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House Captain Christian Prior. Tees has continued tobe a noisy and happy place with enthusiasm for ballgames often spilling over into the common rooms,and on a couple of occasions through a brokenwindow. I am really happy about the former and, as itallows the excellent sound of Tees House singingrehearsals to be more easily appreciated by thoseoutside, only a little browned off about the latter.

There are very many bright young men in Tees and,over the year, by way of starting at the end we haverecorded massively more than one thousand meritsbetween the boys. I am delighted by this, as theHeadmaster often reminds us that academic effortshould be a priority. Indeed, overall, we have been themost consistently merit worthy day boys house and veryfrequent visitors to the Headmasters study to collectmore HM certificates.

I suppose the Autumn Term is all about housesinging. It certainly feels this way and I was extremelyproud of the boys in this cracking competition. MrJohnson produced a superb version of Waltzing Matildawith our juniors and I think the 4th placing was clearly atravesty and perhaps judged by a cricket fan who knewthe ashes series was coming up! Kangaroos to the foreand foot tapping all around helped set the scene for ahuge senior pair of performances later in the evening.Huge thanks for the senior singing must go to ‘Christy’Prior, who with a record number of part-song rehearsalsunder his belt, led the Tees team to a top boys place witha simply inspiring medley of Elvis classics. I have notseen an audience so taken with a performance since wetopped the list with ‘Summer Lovin’ a few years ago.Following on from this we produced the most memorableperformance of the senior night with a Tees version ofThe Secret Policeman’s Ball performance of ‘Torn’ byNatalie Imbruglia. Here Oliver Chrisp mimed all of theactions to the words in his own spotlight and simplybrought the house down. The adjudicator marked usdown to 5th place for being too distracting and left us towonder why. Spurred on by this Christy and the boys,

later in the year, went on to win the house musiccompetition, where the prodigious talents of inters suchas Ross Currie and George Amesbury joined seniorssuch as Jonathan Sayer, James Corkish and Christy.Later this term we sent twelve to the HM for assessmentawards and then Matthew McKitton, James Robertson,Tom Evans, Oliver Pearse, George Warren, TomMarston, Matthew Fearneyhough and Ruairi Gillespie alllater had silver and Bronze HM certificates. Clearly somegood thinking going on here as there was in the poetrycompetition where Hamish Carter was commended and‘Big’ George Warren came runner up with work onDiversity.

We completed and exhausting term with an overallwin in the Junior Chess competition, a surreal victory formime in the intermediate charades, second place in thesenior badminton, last spot in the junior Gillet and aschool wide cheer with Christy winning the X factorcompetition.

The Spring Term seems to be dominated by theBarney running events. This is just as well as I wassporting a few extra pounds myself and when trainingbegan we ran around the fields. I was forced to re doublemy efforts after ‘Big George’ jogged past me in thegathering gloom one Wednesday and told me he thoughtI was ‘doing well considering…’ We trained hard for therunning by winning the library competition (well doneOliver and Callum) and chasing people for Help forHeroes sponsorship.

When all the dust settled we could pour over the finalpositions and it revealed for us that we were second inthe senior and third in the intermediate Junior eventsrelegating Dale and Durham to last spots respectively,but that Finlay Tait won the Blackett cup in a time of17:19. We counted our ‘Bash’ charity money and spottedthe top envelope contained £62 from a tired WillManners; later this was to be topped by Patrick Borer’s£102.Overall we raised £1203:96p and the sixty boyswho collected their money are to be congratulated.

Our top three runners in each age group for theBarnard runs themselves were…

Seniors: Will Trewby 9th , David Orr 15th, AdrianSmith 16th. Inters: Finlay Tait 1st, Nicholas Packham 6th,Calum Matthews 25th. Juniors: William Grundy 9th,Hamish Carter 15th, Angus Brown 17th.

School work ploughed on and we mused over ourmock exam and module results and congratulated 11members of the house with an average of 45 or over inthe first spring assessment. We also clapped very loudlywhen the Senior and Intermediate MathematicsChallenge awards gave Bronze, Silver and Gold awardto several Tees men.

We moved swiftly on and attempted some housefootball management akin to that of Sir Alex. Sadly, it didnot do the trick and despite the captaincy of Ben WynnJones, the excellent skills of Bradley Robinson and thehard working Thorman brothers we lost 3-1 and had togrit our teeth for house hockey instead. The news here

was very good and we won the junior house hockey withthe inters and seniors coming third. Collecting the AbleCup had to be our consolation so we cheered loudly.

As we drew nearer to the end of term the seniorpublic speaking drew closer and ‘Christy’ (main speaker),‘JT’ (vote of thanks) and Andrew Jordan (chair) debatedthe wisdom of the Bank of England’s attempt atquantitative easing. This is an entirely difficult topic andsuperbly outlined by our guys who finished mid table. Atthe end of this hectic term we nudged another 785merits closer to a record total and congratulated youngGillespie on his own total of 52 before waving off a largecontingent from Tees on the excellent Junior ski trip.

As the rain clouds gathered we knew it must be theSummer Term and I suppose this is all about Sports Dayfor some and Speech Day for others. Andrew Jordan(2nd Discus) was tireless in his efforts for Tees on SportsDay and with none of the upper 6th or year 11 able tohelp him he recruited willing chaps in the form of WillTrewby and Jonathan Sayer as right hand men. Whilstwe struggled for form we did not lack effort on the newdate for the competition. It produced two overall winnersof the Victor Ludorum trophies and we must congratulateFinlay Tait (winner in 800m 1500m and High Jump) andBen Wynn Jones (winner in Shot and Discus and 3rd inthe 200m) on their silverware.

House cricket seemed dull in comparison anddespite a number of good school team players, invarious age groups, such as George Woolard, WillGrundy, Tom Newton, Daniel Swires, and TomRomaines, to name but a few, we contrived to lose in the

early rounds and were left to reflect upon what mighthave been. We later congratulated Tom Newton for beingawarded best U15 cricketer and Nick Packham for beingbest U14 tennis player and added their applause to thatfor our junior Mathematical Challenge winners. AngusBrown, Nicholas Moore, Will Grundy and Tom Knox(Bronze). Tom Adamson and Hamish Carter (Silver).James Robertson and Alex Sowerby (Gold). We alsocounted our merits and realised that with 375 we werestill working hard and so it was no surprise to me thatTees men were collecting twenty six of the prizes givenout Speech Day.

We say goodbye to Adrian Smith, Tom Packham,Finlay Begg, David Orr (school monitor), James Thomas(School monitor), Oliver Milverton and of courseChristian Prior (House Captain). We wish them all thevery best of fortune in their future lives and hope they willremember us and be better for the challenges andopportunities we have faced together.

