-September the School on-roll settled at a record 1152 students. Daniel Starkey and Moya Thomas were given equal status as Head Boy and Head Girl. The birth of the 6 new Houses were celebrated at the House Launch Day in September, with fancy dress, team-building activities and bouncy castles. Visitors to the School will notice the striking new model horse ‘United Colours of Judd’ in the reception window. Find out more in The Arts. The Geography Department were delighted with their new weather station, funded by the JPA, sited on the Atwell roof. The JPA also funded a new silver Minibus Lite. Drivers do not need the D1 licence. Of all the House charity events, Bryant’s Bake-off and Rendall’s sponge throw were perhaps most popular. See Community for photos. Mr Richardson’s Charity Golf Day was open to all and held at Lullingstone. Sixth Formers Alex Morgan and Henry Lord became School Ambassadors for the commemoration of the Holocaust, presenting their experience of visiting Auschwitz to students in assembly. The School Remembrance service was led by Bishop Richard Moth (OJ). Visitors to the School included Nobel laureate Richard Henderson, the 2 The Juddian l December 18

author Chris Bradford and Tom Tugendhat MP at the invitation of the School Notes Economics and Politics Society. Amongst other careers advice (see p24) the Schoolroom hosted over 20 universities and businesses at the annual Higher Education Fair. Y12 Hal Quigley won the overall trophy at the Mock United Nations General Assembly – quite an achievement, as he was the secretariat and not a member of a delegation!. Late February saw the heaviest snowfall in several years. The School was (eventually) closed on the Wednesday and remained shut all week! The usual Y12 Fieldwork weeks were enjoyed in Snowdonia (Geography) and Malham (Biology). The legacy of our triumph at the 2015 Rolls Royce Science Prize remains evident in the Biology Department with Fly Lab. Read more in Academia No School play this year, as rehearsals for Unman, Wittering & Zigo continue, but the full musical programme is detailed in The Arts. The School now facilitates the Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to Y10 boys, 98 of whom successfully completed their award this year. Our ‘F1 in Schools’ team won the ‘innovative thinking’ award at the National Final. Chris Scrivens became the latest Judd DT student to gain a renowned Arkwright scholarship. Rupert Whittaker and James Lester won a debating competition at Sevenoaks School. It was another busy year of Chess. The Senior Problem-Solving Team won the National title! The U13 team also competed nationally, having won their Regional heat. The Senior Maths team also won their Regional heat to qualify for the National Final. Scientists Deepro Choudhury and Lachlan Bradley achieved particularly highly at Cambridge University Challenges in Physics and Chemistry respectively. Gold British Physics Olympiad awards were won by Ethan Arnold, Calvin Hooper, Matthew Keenan, Lachlan Bradley and Harry Mouat. Martin Christopherson and Auj Abbas were commended for their entries in the Oxford University French Film Essay Competition. Our first entrant in the UK Linguistics Olympiad, Anton Farmer, gained a silver award. 2 Y11 boys took part in a Rugby Exchange with Timaru High School in New Zealand. Read more in Features. This winter Judd fielded our first official Football team in 80 years (notwithstanding the Sixth Form team Brook St Wanderers of the mid 90s). Read all about it in Winter Games. The School Cross Country team had probably their best ever season, including winning back the Senior Knole trophy. The Y7 Super 8s Athletes were the top-scoring boys’ team at both District and County finals. The U16 Badminton team won the West Kent District and the U18 team The Juddian l December 18 3

School NotesJuddian2018_School Notes National Champions pgs_001-013_v17.qxp_001-043 05/11/2019 16:05 Page 4 beat Tonbridge home and away. Rory Easton was crowned U19 English Champion and then competed at the European Championships. Anton Matusevich had another excellent season, reaching the quarter- finals at Junior Wimbledon and then winning the US Open Junior Doubles. Read his Wimbledon Diary in Summer Sports. Jack Brown was selected for the UK Polocrosse team to compete against South Africa. Toni Wilkes became the National Junior Women’s Time Trial Circuit Cycling Champion. Pippa Jackson clinched bronze at the British Schools Judo Championships. Junior Hockey players Meno Mangat, Finley Webster and Ben Rodenhurst travelled to Barcelona with their club for an international tournament and returned with bronze medals. 1st XV talisman Alfie Scopes signed a 1-year contract with Saracens RFU in the summer. Other national-standard sports performers at Judd this year include Zach Catterall (Korfball), Oliver Coote and Eddie Sellar (Swimming), Josh Prendergast (Open Water Swimming), Keyan O’Donnell (Rowing, see Summer Sports), Kieran Duncan and Noah Mitchell (Karate), and Daniel Gregson and Haris Nomikos (Fencing). 3 athletes were selected for the prestigious English Schools’ Track & Field Championships in July, all in the Discus! Alfie Scopes took silver. Dillon Claydon didn’t have his best competition but bounced back to claim the England U15 title in August. Toby Seal was also picked for Kent at the ESAA Combined Events Championships to finish his School career. The Y13 Leavers left their mark with a wall on their last day! The Leavers’ Ball returned to Leeds Castle, which provided a stunning evening setting. Among various School Improvements this year, the School gates are soon to become automated at all 3 entrances to improve site security and the old Headmaster’s House now boasts a new revamped kitchen area. The Juddian is sad to report the loss of the landscaped Lawton’s Garden, for car parking. Works remain in progress as this magazine went to press. More in Clubs & Societies. Our new fields at Vizards continue to impress both home and visiting players and this year hosted the Regional Final of the National Schools’ Cross Country Cup (pictured with Nexus Academy visible in the background, on what used to be Yeomans). We await planning permission for a temporary pavilion. The Schoolroom and History corridors now have an extra shine to them as they have had a high-quality sanding and varnish. The entrance hall in particular has been remarkably brightened! Other Summer 2018 improvements included extensive internal redecoration of the Library building, new boilers and a new telephone system throughout the site. Many thanks to the premises and cleaning team for all their hard work. 4 The Juddian l December 18

VISITATION OF GOVERNORS ON FRIDAY 29 JUNE 2018 School Notes AND SENIOR PRIZEGIVING AT ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH Reproduced with the kind permission of the Headteacher Chairman, Master, High Sheriff, Councillors, Ladies and Gentlemen, and most importantly students: First of all, congratulations, to all for so much for which we are held So let us now return to some of those prize winners here today and in high regard. Two examples of the achievements of the year, those not able to join us, but also this are the societies available to beginning with those results from to all Y13 and 11 students on the students and the trips that we run. last summer. What benchmark are completion of their examinations For the former, to you all, I am you all trying to surpass with your this summer. It is often tradition for truly grateful. The time spent by efforts this year? Well, the School the Headteacher’s report of the year to begin with the academic students, for students, in organising celebrated excellent results at A success of last summer, including interesting debates, presentations Level with 28% of all A level results of those students now at university. and visiting speakers is graded A*, a 2% rise on the Instead, let me begin by phenomenal. It truly creates an previous best. A record 32 students considering what it takes to be one ethos of scholarship amongst all gained places at Oxford or of these students sat here today as our students, but most notably Cambridge, which you may recall prize-winners. What marks you out within the Sixth Form. from Robert’s report last year. An as outstanding amongst a field with With regards trips, this year there unenviable target for the year such strength and depth. As I sit, have been a total of 68 different groups sitting in front of us and most evenings recently, listening to trips, offering a staggering 6500 also for me! They have risen to the World Cup pundits extol the participant days, 2/3 of which have challenge however, with 24 offers, brilliance of individual players and been residential and/or abroad. one of our strongest years in their impact on the game, I reflect The average number of trips for history, well done. on how you all will be those each and every student of the 88% of all A level entries were influential stars, with awesome School is 4. That’s 28 educational, graded A*, A or B and almost half talent, dedication and flair that will sporting, pastoral and cultural off- of all students gained 3 As or lead your own teams and site activities during one’s time at better. In a year of very strong dominate your fields of expertise. the School. To the staff who make performance, 13 students deserve this possible with their time and particular mention having achieved When we embarked as a energy I thank you too. 4 A*s (or equivalent): Nicholas leadership team and a School, considering what marked those students out who succeed at Judd and more importantly still, are equipped to go on and succeed in their future lives, we identified those skills as a set of learning characteristics. It is these that now form our Student Vision, which determines how we teach, the opportunities we give students in their learning and drives the variety of experience of our students during their School day. The objective, to make all our students emulate the skills presented by those with us today. The School is the students. The quality and reliability of the students we have are responsible The Juddian l December 18 5

