A FEW WORDS must be said in apology for the late appearance of this issue. This, however, is due to the 'flu epidemic which overcame the School at the beginning of term. After the epidemic things took some time to settle down and thus compilation was delayed. We trust that this final article, however, has not suffered as a result of this.

SCHOOL OFFICERS

THE FOLLOWING Boys have been appointed Prefects and "Blues' during the last School year:

THE FACE OF THE School is changing fast. Our new buildings grow apace and, indeed, two Houses are now occupied. The occupation before they were completely finished was not easy, but the effect on our overcrowded life was quite remarkable. It is now possible to clear the School at the proper time; common rooms are no longer used as dormitories, and by this time next year we hope we shall be settling to a much more civilised life in every way.

We would like to pay tribute to the Contractors, Messrs. Rogers, of Felixstowe, and to their employees. It is not easy to build a new school on a site already being used, as, indeed, it is not easy to live surrounded by builders. The occasions when we have impinged on each other have been very few, and we are most grateful.

With the new buildings, certain huts have been demolished, and by September there should be none in front of the School. The view of and from the Hall will be transformed.

OUR COLLECTIONS have continued at a reasonable level and a most enthusiastic letter has been received from the mother of the boy we have adopted, saying what a difference it is making to her son to be properly clothed at school.

I hope in giving for this deserving cause boys will realise how fortunate they are to be in a position to help somebody else, and they can all have the satisfaction of knowing, that because of their collections they are giving something in life to somebody who would otherwise not have it at all.

The amount collected last term was slightly lower than the term before, and I hope this trend will not continue.

CHAPEL

AFTER CHRISTMAS it was decided that the spiritual needs of the School could best be met by corporate services each week in the gymnasium. Our own form of service has been evolved, and these services have now become a regular part of School life.

Twenty-six boys in the Church of England were prepared for Confirmation by the Rector of Woolverstone, the Rev. F. W. Lambert, and the Confirmation Service was conducted by the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich on the 11th March. This was followed next morning by a most inspiring Communion Service attended by over 80 boys. The School is most grateful to the Rector of Woolverstone for preparing these boys and for his arrangements for a corporate Communion Service.

SCHOOL COLLECTIONS

THE SCHOOL COLLECTIONS for charitable purposes have continued at the same level. The House collections are a little uneven and the Junior House is to be commended for the high level of its collections. At Christmas it was decided that we should make regular donations to the Save the Children Fund, and to this end an eleven year old boy in Germany, who has just won a scholarship to the equivalent of an English Grammar School, has been adopted. It will be most interesting to keep in touch with him as he grows up and I hope it will be possible one day for him to come and see us in England.

These collections are well worth while. It is so easy to find so many worthwhile causes which require help, grows up, and I hope it will be possible one day for him to come to England to see us. but the main difficulty is to decide where help can best be given. As a matter of principle we will help young people and children, and I hope the School will be as generous as possible. However hard-up we may feel ourselves at times there are always people far worse, off than we are.

HOUSE COLLECTIONS

LAST TERM these were on behalf of the National Library for the Blind. The sum collected totaled £9 3s. 4d., and a further donation of £1 14s. 9d. was received, making a total donation of £10 18s. 1d. The totals from the Houses are a little uneven, in some cases falling well below 1d. per boy each week.

It has been decided that in future a regular donation shall be sent to the Save the Children Fund. We are proposing to adopt a boy in one of the Displaced Persons' Camps in Europe. By this means we shall be able to bring hope to some small boy at present living with nothing to look forward to. I hope we shall eventually be able to welcome him to the school for a holiday. I shall be able to write about him in the next issue.

As from the beginning of this term (Winter, 1955) R. R. N. Cox has been appointed Head Boy of the school. I. McCulloch is Vice Head Boy.

The total of Blues has risen to nine with the appointments of T. J. Davies and C. D. Lewis as Blue

AN OPEN DAY was held at the school on Saturday, July 23rd. As Speech Day was to be held in London it was felt that parents should have an opportunity, usually provided by Speech Day, to see some of the work and activity of the school.The second purpose of the occasion was to raise, by means of a fete, funds to supplement state and county awards to boys going up to university. It is perhaps not fully realised that the awards from public funds do not always permit boys to provide themselves with such essential equipment as books and University Society subscriptions; there are also expenses incurred in taking university and college examinations and in attending interviews, which are not covered by awards.