GB

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It has been another eventful year for the RSdepartment. We have enjoyed introducing the pupilsto many multi-cultural issues within present societythroughout the religious calendar. The new Chapeldisplay has also helped the whole school tounderstand and appreciate religious festivals andcharity events.

I was delighted that the Year 9s found our annual tripto Beth Shalom (a Holocaust Memorial Centre inNottingham) a useful and engaging experience. I wasimpressed with their interaction with a survivor of theHolocaust, as they listened to his life story and alsoasked very thoughtful questions. As well as exploring themuseum and understanding the terrible events of theJewish Holocaust, they also learnt about recentgenocide in Ruanda and Darfur as well as offeringsuggestions as to how the Western world should helpmore than they already do.

It was the first year that the annual Year 8 trip toLindisfarne also included a visit to Bede World. This wasan amazing experience for the pupils to learn how lifewas as a monk. They learnt how to write in calligraphy,explored life in the monastery by dressing up as Monksand attending a church service, as well as learning aboutthe work of Benedict and Bede. During the afternoonthey visited Holy Island and visited the Priory as well asobserving monastic life on the island.

Next year will be busy for the RS department as theYear 7s will visit a Hindu Mandir, the Year 10s and 11swill visit a Mosque in Bradford, the Sixth Form willexplore forensic testing at the LIFE centre in Newcastle,as well as our annual Year 8 and 9 trips to Beth Shalomand Lindisfarne. AJA

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We started the year with the upgrade of our librarymanagement software to ‘Oliver SQL’. Users soongot used to searching the catalogue on the intranetand the instant book images proved to be a popularimprovement.

Years 7 enthusiastically came along to check outthe library and were further impressed when they allreceived a free book from ‘Booked Up’ an initiativesupported by ‘booktrust’. A number of year 7 provedthemselves to be great ambassadors for the libraryduring open morning sharing their joy of reading andshowing how the library works. Thanks to you all butparticularly George for demonstrating the catalogue sowell!!

In preparation for World Book Day we entered the‘World Book Day Short Stories Competition’. We weregiven the first line of a story by Bear Grylls we got ourcreative writing minds into gear, got writing, crossedour fingers and hoped one of our stories would bechosen to be published. We didn’t make it into print thistime but had fun trying - perhaps we’ll have better lucknext year.

In the run up to World Book Day we held a book fairand ran a competition to guess how many books wouldbe bought during the week. Little did we know that the

Are you up to the challenge?The school had their best ever UKMT Junior MathsChallenge results with 54 of the 90 pupils in year 7and year 8 who took up the challenge getting aGold, Silver or Bronze certificate. We achieved themost Golds in one sitting of any of the MathsChallenges (including the Intermediate and Senior)– a total of 14! Only the better mathematicians ineach school takes part (about 200 000) and onlyabout 4 – 5% of the entries get Gold.

‘Best in School’ was Lizzie Knight and the otherGold Certificate winners were:

Ethan Kelsall Hamish Glover Alex SowerbyBen Lilley James Robertson Ben EarlMatthew Lines Sarah Child Iona BorerTamsin Brown Hans Kukreja Matthew WhiteMax Jones

Why not take the challenge yourself? Below is an easy,medium and difficult question from this years challenge(all to be done without a calculator).

Q6. Each of the squares in the figure is 1 unit by 1 unit.What is the area of triangle ABM?

A 4 B 4.5 C 5 D 5.5 E 6

snow was on its way to disrupt things, despite this over50 books were purchased. The winner with the nearestguess was Oliver Chrisp (Tees, Yr11), second ClaireWilkinson (Bowes, Yr8) and in joint third came DanBinchy (Durham, Yr7) and Calum Matthews (Tees, Yr9)- all received a book and an Easter egg.

To give more students the opportunity to spendtheir free £1 World Book Day Vouchers we had threetrips to Waterstones. We had a great time and got thechance to go and work behind the scenes of thebookshop as well as browsing and shopping for books.

The end of the year saw the reorganisation of juniorfiction!! Many were intrigued and perplexed by thehundreds of books piled up on the floor, often choosingto read the one at the very bottom of the stack. We nowhave 11 genres of fiction to choose from, includingbooks at all reading levels from ‘Shockingly Good’ and‘Other Worlds’ to ‘Action and Adventure’ and ‘Happyand not so Happy Families’. The new arrangement hasproved very successful and readers have already saidthat it’s easier for them to find what they want to read.The next step, which is now underway, is to design thesigns/posters to identify the sections – calling allbudding artists your help is needed.

CLS

Library I Maths

Q16. The kettle in Keith’s kitchen is 80% full. After 20%of the water in it has been poured out, there are 1152ml of water left. What volume of water does Keith’skitchen kettle hold when it is full?

A 1400 ml B 1600 ml C 1700 ml D 1800 ml E 2000 ml

Q24. The parallelogram WXYZ shown in the diagramhas been divided into nine smaller parallelograms. The perimeters, in centimetres, of four of the smaller parallelograms are shown. The perimeter ofWXYZ is 21 cm. What is the perimeter of the shadedparallelogram?

A 5 cm B 6 cm C 7 cm D 8 cm E 9 cm

UK Intermediate Maths Challenge About 200,000 pupils nationally take part in thiscompetition from about 3,000 schools. The top 5 %of those participating nationally are awarded a GoldCertificate.

This has been another good year for the School.We won 55 UK Mathematical Challenge Certificateslast year, and have seen another 51 Certificatesawarded this year.

Gold Certificates and book tokens have beenawarded to:Chris RobinsonEdward DeytrikhAngus RobertsonMichael Waldin

A Gold Certificate, a ‘Best in the School’ Certificateand a book token have been presented to:William Ford.

MHN

Given to a student of mathematics in Year 11who, in the opinion of the teachers in BCSMathematics Department has best met one ormore of the criteria below:-• has worked with enthusiasm and commitment

throughout the two year GCSE Foundationcourse

• has strived to do his/her best even when thework is proving difficult

• has shown the most improvement throughoutthe two year GCSE course

• has consistently produced a high effort gradefor assessments throughout the two year GCSEFoundation course

• has helped others when they have found thework difficult

• has done well in the autumn, summer and trialexams

• has overcome particular difficulties (e.g. illness)in producing their work

The award for 2008/9 was presented toHarriet Knowles (Longfield House).

MHN


Arkle Beck (U6)

Mr. Dalton and Mr. Alderson took both U6 sets on anepic road trip from school across to the Eden Valleyand then on to Hawes in the Lake District to revise thetopic of Glaciation, which had been covered in class.