Juddian2018_School Notes National Champions pgs_001-013_v17.qxp_001-043 05/11/2019 16:05 Page 6 School Notes Bossons, Helen Eastmond, Lizzie Finally, two staff are currently first fully annotated genome Fox, Alice Good, Beth Goodfellow, expecting their first children, Laura sequence for the human Luke Ibbotson, Nigel Ma, Jamie Mifsud and Megan Taylor. I wish whipworm and help researchers McLean, Josh Penollar, Hugh them all the very best at this most understand the Biology of the Selway, Thomas Sharp, Isabel exciting time in their lives. parasite and aid the development Thompson and Rob Watts. of vaccines or treatments. We have Allow me to now indulge you in had another successful year at the Similarly, excellent results followed some more successes of our British Biology Olympiad. Jonathan a week later, on GCSE results day, students, this time in the super Tsoi and Jonah Rowell achieved a with more than half of all entries curricular and extra-curricular gold medal and made it to Round being graded A*, 8 or 9 for the exploits. 2. Mateo Hoare and Katie Gibbs fourth successive year. Over 90% achieved a silver medal and 9 Y12 of all students achieved the A team of 14 Y13 students led by students achieved a bronze medal. equivalent of 5 A grades or better. Mrs Andrews and Dr Courel With the introduction of new worked extremely hard over the In Physics we achieved a record GCSEs, it was fantastic to see 22 course of 2017 to take part in the number of Gold Awards with 5. In students still achieved 10 or more iGEM Synthetic Biology addition, there were 9 bronze A* grades or equivalent: Hammad competition. Their aim was to use awards. Well done to all those who Ansari, Guy Ashcroft-Lury, Lachlan Synthetic Biology to produce an took part in this famously difficult Bradley, Deepro Choudhury, iron home test kit to detect iron and well-respected challenge. George Coote, Luke Davies, Franck concentration in saliva. Their Lachlan Bradley added a Chemistry Davis, Max De Bono, Ayush efforts culminated on their Olympiad gold to his Physics gold Gupta, Soni Kansal, Jason King, attendance at the Giant Jamboree with a further 36 students Dominic Major, Julius Moss, Oliver in Boston, Massachusetts in achieving Silver and Bronze a year Muk, Nishi Ranasinghe, Philip November 2017 where they ahead of schedule in Y12. Saunes, Patrick Stephens, Max achieved a silver medal, best Taylor, Kartik Velayudham, Jack human practices award, best Anton Farmar also added a Silver Wadding, Adam Winnifrith and mathematical model award and a certificate in the UK Linguistic Max Wormsley, many of whom are nomination for best wiki. The Olympiad and was our first entrant here today to receive prizes for Biology Department is eager to in to this competition. their achievements in Y12. promote independent research for their students and has partnered This academic year has seen many I am sure you will join me, with Dr Camilla Larsen from the successes in the various Maths students, parents and guests, in Department for Developmental Challenges, with over 600 thanking all the School staff, Neurobiology at King's College certificates being awarded across teachers or otherwise, in the London to provide the opportunity the first rounds of the Junior, support they have given these to work with the model organism, Intermediate and Senior students to help them achieve their the fruit fly – Drosophila competitions, and 156 students best, while remaining happy and melanogaster. The Fly Lab provides scoring highly enough to qualify engaged in School life. While I the facilities, flies and expertise to for follow-on rounds. In the Senior would not like to single out help students design and carry out competition, 14 students qualified individuals, it calls upon me to give their own projects on the field of for the Olympiad round – an special thanks to those staff leaving behaviour and genetics with the honour only afforded to 1000 us this year. [The Headteacher’s tributes to view that they may eventually students nationally. Rose Blyth, publish original research in the Lachlan Bradley, Sam Dixon, Neil Southall, Mike Sainsbury, Hayley Young Scientists Journal. In further Freddie Hand, Anthony Scott and ground-breaking research, a group Daniel Starkey all gained Andrews and Andrew Robinson at this point of Y12 students (led by Adam Certificates of Distinction, and Winnifrith and Josh Williams) have special mention must go to Rohan are found at the end of this magazine] been helping scientists at the Shiatis for his achievement of a Wellcome Genome Campus to Silver medal, making him one of We also lose Ruth Nagar, Ellie Page map the genome of the human the top 50 students in the country! and our entire Economics whipworm (Trichuris trichiura). The Intermediate competition department in Michael Rowlands The project aims to produce the brought similarly outstanding and David Rumsey. All leaving staff results, with 70 students being will be greatly missed and have proved very hard to replace. I wish them all well in their futures. 6 The Juddian l December 18

invited to take part in the next Last autumn Alex Morgan and was rewarded with a one-year School Notes round. All 12 of the Olympiad Henry Lord embarked on the membership of the Historical qualifiers gained at least a difficult and emotional journey to Association for his speech. certificate of Merit, with Frankie become ambassadors for the Arnold gaining a Distinction, James commemoration of the Holocaust. The German Department took 9 Lester gaining a medal (top 100 in They met a survivor in London Sixth Form students to the country) and both Freddie whose harrowing account Heusenstamm, staying with Hand and Kiran Shiatis gaining hammered home the importance families and working in a variety of both medals and book prizes (top of remembering the horrific events companies. They were very 50 in the country), with that took place in the build-up to enthusiastic about their feedback - outstanding scores of 55 and 58 and during the Second World War. not only did they gain practical out of 60 respectively! The recent Alex and Henry then visited skills but they also coped with Junior competition saw nearly 40 Auschwitz-Birkenau and after customers, small children and co- students compete in the next taking some time to reflect on their workers in German! As part of their round which took place in mid- impressions, prepared an assembly experience of the country, they compared proper Turkish Donner June, for which we are still eagerly to give to all students in the school. to English ones, enjoyed Italian ice awaiting the results. Making it clear how relevant the cream and the huge variety of Congratulations must also go to Lessons from Auschwitz still are 73 German bread and sausages on this year’s Maths teams in their years on, Alex and Henry left a offer. The group bonded over their competitions, with the Junior team clear message on the importance unanimous dislike of German coming 3rd in their heat. Both the of fighting anti-Semitism and sparkling water and apart from the Y10 and 11 teams qualified for the racism in all its forms. Kent’s water would recommend final of the Invicta Maths brightest and most articulate young everything else about the trip! 30 Challenge, and placed 1st and 3rd Historians met head to head at Y10 students enjoyed our 46th overall respectively. The Senior Canterbury in November to debate German exchange in Team won the Regional heat of the the motion, ‘Was the 1918 Heusenstamm, the twin town of Senior Team Maths Challenge, and extension of the franchise the most Tonbridge. What stood out the enjoyed a great day out at the significant moment in British most is the fact that students went national finals in London. They democratic history?’ Leah Mitchell on this trip to improve their ranked 14th overall in the country, narrowly lost out on the first prize German and gain a better out of the 86 teams present, and but was awarded a worthy second understanding of the culture. But produced an excellent and creative place by a high-calibre jury which not only did many students go poster on the mathematics of bell included writer and broadcaster Jo above and beyond in doing this, ringing, to claim second place in Phillips and Sir Michael Pownall, they all had a brilliant time, truly the accompanying poster former Clerk to the Parliaments. made some friends and shared competition. Very many Joseph McGrath's entry also hugely some experiences I am sure they congratulations to all! impressed the audience and he will all treasure for life. Philosophy is booming at Judd with many discussions held at Philosophy Club this year for Y7-9; they have pondered some of the big questions... Is anything forgivable? Is there a solution to the problem of evil? and even played games of 'argument-tennis'! Some of the most enthusiastic KS4 philosophers attended a conference in London and questioned the lecturers directly during the Q&A. Pupils in the DT department have been awarded the Arkwright The Juddian l December 18 7