Parents were able to view many sides of school life and activity, some as processes, some as end-products. It is not possible to mention every item which was to be seen. Apart from certain teaching rooms (art, science, woodwork), which were open for inspection, there was a programme of ploughing; the Sea Cadets of Cunningham and Cochrane classes provided a display of seamanship and signals and a demonstration was given by the Archery Club.

Exhibitions were arranged by the Archaeology, Photographic and Geology Clubs and the school 1st XI played (and won) a match against Ipswich school.

For the fete, sideshows were organised by the Houses, and wives of members of the staff arranged and ran a housewives' stall, a white elephant stall and a jumble sale. All of the activities contributed to the very satisfactory profit of £80, which has provided an excellent foundation for this school fund.

Senior Librarian: G. Bicknell.
Librarians: W. Bauer, A. Green, J. Hansell, A. Jones, V. Shreeve.
Assistant Librarians: C. Boyd, J. Dye, D. House, W. Mathews, A. Szepesy.

For the first month of this term the library has been, unfortunately, closed because the shelves, so necessary for the increased volume of books, did not arrive. However, the shelves have finally arrived, and the library has been able to function properly again.

The new system of having two library rooms, one for books of educational value, and one for the lighter fiction, seems to be working quite well, and has been continued.

Along with the growth of the school, the library has greatly expanded. We now have a wide selection of reading matter on both the fiction and non-fiction shelves. We have over 2,500 books in the library, and we are entering a further fifty every week.

MARCH 28TH was a red letter day for the School. On that day a number of workmen surprised everybody by starting work on the new School buildings. Three years of anticipating this day had somewhat lulled our hopes, so that many thought that the authorities were putting off till tomorrow what should have been done today. Whatever the answer, it is of no consequence, for work has begun. So let us look back and give thanks, and look forward and take courage.

Think before you ink is an excellent piece of advice, yet few people follow this maxim. If they did, perhaps the standard of work submitted to our magazine might be increased. This year, by dint of tedious persuasion our Junior contributors have been shown that poetry is not the only means to a successful entry. The dearth of senior articles has been put down to the fact that everyone is working hard for the approaching G.C.E. examinations.

According to the latest gallup poll held in Woolverstone, the bandalore (Yo-Yo) has a clear cut majority over all other pastimes, in the vogue elections. This game has become so popular that one boy was heard to remark that a special Yo-Yo competition should be organised for Sports Day.

A last bright note for the cricketers amongst us. According to weather men (that is those in the know) this year's weather will be similar to last year's. But after this year we have the prospect of four years of dry weather.

WE MAY BE TIRED of hearing that the school is very young and that, although it is going well, it still has a long way to go. But this needs saying perhaps about JANUS, the School Magazine, the fifth number of which now appears; because those who are concerned with editing it sometimes feel, as publication day approaches, that JANUS has remained a rather rootless periodical.

Let us admit that it has not yet found its feet. Its natural contributors tend to dry-up when they are asked to write something for publication. But this happens at times, one suspects, with nearly every school magazine, however mature the school may be; and it is all the more likely to happen in a school which still lacks those very people who normally give a lead and take responsibility for such matters: the Sixth Form. It would be wrong, however, to wait until we have reached that stage. There is a place for the magazine now. On the one hand it is the only record of our activities, and on the other, a forum for those who have a desire to express themselves in words. The number of the latter may not be large. Why should it be? In any adult community it is equally small.

It is also worth recalling who our readers are. Apart from ourselves, they include parents, Old Boys, people outside connected in one way or another with the school, and lastly, members of other schools to which copies are sent and from which we in turn receive copies of magazines. JANUS is, therefore, one of the means by which the school is judged by all these people.

And that is the reason why we want it to be as full and as interesting as possible. So let those who have something to say, say it. At the moment the bulk of the contributions come from the lower school. We are pleased to receive them, but we hope that those for whom the novelty has worn off will soon be tempted to emerge from their silence.

