The Gazette

DATES FOR THE DIARY

04.09.18 Term begins Week One

12.09.18 Year 9 Photographs

13.09.18 New Year 12 Parents’ Evening

24 to 28.09.18 Year 11 Work Experience Wk1

01 to 05.10.18 Year 11 Work Experience Wk2

17.10.18 Year 11 Parents’ Evening

25.10.18 OPEN EVENING

26.10.18 TED (School closed to pupils)

29.10.18 to 02.11.18 HALF-TERM

07.11.18 Year 9 and Year 12 Parents’ Evening

with Tutors

08.11.18 An Evening of Remembrance

03.12.18 TED (School closed to pupils)

20.12.18 Christmas Concert

21.12.18 Term ends

Summer 2018

BIG BAND AT UPTON JAZZ For the seventh consecutive year The Prince Henry’s Big Band was invited to take part in the Upton Jazz Festival as part of the Best of Young Jazz programme in Worcestershire. This event is always a celebration of the tremendous musicianship of each and every child who rehearses tirelessly every week on a Monday evening.

The band performed a selection of Big Band classics, Swing, Funk, Vocal and Latin numbers for an hour to a packed house and was greeted with enthusiastic applause after each number. Special mention must go to the Year 13 and

Year 11 members who have been with the band for five years and will be leaving us :Thomas Stephenson, Aric Fowler, Louis Winstone, Johan Beavis-Berry, Imogen Parkin, Tom Parkin, Matthew Bailey, Adam Haycock and Robbie Hardwick in Year 11. They will be greatly missed.

SPORTS TOUR 2018

The first Sports Tour at Prince Henry’s since 2009 set off

bleary eyed at 3 am on Sunday 15th July, bound for the

sunny climate of the Basque Country. We arrived at the

Koisi Hostel, which was to be our base for the tour,

around mid-afternoon and headed straight for Ondarreta

Beach to grab some lunch and cool off in the beautiful surroundings of San Sebastian.

On the second day we again took the short walk to the beach to play the first of our beach tournaments with games of tag rugby, football

and rounders, with six teams closely competing against one another until Team Muir came out on top to win the day. We then walked

into the Old Town of San Sebastian, where the students had some lunch and took in the sights before we headed off to the local arena to

play Pelota, a sport which is very popular in the Basque region. This time, Ash Symonds and Chris Lewis won the two prizes which were

donated by the two local professionals who put the group through their paces in learning the sport.

On the third day we headed off to France to visit St-Jean-De-Luz and Biarritz, where the students looked around the local towns and

spent time on the Grande Plage. We then visited the local water park before moving on to the stunning town of Bayonne, where we had

a meal by the river before returning to San Sebastian.

The fourth day was kick-started with our final beach tournament. On this occasion Team Sugden came out as the victors. After some

free time in the Old Town, we set off to Hondartza Beach for our surfing lesson in the big, rolling waves which certainly gave the students

an experience they won’t forget! The last night on tour was finished off with an Awards Evening in the Old Town at a lovely restaurant.

Here, the students really got to experience the Spanish way of dining whilst generously applauding one another when they received

prizes.

OLD HENRICIANS RETURN TO PRINCE HENRY’S

Prince Henry’s has a very long and proud history and it is clear that many former staff and students feel a huge affection for the school.

On 11th May, six Old Henricians returned to the school and had the opportunity to meet with Dr Evans and other members of the current Leadership Team, as well as Head Girl, Isobel Hardwick and Head Boy, Tom Parkin. Our visitors had the opportunity to look around the school and as well as seeing the many recent improvements to facilities, they saw many parts of The School building which were still familiar.

The school is lucky to possess an extensive archive of old photographs, documents and a full set of Henrician magazines (which date back to the first edition published in 1924), and our guests were able to put names to many of the faces (including their own) in those photographs, as well as taking great delight in finding references to their own school achievements in the Henrician.

BATTLEFIELDS TRIP

This year, thirty-five Year 9 students had the opportunity to discover more about the history of The Great War and the battlefields around the Ypres Salient. We were fortunate enough to visit several Commonwealth War Cemeteries of differing sizes including Essex Farm (where John McCrae composed the famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields’), and Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world with more than 11, 000 burials and a further 33, 000 names inscribed as a memorial to the missing. The scale of such cemeteries is astounding and forces you to appreciate how many lives the war cost. We also visited Langemark: the sombre and more macabre German cemetery.

On the Sunday evening, we were lucky enough to witness The Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres and two of our students, James Cook and Sophie Petit, laid a wreath to commemorate the fallen soldiers; the first time students from Prince Henry’s have done so. However, the highlight of the trip was tracking down the location of one of our student’s relatives: Eashan Patel’s great, great grandfather, Private E. Tustin, who fought and died on the Western Front. Eashan is only the second member of the family to have visited Private Tustin’s grave and it was a very emotional and poignant occasion, one that was felt by everyone on the trip and something that will stay with us forever. On the last day, we visited the historic town of Bruge which gave us a last chance to purchase some delicious Belgian chocolates.

Eashan commented “The Belgium trip was a brilliant experience! As well as having an amazing time with my friends, roaming round Belgium, I was lucky enough to discover my great, great grandfather’s grave. This was a really emotional experience for me, and when I got home, my whole family was shocked.”

AHOY! SING FOR THE MARY ROSE

Year 9 and Year 10 Prince Henry’s students took part in an extra special concert and performance of a vocal Cantata by the composer Alexander L’Estrange on Sunday 24th June at Evesham Arts Centre.

Ahoy! was a charity concert celebrating Henry VIII’s flagship ‘Mary Rose’, written and composed by Alexander L’Estrange who is famous for his grand-scale choral fusion works. The concert combined the music of Tudor times with an array of catchy sea shanties, taking in ‘Greensleeves’, ‘The Sailor’s Hornpipe’ and a setting of Shakespeare’s ‘Full Fathom Five’.

It was a glorious musical celebration of English Maritime history in aid of the Cancer Research UK and St. Richard’s Hospice, performed by The Hanley Voices, and Prince Henry’s High School supported by the Ben Sawyer Quintet.

Year 10 music students also performed in the first half of the concert and special congratulations must go to Emily O’Gorman who performed Sonata for flute in G minor by Locatelli, Mei Spice for performing the Sonata in C by Mozart on the piano, Beth Bullas for singing ‘Stupid with Love’ from the musical ‘Mean Girls’ and finally Charlotte Pye for singing ‘Pulled’ from the musical ‘The Addams Family.’

Emily, Beth, Charlotte and Nina

Reid also performed a vocal

number from the smash hit

musical ‘Hamilton’ called ‘The

Schuyler Sisters’.

INTRODUCING OUR NEW HEAD GIRL AND

HEAD BOY

We are pleased to announce that our Head Girl and Head Boy for 2018-19 will be Francesca Neal and Evan Jones, who are pictured here with Dr Evans and Mrs Webb, Head of Sixth Form.

Our new Deputy Head Girls and Boys have also been confirmed. They will be Poppy Sugden, Benjamin Holland, Alice Camp and Benjamin Hughes.

Congratulations to them all.