We left school early and headed across to Broughwhere we witnessed a drumlin field, a depositional relictof the last ice age. We then headed onwards to the LakeDistrict to see some of the typical features of glacialerosion and deposition at Hawes. The students were ableto visualize the effect of the ice sheet on the area as Mr.Alderson explained how some of the processesoperated. A hike up into the fells allowed a closerinspection of the landscape. We also witnessed massiveerratics, rocks which had been deposited as the glaciermelted and retreated back up the valley. The power of theice was visible as large striations, or scratches werevisible on some of the rocks in the valley. After a long, butenjoyable day in the field, we headed back to school witha lot of revision completed.

The Geography department also visited MalhamCove in the Yorkshire Dales. Although the drive acrosswas quite lengthy, the route from Barney was verypicturesque. From the small village of Malham, we walkedto Malham Cove. En route we revised concepts such asmass movement and slumping and wandered throughJanet’s Foss, a small forested area. After a substantialwalk, we arrived at Gordale Scar, a former cavern withinthe limestone rock. We climbed up the scar which haddeveloped into a waterfall and then followed a footpath tothe plateau above us. From here we ventured over toMalham Cove to look at the limestone pavement that wehad encountered in lessons.

Royal Geographical Association LecturesThe U6 geographers headed across to Darlington

Arts Centre in March to listen to a lecture on MachuPicchu by writer and explorer, Hugh Thompson.

Almost a century after Hiram Bingham made hisdramatic discovery of Machu Picchu, Hugh Thomsondiscussed the real significance of ‘the lost city in theclouds’ and provided the group with slides of hisexpeditions to the area. This was a particularlyilluminating talk which discussed many facets of life ina settlement that is now a notorious tourist destination.

River Tees, Barrage and CoathamSands (L6)The L6 tied-in some last minute revision on theirrivers and coastal modules at AS level by followingthe River Tees up to the Tees Barrage and throughto Coatham Sands.

The purpose of this visit was to recognise thefeatures and formation of the River Tees, especiallylinked to the last glacial episode. On a warm but windyday, Mr. Alderson led the two groups through thesyllabus content and posed questions. After analyzingthe effect of ice on the River Tees in its mi-section, we

followed the Tees to the Barrage. This was an importantstop as it allowed the group to understand how the riverhad been managed to make it more accessible forshipping as well as a tourism and recreation feature.After a brief stop for lunch, we embarked on a visit tothe seaside. Although blustery, the sun was out andice-cream was consumed as the geographers were putthrough their paces.

Robin Hood’s Bay (Year 11)

Two Year 11 sets descended upon the sleepycoastal settlement of Robin Hood’s Bay on thenortheast coast to further their understanding ofthe coastal topic as revision for their GCSE exam.

The aim of the visit was to recognise the formationof the coastal features at this particular spot and tounderstand the importance of the managementschemes that have been constructed to minimise theerosive power of the North Sea. Fortunately, weappeared to be the only spot in England that benefitedfrom sunshine as the enthusiastic students ventureddown the steep hill to the bay that was synonymouswith smuggling in the 18th Century. A plethora ofphysical features were viewed such as headlands,wave-cut platforms and wave-cut notches to name buta few.

Mr. Alderson was in his element as he fieldedquestions regarding the high rates of erosion along thiscoastline. Mr. Dalton (Head of Department) enthusedthe students with his vast knowledge of coastalprotection that included sea walls, rip-rap and drainagepipes to reduce the effect of the harsh storms that

batter this picturesque village in the depths of winter.After a thorough morning of revision, traditional seasidefare such as fish and chips and ice-cream were

purchased as we wearily climbed out of Robin Hood’sBay. The afternoon involved a short bus journey toSandsend to investigate the effect of longshore drift. Adetailed account of this process of transportation wasgiven as we sat on the beach and enjoyed the warmthof the sun. The final part of our day involved a leisurelywalk up the beach to our pick-up point. En route, werecognised the important role of groynes that had beenbuilt to trap the material and build-up the beach. Thesehad now fallen into disrepair and had been replacedwith a sea wall to protect the main road that ran parallelwith the beach. All on the bus and missionaccomplished! This proved to be an excellent day outwhich helped the Year 11 geographers to revise a keycomponent of their GCSE exam. The Headmaster wasalso very grateful for his stick of rock and postcardwhich were kindly purchased by Mr. Dalton.

Swaledale (Year 10)The three geography sets in year 10 embarked on atrip to Arkengarthdale and Swaledale for quite acomprehensive fieldtrip.

We set off on a breezy but sunny day over the A66and up to the Stang forest before dropping down intothe Yorkshire Dales. We then stopped on Arkle Beck, atributary of the River Swale to carry out some river data

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collection methods. The idea here was to provide all thestudents in Year 10 with the range of skills needed sothat they could collect data for their coursework overthe summer holidays. Our leader, Mr. Dalton, Mr.Alderson and I demonstrated the methods to ourrespective sets which included measuring the river’svelocity, the width and average depth, the bedload andangle of the tributary. After watching and learning howto collect the data, the sets were split up and had a gothemselves! This proved to be very successful and theyall took turns applying their newly-found skills. Once allthe teachers were satisfied, we hopped on board theminibuses for the next installment.

Our next stop was up on Low Row in Swaledalewhere we parked up the minibuses on a steep felloverlooking a valley and another fell opposite. Thissegment focused on hill-sheep farming and the way inwhich farmers use different parts of the fell for variousactivities. We also looked at the land use andsettlement patterns in this area before having a breakfor lunch. The Year 10 pupils recognised the importanceof aspect, situation and altitude for hill-sheep farming inthis area. Feeling a little wind-swept, we descendedback down the fell and followed the River Swale to itsupper course. We then pulled over and investigatedsome of the upper course features of the river that theyhad studied in lessons. Waterfalls, gorges, erosionalprocesses were all noted by the students. Somestudents perfected the art of skimming stones, whilstothers recognised that some of the rocks did get quiteslippery!

The final section of a busy day was to visit theButtertubs, a particularly impressive limestone featurehigh up in Swaledale. The students spent timeunderstanding the geology of the area and howweathering and quarrying accounted for this uniquelandform. This was a taster of what was to come asthey were all soon to embark on the topic of ‘rocks andlandscape’ in the GCSE syllabus. We then got back inthe minibuses and popped across to Reeth for a well-deserved ice-cream stop before heading back toschool. We were blessed with the weather and wemanaged to achieve an awfully large amount ofgeography in one day.

Durham City (Year 9)

The whole of year 9 travelled to Durham at the startof June to focus on the settlement pattern of thiscity. On a warm and inviting day, we began ourstudy by walking from the outskirts of the CentralBusiness District into the centre of Durham.

The aim was to recognise the changing nature ofhousing and how it linked in with the purchasing powerand circumstances of their owners. After seeing arange of housing, these prospective estate agentsdescended down into Durham to begin the next stageof the day. This involved focusing on tourism withinDurham, recognising the importance of how visuallyattractive the city is and where people tend tocongregate. The Year 9 pupils did some pedestriancounts as well as some environmental quality surveysbefore we had a break.