THIS EDITION OF JANUS is, in some ways, a memorable one, as it is the first in the new era of the school's life. Now that the last of the Nautical boys have left we have become a normal grammar school. We include at the end of this issue news from some of the Nautical boys and we hope that each edition of JANUS will contain similar news, and that the Old Boys' Association will grow and flourish.

The possibility of including a photographic supplement to this edition has been carefully considered, but it was decided that this was not possible owing to the amount of time needed to process the pictures.

Once again the editors have pleasure in awarding two book prizes for the best-written contributions, one from each half of the school. The articles we print are the best the school has produced, but you may not consider them of a very high standard. If this is so, it is up to each and every one of you to write better ones in future.

On behalf of the school, the editors would like to extend a warm welcome to the new members of the staff and also to offer Mr Halls, who left in the summer. Best wishes for his studies at Oxford.

WITH THE END of the second year of the school's existence, we really come to the end of our first phase. The last of the Nautical boys have left. Many of them have been extremely helpful to us in getting the school under way and I hope they will always be proud of their association with the school. When the Old Boys' Association is formed, I shall look forward to a great many of them joining its ranks.

The last year has been a year of real progress and the school is fast taking shape. This term Woolverstone House has been opened as a House for Corners and this is a great achievement. At long last one of our houses will he living properly as a boarding-house should and not eking out its existence as if we were a camp school. For months now planning and scheming have been going on and I hope it will not be long before there are further signs of progress in the same direction.

Much has happened to enhance the reputation of the school. Our Rugby teams have been particularly successful. One can see our Music and Dramatics developing and many of the societies are becoming more mature and businesslike. Our School journeys to Paris, Derbyshire and North Wales, our visits to Ipswich and such places as the Suffolk Show at Shrublands Park have brought us in contact with a host of people outside the school. We know there is a tremendous amount to be done before we can be at all satisfied with our school but on the whole we have had a good year, a year of sound growth. It is up to the school itself to see that this continues.

YOU WILL NOTICE in this edition we have not included House Notes. In future these will only appear once each year. Another change is the inclusion of an advertisement by Messrs Bentalls Ltd, the school outfitters. We had originally intended to print other advertisements, but found that the cost of type did not make it worth while. However, Messrs Bentalls Ltd provided us with their own type, for which we are grateful.

To encourage boys to write articles we offered two Book Tokens for the best work submitted by First and Second Formers and by Third and Fifth Formers. This incentive certainly encouraged boys to write, but in many cases we did not think that articles reached a very high standard. Many essays were not written in a particularly interesting

way, and we were sometimes under the impression that we had the new Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia before us. There were quite a large number of poems, but an extraordinary high percentage had a nautical flavour. No doubt this was due to the influence of the old London Nautical School. However, we have chosen the most unusual and best-written.

As many of you may have noticed in the Press, the Education Commiittee is proposing to spend nearly £360,000 on building us new dormitories, classrooms and an assembly hall. So we may consider ourselves very fortunate. Their aim is to provide room for 360 boys, against the 170 at present, and there exists a further scheme to provide us with a swimming pool and tennis courts, which has not yet been approved. The new buildings will probably be completed in 1956.

A SOMEWHAT TRYING Spring Term is now over. The weather has been bad and the influenza epidemic earlier on in the term did not help very much. We have, however, finished this winter period on a high note with the first Concert from the Musical Society, some first-class House matches, and perhaps most important of all, the announcement that the London County Council proposes to build some fine new buildings and to make the physical attractions of the School worthy of the traditions we hope to build.

The various Rugby XVs have had a remarkably successful season, and I hope this success will go on as the boys concerned grow older and play the older teams from the other schools. I have been glad to see during this last term more interest taken in the gardens, and I shall look forward

to still more improvement being made by various groups of boys. In particular, I hope that suitable gardens will be laid out around the boat-shed. This part of the School grounds suffered badly during the floods but, of course, we were very fortunate in that our boats themselves virtually escaped damage.

These last terms have not been a time of spectacular achievement. There are, however, signs of solid progress in many directions, of continued hard work, of increasing pride, of a raising of esprit de corps. Solid progress is of far more, value than any spectacular or flashy achievement, and so I think we can say that in spite of one or two setbacks, which could well have been avoided, the School is growing up on sound lines. I hope that when the end of next term comes, and I make my report on Speech Day, I shall be able to say that the School has grown out of babyhood and has got through many of its teething troubles successfully.

