The Rossallian Newspaper - Issue 1

Edition 1: December 2022

SCHOOL CAPTAINS

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y name is Alice and I am honoured to be one of the School Captains for this academic year. I am currently in my thirteenth and final year at Rossall studying A-levels in Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Psychology and am hoping to study medicine in the future.

My Rossall journey began when I was just two years old, in the Nursery, where I met some of my closest friends whom I am still at school with today. The time I spent in the Prep School solidified my love of sports, maths and science which I still carry with me. I remember sitting in Chapel on Open Day 7 years ago when applying for a scholarship for Year 7. I remember admiring the Sixth Formers who spoke that day and aspiring to be just like them when I grew up.

My one piece of advice would be to take every single opportunity which you possibly can, even if that means stepping outside your comfort zone. I am so happy that I have been able to do this during my time here and it means that I will be able to leave Rossall content in the fact that I have tried absolutely everything that Rossall has to offer.

I am so grateful to have been given the chance to spend the last thirteen years studying at our amazing school. Rossall has allowed me to make friends from all over the world and I do not doubt that the friendships I have made here will last a lifetime.

Rossall truly is like my second home and I could not have asked for a better place to grow up.

- Alice Christy (Year 13, Dn)

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ello, my name is Joe Davies. I joined Rossall six years ago and it is an immense honour and a privilege to serve this great place as School Captain for the academic year 2022/23, a position which I have strived towards since my time here began.

On my first day at Rossall I was struck by the sincere sense of community and deep friendship which surrounds this wonderful place and it was from that day I was inspired to make a lasting impact on the rich and broad history of this school.

A Rossall education gives a person the set of qualities which make anything possible: confidence, aspiration, the opportunity to experience diverse relationships and friendships and to be a part of an alumni network which spans across the length and breadth of the world making this education so very valuable.

Rossall is unique, unlike other boarding schools because of its diverse and heart warming community, full of many different cultures and faiths and with nearly seventy different nationalities. This teaches a student compassion, understanding, tolerance and equips them for the challenges of the complex world which we live in.

I developed the desire to become School Captain by seeing the passion exhibited by previous Captains. I recall numerous Prize Day speeches, the most memorable of which was from a School Captain named Téo Beaumé who used the phrase “Rossall is what you make it”. I found this inspirational, it is a phrase which has resonated with me and is something which I have strived to abide by throughout my time here by seizing every opportunity available to me.

- Joe Davies (Year 13, SE)

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am delighted to contribute to this inaugural edition of The Rossallian. A joyful celebration of community lies at the heart of this publication and I do hope that you enjoy its contents. We are much more than a school and those of you who have felt the warm embrace of this place know that the friendships forged here banish the wind and rain that can assail us at this time of year.

I am forever grateful that our children so successfully model the values that have guided Rossallians since our foundation.

We are not a community that stands still and the launch of the Rossall Rose Society is the latest manifestation of the charitable thread that runs through our illustrious history. Our parent lunches have provided a lovely opportunity to reconnect after the separation imposed by covid and it is good to see a growing number of parents at chapel services, sporting fixtures and concerts. Parents meetings, introductory evenings and option fairs are now happening in person and yet we are still harnessing the wonders of digital technology to connect with parents overseas.

As we look back on this remarkable period in our history, I hope that we will conclude that we have emerged from the pandemic in a much stronger position and with a keener appreciation of what it means to be a member of a compassionate and friendly community. There is much to celebrate in Rossall and this newspaper can only provide a snapshot of the lives that we are so privileged to lead. We are fortunate to be members of a community that is inclusive, ambitious and kind. At a time when the world beyond us can seem to be governed by discord and fear, I am forever grateful that our children so successfully model the values that have guided Rossallians since our foundation in 1844.

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ast month I spent some time in Edinburgh with Mr Quartermain, at the annual Heads’ Conference. Meeting with other Heads is always an invaluable element of the conference, mainly due to the opportunity to discuss pertinent issues within our schools. One of the perennial points to debate is that of home-school communication.

Very much in the ilk of Goldilocks, too little does not work, too much is not an option, it has to be just right!

Finding the balance for this can be difficult but I do appreciate that parents absolutely need opportunities to offer their opinions to us. That is the reason why we host Parent Forums and engage in the topics that really matter to those of you investing in your child’s future by sending them to Rossall.

Engaging with parents is the second favourite part of my job – after the children, of course. That is the reason why we will be hosting a series of lunches for our parent body, which will take place during the Lent term. The past few years have been difficult and we have become so reliant on the use of email. I will always pick up the phone when possible, but these lunches provide a wonderful opportunity for you to join us for an old-fashioned discussion over some food. We look forward to welcoming you into School soon.

- Matt Turner

LIFE AT ROSSALL TWO OF OUR YEAR 8 PUPILS LET US KNOW WHAT MAKES THE SCHOOL SO MAGICAL FOR THEM

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The community that bonds everyone together at Rossall is sheerly stunning. The vast amount of creation and imagination which takes place inside these rooms really blows me away.

I chose Rossall because of all the great facilities that it has to offer, we literally have the best of everything, including sport facilities, a performing arts academy and many theatres, and it is all set in beautiful surroundings right opposite the beach.

y name is George and I have been at Rossall for a year and a half. When I went to open day at Rossall I think what really stood out here was the amount of nationalities which we account for.

All the teachers are extremely kind and supportive and always make sure we do our very best. There are always people to talk to whether it is my form tutor Mr Bradley, our Head of Year Miss Maidment, or Head of Lower School, Mrs Cohen.

I am in Pelican and we meet with our Houseparents Mr and Mrs Dixon once a week in our House meeting. At the moment we are in the midst of learning our house song for the annual House Music competition. This is loads of fun and is a great way to get to know all the other pupils in our house.

We also have a Golf Academy, Football Academy, and very recently have opened a Broadway Academy which also adds dance to our curriculum as a subject. As a student golfer I can easily say that the Golf Academy is one of the best places I have ever practised and trained and I have had the opportunity to represent the school in many competitions since joining.

- By George Pearson (Year 8, Pe)

joined Rossall at the start of Year 6. When I switched schools, everyone was really welcoming and made me feel at home from day one, and I quickly made lots of friends.

Rossall has taught me that school is not just about sitting in classrooms, it is so much more.

We work really hard during our lesson and homework time, but we are all encouraged to take advantage of these great facilities and enjoy the sports and other after school clubs.

Everyone joins in with the activities no matter if someone is trying something new for the first time, or whether they are a pro.

Rossall always encourages us to use the latest interactive technology. We’re all provided with our own iPads, and Google Classroom ensures I cannot forget what homework I have to do.

Thank you for reading my account, I really hope that I have given you a real life insight as to what life at Rossall is really like.

- Liberty Kirszanek (Year 8, Dn)

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he International Piano Academy has excelled this term under the guidance of Head of Keyboard, Victor Lim, and Director of Music, Adam Dobson. Pupils played an impressive programme of classical music for their first public concert at Forsyth Music Shop, Manchester in November.

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Roscoe Piano Trio

Rhiannon (Year 5) is the youngest member of the Academy and confidently opened the concert with an impressive performance of Chopin’s Waltz in D flat major, Op.64 No.1 ‘Minute Waltz’.

Fe a t ur i ng w o r k s b y Ha yd n, Be e t ho ve n a nd M e nd e l s s o hn

Sam Whitham (Year 7, Dr) performed pieces by Greig and Debussy; Joshua Kevin Hudyana (Year 9, An/Dr) showcased his skills with a piano sonata by Haydn and In Dahomey by Percy Grainger; Bozhen Tsarytysn (Year 12, Pe) and Sofiia Antonova (Year 10, Dn) performed pieces by Beethoven; and Sofiia closed the concert with Rachmaninoff ’s Polichinelle, Op.3 No.4.

Twenty-first century musicians need to be accomplished and versatile practitioners, and many of the building blocks necessary for a successful career are provided here at Rossall.

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was very proud to have performed in the Martin Roscoe masterclass on the 8th of October 2022. I was also proud to have performed in the Kathryn Stott masterclass on the 5th of November 2022.

- Sam Whitham (Year 7, Dr)

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ASTRONOMY: THE MOST

IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPH T he 23+ billion kilometre long journey of the two sister spacecrafts Voyager 1 and 2 starts at the JPL (Jet Proportion Laboratory, USA) in 1964 when aerospace engineer Gary Flandro noticed a potentially rare alignment of the outermost four planets in our solar system, known as the Gas Giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), that he predicted was likely to occur in the late 70s. This alignment only occurs every 175 years, as planets move at different rates around the sun, and therefore don’t meet in this position that often. Eventually scientists and engineers at JPL realised the immense potential that the alignment would have: the huge masses of the planets resulted in them having huge gravitational fields and this allowed for an object to be “sling shotted” around the planets by using their circular motion around the sun in combination with their gravitational field.

A group that would become known as the “Outer Planets Working Group” was created at JPL, and funding to build and launch two unmanned space probes was secured in 1969 after the case had been made that the cost of studying the outer planets would be greatly reduced

by sending two spacecrafts to study all of them, instead of sending individual spacecrafts to each planet, once the grand alignment had passed.

The spacecraft launched on the 5th September 1977 on board a TitanCentaur rocket and, soon enough, delivered the first data from its close flybys of Jupiter, Saturn and Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Even though the mission was supposed to end after the investigation of the gas Giant, the engineers building voyager were well aware of the great potential the spacecraft had after achieving a huge speed of 61 500 km/h through the sling shooting.

