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October 5th 2012
VIPER IN TOP GEAR
OVER the past two weekends, the competing at the National Finals at
Taunton School Greenpower team Goodwood for the fourth consecutive
have competed with their new car year.
‘Viper’ at the Top Gear test track and They will be competing in the F24+
the Castle Combe motor racing circuit. 90-minute race and the F24 four-hour
The car has been manufactured endurance event. Jon Baker
from aluminium and carbon fibre
with its form being heavily developed
through a virtual
wind tunnel in
SolidWorks.
Despite
some
teething
problems
with the
electrics last
weekend,
the team are
delighted to
announce
that they will be
Introducing Evie Bown - new Head Girl of Taunton School
TO introduce our Head Girl students alike. She acts with motivation
for the new school year, This is now emanated in and openness in everything
Evie Bown, we asked her our weekly meeting with she does,.
opposite number - Head the headmaster where However, most
Boy, Ran Jameson - for his she never fails to give her importantly as a friend and
views ... honest opinion about school colleague, I cannot thank
life and not merely what the her enough for everything
I’VE known Evie Bown since Headmaster wants to hear.
she quietly entered my class she has done over the past
Playing shooter for
in Year 10. three years and I am certain
the netball first team,
However she quickly invaluable skills and there is Evie is renowned for her she will inevitably continue
became an integral part of rarely an opportunity where aggressive nature on the to do so in our final year.
the class and always had she says ‘no’. pitch, whereas off the field
something to say. From CCF to the Sixth she is a sensitive and honest NEXT WEEK: We return
She extrapolated this into Form Forum, she always member of Weirfield house the compliment as Evie
school life and she is always raised her opinion for the becoming a leader of the Bown introduces Head
the first to volunteer her benefit of the school and closely-knit community. Boy, Ran Jameson
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Saturday, October 6th Hockey Tournament (King’s College)
Weekend House: Fairwater SCHOOL CALENDAR 5.00pm Tea-Time Concert (GWR) *
7.30am-12.45pm SAT tests (Pre-Prep
Hall) Monday, October 8th Thursday, October 11th
8.30am Sports Scholars’ Meeting (D1) 8.40am Headmaster’s Assembly: Dr John 8.30am-9.30am L6 Students - Mr Martin
8.30am L6 Students - Mr David Hawkins Newton “Revolution” Bluemel and Mr Richard Judd ‘Time
‘Specialised Applications’ (Arts Centre) 8.40am Chapel: Besley Management’ (Old Library)
9.30am-12.30pm Open Morning 12.35pm Sixth Form Chess (Carrington 8.30am-9.30am U6 Students - Mr Mike
1.00pm Deadline for 1st Assessments Library) Cook ‘UCAS Preparation’ (ICT1)
(all year groups) 5.00pm-8.00pm Boys’ Indoor Hockey 8.35am Jenkin Year 11 Careers Seminar -
Girls’ Hockey v Sherborne (H) U15A U15B Mr David Hawkins (Jenkin)
U14A U14B (A) 1 2 3 4 Tuesday, October 9th 2.00pm-7.00pm Girls’ U16 County
U16 U14 County Round National Netball 8.40am Headmaster’s Assembly: Dr John Hockey Tournament (Millfield)
Championships (Millfield) (depart Newton “Revolution” 6.30pm-8.00pm Global Society Sixth
9.00am) 8.40am Chapel: Besley Form Evening (UDR)
Rugby v King’s Bruton (H) SCA SCB FA FB 11.15am Churches Advisory Panel
(A) 1 2 3 JCA JCB Meeting (Babbingly) Friday, October 12th
Senior Football v Canford (A) 5.15pm Staff Meeting (Old Library) 8.30am Chapel for Day Pupils: The
6.15pm Informal Concert (GWR) * Reverend Christabel Ager *
Sunday, October 7th 8.35am Woodyer Year 11 Careers
18th after Trinity Wednesday, October 10th Seminar - Mr David Hawkins (Woodyer)
9.00am-4.30pm “Prep Schools’ 10.30am Visit by Navy and Marines 3.15pm-6.30pm CCF RN Sailing
Challenge” Liaison Officer (Careers Room) (Wimbleball)
9.30am-6.00pm Cultural Studies and 1.10pm IB and A Level Students - DocSoc 4.00pm Focus Friday (All Years) -
Junior Academic Society Trip (Chepstow) Meeting - Medical Admissions Group Deadline for all Work
Boarders’ Mackerel Fishing (Beer) (Biology Department) 5.15pm Senior Inter-House Debating
2.00pm-7.00pm Girls’ U18 County Competition (Old Library)
FORTHCOMING EVENTS Coming up for PTA
October 8th, 8.20am
Monday Wednesday Coffee morning, Thone Boarders
October 15th November 7th Lounge
JOHN RAE SOCIETY JOHN RAE SOCIETY November 6th, 8.00pm
