The Grange Magazine Vol.4 No. 3

THE GRANGE MAGAZINE

VOL 4, NO.3

EDITORS OF THE GRANGE MAGAZINE Daniel B. H. Koo, Edward J. B. Gaut

EDITORIAL

The Lent Term is the shortest yet the most intense term of the academic year. With public exams coming up in the summer term for fifths and 6as and revision for the important summer exams for removes and 6bs, it certainly has been an eventful and exciting term for the boys of the Grange. Many Grange boys were involved in various musical events including the Big Band Spectacular, Brahms Requiem and the Grange-Walpole Charity Concert. It has also been a successful term on the sports side of school life. The term was also filled with various inter-house competitions, from the inter-house art (Grange artwork this year featured as the cover of this magazine) to the inter-house football competitions, for which the boys represented the house with a sense of creativity and community.

This edition is special for the editors as it is the first issue that is sent out to all the old Grange pupils, parents and guardians. We would be happy to receive any updates from old Grange pupils for our ‘From the old Grange pupils’ section which will be added to upcoming editions. If you have any news or updates that you would like to share with us, please do contact the editors at editorsgrange@kings-school.co.uk .

As we now look forward to the sunny summer term, we would like to we wish you a happy Easter and we look forward to seeing you at King’s week 2019.

THE HOUSE Housemaster: Mr. M. C. Orders BSc Deputy Housemaster: Mr. E. J. Flower BA Matron: Ms C. Robinson TUTORS Mr. M. W. Browning BA, Mr M. C. E. Turner BSc, Dr. F. Elias Schilserman Ldo PhD, Mr. C. P. Wooldridge BSc, Mr. L. G. Bartlett BA MRSC, Mr. C. Gardiner BA, Mr. M. J. White BA MSc Captain of House: Lucas P. Lacamp Vice Captain of House: Alfie J. Gurtler CAPTAINS OF HOUSE SPORT Captain of House Rugby

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Lucas P. Lacamp

Captain of House Hockey

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Lucas P. Lacamp

Captain of House Swimming

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Daniel B. H. Koo

Captain of House Cricket

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Alfie J. Gurtler

Captain of House Squash

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Jamie A. Dix

Captain of Junior House Football

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Ehioze O. Osifo

OTHER INTER-HOUSE COMPETITIONS Joint leaders of House Art

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E S Bhowmick

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A X Y Song

HOUSE MONITORS O J Aiyedatiwa, E S Bhowmick, C P M Brooker, W M Butler, K A Camara, A C H Chan, D H Ding, J A Dix, A J Gurtler, L P Lacamp, M G B O’Neill, E Pérez Ortiz, B J Robert, Y Stikharev, W G Wehrenberg, J C Weigold

FROM THE HOUSEMASTER Mr Mark C. Orders Housemaster of the Grange

Dear Parents, Guardians, Boys and OKS of The Grange, Welcome to the 3rd Edition of our house magazine: our new termly newsletter and magazine, the origin being traced back to the foundation of the house in 1928. It is with great pleasure that we have widened our audience to past members of the house, and I hope that you enjoy reading the articles and events taking place at King’s and in The Grange in 2019. This publication is entirely student led, and I’d like to thank our editors Daniel Koo and Ed Gaut for their efforts in creating, collating, editing and even printing the magazine, ready for you to read before the end of term.

Repeating the words of the first editors of the magazine in 1928: “None can deny that each house of the school has it’s own marks of distinction...we feel that the distinctive features of The Grange need to be put into the right channels, and that the House should be founded upon a very sure foundation and imbued with the right ideas”. In my opinion, the foundation of this house and the source of its ‘ideas’ are the boys who have called The Grange (old or new) home over the last 91 years. We would be delighted to include some of your memories and stories in future editions. Do look at Mr Bartlett’s (Grange Tutor and Deputy Head, Academic) history of Grange house plays over the years in the 2nd Edition. He would be delighted if you could fill in any gaps for him…and watch this space for a new house play that we hope to stage in 2019/2020 at the new Malthouse theatre.

