The Vaughan Magazine 2014 - 2015

The VAUGHAN magazine 2014 - 2015

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ConteNts

Welcome

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Centenary

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Religious Life

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School Life

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A Year of Music

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A Year of Art

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A Year of Sport

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Trips & Tours

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Parents Association

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Salvete/Valete

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Headmaster's

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On 19 June 1915, the twelfth anniversary of Cardinal Vaughan’s death, when the School was just nine months old, there was a reception in Addison Hall hosted

by Canon Driscoll, the first Headmaster, and Cardinal Bourne, who took a close personal interest in the growth and development of the School named for his predecessor as Archbishop of Westminster.

This event was the first big setpiece at the School: to have had a triumphant opening ceremony at the start of the First World War had been avoided as it was rightly considered that it would have been in bad taste. All sorts of dignitaries were there, including four bishops and Father Bernard Vaughan, the late Cardinal’s brother. In their speeches, Canon Driscoll and Cardinal Bourne set out their hopes for the new school. Canon Driscoll outlined the purpose and character of the Vaughan: it had been set up to provide a Catholic education for boys across London. He was proud not only of the growth in number of pupils – 29 had started the year and 50 finished it – but also of the fact that eleven of these boys were Belgians who had been driven from their country by the hostilities in Europe. He said it was fitting that the School which bore the name of

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Cardinal Vaughan (who had himself been to school in Belgium) should give help to these refugees.

have built on the work of those who have gone before us and, with them, have made that vision a reality.

Cardinal Bourne spoke next. After talking about the circumstances in which the School had been set up, he finished with these words:

Our job at the Vaughan in 2015 is the same as it was in 1914: we have the responsibility of proclaiming the timeless truths of the Gospel in an ever-shifting world. It is our privilege to proclaim the unchanging in a world of change. And to do that we have to change to stay the same. And what is comprehensively, compellingly and crystal clear, is that Cardinal Vaughan has spent one-hundred years simultaneously moving forward and remaining triumphantly in that same place where it was set up to stand.

And long may that continue, as we enter our second century of love and service.

‘Those responsible for this school regard it as an institution around which the gifts of those interested in Catholic education might eventually cluster…… Some of the greatest foundations in the country began certainly in a more humble way than this, and I trust that those who come after us will see that this has really been the beginning of an important Catholic educational work in London.’

I write these words on 19 June 2015, one hundred years to the day after Cardinal Bourne set out his vision for the new school. We can be proud that we, the Centenary Generation,

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WELCOME

From the Head Boy, Kit Stanford

From the Head Girl, Harriet Lea

To say that I have come to the end of my time at the Vaughan is a truly surreal feeling. The past seven years have undoubtedly been the most important in my life so far, and I have been incredibly lucky to have spent them at a school like Cardinal Vaughan.

The Centenary year has been an exciting time to be Head Girl, and a momentous way to end our time at the Vaughan. It has meant celebrations at Westminster Cathedral and the Royal Albert Hall - and taking part in a whole school photo! All of which will go down in the Vaughan’s history. Such an event-filled year, along with exam preparations, has meant that our Sixth Form experience has gone by all too quickly, although I know that this is a community in which we can all remain a part of for life.

Key to life at the Vaughan is the strong sense of community you feel a part of from your very first day.

This Catholic ethos helps you not only feel like you have a key part to play within the School, but also within the wider community and would not exist without the incredible teachers that help put it into practice and enable so many of us to go on and achieve great things.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank every teacher, on my own behalf and that of the entire year, for their commitment, passion and skill at imparting their knowledge. Without these teachers the School would not have enjoyed its outstanding academic success.

I also want to thank the Physical Education Department for the amazing opportunities they give to pupils, including tours with the Rugby and Football teams to Canada, the Netherlands and Portugal. It will probably be one of my biggest regrets that I didn’t get more involved in sport. One of the areas I was more involved in was music, and the staff working in the Vaughan’s Music Department also deserve a lot of thanks. They too organised tours, but also termly concerts, competitions, and the chance to meet and play with some worldrenowned musicians.

Looking back, I have been incredibly lucky not only have gone to a school that has provided me with such a wealth of opportunities, but which has also given me the chance to represent it, especially in its Centenary year.

I want to thank the teachers and my fellow prefects for all the help and support they have given me, and I hope that I have been able to demonstrate the qualities that the Vaughan expects of its pupils. I know that through my time here I have made life-long friends. Most of all though, I want to thank my entire year group for making my time here so special.

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As a Catholic institution, the Vaughan ensures all pupils take part in Assemblies, daily prayer and regular Masses.

We are encouraged to take pride in and celebrate our faith as Catholicity remains at the heart of daily Vaughan life, embodying our School motto: ‘To love and to serve.’

We are en-couraged to serve our School community with Lower Sixth pupils assigned duties throughout the year, as well as opportunities to mentor Lower School pupils in Maths, English or, as I did, to men-tor Fourth and Fifth Form students in help with organisation. We are also encouraged to serve our wider communities.

Throughout Sixth Form, I have volunteered with Age UK and made weekly vis-its to a local elderly woman, Laura, helping her to improve her laptop skills. This was an opportu-nity I have thoroughly enjoyed and am sad to be leaving.

Finally, it is the Vaughan’s ability to direct all its pupils to strive for academic success and reach their full potential that has been most rewarding. The high standards of teaching ensure that all students are placed in the best possible position to sit their A-Levels and can leave feeling that they have been well-equipped for the next stage of life, in further education or otherwise. I feel ex-tremely proud to have been Head Girl at Cardinal Vaughan, and privileged to have been part of a school that has helped form the best two years of my life so far.

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Foundation Day Mass Extracts from the Homily given by His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols at Westminster Cathedral on 19 September 2014 at Centenary Foundation Day Mass.

Today I offer my warmest congratulations to The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School as we celebrate together this centenary.

I congratulate and thank the School for the fine traditions it has fashioned and maintained over these 100 years since its modest founding on 21 September 1914. I thank the School, and all involved in it, for its fidelity to a founding vision together with its development in response to constantly changing demands.

Cardinal Vaughan School is both steadfast and innovative, a point of real strength in the diocesan network of schools and one willing to play its part, as called for by its motto, in loving and serving fellow Catholic schools in the Diocese. I thank you for this.

The founding vision of the School is that of Cardinal Francis Bourne.

On coming from Southwark to Westminster in 1903 he made education one of his key priorities.

His concern was mainly with primary education but he had a vision of founding a network of secondary schools across this growing diocese.

Your school was part of that powerful vision which took many generations to achieve.

Cardinal Bourne’s time was a time of profound and widespread opposition to Catholic Education, not from a secularist standpoint but from the dominant Protestant Liberalism of the day. Cardinal Bourne had a long battle, conducted very skilfully, to defend and establish the position of Catholic Education

as a true and proper expression of parental choice and therefore having a true and proper place in a democratic society. Bourne won the day, and so your school exists, as a memorial to his illustrious predecessor.

Our battles for Catholic Education today are less intense but real. We live in a very plural society in which cohesion and mutual understanding is so important. Catholic schools recognise this. Thus we put forward systematically the principles on which a good society can be based, drawing on the wealth of Catholic Social Teaching, a treasure that others are beginning to recognise.

In the same vein, we have long recognised the importance of studying the beliefs and practices of other religions, doing so from the constructive basis of a living

faith in God. If there is a problem with religious literacy today, with ignorance of other religions, as many are suggesting not least in light of the problems faced in Birmingham, the problem does not lie in faith schools, in Catholic schools. It lies elsewhere, wherever religious belief is treated in a minimal manner, or even disparaged. That is where the problem is to be tackled.

At the heart of a Catholic school – as is demonstrated in this great celebration of Holy Mass – lies the person of Jesus. He calls us together, person by person, so that we can know, love and serve him – amare et servire – and in doing so find our fulfilment, just as St Paul says: ‘I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord; I repeat, what I want is your happiness.’

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Centenary Celebration at the Royal Albert Hall On Tuesday 14 October five thousand current and former pupils, parents, staff and friends of the Vaughan gathered at the Royal Albert Hall for an evening marking the Centenary of the Vaughan. Those present at what was the largest gathering in the School’s history enjoyed an evening of reflection and celebration looking back with great affection at the achievements of the first one hundred years of this great School.

Entertainment was provided by the School’s musicians, past and present, more than two hundred of whom sang or played, whilst compere Stephen Cole (a former parent) welcomed to the stage many former pupils and staff. These included Old Vaughanian Dominic Holland, now a comedian, who delighted the audience with tales from his School days and former Headmaster Fr Anthony Pellegrini who gave a moving address about his time at the School.

The evening was framed around a series of beautiful short films created by two current parents, Adam Scoffield and Flavia Ritner; footage uncovered from the School Archive was combined with a collection of interview clips from a number of past and present memorable Vaughan characters. Much of the credit for the success of the evening is owed to these two parents who worked with real devotion to create the films. Thanks are also due to Vaughan parent Matt Lorenzo who produced the film about the School’s sporting history.

This moving and memorable evening, devised by Director of Music, Scott Price, was a celebration in the truest sense of the word, not a display of selfcongratulation, but rather a joyous acknowledgement that what the Vaughan is, and has become, has its roots in its past. The vast space of the Royal Albert Hall provided a perfect backdrop for this celebration: as one parent said: ‘I don’t think that a venue any smaller would have accommodated the pride that we all felt in the school.’

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CentenARY

BALL

On Saturday 20 June, hundreds of guests gathered at the Grand Connaught Rooms for the Vaughan Foundation Centenary Ball, marking the final event in the School’s Centenary calendar and the retirement of Associate Headmaster, Mr Charles Eynaud.

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CEntEnary

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BLESSING OF THE CENTENARY BUILDING On Tuesday 10 February, we were very pleased to welcome the Right Reverend John Sherrington, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, to bless the School’s new Centenary Building.

The evening began with Mass celebrated by the Bishop and the School Chaplain, Fr Dominic Allain.

The Schola Cantorum provided music, singing works by Palestrina, Bruckner and Mawby. Following the Mass, the nearly two hundred guests were invited to follow Bishop Sherrington to the Centenary Building for the blessing, and a tour of our wonderful new facilities.

This was the speech delivered by Bishop John Sherrington: Fr Paul Murray, the Dominican, recounts the story of the opening of a new centre for the Missionaries of Charity in the Vatican City. Pope John Paul II had generously donated the land and the property. The cardinal appointed to bless and open the building waxed eloquently about the generosity of the Pope.

Mother Teresa was sitting in the congregation, began to fidget, put up her hand and started to try and attract the cardinal’s attention. He was in full flow and tried to ignore her. However, her persistence won out and when we could no longer ignore it, with irritation he stopped and said, “Yes Mother”. “Thank God”, she said… “Thank God”… and he continued to praise the Pope!

This evening we thank God for the gift of this new building which I am delighted to bless. It is the fulfilment of the hopes and work of many

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people and for this we firstly thank God. To embark on an ambitious building plan is an act of hope. It reminds us that education itself is an act of hope as the staff draws out the gifts of each pupil and develops the potentialities to their fullness.

Providentially this week we listen to the Book of Genesis and the story of creation. At the climax of God’s act of creating, we hear the words, “God said, “Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves”, and later “God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them” and then, God saw all that he had made, and indeed it was very good.” Created in the image and likeness of God we are gifted by God and people are given the talents to create buildings which serve God’s plan so that in a school the individual gifts of each and very pupil can flourish and reach their full potential. We thank God for the bestowal of his gifts on so many people who have helped to plan and complete this project.

In the light of revelation, we understand that God in whose image we are created is a God who is Three Persons living in relationships of love. We reach our fulfilment in relationship, in community and in the service of love. This new building will help serve that purpose in the Cardinal

Vaughan Memorial School provided we remember that God is at the heart of all our enterprises and must always remain at the heart of the school. Fidelity to your mission will enable you to flourish. Today’s gospel also directs us to reflect about the integrity of our own hearts as we hear Jesus criticising those who fail to live the commands of God out of the depths of their hearts and who have turned them into human commandments to serve their own purposes; “This people honours me only with lip-service, while their hearts are far from me.”

They even go as far as using the commands of God to justify the neglect of their parents and so again break the community which God seeks to be characterised by relationships of love.

Today we also keep the memorial of Saint Scholastica, the sister of St Benedict. We are reminded of the first words of his Rule, “Listen, carefully, my son, to the Master’s instructions and attend to them with the ear of your heart.” Listen… listening is central to the process of learning, whether listening to a teacher, reading a text, or listening with the heart in prayer to the Father. The pictures of monks standing at their desks copying out the words of scriptures, illustrating them with love speaks of the perseverance, commitment and

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renunciation needed in order to pursue any learning well and to succeed. Buildings can either build this capacity to attend with the heart or diminish it. It is my hope that this new building will help the pupils to listen and learn and so become the people God wishes them to be to serve his creation and the common good.

The Rule of St Benedict is characterised by humanity and love for the sake of each monk so that he may more readily attain holiness. The life of the monastery with its structures and timetable provides the stability that enables the monk to listen and hear with his heart. In the life of the school, we know that there is need for a structure which provides clarity and safety for learning as well as moderation to the needs of each pupil. St Benedict writes, “Therefore we intend to establish a school for the Lord’s Service. In drawing up its regulations, we hope to set down nothing harsh, nothing burdensome.

The good of all concerned, however, may prompt us to a little strictness in order to amend faults and to safeguard love” (Rule, 45). The regulations and structures are needed to safeguard love which is the message at the heart of the passage from St Mark’s gospel we heard today. With the sensitivity of the Abbot to the sick and the struggling, so those in leadership may learn from the Rule of St Benedict about the particularity of each pupil so that each may flourish as God intends.

As we thank God and all who have been involved in the planning, design and construction of this building, we present all our works to the Lord in the offering of the Mass, so that through the power of the Holy Spirit and his grace, this building and all the activities which occur here may help the pupils to listen, Learn, and incline their hearts to knowledge and understanding as well as grow in their friendship with Jesus Christ.

May God bless the work of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School.

Bishop John Sherrington Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster

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Religious Life

A snapshot of Religious Life at the Vaughan As I write, it’s the month of May. Summoned by bells, summoned by bells, ringing, tingly out in the playground yard. Little Catholic Betjemans, mute Miltons, stopping their play, come to meditate at the Rosary. His favourite, the Headmaster tells them, is the third mystery of light: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God. And here they come: the Kingdom incarnate, to honour Our Lady and say a decade for her, for their loved ones, for the sick, for themselves. Why do we do this at the Vaughan? Boys don’t have to come but even the recalcitrant will make a pilgrimage at least once in the month of May or October.

Much needs to be said about Questioning Catholicism: here is a weekly display of Catholic intellectual life through Mr Kelly, who runs the club so well. Many boys come along to ask questions and receive instant answers. Father Dominic and Brother Mairesean are keen participants whose wisdom of all things Christ-like is spelled out clearly. St Anselm’s old mantra: Faith seeks understanding is made real here and pupils are grateful for the sacrifices in time made by those who come to clarify their understanding of the gift of our Catholic Faith.

Mr P Fleischer, Head of Religious Education & Philosophy

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An Assembly from Mr Eynaud This is a copy of an old photograph which used to hang outside the Headmaster’s office. The façade of the building should be familiar to you as it is that of Addison Hall, the old building across the road. The people posing in the photograph are the boys and teachers of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School

back in 1923. That’s right, 1923!

Ninety-two years ago! Notice how small the number of boys is. No girls!

Only two teachers are female!

This is a snapshot from the School’s infancy. Here it is nine years old.