Juddian2018_School Notes National Champions pgs_001-013_v17.qxp_001-043 05/11/2019 16:05 Page 8 School Notes Engineering Scholarships. Chanon Olley and Luke brilliantly throughout the year, in a season that Lundberg in 2017 intake and Christopher Scrivens for culminated in Paris on their recent Intermediates tour. 2018. Work on the Greenpower electric car continues Both sides played some fantastic Rugby, losing just 1 having built a new car from scratch over the past 18 game between the sides on tour. U12s and U13s months, we look forward to emulating previous showed that the future is bright with our new intake successes in the 2018-19 season. winning all but one game, scoring for fun and playing a very attractive brand of Rugby. Our U13s managed This year has seen the largest amount of fixtures to finish the season unbeaten, meaning Mr Davies has played and more individuals representing Judd in a now been two seasons without defeat as a teacher in variety of sports than ever before. We have taken part charge of a team! Coach of the year beckons! in more Rugby, Cricket, Athletics, Basketball and Cross Country fixtures than ever previously, as well as The School was delighted to have been selected to starting Football fixtures in Y7-10, the introduction of represent England at the World Schools’ Cross Country the new Vizards fields have given us the opportunities Championships. A team of 7 students and 2 staff to do this. The result has been more pupils involved travelled to Paris in the Easter holidays and placed a in extracurricular sport than in Judd’s history. The PE competitive 7th in the world, to match the and Games department are looking to increase this performance of our athletes last year. This followed even further into the future. another fantastic season in which the Seniors dominated the national circuit with victories at both Another successful Rugby season with all teams Knole and the prestigious King Henry VIII Relays, in producing winnings seasons. It was our most one of the fastest team times in history. Y11 James successful 1st XV season ever. We won more games Kingston deserves particular mention, having been the (21) and scored more points (800) than any other leading scorer throughout the year, and the departing school team in the country throughout the year, Seniors of Isaac Harding, Will Beeston, Ben Brooks including an unbeaten Senior Tour to South Africa. We and Jamie Bingham also deserve credit for their team finished top of the ‘All-Comers Schools Rugby U18 spirit and commitment over their time at Judd. Will League’, beat Tonbridge, Eltham twice, RGS Guildford Beeston was deservedly awarded the Brian Mitchell and Trinity and were unbeaten until losing in the Cup for the most improved runner. The lower years National Quarter Final which we reached for the hold much promise with record levels of participation. second year in a row. Judd remained the only name on the Chairman’s Cup beating Skinners’ every year The Athletics season is still in full-swing and has since its introduction in 2016. Captain Alfie Scopes already contained some excellent results for the earned a Senior professional contract with Saracens School. Whilst disappointed at not reaching the having been a part of their U18 Academy programme National Cup Final this year, with very strong Regional for the last two seasons. Tom Kendrick and Jenkins competition, the boys made up for it with a record Kiwanuka represented Kent brilliantly, helping their 100-point victory across all 3 age groups over U18s to another unbeaten season. Tom finished the Tonbridge School! With many staff willing to facilitate season strongly, representing Tonbridge Juddians 1st practice sessions, huge numbers of boys are enjoying XV, the first schoolboy to do so in the National all the events. For many the climax of the season will Leagues. He capped his first appearance with the be Sports Day on the 11 July. Do come and watch winning try too! A remarkable achievement. 2nd XV from 11:30. We are proud that 3 students have been won all but 1 game throughout the season. U16s picked to represent Kent in the English Schools’ finished the season with many of their players Championships next weekend, all competing in the graduating to the Senior sides. Jonty Wines and Will Discus: Alfie Scopes is going for 5-in-a-row, James Jones using all their experience from their wonderful Martin and Dillon Claydon, who is ranked 1st Junior cultural exchange to New Zealand earlier in the year, in the country. to gain 1st XV honours. Their counterparts from Timaru, also performed admirably for our 16s and 18s Having hosted and won the West Kent round of the respectively. Congratulations to those boys chosen to Kent School Badminton Competition, the U16 team travel to NZ later this year and many thanks to the went on to the county finals in Gillingham this Wines and Jones families for your commitment and February. After a string of confident wins and a care enabling us to offer such a great opportunity. We narrow but deserved victory against Sevenoaks hope to tour to New Zealand to cement this School, the boys went through to the semi-finals as relationship in 2019. U15s and U14s performed winners of their group. They fought on bravely against the fierce competition at top level and are now 8 The Juddian l December 18

officially the 4th best U16 team in Kent. Well done to School Notes Dola Rabiu, Simeon Whitbourne, Jack Brown and Akshat Khanna for playing so well and fairly at all stages of the competition. The U18 team captained by Johnny Tsoi have also been successful this season. They were particularly pleased to beat their local rivals from Tonbridge School at home and away. The Cricket season is in full swing with the last round of league matches tomorrow. We have 2 teams in cup semi-finals to be played in the next week and I am sure you join me in wishing them well. The Barbados cricket tour went very well with the 1XI winning all bar 1 of their matches. The 2XI and 3XI put in some promising performances as well, both as individuals and as teams. In Music, we have again heard stellar performances in a range of concerts and recitals throughout the year, which will culminate in the summer concert next week. Please do come along to St Michael’s Church in Sevenoaks on Wednesday. The Carol Service at Tonbridge Chapel was, as ever, an awe-inspiring occasion attended by over 500 people, joining in with our largest Choir in memory. Excellent performances from all our organ scholars, thank you Governors for your support in this scheme. Judd Winds were invited to the National Concert Band Festival having received a Platinum Award at the regional event; a great honour and testament to the talent of the group under the leadership of Mr Baker. Last term saw the Spring Concert and very popular Jazz Café. We thanked our Y13 musicians for their commitment to School Music at the former and were treated to Schubert’s Piano trio by James Cook, Annabel Sargent and Mateo Hoare. We are fortunate and thankful to hear their wonderful music again today. Finally, to our leavers. In the words of Dr Seuss, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” I trust that you will reflect on your memories of the School, whether over 2 or 7 years and will consider their value. I would urge you to stay in touch, be an active member of our OJ community. The friends you are sat with today will last the test of time, but don’t forget the friends you leave at the School. We would be glad to hear of your future successes, just as we celebrate your current ones today. Jonathon Wood 29 June 2018 The Juddian l December 18 9