After a Subway lunch, the afternoon consisted ofengaging the general public! The students had to gaugethe shopping habits of visitors to Durham which involvedstopping a range of shoppers and asking them relatedquestions. This proved to be particularly enjoyable,especially for some of the girls who pursued the youngmen of Durham with much glee. The pupils also had torecognise the tourist attractions within Durham City andits environs, which meant undertaking some thoroughinvestigative work. The questionnaires were sosuccessful that many pupils ended up talking to morethan just the 10 people required! All of this research wasessential as it not only demonstrated the importance offieldwork and its limitations, but it allowed the pupils tocollect data for a task which they would complete inclass. This was a ‘Dragons’ Den’ activity which involvedadvertising the importance of tourist activities andputting forward their own unique design to entice morepeople to visit the city.

It was a particularly enjoyable day out in which thepupils learned an awful lot about the city and how toconduct some fieldwork. We were particularly pleasedto have the Headmaster join us to keep us in check aswell as passing on his vast geographical knowledge.

High Force, Battle Hill Farm and GrassholmeReservoir (Year 8)

The whole of Year 8 embarked on a trip up the daleat the start of June to see a wide variety ofgeographically related themes. The first stop of the

morning involved a visit to an exposed hill-sheep farmup at Cotherstone. The main purpose was tounderstand how hill-sheep farming operated and whatthe farmer and his livestock did throughout the year. Wewere given a tour of the farm with explanations abouthow the different machinery was used and what eachof the buildings was used for. The owner of the farmdemonstrated his vast knowledge and answered somevery thoughtful questions by the Year 8 pupils.

Our next visit was to Grassholme reservoir with aview to understanding its purpose. The pupils learnedabout how the water was channelled down the Dale tosettlements including Darlington and Barnard Castle.They also recognised the recreational importance of thereservoir and how so many people used it for differentactivities. There was a brief stop for lunch at thereservoir before we set off for our last activity of the day.

The buses dropped us off at Low Force waterfall onthe River Tees and the pupils were impressed with thisupper-course river feature. The formation of this featurewas explained to them before we walked up alongsidethe Tees up to the grand finale – High Force waterfall.For the pupils that hadn’t seen the waterfall before, itwas really quite an eye-opening experience. MrAlderson delighted in explaining to all about its creationas he pointed out all the prominent features. After lotsof photographs had been taken by the pupils, it wastime to travel back to school.

Orienteering in Whinlatter Forest(Year 7)

The whole of Year 7 embarked on a day oforienteering at a well-known and large forested areain the Lake District.

Whinlatter Forest was our destination for a dose ofgeography and exercise and to see whether thestudents had been concentrating when map skills werebeing taught! Mr. Dalton had ordered sun for the day’souting and it was duly delivered. After a brief run-through to ensure that all the students werecomfortable with their surroundings, how to navigateand what they were looking for, they were set off on amission to find the check-points.

The staff were dotted around the course to ensurethat no problems were encountered and enjoyed theenthusiastic responses from the students as theyworked together to locate the sites marked on the map.The morning consisted of some orienteering on a smallcourse so that all of the Year 7s could get to grips withthe requirements of the day. After successfullycompleting that, lunch was taken and the pupils wereprimed for the big course. Some of the sites wereparticularly tricky to find and required some Ray Mearsskills to fight through heavily vegetated areas!However, all the students were accounted for after avery tiring but successful day out. Not only did theycatch some sun, but they put into practice some of theskills taught to them in the classroom.

JWB

Geography Fieldtrips

The Project was intended toeducate about 250 Sixth Formers (two per school) aboutthe Holocaust and prejudice in general via a visit to theformer Nazi concentration campat Auschwitz in Poland.

An orientation seminar in Newcastle was the firststage and consisted of a talk on Jewish lifebefore the Second World War, the testimony of aHolocaust Survivor and group discussions ofthe visit. The overall feeling was of uncertaintyas to what to expect.

The one-day visit itself was certainly a ‘once ina lifetime’ experience lasting from 3am untilmidnight. A flight to Kraków and a coach journeybrought us to the Polish town of O�wi�cim, where wevisited a closed-off Jewish cemetery, giving theimpression of a town ashamed of its past. We werethen given a guided tour of Auschwitz I, where non-Jewish prisoners were held. This was the smaller ofthe camp’s two major prison areas with theinfamous iron gates bridged by ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’,meaning ‘Work Liberates’. The second site was thehuge Birkenau camp for Jewish prisoners. Most ofthe buildings had gone but the few preserved wereof lower quality than cattle sheds, yet these wouldhave been full of prisoners. To end the visit a Rabbiled a moment of reflection of the day’s experiences.

Guy Hartley

Lessons from Auschwitz Project



During the first half of the SummerTerm, over the Family Weekend atthe beginning of May, 28 pupils fromYears 9 & 10, accompanied by Mr &Mrs Gorman and Mr Ince, set off forthe WWI Battlefields of Belgiumand Northern France.

Our drive down to Dover and crossing to Calais werepretty uneventful, although the ferry crossing itselfwas a little choppy and there were some green faceswhen we arrived at the small Belgian town of Lo andour accommodation, the Hotel Oude Abdij. Thishotel was a change from previous trips and it provedto be a great success for all. A newly built, self-contained annexe consisted of a large dining halland games area and before long we were all busywith table-tennis, pool and fussball. The food wasalso a considerable improvement on previous years– plenty of empty plates by the end of the evening.

The following morning we headed towards Ypres.Our first visit was to Essex Farm. This is one of thesmallest cemeteries in and around Ypres and containsthe grave of Valentine Joe Strudwick. He was killed on14th January 1916 aged 15 – he was one of theyoungest to die on the Western Front. It was also atEssex Farm that John McCrae, a Canadian MedicalOfficer, wrote the now famous poem In Flanders Field.Lt Col McCrae worked to save soldiers’ lives during thesecond Battle of Ypres in 1915. Between the arrivals ofbatches of wounded men, John McCrae wrote hispoem on a page torn from a dispatch book. Thecemetery at Essex Farm is a sad indication that he wasunable to save all of those he treated.

From Essex Farm we headed to Langemarck, asmall village just outside Ypres. Here is situated one ofthe main German military cemeteries from the FirstWorld War. 10,143 Germans lie under the slabsbeneath the oak trees of the rather sombre first sectionin this cemetery. A mass grave contains 24,834 men.As well as a further 9,500 men, the other sectioncontains part of the German fortifications with blockscarrying the names of the German fighting units whosemembers lie in the cemetery. The entrance building hasa ‘student room’ where the names of the Germanstudent troops – many of them, raw recruits – who diedin the attack on Langemarck in October 1914 arecarved.

