Issue 26 | Summer 2018
From the Chair of Governors Dear Alumni
of King years of distinguished service as Head I am writing to inform you that after 16 t academic retire with effect from the end of the nex Edward’s, Julian Thould has decided to ng of the rent students in assembly at the beginni year, in July 2019. He informed our cur an’s next 15 months or so to recognise Juli the r ove s nitie ortu opp y man be will re term. The period of bt that he has led the school through a immense contribution but there is no dou of our facilities and in the quality and breadth very significant improvement, both in our ity ing Body and the entire school commun ern Gov The . ring offe lar ricu cur coacademic and leadership over such a long period. are immensely grateful for his inspiring
. We are ing Julian’s successor is well under way I can confirm that the process for recruit search ership appointments team at executive lead the of d hea the by this in d iste being ass ntion is to has been advertised in the TES. The inte consultants RSAcademics and the role l candidate this term, with a view to the successfu appoint our new Head before the end of 2019. commencing employment in September
of candidates well placed to attract an excellent field We are confident that the school is very on who has el are looking forward to meeting the pers and the Governors on the selection pan t. ugh our next exciting phase of developmen the drive and enthusiasm to lead us thro If you have any questions please do not
nts.sch.uk hesitate to contact me at chair@kes.ha
Yours faithfully,
Alan Morgan Chair of Governors
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From the Head We have welcomed the opportunity to see a range of OEs of all ages over the past term with a particularly enjoyable lunch for the Poole Veterans, still going strong for their 20th gathering. We look forward to many more of these occasions over the coming months. The weather has warmed up and the cricket season is well underway. The crack of leather on willow, or whatever now constitutes the material for a cricket bat, brings a different rhythm to the School. However, this remains very much the examination season and most students are very busy preparing for internal assessments or IGCSEs and A Levels. Results for our university applicants are now all in with over 80% receiving offers from Russell Group universities including twelve Oxbridge places in this round of applications. Much time has also been focused on managing the new construction projects on the main site. We have enjoyed using our new Dobson Theatre as well as an expanded Art Department and Sixth Form Concourse. Work is now well-advanced for the construction of the expanded Dining Hall to be completed in August 2018. Progress has also been made on the Memorial Garden to be unveiled on 9th November as a part of our Remembrance Service with the conclusion of the First World War particularly in mind. Mr Long, for many years Head of Art, has produced a superb bronze sculpture as the centrepiece. Photographs alone do not do it justice. As this edition of The Edwardian makes clear, the School remains extraordinarily busy with a variety of activities offering our students many opportunities. The spring term saw a compressed calendar of hockey, netball, football and sailing at SWAC. We have also enjoyed the annual KESPTA Quiz Night, a number of drama productions and several musical events including four spring concerts in our new theatre. Charitable activity has been extemely successful with over £10,000 raised last term, and £8,000 donated in a single evening at the South Africa dinner dance this term; a great achievement. Students have travelled to Belgium, Jamaica, Menorca, Montpellier, Mutterstadt, Salamanca and Vienna. Many other students have also been involved in various Duke of Edinburgh expeditions in the New Forest and on Dartmoor at Lovaton.
This is also the last term at KES for some long serving staff. We thank Mrs Freemantle, Mrs Jones, Mrs Lupton and Mr Foyle for all that they have done for the School over many years. The King Edward VI Foundation continues to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds so that they can benefit from an education at King Edward’s. Further details may be obtained from the School from The Development Office or, alternatively, via the school website. As ever, we are grateful to the OE Association for its support of the School’s activities and to our current and former staff who support reunions of various sorts, particularly Ms Hooper as our Development Officer. AJ Thould - Head
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News from the School KES awarded ISM Gold certificate
WWI Day – Commemorating WWI In January, all Third Year pupils participated in the History Department’s interactive WWI day. The students spent each period of the school day listening to, and participating in, a session with a visiting speaker, each with an aim of giving them a better understanding of the historical and social context of this period of recent history.
