Friday 26 January 2018

Thursday 8 February | 7pm | Hampden HallEdward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor (soloist Claudia Jablonski)

Francis Poulenc - Gloria (soloist Colette Boushell)John Williams - Hymn to the Fallen

John Rutter - Gloria

CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

“Gloria”

Adults £15 | Concessions £7 | Family ticket (two adults two children + concessions) £40Price includes canapés and drinks during the interval.

Cake winners

Congratulations to our Senior Media Club who are this week’s cake winners. The students were all involved in producing the first Emanuel News Bulletin video. They include: Oliver, Sam, Ollie, Sam, Matthew, Jamie, Eleanor, Siddiq, Lucas and David.

Physics week was a rip roaring success with more than 30 students each day enjoying a host of experiments. Starting on Monday, the bold and the brave stepped forward for the good of science to be electrocuted and bring in a new fashion for extreme frizzy hair. They finished with a dazzling display of plasma from a recycled microwave (do not try that at home!). Mr Chuter successfully convinced the class that nothing cannot do anything (a vacuum does not ‘suck’ liquid up, the outside air pushes it in) and our budding scientists discovered the mysterious properties of air pressure through a series of slightly smoky experiments. The Headmaster was surprised by a gong worthy of MacGyver made from string and a metal coat hanger, and joined in enthusiastically in Mr Shetzer’s session on sound; checking out a host of weird and wonderful effects from the movies and music studios. Dr Dancy and Mr King both led us on epic journeys, the former through the mind bogglingly huge scale of the universe and the latter at the other extreme on the structures within the proton and neutron inside the very heart of the atom. It leaves us only to say thank you to all the year 6, 7 and 8 students who came along and joined in so enthusiastically. I look forward to hearing in your Nobel Prize acceptance speeches about how it all inspired you to that goal. SPP

Physics Week was a total blast

Creative Writing ClubAttendance has been steadily climbing at Creative Writing Club, where a group of students meet weekly to share work and discuss ideas. All members of the group have opted to pursue the challenging task of writing a novel (hats off to them for their ambition!), and many wrote a first chapter over the Christmas break. You can read the opening of an as-yet-untitled novel by Rebecca below. We hope you enjoy it. If you feel inspired to have a go at writing yourself, come and join us in M101 on Fridays at 1.45. The club is open to Year 8 students and above, and newcomers are always welcome. ECR

There are a few things I've learned from being a foster kid. For example, you gotta keep quiet for a while to figure things out when you’re put in a new home. My therapist says that’s OK, sometimes you just need to be quiet for a bit. I’m always quiet though, probably due to my social anxiety. I find it impossible to talk to people I don’t know. If confronted I just panic. My therapist says when I feel like this I should try counting in my head to calm myself down. It sometimes works, other times, not so much. There are the little things that come in useful when you are consistently being dumped with another family. Like don’t touch their pets, they bite. Hard. I learned that from when I stayed with the Greens. But if there is one thing I could say is the most important thing to keep in mind is that you are never safe. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m in danger or anything like that. But with me, I know that there is never one home that I can stay in for more than a couple months. Or weeks. Once I was only in one house for three days. I’m not really sure how it happens but one way or another I constantly end up back in Joe’s car, being sent off to someplace else. Joe’s my social worker. A cheery sort of guy, tall, with a scruffy mop of brown hair and an unshaven face. He’s a bit too cheery in my opinion, always looking on the ‘bright side’ as he calls it. However, unfortunately the ‘bright side’ is not the truth. The old brown Mustang smelt of

Monday saw a taste of Hollywood come to school as students and staff attended ‘The Emanuels 2018’, our inaugural awards ceremony of the House Film Competition. There were eight entries to the competition, with participating students coming from a wide range of year groups. The films included animations, supernatural thrillers and a music video. Our judge for the competition was Phil Cox (OE 1984-92), who is a professional documentary filmmaker and journalist. Phil said: “The key to bringing a story to life is in the telling, it is the ability of the teller, therefore it was a pleasure to see the creativity and enthusiasm in some of these works. To everyone who submitted - well done!”. The joint winners in the junior category were Lego Star Wars: Infiltration, and Phil and Wicket, both highly entertaining stop motion animations by students from Drake house. The winners in the senior category were Rodney with the thought-provoking and highly original What She Read. Congratulations to the winning teams and everyone who submitted, we hope this is the start of very long filmmaking careers for you all.

