Attenborough

ATTENBOROUGH HOUSE

Carolyn Walker

I would like to start the review by congratulating Mr White on his promotion to Head of Year in May and thanking him for all his hard work in making Attenborough House so successful, and one that its members are proud to be a part of.

We welcomed a very enthusiastic year 7 to Knole in September and they have made a fantastic contribution to the house over the year. Exceptionally well done to Ava and Daniel both in 7A1 with the joint highest house points in the year group for Attenborough. Attenborough has also been well represented by year 7s in sporting events, winning the Rounders competition in May. An excellent effort by all those who took part in both Rounders and Softball, overall Year 7 Attenborough came second in that interhouse competition.

In year 8, Millie and Archie stand out as the house point super stars having the joint highest points in the house, amassing 61 points each. Many of these points coming from excellent academic work submitted in science and other subjects in January – so well done.

Again, like year 7, good support from the sporty members of the year group in the May interhouse. It was a tough interhouse competition – it’s not the winning, it’s the taking part that counts and it really does count as everyone who took part contributed to the overall house point total. I know you guys will come back stronger and more determined in year 9, so Go Attenborough. Well done to Kaylin in 9A2 for the highest points in year 9 and in year 10, Beatrice in 10A1.

Year 9 and 10 both presented good teams for the Rounders and Softball events in the May interhouse which were tough games. Our year 9s were amazing, with an overall joint first place with Lee House. There have been some fantastic non-sporty competitions this year too. The standard in the Portrait competition was immense, well done Kaylin (9A2) who came third.

As a House, with all year groups working together as a team, we did brilliantly coming first place in both the Recycling competition and the Strava active challenge – fantastic effort.

Thank you so much to everyone who has arranged competitions, competed in them, represented Attenborough in sporting events, brought-in recycling, worked hard in and out of class to earn academic points. It is the members of Attenborough House that make the House so amazing, your hard work and desire to do well has shone through. I can honestly say it is an honour taking on the role of Head of Attenborough House for two reasons: the achievements of our members have been outstanding and secondly it is named after a personal hero of mine, Sir David Attenborough. Now aged 95, he continues to actively campaign for environmental change and has been appointed the People’s Advocate for the United Kingdom at the UN Climate Change Conference in the autumn and this year has written and published another best-selling book and has one of the most watched documentaries of the year. He has achieved in one year what many can only hope to achieve in a lifetime, Sir David Attenborough continues to inspire me and should be an inspiration to all of us. I am so excited for next year and what we can achieve together.