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...
Clem Stone March 8th, 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson, president of the USA, has just sent troops into Vietnam. March 29th, 1973: President Nixon has just withdrawn his last military unit from Vietnam. What have the Americans achieved? Going into the Vietnam War, America's main goal was to eradicate communism in North Vietnam. Since the end of World War II, the whole word had been divided into communist and capitalist blocs; this rivalry was known as the Cold War. The Americans and the Soviets never went to war directly. It was more a case of proxy wars, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. However, the superpowers (the USA and the Soviet Union) would occasionally launch smaller wars of their own. For example, the invasion of Afghanistan, launched by the Soviet Union in 1979, and, most importantly, the American War in Vietnam. In a school today, it is not uncommon to assess the success of a piece of work by first asking “what went well?”, then asking what could have gone better ...