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audience in the Concert Hall. Some of the pupils performing have had only six lessons, yet here they were standing for the first time and performing tunes for everyone to enjoy. We had not only beginners but also some higher level performers. Congratulations to all who were involved - it is great to see so many, particularly in the younger years, playing with such enthusiasm and enjoyment. A huge thank you to the visiting music teachers who have worked hard in getting all involved onto the stage. TWR

Music: brass and percussion concertIt is sometimes not all about those who perform major works, or play at the very highest level. Sometimes success can be accorded to those who have been doing something for only a very short time. In the brass and percussion concert on Tuesday, an array of abilities and instruments delighted an appreciative

cigarettes. I could tell it was getting late because Joe kept looking at his watch and tutting. He often does that when we’re late. In this case, we were late for dropping me off at the new foster home. I rolled down the window and felt the cold wind whip at my face. Trying to concentrate on something other than the daunting prospect of moving to yet another new ‘home’, I stared out the window at the glowing street lamps and the silvery moon and began counting in my head. To be completely honest, it didn’t really work for me, but I pretended it did to comfort myself. “Nearly there kiddo,” said Joe, breaking the awkward silence. I paused in my silent counting, said nothing and continued to look out the window. Joe paused and took a deep breath. “I’m sure this is the one. You’re gonna love your new family, I’m sure of it.” He said this in such a way that I suspected he was trying to convince himself of this. After being dumped in so many places over the years, I think Joe has finally caught on that I don't stay anywhere for long. Nobody can stay positive forever. Not even Joe. I let my mind wander back to the previous times he had said this; I wasn’t surprised that, by now, even he needed convincing that I would really stay in one home for more than a month.

Forget the Oscars,it’s The Emanuels!

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House Points Totals At 6 December

Junior Senior OverallClyde 133 Howe 154 287

Drake 145 Nelson 135 280

Lyons 155 Marlborough 135 290

Wellington 159 Rodney 145 304

Weekly House point totals

Concert tickets are selling fast

The Junior Literary Society met for another fun activity last Tuesday, this time we looked at more than 100 famous opening line book quotes and tried to name which novels they came from. They ranged from the very easy “All children, except one, grow up.” (Peter Pan) which is often quoted as the favourite opening line of all-time and very obvious examples such as Alice in Wonderland. Many were much harder “The early summer sky was the colour of cat vomit.” (Uglies by Scott Westerfeld) or the best-seller “One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone.” (Gone by Michael Grant) were two difficult examples they managed to name correctly. Combined we managed to name well over 50 per cent of the books and both Ms Watson and I were really impressed with the impressive recall and knowledge of the classics the children showed. TRJ

BY PIETROLast Tuesday the History and Politics Society was very lucky to host OE Peter Beresford OBE, Professor of Citizen Participation at the University of Essex and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University, London. Author of All Our Welfare: Towards participatory social policy (2016), and regular contributor to The Guardian, Professor Beresford gave a compelling lecture entitled 'Knowledge, Welfare & Society' in which he summarised the history of the welfare state and some of the inherent problems caused in its creation. He touched on paternalism and the importance of sharing experiential knowledge to create a more equal society.

At the end of the highly engaging talk Professor Beresford was inundated with questions from the floor. He gave his opinion on the concept of universal basic income and rather bluntly dismissed the recent government proposal for a ‘Ministry of Loneliness’ as ‘bonkers’. He then explained how in his view, welfare reform can only take place in the form of bottom up development, which begins on a personal level between people and is then adopted as policy by the government. Any attempt to do the opposite and impose drastic changes are, in his opinion, very likely to fail. All in all, it was a highly enjoyable and informative afternoon for staff and pupils.

Last week 30 members of the cast of this year’s school musical, Ben Elton and Queen’s We Will Rock You, worked with fight choreographer Hadley Smith in preparation for the climactic end to act one of the show, the Ogre Battle. Hadley took them through the basic techniques of stage combat, ideas of action – reaction – action, and most importantly how to do all of this safely. Students started with a hair pull, before moving on to choke holds, knaps and non-contact blows, slaps and slips. The results were truly terrifying, and showed real focus and commitment from the cast. Tickets will go on sale after half term, and are expected to sell out quickly. Make sure you have the dates (15-17 March) in your diary. RJA

Junior Literary Society meet

Tickets are selling fast for this year’s fabulous music concert on Thursday 8 February. The event will showcase students, parents, Old Emanuels and a full professional orchestra accompanying a 120 strong choir. See our advert on p1. To avoid disappointment please reserve your seats by contacting andree.fitzgerald@emanuel.org.uk to. We look forward to seeing you. TWR

