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No Laughing Matter
Fourth Former Helena Beccle (
Dragon
)
won first prize at the Oxford German
Olympiad last term. The task was to create
and illustrate a short joke in German with
the overall topic for the competition being
‘German Humour – no laughing matter’.
The presentation evening took place in the
Divinity School, part of Oxford University’s
Bodleian Library. Entries came from all over
the country and required pupils between the
ages of 11 and 18 to research traditions of
comedy and humour in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland. The competition was run by the
Oxford German Network and was supported
by the Association for Language Learning,
Routes into Languages, the German Embassy
and Oxford University Press.
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ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE
The
Beacon
Sandham Memorial Chapel
By Charlotte Schofield
In June Lower Sixth art historians visited the National
Trust’s Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere,
Hampshire. The tiny chapel, built in memory of a WWI
soldier, Henry Sandham, is filled with striking wall paintings
by one of Britain’s most extraordinary artists. Stanley
Spencer served in the WWI Medical Corps in Macedonia.
He believed that God could be found in everyday activities
and these images celebrate the daily routines of a soldier’s
life – bed making, ablutions, filling drinking bottles from a
fountain. They culminate in the glorious ‘Resurrection of
the Soldiers’ which fills the entire wall behind the altar and
in which the soldiers he buried rise up from their graves,
dust themselves down and hand their crosses to Christ.
‘I had buried so many people and saw so many dead
that I felt that death could not be the end of everything.’
Bernard Kay OSE won the top
prize on his Architecture course
at Bath University with this
striking design for an off-shore
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