They purposely and secretively built the instruments and communications gear stronger than they would have needed to for just the intended mission.

This was done in the hope of using the probe after the investigation had finished to continue its exploration and to investigate areas beyond our solar system.

Eventually, however, the energy, and therefore electricity generated from the nuclear reactor began running lower and lower due to the 87.7 year half life of plutonium-238. The decision to shut

down some of the scientific equipment had to be made in order to keep the others functioning. After other systems had been disabled already, the decision was made to shut down the onboard camera system. The camera had by this point taken some of the first and highest resolution pictures at the time of Titan, Saturn, and Jupiter. Now, however, there was little use for the camera as Voyager had passed any planets or moons, and was not predicted to meet any such objects on its continued path; it was exiting the solar system.

On the 14th February of 1990, before the camera was due to be shut down for good, Carl Sagan made one last request: turn the camera back towards Earth, and take one last photograph. This was agreed upon, and then, finally the camera was shut down. About 14 hours later the pixels were received on Earth, and the images were put together. At a distance of more that 6 billion kilometres from Earth, the furthest picture of Earth to date had been taken. It shows the Earth as a pixel sized pale blue dot at the centre of the picture, with reflections of the sunlight in the camera lens, and the vastness of space surrounding Earth evident. I believe this photograph to

be the single most important picture ever taken by humanity, as it shows the relative insignificance of the earth in regards to the universe. Therefore, it shows the relative insignificance of us as a species and all our problems. If the one pixel showing the Earth on the picture was missing, we would barely notice a difference. This goes to show how the existence of Earth in the grand scheme of things isn’t really that important at all.

- Kai Wagner (Year 13, SE)

INTERNATIONAL BOARDING COMING TO ROSSALL FROM HONG KONG AND JAPAN boring due to the high volume of teacher talk, even for the entire duration of the lesson, without giving me any specific task or work to complete independently.

I much prefer the friendlier, more engaging style of teaching here at Rossall School, in which the teachers will provide me with a wider range of tasks to complete without talking all lesson!

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ere at Rossall school we have lots of international boarding students who hail from many different countries. People from different countries often have diverse reasons for coming to study at Rossall or elsewhere in the UK. In this article I am going to explore some of the differences between Hong Kong and England. I also interviewed my classmate Harry from Japan, and he will also reflect upon some of the differences between life in those two countries.

In Hong Kong, the local schools are considerably smaller than our vast 160 acre campus at Rossall, around which it can easily take five minutes to walk from one classroom or department to another. However in my old school in Hong Kong you were never more than a few seconds stroll down a corridor to your next lesson.

In terms of the content and style of delivery of lessons, I much prefer the Rossall way of doing things! Back in Hong Kong, I often found my lessons

Now Hong Kong is well known for being something of a “foodie heaven”.

This is because back in Hong Kong, you can eat practically any food you want to and the food will undoubtedly be of an exceptional standard. In my old school, the food had a somewhat “heavy taste” but at Rossall the food is much more healthier, with plenty of salad and other options and never leaves me heavy or bloated, but always energised for whatever challenges the day might bring!

Everyone knows Hong Kong to be a busy and densely populated place. On holiday, people are always going outside which often makes the place feel very crowded. At Rossall School, I can go to the beach, have a walk or eat something outside in a calm, relaxed and enjoyable fashion and it never feels too busy or crowded. This is my opinion about some of the main differences between life in

Hong Kong and England. In Japan, they might have different opinions about their old school compared to Rossall school, so my interviewee Harry has given some opinions to me.

In Japan, the people at his old school were primarily Japanese speaking.

Here at Rossall he felt a bit nervous at first because it was his first time communicating with people from different countries who spoke other languages, such as Chinese, German and Spanish. However Harry realisedhe need not have worried as it quickly became second nature communicating in English with his new found peers and friends.

Harry prefers the different Japanese food in his old school, whilst still enjoying what he eats at Rossall too!

At the weekend, Harry enjoys going outside, taking a walk around Rossall’s beautiful campus and the local area. He particularly enjoys and appreciates our

discuss where you were going and what position you needed to field in.

Harry is enjoying school life much more overall at Rossall. In Japan, he thinks there is too much stress for students with a focus on knowledge and exams. In Rossall Sschool, the supportive teachers make you interested in studying, wider reading and make you feel as though the work and the study is not as hard as you might have thought it would be.

Overall I think each location’s schools: Hong Kong, Japan and England have advantages of studying, as I have explored in this article. Wherever you are studying it is important to make the most of the time you have, get involved and make the effort to speak in English and mix with students from a variety of different countries and backgrounds – doing so certainly helps to improve your English much faster!

- LO, Hok Lai Terence (Year 11, MF)

It is important to make the most of the time you have, get involved and mix with students from a variety of different countries and backgrounds. coastal location at Rossall, and finds a walk along the promenade beside the sea, especially when the sun is setting on the horizon, very relaxing indeed.

Harry has enjoyed trying lots of sports in Rossall School like cricket, a new sport for him as it is not commonly played in Japan. When he first played, he liked the game where you needed to communicate with other people, and

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n A Level Graphic Communications students are given the opportunity to design a brand of their choice. Students learn, over the duration of the course, a variety of different techniques and skills on Photoshop. They are also given the opportunity to revisit a range of drawing skills and experiments to broaden their Graphics portfolio, which helps students when it comes to designing their packaging ideas.

This year in Graphics Nicole Chan has been busy designing her own brand based on a modern Garden Centre show titled ‘The Linford Garden Show’, having been heavily influenced by the famous Chelsea Flower Show. Nicole thoroughly enjoys Graphic Communications and has enjoyed designing her tickets and posters, refining each idea as her work develops. Nicole has incorporated her artwork into the majority of her designs, which look fantastic! She has particularly enjoyed combining her artwork and digital aspects together in Photoshop and has enjoyed learning all of the interesting skills and techniques that Photoshop has to offer.

- CHAN, CHIU CHING (NICOLE) (YEAR 13, R)

We can’t wait to see what her final exhibition will look like!

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In November, Rossall hosted the first Performing Arts Scholarship workshop with masterclasses by industry professionals. Nicole Louise Lewis and Brianna Ogunbawo, at the time both touring with Dreamgirls, delivered a musical theatre session combining acting and singing to learn ‘I Just Can’t Wait To Be King’ from The Lion King, and a dance session learning the ‘One Night Only’ choreography from Dreamgirls.

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CHAPEL CHOIR O

ur Chapel Choir is a warm and inclusive community which welcomes pupils of a range of abilities from Year 7 to Year 13. The Chapel Choir provides pupils with an opportunity to represent the School, performing in churches up and down the country, alongside choir tours which have taken us to countries such as Italy and Malta. Our School Chapel Choir were also fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to travel to London to be the Resident Choir at Westminster Abbey for a week. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which has provided me with memories that I will treasure for the rest of my life. We also regularly take part in Evensong and Compline services in our School Chapel. It is great that so many students come along to listen to the choir sing as it gives us an outlet to put all our hard work into practice.

- Alice Christy (Year 13, Dn)

ROSSALL GOLF ACADEMY

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ossall Golf Academy is a brilliant golfing practice facility. Just by attending a session, you can get some very advanced coaching from some incredible coaches and it has sent people from zero to hero. I’ve heard of many people who haven’t even touched a golf club before and have worked really hard in Rossall facilities and have made it pro. Rossall Golf Academy has a program expanding from beginner for new golfers, standard and advanced for very experienced golfers to suit your abilities. Sessions run all through the week, in the day and in the evening. We don’t just use Rossall facilities, we also go to the local golf course Fleetwood Golf Club and the local driving range, Teetime!

- By Benjamin Ramsdale (Year 8, Pe)

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oe Davies and Kai Wagner are working on a special project: the launch of a new and exciting podcast! The podcast is a fantastic opportunity to showcase topics and interview informative guests that all share a love for our school. Both Kai and Joe are the perfect hosts to create a forum that allows us to keep in touch with our Rossallian community, both past and present, whilst bringing the podcast to life with their wit and enthusiasm.

IN CONVERSATION WITH...

Here, Kai outlines a taster of one of his upcoming podcast conversations with Pelican Houseparent, Mr Dixon.

“We welcomed Pelican Houseparent and award winning Physics teacher Mr. Dixon onto our new Rossall School podcast.

“In our conversation we discussed Mr. Dixon’s Rossall experience thus far, his approach to boarding, and perhaps most importantly his ideal topping on toast.

“The ability to explain the world around us using physics, from cars on the road, to the light of far distant stars and galaxies, physics is promising to be a great point of discussion.

“Get excited for a deep dive into the world of rapidly moving particles in our atmosphere, and the science behind time travel in our universe. Fasten your seatbelts for a “near the speed of light” journey through science-fiction-like physics phenomena”.

- Kai Wagner, Deputy School Captain, Podcast Host (Year 13, SE)

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CREATIVITY FROM THE CLASSROOM SAVE THE TIGERS

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A BLAZING EYE

The windy wind, viciously roaring Banging hard on my window, As I hide under my pillow, Making me wonder what it’s like out there, How unwelcoming it sounds and icy it must feel, As the wind pushes and slaps you, Turning you ice-cold, I blankly stare at the ceiling Constantly fearing, Of how violent and deafening the wind is, It’s not planning on calming any time soon, It sounds like a harsh tine, So I hide under my covers, As the warmth greets me, It hugs me tight reassuring me that I’m safe, The comfort and composure of the warmth, Makes me doze off to sleep, Finally at peace.

