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The Trusty Servant knowledge and expertise and learn good teaching practices from each other . When shared with other schools in the region we can improve standards in Physics teaching , which will in turn encourage more students to take the subject .
The plan is to run sessions every half term , hosting the events at both UTC Portsmouth and at the Winchester College Science School . The first of these is scheduled for the end of November and will provide practical experience for teaching electricity and electromagnetism .
We are keen for our relationship with state schools to be a mutually beneficial partnership . We will be welcoming students from UTC Portsmouth to Winchester College for an upcoming talk organised by the Winchester College Science Society from Dr Chris Vogel , a Marine Engineer from the University of Oxford . We are inviting them to participate in our careers panels where they can gain insights into different professions , with talks and Q & A session with OWs . In return we have the opportunity to make links with their employer partners and benefit from use of their fantastic facilities , such as their MarsCraft Minecraft teambuilding activity . We are planning for a group of Wykehamists to visit UTC Portsmouth and make use of this unique resource .
We look forward to strengthening our relationship with schools in the state sector further over the coming months and years .
If you would like to become involved with the charity , Physics Partners , please contact Tommy Cookson ( trcookson @ btinternet . com ) or its CEO Bryan Berry ( bryan . berry @ physicspartners . com ).
As former Director of the South West Science Learning Centre and the Founding Principal of the Heathrow Aviation Engineering UTC , Bryan has wide experience of STEM education and teacher training . He has been closely involved with the organisation of all the Winchester training days .
Rogues ’ Gallery : Frank Russell , 2 nd Earl Russell ( E , 1879-83 )
Ruth Derham whets our appetites for her book on Lord Russell :
One afternoon in May 1896 two young Collegemen were enjoying the sunshine in Meads when they were greeted by the wife of the Second Master , Sarah Richardson , affectionately known as ‘ Mrs Dick ’. She was being wheeled around the grounds in her bathchair by Lord Russell ( E , 1879-83 ) and had stopped to make introductions when into view came the Headmaster , Revd WA Fearon – ‘ The Bear ’.
‘ Oh Lor ’,’ said Mrs Dick , ‘ there ’ s that bear !’
‘ So it is ,’ said Lord Russell . ‘ Let ’ s run away .’
‘ And then ,’ wrote one of the Collegemen ( FH Lucas ( Coll , 1891- 1897 )) to his mother , ‘ we had the full view of the most remarkable tableau ever seen , namely the back view of an enormous woman in an enormous bath chair propelled at a gallop by a stout and short-legged peer for a hundred yards right across Meads , so that they might avoid an honorary canon .’
Given that the previous day the letter-writer had attended the Benson Company ’ s rendition of Macbeth , the flit across Meads must have been quite a spectacle for him to consider this the superior performance . For Lord Russell , it was something of a sideshow . The main event was shortly to be staged at the Old Bailey and Russell was to be the star attraction .
Who could have predicted such a calamity ? In many respects , John Francis Stanley , 2nd Earl Russell – Frank to his friends – had been a regular Commoner . In Wykehamical notions he ’ d jockeyed up and lost down in classes ( and quite often been croppled ); mugged when he had to , shirked when he could get away with it and had been known to splice bits of plaster from the tower over Middle Gate on to passing Collegemen below .
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