Topics covered included, the German perspective and the importance of WWI in the rise of the Nazis, the role of women in wartime, medical services and developments during WWI, WWI in the air, and Tommy Atkins: the British soldier in WWI.
Once again, the KES Music Department has been awarded a Gold Certificate from the ISM congratulating last year’s Fifth Year GCSE musicians on excellent exam results. The certificate is awarded to schools who enter a large number of pupils for GCSE Music. Last year’s GCSE Music classes achieved 100% A/A * grades for the third year running.
Ski trip 2018 This year’s annual ski trip was to Serre Chevalier in France. Thirty-nine students and six staff took to the slopes and enjoyed a week skiing on excellent snow, although they encountered some varying weather conditions mid-week when the pistes were closed for a while due to thunder and lightning! The students made great progress with their skiing and each busy day on the slopes was topped off with a range of evening entertainment. A further highlight involved meeting French Silver medal winning Paralympic skier, Artur Bauchet.
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WWI Memorial Garden takes shape The WWI Memorial Garden continues to take shape in time for its official opening in November this year, to mark the anniversary of the end of WWI. Mike Long, former Head of Art at KES, was commissioned to design and make a bronze statue to commemorate this particular moment in history. The stunning statue, which depicts three servicemen and has references to KES pupils lost in both world wars, has now been delivered to school and is awaiting installation, as the garden moves into the final stages of completion.
Spring Concert in The Dobson Theatre March saw a spectacular Senior Spring Concert, showcasing many of the School’s advanced musicians, take place in the Dobson Theatre. There were a number of outstanding chamber groups and solo performances in the lively programme, demonstrating the depth and breadth of music at King Edward’s. The Chamber Choir performed a stunning newly-commissioned vocal piece entitled ‘The Curtain Lifts’ by composer Paul Burke and the Chamber Orchestra excelled at all levels with a performance of the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with guest professional pianist Samantha Carrasco.
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Leaving Staff Mrs Freemantle Mrs Freemantle joined the School as Director of Music in September 2005 and became Head of Creative Arts the following year. In her 13 years at KES she has been an amazing asset to the School, her department being awarded the ISM Gold award for several years running for outstanding examination results and she has encouraged and developed many talented musicians. She has run and conducted the Symphony Orchestra, organised a myriad of successful school concerts, hosted focussed workshops with professional musicians and ensembles and introduced the awe-inspiring biennial Arts Festival. She has also overseen the continued development of the Music and Arts facilities at KES culminating in the new Dobson Theatre complete with Steinway piano. Her enthusiasm, knowledge of her subject and drive has been a source of inspiration to many and she will be sadly missed as she takes semi-retirement.
Mr Foyle Mr Foyle joined the Physics and Junior Science teaching staff in September 1983 and served as Head of Junior Science from 1998-2002. During his time at King Edward’s he has been a First Year, Lower School and Sixth Form tutor and has taught GCSE and A Level classes. He has also helped with the Music and Design and Technology departments and was active in the Careers Department in his early days at KES. Mr Foyle has been involved with a variety of musical activities including chamber music, the Jazz Band, orchestra and the Ceilidh Band. The school bell system has also been under his ‘command’ for the last 25 years. Since 2001, Mr Foyle has trained as a counsellor alongside his teaching commitments and we wish him all the best as he takes retirement.
Mrs Jones Mrs Jones joined King Edward’s in September 2005. Her passion for languages and her high levels of energy, enthusiasm and commitment quickly became apparent and she soon took on additional roles, becoming Head of French in 2009 and later Assistant Head of Faculty. Her pupils have always responded well to her expert guidance and appreciated the detailed, structured resources she has routinely produced. Mrs Jones has also introduced co-curricular opportunities for language students including the Lower School Normandy visit, the Upper School Paris trip and the Montpellier Sixth Form trip. Mrs Jones has an inspiring, transformative vision of language teaching and learning and although she is leaving KES to pursue other avenues, her impact will long be felt.