Juddian2018_School Notes National Champions pgs_001-013_v17.qxp_001-043 05/11/2019 16:05 Page 10 School Notes SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Governors’ Leaving Exhibition: Philippe Allen Elizabeth Hopkins Stamp Leaving Scholarship: Becky Latcham Elizabeth Hopkins, Rohan Shiatis, Adam Fidler Megan Jackson Evan Price Prize: Hugo Carter Philippe Allen Old Juddian Society Bursary: Ben Brooks Jamie Haddley Poland Trophy for the Head Boy: Daniel Starkey Elizabeth Hopkins Ridges Trophy for the Head Girl: Moya Thomas Joshua Evans Ben Voice UPPER SIXTH PRIZES Philippe Allen Thomas Kendrick MITCHELL ENGLISH Moya Thomas Tobias Chatfield FRENCH Adam Fidler GERMAN Mateo Hoare THOMAS PRIZE FOR MODERN LANGUAGES Rohan Shiatis LATIN Isaac Murphy F H TAYLOR HISTORY Elodie Harbourne BRYANT GEOGRAPHY Sam Dixon STONELY ECONOMICS Isaac Murphy M J DOBSON GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Adam Fidler QUEEN VICTORIA RELIGIOUS STUDIES Jonathan Tsoi POWELL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS Nikita Shukan HSBC MATHEMATICS Katie Gibbs Annabel Sargent FURTHER MATHEMATICS Hannah Morten Hereward Leathart DOYLE PHYSICS Oliver Crowe Alexander Angelis SALTERS’ COMPANY CHEMISTRY Mazarine Geeson MCCAFFERTY CHEMISTRY Anton Farmar GODFREY LIFE SCIENCE Jack Newman ADRIAN TWINER BIOLOGY Hugo Webber BARNETT CUP FOR BIOLOGY Stephen Lidbetter ASHTON MUSIC Olivia Kehoe SHILL ART PRIZE AND HAZELDEN CUP Daniel Starkey DESIGN TECHNOLOGY Thomas Kendrick EXTENDED PROJECT PRIZE Alfie Scopes LLOYD MORGAN PRIZES FOR ALL-ROUND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Isaac Merchant James Cook DRIVERS JONAS PRIZES FOR ALL-ROUND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Jamie Bingham Luke Netherclift PETER KNOTT TROPHY (1ST XV RUGBY) Will Beeston SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Ben Brooks SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO Toby Russell CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Moya Thomas WILLIS-FEAR MUSICIANSHIP Ollie Baker TONBRIDGE LIONS CLUB COMMUNITY Will Malcomson SERVICE AWARD TONBRIDGE ROTARY CLUB SERVICE AWARD SENIOR ARMY CADET AWARD SENIOR RAF CADET AWARD THE CORBETT CUP (ARMY SECTION) ALBERT KING PRIZE FOR MERIT ROGER TROTH PRIZE WILLIAM LIPPELL STANESBY AWARD 10 The Juddian l December 18

LOWER SIXTH PRIZES’ YEAR 11 PRIZE School Notes ENGLISH LITERATURE Abigail Howe WINNERS FRENCH Patrick Stephens Felix Baker Jack Binning GERMAN Chanon Olley Aidan Birdi Lewis Blakeborough LATIN Leah Mitchell Noah Bradley Harrison Brockway QUEEN VICTORIA RELIGIOUS STUDIES Ethan MacDonald Loui Coleman Joe Cunningham SUTTON HISTORY Julius Moss Martin Davis Ronnie Day GEOGRAPHY Bethan Jones Thomas Hooper Thomas James ECONOMICS Sahil Sharma Myles Kelly Hammad Ansari James Kingston Luke Maynard L W HENDERSON GOVERNMENT Anya Holtshausen Douglas McCulloch & POLITICS Travis Moldrich Dola Rabiu SIMMONDS MATHEMATICS Absara Pushpavinothan Nathan Rolf Adam Winnifrith George Sams Alex Thompson FURTHER MATHEMATICS Rose Blyth Adam van Der Plas Harrison Mouat Johannes Vogelberg Samuel Ward CHEMISTRY Ayush Gupta Holly Hayward MARK DICKINSON PHYSICS Matthew Keenan PHYSICS Jessica Lally HAYNES BIOLOGY Areen Wazir ADRIAN TWINER BIOLOGY Josh Williams MUSIC Dominic Carver ART Izzy Saxon DESIGN TECHNOLOGY Monique Gunter HARVARD BOOK PRIZE George Coote GENERAL PRIZE FOR ALL-ROUND Lachlan Bradley ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Mary Fitzmaurice George Tyler VAUGHAN ROBERTS PRIZE FOR EFFORT Fransina Beumee HEADTEACHER’S PRIZE WINNERS Y11-13 prizes were distributed by Mrs Annabelle Baird, Master of the Skinners’ YEAR 10: Laurie Auld, Joe Barney, Alex Beeston, Lucas Beghein, Theo Briscoe, Alexander Colesmith, Theo Daviron, George Fitzgerald, Finnley Company, on Friday 29 June 2018. Frost, Maximilian Gerard, Robert Gregson, Freddie Hand, Tanzim Islam, Y7-10 prizes were distributed by Mr James Manav Kakkanat, James Lester, Mungo Mangat, Tom Mansell, Conor McBride, Harrison Moore, John Mulford, Alexander Robson, Toby Leahy, Chairman of Governors, on Sargent, Daniel Seaton, Fabian Singleton, Chamika Weerasinghe, Joe Wednesday 12 September 2018. Wheeler, Alex Yau YEAR 9: Neil Beaton , Nico Burrone, Mckinley Chibambo, William The Juddian l December 18 11 Claridge, Charlie Costello, Matthew Dubery, Nicholas Frankel, Rowan Galler, James Gordon, James Hopkins, Sam Hopkins, Toby Horner, Andrew Ize-Iyamu, Aleks Komad, Josh Lally, Sam Menhinick, Robin Mueller, Matthew Owen, Sam Penton, Gregory Pring, Rory Savage, Kiran Shiatis, Patrick Shrimpton YEAR 8: Max Baker, Paul Biswas, Kim Catling, Daniel Chandler, Edward Coutts, Scott Cupitt, Matthew Davis, Oscar De Daranyi, Seb Garwood, William Gough, Daniel Gregson, Seb Hillsdon, Matthew Liu, Dominic Miller, Noah Mitchell, Joshua Neen, Ben Nolan, Miles Peacock, Jonah Radcliffe, Thanay Ramaraju, Sarod Rehman, Dominic Stangroome, James Thresher, Milan Vaze, Paul Vogelberg, Edward Waters, Jon Whawell YEAR 7: James Backhouse, Peter Blunt, Attila Branczyk, Billy Bruce, Pierre Castellan, Ethan Courtney, Finlay Cross, Joshua Eaton, Adam Gardner, Angus Grant, Arthur Hansen, Arthur Hillard, Will Hobbs, Joseph Hopkins, Fraser Hutton-Squire, Tom Huxley, Owen Marshall, Henry Milligan, Virgil Patricot, Oliver Poulter, Mark Roberts, Archie Steddon, Joshua Tate, Cassius Walton, Jake White, Max Wingfield

National ChampionsJuddian2018_School Notes National Champions pgs_001-013_v17.qxp_001-043 05/11/2019 16:06 Page 12 National Champions & Internationals ‘Judd UK’ – first ever UK state school competitor at International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition 2017 ‘The Underdogs’ – Student Investor Challenge National Champions 2017 and New York tourists! 12 The Juddian l December 18

National Champions SHcehnoroylsV’ ICIIhRaemlapyioCnhsahmipspiEonngsli2s0h1S8ch(aoboolsvBe,owysi’thRempureltsiepnletamtivaersa2th0o1n8 world-record (below) Senior Cross Country Squad – King holder Steve Edwards) & ISF World Chess Problem Solving Team – English Schools’ Champions 2017-18 The Juddian l December 18 13

Juddian2018_Academia pgs_14-25.qxp_066-093 05/11/2019 15:29 Page 14 Academia Academia This was an exciting year for me for two reasons. This was not only my first year as a fully-fledged section editor, but I also managed to get an entirely new section to the Juddian – the 'Academia' section. I was particularly passionate about this, and I believe that I did do my best, with the advice of the more senior editors, and certainly included a wide array of the numerous academic events that occurred, across all of the years of the School. N Mitchell, Academia Editor MATHS CHALLENGE This academic year has seen many successes in the June. Again, all of our Olympiad qualifiers gained at various Maths Challenges, with over 600 certificates least a certificate of Merit, and Scott Cupitt earned a being awarded across the first rounds of the Junior, Distinction for his excellent performance. Intermediate and Senior competitions, and 156 students scoring highly enough to qualify for follow- Congratulations must also go to this year’s Maths on rounds. teams, with the Junior team (Kiran Shiatis, Rowan Galler, Matthew Liu, Paul Vogelberg) coming 3rd in In the Senior competition, 14 students qualified for the Olympiad round – an honour only afforded to 1000 their heat. Both the Y10 and students nationally. Rose Blyth, Lachlan Bradley, Y11 teams (Alex Colesmith, Sam Dixon, Freddie Hand, Anthony Freddie Hand, James Horne, Scott and Daniel Starkey all gained James Lester and Jack Certificates of Binning, Jack Brown, Distinction, and George Byles, Cameron special mention must go to Rohan Reeve) qualified for the Shiatis for his final of the Invicta Maths achievement of a Challenge, and placed 1st Silver medal, making him one of the top 50 and 3rd overall students in the country! respectively. The Senior Team (Lachlan Bradley, The Intermediate competition brought Elizabeth Hopkins, similarly outstanding Julius Moss, Rohan results, with 70 students Shiatis) won the being invited to take part in the next round. All 12 of Regional heat of the the Olympiad qualifiers Senior Team Maths gained at least a certificate of Challenge, and Merit, with Frankie Arnold gaining a Distinction, enjoyed a great day out James Lester gaining a medal (top 100 in the country) at the national finals in London. They and both Freddie Hand and Kiran Shiatis gaining both ranked 14th overall in the country, out of the 86 medals and book prizes (top 50 in the country), with teams present, and produced an excellent and creative outstanding scores of 55 and 58 out of 60 respectively! poster on the mathematics of bell ringing, to claim second place in the accompanying poster competition. The recent Junior competition saw nearly 40 students Very many congratulations to all! compete in the next round which took place in mid- LMM 14 The Juddian l December 18