PTA meeting, The Grange
LECTURE LECTURE (Buses from the Parade Ground at 7.45pm)
Dr Christopher ‘ The future of the November 26th, 8.20am
Waller - The NHS’ Coffee morning, Thone Boarders Lounge
November 30th, 7.00pm
Beatles 50 Years Chris Ham, Old Headmaster’s Quiz, The Old Library
On Library, 7pm December 7th, 2.30-4.30pm
Old Library, 7pm Christmas Fair, Centenary Hall
FOR any further details about these events
Sunday Wednesday please contact Anna Kirkman by emailing
October 21st November 28th annakirkman@aol.co.uk
SUNDAY COFFEE ‘DR DANCE’
CONCERT Psychology Coffee Morning
in aid of Clic Lecture
There will be a coffee morning after morning
Sargent Old Library, drop off on Monday 8 October in Thone Boarders
Chapel, 11.30am 6.30pm Lounge (near Prep School Reception) - everyone
welcome to come along and catch up with other
parents, meet a few new people and enjoy a
For further information about these and other coffee at the start of the week!
school events, contact events@tauntonschool.
co.uk or ring 01823 703111 More PTA news on page three
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Sixth Form Life: Avoiding the unavoidable ...
PROCRASTINATION can seem that procrastination is high and low relative - as we can only
catch us all, but this does not one of the largest obstacles work. achieve what we are capable
mean that we should let it. to our academic success, and Instead, of - it is certain that if we
October is a busy and denying its entrance into our we are on a manage to rid ourselves of
vital month. Year 13 in lives is something we must two-year path procrastination, then we can
particular - with prospective strive for. of gradual stretch our ambition.
university offers - are feeling Yet this message is progression These benefits are two-
the heat, as getting your pertinent to the entire Sixth towards success fold, as making better use
UCAS application off in time Form. at the end of of our time helps us to ‘find
can make the difference Our final two years at our time here (illustrated by the balance’ our Sixth Form
between making the cut, Taunton School are not the structure of the IB). experience should provide.
or not. Therefore, it would segmented into phases of Whilst this success is George Hallas
PTA Quiz Night -
November 30
COME along for this informal and
Unscathed ... but
not unconcerned
informative event, no need to be a
former champion of BBC Mastermind.
We promise good food, good
company and stimulating questions
on a wide range of topics! Individual
AS I write I am HMC and we see it as our
Tickets or Teams of 10 max. Children
over 14 welcome to join their parent’s
attending the The Head task to question, cajole
annual conference and bring to book any
of the Headmasters’ Has His Say
team.
institution which does
£12.50 per head to include
and Headmistresses’ not do an impeccable
Somerset cheese ploughman’s supper HMC,
Conference (HMC), this job for pupils nationwide,
and coffee. There will be a cash bar however,
year taking place in the including, of course, our
available. see it as a
most bombed hotel in own.
To order your tickets (it sells out symptom
the world - the Europa in We will continue to fly
quickly), please email Janet Butters of a general malaise in our
Belfast. the flag. Meetings with the
(JBut364611@aol.com) or click here exams system.
We are kicking up a Education Secretary are
to download the ticket order form. It is amazing to think,
fuss, as you may have frequent.
seen in the press, about that in general terms, I hope parents are
PTA Christmas Fair examination standards and teaching unions do not reassured that amidst all
THE Christmas Fair will take place on lobby for standards in
the need for an overhaul of the confrontations which
Friday, December 7. exams anywhere near as
the exams system. bedevil the relationship
If you are interested in helping out much as HMC does, yet
This all comes on the between Government and
with the organisation in advance or on they represent thousands
back of the GCSE English our hallowed profession,
the morning of the Fair please contact
debacle this summer. of schools, not the 250 in good people have their eye
Anna Kirkman - annakirkman@aol.
We at TS were HMC. on the bigger picture.
co.uk
unaffected because we do I sit on the Academic Dr John Newton
Volunteers, particularly from the
IGCSE English. Policy Committee of the Headmaster
Prep School, would be most welcome!