Mrs Lupton Mrs Lupton is retiring from teaching after twenty-six years at King Edward’s. Over this time, she has become a very highly regarded and much respected teacher, Head of Department and, in recent years, Head of the Modern Languages Faculty. She has introduced and run a myriad of excursions, most notably the Aachen Christmas market trip and the Mutterstadt Exchange. Mrs Lupton has also served as an Upper School, Lower School and First Year tutor. In all of her roles her professionalism, combined with her sensitivity and diplomacy, has been highly valued and appreciated over the years and she will be greatly missed. However, we wish her all the best for her retirement plans for her new home on the Isle of Wight. 6
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A Homage to Heroes: Henry Townsend (current Sixth Former) visits our KES war dead The School’s link to The Goedgedacht Trust (for children disadvantaged by foetal alcohol syndrome) and their charity, Path out of Poverty, was made in 2006 by the King Edward’s rugby tour, accompanied by Pete Jones who was then Head of Sixth Form. Pete’s subsequent book on Old Edwardians who had died in the First World War, combined with my love of history and cycling, led me to Northern France in July 2017. On 17th July I found myself standing outside the west door of Amiens Cathedral, about to set off on two days of cycling across the battlefields of the Somme and northern Picardy, visiting nine of the war graves of our predecessors who were buried or commemorated there, in order to raise money for The Goedgedacht Trust. By referencing Pete’s book with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, I established the cemeteries in which the School’s former pupils had been laid to rest and plotted a route between Amiens in the south and Loos in the north. The first stop was the Australian National Memorial where Gunner 2636, Charles Louis Mitchener of the Australian Field Artillery, who died on the third of May 1917, was commemorated. To stand in remembrance of a soldier who was a little over two years older than me was sobering and my head was filled with sadness and awe at the sacrifice. Afterwards, I set off to the north, away from the Somme and into the Ancre valley which was to be a large feature in the Battle of the Somme as the German lines lay on the eastern slopes. Heilly Station Cemetery lies near the Arras to Amiens railway line and was the cemetery for the 36th casualty clearing station which was used from spring 1916 through to May 1919. It was here that Second Lieutenant Edkins was buried having died aged 23, just over two weeks after the start of the offensive. Unusually there were eighty-three German burials
here as well. A late lunch came in Albert, which is a peaceful but bustling town, dominated by the rebuilt Basilica with the gold leaf Virgin and Child on top which had been destroyed to prevent its use as a lookout tower. My parents were providing support on the trip and they pointed me towards the route to Thiepval, via the Ancre British Cemetery at Beaumont Hamel. Ancre British Cemetery is the resting place of Sub-lieutenant Hobbs RNVR who was a master at the School. He died, aged 27, on the day that the British captured Beaumont-Hamel, following an attack on both banks of the river Ancre, and only eight days before Haig withdrew his troops marking the end of the Battle of the Somme. I next cycled up to the ridge at Thiepval, through the fields and woodlands across which the troops attacked, passing the Ulster Tower Memorial on the left, and onto the Connaught Rangers Cemetery on the right before glimpsing the Thiepval Memorial rising above the trees at the top. Cycling in the mid afternoon heat was in marked contrast to the bad weather that hampered the early days of the troops’ assault and my toils on a bike were put into perspective when I pictured the soldiers struggling in the wet mud, uphill and under a constant assault of artillery and machine gun fire. E.L.Gutteridge, 24, son of Edwin and Emmeline Gutteridge of 13, Blenheim Avenue, Southampton is commemorated on pier and face 2C and 3A of the memorial alongside ‘more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died on the Somme sector before 20 march 1918 and have no known grave’ (CWCG historical information). The memorial, like so many others in cities, towns and villages, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built between 1924 and 1932. Here also was engraved the name of Stanley Thomas Arthur Neil, a pupil of our school between the ages of 13 and 15 and who left in April 1905.
