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Mr Andrew Hammond has been announced as the new Head of Hall School Wimbledon from September 2022. Prior to HSW, he was Senior Director of Learning & Community at Discovery Education.

He is excited to join a school that places a great deal of importance on the whole child and grows a child’s confidence in their abilities.

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Sibford School is a co-educational day and boarding school for children from the ages of 3 - 18 located in Banbury, north Oxfordshire.

The school covers 50 acres of land allowing for lots of outdoor space to enjoy the extra-curricular sporting activities available like cricket, cross country, hockey, rugby, swimming, and tennis. They have also recently added a climbing wall.

The central values of the school are Respect, Resilience, Relationships, Responsibility, and Reflection as well as encouraging children to ‘live adventurously.’

Educate Lucy visited last week and was impressed by the learning support department and the nurturing nature of the school. If a child requires any additional support, Sibford has the teachers and programmes in place to lift a student.

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Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker.

‘R’ Word of the Week: RIANT - Derived from the French word for laughter, if you’re riant then you’re constantly smiling or always seem to be in a bright, cheerful mood. A bright, cheerful mood itself, incidentally, is a riancy.

‘Several Circles’ [1926] by Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)
- Oil on canvas

In this painting, circles of varying colours and sizes float on a black background. Our eye is drawn to the largest circle over which many other circles overlap. This large circle, which is a deep blue, has a bright white rim which blends into the darkness around it. This stark contrast between light and dark stimulates the viewer, looking almost like a solar eclipse. The circles have different levels of transparency, and some circles can be seen underneath others, showing new colours as they combine hues. Kandinsky’s colour theory placed emphasis on the emotional connotations of colours, and their ability to move his audience. At the time of making this piece, Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus School, which focussed on the pure forms of shapes and geometry in its architecture and costume design. We can see this geometrical Bauhaus influence in Kandinsky’s move towards Abstract Expressionism.

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Book of the Month: 'East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity' by Philippe Sands

This piece of non-fiction combines memoir, biography, history, and the study of international law to explore the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts as a result of the atrocities of the Holocaust. This book won the Bailie Gifford Prize of Non-Fiction.

East West Street follows the evolution of Lauterpacht and Lemkin as they studied at Lviv university with the same professors but having never met. Both are considered to be the fathers of modern human rights and at the same time presented diametrically opposite revolutionary ideas of humanitarian law that has changed the world.

This book will change the way we look at the world, our understanding of history, and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder.

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Oakham School is a co-educational boarding and day school for 10-18 year olds based in Rutland, England. They offer both the IB Diploma and A-Levels.

The school is located in a lovely old town with a castle and a cobbled market place. The actual school facilities are a mix of older buildings maintaining the history of the space and newer facilities like those of the multi-purpose sports centre, indoor pool, and more.

Oakham have an extensive arts department where they offer workships and invite professional artists, theatre companies, and musicians to the school.

They has great leavers destinations both within the UK and internationally. 60% of students go to Russell Group universities and there are always a few that attend Oxbridge. International schools range from Northeastern to EHL Swiss Hospitality School. The school prides itself on its guidance on higher education, apprenticeships and careers.

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Good luck to those getting their A Level results day. We hope you enjoy celebrating today after all your hard work over the past few years.

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Alumnae Achievements: Chris Martin (Hilton School, Exeter Cathedral School, Sherborne School, UCL) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and co-founder of the band Coldplay.

Chris met his bandmates at UCL. Chris, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, and Will Champion, were originally called Starfish but renamed to Coldplay in 1998.

The band found fame when they released the song “Yellow” in 2000 and have since gone on to become one of the biggest bands in the world with albums like ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’ (2002) and Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends’ (2008).

Chris is also a well-known philanthropist. He has performed countless times for charitable causes including Band Aid 30, the Ebola crisis in 2014, as well as becoming the creative director of the Global Citizen Festival.

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