PTA uniform HEAD of Careers,
David Hawkins,
representative and a number of
REMEMBER that Julie Chant is our TS students visited
PTA uniform representative who will the Fulbright
bring all your queries, comments and Fair in London,
suggestions to the PTA meetings on meeting with
your behalf and she also regularly 180 different US
liaises with the Shop Management institutions (as
and Uniform Committee. well as catching up
Please contact Julie on chant.f@ with old friends!)
jcdmail.com.
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Eminent historian
visits as part of
town literary festival
DR John Darwin of Nuffield College,
Oxford, came to Taunton to speak at
the burgeoning Taunton Literary Festival
organised by Brendon books.
Dr Darwin’s most recent publication is
the acclaimed Unfinished Empire which
examines the enormous influence of the
British empire.
He also attracted many plaudits for
his After Tamerlane: The Global History
of Empire Since 1405 which won the
AMERICAN universities continue to visit Taunton School with Florida Wolfson History Prize.
Institute of Technology – based next to the Kennedy Space Center – The History Department was able to
entice Dr Darwin into school before his
meeting students on Tuesday. evening lecture in the chapel to attend
a class and then run a seminar for Sixth
Boarders’ day of conservation Formers who study the British empire at
A Level.
His clarity and erudition were
NINE boarders from over time. provided strong tea and
Taunton School enjoyed a Once an area had been sponge cake and we enormously impressive – even to those
fascinating and enjoyable cleared we then changed chatted about our happy accustomed to the expertise in this
day’s conservation work tack after a picnic lunch experiences during the subject area of Mr Moule .
at Stover Country Park on in the woods. day. Go and buy Dr Darwin’s highly
Sunday. The afternoon was This was a great readable books – Tamerlane first – if you
We were well looked spent sawing and experience, hard work are interested in history.
after by the Stover Park removing cubes of and fantastic fun for our And get them from Brendon - the local
Rangers and volunteers swamp floor to create a superb Taunton School bookseller deserves your support.
who showed us the pond for the local wildlife pupils. Mark Chatterton
elements of tool use to enjoy. Undoubtedly we
and then set us loose on We enjoyed tales learned a lot about Pizza, love, tragedy
an area of swampland of the resurgent otter ecology and managing
THE History Department took the two
in need of careful population, a native an area of natural beauty
Late Modern A level U6th groups – who
management. terrapin (called James) but we all felt we had
We spent the morning and the occasional made a real contribution study C19th Russian history - to watch
cutting back and burning osprey sighting. and were happy to hear Anna Karenina at the cinema last week.
the willow and alder The day ended happily what a difference our The film, clearly bearing the imprint of
trees that naturally grow in the park’s information efforts had made. Tom Stoppard, could never hope to live
and take over such areas centre as the volunteers The Park Ranger up to Tolstoy’s classic.
heaped fulsome However, opinion was generally
praise on our favourable and was enjoyed by all, even
team and we those who, not having read the book,
were delighted were grief struck by the denouement and
to be invited could not resist an unseemly display of
back to continue
blubbing.
such worthwhile
The only
work in the near
future. person crying
A near-perfect over the
school trip pizza which
... well done preceded the
everybody! film was Miss
Alistair Brayley. She
Hallows bravely opted
for the one loaded with hot chillies and is
still paying the price – like Anna Karenina,
a tragic heroine. Mark Chatterton
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The Cuban Lisk Practical
2012 marks the 50th Interview
anniversary of the Cuban
Missile Crisis, the nerve- Evening -
wracking peak of Cold War November
tensions in which the world
held its breath. 27th
This term’s Lisk focused on THANKS to the initiative
the terrifying 13 days of the of a number of U6
crisis which threatened nuclear students’ parents, the
destruction. school will now be
But it wasn’t all doom and offering a practice
Unusually (!) Mr Moule misappropriation of the now
gloom as Miss Preece lightened interview evening on
focused on the architecture of iconic image of Che Guevara
the evening with a look at Tuesday, November
Cuba, noting the influence of while another Lisk Committee 27th.
Cuban dance.
the Spanish (who dominated member, Audrey Sebatindira, We have a number
Surprisingly, Mr Hawkins was
Cuba until 1898) as well as the explored Santeria, the Afro- of parents who have
able to resist the temptation
Americans, whose dominance Caribbean religion which is a offered to come into
to demonstrate his sense of
of the island ended with the curious fusion of Yoruba faiths school to interview a
rhythm!
