Elizabethan 2023

Elizabeth College provides a rich, diverse and exciting experience for pupils of all backgrounds, enabling them to flourish and make the very most of themselves.

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CONTENTS | EDITORIAL

Editorial FOREWORD & FOUNDATION

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FOUNDATION BURSARIES

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DIRECTORS & STAFF

8-9

Elizabeth College Junior School FOREWORD

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ARTS

40-53

NEWS

12-16

SPORTS

54-59

ACTIVITIES

17-39

TRIPS

60-65

Elizabeth College Upper School NEWS

67-73

SENIOR PREFECT REFLECTIONS & YEAR 8 BUDDIES

67

PERROT COURT – NEW SPACES

68-69

GOLD DofE REVIEW

87

SPORTS

113-122

JUNIOR SCIENCE & GYM CLUB

90

BASKETBALL

113

INVESTIGATION & DISCOVERY WEEK

91

UKMT MATHS CHALLENGE

92

ISLAND SCHOOLS SPORTS 2023 & JUNIOR SPORTS DAY 2023

114

93

SENIOR SPORTS DAY

115

CRICKET REPORT

116

CHARITIES REVIEW & GREEN FLAG AWARD

70

YEARS PREFECT REPORT & SCHOOL COUNCIL

MEDICATION APPLICATIONS & TEAM BUILDING

71

OUTDOOR ADVENTUROUS ACTIVITIES 94

FOOTBALL REPORT

117

HOUSE SPIRIT & HOPES FOR NEXT YEAR

72

TOMORROW’S LEADERS CONFERENCE 95 & WELLBEING AND MINDFULNESS

CROSS-COUNTRY & ISGA SCHOOLS’ GOLF CLUB

118

THE NEW ATP AT MEMORIAL FIELD & ACTIVE TRAVEL

73

WELLINGTON COLLEGE HEADS OF SCHOOL CONFERENCE

96

HOCKEY REPORT

WORK EXPERIENCE

96

YEAR 7 BAND & YOUNG ENTERPRISE

97

SIXTH FORM LEAVERS’ DAY

98

ACTIVITIES

74-98

BIOLOGY A LEVEL FIELDWORK & CASTLE SWIM

74

BRONZE DofE

75

CONTINGENT COMMANDER’S REVIEW 2022-2023 & DRUMS

76-77

CCF AWARDS LIST & ARMY REVIEW

78-79

NAVY CAMP

80

RAF REVIEW

81

DEBATE CLUB

82

THE DE PUTRON CHALLENGE & EDIBLE GUERNSEY

83

ECO TEAM

ARTS

99-113

A YEAR IN ART 2022-2023

99-101

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

102

POTTERY CLUB

103

CREATIVE WRITING REVIEW & WRITE STUFF

104-105

PERROT PRIZE 2023

106-107

NATURE MAGAZINE FOR NATIONAL POETRY DAY

107

84

MUSIC REVIEW & A CHORAL MUSIC REVIEW

110

FRIDAY AFTERNOONS

85

BANDS & JUNIOR STRINGS

111

GEOGRAPHY FIELDWORK 2022-23 & GUERNSEY RUGBY TALKS

86

119-120

NETBALL

120

SHOOTING UPDATE

121

EC SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP

122

TRIPS

122-129

SKI TRIP

122

HERM TRIP

124

HISTORY & CLASSICS TRIP TO ITALY 125 KENYA TRIP

126-127

GERMAN EXCHANGE TO BAVARIA

128

DRAMA – YEAR 11 LONDON TRIP

129

EDITORIAL

132-142

PRIZE WINNERS & PREFECTS

132-133

DESTINATIONS

134

EC FRIENDS’ REPORT

135

STAFF LEAVERS

136-142

160

GUERNSEY MEDIC NETWORK LAUNCHES

164-165

161

TWENTY YEAR CLUB

FOOTLOOSE

112-113

OE NEWS

152-160

Old Elizabethans PRESIDENT’S WELCOME AND COMMITTEE

145-147

EVENTS

148-149

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

150-151

ISLAND GAMES 2023 DEAD DONKEY REPORT 2023 THE 1953 CORONATION

162-163

SPORTS

165 166-168

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Principal’s Foreword

The bridge staircase in Perrot Court

This year marks 460 years since Elizabeth College was established on Guernsey by our foundress, Elizabeth I and through all those years one certainty is that the College has seencontinuouschangeandevolution,despiteElizabethI’spersonal motto, Semper Eadem, which translates from the Latin as “always the same”.

However, there are subtleties which can be applied to this translation which Mr Cottam explained to me early on in my time as principal. In Latin Eadem is also a pun and can be either neuter plural i.e. the same things (for example, values), but it is also feminine singular, the same woman, a reference to Elizabeth and her constancy.

Her reign was one of determination and exploration; I think that she would be really interested to consider the evolution of the College since 1563. A History of Elizabeth College, written by Bruce Parker (OE 4646) would give her a good insight into the changes and challenges the College has faced. I hope that she would be pleased with where we now find ourselves and would understand that the College remains underpinned by firm historical foundations as well as Christian values.

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It is quite possible that this year, with the opening of Perrot Court, we have seen the most significant addition of a new building to the College site, since work on the

We moved into Perrot Court at the end of February 2023 and it is now comfotably part of the College’s upper school campus. construction of the main building itself was completed in 1829.

The transformation from a 1980s bank to Perrot Court is almost complete and the

staff and students have made themselves at home in this fantastic space. The completion of this process also returns to the College a piece of land that was part of Elizabeth I’s original gift. The lithograph in the Moss Print series by Thomas Compton from 1830 shows that the north aspect of the College was originally laid to grass and looked very much like a piece of common land. Over the years you may also remember that this land has been home to a petrol station, a car showroom, the Royal Bank of Canada and finally it has found its way back to the College, as Perrot Court.

We moved into Perrot Court at the end of February 2023 and it is now comfortably part of the College’s upper school campus.

It has been fantastic to welcome so many visitors to this fabulous space this year and to unveil Elizabeth Adams’ portrait of Roger

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all involved. This edition contains myriad examples of creativity, curiosity, courage, participation, passion and achievement of our students. It is also a reflection of the dedication and commitment of all of the wonderful people who together make up the Elizabeth College community: staff, students, directors and the support provided by our parents and alumni, the Old Elizabethan network.

Enjoy flicking through these pages of student and alumni adventures and achievements which celebrate the unique and very special community we are all privileged to belong to.

Moss Print by Thomas Compton

Perrot, who along with the staff and student created mosaic of Elizabeth I, keeps an eagle eye on the day to day proceedings.

I believe, and have been told by close friends of Roger, that he would have been very proud of Perrot Court and also the

opportunities that his gift has enabled for the students who are recipients of a Foundation Bursary award. This year’s Elizabethan is bursting with colourful energy and is a great reflection of the experiences and memories which have been made by

Thank you to the island advertisers whose generous assistance allows us to continue to enjoy this publication. Particular thanks must go to Elizabethan Coordinator, Jennie Doucy, who has tenaciously encouraged, collated and arranged all of the content and to Two Degrees North who have designed and produced this year’s volume.

Finally, thank you once again to all of our staff, students, parents and Old Elizabethans whose experiences form part of this year’s edition; I am very grateful to everyone for their contributions.

Jenny Palmer, Principal

Remembering Charlie Charlie Lockwood, who was in Year 10, tragically died in February, soon after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. The college community was shocked and deeply saddened by this sudden loss of one of our students and the school community came together to support each other and to remember Charlie.

A quiet space for reflection was created in the Wellbeing Hub in Perrot Court and students and staff were invited to record their memories of Charlie and their thoughts for his family. These memories have been

collected and given to his family in specially made memory boxes.

Friends of Charlie’s suggested that planting a tree in his memory at Elizabeth College would be a lovely way to remember him.

The chosen tree is an ornamental cherry blossom, named ‘Charles Sargent’. It has pink flowers in the spring, a sharp green in the summer, and an orangey, burgundy red in autumn. It has been planted near the Gate House Gallery with a plaque dedicated in a ceremony with some of his friends.

Joni, Charlie’s mother, has shared a Here are some of the thoughts and reflections from the memory wall written

by Charlie’s friends and teachers: When Charlie joined the school, he was welcomed by everyone and was really wellliked. Charlie joined our friendship group on his first day at College and always spent his lunchtimes on the hard court playing football or making others laugh and making everyone’s day better. Timothy F

Charlie Lockwood

I met Charlie in September and we instantly clicked. He was always happy to do things and would always be excited for Air Cadets and CCF. He was one of the main reasons I joined

reflection of Charlie’s time at College.

“Although Charlie was only at Elizabeth College a short time, it had such a profound effect on him. He used to come home on a Friday night and open his books. He really wanted to learn and he was enjoying it so much.

It wasn’t easy for Charlie starting in Year 9 but you all made him so welcome; he was so happy. Thank you all for making Charlie’s last months so wonderful. Please remember Charlie as the ‘full-of life’ funny boy he was. He would have liked that.” in January. He was a great person to have around, and I will always miss him. Ben D One memory I had with Charlie was in Biology just after Liverpool (my team) had lost to Brighton 3-0. I can tell you, he did not go easy on me. He then proceeded to give me his ruler with Brighton branding on it. Joe J I remember one time he brought his Demon Tweeks catalogue into school, and we flicked through it together at break marvelling over all of the amazing expensive racing gear we could never afford, which was good fun. James B

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The Elizabeth College Foundation Update

Perrot Court

This past academic year has been one of huge successes and huge change for the Elizabeth College Foundation, February 2023 being a pivotal moment as we welcomed the first incumbents into Perrot Court. The College Registrar, Mrs Cheryl Roussel, and Exams Manager, Mrs Katie Sebire, were the first two members of staff to make their new office spaces home and they both immediately felt the benefits of working in such a super environment.

The final push in the lead-up to the opening in February, as with any major build or renovation project, was a huge team effort but special mention should go to Laura Priaulx who project-managed the development. There is not an inch of the building that Laura has not taken care and time over to make sure it is fit for purpose

Laura Priaulx with Jamie Potter from Levitt Bernstein

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and ready for the students and staff. But, as I mentioned, it was a huge team effort: the Board of Directors, the Bursar, the Bursary Team, the Development and Marketing team, site staff, teaching staff and, of course, the Principal and Senior Leadership Team – many hands played their part in getting the project over the line.

hub of chess matches, reading and study every lunchtime as is the Sixth Form Centre.

Our receptionist, Mrs Andie Paul, enjoys seeing smiles on the visitors’ faces as they enter reception for the first time with the consensus being that it is hard to imagine it was once a 1980s bank, as they say they are walking into a modern educational facility.

It is a delight to be able to come in and see the students enjoying the new classrooms, library, sixth form centre and learning enrichment department in Perrot Court.

They have adapted well into their new surroundings and are utilising all areas of the building. There are often groups in Perrot Court quad at lunchtimes, the hall is being used for the debating club and all A-Level and GCSE exams were run from there during Trinity term. The library is a

His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, Mr Richard Cripwell CB, CBE, officially opened Perrot Court on 10th March. The new sixth form centre and reception were filled with donors to the Chance in a Lifetime Appeal, staff, OEs and invited guests, including the architects from Levitt Bernstein, who came over from the UK to help us celebrate. Following a rousing entrance from the Drum Corps, speeches were given by Foundation Chairman Adv.

Jenny Palmer with His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, Mr Richard Cripwell CB, CBE unveiling the plaque

Russell Clark

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Sixth Form Centre

to students whose family situation might not be able to afford an Elizabeth College education. It is, therefore, wonderful to be able to say that the scheme is now going from strength to strength with bursary placeholders in years 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13.

Trafford Football Stadium for a tour, a look through the club museum and a delicious lunch in the Red Café. It was a fantastic trip with all agreeing that even those who don’t support the club, or have a love of the great game, would find the day out interesting.

The bursary fund has been created through legacies left to the College plus donations to the Chance of a Lifetime Appeal and we will continue to fundraise towards the fund in future appeals to ensure the sustainability of this important scheme.

The Dead Donkeys are a group of Elizabeth College supporters and well-wishers who have all pledged to bequeath a gift to the College at the time of their passing.

We enjoy a variety of events throughout the calendar year which you can read more about in the write-up later on in this magazine from The Donkey-in-Chief, Geoff Dorey (4992).

Our website offers full details of the bursary places and how to apply at www. elizabethcollege.gg/admissions/bursaries but you can also contact Mr Rick James, Bursary Manager, who is more than happy to answer any questions.

Seafront Sunday

Russell Clark, Principal Mrs Jenny Palmer, and His Excellency. There was a sense of pride and overwhelming gratitude that the College is now fortunate enough to have this additional educational facility as part of the estate, aptly named after the College’s longstanding supporter and greatest benefactor, Roger Perrot (5450). It was a joyous occasion.

IT classrooms

The Dead Donkey Club A Dead Donkey Club trip to the UK was back on the club event schedule this year with a small group meeting up at Old

If you would like more information on the club or perhaps would like to join us at an event this year to see if it is something you would like to get involved with, please feel free to email me kate@elizabethcollege.gg.

Kate Earl, Head of Development and Marketing

Foundation Director Retires Another change for the Foundation, in February, was the retirement of Mrs Dot Carruthers, Foundation Director. Dot was the driving force behind the Foundation for 15 years. She led the appeals, worked tirelessly on all the development projects, helped build the Dead Donkey Legacy Club and provided support for the Old Elizabethan Association, as well as a myriad of other countless tasks. I certainly have some metaphorically large shoes to fill.

Foundation Bursary Scheme One of Roger Perrot’s greatest wishes was for the College to be able to offer bursaries

Donkey Flag at Manchester United

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Foundation Bursaries

The Learning Garden at Elizabeth College

From September 2023, we will have 23 Foundation Bursary students at Elizabeth College in Years 7-9 and Sixth Form. In two years’ time then, we will have Bursary students in every year, up to 41 full award holders. Whilst these are cold statistics, I am enormously proud of them because each represents a student who would not otherwise be able to enjoy all that an Elizabeth College education offers.

A parent has commented: “The Bursary scheme opened new doors to our child, allowing her to access opportunities that otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to provide. Since our very first contact with Elizabeth College, we were very welcomed and made to feel part of a wider, bubbling and nurturing community.

In just over a year, our child has built a very strong bond with school, one that will surely become part of her identity and in many ways will shape her life.”

The scheme aims to support students who show the spark that we believe we can ignite into a passion for learning both in and outside the classroom. We look for students who can think creatively, who are prepared to consider different ways of approaching something and who demonstrate the

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College values of curiosity, compassion, courage: students who we think will not only benefit from the school, but will bring something to it.

Another parent has reflected on their son’s involvement: “We couldn’t be happier with the way it has encouraged him to grow into the young person we see now. It has succeeded in

The Bursary schemeopened new doors to our child, allowing her to access opportunities that otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to provide. motivating him to always try his best and gives him access to opportunities that he never would have had otherwise. These include an amazing selection of sporting

clubs and activities – from science to chess, badminton to basketball. All this, on top of the new friends that he has made, has given him confidence to continue to grow from strength to strength, and to develop his potential.”

It is fundamentally important that the school within this community plays its part, by offering places to students who wouldn’t otherwise be able to come. Bursary students are not identified in any way on their journey through Elizabeth College, though the school is hugely proud to have these inspiring young people among their numbers.

The level of fee assistance available to families is dependent on financial need (means-tested) and can be up to 100%.

It includes additional costs such as uniform purchase, necessary equipment and some school trips. Fee assistance awards are dependent on individual circumstances, with priority given to those most in need.

I would be delighted if any parent who feels that they are in a position to contribute to the scheme and so support these students would contact me in the first instance.

Rick James, Bursary Manager

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Directors & Staff 2023-24

Charlotte Buchanan BA

Art & Photography

Magnus Buchanan BA

Head of English Faculty

Gordon Campbell BSc MSc

Physics & Science

Matthew Copeland BA

Head of Y7, History

Phoebe Copeland BA

Design & Technology

David Costen BA Directors

Gill Dallin BSc

The Very Reverend Tim Barker, Dean of Guernsey (Chairman)

Paul Davis BSc

Mrs Rosy Bowyer

Richard Davis BA

Director of Digital Learning, Computing, ICT

RS, ICT, Classics

Johannes Depnering DPhil MA

Mrs Katrina Bray

Head of Chemistry, Science Head of Physics, DofE Award Leader Deputy Head of Sixth Form, Head of Y13, MFL, Psychology

Mr David Crook

Fran De Garis BA

English

Advocate Mark Ferbrache

Tim de Putron BSc

Mathematics

Mrs Michelle Galpin

Aléna Demongeot BA MA

Head of French

Mr Kerry Lord

Liam Doherty BA

College Listener

Mr John Roche

Tim Edge BA MA

Head of Religious Studies

Mr Steve Sharman

Joseph Edwards

Choral Specialist

Mr Andreas Tautscher

Thomas Eisenhuth BPhysEd

Deputy Lyndon Trott

Emily Field

Leadership Team

Lee Garland BSc MA

Mathematics

Michael Garnett BA

Head of Y10, PE & Games

Principal

Thomas Gaisford MA

MFL Assistant (Spanish)

Andrew Good BSc

Head of Y9, PE & Games

Jennifer Palmer BA

Music

Vice-Principal (Pastoral) Chris Eyton-Jones BAEd

PSHE

Science

Peter Graysmith BSc

Chaplin

Simon Huxtable MA

Head of Social Sciences Faculty, Head of Geography

Ross Inderwick BA MA

Vice-Principal (Academic) Trevor Addenbrooke BEng MSc PhD

Mathematics

Assistant Principal (Training, Development & Engagement) Jessica Roberts MA

Religious Education

Assistant Principal (Co-Curricular)

Mathematics

Morgan Johnson BA

Head of Year 8, Geography, Business Studies

Deborah Joshua MA

Head of Spanish

Leticia Kemp BSc

Cover Supervisor

Rick Le Sauvage BSc

Assistant Principal (Head of Sixth Form) Julie Dittmar BSc

French, German

Head of Classics

Sarah Jamieson BSc

Gaynor Laird BMus MA

Will Hanson BA

Head of PE, Games & Sporting Activities Faculty

Rose Lee BA Sharka Lee Mgr

Acting Head of Music, English Head of Science Faculty, Head of Biology Business Studies, IT Art, Photography, ECO Lead

Bursar, Clerk to the Board of Directors

Fiona Le Tissier

Music

James Couchman BA

Liz Loveridge BA

English, Film Studies

Head of Development & Marketing

Duncan Loweth MA MEd

Kate Earl BA

Ulrike Maisch

Headteacher (ECJS)

Helen Mauger BA

Richard Fyfe BA Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral, ECJS) Deputy Headteacher (Academic, ECJS, Y5 & 6 Phase Leader) Jemima Lavery BSc Deputy Headteacher (ECJS)

Lou Adkins BA Brian Aplin BSc Vidya Amey BA MA Angela Baker BSc

Head of MFL Faculty, Head of German, French Head of Mathematics Faculty

Sarah Ozanne BA

Learning Enrichment Mentor

Jacqueline Pendleton BA

Art, Design & Technology, Head of PSHE and Lifeskills

Michelle Schofield BA

Head of Design & Technology

Rachel Seymour BSc

Biology

Head of Learning Enrichment

Tim Slann Dip NEBSS

Design & Technology, CCF Contingent Commander

Geography & PE

Tanya Smith BA MA

Head of Classics, History

Cover Supervisor, Head of Futures

Adam Stephens BA

Head of Creative Arts Faculty, Head of Art, Photography

Alistair Stewart BSc

Biology, Chemistry, Science

Mathematics & Science Sports Assistant

Christopher Bentley BA

Head of Humanitie Faculty, Head of History

Sarah Tribe BA

Emma Blazina BA

Learning Enrichment Teacher

Maire Tyrrell

Marie-Dom Blin Bolt BA MA

French, MFL Assistant (French)

Mat Walters BA MEd

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Chemistry Ensemble Tutor

Head of Business Studies & Economics

Harry Barrett-Giles BSc

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Drama, English

Karyn Norman BA

Casey-Joe Rumens

Upper School Teaching Staff Edward Adams BA

PE, Games

Richard Morris BA

Pippa Read MSci MA

Joanna Atkinson BEd

Head of Y7, English

Rachel Merrien BSc Charlotte Newall BA

Liz Bott BEd

Mathematics MFL Assistant (German)

English Learning Enrichment Assistant Head of Drama, Film Studies

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Upper School Support Staff

Rebecca Curtis BAEd

Chris Bennalick

Reprographics

Charlie Beardsley

Caretaker

Shaun Bennett

Skilled Kitchen Worker

Junior Berboda-Mota Lucy Birch

Caretaker Trips & Bookings Administrator

Pre-School Practitioner, SENCo Leader

Siân Ellis

Class Teacher, Art, Design & Technology

Scott Ferbrache

Physics Technician

Millie Ford Brooks

Samuel Carre

Apprentice Caretaker & Groundsperson

Charlotte Frost

Katey Cheshire

Sixth Form Student Support Assistant

Phoebe Gardner

Kitchen Assistant

Nelson De Gouveia

Caretaker (Evening)

Nicholas De La Haye

IT Support Engineer

Jennie Doucy

Marketing Manager

Claire Eborall

Cleaning Team

Susan Eborall Rose El Mettouri

Cleaning Team Lunchtime Supervisor, Lost Property Supervisor

Lauren Lihou

HR Manager

Nikki Fallaize

IT Support Engineer

Rick Felbabel

College Maintenance Manager

John Fleming

Chef Manager

Dzintars Gadzane

Cleaning Team

Reception Class Teacher

Sarah Ellis

Biology Technician

Chantelle Cutler

Y4 Class Teacher

Lisa Du Port BA

Philip Carre

Drama Technician

Learning Support Assistant

Donna Dowding BA

Joanne Byrne

Thomas Cheshire

Y2 Class Teacher

Hannah Dorrity

Learning Support Assistant Learning Support Assistant Pre-School Practitioner, After School Care Assistant Pre-School Practitioner

Joanna Hamilton BA

Y2 Class Teacher, Y1 & 2 Phase Leader

Rebecca Hern BA MA

Y6 Class Teacher

Clare Hervé BA

Learning Enrichmment Teacher

Emily Hollis

Learning Support Assistant

Sally Inderwick Emily Jones BAEd

Learning Support Assistant Reception Class Teacher, EYFS Phase Leader

Laura Le Lievre

Class Teacher

Cleo Martel BAEd

Class Teacher, Science

Claire Masterton

Pre-School Room Leader

Anna Newman

Learning Support Assistant

Sue Orton

Learning Support Assistant

Elisabeth Parkes BEd

Learning Enrichment Teacher

Sarah Parsons

Pre-School Practitioner

Sara Gaudion

Office Administrator

Carla Gouveia

Kitchen Assistant

Marianna Pliaukou

Learning Support Assistant

Judi Gummersall

Kitchen Assistant

Angela Pollard BEd

Part-time Class Teacher

Sally Henderson

Librarian, Music Assistant

Emily Randall BSc

Ashraf Halawa

Chef

Roz Harris Maya Herquin Lee Hudson

Assistant Librarian IT Apprentice Technician Data & Assessment Manager

Rachel Ingrouille Peter Jory

Accounts Administrator Master in Charge of Shooting

Joe Langlois

IT Manager

Richard Le Page

Shooting Coach

Louise Mitchinson

School Staff Instructor CCF

Jason Mroch

Senior Maintenance Worker

Bruno Neves

IT Maintenance Support

Tia Nichols

Kitchen Assistant

Matthew Norman

D&T Technician

Glen Parsons

Maintenance Worker

Andrea Paul

Senior School Receptionist

Y5 Class Teacher

Kate Reed BA

Y3 Class Teacher, Y3 & 4 Phase Leader

Karen Renouf

Pre-School Practitioner, After School Care Assistant

Jo Ricketts BA

Y5 Class Teacher

Barbara Santi BA MA

Class Teacher, Spanish, French & Italian

Peter Sargent BA

Class Teacher, Head of PE

Sam Satti

Class Teacher, Spanish, French, Italian

Claire Saukinsey MA

Learning Support Assistant

Lorna Scott

Learning Support Assistant

Hilary Smart

Learning Support Assistant

Liz Spiller BSc

Head of Learning Enrichment

Nicola Stevens BEd

Y6 Class Teacher

Matthew Stokes BA

Y4 Class Teacher

Richard Sutton BA

Specialist Teacher, Music & PE

Bianca Torode

Pre-School Practitioner

Principal’s PA

Elsa Van Der Watt

Learning Support Assistant

Kathryn Prince

Kitchen Assistant (Dishwasher)

Jonathan Vickers

Gap Year Student

Cheryl Roussel

Registrar

Samantha Potter

Jacqueline Roussel

Catering Assistant

Philip Roussel

Head Groundsperson

Katie Sebire

Examinations Manager

Steve Smith

Senior Maintenance Worker

Louise Stephens Carl Thomson

Art Technician Caretaker, Cleaning Team

Katrine Thomson

Chemistry Technician, Cleaning Team

Andrew Walker

Groundsperson & Landscape Gardener

Katie Wallen

Finance Bursar

Eulalia White

Lunchtime Supervisor

Ros Willard

Bursar’s Secretary

Nick Windsor

Groundsperson

Alison Worman Sara Wright

Catering Assistant Foundation & Alumni Assistant

Junior School Teaching Staff

Junior School Support Staff Sarah Bonsall Nicola Broad

Headteacher’s Secretary

Receptionist & Administrative Assistant

Stephen Cheetham Michelle Cox

Kitchen Assistant Chef, After School Care Assistant

Sing Chung After School Care Assistant Jane Dawson-Ball

Lunchtime Supervisor, After School Care Assistant

Andy Gethin-Jones

Caretaker/ Maintenance

Kelly Hind

Kitchen Assistant

Anne Leivars

Kitchen Assistant

Nicola Lesbirel

Kitchen Assistant

Julie Man David Randall Jay Rey Matthew Sirett

Kitchen Assistant Caretaker/ Maintenance Lunchtime Supervisor IT Support Engineer

Clare Bowden BEd

Y3 Class Teacher

Nathan Smith

Sophie Bridle BEd

Y1 Class Teacher

Natalie Thoumine

Kitchen Assistant

Chef Manager

Elaine Chapman BA

Y5 Class Teacher

Lisa Wallace

Kitchen Assistant

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JUNIOR SCHOOL

Contents NEWS

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ACTIVITIES

17 - 39

ARTS

40 - 53

SPORTS

54 - 59

TRIPS

60 - 65

JUNIOR SCHOOL | NEWS

Headteacher’s Foreword Aim High, Be Kind, Be Brave I am delighted and privileged to introduce the following pages of the Elizabethan as Headteacher at Elizabeth College Junior School (ECJS). The academic year has been, as always, an eventful year which has seen a COVID-free return to all the activities and experiences that make ECJS such a special place.

Our curriculum seeks to challenge, nurture and promote excellence, academically, creatively and socially. The musical, dramatic and creative opportunities are outstanding and the sporting opportunities allow our children to flourish in many areas and develop an independence and pride in their achievements.

Tours returned to ECJS to Hampton and Clifton and a new tour to Hereford. Every child in Year 6 has the opportunity to experience the camaraderie and shared experience of a sporting tour. This is further enhanced with visits to Guernsey from Hereford and Hampton. These have run alongside a full local programme of football, rugby, netball, cricket, gymnastics and athletics. We also enjoyed the welcome return of our Easter hockey tournament that brings independent and local school and hockey groups together.

Performances on the Acorn site both at Pre-School and with our younger children during the Christmas period always bring pleasure to us all and this year was no exception.

Our production of ‘Aladdin’ welcomed the new directing team of Mrs Ricketts, Mr Sutton and Mrs Chapman. Our older performers were absolutely phenomenal and several new stars were discovered on the stage at Beau Sejour.

Musically, we have seen unprecedented success in the Eisteddfod. The school choir won all three classes we entered and our Year 2 music-making also won their class.

We also had the first performance by our Pre-School.

The Eistedfodd offered us further opportunities to express our talents linguistically and artistically. French and Italian speaking awards and the coveted People’s Choice Award for our artwork was celebrated with our first art exhibition at the Gatehouse Gallery.

We offer our full programme of residential

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opportunities from Years 3-6. This progression from an overnight stay at school to Lihou, Sark and then the UK is such an important part of developing our children’s independence.

We are very much part of the wider College community, with older students and teachers regularly visiting and supporting our children with performances and activities and also enjoying the fabulous facilities at College Field and the new Hockey facilities at the Memorial Field site.

The Junior School is on two sites, but very much one whole school with assemblies on both sites, whole school activities and celebrations and house competitions taking place across the school. For example the younger children supporting their teams in the schools tug-of-war or joining together for World Book Day have become traditions that bring the whole school together.

Our ethos, ‘Aim High, Be Kind, Be Brave’ complements perfectly the College’s motto, ‘Curiosity, Compassion and Courage’. ‘ Relationships are the bedrock of any successful school and ECJS promotes this in our ethos, ‘Aim High, Be Kind, Be Brave’. The whole school community rallies around this ethos. We were inspected as a whole school by the Independent Schools

Inspectorate (ISI). Both the quality of the school’s learning and achievement and the pupils’ personal development were assessed as excellent. This is testament to our community’s dedication to creating the best learning experience for our students.

We promote a Growth Mindset and the belief that, whilst learning can be hard work, the effort and resilience when developing a new skill is the route to personal achievement.

These stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Decider Skills to foster positive relationships across the school. During the ISI Inspection, the positive relationship between the children and the staff was rightly praised and our School Council lead the way in ensuring that the student voice is always valued. They have continued to be a driving force for our Rights Respecting Schools Bronze award and a direction of travel towards the Silver award.

I hope you enjoy the pages that follow. They provide an insight into life at ECJS. The start of the 2023-24 year has seen some fabulous developments our Acorn Site with a new reception area and entrance for this part of the school. We look forward to new adventures and experiences to share with you next year.

Mr R Fyfe

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Staff Leavers was so very different to the wonderful facility she leaves behind.

Mrs Liu can truly say that her blood, sweat, and at times, tears are in the very fabric of our pre-school. These are mixed equally with care, laughter and a cheeky sense of humour and all of these things echo in the wonderful provision that we have in our pre-school.

Anne Liu When we said goodbye to Mrs Liu we adapted the Elvis Presley song ‘The Wonder of You’ to ‘The Wonder Anne Liu’ and this seems the perfect way to start this thanks and goodbye to Mrs Liu. For twenty five years, Mrs Liu has been the person who has welcomed children into the Elizabeth College family. When she started at the school the pre-school at Elizabeth College

Mrs Liu’s influence goes beyond our school and continues to influence early years provision across the Island. During her time she has seen fundamental changes in terms of legislation and provision for the Island’s young children and has ensured that our provision has remained at the vanguard of these developments, continuing to learn personally and develop our pre-school.

Tenacious and driven to ensure that our pre-school is the best it can be, it is her sense of fun and love of the children that is our abiding memory of Mrs Liu. All of us have memories of Mrs Liu singing songs, dressed up as Humpty Dumpty, wearing hats and being made up by the children.

Emi Hollis Emi joined ECJS at Acorn House in September 2020, working as a teaching assistant in a Year 1 class. Emi has worked hard during her time at Acorn House, developing great relationships with the children, parents and staff in the ECJS community. She is now ready to start the next stage of her career and in September will be studying for a PGCE at Roehampton University, on a year-long course. Her wish after this is to become a class teacher.

We wish her well in her continuing role of developing new early years practitioners.

We would like to say a big thank you for all you have done during your time at ECJS and wish you the very best of luck with your studies.

We will miss you Emi but hope you will pop in to see us when you are visiting Guernsey.

Mr R Fyfe

Mrs S Orton

part of the school’s development and success. She has seen huge changes in the school in terms of intake, personnel, technology and fabric of the school, yet she remained constant, up to date and ready to support the students, parents and staff with her knowledge and professionalism.

She has been the Personal Assistant to three headteachers and as the current incumbent, I can honestly say that I would not have integrated into ECJS life without her support, wisdom and guidance.

Mrs Pybus promised to help settle me in support through to inspection. None of us realised that this would include two COVID years where her ability to adapt and see things clearly were evident every day as we adapted to each new challenge.

Beth Pybus Twenty two years of service is an impressive testament to a person’s contribution to any school. Yet it does not do justice to Mrs Pybus’ role and contribution to Elizabeth College Junior School. Starting as a parent helper, teaching assistant and then school secretary, Mrs Pybus has been an integral

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Mrs Pybus is the one person that every parent and student has come in contact with in the last twenty two years. Regularly you would overhear the conversations from College students, parents and even grandparents – ‘Hello Mrs Pybus/Beth it is so lovely to see you are still here. I remember when...’

Mrs Pybus has remained the constant for so many people and never was the College’s motto, ‘Semper Eadem’ more suitable. We wish her well in her retirement.

Mr R Fyfe

Imogen Wegerer Shortly after Imogen started at Elizabeth College Pre-School we were in lockdown.

Later in the year, things once again changed and the pre-school had to adjust to working in ‘bubbles’, which meant keeping the same staff with the same group of children every day. Imogen had to draw on all her brief experience as a pre-school practitioner to enable her to lead the group.

She showed her true character and resilience and did an amazing job. Working on her level 3 Childcare qualification whilst learning on the job showed how passionate and

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dedicated Imogen has been to the team. Her love for tennis, dancing and her involvement in musical theatre, certainly contributed to the skills she was able to share with the preschool children and the staff. These skills will enable her to have an amazing time as she goes on her world travels.

Mrs A Liu

matter if it is singing, camping, photocopying or assisting with the year production, Leyla is always ready to lend a hand and to get involved. As her year with us at ECJS comes to an end, we will miss her endless energy, her amazing capacity for learning children’s names and her caring and kind way with the children. All the very best for your new adventures at university Leyla.

Mrs N Stevens

Leyla Luff Leyla breezed into ECJS in September as one half of a dynamic duo of gap year students.

Her instant connection with the children was easy to see. Leyla has thrown herself into everything with 100% enthusiasm. It doesn’t

Shaun Bennett Shaun has been our Acorn House Caretaker for over ten years and has been a

taking them back up to the ‘Launch Pad’ where they would be happily encouraged and taught useful tools for learning. The many children who have benefited from her teaching, gaining in confidence as she so patiently nurtured them, will remember how she has helped them.

However, Carry is also a highly skilled and experienced Maths teacher, taking a group in Year 6 to dizzying heights. The children found her kind and inspirational, while also being approachable, listening with understanding and helping when they were ‘stuck’. Carry never failed to provide highly enjoyable activities, whether these were games, puzzles, or intricate problem-solving challenges. She even inspired a love and enjoyment of fractions!

Carry Wray The first time I met Carry was when she came to interview for a post in the Learning Support Department just 8 years ago. I instantly found myself wishing that she would be successful and, fortunately for ECJS, she was. And what a delightful addition to the school she has been.

First and foremost, of course, in our Learning Support department. Serving faithfully and competently, Carry would collect a child with a smile and her genuinely friendly manner,

Carry was not only an asset to the academic side of school life, but with characteristic enthusiasm threw herself – without fuss or fanfare – into all kinds of different activities, giving freely of her skills and time. She ran the successful gymnastics club, encouraging children to extend their capabilities and develop their imaginations.

The demonstrations which the school was treated to, often before a competition, not only showed off the gymnasts’ skills and superb confidence but also exhibited their huge enjoyment.

Carry is a keen cyclist and was a key

hardworking, dedicated and proud member of the team. He leaves us to work with the EC Catering department, but will be sorely missed in Kings Road. Any excuse to dress up and escort you to your safe parking slot, as well as happily welcoming his alter egos to visit us all, such as Litterbug Doug, the Lost Alien, the friendly Knight, the Gingerbread Man, the Sorting Hat and Batman, to name but a few of his littleknown cameo roles.

No job was ever too big or too small, no drain unblockable, no shrub left untended.

Shaun kept us ticking over safely with numerous jobs, often completed quietly behind the scenes to make the running of our school safe and in tip-top condition: garden tubs built, shelving created overnight, wooden staging built, games designed, playgrounds painted, materials sourced and then built, welly rack frames organised, woodwork resources, fixing, mending, painting, carrying, tidying, driving, messaging, joining us on trips, chairs out, chairs back, chairs out and back, urns filled, tea drunk and not forgetting sharing his appalling jokes.

We will certainly miss you Shaun. You made a big difference to us all.

Mrs J Atkinson

member of the ECJS team who organised the dozens of children who took part in the 7/7 Les Bourgs cycling challenge while also completing her own 30 rides in 30 days in her free time. Another area of great interest to her was in supporting the activity trips to Sark, being, again, a key member of the staff team, contributing her passion for all things outdoors, her love of kayaking and sea-swimming.

She was not only involved in so many extracurricular activities at the Junior School, but she eagerly joined the Senior School’s Kenya expedition, supporting fundraising events and taking part in the trip with customary energy.

But Carry will be missed not just for her contributions to the school. Her friendliness, calm manner, zest for life, great sense of humour and above all her wonderful kindness have made the Beechwood staffroom a happy place with her presence.

She has been a marvellous support to so many adults, as well as children, at ECJS and is such a wonderful teacher, colleague and friend.

We shall miss her tremendously, but look forward to being inspired by all the adventures which she and David will embark on together.

Mrs A Pollard

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Friends of ECJS

Easter Egg Hunt!

First and foremost, on behalf of The Friends of ECJS, I would like to express a heartfelt Thank You to all the parents, staff and students who have helped us to put on the various events throughout the year, and to raise the money that we did. Without all your help, the Friends simply wouldn’t happen, and our children wouldn’t enjoy the benefits of the funds that we raise.

Amongst the successful events held in the last year were: Movie Night, which generated a profit of £1,316; Christmas and Mardi Gras Disco Nights (£2,146); Uniform sales (£1,027); My Art Project (Christmas cards and merchandise) (£1,586); Christmas Fayre (£3,151). Refreshments sales from

various Sports Days etc. raised around a further £500. To have raised almost £10,000 in a year without a major event, such as a school ball, is a great achievement, and demonstrates the ongoing commitment that our school community has for the enhancement of the extra-curricular experience of our children.

As a result of the successes above, the Friends were thrilled to have been able to contribute £5,000 towards the purchase of the school’s 7-seater minibus, which has been in constant use since its acquisition.

Additionally, as in every year, we have funded the following for the children: Year 6 leavers’ hoodies (£1,008); Year 6 leavers’

books (£430); wet weather games (£750); Easter eggs (£187); Christmas books (£158).

So, thank you all again for helping out – keep doing it! – and do come along to the meetings too; we are always looking for new members and helpers.

In the years ahead, we have the exciting challenge of helping the school to fund a brand new playground, designed with the children’s input and inspiration, which will represent a significant capital outlay, so the more hands to the pump, the better! We are certainly Aiming High!

Manoela Benedetti Mackay

Acorn Movie Night

ATP Official Opening Event

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Cakes at the Pre-School Family Day

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Being a Gap Year Student There’s no singular way to describe being a Gap Year Student at ECJS. From patching up scraped knees, to whizzing around roller coasters in Chessington or coasteering in rainy Lihou Island, no two days are ever the same.

Being a team of two (as shown with our World Book Day costume) has given us the opportunity to form a lifelong friendship in the best first job we could have wished for.

All the amazing children we’ve worked with have really changed both of our lives for the better and helped us to understand the true responsibilities of being a teacher. It’s not just the children who have made this experience truly unique, but the amazing staff here too.

World Book Day 2023

From class teachers to LSAs (and even Mr Randall), each and every staff member shows such care and passion for what they do and it is truly inspiring to us. We have absolutely loved our time here (so much so that Miss Ford Brooks can’t leave

just yet!) and saying goodbye after just one year is one of the hardest parts of the role.

Miss Luff is sure she’ll be back in the staff room soon,

All the amazing children we’ve worked with have really changed both our lives with some tea, biscuits and her unmatchable levels of energy (plus a few silly stories about university), and Miss Ford Brooks is so thrilled for the chance to stay on and experience the excitement of a new year at Beechwood.

Thank you so much to Mr Fyfe for the opportunity of a lifetime, and to all the other staff for making each day a joy and for welcoming us so warmly into the ECJS family.

Miss Luff and Miss Ford Brooks

Being an Activity Prefect This year having the privilege of being an Activity Prefect has been an honour and an adventure. It was amazing and so much fun! On the hard court we would referee Years 3 and 4. We would play dodgeball and cricket with them, they were ‘mostly’ well-behaved, good-natured and a pleasure to referee. It was pleasing when at the end of lunch, there would be troops of sweaty but satisfied customers happy that their break time had been well spent and it brought smiles to the faces of the Activity Prefects. Another aspect of refereeing was

football on the astroturf. It was great fun to stroll around the pitch occasionally blowing the whistle and awarding the free kick or penalty. When refereeing Year 5, games could get heated, and it was wonderful to blow a last minute goal and hear the scoring teams wild cheers of victory. It truly was a magical moment. Sometimes when watching the sport or playing it, someone would show good sportsmanship or enthusiastic respect or even just making our lives easier by tidying up the dodgeballs. If we noticed a particular kind act, we would

write that person down on the Fair Play Fox list. Fair Play Fox is a reward system that recognises good behaviour and respectfulness. If you get on the Fair Play Fox list your name gets read out in Friday’s assembly along with the other people who were recognised, and you get a certificate and you get to play football on the astroturf at morning break that Friday. Overall, being an Activity Prefect was amazing and we wish we could do it again!

Edward Field and Tom Gardiner

Music Prefects It was a lot of fun being Music Prefects. We have been privileged to have this role in our school. We both love music and feel extremely passionate about it. As Music Prefects, we hope we have made the younger years enjoy this subject as much as we do. We would like the Year 5 to choose this role next year as it was a role we

suggested. We hope that they will continue choosing people to play their favourite instruments in Friday assemblies.

This role requires knowledge of music and it helps show the school other people’s talents. We loved performing in the Summer Concert. It had a new format this year. We

began indoors with individual performances and items from the choir and then moved outdoors to enjoy listening to a range of acts while we enjoyed family picnics on the field. We cannot explain how much fun we have had throughout this year.

Daniel Begg and Warwick McGreevy

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Art Prefects As Art Prefects this year we enjoyed hosting competitions like making Christmas ornaments, Easter Eggs and pumpkin carving. It was also fun to see the whole school contribute towards the Remembrance Day display. Throughout the year, we enjoyed organising Artists at Home where we displayed the creativity of a number of budding artists who had

worked on their own projects at home. In the morning before school began, a lot of pencils were sharpened, and we mean a lot of pencils! Along with completing other miscellaneous tasks for the amazing Mrs Ellis. We all loved being a prefect this year.

Reading together

Charity stalls for Children in Need

Teamwork on Environmental Day

Children in Need

James, School Council Chairperson

Milo, Year 6 School Council member

Environmental Day

The Art Prefects

Annabelle Shires, Isaac Brock and Sophie Wallen

Fishing on Environmental Day

Outdoor Prefects/ Eco Prefects

School Council

This year the Outdoor Prefects and the Eco Prefects came together to make one group as we decided that we wanted to inspire future generations to protect our environment before it is too late.

We presented in assembly every two weeks by taking turns to help the school understand more about the animals on our planet which are endangered. We then displayed a poster about the animal on our information board in the corridor to help to raise awareness. We think the most popular poster was the manatee. We hope that future Outdoor Prefects and Eco Prefects continue to protect the planet as we only have one!

School Council has been a very privileged role to carry this year. We have led the school on our Rights Respecting Silver journey to become Rights Aware.

Sammy Vidamour, Luke Harvey and Finlay Betts

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We have brought in lots of new ideas and items. For example bringing in long trousers, new ideas for the climbing frame, walking zones and painted playground games. Most of these have been a massive success. Introducing long trousers was super popular among the students but not as popular with all the adults who were also surveyed.

A compromise was reached and it was decided that trousers would be introduced for Years 5 and 6. When you see ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ on the Acorn House site and

the dance mats at the Beechwood site it will help you remember the success of 20222023 School Council! School Council also organised the fundraising for our annual Children in Need day. This was lots of fun with an animal-themed spots and stripes fancy dress and activities for all the years to take part in. Similarly, the environmental day, ‘Take Care of our Earth’, was also extremely popular.

The whole school took part in lots of different games to help learn more about our environment and how to care for it.

We hope that the new School Council will enjoy their year as much as we did!

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Life at Pre-School There are so many activities to enjoy each day at Pre-School. From sorting and music making, to cookery, dress up and messy play, the children enjoy so many new experiences with their friends. Whatever the weather the children relish the chance to play outside and explore the whole campus at ECJS. Thank you to the whole team for another wonderful year at Pre-School.

Christmas Nativity

Cookery role play

Getting messy

Hidden Garden

Mr Fyfe comes to visit

Outdoor classroom

Outdoor play

Painting

Mrs A Liu

Building fun!

Sorting

Upstairs music room

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Science experiments

Visit to Reception

Wrens making gingerbread

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Nursery Rhyme Rumble

Mrs Liu

The Kingfishers entered the pre-school age music making class for the first time with their ‘Nursery Rhyme Rumble’. They travelled to Beau Sejour by coach and waited patiently in the ‘green room’ to be called on stage to perform. They were accompanied on stage by Mrs Liu dressed as Humpty Dumpty. Their parents were invited to meet them at Beau Sejour and watch them in the audience. The adjudicator awarded the Kingfishers a Highly Commended certificate for their performance.

In the school arts and craft section of the Eisteddfod both the Wrens and the Kingfishers continued with their nursery rhyme theme and made individual Humpty Dumpties which sat around a larger Humpty that they all helped to stuff with newspaper’.

On the coach

Mrs S Ellis

Arts and Crafts Eisteddfod

In the green room

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Home-Start Charity Day

Families enjoy their picnics on College Field

On the 27th May 2023 Pre-School hosted their annual Family Fun Day raising funds for local charity Home-Start. It was a lovely afternoon for the children and their families where we managed to raise more than £400.

After the excitement of the activities, the children each received a medal and some bubbles. Lots of families stayed at College Field for a picnic to enjoy the sunshine and

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delicious cakes organised by the Friends of Elizabeth College Junior School.

Home Start is a local charity who offer support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children within our local community.

Well done everyone – what a great afternoon!

Mrs A Liu

Mrs Liu

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The parachute

Toddle around College Field

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King Charles III Coronation The children were all very excited to join together as a school to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. Every child made their own crown at home which they were keen to bring into school to show their friends. In Reception, each child created a commemorative plate, which we hope will be treasured for years to come.

Mrs Atkinson held a special, whole school assembly and afterwards the children paraded around the ECJS field and enjoyed delicious cakes baked by our catering team.

They were also treated to music by the Elizabeth College Drum Corps which really did make the day even more memorable.

Mrs E Jones

Finley

The ECJS parade

The King’s head

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Alex, Rosie and Monty

Megan

Watching the drum corp

Delicious Coronation cupcakes

Coronation crowns

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The children made crowns for the Coronation

Wilfred, Wolf and Rafe

Gabby, Marnie, Martha and Hattie

Lottie and Theodore enjoying the celebrations

CCF Coronation celebrations

Isabella, Kitty and Oscar

Otto and his winning crown!

