Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
Note: The following article was written by Shaunak Punekar L6B (20punekars@students.watfordboys.org) Recently, a YouTube video popped up on my recommended with over 15 million views. The video in question is a clip of a British game show called Golden Balls, or more commonly referred to as “Split or Steal”. The premise of the game is very simple: two contestants each have two balls, one that says “split” and the other says “steal”. There is a prize pot of £13.600 and the contestants are asked to put forward one ball. If both contestants choose to put forward “split”, the money will be split, and both contestants will walk away from the game with £6800. If one contestant picks “split” and the other picks “steal”, the latter will walk away with the whole prize pot of £13600 and the former will walk away with nothing. Likewise, if both choose “steal”, both contestants walk away with nothing. To summarise the video, the contestant on the left (Nick) starts by attempting to convince the con...