Castro’s Cuban Revolution of and traditions with some range of our students
1959. Roman Catholic elements who will be preparing
Lisk Committee member added. for university and job
George Hallas grew a beard Finally, Miss Brayley rounded interviews, but would
especially for the occasion off with a look at Cuba today, very much like to have
and played Fidel in an sharing with us some of her more.
impassioned interview, holiday photos as she explored If you would like
though stopped short of the impact of the US embargo to be one of our
smoking a Cohiba cigar. on the Caribbean island which interviewers please
Mr Chatterton gave us a has occupied such an important contact david.hawkins@
fascinating insight into the position on the world stage. tauntonschool.co.uk.
Sculpture Park visit AS dusk fell, ten intrepid Sixth Formers
Moonraker Challenge
dressed in “onesies” set out on a 12-mile
ALL Year 10
hike over the Quantocks on Saturday, the progress of the group as all 300
artists battled
September 29th. other walkers could spot their comical
the elements
They were taking part in the annual outfits a mile off and would nod
of deep dark
Devon to study
Moonraker Challenge, held by the Rotary knowingly when we asked if they had
a wide range of Club in aid of local charities. seen two tigers, a penguin, Scooby doo
sculptures. This year our pupils raised over £700 and a strange blue creature!
Broomhill for Taunton Street Pastors and Stand Twelve miles in one go with only a
Sculpture Against Violence. brief soup stop for refuelling is no mean
Park displays As the group summited the Quantock feat and our pupils did immensely well.
an excellent Hills they were greeted by the sight of They completed the course in 7 hours
variety of the setting sun over Exmoor and, as with no navigational difficulties. Huge
sculptures the full moon rose, head torches were congratulations to all that took part, a
which provided donned and the walk continued. sterling effort!
a fantastic The staff had no trouble finding out Caro Wedgewood
opportunity
for students
to explore
their theme of
texture.
Torrential
rain proved a
great challenge
but with lots
of creativity and imaginative thinking
the students produced some excellent
drawing and research.
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Photography trip to the V&A House Rugby
HOUSE Rugby winners
were as follows:
DURING this
visit, both the Junior GOODLAND
AS and A2
photography Inter EVANS
students
explored Senior WILLS EAST
historical and
contemporary
photography, Hockey v
which have
influenced many
King’s College
photographers 1st XI drew 2-2 – a tough
and people encounter but a solid team
around the performance. Goals from
world. Flora Larkin and Clem
They viewed Odgers.
work by 2ndXI lost 2-3 – a better
inspirational second half performance
people who used & Drawing archive room. were able to appreciate the with goals from Emma Read
the medium of photography and Emily Carr.
In this area of the V&A, importance of photography,
to express feelings, social 3rd XI lost 2-4 – an end to
students were able to handle such as knowing that people
issues, historical statements end game, King’s took their
original prints from world risk their lives in wars to chances and we could have
and significant events.
The students looked at all famous photographers which show imagery of truth, to scored eight!
the art, design, fashion and are archived safety in the documenting a memory of a 4th XI won 1-0 – an
photography the V&A had to museum. person or an era. excellent goal from Immy
offer and had the amazing This trip was very valuable Overall, a great trip! Grey.
opportunity to visit the Prints to the students as they Gez Harris
U15A won 5-0 – the
Leweston and King’s Hall Show Jumping
girls played very well,
particularly Millie Day,
Heidi Parsons and Atlanta
Allen-Skinner
U15B won 2-0 – another
good team performance
with goals from Hannah
Boniface and Rose Vere
Nicholl.
U14A won 2-1 – a good
result against a very good
team with an outstanding
Spanish player. Goals
from Jess Salmon and
Tess Warby. An excellent
performance from Cassie
Watson in goal.
U14B won 3-1 – a very
pleasing result with an
outstanding game from
Rehanna Foster.
Class 2 – Hetty Burton came Ashton Caddick came sixth as team. Ashton Caddick came
fourth in a team with some a team. (BV/JK/WR) second, Rose Vere-Nicoll
TPS students. (BS) Class 4 – Rose Vere-Nicoll, came fourth and Tess Warby IN NEXT WEEK’S
Class 3 – Izzy Mackin, Tess Ashton Caddick and Bella came sixth as individuals. SENIOR COURIER
Warby and Hetty Burton Cooper came third as a team, Find out how TS
came first as a team. Rose Alex Willes, Izzy Mackin and Read how the TPS Students
Vere-Nicoll, Bella Cooper and Tess Warby came fourth as a fared by clicking here. fared in Field Day
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