HARROW RECORD 2017–18
IN THIS ISSUE: Reports
from 2017–18 plus news and views from the Hill
02 News 14 Academic
FROM THE HEAD MASTER
30 So Songs Live! 34 Societies 48 The Arts 72 Leadership and Service 88 Sport 112 Listings 120 Foundation Family 142 Last Word
Reading the following pages about the last academic year at Harrow, I was struck yet again – as I am sure you will be – by the extraordinary breadth and depth of Harrovian achievement, both on and off the Hill. The biggest highlight of last year was Churchill Songs in the Royal Albert Hall. It was a memorable event, which brought together boys, staff, parents, Old Harrovians and other guests to celebrate the School – as it was in the past, and it is today, and as it will be in the future. This publication records that major whole-School occasion, alongside a myriad other events and activities involving boys across all year groups and Houses.
DESIGN & PRINT The Drummer Agency ADVERTISING William Landale (The Grove 19783) PHOTO CREDITS Lucy Ashe, Susan Atwill, Darren Bell, Jessica Bellringer, Peter Bieneman, Danny Beckley, Fergus Burnett, Douglas Collins, Alastair Cook, William Cooper, Kasia Fletcher, Matt Glossop, Simon Halliday, Ed Hands, Laurence Hedges, Steven Kennedy, Nick Keylock, Tom Knight, Chris Mann, Nick Marchant, Rachel Marchant, Luke Meadows, Kerry Morgan, Simon Page, Nela Pecherova, Martin Roberts, Rob Robson, Simon Sampson, Rima Tremlett, Tom Tribe, Julia Walton, Gary White COVER Churchill Songs 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall, November 2017 Photograph by Rachel Marchant
The Editors welcome feedback, letters and articles for future issues of the Harrow Record. Please direct these to shawcg@harrowschool.org.uk.
Harrow is a special place that stirs pride, loyalty and a sense of belonging in all those who learn, live and work here. The School continues to strike a careful balance between tradition and innovation, continuity and change. Our beaks and support staff embrace their roles as stewards of this great School, respecting and maintaining cherished traditions and customs while ensuring we provide a wholly modern education that will prepare boys effectively for the future. I hope you will gain a good insight into Harrow in 201718 as you read this latest edition of the Harrow Record.
Mel Mrowiec, Head Master
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PUPIL HIGHLIGHTS
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• Abid Rahman (The Grove) was a runner-up in the prestigious Marshall Society Economics Essay Competition organised by Cambridge University. • Dita Jaja (Moretons) represented Great Britain & Northern Ireland at the European Athletics Champion Clubs cup competition in the Czech Republic, running for the Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers. He won silver medals in the 100m and in the 4 x 100m relay. • Vlado Vasile (Bradbys) was highly commended for his entry in the Regent’s Park College Staton Essay Prize competition. The title of his essay was: ‘Do you agree that poverty is the parent of all revolution and crime?’ • Brent Lim (The Knoll) was one of only 50 candidates from around the world to be selected by the International Social Science Conference for Youth to have his research paper published in their 2017 online journal. Brent wrote his paper on the impact of a maximum wage in
Several of these pupils receive bursaries, funded by donors through the Harrow Development Trust.
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reducing inequality. • Daniel Ponomarenko (Lyon’s) won a silver medal in the London Area School Judo Competition. • Alex Leung (Lyon’s) and Charlie Christie (Newlands) were selected for an extended Scotland Under-16 rugby squad to play in an international tournament in Wales. • Charles Sherlock (The Knoll) was runner-up in the New College of Humanities London Essay Competition for his essay ‘Democracy is not the best form of government’. • Daniel Zhang (The Knoll) was runner-up in the 2017 RSPCA Young Photographer Award (12-15 age group) with Cunning Cub, his photograph of a fox cub taken at Kiskungsag National Park in Hungary. • Alex Lee (Rendalls) was highly commended for his entry in the Peter Cane Legal Reasoning Essay Competition. • The Junior String Quartet – Jonathan Yuan (The Head Master’s), Alex Lee
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(Moretons), Joseph Wragg (The Grove) and Jun Wha Shin (Elmfield) – and the Senior String Quartet – Marco Chau (Elmfield), Keisuke Sano (The Knoll), Alberic Mould (Elmfield) and Kazbek Kandour (The Park) – both reached the finals of the Chamber Music Competition for Schools at St John Smith Square. • Cosmo Hamwee (Druries) was a finalist in the under-18 category of the Food Photographer of the Year competition, which attracted 10,000 entries from an international field. • Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) achieved two new personal bests and came third in his category at the English Schools’ Weightlifting Championships. Toby de la Billiere (Elmfield) snatched 43kg and clean and jerked 55kg, winning his category. Representing Harrow Borough, Toby also won a bronze medal in the under-17 category at the London Youth Games Weightlifting Competition. • Several boys gained distinction in
23 higher-grade music exams: Daniel Baker (Moretons) – Grade 8 organ; Francis Bamford (Bradbys)– Grade 8 bassoon; Jamie Bedu-Addo (West Acre) – Grade 8 singing; Michael Fitzgibbon (Rendalls) – Grade 7 singing; Theo Nash (The Grove) – Grade 6 singing; Adeoluwa Pearse (Rendalls) – Grade 7 bassoon; and Joshua Harris (West Acre), who recorded the highest mark in the UK in Grade 8 cello and was awarded the ABRSM‘s Marguerite Swan Memorial Prize. William Miles (The Head Master’s) achieved distinction in the ABRSM Diploma for saxophone. • Harison Saunders (The Head Master’s) completed the 2018 London Marathon in a time of 4hrs 22mins. • Aurelien Josserand (Newlands), Wayne Wen (The Park), Ben Harrison (West Acre) and Simon Luo (Bradbys) achieved gold medals in the Biology Challenge. • Matthew Ong (Elmfield) was highly commended for his entry in the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Rackham Essay Prize for Biology. • Orlando Morris (The Knoll) was awarded the Virgin Atlantic Be the Change Volunteer Scholarship and travelled to Rajasthan in India on a programme sponsored by Virgin Atlantic in partnership with international charity Free the Children. • Nicklas Høst-Verbraak (The Head Master’s) was selected as a member of Foiling Team Norway. FTN focuses on talented sailors aged 14-20 (Nicklas is their youngest member to date). Nicklas took part in the European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy. • Daniel Baker (Moretons) was awarded
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Highly Commended in the 2018 Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Corpus Styler Prize for music composition. He also won first prize in the London Organ Competition. • Ben Hooper (The Head Master’s) was selected to represent the English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA) London at the English Schools Swimming Association National Inter-Divisional Championships, where he won the 100m and 50m butterfly events, breaking the national school records in both. He was subsequently selected to represent ESSA at the ISF World Schools Games. Ben also qualified for the British Swimming Championships, where he went through to four finals – finishing fourth in 200m butterfly, fifth in 100m butterfly and fifth in 50m butterfly. • Oliver Bater (Rendalls) won first prize in the New College of Humanities Essay Competition, with his essay on the topic of ‘What is Utilitarianism? Can it be defended?’ • Toby Shirvell and Max Shirvell (both The Head Master’s) qualified for this year’s IMG Academy Junior World Championships. Max and Toby also represented the victorious England team in the first ever Independent Schools Golf Association Under-15 international match between England and Scotland. They also competed in the European Junior Tour Spanish Open. • Olly Harrison (The Knoll) came first in
the Under-16 category and second in the Under-21 category in the Olympic Skeet South East Intercounties Clay Pigeon Shooting competition and is hoping to be selected for Team GB for the next World Cup in Peru. • Timothy Chan (The Knoll) was highly commended for his entry in the Land Economy Essay Competition, held by Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in which he wrote about responses to the UK housing crisis. • Rishi Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) was selected to play in the London & East cricket team for the prestigious national Bunbury Festival. He received two awards from the English Cricket Board – Best Batsman and Most Valuable Player. He also received the English Schools Cricket Association Gray-Nicolls Trophy for the most improved schoolboy cricketer (over the last 40 years of this award, 14 recipients have gone on to play for England) and the Cricket Society’s Sir John Hobbs Silver Jubilee Prize (awarded annually to the outstanding under-16 schoolboy cricketer). • Ostap Stefak (Newlands) was awarded the Professor Sir Chris Pissarides Prize by the Economics Society of the London School of Economics after winning first prize in its competition for an essay on the extent to which Economics is suffering from ‘Physics envy’ and should be striving to be a natural science.
Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall is organise jointly by the Harrow Development Trust and the Harrow Association.
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ovember 2017 saw the whole School gather for the sixth Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall. President of the Harrow Association HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (The Park 19603) was guest of honour and gave an inspiring speech on the theme of leadership and service. Led by Master of Ceremonies the racing broadcaster and writer Nick Luck (Rendalls 19913), over 5,500 current and old boys, beaks, School staff and guests enjoyed a splendid evening singing some of the School’s best-loved songs.
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“These events, like the Royal Albert Hall, or even just a Monday morning Speech Room, are hugely significant in forging a school bond. And that’s before we start singing!”
“It was a beautifully engineered emotional roller coaster. What other school could ever put on such a wonderful evening of entertainment?”
“There are few things of genuine excellence to be found these days, but my party last night experienced one of them! It was a truly wonderful evening”.
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“Churchill was right about the role of Songs and their ability to unite the Harrow family. All the best songs had been selected for last night’s performance, brilliantly accompanied by the excellent School orchestra.”
“It was so emotional all night long! We are so proud to be part of the Harrow family.”
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VALETE In summer 2018, Harrow said farewell to its 33rd Head Master, Jim Hawkins. The School also said goodbye to three beaks who, between them, notched up more than 96 years at the School: Andrew McGregor, Peter Hunter and Simon MacPherson. JIM HAWKINS
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im Hawkins (JBH) arrived at Harrow in September 2011 from Norwich School, where he had been Headmaster for nine years. His first teaching job after leaving Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Mathematics and gained a Lightweight Rowing half-blue, was at Radley College. From there, he became Head of Mathematics at Forest School and then Deputy Head of Chigwell School. An important attribute of leadership is vision. JBH recognised the need to streamline thinking at Harrow. Priorities needed to be drawn, hence the particular emphasis placed on Scholarship, Opportunity, Character, People and Operations. JBH engaged the whole community in establishing Courage, Honour, Humility and Fellowship as the four core values that now underpin the School’s purpose, alongside the founder’s principles of ‘Godliness and good learning’. In a period when school pupils were required to prepare for formal assessment on a regular basis, JBH oversaw the introduction of an ambitious programme of Electives and a School-wide initiative to encourage boys to read for pleasure. Through the Elective programme, a series of non-examined courses that draw on the intellectual enthusiasms and expertise of the beaks delivering them, he sought to inspire Harrovians with a life-long love of scholarship and learning by giving them opportunities to explore exciting new concepts unfettered by the constraints of an examination syllabus. JBH also demonstrated a breadth of vision for the long-term future of the School’s estate. The Master Plan, behind which he was a driving force, aims to create a better visual environment on the east side of the Hill and to draw boys away from the
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increasingly congested High Street. The addition of a first-class science facility will free up space in the current Biology and Chemistry Schools for departments needing space to expand. JBH proved astute in spotting talent; Alastair Land, Jesse Elzinga and Keith Metcalfe were appointed to significant headships at Repton School, Reading Blue Coat School and Malvern College respectively. Alastair Land returns to Harrow as Head Master in April 2019, as JBH’s successor. In any recruitment process, JBH took full control and oversaw the jigsaw of movements up and down, in and out of the School with strategic precision. He wanted all his appointees to play their roles fully and enthusiastically in the form room, in the boarding house and on the extracurricular front. Sound leadership requires effective delegation of responsibility and JBH showed
much trust in his Senior Management Team and other officers across the School to get on with their tasks without undue interference. He maintained, however, a watchful eye on proceedings and, when circumstances demanded, was always accessible to advise, to guide, to support or to intervene. Inspired by the philanthropic work of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (The Head Master’s 18133), JBH significantly expanded the School’s community outreach through the creation of Shaftesbury Enterprise. Successful links with local schools, charities, hospitals and care homes encouraged boys to participate in philanthropic activity while benefiting from the experience themselves. JBH’s passion and energy for philanthropy was demonstrated clearly by his direct involvement with Spear, a partnership between Harrow, the charity Resurgo and St Peter’s Church in West Harrow, which
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helps young unemployed people living in the borough to acquire the skills necessary to gain and retain employment. He was also instrumental in getting Lumina, a university preparation course for students attending state schools in northwest London, off the ground. JBH believed in the value of John Lyon’s Foundation and was keen to work closely with Harrow Club W14 and John Lyon’s Charity, which do so much for young people in northwest London. He also wanted to retain close links with John Lyon School and the Harrow International Schools, and the Harrow Family Fifth Form Conference involving all six schools, is now established finally in the Calender in June. Further afield, he became an officer for IBSC (International Boys’ Schools Coalition) with responsibility for UK-Europe. The force of JBH’s words in Chapel underlined the sincerity of his religious convictions. He adhered strongly to Harrow’s Christian foundation yet worked to establish an inclusive spiritual environment across the School. The appointment of Fr James Power as Vicar of St Mary’s enabled the reconfiguration of
weekly services so that the whole School could be divided between parish church and the School Chapel. JBH preached the benefits of a fullboarding education, extolled the School’s ability to deliver an impressive array of extra-curricular activities but, most importantly, gave support both in person and through the influence of his position. It is perhaps little surprise that JBH has
chosen to join Whittle School and Studios, which seeks to create a global school for children aged three to 18. They want to change for the better the lives of the students who attend and, beyond their own campuses, contribute to the cause of education on every continent. Their values to resonate fully with those JBH brought to Harrow during his tenure as Head Master.
