The Hall Newspaper Summer 2021 No 20

SUMMER

N E W S PA P E R ISSUE 20. 2021

∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙NEWS
BEYOND THE SCHOOL GATES SCIENCE DRAMA DESIGN TECH SPORT ART ECO-SCHOOLS MUSIC

NEWS ART

4 JS Learning focus upon Japan 46 Year 2 Colour
10 World Book Day 47 Year 2 Still Life
11 Piers Torday Visit 48 Year 3 Portraiture
11 MS Hastings Day 49 Year 4 The Sea
12 Cookery Club 50 Year 4 David Hockney Fairy Tales
14 Purple House Bake Off Competition 52 Year 5 Webcam Portraits
16 Outreach Initiatives 53 Year 5 Landscape
18 Year 8 National Enterprise Challenge 54 Year 6 Steam Punk
56 Year 7 Interior Spaces
IN PARTNERSHIP 58 Year 8 Portraiture and War

15 Saturday Club DRAMA
15 French at Fitzjohn’s and Christ Church
15 Science 60 The Exam

SCIENCE DESIGN TECH

24 Sublime Science at The Hall 63 New from Old
25 Year 4 Science Games 66 Year 4 Projects
26 Catapult Challenge 68 Year 5 Projects
27 Years 6 & 7 Open Homework 69 Year 6 Projects
28 Arctic Adventure 71 Year 7 Projects
28 Online Talk by Dean Lomax 72 Year 8 Projects

ECO-SCHOOLS MUSIC

29 Eco-Committee 73 Scholars' Concert at Burgh House
29 Eco Workshops 74 Hey Jude!
29 Earth Day 74 Budding Instrumentalists
30 Walk to School Week
31 Food Miles Awarness SPORT
31 Impact of Covid-19 upon Eco Systems
32 Face Masks - Be a Hero Twice 75 JS Euros 2021
32 Eco Committee Planting 76 Cricket 2021
33 MS Gardening Club 78 Tennis 2021
79 U13 Arnold House Cricket and Tennis
BEYOND THE SCHOOL GATES 79 Bedford School Tournament
79 Bedford School Sixes Tournament
34 JS Activity Week 80 Sports Days 2021
38 MS Activity Week 83 The High Jump Challenge 2021
43 SS Activity Week

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2 WELCOME 2

Welcome!

As I sit here in my office this blue-skied September morning, reflecting on the early months of 2021, the fact that a global pandemic
has had the world in its grip seems almost surreal. Now that teachers and pupils are back in school and we are surrounded by the

familiar bustle of the everyday, it almost feels as though the pandemic was simply a very bad dream. But it was not.

It was a reality that, although possibly only ‘touching the edges’ of The Hall pre-used devices, as well as supporting our food- and clothes bank collections for
community, has divided our country and world in so many ways. While it could local communities and the more recent musical instrument collection for local
have been very easy to be absorbed in our own ‘Hall Bubble’ and focus very much schools during this year.
on our own travails, we all believed it to be important to move beyond just being
grateful for our good fortune and provide the boys with a broader perspective of As we return to school and ‘normality’, still uncertain about the future but with
the impact of the pandemic and the immense challenges families faced in this a sense of optimism and calm, let’s turn our minds to the positive things that we
country. Building an understanding the stark division on how people coped and learned as a community during the Spring and Summer Terms of this year. At
fared throughout the pandemic was important. the end of the Summer Term, a parent highlighted to me Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s
book “Anti fragile – Things that gain from disorder.”
Lockdown in the Spring Term created a stark digital divide in the UK. Frontline
community groups and charities warned that the digital exclusion of some of In his intro Taleb writes,

the UK’s poorest and most vulnerable households and communities was having “Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility,
a devastating effect across the country. Good Things Foundation, a charity that randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet,
tackles digital exclusion in the UK warned that pay-as-you-go customers without in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite
the means to buy data were finding themselves shut in their homes, facing social of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness.
The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better".
isolation with no means of communicating with the
outside world. Four out of five schools with the The parent was very kind in suggesting that as a community The Hall had
poorest pupils in England did not have enough demonstrated antifragility in line with Taleb’s thoughts. Perhaps it is not too
devices and internet access to online learning. much to hope that our community has not just demonstrated resilience through

It was reading about this inequality that the challenges, we have not simply deflected the troubles. Perhaps we have
galvanised Year 8 pupil Jack Walsh to action
back in early 2021, initiating a drive to actually been changed for the better through experiencing them. Energy and
verve have certainly driven our teaching and learning through these difficult
collect used digital devices for times. Ambitious creativity emerged from teachers as well as learners facing
distribution to schools and
community centres around the challenges of digital learning. Passion forged the music concerts and drama
productions despite physical distancing restrictions. Empathy motivated our
Camden and eventually work with partnership schools and communities. Qualities to be cherished
to local councils further
afield around the and grasped tightly as we continue towards the final months of this year and
qualities I hope you will glimpse aplenty within this special edition of the school
country, as you will read newspaper.
on p.16. Sincere thanks
to the many families
who generously donated
FACTS HEADMASTER

The first day of

lockdown learning started

on January 6th and lockdown

NEGATIVE ended on March 8th. The first

SIDE day of lockdown learning took
a long time to start any lessons
The problem was it was
Luca Payne & Alesandro Penati, Alex Preiskel & Patrick Cope extremely hard to do some because everyone had to log ANNOYING
Science activities like trying in and did not know how to STUFF

start the microphone or
tcFrtHAehhhoolaaasarwsottlmlo,eeydnivnotoasegumsi.srte,TwahtchbgheaheeeerrieldcdfdHiarurtluaseoostlsntelseso,ddtlfoayiodtworfcoeucekhsdxhaiwecctiolehedewaiprnrwenestgcinaos.wr'stSsenaayeeaersoncliylnayuoefgnostwcodaroceutlmauylglau,ldochrsseosnicentm’ptrxgoeiopnmfemtgenteerhoewifleeretoeintardfcharcamenmhiytioifn.ilosldsgTyortrheawmoyennfoaadstsutntohafaydrefgifoedemntnadyoegsmtlaalnsbesdaeetrrsons.tdhraersidpomultiaucgunarhcnthesy.oihnuotrowbpfooodooyd. watgnhitodahpetLsyooyoscoiuPtkuirdvOcieomoSswu;mInloTdendIdseVipidaoeEthfenatdSfhvaIeemmDmaoiElrfywcee.aawItmtsimgeoerat. Lockdown learning was tough
exemplary job organising live lessons all day, which was a feat to be proud of, and with the background of siblings
and parents working. The thing that
got me the most was the noise of
the vacuum cleaner!! The other sad
things were lots of glitches to many
screens and no face-to-face. It
was so hard to listen to a screen

the children managed it well. easier and easier to work Microsoft because when everyone had

and log in and all that stuff. We their microphones on then

were so happy and fortunate to it would be chaos.

be able to go back to school

in March following the

restrictions.

WELCOME 3

News

LearninJUgNfIOoRcuSsCHuOpoOnL Japan
私たちは日本について学んでいます

The whole Junior School joined together in their learning
about Japan and its customs over the summer term.

From Reception to Year 3, the boys returned in April to find
the Junior School classrooms transformed into Japanese
houses and aspects of life in Tokyo; each year group
immersed themselves using core texts to support their

learning, all tying in nicely with the Olympics, scheduled for
the summer months.

RECEPTION
CLASSROOMS

4

JAPANESE
ART

NEWS 5

Maddox Steinberg-Aziz

STORY OF
HACHIKO

6

Finlay Hutchings and Daniel O'Callaghan

PUPPET
MAKING

Year 2 boys made their own Japanese
puppet from the storyboards written
in Creative Writing. They used different
coloured card to make their individual
puppets and lollipop sticks to hold and
manoeuvre them. Next, the boys wrote and
performed the script for the story using

their wonderful puppets.

ORIGAMI Year 2s made paper cranes together. In Japan,
the crane is one of the mystical or holy creatures
(others include the dragon and the tortoise) and
symbolizes good fortune and longevity because

of its fabled life span of a thousand years.

NEWS 7

Gabriel Orr

JAPANESE
CULTURE

8

MAKING 3D
VOLCANOES

NEWS 9

Following our book drive in support of the Children’s Book Project
in the Autumn Term 2020, The Hall was invited by the charity to
participate in a film in celebration of World Book Day 2021.
 
The film was a montage of images of over 1,000 children from schools
throughout London, each holding a book that is special to them. Some
children chose a book that they loved reading when younger, that they
recalled an adult reading to them or that they identified with now they are
older. Or perhaps they simply chose their favourite book now. Featuring
children from both donor and recipient schools, the film was designed as a
celebration of the pleasure that books bring every child.
 