Prior to 1914 the building was used for various public entertainments, including dances, lectures and

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Design Technology, of course, no Engineering or Business Studies, no Psychology or Sociology. Their study of Science was more limited than yours but they knew more Latin and Greek. They could recite more poetry and quote more Shakespeare than you can. They were very good at football and cricket but their teams were probably not as fit and well-trained as ours today. When they got home after school they had no computers or televisions to distract them; no dvds, iPads, iTunes, Facebook ,YouTube or FaceTime .

Films were occasionally watched in the holidays at the local cinema and were probably in black and white. They were better than us at coping with boredom. Food had to be prepared and not bought readycooked at Tesco or M&S. Cleaning took longer as there were no washing machines or tumble driers or dishwashers. However time flew for them as it flies for us.

theatrical performances. The idea to found a school to honour Cardinal Vaughan had been floated around shortly after the cardinal’s death in 1903. The necessary funds to purchase a site were eventually found with some generous donations from individuals. These funds were finally used to purchase Addison Hall and to transform it into a school. Canon James Driscoll was the first Headmaster.

There are over a hundred pupils in the photograph! What became of them? They are all dead of course.

How eager some of them look! How stern the teachers appear to be!

These boys could remember clearly the repercussions of the First World War which had ended a few years earlier. Some of them might have lost a parent or relative in that great onslaught – the war to end all wars.

Some of them would fight in another great war - the Second World War of the 1940s. Did any of them survive that other war? How many of them went on to study at University?

Which ones amongst them married?

Where are their children today? You can only gaze at their faces and wonder.

One aspect of the Vaughan that has not changed since that photo was taken in 1923 is the emphasis on the Catholic ethos. The boys gathered for Mass and Benediction then just as you do today nine decades later.

They were faithful to their devotions as you are today. The boys were told then to make good use of their talents and (in the words of the poet) to fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of good work, just as you are told today. Their time at the Vaughan passed quickly.

They would have been so taken aback that in ninety-two years’ time a whole new generation would be looking at them.

Well your stay here will also come to pass and perhaps in a few decades another generation will gaze on your faces and ponder nostalgically on whether you had lived a better life than them. Only you can make it so.

They studied more or less what you study. They had no ICT or

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Community Service As always it has been a busy year for the Lower Sixth and their enthusiasm for volunteering in both the local and School community remains admirable. This year saw the return of the HCPT pilgrimage to Lourdes which, yet again, was heavily oversubscribed and proved to be an affecting and enriching experience for all involved.

Interact, the Lower Sixth charity committee which is affiliated with the Rotary club, were ably led by Ellie Hier and David Gargan, and together with their team raised £763.55 for charity. In addition to the usual cake sales and netball and football events, they promoted a successful ‘Christmas Jumper Day’ and a last-minute cake sale to raise funds for the Nepal earthquake. With the help of staff who also baked and bought cakes, this raised £500 for the relief fund. For the third year now, Interact has also coordinated the collection and donation of large volumes of food from staff and pupils to the Trussell Trust Foodbank in Kensington.

Ten pupils have completed the Community Sports Leadership Award and a group of pupils have also volunteered with Age UK throughout the year, making weekly visits to an elderly person in the local community. This year it was especially pleasing that a large number of the Upper Sixth students involved chose to continue their placements as a result of the enjoyment they personally experienced from this project.

New projects include visits to Nazareth House in Hammersmith, on top of the regular trips to Barlby Road Homework Club, St Francis

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Assisi and St Charles primary school. The feedback received from Barlby Road was particularly complimentary; one of the girls was so committed to helping her mentee that she spent a great deal of time planning revision lessons for after her placement had ended.

Within school, pupils have also been helping with Reading and Maths mentoring, mentoring Third and Fourth Formers, along with Helpline 6th which has progressed well with Lower Sixth students forming positive relationships with boys from the Lower School.

January saw the Jack Petchey Awards ceremony at Kensington Town Hall. Nine of our pupils won the award: Jack Clancy, Ben Marshall, Jerome Mendoza, Francis Aquino, Kieran Reid, James Spencer, Millie Brogden, Marie Bushra and Ellie Hier. They were nominated by their Form Teachers for their contribution to the extra-curricular life of the School. Their peers then voted for the overall winners. These nine pupils now have the privilege of choosing how £200 is to be spent on special school activities or resources.

Miss Askham

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Father Gallagher’s Homily at Mass for Fisher House Saint John Fisher, the holy patron of Fisher House at the Vaughan, is someone whose good reputation has lasted down the years.

When Henry VIII put Fisher to death in June 1535 he did everything he could to humiliate him and to sully his good name.

John Fisher was known all over Europe as a holy bishop, a learned and humane scholar and as a person of wisdom and discernment. Not long before his execution, the Pope made him a cardinal because of his high opinion of him. But the king was vengeful and angry because Bishop Fisher had opposed his divorcing and remarrying. The royal propaganda machine was put to work spreading lies about Fisher. The falsehoods persuaded no one. People, even those who had never met him, even those who disagreed with him, knew of John Fisher’s complete integrity.

When Saint John was beheaded at the Tower of London his body was subjected to all sorts of shameful indignities. The crowd present paid no attention to these humiliations. They shouted their admiration of John Fisher’s holiness and goodness. The witnesses of his martyrdom were moved to venerate him not to endorse his ruin by the king or forget his virtues.

Today’s Gospel parable describes a new king settling accounts. He wants to know who is willing to serve him and who would prefer

some other ruler. He eliminates his enemies quite ruthlessly.

The king we are meant to be reminded of by the parable is not some autocrat like Henry VIII. The image of the ‘new king’ in the Gospel is of Jesus Christ returning to judge us all at the end of time. Earthly kings can be cruel and unjust, as John Fisher knew. But the King of Heaven is ruthless only in His support for our goodness and dignity. Part of God’s respect for us, part of His sense of our dignity, is His careful judgement on the whole of our life. God’s judgement on us is an assessment of what we have done with what He has given us.

The most important thing which God gives us is our capacity to relate to Him. He gives us life whether (as it seems) we want it or not: but spiritual life we can choose to have. The pound we are all given is our faith, our ability to connect with God, our having a life which can be lived for Him. To trade with the pound is above all to pray: to listen to God and to talk to Him. The Gospel message today is an encouragement not to neglect to make good use of our pound, our link with God. We may suspect that other people are better equipped to do this sort of business. Wondering what to

do with our own spiritual pound, we reckon that others are holier, more prayerful, more suited to the life of faith. We might as well not compete and hand over our pound, so to speak, to someone who knows what to do with it.

Everyone gets the same pound but ours can feel like very little because of our disinclination to trade with it, that is, to pray, to connect with God, to obey His commandments.

The Gospel and the example of Saint John Fisher say to us: don’t bury the little grace you have. We are to build up from our present attitude to God, only moderately enthusiastic as it may seem.

We are to do our best with the love of God which we actually have. We know that when Jesus returns, when the ‘new king’ looks for his supporters, He will be interested in this matter above all. The king’s great matter brought Saint John Fisher straight to heaven from Tower Hill. Our business with God may take longer but the destination for us is exactly the same as for your holy patron.

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Street dancers Gavin and Sonny (AKA In Sync), pop and lock their way to a double Mayne House win in the Lower School Inter-House Talent Show

House Life Against the celebratory backdrop of our centennial year, it seems appropriate that one of the School’s founding features has been given renewed prominence. Campion, Mayne, Fisher and More have come out of semi-retirement and have spent the year battling for supremacy, vying for the top spot in every sphere of school life. Particular highlights have been the talent shows and the film competition which have had a hugely positive influence on the School, both in terms of allowing individuals to contribute and express themselves in new and different ways, and in terms of bringing the School together as a community in a completely different setting – exactly what I had hoped for, and as the House System grows and develops, so will the pupils’ experience of school, individually and collectively. Pupils are already asking about next year’s events, and their enthusiasm, coupled with some new changes coming next year, will guarantee that the Houses are still here a hundred years from now.

Finally, my congratulations got to Mayne – House Champions of this Centenary year.

Mr Cosgrove, Deputy Head

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Overall winner of the 2015 More House Photography Competition, Nathaniel Sewell 1VB

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FAReWeLL InteRVIeW WItH

MR eYnAUd

On Friday 12 June, friends of the School gathered at Our Lady of Victories to mark the retirement of Associate Headmaster Mr Eynaud after 25 years of dedicated, loyal and distinguished service to the Vaughan. Here Mr Eynaud shares his experiences and memories of his time at the School.

Tell us something about your journey to the Vaughan.

I was born and grew up in Malta.

I was educated at st Aloysius’ College, a school run by Jesuits, and eventually graduated from University in Mathematics. In those days graduates were snapped up for teaching without undergoing rigorous training and so I found myself at the age of twenty-one teaching at a girls’ grammar school.

It was a baptism by fi re!

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After a year at the University of Hull where I completed a post-graduate course in education, I returned to Malta to fi nd I had been promoted to teach A-Level Mathematics at the island’s sixth Form college. I was very busy during the next fi ve years, fi nding time to produce a monthly part-work encyclopaedia on Maltese history and heritage as well as compering a children’s tV quiz show. even though I had been offered a lectureship at

the newly established Faculty of education, I decided to take my luck on the international school circuit. I got married and moved to st Gallen in switzerland where I taught Mathematics and Physics to students from all over the world. My fi rst daughter was born there.

We then spent a year in Hamburg where I taught Mathematics and Computing at the International school before coming to London to take up the post of Head of

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Mathematics at an independent Jewish school in Stoke Newington.

Soon after arriving in London, we celebrated the birth of another daughter. Towards the end of May 1990, I recall spotting an advert in the Times Educational Supplement for a Head of Mathematics position at the Vaughan. I applied and the rest is history.

What do you think makes the Vaughan different from other schools?

I remember arriving at the Vaughan in 1990. The School was much smaller then, in terms of pupil intake, buildings and facilities. However, I knew within the first few weeks at the School that I had arrived home. It was not just returning to a Catholic school after all those years in secular schools: here was a state of grace, a friendliness and family warmth that were most tangible.

People cared about and were courteous to each other. A Catholic ethos permeated everything that the School engaged in. It still does, stronger than ever. Find me a school anywhere in the country where at a specific time of day, in the Vaughan’s case at noon, the whole school downs its pens, its musical instruments, its fingers from computer keyboards, its footballs and bats to join in saying the Angelus – an oasis of prayer in tranquillity, a temporary refutation of a busy and secular world.

What have been the most challenging moments of your career?

Leaving my island home for a future in international schools was a difficult decision to make. However the experience I gained in Europe was a very valuable one as I became aware of the different educational systems in other countries. I grew accustomed to being a foreigner in another land. One had to adapt, learn the language and accept practices and customs sometimes alien to one’s way of life. In London, the Jewish community taught me several things, especially the worth of the Sabbath. I was a gentile teaching in an orthodox Jewish school and I had to respect beliefs and traditions.

Thanksgiving Mass for Mr Eynaud, Friday 12 June After five years at the Vaughan, I was appointed to the Senior Management Team (SMT) by Mr (now Fr) Pellegrini, then Headmaster. Switching to senior management is not easy. As someone famously once said: ‘With power comes great responsibility.’

There is a greater emphasis on the ‘serving’ bit of the School’s motto ‘Amare et Servire’. Consideration must not be mistaken for weakness and adherence to policy must not be confused with inflexibility. A Senior Manager, especially a Headmaster, must always set an example in dignity, moral integrity and courage.

In September 2009, the Headmaster, Michael Gormally, was unfortunately and unexpectedly taken ill. I stepped in as Acting Headmaster, a role I was to undertake until October 2011. They were a difficult couple of years. However, the good ship ‘Vaughan’ weathered the storms and maintained its position as one of the top comprehensives in the country.

I am very pleased to say that I leave the Vaughan as a school at peace with the world, riding as it does now on a wave of popularity and success.

How have you juggled your responsibilities as a Senior Manager with your position as a Mathematics teacher?

I have always preferred the classroom to the office. In fact, teaching is definitely something I am going to miss as I take my retirement. The satisfaction of being in the classroom and introducing the delights of calculus or the

contortions of trigonometrical identities to an attentive and appreciative audience is hard to beat. I have grown to recognise that pupils will not learn properly if they fear you. Nor will they learn if they cannot find it in their hearts to respect you. The young appreciate consistency and security even if they do not admit it. In my experience, teachers who try to be too friendly or too strict end up failing their charges.

What are you looking forward to in your retirement?

I am not all that sure! I shall certainly not have to get up at 5.30 am every morning to be at School by 7.30 am!

I shall have more time to spend with my family, my children and hopefully, grandchildren. I shall have more time for reading and visiting the theatre.

I have a large collection of books which needs better cataloguing; that certainly sounds like an enjoyable task! I shall most probably stay on as Assistant Principal Examiner in Further Mathematics with Edexcel as it will keep me in touch with the subject.

God knows how much I am going to miss this School! This will not be some end-of-term adieu with the knowledge of a return in September.

This is the start of another journey.

Like all other journeys I have undertaken, I set upon it with some trepidation but am confident that I shall have a merciful God to assist me on the way.

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2015 Pupil Premium Award In February the Vaughan was delighted to be named a recipient of a Pupil Premium Award (PPA). PPA is awarded by the Department of Education to schools which consistently add the most value to disadvantaged pupils, narrowing the gap between their achievement and the achievements of their non-disadvantaged peers over a sustained period.

This award is really welcome to us because, on top of our excellent raw results, it recognises the hard and effective work we have been doing for years to add value to the education of our most disadvantaged pupils. This in practice means higher grades and improved life chances.

The Rt Hon David Laws MP, Minister of State for Schools, has written to Catholic schools across the country to congratulate them on the work they have done to improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils. Twenty-one Catholic Secondary schools were awarded with £5,000 as qualifying KS4 schools in the Pupil Premium Awards.

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Paul Barber, Director of the Catholic Education said: ‘It is a testimony to the hard work of staff and pupils in Catholic schools that our sector is overrepresented in this award. Catholic schools’ mission to the poor and vulnerable is clearly being played out in all Catholic schools and the 21 schools who have won this award are exemplary of this.

Congratulations to all those schools.’

In May we were also delighted to receive a personal letter from The Right Reverend John Sherrington, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, which read:

‘I am writing as Chairman of the Education Commission to congratulate you on receiving the Pupil Premium Award this year. I was delighted to read the letter which you received from the Minister outlining the reasons for this award and the way in which you have furthered the progress and attainment of pupils. It is always good when Catholic schools receive these awards. Please convey my congratulations to the governing body, your staff and pupils and thank the parents who support the schools in so many ways.’

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Holocaust Memorial Day: Keeping the Memory Alive As part of the build-up to Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), on Thursday 15 January two of the Vaughan’s Sixth Formers were chosen to speak at a commemorative event held by the Department for Education. Harriet Lea and Finbar Kavanagh each delivered their own three-minute speech to the audience, before being joined on stage

by Holocaust survivor Hannah Lewis and Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities.

‘After returning to London from our one day trip to Poland, we were given the opportunity to reflect on the lessons we had learnt from visiting Auschwitz and to discuss whether the whole experience was one that we had expected from our first introductory seminar. One key message that was reiterated to us - not only through our leaders and guides from the Holocaust Educational Trust, but also through the first hand experiences of hearing the testimony of Ziggy Shipper, and visiting the sites - was that: “Those who cannot remember

the past are condemned to repeat it”, as written by the philosopher George Santayana.

This quote formed part of an integral lesson of the project, that in order for the mistakes of the past not to be repeated, the history of people has to be studied and discussed.