Despite being a rather short term, it seems that Lent 2019 has been packed with many successes, a few disappointments but with huge amounts of hard work from Shell to 6a. Lucas Lacamp and Ore Aiyedatiwa have enjoyed good performances in the Saracens’ rugby youth team, Benoit Robert, Jamie Dix, Ore Aiyedatiwa, Eduardo Perez Ortiz, Charlie Brooker and Karim Camara have made up a significant portion of the 1st XI this year, with Titus Gurtler making a strong debut towards the end of the season.

Our Senior House Football team won the cup this year, perhaps inevitably! There were also stellar performances across the younger teams, particularly the 16A with Hans So and Ehioze Osifo playing in every fixture. The future certainly looks very promising for house football in the years to come. Rupert Guinesss (Shell) has been away this term, studying and training at the Apex Ski School in France, and James Crawley (5th), Jason Kam (6b) and Daniel Koo (6b) have achieved great success in rowing, fencing and swimming respectively.

With University offers now (more or less) finalised, there is a huge amount of work for our 6a to do over the next few weeks. The trial examinations highlighted just how much effort is needed to succeed with the new linear A Levels, with only one opportunity to take each exam at the end of the two years they have to be on top of their game! There is another opportunity to practice the papers in the first week back to school after the holiday. With 5th IGCSE exams, the 6b school exams (which help set predicted grades) and of course, tests for the Shell and Removes in all subjects one could be forgiven

for thinking there was no fun to be had in the Summer Term. However, with the opening of the new Malthouse Theatre (I have seen it, it is magnificent space and I know you will be impressed), the 6b Leadership events, the 6a Leavers’ Dinner and of course King’s Week, there is plenty to look forward to once the hard work is over.

I wish you all well for the Easter holiday, and look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 23rd April. There is a Shell parents’ meeting starting at 4pm in Shirley Hall, but all other boarders may return later that day.

Yours Sincerely, Mark Orders

The Grange, 2019 Aaren Song, Re

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

EARLIEST LIFE ON EARTH Jacob Whiteley, Shell Jacob is interested in natural science and history.

There have been many times where I have just stood there and wondered: where did life come from?

How long have humans been living on this planet that we now call our own? Everybody has heard of the dinosaurs and how they ruled the planet before we did, but for most people, including me when I was younger, this was as far back as they knew in the planet’s natural history. So I decided to take it upon myself to find out about the lives of other creatures that walked the planet hundreds of millions of years before we humans did. I bought lots of books about the subject and often read long into the night, completely absorbed in the countless incredible stories that they contained. As well as discovering TV documentaries, most notably the ‘Walking With’ series that I watched countless times, I found out about all kinds of interesting species and their lifestyles, some of which I would like to share with you in this article.

As I said, most people that I used to meet said that life started with the Dinosaurs, but in fact, the story of life on Earth began far before the start of the Dinosaur Era in the Triassic Period that began just over 250 million years ago. The first organism that was large enough to be classed as an animal came into existence 544 million years ago, back in a time where the earth’s landmass was a hot, dry and utterly barren wasteland, with no animals or even plants covering it. InAnomalocaris stead, the only type of animal that could be found was in the ocean - to be exact, a type of simple jellyfish. Although most people would expect this ancient jellyfish to be vastly different from the ones that we can find in our oceans today, this is not actually the truth.

In fact, jellyfish have hardly evolved at all since this prehistoric time. Sure, other sizes and colours have sprung up, but their core design remains the same. In fact, this incredible simplicity has been the secret to the survival of the jellyfish since the dawn of animal life - they are just so successful that they have little need to change. This is also true with crocodiles: they have been walking the planet since before the time of the Dinosaurs, again basically unchanged, as they are just so remarkably successful.