An astonishing 1,243 children from 46 schools across London sent in a
picture of themselves with a special book, and the project team said they
had had a lot of fun looking at all the smiling faces! Lots of familiar books
had been selected, plus some more unusual ones. The Project shared the
film with us in advance of World Book Day and we saw that it featured
many Hall boys, however, not all made it before the 1,000 cut-off was
reached – so Mr Perry-Parks made an alternative version for us, to include
every pupil who had sent in an image of themselves as a reader.  
 
Just in case you missed it, here is the Hall version of the World Book Day
film -> https://vimeo.com/522000968

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Piers Torday part of England where more animals live
VISIT than people. My father worked for the family
engineering business in Newcastle, while my mother Jane ran a
Ravi Chandarana & Jacob Gehl  children’s book shop in Hexam, called Toad Hall Books. Alongside my
brother Nick, I spent my very early years crawling around on the floor
On Tuesday 22nd June, Piers Torday visited us. He talked to us of that shop, surrounded by piles of books from the very start”.
in the Cooper Hall in the Senior School. He is a children’s I was extremely lucky to come from a writing background. My
author and has written many books, such as “There may be a grandfather Roger Mortimer was a racing journalist who wrote
Castle”.  hundreds of very funny letters to his children and grandchildren, and
  you can learn the extraordinary story of his life in Dearest Jane, by
Piers Torday is a British children’s writer. He is the son of the novelist him and my mother, Jane”. 
Paul Torday. He loves animals. He also loves books and watching TV.
It was really fun to listen to him speak. During his visit he told us
about life in his childhood. He used to have a black laborador and a
cat called Cat. Here is part of an interview with him;  

“I was born in 1974 in Northumberland, which is possibly the one

MS DAY

James Hassan

On Hastings Day all the boys in Year 5
dressed up as either a Norman
or a Saxon.

The entire day was devoted to doing
fun Hastings activities which included,
listening to Nick who is the only armourer
in England. We made cardboard shields
which was super fun. Caolan and Florian
won best shield prize and they got a cool
keychain. However, we all got amazing

Saxon coins each!
After lunch we all headed down into the
Yard with our shields. Nick formed us
into a Saxon shield wall and after a lot

of bustling and pushing we finally got
ourselves into the correct order.

NEWS 11

Cookery CLUB

Back in January 2021, when another lockdown loomed into DEAR DR STEYN,
our lives very suddenly and we felt isolated and alone at I THINK THAT LEMON CURD WOULD BE
a time when we normally would have had been looking A GREAT RECIPE FOR COOKING CLUB. IT
forward to being with friends and family, Dr Steyn had the TASTES GREAT, IT'S FUN TO MAKE AND MOST OF ALL,
brilliant idea of starting a Cookery Club – to operate remotely! IT GOES WELL WITH PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING. IT'S
LIKE A JAR OF SUNSHINE.
It soon became apparent that not only were many boys extremely BEST REGARDS, CASSIUS YECHIEL
keen on the idea, so were their families. The boys relished an
opportunity to use their creativity and science skills in a real- Dr. Steyn is, it proved a little too
life context and since every single step of the cooking process risky at times for him to tackle the
was to be completed by the boy himself, even the weighing out of filming close-ups of the processes
ingredients, the use of an oven, the timing of cooking and baking at the same time as physically
durations, far more than just the skill of eating would be practised. whisking, chopping, or frying!
From the parents’ point of view, since Dr Steyn promised that part
of each session would focus upon kitchen hygiene, including the The boys enjoyed the Club from
washing up and tidying away of equipment, many were super keen the very first session (a pasta &
to hand over the responsibility of the family meal preparation on salmon dish) and were effusive
(indeed, some even lyrical) in
Wednesday evenings. their tasting notes and shared
recommendations for variations
So, after sharing the recipe upon the basic recipe, as well as hilarious stories of mishaps with
with a list of equipment and ingredients or oven timings. Parents and siblings also shared their
ingredients requirements a week critiques of the dishes. As the weeks progressed, Miss O’Neill was
ahead of the session (as obtaining invited to join the sessions and explain to the chefs the science
some ingredients was still of what chemical reactions are taking place when for example,
challenging during this period of vinegar is used in pickling, or what bicarbonate of soda does in
lockdown), Dr Steyn led the first cakes. On other occasions Mme Davies attended to share in the
session, beaming his cookery history of a renowned French pastry dish (Saumon en Croûte), Mrs
demonstration from his own
home kitchen via Teams into the
kitchens of the Club members,
aided and abetted by Miss Rosina
since, multi-talented and fearless
in the face of a challenge though

12

Harley spoke to the boys about a traditional English recipe using BANOFFEE PIE POEM
a batter (Toad in the Hole) and Mrs Schofield (born in the USA)
came along to talk about the story of The Burger. Towards the end Maanas Swarup
of the Spring Term when the festivals of Holy Week and Passover
were coming up, Ms Halloun (Head of Theology, Philosophy and Our eyes were level, the table set,
Religion) joined the group to speak about the religious customs My mother was nervous: she’d started to fret.
related to special foods eaten at this I leaned to my left, I leaned to my right,
time. Holding on to my knife and fork tight.

The Club members’ culinary and I lunged, but could not grab the Banoffee Pie,
presentational skills certainly The toffee was dripping out from the sides.
developed to a very sophisticated My sister copied my every move,
level, as you will see from the many Desperation flowed through me; I wanted that last slice!
images and notes posted on the
Everything turned silent,
DEAR DR STEYN, I could hear the ticking of the clock,
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME MAKE THESE Deadly like a bomb, counting down to…
FABULOUS MEATBALLS, THEY TURNED OUT Our bedtime.
AMAZINGLY AND MY WHOLE FAMILY LOVED THEM. I
AM EXCITED FOR OUR NEXT FOOD WE MAKE.  Time seemed to slow down,
BEST WISHES, FORD HARTMAN. As both of us hurled ourselves at the plate.
But I was taller, I knew I’d get there first.
Teams platform and Dr Steyn is delighted I smiled smugly; my sister knew too.
to be re-starting the next series of
Cookery Club challenges in the autumn I stuck out my arm,
term. No need to turn to Mr Ottolenghi But the plate slipped from my hand!
now for ideas for your family’s supper or I looked on in helpless despair,
a special party cake or dessert - just go to As it toppled to the floor.
the Teams platform and scroll down the
many mouthwatering recipes and images My energy suddenly drained,
there for your inspiration! As the toffee pooled on the floor.
All that was left was for my mother to
Say the word “Bedtime”.

NEWS 13

Saahil's Star Wars cookies! Alex D's Yianni's Yoda Cake!
Chewbacca

Cake!

Saahil's Star Alex D's Yian
Wars cookies! Chewbacca Yod
Cake!

Alfie's Storm Trooper Cake!

Samuel Linger's

chocolate Lui's Light Sabre roll cake! B
Izz
Chewbacca CSakae!muel Linger's an
Bake OffPCchhUoecwoRblaatcPecaLE HOUSE tro

Cake! Ben and Izzy's Light sabre
and storm trooper cupcakes

COMPETITION

Bartie's Star Wars cake! Purple House’s Initiatives Week Bake Off competition went
ahead online, with all proceeds going to the Alzheimer’s Society.

•Bartie's Star Theodore's Star
Wars cake!
Wars Cake!

Theodore's Star Wars Cake! Sebi's Jabba the Hut Cake!

Josh's Star Wars logo Cake! Nicholas' Star Wars Battle Scene Cake James' baby Yoda Cake!

14

In Partnership

SATURDAY CLUB Saturday

The Saturday Club took place online throughout the lockdowns and government THE HALL SCHOOL
Covid-related restrictions. The programme complemented our partnership schools’
and community groups’ catch-up and wellbeing programmes in response to Covid 19. Exceptional learning, distinctive lives

The Hall Saturday Club said goodbye to its third cohort of Year 6 students at the end
of the Spring Term, wishing them well in their new secondary schools with a final
assembly at which the students made presentations and a video to share online,

demonstrating the range of learning and progress they had made over their six terms
in the Club.

At the end of the Summer Term an online assembly was held for the Year 5 students
and their parents, in which we celebrated their amazing resilience and commitment
of the year! Debbi Clark from the Hubert von Herkomer Arts Foundation talked about
using creative projects to support our mental health and encouraged students to take

part in some summer arts workshops.

The students enjoyed a lively ‘Maths in the
workplace’ interactive session led by an employee

from JP Morgan and Mrs Walker Headteacher
from Christ Church Primary also joined us to share

ideas for preparing for Year 6 and suggesting a
range of books for the students to read over the

summer holidays.