It helps us to remember that we cannot afford to forget the events of the past, the significance of the Holocaust was too great, and too lacking in human emotion. If we were ever at risk of forgetting our past, we would then be at risk of repeating it. It is no use simply

forgetting the past for reasons that it was too horrendous, violent or unpleasant. It is vital that pupils are educated away from ignorance at a young age; a way of achieving this can simply be through knowledge and understanding.

From our involvement in the Lessons from Auschwitz project, we learnt about the importance of ‘rehumanising’. This means moving away from the statistics and information we tend to focus on in school History lessons. Such figures as the 6 million people who perished during the Holocaust,

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and the 1.5 million of these who were children. These statistics, while important in emphasising the magnitude of events, are impersonal and do not reflect each individual’s life. When we look more closely at the individuals who suffered (the victims), and those who inflicted the horror (the perpetrators), we can learn more deeply about the events of the Holocaust. This was something that stood out to me in the project as we explored both the perspective of the persecuted (Ziggy Shippers testimony and learning about the horrific conditions of extermination camps) and the persecutors (Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant of Auschwitz –Birkenau, lived in a private villa next door to Auschwitz One with his wife and young children). This led us to question the humanity of such an individual, how he could play and love his children affectionately yet oversee the slaughter of thousands others.

The final section of the Lessons from Auschwitz project was the ‘next steps’. This was where we were given the opportunity to share what we had learnt with our peers.

Fin and I decided to give a school presentation to both the Sixth Form and Lower School. We shared with

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them our experience of travelling to Poland, visiting the sites, sharing the pictures we took and emphasising the lessons we learnt and the importance of remembrance today.

Being an Ambassador of the Holocaust Educational Trust we have the responsibility of encouraging our peers and our community to learn and remember the Holocaust. Living History - as we are seeing from WW1 centenary remembrance - diminishes fairly rapidly, and now more than ever it is vital that we remember the Holocaust so that we may continue to learn from it, even when survivors are no longer here to share their eye witness accounts in person.

There is evidence of the need for such projects and educational programmes in news stories across the world. The Oświęcim graveyard was another site we visited on the trip and a few years ago this site was vandalised, with graves smashed and graffitied with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. However, we don’t even have to go as far as Eastern Europe to see the presence of discrimination in our society. In the UK over 1,000 acts of inciting anti-Semitism are reported to the police each year. In all corners of the Earth, minority social groups

suffer abuses and injustice due to a fundamental ignorance from the less tolerant. It is this continuation of prejudice against the Jewish population that makes it impossible for the events of the Holocaust to be forgotten. We are told to learn from history, yet we must tell ourselves, as long as there is such prejudice in the world we still have more to learn.

Our aim is clear, that the Holocaust should never be forgotten. It should never simply be viewed as just another event in a violent history of the world. It is only by facing up to the true reality of the horrors that happened, not just at Auschwitz, but all across Europe and throughout the world, that we can begin to move forward, and hope for a more tolerant, cohesive future for the world, so that we as a global population are not condemned to repeat the past. Mankind often likes to forget the atrocities it is capable of, choosing to be ignorant to the blood spilt in our past. The truth is, however, that hatred is an ever present part of our society, and though we may think that the world will never allow violence on such a scale again, we are still very much a volatile planet.’

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Survival by Magic Although there have been many books written about the Thai-Burma ‘death railway’, each individual has something to add and Fergus Anckorn tells a survivor story like no other.

Once the youngest member of the Magic Circle (and now, proudly, the eldest), Fergus served in the Second World War as Gunner Anckorn. He was bombed and shot at the fall of Singapore and, while recovering in hospital, became the sole survivor of the notorious Alexandra Hospital massacre – escaping death by bayonet as a result of the blood that poured from his severed hand and deceived the Japanese into thinking he had already been killed. From Singapore he was sent to Thailand to work on the railway and helped build the ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ and the Wan Po viaduct, before an attack by a guard meant he was removed to a hospital camp. At the camp, where disease caused by malnutrition killed many, Fergus used his magician’s skills to earn extra food to keep him alive. Fergus narrowly escaped death at the Allied bombing of Non Pladuk camp, and came close to being shot by guards after the Japanese surrender.

On Tuesday 20 January we were delighted to welcome Mr Anckorn

to the Vaughan. Sixth Form Historians and Politicians were left both inspired and horrified by Mr Anckorn’s experiences in Thailand, the memorable assembly reinforcing the brutal reality of events so often confined to textbooks and secondhand accounts. Sixth Former Jake Bolger said: ‘For an hour and forty minutes Fergus Anckorn told us his story, having brought in many relics from his time as a Prisoner of War, including a pair of 75-year-old chopsticks and a photograph of a bombing raid that struck his own camp, burying him in rubble. Not only did Mr Anckorn tell us about this dark period of his life, he also proved that his mind and wit remain sharp, with a live demonstration of the conjuring tricks that he used to keep himself alive. We remain awed

by Mr Anckorn and are very thankful that he took the time to give us at least some understanding of just what he went through.’

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Literacy:

The Tomorrow Project As part of the School’s Literacy programme, this year we teamed up with the Donmar Warehouse to take part in The Tomorrow Project: a series of workshops, talks and performances which use drama and theatre techniques to examine the future of our society.

Around fifteen of our Lower Sixth Form students were involved in the programme, with pupils working alongside experienced drama practitioners to produce short plays based on key topics of interest (The Future of Criminal Justice, The Future of Wealth, The Future of Energy etc.) culminating in a performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA).

As well as teaching valuable performance techniques, vocal

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training and stagecraft, The Tomorrow Project offered our pupils the opportunity to learn from industry experts about the future of important issues, developing their analytical and debating skills to explore fundamental political, philosophical and moral concepts that shape the way that we perceive our world. Through tackling challenging questions about the future of society, our young people became engaged in discussions

about the world that they will inherit, debating the practical and ethical implications of the potential changes and challenges of the next generation.

Thank you to all at the Donmar Warehouse for organising this wonderful project, all of which is made possible by the generous support of the John Lyon’s Charity.

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Music at the Vaughan, 2014-15 This has been a remarkable year for the Vaughan and indeed for the School’s musicians.

The Vaughan has long been known for its music-making but it appears that this was not always the case.

For its first twenty or so years the Vaughan appears to have had very little music-making going on other than congregational singing, although the boys were certainly familiar with sadly now largely forgotten Catholic chants. In 1935 a Music Society was founded by the older pupils and in 1937 there was reference in the Vaughan magazine to “the new choir”. Under the regrettably short headship of Monsignor Butcher (1948-1952), music, along with the other arts, seems to have begun to flourish.

The singing at Mass and Benediction was said to be much improved and when distinguished violist Bernard Shore visited the School in 1950 to give a recital, he commented on the “beautiful tone” of the School Choir and suggested that they should soon tackle music in four parts.

From these cautious beginnings has grown the musical tradition that continues to flourish to this day. Now ten years old, our facilities remain magnificent and the Department is bigger and busier than ever. More than four hundred instrumental lessons have been given each and every week by our ever-expanding team of instrumental teachers and around 300 pupils have taken

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regular part in extra-curricular music.

Curricular music lessons continue to be ones that the vast majority of pupils seem to very much enjoy and there is some wonderful work taking place in the classroom at all levels in the School.

Recognition of the musical traditions of the Vaughan came from an unexpected avenue this year when Westminster Abbey asked if we would like to house on long-term loan a Chamber Organ that had formerly been kept in the Henry VII Chapel at the Abbey. The organ was built by John Snetzler in around 1760. We were of course delighted to accept and are very grateful to the Dean of the Abbey, the Very Reverend John Hall, and the Organist of the Abbey, James O’Donnell (who is a patron of the Vaughan’s Schola) for making the offer. They were keen that the

instrument be used liturgically and in its new home in the chapel the instrument has been played during the School’s Benediction service that ends each week.

Once again the music staff at the Vaughan has remained virtually unchanged. We were all sorry when flute teacher Amanda Cousin left at Christmas for a new full-time position. Her place on the staff has been taken by David Cuthbert. We have also welcomed Josh Cooter who has taught the trombone at VCYM and former pupil Jerome Knox who has taught singing as the Department continues to grow. The Music Staff now numbers more than forty teachers. Each and every one works very hard contributing their own unique skills and experiences to the musical life of the School and I gratefully acknowledge their wonderful work.

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for the School’s music-making is total, through attending our many events in such numbers, through ferrying the pupils to and fro, through supporting the teachers, unfailingly replying positively to requests from the Department and in so many other ways. We are very lucky indeed to have such kind and generous parents at the School.

Thank you for all that you do to support our work.

There are a number of exciting ventures planned for next year. Boys will once again appear in operas with the Royal Opera and English National Opera and in December boys will sing at the Royal Albert Hall for a showing of the Tim Burton film Alice in Wonderland. We are to perform Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and JS Bach’s St John Passion amongst many other works. I hope that you will be able to join us at these and other occasions next year – you can follow the Music Department on Twitter (@cvmsmusic) if you would like to be kept up to date.

CS Price Director of Music

I would also like to thank the pupils who have contributed so much over the past twelve months. As always, their enthusiasm and commitment has been outstanding, indeed, this year’s Upper Sixth has always been markedly positive and loyal to the music-making. In particular I thank the following for their remarkable contribution to the musical life of the School: Philippe Barbaroussis, William Lim Kee Chang, Malcolm D’Souza, Aeron Dela Cruz, Tom Coyne, Thomas Whear, Patrick Huynh, Andre Weston Peters and William Cunningham, Thomas King and Jack Harnett. I wish them all the very best for the future.

Finally I would like to thank the parents of the School for all the invaluable support during the year that has just drawn to a close. Time and time again the Vaughan parents have proved that their support

Lunchtime Recital at the Royal Opera House

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Concerts 2014-15

The start of the academic year 2014-15 was dominated of course by the preparations for the Centenary events.

The Mass to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the School in 1914 was held on Friday 19 September at Westminster Cathedral.

The principal celebrant was Cardinal Vincent Nichols. He was joined by around thirty fellow priests, many of whom have links to the Vaughan. The Schola and Senior Brass lead the School’s worship in considerable style that day. The Schola was augmented by twenty former members of the choir who sang the baritone choir part in Widor’s Messe à deux chœurs et deux orgues. It was wonderful to have these former members back with us - some left recently, others as long ago as 12 years. The other very welcome guest with the Schola in the apse of the Cathedral that day was the world renowned composer Sir James MacMillan, who had composed a piece for the occasion.

It was a great honour, and quite nerve-wracking, to give the first performance of his motet, Emitte Lucem Tuam in his presence - and what a piece he has written for us too. The boys sang very well and many people commented afterwards on what a dramatic and fitting addition the work was to the liturgy.

MacMillan was very pleased with the performance and complimented the choir warmly, including talking about the Schola and the performance later that afternoon when he was interviewed on BBC Radio.

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challenge. Unlike, for example, a musical, there was no script, score or indeed any real precedent to copy.

An evening’s entertainment had to be constructed from scratch. And on such a huge stage as well – there are five thousand seats in the Royal Albert Hall!

From the very beginning it was intended that the evening would be structured around a series of short documentary-style films shown on a giant screen - perhaps inspired by an occasion a few years ago when the Schola sang at the world premiere of the 3D version of Titanic!

Two Vaughan parents who work in the film and TV business, Adam Scoffield and Flavia Ritner, amazingly agreed to help make these films – amazing as they must have known the amount of time it would take - and around 18 months before the evening we began to film, starting by interviewing on camera many Old Vaughanians and former staff.

Scripts were written and pupils were slowly but surely filmed speaking the narration. More than 100 pupils took part in the filming process.

Filming is an incredibly timeconsuming activity; for example, one day was spent at Westminster Cathedral - from which there was perhaps 20 seconds of footage shown on the evening. Another entire day was spent with two Old

Vaughanians, John Sankey and Terry Denett (who very bravely – and impressively, I should add - also appeared on the stage on the evening) filming in the former grounds of Beaumont College where the Vaughan had been evacuated to during the war, again just for a short passage of footage on the evening.

Many more hours were spent researching the Vaughan’s history and collecting and creating graphics and photographs to add life and colour to the films.

Slowly but surely the films took shape. A film about sport was very kindly made by another parent, Matt Lorenzo, with an Old Vaughanian presenting from his sports anchor desk in Doha! Using the history of the School written by Peter Brennan in 1995 we also created an illustrated brochure of the School’s history and brought the story up to date.

Hannah Staff worked very closely on this, alongside the Fetherstonhaugh Publishing company.

Meanwhile, numerous ideas were considered for the musical items and eventually the programme began to come together. To make it into the evening the music had to be short, reasonably accessible, and not too challenging to play - the difficulties of performing in the Royal Albert Hall were sufficient without playing hugely difficult music! That said,

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Snetzler Chamber Organ from Westminster Abbey

Centenary Celebration at the Royal Albert Hall

the fanfare composed especially for the occasion (and which brilliantly used the school and the Albert Hall’s resources) was quite tricky! The composer of that piece was Dr Philip Wilby - Miss Wilby’s father.

at the rear of the arena from where they were mixed by the Albert Hall’s in-house sound team – the difficult acoustic of the Albert Hall makes unique challenges, especially when mixing live music, live voices plus video sound. Lighting was also controlled by the in-house lighting team of the Albert Hall, following the script – they were left to light the show as they felt best, according to the suggestions given. The school crest was shone onto the famous ceiling mushrooms (installed to improve the hall’s tricky acoustic and of course referred to by John Lennon in A Day in the Life) using a device called a ‘Gobo’ – these had to be made specially.

There were numerous technical aspects involved in making the event run smoothly. The films were projected on to the 30 foot screen from one of the audience boxes whilst the men who controlled them were hidden in the basement of the Albert Hall. They started each film on a cue from the show caller, John, who sat next to the lighting and sound people on the desks at the back of the arena, giving instructions from the script. Adam Scoffield was at the hall during the day with the computer equipment needed to edit the films if it proved necessary.

Flavia Ritner was also present for the rehearsals to time everything (it would have been disastrous to discover that we were over time) and also to add last minute tweaks to the script. The script for our brilliant host, Stephen Cole, was run to an autocue controlled by a chap called Danny who sat in the ‘bull run’ as they call it – just by the entrance to the stage.

There were 200 microphones on the stage, all running to the desk

Also contained in the ceiling of course were the 1500 balloons, each with the school crest printed on them, that were released at the end of the final hymn! Although I spoke to the balloon man a great deal on the phone we did not meet on the day as he worked away in the dome of the hall, inflating the balloons only once in the ceiling.

He would also have been last to leave as he faced the challenge of lowering a device down from the ceiling to blow down the several hundred balloons that would be caught in the acoustic mushrooms and never reach the boys gathered below!

All these various technical aspects were controlled by the stage manager, a wonderful lady called Maz Bryden who came to work with me for the final couple of weeks of the preparations. She was simply invaluable in controlling the many complicated aspects of the show and allowing the music staff on the day to concentrate on the music.

The Albert Hall provided a team of around 20 technicians who ensured that the stage was set as we wished and looked after the challenges of the day, all led by Mo Crowe who was our show manager at the Royal Albert Hall.

All of this help meant that the day itself was actually easier than the average large concert we put on.

It was made easier still by having the help and support of the entire teaching staff, all of whom at some point were involved in chaperoning the performers and then bringing the rest of the School into the Hall at the appropriate time. Seating and ticketing in the Albert Hall is very complicated as more than a thousand seats are owned by the ‘members’, individuals (such as Her Majesty the Queen!) and large companies who have bought boxes and stalls seats and have the right to attend whatever they wish.