Edward and Milo

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Reception Environment Topic

Saving the sea creatures

Litterbug Doug visiting Reception

One of our topics in Reception is ‘Our Environment’. During this topic we learn all about how to look after our planet. Mr Henry from Guernsey Waste came to talk to us about rubbish and where it all goes. We also found out how important it is to recycle.

We then had a visitor called Litterbug Doug come around our playground throwing rubbish everywhere! The children knew

exactly what to do and explained to him the importance of recycling and keeping our planet clean and green! To end our topic, we headed to the beach for a beach clean, the children loved this and were very happy that we were helping to keep both land and sea creatures safe from rubbish.

Teamwork in Reception

Miss L Scott

Remembrance For our Remembrance commemorations in 2022 Mrs Ellis created a beautiful poppy solider which was displayed in the entrance to the main building on the Beechwood site.

Students in Years 5 and 6 created individual paper poppies in their art lessons, which were then assembled together to create

a poignant tribute to the fallen.

I wear a little poppy, As red as red can be, To show that I remember Those who fought for me.

Mrs E Parkes

Charlie’s rockpooling find

Poppies created by ECJS students

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Remembrance 2022

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Year 1 Visit the Little Chapel

Year 1 finished sketches

To conclude the first half of the Michaelmas term, Year 1 enjoyed having the opportunity to take part in ‘Guernsey Week’. During this week, a variety of Guernsey-themed activities and trips to local landmarks are organised by staff. This year the children

Isla, Chloe, Troy, George L and Ollie sketching

particularly enjoyed a coach trip to the Little Chapel. They were very keen to have a look around and had fun spotting lots of different animals within the broken ceramic pieces.

The children were very respectful walking around and showed lots of curiosity when

Big grins

exploring the inside of the Chapel. They then concentrated brilliantly to produce some fantastic observational drawings of the Little Chapel.

Mrs S Bridle

1B start sketching

Wolf, Toby, Gus, Lilliana sketching

Inside the Chapel

Amaya, Max, Casper sketching

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Island Games Competitors Visit ECJS Year 4 were absolutely thrilled to receive a visit from four of our Guernsey Island Games Team 2023 competitors as part of our Island Games project. We enjoyed listening to our local stars introduce themselves: swimmer, Tom Hollingsworth (former ECJS pupil and an OE); basketballer, Michael Beausire, tennis player, Rob West; and 400m athlete, Cameron Chalmers (former ECJS pupil, OE9844). The children enjoyed bombarding our Team Guernsey competitors with lots of questions and have been inspired by their passion for and success in their respective sports and their love for our island. GO GUERNSEY!

Guernsey Island Games competitors visit Year 4

Mrs D Dowding

Gold medallists: Joel, Reuben and Asher

Guernsey Competitors

Year 4 Celebrates the Island Games My favourite part about Athletics was the long jump because I wanted to improve my score from sports day. And I did by far! Also, I like to cheer on my team and the other team.

I cheered for my team mostly because it’s my team. We were called The Western Isles.

My favourite part about tennis was that I won one match and I lost one. I like hitting the tennis ball and playing with my partner who was Toby. It was exciting, George and Seth were playing really hard. Me and George kept to our side while the other two were keeping to their side. I took most of the serves for my side, but George took most of the serves on his side and after I was sweating because I had worked hard.

Then we moved onto tri golf.

My favorite part about tri golf was that I played well along with my team. We got 53 points one round and we lost the other time.

We literally lost by ten points. We played one round with two goes and another round with one go. But it had to end for lunch.

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My favourite part about bowls (but it was actually petanque) was when my team won on our side, I don’t know about the other side. This was the funnest! I loved it when we drew. I loved it when we lost. I loved it when we won. It’s just the perfect sport. I can barely complain to the referee because most of the time you’re the referee or the other person’s referee and you’re both the referee because you’re just playing with each other.

It’s just that I like, refereeing together.

I liked playing basketball because it was fun, but just a little tweak of the rules which I didn’t really like. You weren’t really allowed to tackle, you are only allowed to intercept the ball, which led to our loss. But still I liked it. It was fun, but we lost. When you look on the bright side, at least we had fun and celebrated having the Island Games in Guernsey! GO GUERNSEY! Edward Sloan

Silver medallists: Sam, James, Monty and Isla

Bronze medallists: Oliver, Henry, Edwin and Mateo

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Reception Christingle As part of their topic on Festivals and Celebrations the Reception children went on a visit to St Martin’s Parish church to celebrate with the Christingles that they had learnt about and made in school. Once we had arrived, Reverend Daniel Foot greeted the children and they were encouraged to explore the church.

Loki, Rory, Beatrice, Arabella

Christingle

Arthur, Charlie, Finley, Edward

They looked around freely to find their favourite part, there were no areas off limits so the children found many exciting things to look at up closely and discuss. Next, the Christingles were lit and the children held them very sensibly whilst they reflected on what each part of the Christingle represented and the true meaning of Christmas.

Everyone had a wonderful time. Thank you Reverend Foot for letting our young children explore your church!

Mrs L Du Port

Blowing out the Christingle candles

Reception outside St Martins church

Christmas Party Day Each year, ECJS children are treated to a party day during the last week of the Michaelmas term. The school is decorated and excitement mounts as the children look forward to breaking up for Christmas. The kitchen staff work very hard to cater for a party lunch and the Friends of ECJS and staff all help to deliver and serve the children

in either the Beechwood gym or the Acorn dining room. The rooms are decorated and the children all make party hats and parade into the respective halls. The day finishes with a disco for Years 3 to 6 where dancing and glow sticks feature heavily!

Mrs E Parkes

Felicity, Antonella and Alaia

James, Sam and Howard

Reception enjoying Christmas lunch

Catering Team at Acorn

Max and Teddy

Sophie, Izzy and Sophia

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La Société Guernesiaise Reception welcomed La Société Guernesiaise Education team when they visited, over a number of weeks, to help the children explore and learn about nature.

This linked in well with our Environment topic. The children had a great time participating in a number of activities during the visits such as learning interesting facts

about insects, trees, flowers and seedlings and how to encourage birds and wildlife into their gardens by providing suitable habitats for them to live in. The children enjoyed making their own bug hotel, a bird feeder and planted chard seeds too.

Mrs S Parsons

Environmental goodie bags

Look closely

Interesting facts

Year 2 Cup We were so proud and honoured to present Evelina and Thomas with our Year 2 Cup this year for always using their learning powers in everything they do.

Concentration, determination, kindness, curiosity, improvement, enjoyment, creativity, being brave and having a go, listening, cooperating, being organised and having good manners all of the time.

What a year for these two scholars.

Evelina and Thomas

The Acorn Staff

Castles Topic Year 1 embraced our topic about castles after receiving a talking letter from Sir George.

Sir George requested the children’s assistance to research information about castles. We enjoyed going out on our trips to find out first-hand about the features of castles around Guernsey. We visited Castle

Cornet and a Motte and Bailey castle called Château de Marais. To complete our topic, we hosted a medieval day, where we all came dressed in medieval costume. We got creative when following our own designs to make a castle out of junk modelling. The children were mesmerised watching the

A very tasty lunch

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live sword-fighting demonstration. After a funpacked morning we had a traditional medieval banquet. To conclude our day, the children performed a medieval dance to their parents having been knighted by Sir George himself!

Mrs C Bowden

Castles Day

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Apprentice Gardeners finding out what a healthy plant needs to grow, they planted their own seed, bulb and baby spider plant.

Planting - Annabel, Daisy, Evelina, Lila, Ethan, Joshua

Over the Trinity term children in Year 2 have enjoyed investigating how plants grow. They looked at a variety of seeds, learning about where they come from and identifying a variety of different seeds and bulbs. After

They documented their progress each week by taking a photograph and recording the findings of the investigation, the children were amazed to observe the plants as they grew, checking on them every morning!

There was huge excitement to measure how tall they had grown once they had started to shoot and grow roots. Eventually the plants grew too big for the classroom and the children took them home to replant them and continue watching them grow, using their knowledge of what a healthy plant needs.

Mrs H Dorritty

Plant image – Week 4

Year 1 Trip to the Police Station To conclude our ‘Superheroes’ topic, Year 1 went on a trip to the Police Station to meet some of our community superheroes. We were full of smiles and enthusiasm before swiftly being taken to custody by PC Nick and PC Benjamin.

be introduced to some of the police dogs and their handler – who had some pretty amazing tricks! The children enjoyed looking at the different police vehicles and learning about what happens in the control room when you call 999.

The children’s curiosity went wild on what life is like as a Police Officer and put PC Nick and PC Benjamin through some thorough questioning! On our release from custody, we were lucky enough to

What an action packed way to round off our topic. We definitely learnt that not all superheroes wear capes.

Miss E Hollis

Year 1 at the Police Station

Year 4 Beach Day

Archie, Eddie, Jasper, Digby – Seaweed Museum

Joel, Reuben, Alexandra, Asher – Seaweed Museum

My favourite part of the beach day was sea swimming because we played fun games and I was able to splash all of the teachers.

Eddie Pates We has so many fun activities over the course of the day. With my group, we were

Finn, Alex, Adam, Jesse, Georges – Seaweed Museum

able to make an amazing Seaweed Museum showcasing all the different seaweeds we had found. We had a challenge to make one of the teachers faces in the sand, I chose to do Mrs Bott.

Bene Gittins

Sea Swimming

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Marine Biologist Visits Year 4 Josie visited us to tell us all about her job as a Marine Biologist. It was not only inspiring to find out about such an interesting job but it also linked in with our science project on human impact and our seaweed museum creations on our beach day!

Mrs D Dowding The talk from Jessie Chandler about marine biology was so exciting. My passion to be a marine biologist has only grown.

My favourite part was when we were told about one of her first jobs after leaving university, when she treated turtles which were caught in fishing nets.

The nets, which are roughly the size of a football pitch and towed beneath the surface by two fishing boats, get stuck on the rocks and then the fisherman cut the nets and the turtles get stuck in them. One to seven turtles, depending on how long it has been floating around.

Currently Josie Chandler is working on a project in Australia to see why the thorn crown starfish is over populating and destroying eco systems. Specifically the coral reef.

I loved that she answered so many of our questions. I asked about seven! I hope I can see her again.

Marine Biologist, Josie Chandler, with Year 4

on a piece of coral and instead of swimming down and untangling it they cut it. After they cut, it is left and floats around the sea for days collecting more fish and turtles. So, there are now people who go out on boats everyday to free and help the turtles.

Jack Biggins

I liked the bit about when Josie told us about the over-population of crown-of-thorns starfish because I like how they look.

The best part was when Josie told us about all the different types of parts you can play as a Marine Biologist. I would like the scuba diving the most because I like looking at animals under the sea. She talked about lots of different types of marine animals and seaweed.

George Fisher

Adam Davis

My favourite part was when she talked about how she worked around the Indian Ocean to save turtles from ghost nets.

Ghost nets are nets that have been stuck

I liked how Josie studies marine biology on manta rays. It is amazing she saw a five metres-long manta ray. She found a manta ray cleaning station. It’s incredible that

Edward Sloan

manta rays can grow up to seven metres long! You can tell if a manta ray is a girl or a boy by looking at its underside.

Jesse Willis It was very interesting hearing about this crown-of-thorns starfish. This starfish eats a small amount of coral but they are overpopulated so they are gradually destroying the coral.

Reuben Brock My favourite part was finding out about seaweed. If there wasn’t any seaweed then marine life wouldn’t survive. My conclusion is that marine biology is very important because only 5% of the oceans are known about and I really loved everything about the talk.

Jasper Godfrey

ECJS Languages The French Eisteddfod was a great success with the Year 6 children singing a celebratory song about Guernsey. Pom-poms, back flips, rock music and a huge amount of energy, enjoyment and determination culminated in a well-deserved Honours certificate and cup.

modern version of Noah’s Ark at the Italian Eisteddfod. Their performance was incredible and so was their effort and attention to detail. The adjudicator gave them top marks and commented on their immaculate pronunciation and exquisite use of props.

Years 3 to 6 Italian Club presented a

Mrs B Santi

Year 1 at the Police Station

Italian Club Eisteddfod

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Visit by Author Ellie Sandall At the end of March, Acorn House met the author and illustrator Ellie Sandall. She was truly inspiring in so many ways and the children loved listening to her stories that she read. Ellie talked about how she was a teacher and enjoyed teaching art to younger children when not writing and illustrating stories. One of her books, Balancing Bernie is about a dog who balances dogs on its nose. Araminta in Year 2 got to have a turn at doing this She managed to balance 19 soft dogs in her

Ellie Sandall reading her book Balancing Bernie

arms and the audience loved watching this.

Ellie could name each dog individually and tell a story about where she had got it from.

Ellie showed us step-by-step how to draw a dog and the children loved using their imagination to draw different things on the end of the dog’s nose. Ideas ranged from animals to aeroplanes, lollipops to lorries.

Everyone got to have a turn at being an illustrator and their drawings were superb.

Mrs R Curtis

Ellie Sandall showing Acorn how to draw a dog

Araminta balancing like Bernie

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7/7 Cycle Challenge What another incredible 7/7 Cycle Challenge at ECJS this year. At 8am each morning a gaggle of excited children have eagerly awaited the signal to begin pedalling for Les Bourgs Hospice.

35 children signed up to take on the challenge of cycling before school each morning and completing the Rock to

Rocque at the weekend too!

On the Friday morning the children were honoured to receive a visit from the Lieutenant Governor, who came to congratulate ECJS for participating in the 7/7 every year since 2012. To date ECJS has raised more than £30,000. Wow – well done everyone!

Cycling course around the ECJS Field

Mrs E Parkes

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Lt Governor

Year 4 Norman Defences of Castles When we went to Castle Cornet, my favourite bit was the noonday gun. It was not that loud, but it vibrated loads.

It vibrated so much that my chest felt like it had a noonday gun in it. I also scooted back about half a metre because of the shock it gave me. At the end we had a photo with the people who fired it.

Adam Davis On Wednesday 24th May, we went to Castle Cornet. My favourite part was the tour of the Castle especially looking up the murder hole and examining which walls were the original walls and which ones were not. At the end of our trip, I really enjoyed watching the noonday gun. It made me jump back and the teachers told us to cover our ears.

I faked it. It wasn’t even that loud.

defensive feature was the 90 degree angled walls. If the enemy was attacking, the army in the castle could hide a man behind them the walls ready to destroy the enemy soldiers.

Jesse Willis At Castle Cornet, I particularly enjoyed seeing the murder hole and the machicolations. At the murder hole, there would have been a guard who would drop debris down the hole every time there was an attack. The machicolation had a murder hole at the top. Castle Cornet had carved walls that meant cannonballs could bounce off them. The narrow slits were full of archers but now they are full of blockades.

Henry Wilson

When visiting Castle Cornet, my favourite

We started our day with a museum visit, learning about the different parts of history whilst completing a treasure hunt. We had

A tour of the original parts of Castle Cornet

Year 4 at Castle Cornet

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to find artefacts that were on our piece of paper, ticking them off as we saw them.

We followed this by having a tour around the castle. Our tour guide was called Steve.

He told us lots of stories and different names for the walkways like Sally Port and the Death Pit. We finished our day with the noonday gun which was extremely loud.

Rosie Le Page Firstly, we met our tour guide Steve. We completed a scavenger hunt trying to find artefacts around the Museum. We swapped with the other class and had a tour around the castle. We learnt about the 800 year old steps, death pit and where their toilets used to be. We then walked to see the noonday gun which was really loud and it made me jump in the air when it went off.

Isla Beck

Noonday Gun

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Year 5 Civil War Visit to Castle Cornet In May, during our topic on the English Civil War, Year 5 got the chance to visit Castle Cornet to find out what it was like to be living and fighting in Castle Cornet at the time.

The children were treated to a fantastic Living History performance from a solider who was fighting for the royalists during the time of the English Civil War. They experienced what it was like to have been besieged within the castle for nine years and they learnt about the hardships faced by those forced to stay there. As part of the

experience, the children learnt how to fire a cannon typical of that period and learnt about the types of food and clothing that would have been available to the soldiers at that time.

As well as the Living History performance, the children were also treated to a tour of the Castle, where they learnt how the different parts of the castle would have been used to fight against Guernsey who were on the opposite side of the war.

Mrs E Chapman

Year 5 listening to the Living History performance

Jessica, Max, Hugo and Sophie learning how to fire a canon

Year 5 Practising firing and re-loading Muskets on the firing steps

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Year 3 Activity Days Year 3 enjoyed some special co-curricular activities during the trinity term. Our first trip was to Fort Grey shipwreck museum, on a very windy day in June. As we walked across to the fort, hats and caps blew off the children’s heads onto the beach path below! We were pleased to get into the fort and out of the wind! Our next trip took us to UpClimbing, where all the children demonstrated their climbing abilities. From there, we walked to Grand Rocques beach and ate our picnic lunches.

After lunch the children worked in groups to create beach art, based on the environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Herm was our next adventure and we had a wonderful day based on Fisherman’s Beach. The highlight for many was having some money to spend in the Herm gift shop. Although digging deep holes in the sand was also a big hit this year! Our activity days culminated in a night camping on the Beechwood field.

We set up the tents during the day, making them cosy with blankets and teddies. In the evening we cooked crumpets round the camp fire and Miss Luff played her Ukulele and we sang songs. Mr Fyfe also treated us to some fun songs whilst he played his guitar.

The children got ready for bed and snuggled down – some went to sleep more quickly than others! A great time was had by all!

Mrs K Reed and Mrs E Parkes

Otto, Max, Barney and Miles Beach Art at Grandes Rocques

Warm Up

Raef, Jack, Josh and Daniel’s Andy Goldsworthy-inspired Beach Art

Henry and James

Picnic at Grandes Rocques

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Max, Daniel and Henry demonstrating their climbing skills

Ivo and James’ pebble tower

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What the children said: “My favourite activity was UpClimbing. I got to the top and overcame my fear when I jumped from the top.”

Rory

“We went to the Cup and Saucer and it was so windy that our hats flew off!”

“I loved it when we dug a big hole on the beach in Herm.”

Jack

“I loved our Herm trip because we got to make a swimming pool and a secret base.”

Ethan

Miles

“I liked snuggling up by the fire with Otto and listening to the story and toasting the crumpets. But Jack woke me up at 5am!”

“I liked putting the tents up and sleeping in them. Miss Luff played the Ukulele.”

Ivo

“I liked reading my football book, sleeping with my friends, the bacon roll and the parachute” Otto

Daniel “I really enjoyed Art in Year 3 and I loved doing the lever project.”

“It was very loud but it was very nice sleeping with my best buddies!”

Archie

Sam

“We got to stay up late and my camp mate snored!”

“I liked it when we sang shotgun and when we made the dens and Miss Luff played the Ukulele” Henry

Rory

Year 3 Visit Le Guet Year 3 study the book The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame. The original book was written in 1898 and it is full of wonderful, descriptive language. The book is set in the South Downs in England and the dragon moves into a cave. Year 3 have written their own version of the story using a different, relatable setting. Our dragon lives at Le Guet in Guernsey. Year 3 had a chilly trip to Le Guet where we took them to the Napoleonic watch-house which was originally built in 1780. This was used for the new setting of their stories. We explored the area and imagined the dragon in some of the dens we found in Le Guet.

Mrs E Parkes

Dens in Le Guet

Looking in to the Reluctant Dragon’s Lair

View of Cobo Bay for the dragon!

Year 3’s trip to find the setting for The Reluctant Dragon

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Market Buildings 200th Anniversary

Guernsey Primary Schools

Thank you to Greg and Oliver, who proudly represented Elizabeth College Junior School at Guernsey’s Market Buildings 200th anniversary celebration in February 2023.

They, along with other primary school children, placed various items in a Guernsey milk churn, including copies of the

Greg and Oliver

Elizabethan, to be buried as a time capsule to be opened after another 200 years.

An exhibition featuring photographs, architectural drawings and newspaper articles from 1822-2022 was held at the George Crossan Gallery.

Adding our items

Mrs E Parkes

Year 2 Fire Station Trip Year 2 set off on a sunny day to enjoy a walk to the Guernsey Fire station. The enthusiasm of the children was a delight to see as they wondered what they would do.

Once settled in the fire station garage the children were in awe of what they saw and the crew were admiring of the behaviour shown by ECJS representatives.

look through expensive thermal imaging equipment. Favourite moments were pulling funny faces and identifying those people wearing glasses through the machine. Soon after, the fire bell went and the pole was in use. The children were shown the extensive protective uniform fire operatives have to wear.

The children were thrilled to be able to

They even learned how to dance in it! The

More powerful than we thought!

routine was called the BA shuffle. Reflecting upon the events of history reinforced how lucky we are today to have a service at hand in an emergency, not something that was available in 1666. Stepping out into the yard, the children were tasked with saving the day. Using the hose, they were challenged with extinguishing a fire. Many smiles were seen and quite a few splashes of water felt as the hose may have been misfired on several occasions. This resulted in a lot of laughs and a few splashed faces.

Waiting in turn

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A look around the fire engine was a privilege before they were called out to help in a real emergency. This was a trip with a serious tone, but a memorable outcome experienced with giggles. What more can you ask for on an ECJS school day?

Mrs J Hamilton

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World Book Day World Book Day is a wonderful celebration of the written word and its ability to inspire, educate and entertain. It is always an extra special day at the Junior School as the children and staff share their love of books and reading with a riot of colour and costumes.

They took pictures of themselves reading in interesting places, made models and artefacts of characters from their favourite book and designed and wrote stories of their own. We held an exhibition in the gym which all the parents and children could visit.

This year, to celebrate their love of reading, the children took part in a Reading Challenge.

Well done everyone!

Mr Fyfe, or is it Professor Severus Snape?

Mrs J Lavery

Mr Ferbrache and Mrs Inderwick

Mrs Dowding and Martha

James reading under water

A colourful Acorn Hall

Laurie

Exhibit of book characters

Excited to arrive at school

More characters

The Crayolas

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Year 6 Leavers On the penultimate day of summer term, our Year 6 Leavers had a fantastic celebration for their last day at ECJS. The venue of College Field was new for this year and what a venue it proved to be. The children put together an assembly sharing their best memories at ECJS and their hopes for the future. They performed their favourite songs from Aladdin and everyone was presented with their yearbook and leavers’ hoodie.

Following the presentations, some delicious food cooked and served by Nathan and John was provided for parents and children alike.

Le Hechet Farm arrived to serve everyone with ice cream and sorbet. Despite the sweltering temperatures, the children played cricket, football and tag on the field and had a fantastic time with their friends.

Eventually it was time to return to school where they were greeted with a balloon arch and all the children from Years 3, 4 and 5 forming a tunnel for them to run through.

All the children had a brilliant day and will surely remember it for a long time to come.

We wish them all the very best for their move to secondary school.

Year 6 performed songs from Aladdin

Mrs Stevens and Ms Lavery

Delicious food served in the shade

Leavers’ hoodies and cricket

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Year 6

Miss Ford-Brooks, Mr Ferbrache and Miss Luff

Sam

Hydrangeas from Mrs Atkinson’s garden

Dominic cooling down with some delicious ice cream

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Sophie being presented with her yearbook and hoodie

Year 6 performed songs from Aladdin

Annabelle, Grace, Ruby and Sophia

Ruby, Annabelle and Grace

The pavillion looked incredible in the sunshine

Henry and Atti

MC Mr Fyfe

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ECJS Student Exhibition An exhibition to celebrate the creativity of ECJS was held for the first time in May at the beautiful Gate House Gallery. The work represented was from Reception through to Year 6 and a piece of work from every child from Year 3 to Year 6 was on show, confirming Mrs Ellis’ belief that, in the words of Picasso, ‘Every child is an artist’.

strutting their way through the gallery, and leading to the wonderful displays of bees, birds, sea creatures, sunflowers, lighthouses and seascapes. The children’s work looked fabulous, an opinion reiterated by everyone who visited the gallery, and all the ECJS pupils should feel incredibly proud of what they have achieved.

Roosters appeared around every corner,

Mrs S Ellis

Alex – Year 5

Atticus – Year 6

Alaia – Year 3

Cooper – Year 4

Annabelle – Year 6

Bees

ECJS Exhibition

Caletta – Year 5

ECJS Exhibition

ECJS Exhibition

Eisteddfod

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ECJS Exhibition

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Felicity – Year 3

ECJS Exhibition

Emily – Year 5

Felix

Fabian – Year 5

Eddie – Year 4

Henry, Mrs Dorrity and Arthur

Henry – Year 6

George

Emily – Year 3

Dominic – Year 6

Jessica – Year 5

Year 2 making seascapes

Teddy, Harrison and Ari

Sophie – Year 5

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Rafferty

Kobe – Year 5

Year 1 wave

Sam – Year 3

Jack – Year 3

Raffi – Year 5

Isla – Year 4

Monty – Year 5

Lily – Year 3

Jack – Year 3

Theodore and Amelie

Nathan – Year 6

Rollo

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Svea – Year 3

Thomas – Year 5

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There’s Something Special Going on at Acorn!

ECJS Successfully Modelling the Music Curriculum The Department for Education state that: “Music is all around us. It is the soundtrack to our lives. Music connects us through people and places in our ever changing world.

It is creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging. In our schools, music can bring communities together through the shared endeavour of whole school singing, ensemble playing, experimenting with the creative process and, through the love of listening to friends and fellow pupils performing. The sheer joy of music making can feed the soul of a school community, enriching each student while strengthening the shared bonds of support and trust which make a great school.”

The children on the Acorn site do love to share their love of music, whether it be singing together in assembly, performing to our classmates, friends and families and reaching out to our local community.

This year has seen an eclectic mix of formal and informal opportunities

and performances.

We start with our catchy assembly songs matching themes, moods and calendarworthy events. Harvest festival brought us rousing, catchy thankful tunes, Remembrance Day more poignant, thoughtful lyrics. We also have a bank of signing songs and lively actions to accompany us. Assembly is always a joyful occasion. IT also found its way into the classroom, developing and recording our pattern work and making music digitally.

We’ve seen several performances from the EC seniors who popped in to show us their talents, the Drum Corps’ rousing performance and travelled to the Jubilee Day Centre with Reception and Mr Fyfe to sing twice this year and join their residents with our music-making exploits and sing alongs. We’ve also had two parents showing their singing talents following their own Beau Sejour concert.

The Eisteddfod brought a wealth of experiences and enabled us to share our love of music in the community. This year we took part in the highly successful Infant

Arthur and Daisy practising their timings to play together

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Charlie and Wilfred Mums’ Mini Concert

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Close Harmony - the EC Singers

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choirs and the music making section where we named our entry ’Soundscapes’ and Year 2 composed mini musical suites to describe pictures and themes. We are proudly displaying the Arkay Cup for our team work and attention to musicality and detail.

A number of our Year 2 children take private music lessons within school with Mrs Travers and Ms Wyatt. We showcased their hard work in a very special concert in the hall to friends and family. They certainly demonstrated how they used all of their ‘Learning Powers’ for this musical extravaganza.

Of course, the year would not be complete without out two major performances – ‘Something Special’ as our Nativity and ‘There’s a Sunflower in my Supper’ for our Summer production. Every child participates fully by acting, singing and dancing.

Enthusiasm and energy are high as are the standards every year. Very well done everyone. We’ve had another productive and enjoyable year with music certainly being ”creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging.”

Mrs J Atkinson

Arthur

Chinese Dragon Beats

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Harvest Sequencing

Gentle lullaby music

Henry, Matthew, Evelina and Edward

Peri Summer Concert participants

Henry

Snowflake Songs in action

Year 2 IT coding compositions

Kitty, Isabella, Lottie and Amelie

The Drum Corps visiting us

There’s a song for everything – including Litter!

Reception singing at Jubilee House Day Centre

The cast of ‘There’s a Sunflower in my Supper’

Loving the actions in our Assembly songs

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Music Report Years 3 to 6

Enjoying ice cream

Lunch at Mont Saint Michel Monastery

Sammy

Mont Saint Michel

What a year! Successes began with the Harvest and Carol Services. These were followed by the Eisteddfod History Makers, and then rounded off with Aladdin and a super Summer Concert.

three. This burst of confidence and energy then led us towards the St Malo trip where nine Year 6 pupils joined the Chapel Choir and sung not only in the Cathedral in St Malo, but also sang for the Nuns of Mont St Michel. Next up would be the journey to Agrabah and into the world of Aladdin.

to next year and we hope that Mr Sutton and Mrs Ricketts have a plan for the three classes in Year 5, moving into Year 6. The Summer Concert was a triumph and will be particularly remembered for the joy each performer had in sharing their musical soul with us all.

Come production time, Year 6 and the performing choir were ready. Beau Sejour was the venue on Mrs Ricketts’ birthday, and the cast and choir rattled off two performances in the day before the main event, the evening performance. As the audience sang along with “Friend Like Me” and “A Whole New World”, it was clear that this year’s performance was once again a superb success. We look forward

I would like to thank all the pupils who participated in musical events this year, pass on my congratulations to our performing choir for their excellent singing and thank all the peripatetic staff and ECJS staff who said “Yes” and helped us climb the many hills and mountains in this last academic year.

Changes were made this year to develop pathways for all children to flourish, no matter their musical skill level. For example, if you sing, you can come to singing club each week. If you wish to be part of our performing choir, you can audition and sing twice a week, perform at events, and sing in the annual school production.

This year, our performing choir made history at the Eisteddfod, winning all three classes that they entered. We have won two trophies in one year before, but never all

Waiting to go to St Malo

Onwards and upwards!

Mr Richard Sutton

Group of 4 Collaborating

Year 6s in St Malo

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Historymakers

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Aladdin

Jamie as Genie and Jake as Aladdin with the cast supporting them

On 7th June, our Year 6 children took to the stage to perform this year’s school production, Disney’s Aladdin Jr. Each and every child worked hard to produce a high quality performance and we were so proud of them all. Whether they had lots of lines to learn or were a part of the ensemble, everyone was fully committed and worked so hard.

The children were amazing and exceeded all of our expectations. Their singing, dancing and acting captured their audience

Aladdin with his lamp

from beginning to end. Year 6 was supported this year by our show choir and by our dance club. The choir gave volume and harmony to our big musical numbers and the dancers performed a superb dance to introduce one of the characters.

Everyone enjoyed their theatre experience and the children got so much out of both the rehearsal period and the performance day. We can’t wait for next year!

Mrs J Ricketts

Marnie and Hattie

Jafar taking control

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Aladdin (continued)

Atticus as Babkak, Henry as Omar and Milo as Kassim with the rest of the cast

Jasmine and her attendants

Discussing the Prince

Prince Abdullah’s entourage

Jafar is the master of the lamp

Devon, Harrison and William the Agraba

Freddie and Nathan

Selling wares at the market

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Entertaining the crowds

Arabian Nights

Sophia and Jake

The Genie and Aladdin

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ECJS Drama Club This year, The ECJS Drama Club entered the Group Speaking section of the Speech and Drama Eisteddfod.

The children, from Year 3 to Year 6, performed a poem called ‘The Porcupine’ written by Roald Dahl. The children rehearsed carefully, incorporating actions and movements into the piece. They recited the poem en masse, as well as some children taking on solo and small group parts.

The children performed superbly and were up against stiff competition. We were so pleased to be awarded first place.

Eisteddfod Speaking Trophy

Mrs J Ricketts

Creative Writing front of me. Lilypads are floating tranquilly along the surface of the lake. I pick up a lily bobbing along the surface of the brook, I can see the curtains of carefully crafted petals curling around the fragile centre.

Placing the lily back into the stream I blow it gently away along with all my insecurities.

Leafy boughs weave in an intricate web high above my head, crisscrossing up in the canopy of nature and animals. Chirping, twinkling bird calls are calling to me like a symphony of wildlife, I can even identify

some of the calls, there’s fantails, tuis even a kakariki, I feel at home.

Bounding along the winding dirt paths that never seem to end stretching out like long ribbons running by the rushing stream.

Flying alongside the jewel coloured fish; freedom like no other rushing through my veins giving me power and strength, letting me fly, high above my worries and thoughts plaguing me, freeing me from the chains of reality.

Annabelle Shires

Annabelle

The Land Of The Long White Cloud As I feel my foot sink into the enchanted, soft, springy moss of the New Zealand mountain bush I look around. Giant trees standing proud stare down at me, their mighty branches bearing the stretching, veridian leaves which are cloaking the forest in a thin shawl of shadows and mist protecting me from the humid sun. My thoughts flit around like the fantails weaving in and out of the trees. Slowly the earthy aroma floods through my nose and into my smiling brain, welcoming the rustling of the bowing leaves overhead, the birds chirping merrily and the mystical call of the babbling brook in the distance.

Hopping along the smooth stones floating on the surface of the hopeful stream, I pause just long enough to see my beaming reflection in the crystal-clear mirror laid in

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Creative Writing (continued) Winter is coming The dead trees stood in a forest of war,

Daniel

The old trees are bright,

The green and soft grass is now bereft,

There now is no fight,

Sadness and dullness is now all that’s left.

Happiness is here,

Tracks in the mud make destruction in the ground,

Summer is near.

German soldiers stand on top of a once pretty mound.

The blue skies aren’t grey,

Barbed wire stands, rotting slowly,

There’s nothing that’s dull,

The strong wind whispers like angels holy.

In come the seagull.

Soldiers are dead that once were alive,

The war is now over and peace will return,

Everything is destroyed, plants and beehive.

The war is now over and peace will return,

But with peace will come sadness and sadness will burn.

But with peace will come sadness and sadness will burn.

Daniel Begg

When winter comes

New beginnings start and stop

It’s like a knife thrown in the dark.

They sit apon a throne of bones Ignoring our many silent moans.

Many barriers hold us down An undead army beneath the ground.

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The clouds are not black.

All life that was there now is no more.

When strife fills their hearts

Max

The flowers grow back,

Restless gunshots fill our souls Where we now rest in undug holes.

There is no dismay.

Birds restlessly hop from rock to rock. spring his sprung sun is glowing The sun is hot and the grass is growing.

New life has come but we must not forget The brave friends we once met.

Little war explosions of colour Just think it was a lot duller.

Max Niles

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The Rainforest Imagine a place where huge, towering trees shine bright with emerald, green leaves as they almost touch the clear, surreal skyline. Where majestic crimson, orange, rainbow-coloured birds soar over the lush undergrowth emphatically squawking into the whispering wind. Where creeping, gnarled vines grow undisturbed in the humid jungle, choking the thick, tall trees.

The rainforest is that place.

But at night it is a whole new wonderful experience...

Luminous, silvery yellow fireflies dance around in the otherwise charcoal coloured, black sky like little, twinkling fairies. Vivid, pearly white stars stud the pure darkness of space. Prowling, powerful jaguars stalk their unfortunate prey in their own vast, overgrown wonder of a domain as quiet as the quietest mouse.

Edward Field

Edward

The ice is a vast sheet of glass willing to crack at any second, waiting to swallow you, waiting for the perfect time. I could see the blocks of ice floating in the water, their ragged edges creating a mountain-like surface.

The clouds are engulfing the horizon, the splash of colour left is gradually disappearing. Perilous and towering, the mountain stands relentlessly, looking down at me as if screaming. The clouds are grey and heartless seeming to devour the light.

Just a small gap in the gloom lets the tiniest

amount of light illuminate my path.

Every time I close my eyes, a feeling of dread washes over me. Knowing that one day I’ll be forced to choose between death and a life of pain and misery.

Most of my friends have either died or drowned in the murky depths. I am one of the last ones left. The world around me is melting rapidly, so rapidly that Mum and Dad went for a swim, and I haven’t seen them since. I hope they come back soon.

Sophia Kennedy

Sophia

The oceans call Cold, barren and empty. I couldn’t see anything but snow, ice and mountains.

It seemed that Mum and Dad had left me forever, left me to just listen to the emptiness, the sound of nothing.

Well, I could hear something, it just wasn’t very much. Sloshing from side to side, the sea crashed into the ice creating a noise that was so unforgiving. I could feel the water numbing my back, dampening my milky, white fur. What comforted me was the smell of the fresh, salty water.

I remember when I couldn’t see the ocean, now it keeps me awake at night. I swim almost everywhere now, there isn’t a single piece of ice I can stay on for more than a night.

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Sports Day Reception to Year 2

Year 2 running race

Another very successful sports day was had and the children’s excitement levels were running high this year! The sun was shining for us; although there was a slight shower we carried on regardless and had a fantastic afternoon. We ran onto College Field in our house teams waving our flags.

The first event of the afternoon was the long-distance race. Reception started the afternoon off with two laps of the running track. They all did a brilliant job of pacing themselves and ran very well. It was then Year 1s’ turn who completed two laps of the track. Again, brilliant pacing and running by them all. Year 2 then completed three laps of the course, and all ran so well.

Reception started them off with extreme determination like Deema and concentration like Connie. Year 1 followed with lots of enjoyment like Elvis and had a go like Hamid.

It was then Year 2’s turn and WOW they were fast! Seeing lots of improvement like Buzz.

The toddlers then all had a turn at running a race. We then moved onto the Mummies and Daddies race. A novelty race was given to them this year. They had to run and put on a hat, hoola skirt and flower garland, move on to then construct a cube out of waffles and finally run on to the finish. They all thoroughly enjoyed this race even though some found the construction part a little tricky!

We then split into different areas of the field and took part in novelty races in our house teams. All the children took part. They did very well balancing bean bags, rubber quoits and balls on bats, which was quite tricky. Or had a go at jumping in sacks. All the children were smiling and enjoying these races.

The afternoon was then finished with a whole school relay where all the children take part in their houses and year groups.

We then gave out sports achievement certificates to one child in each class. We all had a wonderful afternoon with an overall win for Halliday at the end of the afternoon.

It was then time for the flat running races.

Mrs C Bowden

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Daisy jumps for joy!

Speedy running from Reception

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Gymnastics Club Rosie, Alexandra and Amelie. They were a joy to watch and they represented their school with great enthusiasm and ability.

In the summer term all children in the club performed floor routines for their parents.

The gymnasts choreographed the routines themselves and showcased some great ideas. A mention must also go to Jago

This year the Gymnastics Club has gone from strength to strength. In the autumn term the gymnasts performed routines for their parents on floor, wall bars and the vaulting box. In the spring term a team of nine girls represented ECJS in The Primary School Gymnastics Competition, Sophie, Emily, Marnie, Hattie, Lily, Sophia,

O’Doherty, our Gymnastics prefect. Jago is a gymnastics tumbler, he trains and competes to a very high standard in the UK most weekends. Jago has been a fantastic asset to the ECJS club, he organises everyone in the warm-up routine and encourages all members of the club.

Mrs C Wray

The Primary School Gymnastics Competition

Gymnastics Club

Netball Report 2022-23 Our squad has grown in size this year, which has meant being able to take two teams to friendly matches in Guernsey and also away for a tour to Hereford. We’ve had a couple of friendly matches against local Primary schools and in December we competed in the Primary Schools Netball Tournament.

We played indoors at Beau Sejour and the team showed excellent effort and determination to follow our ‘Aim High’

school value. In March, we ventured to Hereford to play netball against several schools. Despite one team being a little older than us and the weather not always being on our side, everyone took part with gusto and participated with enthusiasm.

Later in the month, we also competed in another local school tournament and, despite some losses, we all had smiles on our faces and enjoyed facing off against

Netball squad Hereford Tour

each other in one of the finals. More recently, during training, we have worked on our fundamental skills of passing, intercepting and shooting, which will hopefully prepare us well for next year.

We have thoroughly enjoyed coaching the squad this year and look forward to another exciting year of netball.

Mrs Reed and Mrs Stevens

ECJS Netball squad arrive in Hereford

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ECJS Sporting Year 2022-23 encounter, they succumbed to defeat, losing 3-2. Following a comfortable 2-0 win against Vauvert, the ‘B’ team qualified for the Darling Challenge Cup Final, with a nervy penalty win against Vale. Despite dominating large periods of the game, spot kick decided who would progress.

Hockey – The competitive season was underway with matches against Melrose.

Despite only having a couple of sessions before starting, the teams played some fantastic hockey and it would prepare them for the challenges that lay ahead.

Year 6 Rugby at Games

It has been another outstanding year of sport for our children in Years 3 to 6 at ECJS.

Michaelmas Term September Tennis – A different, but very enjoyable start to the sporting year. In near perfect conditions, a team of six Year 6 pupils played in a couple of fixtures against Blanchelande Year 7/8. The matches proved to be very even, with both teams sharing the spoils.

October: Swimarathon – In a closely fought battle, Le Patourel claimed the first honours of the year at the annual Skipton Swimarathon. Home and Halliday were 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Football – A busy month of football started with matches against St Martin’s. Plenty of positive performances and results for the four teams – ‘A’ to ‘D’ – before they continued their season with their respective cup competitions.

Hampton Tour – After an enforced absence due to COVID, the Hampton Tour was ready to resume. After a tough first day against Hampton Prep Year 7, the teams recovered well on day 2. The A team finished a credible

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fifth in the 12 team tournament.

Primary X Challenge – It proved to be another exciting and successful event run

by Guernsey Athletics. Once again, over 30 children represented ECJS in the cross-country style event with various obstacles along the way. The boys team claimed the overall titles, with the girls team finishing in third.

Football – Both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams successfully qualified for the quarter finals of their respective cup competitions after finishing top of their group.

November Football – Defeat in their opening fixture proved to be the undoing of the ECJS ‘A’ Team at the annual GJSFA 7-a-Side tournament. despite a victory in the next fixture against La Houguette. The 2-1 defeat to Castel proved to be costly. Needing a win in their final game to qualify, they conceded late on in the game, drawing 2-2 against Vauvert and ultimately finish 3rd in their group. They ended the tournament on a high, with two victories in their consolation fixtures.

Football – The ‘A’ team ended their season with defeat to Hautes Capelles in their Dave Boalch Cup quarter final. In a close

ECJS B Team at Darling Challenge Cup Final

Hockey – For the first time, we welcomed Hereford Cathedral School (HCS.) Their four day visit culminated in a five team tournament at Memorial Field. After competitive fixtures the day before, an exciting afternoon of action was anticipated. It did not disappoint, with ECJS ‘A’ and HCS playing some high quality hockey throughout the tournament. ECJS prevailed, claiming top honours, remaining undefeated throughout the tournament.

The ‘B’ Team also had a positive day. With two victories and two goalless draws, they also claimed top spot. It was a terrific effort against some strong opposition.

December Football – A strong start to the Darling Challenge Cup Final proved to be the difference between the two teams, ECJS and Castel. From the first whistle, ECJS were on fire and took the lead almost immediately.

Two further goals before half time saw them take a comfortable lead heading in to the second half. A closer second half followed, but a fourth goal put the result beyond doubt.

It was a great way to end the football season.

Inter House Sport – Home claimed the football honours, with Halliday taking the swimming gala and finally, Le Patourel the netball trophy.

January Hockey – The action resumed with fixtures against The Ladies’ College Year 7. Even with having a few weeks’ break, both teams were straight back into the swing of things.

Their performances would provide them a much needed opportunity to prepare for the ‘January Festival’

Year 5 and 6 A Football Team at GJSFA 7-a-Side

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Ben vs Hereford School (November 2021)

Hockey – An new addition to the calendar, ‘January Festival’ took place at a chilly Memorial Field. The ‘A’ team continued their impressive undefeated run. However, it proved to be a slightly frustrating day, as in each of their encounters they took the lead, only to be pegged back in all four games.

They finished the day with four 1-1 draws. The ‘B’ team bounced back from a defeat in their opening fixture, to claim one victory and two draws in their remaining fixtures.

February Inter-House Sport – The inter house action resumed with various hockey, tag rugby and contact rugby tournaments. The competitions proved to be as fiercely fought as ever.

Hockey – the season continued with matches against Elizabeth College Year 7. Despite playing against older and more experienced opposition, the teams performed fantastically, playing some terrific hockey throughout the games.

Hockey – Having played Blanchelande in horrendous conditions the previous year, both teams were happy to be greeted by calm and dry conditions. Although the games proved to be one-sided, it provided the opposition vital game practice ahead of the annual ECJS Festival after half term.

Football – Hereford Cathedral School once again visited, this time bringing their Football teams. Their ‘A’ Team – County Champions – provided a stern test for the ECJS teams.

The other fixtures proved to be close affairs

Just setting off in the Year 5 Cross Country Race

Rupert making a tackle in Year 6 House Rugby

Rupert and Sam in Year 6 House Rugby

with both schools claiming a share of the honours. HCS Tour finished with fixtures on Sunday. After a long tour, HCS found the going tough, with ECJS claiming victories in all four fixtures.

their victory in netball by claiming the hockey honours. Halliday returned to winning ways with overall victory at rugby.

March Hockey – Further fixtures were played against Blanchelande. This would be the final practice ahead of the ECJS Festival.

After having the half-term break, it was good to get back into competitive action.

Hockey – Goal difference proved to be the deciding factor at the ECJS Hockey Festival.

The ‘A’ Team remained undefeated, but a draw against The Ladies’ College and claiming victories by the odd goal proved to be the difference. The Ladies’ College prevailed, having scored two more goals than ECJS. However, the team shouldn’t be too disappointed – they were the only Year 6 team in the A section! The ‘B’ Team, also playing predominantly against older opposition found the going tough. They persevered throughout, finishing fourth out of the six teams.

Cross Country – Following the postponement of the inter-house event last year, cross country action returned to College Field. The inclement weather resulted in the Year 3 and 4 races being pushed back. The shorter course, with multiple laps, provided exciting actions for the spectators across all races. Home claimed the House trophy.

Inter House Sport – Le Patourel followed

ECJS Hockey Team in Hereford

Hereford Tour – A new addition saw the hockey and netball teams fly to the UK to play against Hereford Cathedral School.

A delay on the way out saw the Friday fixtures cancelled. Saturday proved to be an action-packed afternoon of sport.

The hockey teams ended the season on a high, performing well in their fixtures.

A 1-1 draw against HCS saw the ‘A’ Team remain undefeated for the season, a terrific achievement. The netball team played against high quality and older opponents, but showed great determination, despite the odds being stacked against them.

April Rugby – The annual GRFC Tag and Contact Festivals returned following a break in 2022. The teams performed well throughout, qualifying for various knockout competitions. As ever, the matches proved to be keenly fought and sadly for the ECJS teams, their would be no silverware in 2023.

In the contact matches, the ECJS teams dominated throughout, putting in powerful tackles and playing some great rugby.

May Badminton – Despite only consisting of two players, the ECJS team played admirably, finishing fifth out of the 12 teams.