If you fast forward a bit through time, other types of creatures begin to evolve. Arthropods, a family of invertebrates covered in a thick exoskeleton of interlocking plates, were the dominant type of animal back then and it was one of these Arthropods that evolved into the world’s first super predator: Anomalocaris - a roughly 1.5 metre long monster with two movable ‘grabbers’ that protruded from the top of their maws and had the first complex eyesight in the form of two large compound eyes that stood on stalks. They swam across the sea floor, preying on other, smaller and blind Arthropods and males jostling with each other. However, around that time another, more advanced type of animal was just beginning to evolve. Haikouichthys were said to have been the first ever fish, or more importantly vertebrate, to ever have evolved. These were tiny fish about the size of your thumbnail, that travelled

in large groups and preyed on the weak losers of Anomalocaris duels.

They started off the evolutionary journey of vertebrates, essentially all modern day fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including us humans share this primitive fish as a common ancestor.

I just find it so amazing how such a small and simple creature could lead to hundreds of millions of years of its descendants ruling the planet as the top predators. After the fish, came the amphibians in the Coniferous Period, who ruled alongside the giant insects, descendants of the Arthropods, that were able to exist due to the extremely high concentration of Oxygen that was in the atmosphere. Then the reptiles, whose iron rule began with the sail backs and then of course the Dinosaurs who ruled from the late Triassic Period, throughout the Jurassic Period, and the Cretaceous Period concluding with the birds, who ruled in the Haikouichthy short Eocene Period that followed the mass extinction of the Dinosaurs.

And of course, the rule of the mammals that has held firm since the start of the Oligocene Period and the evolution of grass, and still holds to this day with the rule of humans.

It really is mind blowing to think about.

FORMULA 1 George Mak, Shell George is interested in Formula 1 racing and technology.

Formula 1 is the highest class of single-seater racing in the world and the regulations, which are reviewed by the FIA each year, are always changing in order to keep the races as entertaining and as close as possible. For example, this year the FIA have changed the regulations of the front wings, therefore teams with more money aren't able to make more complicated front wings to increase the down force, which gives teams with less money a chance to compete fairly.

Down force is a massive factor of F1 racing, as it increases the grip and therefore the cornering speed.

The faster you go, the more down force you generate, but if you go too fast you won’t be able to make a turn. So, drivers have to find a balance between down force and cornering speed in order to hit the apex at the highest speed possible. Another factor which could increase the traction of an F1 car are the tires: the softer the tires are, the more grip they have, but at the same time they will wear out quite easily and therefore, before the each race, teams have to come up with a strategy to create the quickest overall time to finish the race.

One of the most important components is the rear wing. It creates a huge amount of down force, but on certain straights during the so called “DRS activation zones,” drivers are allowed to activate the ‘Drag Reduction System,’ so long as they are within one second of the car ahead. The DRS essentially alters the angle of the rear wing allowing the driver to achieve a higher top speed so they can overtake.

Speaking of overtaking, slipstream is a very important factor as well. By staying close behind the car in front, drivers are able to reduce drag and therefore achieve a higher top speed in order to overtake.

However, when you’re close to the car in front while going through a corner, the down force could, in fact, be reduced as the car in front could cause turbulence and the front wings therefore wouldn’t function properly. Therefore, slipstreaming is a technique best employed on the straights and avoided whilst cornering.

Throughout the years, F1 racing has become a more and more difficult sport as all driving aids were banned in 2008 which requires more skills from the drivers and with the increase of horse power from the engines, drivers have to learn to controller the horsepower manually without any computer assists.

2018 wings

2019 wings

GCSE CHEMISTRY IS A LIE Molecular orbital theory Alexander Roskill, 6b Alex is interested in science and maths, especially chemistry and physics.

There is a common misconception that electrons orbit like planets would around a star; however, this is not the case. Electrons behave according to the laws of quantum physics, rather than Newton’s Laws.

We cannot define their orbits, instead we can only say that they have a certain probability of being in a position, at a certain time.