MATHS IN ACTION 2017 Academia On 22 November the Y12 Further Mathematics students the same birthday as Kate Middleton gave birth on the (along with some Single Mathematics students) same day as Kate Middleton. Matthew Scroggs showed attended the ‘Maths in Action’ conference in the heart us that, as there are 1999 babies born daily in the UK – of Westminster for an informative day being taught by meaning there was a 99.6% chance of any 2 of those several high-profile academics involved in the field of mothers having the same birthday – and 3% of names Mathematics. After arriving, we were introduced to the are ‘Kate’ in the UK, this had a rather high 1 in 7 schedule for the day and the first talk began. The talk chance of happening. Another report from the Office of was from a Mathematics professor from Imperial National Statistics said that unemployment had fallen by College London and was titled ‘Getting Things Done’ 7000, however Scroggs calculated from the confidence (in which he wanted to explain the millennium interval they used to estimate this figure (the range in problem regarding whether ‘P = NP’). The talk ended which they are 95% confident the unemployment figure up spanning much more than that and included an lies) that the uncertainty range was so large that the introduction in which he explained how the idea of a actual result could have been a rise of 77,000. A further ‘googol’ (the number 10100) could not exist in this calculation showed that 1.5 statistics will be false in universe because of the limits of the laws of Physics every monthly report. (especially as this universe contains 1080 atoms). After further explaining the inability of the ‘platonic Dr Mark Lewney was up next with a captivating talk universe’, where Pure Mathematics takes place, to fit titled ‘Are we made of Maths?’. This explained the with the real world, he moved on to the topic of Maths intrinsic Maths of life, such as in Theoretical Biology to in Computer Science. The P = NP problem asks the model cell generation. The highlight was his rather abstract question of ‘if a problem’s solution can performance of his own Physics-themed rendition of be verified quickly, can it be solved quickly?’ – for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ which featured the lyrics ‘Mama example in a Sudoku. The prize for a concrete solution just killed a cat’ – referencing the infamous to this problem is $1,000,000 and if the proposition is Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment. shown to be true, it would have major implications on Finally, ‘Drinking from the firehose’ was a lecture about our world such as rendering most encryption useless. data science. Dr Miranda Mowbray from the University The next talk was by the popular science author Simon of Bristol showed us the Mathematics behind practices Singh, on the topic of Fermat’s Last Theorem and that use Data Science, such as diagnosing and network Andrew Wiles’ proof of it. Fermat’s Last Theorem is the security. Problems such as false alarms (e.g. a malware famous theorem that a^n+b^n=c^n has no solutions for filter blocking a legitimate website) were also any integers a, b and c when n 3. While the proof considered. was far too complicated for A-level students to even Looking back on it, the entire day was incredibly begin to understand, he was able to introduce us to the engrossing and everyone who attended left with a ideas behind it, as well as some related Maths and how broader understanding of what Mathematicians do a counterexample to the theorem was so nearly found and how Mathematics is used in the modern world. (and was in an episode of The Simpsons!). I would highly recommend this trip to any student studying Maths. Next came an account of bad statistics in the news. This lecture encouraged us to be wary of statistics D Choudhury thrown around in the news and carefully consider their circumstances. For example, a sensationalist headline from the BBC stated that a woman named Kate with The Juddian l December 18 15

Juddian2018_Academia pgs_14-25.qxp_066-093 05/11/2019 15:29 Page 16 Academia NOBEL PRIZE WINNER RICHARD HENDERSON LECTURE Richard Henderson spent one of his childhood produced combined into a high-resolution composite. summers in the drawing office at Ferranti Engineering. Jacques Dubochet had determined a method for Just a few decades later in 2017, he was standing on producing the samples that would be loaded into the the stage of Stockholm Concert Hall, accepting his electron microscope: loading a droplet onto a fine Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In between were five mesh and vitrifying it by shooting it through liquid decades of biophysical research culminating in the ethane cooled to -190ºC. invention of cryo-electron microscopy, a revolutionary new technique that allows people to view complex Fifty years ago, the smallest thing you could see with proteins with a precision previously unimaginable. an electron microscope was 20 Angstroms – ten This year, we had the honour of having Richard thousand times smaller than the width of a single Henderson give a talk here at the Judd School. human hair. Today, that number has gone up to one hundred thousand. With this theory and method, it is Proteins are delicate, complicated, and extremely hard now possible to view the previously invisible, to to work with, since they are liable to fall apart as soon image what had been hidden, to learn what used to as they leave their preferred environment. The be unknowable. existing methods either mandated that the molecules Science isn’t just some static facts in a textbook, it’s a form well-organized crystals, something that any continually changing field. Advances are being made sufficiently complex compound avoided with a on a daily basis, as the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry passion, or that they be bombarded with high-energy shows, and Henderson’s talk at the Judd School has electrons, which was sure to destroy the molecule been a rare and invaluable inspiration to all. being studied before long. L Bradley While Henderson was working with the bacteriorhodopsin protein, he noticed that while on the surface of a membrane, the proteins tended to arrange themselves into ordered structures. He discovered that by imaging the molecules with lower energy electrons, he could take advantage of this regular organization and calculate the structure instead of viewing it directly. Meanwhile, Joachim Frank was developing a program by which you could use this lower-energy method on samples that weren’t necessarily in ordered structures, and have the low-resolution photos that were FLY LAB trained, we will start introducing small doses of alcohol into the fly colony’s food to see if there is an The latest venture from the Judd Biology Department effect on the memory of the flies and whether they is Fly Lab. Fly Lab is an opportunity for Y12-13s to are able to complete the maze to a similar follow their passion for scientific research by studying competence. the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and following the School’s motto: Learn, Serve, Lead. As Fly Lab develops, it will be opened up to the Lower School who will be taught by the Sixth Form The first batch of students began their training on students. This opportunity is helpful for those handling and experimenting on the flies in summer applying to university courses related to the sciences, term of 2018 at the end of Y12, led by Dr Courel and scientific research, and even medicine, dentistry and Dr Camilla Larsen of the Centre for Developmental veterinary medicine as it shows your specific interest Neurobiology at King’s College London. We were in scientific research. The skills gained include taught how to identify male and female flies, and then literature research, experimental design and how to maintain our colonies. Once sufficiently techniques as well as data analysis. We hope that Fly trained, we were given full independence on the line Lab grows and achieves the great success that other of research we could take. For example, my partner Biology projects have achieved at the School. and I decided to research the effect of alcohol on the memory and overall behaviour of the fruit flies. We A Binodh are currently in the process of finding an effective method to train the flies to do a simple T-maze. Once 16 The Juddian l December 18