SCIENCE

FRENCH Science specialist support continued for a team of teachers at
AT FITZJOHN'S AND Rosary Primary School over the Spring and Summer months.
The continuing challenges of both The Hall and Rosary schools
CHRIST CHURCH
having to operate as separate entities, with no teachers
French MFL provision continued entering another site were tackled through the powers of
at Fitzjohn’s Primary and Christ
technology!
Church Primary partnership
schools for students in Years Meeting regularly online and demonstrating specialist resource
3 - 6. Again due to the Covid use and experiments though video, the science project leader
managed to work with Rosary’s science lead and teachers over
physical restrictions, new the period to develop a science curriculum, produce schemes
methods of teaching were tried,
of work, explain new concepts and model science teaching
beginning with the sharing of techniques for Years 3 and 4.
resources and links to French
language on-line activities and The highlight of the “We’re Buzzing” topic of the Summer Term
then moving onto live lessons came at the end, when our Science specialist was finally able
'beamed' into the Fitzjohn's and to physically visit Rosary and lead a Year 4 trip to Hampstead
Heath, demonstrating botany and specialist scientific skills.
Christ Church classrooms!
“Alana, Charlotte and I just wanted to say thank you for all your help with this unit. The
children have loved all the experiments - every day they want to get their rulers out to
see how much their plants have grown! Thank you so much as well for your help with

the trip to The Heath. It really was a hit both with the children and the parents”.

IN PARTNERSHIP 15

OUTREACH INITIATIVES

DIGITAL POVERTY 1

Back in March 2021, Jack Walsh, Year 8 Hall student came Jack Walsh
up with an idea and asked to put out a message to his year
group friends to bring into school old laptops that could In these very challenging times, many families do not have the
be cleaned down and distributed to local families through The technology at home for their children to be able to connect
Winch, a community project at Swiss Cottage with whom the with their fellow classmates and teachers and take part in online
school has longstanding ties.  learning whilst schools are closed. Having read an article in the
Sunday Times about a family who only had 1 laptop for 4 children,
Following discussions with the CEO of The Winch, who confirmed an idea came to me that we have spare laptops at home and
that the demand was there amongst school-aged children and there must be other Hall families in the same position and that
young people for these redeployed laptops, we put our heads these laptops could be donated to help educate children who
together with Jack’s family and Mr & Mrs Swarup of Camdor couldn’t access online school. 
Global Advisors who had important advice about how to wipe the
hard drives and collect in devices. I am also aware that we are in a very privileged position to be
at The Hall and I always try to help out the community out
We shared 'instructions' for wiping a hard drive with Hall families especially as we are in extremely difficult times.
and soon there was a steady stream of devices being cleaned down
and delivered into the school’s collection point. Several devices I shared my idea with Mr Godwin and Dr Godwin and they
were taken to The Winch, whilst others made their way to schools approached The Winch who had families who desperately needed
in Camden, as well as councils further afield. laptops. In addition, they had been approached by a firm run by
a Hall family (Camdor Global Advisors) who were also looking to
Thank you, Jack for your thoughtfulness and many thanks to the provide laptops for children in need.
many families who supported this much needed initiative.
With Dr Godwin’s help, the plan took off and some laptops and
iPads were donated to the cause and prepared for donation,
Before Half Term I was lucky enough to be allowed to take them
down to the Winch and hope that they have made a difference to
the families that received them.

Thanks to everyone who helped this cause.

Musical keep their instrument if they wanted to continue
lessons. As the scholarship system was running,
Music is such an important part of life at The Hall, but sadly students had to return their instruments at the end
this is not the case for all local children. of the scheme so that they could be used by the
Before the Easter holidays we had a call from Heartlands High next wave of scholars. There were several students
School who have set up a year 7 scholarship scheme as part of their who wished to continue learning an instrument but
Restore the Music grant whereby their students are given a musical would struggle with the costs associated with this. Donations of
instrument and are provided with free or heavily subsidised music ‘gently used’ instruments would therefore be put to very good use!
lessons.
This scholarship removes the huge financial barrier of learning Huge thanks for the keyboards, violins, clarinets and unused
a musical instrument, however their Head of Arts really wanted music theory & grade books that were kindly donated by
Hall families; such donations make a huge difference to the
to be able to expand their store of musical opportunities for cognitive and creative learning for many local
instruments so that upon reaching the end students. Long may music flourish in Camden!
of the scholarship scheme, the Year 7s could

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FFErEoDntTlHinEe Royal Free Charity
2021 Pond Street
London
An initiative led by Hall parents and friends started NW3 2QG
just before Christmas 2020, to support and feed
NHS workers on the frontline at the Royal Free 7 April 2021
Hospital.
T2h3eCHroasllsSfieclhdoRoload
Over the three-month period between 22nd December London
and 26th March, in excess of £60,000 was raised from the NW3 4NU
local school and wider community to acquire a range of DWHtschAtoeoothloopeeaosfarfelsrfclrtoefpeyFahkpcvpaivotredrtaohiaegaoeudiorurrrulnnkeowerwkptetisduonlnngniasernggtrioatset2eahwioiwne,nx,.boffhncp,ogsiuYtenhtrarothsteoaneiouel.sutdfcssnfhrtMsotrrtChaeihefmfeabrookffanoefynpeiuvavnneayahirbednddt.nnallueh-hniefTdnd1lereefaeihee9blndasvstoamogercescsvftnohdfrtiaekfcaaisosloslous.lufnttotiufacssedTtlgtnkohf,odsfhmrddasgatatoaayapvhoetintoiwnfteeesntfkuui,dtnnent.bmdrhdyrcaeeoeigoor1npeeseur,fgpniaRdontrylsifrheoeebwonoycyrlhryoaoooiuaaarcbufurlckvtskesserhieFsntidaonead,rglnemgxfolbfecec,lnytaonotehaahdngtfCpentfheegiietinohderrieoegnaaaifrynesrnnoftialaeotdoouytnltirocmrssddaaaopukefmtlunutapiomecnnedrrptondehadnormdnentserahmietrednmmesitmgenhuansdagRronrteiwoolfkmsicfotsauei,yetylhebghrl.spaeinlhenTfserlntteoihsnFtcFtvivNieoeeseoerisHseeevrheiteddoeSoaabisnrnste
equipment in order to support food and drink provision
for frontline personnel at the hospital. Staff ranging from fOtoohhruenagrrnoobNkteetHeshynSaom.lu.feYoafoofnurasryllaeonoxuferimmuinsmpclheareearydrseiubcrolaeamtbstmlheoeiltaimdmRaeoorniyuttyantltodFtuotrhreiuenesgh.Cothhsipasirtitatiyml,ceaonmodfmtuhunenpitaRyroaaylnlaedlleFodurerdeihffeHicaoultslhtpycitafaorle,r
doctors and nurses in ITU to mortuary workers, parking
attendants and covid vaccinators all benefitted from Warmest regards,
readily available meals, hot drinks and snacks. Microwave
ovens, a fridge, catering hot water urns and kettles and JCRohoniyeaSflpEFixreeerescuCthivaerity CKRhaotiyeeaflSEFlexremeeceuHctokivsepital
six Nespresso machines and coffee capsules were among
the catering equipment donated to the hospital. Over
15,000 fresh meals, 1,080 snack boxes filled with fresh
fruit, chocolate biscuits, energy bars, 15,000 freshly baked
pastries quiches, croissant, pain au chocolat and 2,000
burgers were served up.
 
Not only did the initiative help and feed those on the
frontline, it also gave some very much needed business to
local restaurants and retailers, many of whom provided
food at cost or nearly cost. A ‘lifeline’ was extended to
Liberty Kitchen (www.libertykitchen.org), a social enterprise
in partnership with Pentonville Prison, which provided over
400 meals a week for the Royal Free.

As ever The Hall community rallied to the cause and many
wonderful offers of parking spaces, coffee capsules, food,
money and meals flooded in. Hall family proprietors of a

OVER THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD BETWEEN commercial bakery provided over 10,000 pastries for not only the
22ND DECEMBER AND 26TH MARCH, IN Royal Free but North Middlesex Hospital too.
EXCESS OF £60,000 WAS RAISED FROM Huge thanks to all members of our community who leapt to
THE LOCAL SCHOOL AND WIDER COMMUNITY support this venture – your 'can do' attitude and generosity was
TO ACQUIRE A RANGE OF EQUIPMENT IN ORDER extraordinary and showed once again that even in the most
TO SUPPORT FOOD AND DRINK PROVISION FOR challenging of times, empathy and humanity win through.
FRONTLINE PERSONNEL AT THE HOSPITAL.

NEWS 17

National EYntEeArRpr8ise CHALLENGE

Year 8 students took part in an Enterprise Challenge in the summer term, the aim of which was to inspire students to think about
the skills needed to for their future careers, quite possibly in the realm of Start-Up Enterprise. The project aimed to promote key
skills such as problem solving, teamwork and communication as well as encouraging real-life application of their STEM skills.