The regions of space where there is high probability of finding electrons of a certain energy are called atomic orbitals (AO) or shells. Each atomic orbital contains up to two electrons, has fixed energy, and has a certain shape (see Figure 1). The orbitals are called the ‘s’, ‘p’ and ‘d’ orbitals (there are some others such as g and f). The first shell can have two electrons, as it only has a s orbital, but the second shell can have eight electrons, as the s and p orbitals will be occupied. There are ten electrons in the d orbitals because there are 5 such orbitals.

Figure 1. The shapes of the s, p, d and f orbitals.

Atomic orbitals can overlap to form covalent bonds. Many bonds can be described by the familiar dot and cross model of covalent bonding. However, the dot and cross model, for some molecules, does not fully describe their physical properties. For instance, molecular oxygen is magnetic, but molecular nitrogen is not. In order for a molecule to be magnetic, it must have unpaired electrons. However, the dot and cross diagram of oxygen does not have any unpaired electrons (see Figure 2). We also need to have a model that explains why the noble gases do not combine to form covalent bonds.

Figure 2. Dot and cross diagrams of nitrogen and oxygen.

A new model is needed to describe the bonding of molecules such as oxygen. Quantum mechanics allows us to view electrons as both waves and particles. We know that waves, when they collide, can create peaks, troughs or no peaks at all. When electron waves collide, they do the same thing, with larger peaks (constructive interference) leading to better bonding and larger troughs (destructive interference) leading to weaker bonding. This idea underpins Molecular Orbital Theory (MO Theory), which is now the accepted way of describing covalent bonding.

Taking the easiest example of Hydrogen which will form Hâ‚‚, each hydrogen nuclei has one s orbital, each containing one electron. When these orbitals combine, they will form one bonding orbital and one anti-bonding orbital. These are made by adding the wavefunctions of electrons; as stated above, those electron waves will combine to either constructively or destructively interfere. The former leads to a bonding molecular orbital in which there is an even higher probability of finding an electron between the two hydrogen nuclei. The latter leads to anti-bonding orbitals in which there is a lower chance of finding an electron between the two hydrogen nuclei.

Figure 3. The molecular orbital diagram of hydrogen

Figure 3 shows the molecular orbital diagram of hydrogen. The arrows in the diagram (apart from the energy axis) indicate the presence of electrons and their spin (up/down). The electrons have opposite spin in each orbital, as required by the Pauli Exclusion Principle. The lower line is the bonding orbital and the higher line is the anti-bonding orbital. The sigma, σ , label indicates a bonding orbital in which orbitals overlap ‘head-on’. The other common type is pi bonding which is about the side on overlapping of p and/or d orbitals.

Figure 4. Contour plots of σ and σ* orbitals for molecular hydrogen.

It is best to visualise these molecular orbitals as contour plots, as shown in Figure 4. The contour plots of the σ1s molecular orbitals can be seen. The one on the left is the anti-bonding orbital and the one on the right is the bonding orbital (n.b. Subscript u means odd and g means even). These contour plots will change when it is sigma or pi bonding and depending on which AOs are overlapping.

Electrons in the bonding orbital favour the formation of the bond, as electrons can be found between the nuclei and have strong electrostatic interactions to them. Electrons in the anti-bonding orbital are not found between nuclei and so disfavour the formation of the bond. It is therefore clear that H₂ will form as all its electrons are in the bonding orbital. He₂, however, will not form because both the anti-bonding and bonding orbitals will be filled with two electrons each so the net effect is that the bond will not form. That is why Helium is not diatomic.

In order to predict whether a bond will be formed or not the following formula is used: Bond Order= ½[number of bonding electrons – number of anti-bonding electrons] Bond order means the number of bonds. Hydrogen would be ½(2-0) = 1 so it would form one bond.

Oxygen would be ½(8-4)=2 so it would form a double bond and He₂ would be ½(2-2) = 0 so the bond will not form.

Molecular orbitals (MO) are formed under certain conditions. The AOs must be of similar energies to interact significantly. The energy of the bonding orbital should be lower, and the anti-bonding orbital should be of higher energy. The greater the drop in the energy of the bonding orbital, the stronger the interaction will be. The energy of the bonding orbital is much lower than that of the AOs when the AOs have similar energies. When the AOs are of different energies the drop is less, so they interact less.

