Issue 13 17 October 2014

CHARLESTON WINS HOUSE MUSIC COMPETITIONLILY POTTER, CHARLESTON HOUSEThis year’s House Music Competition was themed around Robbie Williams and the Big Song choice was ‘Let Me Entertain You.’ After coming in third the previous year, and paired with Stud and half of Deis, Charleston weren’t going down without a fight!Charleston were the final house to perform, which meant watching our rivals before taking the stage ourselves. After seeing our fierce competition, we were fired up to take to the stage. With black stars on each of our left eyes, resembling that of Robbie Williams in his music video, we certainly looked the part. Our Big Song was performed incredibly well and with the extra harmonies and ‘heys’ suggested by Mrs Von Riebech, we stood out. Everybody sung like there was no tomorrow and the competitive sides of the members of the Houses were revealed. The Small Song was next, with an adapta-

tion of the song ‘You Know Me’. Olivia Prince Smith opened the song, singing with ease and was a real delight to listen to. The en-chanting harmonies and a final A Cappella section worked to our advantage. Following this was our solo performance, care of Izzy Fordman from the Upper Fifth. Her tremendous cover of ‘Dog Days Are Over’ by Florence and the Machine did her House very proud. The band for the instrumental created a mash up of ‘Edge of 17’, ‘Bootilicious’ and ‘The Wall’. As this was the last piece, they were prepared to produce a memorable and outstanding song. And this they certainly did. As soon as the results were read, there was an eruption of screaming and applause with even a few tears. Well done to everybody for a successful House Music 2014 and a big thank you to Ms Von Riebech and the Music Department for making the event so special.

MEET MR HIBBERT, BEDE’S NEW DIRECTOR OF SPORTAside from helping to organise every Olympic Games since Atlanta in 1994, Mr Hibbert has had an incredibly varied and exciting career. And it all started with a leg which broke in the same place three times... Read the full interview on bedes.org

BEDE’S ALUMNUS WINS TRIATHLON GOLDEdward Castro won Great Britain’s only gold medal in the TransCanada Corp. World Triathlon Grand Final in Edmonton.Read about Edward’s hard work and successes on bedes.org/alumni

BEDE’S EARNS 95% IN FIRST SAFETYMARK AUDITBede’s has been successful in achieving the National Accreditation Safety Certification for Safety Excellence in Schools, earning a record high result!Read more at bedes.org/senior-school

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U15 BOYS INCH CLOSER TO NATIONAL TENNIS TITLE

Bede’s U15 boy’s tennis squad beat Sevenoaks School 4-2 in the Schools’ National Regional Final and are now four matches away from the National title.This was an incredible effort as last year the team lost 5-1 at the same stage to the same opponents.Julie Salmon, Bede’s Director of Tennis, said “The team played exceptionally well with Andre Bennett beating a player two ratings higher in a tie break 7-6.

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“Ethan Parker played an opponent he had previously lost to twice in 12 months but this time Ethan controlled a large majority of the points and won 6-0! “Alex Abaza and Josh Goldin continued their wonderful doubles partnership, aggressive play and good communication sealed a win.”Cross your fingers however as the team have to now face Reeds School who are the reign-ing National Champions!

BEDE’S BAND ‘HOW’S HARRY’ PERFORMS AT US EMBASSY

KATE TEMPEST AND COLIN BARRETT PERFORM AT CHARLESTON FESTIVAL

BY NATHALIE GRIMSTON, FIRST YEAR BLOOMSBURY HOUSEOn October 1st, myself, four other stu-dents and Ms Dunstall attended a poetry and short-story reading at Charleston Farmhouse.This was a Small World Literary Festival event in which Colin Barrett read a short-story of his, and award-winning Kate Tempest read the opening poem of her newly published collection, ‘Hold Your Own’.The reading was opened by Tempest’s dramatic recital of Tiresias, one of her many poems. Tiresias was a blind future-seer who appeared in Ancient Greek plays in the form of an old man.

The poem is an extremely interesting and original take on Greek mythology and the way she brought it to life was incredible.Colin Barrett’s reading was a tad less dy-namic than Tempest’s but was, nonetheless, enticing. He gave the impression of having never read this particular story aloud before, which was very different to Kate Tempest’s rendition of her twenty-four page epic, performed from memory.All in all, we all had a fantastic night out appreciating the literary talents of young, upcoming writers.I am now looking for more opportunities to develop my appreciation for the subject!

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Bede’s band ‘How’s Harry’ were recently invited by American Ambassador Matthew Barzun to perform in the LDNY Graffiti Party at Winfield House in Regents Park.This was yet another fantastic development in the burgeoning career of the band which fea-tures Ike Foulkes from Camberlot House, Tom Davies from Dorms House and Bede’s alumni Rupert Colegrave and Lawrence Andrew.

The gig came in the wake of the band being offered a professional recording contract and winning Record of the Week on the BBC ‘Introducing’ radio show in January.The LDNY Graffiti Party was created in an effort build links between artists and arts educators in New York and London, and saw the professional graffiti artist ‘Pure Evil’ also invited to the event to create a large piece of graffiti with students from a number of differ-ent British schools. Jason Wang, Head of Dorms House, attended the event and said, “A few Sixth Form stu-dents from Dorms were invited and repre-sented the school at the event. How’s Harry had a fantastic performance and everyone was absolutely amazed by the show.“It was definitely one the best experiences I have ever had and I will treasure the memory forever.”