Cricket – Matches against Guernsey Cricket Under 11s provided plenty of opportunity for

Departing for Bristol and then heading to Hereford

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ECJS Sporting Year 2022-23 (continued)

Early Stages of Year 6 race

William attempts to win the ball against EC

Year 5 and 6 Hockey teams at ECJS Hockey Festival

Year 6 Hockey Team at Rihoys Hockey tournament

Year 6 Bikeability

Year 5 and 6 House Netball at BSJ

Sam and Tom vs Hereford Cathedral School

ECJS Tennis Team vs Blanchelande

Atti bowling in the Kwik Cricket Festival

Devon batting in the Kwik Cricket Festival

Le Patourel Year 3 Tug of War Team

Jamie with coverted Tug of War Trophy

the children to test their hardball skills. There were also ‘in-house’ fixtures, giving the children who were new to the game a chance to experience playing a hardball fixture.

Hockey – Year 5 had their Taster tournament. Both teams played with great determination. Throughout the afternoon, they remained undefeated.

Hockey – Year 6 lost out to La Mare in extra time during their semi-final at the Rihoys Hockey Tournament. Conceding late in the game gave their opposition momentum heading into the next additional period of play. Victory in their final game saw ECJS finish third.

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Sports Day – Home continued their impressive inter-house sport form, taking the sports day honours. An action-packed morning of athletics saw all children compete in four individual events and the shuttle relays.

Tug of War – Arguably the most anticipated and intense event of the year took place on the school field.

The competition was throughout, with all competitors giving their all for their house team. Having lost out on the sports day trophy, Halliday continued their domination of Tug of War, beating Home into second place.

June Cricket – The season continued with fixtures against Guernsey Cricket and Cobo Cricket Club ended the season, which drew the on-island opposition fixtures to a close.

Clifton Tour – It was great to be able to travel off-island once against and visit our friends at Clifton College Preparatory School.

A mix of rounders, kwik and hardball cricket provided an excellent sporting experience for our children. The children also had the chance to take part in archery and axe throwing! Great fun was had by the children and staff! The rounders team claimed victory, with the cricket team coming up just short

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Leo at the toss vs Clifton College Preparatory School

ECJS and Clifton before their cricket fixture

Sammy batting in Hampton 6-a-side festival

Victorious ECJS Kwik Cricket Team

Archie winning Year 4 60m sprint

Evan in the Year 5 long jump

in a closely-fought contest.

Hampton Tour – We once again were able to welcome Hampton Prep School back for their first visit since 2019. The opposition proved to high quality, dominating with bat and ball. Despite the fairly one-sided encounter the pairs format provided all children the opportunity to test all their skills in the game. On the Sunday, a thrilling 6-a-Side festival took place. The Hampton and ECJS teams were mixed, ensuring the festival was as closely-fought as possibly.

It proved to be the correct decision, with

two teams only separated by run difference.

All four teams claimed at least one victory.

Inter House Sport – Rounders and Cricket took centre stage. Le Patourel picked up the silverware, ending their year on a high.

Athletics – The competitive sporting year ended with the Guernsey Primary Schools’ Athletics. A fantastic evening, in perfect conditions, saw ECJS put in some competitive performance across all disciplines and age groups. The Year 4 teams and Year 6 boys performed extremely well, winning multiple individual events.

Despite not having a Year 5 team (Sark trip) ECJS finished 1st in the boys competition and 3rd overall.

Cricket – The girls returned to the Kwik Cricket arena after being absent for a few years. They performed well, reaching the semi-final before losing by 5 runs. This was followed by defeat in their third and fourth play-off. The boys regained the trophy. A superb effort with the ball saw them take the win by 18 runs. The other ECJS finished sixth.

Mr P Sargent

Jago on his way to victory in Year 6 55m Hurdles

Luke and Henry in Year 6 75m race

Sorrel helps Caletta out of the sand pit

Ted batting on Clifton Tour

ECJS Primary Schools Athletics Team

Year 5 girls pre 75m race

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Year 4 – Lihou Residential

4B on Lihou Tour

The Year 4 children had a fantastic time in Lihou, where both classes had the chance to stay overnight as part of the curriculum enrichment programme at ECJS. You can hear more from the children, and what they enjoyed the most, in the quotes below.

Mrs Dowding and Mr Stokes Well… for the hiders it was at least. It’s my opinion, you see, because I walked right past the best hiding spot on the island where James and Reuben were hiding, and I didn’t even notice!

Asher Cohen

in, then put the marshmallows next to it.

I stuck my marshmallows next to it. I stuck my marshmallows right in the flames, so they came out burned! It was literally on fire! It tasted like charcoal. I wonder why?

Henry Wilson Last Thursday me and my class set off for Lihou island. On the wet, slippery causeway we walked. I was at the back of the causeway with Jack and Edwin. We talked and talked and talked and even found some sea friends.

Arthur Amy

On the 5th of May on Lihou, 4B did a Jelly Baby run. So every lap of Lihou you get to have a Jelly Baby! I did three laps so I got three Jelly babies and they were so tasty and tasted of blueberry.

First, we crossed the causeway. I was almost smack bang in the middle. I didn’t get off to a good start, tripping almost instantly! I got my trouser leg covered in seaweed. The rest was largely uneventful.

Toby Bales

The rocket stoves where we made s’mores and I lit my first fire. I was very happy with myself.

It took about 5 minutes to cook my s’more which nearly fell into the fire! But, I quickly took it to Mr Ferbrache who put it into two biscuits. Then I took a bite and it was lovely Sebastien Rodliffe

After we had made our beds we went rock pooling. Me and Edwin looked under a big rock and found a huge crab! After that me and Reuben did it again and found another huge crab. I got very wet but I dried off quite quickly.

Jack Biggins

To make the s’mores, we had to light a rocket stove using flint and steel, feed logs

In Lihou there are flowers you can make into a ballerina with a dress and arms and

Cooper, William, Edward and Alex making s’mores

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if you’re lucky you get hands and stem as the legs.

Jesse Willis My favourite activity was playing sardines and eating s’mores. Sardines because I just love to go outside and play with my friends. Eating the s’mores because I like marshmallows and I like biscuits, so then combining was amazingly delicious. We cooked the s’mores on a rocket stove and we lit it with matches because I have used matches a lot.

Alexander Rodrigues de Brito First we made our way to Lihou. We all walked over the causeway excitedly. After we got there we got told who was sleeping with us. I was in the Glory room with Alex, Jessie, Sam, Archie and George. After that we went rockpooling. Me and my friends went exploring. We went a bit further, then magically we found some chancre crabs and some starfish.

After, Mr Fyfe showed us around Lihou. First we went to the monastery, then with a blink of an eye we saw thousands and thousands of bluebells. Then we went to the Venus pool. I’m not gonna lie, it looked quite cold.

Cooper Johns

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Year 4 – Lihou Residential (continued) My favourite part of Lihou was the movie ‘Megamind’ as we were able to stay up late and the room inspections because our dorm won! Mr Fyfe took us on a tour around Lihou telling us stories and facts as well as showing us how to make a ballerina out of a flower.

Toby, Leo, Jasper and Henry rocket stove ready

We went on a tour to the monastery where there was an insane monk who killed a person. Two officials from Guernsey went to arrest him, but they killed him. When they remembered they weren’t supposed to kill him, they fled to England. The government said it was okay to come back, but it was a trap and they were beheaded. Then we went to the field with a rock which was used for target practice for planes in the World War 2.

Rosie Ogier In Lihou we had lots of fun and surprises.

It was my first time sleeping over in the house, it was so much fun. We had secret dorm inspections so our dorm always had to be clean and tidy. We did lots of activities including rockpooling, where we found

Sing Song with Mr Fyfe

red-eyed velvet crabs, fish, starfish and so much more! We waited until the tide was low enough so that we could cross the causeway and go back to school.

Bene Gittins Lihou was so fun. I, myself loved all the activities. We cooked sausages and bacon on the rocket stoves and played two fun games called 40/40 and manhunt. In our dorms, we had a sleepover and it was my friend Teddy’s birthday.

There was this tower which was used to shine light or something to show the people at shore, to say to the boats, stop because there is rock. You are too close to the rocks.

It was done by two nine year old boys who were only paid one penny a month.

Toby Ogier

Edward Sloan The Lihou Residential was amazing. My favourite part of the trip was going rock pooling, I managed to find lots of crabs and starfish. I also liked the Jelly Baby run in the morning, it started to rain which made it even more fun.

Reuben and Edwin searching for crabs

Rosie Le Page

I loved going to Lihou and I’m sure it will stay in my mind for a long time. We walked over the causeway and found out our dorm rooms and who we would be in a room with. We played lots of games and activities including 40/40, manhunt, jelly baby run and cooked our own food on the rocket stoves. We ended the day watching a move called Megamind.

Barney Gardner

Year 5 – Sark Trip Whether you’re a traveller or seasonal camper, Sark is a world away, with it being a dark sky island. Sark is also a place with views out of this world and since there are no cars on Sark you can walk, run or catch a ride in the back of a tractor.

Leaving Guernsey

Emily 5B

Alex 5A After we had finished our lunch, we had our first activity, coasteering! It was so much fun.

We got on our swim suits and wet suits, put on our safety gear and got into the water.

First we went to a huge cave and on the way we saw three anemones. Before we even went in, I was terrified, so I clung onto a rock and stayed there, but the instructor helped me conquer my fear, so I let go of the rock, went inside the cave and came out of my comfort zone. When we got to the end of the cave, they turned off the torches and you couldn’t even see your hand if it was right in front of your face! I came out of

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We went to Sark’s mini jail cells, the fire station which smelled like petrol, the ambulance which didn’t have an engine and the court room where we pretended there was a crime!

the cave unharmed and alive (surprisingly) but after that we got to the jumping. It was so fun!

Chloe 5C In kayaking we went through an arch that was barely thin enough for us to pass through. We needed to try to form shapes around the instructor with our kayaks.

The Sark jail cells were musty and dirty but they were cool and we went inside them.

The Sark ambulance was interesting, it was quite dirty, but it was full of equipment for first aid. There were two ambulances, one was from the 1950’s! They don’t use that one unless they need both of them because it is old!

Sofie 5B

Jem 5C

When I went kayaking, not only did I jump but we saw jelly fish and we swam around them; it was really fun. I really did enjoy Sark. I love Sark as my second favourite Channel Island.

I was doing Budgie’s tours, it was really fun!

Alfie 5A

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Archery

Emily

An exhaused Thomas on the way home

Sark Prison

Mason takes aim

Farewell Sark

Jessica Pomme de Chien campsite Sark

Sark Court

Ready to fire

Theo map of Sark

Prison again!

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Year 6 visit to Chessington and PGL at Marchant’s Hill

Having fun!

The best memory of PGL was Jacob’s ladder because I like throwing the rope over to help my team to get to the top.

Izzy Sayer My best memory of Chessington was the TOMB BLASTER ride how it adds strategy to mindless fun. My favourite memory of PGL was shoving Mr Fyfe in the water.

Max Niles My favourite part of Chessington was the Vampire and the Dragon’s Fury rides.

My best memory was going on the Tiger Rock water flume at Chessington.

Greg Pybns My favourite memory of Year 6 residential was all the rides at Chessington.

My best memory is the Jacob’s ladder when I got to the top.

My best memory was having a go at shooting at PGL.

James Wilson

Oliver Harvey

My best memory of PGL was rifle shooting because I did very well.

William Morton

Edward Field

My best memory of Chessington was the dragon fury ride although it was quite short.

Henry Lawrence

Annabelle, Grace, Ruby, Dexter, Jamie and Isaac

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Warwick McGreevy

Jake Babbe

My best memory of PGL was Chessington World of Adventures, I went on all the wildest rides including Dragon’s Fury, Vampire and Cobra. Dragon’s Fury was my favourite because it was a really fast rollercoaster but all the while it was spinning! It was awesome and me and Dexter were yelling the whole time.

Milo Andersson

My best Chessington ride was Dragons’ Fury it was exhilarating. I also liked cobra, which was also amazing although the seats were very uncomfortable.

My best memory was going to Chessington and going on Cobra, Vampire and the Blue Barnacle Pirate’s Ship.

George Wharrie My best memory was Jacob’s Ladder because it was a great adventure and it was hilarious because I stood on Mr Fyfe’s shoulders to get to the top of the ladder.

It was awesome!

Jamie King

Finlay, Jamie, Charlie and Greg

Grace, Ruby, Annabelle, Sophie, Ms Lavery

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My best memory was at Chessington on Tiger Rock because you went down a nearvertical drop.

Luke Harvey My favourite memory is going to Chessington, more specifically Tiger Rock or archery at PGL. Finlay Betts My best memory of PGL and Chessington was Dragons Fury whilst going down the the drop. My best memory of PGL was pushing Mr Fyfe into the pond off the raft after ‘apple’ was shouted.

Edward Pickford My best memory of PGL was raft building because everyone fell in and the raft fell apart.

Daniel Begg My best memory of Chessington was flying through the air on Vampire.

going on Kobra, it was so fast that you had to take off your coat (I later forgot to take it with me, but fortunately I remembered it!) and your bag otherwise, it would fly off! My favourite memory of PGL was pushing Mr Fyfe into the water. The plot was made months before (actually about ten minutes before.) The fateful day, the scheme was for Miss Barrett to yell ‘apples’, then we had to push him in!

Nathan Harrison

Izzy, Annabelle and Henry

My best memory was going to Chessington and going on rides.

Charlie Ash My favourite bit of PGL was rifle shooting and raft building. I jumped off into the water, it was very cold that was my highlight of the trip.

Leo Hill

Milo, George and James about to attempt Jacob’s Ladder

My best memory of PGL was the raft building because I did not think that the raft was going to float and I also really liked the rifle shooting.

Isaac Brock

Rupert Hyland

My best memory at PGL was Vampire because I was very scared but I pushed myself into it and I left with no regrets.

Atticus Robinson

My favourite memory of PGL was racing Izzy to the top of the climbing wall ,as it not only was I doing something I love but I was also doing it with a person I care about but it also provided a good challenge.

My best memory of our trip to Chessington was

Annabelle Shires

About to test out our raft

Giraffe

Tom, Daniel, Oliver and Miss Ford Brooks

George, Daniel, Mrs Bott, James and Milo

Oliver slightly wet!

Jamie, Finlay and Ted on Jacob’s ladder

Paddles up!

We’re not sinking...yet!

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ARTS

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SPORTS

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EDITORIAL

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Senior Prefect Reflections Assuming a role with such a rich history and precedent felt extremely daunting yet full of opportunity. Having looked up to and known previous Senior Prefects in my time at the school, writing my own reflection as my tenure comes to an end feels distinctly bittersweet.

I am very proud of the progress we have made as a team, developing on steps made in previous years and putting our own spin on things. Our main focus for this year was working with the Ladies’ College Head Girl Team to instil the core values of Kindness, Courage and Equality throughout both our student communities, through our joint project, the Respect Charter.

Moving into the new era of co-education at Elizabeth College, we also had our first ever female member of the Senior Prefect Team, our brilliant Charities prefect, Honor Couchman, who has been fantastic in her role. Her work has meant we’ve broken fundraising records, introduced new charities into the mix and added popular new choices to charity events such as Senners doughnuts.

It has been a year of innovation for the School Council, embracing technology to improve communication and building on last year’s work with Year prefects who are now more involved than ever with tutor groups in the lower school. Furthermore, house events are now more wide-reaching and

Jonathan is the ECJS Gap Year Student for 2023-24

cultivating even more healthy competition in the school. A well-earned recognition is also due to the Eco team this year who’s work have meant they have become a powerful force in the College community.

Looking back on this year and at my time at Elizabeth College as a whole, it truly has left

me with long lasting memories and taught me many lessons both in and outside the classroom. I will always look back on my time with gratitude for the opportunities that were given to me and how this school has moulded me into the person I am today.

Jonathan Vickers

Year 8 Buddies We introduced a buddy system for the new Year 7s this year to help them move between classes in their first couple of days at Elizabeth College. This involved two Year 8s from each House meeting their corresponding Year 7 House from their previous lesson and walking them to their next lesson. This was introduced to reduce anxiety about getting lost moving around our large campus, and also to build relationships between year groups.

The Y8 Buddies were as follows: Town – Eilidh Isbister + Austin Nobes South – Joel Hoolahan + Minna Blagoeva North – Chloe Sebire + Harrison Bradley Country – Phoebe Davis + Daniel Read

Year 8 buddies 2022

Students found this new system really helpful, and enjoyed building their confidence with the site quicker as well as getting to know some of the older students.

Miss M Johnson

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Perrot Court – New Spaces

In the Library playing chess

George Dean

“There are loads of books for all ages and types of readers. The library is a lovely place to relax and hang out with your friends.”

“The new facilities at Perrot Court are excellent. It is great to see students from Year 7 to Year 13 enjoying spending time in the new classrooms and social spaces.”

“The sixth form centre doesn’t feel like you’re at school. It is a fantastic space to study and relax.”

“The new Perrot Court building is modern and open. It feels really comfortable.”

Sam Davidson

Szelam Chung

“The library is a nice place to read, relax and play chess. I love it.”

Barney Ogier ‘It’s really nice to see everyone interacting with each other, through work or leisure; this new addition makes Sixth Form feel like a community rather than two separate year groups. The facilities and environment allow me to be productive and efficient as well as socialise with everyone over a nice hot cup of coffee!’

Archie Purdue

“I really enjoy the quiet spaces in Perrot Court. The dedicated study areas in the sixth form centre are really beneficial.”

Olivia Harrison “From spending almost an hour every morning in the library I really can emphasise how much I enjoy spending time in such a busy but also calm environment. I think it’s really cool that all different ages spend time in here and that it’s so popular.”

Chloe Sebire

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Chess in the Library

Elizabeth I mosaic

Geography classroom

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Perrot Court Studio

Perrot Court Reception

Level access bridge to main campus

Fun social seating area

Geography

IT Classrooms

Sixth Form Centre

Sixth Form Centre

Sixth Form Centre kitchen

Social Sciences breakout space

Social Sciences

Rob Carre and Michael Kennedy Uplandmaster Road entrance the BBQ

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Charities Review Being the Charities Prefect this year has been a pleasure and I couldn’t think of a more perfect role for myself. However, I couldn’t do it without the help of Ollie Batiste and the Senior Prefect Team. From keeping traditions like the BBQ on the hardcourt to creating my own, such as introducing the sale of Senners doughnuts, there has been an absolute buzz at every charity day this academic year, which has been amplified by the drum and base blasting down the Grange.

is over £13,000 (£3,000 more than last year) which is absolutely incredible! All these events have filled me with so much pride and I am sad to leave this role behind. However, it has

been an honour to be this year’s Charities Prefect and I am looking forward to hearing how the new Charities Prefect gets on!

Honor Couchman

Seeing smiles cannon across the hall when I first mentioned Senners doughnuts brought me a spring of joy as I felt like I had made just a small difference to a traditional charity day. Another introduction was the idea of using a card machine, which enabled lots more students to pay due to the accessibility being easier.

As I got more into the role, I thought, what else could I do to make a difference? So, I decided to run a sixth form quiz night, fundraising for the RNLI, which was a very big success and came with many compliments the day after. Following this, I chose to introduce the idea of supporting a new charity, which hadn’t been done before, and chose Guernsey Mind due to a personal preference, and because I believed that the local charity needed to be celebrated for the support they share island wide.

As a College, we have held four large charity days supporting Tumaini, Children in Need, Guernsey Mind, the EC Kenya Trip, Red Nose Day and Eco Day, along with smaller bake sales for Macmillan, Movember and Bright Tights. The sum raised for charity this year

Senners doughnuts

RNLI Quiz

Sum-Up payments on Eco Day

Green Flag Award This year we worked hard towards collecting the evidence of our environmental activities to gain the highly-regarded Green Flag Award.

The Eco School programme enables schools to embed climate education into lessons and become more sustainable. Its accreditation is the way to reward and celebrate the ecological achievements of young people. It appreciates their work, and it provides them with the confidence and motivation to actively engage with environmental issues. It also tells local communities that a school is forward-thinking and promotes youth-led environmental education and action. Our Eco Team members conducted an audit, prepared an action plan, and monitored our progress in three chosen categories: Biodiversity, Water, and Transport.

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We went beyond the Eco-Schools Seven Step criteria and were thrilled to be awarded the Eco Schools Green Flag with Distinction!

Mrs S Lee and Mrs S Ozanne

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Years Prefect Report A new dynamic was tested this year when it came to the Years Prefect Team at Elizabeth College. With a larger group of seventeen prefects, the potential for Sixth Formers to help across the school grew and will continue to develop as time goes by.

The most noticeable change came in Years 7 and 8, where a team of four prefects for

each year helped run activities in tutor time.

Here, the goal was to give an opportunity for students to engage with each other and the prefects in a more relaxed environment than typical lessons provide. Further up the school, tutor times and assemblies were used for the prefects to share their experiences from their time in College to benefit younger students, alongside

gathering feedback from initiatives like the Respect Charter.

I hope the positive impact the Year Prefect Team makes on the school continues to grow with the new ideas and enthusiasm next year’s team will bring.

Ben Sharp

Adam de la Mare Year 7 tutor time activities

Dobble

Jonathan with the ECJS Gap Year Students 2023-24 Uno

School Council School Council this year has been quite busy, with the move into Perrot Court seeing a whole new area for students to explore and give feedback on. This is where Will and I come in. After several years of experience between us, we saw what needed to improve, so our work started at the end of Year 12, with streamlining communication between us, representatives and staff, allowing the Council to make changes throughout the year, through a

Teams channel, which if anything is Will’s and my lasting legacy for the School Council .

A key part of our year agenda was environmentalism, a key trait that was promoted across the school, in collaboration with the Eco team, new bike racks were installed, and enthusiasm for cycling only grew after a successful cycle to school week. As part of the College becoming co-ed, and with both boys and girls making their voices heard on the council,

a positive move that we supported was the implantation popularity of mixed sports, in both the lower years, and the Sixth Form.

Overall, the Council has achieved a lot and supported many successful initiatives, allowing more positive change within the College, and Will and I wish the next School Council and its prefects good luck in their future endeavours.

Ben Tostevin

Cycle To School Week

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House Spirit The four houses are an integral part of the College community. Being assigned to a house is one the first experiences you get at College, and whether it be Country, North, South or Town you feel part of team within the College community.

Country – Livin’ On A Prayer by Bon Jovi

South – Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey

Sports Day 2023

This year a range of inter-house competitions witnessed fierce-friendly competition designed to create opportunities for students to have fun whilst working for one another. Winning points for your house was achieved by participating in year-group house sporting events such as football, hockey, cricket and basketball as well as new events such as netball, as we seek to develop and improve the range of opportunities on offer. Other house events include chess, debating and of course the infamous house shout competition, which includes every student from years 7 through to 13 as well as a number of staff, bringing together the whole College community for a singing extravaganza to round off the Michaelmas term. This year an 80s theme saw Town house take victory after entertaining performances from all four houses.

Finally, the year rounds off with sports day at the end of Trinity where the four houses compete in the final competitions of the year. Events range from traditional athletic pursuits to ultimate frisbee, boules, touch rugby, archery and paintball. Once again every student has the chance to participate, representing their house with the aim of achieving the crown of the year’s house champions. This year South were the worthy overall champions, setting up what has been a close run race, once again going the distance, for success this academic year.

George McNeela

Hopes for Next Academic Year My name is Sam Davidson and I am going to be the Senior Prefect of Elizabeth College for the academic year of 2023-24. I have already started to think about my vision for the College and of certain objectives I want to achieve in my year as Senior Prefect.

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I want to support College students to thrive here and enjoy their time at school no matter what they are interested in or what backgrounds they come from. School is a place to learn, make friends and develop yourself into a better person in all aspects of life. As Senior Prefect I want to make sure every student has a voice in the school, how things are run and how changes could be made to improve their College experience.

My vision includes increasing the school’s

efforts towards eco policies, developing the influence of the school council and the integration of the respect charter as a key part of College life. I want to emphasise the importance of extra-curricular activities as a way to make new friends, learn new skills and improve your mental and physical health whether that be through sports, music, drama, art or anything else we offer at College. I have thrown myself into every new experience College has offered to me and have found it extremely rewarding in all areas.

A school with happy individuals all contributing to improve their experience is the perfect school in my eyes.

Sam Davidson

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The New All Terrain Pitch at Memorial Field The hockey pitch at Memorial Field has been the venue of hundreds of fast and furious matches for many years, but the surface had become tired and worn over recent years.

After much planning and design consultation, work started at the beginning of the summer on the regeneration project and the installation of a new multi-use games area and flood lighting system to replace the old Astro pitch. Simon Hall from ADSUM Sport and Play was the main contractor on the project who worked closely with James Couchman, the College Bursar, and the fantastic grounds team at Memorial Field to ensure that the project ran smoothly, to deadline and on budget.

Elizabeth College is always looking for ways to be more eco-friendly so as part of the project the underlay and various materials from the old pitch were given to gardeners and farmers who would be able to repurpose them on their land.

On Saturday 9th September we held a

wonderful Community Event at Memorial Field with bouncy castles, climbing walls, food stalls, face-painting, live music, and a wide range of sports were showcased on the field.

During the afternoon the ATP was used for activities for the Junior School and hockey demonstrations from the Upper School.

The pitch was formally opened by Andrew Niles (7423), President of the OEA, and we pass on our thanks to them for the generous financial contribution made towards the project. After the formality of the speech and ribbon cutting, the first official hockey match was played with the Elizabeth College 1st XI v David Wray’s Legends XI. It was a close match with the Legends just securing the 5-4 win.

Playing on the new pitch

The pitch is said to be one of the best of its type in the southern region of Great Britain and we are very much looking forward to watching more nail-biting hockey matches played on it over the coming years.

Miss K Earl

Thank you to ADSUM Sport and Play

Hockey

Active Travel The trend towards more active travel continues to grow across our College community. Aside from the benefits to the environment, walking and cycling are linked to improved mood and concentration.

We have lots of students at both the Upper and Junior School who regularly walk or cycle to school, and it is wonderful to see them arrive energised and ready for their day.

Thomas, Joseph and Alex Costen

Two fantastic ambassadors for active travel at Elizabeth College have been Year 13 students, Joseph and Thomas, who were

recognised with ‘Yellow Guernsey Awards’ in March 2023.

They noted that their quirky journey to College on a tandem bicycle, was quicker, better for the environment, good for their mental and physical health, and most importantly fun!

Joseph and Thomas were presented with two yellow Le Tricoteur guernseys by the Health Improvement Commission’s Be Active Team.

Mrs J Doucy

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Biology A Level Fieldwork

Pulling sourfig

Sampling

In June 2023 our A Level Biology class spent a sunny four days on a joint biology field course with The Ladies’ College.

Over the four days, we planned our own biological investigations, sampled soils from Herm common and helped the Guernsey Conservation Volunteers pull up two tonnes of the invasive species, sourfig, to help protect and restore biodiversity. Something I found really rewarding was seeing what we have learnt in the classroom be put into action in the real world; it allowed me to

Year 12 biology students

further solidify my understanding and further promoted a stronger interest in the subject.

By exploring areas of our island that I would have never thought to go to and learning more about the areas that I love I found the experience incredibly rewarding. A highlight of the course for me was investigating the variety of species in rockpools at Grandes Rocques, learning more about the marine life found on our island.

Amelie Le Prevost

Castle Swim 43 swimmers enjoyed a smashing swim in the balmy but slightly choppy waters of Havelet Bay to complete the College Castle swim. Swimmers from all years were accompanied by six staff and three parents, and supervised by staff kayakers and by Mr Jenner from Guernsey Sports Commission. His new role as the Outdoor and Adventurous Activities Officer means that more children from all schools should be able to enjoy such activities alongside their swimming at the refurbished Ladies Pool and it was a pleasure to have him ‘on board’. I’d also like to thank the OE Kieran Higgs, the Guernsey Coastguard, for his whole hearted support.

The Crosland family won the family prize for most swimmers (four) and the Bursar won the Bursar’s prize – the first time a Bursar has completed the course – and he had a rousing cheer as he emerged triumphant from the depths.

The College Record and the Elizabethan refer to College swimming in the 1890s in Salerie Corner and in the Harbour. Some of the entries make it sound like an austere regime with children getting very cold and masters also being rather cold but in a different way! The Middle School Trophy is in fact the Harbour Race trophy and the Senior Trophy dates from 1899 so this event is very much part of the College DNA. The event was popular in the 1980s but was on the ebb through to the Lyme Regis tragedy when it slipped below the surface.

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The start of the Castle Swim 2022

and resilience and it is wonderful to see how sea swimming has exploded in terms of participation. Despite the warming seas, students are encouraged to wear a wet suit as this forms part of the risk assessment process.

The College has provided adventurous and challenging physical activities outside the classroom (and sometimes inside the classroom according to my students!) throughout the centuries – yes centuries – and these have come back into fashion as the benefits of sea swimming and cold

Castle Swim 2022 winners

water swimming have reached new parts of society during the pandemic. The College has an ecological approach to Games such that everyone is encouraged to participate in sports that are low cost and local and that use the local environment wherever possible. All students were able to swim at La Valette last term and this means that the Castle Swim is open to all – even if they find it a challenge. The fastest swimmers have to use a more head up technique and have to check their bearings rather than rely on the lane markings and turn boards. The slower swimmers can enjoy the view of the sunlit castle and chat with friends as they make their way around the buoys.

Since 2014 we have been unable to use the original start from the Castle due to a mix of poor weather, swell and the broken slipway so it will be fun to return to the original route, albeit finishing at the refurbished Ladies Pool and La Valette café. Bring it on!

Mr B Aplin

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Bronze DofE As has become the norm, the majority of students in Year 9 signed up for the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award in the Michaelmas term of 2022. Many of them got stuck in to their activities straight away and we have had students taking part in a huge range of activities such as football, cycling and swimming for the Physical Section and chess, playing a musical instrument or baking for the Skills section. The students should be really proud of the hours of volunteering they have spent and their efforts have been appreciated by sporting clubs, charities, churches and musical organisations across the Island.

best thing about doing their Bronze DofE.

Over 40 students have been presented with their Bronze Award over the past 12 months which is a great achievement and I hope that many of them will consider signing up for the Gold Award when they reach their sixteenth birthday.

“Great practice camp and real thing, thank you ”

The highlight of the Award for many students is the Expedition. During I&D week our students undertook their Expeditions and enjoyed a night camping at Pleinmont. We are fortunate to have a number of DofE qualified members of staff and were ably supported by a number of other DofE Supervisors and Assessors from our local community.

I would like to thank all those who give up their time to support our students on their Bronze DofE journey, we could not get the numbers through without them. But I will leave the last words to the students. Below are some of the comments from the most recent cohort who were asked what was the

Mrs G Dallin “The part(s) that I really enjoyed about my DofE was the three sections (skill, volunteering, and activity) as I enjoyed the different environments and challenges that came along with them.”

“I loved spending lot of time with my friends and making really good memories doing the activities during the walk were also really fun to do and so was the walk itself” “the thing I enjoyed the most was just being with my friends ”

“I did cricket for Physical and it was an enjoyable experience and another example of this is my skills for chess and I played both offline and online with various feedback” “My favourite thing about the DofE last year was the expedition, because it was so active and the campsite was was so alive” “I enjoyed the camp.”

“I really loved getting to know some different people and seeing Guernsey’s beautiful nature.”

I enjoyed cooking our own food with the Trangias. My group cooked pasta and we added some cheese sauce to give it flavour.

“The main highlight of my DofE expedition was the pure evening enjoyment whilst being at the campsite and using our

Bronze DofE expedition

campsite skills from cooking the food using the Trangia to simply putting up the tents.

The factor of being above the clifftop at Pleinmont accentuated the opportunity of participating and the beauty of the outdoor world.”

“Camping at the campsite was the best part. Making dinner on the Trangias and playing football was great.”

“DofE improved my mentality” “Having dinner at the campsite” “I enjoyed DofE because it gave me a challenge and involved some planning which is a very good skill to learn how to do and get organised. During the prep, we also learned some first aid and cooking and this was good fun because it gave us responsibilities.”

Ready to go

Expedition planning

Planning the route

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Contingent Commander’s Review 2022-2023 The academic year started on a very sad note with the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8th September 2022. As one of a number of Royal visitors to Elizabeth College over the school’s history, Her Majesty visited the school in 1957 and inspected the CCF as part of that visit. As a mark of respect the CCF mustered on the hardcourt at the start of the afternoon’s training on Friday 9th September and held a two minute silence.

Due to the demise of The Queen the Battle of Britain Parade which was due to be held on 11th September, with a platoon of CCF cadets taking part, was cancelled.

Staffing numbers for the CCF is always quite fluid due to staff turnover and this year was no different. Having welcomed Mrs Rose Lee into CCF last year she was awarded a Cadet Force Commission into the RAF Section and is now Pilot Officer Lee and the RAF section officer. Having lost Mrs Ashford last year we welcomed Mr Tom McGovern from The Ladies’ College as one of their CCF staff to assist with the Army Section.

Mr McGovern has a keen interest in all things Army as he is also a member of the Guernsey WW1 re-enactment group. We also had to say farewell to Mr Chris Bullock from the Elizabeth College IT department who regularly helped with the RAF Section and maintained the flight simulator.

Combined Cadet Force

forces there was a lack of accommodation at Bovington for the Army Section to go away for the October Training weekend, so they remained on Island, as did the RN and RAF Sections. The RN took delivery of a field gun and limber from RN HQ and Lt Johnson was trained up to be able to deliver the training to the cadets during October Training. As a result of us been given this field gun, 2Lt Bowen very generously purchased a second one so that, following training, section teams could compete against each other.

Once again, we had a difficult choice to make regarding who to nominate as a Lieutenant Governor’s cadet for 202223. Following much staff discussion, we nominated Cadet Sergeant Henry Whittaker who was duly selected with three other very worthy candidates from the Island’s young people. Henry had spent some of his summer holiday attending the BRNC Dartmouth CCF Band Camp where he developed his musical prowess as well as his drum major skills. Henry has been a fine Remembrance Parade

On 4th November we held the annual inter-section L’Ancresse ‘Star-Burst’ more commonly known as the orienteering competition. It was a chilly but pleasantly dry day which suited the Army Recruits Section who won it following many years of the RAF Section winning.

Lt. Governor’s Cadets Alexander Paul and Henry Whittaker

ambassador for both His Excellency and Elizabeth College supporting H.E. at many official functions and Island Parades.

Due to the support and training the British Army was, and is still giving to the Ukrainian

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As with previous years the whole contingent paraded at the Island War Memorial on Sunday 13th November for the annual Remembrance Service. Some of our cadets formed part of the Island Cadet Guard with members of the local Army Cadet Force, the joint CCF/ACF marching platoon as well as a large static platoon of the remaining cadets. I am pleased to say that very few cadets were

unavailable for the Remembrance Parade.

As we do every year, we have a Contingent Commander’s Parade early in December.

This year Mrs Palmer also invited the new principal from The Ladies’ College, Ms Danielle Harford-Fox to join her in inspecting some of the cadets. I believe that Ms Harford-Fox really enjoyed the experience as she engaged with many cadets during her inspection. As we do each year we had a contingent photograph taken on the main steps of the school.

Following a well-earned Christmas holiday the first main event for the cadets was in mid -January for the Cadet Force Instructional Techniques Course (CFIT) which is aimed at the more senior Army cadets. This teaches them how to deliver lessons ‘the Army way’ which enables them to be more effective instructors to the junior cadets. 24 cadets took the course and they all passed with flying colours.

In February, for the first time in many years Elizabeth College entered a team into the RAF’s Squadron Trophy competition in the UK. Whilst they didn’t get past the regional heats it was a great experience for all who took part as they were judged on different aspects including drill and turn-out. A huge thank you to Mrs Lee who arranged it and to Mr Bowen who assisted with the drill preparation.

In March we welcomed Captain Rick Le Page back to College to judge the Watling Cup Drill competition. I also invited Squadron Leader David ‘Syd’ Bowsher, who is also a former parent, to assist Captain Le Page judge the competition. All sections were inspected then displayed a very good routine with few mistakes made. The Army Seniors put in the best performance on the day and came out winners.

It was the week following the drill competition that I had to drop off the radar once again and hand over the reins of Contingent Commander to Captain Al

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Stewart. This was to facilitate my second knee replacement surgery; I certainly left the contingent in a very safe pair of hands.

In May we planned our Biennial Inspection and I invited the new Colonel Cadets South West Colonel Gary McDade to inspect the contingent. Colonel McDade started the day by meeting with Mrs Palmer before inspecting the whole contingent which paraded out the front of College. Following the inspection the original CCF drums which had been completely refurbished to their original condition in Aldershot, were dedicated by the School’s Chaplain, Reverend Graysmith. Colonel McDade was also invited to present the annual CCF awards to the winning cadets. Following lunch in the Refectory Colonel McDade visited the various sections doing their training activities; the Royal Navy Section afloat at the Guernsey Sailing Trust and the Army and RAF Sections training at Rue Mainguy. He was most impressed by both the cadets and staff and this was reflected in his subsequent report.

The weekend of the 6th May leading to Liberation Day was a very busy few days for both the staff and cadets. Saturday 6th of May was the Coronation of King Charles and the Island Held a commemorative parade from Fort George, down Les Val Des Terres to Castle Cornet. As with any Island parade the cadets are invited to join in and this one was no exception. The CCF provided cadets along with the ACF for the Island Cadet Guard and also a marching platoon. The whole parade created a very impressive sight, lead by the Boys’ Brigade Band, as the came down Le Val Des Terres. All those who took part can be proud when they say that they paraded

for King Charles III Coronation.

On Monday 8th May a blue plaque was unveiled outside of No. 43 High Street, St. Peter Port to commemorate distinguished former Guernseyman Major General Sir Donald Banks KCB DSO MC TD; this was his childhood home. As an OE (2916), the CCF was asked to send representation to the event, so Warrant Officer Cadet Rory McKenna and Sergeant Henry Whittaker attended in their best uniforms.

The following day it was Liberation Day and once again, the cadets and staff acquitted themselves in the true tradition of the Elizabeth College CCF. There was a good turn out for the marching platoon and again the Island Cadet Guard formed from CCF and ACF cadets were on parade. Although I could not take part, I was able to go and watch and be immensely proud of what our young people commit to and how they acquit themselves.

This academic year has seen an increase in the number of opportunities for RAF Section cadets to go to the UK to do Air Experience Flying (AEF). Plt. Off. Lee has managed to secure 3 trips away for cadets. This is no easy task as there is a huge amount of form filling and paperwork to complete as well as transport to arrange. Between Plt. Off Lee and the SSI they managed to get everything in place so the cadets get to fly in Grob trainers and also take the controls.

This summer four cadets will be going to the UK for RAF gliding scholarships as well as one on an RAF Leadership Course at RAF Cranwell.

Although we were not attending a Brigade run camp this year, we still held our Focus

Drum Refurbishment The first Elizabeth College Drum Corps was formed in 1924. On return from Exile in 1945 the drums had been removed from Elizabeth College by the occupying German forces. In 1956 the Drums were found to be in Germany and a Contingent from Guernsey consisting of, The Bailiff, Officer Commanding and three Cadets went to Munich to have them presented

by Herr Kohler.

Some decades ago the Drum Corps ceased to exist, five of the original drums were found at College in an unplayable condition and in need of refurbishment, they were last refurbished by Henry Potters and Co in 1932.

Contact was made with a drum restorer, an

Day for the Year 10 cadets to prepare them for Annual Camp which was adventure training in Lancashire. The Army and RAF cadets camped out overnight at L’Ancresse Common near the Fort Le Marchant ranges and completed a range of exciting activities.

These included blank firing section attacks on the fort itself, patrolling with paintball guns against static targets and instruction in fieldcraft. The RN Section went to the Guernsey Sailing Trust for classroom instruction in the morning before going afloat after lunch.

And so to Annual Camp. This year the Army could only offer 30 cadet places during the week before the last week of term which really wasn’t ideal, so we declined which left us in a bit of a predicament. I then received an email from a company in Yorkshire offering adventure training; all we needed to do was to find some accommodation.

To keep the cost down we booked into Halton Camp. This is a military training camp near Lancaster and was large enough to take over 60 cadets from the Army and RAF Sections. There is a separate report about the camp. The RN Section remained on-Island where they did afloat training at the GST and also received 3 days of training from 2 members of the Royal Navy Youth Team; again, there is a separate report for this.

The CCF aims to develop young people especially their confidence and leadership ability through military-themed and adventurous activities and I am confident that we do that here at Elizabeth College.

Of course, it could not be achieved with out the support of all our staff and volunteers to whom I am eternally grateful.

Lieutenant Commander T Slann

ex-employee of Potters who on the demise of the Company had purchased much of their material. On delivery of the drums it was pleasing to see that he had the original templates from 1932 giving all of the fine details.

Munich visit

Restored drums

It had been hoped to have the drums restored and returned before the end of 2022 during the 120th anniversary of the Corps but the conversion of Army Regimental Drums from Queen’s Crown to King’s Crown for the Coronation of King Charles 111 took precedence.

The resplendent drums were returned in time for the Biennial Inspection of 2023 and were consecrated on Parade by the school Chaplain Reverend Graysmith. They will now be incorporated into the reformed and thriving Elizabeth College Drum Corps.

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CCF Awards List 2022-23 Trophy

Award

Winner

The Brice Cup

Best Recruit (Army)

Cadet Joe James

Bagshaw Shield

Best recruit (RN)

JC Oliver Blake

Scampton Trophy

Best Recruit (RAF)

LCpl Alex Dorey

Vaughan Cup

Best Recruit – Turn Out

RAF: LCpl Ben Davidson Army Cadet: George Moakes RN: JC Ben Grayland

Le Tissier Cup

Smartest Cadet SNCO

CSM Will Rouget

Boucher Cup

Best JNCO

Cpl Braden Morris

Nicholas Thomas Cup

Best SNCO

WO Tom Dorey

Contingent Commander’s Trophy

Best Instructor

RSM Rory McKenna

Contingent Commander’s Award

Best Y11 Cadet from each Section (Certificate & Amazon Voucher)

Yr11: RN: AC Jack Rees Army: Cpl Conor McKenna RAF: Cpl Braden Morris Yr13: RN: LC Freya Guezo Army: Sgt Sophie Elliott RAF: Sgt Charlotte Chrystal

Petit Award

Going the extra mile

CPO Will Beasley

Matthew Allen Expedition Award

Trophy

To be awarded following Summer AT

Hewell Robinson CCF Music Award

Music

Sgt James Le Vasseur

Contingent Commander’s Award

Parade Commander’s Certificate (Certificate & Amazon Voucher)

RSM Rory McKenna

Recognition for Services to the CCF

Certificate & Amazon Voucher

CPO Will Beasley RSM R McKenna WO Tom Dorey

Recognition for Services to CCF Shooting

Certificate & Amazon Voucher

RSM Rory McKenna

Army Review This was quite a year for the CCF as a whole and the Army section in particular. The drive to fully regain levels of training diminished by the pandemic, as well as some one-off events (the Coronation, overlapping camps and extended staff absences) making this a very busy but fulfilling time.

October Training was conducted on island this year, which turned out to be one of the best events of the year, thanks to the imagination and enthusiasm of the staff including Sgt Rose from the Cadet Training Team (CTT). The Mirus Battery was used to conduct TIBUA (Training in Built up Areas), which was a very noisy but instructive and invigorating blank firing exercise.

Ambushes, weapon handling tests and then Section attacks (using laser tag) at Fort Le Marchant (defended by the Bursar and his henchmen) also honed the infantry skills and leadership of those in the Army Senior Section. It was clear after this exercise that we had an excellent crop of Senior NCOs

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with Rory McKenna a shoe-in to fill the top rank as Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM).

The high standard of leadership was clear to see during the very positive and successful biannual inspection by the OIC cadets, Colonel Gary McDade. In fact I had no hesitation in asking the SNCOs to run a number of stands, and for the RSM to lead the parade, which brought some glowing comments from the inspecting team.

With the sad death of HM the Queen and subsequent Coronation, adding to our normal ceremonial duties it was very pleasing to see the numbers on parade and standard of turn out at a very high standard.

Particular thanks must go to 2Lt Bowen, for his keen eye and enthusiasm on the drill square, ensuring that all three sections were well represented and choreographed by their NCOs during parades. This strength in depth was highlighted in the inter-service drill competition, where the Army Seniors “B team” were top on the day, under the

command of CSM Will Rouget.

The considerable planning required for Focus Day and summer camp is always a mammoth task, even with our paperwork Queen, Lt Read assisting. As the Army could not cater for all the cadets wanting to join in, the staff decided that it was time to break the normal routine and take 60 Army and RAF cadets on an adventure training camp in the Dales. The cadets may not realise how much time and effort goes into these adventures but as temporary Contingent Commander it was inspirational to see the staff team pull together and produce what will hopefully be the first of many such adventures away, with the trio of Lt Le Sauvage, Lt Mitchinson and Flt Lt Lee leading the vanguard. For many cadets the caving, river rambling, hill walking and rock climbing were all new experiences and this was a great chance for the Army and RAF to team up. A very positive and enjoyable combination.

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Team photo

Blessing of the restored Elizabeth College Drums

Climbing in the clouds

Hillwalking teams

Is this what they meant by exciting manhoovers

Some very excited cavers

Stand by your bed!

Team Inderwick

As the senior NCO team of 2023 head off into the next phase of their lives, this is an appropriate forum to recall that they have been one of the most inclusive, enthusiastic and positive groups of Army Seniors in my tenure and the staff all wish them well with their future endeavours. For my part, I would also like to acknowledge the great work throughout the year of the staff team and to wish Sgt Adams the very best of luck in his military career.

Captain Stewart OIC Army Section Post script: RSM Rory McKenna: Reflecting on my time as an Army Cadet,

Underneath the arches

I couldn’t have asked for any more from any of the staff or cadets, they were brilliant. My final year has been amazing, with highlights being the October Training package, the Biannual Inspection and finally the adventure training camp (as well as the shooting at Bisley!)

To explain why, I will need to give you a taste of just one exercise, Autumn Donkey, the October Training: We deployed to the Mirus Battery and along with weapon handling refreshers, lessons on ambushes etc we conducted blank firing room clearance drills through the Mirus Battery. We then redeployed, set

We’re all going on a summer holiday...

up a platoon harbour, which we guarded against active enemy infiltration all night, before conducting a “stand to” and “bugging out” on recce patrols. Having discovered an enemy stronghold, I was then tasked with leading a platoon to conduct multiple section attacks, clear a CQB lane with paintballs and conduct an ambush.

This was the pinnacle of my time in CCF and as I look back on my time in the Army Section I really appreciate how much time, effort and imagination is put in by the staff and hope that the efforts of my SNCO team and I have repaid some of that work.

Year 12 Army expedition team

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Navy Camp 2023

Navy Section with the Guernsey Sailing Trust

Our 2023 annual summer camp was due to take us across to the UK, but unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances we were unable to get off the rock. Bound to Guernsey, Miss Johnson did a fantastic job of organising an eventful week for us cadets, which started with a day afloat on the water at the Guernsey Sailing Trust.