The sheer scale of sacrifice made my fundraising efforts seem insignificant but reinforced that in order to help others, we need to prioritise their needs before our own. Leaving Thiepval behind, I rode to my last stop of the first day, to find the grave of Frank W. Burt, a Second Lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) who was buried, aged 20, in the London Cemetery and extension, Longueval, and who was never to return to his parents’ house at 300 Winchester Road, Shirley. P.B.Thompson was interred in Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery just outside a typical rural village in the rolling landscape reminiscent of the Hampshire downs. He had been at King Edward’s from September 1911 to March 1915, leaving in his sixteenth year. A private in The Hampshire Regiment, he died two months before his 19th birthday. The seeming remoteness and intimacy of the cemetery brought the opening lines of Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’ to mind. A long stretch through Bapaume brought us to the small and isolated Railway Cutting Cemetery which lies beside the Lille to Paris line, and it was here we paid our respects to Private C.D.Early. Ninety-two graves are in the small plot, with the typical memorial and headstones, and his was easily found. Military Cemetery was our next stop and we made it to the village and found Frederick James Drew’s grave. He had been at KES for seven years until 1916 and died in March 1918 aged 20. A Second Lieutenant, he was a local boy from Denzil Avenue and the CWGC site notes: ‘Distinguished scholar, King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton; Exhibitioner, Queen’s College, Oxford’. Like all of the others who died in the Great War, who knows what potential was denied to them, and what else they might have gone on to achieve had they lived.
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A Homage to Heroes - continued… The end was now nearly in sight. The road from Arras to Lens passes over Vimy Ridge, made famous by the Canadian assault in the snow of April 1917 when they took the ridge in spite of fierce opposition. The area was given to the Canadians by the French government for a vast memorial park and its famous monument dominates the ridge. Travelling by car along the A26 it is easy to miss the monument but by bike the climb up to the ridge is through a pine forest, cratered still by shell holes. The memorial guides are all Canadian university students for whom it is an honour to be chosen to spend the summer volunteering to keep the memories alive. Dropping over the back of the ridge takes you on a long descent to
Lens in the industrial north and onto Loos-en-Gohelle where we found the name of Arthur R. Tarrant who died five months before the end of the war and just before his 20th birthday. His name is on the Loos Memorial Wall which surrounds Dud Corner Cemetery; the name is thought to be related to the large number of unexploded shells found there and is on the site of a German strongpoint captured on the first day of the Battle of Loos. Watching the traffic go by at the end of the ride, as people went home after a day’s work, it is hard to realise that the today’s normality is built on such huge sacrifice. It may be that memorials are part of the local landscape, as familiar as any other feature, but it is by visiting
these graves and memorials that one realises the personal level on which war is fought, and can begin to understand the feeling of loss that came to nations in the Great War. The vast battlefield of 100 years ago has been restored with houses rebuilt, woods replanted and the detritus of war largely cleared up. All that remains now are the war graves and it is important that we keep their memories alive. My thanks go to my sponsors whose generosity raised over £200 with the balance buying toys to take with us on our trip to South Africa, my parents for their support on the 140-mile journey and to KES for inspiring me and providing the opportunity to help others.
Jero Férec (KES 2004-2011) Jero Férec began to play the guitar as a child, and has since gone on to study with masters of the art such as El Entri, Juan Ramón Caro, Rafael Cañizares and Gerardo Núñez gaining experience with classicial guitarists to Flamenco maestros. When he left King Edward’s in 2011 he went to St Catherine’s College, Oxford where he held a Leask Music Scholarship for four years.
He also holds a masters in Flamenco Guitar from Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona. He has played at several top UK venues including, The Roundhouse, The Royal Albert Hall and Ronnie Scott’s as well as other renowned venues in France, Morocco, Belgium and Spain. Jero has worked with many famous singers such as Manuel de la Malena and El Pola as well as Flamenco dancers Triana Cortés, Juan Fernández, Isaac Barbero & Susana Escoda and other acclaimed international musicians.
