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...
Ionut Chiru A couple of weeks ago, my father got ill with an ear infection. After trying and failing to remedy this situation, he finally swallowed his pride and opted for a GP appointment. After waiting on the phone for about an hour, he finally got a consultation and received a text message giving him more information about his appointment. Upon closer inspection, he noted with some level of surprise that the doctor about to see him was a Romanian. Obviously, as he himself is also Romanian, he was able to quickly recognize the surname as one belonging to the country which he departed over 20 years ago. It is likely that this commonality between my dad and his general practitioner likely contributed to the appointment going better than usual, according to my father. Why is this important? The roots of the problem can be traced back to the fall of communist rule throughout Eastern Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, countries within Eastern Europe were subject to suppre...