For the less-experienced sailors, it was an exciting day in terms of wind, therefore everyone was buddied up with a competent

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sailor to endure the thrilling conditions. By the afternoon we were exhausted, so we stowed away the boats and built some rafts in teams.

In the next three days we had two Royal Navy officers – Bomber and Bill – come over to teach drill and leadership. They also brought our section up to standard with current Royal Navy – and thanks to our small-scale group (due to missing Year

11 and Year 13 cadets) – we were able to progress through loads of content. I had the pleasure of being the acting leading hand of the squad and led the drill for the week, which after my RN junior leadership course, enabled me to display what the CCF Navy section has to offer. Overall, the camp was a blast and we took home a variety of skills and experiences that will last us a lifetime.

Oliver Blake

Fire skills

Navy section on the water

Navy section visit to the Fire Station

Map reading skills

Royal Fleet Air Arm talk

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RAF Review The RAF section of the CCF has enjoyed an immensely successful and enjoyable year. October training was undertaken on island and cadets camped out overnight in St. Peters before attending several events at the airport. Cadets visited Air Search and Air Traffic Control to gain a better understanding of how these operations are run on the Island.

Cadets spent two Friday afternoon CCF sessions designing and building balsa wood aircraft. Cadets then travelled to College Field to test the design and strength of their planes by flying the aircraft off of the pavilion balcony. The section enjoyed the afternoon and some of the balsa planes even survived the afternoon of flying.

There have been numerous opportunities for the section to take to the skies throughout the past year. The RAF Section have run three hugely enjoyable trips to Boscombe Down base in Wiltshire where Cadets have undertaken Air Experience Flying in the Grob-Tutor training planes with RAF pilots. Cadets experienced staying on a working military base and had an opportunity to undertake manoeuvres in the training plane, alongside the RAF pilots. The RAF section were also awarded four Gliding Scholarships for the summer

In addition to the Gliding Scholarships, two other RAF cadets have applied for additional summer courses run by the RAF and were successfully offered places. Cpl B Morris was awarded a place on the Air Cadets Leadership Course (ACLC), a week long leadership and training course at The Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Cpl Morris stayed at Cranwell for a week and trained alongside cadets from around the UK. This course accumulated in a turning out parade in front of family and friends. WO Dorey was also awarded a place on the highly sought after and competitive Pilot Sponsorship scheme which looks to train cadets intensively in flying activities.

Part of the training all CCF cadets receive is weapons handling training. We spent a day in college learning about the mechanisms and misfire drills.

LCpl B Davidson has broken Elizabeth College CCF history by being the first cadet to train on the CCF’s newly acquired bagpipes.

We are hoping that LCpl Davidson will be able to participate in parades and accompany all three sections in the near future.

LCpl Duquemin LCpl Dorey

The RAF section enjoyed an extremely challenging Summer Adventure Training Camp, based at Halton Training Camp in Lancaster. Cadets enjoyed a range of outdoor activities; abseiling, canyoning, caving and a navigation hike. Cadets also enjoyed staying on base in billets and marching to and from their meals in the cookhouse. A tiring, but

As well as the basics of marksmanship on the L98A2 semi-automatic military issue cadet rifle, well known to college cadets as the GP rifle. We are looking forward to the opportunities that this qualification allows us to do.

Overall, our first year in the RAF CCF has been incredible and we look forward to starting the next year with the new recruits in September! We hope the new recruits have as much fun as we had this year!

This year has been very eventful for the RAF CCF, including several off-island trips and on-island activities. In February, fourteen cadets travelled to Blandford Garrison in Dorset to compete for the Royal Air Squadron Trophy, which includes challenging disciplines such as Shooting, Drill and First Aid. Despite missing out on the trophy, this was an excellent opportunity to get to know cadets from around the UK and experience life on a working military base. A memorable moment on this trip was our visit to the Solent Sky Museum

Abseiling on summer camp

Annual RAF flight competition

Cadet Lee and LCpl Martel-Welsh

CCF RAF Royal Air Squadron Trophy Team

Cpl Morris and WO Dorey

On security detail

holidays where cadets spent a week-long course at either at Upavon base in Wiltshire or Little Rissington base in Gloucestershire.

Cadets trained on Gliders alongside RAF staff and cadets from other CCFs in the UK. An excellent opportunity for cadets to experience Gliding in the UK. Thirteen cadets travelled to Blandford in February to take part in the Royal Air Squadron Trophy (RAST) Competition.

The team performed exceptionally well on various disciplines, including air-rifle shooting, command tasks, first-aid scenario, aircraft recognition, knowledge on the RAF and a drill routine. On this occasion the Elizabeth College team were not successful in being awarded a winning place in the competition, however as a section we will look to enter again in 2024 and will start preparations for this in CCF during the Michaelmas term.

very successful camp, for all involved.

An overall very successful and busy year for the RAF section. We have numerous exciting opportunities lined up for the Michaelmas term and the year ahead.

Well done to all cadets within the section, who have fully involved themselves in all opportunities.

Pilot Officer Lee The RAF CCF has given us some incredible opportunities so far this year! In May I went on the AEF trip to the Boscombe down RAF base with 5 selected RAF cadets. On this trip we had a chance to go up in a Grob Tutor T1 and fly the plane ourselves whilst instructed by an ex RAF pilot. We were then given the option to do aerobatics which many of the cadets chose to do. This was an incredible experience unique to the RAF section.

in Southampton, where we could see decommissioned aircraft up close and learn about their military and civilian histories.

Another exciting opportunity this year has come from Instructor Cadet training, an RAFbased course with the aim of enhancing the Senior NCOs’ leadership abilities. Five cadets attained this qualification, teaching subjects such as Pilot Navigation, Aircraft Recognition and Principles of Flight. We have studied aerofoil design, applied this through glider building and developed our aircraft handling and design techniques using various flight simulations.

Overall, it has been a fantastic year for the RAF, and we are looking forward to a trip to Halton Army camp with the Army section this summer.

Sgt George Walker

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Debate Club Debating competitions give the students the opportunity to research a topic, deliver a speech and then respond to the cut and thrust of a Q & A session with a live audience. And the experience is a world away from the soundbites which sometimes count as argument on social media.

Ines Silva-Rocha and Chloe Sebire have just won the coveted Carey Cup for Intermediate Debating at Elizabeth College while still in Year 8.

“It’s been an amazing experience and I’ve especially enjoyed learning the rules and

format. I believe it is an extraordinary way to share your views and build confidence,” Ines reflects.

Both students learnt the ropes fast, emerging victorious on the adjudicators’ score cards in debates as wide-ranging as the credentials of Harry and Meghan as role models, the status of football as the ‘beautiful game’ and a final on the relative merits of cats and dogs. Chloe Sebire thinks that having a flexible and open mind is key to success. “Even when we were arguing for the proposition, I sometimes actually agreed with the points of the other team more. But

we were still happy that there was more overall evidence and points on the side we were arguing so we focused on that,” she says.

Well done to all the participants in this year’s competition including Sam Savory and Sandy Barclay who were narrowly defeated in the final but see debating as a key skill in advancing their ambitions. The ability of these young people to reflect and see both sides of an argument is heartening and bodes well for Guernsey’s future.

Mr M Buchanan

Debating Final

Some popular debates “Harry and Meghan are good role models.”

“State surveillance is a force for good.”

“Football is the ‘beautiful game’.”

“We should colonize Mars.”

“Cats vs. Dogs.”

Excerpts from student speeches Cameron Lee on state surveillance: Most of you will immediately think of a horrific totalitarian country, a dystopian

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nightmare straight out of a George Orwell novel. But in reality, that is very far from the truth. Living in a surveillance state has numerous benefits such as the use of security cameras for preventing crime.

Public surveillance cameras can help to reduce both property and personal crime.

trying to look injured, and harassing, manipulating and conning the referee.

Ines Silva-Rocha on Harry and Meghan:

Sandy Barclay on football being the ‘beautiful game’:

Yes, Harry and Meghan received a large sum of money, but they had a problem that no money could fix… constant paparazzi – even their children had to have bodyguards. Then every part of Meghan was penalized.

Football as a concept is a beautiful game the idea of a group of people and just a ball is simplicity itself… Today though, this is only a small percentage of the game.

Today instead of playing the ‘beautiful game’ players get paid an enormous amount of money to spend 90 minutes

The evidence is multiple news reports about her ‘inappropriate dress’ during a ceremony even though another member of the royal family had worn a very similar one and been labelled ‘beautiful’ and ‘graceful’. Even the way she did her fingernails was criticized.

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The de Putron Challenge For us, the de Putron Challenge was an experience we will never forget. During the weeks before the challenge took place we tried to prepare ourselves by watching and reading the news to gather information.

Together we agreed to each focus on an area to study to try and broaden our knowledge.

Year 8 De Putron Team

When the event itself arrived we felt confident and ready to answer the questions. At first we were surprised by the speed in which the other players could answer the questions however it spurred us on for the next rounds. Together in the STEM round we managed to pull through and take 1st place by building a balloon powered car made out of straws and tape that won a race!

From that point onwards we managed to press the buzzer in time and answer the questions successfully.

We were delighted to have won the first stage! We knew the second stage would be difficult however the Jersey team was even stronger than we had anticipated and managed to get to the buzzer in time.

Unfortunately, they took first place but we were incredibly happy to have been able to play against them. Without the support of both Miss Johnson and the students who came to watch us we would have not made it to the finals and had such a memorable experience!

Ines Silva-Rocha

Edible Guernsey We have just finished our third Trinity term at Edible Guernsey. We now have students in every year group who have engaged with the Edible experience. For us this is mainly a Friday afternoon optional activity for students in Years 10-13, and part of the carousel of activities for Year 9. The success has spread to Years 7 and 8 who have joined the voluntary after school Eco club.

This was particularly successful in the build up to Christmas when the students worked with Mr Ozanne to make wreaths. During the school year we have probably had about 875 student visits!

It was fantastic to see the old cricket and tennis nets being repurposed to create a hanging trellis for the beans, pumpkins, cucumber and squash plants. These nets were salvaged from the skip and are a strong reminder to the students that we can recycle and reuse items. This also applies to the tables and chairs that are at the end of the bed – they were being thrown out by the Yacht Club as they were broken and

Christmas wreaths

Leeks and onions at the allotment

Chef Ash with College crops from the allotment

with a quick bit of ‘Repair Shop’ type fixing by our DT department means that the students can sit and recover from their exertions.

Eco Prefect Amelie Le Prevost designed a composter for her DT GCSE and this is now in use composting the peelings from the Refectory. There is still a way to go with refining this but it is another strong visual reminder to the students that we need to work towards a circular economy. This is also true of the cardboard at College and we hope to be able to make more use of this as a weed suppressant and as a mulch.

Mrs Lee hanging the cricket nets

All in all, it has been another very busy year with a huge range of educational outcomes.

The experience of the students at the greenhouse during our Investigation and Discovery Week was truly illustrative of why we are putting so much effort into the Eco and Conservation Projects.

Mr B Aplin

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Eco Team

Peter Walpole Conservation Award

We have had a very busy and successful year as we hit the ground running in September with the Great Interschool Climate Change Debate, which our team won. To learn about local plants we started a Botanical Art Club for staff and an after school Eco Team for our KS3 pupils to learn about gardening. Students also cooperatively created a wonderful

Eco Team Meetings

Nature Week

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environmental wall hanging for the new Perrot Court building and started to prepare a plant-based cookbook.

Our vibrant Eco Day welcomed La Société Bat Conservation Trust guest speakers, showcased nature related artwork of our students and our school community, and the ever-so-popular plant stall welcomed plant donations from a local charity Grow. For the first time we held a fun Lost Property Water Bottle Auction for unnamed and unclaimed items. Students took part in environmental games and quizzes, enjoyed a concert in the hall and a special display in the school library. Traditionally, every one was invited to travel sustainably. We have raised money for Water Aid and three local charities.

We followed up with making the bat boxes for the school site to attract wildlife near our pollinator patches. As we aim to scale up the composting at the college, a compost

Auction time

tumbler was built according to a student’s design. Eco Team Prefect organised a Water Assembly and we followed up with a water audit of the whole site to learn more about water conservation. We are excited about a fast growing number of our members and are looking forward to next year!

Noah Purdue Mrs S Lee

Plant stall at Eco Day

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Friday Afternoons

History detectives

The Friday activities programme is an important element of the College’s weekly schedule and allows students to embrace and access the co-curricular programme at the end of a busy week. The activities provide students with engaging and rewarding co-curricular activities that challenge, promote and develop important life skills, achieve qualifications and potentially introduce a lifelong interest and passion.

Students in Year 7 and 8 have participated in three activities throughout the year in approximately ten-week blocks. The range of activities available to students is extensive and includes bell-ringing, chess, classic film club, coffee house critics, futsal, global cooking, mandala colouring, hell fire club, STEM model making, wool work, special effects make up, history detectives, touch typing, yoga, lawn bowls, and urban sketch club. All students in Year 7 have participated in a music as one of their options and have had the opportunity, regardless of prior experience, to perform with their peers.

The Year 9 students have participated in the following activities in rotation: Duke of Edinburgh Bronze introduction and training, conservation, coding, and an introduction to the three sections of the CCF. A large

Petanque

proportion of the year group have chosen to complete all elements of the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award and complete their qualification expedition during Investigation and Discovery week.

Students in Year 10 and 11 elected to participate in a single Friday afternoon throughout the year. The following options were available, Combined Cadet Forces, sports leaders, and conservation. In Year 12 and 13, students have also had the additional options available to them. Some students have elected to support the Year 7 and 8 Friday activities programme, support subject KS3 curriculum lessons, or engage in a local charity. This year the students have worked with Health Connections at one of their stores in St Peter Port.

I’ve been grateful to the teachers and support staff who have delivered the programme with enthusiasm and dedication throughout the year. The breadth of opportunity and experience available to the students on a Friday afternoon is fantastic. Without their support and dedication, it would not be possible. The students have fully embraced the programme and the smiling faces and engagement speak for themselves.

Mr W Hanson

Sketch club

Cookery

Croquet

Special effects make-up

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Geography Fieldwork 2022-23

Fontenelle Beach Pebbles

Geography fieldwork takes place in a diverse range of environments from Fontenelle Beach to a cemetery in St Peter Port.

A busy year of Geography Fieldwork started with the Year 8 Biology and Geography cocurricular fieldwork day to Fontenelle Bay. The students measured pebble size and roundness to see if there was any evidence of grading and longshore drift. By the end of the day the students knew all about berms, strandlines, and longshore drift. Some students became fascinated by the colour and shape of the pebbles.

Year 7 fieldwork took place in an unusual setting: the Candie cemetery. The students studied how weathering differed on the granite, marble, and limestone headstones.

The three rock types of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous provided a good contrast in rates of weathering.

Herm sand dune data collection

is a stunning coastal environment showing an array of classic coastal landforms from blow holes to head deposits. Relict landforms such as raised beaches and marine platforms were seen and the students also measured beach sediment to see if there was any evidence of mass movement.

The A level fieldwork took place in the middle of a hot and sunny June with the four days in Herm and Guernsey. Day 1 prepared the students for their A level coursework by learning about referencing and sampling techniques as well as writing risk assessments for their own fieldwork locations. Day 2 was devoted to Human Geography in St Peter Port. The human

The two GCSE fieldwork days were in St Peter Port and Moulin Huet Bay. Moulin Huet

Moulin Huet sediment measurements

Next came Richie McCaw, who is a former member of the All Blacks, and captained them throughout the majority of his time with them winning back to back World Cups. Finally, there was Sarah Hunter and

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fieldwork included measuring the extent to which St Peter Port was a clone town.

The following hot and sunny day was spent measuring the sand dunes behind Shell Beach on Herm. The dunes are a dynamic landform, and the New Zealand Flax plant is spreading across the dunes year on year. The final day saw all the Geography A level students collect data for their coursework investigation from locations across Guernsey. The students chose some interesting titles such as the impact of invasive species along the Guernsey coastline to ‘How does art influence the sense of place of St Peter Port?’ With 21 students all having to do different investigations for their coursework, the group covered most of the beaches in Guernsey! Luckily, we were blessed with high atmospheric pressure without the strong NE winds throughout the field course, and a great time was had by all.

Mr S Huxtable

William Davies and Alex Pauckner at Fontenelle Beach

Guernsey Rugby Talks This year we have been incredibly lucky to have heard from some of the best rugby has to offer, male and female. We started the string of players off with Jean de Villiers, who is a former player for Leicester Tigers and capped for South Africa.

Moulin Huet beach fieldwork

Year 12 Bobby Cunningham Lomax and Jack McFarlane

Helena Rowland, both of whom played for Loughborough Lightning. Sarah Hunter is a newly-retired England captain and most capped England player of all time and Helena Rowland a young England player with a very bright future ahead of her both in 7s and the 15 a-side game.

Students with Richie McCaw

Sarah Hunter MBE and Helena Rowland

Many rugby players, fans, sports enthusiasts, and eager PE teachers from within EC and outside came to listen to them speak, about the careers they have had, the struggles they have persevered through and their genuine love of the sport. Overall, it was incredible to hear from them in person, and they inspired many who already play the sport as well as encouraging new players to give the sport a try.

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Gold DofE Review Congratulations to Ella Newson, Henry Lister, Joshua Merrien and Ben Childs who leave Year 13 having completed their Gold Awards.

Gold Award achievers are able to attend a presentation at Government House and a presentation at Buckingham Place. This year myself and Mrs Dallin were lucky enough to be invited to a Buckingham Palace presentation event.

18 students visited the Lake District in Investigation and Discovery week to complete Gold practice or qualifying expeditions. Congratulations to William Creber, Rachel Dallin and Alex Joslin who all completed their qualifying expedition.

The other participants all look forward to completing their qualifying expedition next summer in a different UK national park.

The demands of a four-day expedition in mountainous wild country with wild camps and Lake District summits really shouldn’t be underestimated.

Will Creber’s assessor report really does summarise the skills and team work gained during these expeditions. Will’s expedition was held in the central Lake District. The team had planned a good route and had clearly trained well. The weather proved a

A Windy Helvellyn: Amelie Le Prevost, Zach Alexander Sloman, Rachel Dallin, Will Creber Alex Joslin, Tabby Dorey

Sam Everett, Henry Hunter, Andy Cash (Mountain leader), Harry Snell, Braden Morris

Walking high in the Langdales

challenge to the team, especially the first day where they summitted Helvellyn and wild camped at Grisedale Tarn. Owing to the weather conditions the planned route had to be adapted for the remainder of the expedition, which was a good thing as owing to ‘Tabby Time’ the group had a slightly delayed start, we’ll call it an unforeseen time zone change. The group managed these changes excellently, Will took charge and rewrote the route card/map with brilliant timings. They worked extremely well together, their camp craft was spot on as was their menu prep and cooking. The team’s timings were always spot on and every time I saw the group they had a smile on their face.

Will naturally took the role of navigator which he excelled at. Will kept the team motivated and was a strong natural leader. Well done Will!

chilli sauce made sure to make up for the small hiccup on our journey. Day two started by waking up to the views of the tarn and a hike down into the valley before we set up camp to cook yet another meal of chorizo and pasta. Waking up on day three our bodies started to feel the aches from the previous days’ walking and as we hiked another few hundred metres up, the rain started to join us. While day three seemed pretty vertical the day was made better by the views and Mr Davis letting us try out the infamous storm shelter. Finally day four started with extra company as a sheepdog followed us for the first hour of the trip.

This day was filled with satisfaction as we finished off the expedition by summiting Catbells and reuniting with Mr Davis, Mr Eyton Jones and Mr Garnett at the mini bus.

To top the whole expedition off we were rewarded with a lovely trip to Bath with KFC for dinner. One of the toughest things about DofE is keeping morale high and thanks to the individuals in my group keeping spirits up we managed to end the expedition with smiles on our faces and only a few blisters.

I would recommend Gold DofE to everyone because I think it is one of the greatest opportunities at College that allows you to push yourself outside of your comfort zone.

This trip would not have been possible if it were not for the staff and mountain leaders that helped us with their advice and everyone on the trip is very grateful for the hours of planning and commitment to helping us achieve. I will always remember this trip for what it taught me, and I cannot recommend it enough.

Amelie Le Prevost

I look forward to working with more of our students next year and helping them develop personal skills and achieve their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

Mr P Davis Braden Morris Wild camping in the Lake District

Lake District sunset at a wild camp

Gold DofE Student Report The Gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition was a challenge both mentally and physically. However, walking four days through the lake district can teach you a lot about yourself. A highlight of the trip for me was wild camping at Grisedale Tarn after summiting Helvellyn on day one of the expedition. This day was for sure our toughest one of the four having lost various items over Striding Edge. However, cooking a nutritious meal of biltong, rice and sweet

P Davis, G Dallin, Noah Purdue, Jacob Brady at Buckingham Palace presentation event

Gold Presentation Government House: Henry Lister, Noah Purdue, Jacob Brady

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ADVERTORIAL

We asked one of our trainees why they chose to work for EY in Guernsey and what the future holds... maintain their respective businesses’ IT environments. Then I document how the risks and controls function, ensuring every detail is accurately recorded. To aid my documentation, I take minutes, which is used as evidence in later reporting.

What is your next step?

I am really focusing on my progression within the workplace. For example, taking more responsibility during client interactions, and undertaking a range of different learning badges that EY offer.

I am currently taking a badge about cybersecurity. Although this does not directly relate to my day-to-day activities, it does give more context during the client meetings.

Jacob Gomes Technology Risk Associate at EY School attended?

Elizabeth College.

A/AS levels undertaken?

Biology, Psychology, Physical Education, EPQ.

Favourite place to eat in Guernsey?

For me, it must be COCO. It just ticks all the boxes, great atmosphere with arguably the best coffee on the island and a finelytuned menu suited for everyone. Personally, my favourite dish is the scrambled eggs, chorizo, peppers, and tomato pot. It doesn’t matter what time of the day it is; this dish never fails to disappoint. Simple ingredients, done right.

Favourite way to relax?

I find the best way to relax is to listen to music, as I am very passionate about the history and production. I see myself as a multi-genre enthusiast and greatly appreciate the evolution of music from 1970s all the way up to music being released in the last 3 years. I listen to various radio stations and I enjoy collecting vinyl records. This is a great release for me and fuels my passion in all areas in my life.

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What made you choose EY? I knew EY would be the right place for me because of the people. As EY is a global firm it attracts a diverse group of people, with a wide range of different backgrounds.

Not only is everyone personable, regardless of their job role or seniority, but they also create an environment which nurtures individuality. This played a major part in my choice as I am a firm believer that everyone should be able to express themselves and EY embraces this ideology.

What sort of professional training do you take?

I am currently working towards my Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) Qualification, which will open lots of doors in the future. I also plan on taking advantage of the ISACA fundamental IT Risk/Audit course that will provide me with a solid foundational knowledge to apply in the workplace.

What do you do on an average day?

An average day for me in the Technology Risk team includes a wide variety of tasks. I spend a significant portion of my time performing tasks ranging from understanding IT processes and the risks and controls within, to testing automated aspects of business processes and whether they are performing as expected. As part of this, I am involved in interviewing Heads of IT and CIOs and hear about how they

This assists with my understanding of how the client’s IT environment is structured and what are the risks associated. This should leave me in a great position to eventually embark on a secondment abroad that will expand my global perspective and provide me with valuable experience in a greater variety of working environments. All the previously mentioned goals will add to my continuous commitment to my professional development and growth in the industry.

What advice would you give to a school leaver considering your experience now?

I highly recommend contacting anyone who currently works at EY, whether that be a current associate or a member of the talent team. This gave me more of an idea of what an average day at EY looks like and what opportunities are available for students.

It is great to read the job description but that doesn’t always give you enough detail about what you will be doing.

Another great way of discovering what a normal day looks like at EY is through work experience and the CI Summer Internship programme. People who have taken part in the Summer Internship here have really enjoyed themselves and got to experience first-hand what a career at EY could look like for them.

To find out more about the work experience and trainee positions available at EY, contact Anoushka Horgan (ahorgan@uk.ey.com) or visit www.ey.com/ci/students

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Junior Science

The dome in College Hall

This past year in Junior Science was an exciting year with lots of opportunities for curiosity and discovery. Our after school Science Club for years 7 and 8 operated throughout the year and we had around 30 students who took the opportunity to learn outside the class room. Lots of activities and experiments that don’t get covered during class time were carried out and the students engaged fully to enhance their science skills.

Activities such as exploring edible DNA, designing egg parachutes, chemistry crystal gardens, heart dissection and making icecream were all very popular. Our students benefit from the club by enhancing their science skills and working collaboratively with their peers to problem solve and experiment and were ably helped by Tom, Emily and Ramsay from the Sixth Form.

the ever-popular Explorer dome. A very large inflatable igloo structure was erected in College Hall and all of our year 7 & 8 students had an interactive presentation on the evolution of the earth from its early origins up to present day. Students learned how events have shaped the landscape and atmosphere we now call home.

Early in Michaelmas term we had a visit from

Mr G Campbell

Gym Club A fascinating afternoon

The projector

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Our strength and conditioning programme continues to grow. With Mr Bruyere now in five mornings a week, the numbers in the gym have swelled consistently with the results starting to speak for themselves.

Of those students who consistently attend.

We have seen considerable improvements in their individual performances with some achieving not only island representation but also county recognition.

This year we aim to see the programme grow further with an improvement in facilities and an increase in the number of weekly sessions available for our leading performers.

Mr T Eisenhuth

Reuben Montgomery

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Investigation & Discovery Week The Elizabeth College Investigation and Discovery Week takes place in the last week of the Trinity term, providing the opportunity for students to be exposed to and engage with new activities and experiences.

Students in Year 10 to Year 13 travelled to the north of England to challenge themselves in the annual CCF camp or the Gold DofE expedition or remained in Guernsey to engross themselves in the Sports Leaders Programme or helped deliver the Year 7 and Year 8 programme.

The Year 9s enjoyed an outdoor education programme, participating in climbing, coasteering, paddleboarding and hiking.

Most of the year group completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh overnight expedition and took significant strides towards securing the qualification.

Year 7 and Year 8 participated in two activities throughout the week, one in the morning, which was largely based on site, and the second in the afternoon that exposed students to the wide range of activities available in Guernsey.

AM Programme

PM Programme

Text Adventures

Climbing

Stop Motion Animation

Bell Ringing

Performing Arts Showcase Golf Range World Cooking

Air Rifle

Wool Work

Sailing

Investor Challenge

Kayaking

Urban Sketching

Surfing

String Art

Multi-Sport

Art, Eco & Nature

Foreign Film

Song Writing Workshop

Conservation

Minecraft

Scrap Band

Zine Workshop

Skateboarding

Fine Dining

Beach Adventures

The Investigation and Discovery week concluded with a showcase event in the Perrot Court, with live musical recitals in the Quad and Reception area and dramatical performances in Drama Studio and displays in the hall. The event was a huge success and highlighted the benefits to students from engaging with a diverse range of co-curricular activities. Elizabeth College is very proud of co-curricular provision, and the Investigation and Discovery Week is a valuable and enjoyable finale to the academic year.

A huge thank you to the staff from across the College who made the week possible and provided an engaging, enjoyable, and beneficial experience for our students.

Mr W Hanson

Up Climbing

Text adventures

Coasteering

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UKMT Maths Challenge

Junior Maths Team Challenge

During the course of the past academic year, College has once again enjoyed much success in both the UKMT Individual Maths Challenges, as well as the local Senior Maths Team Challenge.

We started the year with the UKMT Senior Individual Challenge and we were delighted that a number of students got through to the follow-on rounds. Donny Brock (Year 12) got a Merit Certificate on the Senior Kangaroo, impressive! George Walker, Zach AlexanderSloman and Ben Sharp also got through to the Kangaroo Round, an achievement in itself.

James Kennedy participated in the British Mathematical Olympiad and got a Distinction (putting him in the top 250 students in the UK), a fantastic achievement for James!

Albie achieved a Merit certificate. The local Junior Maths Team Challenge took place on the 12th of June and it was a clean sweep for College, with both our Year 8 (Tibere, Jake, Albie and Micah) and Year 9 (Charlie Bodsworth, Lorcan McClay, Benjamin Mallard and Ed Robinson) teams taking gold.

Overall the students at College earned their normal plethora of Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates in the individual competitions representing large numbers of students achieving at high levels. We are most pleased with their performance.

My thanks to all the students who have been as enthusiastic as ever and to the maths department staff who have helped with the organisation of both the Individual and Team challenges. I have continued to enjoy running Infinity Club every Thursday afternoon and coached the juniors in competition practice. Mr. Mulholland has again expertly offered Beth One to the seniors weekly. I will be handing over the organisation of competitions to Mr. Loweth in September and I wish him well.

Mrs K Norman

We were pleased to host the Senior Maths Team Challenge in January again with teams from The Ladies’ College, The Grammar School and Blanchelande College. We were even more delighted when one of our Year 13 teams won it. Hot on their heels was one of our Year 12 teams and our other Year 13 team narrowly missing out on third place!

The UKMT Individual Intermediate Challenge followed in February and College achieved some fine results in this too. Barton Wilkes (Year 10) got through to the Hamilton Olympiad, an excellent achievement! Three other students got through to the Kangaroo round, namely Charlie Forshaw, James Troop and Jago Holden.

The UKMT Individual Junior Mathematical Challenge was the next big event and a number of students have made it through to the Kangaroo round which took place on the 14th of June: Robin Grafton in Year 7, as well as Tibere Le Conte, Jake Jones, Albie Lihou and Micah Cohen, all in Year 8.

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Year 8 Team taking Gold – Jake, Albie, Micah and Tibere

Year 9 Team taking Gold – Benji, Ed, Charlie and Lorcan

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Medicine Applications During my application process for Medicine at university, I had the chance to be offered a practice multiple mini interview with Olly Collas (OE 9582), who is a junior doctor who was kind enough to come in and help us with interview preparation. The interviews we have as part of applying to university are usually timed 5 minute stations and quite different to other interview formats.

His help really stuck with me, and so I think it is really valuable to have these connections between us and the OE’s who are further along their journey through a medical career.

This is what makes me so excited about the new Guernsey Medic Network that Mrs Read has worked so hard to set up that has launched recently.

This will be an invaluable resource for helping medicine applicants connect with anyone who is a practising doctor in Guernsey (not just Elizabeth College!), from other applicants to undergraduates away, to working healthcare professions,

Noah Purdue, Olly Collas (OE 9582), Joseph Blake and Lachlan Perkins

and I urge future applicants to use the site to its fullest extent. These connections can then help applicants with choosing a university, prepare for interviews and arrange shadowing with Guernsey’s healthcare professionals. The launch event for this

Network was very useful, allowing me to meet in person with some of the medics I had connected with on the site, and arrange shadowing experiences for my gap year before university.

Joseph Blake

Team Building On Friday 16th September Years 7 and 8 took part in our annual ‘team building’ afternoon at the College Field. This was an opportunity for Year 8 students to reconnect with their peers in a different context after the summer holidays, and for Year 7 students to continue their programme of integration with their new tutor group. Furthermore, the purpose of the team building was to continue to support students to work on their teamwork, leadership, decision making and problemsolving skills, and help foster year group and tutor group cohesion.

challenges, put on by our staff. It also involved some of our senior students who support and mentor Key Stage 3 in their Friday Activities. Students took part in a variety of activities from traditional team sporting activities like rounders and ‘Capture the Flag’, to problem-solving activities like a ‘noughts and crosses relay’, tower building and tyre stacking challenges.

Students experienced four different

Mr M Copeland

The event was thoroughly enjoyed by students, not least with the opportunity to have an ice cream in the afternoon sun after a warm afternoon of activity!

Team building activities

Success

Ice creams

Year 7 and Year 8

Tiring work

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Outdoor Adventurous Activities Many islanders (and geographers) will know that the Atlantic low pressure systems and swells that shape our lives begin far away. Little by little, whilst trying to avoid areas of high pressure they develop their own identity, gather momentum, and start to head in a general direction. They grow into impressive bundles of energy and find a focus on our shores. They eventually express themselves on our shores and may bring joy (surf waves), disappointment or at worst destruction.

It is super to see so many of our past and present students develop into active leaders and helpers in the outdoor activities industry in Guernsey. A typical summer now reveals many of them working on the water, at the crags or in the fields with younger children, families and tourists having a great time exploring what Guernsey has to offer.

Mostly, they have found their niche interests or their multiple strengths as young students in the Outdoor and Adventurous Activities at College, provided through PE lessons, games afternoons, afterschool clubs, College Scouts and CCF, or through their home and evening activities with family and friends and with local clubs.

Once they have shown an appropriate level of training and competency they can move towards qualifications and start to develop log books showing the sessions they have started to support, and lead; keeping a logbook or diary is very important. This gives an excellent training for life in general and for future opportunities in the Great Outdoors. With the grounding provided by so many staff, parents and commercial activity providers, the World is their Ormer (sic)!

The College Climbing Club continues to be oversubscribed and benefits from the contributions of senior students who come to climb whilst also providing instruction and guidance to younger students. The climbing has the Everest Challenge as a goal and we again supported this excellent event as it heads towards its 30th anniversary. Outdoor

Climbing club

climbing has been harder to provide, partly because the access paths are increasingly overgrown – a positive side effect of climate change. Still, sitting on the cliff top at the south cliffs and enjoying the crepuscular

rays is a reminder of how fortunate we are to live on Guernsey.

Kayaking, stand-up paddle-boarding, coasteering and surfing remain the bread and butter of OAA for most of the year, often with former students as coaches.

That is progress!

I’m very pleased that rowing has restarted with the support of Guernsey Rowing Club. We are not ready for another Sark to Jersey yet, but a determined crew with a programme of winter ergometer training in the Sports Hall could aim to complete most of the calendar races next season, or just enjoy the whole body experience that rowing offers. This year GRC crews have seen seals and dolphins to add to the experience.

Have a go row

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MS Rowathon

We have so much on our doorstep. Taking those first steps is the challenge. Be adventurous and enjoy activity outdoors!

Mr B Aplin

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Tomorrow’s Leaders Conference Seven members of the new Year 12 Elizabeth College Senior Prefect Team attended the Tomorrow’s Leaders conference at Victoria College. The day was jam-packed with a range of talks and workshops, led by Victoria College staff, covering various aspects of leadership such as effective communication, decisionmaking, public speaking, safeguarding responsibilities, and teamwork. Engaging keynote speakers shared their experiences and wisdom, inspiring the students to strive for greatness and to step out of their comfort zones, take risks and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.

The conference explored many different aspects of leadership that we will experience during the next academic year within our individual Prefect positions.

We gained advice and skills in public speaking, problem-solving, working as a team, recovering from mistakes and much more, which each of us found to be very informative and useful when looking forward to what we aim to achieve next year as a prefect team.

The public speaking session was a

Prefect team

particular favourite of ours as it is something that people can find the most difficult part of being a leader – however, the session was engaging and fun, and improved our

ability to not only write speeches and public deliveries, but also how to deliver these to keep the audience engaged.

Sam Davidson

Wellbeing and Mindfulness important aspect of our curriculum and offers our students the opportunity to try out practical strategies and develop skills.

The Wellbeing Hub offers a listening service which includes our new School Listener and the Chaplain. There are colourful and engaging displays on the wellbeing noticeboard students and staff can access support along with some helpful advice.

A link to this information can be found by scanning this QR code:

The Wellbeing Hub

One of the many exciting innovations that were included in the new Perrot Court building is the Wellbeing Hub. The hub is accessed off the Perrot Court main courtyard and is a welcome area of calm in a busy school campus. Mindfulness training is held in the new dedicated space and for Year 7 students this teaching begins right at the start of the Michaelmas Term.

Introducing the Wellbeing Hub to our Year 7 students right In September ensures that they know there is a place of quiet on campus, so that those who need some space from the hustle and bustle of College life can find that support.

The first session of mindfulness for Year 7 explores the ‘Puppy Mind’ and how our thoughts can be just like a puppy - easily distracted by smells, sounds, the past, the future. The activity helps students to practise mindful breathing, self-awareness and self-management to calm their thoughts. Throughout the year students are also introduced to the dot b meditation and ‘beditation’ activities, to help with overthinking when trying to fall asleep.

All Elizabeth College students learn about resilience, self-esteem, aspirations, managing stress and many other important issues through their PSHE lessons. It is an

Wellbeing Club meets each week on a Friday lunchtime. Students discuss ideas for supporting their own wellbeing including mindful crafting activities such as badge and candle making, along with exploring new hobbies. Wellbeing Club also spend time discussing whole school initiatives to support our community, including quizzes and competitions.

Rev. P Graysmith and Mrs J Pendleton

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Wellington College Heads of School Conference The 17th annual Wellington College Heads of School Conference gave Jon, Honor and me the opportunity to learn and exchange ideas about leadership. It was clear leadership is far more than any textbook definition; every leader has a unique way to embrace each individual’s strengths to fulfil the potential of their team. Will Greenwood MBE opened with ten pieces of advice for any leader, providing a framework from which we had discussions with over 100 other students.

Topics ranged from ‘teamship’ and dealing with conflict to managing stress and the importance of diversity. Sharing ideas on these issues gave us an insight into how we can improve at our roles within Elizabeth College, while giving feedback on our experience to the senior prefect team meant the conference had a wider impact.

Overall, the trip was hugely beneficial, with lessons on leadership that we will carry throughout our time at Elizabeth College and beyond.

Ben Sharp, Jon Vickers and Honor Couchman

Ben Sharp

Work Experience We were delighted to offer Work Experience again this year. It has been a great success and has proved to be an invaluable experience for the Year 12 students. The Students demonstrated some excellent organisational skills to arrange placements at a variety of companies, across a range of business sectors. The students have made a very positive impact on their supervisors and were great ambassadors for the College. Here are a few of the comments I received from employers.

Cannacord Genuity “...both grew in confidence over the course of the week and proved to be a mature, enthusiastic and very capable team players.”

Deloitte

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Livingroom “Amelia was an excellent member of the team – friendly, confident and enthuasiastic.

A five star work experience!”

Guernsey Museums “Harry has shown himself to be a credit to his school and himself. Exemplary behaviour and conduct at all times. A delight to host.”

I would like to say a huge thank you to all the employers that have supported our students and also to the team at Careers Guernsey (GWEx) that have helped support the College throughout the process.

Mr Conner

Kings

TPA Marketing

Specsavers

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Year 7 Band

First assembly performance

As part of Friday afternoon activities, all Year 7s have taken part in a rotation to learn to play a woodwind, brass or percussion instrument.

We are currently looking after the Scout Band instruments at Elizabeth College, so we have a large number of trumpets, flutes, clarinets and percussion amongst others.

To make good use of these instruments, it seemed a great idea to set up a Year 7 band that we would run on a Friday afternoon as part of activities.

In the first session, the students experienced a workshop playing each of the three families of instruments. At the end of week one, they all chose which one they

wanted to pursue for the rotation. Every single week the students would go off into smaller teams and were led by a specialist teacher. The group came back together in the last forty mins, and would perform to each other, and then as a larger musical ensemble of thirty. We have had so much laughter and fun!

All students who took part in this have also had the opportunity to take their instrument home so that they can practice between Friday sessions. Several students have decided to take up instrumental lessons which is brilliant and shortly they will become members of the Elizabeth College Junior Band if they keep the practice up.

Trumpets!

All Year 7 students have also performed in Year 7 assembly and many alongside the CCF as they march outside (2/4 is a very good tempo for them to march to). The most recent group also had the opportunity to perform to their parents and friends in the end of year Junior Music concert in June.

This activity will be running again from January 2024 as an option for Year 7/8 students on a Friday. Old and new members welcome! Music is a wonderful hobby and a great way to make new friends whilst developing resilience and a skill for life!

Mrs G Laird

Young Enterprise Being a part of Young Enterprise was an amazing experience, we gained life skills we wouldn’t have achieved through lessons.

Our young enterprise product was a series of greeting cards with a ‘seed patch’ attached to the card. The seed patch was made of recycled paper with wildflower seeds embedded in it. You peeled the patch off the card to plant. Our company’s aim was to further the sentiment of card giving, while supporting and aiding our local environment.

schoolwork and Young Enterprise was challenging, but commitment and sharing the work was vital to our company’s efficiency and keeping good moral.

We all really enjoyed the opportunity to work together as a team and achieve many skills through the process. On finals night

we received Company of the Year, winning the overall competition. We also achieved: Best Product, Sustainability, Best Report and Best Trade Stand award. We are all proud of our product and how far our company and ourselves have come.

Flick Coupe

A challenge we faced was the time frame of the project. Coming up with an idea, creating and selling our product, all within seven months that flew by. We also designed cards for specific occasions, so we had to be quick, with deadlines like: Christmas, Valentines and Mother’s Day. We had many ideas but so little time, this taught us to compromise for the benefit of the company.

Our ability to work as a team was essential for effective time management and keeping to our deadlines. At times balancing

Young Enterprise Team

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Sixth Form Leavers’ Day 2023

Leavers Dinner 2023

“Mamma Mia. Time’s Up!” was finally called on our 2023 Year 13 Leavers’ Day as the students left the College site to prepare for the final level in their Sixth Form adventure: A Level Exams.

“Hello! It’s-a me, Mario!”

Whilst this wasn’t quite the greeting our Sixth Form Team were expecting when arriving to work on the morning of Friday 12 May 2023, it certainly set the bar for the day as the Sixth Form Centre rapidly filled up with the Super Mario Bros and their favourite Royal, Princess Peach.

Following group photographs on the Elizabeth College steps, the Bros and Princess Peaches were treated to breakfast

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in the Refectory, served by their Form Tutors and the Head and Deputy Head of Sixth Form.

A short awards ceremony took place after breakfast, organised by the Year 13 students themselves, that invited individuals to “take-a-this (trophy) and take-a-that (trophy)” as they were awarded prizes for various antics during their time within the Sixth Form.

Staff were then invited to the College

Hall for the singing of the College Hymn, followed by shirt signing and a slice of the infamous Leavers’ cake, made by Maths Teacher, Mr Loweth (who really should be on GBBO!).

“Mamma Mia. Time’s Up!” was finally called on our 2023 Year 13 Leavers’ Day as the students left the College site to prepare for the final level in their Sixth Form adventure: A Level Exams.

Mrs K Cheshire

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A Year in Art 2022-2023 As ever, it has been a busy and exciting year for the art department. We are incredibly grateful to the maintenance team for the amazing job they did to complete the renovation work on the Gate House Gallery, in time for the Tyler Ayres exhibition ‘The Cache Kitchen’. Tyler, a Guernseybased illustrator, has been our Artist in Residence for 2021-22 and she created a fantastic body of work that was both humorous and poignant. Her illustrations feature portraits of friends with allusions to ‘pop culture’ and personal anecdotes.

The residency programme enriches the visual culture at college and students get to see at first hand the work of practising artists. All our students get to see the exhibitions, broadening their perspective and understanding of contemporary art & design. Over the year of her residency, Tyler supported Zine Club, visiting the group on a weekly basis. Many thanks to Tyler, who has recently been in Norway for another artist residency!

The ‘Interim’ student art exhibition is becoming a fixture of the lent term, offering senior artists a chance to show in the gallery. Every student studying art from Year 10 upwards is included and the show marks the mid-point in the academic year. For A Level students in particular, it is a chance to see their work exhibited and to take stock of progress in the run up to the end of year exhibition where their projects will be marked and moderated. For the younger students it is a chance to be inspired.

In March we hosted ‘Portal’, a marvellous exhibition by local sculptor Sophie Le Lievre, whose background in ‘technical arts and special effects for performance’ were clear to see in the detailed modelling and architectural themes in her work. In May, we had a wonderful show featuring artwork

created by the students of Elizabeth College Junior School. A wider range of media, techniques and processes were utilised including sculpture, painting, printmaking and drawing. Art teacher Sian Ellis, ably assisted by Jo Atkinson, did a brilliant job of curating the exhibition and everyone marvelled at the quality of the work produced. I hope that the chance to see their work on show in the gallery will inspire these young students to take an even greater interest in the visual arts and maybe to aspire in the future to study art at GCSE and A level!

The Summer Art Exhibition is the highlight of our year in art. Every year is different as the students make work that is personal and meaningful to them, and it is always exciting to see them explore such a wide range of themes.

This year was no exception and the overall quality was extremely high. Highlights from Year 12 included work investigating feminism

by Tabby Dorey, dyslexia by Flick Coupe, landscape by Alex Joslin and industrial environments by Alex Ward. Harry OlliverBewey was incredibly industrious throughout the year with his creative and experimental exploration on the theme of ‘love’.

Alex Joslin – Landscape 1

Tabby Dorey – Gender

In Year 13 the work was even more diverse and included risograph prints on the theme of nature by Charlie Birch, self-portraits and photography by Eva Drew, graphic design

by Archie Despres and Jacob de Jersey, etchings and painting by Danny LewisGallienne and a meditation on ‘people in liminal space’ by Douglas Moulin. Tom Hook produced a haunting series of greyscale paintings, prints and collages that hovered between graphics and fine art. Three of our artists will go on to pursue their studies in the visual arts at university. Oscar Bailey, whose final project was a series of beautiful portraits of college staff, will be going to Loughborough for a foundation course in Art & Design. Oliver Coupe, who made a fine collection of jewellery inspired by Art Deco, will be going to Cardiff to study Architecture. Owen Bonner-Morgan has achieved at an exceptionally high level throughout the course, exploring a range of ideas through painting and printmaking.

In his final project, he branched out into sculpture-making, a response to his grandfather’s ‘archive of materials’ collected over his lifetime. Owen secured a place at the prestigious Prince’s Foundation for their diploma year. Wherever they are heading, we wish all our Year 13 students every future success.

Finally, a big thankyou to the art department team who have worked tirelessly in support of the college and our students.

Mr A Stephens

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Alex Ward – Mixed Feelings Two

Eva Drew – Self-portrait in blue

Alex Ward – Mixed Feelings One

Eva Drew – Self-portrait in grey Georgia Pollock – Double portrait BW

Georgia Pollock – Double Portrait colour

Jacob de Jersey– Congestion Zone 1

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Jacob de Jersey – Congestion Zone 2

Harry Olliver-Bewey – A riot of love

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Oscar Bailey – Portrait of Andrea Paul

Owen BonnerMorgan – Stored

Oscar Bailey – Portrait of Rev Peter Graysmith

Owen Bonner -Morgan – Experiment Two

Tom Hook – Revisited (Monoprint)

Tabby Dorey – Obey

Owen Bonner-Morgan – Experiment Three

Tom Hook – Remnants (Triptych)

Tom Hook Revisited – (Triptych)

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Design Technology Review This year we had more practical projects and outcomes than ever before. Over 100 pieces of 3D and graphics work have been produced in the last year.

The standard and range of work continues to improve and it was fantastic to be able to exhibit all of the GCSE and A level work to students, parents and visitors to College.