Another factor affecting the MOs is the size of the Atomic orbitals and their orientation. An increased size has been found to decrease the overlap between orbitals (3s and 3s overlap less than 1s and 1s).

Additionally, orbitals of different sizes (for example the 1s and 3s) will overlap less. Two different orientations of AOs (1s and 2pz) will have constructive and destructive overlaps which will mean they will not have an overall overlap.

Molecular orbital theory is useful, as it can explain the theory behind ideas such as oxygen being paramagnetic (it has two electrons of the same spin in two different orbitals). This has been confirmed because we can observe it being pulled into a magnetic field.

WHY IS THE EARTH FLAT? Francesco Leung, 6b Francesco is interested in disproving improbable scientific theories.

The debate of whether the Earth is spherical or a flat surface often causes great confusion amongst people. In order to solve this mystery, I have decided to use common sense and physics to explain why the earth must be spherical. This article starts by explaining why people might believe that the Earth is flat and later explains why the Earth must be spherical.

Motion of water Even the small details in our everyday lives have hints that the Earth might be flat. Water, when unmanipulated, is able to find its level, whether you are looking at a cup of water, a swimming pool or even the whole ocean, water seems to be always flat. Following this theory, as the Earth is spinning, water would be flung out of the Earth due to the centrifugal force caused by the rotational motion. This motion of water can only explained if the Earth is a flat disk, as water molecules would be held together due to surface tension. Imagine you have a plate, if you pour water on it, it would stay on the plate.

However, if you have a ball, and you pour water on to it, it would just fall off.

Figure 1. Toronto seen from Rochester, which is 90 miles away

Flat surface Whenever you look over a horizon, no matter if it’s from the beach, on top of a mountain or even on an aeroplane, the horizon is always a flat line.

Skyline If you view a skyline of a city from 90 miles or so away (for example, Toronto from Rochester as seen in figure 1), it appears as a straight line. According to Flat Earthers, if the Earth were round, at that distance, there should be over a 5000 feet drop in curvature.

The Sun Round Earthers claim the sun is about 149,600,000 km away from Earth. However, we can often see sun rays in the sky as converging rays, if the sun is so far away, the light rays would come in parallel lines, this means the sun must be orbiting much closer than we thought.

Lunar Eclipse During a lunar eclipse, the sun, the Earth and the moon forms a straight line. In this case, all of the sunlight would be blocked by the Earth so there is no way that we can see the moon during a lunar eclipse, since no light could reflect off it.

The Flat Earth Model Day and night cycles are easily explained on a flat earth. The sun moves in circles around the North Pole. When it is over your head, it’s day. When it’s not, it’s night.

The light of the sun is confined to a limited area and its light acts like a spotlight upon the earth.

The false sense of gravity on Earth is caused by the flat Earth accelerating upwards at 9.81 m/s^2 which is due to the presence of dark energy or aetheric wind in the universe.

N.B. All photos from space missions are photoshopped by the government because the global superpowers are desperate to win the “Space Race” by faking space travel and exploration.

The Reality All jokes aside, we all know the Earth is a sphere.

Water looks flat in a cup or even a swimming pool is due to its scale is so tiny compared the whole planet. This would be untrue on large bodies such oceans which will have a concave shape around the Earth. This is the same with flat horizons, because height of mountains and plane flights is insignificant to the curvature of the Earth. You need to be at least above 40,000 feet to notice the curvature of the Earth.

On the contrary, if the Earth were flat, we wouldn’t be able to see further when we go higher. This can only be explained by the curvature of the Earth since far things disappear behind the curve.

Theoretically, it is true that we wouldn’t be able to see the whole of the Toronto skyline form Rochester, however we can see the whole skyline from a further distance is because of the atmospheric refraction of light, which is a phenomenon called the “Superior Mirage” As you move away from earth air gets less dense, so it has a lower refractive index than the air closer to Earth. As a result, the light ray would ever so slightly bend towards the ground.