The fireplace lay below its rusted antique like hood The tv rested upon an oak coloured stand

- Sophie Carter (Year 8, R)

The dusty glazed windows shone a multitude of colours onto the dull sitting room Outside an entwinement of wisteria lead upward, weaving through the metal bars of the balcony Down the uneven garden between the perfectly symmetrical birch trees stood a pond In the reflection of the pond was a blue velvet sky with that of a burning eye in the centre The eye bleed into the opened armed clouds creating a torrent of swirling orange red and yellow,

Tigers are being killed by poachers for medicines and other products. Together, we can help save them, if we try.

Tigers are incredible beasts, kings of the Asian jungles where they live, yet even these are in danger. They must be saved, but only if we work together will this come true. They are beautiful and elusive creatures, masters of camouflage, but even this cannot save them alone.

The beautiful beasts are being hunted for their skin, bones, teeth, claws and as hunting trophies. Mostly, this is because they are believed to have magical powers, but sadly sometimes for sport.

This is called poaching. I believe that we can stop this as a team.

And the creation of peace shall forever stand as long as the sky shall bleed in morning and night.

Tigers are quickly becoming endangered, and there are now less than 3,200 left in the wild. This is because they are being killed by poachers. If we do not do something, tigers may become, like the dinosaurs, only visible in pictures and television, so we have to help in any way we can.

- By George Pearson (Year 8, Pe)

- Written by Oskar (Year 6)

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- By Charlie Cohen And Harry Rawlinson (Year 7, Pe)

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PARENT LUNCHES W

e have been delighted to welcome some of our parents to the Common Room for lunch over the past few weeks. Each lunch was a well attended, positive event whereby parents had the opportunity to meet key people within the School such as Heads of Year and also other parents within their children’s year group. The strawberries and cream for dessert was a firm favourite with everyone as the conversation flowed. We are much more than a school. We are a community and at the heart of our community is the relationships that we develop with Rossall families. We look forward to holding other events like this in the future.

Comments from Parents on the lunches: “Many thanks for inviting us to lunch on Monday. We had a really lovely time. It was so nice to be able to chat to staff in a more informal setting (although it was very grand!) Also great to meet other parents and see the school in full swing. Food was delicious too, many thanks to all concerned - a wonderful experience.”

- Francesca Tiribocchi (Year 12 & Year 13 Lunch) “I just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity to meet with Emma’s teachers and other Year 9 parents at today’s lunch. I thoroughly enjoyed the warm welcome and delicious meal. Please pass on my thanks to the catering staff and the teachers.”

- Jane Tomlinson (Year 9 Lunch) “We have just had the most enjoyable lunch with your Heads of year 11. A huge thank you from ourselves. We were made to feel very welcome and at ease. Compliments to the kitchen too. We really love what the school is about.”

- Sam and Denis (Year 11 Lunch)

ROSSHOCKEY ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ROSSHOCKEY

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ossall Hockey, also known as RossHockey, is a unique game that is a cross between Rugby and Hockey. Why is RossHockey unique you ask? Well because it is a sport played only at Rossall School.

Played by all. RossHockey was first referenced in the first issue of “The Rossallian” which was published in 1867, though the exact date of its creation is unknown.

This sport was created because in the Lent Term the fields were too waterlogged to play Rugby, thus RossHockey was created. It is designed to be played on the beach, when the tides are suitable and is played with a specially designed hockey stick in addition to a playground ball. The pitch has to be drawn out on the sand before the game can be played. This is done by players pacing out the specific dimensions, “running” and “digging” the lines to create the pitch.

To play the game you need eleven players. Eight of these form a “bully”, two “flies” and a “back’’. The aim of the game is to beat the other team by scoring the most goals. You score a goal by dribbling or hitting the ball through the posts from inside the circle. The ball can only be moved up the pitch through dribbling and no passing is allowed. All players must be behind the ball, as in rugby. The ball can be stopped with the stick or a hand but not with the feet. If the ball goes off the sideline it is in “touch” and the ball is rolled back onto the pitch similar to a lineout in rugby. Free hits are awarded for an infringement of the rules. All players must be eight metres away from the ball and the taker must wait for the umpire to blow the whistle before taking it. A “set bully” is taken at the halfway line to start the game and to restart after a goal. A “twenty bully” is taken on the twenty line opposite where the ball goes off the backline from an attacker’s stick. A “line bully” is taken two metres outside the middle of the circle after a defender hits the ball off the backline.

- By Ellie Williams (Year 8, Wr)

CCF

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ossall School October CCF Field Day was a real success. It was broken down into three elements to gain the maximum effect for the cadets. The Year 9 cadets attended RAF Inskip to take part in fun, engaging and demanding activities, these consisted of air rifle shooting, low rope systems, climbing and abseiling, archery and flight simulators. This is a great introduction to these activities, in a controlled environment with their classmates.

The Army and RAF cadets in Year 10 and above elected to attend the Cadet Force Instructional Technique / Method of Instruction course, this consisted of cadets leaving school at 1700 on the 12th October to move to Inskip Cadet camp to begin lessons, and be introduced to military camp routine.

They were introduced to Reveille at 0600hrs, kit inspection at 0630, breakfast at 0700, a command task at 0730 in time for sunrise and back into lessons for 0900hrs. All cadets were taught the basic principles of how to plan theory and practical lessons, create lesson plans, prepare resources and teaching spaces.

The cadets both as individuals and in small teams delivered lessons to the instructors.

As all cadets from Year 10 and above are

on the leadership development pathway, the pressure to perform is always there.

They took the challenge and exceeded expectations. Their acceptance for responsibility and the hope and privilege to hold rank is really fueling cadets and their desire to promote is really healthy.

We are building a culture of cadet ownership at Rossall. For many it is early days, however I am encouraged and as excited for them as they are to be given responsibility and charge of younger cadets. They should be extremely proud of what they have achieved, my team and I are very pleased and proud of how they are developing.

The Royal Navy cadets attended the Rossall pool to conduct Try Dives. This was delivered by the Royal Navy Dive team that travelled from Portsmouth to conduct this training for our Naval cadets. All cadets who took part in the diving really enjoyed the experience, most of whom had never been exposed to this activity. We are fortunate to have a pool at school, kayaks, paddle boards and the Irish sea in our back garden, all of which we utilize to train our cadets across all sections.

Field days are not always the same. But they should be fun, engaging, exciting and developmental. An opportunity for the cadets to bond, build on their teamwork, communication, resilience and not to forget the cadet values of courage, discipline, respect, integrity, loyalty and commitment.

A final note from me as the Contingent Commander, the longer a cadet stays with us the more opportunities become available to them, the more responsibilities they recieve, promotion, courses, qualifications, life experiences and new friends from all over the UK from national camps they can attend. I see my role as an opportunity to create future leaders, not just through tested and proven military techniques but through a series of demanding challenges over time at Rossall.

“Leaders are made more often than they are born. You all have leadership in you.

Develop it by thought training and by practice”- Field Marshal Sir Bill Slim, 1949.

- Major Lee Magowan

SOCIETY The members of the Society are parents who have children attending or who have attended the school and it is the aim of the Society to have representatives from all sections of Rossallians past, present and future, as well as the international community and from the local community.

During the Summer term 2022, the Rossall Rose Society organised a very successful Charity Midsummer Gala in Big School, where parents, friends and staff enjoyed a sumptuous meal, entertainment from students and The Deadbeats, topped by an amazing auction. It was a delight to be able to hand over a cheque for £4000 to Brian House Children’s Hospice. The Hospice provides respite, palliative and end of life care for children and young people in our community.

The Society organised a Christmas Market on Sunday 20th November. Over forty five stalls added a dash of colour across the Square and Big School. Artisan food, birds of prey, jewellery, candles and well being therapy stalls were complimented by hog roast food, pizza, refreshment stand and live entertainment. From the event we have raised money to support Donna’s Dream House, a Blackpool based charity providing free holiday experiences for children and teenagers with life threatening illnesses and their families.

The success of all the Rossall Rose events relies heavily on the good will, hard work and support of families, friends and community. The aim of the society is to provide an opportunity to enjoy existing friendships, make new connections and support those less fortunate.

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he Rossall Rose Society was established as a means of bringing the whole of the Rossall community together again after the restraint of Covid, recognising the willingness and kind heartedness that exists within our community in our efforts to support families from the Ukraine and re establishing an affinity that has been central to Rossall for many years. We recognise the desire of Rossallian families to become participatory members of a community that extends beyond school life and is reflective of our desire to nurture relationships with Rossallians in such a way that they endure for a lifetime.

Save the date: Saturday 15th April, Race Night.

Date of the Summer Gala to be announced soon.

For further details, please contact rossallrose@rossall.org.uk

BRINGING TOGETHER ROSSALLIANS

PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

PRESIDENT OF THE ROSSALLIAN CLUB GILLIAN KING (DN 85-92) Looking at your job title, Global Head of Cybersecurity Programme, that sounds like a varied and interesting role, can you tell us more about your career path.

