The Cathedralian magazine is produced annually. What is reproduced here is just a selection of parts of some of the articles.  Copies of the magazine are available from the school.  If you like the little you see here then do ask for the magazine.

Choir Concert at St. George's on Saturday 8th June 2002

COMMEMORATION SERVICE

11^th May 2002

  The Commemoration Service took place in Bristol Cathedral on 11^th May 2002.  The sermon was preached by The Reverend Chris Chivers, Minor Canon, Westminster Abbey:

Bristol Cathedral School: a market-place for truth, a laboratory for relationships, a temple of social action

Readings: Micah 6: 6-8 and Philippians 4: 4-9.

I was tidying-up my study when I happened upon a stack of my BCS reports and was rather embarrassed to read: ‘Chris is a silent linguist. In fact, I don’t recall him saying anything in French this term’. So wrote Christopher Martin, the Headmaster at the time. Further down the pile I came across a Geography report: ‘I am amazed when Chris actually finds his way to the classroom’! Best of all was the report on my violin studies: ‘Christopher has had three mistresses in four terms and picked up a lot of bad habits.’ Never let it be said that BCS didn’t offer the most exciting of educations!

  ‘Whatever is true, honourable, just, pure, pleasing, commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things’, wrote St. Paul. This Commemoration Service offers us such an opportunity for reflection. ‘This is what the Lord God asks of you,’ Micah reminded us in our first reading, ‘to act justly, to love loyalty and to walk humbly with your God.’ And if this school stands – or falls – on three things, it is surely these. Is this a place of justice, integrity and fair play? Is it a place characterised by friendship? Is it a place where the journey of faith counts for something?

Read on in the magazine!

An action poster.  More details in the Cathedralian

ART DRAMA AND MUSIC

  ARTS WEEK

The final week of November began with two lively Poetry Workshops for Year 7 pupils. Local poet Philip Lyons talked about his work and engaged the groups in a well-structured writing exercise that kept everybody interested and entertained. Monday also included a display of entries for the Photographic Competition. This was judged by Derek Thompson (‘Charlie’ in Casualty) who was impressed by the over-all standard. He awarded prizes to Oliver Self (First Prize), Paul Oesten-Creasey and Andrew Roberts for their imaginative compositions.

On our second day we offered a Music Technology Workshop in which Year 10 and 6^th Form students could experiment with computer-generated music. Phil Heeley, Head of Contemporary Music for Somerset LEA, demonstrated sampling techniques and computer programmes for processing sounds from live or synthetic sources. The participants then used our recently equipped Room 54 computer suite to produce their own tracks. After the session they received professionally produced CDs featuring a compilation of the music they had generated. Both GCSE students and those who were less well informed were surprised by the variety of material they could work into their compositions.

Three Foresters and a gramophone from the 2002 Drama production  "As You Like It"

END OF YEAR PROM

Bristol Cathedral   Monday 8^th July

The flags and banners were out in the Cathedral as a large and enthusiastic audience gathered for a moving and patriotic End of Year Concert.  This was also John Young’s farewell concert and a fitting way to remember how much he has achieved for the School’s music in three short years.

The programme included Land of Hope and Glory (deafening, with flags waving) and Jerusalem, with the Choral Society showing the audience how to sing properly.  There was the final movement (the noisy one with the organ) of Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony.  Tom Emmerson, also appearing in his farewell performance, sang a couple of songs. And Bradley Reed (who appeared in Les Miserables at the Hippodrome a few years ago) sang two songs from other musicals in a very moving performance.  A brilliant evening.