Things OHs get up to!

Dom Joly (BF 1981) recently visited Haileybury Almaty. There is a splendid description of his assembly here on the blog of Dan Maurice, a teacher in Almaty.

Dom Joly himself wrote about the experience in the Mail on Sunday. He says that there weren't yellow and blue tickets (for good behaviour) in his day. There were certainly yellow ones for academics, but I think the blue ones for thoughtfulness and politeness beyond what is usually expected may be a relatively recent innovation. He suggests a new verse for the Khazakh Vivat:

The Mongols were a vicious race
Vivat Haileyburia!
They raped and pillaged down to this place
Vivat Haileyburia!

I thought this video of Dom Joly's snail stunt might bring a midweek smile.

Football

There was a frisson when the word went round that Arséne Wenger was coming to open the Modern Languages Centre. There are numbers of Arsenal supporters around the school, but they seem to my observation to be fewer than those who support Spurs. Mr Wenger cancelled his appearance at Haileybury.  The local Spurs fans will be a bit green with envy for their opposite numbers in Almaty. The England team met young people from the school and the Almaty Oblast orphanage at the Dinamo Stadium in Almaty in June last year. Here is a picture of Peter Crouch of Spurs signing a ball for a Haileyburian.

Haileybury Almaty

The new Haileybury in Kazakhstan is building a significant reputation. Here is a clip from You Tube




If you can lip read you will see that at 1.05 the Vivat is being sung