Our final cemetery visit of this first day was TyneCot. One of the largest and most impressivememorials, Tyne Cot commemorates the Third Battle ofYpres (Passchendale) which took place in the wintermonths of 1917. It contains the graves of 11,908 men,together with a Memorial to the Missing where thenames of a further 34,888 soldiers are engraved. A newvisitors’ centre has been built since we were last here,to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle ofPasschendale. From Tyne Cot we headed to SanctuaryWood for lunch. A portion of front line and supporttrenches dating from 1916 has been preserved here.An underground passageway can also be seen – andexplored if you have a torch and boots! There is nearlyalways mud and water in the bottom of the trenchesand the small sleeping dug-outs in the sides of thetrench remind us that no one went home at the end ofthe day – the front line had to be occupied at all timesand in all weathers. Some of the trees that were leftstanding in 1918 can still be seen, full of bullet holesand shell fragments.

In October 1914, the wood was complete and in aquiet area. It thus became the gathering point for Alliedsoldiers cut off from their units while they wereprotected from being given other duties without specificpermission; hence it became known as ‘SanctuaryWood’. By 1915, however, it was less quiet as itbecame part of the front line. There is also a museumat Sanctuary Wood with an eclectic collection of oldshell casings (some of which are, apparently, still live),photographs, tattered uniforms, weapons and so on.

After an exhausting, and pretty harrowing, morningwe had some free time in Ypres. The town wascompletely destroyed during the First World War andyet it has been beautifully restored to its former glory.Stunning Flemish buildings (many of them nowchocolate shops, doing very good business withBarnard Castle School pupils!) surround the Cloth Halland town square. We returned to Ypres later thatevening for the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate.First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon, wrote, in abitter sonnet:

‘Who will remember, passing through this Gate,The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?’

He is answered once a day, every day of the yearat 8pm when buglers of the Ypres Fire Brigade soundthe Last Post beneath this great memorial which wasfinished in 1927.

On Tuesday it was time to head to the Somme. Enroute we stopped at the Canadian National WarMemorial at Vimy Ridge. The memorial stands on Hill145, the highest point of the 14 kilometre long VimyRidge. In the First World War, the Ridge was a vital partof the German defence system. On 9th April, 1917, allfour divisions of the Canadian Corps stormed theRidge and, after three days of fighting, captured it. Outof 10,602 casualties, 3,598 Canadians gave their lives.The monument took 11 years to build and rests on abed of 11,000 tonnes of concrete, reinforced withhundreds of tonnes of steel. Carved on the walls of themonument are the names of 11,285 Canadians whowere killed in France and whose final resting place isunknown. Altogether, 66,655 Canadians died in theFirst World War.

From Vimy we headed south to the Somme. Ourfirst port of call, where we had lunch, was L’historial deLa Grande Guerre. This museum is located in themedieval château of Peronne and is dedicated to thememory of the people who fought in and experiencedthe Great War. The Historial gives an insight into thevastness of the war, its effect on the world and itspolitical, social and cultural dimensions that are everpresent even today. From Peronne, we drove throughthe Somme area to Lochnagar Crater, the site of one ofthe largest shell explosions on the Western Front, andeventually to the memorial at Thiepval. This memorialstands out from the surrounding countryside and isdedicated to the 73,000 Allied troops who lost theirlives in the Somme and who have no known grave. Thememorial stands 45 metres high on the old Germanfront line and was the site of some of the bloodiestfighting of 1916. It is truly a poignant reminder of thescale of the suffering encountered during the Battle ofthe Somme.

All too quickly it was time to come home and, afteranother bumpy ferry crossing, we were making our wayup the A1 to Barney. We had a fantastic time – staff andpupils alike – and I would like to thank all who came.The pupils were an absolute credit to the School and,as always, I am indebted to my colleagues who gave uptheir time to supervise.

DSG

Battlefields Trip 2009


IntroductionThe curriculum for teaching the sciences in English

schools has been subject to change by a succession ofeducation secretaries for the past two decades.

Those old enough will remember “Broad andBalanced Science for All,” introduced in 1990, followingthe Education Reform Act of Kenneth Baker. Ittransformed sciences in the comprehensive schools,forcing head teachers to offer all their GCSE pupilseither a “dual” award of two GCSEs for studying alimited amount of physics, chemistry, biology andgeology, or a single GCSE award for an even morelimited study of the sciences. It also helped to cover forthe desperate shortage of physics teachers in stateschools; all were now referred to as “science” teachersand were required to teach all aspects of “science,”regardless of their qualifications or experience. It wasthe rearguard action fought by the independent schoolsthat forced the retention of the three sciences, physics,chemistry and biology as separate subjects at GCSE.The proviso was that, in the state schools, pupils had tostudy all three to fulfil the requirements of the NationalCurriculum and few schools had the curriculum time orthe expertise in terms of teachers to offer thisalternative. Dual Award Science became the norm anda generation of children arrived at A-level inadequatelyprepared for advanced study of the sciences.

The Physics Department at Barnard Castle hasalways embraced positive curriculum development. The1988 Education Act was a huge retrograde step and wedid not subscribe to it. We had been one of the trialschools for the introduction of the Nuffield curriculumproject of the late Sixties and Seventies. We introducedthe hugely well-funded and beautifully crafted Nuffieldphysics courses to our O-level students, as they werethen, followed the new Nuffield scheme for our First,Second and Third Form pupils, (Years 7-9), andfollowed this with the introduction of Nuffield AdvancedPhysics at A-level soon after. Our physics studentswere never better served than they were by thosecutting-edge courses. The new National Curriculumsaw an end to all three Nuffield physics schemes.

In 2006, the GCSE curriculum for the scienceschanged again. This time, the aim was further to reducethe content, to remove the requirement to learn suchthings as equations, and to replace much of thescience with what is referred to as “How ScienceWorks.” This has turned out to be discussion of thesocio-political effects and implications of “science.”There has been much criticism of the new coursessince then. One young correspondent to The Timeswrote, “I feel that the leading academics have forgottento ask the pupils about their views on the new GCSEcourse. I found the course both uninteresting andunscientific, as did the majority of my peers. The courseleft me thoroughly unprepared for my science A levelsand, compared with my peers nationally, I found myscientific knowledge wanting.

Since then I have found it necessary to teachmyself the old style GCSE syllabus, so that I can sit myBMAT exam (an entrance exam for medicine at

Oxbridge). The new course fails to stretch students and it

makes it harder for universities and employers todistinguish between those who are true scientists andthose who work hard. If the education authoritiesconsider that by making a subject easier then it will bemore interesting for the pupils, then they are severelymistaken. It will only cause the future generation ofscientists to switch off and study the arts instead.”