Anthony Merrien – laminated shelf

Harry Newton – Guernsey inspired table

Oliver Duguid – storage

Max Hamon – chest

Students have worked in concrete, resin, fabric, 3D printing, metal casting, welding, marquetry, wood work, plastics and digital designs. Work included; marketing projects, websites, photography, architecture, printing, packaging, furniture, jewellery, tap design and even a fully working electric guitar.

A huge congratulations to all of the students for their hard work throughout the year.

Mrs M Schofield

Alex Vidamour – chair design

Amelie Veron – jewellery design

Ashton Pleasant – extreme rocking chair

Danny Lewis-Gallienne – motorbike inspired stool

Chloe McArdell – jewellery design

James Hancock – retro motorbike desk lamp

Mathilda Gordon-Le-Clerc – CADCAM tap design

Toby Glen – electric guitar with resin and bottle caps

Harry Staniforth – sea inspired, wood and resin coffee table

Isaac Eyton-Jones – stadium inspired lamp

James Le Vasseur – jewellery and jewellery box

Otto Roussel – dinosaur inspired sculpture

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Pottery Club From bee baths to raku firing, the students at Elizabeth College embrace artistic expression at Elizabeth College pottery club.

In the bustle that is Elizabeth College, a small but dedicated group of students gather once a week during lunchtime to engage in an artistic pursuit that has captured their hearts and minds – pottery.

The EC Pottery Club, a haven for creativity and self-expression, has had a remarkable year, producing an astonishing array of pottery pieces while honing their skills in various techniques. Moreover, their Saturday club has taken on exciting ventures, delving into the world of raku firing and commemorating the grandeur of the Coronation.

Barnacle detail

Year 7 bee baths

Building skills and exploring techniques: Throughout the year, the members of the EC Pottery Club have dived into a wide range of projects, showcasing their versatility and dedication to their craft. From crafting exquisite bee baths that harmonise function and beauty to moulding intricate tiles. Each week students can engage in the mindfulness of pottery throughout the year, benefitting from a quiet moment in a busy day.

Saturday Club: The EC Pottery Saturday Club has been a source of both excitement and innovation. This year, the club embarked on an exhilarating journey into the world of raku firing – an ancient Japanese technique that involves removing pottery from the kiln while it is still glowing hot. This process produces unique and stunning results, with unpredictable glaze effects and distinctive crackle patterns.

In addition to their foray into raku firing, the EC Pottery Saturday Club took the opportunity to celebrate an event of historical significance—the Coronation.

A community of creativity and growth: Beyond the tangible results of their artistic pursuits, the EC Pottery Club has fostered a community of creativity and growth. As the students work together, they exchange ideas, support one another’s artistic endeavours, and learn from their shared experiences.

Looking ahead: As the year draws to a close, the members of the EC Pottery Clubs can reflect on their remarkable achievements and the immense growth they have experienced. Their dedication and passion have transformed simple lumps of clay into breathtaking works of art, bringing beauty and inspiration to the Elizabeth College community. The EC Pottery Clubs serve as a reminder of the transformative power of art and the importance of cultivating creative spaces within our schools and community.

Mrs J Pendleton

Coiled and thrown vessel

Hand built pot with Chun glaze and slips

Ikebana flower arranging vessel

Over lapping glazes

Raku birds

Black and white slips

Stoneware snail

Sixth form pieces

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Creative Writing Review Let a thousand flowers bloom! It may be the kind of contemptible cliché that none of our featured writers would use. But it does capture the flourishing of creative writing in our College community which seems to have taken root as we leave behind the long cloud of the Covid years. And the environment has been rightly front and centre in our young writers’ thoughts.

We began the year with National Poetry Day on the theme of Nature. Through the editing of Adam Stephens in the Art department and the inspiration of Eco Team leader Sharka Lee, we created a magazine full of passionate poems and imaginative illustrations on this theme. Some of the best are featured here and were published

in the Guernsey Press too. In class, Year 9 took inspiration from the work of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti to produce some provocative poems about inequalities in society. Meanwhile, in Year 8, our girls channelled their inner Emily Dickinsons to feature in a spread for International Women’s Day in Bailiwick Express. Finally, several of our students also embarked on expeditions to enter national poetry competitions, producing some fine individual poems along the way.

In prose, we enjoyed notable success in the Write Stuff again. The theme was Nature, and the stories produced by our students were wide-ranging and highly imaginative in their scope. They make us reflect on

the larger world outside our island while reminding us that our huge planet is but a blue marble from space. The Perrot Prize is now in its fourth edition, and the entries go from strength to strength. Writing stories with titles of exactly five words and story lengths of exactly 450 words, the winners here all created the kind of humour which would have made both OE Roger Perrot (5450) and OE P.G. Wodehouse smile in appreciation.

Finally, in collaboration with the History and Science departments, we have started storming Castle Cornet again with Year 7 in June, and our youngest students created some excellent stories as a result.

Mr M Buchanan

Write Stuff Senior Section (Years 10-13) 1st place: Jake Taylor, ‘Trapped’ My eight bulbous eyes snapped open!

Vibrations ricocheted off the thin strands of glistening white string that made up my web, startling me awake. Something was caught in my trap. I was instantly up and ready to hunt. I had felt this disturbance before and knew this was a fly. I needed to get there fast and secure my prey in case it escaped, and I was left ravenous.

Usually, my sticky silk would catch anything.

However, sometimes they would just manage to wriggle free before I got there.

Nimbly, I scuttled down my dew-covered web, careful not to fall the long deadly drop to the ground. Up here, this was my territory; I felt at home, but a spider on the ground is in

3rd place: Sam Savory, ‘My Escape’ The rhythmic chirp of the cicadas wake me.

Nature’s alarm letting me know the sun has risen and another day has begun. My time for escape is now. I leave my room and tiptoe gingerly up the creaky spiral staircase, taking care not to wake my family. I push my feet into my flip-flops and open the heavy door, closing it softly with a light click. As I walk out, my face is instantly slapped by a wall of heat and my nose is filled with the smell of the baking earth and the wild oregano growing within the grass. I start my journey towards the beach. I make my way down the drive; the steepness forcing me into a slow jog. I give a friendly nod to the

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meal. The fly was writhing and thrashing, desperate to escape, but it was no use. The more it moved, the more ensnared it became until any hope it had left vanished. Quickly, I reared up onto my hind legs to strike. Then lunging forward, I pierced the fly’s body with my sharp, venom-filled fangs. Huge eyes full of panic and confusion stared up at me as the life drained out of them. My spinnerets swiftly started encapsulating my prize in a cage of silken thread.

My jet-black abdomen glinted in the morning sun, and my gangly legs scurried me to my

Suddenly, an ominous shadow loomed above me, slowly advancing towards my web. Fear tore through me like a bullet.

Forgetting the fly, I frantically scrambled back to the safety of the shadows, but it was no use. Straining, my web collapsed under the immense force bearing down on it. Was it a crow or a robin? No, this was much worse.

spider in the fig tree at the bottom of the drive. Carrying the blissful smell of the figs in my nose, I cross the road. I look out upon the beach, a view of perfect desolation and pristine beauty. I amble eagerly down the slipway, and upon reaching the bottom, I take off my flip-flops so I can feel the sensation of the soft sand between my toes.

Entering the shallows, the water soothes me like a soft blanket. As I calmly wade further out, the contrast between the sun-kissed surface of the water and the depths that lie beneath becomes apparent. I float in perfect comfort, block out thoughts and feelings and just float. Just me, peacefully alone with the songs of birds and the tiny waves slowly rolling into shore. The magic of Nature engulfs me. Any negative feelings

are cast into the sea and left to drift out with the tide. True tranquillity is restored, and I am ready to face the day.

real trouble. Exposed and open to predators, all your advantages are gone in an instant.

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Highly Commended: Ralph Humphries, ‘Future’ After making his way to the roof of the building, he found himself staring at what he never thought was possible. The once busy city, full of life and spirit, was now desolate. He knew many years had passed since the beginning of the apocalypse, but he still kept believing. The one chance he had to find at least someone had now disappeared. What he was staring at used to be one of the largest cities in the world,

and now its only population was himself and the nature surrounding him.

Down the staircase he went, and with new thoughts in mind, the journey felt endlessly long. Looking around, each building was now controlled by the shocking, yet beautiful and fresh life. Each step he took seemed to be cushioned by the softness of the grass that had seeped and grown out from the numerous cracks along the pavement. He saw different plants dangling themselves out through the windows, the cool breeze waved them around in the searing summer sun. It was like nature had taken its home back. Through each

building he went, and each he found himself mesmerized by the variety of the vibrant nature. He tried to focus on his objective, but it was like nature had not only taken over the city but his mind as well.

All of a sudden, disrupting the tranquillity of the city, overflew the answer. The plane of liberation was within reach. What he had been searching for had been found, but had it? For the first time in 15 years, he had completely forgotten about everything and let nature take over. He thought he had yet to find the answer but he was standing directly in it. He wasn’t running anymore and didn’t want to keep doing so.

Intermediate Section (Years 7-9) 2nd place: Herbie Stow, ‘Small Fragile World’ Hurtling through space, darkness enveloping me, my determination pushing me forward. Every part of my considerable mass is edging me closer and closer to my destination. The twinkling stars and colossal galaxies are far, far away in the distance.

Forgetting what I’m leaving behind in search of new marvels and wonders.

The tiny spec, green and blue, increasing in size as I draw closer. I can just make out the vast continents and expansive oceans.

Will Earth, my new home, welcome me with open arms? Will it be worth the journey?

It’s been a lonely life, being an asteroid floating around in space with nothing or no one nearby. Upon spotting Earth, I knew it was destined to be my new home.

In the NASA control room, terminals flicker with blue lights polluting the room. The greatest minds gathered together, all trying to create a solution to save Earth from this extinction-level event.

Highly Commended: Noah Nicolle, ‘The King of the Jungle’ An eagle, mighty and bold, flies over the forest, for it is his kingdom- and he is the king. The ruler of this viridian land. He spots mice running through the lush undergrowth and foxes training their young to fight. He sees an old badger bumbling on his daily routine, to find berries and other things that he can eat for his breakfast.

The eagle flies further over his domain, noticing the smaller things: trees sprouting

Just a few weeks previous, the enormous mass of metal and rock making up the asteroid presented itself to the human race. With only three weeks left to save everyone.

Two hours till impact, the feeling of panic encases everyone. Stressed faces accepting their fate, knowing they have no chance of surviving this catastrophe.

Almost at my new home, I am brimming with excitement. Waiting to see people’s faces when they meet me.

I break through the atmosphere, the clouds disperse, and I get my first glimpse of the wonderous teal rivers winding through the dense forests covering the steep mountains. I can no longer contain my elation. My smile beaming

from new earth, and he can hear the sound of baby birds calling for their mothers.

He sees beetles crawling up trees, their iridescent carapaces shining fiery red in the rising dawn light. He hears the bees wings, buzzing and humming and the gentle sounds of the streams flowing over smooth grey river rocks. He hears the fish in the streams, their silvery scales like a beautiful moonbeam. The eagle flies west, where he knows not of his people, for he has not heard the songs of the woodpeckers and sparrows. He flies, graceful and powerful, seeing men, marching over the tangled roots, and fallen branches, scaring the animals and birds. He swoops lower, to see

across my rock face.

Back in the control room, silence exemplifies the terror felt by everyone. In people’s last moments, they see the huge asteroid crash straight into their small fragile world.

the blight of his kingdom. He sees the men, powerful and evil, cutting down the glorious pines, splendid spruces, and ancient oaks.

Still west, the eagle flies, seeing the terrors and tragedies of his kingdom. He sees the bodies of chicks, fallen from their nests after their trees were fell, their mothers scared away by brutal men. He sees families of frightened dormice, huddled by tree stumps, scared and alone and he sees fox cubs, mere skin and bone, for their mother couldn’t provide them food. He sees the burning trees, and smoke-filled skies, and realises, that he, the King of the Forest, no longer wears his crown.

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Perrot Prize 2023 1st prize: Harry Snell, ‘Oh I Hate those Seagulls!’

Oh, I hate those seagulls! The bleedin’, breedin’, food-stealin’ maniacs swarm the sanded land as if they own it themselves.

It’s a war; a war between us humans and those wretched gulls, and by golly, I’m going to win it.

projecting its heat upon people sunbathing.

I gather my armies (and leggies!) and storm my way onto the beach. In my left hand, a rake to slam into the birds when they’re low enough; in my right hand, a blaster, fully loaded with my excrement, to blast them from the sky, whilst giving them a taste of their own medicine. This is the day when the seagulls suffer for my glory!

a call for reinforcements as hundreds of gulls rushed to their aid. They planned their attack in a matter of seconds and quickly assumed their positions. This is war. Humans vs seagulls – who will be victorious?

They’ve only caused me hassle, stress, and fuss. They take my food, poo on my head, and make me want to cuss. For all the things I’ve done for them, the food I willingly gave, they’ve done absolutely nothing in return! For that, I’ll dig their grave.

I charge through the sand, smashing through sandcastles as I do. I clock a squabble of seagulls gathering near neglected chips, pecking at whatever scraps they can get. I open fire, unleashing my fury on the birds as if I’m marking my territory. ‘Slam!’ goes the rake. Miss… Slam!

Miss… They keep flying away! These birds are harder to catch than I thought!

Suddenly, the gulls dive down towards me. I readied my blaster and my rake, preparing for impact. Wave after wave of the larinae pecked me, knocking me to the ground. Although I got a few good shots, my attempts to attack were in vain as my blaster got knocked out of my hand.

I got pecked and prodded and pulled and scratched all whilst suffering their obnoxious screams. Once I thought it was all over and the seagulls were out of sight, I stood up and composed myself. Only then I felt it raining, although there wasn’t a cloud in sight.

Today’s the perfect day for battle – the waves gently pour into the shore, gracefully retreating again and again. I can feel the smooth sand between by toes and the sun

The seagulls were prepared for war – more prepared than I thought. All at once they soared high in the air with the deafening screech they produce. That must’ve been

I appear to have lost. As well as this, it seems I misfired and hit Little Timmy in the head with my blaster. Perhaps the beach belongs to the seagulls after all.

2nd prize: Rex Hay, ‘I’m Living The American Dream!’

For some reason the teacher began to sing the lyrics to the song ‘You’re the best around’ instead of actually helping me. A circle of Chad’s friends surrounded us and had all joined in with the sing-along that the teacher had started. Just as they reached the part in the song about reaching the final bell Chad swung the most obvious slow-motion punch I had ever witnessed; I mean my grandma cooked eggs faster than this guy threw a punch. I ducked the punch and slapped Chad on the side of the head. His reaction to this was to fall to the ground five seconds after I slapped him and pretend to cry. A random girl in the crowd yelled, “I knew you could do it Zack!” which wasn’t my name. I strutted down the corridor with my new confidence, a gaggle of girls following behind me, I was living the American dream.

As I arrived at my first class, History, the teacher took attendance and started to

teach us about The Berlin Wall. This one kid called Darius took this as an invitation to stand up on his desk and shout ‘East side, West side, doesn’t matter to me’ in a tuneful voice. The entire class repeated what Darius had sung and began an on-point dace routine that they had obviously practised.

I was the only one who didn’t dance, and the teacher quickly noticed me, saying in a questioning tone, ‘Why aren’t you dancing?’

I shrugged my shoulders, hardly believing that the teacher was okay with the madness that was happening behind me, ‘you do know that it’s an immediate detention if a student does not comply with the schools... passive learning strategies, don’t you?’ I froze, one of my classmates must have overheard the teacher and whispered something to the rest of the class. Just like that – all of the fame I had acquired in ten minutes was gone and forgotten – I was now just the unpopular British kid again.

“They’re the wrong size,” I said.

crumpled up piece of paper.

“Whatever do you mean?” I hesitated but Mr. Measureit had told me to be honest.

“You look like a baby elephant in skinny jeans.”

“But you told me to be honest,” I whined.

It was my first day in an American high school. As soon as I walked through the bright yellow doors, I was met with a spit ball in the eye spat by Chad Dooshbaginson, only the coolest kid in school who had a varsity wrestling jacket.

“Hey nerd!” he spat, with ferocity, “it’s tradition that the British kids get a beating on the first day.” A teacher walked by, he paused for a second and then came out with, “Yeah, you’re gonna get a knuckle sandwich where the sun doesn’t shine!”

I was doomed.

My heart skipped a beat when Chad, who had just fist-bumped the teacher, turned to me, and shoved me against the locker.

3rd prize: Lucy Parrott, ‘Learning on the Saturday Job ’ “Rule number 1: always be honest with your customer.” I smiled sweetly at him and walked nervously to stand behind the counter.

I was just thinking about who would win this season of Britain’s Got Talent when someone rudely interrupted me.

“Young lady. Can you come and give me your opinion? What do you think of these trousers on me?”

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I was watching the steam coming out of her ears when Mr. Measureit stormed passed me towards the lady. “Madame I’m so sorry, it’s her first day, she’s still learning.”

“NOT THAT HONEST!” he snapped. “You better up your game, young lady, or else you will be looking for another Saturday job.” With that, he stomped off. I shut my eyes and breathed out dreaming of Enzo winning BGT. Well, if he didn’t win then maybe…

“I don’t care if she’s still in Reception, you can keep your trousers!” She flung them at him and stormed off.

“Excuse me! Please could you come and help me decide which dress? I’ve got three here. This red one?”

“Right, young lady you have just lost me a good sale.” Mr Measureit’s face was a

I stared at it. “Oh madame you’d look as a gorgeous as Alesha Dixon in that.”

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“And the green one?”

“You’d look as amazing as Amanda Holden in that one.”

The woman’s eyebrows shot up under her fringe as she held up the yellow one. Then she drawled, “And which famous person would I look like in this one?”

“Obviously, Bruno. He is a yellow ray of

sunshine! It’s certain who you’d look like him.”

“Your suggestions were ridiculous.” With that, she tossed her head and stalked out.

The lady gawped at me as if someone had pressed the red buzzer on her. She retreated into the changing room. I was pleased with myself. It would be wonderful to look like any of those three. Maybe not Bruno – his hair’s not long enough. The curtains yanked open and the lady stood in front of me.

What did I do wrong? I had done exactly as I was told. It wasn’t my fault that Mr. Measureit didn’t see it like that. I was fired. I kicked stones on the way home and braced myself for my parents’ anger. But I couldn’t stop it. A smile sneaked out and stretched to my ears. Just think about all the fun I’d have next Saturday.

From Nature Magazine for National Poetry Day ‘The Spider’s Web’ James Kennedy

‘Icy fire...’

Jake Taylor

‘Time’ Ines Silva-Rocha

Glassy tears shimmer upon a silken thread, Tears of morning, for the fleeing darkness shed.

Tentatively eight spindly legs unfold, Eyes gaze calmly eastward as green and gold Trace their shining paths across the scene, Where Gaia and Ouranos meet, serene.

I see fire…

Burning, burning on the horizon.

A blazing ocean devouring everything it touches.

The once lush earth reduced to cinders, our blanketed skies now laid bare.

Nothing escapes the devil’s grasp.

Time is ticking, Earth is the clock Nature is calling The news leaves us in shock.

Day sighs softly, whispering its call to life to waken And the silent sentinels commence their susurration.

Suddenly a violent gust - the whisper becomes a roar.

Tenuous threads tremble, shivering feebly in the onslaught of air.

Piercing terror; eight legs shrivel; tears splash silently to the ground.

And just as quickly calm returns and terror begins to ebb All is now at peace within the humble spider’s web.

‘We’ll See’ Byron Wakefield There’s plastic on the beach, in the sea, even in the rain, Everywhere you look humans are giving the Earth only pain.

Cars churning out black smoke, factories even more, When will we learn, will we ever know the score?

Millions of planes, buses, trains and lorries, Only add to the list of Mother Nature’s worries.

We have too much rubbish, there’s nowhere for our waste, But we still shop, buy, shop, buy and throw away in haste.

We cut down the forests, destroy anything green, Chuck rubbish in the oceans, ignore what it will mean.

Humans are amazing, at least I hope we can be, Can we turn back time? Rewind the damage? We’ll see.

Icy fire…

Created by man, Yet intoxicated by smoke and ash.

They let it roam free.

A single spark that ignited a bonfire.

The last candle, almost extinguished And who will be left to light the darkness.

The clock strikes one, Plastic in the sea, Nature is shouting, Shouting out to me.

Clock strikes six, Icebergs disappear, Nature is screaming, But who will hear?

With the clock at twelve, It seems time is up, Now there is just silence, Have we run out of luck?

Be the change you want to see, Because it’s down to us, Down to you and me.

By Creative Writing Members ‘Deep Sea Divers’ Mani Davis Burst – Outburst of emotion Water everywhere, down and down A person married to wrongdoing and a story where Things go wrong Down down do eyes fall Deep the head drowns And looks at none A person who looks and looks But expression points waterwards A cycle, more a native of nature than man More of river than land A person who uses oxygen to exist underwater Is a pauper.

An outburst of emotion

Tears fall and fall Does a deep sea diver Wish to be a deep sea diver at all?

‘Fortitude’ Joshua Fallaize The Heavy iron shackles impede my footsteps, The fetters bond my confrères tight, Grimacing as our skin boils in the night.

But like gladiators far from the Colosseum, We cannot weep or sob or snivel.

Neither can we escape the horrifying strain, But merely thrive in the excruciating pain.

With that being said, Try not to hate your circumstances, For you possess the greatest advantages; Two eyes, two arms, two legs and a brain, Use them wisely and don’t linger in the rain.

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From EC to BI: Embracing a Diverse Career The engineering challenges were exciting, but an itch to try something new lingered.

Cue moving to KPMG, a Big 4 Accountancy firm. After three years as an auditor, three years in business advisory, and qualifying as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, I had invaluable financial knowledge and a solid grounding in business.

But working in a global Big 4 didn’t feel like the right life-long career for me, and I missed the ability to positively impact everyday life that I’d had working at the hospital.”

underused opportunity. I now lead a newly created Business Intelligence department to help advance company capabilities through putting data to work, designing and engineering data models to improve business and life here in Guernsey.

Our flexible working policy means I have freedom to study a combined

A Sustainable Transition Nick Tidd

Meet Nick Tidd, an ex-Elizabethan who once trod the EC corridors lugging an overloaded briefcase of books, tentatively raising his voice singing ‘Jerusalem’ in St James, and facing that timeless question around the summer holidays: “So, what do you want to do for a living?”

Today, Nick heads up Business Intelligence.

His career journey is rich in evolution, learning and meaningful change.

Taking all his EC experiences with him, Nick demonstrates how a successful career path isn’t always linear.

Studying the Universe “Like many people, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do as a career. But I did have an untapped interest in how things worked.

“A unique opportunity occurred when I became a Finance Business Partner for one of Guernsey’s largest employers.

Here I could apply my engineering background to my financial skillset while making improvements to everyday lives and support sustainable development.

Career progression led me to head up Financial Planning and Analytics and later appointed Finance Lead for a major highprofile IT project serving the island. This was a unique experience owning and managing several interconnected technology systems spanning engineering, finance, HR, commercial sales, IT, and billing.

A diversion came about just before the pandemic when I accepted an interesting position in a senior role at a small financial services company. After some time here, I realised it didn’t suit my interests and skills, and made the decision to move on.

After EC A Levels, I studied ‘Physics and the Universe’ at Reading University. That experience uncovered a few too many of life’s mysteries, and too few of the Universe’s! But graduating with a love of logic, numbers, and engineering, I returned to Guernsey searching for a career spanning my interests.”

“I began as an Electro Bio-Medical Engineer fixing and maintaining life-saving medical kit at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.

Nick with the Guernsey Flag

I then did something people often feel unable to do; I went back to my previous employer.”

A Renewable Opportunity “Once you’ve demonstrated an ability here, you’re given the chance to run with it, and the results could make huge positive waves in our island.

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apprenticeship and master’s degree in data science and maintain a position as a NonExecutive Director for a small local firm.

Looking to the future, I hope to use my master’s degree to help influence the future of power.”

Why I work here “I guarantee the work I do impacts your life because I work at Guernsey Electricity Limited.

The term ‘no two days are ever the same’ gets bandied around so often, but in such a close company operating in the everevolving energy industry, there’s no other way to describe it.

Before working here, I hadn’t realised GEL had such diverse career development opportunities. You get to know something about every part of a business which touches each person’s life, and every day you can help drive our planet’s transition to more sustainable energy.

From Science to Service

Nick at Elizabeth College

Nick sailing

I returned working four days a week as a Data Architect, tapping into a previously

There’s a significant amount of investment needed to maintain Guernsey’s power station, the subsea importation cable, substations, network cables, and the thousands of other grid assets spread across the island. This means a huge amount of long- and short-term planning is needed.

My future is Guernsey’s future. When you are part of the sustainable energy transition, you help build better sustainability into everyday life. Whether that’s through engineering, project management, financial services, or business intelligence.”

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Music Review If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an island to develop a musician. In her last Elizabethan Concert with College, Miss Willcocks (Director of Music) thanked the Guernsey Music Service and our team of talented peripatetic staff, who together with teachers, parents and friends champion our students in all their musical endeavours.

This particular concert, no doubt one of highlights of the musical year, saw students from across the whole College community, Year 2 to Year 13, as well as musically-minded staff, performing in this

evening of uplifting and inspirational music, culminating in an impressive rendition of ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ which brought together both choirs and orchestras. Behind the scenes of every concert lies hundreds of hours of lessons, practice, rehearsals, encouragement and support, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone involved in the team effort.

This year has seen the familiar annual treats, such as the Gibson-Fleming concert and the Eisteddfod, but we were thrilled to be able to travel, with a trip to London and a choir

tour to St Malo. It is a privilege to be able to share our music outside of Guernsey. We were also pleased to be able to host once again ECSOC (Elizabeth College Summer Orchestral Course), the first time it has been able to run since Covid. As the saying goes, “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” Seeing the students coming together through their shared love of music is always a delight; read on to find out more about what they have achieved this year.

Mrs J Roberts

A Choral Music Review This was certainly a year to remember in Elizabeth College Choral music!

Perhaps the highlight for sixth-form musicians was the Senior Musicians’ Trip to London in February. Through the extensive contacts of Miss Willcocks and Mr Edwards, we were able to experience London’s bustling musical culture to the fullest. After the first evening’s electric performance of “Hamilton” in the beautiful Royal Palace Theatre, our second day commenced with a vocal masterclass at the Musician’s Church, generously offered by Jamie Wright. This included the close harmony group working on a favourite for the year: Lullaby of Birdland, with a gorgeous solo from Charlie Dunford. We were next lucky enough to be given a tour of the truly breath-taking Royal Opera House, before – on the following evening – we witnessed the premiere performance of Dvorak’s Rusalka. I think we were all a bit sceptical about the culture of decadence which surrounds Opera, but we were totally mesmerised by this aweinspiring performance. Sitting on the very front row of the Royal Opera House, having been offered free tickets, and witnessing some of the world’s finest musicians in action, was truly a “pinch-me” moment.

However, for the whole choral community at Elizabeth College, we were excited for the long-anticipated return of the annual

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Dinner in St Malo

St. Malo trip. Standout highlights were opportunities to sing in St. Malo Cathedral, a stunning building with iridescent stainedglass windows, and a shimmering acoustic.

No matter your religion, you can’t help but feel spiritually moved by being able to sing together in such an extraordinary space.

George and I were lucky enough to join the two organists (Guillaume and Henri) for coffee after Sunday morning mass, before heading back to the cathedral and being given a turn on the mighty Great Organ, pushing it to the limits with J.S. Bach’s Pièce

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d’Orgue and Messiaen’s “Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux!” On the last evening – as has become tradition – the sixthformers and teachers went out for dinner to experience some French cuisine, this time joined by Guillaume and Henri. This was a great chance for me especially to practise my French speaking skills (as a French A Level student), and for us all to experience more than our fair share of French eccentricity.

It was an evening full of surprises; one to remember for a very long time!

There were many more choral highlights, including: Close Harmony tours to ECJS, Monkey Puzzle, and the United Club; a broadcast on BBC Radio Guernsey; many services in Town Church… too many to list here! But I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Gibson Fleming Trust for their continued generous support to musicians at Elizabeth College. Their belief in the power of musical education and the development of young musicians has made a significant impact on so many of our lives.

Archie Purdue

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Bands

Winter Concert in Town Church

Alex Joslin trombone

In addition to orchestras and choirs, the Music Department offer two wind bands: a Junior “Snorkel” Wind Band (comprised of Years 7, 8, and 9), and a Senior Wind Band (comprised of Years 10 +).

Here, students have the opportunity to experience different repertoires, develop their instrumental skills, and work and connect with each other through the medium of music.

The Snorkel Band is conducted by a Sixth Form student – this year being Harry Snell in Year 12 – while the Senior Wind Band is conducted by Mrs Laird. This year, both bands occasionally joined forces to blow the audience away – as the old saying goes, the more, the merrier!

Joze Andrijasevic trumpet

Harry Snell

Junior Strings This year, Junior Strings have gone from strength to strength, learning new repertoire and excelling in Elizabeth College performances. In March they won their Eisteddfod class for string groups, which is a remarkable achievement given that only half an hour of practice time is available per week. Most recently they have started learning a James Bond medley, which they are looking forward to performing in their next College concert!

George Walker

Elizabethan Concert

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Footloose

Holding Out for a Hero, Tilly Bisson, Aurora De La Mare, Tilly Collenette and Angel Perkins

Is dancing a crime? That question was answered by the Elizabeth College Drama Department in January 2023 with their successful production of ‘Footloose’, incredibly directed by Mr Walters and Miss Newall. Written by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie, this musical covers the story of a Chicago kid – Ren McCormack – moving to Bomont where no dancing is allowed. With help from the rebellious priest’s daughter Ariel Moore, Ren

Let’s Hear it For the Boy, Willard Confessing He Can’t Dance, Daniel Lasenby, Mani Davis and Ensemble

challenges the ban on dancing, going head to head with the all-powerful and dogmatic Reverend Shaw Moore. It’s time to cut loose, loose your blues, and kick off your Sunday shoes as I reveal how the cast and team made ‘Footloose’ an outstanding triumph.

Footloose, adapted to film in 1984, encourages companionship, freedom, and fighting for what you believe in through the medium of dancing. From the hilarious

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dance moves of Willard Hewitt, played by Harry Northmore and Daniel Lasenby on alternate nights, to moving confrontations between Ren, played by Sam Davidson and Mani Davis, and Reverend Shaw, played by Ben Tostevin and Harry Snell, to the heartwarming number ‘Almost Paradise’ between Ariel Moore, played by Amelia Garn and Aurora De La Mare, and Ren, the play had it all. For me, this show was an incredible choice as, whilst it deals with light-hearted, comic, and fast-paced fun, it also delves into more serious themes, such as alcohol which caused the horrific ‘Potawney Bridge Accident’, that contrasts to the lively musicals we have performed in previous years. This tested my, and the rest of the cast’s, acting skills as we needed the jolly, vibrant, dancing skills to perform upbeat moments of the show alongside more sophisticated and serious skills to portray the darker themes of the play. Although this proved to challenge the cast, everybody captured this contrast perfectly, leading to the success of the show.

challenges, and sweat as the cast worked hard to make the show outstanding. This required a vast amount of skills including: time management, determination, resilience, and creativity. At the beginning of the first rehearsal, we were given a rehearsal schedule so we knew exactly what we were going to cover in each rehearsal, thus giving the cast the responsibility to prepare for the rehearsals. As well as developing their acting talent, the cast simultaneously

Once again, the auditions were opened up to all students between years 7 – 13, thus transforming the show into a community project. This was an amazing decision from the directors as it allowed familiar faces from previous productions to return as well as new faces to increase the diversity of the cast. This reinforced and established new friendships that will last a lifetime.

developed life-skills which will stay by their sides forever.

Every rehearsal was filled with enthusiasm,

Prom picture, Mani Davis, Ramsay Ismail and Ensemble

The amount of work that went into this show is unparalleled. Rehearsals were physically exhausting with animated and upbeat dancing paired with vocally challenging singing; not one cast member left rehearsals without panting! After rehearsals, the work wasn’t done as the cast had to memorise lines, choreography, and vocal harmonies

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before the next rehearsal to ensure each rehearsal was as productive as possible.

Although tiring, the work was definitely worth it as we blew the audience away every night.

This year, Mrs Laird debuted in her first Elizabeth College Production as Musical Director, aided by Lydia-Jane Pugh. She generously gave up her time to teach the cast vocal harmonies and techniques in order to preserve our voice and project as much as we could. The singing would not have been as successful as it was without her, thus slotting in perfectly to the Elizabeth College Theatre Company team.

Personally, I have enjoyed being in the cast of Footloose. As an A Level drama student, this show has given me the opportunity to enhance my acting skills as well as my creativity skills, as each cast member contributed an idea to the production.

A highlight for me was working in the Performing Arts Centre for the first time, where the entire behind-the-scenes team contributed massively to the show’s triumph.

As always, Mr Walters and Miss Newall are one of the main reasons the show was a success. The directorial skills of both staff members, including discipline, motivation, and productivity, alongside the help of extra

The Town Council Meet to play cards and discuss the ban on dance

vocal coaches, the tech crew, and costume and set designers ensured the show was a complete and utter victory.

As always, it is always heart-breaking after the conclusion of the show – not just because it is over, but because it was time to say goodbye to our year 13 students: Daniel Lasenby and Ben Tostevin. Dan always brought hilarity, productivity, and encouragement to all the rehearsals. His quick thinking and vibrant energy boosted the cast’s morale to give us the extra bit of motivation to cross the finish line; he’s been a joy to everyone around him and we are all sad to see him go. Ben is a veteran of the Drama Department, contributing in every Elizabeth College Production he could. He is a role model to all the younger actors through his acting talent and will be sorely missed in the years to come. From me, you guys have been a pleasure to work with and I can’t wait to see you at the front row of our next production in the near future.

Next year, ‘We Will Rock You’ will be taking the world by storm. Although the bar has indeed been raised with ‘Footloose’, I have no doubts that the next production will somehow raise said bar. ‘Footloose’ was, without a shadow of a doubt, a lightningstorming triumph.

Harry Snell

Basketball With both Colleges keen to see the game of Basketball grown we embarked on our first series of fixtures against Victoria College to test our basketball enthusiasts. With the EC teams winning each of the inter school age group competitions in Guernsey the students felt confident going to Victoria.

In the Year 7 game a strong Vic team got out of the blocks quickly opening up a 10-point lead in the first quarter. However, a tenacious College side battled back to get the game within four points in the fourth

quarter before a couple of crucial turnovers resulted in four quick points which took the game away from the students. In the end Victoria College went on to win the game 33-25 in what can only be described as a really promising start. The Year 8 fixture on the other hand was a battle to the end with the EC team on top for long stretches of the match before a late flurry of points had Vic in front by two points with four minutes remaining. However, as is the case in any big match when you get away from your

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strengths you tend to start making more errors and that is what we did in the final few minutes. Rather than get the ball to the basket we started shooting from range which wasn’t as consistent as our pass and move game. The match fluctuated for the final minutes before Vic held on to win by two points. The commitment of the students is testament to the growth of the game with training prior to school and during lunchtime all year highly attended.

Mr T Eisenhuth

Year 8 Victoria College match

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Island Schools Sports 2023 A brilliant day at Footes Lane in the Guernsey sunshine saw many of our young athletes take part in lots of competition. We won the Year 8 boys, Year 10 boys and overall boys’ team trophies. The girls’ teams gave a good account of themselves against much bigger schools and there were many notable performances throughout, not least from Sophia Kemp who won the Year 7 Girls’ High Jump in only her second go at the event.

In Year 8, Seth Le Tissier won the 200m, running 25.4 sec. to take the EC Year 8 record (previously 25.5, from 1990!). The Year 8 Boys’ 4x100m (George Le Page, Louis Clarke, Rufus Bousfield and Seth Le Tissier) took first place in 52.5 sec. and beat the EC Year 8 record, previously held by our EC team of 2021 (the current Year 10s) – and they were only 0.2 sec. off the Island Schools Sports record.

In the Year 9 Boys’ 4x100m, Dylan Graham, Seb Banneville, Jack Sylvester and Theo Le Tissier won in 51.5 sec., almost matching the EC record of 51.3 from 1991. Theo Le Tissier won the Year 9 boys’ Long Jump in 5.58m (close to the EC record of 5.77m, set by Tim ap Sion).

Nobes, Jake Taylor, Declan Ridgwick and Charlie Van Katwyk) were convincing winners in 46.9 sec., absolutely smashing the EC record of 49.1 sec. from 2004.

Emerson Nobes won the 100m in 11.3 sec., just missing the long-standing EC record (11.0 from 1977) but managing to break the Island Schools Sports record. Emerson went very close to securing the record in the 200m with 23.4 sec., (23.3 sec. is the record set in 2017, by Joe Chadwick, Guernsey Commonwealth and Island Games athlete).

Jake Taylor, with 5.87m in the Year 10 Long Jump, was not far off the EC record of 5.99m, set in 1992. Finally, Gil Hunter led from the front in the 800m to beat a very good La Mare athlete in a new PB of 2:11 (his previous best was 2:18).

The Year 10 boys’ 4x100m team (Emerson

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Seth Le Tissier and OE Cameron Chalmers

Junior Sports Day 2023 Year 7 It was fantastic to see the enthusiasm of the Year 7 students, whether competing or supporting. The boys shared out the wins, with each individual event won by a different person. Leo Hervouet was the most consistent over three events and took the individual championship while South took the team honours, helped by their strong showing in the team sports.

The girls were kept busy doing multiple events each for their house teams and North emerged victorious, helped in no small part by Sophia Kemp’s efforts.

She won three events and took the individual championship.

excellent performances. Seth Le Tissier was the standout sprinter, winning both the 100m and 200m, setting new Sports Day records in both and eclipsing the 100m mark of a certain A. Chalmers.

Voehrs, who won the 800m and took second in the 200m. Ines Silva-Rocha won two individual events (100m and long jump) but placed second overall, with scores based on England Athletics standards.

George Le Page won the most events (300m, 800m and hurdles), but it was Louis Clark who took the individual championship, having run Seth close in the sprints and placed second in long jump, with performances that were fractionally closer to the school records than George’s.

With both these girls in North, it was little surprise that they won the team competition.

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Louis was also a member of South’s relay team as they set a new Sports Day record and emerged as top team in athletics.

However, it was Town who emerged as the winners when the results of the team sports were included.

There are some talented athletes in Year 8 and they pushed each other to some

The girls’ contest was just as competitive with the individual title going to Beeke

Emerson Nobes in the 200m

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Year 9 One of the closest contests of the day was the Year 9 100m, which saw four runners within 0.2 seconds of each other. Jack Sylvester won that one, as well as the 200m and high jump, to take the individual title.

Not far behind him was Bertie Beddow, who won long jump and shot put. Town won the house competition, with strong performances in the team sports.

A close finish in the Year 7 boys’ relay

Winners

With the Island Games mascot

Year 7 200m runners Nicole Osborn and Sophia Kemp

North’s victorious Year 8 girls relay team

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Year 10 Emerson Nobes was the standout performer in Year 10, winning the 100m, 200m and high jump. His 100m was a new Sports Day record and he almost took the record in the 200m as well. He was a convincing winner of the individual championship. Second was

house competition.

Jake Taylor who went close to breaking the long jump record and took second in the sprints.

It was a superb day and fantastic to see such an array of sporting talent. The winners can be rightly proud of their performances, but so can all the others who took part and gave their all.

The race of the day was Barney Paxton’s tussle with Gil Hunter over 400m. Both athletes were awarded the same time, with Barney given first place. Town just missed the relay record but won the

Mr L Garland

Senior Sports Day 2023 Henry Watkin was the standout performer in the senior sports day, winning all three throwing events.

Joe Andrijasevic also stood out, winning long jump and high jump.

In the closest race of the day, Max Johnson took the 100m in a photo finish from Finbar Dorrity. North were clear winners of the house competition.

Mr L Garland

Max Johnson takes the 100m in a photo finish from Finbar Dorrity

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Cricket Report

Coaching in local French primary schools

The 2023 Cricket season was always going to have a lot to live up to with everyone expecting the College teams to do well after the promise shown during the previous year. What was already a busy calendar with league fixtures for the First XI, OE’s and Development team exploded with the confirmation of a number of visiting schools including; St Albans, St Edwards, Queens College Taunton, Bishop Stortford and Nantes CC all visiting Guernsey. In addition to the visiting schools the traditional the MCC fixture returned to its place in the calendar with a declaration match during the half term and the home and away series against Victoria was reestablished for the first time since 2019.

With wins for year 9 team against St Alban’s

Year 9 Captain Ed Robinson vs Victoria College

Junior cricket vs Nantes

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and a one wicket loss to Victoria College Field a promising start to the season set up a wonderful finish. The major highlights from the season simply have to be the performances against the MCC and Victoria College. For the first time since 2013 the First XI beat the MCC in gutsy fashion chasing down the MCC total with one wicket in hand. Not to be outdone, the students held their nerve against Victoria College to win the first varsity match since the lockdowns. This was by no means a one man show with the leadership of the captain Fintan Ridwick setting a fine example for the students and the improved work rate in the field, it was the fantastic team spirit and camaraderie that was so very pleasing to see throughout the season and every single one

Inter-Schools softball cricket champions

of the players deserves credit. To cap off a wonderful season the students managed to retain the Guernsey Cricket Bowl trophy for the fourth season in the row and became the first College Cricket team to tour France with three highly competitive games against Nantes CC and a regional team.

In junior cricket, we continue to see numbers grow and with another busy calendar planned next year we hope to see a number of juniors progress into senior cricket.

Well done to all the players and a huge thank you to all the staff across all year groups. Your effort and commitment is invaluable and ensures our cricket continues to develop.

Mr T Eisenhuth

New indoor cricket nets First XI training

First XI Captain Ollie Clapham, Victoria College match

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Football Report champions. However with Mr Eisenhuth accommodating a larger squad the team were finding it challenging to finish their chances and unfortunately lost the game 2-1. In the Year 8 league the Pumas were much the stronger of the two teams in the league and went unbeaten until the last Aztech Sports Leaders game of the season.

Grammar had lost to St The 2022 football season in the Michaelmas Sampson’s so the final game of the season term saw the sport continuing to flourish would decide the title. Grammar v College. at College with again a large number of A win for College and we take the title, a win participants in both the junior and senior for Grammar and they do or a draw and St years which enabled us to field an incredible Sampson’s win. In a tense game played at seventeen sides playing in inter-school fixtures.

KGV, the game Grammar took an early three A joint sixth form team played the OE’s at goal lead. All looked lost being 3-0 down at the start of the season, more of which you half time but two goals by Freddy Wakelin can read in the OE section. from set pieces led to a nail-biting finish.

Despite relentless College pressure and After a two-year break due to the pandemic, hitting the crossbar, the final goal just didn’t the First XI were back in action in the come and Grammar claimed the league title.

Channel Island League, see captain George The Kinder cup saw a team of 14 selected McNeela’s report on their campaign. from the Pumas and Blues to play reach the For the first year in my twenty years of running College football, we finished the season without winning any silverware in any age groups. However, this isn’t a failure as I said earlier, we still are able to turn out a large number of teams and involve over 150 students playing football. We also do put ourselves in a somewhat disadvantaged position by entering two equal teams into the Year 7 to 10 school leagues.

The Year 10s came closest to winning their respective league when a win in the last game of the season would have ensured the title. However, having the derby against the Blues wasn’t the easiest of ties. The Blues started the game strongly and took a 3-0 lead, including a memorable goal from Rory Burke. However a shuffling of positions in the second half allowed the Pumas to score two goals and get back into the tie. However the Blues were able to hold on, which then handed the title to St Sampson’s.

After a two-year absence we were able to play Victoria again and the Year 10 had a First XI out against our old rivals. In a very entertaining game, College proved to be the stronger than our Jersey rivals and finished the game with an excellent 4-2 win.

The two Year 9 teams were again not able to break the dominance of Les Beaucamps at this age group who went on to win the league and cup double. In the Year 9 Cup, the team reached the semi-finals and faced Les Beaucamps. The College team that included the stronger players from both the Blues and the Pumas, put up a much tougher challenge for the league

First XI Football Team

pleasing to see the appetite for football had not diminished and we had over forty students attend football club. From these we selected the Blues and Pumas teams to compete in the inter-school league and two B teams to play against Blanchelande and La Mare De Carteret in a newly-formed second division.

Both teams competed well but neither could find the consistency to produce regular winning results and the title went to St Sampson’s.

We were able to start touring again this season and in something new for College a group of footballers and netballers travelled to the UK to play a series of games against Prep Schools in the Hampshire/Dorset Region. On arrival after we went straight to Stroud School in Romsey to play our first match. Ourselves and Stroud School have a long history of not only playing each other but also families hosting students. The school has now linked with King Edward’s, Southampton and slowly over the last few years their number of Year 7s and 8s have reduced. However they put out a team to play us but we did prove to be too strong and won the game convincingly 5-0. This unfortunately will be the last game ever to be played against Stroud as they will have no Year 7s and 8s at all next year. Many of you reading this may well remember playing and being hosted by or hosting Stroud school when playing football or hockey so it is a shame we’ve now lost this link.

After a quick lunch we then travelled to New Milton in the New Forest to play Durlston Court. We played their First XI, which is predominately Year 8. A closer match than the morning, however the College team were clinical in front of goal and solid at the back, even playing an unfamiliar 11-a-side game and won 5-0.

Accommodation was in a Youth Hostel close to Stonehenge in rural Wiltshire. The accommodation wasn’t quite the standard everyone was used to but a fantastic place to stay for students.

Year 11 Spiller Cup

final and set up an exciting game against St Sampson’s at KGV. In a very close game, St Sampson’s were more clinical in their finishing and led 2-0. With time running out, a speculative long distance shot from Brandon Rowe slipped through the keeper’s hands to set up a tense finish. Despite College pressure, we couldn’t find the net again and had to take the runners up spot.

With the new intake of Year 7 it was really

The following day after a visit to Stonehenge and eat all you can pizza lunch at Pizza Hut, we travelled to Twyford School near Winchester. This was our toughest game, again an 11-a-side match against a team of Year 7s and 8s. The game finished 2-2 so a penalty shoot out was decided upon. Both teams took fantastic penalties and just as it look liked going to sudden death, a College miss left Twyford with the chance to win, which they duly took.

The final day started with a trip to Marwell zoo before driving back to Stroud School to play Dumpton School. Despite having a couple of Bournemouth Academy players, the College team overcame tired legs to play some excellent football and record a 5-2 win.

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Cross-Country Seniors

Silva-Rocha, Beeke Voehrs and Chloe Sebire. The cyclocross was won by Charles Whittaker, from Harry Ingrouille and Harry Blackwell. North took a clean sweep of the team competitions.

The senior cross-country took place at the end of the Lent term - an attempt to make the most of the warm spring weather.

Unfortunately, the runners had to contend with April showers instead.

The long course was made slightly shorter this year, due to a last minute diversion caused by feisty looking cattle on the usual route.

