This first week of school has coincided with the start of the Rugby World Cup 2015. This has brought a lot of attention to the schools claim that the sport, rugby, was invented here. This Sunday we had our morning service broadcast live by the BBC which, unfortunately, meant that on the day we usually have our only lie in of the week, we had to get up even earlier than a normal day! There were many rehearsals and we were under strict instructions to behave impeccably due to the fact that the broadcast was live to over a million people! The service went slickly and was, I believe, a great success however, in the headmasters opening speech something he said annoyed me.
After retelling the story of William Webb Ellis and how he disregarded the rules, he finished, “Today’s Rugbeians could do a lot worse than follow his example”. Now, at a school where if you were to wear a jumper with a round neck rather than a V-neck you run the risk of being given a Sunday detention I find it very difficult to believe that the headmaster truly is an advocate for stretching the rules or for inventing new ways to do a traditional activity. Should I decide, quite logically, that it would make sense for me to cycle to lessons rather than walk as we are supposed to, I am quite sure that he would not offer a second of his time to ponder on whether I might have come up with a “game changing” idea.
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