Spring 2013 Edition of 'Pulse,' Holyhead's Termly Magazine

Welcome to the new edition of Holyhead’s famous Pulse Magazine. This is the second of three editions produced every academic year and once again it is packed with news of the activities students and staff have been involved in over the Spring Term 2013.

Highlights in this issue include news of our many sporting achievements this term, updates on all College activities and a report from the Year 11 visit to Malmaison in Birmingham. There is also a photo montage of Holyhead’s performance of Bugsy Malone which was an extremely successful show and demonstrated the depth of talent for Performing Arts that we have at the school.

There is also important news of two forthcoming events. The first is our annual Presentation Evening on 1st May 2013. This year we are staging the ceremony away from school at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham City Centre. A splendid night is guaranteed for all attending. The second event is the Year 11 Challenge. Last year many of our Year 11 students took part in The Challenge during the summer holidays immediately following their GCSE examinations. The opportunity to participate this summer is there once again for our students and I recommend the experience wholeheartedly.

Unfortunately this magazine has been published too late for news of the Holyhead Big Band’s trip to Vienna that took place during the Easter holiday. Look out for the summer edition for full details of this record breaking tour!

Finally, may I take the opportunity to wish all students preparing for external examinations the best of luck in the weeks ahead. I am looking forward to news of fantastic success in the summer holidays this year.

Martin Bayliss
Principal

April 2013

Pulse Magazine
Monday 20 May 2013
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Ask us, and you will find that we dance to music from America, Africa and Asia; we eat food from Ireland, Italy, Poland and Jamaica; we speak over forty languages and we know over four-hundred different ways to cook a potato. We look Celtic, Slavonic, Arabic, African and Bengali; we can wear kilts, saris, pyjamas and football shirts; and if you get very close to us and look right into our eyes, you can almost see the history of the whole world.

None of us want to live in a world where everybody looks the same.  We are all ready to embrace a multi-cultural, multi-coloured land where every child is equal and all children have a story to call their own.

If this country is going to be great in the future, it will be because of people like us.  We want curry and chips, mangoes and strawberries, kebab and baklava, jerk chicken and apple crumble, and we think of all these things as British.

 

We are not a single tribe, or a single religion and we don’t share a single heritage even though most of us were born in the same place.  We enjoy the diversity yet celebrate the unity of people.  We are building a future home where we are all able to be who we want to be, yet still be British.

 

This is what we do at Holyhead. We believe there are no limits to our ability to learn from each other. We take, we adapt and we move forward.  We have our own way of living together. We are happy to learn; because we know we shall need all of our intelligence.  We are lively; because we know we shall need all of our enthusiasm.  We are organised; because we know we shall need all of our power. We are go-givers not go- getters. We are busy making ourselves into a key feature of the global community, securing our place under the sun.

 

We are Holyhead!

 

With acknowledgments to Benjamin Zephaniah, Lee Hsien Loong, Amartya Sen, Peter Maurin, John Gray, Antonio Gramsci and the staff and students of Holyhead School.

 
 

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