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They were not all terribly quick at returning their seats to us and so it became difficult to know how many could sit where. It was a major relief to see the whole School safely sat in the Hall waiting for the show to start! Particular mention should be made of Mr Kehoe who looked after the arrangements on the evening for the School. And credit for the ticketing of the event belongs to Hannah Staff who worked closely with me to ensure that everyone ended up sitting in the right place.

The involvement of so many individuals was the reason for the show’s smooth and error free success and it is good to have the chance to thank them now even if time did not permit them all to be thanked on the evening. Particular mention must be made of Flavia Ritner and Adam Scoffield who gave many, many hours of their time to produce the films that made the evening what it was. They were the rather unsung heroes of that occasion and I am glad to have chance to record now my deepest gratitude to them here.

I would also like to thank all the performers of course. It was wonderful to have with us so many Old Vaughanians for the evening.

Many played in the orchestra or sang in the choir. Perhaps most impressive were the greatly accomplished, confident performances given by the Old Vaughanians in the musicals medley. And comedian Dominic Holland delighted the audience with his very funny routine about a maths test from his school days!

It is perhaps, given the occasion, worth listing for the record the music that was performed that evening, as there was no concert programme as such: Zadok the Priest, Handel (extract) Spitfire Prelude, Walton The Lord Bless You and Keep You, Rutter Superstition, Stevie Wonder Hymn to the Fallen, John Williams Jerusalem, Parry

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Te Deum at St John’s Smith Square Panis Angelicus, Franck and Ave Maria, Schubert (with The Priests) Hymn at Heaven’s Gate, Philip Wilby (world premiere) How About You, Burton Lane (soloist James Townsend) Musicals Medley: Anything Goes, Anything Goes Maria, West Side Story Pick a Pocket, Oliver!

Pretty Women, Sweeney Todd By the Sea, Sweeney Todd Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Kiss Me Kate I Was Glad, Parry He Who Would Valiant Be, arranged Wilby

If you missed it, then it’s available on DVD. And if you were there, then thanks for coming! And many thanks for the countless messages that were sent in the days following.

It is lovely to know that the work of all the people mentioned above was so well received and so greatly appreciated.

Following on from what was clearly the biggest occasion in the history of the Vaughan’s music-making was always going to feel rather odd but the year continued as always and there have been numerous musical events on all different kinds of scale. In the Michaelmas Term we held our annual series of Early Evening Recitals for the

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pianists, string players, woodwind, brass and organists of the School.

These evenings saw some very fine performances. The Lent Term saw the annual Music Competition. Each Heat was adjudicated by an accomplished musician who offered the pupils advice on how best to improve and also chose the winners. More than 100 pupils took part in this year’s competition. At the Grand Final, held in March, we witnessed a very high standard of performance throughout.

The adjudicator, Ralph Allwood appointed the winners as follows: Lower School Musician of the Year Luke Warren Upper School Musician of the Year Thomas Fetherstonhaugh The Lower School Chamber Music Competition, adjudicated by Tansy Castledine from St George’s School, Weybridge, saw a record number of participants and groups – 22 ensembles in total. The winners were ‘Second Form Jazz’ and the outstanding individual prize of the evening deservedly went to Xavier Nadal. The competitions and recitals are amongst the many aspects of the Music Department arranged by the Miss Wilby, the Assistant Director of Music. Sarah is a delightful colleague, incredibly supportive of the boys and her fellow staff, wonderfully unassuming and modest yet greatly talented and held in great affection by us all.

The Big Band featured strongly at the Royal Albert Hall and then set about preparing the annual Big Band Evening, which this year took the form of a tribute to Frank Sinatra. We are lucky to have a few outstanding vocalists at the moment and they were very much to the fore on this evening, with five pupils singing songs across the evening, to a large and appreciative audience.

The Band also were out in force at the Centenary Ball in June.

The St Cecilia Concert in November saw a capacity audience at St Paul’s Church, Hammersmith with around two hundred pupils taking part in a very enjoyable concert.

School Choir sang extracts from the

Centenary Celebration – I Was Glad and the Hymn to the Fallen whilst the orchestra performed the Spitfire Prelude and Fugue by Walton. There was splendid music-making from the Concert Band, Second Orchestra and Senior Strings too in what was a lovely occasion, marked by a real sense of the confidence in the performing, no doubt inspired by the recent Centenary Celebration The strong performances from the orchestras and bands continued through the course of the year, displaying the wide variety of instrumental playing at the Vaughan.

More than 150 pupils took part in the Spring Instrumental Concert, held at St Paul’s School, Barnes, early in March. The programme included much challenging repertoire, made possible by the outstanding quality of some of the most senior players currently. This is especially true in the strings department where the playing over the last couple of years has been stronger than ever before. This year’s Spring Concert saw the Senior Strings perform Vaughan Williams’ Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. To even consider performing music this complex is a sign of the level at which the boys and girls perform – and that they could play it with such quality of tone and ensemble is remarkable, and a real testament to the quality of the string instruction at the School, led of course by Mr Manoras. The Concert Band, directed by Sarah Wilby, were also particularly strong on this evening, performing Fiesta by Philip Sparke. The concert closed with Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. This was a concert of seriously ambitious music!

This was the second time the senior orchestral players had performed however in just a few weeks as in February we had gathered on a Sunday morning to begin the annual collaboration with the Vaughan’s professional orchestral partners, Southbank Sinfonia. Each year we try to have a different angle on the collaboration and this year was no different as, under the expert guidance of conductor David Corkhill, the combined forces tackled Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Yes,

Mahler! And what a performance it was, given at Southbank Sinfonia’s home, St John’s, Waterloo. This is extraordinary music, full of colour, energy, great difficulty, great tenderness, many extremes of emotion. For most of the Vaughanians this was no doubt their first experience of Mahler and it was wonderful to see this unique musical world being encountered for the first time. We are very fortunate indeed to have the link with Southbank Sinfonia – they are increasingly involved in the work of the School and their support for the Department is greatly encouraging.

Another most memorable occasion in this year’s musical calendar came at the end of the Lent Term when School Choir gathered at St James’s, Spanish Place to perform what was billed as the Centenary Concert (the event at the Albert Hall having been a ‘Celebration’!). To mark the School’s Centenary musically there was only one work that was truly suitable, Elgar’s remarkable The Dream of Gerontius. And so, in the final week of term the School Choir, joined by the Cantus Ensemble and the Belgravia Chamber Orchestra, performed this work, one of the very greatest of all oratorios, with soloists Old Vaughanian Peter Davoren, Diana Moore and David Soar. This was a splendid performance, full of energy and passion, remarkable given that it came at the end of such a long and demanding term. Elgar’s choral writing makes many demands on the singers and the boys proved more than equal to the challenges of the Demons Chorus and the tour de force that is Elgar’s setting of Praise to the Holiest. The Schola did a fine job as the semi-chorus. The Blessed John Henry Newman’s words are always powerful of course but in the setting of St James’s, Spanish Place the work made a tremendous emotional impact on many present.

Congratulations to all involved in what was a very memorable evening.

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The Schola Cantorum The Schola continues to develop and expand the work that does and this year has been full of new opportunities and challenges. I have already described the singing at the Centenary Mass and the involvement of Sir James MacMillan, from who the Schola had commissioned the Offertory Motet. It was a further joy that Sir James very kindly agreed to become a patron of the Schola, alongside David Hill, director of the Bach Choir and James O’Donnell, Master of Music at Westminster Abbey. Our involvement with Sir James, the Bach Choir and Westminster Abbey were all to develop during the course of the academic year.

There have been many prominent and prestigious occasions this year but the core of the Schola’s work continues to be the singing each week at the Lower School Mass. First thing on a Wednesday morning is not perhaps the most inspiring point of the week, the New Hall has no acoustic whatsoever and there is an electric organ for accompaniment. Nonetheless, the

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choir has sung each and every week, offering different music of all kinds across the year, covering huge range of repertoire. Particularly pleasing this year has been the reliable attendance of the older boys, something that has not always been the case in the past.

Rather off-setting the New Hall as a location for singing, the Schola has been fortunate once again to sing each half-term at Westminster Cathedral, surely one of the very finest places for choral singing.

We have sung some big repertoire there this year including Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli in January and Britten’s Missa Brevis with just the trebles in May. In March the choir sang a Lenten programme of Byrd. A wonderful occasion came in the May half-term when the Schola were asked to lead the singing for the installation of Cardinal Nichols as Chancellor of St Mary’s University, which they did with great confidence and style. I was away that day and so the choir was conducted by Sam Jackson. Mr Jackson is wonderfully

loyal to the Schola and the Music Department generally. He is a very gifted musician and teacher and we are very lucky to have him in the Department.

The Schola’s new patrons have been directly involved with the Schola in several ways during the year. In February some of the trebles sang in a performance of Carmina Burana with the Bach Choir at the Royal Festival Hall, conducted by David Hill. Later in the year, one of the boys, Harry Fetherstonhaugh, sang the treble solo in the Bach Choir’s performance of Elijah. A particular delight came when we were asked to replace the trebles of King’s College, Cambridge in a performance of Sir James MacMillan’s St Luke Passion, which was broadcast live on BC Radio 3 from King’s College on Good Friday.

This performance, given with the Britten Sinfonia and conducted by the composer (repeated at the Barbican on Easter Sunday) was amongst the most accomplished of the year and perhaps marked a new level of professionalism from the boys.

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The MacMillan performance was given alongside boys from Trinity School, Croydon. This was the second time we had performed with them in a matter of weeks as at the beginning of March the boys had been alongside Tiffin Boys Choir and Trinity Boys Choir to give a joint performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The Royal Opera House had invited the three choirs to sing as we are the three schools who have provided the boys chorus singing at the Opera House for many years. If you have been to an opera at Covent Garden in the past fifteen years and there have been boys singing in it, the chances are that you were listening to boys from one of these three choirs. Each choir performed on its own before they came together and conducted by Renato Balsadonna, Chorus Master of the Royal Opera, sang the closing scene of Englebert Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretal.

There have been other trips to the Royal Opera as well of course.

Conor Quinn and Alessio D’Andrea sang solo roles in Die Zauberflöte in March and then 29 boys performed in Szymanowski’s opera Krol Roger.

This is the first time that the Royal Opera has staged this extraordinary work in a new production by Kasper Holten, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. The boys singing is very exposed and difficult and the rehearsals were fraught at times but the boys stuck with it and gave very respectable performances, including one that was streamed live on the internet. The opera is sung in Polish which made for its own particular challenges, although we are lucky to have several Polish speakers in the choir who were able to help with the pronunciation! We were on more familiar territory in November when the boys sang in La Bohème at English National Opera.

There have been some notable concert performance also during

the course of the year. In November the Schola gave a concert in Sacred Heart in Wimbeldon, raising money for School Chaplain Father Dominic’s charity, Grief to Grace. In January the choir sang a performance of Mozart’s Requiem at St John’s, Smith Square, to raise money for the Cardinal Hume Centre. This was a wonderful occasion, organised by Vaughan parent Luke Warren in memory of Paul Goggins, an MP who had been very involved in the Cardinal Hume Centre prior to his sudden and untimely death. The concert raised more than £25,000 for the charity. We returned to St John’s, Smith Square for our own concert in April, when the Schola performed for the first time with an early music group – Spiritato!in a programme of French and English Baroque music. This was a lovely occasion, made more memorable by the presence on the platform with us of one of the great singers of our time, counter tenor Iestyn Davies, who had very graciously agreed to perform.

He was outstanding of course, but there was some very lovely solo work from the boys as well in what was an enjoyable evening.

Our links with Westminster Abbey have been developed considerably during the course of the year and the gift of the Snetzler Chamber Organ has been described above.

The Schola had never sung at the Abbey however until this year and so we were delighted to be offered the chance to lead the All Souls Day Eucharist service. This was a wonderful occasion, the Schola singing the setting of the Requiem

by Fauré. We were very pleased to then be asked to return to sing Evensong in April and, following that, once again in June. These three visits have been amongst the real highlights of what has been a year full of memorable occasions.

Evensong at King’s College, Cambridge. Alongside Kings Voices, under the direction of Ben Parry, the Schola became, I believe, the first state school choir to sing a service at the Chapel in its 500 year history.

With music by Duruflé, Noble and Byrd, the Schola performed beautifully and were able to experience first hand singing in this most famous of acoustics.

As I write, the Schola are preparing to travel to the USA for a ten day, seven state tour. There will be news of this no doubt on the Music Department Blog and the Schola’s website, www.scholacantorum. co.uk On the website you can also learn about next year’s plans for the choir. These include operas at Covent Garden and the Collesium, performances of Danny Elfman’s music at the Royal Albert Hall, a John Passion project with performances in London and Douai Abbey and the recording of a new CD, possibly two! The year will begin with us competing in the finals of the London International Acapella Singing Competition, a hugely prestigious festival in which we are delighted to have been invited to participate.

Finally, some thanks. I have already thanked Mr Jackson and of course would add to his name that of our wonderful accompanist, Mr Evans, who contributes so much in so many ways to the work of the Schola. I would also like to thank the parents of the choir – having a boy in the Schola is a big commitment. And of course I would like to thank the boys, especially the trebles who have worked incredibly hard this year. I look forward very much to seeing where our adventures take us next year!

CS Price Director of Music

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West Side Story The School’s musical production in the summer of 2014 was West Side Story, a musical inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

For three evenings in the final week of the School year, audiences were delighted by this tale of two teenagers who meet and fall in love, but are separated because they come from different street gangs in New York’s Upper West Side neighborhood in the mid-1950s.

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A YeAR oF

ARt

What a wonderfully creative year we have had at the Vaughan!

Our pupils have made us very proud and we have much to celebrate. the success of our 2014 summer Art exhibition did, indeed, raise the expectations of our pupils.

A staggering 80% of our A2 pupils have gained places on Art Foundation courses including those at the Royal drawing school and Camberwell College of Arts.

We wish them the very best on their new creative challenges in september. Both GCse and A-Level pupils have explored complex concepts in their artwork and produced ambitious, large scale work. Many pupils have explored fi lm as a means to resolve ideas, with Fifth Former Calum Currie’s short fi lm selected to be shown as part of the Barbican’s fi rst Focus Film Festival which celebrates international fi lms for teenagers and young adults. our ongoing collaboration with the Royal British society of sculptors has given A-Level artists the opportunity to

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work with leading international sculptors. In september we will work with Julia Vance whose sculpture ‘Hold’ is currently on exhibition in Holland Park. As part of this, A-Level pupils will spend two days with Julia to create threedimensional outcomes. each term we have presented outstanding pupils with a ‘star Artist’ award. these pupils are our Art ambassadors and we congratulate all the star Artists of the past year for their consistent effort and relentless drive to achieve their best in Art. Undoubtedly the highlight of the year was the Art & design technology trip to new York in February Half term. Miss Hellier, Mr dobson and I travelled with 25 A-Level artists and designers, and even the minus 17 degrees temperatures did little to quell

the pupils desire to explore the city’s museums, galleries, streets and avenues.

Another high point of the year was our 2015 summer Art exhibition. on Monday 29 June we celebrated our pupils’ artistic endeavours and achievements by welcoming parents, governors and staff to a private viewing, where people could browse, observe and discuss the artwork. of course none of these achievements would be possible without the hard work and total commitment of the Art department staff: Mr dobson, Miss Cleary and our technicians Miss njihia and Mr o’Grady. I would like to thank them for being a wonderful team in supporting and guiding our pupils.