Some runners, however, chose to ignore the diversion and took their chances with the bovine onlookers (there were no reported casualties!).

The first three in the short course race were Rupert Wilson (11S), Harry Bisson (12T) and Woody James (12C). The top three girls were Rachel Dallin (13N), Amelie Le Prevost (12S) and Georgia Pollock (12C).

EC XC Teams 2022

Island Schools’ Cross-Country 2022 Y7-8 Top 3 Boys – James Stafford Bell first

Over the long course, Jack Rees (11S) was a convincing winner. This capped an impressive winter’s running for Jack, who had shown great progress in Guernsey AC races. Adam de la Mare (13S) was second, and in third place Gil Hunter (10C) was the first Year 10 finisher.

South were clear winners of the House competition.

Years 7 to 9 The Year 7, 8 and 9 cross-country races took place at the end of the Trinity term, after rain caused their postponement from just after Easter. With the ground hardened up, we were able to put on cyclocross races alongside the running, which added to the appeal of the event.

The Year 9 cross-country was won by Henry Kennedy, ahead of Jack Sylvester and Seb Banneville, who all showed great endurance

The Year 7 cross-country was won by Harry Colley, with Gabriel Bachmann second and Ruari Callanan-Perchard third. Eleanor Smith was first girl, with Erin Cullwick and Darcey Smith not far behind. South took the House titles. Danny Chester-King won the cyclocross from Jakub Chan and Zac Mallett. North were the house winners.

Y9-10 Winning Team: Toby Bisson, Oliver Russell, Theo Le Tissier, Oliver Guest

to go with their renowned sprinting ability.

North won the House competition. In cyclocross, Bazil Wheeler was a clear and aptly named winner, with Hayden Saunders and Jack Beavan over a lap behind. Town were the top team, just ahead of Country.

In Year 8, James Stafford-Bell took the cross-country win ahead of Axel Svejstrup and James Fouquier-Henderson. The top three girls all finished together: Ines

Congratulations to all our cross-country team members. There was great effort and team spirit displayed throughout.

James Stafford-Bell repeated his success of last year, winning the Year 7/8 boys’ race. The EC team placed second. Our top four finishers were James, George Le Page, Max StaffordBell, and Rufus Bousfield. We placed just behind a strong team from Les Beaucamps, and showed great strength in depth, with eight runners in the top twenty places.

The Year 7/8 girls were a credit to the College, trying their best and achieving seventh place.

Ines Silva-Rocha and Chloe Sebire were our top finishers in 17th and 18th respectively.

Our Year 9/10 boys team took first place, led home by Oliver Russell in fourth place. Theo Le Tissier, Toby Bisson and Oliver Guest all joined him in the top twelve to secure the win, with Blanchelande taking second.

Official result scan be found here: Zedra X Challenge (guernseyathletics.org.gg) Mr L Garland

ISGA UK Schools Golf Cup off hole, but really enjoyed the experience.

James Troop, Tanner Austin, Rory McKenna and Conor McKenna

The Elizabeth College Golf Team entered the UK Schools’ Cup for the first time in twenty years. The team of three, plus playing reserve James Troop, played a scratch match play format. They narrowly missed out on qualifying for the National Finals after a play-

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Round 1 was played against Sherfield School at L’Ancresse. Rory Mckenna won his singles match with ease. Conor McKenna lost his match on the 18th which was a great effort, as he was playing against Albie Beeston who is one of England’s best age group players.

The match was all down to Tanner Austin who birdied the 12th and came home in pars to win 3&2. Tanner showed great maturity by using his four iron to hit all the fairways on the back nine. A 2-1 victory led us to an area semi-final and final in Hampshire against Winchester College B team and A team respectively.

After a very bumpy flight to Southampton, we travelled to Hockley Golf Club for the semi-final. The match was played in 35-40

mph winds and Conor played exceptionally well to win his match 6 and 5. He controlled his ball flight beautifully in the wind, which was more than the Southampton flight was able to do! Tanner also won his match which meant we played Winchester A team the next day at Royal Winchester Golf Club. In the final Conor again played mature golf to win his match 8 and 6. A defeat for Rory meant that the match was all down to Tanner Austin. His match finished all square after 18 holes and so went to a play-off hole which Tanner lost. After two days of golf, we lost on the last shot on the last hole and so just missed out on the National Finals. It was an agonising defeat, but the students looked forward and said they would win it next year!

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Hockey Report Clapham, the 2022/23 squad were eager to prove what we could do this season.

The season started off well and we proved to be a very competitive side in Division One, with players such as Cameron RiversMoore and George le Roux providing an attacking threat that previous squads had been missing.

George Le Roux and Isaac Eyton-Jones

Hockey in the junior section of the school continues to grow with Year 7 and 8 playing in the internally arranged Friday mixed hockey league as well as in the Beechwood tournaments and the school leagues. Notable performances here were the Year 7 boys team winning the Beechwood tournament and the Year 8 girls team coming runners-up in the Island Schools Tournament. This was an excellent achievement for the girls who are gaining in experience, Charlotte Eker and Mabel HillTout had excellent games in the final.

The Year 8 tour was a tremendous success, threatening to be curtailed by snow in the north of England, the team travelled anyway and played some excellent matches over the weekend against Kings Macclesfield, Birkenhead School, and Neston Hockey Club. The players have gained huge experience from this trip and will be ready to play Senior hockey moving into Year 9.

Year 8 hockey tour to UK

Perhaps the greatest progress was made by the Year 9 team in the ladies league having lost their first game, 9-2 against one of the strongest teams in the league. They came back over the season amazingly well. Huge progress was made by the team throughout the season and in the last game against the same opposition they managed a 5-2 victory, Joe Culverwell, Byron Wakefield and Will Thomas were notable performers and Raef Newton and Tom Pollock improved

immeasurably throughout.

The U15 squad is one of huge talent and they performed very well in their men’s leagues. Many of these players including the Gomes brothers have a bright future

In the first five games for were lost by a margin of only one goal, with the other game being a draw. We did find out how progress and victories at this level are hard to come by, being defeated by defending champions Yobbos 5-1. As the season progressed, we continue to compete extremely well in the league, games often being decided by one or two goals we couldn’t manage a victory however but did secure three draws throughout the season.

One of which was against the always formidably strong OEA team 2-2.

In the middle of the season around Christmas time, we were fortunate enough to have Lord Wandsworth College come to Guernsey. They played matches against the 1st and 2nd XI. The 1st XI achieved victories in both of their games against LWC 5-2 and 2-0. The 2nd XI gained an understanding of the step up in pace and intensity as they move towards the Division One level.

The 1st XI tour to the Bath festival was an excellent way to end the season traveling via Southampton the squad arrived in Bath on the Friday evening to play Framlingham College.

It was an excellent way to start the tour and a close fought game ended with George Le

Second XI Team

and will be moving into the 1st team next year. The 2nd XI also had a very successful season, competing well in men’s division 2.

It is always a tricky league as you are not always sure what the oppositions team is going to look like. All the players can be congratulated for their regular attendance at training and their commitment and attitude in the matches. Highlights included a victory against the OEA and Amelie Le Prevost, and Georgia Pollock became the first female players to play in an EC Senior XI with Amelie scoring a goal on her debut.

College hockey is looking to go from strength to strength in the junior school, the new MF Astroturf pitch as well as a girls team playing in the junior development league is going to add real excitement for next season. The MF Astro has been in position for over 30 years and we are extremely lucky to be beginning the 2023/24 season on a newly constructed pitch.

Having lost a several key First XI players such as Jake Swaisland and Charlie

First XI Team

Roux scoring the winning goal for a 2-1 victory, one of our best players all season.

Sadly Dan Cameron tore his calf muscle and would not play another game all weekend.

After a good feed and a terrible movie the squad got some well earned rest before two games the next day. The first game in the morning was against Hurstpierpoint College, a strong team that we had played the year previously. After a good start the opposition’s quality shone through and Dan Brown made some excellent saves to keep us in the game. Unfortunately after a couple of missed opportunities that

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Hockey Report (continued) had we taken the result could have been different; the game went away from us, and we lost 3-0. Although disappointed we were positive about the afternoon’s game and after a short journey, we went to play Newcastle- Under-Lyme School, a team we had lost to the year before. The game started cautiously and NUL should have taken the lead, Dan Brown again making crucial saves at short corners. A mixup in the NUL defense allowed George Le Roux to round the keeper and put us 1-0 up. Cameron Rivers-Moore, and Cameron Gomes then combined in Midfield to allow George to score a second before half time. The second half was one-way traffic. Will Rouget, Adam De La Mare, and Fintan Ridgwick all excelled in Midfield with the team scoring five more unanswered goals. After Dan Cameron’s torn muscle a defensive reshuffle saw Luke Gomes excel at centre back for these two games on Saturday. The team enjoyed an excellent tour dinner before our last game against Haberdasher’s on Sunday morning. By this time the cavalry had arrived, and our usual vocal support could be heard loud and clear from the touch line. Another scintillating attacking display resulted in a handsome win for us, and rounded off a superb weekend.

games against Jersey in March, with Cameron Rivers-Moore being a regular in the Guernsey men’s first team. The men’s 3s won their game 1-0 with the sole goal being scored by College’s Luke Gavey, and the 2s won their fixture 2-1, with an impressive performance from Owen Bonner-Morgan. Whilst the Men’s 1s couldn’t take the victory in the inter-insular, they did however beat Jersey the week prior to earn a place in the semi final of the Men’s Cup, with Rivers-Moore as a part of the squad.

Another feature of the 2022/23 season was the inaugural Guernsey Hockey Premier League, a chance for Men’s Division One players to be sorted into four teams for a round robin tournament. All of the students who participated represented their teams well, with Dan Cameron captaining the Eastern Eagles to a close victory in the final

Many of our Elizabeth College hockey players also had the opportunity to represent Guernsey in the inter insular

Daniel Cameron

over the Northern Nomads to give them the inaugural GPL title. It gave players an opportunity to compete with players outside of their usual club side and was incredibly successful.

The season proved to be very successful for College hockey, and the young players moving through the ranks is incredibly encouraging. The 1st XI will be losing nine players to university and employment for the 2023/24 season, and there will opportunities for younger players to compete at a high level. Congratulations must go to Cameron Rivers-Moore for representing Guernsey throughout the 2022/23 season, to George Le Roux who was our top goal scorer and Fintan Ridgwick for being awarded the Watson cup for most valuable player. Special mention must also go to the outstanding leadership team of Will Rouget and captain Jacob De Jersey who has led the team outstandingly well throughout the season. We are also very excited to see the progress and development of the girls’ hockey squads in the years to come. Many thanks must also go to all the teachers and colleagues who have taken training sessions, run teams and taken fixtures throughout the season.

Mr A Good

Netball third in the Year 8 Island school Tournament.

A mixed 7s and 8s team headed to Jersey to play hockey and netball, but due to flight delays this turned into an afternoon of exciting netball. The team got to experience playing against different schools and opposition and learnt lots along the way.

The Under-19 mixed netball tournament was up next for our sixth form, entering two teams, with one topping and winning their league.

Year 8 netball tour to Jersey

Elizabeth College netball has gone from strength to strength as this year saw our second intake of girls into Year 7, allowing more netball to be played in Year 7, 8, 12 and 13. Year 7 had a successful tour to Hampshire late into September where they gained some vital wins over tough opposition before heading back and finishing sixth in the Island Schools’ Tournament. Year 8 continued to build on last year’s experience and finished

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Mixed Netball at Beau Sejour

The Senior Girls’ team headed to the Deloitte International Women’s Day Tournament, playing teams from Ladies’ College and the Grammar School. The girls had a fantastic time and are looking forward to what the 2023/2024 season has ahead of them.

2023/2024 season looks bright, with teams in Year 7, 8, 9 and sixth form and the newly formed Elizabeth College Club, where we shall see an Elizabeth College 1st VII and Elizabeth College Colts take part in the Guernsey Netball Association Winter League in Division 2 and 3 for the first time.

Miss R Merrien

International Women’s Day Tournament

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Shooting Update

EC Rifle Team

After a winter shooting small-bore, including some very positive results in postal competitions, the full-bore season started in earnest in March, unusually with full use of the L81 Cadet Target Rifle (CTR). The improvement in this first full year on CTR since COVID was clear across the entire squad, with a healthy number of new shooters coming through and excellent scores throughout.

Our first success came in the local Guernsey Rifle Club competition, the Elliot Bowl, in which the four-strong EC team of Rory McKenna, Alexander Stewart, Thomas Dorey and Alex Dorey won the match, for the third year running.

multiple podium places. Ed Chrystal came second in the 500 yard aggregate and third in the Iveagh (500yds). Braden Morris came third in the Wellington (300 yds) and Megan Lucas won the Victoria Tankard (600yds) and had the third highest score in the Ashburton match. We dominated the 600 yards range with Braden and Otto Roussel achieving second and third places overall. Megan also came 3rd in the Cadet Rifle Aggregate.

The headline performance though, was

by Otto Roussel, who won the Tuesday

This was a great springboard for him as, in August, he then travelled as a member of GB under 18 ‘Athelings’ team on tour in Canada, competing in the Dominion of Canada open meeting.

Pre-Bisley training, shortened due to army summer camp, allowed most of the team to prepare for the NRA Schools’ meeting, where there were some outstanding individual performances, notably from several of the new shooters but also some significant silverware won in the team events, although the prestigious Ashburton remains only a one-time win in the past.

However, ECRC did collect a variety of trophies, including the RSM Milson, retained the Cottesloe Vase for the 11th year in a row, winning the Schools’ Pairs (Sophie Elliott and Alex Dorey) and second place in a host of competitions including the Schools’ Fours, the Babcock and the Devon match.

Individually, the team had many successes, with twelve EC cadets in the Schools’ Hundred list of top scores in the meeting’s individual competitions. Four cadets gained

home nation teams, this time using private rifles. This is deemed to be the peak of cadet shooting and was won by the Channel Islanders, for the second year running, with ECRC providing four cadets (Rory McKenna, Alexander Stewart, Otto Roussel and Thomas Dorey). The open meeting was particularly wet and windy, with targets snapped off during 1000 yards matches but this did not prevent Alexander Stewart from winning the Rex Goddard trophy for the highest cadet short range aggregate during the whole Imperial Meeting.

Alexander Stewart

Aggregate, the Rifle Aggregate, was second cadet in the overall meeting and won the prestigious Schools’ Hundred, beating every cadet in the UK. The performance from the whole team bodes well for the future and as we have such a young squad, the future looks even brighter.

Most of the squad stayed on to shoot the open competition, the Bisley Imperial Meeting. This began with the Cadet International when a combined Channel Island team of eight cadets competed with

Alexander was the top scoring Atheling, making a clean sweep of all the cadet prizes and coming 47th in the main Grand Aggregate, which included adult teams representing USA, GB and Canada.

The whole EC team would like to thank all of the staff, particularly Mr Peter Jory, Mr Rick Le Page, Mr Al Stewart, Mr Nick Harlow and Mrs Pippa Read for all their help, coaching, fixing, purchasing, organising, feeding, transporting and disciplining us but most of all for the good humour with which they have given their time and efforts.

We look forward to another successful season in 2024.

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Elizabeth College Sailing Championships With a large number of applicants from Years 7-9 the sailors needed to be seeded into two heats to compete for places in the final, with the top two from each heat qualifying for the final. The sailors arrived at the Guernsey Sailing Trust to be met by a lack of wind, however spirits did not dampen and the students quickly rigged and launched into Havelet Bay where they went looking for wind and the best place to hold the races.

After some paddling and self-propulsion fun waiting for the breeze to fill in, the first heat was started in a light breeze. The heat was won by Hayden Steele with Charles Whittaker as runner up both progressing to the final. The second heat closely followed, again in very light winds. The winner was Ollie Trudgeon followed by Leo Rivers who both progressed to the final.

The final was a closely contested race over a shortened course in the dying breeze. Ollie showed his racing skills by being right on the startline at Go and led from start to finish.

Leo had the next best start however was overtaken by Hayden showing great poise and concentration who finished second with Leo in third and Charles, the youngest finalist, in 4th.

Ski Trip The annual ski trip returned after a three-year hiatus and was met with an instant sense of excitement across the group gathered in Guernsey Airport, with both newcomers of the trip and the few returning students all sharing the enthusiasm. After a short wait followed by a smooth flight, the group had quickly arrived at Grenoble airport.

Despite the delays of traffic, which took the coach journey into the early hours of the night, spirits remained high upon the arrival at the ski village. An additional boost in morale came once we had all settled in, as the group quickly warmed to the delicious cooked meals the hotel had to offer. This continued across the week, with the hotel’s staff offering mouthwatering cooked meals every day, something greatly welcomed by the increasingly exhausted group as the week progressed.

After getting through the typical first-day commotion of rearranging groups and sorting out the ski gear, the group enjoyed an excellent week of skiing, with a great sense of camaraderie and friendship spanning across the various year groups. Whilst there remained a great range of skill and ability, everyone improved tremendously across the week, particularly those in the beginner group making their first ventures onto the slopes.

This was all supported greatly by the

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A beautiful day for the championship

Most improved from last year goes to Hayden; last year he didn’t make the final and this year he won his heat and finished second in the final. Ollie showed great concentration and strategy by keeping out of the tide and sailing as fast as possible and was a very deserving winner.

With a significant number of Year 7 competitors this year it will be exciting to see

amiable and engaging nature of all of the groups’ ski instructors, carefully paying attention to the development of all students whilst keeping the skiing exciting and lively. In addition to this, the sixth formers of the intermediate group experienced an unexpected reunion with their instructor from the previous trip, a lovely coincidence

Ski Trip 2023!

On the slopes

Briançon Ice Hockey

them progress over the next couple of years.

The Senior Championship took place in the afternoon and was won by Tabby Dorey.

Despite a number of her competitors failing to attend, Tabby attended with an enthusiastic spirit and got out on the water regardless for a sail. Tabby is an excellent sailor and has a bright future ahead in the sailing world!

Miss M Johnson

that extended across the week into hilarious chats and unforgettable moments.

For my group however, the highlight of our skiing was undoubtedly Sam Whitford’s confident announcement on the first day of “skiing is so easy” mere seconds before wiping out an unsuspecting skier from behind. Nevertheless, contrary to previous trips, this year’s group were fortunate enough to experience a lack of serious injuries on the slopes, the exception to this of course being ski-trip-veteran Mr Davis’ now infamous off-piste wipe-out on day two, unanimously earning him the award for ‘best crash’ during the memorable awards night at the end of the week.

Additionally, as if the skiing wasn’t enough enjoyment for one day, the group was treated each night to an array of après-ski activities, notably going out bowling, participating in the quiz, or, and my personal favourite, concluding the trip by taking the coach down to Briançon to watch a thrilling game of ice hockey. These really bonded the group together and greatly added to the enjoyment of the week.

I would like to personally extend my gratitude to the wonderful staff that looked after everyone and kept the trip engaging throughout, particularly Mr de Putron for his organisation and great management of the group, and Mrs Schofield for her beautiful artwork that was presented to the hotel staff during the awards night.

Jamie Wrench

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Herm Trip In general, things evolve, and the Year 8 Herm trip is no different. This year, for the first time, we were a co-ed group with Mrs Meijer and the girls keen to share what had been a boy-only opportunity (except for the Year 12 A level Geographers). What started as part of the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean way back in the early 2000s was in danger of becoming ‘just another beach clean’ and a nice day out in Herm. (Hurrah for the many beachcombers in Guernsey who work tirelessly to keep our beaches clean and healthy and who have normalised beach cleaning.) Naturally, we were thrilled when Liz Sweet from Bailiwick Eelgrass Exploration Project (BEEP) joined us to explore the eel grass beds in Herm, as well as still doing the beach clean, sea swim, sour fig pulling, blackberry picking and ice cream eating. That is a top day out!

Eelgrass is amazing. It helps to stabilise sea shores, provides habitat for many other species AND helps to trap carbon dioxide.

The seaweed beds and forests are probably more important than the rainforests within the Carbon Cycle (A Level module) and we really do need to look after it better.

Knowing where it is will help with that.

Thank goodness for Geographers!

To survey the eelgrass beds, we needed an extremely low Spring Tide and it felt that we were walking back to Guernsey from Herm Harbour. We could then use Strava and Seek apps to locate and map the beds, whilst also watching for the incoming tide.

As the beds started to flood, we headed to Belvoir (swims and sour figs) and on to Shell Beach (litter survey, sand dune ecology and coastal management and ice creams. After a period when ‘clothing’ became the major category of littering it was good to see the complete absence of such waste. The public

A beautiful day to visit Herm

campaigns to discourage littering are working, and the work of Sam Reoch and others at the ‘Found on the Beach in Guernsey’ Facebook group have helped to keep our amazing beaches less littered we found 128 items.

Probably the headline news was ‘Doing well, keep it going, please clear up after your visit – including your BBQ debris’.

Axel Svejstrup, Hamish Buchanan and Toby Breckon meeting the wildlife

This was a 16,000 steps day so we headed back to Herm Harbour for another swim and a rather tired Trident crossing back to Herm.

Thank you to the Year 8 citizen scientists and beach cleaners, and to Mrs Meijer, Mrs Aplin and Ms Sweet.

Low cost, local and outdoors – an ecological approach to learning on our doorstep.

Year 12 Geographers returned in June for their Non-Examined Assessment

Eel grass, stabilises sediments, provides habitat and absorbs Carbon Dioxide

First use of Strava to map Bailiwick eel beds

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investigations into sand dune ecosystems, coastal process and coastal management.

This involved a lot of measuring, data collection and higher levels of understanding.

And some ice creams and some swims!

As a classroom Shell Beach is exceptional.

But beaches evolve and we need to look after it. Erosion is rapid in the north of the Common (in part due to jumping and surfing) and the shells of Shell Beach live on in memories and are long buried under the increased rates of deposition.

Mr B Aplin

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History & Classics Trip to Italy

Year 12 in Pompeii with Vesuvius behind

monastery of Monte Casino. Its location on top of the hill was inspiring and being a working monastery and also a site of an important WW2 battle, it gave everyone pause for thought. Arriving in Piano di Sorrento later that afternoon we checked into our hotel which was situated right on the coast, giving spectacular views of the Amalfi coast and Capri.

The Escape Rooms in Rome

On our trip to Italy, we were awoken at 5am to catch the flight to Gatwick and then onto Rome. Unlike what I believed beforehand, sitting on a flight with other students in the Ancient History class was not as enjoyable as I thought due to the snoring and a sudden flash of a camera every time we went to sleep.

On the first day we were met with very British weather, low cloud and rain. Making our way to the Vatican we were then confronted with a huge queue to get into St. Peter’s Basilica. Well it was the Easter weekend after all. Luckily the rain cleared and the queue moved fairly quickly. We all found the inside hugely impressive and a few of us searched for the Pope hoping to confess our sins, but he was busy elsewhere preparing for his big day on Sunday.

The next day was all about the Romans and we saw many historical landmarks such as the Colosseum, Palantine Hill and the forum

Alex Joslin and Joe Dereham

where we trod in the step of many previous emperors and school groups. For many of us the grandeur and sheer size of the Colosseum was the highlight of the trip.

The next day we took the coach south to the Bay of Naples, stopping at the

The Colosseum

On our last day we went to Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii. The views from the summit of Vesuvius were stunning of the area and from the crater the sulphur fumes were still rising. The volcano also hosted a couple of souvenir shops and there was a fair bit of bargaining including what we were assured was a ‘special price just for us’.

From Vesuvius we drove to Pompei where in our guided tour we saw amongst other things their amphitheatre and the tragic plaster casts of bodies of the people caught in the eruption of Vesuvius. We saw how the average Roman city functioned and we were intrigued to find out how the sewer system worked.

For the last night of the trip we enjoyed a lovely meal at a pizza restaurant and finished our stupendous pizzas on the hotel balcony. Overall, the Italy Trip was a great success. However, none of it would have been possible without the support and organisation of the teachers involved.

Alex Haenal

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Kenya Trip

Finished foundations

Embarking on an international school expedition is a transformative experience for students, and our recent trip to Turi, Kenya was no exception. This expedition was not just about exploring the breathtaking landscapes and vibrant culture of Kenya; it was also about making a meaningful impact on the local community.

Over the course of this remarkable journey, we camped within the grounds of St. Andrew’s School, undertook an arduous yet fulfilling building project, engaged in community outreach programmes, taught lessons at the local Green Park Primary School, shared poignant moments with local families, and embarked on two unforgettable days of safaris while staying at the fabulous Lake Nakuru Lodge.

Charity. This house would be rented out, providing sustainable income to support the education and well-being of underprivileged children in the community.

Under the scorching Kenyan sun, we dug tirelessly and laid foundations with unwavering determination. The hard work and camaraderie among our students were unwavering, fostering a sense of unity and purpose.

Beyond the construction site, our expedition was defined by meaningful engagement with the local children at TCP. This allowed us to connect with the local residents on a personal level, gaining insights into their daily lives and challenges. It was a humbling experience to witness their resilience and determination in the face of difficult circumstances.

Our expedition began with the warmth and hospitality of the St. Andrews School, where we set up camp. The pristine grounds of the school served as our home for the duration of our stay. Nestled amidst lush greenery and enveloped by the sounds of nature, it was an oasis of tranquility. The attentive care and support provided by the school staff ensured that our every need was met, making us feel safe and well looked after as we embarked on our journey of exploration and service.

Our first endeavour in Turi was a building project that aimed to lay the foundations of a house for the Turi Children’s Project

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Digging with help

Our students had the privilege of teaching lessons at the Green Park Primary School.

This exchange of knowledge and culture transcended borders and forged lasting bonds. We shared lessons on various subjects and engaged in cultural exchanges that left an indelible mark on both our students and the Kenyan students.

Rhino

One of the most poignant moments of our expedition was the visit to local families. We accompanied local social workers out to the most vulnerable members of an already marginalized community, our care packages

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filled with essential items never feels like enough but the gratitude and resilience of the families we met were awe-inspiring.

These encounters served as a stark reminder of the importance of compassion and solidarity in the face of adversity, leaving a lasting impact on our students.

Amidst our community-focused activities, we also had the privilege of experiencing Kenya’s breathtaking natural beauty. A highlight of our expedition was the two-day safari at Lake Nakuru Lodge. Surrounded by the wild wonders of Africa, we marvelled

at lions, giraffes, and the vibrant hues of flamingos. Staying at the lodge allowed us to appreciate the delicate balance of nature and the urgent need for conservation efforts to protect these incredible species and their habitats. The safari left an indelible mark on our students, inspiring them to advocate for wildlife preservation.

Our school expedition to Turi, Kenya, was an extraordinary journey of compassion, service, and self-discovery. It was a testament to the enduring human spirit and the power of unity in the face of adversity.

Lions

As we returned home, our students carried with them not only cherished memories but also a renewed sense of purpose and a broader world view. The expedition illuminated the transformative potential of travel and education, reminding us that together, we can make a positive impact on the world. Our hope is that our experiences in Turi will inspire others to embark on similar journeys of compassion and discovery.

Mr D Costen

Mt Longonot

View from Nakuru Lodge

Matumiani

The Bursar

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German Exchange to Bavaria After a pandemic-enforced hiatus of 4 years the German department was delighted to be able to offer this exchange to its Year 9 pupils!

The return leg of the exchange began on the Friday morning, meeting up with the Ladies’ College pupils at Guernsey airport, hoping that the fog would clear (it did!). A flight to Gatwick was followed by a coach transfer to Heathrow and finally a lovely flight to Munich.

All of our bags managed to arrive with us and we were transported the 50km to Bruckmühl by taxi, where exchange partners and old friends were waiting to greet us!

We woke on Saturday to glorious sunshine and after a hearty Bavarian breakfast of sliced meats, cheeses, jams, yoghurts and delicious “Brötchen” the whole group, plus exchange partners met up for a trip to the Schliersee and a picnic halfway up a mountain. There was no walking down, however, everyone took up the challenge of the summer toboggan (some were speedier than others!).

Sunday was a day with host families and exchange partners. Several went to the Allianz arena, one into the mountains near the Austrian border and another to a Germany’s biggest water park!

Monday was another busy day. EC and LC pupils got a taste of lessons in a modern German Grammar school – Gymnasium Bruckmühl celebrated its 15th birthday this summer, followed by a trip on the train to Herrenchiemsee and the Fraueninsel in Prien. Ludwig’s palace, partly modelled on Louis’ Palais de Versailles, did not disappoint and the boat rides were lovely too, although hydration and hats were de rigueur on another baking day!

Tuesday was our last full day and we certainly made the most of it! A couple

On the way to the Schliersee

more lessons set us up for a gentle journey into Munich, where we watched the Glockenspiel on the Marienplatz, went into the somewhat austere Frauenkirche, up the Alter Peter church tower to experience the panoramic views over the city, then into the opulent, gold-laiden church, a complete contrast to the Frauenkirche. This was followed by lunch at the Viktualienmarkt and then a short tour, taking in the famous Hofbräuhaus, the Englischer Garten, the Eisbacher Surfers and back into town so that some shopping could be done and ice creams bought! Once back in Bruckmühl, teachers and some pupils were treated to an excellent “Sommerschulkonzert” at which a number of exchange partners were performing. The standard was fantastic and it was a fitting end to our stay.

Sadly, Wednesday heralded our departure.

A few tears were shed, hands shaken,

friendships made. There are even plans afoot for a few autonomous return visits, which is exactly what we want!

Many thanks to Mrs Roberts, Mr Chêne and Ms Detassis for all their help and support on this trip – bis zum nächsten Mal! Mr R Morris

Post toboggan survival picture!

“Sunday was incredible, the host family was very friendly and offered to take me to multiple places, more than you could see in one day! There were so many options, nice restaurants, historical places, the Olympia park, the Therme Erding water park. The food was a delight, so many options, my favourite were the sausages, but you could head to one of the many different shops and find some from the wondrous amount of options, I would definitely recommend this trip to anyone considering going.”

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“I found the experience of going to my exchange student’s school interesting and fun, especially the school concert. The day trip in Munich was very good and I enjoyed going to the main places and going shopping afterwards.”

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Drama – Year 11 London Trip

An incredible performance

During the London drama trip, we watched three shows, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ ‘Newsies,’ and ‘Heathers the Musical.’

On the first day of the trip, we arrived in London, put our bags in the hotel and walked as a group to the designated meeting area. Once we had seen the area we were allowed to go, we split into groups and were allocated three hours for shopping, although not essential to the trip, this was especially fun for me to be able to explore London with my friends and get the opportunity to buy some new things. In the evening, we travelled to the theatre to watch an excellent and thoughtprovoking production of the play ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ starring Matthew Modine from ‘Stranger Things.’

On the second day we attended a workshop at the Pineapple dance studios, this was incredibly enjoyable, being able to explore creatively and act out some scenes from ‘Heathers.’ We explored movement mainly throughout the workshop, trying to create scenes with visible emotions and creativity.

The amazing opportunity arose when Georgia Gagen, a member of the ‘Heathers’ cast arrived for us to ask questions about her career. This was especially interesting to me, as I’m seeing drama as a potential future career. She was incredibly down-toearth and polite, answering questions, while showing a genuine interest in what we had to say.

The next day, we were able to exercise our independence, being able to explore the

Danceworks workshop

Outside Newsies

Danceworks London

Wembley area, whilst waiting to watch the production of ‘Newsies.’ I had not known much about this musical, but after seeing it, it became one of my favourite productions ever. The choreography was brilliant, as were the vocals. The use of several entrances and exits, including around audience members and the good seating arrangements, allowed for incredible interaction with the story. Me and my friend, Sam were looking at each other constantly, with wide eyes, as the choreography, vocals and acting was all phenomenal. This show left a great impression on my, having to restrain myself from the merchandise at the end.

The last show, ‘Heathers,’ which I had suggested, was with bias my favourite show at the time of watching. My familiarity with the show allowed me to be completely engaged with the actors. I was so impressed by the actor, Erin Caldwell, that I now follow her on social media, to see more of her career and the whole evening certainly encouraged me to purchase more than a few items from the merchandise store.

Overall, the trip was incredibly enjoyable and educational, all of us being able to express our independence and learn about the industry and techniques from professionals. This was a trip I can remember vividly and was a huge part in my choosing Drama A level.

George Dean

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Julius Baer Bursary Scheme: Empowering the future JuliusBaerGuernsey,theSwissprivatebankbasedatAdmiralPark,launchedits bursaryschemein2023,tailoredtoempowertalentedanddeservingstudents, and support them during their time at university. Read on to find out what the bursary scheme is, how important it is to support Guernsey’s young people, and to hear from Julius Baer’s first Guernsey bursary student, Max Tostevin.

Benefits and support Education is the key to unlocking potential and driving progress, which is why we’ve developed this robust bursary scheme to support students that are heading off to university.

The student selected for the bursary will receive £2,500 per year of their course.

The scheme also includes a minimum of six weeks of paid work during university holidays where they will gain valuable industry exposure and practical experience.

We provide them with a buddy to mentor them while they are with us, to support them and help them understand a bit more about the finance industry, and show the different areas in the industry, such as investments, relationship management, administration, accountancy and human resources. If you’ve never worked in finance, you may not know the variety of jobs that can be done!

Application and selection process The bursary scheme is open to any students who are heading to university, regardless of the degree course they are doing, though those who are studying an economics or financially focussed subject could be given preference.

The application process for the bursary scheme is simple. Any students who want to apply should email recruitment.guernsey@

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juliusbaer.com for an application form, which needs to be filled out and returned with a cover letter by Friday 7 June 2024.

We will then review the applications and create a shortlist, with interviews happening in July, and the successful applicant will be told by the end of July before they start university.

Unlocking the potential Young people are vital for the future of the finance industry, and Julius Baer, and this programme is one way that we invest in young people for the future.

We have long offered work experience, internships and management shadowing schemes to students and thought it was time we introduced our own bursary, designed to provide financial assistance to university students.

Meet Max Tostevin: The Inaugural Julius Baer Bursary Recipient Following a comprehensive selection process, Max Tostevin, a Business Economics student going into his final year at Bournemouth University, was selected as the recipient of the first Julius Baer bursary in Guernsey.

Max’s excellent academic record as well as his desire to pursue a career in finance, particularly in relationship management, aligned with our vision of the ideal candidate.

Karen Martin and Max Tostevin

We are looking for students who may potentially return to the island and work in the financial sector or are interested in a career with Bank Julius Baer.

Max said: “I’m excited to start working at Julius Baer, I’ve known for a long time that I’ve wanted to work in the financial sector, especially at a company with opportunities to travel, so when I applied for the bursary, I knew it was the best option for me given its global presence.

“I’m honoured to have been selected as Julius Baer’s first bursary student and I’m eager to make the most of this opportunity.”

We’re proud of the way that we develop our talent, and the bursary is a new way of providing pathways to greater success with Julius Baer.

For more information about the Julius Baer bursary scheme, including eligibility criteria and application details, please email recruitment.guernsey@juliusbaer.com.

EVEN OLD MASTERS STARTED AS YOUNG ARTISTS. Julius Baer proudly supports the talent of tomorrow. juliusbaer.com

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Prize Winners

Spanish Saravia Award ICT

YEAR 7 Mathematics

H Amey

B Le Page

History

A Lihou

Drama

N Nicolle

Award for All-Round Endeavour

D Read

Chemistry German Saravia Award

A Ryan

C Sebire

Physics Saravia Award Scholar of the Year

YEAR 10 R A Wheadon Cup for Spoken German

F Addenbrooke

Business Studies Le Cheminant Award Physical Education Religious Studies

C Alexander-Sloman

Award for All-Round Endeavour

A Cooper

Classics Spoken English Saravia Award

English

E Cullwick

Sovereign Community Award

G Shepherd

Drama

A Barclay

P Du Plessis

I Silva-Rocha

Harry Ellis Memorial Trophy for Year 10 Commitment to Art

J Becker

Collas Cup for Junior Spoken French

O Blake

History

E Amy

Physics Saravia Award Religious Studies

R Grafton

Art English Saravia Award

Chemistry Saravia Award

J Grindal

Falla Cup for Endeavour

Biology Geography Saravia Award

L Hervouet

ICT

T Jackson

Award for All-Round Endeavour Classics/Latin JK Day Award for Music Music Saravia Award French

S Kemp W Kennedy

M Levy Spencer O Margison

Drama

K McHugh

Design and Technology Perrot Prize for Humorous Writing – 3rd Place Le Cheminant Award

C Miller-Helyar L Parrott L Robertson

Award for All-Round Endeavour

L Smith

Award for All-Round Endeavour

H Steele

Spoken English

Z Torode

Art

W Verdellis

YEAR 8 Mathematics

X Allen

B Voehrs

Biology Saravia Award

B Watson

Design and Technology

C Bodsworth

Award for All-Round Endeavour

M Collivet

Middle School Spoken Spanish Cup

P Datta

Award for All-Round Endeavour

A Fish

Religious Studies Saravia Award

B Fitzgerald

Award for All-Round Endeavour

F Forshaw

Drama Le Cheminant Award Spoken English Saravia Award

V Gopinath

Biology Latin Saravia Award

H Kennedy

Music

J Langford

Design and Technology

S Le Pelley C Le Tocq

Art

T Breckon

Award for All-Round Endeavour

Rabindranath Tagore Cup for Spoken French

Saravia Award

L Clark

Saravia Award

A Pitfield

Classics French Geography Spanish Saravia Award

E Robinson

Spoken English

J Robinson

C Eker E Gonder R Hay

Award for All-Round Endeavour

M Hill-Tout

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R Lewis

H Buchanan

Le Cheminant Award Perrot Prize for Humourous Writing – 2nd Place

French

O Guest

Saravia Award

Award for All-Round Endeavour

Saravia Award JK Day Award for Creative Writing

W Abbot

Mathematics

H Blackwell

Geography Religious Studies

C Whittaker

YEAR 9

Award for All-Round Endeavour

JK Day Award for Art

S Steer

Music Physics Saravia Award

Dance

JK Award for Design and Technology

Award for All-Round Endeavour

F Humphries

R Newton

ICT

S Saad

Chemistry English German History

H Stow

H Allen

Award for All-Round Endeavour

B Bousfield

Design and Technology (Materials)

R Clarke

Music

B Davidson

Rawlins-Duquemin Trophy for Progress in Mathematics

L Day

Award for All-Round Endeavour

L De La Mare

Charles Karran Cup for Endeavour

A Granville

Biology Computer Science

B Grayland

German

E Heathcote

Chemistry Art French

C Lee O Martel-Welsh

Classical Civilisation

R Morris

Spanish

B Paxton

Award for All-Round Endeavour

J Rowe

English

S Savory

Design and Technology (Graphics)

H Smith

Geography History Combined Science JK Day Award for Creative Writing

J Taylor

Mathematics Physics

B Wilkes

YEAR 11 History

Z Anees

French Spanish Eric Waddams Cup for Off-Island Music Le Cheminant Award

S Cole

M Coutanche

JK Day Award for Design and Technology

E Chrystal

Award for All-Round Endeavour

J Fallaize

Webster Cup for C Forshaw Additional Mathematics A J Burton’s Prize for Combined Science Award for All-Round Endeavour

A Giles

Music

A Guillou

English

H Hunter

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Drama

F Kent

Biology G Le Roux Chemistry Classical Civilisation Gibson Fleming German The Cross Family Trophy for excellence in Latin or Classical Studies JK Day Award for Art

G Mauger

Psychology Alan Cross Trophy for excellence in Classical Subjects

BWCI Further Mathematics Prize Physics Scholar of the Year

Art

H Olliver-Bewey

Henry Tupper French Prize A Purdue Music Matthew Power Cup for Musical Composition Photography

D Radford

B Morris

Award for All-Round Endeavour

Business Studies

H Newton

H Snell

Physical Education

J Noyon

Drama Perrot Prize for Humorous Writing

Mathematics JK Day Award for Music

J Prince

Economics

Z Taylor

Art Design and Technology (Materials)

J Rees

Design and Technology (Graphics)

H Ruddy

Award for All-Round Endeavour

Computer Science Geography Physics Religious Studies

S Smith-Le Flocq

Award for All-Round Endeavour

H Staniforth

YEAR 12

C Rivers-Moore

Chemistry G Walker Burge Memorial Further Mathematics Prize Paul S Falla Cup for Choral Music Film Studies

J Wrench

Z Alexander-Sloman

O Bailey J-M Banneville

Design and Technology (Graphics)

O Batiste

Geography Fieldwork Michael Murphy Cup for Mathematics Le Mottée Essay Prize Spanish

W Beasley

D Brock

Physical Education

O Clapham

Business Studies

C Coleman

I B Gee Biology J Blake Wallace Cup for Service to the Community

W Creber

Martel Essay Prize

E Brady

Music JK Day Award for Music

B Childs

Le Marchant English Prize De Guérin Essay Prize

E Clark

English Literature

R Cunningham Lomax

Fletcher Cup for Senior Debating

S Davidson

JK Day Award for Creative Writing

E Davis

Art

J Dereham

JK Day Award for Art O Coupe JK Day Award for Design and Technology

Spanish Romanillos Cup for Spoken Spanish

C Dunford

Kolkata Cup

Biology Le Cheminant Award

D Kidd A Le Prevost

Design and Technology (Graphics) Ancient History

S Lord H Machon

Welsh Family Shield for Computing

R Dallin W Dereham

R McKenna

Stranger Cup for Choral Performance

O Purdue

GSCCA Business Studies Prize W Rouget Turner Symonds Trophy for Instrumental Music Geography The Cottam Cup for the Extended Project Qualification

B Sharp

F Dorrity

Mike Wilson Photography Prize

E Drew

Paluch Cup for Chemistry

Prefects (Houses)

College Prefects 2023 to 2024

North Tanner Austin Joshua Le Sauvage

Country Georgia Pollock

South Harry Northmore Town Alexander Joslin Cameron Rivers-Moore

J Tautscher

Le Boutillier French Prize Collas Cup for Senior Spoken French Le Cheminant Award Quevâtre Cup for Contribution to College Music

J Vickers H Whittaker

University Scholarship Winners 2023 (Leavers 2022) The following students left College in 2022.

Their performance in the A level examinations were outstanding and they have, therefore, been awarded scholarship awards at university during the academic year 2022/23.

De Saumarez Exhibition

Oliver Connolly

Mainguy Scholarship

Euan Simmonds

Mansell Exhibition

Religious Studies Mourant Cup for Spoken English

Prefects Senior Prefect Sam Davidson 2nd Senior Prefect (Years) George Walker 2nd Senior Prefect (School Council) Jamie Wrench Caleb Camp 2nd Senior Prefect (Eco) Amelie Le Prevost 2nd Senior Prefect (Houses) Reuben Montgomery 2nd Senior Prefect (Charities) Edward (Teddy) Jehan

N Miller

Collenette Trophy for Service

O Bonner-Morgan

Religious Studies

John Le Patourel History Prize

E Merrien

Evans Cup for Musical Achievement

Tim Hollyer-Hill Memorial Palette for Painting (Art)

Physics

M Culverwell

Physical Education

Dean of Jersey’s Cup for Endeavour B Tostevin John Hooker Cup for Excellence in History Ken Fletcher Cup for outstanding contribution to Drama

W Boscher

Design and Technology (Materials)

H Lister

German

Computer Science Mathematics

Geography

Canon Harding Economics Prize Psychology

YEAR 13

Drama

Parker Cup for Senior Debating

Design and Technology (Materials) J Le Vasseur Bulstrode Prize for Design and Technology Practical Work

J Kennedy

Joseph Tom

Queen’s Exhibition

Ilan Godet

The University of Winchester Award

Rory McClaren

Prefects (Years) Year 11

Year 10

Year 9

Year 8

Year 7

Charlotte Dorey Dylan Kidd Tristan Pleasant Oliver Clapham Harry Snell Alexander Ward Felicity Coupe Zac Taylor Matthew Welch Tabitha Dorey Charlie Dunford Amelia Duquemin Archie Purdue Thomas Carre Alexandra Dorey Harry Olliver-Bewey Alexander Paul

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Destinations William Abreu Joze Andrijasevic Archie Annan Oscar Bailey Jean-Marc Banneville Oliver Batiste William Beasley James Berry Charles Birch Bonamy Bisson Joseph Blake Owen Bonner-Morgan Edward Brady Oliver Broadhurst Daniel Brown Benjamin Burgess Daniel Cameron Benjamin Childs Edward Clark Elliot Clarke Christopher Collivet Honor Couchman Oliver Coupe Rachel Dallin Jacob De Jersey Adam De La Mare William Dereham Archie Despres Thomas Dorey Finbar Dorrity Archie Douglas Eva Drew Monty Dunn Ozias Eisenberg Alfie Elliott Xavier Ellis Ramsay Elson Mitchell Endres Isaac Eyton-Jones Alexander Falla Angus Ford Luke Gavey Toby Glen Emile Gonder Katrina Guilbert Morgan Healing Peter Heyworth Aiden Honey Tom Hook Louis Ingrouille Max Jefferies Maxwell Johnson James Kennedy Michael Kennedy Louis Kennedy Daniel Lasenby James Le Vasseur Daniel Lewis-Gallienne Henry Lister Benoit Mahieux Max McCarthy Rory McKenna George McNeela Joshua Merrien Emily Merrien Naomi Miller Noah Moody Douglas Moulin Ella Newsom Lachlan Perkins Ashton Pleasant Noah Purdue Oliver Purdue Fintan Ridgwick Joseph Robertshaw Anna Rohland William Rouget Edward Ruddy Benjamin Sharp Louis Steyn Jacques Tautscher Josh Taylor Marcus Thomas Ben Tostevin Daniel Troop Conor Tully Jonathan Vickers Alex Vidamour Jack Webber Henry Whittaker Aeson Wilkes Rory Yeoman

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Employment Employment Geography with Transport Studies Art Foundation Course Employment Employment Gap Year Apprenticeship Cricket Academy Gap Year Medicine Art Foundation Course Mechanical Engineering Mathematics with Finance Economics Economics Employment Music History Employment Agriculture Gap Year Architecture Employment Physiotherapy Flexible Combined Honours Computer Science Employment Product and Industrial Design Religion, Philosophy and Ethics Employment Gap Year Employment Gap Year Sport and Exercise Therapy with Placement Employment Aerospace Engineering Employment Architecture Economics Biomedical Science Economics and Finance International Tourism and Hospitality Management Economics and Politics Neuroscience Employment Entrepreneurship Gap Year Gap Year Business Management Psychology Employment Physics Sport and Exercise Science Mathematics with Economics Gap Year Design Engineering Employment Politics with Economics International Relations (+MFL) Economics Employment International Relations Geography Construction Management Primary Education with QTS Physiotherapy Employment Chiropractic Medical Sciences Employment Paramedic Science PPE Mechatronics and Robotics Employment Nursing Business Economics Employment Physics Finance and Investment Law Business, Management and Economics Chemical Engineering Drama and Theatre Finance Business and Management Studies Law and French Joinery Apprenticeship Criminology Politics Gap Year Business and Management

Hiscox Insurance Aztec University of Leeds University of Loughborough Deloitte Finance Sector Electrical company Root Academy Adelaide University of Leicester Prince’s Foundation London Imperial College London University of Manchester University of Reading University of Reading Intertrust University of Manchester Durham University Estate Agent Harper Adams University Cardiff University BWCI University of Winchester University of Exeter University of Oxford BWCI University of the Arts London King’s College London KPMG Ernst & Young Solent University PWC University of Surrey BWCI The Drawing Room University of Exeter Bristol UWE University of Surrey York St John University University of Exeter University of Exeter KPMG Northumbria University University of Winchester University of Manchester Intertrust University of Oxford University of Bath LSE Bournemouth University University of Bath Manchester Metropolitan University University of Bath Pro Golf La Grande Mare University of Exeter University of Oxford College of FE University of Winchester University of Brighton Julius Baer AECC University College University of Exeter Grant Thornton University of East Anglia UEA University of York University of Leeds Infinity Construction University of Exeter Aztec University of Oxford University of Kent University of Warwick University of Sussex University of Surrey University of Kent University of Bristol University of Sussex University of Edinburgh Rihoy & Son University of Bath Cardiff University Oxford Brookes University

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EC Friends’ Report The Friends of Elizabeth College’s remit is to both create school community events and to fundraise in order to buy items that support the extra-curricular clubs for children at Elizabeth College. These clubs can spark great joy for every child at school and these can really help strengthen their mental health. The clubs run early morning, lunchtime and after school and range from Lego club, to bell ringing, to attending the school gym very early in the morning!

