KEVICC staff and students are always really grateful to
our Parents' Association for their generous funding of
requests for additional money to be spent on enhancing
the curriculum – and also of the huge amount of time
and effort put into planning events that generate the
money available.
Recently, several requests were approved:
•
£125 for PE for swimming lessons for years 9 & 10
•
£330 for Geography for a drone & underwater camera
•
£840 for Science for 10 rockets
•
£174 for D&T as a contribution towards
programmable & moveable computer balls
Old Totnesians
a former Headmaster
of the King Edward
VI Grammar School
[1935 – 1960]. The
author
wanted
information
about
Mr
Owen
and,
from the archives,
we were able to
provide considerable
information
about
him, including the
fact that his salary was £650 per year when he was appointed
from being Head of Mathematics at Blundell’s School,
Tiverton. We have very little detailed record of teachers or
students attending the College after 1966 but, prior to that,
there is a record of every student and teacher.
Many of the archives are held in paper form at Kennicott and
Society members have spent hours scanning them in so that
they are on the website and disc for the future. Discussions
are taking place with some Governors and Staff at present
with a view to perhaps storing them and displaying some of
them – together with sports trophies. Special cabinets could
be constructed and the Old Totnesian Society could help with
funding it so that no money is lost from the College budgets.
Members are now looking toward their Informal Reunion in
London in September and then the Annual General Meeting
and Reunion at The Royal Seven Stars Hotel in October 2016.
For further information about your Alumni please contact
Barry Warren, Honorary Secretary on 01884 34670 or
The conversation on
the day was very much
centred on the future of
the Society and Alumni
for the College in general.
Members would like to
explore cementing the
current leavers and the
‘older’ members in order
that history is not lost,
yet current students
would be able to benefit
from the experiences of former members of the schools/
college. Contacts can be made which can help with finance,
employment and business – who knows where it may lead?
– all this in addition to continued friendships.
The current Treasurer has announced his retirement at
the end of the year and a replacement has come forward.
The Secretary would also like to retire after 10 years at the
helm but there are no volunteers at present. The pillar of the
Totnes County / High School Reunion
Association also wishes to put down
her pen. There is talk of amalgamation
between the two organisations.
Some ask why we need to hang onto
the past? Believe it or not, we still
get asked for information about
former pupils and teachers. Only
this month, an enquiry was received
from the author of an article being
prepared about the son of C D T Owen,
In April, the Society held its Spring Reunion lunch at the Royal Seven Stars Hotel.
Numbers were down a little this time with a number of key members tied up with
various family commitments and a few with illness. All part of the joys of getting
older, they tell me! It was good to see one member for the first time at a reunion.
Peter Moore • John Phillpotts • John Brinley • Peter Morrison • Colin Builder • John Wooster
Parents' Association
The Geography Department would like to say a very
big thank you to the Parents’ Association after the
department were recently awarded a grant for additional
fieldwork equipment. The Field Studies Council,
Geographical Association, Ordnance Survey and Royal
Geographical Society are hosting year 2015-16 as the
'Year of Fieldwork'. Following curriculum changes, students now
have to conduct fieldwork frequently.
The department have very kindly been given a drone and
GoPro camera by the Parents’ Association in order to conduct
contemporary fieldwork methodologies, such as aerial mapping
and personal ethnographies. This will allow KEVICC students to
have an opportunity to see Geography in action.
The students and staff are very excited about using the new
equipment this term. Millie Harris, Team Leader of Geography
Mike Smith of the P.A.
handing a cheque to
Principal Alan Salt
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