OE talk: Professor Peter Beresford

Fighting talk in musical rehearsals

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The inaugural Senior Scholars Concert took place last week in the Concert Hall. Guest speaker Julia Desbruslais, who is executive director and co-principal cellist of the London Mozart Players gave a speech about the pressures, rewards and effort needed when practicing and performing as a musician. 14 pupils in year 10-13 performed admirably and there was a wide range on show for the enthusiastic audience present. It is clear that we have very talented musicians at Emanuel and this was evidenced by the polished performances given by all those in the concert. Congratulations to all involved and I look forward to seeing and hearing all of the scholars continuing to develop and lead the music making at Emanuel. TWR

Last Friday saw the third annual Ceilidh, with more than 90 people whirling and twirling around the Hampden Hall in their tartan finery. It was quite the festive evening. The Ceilidh Factor provided the rousing music and called out the lively dances; a piper solemnly piped in the haggis; and Phyllis, the head of catering, resplendent in her red tartan, read out Robbie Burns’ famous Ode to a Haggis. A sumptuous dinner was served, including the haggis (vegetarian, too!), chicken stovies, neeps and tatties and two delicious desserts. Having regained their strength after the meal, the revellers trooped back in to the Hall for another hour of dancing. There were fabulous prizes to be won in the raffle, including a case of beer from Wimbledon Brewery, dinner at Macellaio on Northcote Road and a framed, signed rugby shirt from the Harlequins’ winning season. After a spirited rendition of Auld Lang Syne, it was time to go home … and practice dancing for next year. Hope to see you then!

Burns Night celebration

Last Friday 18 A level religious studies students participated in a conference about theology, philosophy and ethics, organised by Academy Conferences. This gave them the opportunity to hear some renowned academics in the field such as Professor Keith Ward and Dr Tim Maweson of Oxford University, who spoke on a variety of subjects. The topics ranged from religious language through to sexual ethics and the meaning of life. Students were also able to engage in a debate on the existence of God with the panel speakers and 400 other sixth formers who were there. STL

The big debate

Senior scholars concert

U18 v RADNOR HOUSE FINAL SCORE: 2-1 (WIN)BY CLAUDIAThe match against Radnor House was a huge success for the senior girls. Our first 11-a-side match ended with a win and it was a great confidence boost for the team. This gives us great hope for the season. Fia and Izzy scored our two goals while Lexi was awarded player of the match. We held our own and made great use of our skills and the use of the pitch. One thing to take away from this match is that we need to communicate with our team mates more.

U15A v RADNOR HOUSE FINAL SCORE: 4-0 (WIN)BY ANNA We were determined to play well and focus on improving our communication and clearing the ball out of defence. Emma quickly dominated play and had several opportunities to score. She worked hard up front alongside Lucy. Between them they scored three goals. Libby played well in defence, switching the play and making it hard for the opposition to break through. Georgia came on upfront and did a great job of pressuring the opposition and working the ball forward. Eve was outstanding throughout the match, working up and down the pitch to create opportunities. Eve secured our fourth goal to take victory.

U14A v HIGHGATEFINAL SCORE: 1-3 (LOST)BY MAISIEAlthough we lost, the team played well and it was the fair result. In the first quarter, Highgate scored an early goal. This drove us forward searching for an equaliser. We soon scored after passing the ball into the D where Victoria smashed it in before the opposition saw it coming. For the rest of the half, it was even and it didn’t look like anyone

U12B v HIGHGATE FINAL SCORE: 2-0 (WIN)BY JEMIMAIt was a scoreless first half. However, the match was our first game of the season and it was a chance to put everything we learned in training into practice. In the second half we shifted into gear with some amazing teamwork between Alice and Frankie, leading to our first goal. Our defence held to shut out Highgate. Elizabeth, Sophie and Jessica were quick at hitting the ball out of the D to our attackers. Evie, Eva, and Ruby worked really well on the wings, constantly adding pressure to the opposition. Player of the match was awarded to Jemima for her incredible running up and down the left wing. We are more than happy with this result and it was a great start to the hockey season.

U12A v RADNOR HOUSE FINAL SCORE: 5-0 (WIN)BY MEGThe game got off to a great start with an early goal. Lily, Ruby, Lucy and Isabella made some great runs and passes throughout the match. As the game progressed, the passing began to flow, with some great tackles from defender Fleur. Goal keeper Lily made some great saves, allowing for centre forward Francesca to put some shots in. Lily was player of the match.