I’d like to say that it was all planned, but that would be a lie! I started off in accountancy post-university, where I studied Economics at Durham. I soon realised, however, that whilst I enjoyed the academics of accounting, a repetitive job was never going to suit me, so I took time out to do my MBA and moved into change management. Given my background, I specialised in Financial Services and worked on some pretty big programmes, Lloyds – HBOS merger, Abbey Santander merger and then eventually ending up at HSBC. I started working on the Cyber programme in 2017 and was hooked. It’s fast moving, so I don’t get bored!

an alumni network that we can use to support us, but which also provides us with the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and generally have a lovely time!

Upon leaving Rossall, students automatically become a part of the OR Club. What would you say to Alumni that are new to the OR Club?

Did Rossall influence your career choices in any way?

Use us! We hold events in different areas of the country which is a great way to catch up, socialise and network. We have thousands of members in many different professions. Want some advice on choosing a profession? Ask an OR who does it. Want some interview tips or introductions for your chosen area? Ask an OR who works in that field. Feeling lonely when you are embarking on your first post-Rossall era? Come to an event. If you need your CV reviewing, please send me a message!

It influenced my university choices and it all went from there…

Which OR Event stood out to you as being the best and why?

What skills did you learn at school that have helped you in your career and life post Rossall?

Either the OR Carol Service or the OR Weekend for the same reason. The atmosphere is always incredible. There are always so many different people there, celebrating being part of something wonderful.

Time management. I am frequently asked how I fit in a career, four children, two dogs, as well as my hobbies and I always answer that Rossall did that for me.

What would you say to any student who is considering studying at Rossall?

What would you say is your biggest achievement?

Kicking cancer’s backside while being a single Mum of four and holding down a job!

What is your role and responsibilities in the OR Club?

I am the President of the Rossallian Club. I am very proud to be the first ever female president. It is my responsibility to chair the Committee and be the face of the Club.

In reality, it is a massive team effort. We have lots of events being planned and we are hoping to start to offer more in terms of networking, career support, help and advice to the younger members too.

What does being an OR mean to you?

So many things. Primarily it is friendship. I have a whole range of friends of so many different ages – many of whom I never knew before. We are all members of

Live every moment. Rossall has many opportunities for its students that most people are not fortunate enough to experience. Make the most of the opportunities, work hard, but enjoy your time too.

Outside of the classroom, did you take part in any other activities whilst at Rossall?

Yes! Music and drama filled most of my curriculum. I was in the choir, the band (made Captain in my final year) and the orchestra. I studied piano, clarinet and singing. I did all of the LAMDA exams and won so many trophies, that there wasn’t enough room for them all on my Mum’s fireplace. I also took part in most of the plays and musicals in some form or other.

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FROM THE SECRETARY IAN PRESTON

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t was wonderful to be back in School for the Triennial Dinner in April and enjoy once again the ambiance of Rossall and the camaraderie of the Rossallian Club.This was the occasion for Roger Eaves to hand over the Presidency to our first female president, Gillian King. I must say a massive thank you to Roger, who stepped into the role when our old friend Graeme Marrs sadly passed away. Other than attending the German Dinner pre Covid, the Triennial was Roger’s only opportunity to address the Club during his presidency, but Roger’s quiet and calming influence has been so important to us. Thank you Roger.

The main purpose of our Club is to; maintain friendships and contact throughout the OR Community.

Being a parent of a recent leaver and with a daughter currently in 6th Form, I have become aware of additional opportunities that membership of the Club can make available, specifically for younger members. Aware that a number of current students were visiting my daughter Ellie’s university, we arranged for Ellie to show them around the campus, which was greatly appreciated. This is something that the Club would like to develop further by helping to connect new students with those already studying at university. In order to find individuals who are studying at a particular university, please post a message on Rossallians Online and we will help to connect you to someone.The main purpose of our Club is to; maintain friendships and contact throughout the OR Community. We can do this in so many ways; by giving a friend a call, arranging to visit, or attending some of our upcoming events with other fellow Old Rossallians. We have a great community and it is always great to connect.

I would encourage you to read the article relating to “Rossallians Online” and if you haven’t done so already, please sign up! This is the means by which we can best maintain contact with one another, keep up to date with all that is happening and utilise expertise from other Old Rossalians.

I hope you enjoy this new style of publication, which provides a wealth of information.

If you would like to contact me directly on any matters, please do so using this email address, ross.club@btinternet.com and I look forward to hearing from you.

Floreat Rossallia, Ian Preston (J & Pe 1966 - 1973) Rossallian Club Secretary

WEEKEND

2023

OLD ROSSALLIAN

SAT U RDAY 1 S T A P R I L

TIME

ACTIVITY

VENUE

11.00am

Registration

Big School

12.00pm

Rossallian Club AGM

Richardson Room

1.00pm

Lunch

Dining Hall

1.00pm

Tour of Boarding Houses, hourly until 4.00pm

The Archway

1.30pm

Astronomy Lecture: Life, the Universe & Everything!

Lawrence House Astronomy Centre

1.30pm

Fives Tournament

Fives Courts

1.30pm to 2.30pm

Rossall Farm

Graeme’s Garden

1.30pm to 3.00pm

Information Fair

Big School

1.30pm

Archives Display

Sumner Library

2.30pm

Astronomy Planetarium: The Night Sky

Lawrence House Astronomy Centre

3.00pm

Association Hockey

Astroturf

3.30pm

Astronomy Lecture: Bugs on Mars

Lawrence House Astronomy Centre

6.00pm

Chapel Service

Chapel of St John the Baptist

7.00pm

Drinks Reception

Big School

7.30pm

Dinner

Dining Hall

O PENING TI ME S: TIME

VENUE

1.30pm - 5.30pm

RosShop for merchandise

11.00am - 4.00pm

Mondos for refreshments

B OO K ON L IN E :

SCAN TO BOOK:

www.rossall.org.uk/event/orweekend2023

MORE INFORMATION: Adele Mullineaux a.mullineaux@rossall.org.uk 01253 774284

OR VISIT:

www.rossallians.org.uk

OLD ROSSALLIANS “Rossall provides far more than a typical school experience - you will leave with a network of friends from all over the World and an endless list of stories that you’ll be telling your grandchildren!”

- Olivia Gregory (R 2011-2018)

“My time at Rossall has been a unique journey shared among the closest people in my life. I’ve met my friends for life there. With the support of the school teachers and the community under the influence of being a Rossallian, it’s made my transition from China a lot less difficult.”

- Ariel Qi (R 2003-2005)

“My time at Rossall was unforgettable. Rossall showed me the beauty of diversity and unity. During my 2 years at Rossall I chaired the international society where we celebrated diversity, because diversity is what makes Rossall, Rossall. Meeting people all around the world and getting to know their cultures helped me to grow as an individual. Rossall taught me to never give up, and always strive to become the best version of myself.”

- Anastasia Guledani (Dn 2019-2021)

“I still remember those days well...running on the beach at 6am in -10 weather and the huge inter house snowball fights in the winter.” Irvine has recently finished performing in Come Fall in Love at The Old Globe as Baldev which will be transferring to Broadway NYC in spring 2023.

- Irvine Iqbal (MF 1986-1995)

“My days at Rossall were some of the happiest of my life. Rossall shaped me into the person I am today. This is due to the many brilliant people (both staff and fellow students) who I shared my time with at the school. There are many great memories I could mention, but perhaps most pertinent are those connected with my time as a chorister in the school’s chapel choir. Not only were these experiences my first foray into the world of music, but they also set me off on the path that would eventually lead to me becoming a professional musician. It was a privilege to attend this school and thank you to all the good people who made my time there so special!”

- Samuel Moore (Pe 2000-2005)

“My memories of Rossall are very fond. I enjoyed every moment whilst experiencing so many different things with friends and my then family. It was wonderful to come back to show my children and surprised that so little has changed. Floreat Rossallia.”

- Jennifer Price (nee Howard) (JS & R 1985-1994)

Kieran is currently at Chicago State University. He recently earned medalist honours at the SAS Championship DI HBCU Invitational, becoming the second Chicago State golfer to win, set a new low scoring record for the University, and was presented his title alongside former World Number 1 golfer, Fred Cousins. On his first US title and how Rossall prepared him, Kieran said: “It is a great feeling to finally get my first college win, quite early on in to my college career too. A couple of good results last season helped with my confidence, turning into a couple of great results earlier this year. Now to finally get one over the line is a great feeling.

“Being announced as the winner on the 18th green with Fred Couples was something I won’t forget in a hurry and an experience I will carry with me for a long time.

“Being in the competitive environment of the Golf Academy for the two years I was there - nothing can compare you for top level golf like that. We had great coaching from Stuart Hemmings and Beth Senior, teaching us how to get the best results. Another thing, the diversity and cultures you meet and interact with at Rossall, you spend every day with friends from different backgrounds, all with different stories - it’s just like you get in the US Universities. Rossall taught me to make friends, put myself out there - I don’t shy away from anything, I’m already comfortable meeting new people from completely different walks of life - I feel like that was the best experience to prepare me for the future.”

- Kieran Hogarth (Pe, 2019-2021)

ROSSALLIANS ONLINE CALLING ALL OLD ROSSALLIANS!

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Get in touch and book a tour of Rossall to revisit the school.