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ANDREW MCGREGOR
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ndrew McGregor (ARM) has teaching in his blood. ARM’s father spent his career at University College School (UCS), including 26 years as Head of the Junior Branch. His mother was a primary school teacher. Trevor Roberts (tutor to the Royal Princes at the time) first initiated ARM in the mysteries of Latin at St Anthony’s. Upon entering UCS Senior School, ARM was placed in the charge of Dr H J K Usher, then a leading figure in the education of Classics. While ARM’s natural inclination was towards English and the arts rather than Classics, the rigour and challenge of Usher’s teaching inspired him to take Latin, Greek and History for A level. In 1978, ARM went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he later became Chairman of The Herodoteans, the University’s Classics Society. Mary Beard was among his many distinguished tutors, though ARM recalls that their seminars often wandered from discussion of Greek and Latin texts. ARM also became heavily involved with the Pembroke Players as well as sport for the college and won a Choral Bursary with the Choir of Jesus College. Having completed his degree, ARM chose to stay on at Pembroke to complete a PGCE. In 1982, ARM was appointed an Assistant Master at Brentwood School, Essex. Coincidentally, he arrived with Tony Little, later to be Head Master of Eton. Music and drama continued to loom large. ARM quickly joined forces with David Pickthall MBE to write a musical (Dot) for the Junior School. Such was the success of their show that the two friends were immediately commissioned to create a musical for the Senior School. Waldo (and Sons) enjoyed critical acclaim and attracted the attention of Bob Thomson, Artistic Director of Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, and director of numerous Bill Kenwright productions, including Blood Brothers. Bob brought the musical to Hornchurch, where it was performed by his Youth Theatre Company with ARM as Associate Director. Samuel French Ltd subsequently published the work. At this point, ARM almost quit teaching to join a post-graduate drama course. However, in February 1987 he accepted the invitation to become a member of Harrow’s Masters’ Room, teaching Classics and English. The lessons of Roberts and Usher furnished ARM with an understanding of
Andrew McGregor (far left) with beaks and staff from the Old Armoury
formal linguistic structure. He relished the intellectual challenge of translation and composition, both in verse and prose. Members of Harrow’s Classics department came to know ARM as ‘The Technician’, because of his ability to explain the intricacies of Latin and Greek grammar to Shell as well as Sixth Form boys. In 1988, Head Master Ian Beer summoned ARM: “Andrew, you need a responsibility. I’m sending you to The Royal Windsor Horse Show. You’ll take charge of our Cavalry Team, which will compete in The Queen’s Services’ Challenge Cup. No pressure. Her Majesty and the Dean of Windsor, Chairman of Governors, will be there. Good luck.” Harrow’s equestrians swept the board. There was so much silverware that ARM had to enlist the help of one of the boys’ chauffeurs to move it all. The Cavalry Team went on to win at Windsor twice more under his leadership. During his time at Harrow, ARM’s activities were varied: CCF, sport, foreign trips, exchange year, music and admissions, to name but a few. However, the stage remained his primary area of interest. He was a member of the committee that designed the Ryan Theatre and he not only directed numerous House Plays but also produced shows for the Rattigan Society, including Guys & Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors, and Oklahoma!. Aint Life Good! (1992), another musical collaboration with David Pickthall, won the Barclay’s Youth Music Award for Best Original Work at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1993. ARM also trod the boards himself in Masters’ plays and School pantomimes. ARM was deeply committed to the
pastoral life of the School. After a year as tutor in Rendalls, he moved to Moretons and then served 15 years in The Knoll. ARM always wanted to be a House Master and the call came in 2005, when he took over Gayton, before shortly moving to The Head Master’s, where he formally became House Master in 2007. In 2012, he joined the Senior Management Team as Senior Tutor with oversight of the pastoral care of the boys. ARM is not anticipating a quiet retirement. He has been appointed Safeguarding Governor at Papplewick School in Ascot. He also sits on the Board at Cargilfield School in Edinburgh and is a member of their Education & Welfare Committee. Beyond that, he offers assistance to schools and other organisations on a consultancy basis, sings regularly with Chelmsford Cathedral Choir, hopes to sit as a Magistrate in West London and looks forward to more travel adventures with his wife, Julia.
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n his retirement from Harrow after 33 years at the School, Peter Hunter (PDH) is returning to his Scottish roots. He was born in Edinburgh, brought up in Angus, and his first teaching job was at Gordonstoun School. As a teenager, not knowing what he wanted to do, he went on an army course for potential officers, had an interview with a bishop about going into the church, considered being an army chaplain and thought he wanted to be a TV producer. In 1975, he went up to Cambridge to read Law but soon swapped to English and went on to do a post-graduate teaching course in Oxford. Gordonstoun’s remote location provided limited opportunities for competitive sport, so pupils undertook challenging activities in the Scottish countryside. PDH and senior pupils also ran the fire brigade, which was called out about three times a week, though sometimes for false alarms. It was, he says, the hardest physical work he has ever done. At Gordonstoun, he also had his first chance to direct opera when the school commissioned composer David Bedford to compose a trilogy of operas based on Icelandic legends. Being an accomplished musician, PDH joined the school orchestra as a viola player. When the orchestra went on a tour to the USA, they visited The Lawrenceville School in Princeton, where the headmaster offered him a teaching job for the following year. On his return to Gordonstoun from his year in the USA, PDH began looking for a job in a school near London and, in 1984, was offered a post teaching English at Harrow. Head of English at the time was Jeremy Lemmon. From Jeremy, PDH learnt a great deal about performing Shakespeare and appeared in around 15 Shakespeare plays, including many at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire, where Jeremy Lemmon and Ronnie Watkins were the directors. Later, when he was House Master of The Park, he appeared in cameo roles in The Park’s House plays. In 1989, PDH was given responsibility for the Vaughan Library – the last beak to be Vaughan Librarian. Under his stewardship, the library was completely refurbished and re-stocked and a professional librarian appointed. During the ten years of the Vaughan project, PDH also undertook the
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Peter in The Park Reader
cataloguing of the School’s Byron collection, becoming a prominent figure in the world of Byron scholarship and Chairman of the Byron Society. On joining Harrow, PDH was resident tutor in The Park. He then moved to Moretons and, in 2001, returned to The Park as House Master. During his years there, he came to be considered the ideal House Master; he was admired by all the boys, whose greatest fear, when they did something wrong, was that they had disappointed him. After 12 years of stewardship of The Park, he was given responsibility for Sixth
Form admissions. He was also on the board of the Harrow Association and Chairman of the Old Speech Room Gallery: the depth of his knowledge of Harrow’s collections is unrivalled. In Edinburgh, PDH will be chairman of the David and June Gordon Memorial Trust, a charity that gives grants to community centres and the arts in Scotland. He is also a Governor of Fettes College in Edinburgh. He will not break his link with Harrow entirely, as he will be working with the Harrow Association to maintain an archive of families who have long-standing connections with the School.
