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Membership in September 2013 was 66 and this has now risen to 74 which is most encouraging. A number of members are now taking the opportunity of having two or more numbers. One member has five!!!

The draw was made on Old St Beghians’ Day at the Annual General Meeting held on 13th September 2014.

PRIZE	No	WINNER	PRIZE	No	WINNER
£140	41	C.H. & C.S. (Christopher) Taylor	£20	67	A.D. (Alastair) Lord
£40	27	C.J. (Charlie) Graves	£20	38	P & S (Philip) Etchells
£40	46	J.M. (Michael) Craig	£20	12	E.S. (Stan) Holmes
£40	40	J.D.S. (Tim) Brown	£20	70	D.H. (Don) Williams
£40	56	K.I. (Ian) Harcombe	£10	5	A.F. (Alastair) Hayward
£40	32	N. A. (Nigel) Halfpenny	£10	58	D.T. (David) Johnston

During the winter, a long-serving member of the 200 Club, Jack Davies (father of Darryl), sadly passed away on 3rd January 2014. Jack was a great supporter of the school and attended many dinners in both Cumbria and Lancashire. He also went on rugby tour with the school. He will be well known to many Old St Beghians.

More recently David Lyall, Head of Maths and Housemaster of Eaglesfield House as well as Deputy Head also died. David was also a great supporter of the 200 Club and was of course a member of the committee as well as Editor of the Bulletin for many years.

I reported that, after prize distributions, we had just over £3,000 in the ‘kitty’. This money has been put to good use by the PE department at the school. They have purchased two iPad minis for the department and two TVs (one with Apple TV). One of the TVs has been put in the pavilion and the other in the sports hall. The maintenance team have put them both in extremely good cabinets to protect them.

Oliver Rogers, Director of Sport, explained how these purchases will improve games’ facilities at St Bees.
“What does this mean in terms of teaching and learning? This technology allows the staff to record the students performing a number of different activities and replay the footage instantly on a screen that all students can watch. The students are able to record each other if need be. The footage can be slowed down and moved frame by frame to allow the teacher to commentate at the time. This also allows the students to observe what has happened and analyse the techniques, movement or decision- making of the performers. The footage can be annotated with arrows, circles, lines and angles to emphasis the teaching points. Being able to observe what has just happened allows the students to understand fully how technique and decision- making can affect their performance. It allows them to identify their strengths and also see what areas they need to work on in order to improve performance. The students enjoy using the new technology and it really adds an extra dimension to an already exciting subject at St Bees School”.