Converging sun rays doesn’t occur during a clear sky, which sun rays does come in parallel with each other. The converging rays are only seen when light is scattered from clouds or trees. These rays originate from gaps in clouds where direct sunlight isn’t blocked.

A blood (red) moon is observed during a total lunar eclipse. During this time, the moon would be directly behind the Earth from the sun. However, light rays from the sun is still refracted around the Earth which reaches the moon and is reflected off its surface.

CULTURE

WHAT BUSINESS MEANS TO ME Isaac Chong, Shell Isaac is interested in business management and aims to follow his dreams as an entrepreneur.

Ever since I was 9, my dream was to be a successful businessman and to have a successful company.

Here’s my take on how to achieve this dream: To be able to become a successful businessman, I gave myself six goals. First, I will need to become organized. Organization will help me to complete tasks and to stay on top of the things that need to be done. A good way to achieve this level of organisation will be to create a to-do list every day.

As I complete each item, I’ll check it off my list. That will ensure that I don’t forget anything and I’ll be able to complete all the tasks that are essential to the survival of my business. Second, I’ll have to keep detailed records. By keeping detailed records, I’ll know where the business stands financially and what potential challenges I could be facing. By knowing exactly what’s going on in the business, I’ll be able to create strategies to overcome those challenges. Third, I’ll have to analyse my competition. To be successful, I can’t be afraid to study and learn from my competitors. After all, they may be doing something that I can implement in my business to improve it. Fourth, I’ll need to understand the risks and rewards of each action. The key to being successful will be taking calculated risks to help my business grow. This knowledge will allow me to take the kinds of calculated risks that will generate tremendous rewards. Fifth, I’ll have to be creative, always be looking for ways to improve my business and make it stand out from the competition. I’ll also need to stay focused since my future business won’t be profitable straight away. It will take time for people to know who I am, so I’ll stay focused on achieving my short-term goals. In many cases, I’ll have to put in more time than I would if I were working for someone else, which may mean spending less time with family and friends to be successful – but these are sacrifices I’m prepared to make. Finally, I’ll have to provide a great service and be consistent since there are many successful businesses that forget that providing great customer service is of utmost importance. If I can provide a better service for my customers, they’ll be more inclined to come to me the next time they need something instead of going to my competition. This will create long-term positive habits that will help my business grow.

Out of all businessmen, the one I admire the most is the founder of Alibaba: Jack Ma. Ma is one of the richest and most inspirational people in the world, with a net worth of over $36 billion. But there was a time when he couldn’t even get a job at KFC. This early rejection taught him an important lesson: “You have to get used to failure,” he says, speaking at the University of Nairobi. After college, Ma applied for 30 jobs in his home city of Hangzhou, China and he was rejected by every one. At KFC, 24 people applied for the job, says Ma, and while 23 were hired, he wasn’t one of them. The same thing happened when he tried to be a policeman. This time, four of five applicants were hired, all except Ma. Another time Ma lost out on a job to his own family member. “My cousin and I waited for two hours in a long queue to be the waiter for the four-star hotel in my city, on a very hot day,” he says. “My cousin’s score was much lower than mine, but he was accepted and I was rejected!” The fortitude came in

handy when he founded the Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba in 1999. In the beginning, Ma heard “no” a lot and struggled to get investment for his project. In the end, he managed to raise $2000 from his friends. “I remember the year 2001, we went to raise some $5 million from venture capitalists in the USA and got rejected,” says Ma. Despite the setback, he didn’t stop. “I said we will come back Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba raising a little bit more.” Perhaps those VCs regret their decisions. Today, the company has a market cap of about $400 billion. When it went public 2014, it was the largest initial public offering ever. Ma says he shares stories about failure to his employees at Alibaba, instead of telling them stories of success. “When you read too many successful stories, people go crazy,” he says during his talk in Nairobi. “They think ‘I can be successful.’” But the truth is, says Ma, “When you share a lot of failure stories, you learn.” Ma is perhaps one of the greatest examples of a great businessman and his story is a great example of how to become successful by not fearing failure and learning from your mistakes.