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imon MacPherson (SFM) was born in Assam into expat Scottish society. His father had gone out to India during the war and decided to stay. At the age of nine, he was sent to Cargilfield, a prep school in Edinburgh, and then to Rugby School. After taking his A levels when he was only 16, SFM decided to wait before going to university. He taught in a Steiner School in Bristol for a while and worked in a shipbreaking yard on Clydeside. He went up to Merton College, Oxford, to read Classics. The nice thing about Oxford, he says, was that you could, as long as you passed your exams and satisfied your tutors, pursue other interests including, in his case, rowing and, surprisingly, contemporary dance. It was rowing, and his willingness to work with the school’s rifle corps, that helped him get his first teaching job at City of London School in 1981. SFM relates that, when he applied for a job at Harrow, he received a phone call: “If you are interested in being interviewed for the job you must come today.” There was a tube strike that day: “I needed therefore to drive into the centre of London on a strike day. I seem to remember having to borrow some paperclips to keep a shirt together. Anyway, I got brownie points for turning up and being vaguely compos mentis at the interview, I think.” He arrived at Harrow in 1984 and soon became live-in tutor in The Grove. At first, the HRC played a large part in his life, as it had at City of London School. He was sent
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to an establishment in Germany for a regimental visit, where he learned how to take off the top of a champagne bottle with a sword. He was also, for many years, editor of The Harrovian. It was widely known among the boys that SFM was the cleverest beak on the Hill and it was his charmingly don-like approach to his lessons that they enjoyed the most. One boy recalls asking SFM a question: “Mr MacPherson closed his eyes and thought so long before answering that everyone thought he had fallen asleep.” The boys adored him in the form room, the younger years for his power of description and his story telling, and the older years for his ability to illuminate very difficult Greek verse. One Sixth Former remarked that he needed to somehow keep SFM nearby during his exam, like a lucky charm: “Euripides is always easy; Mr MacPherson just needs to be in the room.“ Another labour of love were the plays that he staged: Sophocles’ Oedipus and Antigone in English; Oedipus, Antigone and Ajax in Greek with surtitles; the Mostellaria in Latin. They were often fly-by-the-seat-ofyour-pants productions, the terrifying question being whether the boys would return after the summer break having learned any of their lines. Current Head of Classics Dr Steven Kennedy described how SFM was an enormous source of inspiration and advice when it came to writing the annual Contio. Having turned to SFM for help with his first, he saw that there was lots of underlining. Slowly going through it, SFM nodded approvingly at several suggestions and said,
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“Yes, very good, an excellent suggestion; but is it Latin?” His crafted advice made SFM a dependable colleague who could be counted on as much to proof read embarrassing attempts to write Latin or translate obscure Renaissance texts as he could be to attend an unpromising talk by a visiting speaker. SFM was a respected and much-loved colleague, an inspiration to boys and someone you really wanted to have on a School trip. One beak recounted being on the beach at Matala: there were people jumping off high cliffs into the water. The Harrovians were desperate to have a go but were told categorically that it was too dangerous. SFM wandered off towards the cliffs and joined the queue of cliff jumpers. Reaching the front, he jumped off the 30ft cliff, cheered on by the boys. Walking back to the group he said, “Right, I’ve done the risk assessment: it’s safe. I’ll take the older boys.” In his retirement, SFM will be based in South Wales but he and his wife intend to spend some time travelling, particularly in France. “I certainly hope to put pen to digital paper,” he says, “and there are various projects that I have in mind. But the biggest contract of all is with my wife.”
EXAMINATION RESULTS AND UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS 2018 A-LEVEL
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The A-level results of Harrow boys in the last two years have been the best in the School’s history. This year, the A* rate stands at 32%, while the A*A rate is 65%. Twenty-eight boys achieved three or more A* or equivalent grades, and three quarters achieved grades of ABB or better.
Overall, nearly a quarter of last year’s applicants will take up places at universities ranked in the top ten in the world. Nineteen boys took up Oxbridge places – 12 at Oxford and seven at Cambridge. Other popular university destinations were Edinburgh (16), Exeter (13), UCL (13), Durham (10) and Newcastle (10). Eighteen boys will take up places at universities in United States, including Yale, Stanford and Chicago.
At GCSE level, numerical grades were awarded in ten of the 28 subjects taken by Harrovians, making comparisons with previous years more difficult. Overall, however, the proportion of grades awarded at 9, 8, 7, A* and A was more than 84% – a 2% increase on last year. Approximately one third of the year group achieved nine or more A* grades, and over half gained seven or more, typically from ten subjects.
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A new Security office was created in the lower floors of the Old Music Schools.
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Work started on the extension to The Grove, which will provide new accommodation for the Assistant House Master and Matron, as well as new communal areas for the boys.
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A new Careers Office provides a permanent base for the School’s Careers team.
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Considerable repairs and refurbishment were carried out in Rendalls Reader, Lower Sixth common room and Old Gym.
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The games areas in Elmfield and Newlands were repaired and resurfaced. 10
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A larger multi-use games area was created at the end of Moretons’ garden.
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The Astroturf pitches were resurfaced.
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HARROW: A SCHOOL FOR CHARACTER Every year, Harrow hosts a dozen open mornings to give prospective parents and boys an insight into the School, its purpose and its values, and to help them in the difficult process of choosing their next school. They come to hear about excellent academic outcomes and our wide range of extra-curricular activities. Even more importantly, they come to gain “a feel for the School”, to find out what the boys are like, to see how they interact with each other and with beaks, and to judge what it would be like to be part of the School community.
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he open mornings start with the Head Master talking about the School and his vision for its future. Prospective families listen to Harrovians answering questions about academic life, about the wide range of activities in sport, music, art and drama, and about the communities in their Houses. They are guided around the Hill by people with a deep knowledge of the School. They hear from the Registrar about the admissions process and they have a chance to meet informally with House Masters. Their experience is clearly very positive, to
judge from the very high number of applications which follow, but the reality is that it is impossible to distil and to appreciate on one Saturday morning the essence of the Harrow experience. Boys’ academic lives are governed by one weekly timetable, but their experiences of teaching and learning will be very different. Our curriculum is fundamentally liberal at every level: boys are free to choose their subjects before the timetable is built from scratch every year; Heads of Subject are free to choose the best qualifications and specifications; beaks are free to teach in the way that suits them best. There is also immense variety in the co-curriculum. The Bill Book for Summer 2018 listed 30 sports and 85 societies in addition to the opportunities available in the Harrow Rifle Corps, in Shaftesbury Enterprise and in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. The Houses are all different too, shaped by the characters of the boys and the personalities of the House Masters, Matrons and Assistant House Masters. Very simply, no two Harrovians’ experience of the School will be the same. Schools are very good at setting up structures and frameworks for the achievement of their purpose in academic terms. There are academic strategic objectives, departmental handbooks, lesson plans and opportunities for boys to reflect
Alastair Chirnside, Director of Studies
on their own learning. Academic lessons, however, constitute only a small part of a boy’s experience of Harrow. A boy in the Fifth Form this year will have four lessons of 40 minutes per week in most of his subjects. By contrast, some boys might spend five afternoons per week with the beak or professional coach working with their team in one of the major sports. That asymmetry in time is equally true for boys working on a House or a School production in the Ryan Theatre, or preparing for an important concert in Speech Room, or for an exhibition in the Pasmore Gallery or in Churchill Schools. However intense and memorable the experience in the form room, lessons are unlikely ever to have the same impact on a boy as his experiences on the playing fields, on the stage or in the studio. Schools have, however, tended to be less formal in structuring the opportunities for children to learn from those extra-curricular experiences. There are few observations of training or competition by other teachers critically evaluating the work of their peers as coaches or directors, conductors or counsellors; there are few formal