The Year 8s considered the key personal and professional qualities required within a Start-Up team and to think about some of the
key characteristics of recent Start-Ups that might prove useful as a framework for their own projects. Then they were given the steps

of the Challenge to:

• Develop a concept or product for a start-up business.
• Research similar products or businesses / understand the sector /

who will be their competitors.
• Identify the target market.
• Design the product or concept.
• Develop a financial model and funding requirements.
• Develop a marketing strategy. How are you going to develop your

brand?
• Think about how to launch the product or service?
• First year targets.

During the Challenge Day, Year 8s worked in teams to devise their Start-Up product, create a brand identity for it and consider how they would
market and sell their new product or service. Over the next few pages you will see true innovation and originality amongst the teams’ concepts.

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articles and playlists to get inspired by. A lot We will get funds through crowdfunding and investor funding. We need to raise a
of teenagers and adults have the problem of total of £50,000. 
getting bored of their song rotation. Our app
will effectively solve this problem. Our crowdfunding app of choice is CrowdCube. We will try and raise £20,000
for a total of 10% equity. For the rest of the £30k, we will reach investors who
Our interface will be simple, user-friendly and have experience in the tech and music sector. We will find investors through LinkedIn. 
very powerful and henceforth satisfy all users.
App development – We will play freelance app developers to makes sure the app will
Users can connect their music streaming services and create look intuitive and clean. £10,000 will go towards this. 
playlists to share with their friends. Users can read and post
articles from musicans and friends alike, on all sorts of topics, Customer Service Bots/Maintenance - It is essential that our app runs smoothly
from creative processes to favourite songs. and when there are problems, they can be solved quickly. We would need virtual
assistants and bot plug-ins. This will cost us £10,000. 
You can connect your Spotify or Soundcloud account so that
TuneStar can recommend you posts based on what you listen
to on Spotify.

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DELIVER U

Bob Murray, Niko Saladin, Thomas Barnwell, Sam Linger, Julian Herbst, Theo Katzenellenbogen

THE EXPERIENCE PRICING

At Deliver-U we pride ourselves on providing the best service possible The price varies depending on the vehicle chosen:
for our customers, by offering a wide range of cars and food. We offer an
alternate option to an uber or a taxi by giving the option to eat during the • 3-seater 1970 Cadillac: £30 per hour
journey. It is more convenient and is great for parties and with friends and
family.  • 5-seater Maserati SUV: £50 per hour

There are added extra-comfy pillows in our cars. You might say that • 7-seater Chevrolet Tahoe: £90 per hour
Deliver-U redefines the word 'luxury'. We upgrade our cars with the softest
suspension, so that it is the comfiest possible journey. This means that it will This price of the journey is then added to the cost of the food plus 10%.
be a pleasant experience and you won't get your food all over you whilst
eating it! OPTIONS

HOW TO ORDER • The Party Pack: Comes with the Chevrolet Tahoe, and everyone gets
a free happy meal from McDonalds. The car comes with free WiFi and
First you would go onto the app, which is still under construction, and can fit 7 children. One adult can sit in the front. All for the price of £110
press ‘order’. This would then give you a choice of the three cars. Choose per hour. Great for birthdays and special occasions
one, depending on how big your group is. After this, it would send you
directly to a pull-down menu where you can choose which restaurant • The Romantic Pack: Includes a Maserati SUV with a candlelit interior.
you want to buy from. You would then choose the meal of your choice You get a free Short Rib Beef Ramen from Wagamama. The windows
and when your car arrives, it would have the food in it still warm.  can be closed with velvet curtains, and the interior is made more
luxurious with comfy pillows, etc. It can fit 2 people. All for the price of
£90 per hour.

https://firegb.wixsite.com/up-grade

UP-GRADE MARKETING
TUITION
We have created a website promoting the service,
By Toby, Fred, Rex, Sam and with a page to easily buy it, including a 1-year
bargain, and a newsletter which people can
Alfie Jewell, Rex Mullion, Sam Palmer, Toby Osborne, subscribe which lets them know of deals and new
Angus Lao, Fred Smith features.

WHAT IS UP-GRADE? • We will show adverts on Youtube and TV. We
will also buy some adverts on google, which are really cheap, less
Up-grade is an online service that offers online or real-life tutoring from one than $10.
simple platform. There is a website for PC users and an app for mobile. It is
easy to use, and Tutors can be met online or, for a small fee, in person to your • We would need £100 to start and we would get it from crowd
house. Up-Grade provides 7+ to college level tuition. funding.

• We will get these ages in by advertising through schools and coming in for • We are planning to partner with the Government and take a part
talks to advertise it.  of the 1.5 Billion schools' budget to offer up-to 50% off for children
who have been negatively affected by remote learning over the
• We will also use youtube ads as most of our customers will use it as 77% of lockdown. 
this age group use it.
• We will request £100,000 which will let us give 50% off deals to
• We will also advertise it as a way to get out of the hole you have fallen into 5,000 lucky children who desperately need to be taught after
in lockdown.  lockdown. This will mean they will not be behind when they get into
their next school year.
Up-Grade has been started to help pupils to catch up with their learning after
the effect of disastrous remote learning. It will function after school and UNIQUE SELLING POINTS
add more learning to pupils' days. There will also be video's available on
the website's premium for quick easy learning. It will offer a free account We offer, real life tutoring sessions, which for many students makes
with limited videos and ads. it easier to learn and concentrate.While other services only offer paid
tutoring sessions, we have a free version of our course, with only a few
courses, so it isn't as effective as the paid course.

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Arya Kadiwar, Archie Gee, Ben Page, OUR ROADMAP
Luke Bernardi, Nobuki Smolders
• 2021-2022: develop technology, using other technologies.
THE IDEA
• 2023-2024: start testing on people in need of organ transplants. 
We are a company which creates artificial/mechanical organs
that can be mass produced in factories. • 2025: we start the public beta: we’ll charge high amounts of money to
people who want to try this ground-breaking technology.
HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT
• 2026: We start offering our services in select regions
Unlike other organ transplant processes, instead of taking
organs from other people, we produce them. Using the latest cell • 2027: Worldwide release
recreation and 3D printing technology, we can accurately recreate
the parts of the body needed for it to function. One-off organ Turritopsis dohrn (aka the
Our product depends on newly created technology, that will be purchases immortal jellyfish)
able to replace all failing organs. Tissue, which makes up organs,
can be created by layering cells using a specialized 3D printer. • You can buy an organ for £299. • This jellyfish is immortal
Eternal Premium There is a surgery fee of £50. as well as our masccot.
• Eternal Premium is a subscription service which includes
• In emergency scenarios, you can • When it is scared, or is
unlimited organ transplants, priority access to surgery and pay £200 extra to get immediate near death, it will
monthly organ evaluations to spot organ failures and make surgery. regress into an earlier
sure everything is working as indented. stage of its life.
• There are gifting options for Eternal Premium, if you want
to gift your loved ones with the present of immortality. • They rebirth themselves
• It costs £99 a month or £999 a year. and regrow all their
organs just like we will
be able to.

CART VISION

Harvard Han, Gully Lewis, Edward Shapiro, Ianni Alibertis

THE PROPOSAL FIRST YEAR TARGETS

This team’s Start-Up idea consists of a shopping cart which would be • We will beta test to
controlled from a phone with some sense of automation. From home, the 100 people in the first month
owner would be able to choose the route and the shop their cart could enter
and pick and choose what items they want. The cart would cost around £849. • If 100 people buy a Cart Vision
a month and shop once a
Dimensions; length – 100cm; width- 60cm; depth 32.5cm. With built in motion week, we will make around 
sensors to prevent injury, the cart would come with an extendable charger £430800 a year.  
and require around 9-10 hours to charge fully. This product would also come
with 44 gel icepacks to keep food products cool when moving.  • We will try to get Waitrose,
Tesco, Sainsburys to sell their
HOW THE PRODUCT WORKS products on our app and make
their products Cart Vision
In the app, there is a GPS which the owner could use to set a route to a shop friendly
nearby. Built into the cart is Bluetooth, which would sync the app with the
cart. The cart has motion sensors to prevent injuries. We will collaborate
with different companies so customers can order online on our website. The
cart will then go to the shop chosen by the owner and scan for the selected
ingredients. To physically get the products from the shelves into the cart, a
robotic arm will be attached to grab the items and place in the box. The cart
would have a protective cover, which can be unlocked by the fingerprint of
the owner. If it is picked off the ground for more than 3 seconds, outside the
home area, an alarm will go off and the thief will be pictured, by the cameras
onboard, and their image sent to the police. 