Miss N Carew, Head of Art

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New York

Central Park in the snow

CVMS Art and Design pupils on Liberty Island

The freezing Hudson

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Portraits

Louis McNulty, 1VB

Edward Kemp, 4SB

Christopher El-Nahhas, 1PF

Kyrollos Abdelmalak, 1MF

Alex Wu, 1MF

Dryzik Batista, 4SS

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Benjamin Michaels, 1MF

Oliver Gobie, 1MF

Bridget Chin, L6NF

Christian Da Silva, 4SS

Ciaran Reddington, 4SL

Malachy Barrett, 4SB

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A-Level

Aphra Joly de Lotbiniere, U6WH

James Lysaght, U6MT

Oonagh Quinn, L6NC

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Joseph Turner-Mullan, L6LH

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Julian Gardner, U6JK

Ynna Ramirez, U6PF

Hanah Humphrey, L6HA

Robert Barrow, U6WH

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2015 Summer art exhibition

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Sport It is a great privilege and pleasure to have the opportunity to write for the Vaughan Magazine about the many outstanding sporting achievements of our Centenary year. It has been an incredibly ambitious and successful year, where we seem to have defied gravity at every given opportunity for the benefit of our pupils.

Since the previous edition of this magazine, our pupils have had incredible opportunities to see the world and represent our School.

By the time you read this, we will have completed four international tours in two of the major sports played by the Vaughan to Canada, South Africa, Italy and Portugal. It is a wonderful achievement for any school to have a bi-annual sports tour. At the Vaughan we have given the opportunity to go on tour with eight teams in the space of four years, a truly staggering achievement. This is testament to

the ambition, drive and hard work of staff, pupils and parents.

Sport at the Vaughan continues to grow and thrive across a wide range of codes and disciplines.

This is as a direct result of having an incredible team of enthusiastic and committed members of staff. They all show an incredible stamina and leave no stone unturned in order to provide our pupils with the wonderful opportunity to take part in sport, but also to develop and succeed as teams and individuals. I would like to thank each and every one of

you that has made a contribution, big or small, over the past year and I hope you enjoy the reports that are about to follow.

You may be forgiven for noticing that the word ‘opportunity’ seems to be a recurring theme in this short introduction. I believe that our finest achievement is not the creation of opportunities, but what and how we as the Vaughan community do when the opportunities come around.

Mr Terblanche, Head of Physical Education

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FOOTBALL SEASON REVIEWS, 2014/2015

Senior Football First XI

Senior Football Second XI

The First XI’s season started with much promise but ultimately ended in disappointment. We kicked off the season with four straight wins, including an impressive victory away at Wilson’s. This was the first time in recent history that any Vaughan Senior team has beaten them.

Our winning run continued until mid-November when we were hit with a loss to Latymer, and then lost again on penalties to St James’ in the Catholic Cup Quarter Final in December, having battled to a 5-5 draw during a dramatic game that went to extra time.

When you talk about the greatest generation of CVMS Second XI footballers, this year has to be considered; a year also known as the ‘golden era’ of football at Cardinal Vaughan. Why was this year so successful? Was it the gallant leadership skills of our captain William Whiteley?

Was it the master behind our tactics, Alfonso? Or was it the famous back four that delivered five clean sheets, notoriously known to other schools as ‘the CV brick wall’? Personally, I think it was both the spirit of the team and dedication of each individual player.

After Christmas we picked ourselves up again and forged a good run of victories in the Inner London Cup over Haberdashers , the prestigious Corinthian Casuals and steady progress in the QPR League. Special mention must go to Tim Griffin for an outstanding season in front of goal, with 32 goals in 30 games. However, it was an unexplained loss of form in the middle of March that led to disappointing defeats to Latymer in the Inner London Cup Semi-Final and to Phoenix in the QPR League SemiFinal - another loss on penalties which was controversial to say the least. On behalf of the team, I’d like to thank Mr Regan and Tony Bull for their hard work both on and off the pitch, as well as Mr Conway for his contributions to fitness training.

The season started with an impressive 1-0 away victory at Wilsons. The bookies wrote us off, and for the first time since Mr Regan can remember, the Vaughan took the double over Wilsons. It was more than a victory for us. It was a statement. Two games later and zero losses formed the run up into arguably the biggest game of the season. Latymer, away. The game itself was an exciting display of high quality football. The unfortunate result, a 2-0 loss, did not reflect our performance.

Gerry Gallen, Captain

The first game back after Christmas was an important cup game against a well-drilled QPR Academy. It was clear we were rusty and a bit over-fed, and our 3-0 loss indicated we needed some new talent. January transfers began with the experienced Alex Gowthorpe brought down from the First XI, Tom Murphy persuaded away from rugby and the young talent of Joe Gallagher helping to solve the goal drought we were suffering, scoring four hat-tricks in four games.

The season progressed and even though there was no silverware at the end of the season, we still feel we did ourselves and CVMS football justice. On behalf of the team, I would like to thank Alfonso DiLieto and Mr Regan, who gave up countless hours to organise all of our training sessions, matches and even a football tour to Portugal.

Stephen Ndoca, Vice Captain

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Senior Football Third XI

Under-15

The season began with an away trip to Sutton, a game widely viewed as a trial for the even bigger than normal squad. A bright start and early goal were unfortunately succeeded by three to the other team, including one own goal, and by half-time we were trailing. A 30-yard screamer from Xian Londono in the second half brought us up to 3-2 but, despite chasing hard to equalise, the game was out of reach.

Unfortunately, this season did not go totally as planned.

A generally poor turnout for training meant that the team chemistry was affected and performances were not as strong as they could have been. One positive from our first game, a 2-0 loss to Cheam, was that the previous year had been an 8-0 defeat so we have clearly matured as footballers and our attitudes are a lot better, with our captain, Jack Jennings, named man of the match.

Our hardest game of the season was to follow, pitched against Latymer’s Third XI who had already played 17 games by this point. Despite a 3-0 loss, it was a very promising performance and arguably our best of the season.

Our next game was against Glyn where we were allowed to play on the first team pitch, a real privilege.

Unfortunately, a poor start against a very good team meant that we were 12-0 down at half-time. However, we did not let our heads drop. After a meaty team talk from Mr Smith, we all went back out onto the pitch with new determination and improved performance. Peter Pelosi was running the channels upfront with Juan AbrilGonzalez and Edward Kemp giving us width and Edward Morgan pulling the strings and starting the attacks. After this game we reflected on our performance and knew we had to do better; we went into our final game of the season against Richard Challoner with a lot on our shoulders. Although Richard Challoner won 3-0, there were some exceptional performers including our striker, Tommy Judge, whose strength and skill had us playing some good football and George Whear who received man of the match.

Our next fixture was an away game against Harrodian.

This proved to be an incredibly exciting end-to-end game, with Liam Murphy finishing off a nicely worked goal to bring the score to 1-1 at half-time. However, even though we were in control and pushing for the victory, fate seemed to be against us and the last kick-off saw Harrodian score from a corner resulting in a 2-1 defeat.

A special mention goes to our goalkeeper Eli Haidari for one of the finest keeping performances I have seen.

The season finished with a disappointing defeat to Sutton, with fitness being a main cause for concern and calling to end what had been an encouraging season for our growing Third XI squad.

Joe McWeeney, Captain

Although our season did not go as we would have hoped, the team is proud of how we stuck together and kept working hard on our game.

Edward Morgan and Jack Jennings, Joint Captains

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Under-14

Under-13

This year has not been the greatest of years for the Under-14 Football team. Poor weather conditions meant we only played five matches, drawing two, losing two, and winning one. However, we have made progress in terms of team performance and commitment, with players such as Tom Carroll making shifts in position, and Julian Lewis Jr contributing to most of our goals.

Solid technique and a positive team mentality led to a successful run of games for the Under-13 team this season, winning three games, drawing two and losing two. Our biggest victory came against John Lyon School, where we won 12-1 with Patrick McWeeney scoring a hattrick from the left wing.

Attendance at training in particular has ranged from week-to-week, but when large numbers turn up it has always been fun and our most memorable game was a 5-5 draw to Cheam. Our squad has adjusted with the season, thanks to the likes of Shaun Neylon breaking into the team with strong and consistent performances and some amazing goalkeeping from Miguel PitaGoncalves.

I would like to thank our coach Mr Secker for giving up his time and hope there will be more football this coming year.

Daniom Tsegai, Captain

In April we were rewarded for our great team spirit with a tour arranged for us and the Under-12 squad. It was very exciting because of the variety of activities included in the package: a coaching session with Stoke City Football Club, seats at a match between Stoke City and Tottenham (Stoke winning 3-0), a meal and finally the Stoke City FC Football Tournament. Our team won the tournament, losing only one game, making the trip very worthwhile.

On behalf of the team, I would like to thank Mr Jackson for his great coaching and Mr Regan for his efforts in setting up the tour. Also our regards go to Mr Bailey who managed the team for most of the season and the rest of the PE Department and the ladies in the kitchen who helped to fuel a fantastic year of football for the Under13’s.

Devlin Brant, Captain

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Under-12

JUNIOR FOOTBALL TOUR

Under the guidance of Mr Murphy, the new First Form began the football season with great enthusiasm and a notable win against Cheam High School in Twickenham.

Results were generally mixed but the team progressed with every match played. Stand out performances came from striker Camilo Restrepo and the entire defence who were a mainstay throughout the season.

We fielded three squads against John Lyon School and Hampton School, in which over 30 pupils represented the Vaughan on a games afternoon. The trip to John Lyon deserves particular mention, with the Under-12’s winning all three of their matches (A: 7-4, B: 7-0, C: 3-1).

The highlight of the season was the Stoke City Football Club Tour in April. We thank all the staff who were involved in arranging this mini-tour and tournament against teams from all over the country. Not only did we win the tournament but enjoyed a great weekend of activities, including a training session with Stoke FC coaches and a tour of the Britannia Stadium, as well as watching the match between Stoke and Spurs.

Under-15 PORTUGAL TOUR

We would like to thank Mr Murphy and all the teachers who gave up their time for us to have fun times playing football and look forward to doing even better next season.

Michael Koscien, Captain

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Football Remembers On top of the Vaughan’s own Centenary celebrations, 2014 was also the year that marked the one hundredth anniversary of World War One. Many events were held to commemorate and remember the lives of those who lived, fought and died in the First World War, with thousands of people coming together in global and community projects to recognise the impact the War still has on the world we live in today.

One such venture was Football Remembers. A joint project by The FA, Premier League, Football League and the British Council – and supported by HRH The Duke of Cambridge – Football Remembers was a national commemoration to mark the centenary of the 1914 Christmas Truce. Starting in December, teams across the country, at all levels, helped remember the special anniversary of the Armistice Truce by posing for a joint prematch photograph to recognise the solidarity shown on the battlefields 100 years ago.

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Taking the commemoration one step further, on Thursday 15 January Cardinal Vaughan’s Senior Football First XI stood together on the football field with German team IS Augsburg (International School Augsburg). Led by former Vaughan teacher and Head of PE, Mr Jones, the ensuing match was a brilliant win for Cardinal Vaughan (10-1) with all of the boys enjoying the opportunity to pay their respects to the soldiers and footballers of World War One.

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Rugby SEASON REVIEWS

First XV

Under-15

The First XV Rugby team enjoyed a very good season and surpassed all expectations, particularly as we had a very young and inexperienced squad.

The Under-15s have had a very promising and successful year, with large strides being made in the development of our squad. The season began with a closely fought contest against UCL. Although disappointed with our narrow defeat, we had proved to ourselves that we were capable of better things.

The season started off well with a good performance against Gunnersbury Catholic School which ended in a 12-12 draw. This was followed by good wins against schools such as Twyford CofE High, Orleans Park, St Ignatius College, Isleworth & Syon and Enfield Grammar School. The most enjoyable aspect of the season was the exciting and expansive game style adopted by the team, in the process running in some excellent tries.

This was a highly enjoyable season and the boys were an absolute pleasure to coach. One of the most encouraging aspects is that we only had to say goodbye to a handful of Upper School team members this year.

Next season will be just as exciting and we are already looking forward to playing some good rugby!

Mr H Wessels, Coach

In the next match, our belief was repaid as we bounced back with a very convincing 36-5 win over Richard Challoner, with Ryan Healy and Aiden Turley delivering stand-out performances. The following few matches were frustrating as they didn’t reflect the true capabilities of our team. We started the games strongly and had some moments of brilliance; however, our inconsistency showed as we often lost the game in the second half.

Despite these frustrations, we finished the season well with a commanding and dominating performance against Isleworth and Syon, winning the game 69-0. This match restored our belief in our squad and, while the all-round strong performance makes it is difficult to single out individual players, I feel that Logan Stewart and Tommy Judge (new to the squad) deserve special mention.

Two years ago Mr Cooney adopted our squad as we were struggling to play as a team and (for the majority of us) to cope with the size of the opposition. However, as we have matured we have grown (well most of us, anyway) and our rugby skills have developed, and by the end of the year we weren’t just playing for the School, we were playing for each other.

George Whear, Captain

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Under-14

RUGBY

This season was very successful for the Under-14s as we put up an outstanding performance against better teams and worked hard in preparation for our tour to South Africa.

Players such as Rowan Hargreaves and Richard Lee Monteiro performed unbelievably well and, in my eyes, were the team’s motivation. Tough matches against Gunnersbury and Wisbech Grammar gave us a real idea of what it was going to be like in South Africa, but we fought well and put on an outstanding performance.

Next season we are competing in the NatWest cup and if we get through the group stages we will have a chance to play at Twickenham. I think the team need to improve on attendance and work harder in training for us to have a chance of playing in the final. I believe the season was a tough but successful season and I hope that we will perform much better next year.

SOUTH AFRICA TOUR

Sam Davies, Captain

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UNDER-13 A

Under-13 A

Under-13 B

The Under-13 Rugby team started off the season in high spirits following last year’s strong performance.

Our opening game was a tough fixture against a very physical Gunnersbury team. This resulted in a narrow defeat, despite us dominating the game territorially. We lost another close game to Orleans Park before a crucial game against Grey Court which would decide whether we went through to the Middlesex tournament. It was nail-biting to the end, but a last minute try with a crossfield kick secured a victory by two points, ensuring a place in the Middlesex Finals. Unfortunately, the finals were rained off but we will be ready for next year.

This season was very revealing in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of the team. The main strength that was evident throughout the year was our unity and togetherness. This was most definitely the case during our recent tour to Venice. Despite the disappointing overall results, we never gave up and endeavoured to give our all until the 80th minute - every player in the team playing their part.

The rest of the season had its own ups and downs.

We convincingly beat Sir Richards Reynolds, Wisbech Grammar, Glyn, Enfield Grammar School and Isleworth and Syon, but lost to Latymer, St Ignatius and Emmanuel. The highlight of the season culminated in a whole team tour to Venice. Despite losing to two very strong Italian Under-14 squads, one of which were the National Under-14 Champions, we had an amazing time thanks to Mr Leigh, Mr Terblanche, Mr Kelleher and Mr Secker. We have great team spirit and will be raring to play again in September, with the Rugby World Cup for added inspiration.

Rory Morgan, Captain

There were three players in particular who really embraced their roles in the team. Patrick Mcweeney was a consistent player and someone you could always rely on to lift team morale, despite some disappointing results. Ciaran Flynn was another stand-out player for the full length of the season and his spirit and skill really helped out the entire team. Ivan was also an outstanding player who showed commitment and passion over the season and really put in the hard work to try and improve his game.

Finally, I speak for the entire team when I thank the most consistent performer of this season, Mr Kelleher. He has given up his time for all of our benefit and we have all improved on most aspects of our technical and tactical game. All of this season’s squad have enjoyed this year’s rugby and I think we are all positively awaiting and longing for the start of next season.

