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Dedication to the Doctor<\/h2>\nA look back at Doctor Mulford\u2019s career and time as headmaster of Newington college in wake of his retirement announcement.<\/h2>\n
By Calum Boland and Oliver Cleary<\/p>\n
Doctor Mulford has had an extraordinary career and influenced many lives, not least over his ten-year span as the Headmaster of Newington College. It wouldn\u2019t be an exaggeration to say he has changed the lives of the students and the teachers over his time here. He has also impacted the community and the school with his heightened focus on moulding the students into, not just good scholars, but good people.<\/p>\n
Dr Mulford took the job because he \u201cloved the diversity, the fact that there were people from all walks of life and that it was different from a traditional GPS school.\u201d He liked that \u201cthere was an encouragement not to be stereotyped, that people could be whatever they wanted to be and in any combination of that.\u201d He took this core ethos of acceptance to heart and set out to build a better school community.<\/p>\n
The school, under his guidance, has seen a new focus placed onto co-curricular activities with the buildings of new spaces and the hiring of engaged teachers playing a huge part in that. He sees his role to the school as \u201cgetting the right people to do the right jobs\u2026 who love their areas of teaching or co-curricular.\u201d In his own words all he really does is \u201cnurture the staff and encourage them to go for it and to pursue excellence and engagement with the boys.\u201d The choir is an example of this. Before the appointment of Doctor Mulford the choir had 20 people, and with encouragement and support, now it has 120 people.<\/p>\n
Another feature of his tenure has been the substantial building renovation works. In the first 3 years of his time at Newington, the school has spent $78 million dollars on capital works. This is more than any other school in nsw. He has spent $20 million on the building of a new library and cafeteria space for the boys in 2013 and in 2016 the construction of the Tupou College centre and drama centre. The headmaster sees this as developing specialist spaces to let people be themselves and to have teachers and students \u201cbe inspired\u201d and the be themselves and to \u201cdo whatever they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over his time at Newington, Doctor Mulford has done a lot of things but his main goal is on making students into good people. He has repeatedly spoken about how we need to be resilient and strive for greatness wherever we go. Upon his retirement Doctor Mulford said that if there was one thing he wanted all students to learn as a school it was \u201cTo be a good person. To be a great contributor to their family, to their local community to their national community. It could be anything but it’s a man of substance it\u2019s got to be personal. He should be a man of integrity. He should be a good citizen and a good man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doctor Mulford is a great leader and a man of strong values. He has made Newington into an even more vibrant community and had made it into a place where students can be whatever they want to be and can learn to be men of substance and help out people in worse situations than their own and to fully discover what\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n
Perspectives on Dunkirk<\/h2>\n
By Alex McEvoy<\/p>\n
Newington College\u2019s Year Nine cohort were given the opportunity to see the film Dunkirk <\/em>for their current English topic \u2018Perspectives of War\u2019. Dunkirk <\/em>is a new film from Christopher Nolan that depicts the evacuation of British and French troops from Dunkirk, France during the Second World War. We are going to review the film and give some insight as to why they actually attended the film. Here are some of our thoughts.<\/p>\nWe thought that Dunkirk <\/em>portrayed the evacuation its namesake very well. Dunkirk <\/em>is, for the most part, historically accurate. Including historic vehicles like Spitfires, HMS Destroyers and depicting the major evacuation of British soldiers off the beach from Dunkirk, France and away from the oncoming German blitzkrieg. The film focuses specifically on the British events of the evacuation, which has caused distress in French viewers who played an important role in Dunkirk. Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film provides a slow-paced but engaging and enjoyable recount of the events that occurred in 1940. I give the filmmakers high praise due to the clear effort made to make this into a masterpiece historical accuracy, and in doing having some brilliant cinematography and filming techniques.<\/p>\nThe main problem that we had with the film is the lack of character development and meaningful character dialogue. In a way, this problem stems from the setting, as a war where people are in a constant state of fear does not suit itself too nicely to long drawn out dialogues. We just thought that a sense of comradeship and some more meaningful friendships could have made the audience connect more with the characters and care more about their plight.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what we personally thought of the film, but what can our year group as a whole gain from this viewing, after all we did use a double period to go and see it. We think that we can gain a lot from this film, as it displays the fear and tension that arises from being in war and gives a real life example of a perspective of war.<\/p>\n
Overall, we thought that this movie was historically accurate, had good cinematography and was valuable to the Year 9 Cohort in their investigation into different perspectives of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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