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MEK CUSTOM KEYBOARDS

Charlie Meadows, Lucien Florentin-Lee, Alex Driscoll, Lui Kato

THE PRODUCT PRICING & PLANNING

• Lowest Price = £99.98 but the lowest priced keyboards will cost £50 to
make

• Highest Price = £249.98 and the most sophisticated keyboards will cost
£200 to make

• Next year - Start full production of our keyboards

• Sell over 1000 keyboards by the end of the year.

• Start investing in producing customised mice as well

TARGET MARKET Charity – Gamers Outreach

The target market for our keyboards are gamers who would like to add • Gamers Outreach is a charity that empowers hospitalized families
an amount of customization and personality in their gaming setup (and through play. Their goal is to build a world where activity is easily
to show off to their friends). We also want to sell to people who think prioritized as part of care. Video games are their tools of choice to do
that other keyboards are too pricy for them. this.

Razer is our largest competitor for standard keyboards. The cheapest
Razer mechanical keyboard is the Black Widow and the most
expensive is the Huntsman V2.

https://www.fiverr.com/mekeyboards/make-custom-mechanical-
keyboards-f5fb

However, as we are one of the very few custom keyboard makers we
have very little competition from other companies.

THE PRODUCT U-SHIRT

We produce T shirts. All our shirts can be customised with Jonathan Roach, William Travis, Amar Ali,
pictures on the internet, speech added by the user and a Sebi Michelli-Marsden, Kai Szerkowski
drawing option to add your own art. The shirts can be comical,
simple, trendy or anything else you want. TARGET MARKET & PRICING

It will cost lots to individually print all the t-shirts, so we are We expect our target market to be teenagers from ages 12-18 to buy our t-shirts,
going to be quite expensive with the prices to compensate, however many other people such as uni-students or anyone who enjoys custom art is
however still much less than top designer shops. welcome. 
Our website will try and be as user friendly as possible as people won't bother if it is
We are different in that although there are other custom t-shirt complicated, and the t-shirt will be delivered within the week. If you are from abroad
producers in the competition, many of them only have text there might be an extra cost for shipping. 
options to write on a shirt or are low quality shirts. This is what Making the t-shirts will cost up to £20.00 because of our high-quality 100 percent
sets us apart from some of the other companies. organic cotton. Therefore, the t-shirt will cost £44.99. We are hoping to have a profit of
about £25.00 and 5% of our profit go to cancer research UK. We hope to expand in the
We are donating a percent of our profits for a good cause future and when we do we will increase our profit donation to 7.5%.
giving people more of an incentive to buy ours. 
ADVERTISING
Most of the competitors are at the cheaper end of the market,
so being higher quality may seem like we will have less We will get many influential figures for the new generation to promote our brand, such
customers but is more to avoid a crowded market. as Cal the Dragon.
We will put adverts on you-tube and on black cabs to promote throughout London, we
will also have a social media app and will regularly post there. 
Some of the best designs will be part of a voting poll and the most voted for shirt will
be available for everyone that month.

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SWIFT SAFETY

Josh Jaegle, Jack Walsh, Dilan Lieberman, Jeremy Ching, Adbi Kamara

There are many different scenarios in modern times when people feel very unsafe in a situation but are unable to properly call
the police and tell them their location, it could be a woman walking down the street, such as Sarah Everard and knowing that
if the person tailing them sees them on their phone, they will be in more danger and thus can’t call the police, or someone in an

uber being kidnapped and who can't talk the police due to their kidnapper being able to hear them.
In a survey of 1456 women, 47% want more resources for police to fight crimes against women. 67% of women believe the
government are not doing enough for their safety and 60% of women believe that the police aren’t doing enough. As this
YouGov survey shows, women want more help from the police and the government in ensuring their safety. But the real problem

is not the police, or the government, not wanting to help but rather them not having the tools to help.

THE PRODUCT phone is poking out of your pocket or has a clear line of sight to the
aggressor.
Swift Safety is an app dedicated to making you feel
safer on streets. It is a better alternative to calling • It can also access your microphone* to better gauge the situation
999, being faster, easier and more discreet to
use. You can instantly press a button on the screen • There will be a feature where you can see a map of police
which will turn on location services on your phone incidents, cordoned off areas and high crime rate areas that have
and alert emergency services to your location. happened around you so you can avoid them. 

SAFETY IN ONE TAP * Your phones camera and microphone will only be used in the app and
requires user permission beforehand
The police will then be able to access the nearest CCTV and your phone's
camera and microphone so that they can be used to give police the data Swift Safety has been completely designed from the ground up as a safety
necessary to respond well. app better than calling 999 for urgent scenarios with its myriad of options
to be more flexible, such as its instant location feature and connecting to
• It will use your live location after you activate the alert. Live location your phone's camera and microphone as well as CCTV. It offers a safer
will be switched off once the situation has been resolved. way to contact police in case of a life threatening situation.

• It will use front and back cameras* to feed to police in case your

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oducts Sebastian Hernandez, Salomon Snijders, Nicholas Taylor

a unique concept. Many websites which MARKETING
n certain subjects like Universities and
have the option to book a lecture. Most of our marketing will be through advertising. We would sponsor talks at
no website or app like Talkshare which universities, on YouTube and on streaming services so that we are already advertising
o pick from lecturers on any subjects in to a target audience, not just random web surfers or people on the street.
ke a social media platform but it for one As TalkShare has no subscription, there is no free trial to offer, but we can give out
This means that instead of Searching discount codes which takes 5% of the lecturers price. Our company makes up the extra
ook and Twitter for hours, you can easily 5% to the lecturer.
udience who is available far faster.
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THE PRODUCT
How an Audience can useTalkShare
TalkShare is an app (also available online) which connects
a presenter and an audience together who are interested An Audience (e.g. a school group) can create a profile
in a lecture about a certain topic. Using TalkShare, you can which shows what kind of talk they are looking for, where
search a topic and lecturers who discuss the topic will be they are based if they want a real talk (alternatively they
advertised to you and you will be able to hire them online or might want a talk online) and when they are available for a
in person. When you find a lecturer you want, you are put into talk. This means that they can be approached by the
contact with them to discuss the details. Any range of topics lecturers they are looking for. An Audience can also use a
could be available. ghost mode which means they can ask lecturers for talks,
A lecturer can also use TalkShare to advertise themselves, but they cannot be approached by lecturers. The tab has
set their price and apply to audiences to give them lectures. a search bar for lectures and lecturers on the top, a 'popular'
Teachers, business owners, health advisors, servicemen, other page, and pages for specific subjects which the user can
educators within schools, universities and clubs may find it choose.
useful.

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SEON

Rufus Ogilvie, Max Slotover, Peter Giles-Nedeljkovic, Saahil Gani, Sam Menton

PRODUCT INFORMATION PRODUCT PLANNING AND PRICING

There is absolutely nothing like Seon on the market. The closest We are planning to launch our first booth on Bondi Beach – the most
thing to Seon is regular sunscreen. Sunscreen is very inconvenient famous beach in Australia. Within the first month we are looking
and a pain to apply. However, Seon is cheap and quick to apply, to multiply the number of booths on Bondi Beach. Then before half
you just step in the booth and sixty seconds later your SPF 50 a year we would want to multiply through Australia in all the major
sunscreen will be covering your entire body thanks to handy beaches. Hopefully by the end of a calendar year we would have spread
dispensers. It lasts sixty seconds as a ring of dispenser sprays move globally.
up and down the booth.
A trip to the booth will cost you AUD 5.50, or about £3. Using current
This is a rough design of our booth prices of 8mm glass, store-bought cream, spray nozzles and the piping/
tanks, to construct a booth would cost £359 or 655 AUD. Adding cream
would cost an extra £3 per 600ml. Predicting a monthly income is
difficult but in theory it shouldn’t take too long to begin making a profit.

BONDI BEACH

Seon has been developed in response to high incidence of skin cancer To Get You ThinkingBondi beach is the most popular destination
in Australia. About one million aussies are diagnosed every year. This
is partly due to the reluctance to wear protective cream against the for surfing, relaxing and swimming in
sun. Australia. The first of our booths will be
placed on Bondi for people to enjoy.
Australia has the highest rate of this cancer among any other country,
and this needs to be stopped. Australians succumb to skin cancer
more because they immigrated from Europe, with lighter skin, and
less resistant to the sunny climate.

Write down some keywords that
come to mind when you think of the
concept of a startup.
Name some recent startups or
products / services you use – any
common features?

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History department, in which the physics of
launching ping pong balls was put into action!

24

YEAR 4
SCIENCE
GAMES

SCIENCE 25

CATAPULT
CHALLENGE!

Caolan O’Connor

On Wednesday 12th May, we had the
CATAPULT CHALLENGE!