SPORTHockey was going to break through. Sofia and

Martina worked tirelessly in defence to get the ball through onto the left wing. Rosie ran constantly up and down the pitch managing to both defend and attack at the same time. At one stage the ball hit in her in the face but she continued bravely without any fuss. In the second half Highgate improved, and despite our best efforts, scored twice. It was our first match of the season and there is much positivity here. However, we do need to work on eradicating silly mistakes and keep training as hard as possible.

U13B v GLYN SCHOOLFINAL SCORE: 15-35 (WIN)BY CALLUMWe started well with an excellent try from Donald who ran through the opposition defence. We then conceded points after some poor tackling. Callum quickly struck back with a well worked score. Timur scored two tries to give us a good lead at half time. After the break we scored three tries to run away with the game; one of which was a great play by Jamie, running straight through the defence and the wole length of the pitch. Glyn scored a consolation try near the end, highlighting our need to work on our tackling as it was a rusty from not playing in quite a while.

Rugby

U12B v GLYN SCHOOLFINAL SCORE: 35-5 (WIN)BY JORGEWe started well scoring many good tries. Glyn made many good attempts to get the ball over the line in the first half but were stopped by our determined defence. The opposition also did well in the ruck, committing more men and winning. In the second half we let our guard down to let Glyn score a deserved try. However, we pushed them back and scored a number of tries to close out the game. George did well to win man of the match. Congratulations to George and everyone else who took part at the match and our coach.

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Fives

Rowing

U14 v HOLYPORT COLLEGE FINAL SCORE: 2.5 - 1.5 (WON)Four of our best U14 pairs travelled to Eton for an afternoon fixture. With the boys low on practice after the Christmas holiday we came into the game underprepared but full of confidence.The first match to get underway was our top pair of Chris and Luke. The boys came up against some strong opposition and started the game slowly. However, as the muscle memory returned, the boys started to move more fluently around the court and dragged the game to parity at 6-6 before slowly turning the wheel to grind out a 12-10 first set victory with a fantastic return by Luke followed by a great smash by Chris to the back court. Holyport came battling back in the second set with an onslaught of volleys and won the second set 12-4 to take us into a decider. Unfortunately, there was only time for a brief final set which was again sealed with great teamwork to give Emanuel the first match 2-1. Our second pair of Alistair and Dominic was involved in a mammoth set which took up the whole evening. Throughout the set they were just behind their opponents, eventually catching up at 10-10 thanks to a great shot from the back by Alistair. He played another superb shot into the buttress to take the boys to 11-10 before a nice volley by Dom dropped into the hole taking them to 12-10 and one point from victory. At this point the Holyport team scored two swift points bringing both teams to match point. Thankfully Dom held his nerve and cut them down before the match was sealed by Alistair with another shot from the back to win 13-12. The third pair of Matthew and Matt had a closely contested loss. The boys fought from 8-3 down in the first set to bring the game level at 10-10 and then took the lead at 11-10 thanks to some great teamwork setting up Matt for a volley into the buttress. They were unlucky to lose the next point as Matt hit a lovely shot from the back of the court only it for it to catch a ledge and fly out. The Holyport team then hit a great cut return giving them the first set 12-11. Matthew livened up in the second set with some good top step work and strong volleying resulting in a flurry of points to give Emanuel a 6-2 lead. Unfortunately, the Holyport pair then

EMANUEL v RGS HIGH WYCOMBEFINAL SCORE: 2-1 (LOST)Emanuel hosted three RGS HW pairs on Thursday for a close encounter across three age groups. Our youngest pair of Freddie and Max competed in their first competitive fixture for Emanuel - they performed very well against a more experienced pair. The difference in experience became clear early on but the boys persevered and showed great promise. With the RGS pair starting strong and taking several points quickly, the boys did well to stay in the game. Strong cutting from Freddie restricted the scoring before Max was able to capitalise with some great cut returns and get a few points on the board before eventually losing 12-4. The improvement shown by the boys throughout the match shows great potential for the future. Our next pair of Will and Geoffrey had a very different experience. The boys started off strongly thanks to numerous back spin smashes into the buttress by Geoff and some fine volleying from Will to secure some key rallies. This gave a quick 12-2 victory in the first set. Momentum carried the boys to an equally dominant second set again with a 12-2 score line. This result continues the boys’ upward trajectory in the fives world. Our top pair of Arthur and Ben was involved in a tense affair against a pair