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mechanisms for children to reflect on their experiences and to identify the lessons to be learnt from them; if there are reports for parents on their sons’ involvement in those activities, they tend to be more generic and shorter than comments from teachers about academic progress. And yet the experiences are in so many ways more important. The same is true for life in boarding houses. House Masters help the boys to develop as individuals, encouraging them to take pride in their successes, to reflect on their failures and to learn from their occasional mistakes. Senior boys play a large part in the running of the Houses. In my weekly visits as a tutor to Moretons and from my regular visits to other Houses, I have been struck by the extent to which boys in the Sixth Form are given responsibility in the oversight of evening routines. As anyone who has grown up in a boarding school or been involved in running a boarding house can attest, no day is ever without incident, good or bad, and consequently without opportunity for boys to learn about themselves, by experience or by observation. As with the co-curriculum, however, there are few formal opportunities for boys to reflect individually on the lessons from those experiences. It is for that reason that Harrow has been involved for the last 18 months in a project focused on character education. Building on the work done on the School’s Values led by Jim Hawkins shortly after he arrived at Harrow as Head Master, the project started with a survey of parents, boys, beaks and non-teaching staff about the
ways in which the School community demonstrates Courage, Honour, Humility and Fellowship. From that first survey, it moved on to identify the areas in which there was the greatest scope for progress. The perspectives of House Masters and Heads of Subject were sought; a Character Education Team was formed, composed of beaks working in different areas of the School; a representative group of boys worked towards the creation of a leaver’s profile, trying to capture the qualities to be instilled in all boys over their five years at
Harrow. Since September 2018, pilot projects have been running in two of the teaching departments, seeking to encourage reflection on the promotion of the School’s values through teaching, in two co-curricular activities, involving codes of conduct and formal opportunities for boys to reflect on their own performance. This is not in terms of points scored or times recorded, but in terms of contribution to their teams and the development of themselves. The pilots are taking place in two of the Houses, where structures are being introduced to promote greater integration between year groups and to create a community that regulates its own behaviour, with reference to ideals rather than with recourse to disciplinary mechanisms. If those pilot projects prove successful, the same initiatives could be rolled out more widely in departments, in activities and in Houses. It might after all be possible then to distil the essence of Harrow at those open mornings: the education of character. In that respect as in so many others, the School remains true to the intentions of John Lyon, who founded Harrow to instil godliness and good learning. The language may have changed, but its spirit remains the same. – Alastair Chirnside, Director of Studies
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ew to the department last year was Mr Edward Hislop, who joined directly from Durham University having completed a degree in Biomedical Sciences. He provides extra support to potential medics in the Sixth Form and has helped to establish a Psychology Society (a small number of boys apply to study the subject at university every year, yet is not offered at A level). This is one example of how the Super-Curricularum, especially at A level, continues to expand. The second term of the Lower Sixth is arguably the key time for boys to engage with this. By then, they have settled in to the A level course, do not have public examinations looming and are beginning to think about university. It is also when many external competitions are held. Matthew Ong (Elmfield) was highly commended for his entry to the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Rackham Essay Prize for Biology, and three boys achieved Gold in the Biology Olympiad: Ricky Li (Druries), Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s) and Matthew Ilomuanya (West Acre) – the best result in recent years. A select group of Removes were entered for the Biology Challenge, the
Re-wilding project in Namibia
equivalent of the Biology Olympiad. All boys received awards of which four were gold. Over the Easter holiday, Lower Sixth and Remove boys travelled to Namibia to participate in a re-wilding project on the
Boys helping to build a sand dam in Namibia
border with South Africa. This inaugural trip laid the foundation for future expeditions to the region. – Nick Keylock, Head of Biology
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Chemistry
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ith the increase in popularity of A level Chemistry at Harrow, the teaching team gained two new beaks, Mr William Seex and Mr Matthew Pullen. Beaks continue to devise and update the practicals and demonstrations on offer, both in response to new examination criteria and in extension work. The new Surface Books should work well with the data-logging hardware to improve how we monitor reaction progress and use our data. The labs have been fitted with new projectors to accommodate these. Lower Sixth boys were able to study two Chemistry Electives. Breaking Bad Pharma considered the various economic and chemical aspects of drug design and production, before scrutinising the questionable ethics of the pharmaceutical industry in prioritising profit above patient care.
With enormous advances in drug research, pupils looked at how legislation and bureaucracy could be improved to allow far greater positive impact. Meanwhile, the Chemistry of Food course challenged the popular concept that ‘cookery is an art’ and encouraged us all to have a more scientific (Blumenthal-like) approach. Boys taking the Elective not only improved their theoretical knowledge but also put it into practice in the School kitchens. Sixth Form boys raised the bar of academic success in competitions. Cody Kwok (The Grove) and Andrew Zhou (Lyon’s) both progressed to the second round of The Royal Society’s prestigious Olympiad competition, placing them in the top eight in the country. Although they narrowly missed out on selection for the final four, they both learnt a huge amount, which was particularly valuable for Andrew who will have another opportunity to try
again next year as a Year 13 candidate. Indeed, most (64%) of the Harrow’s 38 first-round entrants were Lower Sixth candidates attempting the competition a year early, making the number of awards particularly pleasing in the national context: nine gold, 11 silver and nine bronze. In the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge for Lower Sixth (C3L6), Harrovians secured nine copper, 14 silver and four gold awards. Pasa Suksmith (Elmfield), William Cleeve (Lyon’s) and Andrew Zhou came within the top 0.7% of 8,000 candidates and were awarded Roentgenium awards and invited to the second round at Cambridge University. Chemistry continues to support Shaftesbury Enterprise with its programme of sessions for the children of Vaughan and Roxeth Primary Schools. – Christian Penhale, Head of Chemistry
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Computer Science
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he Computer Science department has expanded, with record numbers of boys now studying for the IGCSE. The Art of Programming Elective is one of the most popular choices for boys in the Lower Sixth, and the supplemental course in scientific computing has proven useful preparation for university interviews and personal statements. Our library of resources for the GCSE option has grown and boys have enjoyed developing their understanding of the main principles of problem solving using computers. They regularly develop solutions using algorithms and a high-level programming language, Python. Boys in the Remove were asked to produce a project using what they have learnt in the form room and have created simple games, novel social networks, beautifully formatted websites, and even a DIY DropBox system using our suite of networked Raspberry Pi Linux computers. In the Summer term, 25 boys competed in the Harrow Schools International Coding Challenge, an online programming session with live video conferencing linking
hundreds of students from Harrow International School Beijing, Harrow International School Hong Kong, John Lyon School and Harrow International School Bangkok. Competitors tackled some tricky problems with great results. Max Clark (West Acre), Daniil Kuznetsov (Newlands) and Edward Joyce (The Head Master’s) were
awarded an Outstanding certificate, while Simon Luo (Bradbys), Jan Kryca (Moretons), Jake McDermid (Rendalls) and Sachin Vyas (Elmfield) were Highly Commended. We plan to run this competition in future years to promote Computer Science further. – Dr Chris Crowe, Head of Computer Science
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Boys studying Design & Technology visited the Design Museum
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side from the academic programme, which continues to see an increase in numbers and excellent grades, we introduced and developed a wide range of initiatives last year. Joining forces with Shaftesbury Enterprise, Harrow boys worked throughout on the Little Cup of Kindness project, with 14 Harrovians building a portable tea-and-coffee trailer with the purpose of selling refreshments at School sporting events to raise money for FirmFoundation, a local charity for the homeless. Along with this charitable work, the department was instrumental in helping local students from Twyford Academy to