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MEET THE ROSSALL FOUNDATION AND ROSSALLIAN CLUB TEAM

HENRY SHEPHERD

GILLIAN KING

ADELE MULLINEAUX

Henry is the Chairman of the Rossall Foundation, having previously been the Director of the Rossall Foundation.

Gillian is the President of the Rossallian Club. She is the first ever female president and it is her responsibility to chair the Committee.

Adele’s role as Foundation Assistant is to assist the Foundation Director. She also assists the Rossallian Club with events and manages Rossallians Online.

DAVE GEE

IAN PRESTON

PHIL BROWN

Dave is Vice-President of the Rossallian Club.

Ian is the Secretary of the Rossallian Club.

Phil is the Treasurer of the Rossallian Club.

EMMA JOHNSON Emma is the Director of the Rossall Foundation and also Head of Alumni Relations. Her role is to deliver an Alumni and Foundation service and promote the variety of ways in which the Foundation is supporting the school.

CRICKET TOUR AUGUST 2022 T

he Old Rossallians gathered in the south of England for the tour of 2022 to play our first fixture in the picturesque village of Hawkley in Hampshire. We begin with a T20 match and having won the toss and electing to bat set a credible target of 181 for 60 in our 20 overs. Charlie and Harrison Arden opened the batting and scored 17 and 79 respectively with Matt Dryden, Luke Williams and Will Gair making solid contributions to the competitive total.

Hawkley made a great effort to chase the total down but lost wickets steadily and although a late flourish put us under pressure they finished on 165 for 5 making the game feel closer than the score reflects.

On Tuesday 2nd August we travelled to the beautiful setting at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex. This was a timed game commencing at 11.30am and having won the toss, elected to bat.

The wicket was hard, fast and bouncy so conducive to high scoring and we amassed a huge total of 343 for 8 when we declared with Tom Morrison making 63, John Morrison 38, Luke Williams 56, Matt Dryden 52, and Henry Fajemirokun 20.

The opposition felt we batted too long but gave it a go to knock the runs off and finished on 298 for 8 with Jago-Lewis scoring 164, having been dropped 6 times. Had we held any of those catches we would probably have won, but a draw it was.

Luke Williams took 4 wickets, Henry Fajemirokun 2 and 1 each for Dan Robson and Charlie Ardron.

Our final fixture was against the Old Amplefordians played at Worth School in West Sussex. Another beautiful day and another toss won for this 40 over game and we elected to bat, scoring 209 having made the error of not using all our overs. Matt Dryden made an excellent 50, Luke Williams 21, Henry Fajemirokun 17, Dan Robson 18, all signs of getting in and out too quickly.

Sadly, our bowling was very tired and was easily picked off by the opposition for the loss of 4 wickets.

In all though another fantastic tour with eighteen ORs taking part over the three day tour.

- Jonty Arundel (An 72-79)

B-R Mark Laverty (Scorer), Dan Robson, Will Gair, Fraser Forster, Henry Fajemirokun, Luke Williams, Harry Southern, Charlie Ardron, Jonty Arundel, Howard Green.

F-R Christo Arundel, Harry Ardron, John Morrison, Tom Morrison, Lauchie Johns, Josh Hamnett.

SIMON JACKSON, FOUNDATION DIRECTOR 2009-2010 On our recent visit to Oxford, we went to ‘The Bear’ to find my Dad’s tie (Old Nottinghamians) amongst the 4,500 collection of clippings.

Whilst scanning the display cabinets, I also found the Old Rossallian tie clipping! I am sure Alf Tansey will be impressed.

With very best wishes, Floreat Rossallia!

- Simon Jackson, Foundation Director 2009-2010

ROSSALLIAN GOLF SOCIETY

As they appear in the picture, from left to right.

Penny Prest, Anne James (wife of David), Jenny Cheetham, Anne James (wife of Steve), Arthur Stephenson, Charles McCain, Elspeth Yates, Mike Ewart, Jonathan Fish, Jen Farrington, Bob Cooke, Christian Butler, Chris Holt, Tiffany Fielden, Steve James, Richard Henriksen, Spencer Cheetham, Doug Campbell, Richard Marriott, Lillian Croston (Council), Adrian Barr-Smith, Paul Muscutt, Andrew Millar, Lucian Butler, Nick Young, Toby Stephenson, Peter Heyworth, David Wilkinson, Nicky Ewart, David James, Noel Muscutt, Grant Wilson, Liam Morrow, Tim Wolfe, Guy Cunningham.

SPRING MEETING OF THE ROSSALLIAN GOLF SOCIETY, HELD RECENTLY AT DELAMERE FOREST GOLF CLUB

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fter our recent Spring meeting at Delamere, I received much undeserved praise for organising the day, and I thank you all for that, but really the Meeting was such a resounding success because of all your loyal support, and the magnificence of Delamere Forest Golf Club, who went the extra mile to make us very welcome, and look after us wonderfully well throughout the day. I’m so glad we persevered with the fixture, despite having to postpone the Meeting twice, due to Covid, because the course was a revelation to all of those who’d never played it before, and even those, like me, who hadn’t played there for ages, marvelled at just how good it was. Surely on a glorious day like that (and we certainly deserved the weather after enduring the deluge at Ganton last Autumn), there can’t be any more lovely places to play. And despite the generally low scoring, it was a tough test of golf – too tough for your elderly correspondent, who found the undulating fairways a severe test for his aching knees. There were no such problems for the eight pupils from the school’s Golf Academy. Everyone lucky enough to play with one of them said what charming company they were, and how well they had all played. Their scoring was remarkable, mostly gross

par or better, and in one case six under par gross, including driving through the green on one of the par 4s! The star performer though, once again, was thirteen year old Gonzalo Odriozola, who off 8 handicap had the best score on the day with 41 points, though of course was not eligible to win the main OR prize for the Newsome Trophy, which was won by the ever-green excricketer Bob Cooke with 39 points.

The last time we had seen Gonzalo, he was soaked through, but with the widest of grins on his face, as he came into the club house at Ganton last year, after fighting his way through the deluge.

Gonzalo is determined to return next year, when no doubt his handicap will be scratch or better!

For me, as your Hon Sec, the most pleasing aspect of the day, was to see forty five ORs playing, including for the first time, Jack Cropper, the school’s Director of Sport, Doug Campbell from the South of England, Tim Wolfe and Peter Heyworth, from Switzerland and California respectively, and Tiffany Fielden, partner of Bob Cooke and daughter of Anthony, another fine Rossallian cricketer of yesteryear. And once again we had a very strong showing from London and further South, and

we greatly appreciate their wonderful support.

Throughout the day there was an infectious sense of Rossallian camaraderie, which can be seen on the faces of all those in our group photograph taken on the terrace before dinner, by Lucien Butler, and I’m most grateful to him for taking it. I’m also grateful to our excellent Chairman of Governors, Chris Holt, who not only drove up from London to play with us, but was then, at a couple of minutes notice, asked to sing for his supper by giving us a very encouraging synopsis of all the good things going on at the school.

So yes, it was a marvellously enjoyable day, and we shall certainly return to Delamere for one of our meetings in the near future, but more immediately we have our Autumn Meeting at Silloth on Solway Golf Club on Tuesday 27th September, and I urge as many of you as possible to make the journey to Cumbria to join us. Silloth is another magnificent course, and well worth the trouble in getting there. I would be most grateful if you would send your entries to me as soon as possible, to give me an idea of likely numbers, please.

And finally: by next Spring, God willing, I shall reach eighty – a sobering thought, and I would feel enormously happy to hand over the Hon Sec role to a much younger person, or at least to someone who is far more computer literate than me. I will give as much or as little help as required, so if anyone out there is interested – please let me know.

It isn’t the most onerous job imaginable, but does take a few hours a week to rally the troops!

The winners at Delamere were: 1st Prize for the Newsome Trophy: Bob Cooke (39pts), 2nd Prize: Richard Marriott (38pts), 3rd Prize: Doug Campbell (38pts), 4th Prize: Grant Wilson (38pts), 1st Ladies Prize: Penny Prest.(35pts), 2nd Ladies Prize: Anne James.(35pts).

N.B. the Ties in the Mens 2nd, 3rd and 4th and the Ladies 1st and 2nd scores was decided by the best 2nd 9 scores – this being the convention in Cheshire.

Best wishes to you all, and I look forward to seeing most of you at Silloth.

- Arthur Stephenson (Hon Sec Rossallian Golf Society)

HALFORD HEWITT CAMPAIGN 2022

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he Halford Hewitt golf tournament took place between 7th and 10th April 2022. Founded in 1924, the Halford Hewitt Cup is competed for by the Old Boys of sixty four English and Scottish Public Schools with each fielding five foursomes pairs, making six hundred and forty competitors in all, making it the largest amateur golf competition in the world! It is played at Royal Cinque Ports (Deal) and Royal St George’s (Sandwich) Golf Clubs. More details on the Tournament can be found at www.halfordhewitt.org.

This year the Rossall team welcomed back David Tonroe (flying in from Savannah, Georgia together with his caddie and son, Duncan!) and Jimmy Jones who were available to play in the 2022 campaign.

Also in the team again, following his debut in 2021, was a very welcome Josh Fallows, fresh from winning the President’s Putter at Rye only a few weeks before, together with Matt Allen, our lowest handicapped player currently playing off +3.