It was in the evening, lots of contestants were hungry
for the win but unfortunately 4 people couldn't
compete. We were put into 8 groups of 6. We all

started to fire our ping pong balls. We marked our
ping pong balls with post-it notes. The winner of each

group would go into the finals.
With a metal spoon Lucas came through on longest
distance, but he was disqualified because he didn't
actually make a catapult. The competition narrowed;
Ziyan, Joseph, Bruno, Sasha, Alex and Sebastian. The

top two were Joseph and Alex. They loaded their
catapults… Joseph fired his ping pong ball which went

halfway across the room. Everyone started chanting
because they were so amazed! Then Alex loaded his
catapult and, FIRED!!! Alex's ping pong ball flew past

Joseph's ball. Everyone hurried towards him.
He had just won the Catapult Challenge 2021!

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YEAR 6 & 7
OPEN HOMEWORK

Year 6 and 7 students worked
hard at producing posters and
models to demonstrate their
learning and understanding of their
favourite aspects of SCIENCE.
After presenting to their peers in
Science lessons, the work was
displayed in an exhibition for

the whole school to view.

SCIENCE 27

ADAVRECNTTIUCRE  On March
The 5th 2021 we
Jonah McNamara had a special visit
from a polar explorer named 
ALEX HIBBERT on GoToMeeting. Alex
Hibbert had explored the Arctic and attempted
to break the speed record for crossing the
Greenland Ice Cap. 

He had several attempts and always crossed it but
failed to beat the record. He passed the ice cap with

many speedy dogs called Alaskan Malamutes. 

He bought these dogs when he was passing
an Indigenous village, he was wary at first, that they
wouldn’t welcome him into their homes, meaning he
wouldn’t be able to trade. But they happily let Alex

in and fed and traded with him. Here is where he
got his Alaskan Malamutes and headed off again

to conquer the glacier. 

He never succeeded in breaking
the record, but his talk

was enticing and interesting
to listen to. 

DR. DEAN LOMAX is an
internationally recognized
palaeontologist and author whose
books include Dinosaurs of the
British Isles (2014) and Prehistoric
Pets (2020). He gave an online talk
to pupils in Year ??? entitled Locked
in Time.

Dr Lomax talked about some
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ONLINE TALK BY
DEAN LOMAX Boys came to see that fossils are not just inanimate objects: they can
record the life stories of creatures as fully alive as any today.
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ECO-Schools

ECO

COMMITTEE

Chloe Taylor

We were delighted to be able to raise our official Eco School
Green Flag outside the Junior School building at long last.
In due course it is also hoped that we will also be able to

raise one above the Senior School building.

Eco Workshops

Throughout the last week of the Spring term, boys from
Reception to Year 6 were given the opportunity to engage in
an Eco Workshop. The workshops took the boys away from
their laptop screens and transported them into Eco fun.
Each workshop focused on current environmental issues and the
boys were able to discuss potential strategies to help improve eco
matters within our control. Each workshop incorporated a variety
of activities combining theoretical and practical elements.

Earth

DAY

Earth Day also gave boys the
opportunity to write, take a photo or
draw one interesting fact about our
wonderful planet for display around

the school.

ECO-SCHOOLS 29

Julian Herbst

"Walk to School Week” commenced on the 17th of May,
and was an effort to limit the use of cars and reduce
CO2 emissions. To incentivise good Eco behaviour the
team decided to reward the year group who commuted

in the greenest way!
Congratulations to Years 3, 5 and 7 on scoring the
highest number of ‘Eco Marks’ during Walk to School
Week. Thank you to all those that participated and

donated to the Living Streets Charity.

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Food Miles FOOD MILES

AWARENESS Do you know how far your food has travelled to
get to your kitchen? That journey – the distance
The Eco Schools Committee is committed to keeping topical between where something is grown to where it
environmental issues ‘under our noses’, so that as a
community we continually make every effort to care for our is eaten – is what we mean when we talk about ‘food miles’.
piece of the world.
Think about home-grown herbs or local farmers’ market veggies.
Last term we looked at Food Miles. The Eco Committee put their They won’t clock up many food miles. But if you can’t resist out-
heads together and came up with some 'greener' alternatives we of-season strawberries on your morning yogurt, that will mean a
can try at home.
much longer trip.
We could support local producers, buying from local farmers’
markets, butchers, milkmen, or fishmongers, buying from “TO GIVE AN IDEA OF HOW FAR FOOD TRAVELS, A TYPICAL
reputable certified sources, like Fairtrade or MSC, try growing and BASKET OF 26 IMPORTED ORGANIC FOODS MAY HAVE
preparing more food at home or moving to a more supportable TRAVELLED THE DISTANCE OF SIX TIMES AROUND THE
diet, eg. having meat or diary free days, so we can create a EQUATOR” ETA.co.uk
sustainable food system that benefits everyone. So, are food miles bad for the environment?

CAN YOU If your ingredients have come a long way, they may have a heavy
FIND YOUR carbon footprint. That is especially likely if they arrived by air –
due to the high climate impact of planes. Unfortunately, it does
LOCAL not stop there, we also must take into consideration the miles
FARMERS travelled to buy food and the miles which is accumulated when
MARKET ON waste, including food packaging is taken to a landfill site.
THE MAP?
IMPACT OF
UPON ECO SYSTEMS

Josh Hammond

The impact of face masks and other 'Coronavirus waste' on wildlife
and local habitats was of particular interest to the Eco Committee.

"An estimated 94 million face masks are being thrown away
every week! They are damaging local habitats and wildlife in
ways that could be irreversible. Divers have found dozens of
gloves, masks, and bottles of hand sanitisers deep in the ocean.
From this and other evidence, it was deduced that there is
more ‘coronavirus waste’ in the ocean and seas than jellyfish.
Not only is it damaging the sea and its creatures but also other
habitats and wildlife. Many cases show Covid-19 litter causing
entanglement, entrapment, and ingestion by animals as the
material designed to keep us safe is difficult to breakdown and
recycle. This critical problem needs to be sorted and here are
some actions that we have thought about to reduce the impact
on the environment. Using machine washable and reusable face
masks is a major help. If you are using a single-use face mask,
keep it in your pocket until you find a black bin and always try

to cut the strings, as this helps reduce entanglement."

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Face masks - Be a hero twice
Francisco Benzinho

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PlantingECO COMMITTEE

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Alexandre Raynal Jakob Rottke

In the terrace, we, the Gardening Club members have a The main aim of the Gardening Club is to make the terrace look eye
variety of plants that we planted. From marigolds to cute catching for people that go up there.
little strawberries. Right now, the garden is at full blossom.
Every flower is out, and thriving. Sadly, one of my favourite Now, as the summertime is approaching, my favourite job is to water the
plants, (tulips) have passed away. Most of them have been plants. The hotter it gets, the harder it is to water the plants. As the soil
picked at by cheeky squirrels but a few of them lost their gets dry, the roots can’t spread well, so we need to make sure they always

lives because of the strong breeze. have enough fluids and the soil stays nice and moist.
We are waiting for the summer bulbs to come out of their One of the plants we are growing is called Marigolds. It is a pretty flower
hiding place A.K.A soil. We also have runner beans which which has blue and yellow petals. When the Marigolds have died (R.I.P) a
have scarlet-rose flowers. The beans aren’t visible yet, but wonderful summer bulb, which we have planted before, will spring up and

they are expected to be seen in July – September. I’ve make the Marigolds grave look like a beautiful place.
enjoyed seeing every day how the flowers have The leader of the gardening club is Mr North, he is a perfect leader.
thrived and more and more bumble bees come.
We all have a great time with him.

GarMdeSning
CLUB

Bruno Cokeliss

The Gardening Club is the club that looks after the
terrace, next to the science labs. We basically make
the area look neater, and more beautiful. Recently, we
have been looking after the summer flowers that we
planted in early spring. They have come into bloom
now and are looking lovely. I enjoy the Gardening Club
a lot, and would thoroughly recommend it, because it
means we get to know and work with Mother Nature.

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JS ACTIVITY WEEK

OutY&EARA3bout!

HAMPSTEAD HEATH

Tessa Burr

The Year 3s spent the summer term learning all
about Japan, and this rich topic allowed for many
immersive activities to further the boys' learning.
During a trip to Hampstead Heath, they learnt about
Forest bathing or "Shinrin Yoku" as it's known in Japanese.
The act of forest bathing encourages a connection to
nature, reflective moments and opportunities to practise
mindfulness. The boys thoroughly enjoyed the experience,
and it was wonderful to see them engage with it so
earnestly. We listened to the sounds of the forest, went on a
mindful walk and observed the surroundings. This activity
also inspired a "senses" poem that we worked on while at
the Heath and back in the classroom.