compete in the F1 in Schools competition; they received the Best Newcomers award in the regional finals in April. Adam Auret (Lyon’s) was awarded second place in the IOM3 National Design Awards for his prototype of a commercial product linked to the manufacturers of Polo. He was highly commended for his creativity. We have also continued to work alongside other departments to develop and assist in programmes such as the Engineering Scheme, which once again had a successful year. – Tom Knight, Head of Design & Technology
A design for the F1 in Schools Competition
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Economics & Business Studies
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here were team successes in two national Economics competitions last year. A team of four Upper Sixth Formers competed as one of ten schools in the national final of the Institute of Economic Affairs Budget Challenge. The team of Oliver Bater (Rendalls), Kareem Jafree (Elmfield), Declan Shortt and Ostap Stefak (both Newlands) were complimented by the judges on the philosophical underpinning of their government budget plans and, while they missed out on the top prize, they were all offered places on the IEA’s Sixth Form summer internship programme. A separate of team of four Upper Sixth boys finished 12th of nearly 5,000 school
teams in the IFS Student Investor Challenge. In the final round, the team of Oliver Bater, Tola Fola-Alade, Edward Hunter and Aria Shirazi (all Rendalls) were required to predict correctly the closing price of certain assets for four weeks in a row, having invested £100,000 of virtual money in a share portfolio for three months previously. There was good news regarding boys’ entries to prestigious essay competitions. Timothy Chan (The Knoll) was highly commended for his entry in the Land Economy Essay Competition of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in which he evaluated potential solutions to the UK housing crisis. Meanwhile, the entry by
Kareem Jafree (Elmfield) in the New College of the Humanities essay competition was shortlisted for the prize. His essay analysed the ability of richer countries to improve living standards in developing countries. Harrow hosted the annual Economics debate with North London Collegiate School, during which three pairs of Lower Sixth economists set out to convince the assembled audience of boys and girls of the importance of their chosen economist relative to that of their opponents. Two teams of boys participating in the Business and Leadership Elective took part in the LEAD programme, which involved identifying how to solve financial difficulty for under 21s. The ‘Piggy Banks’ suggested classes to educate young people about managing their finances. The winning idea came from the ‘Debt Destroyers’, who designed an app for users to track and manage their finances easily. – Chris Pollitt, Head of Economics
English
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highlight of the Spring term was a Sixth Form trip to the RSC’s highly original and thought-provoking production of Hamlet at the Hackney Empire Theatre, starring Paapa Essiedu as a graffiti-splattered Prince of Denmark. In the Summer term, the department welcomed Professor Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, to lecture on John Webster’s revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi to an audience of over 200 A level pupils. Boys in the Lower Sixth spent a day at the London Academy of Excellence in Tottenham, taking part in a symposium on the 20th-century literature. Academy pupils and Harrow boys delivered short lectures on topics such as Modernism, Postmodernism, the rise of the American novel, the Angry Young Men movement and British satire in the mid-20th century. Boys in the Fifth Form watched a dramatic interpretation of Michael Frayn’s Spies in the Ryan Theatre, a refreshing take on a novel they studied for their English Literature IGCSE.
Photograph by Manuel Harlan © RSC
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There are numerous competitions run by the English department. The Winston Churchill Essay Prize winners were Daniel Shailer (Rendalls), Ostap Stefak (Newlands), Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) and Christopher Gujadhar (The Head Master’s): the winning essays, on the topic of cultural appropriation, were of an exceptionally high standard both in terms of ideas as well as style of expression. The Lady Bourchier Reading Competition – adjudicated this year by OH and The Archers actor Tim Bentinck (Moretons 19663) – saw the Senior Prize awarded to Max Evans-Tovey (Druries) and the Junior Prize to Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s). The Augustus Fleet Poetry Competition prompted particularly outstanding poetry from boys in the Shells and Removes, notably Michael Chiimba (Newlands), Hugo Heffer (Elmfield), George Phillips (The Head Master’s) and Jake Henson (The Park). – Dr Joanna Bratten, Head of English Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet
History
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he department was privileged to host Dr Levi Roach from the University of Exeter as last year’s Lyon Lecturer in History. He gave two masterclasses on the Vikings to Upper Sixth and Lower Sixth History divisions, and a brilliant plenary lecture on ‘Forgery and Memory in the Middle Ages’, for which we were joined by students and teachers from across the borough and from our partner school, the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham. The prestigious Habsburg Prize for History & Politics, sponsored by His Imperial Royal Highness Archduke Simeon of Austria
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and awarded to the author of the best essay on Europe’s place in the wider world, was won by William Tallentire (Lyon’s) for a fascinating essay exploring the role of the Norwegian merchant fleet in the Second World War. William was also commended by the judges of the Vellacott Prize, offered by Peterhouse College, Cambridge, for a highly original essay in answer to the question ‘What sorts if things have survived from the so-called Dark Ages in the British Isles, and why?’ In Expeditions Week we repeated the mass two-day expedition to the
battlefield(s) of Ypres and the Somme, involving virtually the entire Shell year. We also resurrected our popular Lower Sixth walking tour of socialist and communist London: from Trafalgar Square to Highgate, via the Marx Memorial Library and Lenin’s local pub at Clerkenwell Green, culminating in Marx’s two graves in Highgate Cemetery. – Andy Todd, Head of History The Lyon’s Lecture series is sponsored by the Harrow Development Trust.
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he start of last academic year marked a shift from A level to the Cambridge Pre-U for Harrow Art Historians. The rigorous syllabus offers a sound introduction to the canon of art history, both Western and further afield, as well as exploring thematic and historical topics, and allowing boys to pursue their own passions through an extended Personal Investigation. The curriculum was supported by a number of exciting trips in the UK – to the Ashmolean Print Room, St Paul’s Cathedral and Sir John Soane’s Museum, in addition to the essential pilgrimage to the National Gallery – as well as abroad with trips to Florence, Rome, Padua and Paris. We were also invited to a talk by Julien Domercq, Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery in London, on the work of Degas. Outside the form room, the boys curated a historical exhibition in the Pasmore Gallery of works by photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, in collaboration with the OSRG and the Norman Parkinson Archive. In addition to selecting, researching and hanging the artworks, the boys were also invited to create their own response to the photographs, creating photographic interpretations, collages and an exceptional film montage by Harvey Fry (Rendalls) and Jobie Wong (Bradbys). Last year also witnessed the resurgence of the prestigious ARTiculation prize in which boys give presentations on works of
Art Historians in Rome
Boys’ responses to the photographs of Beaton and Parkinson
art that they have found interesting. Particular highlights included Alizhan Aldiyar (Rendalls) on Claude Cahun, Oliver Bater (Rendalls) on Picasso’s Guernica and Anthony Cho (Elmfield) on Nobuyoshi
Araki. However, it was Adam Work (Lyon’s) who triumphed with his presentation on Grayson Perry and who represented Harrow at the regional semi-finals. – Juliet Bailey, Head of History of Art
In the Intermediate Mathematics Challenge, Harrovians achieved 52 gold, 49 silver and 30 bronze certificates, including 52 qualifiers for the various following rounds. Daniel Zhang (The Knoll) in the Removes top-scored with 128/135. In the Cayley paper, Brandon Chang (Druries) was awarded a medal (56/60). The junior Mathematics team (joint with Orley Farm) finished second in the regional final, progressing through to the national final as the best second-placed team, where they finished 30th of 88 schools on the day. The senior Mathematics team won their regional final and finished sixth nationally (out of 1,300). The Hans Woyda team
reached the semi-final. There have been two Mathematical trips this year: ten boys attended the British Mathematical Olympiad lecture and another ten took part in the Exploring Mathematics day at Royal Holloway, University of London. The inaugural Siddons Mathematics Competition was won by Remove Francois Ni (The Park), and the Snell Mathematics Competition was won jointly by Lower Sixth Formers Norman Li (Elmfield) and William Lintott (The Grove). – James Ashton, Head of Mathematics
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t was a busy year in the Mathematics department. In the Senior Mathematics Challenge, the boys achieved 44 gold, 43 silver and 54 bronze certificates, with 17 qualifying for Round 1 of the British Mathematical Olympiad. Firry Yang (The Head Master’s), Pasa Suksmith (Elmfield) and Andrew Zhou (Lyon’s) are to be commended for answering all questions correctly scoring 125/125. In the Olympiad, Ricky Li (Druries) was awarded a silver medal after scoring 56/60 and Pasa Suksmith achieved a distinction. Andrew Zhou was top scorer in the second round with a creditable 16/40.