went an even bigger run and secured the second set 12-7. Our final pair of Laith and Aarjun secured Emanuel the victory. With Laith playing his first fives match and Aarjun having not played in a long time, it seemed unlikely the boys would be able to pull through. Indeed, the first set finished in a 12-3 loss. The boys did not look down and can take positives from their cut returning which improved steadily throughout. In the second set they looked like a different team. Laith started moving more comfortably around the court, hitting several great shots into the buttress. Aarjun got his touch back with some lovely shots to the right side of the court dropping right in the middle of his opponents. By the time we had to leave the boys were 7-6 up and playing well. This gave Emanuel a 1-1 draw in the final match and the victory overall. Congratulations to the players - with more practice we could be beating some big names in the fives world.BY MR MCCAHON (FIVES COACH)

two years older than them. The boys took a while to get into the match and before they had blinked had lost the first set. The second set had a different tone to it as the boys pieced together some wonderful rallies to take the set 12-9. This would not have been possible without several great shots by Ben from the back court followed up by Arthur killing the next volley, frustrating his opponents. Unfortunately, the third set went the way of the first resulting in a 2-1 loss for the boys and the team.BY MR MCCAHON (FIVES COACH)

ROWING: QUINTIN EIGHTS HEADSenior Boys: Six Y11’s, two L6th boys and cox Joe formed a Senior Novice crew to compete in the Quintin Head race. One of just three school crews, including an Emanuel composite crew of Year 10/11 boys and KCS Wimbledon, the senior crew had a spirited row and came 4th / 20 beating 14 other university student and men’s crews. As well beating the KCS crew they also were faster than both the Hampton J16 crews who were competing in the J16 event. It was a very pleasing and encouraging start to the season. The crew was b Fred, 2 Edward, 3 Jacob, 4 Kitchen, 5 Ollie, 6 Daniel, 7 Tom, s Earnest, c Joe. RRM

Senior Girls: The senior girls raced two eights at Quintin Head. The J18 boat faced tough competition, with several of their opponents being past finalists of Championship eights at National Schools. The girls however, stepped up to the mark and raced hard holding off Latymer for the first 3 km. Cox, Georgie had to do some clever steering down the Chiswick Eyot stretch as the crew ended up four a breast as many crews tried to overtake one another. The crew finished 4th beating Godolphin and Latymer and finishing only 8 seconds behind St Paul’s Girls School. The J16 crew gained valuable race experience from last Saturday’s race. Having only had a few training sessions together, they performed well as a crew throughout the race. Jay set a solid rhythm from the stroke seat, with cox Charlotte steering a good racing line down the tideway course. The young senior crew finished 3rd in their category. WJ18 8+: Georgie

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Cont’d on p7

(cox), Tiphanie, Izzy, Kathleen, Orla, Ibs, Sophie, Maddie, Bessie. WJ16 8+: Charlotte (cox), Jay, Rosie, Zara, Tove, Seraphina, Hannah, Thea, Katy. HEB

J15 Boys: The Y10 Boys also entered two eights, albeit that six of the boys teamed up with two spare J16’s to compete in the Senior Novice division. As a scratch crew lacking in race experience, it was not surprising that things did not go quite to plan, with one seat becoming detached from the runners and the rower concerned having to spend the rest of the race sliding up and down on his backside! Despite this painful experience, their placing of 9th out of 20 was a decent result. The second boat containing a number of boys who have only just come back from rugby and exams, enjoyed a rather rough but spirited row down the course, to finish 13th/14 in J15 eights, just behind a number of other 2nd eights and beating Reading Bluecoat B. Nov 8+: Ben C, Ben T, James, Mathew, Gabriel, Charlie, Luke, James, Albi (cox); J15 8+: Fred, Henry, Joseph, Niccolo, Elliott, Jake, Tate, Billy, Luc (cox). DMC

J15 Girls: It was a rather disappointing first race of the new year for the Y10 girls racing in WJ15 8s, but given the number of absences due to injury and other commitments it was understandable. Fast river conditions meant there was no room to let up on effort and although the girls rowed neatly they were well down on the pace of Latymer and Putney High School. However, this is a determined bunch of girls who have been training hard, which will soon start to pay dividends as the season progresses. The results at Quintin will no doubt fuel their training even further as they push on to next weekend at Hampton. Crews: J15 8+: Emily, Kyra, Imogen, Anna, Georgina, Natacha Simpson, Lauren, Violet, Sophie (cox); J15 8+ Annabelle, Isabella, Esme, Milly S, Milly Y, Natasha, Marnie, Friederike, Leah (cox). SG/KSA

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Girls J15 A crew passing under Barnes Bridge