Last year, Oliver (now Head Boy), initiated a programme of debates and lectures in order to offer his peers and pupils in the Senior School more opportunity to exchange ideas and opinions.
After attending several staff lectures at the hugely popular Thomson Society, Ollie felt that there was a gap in the market for student-run talks. So he seized his opportunity and launched the Society by delivering the first lecture. He spoke about 'Aliens and the Fundamentals of Astrobiology', in an attempt to predict the necessary requirements for life in the cosmos.
There have since been a number of fascinating talks. The most recent one, on 5 March, was presented by Alexandra (Lower Sixth). She spoke in great detail about her grandfather's experience of World War 2 and how he escaped the Nazis and fled to England where he decoded Nazi messages for the British. He was also sent to Canada and was classified as a prisoner of war and when he was finally released, went on to finish his medical degree and pioneer art therapy in Canada.
The talk covered the Anschluss of 1938, old decoding methods, the treatment of POW in internment camps, psychiatry and art therapy for children.
Ollie will be adding to our collection of blogs by writing regular reviews of each of the Student Lecture Society talks. We look forward to reading his new blog very soon.
