Rhubarb 2017

ST EDWARD’S r h u b a r b

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Society ................................................. 1 Features ............................................. 2 Rhubarb Rhubarb ........................... 18 Archives ........................................... 20 Congratulations .............................. 24 OSE in Business .............................. 25 OSE News ........................................ 26 Obituaries ........................................ 29 Events ................................................ 42 Martyrs Reports ............................. 45 Valete ................................................. 51 Contacts ........................................... 55 Contents together in interesting and innovative ways. I hope that Teddies continues to be strong in developing the respectful and the ethical minds, and the nurturing of the creating mind is the area in which I am perhaps most interested. Creativity in the school setting should not be restricted to the arts – Art, Dance, Drama and Music – but should be inspired by them. It should manifest itself in both the formal and the informal curricula, and across all subjects. It is for the development of all of these attributes that pupils should go to school and we continue to find ways of pushing forward the boundaries of real education for the future success and opportunities of all of our pupils.

One of the inspirations for the current approach here is a book by Howard Gardner, the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard called Five Minds for the Future . Gardner’s “Minds” are described as follows: • The disciplined mind has mastered at least one way of thinking – a distinctive mode of cognition that characterises a specific scholarly discipline, a craft, or a profession. • The synthesising mind takes information from disparate sources, understands and evaluates that information objectively, and puts it together in ways that make sense to the synthesizer and also to other persons. • The creating mind breaks new ground. It puts forward new ideas, poses unfamiliar questions, conjures up fresh ways of thinking and arrives at unexpected answers. • The respectful mind notes and welcomes differences among human individuals and groups, tries to understand these “others”, and seeks to work effectively with them. • The ethical mind ponders the nature of one’s work and the needs and desires of the society in which one lives. At school, the disciplined mind very much represents the academic work or the gaining of significant skill in a particular area. We have also been pushing forward through the academic work, and in particular through our developing pedagogy, the synthesising mind in our pupils – they are increasingly used to taking diverse information and putting it Welcome to the latest issue of r h u b a r b ! This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of full co-education and the 35th anniversary of the first female pupil to attend the School, and what better way to do it than interviewing women who have forged a range of different and exciting careers. We are pleased to announce the opening of the Ogston Music School, and say thank you to those who took part in the summer’s Telethon Campaign. Finally, as it is my last issue, I wish to say thank you to the OSE community for making me feel so welcome, and hope my successor will enjoy the role as much as I have.

As ever it is a delight to introduce the latest edition of Rhubarb. You will notice that there is a strong flavour of co-education within the pages that follow and that is no surprise for we are at the 20th anniversary of full co-education here at the School. Co-education is important to us. It is part of an educational philosophy that aims to create young men and women who are fit to navigate the world of the future. Co-education is not, of course, only area of development in educational outlook of the School. With the press recently full of stories about the future prospects for all types of employment given the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (the most recent report published earlier this month by PwC was much trailed in the national broadsheets) what should we, who are involved in the education of young people heading out into the world in the late 2020s, be doing?

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