TRADITIONAL FRENCH CHEESE Maxime Flesch-Elie, Shell Maxime talks about French culture and how the tradition of French cheese began.

Cheese is a big part of French culture. It is one of the country’s largest exports and also a national pride.

Legend has it that it was the monasteries that began the delicious tradition that is French cheese. The monks took great care and pride in their cheese, being meticulous in its creation.

Quite a few experiments were needed to make all the different flavours and appearances of the various cheeses that we have today. Throughout the years, the French have refined the processes of producing milk, extracting the curd and turning intense regional flavour.

Traditionally, it is believed that there are around 350 to 450 distinct varieties of French cheese grouped into 8 categories - known in French as “les huit familles de fromage”. However, some people now claim that there are around 1000 of varieties, accounting for the various sub-categories of the original 350 to 450. These include cheese made of cow, buffalo, sheep or goat’s milk. Different regions are famous for different varieties of cheese, due to the distinctive climate and different vegetation that dictates a unique taste for each cheese.

Some of the French cheese varieties have even been aged in the same damp caves that have been used for hundreds of years.

MUSIC AT ITS HEART George Mitchell, Shell George is interested in music and how it influences the listener

Music is something that has inspired me and many others worldwide. Music is a universal language, a release of negativity and an opportunity to be free. In my opinion, everyone can be influenced by music.

Music has helped me in various ways. From a young age, music has helped me to build confidence (especially through singing), feel free and most importantly: feel happier. Singing gave me the opportunity to release all negative thoughts, helped me relax and express myself. The feeling you experience energizes and satisfies you and I believe all who interact with music can feel this.

It is safe to say music has certainly impacted my upbringing and my life for the future. But how can it impact you and how can you get interested in the first place? First, music is a way of expressing emotion and releasing negative thoughts. If you’re ever feeling low, or need time to yourself, picking up an instrument and practicing is a perfect way of letting your mind rest. Secondly, music is a powerful gift which, in the case of vocal music, is often truly inspirational thanks to its lyrics. Thirdly, music, when played with a sense of expression, is something that can profoundly influence both the listener and performer emotionally – something which I believe is key to the enjoyment I experience through music.

Sometimes, music can create a story, which can take your mind to a place beyond cognition. Moreover, the feelings you experience whilst listening to or playing music are totally unique to this art form.

Music can dictate emotion and helps focus your brain on a colourful, enjoyable feeling. This means music can also help those with mental or physiological problems and is a gateway to being in a better place again. It’s safe to say, music is a powerful and beautiful thing.

INTER-HOUSE DEBATING Euan Barker, Remove Captain of junior debating

This term Grange did well in the Junior inter-house debating placing in the semi-finals before narrowly missing out on the finals. We debated twice as the opening government with the motion of ‘This house would remove all homophobic references from the bible’ and the second motion being ‘This house would legalise the recreational hunting of endangered animals.’ Both debates were of very high quality and we easily made it through to the semi-finals after the first round and we only narrowly missed out on the finals due to a weak definition in the semi-finals (although I think overall we made many good points). Overall we did well to qualify for the semi-finals and I would like to thank Alex Banks for debating by my side at this event. I look forward to seeing how the Grange fairs next year at this exciting competition.

INTER-HOUSE RESULTS JUNIOR FOOTBALL - 3rd place Grange vs. Linacre

1-0 Grange vs. Day Houses

3-0 Grange vs. Linacre (third place playoff)

2-1

SENIOR FOOTBALL - 1st place Grange vs. Carlyon

Grange vs. Tradescant

1-1

1-1

Grange vs. School House

1-1 Grange vs. Linacre

1-0

(Grange won on penalties)

Grange vs. Galpin's

1-1 (Grange won on penalties)

The Grange 2019