Sam Malham, Captain

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UNDER-12 A

Under-12 A

Under - 12 B

It has been a season of highs and lows for the Under-12s Rugby squad, with moments to forget and moments we will always remember.

Having never played rugby before, I barely knew how exciting it could be until I played my first match with CVMS against Gunnersbury – despite us losing 25-5!

This loss didn’t discourage the rest of the team either, although we did continue to lose until our victory over Emmanuel School on November 7 when we won 14-7.

We worked really well as a team and some of us scored amazing tries, including Michael Koscien and Bobby Sheppard. Our next match was our best performance by far; we won 55-0 over Fulham Boys School. I would like to thank our coaches for all of their help and encouragement throughout the season, especially Mr Murphy and Mr Secker. I am impressed by the overall outcome of this season and I am looking forward to the next one.

It was the beginning of the year; we were new to the School and we were uncertain about this strange place. However, we were eager to hear that they were holding rugby trials and, as is to be expected, there was variation in the talent. When the team sheets went up I was ecstatic to be selected as Captain, although our team as a whole were inexperienced and we lost our first game against Gunnersbury. However, this was just the first step in our journey as Mr Leigh, Head Coach and cheerleader (which was not a beautiful sight to behold), had targeted areas for improvement and acted quickly to fix our shortcomings.

Players and positions were switched around and our team began to take shape. We went on to win the next two games and we were soon on our way to Middlesex where we won the plate competition. There were some controversial losses on the way but our good sportsmanship shone through. Some players were rising through the ranks and had gone from C-Team players to vital players on the A-Team (especially Justin Henry and Chibueze Okey-Udah).

Through the course of the year we have improved as a team and have pulled together to win some silverware as well. Hopeful we will be able to continue this winning streak as we enter next season.

Nebiel Mehari, Captain

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Cross-country

JUNIOR CROSS COUNTRY

SENIOR CROSS COUNTRY

Cross Country and Road Running continues to thrive at the Vaughan, with excellence in both participation and performance.

In the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Mini Marathon trials in October, the Vaughan had two third place results thanks to Dominic Ogbechie in the Under-13 Boys category and William Whiteley in the Under-17 Boys.

At the highest level in school Cross Country, Charlotte Stocks represented London in the English Schools Championships at Witton Country Park in March, placed 252nd in the Senior Girls race.

In January the London Schools Championships at Parliament Hill Fields produced further excellent results for the Vaughan’s Cross Country team, with the Senior Girls winning their race and the Junior Boys placed second. The best individual performance belonged to Rebecca Killip, who came seventh in the Senior Girls category.

At the London Schools Year 7 and 8 Championships at Avery Hill Park, Jozef Kuczynski came 25th in the Year 8 race, with Oran Gallagher placed 12th in the Year 7 category.

This year the Vaughan once again competed in both the Ealing Schools Cross Country League and the English Schools Cup, where both our Junior Boys and Intermediate Boys came first at the local final. We were also delighted to win the Cardinals Cup race in December, a race which we organise ourselves. These successes are in part achieved through the lunchtime running club. Held every Monday and Thursday, the pupils run laps around a ž mile circuit with many turning up simply to improve their levels of fitness.

Mr Bailey

In the Virgin Mini Marathon we had the following pupils represent Kensington and Chelsea: Greta Thompson, Ellie Hier, William Whiteley, Anthony Freely, Joseph Melly, Dominic Ogbechie and Jozef Kuczynski. The best individual performance belonged to Greta Thompson who came 57th in the Under-17 Girls.

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Athletics

JUNIOR ATHLETICS

SENIOR ATHLETICS

Athletics continues to flourish at the Vaughan. In the London Schools Championships at Battersea Park, we had nine boys competing with six setting personal bests. The best individual performance belonged to Thomas Murphy who was placed fourth in the Intermediate Boys Hurdles.

In June we entered the English Schools Track and Field Cup with our Intermediate Boys coming in fourth and our Junior Boys coming third, qualifying them for the Regional Final where they came eighth.

In May we entered the London Schools Combined Events Championships at Lee Valley. Arnold Mensuoh won the Intermediate Boys competition and was consequently selected to represent London in the South East Schools Combined Events Championships, where he came eighteenth.

In the London Schools Year 7 and 8 Championships, we had three boys awarded second place: Devlin Brant in the Year 7 Hurdles, Dominic Ogbechie in the Year 7 Long Jump and Richard Lee-Monteiro in the Year 8 Long Jump. Dominic also won a bronze medal for coming third in the Year 7 200m.

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Participation has improved with every boy from the First to Fourth Forms taking part in Sports Day and competing in a four-event Quad Kids competition. This has enabled a broader base to select more athletes for competitive athletics.

Mr Bailey

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TRIPS & TOURS

Rock climbing in portland After just under a year’s worth of training, climbing and abseiling, our fingertips were hardened by the tough terrain of Westway’s finest climbing walls and we were ready for the rock climbing club’s annual trip to Portland.

From London to Dorset we travelled, first stopping off at the memorable Jurassic coastline, where a few of us admittedly reduced the number of stones on Pebble Beach. A night of mass cooking, stargazing, and restful sleep followed, and we awoke to a new day, the sun shining on our backs. With our safety harnesses strapped on tight, we went for it, grabbing every available opportunity we could manage. We visited several different cliffs, all with their own unique challenges and difficulties, and enjoyed a tiring yet fulfilling day of rock climbing. That night we enjoyed a very quaint stay in the Portland Bill Lighthouse before retiring back to the urban land, with blisters on our hands, and smiles on our faces. We had gone with anticipation and joy, and come home with comradeship and memories. All in all it was an amazing trip, and one that I feel very thankful to have been given the opportunity to take part in. This entire year of going to Westway with rock climbing club has been immensely enjoyable, and an essential part of my Lower Sixth experience.

Gabriel Brown, L6NF

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Third Form

Geography Trip In March pupils from the Third Form spent a day at the South Downs National Park coastline investigating coastal processes, land forms and management. Pupils were able to use a range of fieldwork skills and equipment to test hypotheses and produce a geographical report. ‘We had the opportunity to explore our wonderful south coast and talk about its possible future without protection. The main sites we visited were Birling Gap, Eastbourne and Beachy Head. Here we had the chance to gather information about erosion and longshore drift, as well as draw our own sketches of the coastline. We enjoyed our lunch on the beach and were even able to ask members of the public their thoughts about Eastbourne Beach, which was my own personal highlight of the day.

Overall the day was great and we all had a splendid time.’ Nathan Anokye, 3AG

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Canada Rugby Tour On Tuesday 8 July 2014, Cardinal Vaughan’s First XV Rugby squad departed on a ten-day tour of Canada’s western coast. The trip went beyond rugby and beyond all our expectations.

As a team we quickly realised that a once-in-a-lifetime trip does not materialise without hard work and support from a wide range of invaluable people. Within school we organised table tennis lunches, car washes, quiz nights, a boat party, cake sales and even experimented with the idea of auctioning off dates with players (some fundraising events were more lucrative than others). Nevertheless, our efforts as a team were constantly supported and surpassed by teachers, parents, friends, family members and many others who rallied tirelessly to support us. We were taken aback by the kind donations of time and money that helped our tour become increasingly possible. It is a credit to the Vaughan community that we surpassed £18,000 in fundraising alone. Alongside this, we had the immense financial support of the Sports Foundation. We knew, as

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a team, that we were indebted to such generous support and as anticipation built, so too did expectation.

We were a long way from the cold, muddy Tuesdays of White City

training when our coach pulled up at the YWCA hotel in the very heart of Vancouver’s skyscrapers.

We spent the first couple of days getting to know the city and training for our first match. From Stanley

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Park, overlooking coal harbour, the towers were like gigantic glass shoots competing for the intense summer sun. The day of our first match arrived and after a morning distracted by dolphins at the aquarium, it was down to business.

The game was tight and we struggled physically with the sheer size of our Canadian opponents.

At 7-7 with minutes to play, when it was still equally likely that either team could come away with the win, James Olasunkanmi broke the defensive line and scored under the posts. Final score: Richmond RFC 7 – 14 CVMS. We left the quaint Canadian suburb exhausted but with the all-important win.

The next day we had an early start in order to catch our ferry across to Victoria, Vancouver Island. Shoulders of mysterious mountains could just be seen over the sea and its cover of morning mist. The weekend plan was to participate in a regional sevens tournament. Competition within the squad for starting places in the last two matches meant everyone was focussed and eager to prove themselves. By the end of the tournament, in constant thirty plus degree heat, we were collectively pink-skinned and shattered. A much-welcomed rest came in the form of whale-watching the next night and day. Some enjoyed this particular experience more than others, with some of the boys having a particularly keen eye for the marvellous Canadian creatures!

The organisation of the trip meant we were constantly busy. Mr Terblanche deserves particular credit for this, his main rules were punctuality and professionalism, the result of which meant we felt elite and still had the

freedom to do as we wished. We owe him, Mr Leigh, Mr Cooney and Aidan Quinn a huge thank you for the time they spent with us on tour. We can only hope they enjoyed our company as much as we enjoyed theirs.

With all the high-speed boats and American-style yellow school buses, we hardly had time to get anxious about our penultimate match.

We played and comfortably beat Bancroft School 27-7, displaying the fast-paced rugby that we had hoped to adopt from the sevens tournament only a few days previously.

The next day swimming, sharking and volleyball on Kitsilano Beach was all enjoyed in high spirits, but brooding nervously in the back of all our minds was the 100% win record that we had one more game to defend.

In the morning briefing on the day of our last game, Mr Terblanche told us his old school’s rugby motto (Borrowed from Shakespeare’s Henry V, 1598) – ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.’ We were trying to balance up the significance and the insignificance of the day. We are not professionals and this was no World Cup, but the beauty of sport is that during that day nothing other than the result mattered to us as a team or as individuals. There are a

few things that will last as long in my memory: the dead silence on the coach to the ground, the presence of something in the changing room before the game that none of us could describe but all of us felt.

Looking back, in the moments before kick off we had already achieved what we had set out to achieve all those months ago. We were one team, one crest and the feeling was incredible.

We played the game with a freedom, a passion and an intensity that was extraordinary. In the seventy minutes on the field, seven years of emotion poured out. There were no missed tackles, hardly a dropped ball and it is safe to say every single player on the Vaughan side had the game of their life. A team that would have comfortably beaten us any given Saturday were picked up and sat down by the most tenacious Vaughan side ever fielded. The final score was Langely RFC 10 – 41 CVMS. The future of Vaughan rugby is brimming with talent. As the Upper Sixth move on and the rest of the squad reach the top of the school, it is not the rugby skills we will take forward but the life lessons.

Discipline, perseverance and teamwork. Thank you once again to everyone that helped us on the incredible journey.

John Dinneen, First XV Captain

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2015 Rugby Tour to

South Africa One year ago there was a rumour that we, the then Under-13s, might tour in South Africa. Last year this became a reality with the South Africa Tour confirmed for 2015. The mission had begun.

We knew it was going to be a big project and cost a lot of money. Firstly, we had to ask our parents if there was even a slight chance they would sub us to go – understandably there were a few white faces! Knowing this we knew that fundraising would help reduce the cost, as well as providing us with more money for the tour. We put our heads down and, with the help of our very kind and generous parents, we organised some fantastic fundraising efforts such as a marathon attempt and quiz night and eventually we got there –we were ready to go on tour!

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waved goodbye to our parents and headed off for the ten-hour flight that awaited us.

On landing in Cape Town we headed off to our hotel, the Train Lodge (a hotel made up of old train carriages), where we dropped off our bags and grabbed our swimming gear, as of course the beach was the first on our list of things to do. From then, we had five days of amazing things to do, including Table Top Mountain, Cape Point, Robben Island, the Springbok Museum and the V&A Waterfront. We ate amazing food (lots of meat, as you might have guessed) and met a whole lot of new people. These five days flew by and before we knew it our time in Cape Town was over, and we were off to Mossel Bay.

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Another long five-hour journey lay ahead, however it was broken up by a thought-provoking look at the townships that surrounded Cape Town (which made us realise more than ever how privileged we were to be on this amazing tour) and an amazing safari. In this we saw some of South Africa’s amazing wildlife and particularly, as the South Africans call it, the ‘big five’ (that being the five most dangerous animals in Africa, which are the buffalo, lion, elephant, rhino and leopard).

In Mossel Bay we began the tour proper with a match against PW Botha. We beat them after a long, hard encounter, which was a great beginning for us especially given the surroundings we were lucky to be in. We then trained at Mossel Bay’s training grounds in preparation for our biggest match of the tour which was, conveniently, against Mr Terblanche’s old school. The next day we headed out onto the pitch and were slightly surprised at the size of some of their players. This was no matter for us, but sadly we went on to lose the match.

The next day we had a break from all the rugby mayhem and, after an early 6.00 am start, attended Easter Sunday Mass before setting off for the Cango Caves and an ostrich farm. This was our last night in South Africa but we had to get to bed early as our third and final match was arranged for the following day.

Before we knew it breakfast had been demolished and we were setting off for the fields. After a long match, we came away with a win but there was no time for celebration as we had a flight to catch.

Now this speech was only a brief overview of the South Africa Rugby Tour, but I can tell you that for me and the lads this was an unbelievable experience and one that we will never forget. In the end there is one person that we have to thank, and that is Mr Terblanche. If it wasn’t for all his hard work and determination, we would have never been able to pull this off so we send our gratitude to him and we hope that maybe, just maybe, another opportunity like this might come around again.

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Classics Trip to Rome

Day 1: Herculaneum Flying from Gatwick Airport to Naples, on Thursday 5 February 2015 we arrived in Italy eager to make a second journey to the ancient city of Herculaneum. We arrived at about 3.00 pm to be given a detailed tour of the site by Mr Foley, who acted as Tour Guide for the trip. In the eighteenth century Herculaneum was rediscovered by the Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre. Although most of the

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original sites have been built over, we were fortunate to still see many intriguing things, such as the array of food stores which gave us a great insight into the hustle and bustle of an ordinary day in the ancient life of the city.

Day 2: Pompeii Despite the pouring rain, on the second day of our trip we were all enthusiastic about our visit to Pompeii. As we explored the site it was interesting to note the differences between the rich

and poor, which was still very much evident even two thousand years after the city’s destruction.

For example, you could tell an expensive house apart from a poor house due to the clever design which allowed a direct line of sight from the front door through the open roofed atrium and into the rear garden and peristyle. We were also fascinated by the multitude of bars and bakeries which were still visible. The bakeries had large cone-shaped stones with a circular plate on top, which was used to make the flour for the bread. Even

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after nearly two thousand years in the oven, carbonised loaves were still found in the bakeries after bakers fled for their lives as Mt Vesuvius erupted. We also observed the famous mosaic of the dog, which bore the phrase cave canem (beware of the dog). We also visited the forum of Pompeii, which played a central and fundamental role in the political, religious and economic life of the city. The north end of the forum was dominated by the temple of Jupiter and situated on the west side was the basilica and the temple of Apollo. We also had a look at the theatre in Pompeii.

These ancient theatres were built in such a way that the actors’ voices could be heard from the very top without them needing to shout, with status and religion marked out through a seat which would have been reserved for the Priest of Dionysus (the god of theatre).

Day 3: Rome: The Colosseum and the foro Romano The rain from Pompeii followed us to Rome but we were all excited about what the eternal city had to offer.

Before we knew it we were at one of the many gates which led into the most famous amphitheatre in the world: the Colosseum. It was an easy task to imagine all of the sights, sounds, smells and excitement that a gladiatorial contest would include and many of us will have lasting memories of this visit. A stone’s throw from the exit to the Colosseum was the foro Romano (Roman Forum), which was formerly the central hub of Rome. Here there were many ruins of magnificent old buildings and we were all in awe at the thought of the human race accomplishing something so great, so many years ago.