The whole team this year was as follows:Matt Allen, Christian Butler, Josh Fallows, Robert Fox, Will Goodwin, Jimmy Jones, Noel Muscutt (Captain), Nick Roberts, Jeremy Smith, and David Tonroe.

The Rossall side were all very grateful again this year to our stalwart supporter,Chairman of Governors at Rossall, Chris Holt, who stayed and dined with the team throughout and spectated enthusiastically in all the matches. It was also great to see past prolific Rossall Hewitt player, Geoff Henney and his wife, Sue, coming down to support in the first round of the main event, together with Jimmy Jones’s brother Richard, all cheering Rossall on!

This year Rossall were drawn to play on the Friday at Royal St George’s. This allowed for a friendly match to be arranged against Wrekin on Thursday at Rye, allowing Josh to return to the scene of his President’s Putter victory! A fine lunch in the Clubhouse preceded the match which was unfortunately curtailed to only nine holes due to an average wind speed in excess of 45mph! We were all well and truly blown away by Rye! The match was a friendly affair which everybody enjoyed and, notably, one of the Wrekin players, quite incredibly in the conditions, managed a hole-in-one at the short 7th!

Full of confidence, the team proceeded to an early morning start versus Marlborough on the Friday morning in the 1st round. The crazily high winds of Thursday had subsided, being replaced by a moderate sea breeze. Leading the team out at number one was Matt Allen and Robert Fox who played magnificently, reaching the turn in 30 strokes, and, shortly afterwards, winning their game by a margin of 9 and 7 at which point they were five under par! Nick Roberts and Will Goodwin were playing in the third game, unfortunately losing against a strong opposition pair. Their defeat was followed shortly after with a further surprising defeat from David Tonroe and Jeremy Smith by another strong Marlborough pair, with David and Jeremy finally succumbing on the 16th hole. The match was now 2-1 to Marlborough. Our next result came from the 5th pair, Noel Muscutt and Josh Fallows, who were involved in a gritty battle versus a very experienced Malborough pair. Managing to hole several clutch putts along the way, they managed a victory on the 17th green, meaning that the match was now even at 2-2. Match number two was the only game still alive involving Christian Butler and Jimmy Jones, and therefore destined to be the deciding encounter. They unfortunately lost the 18th hole to bring their match back to all-square. Yet again Rossall was involved in a nail-biting sudden death affair! Fine

BROTHERS IN ARMS OR GOLF CHALLENGE

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t’s been discussed many times over the years & finally we managed to play the first ‘Brothers in Arms’ OR Golf Challenge last week. Paul & Noel Muscutt (MC), Christian & Lucien Butler(R), Jeremy & Jonathan Smith (FDL), Tim & Simon Wheeldon (SE) all convened at Burnham & Berrow GC for 2 days of competitive golf & brotherly banter.

The first 18 were individual stableford followed by a hearty dinner & not enough sleep. The following morning, we played ‘brothers’ foursomes. The brothers individual scores on day 1 were combined with their foursomes score on day 2. It was a very close game with Christian & Lucien Butler winning by 1 point! A good time was had by all & roll on 2023!

As a prize for the winning pair, we awarded four wine glasses with the Rossall logo engraved on them.

-Tim Wheeldon (SE 75-82)

play by both Rossall and Marlborough on the 19th and 20th, with both making solid pars, meant the match proceeded to the third extra hole. A fine 3 iron from Jimmy Jones to 10 feet at the, par 3, 21st hole, with Marlborough missing the green long and right, meant that the momentum was swinging in Rossall‘s direction. The opposition took 3 to get down, but unfortunately this was matched by a three putt from our Rossallians keeping the match alive to proceed to the fourth extra hole. Malborough made a solid par and, after finding our second shot coming to rest on a treacherous part of the fourth green (the valley of sin!) The Rossallian pair were unfortunately not able to match Marlborough’s four, and the match had swung to a Marlborough victory in that game, meaning a win too for Marlborough in the match overall, and Rossall were out of the main event sadly somewhat prematurely.

All very disappointing, but, after a quick turnaround lunch, six of the team had to, on the same afternoon, drive down to Prince’s Golf Club to play in the Prince’s Plate. This competition was for all who fall in the first round. Our opponents this time were a very strong Rugby team. Having picked our heads up following the morning’s events, a resolute Rossall team managed to prevail with a victory 2-1 over Rugby.

This all made for a much better mood at dinner that evening! The following morning Rossall needed to beat Felsted to advance in the Plate competition. On paper we believed we were the stronger side. However, the Felsted team, having lost four players from the original Hewitt side and reduced to six for the Plate competition, proved to be much better than expected and, this time, Rossall were on the wrong side of a 2-1 match scoreline, at which point the 2022 campaign had come to an earlier than anticipated end. Notwithstanding this, the team feel confident with the group of players that are now available for the future. It is expected that some further strength in depth and young blood will arrive from the Rossall Golf Academy in the coming years and all agreed that the Halford Hewitt and general Rossall golfing future will be bright.

Floreat Rossallia!

- Noel Muscutt (MC 76-80)

ROSSALL FOUNDATION

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would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Foundation Director. I have also taken up the role of Head of Alumni Relations, a role which I believe compliments the Director role in many ways. From speaking to alumni, I have heard phrases such as “Rossall helped me learn more about who I wanted to be as a person” and “Going back to visit now feels like home and like I never left”. This shows Rossall is more than just a school. These conversations have been heartwarming and already in this short time, I am proud to be part of such a community that creates such a feeling. A feeling of community that is so strong, that it makes alumni want to continue their connection with the school throughout their lifetimes, whether they be overseas, they go through career changes or life challenges, it is clear to see that Rossall will always be home for some. This feeling of community and belonging is the driving force behind Foundation initiatives. I would like to ensure that feeling is instilled in our current students and future alumni, the way to do that is to ensure that Rossall School is thriving and a great place to be. In turn, the way in which to create a thriving school is to ensure it is supported by an active network of donors. I would also like to thank Henry Shepherd for his work as Foundation Director, I am sure you will agree, he has done a great job whilst in post and will continue to support the Foundation in his role as Chairman.

Over the years, the Foundation has contributed to Rossall in many different ways; from financial support to the gift of education via the bursary programme. Support has been given by over 750 Rossallians, from right across the spectrum of former pupils, in terms of age and financial resources. The one thing in common being the love for Rossall and in doing so the Foundation has raised over £2.6 million.

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The Rossall Foundation was founded in 2005, by the then Chair of Council Hazel Trapnell, with the sole aim of supporting the School and helping it flourish. With Floreat Rossallia as the school’s mantra, this is also the basis for the Foundation. More recently, the Foundation has contributed £30,000 towards the refurbishment of two science laboratories, which as you can see from the pictures, look stunning. We are working closely with the school with regard to the next steps for our Capital Project!

Anyone has the power to make a positive impact to the school, friends of Rossall, parents, past and present students and anyone with a passion for the school.

There are many ways to contribute to the future of Rossall, including making a donation to our Capital project, leaving a legacy, contributing towards a bursary or a donation towards our unrestricted fund.

If you would like to contribute, please scan the QR code, or write to us using the address below or follow this link: https://rossallians.org.uk/supportus Foundation Office, Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 8JW - Emma Johnson

obert Stead has been volunteering at the library in Fleetwood, going through historical photographs of the town and its inhabitants.

He has decided to put together a collection for future residents by taking pictures of focal points of Fleetwood and presenting them as a photographic essay time capsule of Fleetwood in 2022.

This will ensure that the pictures are remembered for years to come and that there is a clear legacy of Fleetwood.

Robert visited Rossall school to take some pictures of the iconic archway for inclusion and to ensure that Rossall was included in this legacy inspiring activity.

THINKING ABOUT YOUR LEGACY? Since 1844, Rossall has been committed to helping young people grow intellectually, culturally, socially and emotionally.

A tradition of benefaction among Old Rossallians enables the School to fulfil its goals. Rossall is indebted to many benefactors, through whose generosity over the years the school has continued to flourish. If you are considering leaving a Legacy to Rossall, please contact: Emma Johnson, Foundation Director, Rossall School, Broadway, Fleetwood, FY7 8JW. 01253 774286 Email: foundation@rossall.org.uk

ROSSALL FOUNDATION AGM AND DINNER 22ND APRIL 2022

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he Rossall Foundation AGM was held on Friday 22nd April 2022, followed by the the annual Foundation Societies Dinner, in Common Room.

It was good to be able to stage this dinner once again and have the opportunity to thank some of the many ORs who support the School, through the Foundation.

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CHAPEL ORGAN RESTORATION PROJECT

he Rossall Foundation is very excited to announce that it has agreed to fund a major restoration of the School Chapel Organ and work is to commence in October 2023 with completion by Easter 2024. The overall cost of the project is in excess of £210,000, which will be funded 90% by the Foundation and the balance by the School.

The Harrison & Harrison Organ, in the Chapel of St John the Baptist (one of a number of Grade II listed buildings on the Rossall campus), was built in 1925, using pipework from the previous “Father” Henry Willis instrument of 1862. The fine organ case was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.

The Organ is dedicated to the 289 Old Rossallians who lost their lives in the First World War. The Organ has, unfortunately, fallen into a state of disrepair over the years, not helped by the storms of 2008, and though some work was carried out at the end of 2018 it is in desperate need of a major overhaul to secure its very being for years to come.