We want to assist the children to find their extra-curricular passions.

Quiz Night

Bar at quiz night

Ice cream for Year 11

Very happy Year 11 students

We have raised the money to buy this year: Althletics equipment – £220 Bean bags for Book Club – £400 Bookcase – £480 Chess sets – £310 Compost system – £300 E Drum Kit and Music – £1,500 Ice Cream Van for Year 11 – £190 Pottery club books – £50 Rubix Cubes – £50 Shooting Jackets – £450 Spikeball sets – £150 Table tennis table – £1,700 Wildlife camera – £115 Wonder books & stickers for new Year 7 students – £550 As a parent, grandparent, carer, teacher and teaching assistant of the children at school, you are automatically a member of the Friends of Elizabeth College. You have an elected committee who manage all aspects on a daily basis.

Christmas disco helpers

Quiz night organisers

Your Committee for September 2022 to August 2023 were: Chair – Becca Hunter Vice Chair – Nicky Wrench Treasurer – Sam Marshall Secretary – Helen Mauger Committee member – Ginette Bader Committee member – Sally Buckley Committee member – Julie Chester Committee member – Vicky Cole Committee member – Jodie Cooper Committee member – Jody Coupe Committee member – Chris Eyton Jones Committee member – Adrian Howe Committee member – Joanne Le Prevost Committee member – Emma Stafford-Bell Committee member – Jeanne Svejstrup Committee member – Karen Ward As Chair I would like to express my thanks to your fellow committee members for their hard work and continued support. Without their commitment, your Friends of Elizabeth College would simply not exist, and these volunteers work so hard to ensure both our fund raising and support for college events run smoothly. Your committee members invest their free time at college events like the children’s discos, organising the bi-annual school ball, serving refreshments during parents’ evenings and open days, or selling programmes at various musical and drama performances.

Thanks also to the teachers and support staff that work alongside the committee to ensure our events run seamlessly.

Events we have supported: Over this last year, we have had to navigate Covid restrictions which have made it hard for us as a committee to hold all our fundraising activities. Within these restrictions, through this school year we have managed to hold

and support the following events: • Years 7 and 8 popular disco was held on a Christmas late-night-shopping Thursday in December (hopefully parents enjoyed some time while kids were dancing), and we raised £1338 from ticket sales and refreshments. Thanks to the DJs, lighting and tech crews for providing their skills!

• We have managed to host four preloved uniform sales raising £2,560 and we are always very grateful to receive good condition school uniform to re-stock our shelves • Footloose programme sales • Open day • Year 7 parents’ evening • And finally, our quiz which raised £2,534 Spors Tour Lottery: Your Sports Tour Lottery continues to be well subscribed and has raised a further £4,000 to support travel expenses for our touring teams. This Sports Tour Lottery has so far managed to raise an incredible £110,000 over the years, so thank you to all that participate. There will be the opportunity for new subscribers to join up later in the year for 2024, please keep an eye out for that in your school correspondence.

Finally, thank you for your support over this year. Please do get in touch to give us any ideas and your spare hours to help at events, (you don’t need to attend the Friends of Elizabeth College Meetings to help). Please get in touch at friendsofelizcoll@cwgsy.net Becca Hunter

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Staff Leavers team’s magnificent support and, of course, I acknowledged that in the book itself.”

Geoff Dorey (OE 4992), Donkey-in-Chief of our Dead Donkey legacy club, shares his thoughts, “I have said on many occasions that when I accepted the role of Donkey-in-Chief of the Dead Donkey Club it was my intention to serve for five years and then look for a successor. There are two reasons why, twelve years later, I am looking forward to continuing in office for as long as I am able. One of those reasons is that my wife, Jennie, and I really enjoy being involved in, or attending, the many exciting events put on by the College staff and students whose talents and astonishing abilities are a source of great pleasure. The other and equally important reason is that Dot and her team of Sara (and latterly Jennie) have made my task so easy. Their thoughtfulness, advice, efficiency, and skill at organising Dead Donkey events in Guernsey and the UK has been exemplary. An added bonus was the fun and humour of my visits to the office when I put my miniscule tuppence-worth into their proposals. Dot, thank you for fifteen marvellous years.”

Finally, James Ovenden (OE 7671), who has just finished his term as President of the Old Elizabethan Association, reflects on his time working with Dot,

Dot Carruthers Dot has been the Director of Foundation and Marketing at Elizabeth College for almost fifteen years. She took on this relatively new role from her predecessor and has shaped it and made it her own.

This role encompasses a wide range of different responsibilities: coordinating and organising all the College’s Fundraising; oversight of marketing, which in recent years has also included Elizabeth College Junior School; administering the Gibson Fleming Music Scholarship and bursary awards and working with a wide range of people who make up the wider Elizabeth College community.

In 2018 Dot joined the senior leadership team at the College. With her experience as a management consultant and a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University, she provided a unique and very useful perspective. Dot has a great eye for detail and an ability to analyse figures and situations very efficiently, both of which have served the College well.

Dot has driven three Foundation appeals over her fifteen years at the school (2006/7, 2012/13, 2019/20). She and her team have invested huge amounts of time, effort and energy bringing together fundraising

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teams, organising, and running foundation receptions, both in Guernsey and the UK, and those appeals have raised significant amounts of money for the College.

These funds have enabled the College to complete capital projects to support the development of facilities which make a material difference to members of the College community. Local community groups have also benefitted from and been welcome to use these facilities.

Dot’s work across these many different groups has required effective relationship building, with the presidents and committee members of the Old Elizabethan Association (OEA), The Dead Donkey-in-Chief of legacy club and Foundation Trustees in Guernsey and the UK and the Foundation Policy Committee. It is therefore appropriate that we mark her retirement with a few words from these key groups and their leaders: Bruce Parker (OE 4646), chairman of both the Gibson Fleming Trust and the College Foundation for more than a decade writes, “The ‘power behind the throne’ in those years, was Dot. Superbly efficient, completely au fait with accounting procedures, coupled with a love of the College, she was a superb person to work with. Although I wrote and researched The History of Elizabeth College’, it would never have happened without Dot and her

“Dot was an invaluable source of advice and support to the Old Elizabethan Association during her time as Director of the Elizabeth College Foundation Office.

As a former management consultant Dot was seriously efficient and organised and was not one to suffer fools gladly, which might have presented a problem when, at the suggestion of the then Principal George Hartley, she started to attend OEA committee meetings early on in my tenure as Honorary Secretary. Luckily Dot proved to be unflappable, and we benefitted from her wise counsel in a number of areas, in particular IT, with Dot being responsible for the updating of our online offering, NetWork OE, and the database which sits behind it.

On a personal note, Dot was a great support and friend to me during my time as Honorary Secretary and then President of the OEA. Her hands on approach to the organisation of the annual OEA dinners in Guernsey and London, coupled with a robust sense of humour, made a huge difference in lowering my stress levels and her commitment to the OEA cause knew no bounds. In recognition of this Dot has been appointed an Honorary Life Member of the association and we look forward to seeing her at many OEA events in the future.”

Thank you Dot for all you have done for the College over your time with us.

Mrs J Palmer

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in London. In recognition of her work, Liz was asked to take the College choir to participate, the only secondary school in the country to have that accolade. Liz has also been invited to contribute to annual Kodaly Institute conferences.

Liz has always believed that trips were an important part of life in the Music Department. She re-vamped and re-launched the annual choir trip to St Malo and as part of her widening of participation she formed the Chapel Choir for singers who could read music and who would perform at College services, with the College Choir singing more popular repertoire.

Other innovations have been the Close Harmony Group of sixth form singers, studio concerts to give younger players a safe and unintimidating environment in which to give their first performances, GCSE ethnic music workshops for their prescribed styles and A Level and GCSE performance evenings as preparation for their recorded performances. As well as the various singing groups there’s a Senior Wind Band and a Junior one (known as the Snorkel Band), Senior Orchestra and Junior Strings, Wednesday Band, and this year the Friday afternoon Year 7 Band programme, and probably many others which I’ve missed.

There is also the Leavers’ Concert at which all those musicians leaving College perform.

Elizabeth Willcocks Elizabeth (Liz) came to Elizabeth College in 2013, a significant year with it being the 450th anniversary of our founding.

Preparations were in progress for a celebratory concert in September, bringing together the whole College community, students, staff, parents, OEs, who would get together over the weekend and perform a concert on the Sunday afternoon. Using her contacts with the London music world she quickly arranged a conductor and the event went ahead and was a roaring success. Amongst the OEs present was Andrew Lawrence-King, probably the leading baroque harpist in the world and visiting professor and conductor to many universities and opera-houses. He had arranged some Elizabethan music for the concert, but, despite his lofty status, was also happy to hammer at an old engine-

block during Verdi’s Anvil Chorus.

Liz inherited a brand new Music Department in the Colborne Building. The successful use of this space has been the development of a number of different groups using them – visit them on any lunch-time and you will find at least one in use, and four days out of five both, with groups waiting at the door to get in when the room becomes vacant.

Liz was appointed with a remit to widen participation in College music, both academic and extra-curricular. This she has done. She re-wrote the Key Stage 3 music curriculum with an emphasis on participation and performance. The basis of her curriculum was the Kodaly method.

This has transformed Key Stage 3 music lessons. Liz also ran Kodaly workshops for all island students and teachers, bringing over experts from the British Kodaly Academy as well as a professor from Hungary. 2017 was the 50th anniversary of Kodaly’s death and a celebration concert was arranged in St John’s Smith Square

There are many musical events which are interwoven into the school year: Carol Services, the Elizabethan Concert, the Winter concert, Carols in the Town Church and at old people’s homes. The Chapel Choir has also performed at community events for example the annual Chief Pleas service and on the first Sunday in Advent, both at Town Church. Students have also performed for other island events such as the Guernsey Militia dinners, Carols at Government House with children from Le Rondin and Senior brass players playing carols at island nursery schools.

There is no doubt that Liz has transformed College music and leaves a thriving department and legacy.

In the immediate future she will be heading to Australia in the autumn so that Macarthur can have some time on his grandfather’s farm before he retires (grandfather, not Macarthur), and then whatever the future holds. Whatever that might be, I am sure that it will be fulfilling, adventurous and successful; she is a force of nature, and I am sure everyone in the College community will join me in wishing her all the very best for her, and Macarthur’s, future.

Mr C Cottam

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Staff Leavers (continued) trotting and meeting him again at interview he had lost none of his good humour and had further developed his passion for History through his teaching. Jez joined us from Island School in Hong Kong where he had been successfully teaching for some years along with leading trips and enthusing students about cooking.

Jeremy Rowson An application for the post of Head of History arrived from one Jeremy Rowson. I thought it could only be the former student “Jez” Rowson who I had taught some many moons ago. I had kept in touch with Jez for a number of years when he was globe-

From the moment he arrived, Jez brought great fun, dynamism and academic rigour to his classes of all ages.

Leading the History department and latterly the Humanities Faculty, he developed new topics for study, moving away from some of the more traditional ones based in British history.

He worked long hours to revise the schemes of work and to develop forms of assessment which made clear to students the expectations of the subject.

He expected the same dedication from his students as he showed in teaching and assessing their efforts.

Classes included dressing up and role play – many’s the time when I have walked in unannounced to find students with cloaks,

Nadine Clarke Nadine joined the catering staff back when the refectory was still based in the Gate House and was a valued member of the team for over 12 years. She was a delight to work with; dedicated, loyal and truly put the students at the heart of everything she did resulting in her having marvellous relationships with them.

Fi Gomes Whilst Fi was only with the Bursary team for a short period of time, she made a huge impact within the department. Her cheery, positive attitude meant that nothing was too much trouble for any member of staff.

The Bursary team loved hearing the stories of the Gomes family adventures, normally involving outdoor activities or padel tennis!

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helmets and (toy) swords rehearsing the arguments surrounding why certain events happened.

Having offices close to one another, we would often discuss an aspect of teaching or of course share a joke, especially when we were working after the school day.

Since retiring, I have missed those exchanges and Jez’s voice booming across the library in a quasi-parody of an old school master, “What ho, old bean”.

A true bon viveur, Jez started a survival skills cookery class, initially for Sixth Form in preparation for university life, with the culmination being a meal to which the apprentice chefs each invited a friend.

Working together with our Chef Manager, John Fleming, students learnt how to prepare and cook a 3 course dinner – I was lucky enough to try some occasionally and it was all delicious and delivered with Jez’s usual larger than life sense of fun.

This popular activity he then extended to Key Stage 3 students on Friday afternoons and in Investigation and Discovery Week.

Jez also continued his support for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award by helping with students involved in the Bronze Award expeditions.

Jez will be much missed by students and staff alike but he and his family travel to St Thomas’s Lisbon with our very best wishes for new challenges and exciting adventures in Portugal.

Mr R James

During her time at College, Nadine had to overcome a serious period of adversity after suffering a fall at home. She showed true grit and determination in learning how to walk and talk again and we were delighted when she was able to re-join the team.

Nadine has left us to go on to an administrative role at LLP Home Improvements Ltd and we wish her every success with this new career move.

Mr J Fleming

The Bursary team will particularly miss Fi’s home-made treats! Fi is a super star baker and the team were all too happy to be willing guinea pigs for any of Fi’s new creations!

Mrs K Wallen

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deployment and ensure all students had experienced teachers for all sciences. Joel was not only versatile, he fostered effective working relationships with his charges.

He was always approachable and positive which helped them to make progress.

Joel’s interactions with the students were enhanced by his considerable sporting prowess. He was a mainstay of the very popular Year 10 and 11 Friday afternoon Sports Leaders programme. He also supported College cricket in every way he could. On one occasion, this was by scoring 120 runs – although his modesty means he cannot recall who the opponents were.

Joel Connor Joel joined Elizabeth College in September 2016 from an international school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Joel was invaluable in helping to balance the Science faculty’s

In addition to teaching Science, Joel acted as College’s Futures Coordinator ensuring every student applying to higher education or straight into employment received individual and specialist support. In 2020 Joel was instrumental in the adoption and launch of UniFrog – which is now our ‘one stop shop’ for all

Kate Garnett Kate was the school librarian at College for 17 years. In that time, she transformed the library, turning the space into a welcoming and purposeful hub, and the heart of College life. Over time, Kate built up the book collection into one which is modern and vibrant and with which students want to engage; Kate was always sure to ask the students themselves what they wanted for their space. Beyond this, the Library became a haven for anyone needing a safe

post-18 pathways. Alongside this, Joel worked very hard to ensure that as many different post-18 pathways as possible were explored through the Year 12 work experience programme. The sheer variety of opportunities now available to students at Elizabeth College, and therefore the options open to them, is testament to Joel’s efforts. His legacy will endure long after his departure from Elizabeth College in a generation of young people studying and working in their chosen fields.

Joel’s departure to teach in an international school in The Hague has left a Connorshaped hole in many aspects of College life but the opportunity to live and work in another country with his wife, Victoria, and two sons was too good to miss. We will miss him, and his science club ice cream, and would like to pass on our sincere thanks for the time he spent at Elizabeth College.

Mr R Le Sauvage

space. Kate also held many other roles in her time at College, such is the skill set that she brought with her. For some years she was our School Listener, helping some of our most vulnerable students to navigate their day with care and compassion. She has also been Elizabethan coordinator, website coordinator, careers coordinator including army liaison and homework project coordinator. She leaves us to begin a new challenge with the Guernsey Employment Trust.

Mrs J Roberts

with the school in lockdown. He only set eyes on his charges eight weeks later, once we emerged back into bubbles!

Conor is a hard-working, passionate linguist, speaking both French and Spanish fluently.

He was firm but fair with high expectations of both behaviour and attainment from his pupils.

As they got to know him better they came to appreciate his expansive knowledge, dry wit and love of all things grammatical!

In addition, Conor has been a valued colleague, Key Stage 3 tutor and proponent of all things Yoga, also showing his skills on the pétanque piste!

Conor Johnston Conor joined Elizabeth College two-and-ahalf years ago via Poland, Spain and France

Charlotte Glen

We wish Conor all the very best as he travels through Europe, taking time to enjoy all that France, Spain and Italy have to offer on his way to a potential trek through the Himalayas! Safe travels!

Charlotte worked as a receptionist at Elizabeth College for a number of years and moved onto a career in estate agency.

Always willing to help out colleagues, students and parents Charlotte was always the calm, supportive and smiling welcome to College. We wish her all the best.

Mr R Morris

Mr C Eyton-Jones

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Staff Leavers (continued) Maria Lozano-Garcia Maria joined the Modern Foreign Languages department in September 2018, taking on the role of Spanish Assistant. She was an instant hit with the pupils both at Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5, imparting her excellent linguistic knowledge in a caring and nurturing manner.

Emily Meijer Emily joined the PE and Games faculty in September 2020, as the Head of Girls PE, ready for the College to transition to Co-Education in September 2021. She worked tirelessly on ensuring that when the girls came to college, there was a full programme for them to achieve their full potential from the off, including fixtures and co-curricular opportunities. As well as being

he may not be there as his home is in Normandy.

When Andrew came to Elizabeth College eight years ago as teacher of Computer Science and Maths we gained a colleague of good humour, great humility, energetic enthusiasm, and high intellect and he gained a place of work near that home in Normandy.

Andrew Mulholland Andrew leaves us to teach at an International School in Paris. I have no doubt there will be College staff keen to pay him visits, but

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Sadly, it proved not so easy to hop across at weekends, it wasn’t even always straight forward during holidays and then we had the global pandemic which kept him somewhat trapped in Guernsey. It is right therefore that he takes this opportunity to live and work in France so while we are saddened to lose him, he goes with our blessing.

Andrew has been variously described by his students as patient, committed, knowledgeable (indeed incredibly knowledgeable), and fun! Even as he gained promotion to Second in Department and then Head of Faculty in mathematics, he didn’t keep himself tied to the department

She always wanted the pupils to achieve their potential, but always challenged them in the most positive way.

She fit in perfectly to the department and always had time to chat with staff about all manner of topics both work and leisurerelated. We wish her all the very best as she relocates with her family to the UK. She will be missed.

Mr R Morris

Head of Girls PE, Emily also taught A Level and GCSE, always ensuring students were striving for their best when it came to their final exams. Emily always had time for her colleagues in the department and around the school, offering an ear to listen and chocolate at the ready, when needed, and would try and help to find a positive solution to any obstacle. We wish her all the best in her new chapter.

Miss R Merrien

but made time to sing in the choir, develop his dancing skills, ring hand bells and significantly, spent time as head of the CCF Navy Section which surprised some considering his mistrust of boats.

In mathematics, while he taught students across the full age-range and achievement range at College, he was a particular inspiration to those we call the ‘mathmos.’

He was keen to challenge them and raise their expectations of themselves.

He could be found at a whiteboard with students around him sketching out complex mathematics, the students would take the pen and add their thoughts, he would listen and pause, then dive back in with his scribbling and talking.

They and we had to interpret the many “thingamajigs” and “do be doos” and the like as his brain ran away too fast for his vocabulary to keep up, but it was always a joy for students and colleagues alike to play around with maths with Andrew.

As mentioned in the opening paragraph, Andrew is a man of high intellect, but he has a special quality that was the perfect match to that high intellect: humility. That said, the word that keeps coming up when we speak of Andrew with his students and his colleagues is simply, fun. So, thank you Andrew for the fun, and everything else besides.

Dr T Addenbrooke and Mr D Costen

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Joules Morris As one of the caretakers at the Upper School site, Joules had a far-ranging list of duties and tasks. As well as making deliveries, replenishing the first-aid boxes around the site, moving furniture or emptying bins, Joules also single-handedly cleaned the carpets in over 50 classrooms during the summer holidays.

Another very important role undertaken by Joules was acting as a Special Constable, primarily on The Grange, to assist the safe movement of students to and from assemblies and other events in Town as well as at the end of the school day.

College, its nooks and crannies, and his wealth of experience of the rhythms and routines of the school year. While he may never have formally trained as an educator, Bruno has been one of the best teachers I have ever had.

Bruno Neves 13th June is the anniversary of the AngloPortuguese Treaty of Alliance being signed in 1373 between King Ferdinand 1 and Queen Leonor of Portugal and Edward III. Another Anglo-Portuguese alliance was signed on 13th June some 615 years later when Bruno Neves signed his contract of employment and joined College as a Maintenance Worker.

I have only had the privilege of working with Bruno for two of the last 35 years.

However in that time I have been amazed by his ‘Wikipedial’ knowledge of the

Bruno developed his practical skills at an early age. He worked in his father’s repair shop in Madeira fixing bikes, washing machines, radios, kettles, and cars.

On moving to Guernsey his first job was in the maintenance team at the Grange Lodge hotel then, after a few years, he was promoted to the kitchen team, amazingly becoming the head chef!

He was a bit of a party animal and could be regularly spotted in the small hours shimmying up walls and soil pipes

As well as being a commanding presence in the middle of the road when holding up traffic, Joules was a friendly and familiar face come rain or shine.

During the five-and-a-half years he worked at College many staff and pupils got to know him and appreciate his sense of humour and anecdotes about sailing.

Joules is extremely widely travelled, mostly on a boat, and still enjoys racing in local waters. He leaves the College with our very best wishes to take up a maintenance role at the Pandora Hotel.

Mr J Couchman

sneaking back into the staff quarters after a late-night clubbing!

As a keen footballer Bruno was a nippy and wiry striker, not afraid of taking the man with the ball and who derived great pleasure winding up the opposition players and match officials. Other sporting interests include snooker, honing his skills in between shifts in the Grange Lodge snooker room, hiking, and cycling. Indeed more recently Bruno has become one of the top Guernsey veteran cyclists known as the Madeiran ‘Eddie Merx’.

Bruno epitomises kindness and a willingness to help and do his very best on behalf of the College. He would work far in excess of the requirements of his job description and contracted hours because he cares deeply and passionately about the College, its students and staff.

Happily Bruno is not fully retiring from College life. He is returning on a part-time basis to join the IT support team helping to with infrastructure and hardware installations. On behalf of all the students and staff, past and present, that you have helped and supported during your career at College Bruno, muito obrigado.

Mr J Couchman

Kira Totty Kira joined the HR team on a part-time basis in January to supplement her Teaching Assistant role at the Junior School. Kira’s enthusiastic and punctual nature was welcomed within the HR and Bursary team and her hard work has been very much appreciated. Kira will be leaving in July to have a well-earned break before continuing her HR career in Finance.

Mrs L Lihou

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Staff Leavers (continued) Laura Priaulx Laura was appointed as Project Manager for the Perrot Court Project in 2020 and she hit the ground running and never looked back.

A monumental project with many moving parts, Laura brought together the many diverse elements as a key member of the project team. She has a great energy and a strong, positive drive to get things done and done the right way. Her local knowledge, eye for the detail and the ability to see the bigger picture have all been instrumental in the delivery of Perrot Court as an amazing new part of Elizabeth College.

The latter stages of the project: colours, furnishings and the design of the manifestations (the opaque designs on the glass) were where Laura and I worked most closely together. It was a steep learning curve for me but also a really enjoyable process. Buying plants at Le Friquet to make sure there was some foliage in place for the opening events was also memorable; the superb outcomes speak for themselves.

Chris Bullock Chris joined Elizabeth College during November 2018, initially on a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave, however, as a result of his hard work and commitment to the IT Team it wasn’t long before he was offered a full contract.

I can’t believe that it’s only been 4 years and in truth, in terms of hours worked, it’s probably been much longer due to Chris’s stubborn refusal to close his laptop at the end of the day. Chris has really put in a shift here, going over and above week in, week out.

Mrs J Palmer

an awful lot of that whilst he’s been here, but for me what sets him apart is his drive to help people, regardless of personal cost – whether changing plans or staying up till the early hours, he has been a terrific colleague and friend.

Elizabeth College has been extremely fortunate to have Chris in the IT Team and I know that his future employers will be just as appreciative as we’ve been because he really does put 100% into everything he’s involved in.

On behalf of everyone at Elizabeth College Chris I wish you all the best for the future Mr J Langlois

Sandra Burton

updates of knitting triumphs and disasters, her love of all things purple and the endless supply of home grown veg during the summer months. The Bursary team also miss the baking delights that Sandra would regularly spoil us with. The shop purchased biscuits that we have now are definitely not at the same standard!

College in June 2006 before semi retiring at the end of 2022. Sandra wore two hats in the Bursary team, that of payroll administrator and of purchase ledger administrator, as a result she will probably have dealt with every member of staff over those 16 years! There is too many to count, but we estimate that to be over 300 names!

Sandra had many friends at Elizabeth College (particularly around pay day), and we will miss her warmth, wisdom, professionalism, commitment, and patience!

The Bursary team in particular will miss the

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Laura had a big impact in a relatively short period of time and I am very grateful for all of the work she has done as a member of the Elizabeth College staff team. I know she is going to be extremely busy getting back to running her own company and I’m sure she will also be spending lots of time out on the sea.

Laura leaves with all of our good wishes for her next chapter and we look forward to hearing about her new adventures.

Chris loves solving problems and he’s done

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Laura achieved a huge amount, including taking on the additional responsibility for ordering the furniture, fittings & equipment and coordinating the process of moving in many staff and their possessions as well as the relocation of the library. This complex process involved a huge amount of work, a massive team effort and it was smoothly managed. It was really positive to hit the published opening deadline of 27th February 2023. Of course there were some unexpected bumps in the road, some of which we are still navigating, but Laura’s determination and positive cando approach deftly manoeuvred the team around many of those.

Sandra became a grandmother recently to two beautiful granddaughters, baby Dorothy born locally and little Isla living in the UK. These two gorgeous girls are incredibly lucky to have such an amazing Granny as Sandra and we truly hope that they can spend lots of time together and Sandra will continue to impart her wisdom on them.

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EVENTS

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NEWS

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SPORTS

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President’s Welcome Eades, asked if I’d arrange a dinner for OEs living in Hong Kong – it was a great occasion! It’s important to mark these events, and I look forward to attending the OEA dinner next year in London to mark the 200th anniversary of the College’s rechartering in 1824.

During my tenure as President and in a world that is becoming smaller, more connected and where information flows seamlessly across borders, I’d like to find ways where we can build upon our OE Network. We have 5,700 Old Elizabethans registered on our portal, and I want to find ways to provide value to our Network’s connections.

I often think of the OEA in terms of the wonderful annual dinners where we meet and catch up with friends from school.

The OEA is already so much more than that. We have the opportunity now to build a proposition where we can share experiences, ideas and opportunities more regularly. I look forward to exploring this and updating you along the way.

OEA President Andy Niles (7423)

In my first update as your new President, I am pleased to begin by thanking James Ovenden (7671) and Steve Sharman (7555), two of our most dedicated committee members who have contributed so much to the OEA. For more than a decade, James, as Hon Secretary and then President and Steve in his role in the development of OEA sports, have been instrumental in shaping the OEA, and finding ways to ensure that we stay connected with the College and our members.

By way of introduction and to give you some context of who I am, I attended College from 1977 to 1983 before entering a career in banking. For twenty five years of my working life, I was based in Asia, and I returned to Guernsey in 2016 with my wife Jane and two sons, Max (11494) and Sam (11602).

Ten years before returning to Guernsey, I reconnected with the College through the

OEA London Dinner; I loved the experience of meeting peers and teachers and finding out about our latest victories over Victoria

As OEs, we have a shared ethos that enables us to engage with fellow OEs wherever they may be with a mutual expectation of integrity. This is so important. In many ways, this network has worked and functioned successfully for generations in Guernsey.

I want to work with my fellow committee members to develop this to provide better connectivity outside our island.

Although the College was founded 460 years ago, we continue to develop as a school, enhancing our campus, playing fields, and academic offerings. In the same

“During my tenure as President and in a world that is becoming smaller, more connected and where information flows seamlessly across borders, I’d like to find ways where we can build upon our OE Network.”

College. Since then, I have always tried to attend at least one of the dinners each year. In 2013, the College’s 450th year celebrations, the then President, Mike

way, I’d like to continue to enhance the OEA incrementally so that parents and students see the value earlier and more regularly.

Andy Niles (7423)

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Secretary’s Jottings

Kin Tang (8786) at the Guernsey Dinner

The College continues to thrive and evolve, keep up and excel in all aspects of providing the best care and attention to its students. Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the College’s rechartering in 1824. As many of you will be aware, the College was founded 460 years ago in 1563 by the royal command of Queen Elizabeth I to provide education in Guernsey. For two and a half centuries, the school tottered on the brink of extinction. In 1824, the island’s

one of the largest civil construction projects in the island. If you wish to learn more about the College’s fascinating history, the rechartering and College’s exile to escape the German occupation in Guernsey during WWII, I would encourage you to read ‘A History of Elizabeth College’ by OE Bruce Parker (4747). As a celebration of such a momentous event, the OEA are in the throes of organising what will be a night to remember in London in October 2024.

so keep an eye out for further details.

September 9th saw the official opening of the ATP at the Memorial Field. Many activities were arranged for all to participate; my children certainly made the most of them! The Junior School Choir were showcased and an OE vs College hockey match took place on the new pitch. Huge thanks to all who helped on the day and organised the event.

The OEA grants have been in full flow this year assisting with the purchase of a new vehicle for the College rifle club, student trips to Kenya, South Korea for the Scouts World Jamboree as well as some sporting grants, and not least contributing to the fabulous ATP mentioned above. These all go on to enhance the students’ experience and enjoyment in their chosen field. We hope that there will be many more grants being awarded in the future. My thanks go to the President, OEA Committee, and Kate Earl, Sara Wright and Jennie Doucy in the Development & Marketing Office for all their support with the OEA.

“The OEA grants have been in full flow this year assisting with the purchase of a new vehicle for the College rifle club, student trips to Kenya, South Korea for the Scouts World Jamboree as well as some sporting grants.” I hope to see you all soon at one of our Lt-Governor, Sir John Colborne, set up an enquiry into the state of the College, the result of which was the rechartering which led to a renaissance of the school. A new building was commissioned and remains

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For those of you who were there, this will be modeled on the Drapers Hall event organised by the OEA in 2016. This will take the place of the regular OEA London Dinner and spouses/partners will be invited

many OEA events during the course of the next year and do feel free to get in touch at oea@elizabethcollege.gg with any suggestions or comments you may have for the Committee.

Kin Tang (8786)

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New Life Members 2023 4849 P Berry 6733 G A Hall 7031 N R Biddulph-Smith 7052 D N K Crook 8213 S C Kirkpatrick 8412 A G Ogier 8883 J J Greenfield 9057 A Karim 9122 J Baker 9425 W T Fish 9597 A J Clark 10613 K M Guilbert 10619 H F Le Conte 10704 J Banneville 10707 E J S Clark 10709 C P Collivet 10710 A F Douglas 10711 O Eisenberg 10712 A J Elliott 10713 A J B Falla 10716 L J Gavey 10717 T C Glen 10721 R W Guezo 10723 M J Jefferies 10724 J C M Kennedy 10726 J L Le Vasseur 10729 L R Perkins 10732 L Steyn 10733 J D Tautscher 10735 C L Tully 10736 A M R Vidamour 10742 J T Berry 10826 A E W Haenel

10926 11011 11059 11115 11153 11172 11176 11227 11231 11236 11248 11252 11337 11505 11506 11507 11509 11510 11511 11512 11514 11515 11516 11518 11519 11520 11521 11522 11523 11524 11525 11526 11527

J L Holden B M Burgess D S Troop N P A Moody H S J Shires R C B Yeoman M J Dunn H W Whittaker D S Lasenby T J McIntosh L J Ingrouille M M McCarthy A O Pleasant W J Abreu J M Andrijasevic O R Bailey W G Beasley B P Bisson J Blake O A Bonner-Morgan E J Brady D C S Brown D G Cameron E Clarke O J Coupe J J de Jersey A G De La Mare W H D Dereham A W Despres X B Ellis I J Eyton-Jones A G Ford D M Friend

OEA Committee The President Andy Niles

7423 8786

The Honorary Treasurer Martin Le Pelley

7655

Committee Members

T R S Hook D D Lewis-Gallienne H W Lister G B P McNeela J J Merrien O H Purdue J E Robertshaw W J Rouget E J Ruddy M K Thomas B D Tostevin A W Wilkes M E Johnson R P F McKenna T K Phillips J D Riley J Vickers J A Taylor F J Ridgwick C R W Birch T A E Dorey E-J Martineau-Fortin B M C Voehrs R Dallin F S Dorrity A C Rohland E A Merrien M J A Healing E M Drew D A Carruthers S C Orton

OEA Membership Vice Presidents

The Honorary Secretary Kin Tang

11530 11531 11532 11533 11534 11535 11536 11537 11538 11540 11541 11542 11544 11545 11649 11651 11686 11780 11791 11839 11892 12058 12074 12086 12087 12092 12099 12105 12109 Hon Hon

2023

2022

1,489

1,415

5

6

Bruce Parker

4747

Guernsey

Gresham Barber

5159

Jersey

Nick Guillemette

5224

UK

317

319

Jerry Girard

5442

Overseas

87

88

John Bridle

5805

Honorary

49

47

1,947

1,875

Mike Eades

6259

Rupert Pleasant

7313

Bruce Spittal

7040

Zoe Gosling

8993

John Bell

7461

James Tucker

7515

James Ovenden

7671

Brian Aplin (College Representative)

Hon

Kate Earl (Development & Marketing Representative)

Hon

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The 172nd OEA Dinner: Guernsey

Perrot Court Quad

The 172nd Old Elizabethan Association Dinner took place on the evening of Friday 7th July 2023, the last day of the school term. The Dinner made a very welcome return to the College Hall, much to the delight of many diners. The drinks reception was held outside in the new Perrot Court Quad on a spectacular summer evening, one of a few, sadly to say of 2023, so we were extremely fortunate.

This year saw a change in the traditional three-course plated service; the diners were served a delicious selection of sharing platters for their starters and mains, with strawberries or cheese to follow. Following the meal, the Senior OE in attendance, Peter Martel (4497), proposed the Loyal Toast. Principal Jenny Palmer (8989) was called upon to provide an update on current and recent activities at the College. She noted that the initial phase of the Perrot Court development was now complete and sits on a piece of land which was part of the original gift from the College’s foundress, Queen Elizabeth I. The project was only a term and a half delayed which, with all the challenges that came with the pandemic, highlights the incredible effort of all involved. The College continues to move towards its goal of being fully coeducational across all years from preschool to Year 13, and this September sees girls making up a quarter of the Year 7 intake.

Joe Langlois and Alex Clark

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There are now bursary students attending College in years 7, 8 , 9, 12 and 13. Jenny gave her thanks to all who supported the Chance of a Lifetime Appeal and to Roger Perrot (5450) for his very generous gift, and encouraged everyone to spread the word about the bursary scheme. The College has a breadth of variety and opportunities available. Just prior to the dinner was Investigation and Discovery Week, which saw some amazing new experiences for

College Hall

the students such as writing and performing their own music, creating artwork using maths, bell ringing from the College bell tower and coasteering.

2023 also saw visiting football and cricket teams, providing students with invaluable experience against some high quality fixtures and a variety of opponents. Notable achievements included, for the first time

John Hardie

in seven years, the First XI cricket team beating Victoria College, and the Year 7 girls’ cricket team winning the Guernsey Schools soft ball cricket competition for the first time. The College golf team made it through to the semi-final of the Independent Schools Golf Championships, losing by 1 shot to Winchester College.

President Andrew Niles (7423) was then called upon to introduce the Guest of Honour, Andreas Tautscher (6968). Andrew began by thanking the outgoing President, James Ovenden (7671) for all his hard work and dedication to the OEA over the past 12 years. Further thanks were given to the Committee, the Development & Marketing Office, the College catering team, Sueco, Dot Carruthers, Steve Sharman (7555) who continues to help the OEA with their sporting fixtures, and Paul Berry (4849) who was the third most senior OE present and had travelled all the way from Australia to attend the Dinner. Final thanks were given to Jenny Palmer for all the work she and her team undertook in achieving the highest standards.

Andrew then went on to explain a bit about how the College helped to shape him into the person that he is now. In particular, he mentioned the Vice Principal at the time, Vernon Collenette and his house master, Pierre Le Cocq. This was followed by a toast to the College.

On the balcony

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The Guest of Honour was then introduced.

Andreas has been a director of the College since 2018 and has been involved with the Perrot Court development project.

Andreas began by telling the story of his family background saying that one of his heroes was his grandmother, who was born into a wealthy Austro-Hungarian family. Her father was an engineer and industrialist who set up the first bottled drinks factory in the Austrian empire in the 1800s. He was called upon to fight in the First World War against the Russians in a place now known as Liv. During this, he was injured and captured, enduring three years in a prisoner of war camp. Upon his return he spent some time in hospital and was still in bad shape.

Within two to three years both he and his wife succumbed to influenza, leaving Andreas’ grandmother and her siblings orphaned. It was years later that she met Joseph Tautscher and so the Tautscher family had begun. After five years travelling around Switzerland, Italy and Austria with his parents, Andreas lived with his grandparents in Guernsey. Andreas went on to recall that he enjoyed all aspects of both

Sara Wright and Andy Niles

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the Junior and Upper Schools and all the opportunities that College brought to him.

student, parent of three sons and ten years on the board of the school. A final message he wanted to impart – never give up, treat everyone with respect and never stop dreaming.

Andreas’ career started as a Geologist travelling the world undertaking mapping projects. After this, he became an auditor, private banker and spent seven years on some of Richard Branson’s boards.

Currently Andreas is an independent director and advisor.

In closing, Andreas said that Perrot Court is the largest addition to the College in the last 200 years. He benefited greatly from his time at College and it has been an essential part of his life for the past 30 years as a

The dinner went extremely well with thoroughly enjoyable speeches on the night and praises about the format from many who were in attendance.

Finally, I also would like to thank everyone who helped make the night possible, including the President and all those he mentioned in his address.

Kin Tang (8786)

List of Diners – Guernsey Dinner

Guest of Honour Andreas Tauscher

Olly Beaton

Simon de la Rue and Zoe Gosling

Senior Prefect Jonathan Vickers

P J Martel

4497

P E Matthews

6613

J A J Guilbert

8694

P Berry

4849

S McDade

6614

K C Tang

8786

R G Rowe

4854

L S Trott

6722

R L Godwin

4916

M J Gaudion

6780

J A C Webber

8887

G R Dorey

4992

K D Boscher

6882

J M Palmer

8989

J L Silvester

5190

D K M Chan

6883

P K Wilson

5210

A J Tautscher

6968

J E G Rowe

5217

N R Biddulph-Smith

7031

N L Guillemette

5224

P L Bisson

7044

D J Ozanne

5313

D N K Crook

7052

P E Guilbert

5333

S M D Ross

7148

D Le M White

5363

L N Broekhuizen

7159

C D Brock

5368

A M A Cross

7161

P S T Girard

5442

N J R Marquis

A F de L Carey

5465

J Torode

J D V Hardie

5551

A M F Clayton

A Lindsay

5618

P H Touzeau

5642

M F Mauger

Z N Gosling

8993

A S Elder

9036

J Baker

9122

N H Burton

9125

S E de la Rue

9130

O C Beaton

9318

W T Fish

9425

J E C Branch

9528

7197

N G Paluch

9576

7240

A J Clark

9597

7289

J H Cook

9598

R J Pleasant

7313

J N E Langlois

9606

P A Higgs

7369

9626

5713

A J Niles

7423

D J Taylor

M J Mann

5751

M Le C Bousfield

7481

R A Bird

5756

C J Hudson

7496

N P de la Rue

5841

J C Tucker

7515

G R Wallbridge

5909

M G A Dunster

7566

A J Higgs

5921

R Clark

7633

A J Lindsay

5927

G Broadhurst

7642

N R McCathie

5929

A J Trickey

7793

T Wright

5942

N J G Rowe

7835

A C Gallienne

6086

A A S Bourne

7864

D Hollingsworth

6515

B L Byrom

8184

M J S Eades

6529

J S Briggs

R C T Berry

6576

J A B Gollop

6598

A R Bird

9641

A R Tautscher

10219

J T Lindsay

10548

P J Bourne

10659

J D Tautscher

10733

J T Berry

10742

J R O Upson

11313

J Vickers

11686

T R Barker

Hon

J G Couchman

Hon

8262

A R Cross

Hon

J A Elder

8265

K M Earl

Hon

P S Girard

8581

S Wright

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Births

on 17 November 2022

To Mel Harbour (8904) and Sarah, a son – Ruairidh Philip, born in Cambridge on 12 October 2022 To Joe Langlois (9606) and Faye, a daughter – Tilly, born in Guernsey

Tilly Langlois

Marriages Luke Bridle (10425) and Sophie Dorey (ECJS Teacher) were married in Guernsey on 8 April 2023

To Oliver Fattorini (8545) and Charlotte, a son – Maximilian Edward Francis Halden, born in Guernsey on 1 December 2022 To Jim Le Lievre (9097) and Laura, a son – George William James, born in Guernsey on 7 March 2023

Sophia Copeland

To Scott Bourgaize (9837) and Victoria, a daughter – Clara Christine, born in Guernsey on 13 March 2023

To James Warr (9026) and Ellie, a son – Tobias David Otto, born on 10 August 2023

To Matt Copeland (9689) and Phoebe, a daughter – Sophia Ruth, born in Guernsey on 27 April 2023

To Chris Hallam (9226) and Dhanishtha, a daughter – Arabella Elizabeth Aster, born in London on 21 September 2023

To Will Le Lievre (9230) and Annika, a daughter – Willow Rose, born in Guernsey in July 2023

To Tim Paluch (9046) and Joanne, a son – Louis Jude, born in Southampton on 28 October 2023

Christopher Jones (9330) and Dabrina Issakhany were married in Sydney, Australia, on 22 April 2023 Andy Orme (9613) and Sharon Cabellon were married at Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, on 3 June 2023 Ollie Orton (10003) and Sarah Kett were married in Norfolk on 26 August 2023

Luke Bridle OE (10425) with his new wife Sophie

Deaths Robin (Rob) Champion (4388) died in Warwickshire on 13 November 2022 aged 92 Anthony (Tony) John McDade (4477) died in Guernsey on 18 November 2022 aged 89 Robert William Ozanne (4896) died in Perth, Australia, on 25 December 2022 aged 83 Paul Martin Franklin (6283) died in Guernsey on 26 December 2022 aged 67 Kenneth Eustace Edward Rowe (4671) died at home in Alderney on 7 January 2023 aged 85 Neville John Brouard (4434) died in Guernsey on 23 January 2023 aged 90 Michael James Green (7962) died in Guernsey on 23 January 2023 aged 53 Michael Fred Martel (4952) died on 28 January 2023 aged 84 Ian Francis Gaudion (6087) died in Guernsey on 1 February 2023 aged 69 Charlie Lockwood (12249) died on 14 February 2023 aged 14 John Donald Cadoret (5090) died in Guernsey on 12 February 2023 aged 81 Gervase William (Bill) Peek (5071) died in Guernsey on 27 February 2023 aged 77

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William Bishop (9799) and Chanel Yusuf were married at Château Robernier in Provence, France on 30 August 2023

William Bishop (9799) with his new wife Chanel

Mark Jonathan Tucker (6267) died in Guernsey on 30 March 2023 aged 62

John Malcolm Duquemin (5440) died in Guernsey on 15 July 2023 aged 77

Richard Malcolm Rowe (5268) died in Wiltshire on 8 April 2023 aged 79

Nigel Avenel Van Someren (5852) died whilst on holiday in his birthplace of Kent on 30 July 2023 aged 72

Mark Edward Lynch (7066) died in Guernsey on 19 April 2023 aged 58 Peter Stanley French (5121) died in Guernsey on 27 April 2023 aged 84 Nigel David Le Cras (6339) died in Guernsey on 3 May 2023 aged 66 Neville Randall Scott (4485) died in Guernsey on 5 May 2023 aged 84 Simon James Reade (6862) died in Eastbourne on 17 May 2023 aged 57 Neil James Bloomfield (7111) died on 21 May 2023 aged 59 Robert Glyn Read (5602) died in Guernsey on 23 May 2023 aged 75 Alan Jackson Dorey (4503) died in Oxfordshire on 5 June 2023 aged 92 Bonamy John Martel (5277) died in Guernsey on 7 June 2023 aged 76 Bryan Henry Bisson (4980) died in Guernsey on 8 June 2023 aged 85

David Jeune Nicolle MBE (4575) died in Kent on 16 August 2023 aged 90 Alan George Bates Nicholson (5384) died in Guernsey on 16 August 2023 aged 75 Cuillin Chisolm (10574) died in a climbing accident on Switzerland on 17 August 2023 aged 22 Jonathan Edward Sandrey (8439) died in Limassol, Cyprus on 22 August 2023 aged 47 Michael Roderick Stanton Waterman (5348) died in Pittsburgh USA on 27 August 2023 aged 81 Samuel (Sam) John Farr Brown (5054) died in Norfolk on 6 September 2023 aged 83 Robert Geoffrey Suttie (5284) died in Perth on 7 September 2023 aged 82 Christopher Alan Bachmann (6483) died in Guernsey on 12 September 2023 aged 62

Winston Churchill Bull (5249) died in Guernsey on 25 June 2023 aged 80

Nicholas (Nick) John Gaskin (5303) died in Guernsey on 17 September 2023 aged 76

Peter Richard Lawlor (6378) died in Guernsey on 3 July 2023 aged 66

John Henry Smith (4934) died at home in Guernsey on 7 October 2023 aged 85

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Michael Fred Martel (4952) 1939-2023 on fifty-six occasions, more than any other competitor from the competing nations since the competition began in 1871. In 1968, Mike won the St George’s and a year later took the bronze medal for the Queen’s First Stage. In 2004, he won the Queen’s Veterans and was in the Queen’s Final eighteen times.