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KEW GARDENS

Tessa Burr

On a warm and sunny day during activity
week in June, the Year 3s enjoyed an

outing to Kew Gardens. To begin with, the
boys sketched The Pagoda as part of their
Japan topic, and went on to view the lovely
Japanese Gardens. We were very lucky to
see some beautiful peacocks near the zen
garden area. The most enjoyable part of the
day for the boys, would most probably be

playing in the children's garden!

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OutY&EARA1bout!
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Nathaniel Oates

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MS ACTIVITY WEEK

YEAR 5 ANTDraGmoYpEKAoRal5irntiinngg
Max Mast & Jack Bloom
MargateOUR TRIP TO
When we went trampolining, we were surprised to see that
Milan Silva the trampolining park was bigger than any we had ever
been to before! We had fun jumping off the tower onto the
At the start of the day, we all met up at Victoria Station. airbag. The trampolines were a bit hard, but they were still fun. But
Then, we got onto a train, which would send us to even the largest trampolines were dwarfed by the slides.
Margate. It was a long journey, but we all knew it would
pay off. From the start of the day, Year 5 were split up into The slides, which you climbed up an obstacle course to get to, were
six groups. My group first went out to the beach.    very steep, apart from the slide that twisted round and round down
to the ground. There was also a foam pit with lots of foam blocks.
After a fun ten minutes of playing beach games like throw and There was a crowd of boys playing a game where you had to push
catch with a tennis ball, we were informed that a sewage pipe somebody into the foam pit. When we had finished trampolining,
we went go-karting. It was very exciting to put the driving helmets
had been struck by lightning! and gear on. A small group of boys jumped into the karts, the adults
Our luck!!! We all had to return turned on the karts, and then we set off. The steering was very
to the pavement again! Next,
we came to the Flamingo physical, so going too fast
Arcade.  meant you couldn’t steer.
  When we had finished the
There we had lots of fun, race, there was a big quarrel
collecting tickets for awesome about who had won. When the
prizes! After the long and fun other groups had gone, we
day, we all came back (by train) packed up our stuff and went
to our meeting point at Victoria back to the school on the
Station. coach. To conclude, we think
the day was the best day of
activity week.

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YEAR 4

OUR TRIP TO

Matthew Valentin Yonas Djoudi

To start our exciting adventure on 15th June, we did a We started the day,
peaceful registration. Even better we got to come in a bit June 15th with
later and we also got to wear our home clothes as it was registration. We
activity week, and it was an absolute scorcher. When I got in, I took our own pack lunch with us and got to wear our
played Anti-Chess with Arkin and then three-way Top-Trumps.   own clothes. We went down to the MS hall and got sorted out into
different groups. I was in Mrs. Early’s and I was with James A.G,
After we had finished, we were shown our groups. As Miss Duncan Oliver S, Murray S, Ben Z, Jacob W we sat at a table and decided
is so nice, we were put with our buddies. So, I was with Jonah and where we wanted to go in the Zoo when we get there. Then we
Arkin, I was also with boys from the other classes. On the long stood up and left.
walk to London Zoo, I played a game with my friends called guess
my number. After about fifteen minutes of walking, we arrived at We were walking to the Zoo it was about 1.3 miles it was quite hard
Primrose hill. There we had a break where we could have a run because my legs were saw from Monday sports day. We stopped
around and some water and some snacks. Unfortunately, some of at Primrose Hill to have a break we got to play and have a snack. I
us (including me) got itchy legs due to the long grass. But luckily for brought a portable stool with me and Mr. Corbet asked for it I said
me I had some Piriton which made it go down super speedily. I felt yes. I played bomb with James A-G, Laksh, Arjun, Rufus, Murray,
relieved.   Oliver, Alex, Ayan we carried on with the walk. Primrose Hill is
right next to London Zoo so it wasn’t so bad.
After about another five more minutes of walking we sleepily,
trudged into the some of us were full of energy but others not so We went inside the Zoo and Ms Duncan led us to the centre and she
much. Our group, first of all, decided to go to the Reptile house said “we will meet here to go to lunch” we split up into our groups.
where we saw some Amphibians, Crocodiles and finally the Our group went on the blue route we first saw the gorillas and
awesome snakes. I found them so interesting. The way they survive there were more monkeys. Next we saw tigers and a camel we went
in the wild and what they eat.   back to the starting point and went on the pink route we saw an
emu, African hunting dog, zebras, giraffes, pygmy hippos and we
Afterwards we went on the Pink route where we saw all the saw night animals then we went to lunch in the amphitheatre, then
African animals which included the giraffes, Zebras, African on the orange route and saw a Galapagos turtle, lion, reptiles, some
hunting dogs (which Miss Duncan loves so much) Then we crocodiles, snakes and other creatures and we saw the penguins
saw the Otters, Meerkats and Bats. Next, we saw the rainforest (but sadly when we went it was not feeding time).
section where they had done a recreation of how humid it
was in there. It was so humid in there. After that we had lunch Then everyone went to the toilet and then we went to the exit and
in the amphitheatre. Next, we saw the Kangaroos and their as a year group went around the zoo back to Primrose Hill and had
Joeys. They were bouncing around like mad. They were so cute!  a break we walked back and it was home time.
Then we saw the giants and greats who consisted of The Komodo
dragon who is much smaller than you might expect. And
the Galapagos Tortoises. 

Finally, we met at our meeting point for one last time, and we
walked back via Primrose Hill and again we had another little
break. Before we ended our very exciting trip by walking back to
school. Overall it was a fantastic Day!!! 

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Michael Asimacopoulos and Jacob Woolf Arkin Bahl

One normal day, the day my Year 4 were so excited to go to On Tuesday 15th June we had a trip to ZSL London Zoo. We
London Zoo. We packed our bags and started our journey. had relaxed registration and got to wear our own clothes.
The heat was scorching all of us, luckily, we had sun cream At around eight fifty we left school together in groups. I
with us. It was a long walk, it felt like our legs had taken a nap. was in Miss Duncan’s group at the front, with Matthew, Jonah,
At 10:00, the whole year had a thirty-minute rest, we stopped Rafa, Laksh, Felix and Thurstan. 
at Primrose Hill and played around, we had to be careful of the  
stinging nettles though! After another seven minutes of walking When we started the walk to London Zoo, I had a chat with
or so, we had finally reached the zoo. Matthew and Jonah as well as playing guess my number. I did not
have hay fever, so I did not mind all the grass and pollen. About
First were the ferocious tigers, they were pouncing, entertaining halfway through the walk we had a break at Primrose Hill. 
my entire group, their black and orange stripes were so majestic in  
the sunshine. The tigers were absolutely amazing. It made my day We found a stone brick that we recalled as a milestone. Miss
happier. For me, the tigers were one of the best parts of the entire Duncan set the boundaries and off we went. Me, Matthew, Jonah
Zoo, I really liked to just watch them run around without a care in and Ryan played hide and seek tag. After about twenty minutes we
the world. headed off again, another fifteen minutes later we were at the
zoo and arranged to meet for lunch just outside the entrance. 
Next, the tortoises, maybe the slowest animal in the Zoo but  
the oldest, I learnt that tortoises could live up to 150 years old! My group agreed to see the reptiles first and then do the pink
I especially like them because of their steel shells, it looked like route. We saw loads of snakes, lizards and turtles in the reptile
nothing could ever knock them over, they were enormous... house, we even saw a crocodile! 
One of the laziest in the zoo, orange and brown animals. When  
I was there, the camels were so stinky, I especially like them We started the pink route which led us to Africa where
because of their humps on their backs. Did you know that camels we saw hippos, meerkats, otters, lemurs, the rainforest and
sometimes have three humps when they are pregnant? Scaly nightlife. After all of that we met at the space we agreed for lunch
creatures, the Komodo dragons. They are quite slow animals if you and walked to the amphitheatre. I had a tuna and sweetcorn
ask me. I really like them; they just look so cool with all those sharp sandwich. After lunch we went exploring for another forty
and deadly scales. They look as if the Komodo dragons’ scales could minutes when we walked back to school we had another break.
pierce solid metal. Finally, when we got back, I went straight home. I loved it!   
 
One of our favourites, the hippos, as we entered the smelly hippo
house we checked in the enclosure and saw a fat hippo lying in
the mud fast asleep and even heard him snore! The monkeys were
swinging from branch to branch in their enclosures they were
acrobats! We also saw the monkey’s babies, they looked exactly like
their mothers, they were cute.

The fastest (in water) of all, the penguins. The penguins were
flashing from spot to spot in the water and looked like they were
happy to see us, as we walked on, we saw this semi-circle glass
thing which you could look through for a better sight of the
penguins and looked like it never ended.