Academia Throughout the past year the Colesmith, Rowan Radmall, Deepro outstanding and reflected the hard Young Scientists Journal Society Choudhury and Soni Kansal for work and dedication that our has had great success in getting your winning entries in Biology, volunteer’s displayed. students involved in a range of Chemistry, Physics and Computer scientific activities and presenting a Science respectively and thank you Overall, I look forward to another variety of scientific topics. From to everyone who got involved. promising year for the YSJ and new members joining to the encourage anyone who has an competitions put forward by the Another great event organised by interest in STEM to get involved. YSJ, many students have had the the YSJ team was our genetic Presentations are given every opportunity to get involved in lots engineering experiment. As part of fortnight so if you like the idea of of enlightening experiences. a national competition, the team sharing with others a topic that you spent 2 evenings after School are knowledgeable about then I The most notable example of this, assisting 20 participants genetically would also suggest coming along. is our YSJ competitions. The 2018 engineering bacteria to glow in the We have a variety of projects YSJ Competition involved coming dark and providing information on planned so make sure to join soon up with solutions to problems in what genetic engineering actually so you can get involved. different areas of STEM. is and how it can affect the Congratulations to Alexander modern world. The results were N Beaton The Juddian l December 18 17

Juddian2018_Academia pgs_14-25.qxp_066-093 05/11/2019 15:29 Page 18 Academia IGEM IGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered During the summer, we collaborated with the Machine, a Synthetic Biology competition where teams University of Kent’s Biology labs to carry out some of high school students, undergraduates and aspects of the competition. This was especially postgraduates attempt to solve a world problem by exciting, as we had the opportunity to use expensive manipulating the DNA of cells. The Judd School decided to enter the competition for the first lab equipment and work alongside time in 2017 with a team of 14 university students and professors. students as one of just two high Additionally, we set up our own Molecular school teams from the UK, and one of Biology lab in the Biology Department to the first state schools to ever compete. produce the Synthetic Biology parts and put them to the test. After several months of research from Although there were moments of doubt January to March, we devised a at the sheer size and complexity of the Biological system we thought could project, we always persisted as a team. help solve the issue of iron deficiency We unfortunately came to the conclusion anaemia. The World Health that our hypothesised system would not Organisation estimates that 1 billion work effectively, but the fact that we people suffer from the condition, with symptoms ranging from lethargy all the even arrived at a conclusion meant our way to death. However, iron poisoning project was a success. As Thomas is equally dangerous and potentially fatal, so prophylactically taking iron Edison once said, “I have not failed. tablets is not necessary the solution. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't By using very new technology, we work”. By proving this system does planned on creating a cell-free, paper- not work, we have narrowed down based self-diagnostics tool which the list of possible solutions to the would cost no more than 10 pence issue, and the data from the research and only require a sample of saliva. can be used to hypothesise new This, in contrast to current methods systems, some of which we suggested which require an expensive machine, in our evaluation. a health professional and a blood sample, would allow large Our IGEM journey culminated in populations of people to be Boston, MA in November of 2017 at the diagnosed. From this test, Giant Jamboree where all teams from the individuals would know whether their symptoms across the globe came to were a result of unhealthy present their projects in the iron levels or not and be in a hope of impressing the judges. position to help themselves. While we were still unsure of our project, our team had Over the next few months worked extremely hard for the from March to July, we worked hard to finalise our 9 months leading up to the hypothetical system, as well as Jamboree, and our diligence work on the other many had paid off. We had elements of the project. We ambitiously hoped for a quickly realised the range of bronze medal for our project. skills we needed to create a Not only did we receive a complete research project and were fortunate enough to have silver medal, but we also such a diverse team. This includes public outreach received awards for Best work, programming a website for our wiki page and Mathematical Model and creating a mathematical model, as well as the lab Best Education and Public work we carried out. Engagement in the high-school category, as well as a nomination for Best Wiki. I’d like to thank Mrs Andrews and Dr Courel for all their hard work on the project and for taking the risk by entering the competition in the first place, as well as the commitment of all the other members of the team. G Swallow 18 The Juddian l December 18

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Juddian2018_Academia pgs_14-25.qxp_066-093 05/11/2019 15:29 Page 20 Academia YEAR 7 Author Visit: Chris Bradford when I was reading his book I wondered if it was possible to do it. I love his books especially the character Saburo as he is so funny. In the third book, Saburo has to write a haiku and he starts it with:- “She may only have one eye, but it’s a pretty one” as he is trying to write a love poem! I also like Yori as he masters Kiai-jutsu, which I think is really impressive. I had a great time. C Downer In their first term at Judd, Chris samurai do” (quotation from a Y7 I think Chris Bradford was very Bradford enthralled Y7 with an student). We were surprised to learn good as he knew a lot about the exciting and interactive presentation that, even today, there are samurai Samurai’s history and warrior moves based on his action packed martial schools where children learn skills and he had been to Japan before so arts series – Young Samurai. The such as archery and using a bo staff he knew all about the culture. He story opens in the Year 1611, as the (a wooden staff used as a weapon wrote amazing books based on boy Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off in feudal Japan). After the event, young samurai and other things that the coast of Japan – his beloved judging by the interest sparked in he found out about in Japan. His father and the crew lying reading Chris’ work, the visit was a first-hand experience was brilliant slaughtered by ninja pirates. Jack is stimulating and memorable as it allowed him to use his own rescued by a samurai sword master experience for everyone. WAC trip to contribute towards the and the story unfolds as Jack books. They are very realistic and embarks on training to become a I found Chris very funny and tell you a lot about life in Japan in samurai warrior. Chris brings a real amusing. I loved the ways he acted 1609 and the books are very air of authenticity to his writing, as out his book and tried to make us exciting like his trip to Japan. he has trained in karate, kickboxing feel as if we were in the book. He and samurai swordsmanship. He made an effort to get as many H Munt has also earned his black belt in people as possible involved – Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu – the secret which was great and made us enjoy I enjoyed the Chris Bradford author fighting art of the ninja. Throughout it even more. It was cool when he visit because he told lots of his presentation Chris was dressed showed us the amazing people interesting stories about his books in a traditional samurai robe, where he got his ideas and his and about his life. He also brought enhancing the feeling that we were astonishing trip to Japan. I really some scenes to life by acting them in the presence of a real warrior! liked when he started using his out. I haven’t read any of his books Two willing volunteers went on ninja blade and started swinging it before but now I want to read the stage to assist in demonstrating how like a real ninja. He showed us how Young Samurai series. sharp a katana (small samurai people knock people out with only sword) is kept. The audience were their fingers. I really found it terrific J Dunster thrilled by this and in turn, and enjoyed every part. fascinated by the videos that Chris The highlight of the event was showed of “impressive things that D McNamara probably watching “dim mak” a.k.a. Chris Bradford has a great personality and is very enthusiastic the “Death Touch”. When you about his katana. He was really interesting to watch and had a great touch someone you can disrupt stage persona. I loved his sword demonstration as I love the idea of their “ki” (energy) and consequently being a samurai. I liked the video of Dim Mak (the Death Touch) as you can knock them out or inflict great bodily harm. I would definitely recommend seeing Chris Bradford and the visit has definitely spurred me on to read a lot more than I usually do. L Downer 20 The Juddian l December 18

THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION GREAT DEBATE 2017/18 Academia The Historical Association hosted to say the least! However, Joe and I retrospect, I enjoyed enormously. their annual Great Debate endeavoured to maintain a positive Answering questions from the competition in 2017/18 on the mentality throughout and support rather formidable panel was question: “Was the 1918 extension one another (despite the fact that I similarly challenging yet rewarding, of the franchise the most significant rather embarrassingly hadn’t even really forcing me to think on my moment of British democratic realised he was in my year before feet as I attempted to provide history?” I was fortunately selected that evening…), and just having eloquent responses without too by the history department at Judd, someone to chat to occasionally much deliberation. along with my fellow Y12 student definitely helped to calm me Joseph McGrath, to represent the down. Performing the speech itself The whole experience definitely school at the regional Canterbury was a hugely satisfying experience, built my confidence in and love of heat on Tuesday 7 November, in albeit one which induced a certain public speaking, especially as I the beautiful historic setting of The amount of knee shaking and hand ultimately finished joint runner-up, King’s School Canterbury. tremors (hopefully not too and I have since participated more noticeably!), and one which, in extensively in debating both in and Despite being termed a “debate”, it out of school. I found that this was styled more as a public style of competition was speaking competition, wherein particularly enjoyable because, each participant had to perform a unlike in a standard debate format 5-minute speech as their own such as British Parliamentary Style, response to the question, and then the opportunity to deliver a speech field questions from the panel (the providing my own opinion on such Canterbury panel comprised the an engaging issue meant that I was leader of the local HA branch able to examine my own views Stewart Ross, writer and and perform with greater broadcaster Jo Phillips, and the conviction as a result. Therefore, recently retired Clerk to the when I was asked questions Parliaments Sir Michael Pownall) afterwards, my immediate thought and the general audience. process wasn’t “Oh dear, how on earth can I defend what I just In honesty, this presented a said?”, but “Hang on, what do I somewhat daunting task, as I actually think about this, hadn’t had any real public personally?”, which was a very speaking experience outside of interesting way to analyse my own class before, and nerves were high ideas about the topic; I really feel that debating an issue is one of the best ways to learn about and form an opinion on it, and I hope that other students lower down the school will be able to participate in similar opportunities – it was definitely a worthwhile experience. L Mitchell The Juddian l December 18 21

Juddian2018_Academia pgs_14-25.qxp_066-093 05/11/2019 15:29 Page 22 Academia WHICH CAN TELL US MORE ABOUT GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGION: WRITTEN SOURCES OR PHYSICAL ARTEFACTS? Last year I competed in an essay competition. The Jownett- Pottery serves not only as a valuable record of beliefs, myths Sendelar Essay competition is a very large, national classics and customs and rituals closely associated with the worship of competition, and are perhaps unique in that they have a gods, but also to show us the ambitions and ideals of the junior section. It was the first time I had ever written an essay people at the time. for a large competition, and I absolutely could not have hoped to achieve it without the fantastic help of Ms Gale. I selected the It is true that writings can also help us understand and topic 'What can tell us more about Greek and Roman religion: decipher how people felt about religion in the classical world, written sources or physical artefacts?' Overall, I managed to though the worldview depicted in each text of course is finish second place, which was a huge achievement for me! largely skewed, as each writer portrays it differently. In Ovid’s Here is an extract from that essay: “Metamorphoses,” religion, in essence, is not very complicated Both written and physical sources of evidence are invaluable at all. Essentially, mortals worship the gods, through offering, in providing us insight into ancient Greek and Roman prayer, rituals and so on, and, as a sign of gratitude the gods religion, but the value of the source will in some ways be don’t destroy them and might even be helpful. However, affected by the context in which it is being studied and the equally interesting for what the insight it provides into the questions that are being asked. fears the people had of such power beings was what Greek Pottery is extremely useful to explain Greek and happened when the mortals didn’t honour the gods. The Roman religion for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most writings demonstrate that when the gods punished people, important attribute of fired clay is that it is very durable and whether gods, demigods, mortals or creatures, they had very has survived where few works in textile, wood, or wall little mercy. In the beginning of “Metamorphoses,” Ovid paintings have done. Because of this, the painted decoration describes Lycaon, who when he presumed to distrust Zeus, and style of the pottery has become invaluable in teaching us was transformed into a wolf. He also describes how a flood about classical religion. killed the vast majority of the rest of the human race, as a Greek pottery was developed from the traditions of the further consequence. Mycenaean civilization, and imitated it in both decoration and pot forms. The first stylistic period was Geometric, from Ovid also makes clear that sometimes people were punished around 1000 to 700 BCE, with specific stylized patterns. These for something that was another god’s fault, such as in the case patterns are very useful in telling us when a piece of pottery of Marsyas, who was flayed alive by Apollo after a music originated and helping us understand something of the time, contest because he had played an aulos (double oboe) that as this ancient period has left us with some shards and pieces had been discarded and cursed by Athena (Athene in Greek). of pottery but not many writings. Over time these patterns Ovid’s work shows that even though the Greeks and Romans developed into depictions of animal and human figures, wanted the gods to be perfect versions of themselves, which were always shown in profile, from the side. These powerful and wise, beautiful and intelligent, fierce and occasionally merciful, they still believed the gods had flaws. Hercules and the Lernean Hydra Ovid in particular tended to display the goddesses as more vindictive and petty than the gods, perhaps due to the general pots were the first in Greek art to portray scenes from popular view at the time of women as inferior to men, with more myths, initially most often about Heracles, though other gods emotional and primitive responses. The gods and goddesses and demigods appeared in later depictions. Physical evidence argued, they were cruel, they were not faithful (the male gods also can show us how influences from other cultures became at any rate) and they made errors of judgement. These flaws, more prominent, and in this case, as more Asian influences as depicted by writers including Ovid, made the gods more appeared, new creatures appeared, in particular more exotic relatable to the Greek and Roman people, and less utterly monsters such as the griffin, siren, chimaera and sphinx. terrifying. 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Academia Greek emphasis on demonstrations of power and glory. Annales Maximi Religious temples were one of the most obvious ways in which the Greeks could convey this message, as they were Sicily, which is one of the largest Greek temples ever built, the most imposing and easily visible structures, and were measuring 362ft long by 148ft wide, with 48 columns more accessible to both Greeks and foreigners. Moreover, constructed with 50 ton blocks of stone and hoisted 60ft in unlike writings, buildings did not require people to be literate the air. However the inside buildings of the temple itself were in order to make the point that the Greeks were a powerful not all that large, as these were not often seen and therefore people, favoured by the Gods. did not need to be. The fact that such temples exist proves to Firstly, temples were constructed on hills, called acropolises, us the dedication to, or perhaps fear of, their gods, in a way which no doubt helped to awe and impress visitors as they no writing could. approached the city. In contrast, however, the inside temples, which were not seen by many and therefore were not used to One of the problems with the written word is that such indicate a city’s or patron’s wealth and power, were often very writings are of necessity told from a certain viewpoint, one that cannot always be trusted. Writings take many forms--they Erechtheum, The Porch of The Caryatids could simply be fables, or stories of action and adventure that the people of Greece and Rome enjoyed. Or they could be bare, with little ornamentation or decoration except perhaps motivated by political or social aims, such as the flattery of a for a statue of the person the temple honoured. In fact usually patron or to obtain status. A Roman example is the great statues were placed on the outside, in carved niches. In a few orator and republican Cicero, who was a master in such temples the actual columns themselves were carved into rhetoric, and philosophy, once saying in a 56 BC speech, ‘We statues of people, usually women, such as at the Erechteum, Romans, are not superior to the Spanish in population, nor do the temple dedicated to the hero Erichthonius. we best the Gauls in strength, nor Carthaginians in acumen, In particular, the Greeks focused on the size and decoration of nor the Greeks in technical skills, nor can we compete with the outer aspects of temples, and made these look awe- the natural connection of the Italians and Latins to their own inspiring and intimidating. Some temples were truly huge, people and land; we Romans, however, outstrip every people such as the temple of Hera (also called ‘Temple E’) in Selinus, and nation in our piety, sense of religious scruple and our awareness that everything is controlled by the power of the gods.” The other problem with writings for Roman religion in particular is that unlike most modern, large religions, such as Islam, Christianity or Judaism, the Roman belief system was not a scriptural religion, in the sense that there was no main body of sacred writings that could teach a group of believers how to live their lives. The only major and widely read writings Roman religion produced were more technical, such as the annales maximi (‘The Yearbooks of the Pontifex Maximus’), which were essentially just very brief notes of the important events and religious occurrences of the year. So the written word is insufficient in providing us with a sense of the practical aspects of the impact of religion on the daily lives of the Roman People. N Mitchell Temple of Hera at Seleinus The Juddian l December 18 23