Day 4: The Ara Pacis On the morning of our fourth and final day, we headed out for Mass at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before walking across town to the Ara Pacis. The Ara Pacis is translated as ‘the altar of peace’ and was built in dedication to the Roman Emperor Augustus, the people’s emperor, who ended a century of civil war and re-established peace in the empire. After this we had lunch at the Pantheon before making our way to the Capitoline Museums.

Here we saw the bust of Medusa, a gold statue of Hercules, a huge bronze sculpture of Marcus Aurelius on horseback and what is arguably the most famous statue from ancient mythography, Romulus and Remus.

With so little time left, no one was in any mood to rest in the hotel for long and we set out early to have one more walk - this time to Vatican City. We jumped the queues of the Museums and explored the numerous exhibitions inside, including the ‘Marble Zoo’ which is normally closed to the public. In this exhibition the mythological beasts of the past (the chimera, centaurs and the cerberi) all came to life. Finally, we went to the Sistine Chapel before making our way into St Peter’s Basilica itself.

Overall, it was a truly great trip and on behalf of all of the pupils who came, we’d like to thank Mr Foley and all of the teachers whose hard work made this amazing opportunity possible.

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ICT Trip to Tokyo July 2014 After months of raising money and one Japanese Lesson with Mr Curley, last summer I arrived at Heathrow airport along with 34 other pupils to board our VS 900 Virgin Atlantic flight to Tokyo.

Led by Mr Lanigan, Mr Wessels, Mr Spence-Hill, Mr Kelleher and Miss Shefik, we took our seats on the packed plane and – eleven hours later – we landed in Japan.

On arrival we were greeted by our tour guide, Kiyoko. We were led out of the gates of Narita into Tokyo the place we had been waiting for.

Our first stop was Asakusa, home of one of the most renowned Buddhist places of worship in the East: the Sensoji Temple. Under the fiery stare

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of the sun, we entered the Temple which is perhaps one of the most jaw-dropping examples of Asian architecture with its well-known pagodas and curving roofs.

After getting a feel for Japanese religion, we embraced the welcome site and respite of our hotel. Our CVMS entourage had been designated the top half of the hotel – and by top half, I mean 25 floors up! Surrounded by two or three high-rise buildings and the urban pastures of small homes, we relaxed and watched the Japanese News, of which we understood only three words: Konnichiwa, Konbanwa and Arigato (‘Hello’, ‘Good evening’ and ‘Thank you’).

Our first day finished with an introductory taste to Japanese food at the hotel dining rooms before we all fell asleep in our rooms, shattered by the afternoon sun and lengthy flight.

The second day would prove to be more eventful than the first. A prompt start at 8.00 am followed by a tour of Tokyo led us to Nijubashi Bridge, the Imperial Palace Plaza and the facade of Tokyo Train Station: three more examples of sublime architecture. Soon after, we arrived at a fairly modern building, with stone stairs going down to a carpeted corridor. We were here for a ‘Cultural Experience’ - a Taiko drumming session. A taiko is a huge wooden barrel covered with hide at either end to act as a drum. Armed with two 30cm wooden sticks, a Japanese man in a tank-top gave us a lesson in the art of controllably hitting a Taiko with force. We were

told that this instrument was a national instrument of Japan, often used at ceremonies and parades, and we followed an exhausting dondoko and doko-don technique.

A quick lunch followed, consisting of a buffet of chicken, vegetables, chirashi rice and much more. We then rushed to the Ginza District of Tokyo for the Edo-Tokyo Museum.

This is a museum to give the British Museum a run for its money, exhibiting a history of Tokyo’s advancement through the ages, from the Edo period where Tokyo was a small fishing village, to now – a bustling metropolis.

Soon after, we returned to the hotel for an Italian dinner and Karaoke night.

We were now passing the half-way mark of our educational excursion and a trip to Mount Fuji was planned for the following day. After a quick breakfast, we made our way to the coach. However, Thursday 10 July was not to be our day as we were caught in the middle of a raging typhoon. Battered by the weather,

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we spent an hour trying to escape the cascade of water on the half-way point of Mount Fuji. On our descent, we made a fairly quick trip to Lake Kawaguchi, where we had possibly the best meal I, for one, have ever had. Seated around a blazing cooking flat iron, we cooked some meat cutlets and vegetables to our own taste which we washed down with water from the Mount itself.

Friday was the penultimate day and, as with the rest of the week, it was not a disappointment. Culturally, this day was probably the most beneficial as we went to Kamakura, a place along some of the most stunning coastline anyone could dream of.

But we weren’t here to swim with the fishes. We immediately went to another Buddhist and Shinto temple which was surrounded by high rise footpaths caressed by vegetation and bright green foliage. An army of small Buddha figurines waited for us at the entrance of a small grotto.

This cavernous place was barely big enough for us to fit in, yet when we advanced rooms and rooms of Buddha statuettes opened to us. This

was followed by Mass at St Ignatius Church, all spoken in Japanese.

Saturday was our last real chance to experience the country in the east and, after five days of travelling by coach, we were relieved to take the Elevated train from Shinbashi to Ariake. A dream compared to the rickety London Underground, the Yurikamome was a smooth and relaxing ride. We got off at the Panasonic centre and were introduced to one of the technology giants of the modern world, before being led into the Museum of Emerging Sciences. Here, we met the man of the hour – Asimo, the HONDA Humanoid. He walked and talked, and gave us a quick dance. Then a robot newsreader, Kodomoroid, gave us a quick update on the weather.

That night we had our first taste of sushi, with tempura, nigiri and maki sushi prepared before our eyes by two Sushi Chefs. One of the cooks gave us a quick tutorial on how to slaughter a fish, taken straight from the fish tank, which really added to the experience.

We all know how it feels to go to a stadium and cheer on your favourite sports team, but after going to see Tokyo Giants vs Hanshin Tigers Baseball match at the Tokyo Dome, we really found out what it’s like to support a team. The whole stadium got behind the city’s pride and joy, the Tokyo Giants, spearheaded

by Abe No.10 and Sugiuchi No.18.

Naturally, the Vaughan started supporting whoever was winning, and at the season’s most anticipated derby, we cheered on the Giants. A memorable night, capped off by a quick trip to the local theme park.

On the day of our departure we woke up feeling more at home in Tokyo than in London. On our way to the airport Mr Lanigan distributed awards for the Best Sixth, Fifth and Third Form Tourists, Culture Vulture and the Best Dressed, and we reminisced about our trip. A trip I, for one, will remember for the rest of my life. The Vaughan had finally said sayonara.

Final Destination: London Heathrow.

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HCPT Group 21 Pilgrimage to

Lourdes 2015 This year eleven members of the Lower Sixth took part in an HCPT Pilgrimage to Lourdes. HCPT is a Catholic charity offering pilgrimage holidays to Lourdes for disabled and disadvantaged people from around the UK and further afield.

Every Easter over 1,000 disabled and disadvantaged children enjoy a week in the south of France, staying in hotels with their volunteer helpers.

The reason I wanted to take part in the HCPT Pilgrimage is because I thought I might have the chance to make a difference, even for a short period of time. The trip involved looking after children and young adults with a range of needs for a period of one week. Our role was to ensure that they that they enjoyed their holiday as much as possible, while embracing the invitation of Our Blessed Lady to go to Lourdes.

Prior to the annual Pilgrimage, we took part in an extensive preparation programme in which we learnt how to tackle some of the challenges we might face during the course of the week. The experienced members of the group led sessions in safeguarding, being aware of first aid issues and communication, amongst others.

For the children they were given a holiday of a lifetime. They took part in a variety of activities from singing to playing games in the Pyrenees mountain range. One of the most exciting and enlightening aspects of the Pilgrimage is the Trust Mass, which this year was celebrated by groups from the West Indies. The Trust Mass is a colourful celebration witnessed by over 5,000 pilgrims.

However, it was not only the children who benefitted from the trip. The parents were also given a week-

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long break from looking after their children and the 24/7 care that they provide all year round.

For us as volunteers, the experience gave us a great sense of accomplishment and is something I will never forget. Everyone who assisted in the HCPT Pilgrimage came out of the trip feeling as though they had known the children

they were looking after their whole life. It is difficult to explain in words the impact it has had on me, but I hope to go back in 2017 to experience the same sense of enjoyment and fulfilment.

Thomas Murphy, L6HA

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PARents AssoCIAtIon The Vaughan Parents Association (VPA) has had an immensely enjoyable and rewarding year supporting the school in its Centenary. We have organised a number of social events and supported the School in many and varied ways. the primary aim of these social events is to give parents the opportunity to become an active part of the Vaughan community, coming together for a few hours each term and in doing so raising funds which can make a real difference for many of our pupils and the wider community.

We are particularly proud of our fi nancial support to the school Hardship Fund and to our sixth Form volunteers who support HCPt on their annual pilgrimage to Lourdes for the disabled and disadvantaged. the VPA is a great way to meet other new and existing parents.

We meet on the fi rst thursday of each term to discuss and organise our social events in the school year ahead.

We typically hold two social events in each term. the Race night and Christmas dinner in the Michaelmas term, Auction and Quiz night in the Lent term, and our Golf day and summer Fête in the trinity term.

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Parents can support any of the above events in a number of ways and we would ask all parents to give up a small amount of their time to help us in some way. this can be from helping to provide refreshments for the boys’ saturday morning sports fi xtures or evening musical recitals, to providing a dish or cake for the summer Fête.

You can volunteer via our school website, the VLe or by emailing cvmsparentsassoc@cvms.co.uk I would like to take this opportunity to thank a number of parents whose boys have recently left the school and who have given their time, energy and good humour to support the VPA this last year. Cathy Collins, siobhan Baizey, deborah Corcoran and sheila McCusker - thank you.

Tony Mars Chairman, Vaughan Parents Association

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Staff Salvete: Staff who we have welcomed this academic year Sian Chalkley Miss Chalkley graduated from UCL with a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences before completing a PGCE at the University of Greenwich.

She then worked at a school in South London where she taught science and co-ordinated weekly interventions for GCSE and A-Level students. However, a change of scenery beckoned and she made the switch to teach in West London to specialise in biology. When not at school, Miss Chalkley can be found learning German, completing her dissertation for her master’s degree and training for next year’s London Marathon (she has a charity placed confirmed), after a hiatus from when she was a county runner in her teenage years.

Ellie Kavanagh Miss Kavanagh attended Mater Dei in Dublin where she completed her Batchelor of Religious Education and History. This was followed by a year of teaching at an all-girls school in Kent, before she made the move to London and joined Cardinal Vaughan as a teacher of Religious Education.

In her school days, Miss Kavanagh played an active role in the school orchestra, playing both the clarinet and the piano. She continues to enjoy music and while making the most of the lively London music scene, regularly returns to her home in Wicklow to visit friends and family.

Fiona Cherry Miss Cherry graduated from The University of Nottingham with a degree in Spanish and Portuguese, before completing her PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages at The University of Roehampton. Having lived abroad in Mexico and Portugal as part of her degree, this experience

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fostered her love for travelling the world and she tries to go somewhere new every year. Miss Cherry is a keen cook and particularly likes recreating dishes she has eaten on her travels. She has always been a keen sportswoman and continues to play netball in a competitive league.

Dan Murphy After completing his secondary education at Wimbledon College, Mr Murphy graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Sport and Exercise Sciences. He then worked in the Sports Management industry, managing the personal and playing affairs of sportsmen and women around the world. However, the vocation of teaching came calling and after starting his career at Holy Cross and Wimbledon College, Mr Murphy has now followed in the footsteps of his parents (both PE teachers) and his Grandmother’s brother, and Old Vaughanian from the 1940s, to complete his teacher training at the Vaughan.

A Ugoala Mr Ugoala graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Mathematics. An avid rugby fan and fitness enthusiast, he spent three years working as a personal trainer from a boutique studio in the heart of Notting Hill. However he soon found that while the fitness world provided lots of unique challenges, he missed the intellectual stimulation of Maths education. After spending his days running gruelling boot camps and being cursed by exhausted clients, teaching seemed like a natural progression. An alumnus of the London Oratory, Mr Ugoala has a particular interest in helping the School’s rugby teams defeat his alma mater.

Ceara Kelly Miss Kelly graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway with a degree in Science. She then went on to complete an honours degree in Pharmaceutical Science at Sligo Institute of Technology. A career with GlaxoSmithKline followed where she worked as a microbiologist for six years. However, Miss Kelly decided this was not the career for her. After a year travelling around the world, she decided to follow a path that would allow her to pass on her love of Chemistry - teaching. In her spare time Miss Kelly can be found horseback riding in the countryside and she regularly enjoys trips back home to visit her family in Ireland.

Megan Estorninho Dr Estorninho graduated with a BSc from La Trobe University, Melbourne, before moving to the UK to continue her studies. Here she completed an MSc in Biomedical Sciences, followed by a stint in industry at LGC Ltd before completing a PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Surrey. There she focused her research on the reactivation of latent tuberculosis before switching from infectious diseases to autoimmune diseases to explore the immunological basis for the development of type 1 diabetes at Kings College London. Familiar with academia and wanting a new challenge, she began to work as a Brilliant Club tutor in educationally disadvantaged schools. This role inspired her to ditch the academic attire of lab coat, socks and sandals for the professional dress of a teacher. Outside of school, she enjoys music, dancing and running.

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Staff Valete: Staff to whom we said farewell this academic year Niamh Cleary

Gemma Lawley

We are very grateful to Niamh, who stepped in at rather short notice in December 2013 to help with the Art Department and who has proved, in the relatively short time that she has been here, to be a teacher of real talent. The City of London School may count itself lucky to have procured her services and we wish her all the best as she takes up her new appointment.

Gemma is devoted to the School, and here’s the proof: she lives in York.

The fact that she has spent five years here, teaching so conscientiously and with such diligence, defying commuters’ gravity, speaks volumes and needs no embellishment from me. We wish her all the best as she takes up her post in – very much closer to home – York.

Viran De Silva Viran is so much more than a Network Manager: he is perhaps better described as an internationalist of the technological, photographic and aesthetic world.

This may seem a rather overblown description, but it only takes minutes in Viran’s company to realise that it is, if anything, an understatement.

We are lucky to have profited from Viran’s qualities of expertise, flair, benevolence and sheer energy for the last ten years and wish him all the best for the future.

Robert Dobson Rob joined the Art Department in 2003 and made an immediate impression, not only as he had previously been a Head of Department and was therefore extremely skilled and experienced, but also – and especially – as a result of his calm, gentle and civilising manner with the pupils. Whenever I have taken visitors around the School, it has been my unvarying practice to show them Room 208: an oasis of visual calm. We are very grateful to Rob for the twelve years he has given to us and wish him a long and happy retirement.

Technician), Pierce O’Dwyer (ICT Technician), Rajan Randhawa (ICT Technician), Donna Rammelt (Primary School intervention Teacher), Shenel Shefik (Head of Psychology), Daniel Sheinwald (Teacher of Biology) and Kat Smart (Teacher of Physics) and Nicholas Warden (Music Peripatetic – Voice).

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Brother Mairesean Brother Mairesean has been with us for just under two academic years, but established himself so quickly and successfully as our Assistant Chaplain that it feels so much longer. We shall miss him a great deal as he moves on to set up a new community in Colorado – he has, of course, taken an oath of obedience – and shall remain grateful for the easy witness he made to the Faith for our pupils: he made God for them more of a living God. What more can be said about what he has done for us?