As we moved on to the next animal, I saw a long-patterned neck, as
our group came closer, we realised it was a giraffe and how tall it
was, even its food (leaves) was on a pole!

It was so fun, seeing all those animals were just, amazing. But the
fun had finally come to an end. With that, we set off right back to
where we had started, The Hall. We were picked up just like any
other day and the day was over.

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YEAR 4 & 5

OUR TRIP TO

Kiaan Zare

On Thursday 17th June 2021 Year 4 went to Go Ape Battersea Park. At Go Ape there were teamwork
activities and the treetop adventure. When we went to Go Ape in Battersea Park, we were split
up into several groups to do the activities. I will be writing about the teamwork activities.

In the Teamwork activities we did three games. The ‘Step on the numbers’, ‘Go through the holes/spider
web’ and the ‘Floor is lava’.
1. ‘Step on the numbers’. This game included 30 stepping stone numbered on them 1-30. The rules

were, people were assigned numbers to step on in the correct order. The goal was to complete the
challenge in the fastest time possible by stepping on all the stepping stones.
2. ‘Go through the holes/spider web’. Go through the hole was my personal favourite of the teamwork
activities. What you had to do was go through holes in a wall without touching the spider web. In
order to win all your teammates had to go through the holes but you could only use one hole twice!
3. The ‘Floor is Lava’!! The Floor is lava was most of my friends’ favourite teamwork activity! What you
had to do was use three planks to put them onto the stepping stones and then try to get to the other
side.

I really enjoyed my time at Go Ape and I’m sure you will too. I hope I have persuaded you to go to Go
Ape Battersea Park!

Luca Sanderse

Thursday 17th of June Year 4 went to Battersea Go Ape, where we were split into two large groups
and a few small groups. The first group went on the Treetop Adventure which was sadly not
my group had a lot of fun. After an hour passed, we had lunch and watched the other boys in
the trees. Soon after we went to the adventure playground, and it was sooooo fun there were slides,
ziplines and more!

Then we went over near the entrance of Battersea Go Ape and put on our harnesses to keep us from
falling. Mine was all tangled up so I had to ask for some help from the person who worked there. Once
our group put the harnesses on, we went over to the practice course. The guide told us that there was
only three people allowed on a waiting platform, two people on a bridge and one person on a zipline..

When we started our real treetop adventure it seemed easy at first but over time the stages got harder
and harder, at some point there were swinging wooden planks and on the last one I slipped and fell off
of the planks it was terrifying I was so far off the ground but luckily there harness was there to save me
and I pulled myself back up. There were so many more obstacles like wood log jumping, cross jumping
and tons of more fun stuff. My favourite part was the ziplines I got to do four ziplines and three laps of
the course it was super fun. I mostly did this with my friend Michael and I enjoyed doing it with him
and you can do it with a buddy to if you go.

I hope I have persuaded you to go to Battersea Go Ape to and if you go, I hope you enjoy it.

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Noah Hutchings were you had to walk across wobbling beams and rolling logs or
seesaws in the air. The first three of my group were so fast that we
Year 5 arrived at the school at normal time all exhilarated caught up to the group that had departed 30 minutes before us.
for the incredible Activity Week waiting for us. At 8:30, we The heat forced us into fatigue and sizzled at our skin. As much as
started an activity booklet on Margate, our trip to the beach this was fun, though, the best part was coming up... ….the zipwire!
on Friday. At 9:00 we all went outside to have a break time before I stepped up to the edge of the platform, looked down and leapt off.
the coach ride. My hair flew in the wind and my feet kicked about as I came in for a
crash landing on the pit.
Year 5 alongside the teachers in the scorching heat, departed As the whole of Year 5 had to have a 1 hour go, after completing
towards the coach which was parked a 5-minute walk away in the full course, my group alongside all of the other groups that
Swiss Cottage. All getting on the coach, we sat ourselves down and had already done it, played some sports on the huge field. I played
the huge bus left. During the ride I played Top Trumps and chatted cricket and we won by 11 runs. After 1 hour of playing on the field,
to my friends. Forty-five minutes went super quickly meaning that we all realized that there was a cumbersome forest surrounding
we arrived at around 11:30 in Alexandra Palace where the Go Ape the field. Everyone rushed over and we split into three ‘clans’ and
was. started having a ‘war’ against each other. It was an extremely fun
day and after the rest of the groups had their chance at the tree-top
My group (the second half of 5S) ate lunch when we got there on course, we all headed back in time for 4:00. It had been a super fun
a large field near the course. At 12:15, Mr Dean’s group (my group) day at Go Ape!
started walking over to the check-in place. After checking in and
listening carefully to the safety briefing, we started Go Ape. We
climbed up the stairs and up a ladder to the highest point of the
course. Laith was first in our group followed by Florian and then I
was third to start.

As we went on, the exercises got harder and honestly, scarier.
Different courses were different - for example one was a tall net
where you had to zipline as far as you could and then use the net
to pull yourself along until you get to the junction. Other exercises

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SS ACTIVITY WEEK

YEAR 6

Activity Week certainly was busy this
summer for the Year 6s – from classics
such as a trip to Verulamium studying
mosaics and walking around the walled
town, to sports and games in Regent’s
Park, to water and outdoor challenges
at Longridge Thames Activity Centre

and some volleyball madness at the
Deep Dish courts in Crystal Palace…

their feet didn’t touch the ground!
Quieter days included Lego and cooking
workshops back in school, therapeutic

hours after all the dashing around.

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YEAR 7

The Year 7s spent much of their
Activity Week in the water. The boys
practised skills such as raft building,

paddle boarding and kayaking
during trips to Thorpe Lakes and
the Phoenix Outdoor Centre; many
of the water activities were in teams
and depended upon everyone pulling
their weight, as well as applying a little
physics knowledge now and again.
There was also time for a leisurely
game of cricket or two during the
outing to Primrose Hill, as well as
some hands-on experiences with
medieval weaponry and planning
cunning battle tactics – all of which
involved The Hall’s time-honoured
tradition of lots of charging about on

The Yard!

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YEAR 8

Survival skills such as fire-lighting
and campfire cooking (especially

the all-essential marshmallow
roasting!) were practised during
activity week by the Year 8s on
their visit to London Bushcraft...

followed later in the week by
learning walks around Roman
London and then the streets of
Camden as the boys participated

in Camden’s Streetspace
Challenge.

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Art Abbie Luck

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Zachary Sheik YEAR 2 Atticus Brandreth
Finlay Hutchings
COLOUR

Year 2s learned about
the theory and work of
Kandinsky as they explored
colourwheels, starting off
with watercolor painted
versions using only primary
colours and making the
secondary and tertiary
colours. They experimented
further in some bright
and colourful still life

representations.

Illy ShaikhAlexander Bailey

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Nathan Storchak

Sebastian Hodges

Jack Bunn Nico Luehrmann

Alfie Hall STILL LIFE Max Ashrafian

Gus Kanareck Daniel Callaghan
Alfie Mercey
Nihal Gill
Frederick Stothers

Finlay Tyler

Jack Curtis

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Atticus Stowe Aurele Vandenbroucke Casper Gill Daniel Eisenberg Jacob Jan
Kasra Rahmani
YEAR 3

PORTRAITURE

Loucas Katsoulis Drawing each other's faces and looking at Mirhir Agarwal Noah Lam
the work of various artists was the starting
point for Year 3s before they learned how to
trace and transcribe an image of a face in

order to complete a block print.

Oskar Axelson Paul Munuera Matthew Dyson Raza Ahmad Theo Hartman

James Fishman Will Fraiser Tim Crothers Maxime-Louis Morgan Rafe Murray

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Eskander Dean

Arjun Malde

Ben Zimmern YEAR 4 Sebastian Dobson-Persad
Daniel Valeev James Grant
THE SEA
Cyrus Sarikhani
Inspired by the illustrations of Emma
Dibben, Year 4s produced studies of
fish from direct observation. They were
encouraged to use ink to depict fine details
as well as in freer, more expressive ways.
Boys also looked at the environmental
impact of single use plastics and their
sculptures of sea creatures using wire and
recycled plastics. You can see here also
some bright mono prints of jellyfish in

response to the work of Chihuly.

Kiaan Zare Luca Sanderse

Michael Asimacopoulos

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Cyrus Nation

Eskander Dean

DAVID HOCKNEY FAIRY TALES

Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm were the inspiration for David Hockney to produce some weird
and wondrous drawings for a traditional set of fairy stories including Rapunzel and Rumpelstilzchen.
Year 4s looked at how Hockney’s visual interpretations do not rely on beauty and colour, rather
they convey everything in black and white and ugliness (even the princesses in his illustrations are
unassuming, ugly even) and his haunting, scary, architectural illustrations are unsettling.

Patrick Cope

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