Juddian2018_Academia pgs_14-25.qxp_066-093 05/11/2019 15:30 Page 24 CAREERS DEPARTMENT REVIEW 2017/18 Academia It seems a long time ago that I took over from Linda his week at Thomas as Careers and Higher Education Co-ordinator. BAE Systems Linda retired in July 2017. She was small in stature but she in the summer. had big shoes to fill! A member of Judd staff for more than We’re very 12 years, she latterly became responsible for developing grateful indeed the School’s careers programme and providing careers’ to these guidance to students. Unfortunately for me, she organised companies for the big careers events in School in such a calm, giving our unflappable way that my own frantic efforts this last year students such a great experience. compared rather unfavourably! There will be many OJs grateful to Linda for her sensible careers advice which I This year we’re encouraging Y11/12 students to take part think could be distilled as follows: Do something you have in the National Citizen Service programmes which take a passion for. One of Linda’s great innovations was her bi- place in the October half term and the summer holidays. monthly careers newsletter which went out to Sixth Form The latter is a 4-week, partly residential programme parents. This highlighted a broad range of careers events involving sporting, business and social action activities. It suitable for Judd students. I’ve taken Linda’s idea a step is subsidised to a great extent by the Government so that further and developed the Careers page on Frog which I’m the fee for the four-week summer programme including all keeping updated with careers and higher education activities, food and accommodation, is only £50 (with opportunities mostly targeted at Sixth Formers. The bursaries available). Graduates of the programme are then information is under various tabs such as Open Days, eligible to apply for paid work with the NCS which can be Work Experience, Talks, Medicine, Volunteering. Some of an excellent way of filling the long summer after A levels. these events and work experience opportunities are to be We feel the programme would be of great personal benefit signed up for on a first come, first served basis, so do keep to many students and would be a valuable addition to a check on this page. their CV. You may be aware that the Government has introduced an Finally, I’m hugely indebted to all our volunteers, many of Apprenticeship Levy for large companies and is keen to whom are parents, who have given up their time to help promote apprenticeships and make students aware of this with careers talks and events. I’d like to give a particular option. At Judd, we’re particularly interested in higher level mention to Harry Bott (father of OJs Freddie and Arthur) apprenticeships, school leaver programmes and degree who has for several years been our “entrepreneur” and level apprenticeships. In order to help students find out judge at The Y10 Business Challenge and a speaker at our what apprenticeships are out there we introduced two biennial Careers Evening. The School is so grateful to you new careers services last year to which sixth formers were all. Thank you! invited to sign up: Pathway provides a search engine for apprenticeships and also organises Insight Days and Skills RB-H Days with various large employers. Last year, for example, students attended insight days at the offices of Sky, BDO, WORK EXPERIENCE REPORT – UBS and Microsoft. Information will get emailed to the student relating to the careers areas he or she has BAE SYSTEMS (ROCHESTER) indicated an interest in. There is also a system of mentoring should a student wish to apply for any of the The week had us looking at new technologies and products listed apprenticeships. Unifrog is a much broader made by BAE Systems for the US and UK military, as well as programme which provides a fantastic university (UK and gaining an insight into what it would be like to be an engineer international), apprenticeship and MOOC (online courses) for a large company. If you’re looking for any sort of career in search tool. There is a search tool to help students find engineering or joining the armed services, I would definitely university courses they might be interested in based on recommend applying. their A Level choices. Amongst much other useful information there are guides for applying to international The first 2 days of the work experience were amazing. We universities and Oxbridge. We will be encouraging toured around all areas of the compound (avoiding the students to use the site to record their work experience for restricted parts), including looks at new technologies, as well future CV writing purposes. as trying our piloting skills on some high-tech flight simulations. Of the entire week, the Eurofighter Typhoon flight Judd strongly encourages work experience and/or sim was by far the best part: we tried state-of-the-art helmets, volunteering particularly for Y11/12s. A number of which had a full-colour infrared visor display that effectively students have again taken part in excellent work allowed us to look through the floor of the aircraft. They also experience programmes this year (advertised on the Frog had audible directional warnings which allow a pilot to hear Careers page) run by BAE Systems and AXA PPP in from where an enemy aircraft is approaching. On the Tunbridge Wells. 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Y12 GERMAN WORK EXPERIENCE For my work experience I worked in a stationery shop. I atmosphere felt admittedly overwhelming at first but I had Academia worked from 08:30 to 13:30 in the afternoon. My soon learnt the words I needed in order to work on my colleagues were very nice and-they were always happy to own. I spent from Monday to Wednesday working on the help me if I did not understand something, or needed help computer in the office, which honestly became quite with something. That was very reassuring for me, of boring quite quickly because I did no work which really course, and it allowed me to feel comfort, and to really interests me. Now I have the impression that my boss enjoy my work experience. I was very thankful that they recognised this because on Thursday he offered me the were so kind. In the business I had a lot of tasks to do. For opportunity to work in the warehouse, which tickled my example, most of the time I worked behind the counter fancy. I remember the warehouse was so much huger than where I served the customers. I also sorted out the I expected. It also looked bigger because there was only newspapers and magazines as well as the lottery. I about four other people in there throughout the day. The enjoyed doing this and it was very good as I was able to first hour was extremely quiet, but after that we were busy. speak German all the time, which was undoubtedly very Because of this the time flew. I loaded some interesting good practice. goods, which was actually quite entertaining. Apart from work, I was always doing things with either my exchange J Thompson partner or with the other Judd students. Just one or two hours after leaving the airport, we went out to go bowling It was the first day of work, and I must say that I was a altogether. We soon realised that the Germans don't spend little nervous to start work in a kindergarten; although that their free time in the week how we do. Because they all was all soon forgotten as the (organised) chaos began. live so close to each other, they’re able to meet up every From administering scooter related justice to assisting day after school. I can't remember more than one day on building a pretty impressive train set, there was never a which I did nothing in the evening. Initially I thought it dull moment. A big favourite of the kids was having me was unbelievable that my exchange partner would push the swing (or die Schaukel, as they taught me), sometimes stay out until around two in the morning. I which would keep them happy for hours on end! Reading enjoyed it when I was in Germany. I could never get stories again was something I spent plenty of time doing, home that late in England because it would destroy me, which was both great for my reading and speaking skills but it made my time in Germany more like a holiday at as well as amusing the little ones (even if one of them times, which really improved my experience, although the criticised my accent!). mornings were always difficult. L Makin C Campbell I spent lots of time in the early days just observing what Something quite fascinating that I learned there is that my colleagues were doing because I hadn't yet much confidence that I could fill orders in German and the there are many different dialects and accents in Germany. HUDs (Heads-up Displays). For the The people there spoke, for example, a bit of \"Hessisch\", final 3 days, we were sent to the different placements which we had and a word that was often said was \"Morsche\", which chosen. Each placement group had a BAE employee teaching them about means \"Good morning\". My exchange partner, Nico, also their workflow, and there were a wide variety of areas to choose from; told me some accents are in fact so difficult to understand ranging from I.T. to Electronic Engineering to Finance. In Mechanical Engineering, I designed that even he can't understand them let alone me. I also a small chair, modelled it on the latest CAD programmes before 3D Printing the final product, which we were able to take enjoyed the week outside of the placement. The Saturday home. It was a real insight into how a BAE Systems engineer thinks and works through problems. involved a canoeing trip, which lasted six hours, and a As a Judd student, you have a good chance of being accepted party. The canoeing was so long and tough, that I had into this programme. In 2018, out of the 17 students who applied from all over the country and were accepted, 4 were almost no energy to go to the party and speak German Judd students. I would wholeheartedly recommend this opportunity, as it has given me valuable experience and with strangers there. Nico went in a boat with one of his contacts as well as adding to my determination to find a career in which I would look forward to going to work every day. friends... and it capsized. I luckily saved his friend's things, J Wheeler including a phone. Nevertheless, it was definitely an entertaining day. C Olley On Friday, it was my last day and the class decided to celebrate my time there. Therefore, I distributed chocolate and we played lots of games like Lego and Princesses. It was a shame that 1 had to leave them after only a week and I think that we were all of a bit sad! 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