The response of the exam boards has been toreduce the content of the A-level specifications and tointroduce “How Science Works” into these as well. Aneven greater problem, however, has been theexaminations themselves. Too undemanding, failing totest real physics and disadvantaging bright studentswho do not give the expected answers are just some ofthe criticisms. The multiple-choice papers have beendescribed by Ofqual as lacking in challenge. Thechairman, Katherine Tattersall said “Our monitoringshows revisions to the GCSE science criteria in 2005have led to a fall in the quality of science assessments.”

International GCSETwo years ago, the Physics Department introduced

the International GCSE for a trial group of students andthey were presented for examination in summer 2009.They have been able to study real physics for two yearswithout the distraction of modular examinations andtrivial coursework exercises, and many of them nowaim to study physics in the Sixth Form. Two more setsbegan the IGCSE course in September 2008 and afurther two started this year.

The great advantage of the international courses isthat they are effectively free from government

interference. Their content and design are stable andschools have a great deal of freedom in the way theypresent the subject. The nature and pace of theteaching are our own, the preparation for further studyis far better than at GCSE and the examination is stillavailable at Core and Extended levels, (equivalent toFoundation and Higher levels at GCSE), to suit allcandidates.

The Cambridge Pre-UThe A-level courses were changed in September

2008 and the content was reduced, partly to bring inthe physics that was previously studied at GCSE andpartly to make way for the social and politicalimplications of the sciences. The problem for thePhysics Department became how to cater for ourInternational GCSE candidates who would now find theA-level course, and the AS course in particular, toopedestrian.

We have been in communication for two years withthe Cambridge International Examinations Board, who

provide for our IGCSE students, about the new SixthForm course known as the Cambridge Pre-U. Thiscourse is designed to be an attractive alternative to A-level, and much more akin in its design, content andassessment to the Nuffield Advanced Physics course.The breadth and depth of the physics content are bothgreater than at A-level and several, much-missedfeatures such as the two-week experimentalinvestigation on a topic of the student’s own choosinghave been re-introduced. The course has now beenrunning since September 2008 and we shall introduceour first set of students to it this year.

The Web Site

Last year the physics department introduced it ownstudent website, myphysicsweb, which provides a hugeset of resources for pupils from Year 7 to the UpperSixth. There are dedicated pages for all of the courseswe teach, including IGCSE and Pre-U, which containfully illustrated notes on every topic, thousands of self-assessment questions and answers, together with pastexamination papers and answers. In addition to thesededicated pages, there is a wealth of extra informationin the form of photographs and diagrams, video clipsand animations, and a complete list of all the physicscourses offered at UK universities together with links toevery university website. Members of the physics MovieClub can see trailers and screenshots for all the filmswe show and students of all years can read synopsesof all the latest additions to the departmental libraryand pre-book anything they wish to take out. There isalso a help page which pupils can use to ask questionsabout any aspect of their work, or even for help withprep, and we try to get an answer back to them within24 hours.

The FutureThe national decline in the take-up of physics in

English Sixth Forms and at universities in generalshould worry everyone. Here, we have managed tobuck the trend by providing courses that are attractive,stimulating and, ultimately, worth studying. We shallcontinue to innovate and we hope to keep ourselves atthe forefront of developments in physics education,where we have been since the 1960s.

A beleaguered master wrote to an examinationboard shortly after the latest changes at GCSE, “I am aphysics teacher. Or, at least I used to be. My subject isstill called physics. My pupils will sit an exam and earna GCSE in physics, but that exam doesn't coveranything I recognize as physics.”

At Barnard Castle, at least, we are trying hard tomake a better provision for future generations ofstudents.

PM

Physics Department 2009


Chemistry

It has been another busy year in the Chemistrydepartment. Academically, pupils have continued toperform extremely well. The three sixth form sets inboth Lower and Upper Sixth were well populated,and a large number of the year’s Upper Sixthchemists are aiming to continue with chemistry-related studies at University. The class of 2009included students holding conditional offers forMedicine (2), Dentistry (1), Chemistry (4), ChemicalEngineering (3) and many other science-basedcourses. A number of Upper Sixth students opted tosit the Advanced Extension paper as well as theirtraditional A-Level examinations at the end of theircourse. This allows them to test themselves againstthe toughest sixth form chemistry paper available.

The first big showcase event of the year was theusual Open Day demonstration, put on by members ofYear 7 and 8 and sixth form students to impressprospective parents. The activities included makingplay dough in a variety of bright colours and using silvernitrate to produce a mirror effect in a variety ofglassware. Visitors could have their boots or shoescleaned by our chemists in white coats using freshlyprepared boot polish, and others were treated to asample of homemade lavender hand cream. TheHerbert’s Sherbert proved as popular as ever, withsamples given away to brave visitors who couldexperience for themselves the taste sensationproduced by the acid-base reaction taking place ontheir tongues, producing carbon dioxide gas to achievethe familiar ‘fizz’.

There was much excitement to be had withinlessons, too. The Year 8 project on Air saw a largecryogenics tanker filled with liquid nitrogen visit theschool and park up next to the L block early in thespring term. This was a great treat for the Upper SixthChemistry class in progress at the time, who receivedan impromptu lecture and demonstrations about theproperties of liquid nitrogen and other cryogenicmaterials from the representative from BOC whodelivered our supply. The Year 8 classes were treated toa number of exciting liquid nitrogen demonstrationsduring their lessons, including the smashing up offrozen rubber tubing with a large hammer, and the useof a banana to hammer a nail into a piece of wood.Most Year 8 classes also saw some of the weird andwonderful properties and effects of solid carbondioxide, or ‘dry ice’.

A new topic on Rocks was introduced at Year 9, andpupils experienced making their own metamorphic rocksas well as observing a real-life seismograph in operation,monitoring earthquake activity in the Teesdale area.Thankfully, there was very little activity detected!!

An intrepid team of junior chemists flew the Barneyflag at the regional Salters’ Top of the Benchcompetition. Sarah Child, Hans Kukreja, Matthew Linesand Nathan Miller accompanied Mr West to competeagainst fourteen other schools in the laboratories atDurham University. The morning challenge was toundertake some analytical Chemistry experiments,with the aim being to identify a murderer in a forensicinvestigation. The afternoon challenge was to make asodium thiosulphate clock. The Barney team completed

both challenges with credit, and several judgescommented on how well our pupils had worked withintheir team. Although we were slightly disappointed notto be placed in the top three, we were hugely proud ofthe team’s efforts and all participants were excellentambassadors for the school. After the challenges, allthe teams were treated to a series of excitingdemonstrations that included the ignition of hydrogenand methane balloons, and the launch of a rocket usingonly static electricity. A very enjoyable day!