We thank also the following members of staff, who have done such sterling work at the School: Elizabeth Bell (Reprographics Officer), Luke Cahill (Teacher of Chemistry), Sean Castillo (Learning Support Assistant), Jake Colvin (Learning Mentor and Learning Support Assistant), Ashok Dhillon (Learning Support Assistant), Jonathan Dho (Teacher of Chemistry), Jennifer Fee (Teacher of Physics), Alan Fimister (Teacher of Religious Education and Philosophy), Matthew Frith (Teacher of Mathematics), Maud Millar (English Intervention Teacher), Daniel Martin (Teacher of Geography), Daniel Murphy (Assistant Schoolkeeper), Jessica Murray (Learning Support Assistant), Christine Njiihia (Art

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Charles Eynaud All institutions like the Vaughan see people come and go: that is in the nature of things. Some people, of course, make more of a mark than others; and that too is in the nature of things. A very small handful, however, attain a special brand of greatness, and Charles Eynaud is one such man. There is so much to be said about Charles; what follows is my attempt to do so at the Centenary Ball held at the Grand Connaught Rooms on 20 June 2015.

‘I remember 14 October vividly. I was making my way through the Royal Albert Hall to the stage area during the interval of that astonishing celebration, ready to give my speech to the 4,500 people present at the largest gathering in the Vaughan’s history. (It was also, I might add, the single largest gathering of and for any state school in British history: we don’t do things by half, here.) Anyway, there I sat as the lights went down and, as you will understand, I was as sick as a dog with nerves. But the nerves I felt then are as nothing to the dizzying nausea which swamps me now as it falls to me to stand here and do justice to the career and qualities of Charles Eynaud – our much loved and soon to be greatly missed Associate Head and Chairman of the Vaughan Foundation, who will retire at the end of this term after a 46-year teaching career, 25 of them at the Vaughan.

I was worried when I starting drafting this speech that it was riddled with clichés: I’d intended to refer to Charles as ‘so much more than a classroom teacher’, as ‘an educator in the truest sense of the word’, as ‘an inspirational figure’. But I soon gave up the fight: clichés are only clichés because they’re in some sense true, and the plain truth of the matter is, to use yet another cliché, I don’t know what we’ll do without him. In some sense, Charles in his very person is both the head and the heart of the school, and we shall be genuinely diminished by his departure.

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Gormally, who is unable to be here tonight because of ill-health – nothing serious, I should add – and who has asked me to read out this message: My dear friend Charles, I am so disappointed not to be able to be present at this culmination of the School’s centenary celebrations, and I’m very grateful to Paul for allowing me, through him, to speak to you tonight. I only hope that, as they hear my words, people don’t feel that they are at some sort of séance. I want to reassure everybody that I have not been reincarnated yet!

You are an exemplary Catholic and a devoted husband and father. You are courteous, amiable and kind to a fault. In twenty-five years I have never once heard you say an uncharitable word about anybody. Indeed, Charles, I don’t think you are even capable of thinking an unkind thought. Beyond that, you are a superb administrator, dedicated to meticulous planning and execution. You are also a perfectionist and your perseverance is remarkable. Not least, of course, you are a wonderful teacher, at ease with Mathematics and the Sciences just as much as with English literature, history and foreign languages.

Under your leadership, and now that of Paul Stubbings, the School has reached a zenith. The Centenary Mass and the Celebration at the Royal Albert Hall were occasions which will live for ever in my heart and in the hearts of all who witnessed them.

My love to you, Charles, to Carmen, to Caroline and Joanna and to all your family. May God bless you all, now, and in the years to come. Michael.

Charles joined the school as Head of Mathematics in September 1990.

I was extremely junior then and sat two places down from him in the staffroom. I remember very clearly the first impression Charles made on me: he had been asked to prepare materials for some sort of presentation at short notice. He nodded and said, “Barkis is willing.”

Now that made me look up from my marking. It’s not very often, I thought to myself, that you hear Maltese mathematicians quoting from David Copperfield. There’s clearly more to him than meets the eye, I thought. And there certainly is. Let me prove it: how many of you know that that Charles was once a quiz show host on Maltese television? Yes, exactly.

Charles’s leadership qualities soon became very clear to Father Pellegrini, who appointed him to the Senior Management Team as Assistant Head (then called Senior Master) in 1995.

Two years later in 1997, he was made Deputy Head by Michael Gormally. His capacity for administration is powerful, but it’s his eye for detail that has become legendary. Nothing, no mote of minor detail, no mini minutiae ever evaded him. Nothing. The man could – and can – organise anything and we owe him a great deal of gratitude for the long list of streamlining reforms he’s brought in, not over the years, but over the decades.

And this eye for detail never stops seeing. The eye of Charles can’t just be turned off. It extends everywhere and sees everything.

Here are a few genuine examples of what I mean: I’ve been collecting them. I call them ‘Charlesisms’.

He once vetoed paint of a lighter shade in Reception as he could foresee a situation in which people sitting in the row of four chairs near the front door would eventually produce on the wall a discernible line of grease from the back of their heads.

Many of Charles’s observations revolve around food – he spent years and years on lunch duty in the dining hall. Three years ago, the capacity for a potential reduction in orderliness when we were having the kitchen renovated drove him mad.

His eye focussed on the inadequacy of the system of distributing water cups from the stage. He identified the need to place a chair in a very precise position, sit on it, pass the cup at a 45% angle – he was very

Salvete/Valete And here’s my all-time favourite, which, rather wonderfully, came only last month. As you will have worked out, for Charles, lunch duty is about the promotion of order and the avoidance of mess. He is therefore bitterly opposed to gravy. As he said: “Gravy. Gravy is death.”

Now Charles is, above all else, a civilised Catholic gentleman. I’ve already alluded to his extensive knowledge of Dickens, but there is so much more I could mention. I’ll restrict myself, though, to thanking him for the massive contribution he’s made to our pupils’ spiritual and cultural development in assemblies with his encyclopaedic knowledge of art in general, and of Caravaggio in particular: all of us leave the hall after one of Charles’s assemblies not only edified, but enriched. Now assemblies, of course, are grand setpieces, but by his gentle and courtly demeanour in and around the school over all these years, Charles has been not only a civilised, but a civilising influence. He is a gentleman and he makes us all more gentlemanly.

(And gentlewomanly, if you see what I mean.) He is, when all is said and done, a shining living example of St Francis of Assisi’s dictum that we should preach the Gospel at all times, and use words when necessary.

clear about that – to a boy, who would pass it to another boy, who would pass it to the water-drinking pupil, who would approach the water tower at a harmless angle, thereby reducing spillage and littered cups.

On the Friday before the Wednesday of the Diocesan RE Inspection two years ago, when the lead inspector called to say he would be spending lunch with the pupils to talk to them to see what they thought of the school and its general provision, Charles immediately called Ester, the head chef, and discovered that on the menu for that day were chicken legs. He had the menu changed to lasagne. I asked him why. He answered, “Because chicken is very messy, you see. Chicken produces a lot of bones. There are no bones in lasagne and therefore less mess.”

The result was that the inspectors were amazed at the decorous neatness of the boys during lunch.

Now this one further demonstrates the breadth of Charles’s cultural knowledge. In an exasperated reference to education policy, he said: “Sometimes I think we’re living in the Matrix: we’re all in little pods being fed with glucose.”

Let me give you my two favourites, though.

When the new kitchen had been built, there were very minor teething problems with reacclimatising boys and kitchen staff to the change back from sandwiches to hot meals.

There was inevitable and initial wastage. Charles said: “The boys are receiving an average of three chips too many each.”

And there was a time when the school was in sore need of the qualities of civilised Catholic gentlemanliness that only Charles could bring. I am, of course, referring to the difficult period of 2009-11 when Charles led the school. I have said this in private, but am delighted to repeat in public that I am convinced that when the school was temporarily located in that spot of bother, Charles was the only person who, with his civilised gentlemanliness, could have kept us unruffled in the calm eye of that storm. We all owe him a great deal.

And I owe you a great deal as well, Charles. I have worked with you for 25 years and have only outranked you, on paper, for four of them. I’ve always looked up to you and always will and want to thank you – deeply – for your unique and irreplaceable role in putting the Vaughan at the top of the state school pile as it enters its second century.’

Headmaster

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Leavers’ Dance The Sixth Form Leavers’ Dance on Friday 22 May was once again a great success and a wonderful way for the Upper Sixth Form to celebrate their time at the Vaughan with their friends and teachers. We wish them every success in their public examinations!

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Teaching Staff Name

Position

Mr P Stubbings

Headmaster

Mr C Eynaud

Miss K Fyfe

Deputy HOD Mathematics, Numeracy Co-ordinator

Associate Headmaster

Mr T Garfath

Literacy Co-ordinator

Miss C Whelan

Deputy Headteacher Head of Upper School

Mr D Godwin

OD Geography, Professional H Development Tutor

Mr N Kehoe

Deputy Headteacher Curriculum & Staff Development

Dr M Szatkowski

ssistant Headteacher A Director of School Improvement

Mr F Zanrè

ssistant Headteacher A Cover / Inclusion Assessment Cover & EV Co-ordinator

Mr A Cosgrove

ssistant Headteacher A Head of Lower School

Fr D Allain

School Chaplain

Miss S Ahmed

Head of SEN

Miss H Askham

Community Service Co-ordinator

Mr C Bailey

Enterprise Education & WRL Co-ordinator

Mr Y Bhatti

HOD Business & Economics

Miss S Bohan

Business Education

Mr A Bolter

HOD Science

Miss V Bradford

Science

Miss S Brooks

Religious Education & History

Mr L Cahill

Science

Mr F Cardozo

Mathematics

Miss N Carew

HOD Art

Miss S Chalkley

Biology

Miss F Cherry

HOD MFL

Mr P Christian

English

Miss N Cleary

Art

Mr J Conway

HOY Second Form

Mr Cogavin

English & French

Mr M Cooney

Classics

Mr S Curley

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Co-ordinator

Mr J Dho

Science

Mr R Dobson

Art & Ceramics

Mr I Evans

School Organist

Dr M Estorninho

Science

Mr M Fergusson

History & Politics

Mr L Haddaway

HOD Design Technology

Mr G Harris

Music

Miss N Hellier

Deputy HOD Design Technology, Eco Co-ordinator

Dr W Hussein

HOD Mathematics

Mr M Iczkiewicz

Internal Assessment Co-ordinator

Mr S Jackson

Music

Miss M Jeffers

HOY Lower Sixth Form HOD Sociology & Careers

Dr C Jenner

i/c Chemistry

Mrs G Kamel

Director of SEN

Miss E Kavanagh

Religious Education

Mr P Kelleher

HOY Third Form

Miss C Kelly

Chemistry

Mr J Kelly

Deputy HOD RE & Philosophy

Mr P Lanigan

OD ICT & Computer Science, H Professional Development Tutor

Miss G Lawley

Modern Languages

Mr S Leigh

Extra-curricular Sports Co-ordinator

Mr D Martin

Geography

Miss A Muhammad UCAS Co-ordinator Mr D Murphy

Physical Education & Geography

Miss S O’Connell

HOD English

Miss P Openibo

English & SEN

Miss V Pinon

Deputy HOD MFL

Mr S Price

Director of Music

Miss C Rayment

Deputy HOD MFL

Mr L Regan

OY Form 5, Homework Centre H Co-ordinator (Upper School)

Mr D Sheinwald

Psychology

Mr S Skinner

i/c Physics

Mr L Smith

omework Centre Co-ordinator H (Lower School)

Mr C Spence-Hill

Enrichment Co-ordinator

Miss N Stubbs

Psychology

Miss L Sutton

OD History & Politics, School H Improvement Assistant

Miss M Taylor

Design Technology

Miss N Fernandez Modern Languages

Mr D Terblanche

HOD Physical Education & Games

Mr P Fleischer

HOD RE & Philosophy

Mrs C Thornhill

Mathematics

Miss A Foley

HOY First Form, Deputy HOD English

Miss K Thurtell

i/c Biology

Mr M Foley

HOY Fourth Form

Mr A Ugoala

Mathematics

Miss P Foy

HOD Classics

Mr H Wessels

Deputy HOD ICT & Computer Science

Mr M Frith

Maths

Miss S Wilby

Deputy HOD Music

Miss S Wright

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Support Staff

Mr John Blackwell

Guitar

Name

Position

Mr William Bruce

Strings

Mr S Keogh

Bursar

Mr Julian Clarkson

Voice

Miss C Bail

Learning Support Assistant

Miss Angela Cohen

Piano

Mr A Bell

Registrar

Mrs David Cuthbert

Flute

Mr J Bell

Learning Support Assistant

Mr Josh Cooter

Trombone

Mr M Botwright

Schoolkeeper

Mr Martin Cousin

Piano

Mr D Brennan

Music Secretary

Miss Rosie Cow

Bassoon

Mrs H Brooks

SMT Secretary

Mr Massimo Di Trolio

Clarinet & Sax

Miss A Bugg

Librarian

Miss Susanne Dymott

Voice

Miss O Dalby

Learning Support Assistant

Mr Ed Hodgson

French Horn

Mr V De Silva

Network Manager

Mr Iestyn Evans

Organ

Mrs M Donaghey

Educational Visits Secretary

Mr Martin Evans

Trumpet

Mr A Elia

Schoolkeeper

Mr Toby Gucklhorn

Trombone

Mr M Ferns

Network Manager

Mr Graham Harris

Piano

Mrs M Fontan

Finance Assistant

Mr Richard Harris

Piano

Mr R Henry

Senior ICT Technician

Miss Ali Hill

Singing

Mrs L Hogan

Receptionist & School Secretary

Mr Calum Huggan

Percussion

Mr H Keeling

Learning Support Assistant

Mr Ienne Hunter

Guitar

Mr C Kelsey

Groundsman

Mr Sam Jackson

Double Bass

Miss L Maku

Learning Support Assistant

Miss Gaynor James

Double Bass

Miss S Malhame

Lead Learning Mentor

Miss Janice Knight

Oboe

Miss C Maloney

Learning Support Assistant

Mr Oliver Lowe

Percussion

Mrs V Mars

Work Experience

Mr Andreas Manoras

Cello

Mr P Marszalek

Senior Science Technician

Mr Costas Manoras

Violin

Miss J Nicholls

Headmaster’s Professional Assistant

Mr Phil Meadows

Saxophone

Mr E Maire

Miss Olivia Jageurs

Harp

edia Reprographics Officer & M French Language Assistant

Ms Anita Morrison

Voice

Miss S McCabe

Development & Events Officer

Mr Anthony Pike

Clarinet

Mr S Norton-Whyte Learning Support Assistant

Miss Joanne Rozario

Clarinet & Sax

Mr P O’Dwyer

IT Technician

Miss Natalie Rozario

Cello

Mr D O’Grady

Art & DT Technician

Mr William Russell

Trumpet

Mr B O’Sullivan

Finance Officer

Mr Matt Wates

Saxophone

Miss E Pasek

Science Technician

Miss Sarah Wilby

Flute

Mr G Penman

Senior Schoolkeeper

Mr Tim Wilford

Violin

Mr A Rammelt

Mr Adam Wright

Trumpet

ttendance Officer and Work A Experience Administrator

Dr George Zacharias

Violin

Mr R Randhawa

IT Technician

Miss M Sabin

Learning Mentor (Intervention KS4)

Mrs R Safarian

Learning Support Assistant

Mr J Shepley

Assistant Groundsman

Miss H Sodhi

Assistant Registrar

Miss H Staff

eadmaster’s PA & Communications H Officer

Miss M Veiga

Office Manager

Mrs B Welikala

Science Technician

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