Mike with a framed letter from the then Bailiff Sir Richard Collas, signed by his team mates, after his 50th appearance in the Kolapore at Bisley

Mike Martel was one of Guernsey’s most accomplished rifle shots and made nearly seventy appearances at the Imperial Meeting.

His shooting career began in earnest at Elizabeth College in the mid-1950s when he was a member of award-winning smallbore teams. He quickly adapted to full-bore and became Guernsey’s island champion five times, representing Guernsey at the Commonwealth Games in Canada in 1978 and Edinburgh in 1986. At Bisley, he was a member of Guernsey’s Kolapore team

Mike was a leading light of the Old Elizabethan Rifle Club which won the Schools’ Veterans match three times. Although a staunch Guernseyman for the whole of his life, Mike made his home in Hampshire after teacher training at King Alfred’s College, Winchester. He had a number of teaching appointments in the county before becoming headmaster of Hawley School.

He was soon to become a stalwart of county shooting with Manydown Rifle Club, Crookham Rifle Club and the Hampshire Rifle Association. He won the Astor on multiple occasions with Manydown and the Hampshire County Championship in 2012. Always a great supporter of club and county, Mike was very proud to be appointed president of both Manydown and the HRA in 2021.

Contrary to perceived opinion, Jersey and Guernsey sports enthusiasts do occasionally come together. Mike was the perfect Channel Islands captain and highly respected by rival

A J (Tony) McDade 1933-2022

It with great regret that we report the death on 18th November 2022, four days after his eighty-ninth birthday, of Tony McDade, FRPS, EFIAP, APAGB. Tony worked in banking, at the National Provincial Bank which ultimately became the NatWest. He was based in the Town and, subsequently, the St Sampson’s branch.

Tony joined Spectrum (Guernsey) photographic club soon after its founding by the great ‘Doc’ Neubert FRPS, the

His legacy will live on in his research and writing, having co-authored the History of Guernsey Rifle Shooting, contributed to A Rifle-Shooting Century which was a history of shooting at Elizabeth College to celebrate its one-hundredth appearance in the Ashburton last year and compiled the History of Crookham Rifle Club. Mike had also compiled The Fallen: Old Elizabethans Who Served and Died in World War One and a similar book dedicated to OEs who died in the Second World War. More recently, Mike greatly enjoyed the time he spent volunteering in the NRA Museum.

Mike will be remembered as a true gentleman of rifle-shooting who dedicated much time and effort towards helping others, especially younger shooters. We offer our heartfelt sympathy to his wife Manuela, his daughter Caroline and his grandchildren.

Bruce Parker (4747)

FRPS, EFIAP, APAGB

club being solely for the then new ‘colour slides’. A Nikon devotee, over the years Tony’s output and range of pictures far eclipsed those of any other Spectrum member. He was an indispensable member of the Spectrum committee and served as President for several years.

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Jersey shooters. This was demonstrated when he captained the Channel Islands to an historic win at the European Long Range Championships in 2006 before leading the team to Ottawa for the Palma Match and World Championships in 2007.

A keen exhibitor in national and, mainly, international photographic salons, Tony accrued a total of 4,718 acceptances, including many individual awards. This is more than twice the number of acceptances by any other member of Spectrum during the history of the club. It may even be a wider record nationally. He was a meticulous record keeper, logging every entry, score, acceptance and award in his files over his many years of exhibiting.

It was Tony’s interest in exhibitions which led him to offer great encouragement to Spectrum members to do the same.

He decided to organise Spectrum’s own International exhibition. His hard work on this

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meant that the worldwide entry to it was, even from the first Spectrum International, the largest of any British exhibition – a staggering achievement. The Spectrum International used to attract several thousand slide entries each year. Tony decided that all cards, catalogues and return entries would have a wide variety of Guernsey Post Office stamps on them and the top prizes were copper Guernsey milk cans, which seemed to be much valued by the recipients.

Tony was born in Guernsey but, with the Nazis sweeping across Europe, he, with his mother and younger brother, was evacuated to England only days before the Nazi invasion and five year occupation of the Channel Islands. His father, who had been on business in England, returned to Guernsey, unknowingly crossing over with his rapidly evacuated family and he was then trapped in the island for the five occupation years, out of touch with the family.

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OE News Tim Symonds (4545) has nearly completed his 9th Sherlock Holmes novel. This one is set in Simla and Hyderabad in 1911. Dr Watson is asked to go to India to try to prevent a violent uprising against British Rule. The centrepiece of the plot is a wonderful jewel known as the Ratnaraj Ruby in the possession of the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad. Tony has sent a photo of a strange chap who likes to sneak into the Oast House garden where he lives in East Sussex where he can read Tony’s novels in their Italian translation!

Tim Symonds (4545)

Dr Maurice Bichard OBE (4591) left the Island in 1953 to pursue a career in livestock genetics.

In June 2023 he was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Royal Jersey A&H Society for services to their local breed of dairy cattle since 2003. (This follows his similar award by the Royal Guernsey A&HS in 2008 for services to the Guernsey breed since 1997.)

He held senior regional manager posts before retiring and taking employment as a senior manager with Mercury Telecoms. Following his retirement from Mercury, he took up a consultancy role in a Mercury/Nokia joint venture re-developing telecoms in Latvia following its independence. Returning to live in Guernsey in 1996, he was appointed Chief Executive of Guernsey‘s Financial Training Agency introducing state of the art technology in order to modernise the delivery of lectures and tutorials. He encouraged Bournemouth University academics to deliver to Guernsey undergraduate lectures and tutorials using high quality video conferencing communication, something new in those days.

Roland Goodison MBE (5374), aged 74 and a recreational cyclist living in North Norfolk, cycled the C2C (Sea to Sea) from Whitehaven in Cumbria on the Irish Sea coast to Tynemouth on the North Sea coast, a distance of 146 miles over a four day period to raise money for a local charity called Friends of Langham Dome (https://langhamdome.org) where he is a trustee. He raised just under £3,000 towards a new projector system for this small military museum that has won best Trip Advisor awards for a number of years. Should any of the exmilitary or those currently serving in either the RAF or Army wish to support this fundraiser, then visit Roland’s Just Giving link www. justgiving.com/fundraising/Roland-Goodison Mike Vaudin (5459) at the age of 77 has just completed the 280 kms pilgrimage walk from Porto to Santiago de Compostela. In 2022 he walked to Santiago from Samos 140 kms and also Santiago de Compostela to Finistera Muxia 110 kms.

Philip Barbagallo (5571)

over 70s beat all comers in an international hockey tournament. Played 8. Won 8. GF 14. GA 0. Playing position Goalkeeper, saved a penalty flick in the first game. Philip is pictured with his team (front row, in blue cap).

Nick Reade (5688) continues to serve in retirement as Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester, and also as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese in Europe. He also helps parishes in vacancy, especially in East Sussex. He still has a House of Lords pass and returns regularly but is no longer eligible to sit on the Red Benches as one of the 26 Lords Spiritual. Until the outbreak of Covid he met with a small group of his contemporaries (all former boarders) in the South of England. They hope to re-start the meetings. There have been few years when Nick has not returned to Guernsey over the last 58 years!

Michael Grant de Longueuil (5774) has been retired from medicine for 17 years, and has studied professional oil painting at the Norfolk School of Painting. This summer he is holding an exhibition “Five Generations of Artists in the Béarn”, in the Arsenal of Navarrenx, in

Stephen de Garis (4682) is now an old man and life is therefore fairly humdrum, though he has so much for which to be thankful, including his education at Elizabeth College. Blessings!

David Allen (5085) of the Guernsey Small-Bore Rifle Club says: Unable to repeat their near record-winning score of 2022, the same OE Team performed well in the Fletcher Cup for former students of public schools in the UK. A combined score of 487 was enough to earn second place behind the Old Victorians 491. The competitors’ individual scores were as follows: Matthew Guille (7008)

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98

Nick Kerins (10358)

98

Luke Malcic (10965)

98

Adam Jory (7916)

95

Total

487 ex 500

Rick Rowland (5268) died in Wiltshire on 8 April 2023. Born in Stockport in 1943 of Guernsey evacuee parents, he first came to Guernsey in August 1945. An 11+ scholar, Rick arrived at College in 1954, excelling academically in maths and sciences as well as at football and athletics. He joined UK Post Office Telecoms in England and came out top nationally in an Institute of Personnel Management examination. At Warwick University he graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Management Science.

UK Post Office Telecoms, renamed British Telecoms, became BT Group when privatised.

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Mike Vaudin (5459)

Philip Barbagallo (5571) was selected to represent South Central and East of England over 70s field hockey in goal in the Area Tournament which took place at Bournemouth Hockey Club on 10th and 11th June 2023. The team won the trophy topping the group and beating London 2 - 0 in the final. Philip also represented LX England over 70s in the Spirit of Masters European Cup as a goalkeeper in Valencia 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.

Winners of the trophy for the age group which constituted of Southern Cross (Australia), Germany, Alliance and Holland. Just got back from Bra in Italy where his team LX England

the Béarn, with the support of Circle Histoire d’Arrière. This will be celebrating especially the life’s work of his father, Raymond de Longueuil (4129) 1921-2004. This exhibition will dovetail with a conference and presentation of the history of the de Longueuil family in the Béarn. Michael has four children and five grandchildren.

Tony Brassell (6080) moved back to Guernsey in January 2023 after spending three years in Sunderland. He continues to write and paint, as well as build, host and maintain websites. He has completed seven novels and is nearing the

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Following 30 years as founder and CEO of Vox Group, an international marketing and supply company, Brian Leech (6991) sold his businesses in 2022 and now lives in the UK and France.

completion of his eighth. The last two follow a fictional detective, based in Sunderland, and fall under the crime thriller genre. You can find all of Tony’s novels on Amazon. He has produced many local watercolours since his return and sold several at a recent Seafront Sunday.

You can follow his work on his website at www.tonybrassell.co.uk Adrian Fulford (6125) “retired from retirement” after giving it a 3 month trial, and has taken on a range of roles. He is now a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Guernsey (!), Jersey and Gibraltar.

He has recently been appointed by the Prime Minister as Chair of the Security Vetting Appeals Panel (based in the Cabinet Office) and he is an Investigatory Powers Commissioner (“spying on the spies”). In January, he is to act as the judge coroner in the Inquest into the three murders in Forbury Gardens in Reading in June 2020 and he sits part-time in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and in the Crown Court. He has joined the Board of the Howard League for Penal Reform. He has just bought a feather-light road bike and is hoping to cycle across Slovakia next spring. If he avoids expiring in the attempt, photographs will be provided!

Rob Whittaker (6185) celebrates more than thirty years living in Switzerland working in microelectronics and semiconductors. His latest activity is in precision agriculture applying connected sensors (IIoT) and machine learning to help farmers combat the effects of global warming and increase the efficiency of local sustainable production.

Adrian Carey (6401) and his College friends had a reunion in London earlier in 2023. They were all boarders between 1968 and 1975.

Now 65 years old, it was a long time since their school days, but Trevor says it was just like yesterday; the conversation flowed, stories were retold and there was lots of reminiscing.

Their next lunch is in the planning...

Kim Hinshaw (6436)

in his penultimate caesarean section list by his younger daughter Lauren, who has just achieved her MSc in Physician Associate studies. Lauren started work in A&E in Sunderland in September… a chip off the old block! Kim will be over in Guernsey more often, visiting his parents and sister and seeing ‘old’ school friends from College days (left summer 1976)...

Andy Guille (6673) was privileged to have his volunteer work for the Bailiwick Bat Survey (see www.bats.org.gg) recognised by being named as a co-author of the 2022 Report published by the BTO (bto_rr750_newson_ et_al_2023_bailiwick_bat_survey.pdf). Andy spent many hours collecting and uploading ultrasound recordings and liaising with the BTO experts regarding unusual or unexpected results following analysis by their AI program.

This important “citizen science” project has materially advanced knowledge of local bats.

Mike Dicks (6864) is now 5 years retired from the City, mentoring young inner city teens with Urban Synergy, volunteer at Calvert Trust on Exmoor. Travelling as much as possible, Rwanda, Kenya, Austria, Switzerland, Japan so far in 2023, with Poland, Thailand, Cambodia, Germany, France and Argentina/Antarctica booked. Eldest daughter a Vet in Ross on Wye, youngest teaching maths at an academy in Croydon. Living on Exmoor, gig rowing in Appledore.

Marcus Fernando (6885) usually makes his living as a Theatre Director, but increasingly he is finding that his photography is becoming a major part of his career. He was recently asked to photograph a Blues Festival in Novigrad in Croatia. The 4-day festival featured artists and bands from around the world, on indoor and outdoor stages. He was issued not only with a Backstage pass, but also an Onstage pass, so that he could go onto the stage during the gigs to photograph the artists. A selection of his images will feature in a one year exhibition at one of the venues, and next year’s festival is already being planned.

L-R: Philip Carre (6392), Nick de Haaff (6468), Basil Gillett (6241), Adrian Carey (6401) and Trevor Gander (6458)

Kim Hinshaw (6436) retired from clinical practice on 31 August 2023 after 41 years working for the NHS. He has thoroughly enjoyed his career as a consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist in NE England and now plans to spend more time with his fiancée Lesley (a research midwife), his 9 year-old grandson Lewis and daughters Abbie & Lauren. One of his proudest moments was in June, assisted

Mark Rogers (7471) last year joined Guernsey Civil Protection, a volunteer organisation that not only supports the local police with incidents and missing persons, but also plays a major part in both traffic management and crowd control at all major events, a prime example being Liberation Day military parade and the events organised around the death of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Mark is also a Special Constable.

Chris Hudson (7496) biked on his motorcycle to Germany last October and spent a week camping in Bavaria with a friend. This year, he is helping during Island Games week marshalling at the shooting and the cycling. Next year, anticipating marshalling at the Paris Olympics (2024). Other tasks completed include: biannual roadside hedge inspections of St Peter Port parish, and assisting with the Liberation Day celebrations.

Simon Richards (7879) completed King Alfred’s Way in Southern England in August for the second time, cycling 350km over 3 days with over 4000m of elevation on a mixture of gravel trails, single track, sand and rural back roads.

He is now planning a multi-day gravel ride further afield somewhere in mainland Europe.

Stuart Burbridge (7972) retired from Kent Police in March 2022 after 27 years’ service – the last 15 of which he spent within the Counter Terrorism Border Policing Directorate at Folkestone and Dover. Stuart has since completed the first year of a two year parttime Masters degree at the University of Wolverhampton in Second World War history and is a frequent visitor to both First and Second World battlefields in France and Belgium (which are just a stone’s throw away from where he lives), and he is enjoying spending more time with his wife, 14 year old son and 12 year old daughter. Stuart would one day hope to realise his ambitions of writing and battlefield guiding.

James Colmer (8027) became a full-time artist at the end of 2022. Since then he has had some lovely projects. Highlights include illustrating a series of puffin stamps for Guernsey Post, with the aim of showcasing the commendable efforts of Alderney Wildlife Trust in safeguarding the puffins that migrate to the Island for nesting every year. The icing on the cake was that the artwork had to be sent to Buckingham Palace for Royal approval!

James also took on the task of illustrating and designing Jag Sherbourne’s latest book, titled “Clouds in my Guernsey Sky.” The book served as a compelling account of Jag’s personal journey, as she delved into her family’s concealed history during the occupation of Guernsey and beyond.

Mark Le Page (8083) rotated off Chair of the ACCA Global Business Law Technical Forum in early 2023 and his paper on stablecoins was accepted for the digital assets at Duke Conference. He continues to struggle with his paper on DAOs and investment gardens, which he hopes to present to a conference in London in September.

Marcus Fernando (6885)

After an 18-month tenure in a Regional Head role followed by a period as Head of Governance & Reporting – both for HSBC, Mark Domaille (8166) has co-founded a

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local Regulatory & Compliance consultancy business called ThreeSixty Regulatory Solutions Limited. This new venture seeks to provide unique services to regulated and nonregulated businesses due to the combination of Law Enforcement, Regulatory and Industry experience both of the founders hold.

John Elder (8265) brought his career in finance to a close in July, leaving BlueCrest Capital where he was co-Head of Quantitative Research. After 26 years of applying mathematics to the financial markets, John is setting out in a new direction, joining Alleyn’s School in London as a trainee maths teacher.

Mike Quittenden (8452) has been busy the last couple of years organising the Guernsey Marathon. They had an interesting launch year due to the pandemic but the event has grown significantly since. They are committed to showcasing Guernsey and its community whilst raising funds for charity. https://guernseymarathon.com. In 2022 they launched the “Marathon Mile” fun run as part of the event. This is a race for all ages and has been created to inspire more people to take up running and for children to feel a part of the big day. There are various awards for the mile, including the Inter-Schools Shield which was won by St Mary’s and St Michaels in 2023.

It would be great to have Elizabeth College students competing in 2024.

Tom Henry (8676)

Tom Henry (8676) completed a 1,000 mile unsupported cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End travelling through Scotland, England and Wales in May 2023. Lovely snow in the Highlands!

Nick Harlow (8924) has recently completed his second book, focussing on the history of the London gunmaker, James Woodward & Sons. It is being published by Merlin Unwin as a limited edition and was released in September 2023.

Tim Paluch (9046) completed the London Marathon 2023 - a fantastic experience and one he would love to do again one day. He ran in support of local charity Guernsey Aid, with all funds going towards the Children’s Ward and

Tom Henry (8676)

Special Care Baby Unit at the St Francis Mission Hospital in Zambia.

Dr Oliver Collas (9582) is now working in rheumatology and general internal medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

He hopes to one day contribute to Channel Island healthcare.

Matthew Thoume (10042) returned to Specsavers Guernsey after 10 years practicing as an Optometrist in Specsavers’ UK stores.

Having trained at the St Peter Port store, Matthew returned in April bringing his fellow Optometrist wife, Stacey, who also joined Specsavers Guernsey.

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Caius Bearder (10852) is currently working towards a PhD in silversmithing, is artist in residence at Glasgow School of Art, and is one of only eight recent graduates to be chosen to show at this year’s Goldsmith’s Fair.

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Ross Allen (9593) especially those that you make and nurture at school and build upon for a lifetime.

I talked about some key passions that help balance my life in and around football.

Being involved in other sports when I was younger always helped to challenge me in different ways, but without the internal and external pressures that football brought.

Now, new passions of yoga, trail running, and sea swimming help keep me fit and in touch with nature.

Reading has also been a huge part of my life since my time at College. Not only as a tool for learning, but as a means of escape and relaxation. Although not usually a pastime paired with the football stereotype, my love of reading, and status in the sporting community has since allowed me to share this passion with others, and hopefully help inspire some young athletes to pick up a book.

Prize giving speaker Ross Allen (9593)

I was delighted to be invited to speak and present awards at the 2023 prizegiving for Years 7-9.

In my speech to the students, I talked about the ‘Pillars of Support’ in my life, that help keep me grounded, thriving, and motivated to put my best into everything I do.

Supporting these ‘Pillars’ were some key

Roy Bisson

lessons I learnt from my time at College; allowing me to control difficult emotions, and choose to base my pillars on strong foundational values like loyalty, kindness and compassion.

Some of the ‘Pillars’ I talked about included the close support of family, and the wealth brought about by good friendships;

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Travelling was another main passion that I talked about, which links many of my ‘Pillars’ together. Travelling for exploration, for sports and adventure, to meet new people, to broaden horizons or simply to challenge myself outside my comfort zone and discover new things.

My message to students was this; to keep exploring and striving to find new passions, as well as nurture those that are close and important to you. If something isn’t serving you, it might be time to let it go. This in turn may make room for something new and exciting to help develop you as a person, possibly creating some lifetime memories in the process.

Ross Allen (9593)

(4861) Roy Bisson BEM, (4861). Roy has had an active couple of years, becoming President of La Société Guernesiaise in 2022 and receiving The British Empire Medal from the King in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list, cited for long term service to the community.

Roy Bisson BEM (4861)

Roy is a co-founder and secretary of The Victor Hugo In Guernsey Society which has succeeded in bringing one of Guernsey’s most famous residents to a wider public understanding in the island and abroad. He is involved in a current project to turn the old States building into a Victor Hugo Centre.

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Scott Benest (9596) Lt Col Scott Benest (9596) has been appointed Deputy Headteacher (Director of the Co-curriculum) at Wellingborough School from September 2023. This will see the family (wife Gill, who taught at ECJS, and son Barnaby) leaving Dulwich College & Alleyn’s School and relocating to Northamptonshire. Wellingborough used to compete in head-to-head shooting

competitions with Elizabeth College back in the day, and this is something Scott is keen to see return.

Scott has additionally been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and appointed Deputy Colonel Cadets of Greater London, which therefore makes him the most senior CCF Officer in the capital, in charge of around 6000 Cadets and around 1000 Officers and NCOs. He will continue this strategic role after they relocate; thankfully Wellingborough is only 45 mins away on the train.

Earlier this academic year, Scott became the first Officer to command the guard at the Sovereign’s Steps, during the Festival of Remembrance. This duty involved greeting the Royal Family and Government Ministers outside the FCDO. A new duty initiated by the new monarch.

Scott Benest (9596) with his family

He was recently appointed CO of a multicontingent, battalion size cadet overseas exercise to Cyprus this summer. Exercise Venturer Solomoni comprised of an infantry training package led by 1 LANCS, demonstrating their modern warfare capabilities, alongside insight into RAF Akrotiri’s role in supporting operations in the Middle East. In addition to the invaluable

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high-end military training and experiences, cadets also had the opportunity to learn about many of the historical and cultural aspects of Cyprus.

Lastly, he was recently awarded CITP status by the Chartered Institute for IT, and completed a L7 MCGI in Leadership & Management through the MOD. For the latter, he will be graduating at Sandhurst in October.

Ian Chapman (9031) Ian Chapman (9031) has been knighted and became a fellow of Royal Society on the same day. Ian was named in King Charles III’s first New Years Honours list and was knighted for services to global fusion energy by the Prince of Wales.

His investiture took place at Windsor Castle on 10 May – the day he obtained his Royal Society fellowship. Around 1,800 distinguished scientists and engineers make up the fellowship of the Royal Society, with existing members selecting new ones. The fellowship promotes the impact and benefit of scientific discovery and inclusion in its ranks is seen as a great honour.

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Ian has, since 2016, been chief executive officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Oxfordshire – a UK government research organisation with more than 2,000 scientists and engineers, and can boast the world’s most powerful operating fusion device.

Fusion energy has the potential to be a carbon-free, effectively limitless source of energy in the future.

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Jonathan Charmley (11068) Bailiwick’s First Recipient of Rare Scout Award tumour, which severely affected his vision and turned his life upside down. Putting his study and plans aside Jonathan had various specialist treatments in both Guernsey and the UK. Admitting that his treatment and recovery had been tough, Jonathan said that the one thing that remained constant was being able to help out at Scouts.

He praised the Leaders at the 4th who made adjustments for him and thanked the Scouts for their understanding and treating him normally, depite the fact he can’t get involved with the more enthusiastic ball games.

Jonathan Charmley (11068) with Bear Grylls

Scout Leader Jonathan Charmley has become the first Scout in the Bailiwick to receive the Cornwell Scout Badge, which is one of the Scout Association’s rarest awards. It is awarded to those under 25 years of age who have demonstrated great heroism or pre-eminently high character and devotion to duty coupled with great courage and endurance.

Jonathan has been involved with Scouting

since he was a Cub and has close affiliation with the Bailiwick’s 4th Air Scouts, where he attended Cubs and Scouts, before taking on a Leadership Role. On moving to Reading University to read archaeology in 2019, Jonathan also joined the 73rd Reading (Park) Scout Group and became Reading’s Youth Commissioner.

Sadly it was shortly afterwards that Jonathan was diagnosed with a brain

Jonathan was presented with the Cornwell Badge at Rue Mainguy on 31 March 2023 in front of the 4th Scouts, Leaders and Parents together with four current and former Bailiwick Commissioners all of which were involved in his nomination, and the following month Jonathan and his parents attended the Scouts’ National Day of Celebration & Recognition at Windsor Castle where he was invited to meet Bear and other senior members of the Scout Leadership Team at a special reception.

Later in the year Jonathan will join other local volunteers at an adult awards evening where he’ll receive his certificate. Jonathan has made a successful return to Reading University and is still volunteering at Scouts in both Guernsey and Berkshire.

James Christian (10858) alongside Professor Elliott, and will be returning there in September for his four-year PhD. Immunotherapy is a promising treatment for cancer with fewer side effects, and we need to get to a point where that is the usual treatment people have – but more research is needed to get to that point, and he hopes that his PhD will go some way in getting us there.

James Christian (10858)

It was great to welcome OE James Christian (10858) back to College in April 2023 for his interview with ITV Channel News on his hopes to develop a cure for cancer using the Covid-19 virus. From September James will be studying for a PhD on the potential of using the Covid-19 virus to develop a vaccine

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which could boost the immune system and destroy cancer cells.

James’ interest in immunology was sparked at a presentation hosted at Les Cotils by Professor Tim Elliott. He spent a placement year at the University of Southampton’s centre for cancer immunology, working

James’ PhD is funded in part through donations from Guernsey residents to the Wessex Medical Trust, a bursary from Guernsey’s Healthxchange and the university’s cancer immunology fund.

Guernsey residents have a long history of supporting cancer research in Southampton, with £15m. of the £25m. needed to build the Centre for Cancer Immunology coming from people in the Channel Islands.

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Oak tree at ECJS

OE Ben de Putron (9480) from Arbology Tree Services has worked closely with the Elizabeth College Estates Team on the removal of a number of trees across the school site including several behind the Sports Hall. In addition a large oak tree diseased with honey fungus was also removed at ECJS to make way for the new entranceway and playground on the Acorn site.

Ben has loved the opportunity to return

Behind the sports hall

to school to use his skills and passion in arboriculture to help shape the future outdoor environment of College. Ben realised his love of trees whilst working as a jungle expedition leader trekking through the jungles of Belize and Borneo.

Returning to Guernsey after his travels Ben decided to carve a career in tree surgery.

After studying at Merrist Wood College and achieving all the qualifications required, he worked for a couple of local tree surgery

Ben at work

firms, before embarking on his next adventure; Arbology Tree Services.

Arbology Tree Services has been running for five years now and has flourished into a five-man team. Providing all aspects of tree surgery such as felling, pruning and stump removal. Ben appreciates the benefit of trees and the impact they can have and wishes to continue to provide a harmonious coexistence of education and nature at Elizabeth College.

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Island Games 2023

Island Games Transport Hub

Cameron and Alastair Chalmers

Luc Malcic and Paul Guillou

College Field football

College was absolutely delighted to support the 2023 Island Games. College Field hosted some exciting football matches and the Sixth Form Centre at Perrot Court was a hive of activity as the Games Transport Hub. Well done to everyone in the College community who took part as a competitor, volunteer, coach or supporter and many congratulations to all the Old Elizabethan medal winners!

OE Medallists in the NatWest International Island Games 2023

Athletics: Joe Chadwick (11186) Men’s 100m, Silver Alastair Chalmers (10185) Men’s 4x400m Relay, Gold Men’s 400m Hurdles, Gold Cameron Chalmers (9844) Men’s 4x400m Relay, Gold Men’s 400m, Silver Josh Duke (11057) Men’s 4x400m Relay, Gold Sammy Galpin (10985) Men’s Half Marathon team, Silver

Badminton: Alex Tapp (10404) Team Event, Bronze David Trebert (11077) Team Event, Bronze Jordan Trebert (10656)

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Charlie-Joe and Ronny Hallett

Men’s Doubles, Silver Men’s Singles, Silver Team Event, Bronze

Cycling: Sam Culverwell (11088) Men’s Road Race Individual, Gold Men’s Road Race Team, Silver Men’s Time Trial Individual, Silver Men’s Time Trial Team, Silver Men’s Town Criterium, Gold

Shooting: Paul Guillou (7115) ISSF 10m Air Pistol, Men, Silver ISSF 10m Air Rifle, Men, Silver ISSF 10m, Open, Team, Gold ISSF 50m, Free Pistol, Team, Open, Bronze Ollie Hudson (10092) Fullbore Kings Pairs Open, Gold Nicholas Kerins (10358) English Skeet Open Team, Gold Luke Malcic (10965) ISSF 10m Air Rifle, Men, Gold ISSF 10m, Open, Team, Gold Robert Waters (9818) English Skeet Open Team, Gold John Wild (6122) English Skeet Open Team, Gold Sport Trap Individual, Men, Silver

Some of the EC volunteers

Men’s 4x50 Freestyle Relay, Bronze Men’s 4x50 Medley Relay, Bronze Charlie-Joe Hallett (11196) Men’s 50m Backstroke, Gold Men’s 100m Breaststroke, Silver Men’s 100m Individual Medley, Silver Men’s 50m Individual Medley, Bronze Men’s 4x50 Freestyle Relay, Bronze Men’s 4x50 Medley Relay, Bronze Men’s 4x100 Medley Relay, Silver Mixed 4x50 Freestyle Relay, Silver Ronny Hallett (11111) Men’s 50m Breaststroke, Silver Men’s 100m Backstroke, Gold Men’s 100m Breaststroke, Gold Men’s 100m Individual Medley, Bronze Men’s 4x100 Medley Relay, Silver Mixed 4x50 Freestyle Relay, Silver Men’s 4x50 Freestyle Relay, Bronze Men’s 4x50 Medley Relay, Bronze Tom Hollingsworth (9227) Men’s 50m Backstroke, Silver Men’s 100m Backstroke, Silver Men’s 200m Backstroke, Silver Men’s 4x50 Medley Relay, Bronze Men’s 4x100 Medley Relay, Silver

Triathlon:

Swimming:

Josh Lewis (9804) Guernsey 1 Relay Team, Silver Men’s Individual, Gold

Jonathan Beck (9966) Men’s 4x100 Medley Relay, Silver

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Dead Donkey Club Report 2023 The Club of Dead Donkeys has continued to thrive, albeit with some repetition of past events.

The Gibson Fleming Music Evening in October was up to its very high standards with the concert in the Hall, an excellent dinner in the Refectory accompanied by the ever-astonishing Close Harmony Group, who also turned their talents to waiting on tables.

Student drummers at the Gibson Fleming Concert

In March the Film Night was doubly distinguished by being held in Perrot Court for the first time and the showing of two recently released local films, “Occupied” and “Dare to Dream” produced and directed

Petanque in action

Watching the film in the Sixth Form Centre The players are taking this very seriously!

by OE Alex Bates (10876). The Sixth Form Centre was transformed into a cinema for the evening, with delicious curries served by the College chefs.

Our previous UK events have been held in the south of England for the most part and taken place in historical venues such as Winchester Cathedral and New College, Oxford. To break the mould and to appeal to OEs with different enthusiasms, at my suggestion Kate and Sara arranged a tour of the Manchester United Old Trafford football stadium in May. This was absolutely fascinating, even to non-football fanatics

Not Antony and Fred but Geoff and Jennie in the Old Trafford dressing room

And this is how you play croquet...

such as myself, and the only disappointment was that the take-up was lower than normal.

We returned to the College Field in June to be enthusiastically organised by Bursar, James Couchman for the Croquet and Pétanque challenges. Martin Le Pelley (7655) and his son Thomas won the croquet and with the help of my wife Jennie and Sylvia Birch, together we triumphed in the pétanque.

Sadly, we have lost three of our number during the year.

Croquet in action

Rob Champion (4388), at the age of 92, who was a great supporter of our English events and who had been one of the College war time attendees at Buxton; Neville Brouard (4434) also a evacuee, and more recently David Nicolle (4575), the latter two OEs at the age of 90.

Our programme for next year looks very exciting and I look forward with great pleasure to joining as many of you as possible at these Dead Donkey Club occasions.

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Geoff Dorey (4992) Donkey-in-Chief

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The 1953 Coronation – when television came of age Millions worldwide would watch the coronation of King Charles on television. It was a moment of royal history but the 1953 coronation was a milestone of television history,too.Asayounglad,BruceParker,nowinhis80s,wasoneofmanythousands watching TV in the Channel Islands for the first time on that momentous day.

Coronation Parade

Television in Britain came of age with coverage of the 1953 coronation in the same way that radio had in the 1926 general strike.

The big difference was that the general strike divided the country but the coronation joyously united it, just eight years after the Second World War had ended. Certainly, for me and my friends, all aged around eleven at the time, the coronation of Elizabeth II was an event that would be permanently etched onto our memories.

Only a few years before the coronation, German-occupying forces had finally left our Channel Island shores. I’m guessing the Royal family may have meant even more to our own families here than most others in the British Isles. In 1953, I was briefly at a school in Jersey, St Michael’s. Along with a number of islanders, the school had bought a television set especially to watch the coronation. It was very much touch-and-go whether we’d actually see anything on the day: the islands relied on a TV signal from the nearest BBC transmitter which was at Wenvoe in South Wales, hundreds of miles away.

Luck was, sort of, with us. As we waited for our set to ‘warm up’, there it was, a black and white ‘snowy’ picture which, I suppose, matched the weather in faraway, pouring-

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with-rain London. It was sometimes blurred, sometimes perfectly clear: riveting, though, even for eleven year olds. We watched the whole event for several hours on this tiny screen, housed in a huge wooden case, transfixed equally by what was unfolding ‘live’ in front of us but also by this wholly magic thing called television.

None of us had ever seen such a spectacle in real time, happening miles away. But, of course, nor had the rest of the British population. Yes, we were used to seeing out-of-date newsreels but only in the cinema on a weekly, probably monthly basis. Good old black and white Pathé News but there wasn’t much ‘new’ about it.

A month or two later, all of us youngsters were dutifully taken to Odeon and Gaumont cinemas to see the official colour film of the Westminster Abbey service and the lengthy processions that went with it. There was only one star of the

show, Her Majesty, but the supporting role we all remember was the buxom Queen of Tonga, in her carriage, no umbrella in the pouring rain, gleaming white teeth, smiling away.

Of course, it wasn’t just Britain watching television and the later film coverage of this great event. Europe and beyond were picking up these new-fangled television signals, too. A French viewer wrote to the BBC: “What a triumph for man to have been able to reduce the world to the span of a little

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screen and to allow illustrious personalities like Her Majesty to enter our homes.”

Sequel Four years later, the Queen visited Elizabeth College in Guernsey, founded by her illustrious predecessor, Elizabeth I in 1563. As part of the cadet force guard of honour that greeted Her Majesty in the College playground, this fifteen year old found himself momentarily face-to-face with a beautiful, majestic, royal lady in her late twenties. My abiding memory of that moment is still of Queen Elizabeth’s flawless skin in the July Guernsey sunshine.

For me, though, the coronation connection didn’t end there: an altogether fascinating sequel came some years later after I’d joined the BBC on the mainland. The Duke of Norfolk who, as Earl Marshal, had been the architect of the Queen’s 1953 coronation, called me in the BBC’s Southampton newsroom. He wanted to go on television to complain about the 1974 reorganisation of local government. His beef was that the proposed new ‘ceremonial’ boundaries meant he would lose the Lord Lieutenancy of East Sussex, only remaining the Queen’s representative in West Sussex where he lived in Arundel Castle.

At Arundel, we duly filmed the rigidly boring TV interview about local government, sitting, as it happens, on chairs that had been used at the Prince of Wales Investiture in Caernarvon which the Duke had also organised. Amusingly and surprisingly, he said he was trying to sell dozens of the chairs to highest bidders.

Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard was not a born public speaker and gave few broadcast interviews. He was not exactly a man of the people, either. At a press conference when he’d been unexpectedly appointed manager of the MCC team to tour Australia, he announced that he didn’t want people to stand on ceremony by referring to him as ‘Your Grace’. ‘Sir’ would do.

Nevertheless, after his little rant about local government, I asked if I might record his memories of not only Elizabeth II’s coronation, but her father George VI’s coronation, which he’d also organised: he’d been in charge, too, of the early plans for Edward’s VIII’s coronation, cancelled after the abdication. He reminisced, as well, about the meticulous details, kept secret for many years, surrounding plans for the funeral of Winston Churchill (‘Operation Hope Not’) which he’d been in charge of.

It was one of the most fascinating conversations I’ve ever had with someone so close to the heart of our royal pageantry.

To be able to hear a first-hand account of how these major events in British life had been organised, over three or more momentous decades, was nothing short of mind-blowing. The Duke’s attention to minute detail, meticulous timings and application of strict military discipline to all

Henry celebrates King Charles III

the events for which he was responsible were to become legendary.

Coronation Music Was the Duke’s attention to detail outside Westminster Abbey always matched inside? Apparently not, according to the distinguished British composer, John Rutter, in a recent piece in The Spectator: Coronation celebrations at ECJS

Oscar, Teddy, William, Edward and Thomas

Evelina and Lila

“In 1727, at George II’s coronation, the Archbishop of Canterbury noted ‘the anthems in confusion: all irregular in the music’. But Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’ (one of them) survived its shaky première and went on to be performed at every subsequent coronation… the problem with the 1727 performance was that Handel wrote four coronation anthems for the occasion and the orchestra, confused as to the running order, struck up two different ones simultaneously. I wonder if I can believe the story that something similar happened at the end of the 1953 coronation, when some of the orchestra started to play Bax’s new ‘Coronation March’ and others went for Elgar. After a few chaotic bars, Elgar prevailed.”

But as Rutter also says, such is the professionalism of all the musicians and choristers taking part, everything will go magnificently and we will be uplifted.

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Guernsey Medic Network Launches

From left to right: Dr Steve Evans, MSG Chair; Dr Jason Eustace, Healthcare Group Chair; Eleanor Atkinson, Deputy Practice Manager, Healthcare Group; Dr Oliver Collas, Rheumatology and General Medicine Registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital; Pippa Read, Chemistry Teacher at Elizabeth College and Chair of Guernsey Medics Network; Dr Julia Rebstein of IslandHealth.

Mrs Pippa Read, Elizabeth College Chemistry teacher and medical applications advisor (2007 to present) has led a recent islandwide initiative to launch a network for doctors with a link to the Bailiwick.

Based on the same technology as is used for NetworkOE, the Guernsey Medic Network will allow doctors of all ages to build links with each other and the island to help further their careers with the aims of supporting training doctors and also improving healthcare for islanders by encouraging outstanding doctors to work in the Bailiwick.

This ground-breaking partnership has been the result of bringing together all the

island’s healthcare providers over the last 10 months or so, all of whom have been extremely supportive of the idea.

Pippa, who chairs the Guernsey Medic Network steering group, saw an opportunity to bring together all the wonderful support that is already offered by the medical partners for sixth formers in the island and develop this to maintain support for undergraduates and junior doctors, many of whom already are in touch with each other while off-island.

The idea first came about following a conversation with Dr Julia Rebstein of IslandHealth in November 2022. Julia explained how it is possible for medical

undergraduates to come back to Guernsey to complete their GP rotation as part of their degree, but they just need to know how to ask permission to use a non-NHS practice, and the challenge was finding a way to get this information to them.

A conversation that followed with Mr George Cooper, Orthopaedic Surgeon at the MSG, touched on the elective placements that the MSG offer, and also how tricky it can be for secondary care consultants to be at the right place in their career with just the right experience when or if a job comes up.

It was another conversation with Olly Collas OE (9582) that joined all the dots together

George Cooper

Charlie Dumford

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for Pippa. Olly offered to come to Elizabeth College to help with interview practice for sixth form applicants and following the training he spoke with Pippa and asked for her help with finding consultants in his specialty practising here on Guernsey. It was a lightbulb moment, and clearly showed that a network could be put together for the benefit of all.

join the Guernsey Medic Network at www. guernseymedicnetwork.gg One of the best parts of the project has been connecting with OEs who have helped shape how the website would look. Particular thanks must go to Olly Collas (9582), Max Thornton (10678), Josh Thornton (10631), TJ Pinchemain (10990), Jake Mann (9678), Tony Paluch (10352) and many others.

Pippa is particularly grateful to the MSG who have shared her vision for this network and made it possible, along with all the schools and medical partners who have jointly helped design and write the website. The functionality of the network website allows for discussion forums, sharing of news and events and has an information section about how healthcare works across the Bailiwick. Membership of the network is open to anyone with a link to Guernsey who is either applying to medical school, already a medical student, a junior doctor, a GP or specialist, or a professional who supports doctors.

The best way to use the platform is to enter your basic information such as your degree and job details including where you are based, and then others can easily search for you and can connect with you.

Both the Guernsey Medic Network and NetworkOE are supported by technology

Thanks also to the island healthcare practices for seeing the vision of this project and helping to write the website. Particularly the MSG who have paid for the project this year, and all of the primary care practices who have sponsored the launch event.

Pippa Read

from Toucan Tech and I would encourage any OE to join NetworkOE and anyone who is a practising or training doctor to also

Thomas Carre

Twenty Year Club

Tim Slann, Tim de Putron, Simon Huxtable, Rick Le Sauvage and Katrina Thompson

It has been fantastic to welcome new staff members into the twenty year club this year.

Andy Niles, OEA President, will invite the following staff to join the Old Elizabethan Association as Honorary members: Tim de Putron (6704), Head of Year (until

July 2022) and Teacher of Mathematics

Katrina Thomson, Chemistry Technician

Simon Huxtable, Head of Social Sciences and Head of Geography

Ross Inderwick (6876) and Rick Le

Tim Slann (6261), CCF Contingent Commander and Teacher of DT

the twenty year club having joined in 1991

Sauvage (7980) are already members of and 2002 respectively.

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OE Sporting Club

Matt Stokes, Fintan Ridgwick

The Old Elizabethan Game against The OE’s Cricket team had another hugely successful season during the 2023 campaign. The team made up of current First XI players, captained by Fintan Ridgwick (11791) and 2 OE’s Matt Stokes (10181) and player coach Ben Ferbrache (9516) finished 2nd in Weekend League Championship narrowly missing out on the top sport for the 3rd consecutive season. Matt Stokes was once again in superb form during the season scoring 401 runs with a hugely impressive average of 401 having only been dismissed once, he was well supported by player coach Ben Ferbrache who contributed 257 runs averaging 85.67.

Charlie Birch

Once again, the main goal is to allow as many students as possible to play for the OE’s and develop their cricket alongside both Matt and Ben’s guidance. This season

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19 players featured for the OE’s ranging from Year 9 to Year 13, this solidifies the aim of giving the boys as much opportunity as possible to develop their cricket.

A special mention must go to Head of PE Tom Eisenhuth and Ground staff Phil Roussel, Nick Windsor and John Fleming for their hard work throughout the season making the College Field an excellent venue to play cricket once again.

With the ball, Guernsey Under 19 captain Ollie Clapham led the way with 9 wickets, with both Charlie Forshaw and Dan Brown chipping in with 6 wickets each. All 3 of the boys went on to play vital parts in the ICC European Division 1 50 Over Qualifier for Guernsey in Holland later on in the summer.

Ollie Clapham

Charlie Forshaw

Ben Ferbrache (9516)

Ben Ferbrache

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OE Hockey

Both the teams

On a glorious still evening ideal for fast flowing hockey both teams entertained the partisan crowd of parents, OEs and interested others.

Loyalties from some spectators, namely the Rivers-Moore and Gomez contingent were split as they had family interest on both teams. John Rivers-Moore provided a verbal ‘chutzpah’ on regular occasions to drive whoever was in the ascendency. Rick Gomes (7779) went over and above the call of duty filling in as umpire for the first ten minutes until Jonny Clarke arrived. The legend that is Phil ‘Beanie’ Roussel (6702) completed the umpiring trilogy and we are grateful for their efforts.

Refreshments were provided for both teams and spectators post-match.

Chris Lindsay (8930)

Thanks to Mr Good, Master i/c Hockey for his work through the year and for providing the opposition who were a credit to the College.

Steve Eulenkamp (9531) Captain

Carl Pugh (9895) Matt Stokes (10181) James Webber (8887)

Steve Sharman (7555)

Jack Webber (11446)

The full OEA squad were:

Jacob Gomes (11508)

Nathan McCathie (8845)

Ant Stokes (9895)

James Lindsay (10548)

Jacob Sidebottom (10594)

Miles Hardhill (10305)

Zak Damarell (10335)

Matt Gilligan (9482)

Liam Rivers-Moore (11566)

The game itself ended in a 2-2 draw with the goal scorers being: OEA – Liam Rivers-Moore (11566) and Ant Stokes (9895) EC – Cam Rivers-Moore and Adam De La Mare Both goalkeepers were outstanding on the night. Jack Webber (11446) doubles up as a rugby flanker and he brought this attitude to his custodian duties for the OEA team.

The OEA team was superbly led by Andrew Lindsay (5927) who has also been instrumental in the success of the OEA team playing in Division Two of the local leagues.

James Ovenden (7671) Hon. President of the OEA was present during the evening and kindly presented the Trophy to the two captains.

Steve Sharman instructing the teams

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OE Rifle Club The Imperial Meeting at Bisley turned out to be a difficult one for some of the club’s leading lights. While Adam Jory shot his way through to the King’s Final, along with Adam Norman and Saxon Brewer-Marchant, the likes of Peter Jory, Nick Mace (both former Commonwealth Games competitors) Luke Malčić and Mike Creber were eliminated in the second stage. Nick Kerins, this year’s Guernsey Island Champion who did so well in the Queen’s Prize last year, did not progress beyond the first stage this year.

In the King’s Final itself, fired in very difficult rain and wind conditions, Adam Jory led the OE trio to finish 29th, Saxon BrewerMarchant 38th and Adam Norman 94th.

In the Schools’ Veterans competition, the OERC entered three teams:

A Team: N. Kerins A. Jory A. Norman A. Burton S. Brewer-Marchant

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B Team: P. Barber F. Stewart M .Creber L. Malcic N. Mace

49.3 46.4 43.2 49.4 50.5

The OERC’s Keith Cunningham memorial trophy (short range scores at Bisley) was won by Nick Kerins and the Bernard Mourant trophy (highest score in the first

“The Imperial Meeting at Bisley C Team: turned out to be a S. Frost 47.5 N. Boyde 35.1 difficult one for S. Martel 44.2 N. Harlow 43.1 H Nippers 48.0 some of the club’s 217.9 leading lights.”

The A Team were 12th in the match and won 237.18

the W.T. Marett trophy by virtue of beating their Old Victorian counterparts. However, the Victorians had most to celebrate on the day with the Jersey college winning the Ashburton shield and the Lucas trophy for the combined score in the Ashburton and Schools’ Veterans. Naturally, they also won the Elizabethan Bowl, shot between Elizabeth and Victoria and based on the scores in the Lucas.

stage of the Island Championship or HM King’s Prize) was won by Nick Branch.

Ou congratulations to the College’s Alexander Stewart who, as a GB Atheling this year, all but swept the board in the cadet competitions at Canada’s version of ‘Bisley Imperial’ in Ottawa.

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