Edward Deytrikh in Year 10 did exceptionally well towin a sought-after place on a prestigious Salters’Chemistry Camp this coming summer. Edward had toapply for his place in competition with many otherapplicants and he was selected by the organisers whofelt his application was of a very high standard. He willrepresent the school for a week working in a Universitychemistry department alongside academic staff andstudents on a number of exciting and challengingactivities.

Towards the end of the year, eighteen Year 9 and10 pupils chose to attend a ‘Chemistry at Work’ day atTeesside University. The aim of the day was to meet alarge number of different company representatives totry to get an insight into the work of a ‘chemist’ in anumber of different jobs. There were representativesfrom many different chemical industries as well as theNHS, Cleveland Fire Brigade and many more. Therewere practical activities to take part in, too, andeveryone enjoyed their day. Many thanks to DrButterfield for organising the trip, and to Mr Butler foraccompanying our pupils.

In the last two weeks of the school year, once thetricky business of school examinations were out of theway, Year 7, 8 and 9 pupils all participated in adepartment wide ‘Whodunnit’ forensic science project.Classes were alerted to reports that the Headmaster’sdog had allegedly been kidnapped, and pupils wereasked to play the role of CSI-style investigators toexamine clues and identify the culprit! A bloodiedhandkerchief contaminated with an unidentified whitesolid, a ransom note and a pen found near the scenewith fingerprint evidence on it were among the itemsanalysed in order to solve the crime! At time of going topress, readers can be reassured that a culprit has beenidentified.

JMR

Biology I Chemistry

Biology Field Work The L6 spent their time, after their ASexaminations, studying the flora and fauna of thelocal area as part of the syllabus work for A2.

We are lucky to have so many interesting andvaried sites on our doorstep that fit the requirements ofthe A2 OCR syllabus. It gives us the chance to take thepupils out in a relaxed way and introduce them to somevery important biological principles and practices. We

get permission to visit a quarry site SSSI that is closedoff to the public and here we investigate the process ofsuccession. The river work helps the pupils to gain anunderstanding of the adaptations and variety of life thatcan be found in such a habitat. A trip to the coast toexamine distribution in October will round off the workand then the pupils will be well prepared to answer theA2 examination questions from first hand experience.

MRNF


Classics Department

The year began with the great newsthat the department had won anational award from the GoodSchool Guide for the A levelresults in 2007-8. This was thesecond such award for thedepartment in the last three yearsand showed that our studentschoose Ancient History at A level in healthy numbers and achieveexcellent results in comparisonto other schools.

Mr Harrison has continued to run the HellenisticSociety for pupils after school in activity time,giving keen Classicists the chance to extend theirknowledge with some Greek, and this has proved apopular option.

Classics pupils have enjoyed several field trips thisyear. Upper Sixth Ancient Historians have visitedChesters, Housesteads and Vindolanda Roman sitesand Year 10 Classical Civilisation and the whole of Year8 have also been to Hadrian’s Wall. We also had theprivilege of accompanying Time Team during a dig atPiercebridge.

Forty three pupils from GCSE and A level classesmet at 4am on the day after the end of the Spring termfor a six day tour of Classical sites in Greece. Theywere accompanied by Mr Gedye, Mr Harrison, Mr Bird,Rev Ridley, Miss Cover and Miss Cuneo. Once inAthens we were given an orientation tour to the packedAcropolis in the morning, followed by a traditionalGreek souvlaki lunch and a more leisurely stroll aroundthe old part of the city. Next day it was on the coach tothe spectacular temple of Poseidon at Sounion, beforetravelling to Tolon, a pretty little seaside resort wheremost pupils and even Mr Harrison enjoyed a dip in theAegean! The spectacular Bronze Age ruins of Tirynsand Mycenae, as well as the amazing ClassicalTheatre at Epidaurus, and the Corinthian Canal werethe highlights of day three, and we then had a longjourney across the Peloponnese to Olympia, home ofthe first Olympic Games. The next day we toured thesite of Olympia, had a race in the stadium, and viewedthe finds in the museum, before transferring to themountains to Delphi for our final night. Crossing fromthe Peloponnese we were able to experience a marvelof modern Greek engineering, the Rion-Antirion bridge.We were awed and staggered by Delphi’s beauty in 25degree heat before having a last Greek lunch andtransferring back to Athens for our flight home.

The group had experienced a vast amount in sixdays including many sites that will be hard to forget. Agood time was had by all, whetting appetities for Italy in2011, perhaps. An extract from Tori Cliffe’s diary of thetrip is printed opposite.

JDG


Classics Department

Greece Trip 28thMarch – 2nd April2009Extracts from Greece Diary

29th March, 1.30pmA Restaurant outside the Athens Flea MarketThis morning it was cold, and now we’re all piling onthe sunscreen. We’ve visited the Acropolis; it was ashame that loads of scaffolding was covering thebeautiful old buildings. We had a little talk about all the different temples and then we were allowedto wander around the Acropolis by ourselves for awhile. We walked down through the Agora, andwent into a museum.

29th March, 7pmConference Room, Hotel IlissosEmperor John had the amazing idea of a quiz to filleveryone’s free time. We’ve split up into teams. Oh yes!! My team won!!

30th March, MidnightHotel BedroomWe’ve all been to the beach since we arrived here.Pretty much everyone (including Mr Harrison) endedup in the sea at some point. Tonight we all wentinto town, and went shopping.

31st March, 12.30pmOn the Road to lunchThe theatre of Epidaurus was so cool, it wasmassive! The only thing that was missing was thestage building. Some of the girls who were in WeWill Rock You (Sarah, Jev, Jess, Martha, Sophie andMaisie) all got up and sung one of their songs, inorder to ‘test the natural acoustics’.

31st March, 2pmOn the busWow that restaurant was posh. We’ve just beento Mycenae. We went to the Beehive tomb first,that was incredible. Next we went up to the actualsite of Mycenae, up to the famous lion’s gate. Itwas so much bigger than it looks in the photos. AtMycenae, we also saw the grave circle where thegolden mask of Agamemnon was found and the wallsof Mycenae (which are at least three to fourmetres thick). Considering it was all built in the15th century BC, that’s pretty impressive.

1st April, 12pmArchaeological Museum of OlympiaOlympia was good; even the Temple of Zeus. All ofits columns had fallen over due to an earthquake.

2nd April, 1.30pmOutside restaurant, on busHarriet won the tackiest gift competition with herkey ring of Hermes. Delphi was so hot, it must havehit well over 30°C, and we were hiking up amountain. I’m not over-exaggerating, Delphi is onthe slope of a mountain. It was the most beautifulplace I have ever been, I loved it. Now we’re onthe bus cruising through the mountains on our wayback to Athens then Home.