The Rossall Foundation is really proud that due to the generosity of a number of ORs we are able to assist the School with this project and help secure a historic facility that has always been at the heart of the School. The Foundation would like to thank these donors and also Alf Tansey (MF 49-54), without whose dedication and support this project would not be taking place.

If you would like to know more about this exciting project please email the Foundation Office foundation@rossall.org.uk and a member of the team will get back to you. Or telephone the Foundation Office 01253 774286 and we would be happy to discuss all the details with you.

DYLAN TRAN (PE 2018-2020) What are you studying at University?

relationships and maintaining connections with friends or even making new connections with other people.

I am currently studying for an Economics BSc degree in university.

What were your first impressions of the school?

What have you learnt from Rossall that you have taken forward into your further studies?

I learnt how to write and structure essays in my History and English Literature for A Levels, it has paved the way for me to achieve First Class marks in my modules.

What difference did coming to Rossall make to your education and your University studies?

By coming to Rossall, I have managed to learn how to be focused and disciplined in any task I am doing, educational or otherwise.

What is the most important thing that Rossall taught you?

My first thought was this school looks like fun and would help me learn more about who I wanted to be.

Outside of the classroom, did you take part in any other activities?

I took part in Football, Fives, Chess Club, and helped out in Anchor House. I was also House Captain and School Monitor.

How did Rossall help prepare you for University?

Rossall has helped me to become more disciplined and helped me to be more confident in myself. Thanks to that, I have matured in ways that have helped me deal with the speed bumps that life throws your way, like Covid-19 for example.

How would you sum up your time at Rossall in one word?

Enjoyable.

The most important thing I have learned has to be the importance of interpersonal

OR WEEKEND 2022

To book your place at OR Weekend 2023 visit www.rossallians.org.uk or www.rossall.org.uk/event/orweekend2023

ROBERT HAMILTON BERNAYS (1902-1845)

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uring the first half of the twentieth century, England’s leading independent schools tended to specialise in producing brilliant all-rounders who lived their lives at a feverish pace. All too often, such individuals were plunged into the maelstrom of war and destined to die tragically young. One thinks of the journalist and foreign correspondent Philip Pembroke Stephens, who studied Roman Dutch law at Cambridge before embarking upon a career that took in the movies, foreign diplomacy and journalism. At the age of just thirty four, he was felled by a sniper’s bullet during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai.

Philip had ascended a water tower to gain a better view of the invading army.

John Simpson writes at length about Stephen’s remarkable life in ‘Unreliable Sources’ and notes that he worked for the League of Nations, travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War, was expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 for attempting to alert the world to the dangers of fascism, before immersing himself in the Italo-Abyssinian War. He was something of a star and he was so highly valued by the Daily Telegraph that they chartered a plane to fly him to China.

In many ways Robert Hamilton Bernays’ life mirrored that of Philip Pembroke Stephens. The Bernays family were of German Jewish origin

and they were dazzlingly successful in a variety of different areas including commerce, politics, public relations, military service and the arts. The son of a clergyman, Robert was distantly related to the Freuds and he was a cousin of Edward Bernays who is considered the ‘father of public relations’ and he was a world expert on propaganda. In the late Twenties, Bernays was best known for his campaign to market cigarettes to women by labelling them ‘torches of freedom’. In 1954, he worked with the CIA to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala.

Brilliant, cynical and well-connected, Edward was recently named one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century.

Robert Bernays attended Rossall School between 1916 and 1921 before going up to Worcester College Oxford. A keen rower, he was elected President of the

Worcester College Junior Common Room before going on to become President of the Oxford Union. Past holders of that post include Herbert Asquith, Michael Foot, William Gladstone, William Hague, Boris Johnson and Harold Macmillan and Gyles Brandeth.

Robert left Oxford to become a journalist for the Daily News. He remained with the paper until it was taken over by a competitor in 1930 and, at that point, he was made redundant. The following year he stood as a Liberal candidate in the constituency of Bristol North.

Elected with a majority of 13,214, Robert became Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health in the National Government of 1931 led by Ramsay MacDonald. Later on, he would serve as the Parliamentary Secretary to both the Minister of Health and, in 1939, to the Minister of Transport.

As a schoolboy here at Rossall, he lived through the incalculable losses of the First World War. Startlingly intelligent, always on the side of truth and acceptance, we should remember Robert as a principled man who stood up for the downtrodden and oppressed.

Throughout the 1930s, Robert was a fierce critic of Nazism and he was considered something of an expert on Germany. Robert’s 1934 book ‘Special Correspondent’ is a lively travelogue and details his experiences travelling throughout Germany. Although he witnessed Hitler in his role as demagogue, he failed to secure the personal interview that he so desperately desired. This was because Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s Foreign Press Bureau chief, realised that he was closely associated with the leader of the Liberal Party, Sir Herbert Samuel, who was himself Jewish.

In many ways, Robert’s life was framed by conflict. As a schoolboy here at Rossall, he lived through the incalculable losses of the First World War. He experienced personal prejudice and witnessed firsthand the impact of antisemitism. Robert warned against the dangers of fascism and he lost his own life just before the end of the Second World War. Robert moved within a fast set of brilliant young men who experienced intolerance on account of their own sexuality. Startlingly intelligent, always on the side of truth and acceptance, we should remember Robert as a principled man who stood up for the downtrodden and oppressed. It was his tragedy to live through such turbulent times but it was also, perhaps, the making of him.

FROM THE ARCHIVES RAYMOND MURRAY PATTERSON (1898-1984) OR, EXPLORER AND WRITER OF ‘DEAR MOTHER’

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life at Rossall before and during the Great War at Rossall.

Raymond M. Patterson who was born in 1898 is recognised as one of the finest writers and explorers of the Canadian wilderness. He joined Rossall in 1911 becoming a member of Maltese Cross House under the splendidly named Housemaster, Algernon Beechey Kingsford (1909-1921). Patterson was scholar, a monitor, played first eleven cricket and won an Exhibition to St. John’s College, Oxford where he read Modern History, worked briefly for the Bank of England, served in the Great War, was captured, interned and returned to the bank in 1918.

1924 saw him emigrate to Canada in search of adventure and he began to farm in Alberta. He started to write of his life and adventures, publishing his first account in 1954, ‘Dangerous River’, followed by several more volumes, still in print. Some years earlier a number of his late mother’s possessions arrived from England; among them was a bundle of letters written by him to his mother during his years at Rossall.

He died in 1984.

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his is a picture of Derek Walker-Smith’s novel ‘Out of Step’, published by Gollanz in 1930. This scarcely veiled portrait of Rossall (‘It was the quadranglewhich was referred to as the ‘Square’ – which was Ormond’) recounts the school days of Derek Walker-Smith, known in the novel as Colin Brooke from his arrival at Rossall in the autumn of 1923 until his going up to Christ’s Church College, Oxford in 1928 to read Modern History.

- Richard McDowell (Archivist)

These letters, heavily contextualised, were collated, privately published and dedicated to his Housemaster, Kingsford. These offer a humorous, affectionate, wry and often sad account of his years 1911-1917 at Rossall. Those years were described by Thomas Mann as the preface to his novel, The Magic Mountain (1925) as: ‘those years when so much began which has hardly yet stopped’. Here are some extracts from the letters.

March 11th 1912 The weather here is like summer, it is so hot. You can see the reflections of the fishing boats on the sea as if on glass. and yesterday felt like thunder. There was a two-masted sailing ship wrecked on our sands last week. …. Our house, as usual, was bottom in the Singing Competition.

February 5th 1915 Route march today beyond the river and had tea and sausages, cakes and bread and butter at the North Euston in Fleetwood. I laid in hard at the sausages. Yesterday I took the house for four-mile non-stop run in the rain - rather fun especially as they thought they were only going to the End of the Lane.

CCF Garstang, August 1st 1915 Tonight we sleep out at Beacon Fell in great coats and it will be beastly cold as the hill is over 900 feet above sea level!

February 19th 1916 We are having a lot of new lighting regulations here and everything has now got blinds except the chapel which of course can’t have them and so on Sunday evenings chapel is to be at five instead of half past six and a few other alterations have been made.

January 22, 1917 I have been made editor of The Rossallian. It is very cold but still dry and dusty and the wind not quite so bad…………..in the Upper Sixth now, having collected that £60 exhibition at St. John’s. I have to do the school news and go often to Fleetwood.

In his afterword (1951) the author writes: I can now see that Rossall gave us two things of great value……toughness and a resistance to cold and weather….and an education that enabled us to appreciate beauty in nature, and in man-made things… together with a memory of certain masters who showed us the way to live like men.

- Richard McDowell (Archivist)

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his is a picture of Derek WalkerSmith, later Lord Broxbourne. This Maltese Cross House photograph was taken in 1926 and shows him in a splendid pose with his Houseparent Bob Nevett, seated left.

He went up to Christ Church College Oxford in 1928 to read History. In his second year he published a semiautobiographical novel ‘Out of Step’, in which he describes his school days at Ormond near ‘the fishing port which was Ormond’s nearest town.

This barely disguised portrait of Rossall enjoyed literary success with one reviewer describing it as ‘exceptionally well written for a first novel by an undergraduate of only 19.’

Derek Walker-Smith was called to the Bar in 1934, became an M.P. and served as a Minister in many posts under the Macmillan and later governments. He became a life peer and died after a long and distinguished political career in 1992. A very interesting forerunner of the much more well-known OR J.G. Farrell.