BIRDS, BEES, DORMICE AND... POLECATS?Recent months have been extremely busy in Bede’s Animal Management Centre, with honey being harvested and several furry little creatures being born - some of which are members of endangered species.For example, under a licensed arrangement with Paignton Zoo, Bede’s teachers and students have become part of the captive breeding programme for dormice and have successfully bred ten juveniles during the last two years.“These little mammals are largely nocturnal and, being agile climbers, can live their entire lives off the ground,” explains Mr Hepworth-Taylor, Bede’s Animal Management Techni-cian. Properly coppiced woodland is scarce and a loss of mature hedgerows means that Brit-ain’s dormouse is threatened. Thankfully, the juvenile dormice successfully bred at Bede’s are due to be released next year at a secret location in the West Midlands, after having been given a clean bill of health by London Zoo, to help counter this problem.If only things were so simple with the School’s Red Squirrels; once common and widespread throughout Britain, Red Squirrel numbers have been drastically reduced in the United Kingdom, mainly by the arrival of the Grey Squirrel from North America.“There are some successful breeding initia-tives taking place,” says Mr Hepworth Taylor, “and our modest programme at Bede’s has

acquired two individuals but after two years of anticipation no offspring kittens have yet been born.” More successfully, a pair of Bede’s European polecats, which are also part of a managed conservation breeding programme, have produced eight kittens.“The kittens will be moved to another partici-pating zoo or wildlife park in the Spring when they are old enough to leave their parents,” explains Bede’s Head of Animal Management, Mr Paul Juniper. “Polecats were hunted almost to extinction by gamekeepers at the end of the nineteenth century but this solitary, night-time hunter is making something of a comeback in Wales and the Midlands.”Finally, in a fruitful alliance with members of the Eastbourne and District Beekeepers’ Association, Bede’s picturesque, lake-side apiaries have had a bumper year.“Maybe it was the early Spring, fortuitous rainfall or a fine Summer, but the school’s two hives have produced a respectable surplus of honey,” says Mr Hepworth Taylor.Bottled up, appropriately labelled and sold to students, parents and staff, the money raised from Bede’s Honey helps to defray the apiary costs and provides a donation to charities.

If you would be interested in purchasing a jar of Bede’s Honey please contact anthony.htaylor@bedes.org.Those pupils interested in taking part in The Bede’s Zoological Society’s endeav-ours should see Mr Juniper.

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CROSSWAYS & CHARLESTON CHARITY FASHION SHOW Friday 7 November at 7.00pm

SCHOOL PRODUCTION: NOISES OFF 19, 20 and 22 November

CABARET 2014Saturday 29 November at 7.00pm

ALSO LOOK OUT FOR:The Legat ‘Work In Progress’ Performance (6th December)

Bede’s Carol Concert on the Village Green (8th December)

To book tickets to any of these events, please call the Bede’s Box Office on +44(0)1323 843252

DIARY DATES

SPORTFOOTBALL

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BY MR CARYER, HEAD OF FOOTBALLAt the time of writing, Bede’s 1st XI are unbeaten in all competitions winning 8 games, drawing 1, scoring 31 goals in the process and conceding just 6. This is an outstanding start to the season, but there are many difficult challenges awaiting us and much more hard work re-quired from the boys if we are to achieve our individual and team goals for the season.The foundations for the season were laid on 26 August, which seems a long time ago now. Between 26-30 August however we conducted our Pre-Season Training, during which the boys involved were fitness tested which provided baseline data for the season, given Strength and Conditioning programmmes and dietary advice and were put through their paces in some tough fit-ness related ball work pressing sessions. In addition, the 1st Squad played two very competitive friendlies winning 3-1 vs Chig-well and losing 2-1 to Eastbourne Borough Academy which, at the time of writing, remains the only defeat so far this season.Later, on 28th September, the first round of the ISFA South trials took place at Eton. Ja-cob Merrick and David Carruthers have now been selected for the next round of trials for U18s, which includes matches against academy teams. Knory Scott has also been selected for the U16’s with Josh Goldin a reserve. It is a testament to the hard work the players and associated coaches have put in this year for Bede’s to have 4 players recognized for their talents.Elsewhere, the Junior teams are looking very promising and there has already been some noticeable performances, such as the U15’s 2-0 win at Radnor House in the ISFA cup and the U14’s excellent run in the Ibstock Sixes. I have been very impressed with this younger crop of players - they certainly have

the potential to develop into excellent players and teams. As ever with the Juniors, it does take time for teams to gel: players are still getting to know their teammates’ strengths and weaknesses, especially in the U14s, and they are having to do this whilst playing against some of the strongest schools in the country! In this season’s ISFA Sixes competition we aimed to reach the final for the 5th consecu-tive year - something unrivalled by any other school in the history of the competition. We progressed well through the group stages, beating Chigwell, Newcastle RGS and Kimbolton, but next up were Manchester GS. This was a tough draw and one where the team battled through on penalties. In the Quarter Final we faced the much fancied Millfield in probably the game of the tournament. We fought back from 1-0 down to win 2-1 but, unfortunately, the effort and commitment shown in this match meant that, primarily due to early season

fitness, we were not able to play at the same standard in the Semi Finals. We may have lost out to Bradfield, the eventual Tournament Winners, but we will be back next year!The last thing to note is the transformative power of the island of Bermuda! This tiny landmass has been having a big impact on Bede’s Football since 2013, when Knory Scott arrived. In 2014, we have had the pleasure of welcoming Jacob Greene, Diego Richardson, Nasje Brockington and these pupils have made quite an impression - not only in their respective teams but also around the school where their politeness and cheerful ap-proach cannot go unnoticed. These pupils have shown excellent techni-cal ability and are a testament to work that goes on in the National Football Academy in Bermuda.And now a second half of term awaits. I hope to see you on the sidelines!

Issue 13 17 October 2014

SEASON STARTS STRONG FOR BEDE’S TEAMS

The Bede’s ISFA Six-a-Side Team photographed earlier this term.