THE EDITORS feel a certain achievement in presenting the second number of JANUS, although they are conscious of its shortcomings and particularly regret that owing to expense it has proved impossible to include any photographs this time. The articles and poems are the best that were submitted: if you think they are not good enough, it is up to you to write better ones in future.

It is certain at least that whatever we send to the printers, JANUS will look well on its appearance. Those who had the privilege of being shown round Cowell's printing works in July will understand some of the processes by which this final appearance is obtained. This number will be published at the beginning of the second year in the life of Woolverstone Hall. The editors hope it will show the new arrivals something of our ways and spur on those who are not new to make the second year in all ways an advance on the first.

We can sum up our first year by saying that in many directions we have made good progress and have done much to give the school the sort of reputation we think it should have. During the next year let us strive to make big improvements where we know they are necessary and at the same time increase our reputation wherever possible.

IN PRESENTING YOU THIS, the first issue of our School Magazine, we hope you will enjoy its contents. The majority of articles have been written by boys and we hope the articles have been selected rightly. JANUS has an editorial board, composed of boys, who selected and helped in the writing of the articles, and we trust you will let us know if you have any criticism.

The title JANUS perhaps needs some explanation. Janus was a legendary figure endowed by the Gods with the power of

seeing both the past and the future and is thus represented as having two heads. This symbol has beenchosen for the school magazine since our aim is to link the past with the future, to discover what was best in the past so that we may build on that in the present and carry it on into the future.

We hope that this magazine will be a focus of all our efforts in that direction, that it will serve as a link between those who leave the school, those who remain and those who are to come, and between the school itself and the world outside.

do it so that those who follow after us will think we have done well. We want them to he able to say that, so well did we found the school, their job of adding the main structure and perhaps putting on the ornamentation was easy. The life of the school will constantly develop. New things will start up and flourish, new ideas will be introduced. We can ensure this future growth by seeing to it that everything we do now is done as well as we know how.

The school has, I think, made a good start. Work is going ahead on the whole quite steadily. At games we have already achieved a local reputation that augurs well for the future. In our clubs and societies a good deal of real progress is apparent. Already our life is varied and interesting. We can look back on our first two terms on the whole with pride. We must, however, resist the temptation to look back too much. Compared with what we hope to do, a very small beginning only has been made. A tremendous amount remains to be done before we can pretend that we are at all satisfied with our progress. The publication of this magazine marks another step forward. It is the mirror of the life of the school, and will reflect our progress through its publication every Easter and Summer.

We have taken as our school motto "Nisi Dominus Vanum". Let this be an inspiration to us all in our work for the School. Too few people today put any faith in anything, too few people are willing to acknowledge the place of religion in their lives. Without our faith and trust in God, without His help, all our work here will indeed be in vain.

Library Prefect: F. W. LYONS
- Senior & Junior Librarians

J. TITE & D. C. HARRINGTON
D. J. FITZHARDY & G.R.BICKNELL
C. RODERICK & R. C. GOULD
F. W. MOUGHTON

Assistants: N B. LANGER, F. RAVENSCROFT

It was evident from the start that the library was going to play an important part in the life of the school; its position in the centre of the Hall is a recognition of this fact; and from the first it has been widely, if not always wisely, used.

The old stock of books, largely fiction, was found to be not altogether suitable, on account either of their condition or their contents, and many were rejected. There was, however, a collection of some three or four hundred new books waiting to be put into the shelves, and a second grant has enabled us to buy an equal number of further new books, which are now in process of being catalogued and added to the library.

By the end of the school year the librarians should have completed this cataloguing of our twelve hundred volumes, and various indexes will then enable boys to find the books they want quite simply, as well as giving them an introduction to the system in use in most public libraries in the country.
That is a beginning. Much has still to be learnt; that the library is the place for quiet reading and research, not a substitute for a coffee-house or workshop; that books must be respected, not misused; that bang-bang and blood and thunder are not everything.

We now have at least a nucleus of books on most subjects a boy is likely to be interested in, either purely for pleasure or for studying more closely what he has begun to learn in class. A library contains great wealth waiting to be discovered.