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Modern Foreign Languages
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here were some exciting developments in the department last year. One of these was the first cohort of boys taking the Pre-U qualification in their Upper Sixth year. There were some outstanding performances, including a number of D1 grades (a level higher than A* at A-level). Another was the introduction of the Robinson Lecture Series. Professor Richard Cooper of Brasenose College, Oxford, spoke to a large audience on ‘Writers and the French Revolution’. He also addressed the whole Fifth Form, giving them a taste of university-style teaching with a lecture on Rabelais and farce, in addition to teaching Pre-U divisions on their Voltaire set texts. Boys were introduced to the practical applications of their language skills through the visit of Paul Kaye, Language Officer to the European Commission, who delivered a talk on translating and interpreting in the institutions of the European Union. Hispanists enjoyed another visit by the Firewalk Theatre Company from Zaragoza, as they performed Lazarillo de Tormes entirely in Spanish. Linguists also saw considerable success in competitions. Monty Powell (The Grove) and Scipio Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) won silver awards at advanced level at the 2018
Trip to Florence
UK Linguistics Olympiad, a problem-solving competition based around little-known and invented languages. This placed them in the top 10% of almost 2,000 entrants from across the country. Harrow had more winners than any other school in the National Russian Essay Competition with success in every level. Ivan Hanbury (Moretons) came first in the highest Level 4 competition. Charles Sherlock (The Knoll) received a commendation for the most original essay at Level 3. Anthony Cho (Elmfield) came second in the National Japanese Speech Contest with his speech on ‘The Life of Cicadas’. He also won first prize in the Advanced category in the first Japanese Speech Contest against Eton College at Teikyo School. Lawrence Leekie (West Acre) was chosen as the audience favourite in the Beginners category. There was a trip to Estonia for boys studying Russian, as well as languagelearning trips to Florence, Berlin and Chambéry. – Henry Johnson, Head of Modern Foreign Languages The Harrow Development Trust supported Modern Foreign Languages trips.
Estonia
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e enjoyed another very successful year in competitions organised by the British Physics Olympiad (BPhO), with four groups engaged in fun, off-curriculum problem solving spanning all areas of physics. It is an opportunity for our strongest boys to distinguish themselves in national competitions and for all boys to develop highly transferable skills and confidence in problem solving generally. In the BPhO Round 1, aimed at boys in the Upper Sixth, six boys earned gold awards, with two silver and four bronze awards. Of the gold award winners, Andrew Zhou (Lyon’s) and Isaac Wong (Newlands), both in the Lower Sixth, finished in the top 50 nationally – an outstanding achievement. Andrew and Isaac were invited to enter the British Astronomy and Astrophysics competition and earned gold and silver awards respectively. In the AS Challenge aimed at the Lower Sixth, there were four golds, two silver and nine bronze awards. In the GCSE Challenge, taken mostly by boys in the Fifth Form, five boys achieved a gold award, with six silver and 12 bronze awards. This year, the BPhO introduced a new Year 10 competition, which was entered by 79 boys from the Removes. We finished
with 17 gold, 22 silver and 16 bronze awards. Leo Jiang (The Knoll), George Webster (Druries), Luke Shailer (Rendalls), Simon Luo (Bradbys) and Wayne Wen (The Park), who all achieved gold awards in that competition, also achieved silver awards in the GCSE Challenge, which they had entered a year early. Many Harrovians now enter the UK Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad, with several being awarded gold medals for the first time last year.
The Observatory had some technical updates that make operation easier and faster, as well as allowing fully remote operation. Fifth Form astronomers have used the Observatory to complete observations of a variety of Messier objects for their GCSE coursework, including targets such as the Andromeda galaxy, the Horsehead nebula, the lunar surface and the Whirlpool galaxy. – Chris Barry, Head of Science
ENGINEERING PROJECTS The preliminary selection exercise involved scratch teams building battery-driven model trucks and racing them the length of the Sports Centre. This co-operative exercise gave rise to our four final teams, comprising 22 Lower Sixth boys eager to tackle the principal projects for the year: • An emergency braking system for London Underground trains • A hip fracture prevention system • A proposed evacuation system for high-rise buildings • The future for electric car technologies
After six months of extra-curricular R&D and an intensive weekend of report writing, each team submitted their solutions for a Crest Gold Award from the British Science Association. At Harrow, we aim for our engineering projects to be of first-year undergraduate academic level and for our reports to be of a professional standard. The feedback from Crest was very positive and all team members received individual Gold Awards. – Martin Roberts, Head of Engineering
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olitical events, at both home and abroad, continue to develop at a rapid and sometimes bewildering pace. The adage that Politics textbooks are out of date when published certainly applies to beaks’ teaching notes. Nevertheless, the Politics department endeavours to help boys understand the ever-changing political landscape and, more importantly, to express reasoned opinions about it. Indeed, one of the great joys of the subject for boys is that they can enter lengthy debates with peers and their beaks about a range of topics. While the usual suspects are never far away, the discussions within form rooms are both wide ranging and intellectually stimulating: from the virtue of modern liberalism and the rise of nationalism in
Eastern Europe to the application of soft-power and the impact of globalisation on realist thinking. Boys in the Lower Sixth started the new linear A level last year. Alongside this, the Politics department also started teaching a new Fifth Form Elective. This gave boys an insight into political philosophy through the ideas and works of thinkers such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Locke; while many boys found these encounters rather challenging, they were also greatly enriching. Boys also continued to stretch themselves beyond the form room by entering external essay competitions, such as the John Locke Institute prize and the R A Butler Prize for essays in Politics and International Studies. – Alastair Cook, Head of Politics
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n the form room, boys continued to be part of two innovative teaching approaches: Philosophy for Children (P4C) and ‘flipped learning’. Flipped learning allowed boys, particularly in the Sixth Form, to develop independent learning skills, which invariably freed up more time in the form room for them to complete higher order thinking tasks. The discursive pedagogical approach of
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the P4C programme allowed Shell boys to develop their soft skills further, with a keen focus on improving their ability to listen actively and to offer constructive feedback. Outside the form room, the Upper Sixth had day off the timetable focused on exam technique, led by Dr Gregory Barker, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester. The Lower Sixth, too, had a variety of Super-Curricular opportunities,
including a visit to the Cambridge Union to listen to a debate between Professor A C Grayling and Professor Richard Swinburne. A small group of Lower Sixth Formers were invited to the New College of the Humanities to take part in a seminar chaired by Dr David Mitchell. – Charles Bailey, Head of Theology and Philosophy
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VAUGHAN LIBRARY Harrow’s Reading Strategy, which was launched two years ago to encourage reading for pleasure throughout the School, and particularly for boys to read beyond the prescribed curriculum, is well established and has made a notable impact on the Vaughan Library, with an increasing number of boys borrowing books. This has been achieved by setting dedicated reading times and providing access to excellent collections in the Vaughan and the House libraries.