- Richard McDowell (Archivist)

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n July 1994, on the occasion of our 150th anniversary, the School was honoured with a visit from Queen Elizabeth II. In truely hospitable Rossall fashion, three bottles of the French fortified wine Dubonnet were purchased for the visit as the Queen’s favourite tipple was Dubonnet and gin. The Queen had almost certainly inherited her love of the drink from her mother, Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother.

The drink has enjoyed a renewed popularity as it drunk weekly on a podcast by Radio 1 presenter, Jordan North, and etiquette expert, William Hanson.

- Anthony Fairhurst (CR)

WEDDING CONGRATULATIONS BEN GRIFFITHS (J & PE 2000-07) AND SIMONE BILTON MARRIED ON 9TH JULY 2022 IN A BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY. WE SEND THEM BEST WISHES

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OLD ROSSALLIAN VISITORS TO ROSSALL SCHOOL John and Nick Fletcher SE (44-49) & (An 74-77) a retired electrical engineer, visited with his daughter Siobhan, wife Mildred, and son Nick, also an OR. They have travelled from Northern Ireland, where they reside. They found three photos in the Vestry of John in the Choir in 1954, 1956 and 1957.

Michael Openshaw (DC 45-49) Michael, who resides in Hampshire, had not been back to Rossall for around 50 years and was really pleased to be able to make a visit whilst visiting family and friends to celebrate his Birthday. Michael was keen to see the Sports Centre which he was very impressed with.

John and Antony Darbyshire (J & M 49-56) & (An 84-87) John visited with his son Antony, also an OR. They have wonderful memories of Rossall School and thoroughly enjoyed their visit.

Robin Heaton (SE 63-67) visited with his sister Pamela Baker.

Felix Wong (PE 15-18) currently studying in Newcastle, visited with his family who came to visit him from Hong Kong and wanted to show his parents Rossall School, in particular Pelican.

Matthew Holt (JS & R 75-86) visited with his Children, from LA, California.

Matthew wanted to show his children Rossall School, which brought back a lot of memories.

Christopher Walker (JS & F 69-70) visited with his wife.

Christine Preston, Governor, James Preston, an OR (JS & MF 93-04) and Matthias Stuttgens, also an OR (MF 03-05) visited the School.

Jennifer Price (nee Howard) (JS & R 85-94)

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ebecca Wang (Pn 2010-2015) is a postgraduate student studying at the University of the Arts London.

Her major is Design for Art Direction and she is in her final year and has chosen to feature Rossall as her subject matter for her final piece of work.

On her visit back to school, we took the opportunity to interview her about her Rossall experience as we visited the areas that hold a lot of memories for Rebecca.

There was one particularly proud moment where Rebecca spotted the pictures she had taken were still proudly displayed near the Art classrooms. Take a look at what she had to say by scanning the QR code.

Kiersten Rossburgh daughter of OR Charles Gordon Dean (A 55-57) visited with her aunt Tricia and uncle Tony. The planned journey involved visiting the School where her father studied.

Philip Key (MF 91-96) visited with his family.

Jennifer Price (nee Howard) JS & R 85-94) visited with her husband Ian Price and family.

David William Flinn (DC 63-67) visited with his wife Rachel Flinn from Hillsborough, Northern Ireland.

Samuel Moore (Pe 20-05) visited and thoroughly enjoyed his Tour which brought back a lot of memories.

David Crye (JS & Fn 70-79) visited on 10th November. It was good to hear about the work that David had done on the Cricket board at school previously.

Oliver Bee (R 83-88) visited with his partner Jo Matthan and Tim Thomas also an OR (J & MC 81-88) with his wife Kate and their children.

Neville Sheard (MF 49-53) We would love to welcome you to school for a tour! All ORs are welcome, we ask that you get in touch with Adele Mullineaux either by email on development@rossall.org.uk, or via telephone 01253 774284.

Kiersten Rossborough, daughter of OR Charles Gordon Dean (A 55-57)

David William Flinn (DC 63-67)

TROMBONE DONATION

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aymond Hills kindly donated a trombone to Rossall school as a thank you for the excellent education that his three children received at Rossall.

Sarah Hills (Dolphin 77- 83) and Deborah Parsons (Dolphin 77- 83) were amongst the first girls intake at Rossall whereas Simon Hills attended from 1975 onwards (James House).

The trombone was greatfully received the Beecham School of Music.

David Crye (JS & Fn 70-79)

LAUREN STEPHENS (D 2009-2016) M

y biggest achievement thus far, and I hope there will be many more, is founding my own company. After working freelance for a few years I founded “Musical Theater Society Berlin” in January 2019 (Age 21). MTS is an English-speaking amateur musical theatre society based in the centre of Berlin.

Every year MTS gets stronger, the problems change and I am learning to fight new fires every day.

Despite academically preparing me, the biggest things I learnt at Rossall could not have been taught in a classroom. Being a part of too many activities to even count, especially the CCF, taught me immense time management skills. Working full time and running my own company definitely requires precise planning. I was also involved in a variety of activities such as Chapel Choir, Chamber Choir, Jazz Band, CCF, CCF Band, Orchestra, Hockey, Drama (Acting & Musical Theatre), Dance Club & Farrell Society.

I started working with the OR committee during lockdown by producing and editing the first virtual OR carol service. Since then, I have been involved in a few meetings and my main aim is to improve the connections to the younger generation of ORs. Being part of this very special community doesn’t just mean getting a fancy badge or tie (although these two things are definitely worn with pride). I find it really interesting and exciting to be part of this OR network. Even after having left school, I meet people with whom I have something in common, but may have not necessarily known in my time at school. I also really appreciate the connections I made at school with the teachers. It is really nice to use what I learnt at school and then discuss this with my former teachers at OR events or just keep in touch with them via email.

Select events for the Rossallian Club when you are a student are reduced in price and will give you so many opportunities to interact with ORs of all ages. It’s also a really good step-stone into the real world and can be a really helpful guide. The German dinner was the first OR event I attended just after having moved to Germany, and it gave me a sense of comfort somewhere abroad; it also made me feel like I’m never too far away from someone I know. I have been to three in total; two in Munich and one in Hamburg. It is great to meet up with some former teachers, like Dr Dohmen, as well as some of the OR committee and school representatives. I have quite a few friends in Berlin who I either met at school or at the German dinners.

In terms of my advice to anyone considering studying at Rossall, take every opportunity by the hand. Dr. Winkley said to us on our first day “Rossall will be what you make of it”. If you take every opportunity possible and immerse yourself fully in the “Rossall Culture” it will be the best time of your life, whether your passions lie in academia, the arts or sports.

SAVE THE DATE What: OR Gathering at the Oriental Club When: 24th February 2023 Where: Stratford House, Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES

What: Rossall Rose Society Race Night When: 15th April 2024 Where: Rossall School

What: Rossallian Golf Society Spring Meeting When: 11th may 2023 Where: Ilkley Golf Club

IN MEMORIAM We have sadly said goodbye to the below fellow Old Rossallians.

Jonathan Ball (J & MF 70-77) Albert Bell (F 45-48) David Bell (JS & M 50-57) Robin Bellerby (70-73) John Bennett (MC 52-57) Howard Bentley (SE 53-56) Robert Emmanuel Berry (MC 43-47) Anthony Blackett (DC 55-60) John Blower (MC 36-39) John Boyagis (A 45-46) Frank Trevor Brough (SE 47-52) Christopher Buckmaster (P 52-57) Peter Chance (Pe 48-51) Robert Clough (MC 49-54) Keith Clowes (F 48-52) Gillian Clube (Wife of Alan Clube CR 63-91) Michael John Connor (MC 51-56) Gerry Corlett (JS & MC 36-43) Shiraz Dharsi (CR Cricket 75-76) Brian George Dibble (R 36-45) Jeremy Drummond (R 47-54) Edward Dunn (DC 52-56) Peter Esnouf (JS & F 38-48) David Evans (JS & M 56-62) Robert Fawcett (JS & R 42-52) Michael Fieldhouse Barratt (JS 38-41) Simon J Fisher (MF 87-92) Peter Barry Horne (R 52-56) Glenys Ilett (49-80) John Godfrey Lant (A 45-49) Major (retd) John Hickie, MBE (DC 47-53) John Kilner (MC 49-58) Bob Lindesay (SE 49-54) Douglas Mans (R 44-49) Christopher Mitchell (R 39-43) John Morris (R 55-60) Joseph Morris (A 62-67) Lt. Col. Guy Obbard (MF 42-46) Anthony Pearson (F 53-61) Hugh Trevor Porritt (A 52-57) Roger Rawcliffe (JS & F 42-52) Jeremy Richardson (M 63-67 & CR 76-94) Edmund Rowley (MC 44-46) Barclay Simpson (SE 67-71) Tim Sitt (MC 2011-2016) Peter Smith (MC 43-47) Edith Steele, (wife of the late Jim Steele, mother to Alastair (JS & R 58-67) (dec.) and David (JS & R 60-67) (dec.),William and Katherine.)

Malcolm Stephenson Cronshaw (JS & MC 55-65) Bill Tavener (JS & SE 41-50) Sir Holburt Waring (Dr 46-51) Robert Willcock (M 43-48) Barrie T. Wilson (J & F 36-45) Bert Young (R 43-48)

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