In 2016, Jero performed in Zagora, Morocco in the company of dancer La Nati for Festival International des Nomades. The company appeared on 2M Mag, Moroccan TV and made appearances on French Radio. Now based in Barcelona, he has appeared at ‘tablaos’ such as Casa Camarón, Palacio del Flamenco and Palau Dalmases as well as perfoming in numerous venues across the city and this year has travelled back to the UK frequently to perform in venues across the South. At the end of May, he returned to London to teach the guitar course at the Flamenco Academy London! His latest album is called COLOR PROHIBIDO and was recorded in Barcelona and released online in January 2017. It features singers Ana Brenes and Angel Márquez and violinist Elisa Prenda and creates a sound that is dark and minimalist Jero is returning to the UK again this summer and will be playing extracts from the album at the Winchester Discovery Centre on Saturday 14th July.
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Reunion
25 Year Reunion Class of 1992 and 1993 At the end of January, members of the Class of 1992 and 1993 spent an evening of fun at their 25 Year Reunion. The event attracted over seventy people who all came back to KES curious to catch up with old friends and see what has been going on at King Edward’s over the past 25 years. Amongst them were at least three parents of current pupils ensuring the KES tradition continues! Thank you to everyone who made the effort to attend, some from abroad.
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Reunion
Poole Evacuation Luncheon Due to the construction work currently being carried out in The Dining Hall, this year’s luncheon was held in the Hospitality Suite. A slightly smaller number of guests than usual met to celebrate their continued friendship (some for over 70 years) and to talk of old times. This group of OEs joined the School during WWII years, and were subsequently evacuated to Poole Grammar School where they continued with their education until the hostilities were over.
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Sport OE girls’ v 1st XI hockey match The OEs fielded one of their strongest teams in years for the annual OE v 1st XI hockey match. We welcomed back players from Sydney, Loughborough and Durham including captains from previous years and one international player. The OEs started the stronger of the two teams and their speed of play had the younger girls scrambling to defend and stop the numerous counter-attacks. Sophie Ridley and Freya Wilks came close to scoring with their individual runs down the left-hand side and the KES goalkeeper had to work hard to keep a clean sheet. However, the KES girls were resilient in defending countless short corners from the OEs and just before half-time, they managed to break down the solid OE defensive structure to go 1-0 up. Going in to the second half, the KES girls started to create more chances. However, sadly one of these chances ended in injury, resulting in the game being stopped 10 minutes into the second half, although thankfully no lasting damage was done.
Squad: Jill Tombs (C), Nicky Brooks, Charlotte Steinbrecher née Evans, Sophie Ridley (who changed her flight to make the game), Claudia Tam, Mary Amos, Gina Steel, Katie Newsome, Freya Wilks and Pip Rees.
OE girls’ netball and OE boys’ hockey In March, a combined event saw the OE girls’ netball and boys’ hockey sides take on the KES senior teams at Wellington in an evening fixture. The friendly, yet nevertheless competitive, matches were followed by refreshments for players and spectators in the Pavilion. This year the OE girls fielded two teams and were delighted to achieve two wins recording a 40-27 and a 38-27 score line. In the hockey, the School 1st XI scored three goals in the first half but the OEs scored three goals of their own in the second half to secure a draw. Thank you to all those who played and to Alex Morgan and Ian Bassett for organising and captaining the OE teams.
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Netball Squad: Emma Falconer, Jenny Swinn, Jordan Campbell, Alice Cheshire, Alex Morgan, Natalie Fairhurst, Bronwyn Lee, Ellie Stephens, Jasmin Dowdall, Katie Mote, Alice Penfold, Helen Carter, Clare Stapley and Laura Misselbrook.
