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Philosophy and Ethics Seminar in Gloucester Cathedral |
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“It’s my life”
On Thursday 24th September, the A-level Philosophy and Ethics students plus potential medics from the Biology Department and Mrs. Locke set off for Gloucester Cathedral to attend a conference on medical ethics delivered by three prominent guests: Mr. Michael Cohn, gynaecologist and HCS parent, Dr. Allison Grove, a palliative care specialist from St. Giles Hospice, Lichfield and the controversial philosopher and euthanasia advocate, Baroness Mary Warnock, famous as chair of the committee inquiring into the ethics of human fertilisation and embryology. The seminar in Gloucester was entitled ‘It’s my life’ and discussed delicate and demanding issues at both ends of human existence. Mr. Cohn gave a detailed insight into the technical ins and outs of abortion and his own feelings on the matter, whilst Baroness Warnock and Allison Grove provided their radically differing views on assisted suicide, and whether improved palliative care is the better option. Students from all schools posed some difficult questions to the panel, ours being ‘What do you think about the sanctity of life?’ which elicited a suitably sceptical response from Mary Warnock and divided the panel.
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Visit to Prague and Krakow February 2007 |
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Click here for account of the Prague Trip
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27th March 2009 the Sixth form visited the Shah Abbas Iranian Art exhibition at the British Museum and the Charles Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum before joining the Classics Department for the Clouds.
27th February 2009 the Sixth form visited the Richarch Huish Conference in Oxford Town Hall with keynote lectures from Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss on Business and Environmental Ethics, Sexual Ethics and Liberty and Determination.
16th February 2009 there was a visit to Jeremy Bentham's body in UCL, Babylon Exhibition at the British Museum and the Byzantine Exhibition at the Royal Academy.
21st October 2008 year 8 visited Gloucester Cathedral to see the Anne Frank Exhibition.
Click here for Year 8 views on the Exhibition |
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THE HAY FESTIVAL - MAY HALF TERM |
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Jared Barazetti-Scott, Molly Churchward, Charlie Cooper, Georgie Parry, James Roberts, Mrs. Parry and Mrs. Locke went to hear Archbishop Rowan William in conversation with A.N.Wilson, discussing Dostoyevsky and George Eliot.
Some of us watched Buddhist monks from the Tashi Lumpo Monastery in Southern India perform their rituals and festive dances, clad in masks, brocade hats and hieratic costumes. A highlight was a quick fire demonstration of debating in Tibetan style with grins and grimaces, slapping and foot-stamping. Mr. Jackson would be taken aback by these antics and points of information.
Some of us heard the talks on Thomas Traherne, seventeenth century mystic of Hereford and a Polish Catholic challenge to John Paul II’s teaching on love and lust. Hay was full of deckchairs and ice-cream, despite the damp weather mid-week. It was a good diversion from AS revision, easy to justify.
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KS3 - A Time for Creative RS! |
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Icons in Transformation & work of Ludmila Pawlowska – Cathedral Exhibition in
March 2009
Year 8 pupils visited the recent exhibition of icons of the Scandinavian artist Ludmila Pawlowska in Hereford Cathedral. Later they made their own icons inspired by the fusion of ideas within Ludmila’s icons which draw upon the Russian Orthodox tradition but also include found objects, such as bullets and shell cases, staples and wire, rocks and minerals, scribbled text and handwriting. Many of her icons are crowded by myriads of minature Byzantine figures. Samples of Year 8 work are on display in school in Room K and in the cabinet outside the School Library. These icons are also fusions of ideas relating personal experiences of friendship, loss and sorrow as well as highlighting concerns about child soldiers, foot and mouth, poverty and greed.
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