Tori Cliffe

SEN BOYS – LLOYD EVANS CUP1 JOSH GIBSON NORTH/YORK 24:482 JAMES INGRAM DALE 25:053 BEN ALLISON-HUGHES DURHAM 25:26

INTER BOYS – THE BLACKETT CUP1 FINLAY TAIT TEES 17:192 ANTHONY HARRISON DALE 17:293 WILLIAM PRIOR NORTH/YORK 17:32

JUN BOYS – WILFORD CUP1 ARRAN KEOGH NORTH/YORK 17:582 JAMES WATSON DALE 18:143 SAM LEEMING DURHAM 18:22

SEN GIRLS – THE TURNBULL SHIELD1 RACHEL BROWN MARWOOD 20:262 KATY HARRISON MARWOOD 20:593 ZOE WILKINSON BOWES 21:20

INTER GIRLS – THE FRED TUNBULL CUP1 CAROLINE SIMPSON BOWES 19:392 ALICE McBAIN BOWES 19:503 SOPHIE WRAY BOWES 21:15

JUN GIRLS – THE GEOFFREY TURNBULL CUP1 THEA THOMPSON MARWOOD 19:072 CAITLIN BAINBRIDGE BOWES 20:173 EMMA ROBSON LONGFIELD 20:34

THE BARNARD CUP – NORTH/YORKTHE CHATT CUP – BOWESTHE JUNIOR BARNARD CUP – YORKTHE ROSS CUP – MARWOOD


The 117thBarnard Runand ButterwickCharity CupThis year’s cold and snowy winter weather meantthat the Barnard Run took place on Friday 13thMarch instead of Founders’ Day, its traditional slot.Presentations were made by Major Clegg, who hashelped inspire our boys and girls to raise money forthe ‘Help for Heroes’ charity.

The Barnard Cup is the prestige boys’ prize andpresented to the overall winning house in theintermediate and senior boys age group. We need to goback to 2001 to see a victorious day house. Dale won thecup in both 2000 and 2001, but it has been firmly in thegrip of North-York ever since. This year was not to buckthe trend and North-York took the prize again.

The Lloyd Evans Cup was won for the second timeby Josh Gibson (North) while James Ingram (Dale) wassecond and Ben Allison-Hughes (Durham) third. Honoursshared nicely here, despite North coming out on top.Looking further down the field North had four runners inthe top twenty, while this was equalled by Dale andactually bettered by Durham with five. Meanwhile, atintermediate level, The Blackett Cup was won by FinlayTait (Tees), with Anthony Harrison (Dale) second and WillPrior (North) third. In terms of the house performanceDale had five in the top twenty with each of the othershaving two each. When it comes to quality, it seems thatat the highest levels ability is evenly distributed, but Northdo seem to have strength in depth.

The Chatt Cup is the senior and intermediate girls’house cup. This year it was won by Bowes which followsa trend going back to 2004 when it was won by Longfield.The Turnbull Shield was won by Rachel Brown who beatlast year’s winner, Katy Harrison, into second place andthe 2007 winner, Zoe Wilkinson, into third place. In the

intermediate event, The Fred Turnbull Cup, CarolineSimpson came out on top to beat Alice McBain andSophie Wray into second and third places respectively.

In the junior age groups the boys compete for TheJunior Barnard Cup while the girls fight it out for The RossCup. York was the winning boys’ house and Marwood thewinning girls’ house. Marwood took the Ross Cup fromBowes who have held it for four years while York has beenin charge since 2001 (sharing honours with Durham lastyear!). Marwood’s Thea Thompson beat CaitlinBainbridge (Bowes) into second and Emma Robson(Longfield) into third. Meanwhile, in the boys race, ArranKeogh (York) was the winner with James Watson (Dale)coming second and Sam Leeming (Durham) finishing inthird place.

The Butterwick Charity Cup requires as close to fullparticipation as possible. The winning house needs tohave gutsy runners who aim to beat the runner in front ofthem! The number of runners in each house makes nodifference, but having the sniffles on the day could costyour team dearly…get out there and take part!

Competition was very close with Bowes Housewinning the girls’ competition and Durham winning theboys’ event. It could be argued that the third placeperformance of North in the senior boys’ event pushedthe boarders into second place overall. However, fullcredit must be paid to Durham for proving thatNorth–York are not invincible. The splendid performanceby Bowes in the senior girls’ race ensured that they beatLongfield into second place overall, despite Longfieldwinning both the junior and intermediate age groups.

Despite the importance and significance of all thecompetition the overall winner this year has been theservice men and women who have been injured servingour country. It is great to be able to give more than £6500to ‘Help for Heroes’. There has been some fantasticindividual fundraisers, with ten pupils raising well over athousand pounds, almost 20% of the total, betweenthem: £278.00 Abbi Glowienko; £189 Lucy Parkinson;£124 James Ingram; £102 Iona Borer; £102 PatrickBorer; £92 Jack Roberts; £80 Ellie Dinnes; £75 MatthewWhite and £70 Max Jones. Well done to them! And toeveryone who helped a hero in 2009!

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The Austrian ski resort ofKitzbuhel is knowninternationally for its playboylifestyle, its beautiful people, its popularity with internationalsuperstars and its indulgentapres-ski. For these reasons, Mr Bishop felt the BarnardCastle sixth form party wouldfit in superbly to both ski and apres-ski life whilst on theFebruary half term senior ski trip.

The accommodation in the hotel Kaiser, aremnant of the country’s imperial past in nameonly, and certainly not in terms of living, satisfiedthe demands of Barnardians for style. Thecuisine was varie: cold pasta, cold chicken andcold pizza, washed down with flagons of coldKaiser beer, satisfied young appetites.

The 20 minute race by bus to the high pisteseach morning was compulsory for all irrespective ofwhether they had had the time or the inclination towash before dressing for the black run slopes. Thesnow was deep, and crisp and even; the ski tuitionfor skiers and boarders was not retarded by Britishinability to converse in the native German language,and prompted speedy if dangerous (for some)descents from high altitudes. The views werepunctuated by the sites of Mr Bishop on skis, MrNicholson trying to keep up with Mr Bishop, MrMonument rolling down precipitous mogul slopeshaving fallen again, and Miss Cuneo’s elegantparalleling to avoid Mr Monument. Mr Fuller and MrAlderson bravely (for their ages) descended withcaution and considerable senior style.

The apres-ski was noisy, energetic and, for theindulgent, somewhat messy. Every entertainment, toinclude bowling, curling, tobogganing and karaokewere much enjoyed. Theo Bellamy’s rendition of “Letme love you” saw nil points awarded by the femaleEurovision judges but rapturous applause from theBarney’s Got Talent 2009 audience.

We really enjoyed the skiing holiday and thankMr Bishop and the other staff for their wickedorganisation, good humour and respectful toleranceof adolescent misbehaviour. It provided a verywelcome temporary escape from the rigours of A-level learning and revision.Aaron Bellamy, Stephen Lister and Luke Spilsbury.

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