Hockey Squad: Mark Batchelor, Sam Capper, Will Meacher, Stanley Paxton, Jim Murphy, Ollie Martin, Matt Wood, Toby Dudson, Tom Croft-Baker, Joel Davies, Gregor McKenzie, Ian Bassett and Will Dodds
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Golf The Inter House Challenge The decision to postpone this event, planned for earlier in the year, to Friday 4th May was rewarded by a perfect English summer’s day. Eleven golfers signed up for the Inter House Challenge but regrettably there were no representatives from Watts and only a single member of the normally oversubscribed Reynolds team. First time OE golfers, Alan Self and Frank Buckley, were warmly welcomed as the group tucked in to bacon sandwiches before setting off. The promise that the Blackmoor course was in excellent condition proved true; the fairways were mown in neat stripes and the greens were fast and true. This was a change for most of the golfers having played in near winter and muddy conditions so recently. The Inter House event is both an individual and simultaneous team competition. Each good shot or hole counts both favourably for the personal score and for the House team. This was perfectly illustrated by Frank Buckley’s chip in at 18 for a birdie, which not only completed a very satisfactory round but also enabled him to beat Rob Putt into second place on the countback rule. However, this score was not quite enough to dislodge James Lay from becoming the 2018 individual winner on a very creditable 34 points playing off 1 handicap. Rob though got some satisfaction when his score was combined with Tony Lees to win the Team Challenge for Sylvester for the first time.
2018 Events
Prizes were presented to the individual winners and Sylvester team at the close of play over a well-earned sandwich and drink. The events organised for OE golfers and their guests are open to all. You do not have to be a regular highly skilled club golfer to enjoy a day’s golf and reminiscing about your time at the old school.
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Play date
Event
Venue
Entry
20th June
The Triangular OEs v OTs v OSs
Hockley Golf Club
1st tee at 2pm
The Berkshire (Blue Course)
1st tee at 2pm
£69 inc prizes, sandwiches and chips afterwards. Team Prize: The President’s Cup
1st July
Over 35s V Under 35s
By selection
Arrive at 1pm
Price
Approximately £45 to include dinner.
6th July
Wally Kemp Cup
Remedy Oak Golf Club, Dorset
Arrive at 1.00 pm 1st tee at 3.00 pm
£75 inc coffee, bacon roll, lunch and prizes. 18 holes Stableford Yellow Tees.
5th September
Ray Paull Medal Championship
Hayling Island Golf Club
Arrive by 10.30 am 1st tee at 11.30 am
£110 inc 36 holes, morning snack, lunch and two course evening meal with prize giving for Order of Merit claret jug.
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Obituaries
Herbert Lehman (KES 1934-1935) came to Southampton as a refugee from Nazi Germany and attended King Edward’s until he returned to Berlin a few years later. In 1938 he was barely able to escape and the family moved to Glasgow where they worked in the textile industry. Herbert was later interned in Quebec for a year (along with many German Jewish refugees) as a suspected enemy alien after his ship (enroute to Quebec) was torpedoed. After a time, he was able to convince the authorities he could assist in the war effort as a German-speaking asset and was permitted to return to Glasgow where he was at first assigned to work at Rolls Royce/ Hillington near Penilee. While here he met his wife and later joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was a staff sergeant in the Intelligence Service. One of his jobs was to circulate incognito amongst German POWs gathering information. After the war they moved to the US where in 1950 they had twin daughters and in 1956, a son. He passed away in 1999.
Michael Henry Aslin (KES 1945-1953) known as Mick, passed away peacefully at home in Yarmouth aged 82 in August 2017. He was a beloved husband to Janice and an adored father and grandfather. Michael’s grandsons are students at the School continuing the King Edward’s tradition.
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David John Bennett Hobbs (KES 1932-1937)
Cedric John Morgan (KES 1966-1968)
was one of the School’s oldest surviving OEs until his death in February 2018 at the age of 96. Upon leaving KES, he joined the National Provincial Bank where he worked until war broke out in 1939. He immediately joined up, only to be taken as a Prisoner of War 6 months later in June 1940, just before his 19th birthday. He remained in a POW camp until the war ended when he returned to the UK and to his job at the bank, later marrying his wife Sheila. Along with their two children, they continued to move around the south of England with his job, finally settling back in Southampton in Chandlers Ford in a house where David lived until his death this year. He remained an active member of many clubs and the OE lodge, driving until 2017 and leaves behind his son Simon, daughter Patricia and his five grandchildren. He will be sadly missed by his many friends and family.
died in 2017
Kenneth Alfred Marvin (KES 1935-1939) died on 18th January 2018 aged 91 years. He was a much-loved father, grandfather and brother. Further to a long connection with Beaulieu and the family ownership of Beaulieu Garage for many years, Kenneth’s funeral was held at Beaulieu Abbey Church.
Dennis Charles Rouse (KES 1941-1946) died in 2016
Mervyn Charles Simmonds (KES 1941-1947) died in 2017
John Sydney Sutton CBE (KES 1947-1954) passed away on October 3rd 2017 at Kettering General Hospital aged 81. He was a much-loved husband, father and grandfather. John studied Politics and History at Keele University, where he obtained a degree, an MA and a Dip.Ed. In 1973 he moved to Geddington and, as a Headmaster, where his first task was to cement the amalgamation of four schools in eight years. He became the County Convenor of the local branch of the Headmasters’ Association and later SHA National President. He was also active on the national scene, contributing to the improvements in the pay and conditions of Head Teachers, providing input into the plethora of Acts of Parliament in the 1990s and improving relations with the teacher unions. His service to education in the broadest sense was rewarded with a CBE. He held several honorary posts and was a keen fundraiser, in particular for the Samuel Lee Charity and the Geddington Volunteer Fire Brigade. He was also an active Rotarian.
Brian Williams (KES 1944-1948) died in 2017
Tim Arthur McCullen (KES 1941-1946) passed away peacefully on 15th January 2018 aged 88.
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Snippets Matt Livingston (KES 2010-2017)
Martin Kavanagh (KES 1976-1982)
has produced a short film entitled ‘Blown Away’, which was screened at an event to celebrate the beginning of the BFI Future Film Festival. His film was among a selection of five short films, by directors aged between 16 and 25 years of age, that were screened. His film can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m TkfABty6Q&feature=youtu.be
James Mitchell (KES 2010-2017)
works as Key Relationships Manager at The Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS). At the 2017 Christian Funders’ Forum Awards, held in November at Westminster Central Hall, Martin won the Gold Award for Leadership Development.
Sir Michael Stevens CVO (KES 1969-1976) took up his new job as The Keeper of the Privy Purse in January 2018, after joining the Royal Household as Finance Director for the Royal Collection Trust in 1995. Michael was promoted in 2002 to the role of Managing Director, Royal Collection Enterprises, and four years later he returned to a finance role, as Deputy Treasurer to the Queen. The Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen is responsible for the financial management of the Royal Household.
Tim Orchard (KES 1966-1973) spent 35+ years working in sales and procurement, but has just joined the South Central Ambulance Service and completed his training to become an Associate Ambulance Practitioner. has been awarded an IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) Power Academy Scholarship with Western Power Distribution. The scholarship scheme, for electrical engineers (and related disciplines) at participating universities, offers winners sponsorship from a company, providing summer placements for the duration of their university course and offering financial support totalling £3000 per year.
George Placidi (KES 2000-2007) is now working at the Department of Education in Westminster. You can also view the video, produced by George, during last year’s charity cycle at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWV9YSnN74&t=7s
Phil Preston (KES 1964-1971) is a freelance education consultant delivering school leadership support and development programmes in Hertfordshire, Essex and East London. He is former Chair of Directors of the Diocese of Chelmsford Vine Schools Multi Academy Trust, and has served as a governor of a number of schools in Essex and Hertfordshire. Since starting a public service career as an audit assistant in the Hampshire County Treasurer’s Department, Phil has managed a wide range of local authority education services in South East England and London. He has also worked in a large international project management company developing and delivering complex major education change projects and innovative models of new school provision in the United Kingdom and abroad. Phil is married to Hilary and they have two married daughters and four grandsons. 15
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