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oys starting in September received a New Boys’ Reading List as part of their introduction to the School. The list included contemporary authors and recent prizewinners of young adult fiction as well as classic authors and well-loved novels. The boys were invited to read a book, write a review of it on a postcard and send it to their future House Master. The books and postcard reviews were displayed in the Vaughan. Building on this initiative, we had weekly reading sessions in the Vaughan with groups of Shell boys. During these periods, we learnt which books the boys like to read and then introduced them to new authors, titles and series. The boys played book quizzes and challenges and were encouraged to discuss the books that they had been reading. We also found out about boys’ existing reading habits such as their favourite times and places to read and the formats they prefer. Overwhelmingly, boys preferred books in traditional paper format, although there were few who favour e-readers. Generally, boys read as a way to wind down and so often read at bedtime, on holiday or on long journeys. We were surprised by the number of boys who, although they were not particularly keen to talk about what they were reading, with a little encouragement revealed very sophisticated reading choices and tastes. As part of the World War One commemorations, we hosted an event and exhibition with the Drama department. Their production of Oh! What a Lovely War was our cue to promote collections of books and photographs from the Harrow Archive to commemorate Harrovians who were
involved in the conflict. The Harrow War Memorials were displayed in the Vaughan and proved a poignant tribute. To celebrate 100 years of women obtaining the right to vote, we displayed books and information on the Suffragette movement and equality issues. This provoked some very lively debate. Our Gothic Horror display and the conversion of the Reading Room into a cobweb-draped ‘room of gloom’ had a great impact on the boys. The bats and giant spiders enhanced our enjoyment of classic ghost stories and illustrated the impact of the gothic tradition on contemporary literature. The School’s Out display of classic and contemporary LGBT fiction and personal memoirs of inspirational men and women was a reminder of the value the School
puts on respect and kindness, and highlighted books that deal with the most sensitive and personal of subjects. Speech Day was very busy in the Vaughan with over 400 visitors and with boys collecting prizes or visiting the exhibitions. Nearly 700 books were ordered as Speech Day prizes, the most popular title being Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, which closely beat Sapiens by the same author. The most requested authors for Speech Day prizes this year were William Shakespeare, Yuval Noah Harari, Virginia Woolf, Richard Dawkins, Ernest Cline, George Orwell, Richard Feynman and Neil Gaiman. – Marie Staunton, Head of Library and Archive
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So Songs Live! As was evident at Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017, the singing of Harrow Songs can move the heart of the most hardened Harrovian.
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ome of the earliest, and still most popular, songs were the creation of Edward Bowen and John Farmer, whose belief in the power of collective singing as a civilising influence brought about the tradition of House Songs, with the tunes and lyrics that still stir Harrovians long after they have left the Hill.
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Churchill Songs
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John Farmer
John Farmer was born in 1835 in Nottingham. His father, a lace manufacturer, was a skilful cellist, and Farmer learned to play the piano, violin and harp. He was eventually apprenticed the School and was widely regarded as to his uncle, an organist, composer and being rather disreputable. Fear that the music teacher who ran a music and rest of the School might be contaminated musical instrument business. At the age by their freakish enthusiasm meant that of 14, Farmer was sent to the Leipzig the society was tolerated but was not conservatory and then to Coburg, where allowed to put on any concerts. he became Untercapellmeister and For two years, Farmer’s position at assisted Wagner in a staging of his Harrow remained semi-official. Eventually, opera Tannhäuser. charmed by the gregarious, cheerful In 1853, Farmer returned to England manner of the man who, possibly for his and joined the London branch of his rather scruffy appearance, was known father’s lace business. When his mother as ‘Sweaty John’, the rest of the School died in 1856, he abandoned lace and left came round. In 1864, he was appointed for Zurich, where he supported himself School Organist and Instructor in Music by teaching music. In by Head Master 1859, he married Mary “The combination of Edward Montagu Butler, Stahel, the daughter of and conducted Bowen and John Farmer has the first concert a Zürich schoolmaster, with whom he had become little less famous, in ever given by seven children. On boys in a School its smaller world, than that returning to England building. of Gilbert and Sullivan.” again in 1861, he Farmer was had a variety of jobs not content – Lord Ernest Hamilton including, according to with music family tradition, being the a spell as a circus bandmaster, until he preserve of established enthusiasts. was engaged to give piano performances He encouraged the participation of all at the International Exhibition in London boys in massed singing sessions and the in 1862. serious study of instrumental music. He It was here that a group of Harrovians was convinced of the possibility of music heard him and, struck by his playing, ‘acting on the better side of boys’ nature, asked if he would come and take charge of civilising, humanising, repressing the evil their fledgling Musical Society. Members and bringing out the good.’ It was this paid him a small salary out of their own belief that prompted him to persuade the pockets because the society, which was House Masters to let him come into the founded in 1857, had no formal status in Houses for singing parties in the evening.
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Grove Hill and Moretons were the first to welcome him in, although some Houses attempted to hold out. At The Grove, a large basket of dirty boots was dropped “accidently” from the top story, narrowly missing Farmer’s head as he tried to gain admittance. At the first gatherings, the songs were of a hearty, traditional nature, but Farmer wanted boys to have their own songs that meant something to them, so he asked Harrow Masters to provide lyrics for some of his compositions. The earliest songs produced by Masters, including the first, Io Triumphe, were in Latin, but, in 1867, Willow the King was written in
English by Edward Bowen. Farmer’s singing parties took place fortnightly, or sometimes weekly, in each House during the Winter term. All the boys would gather to sing in unison, but every boy was also encouraged at the start of his first term to perform a solo, regardless of the sound that came out of his mouth. This was so that Farmer could identify singers for his elite group of about 20 boys and was possibly the genesis of the new boy’s solo. In Forty Years On: A Memoir, Lord Ernest Hamilton recalls his first experience of House Songs and his new boy’s solo in 1872:
Facsimile of Famer’s score for Forty Years On
‘My first house-singing was a great excitement to me, for I knew I should be tried for my voice, and hoped I might be selected for honours. The first thing I saw when I entered the hall was a cheerfullooking little man in spectacles, with a round, red, perspiring face, who was sitting at the piano playing muffled chords with an abstracted air. This was John Farmer. The moment the door was closed, his abstracted manner left him and he began bouncing up and down on his seat with all the signs of that tremendous energy which was characteristic of him... “Now then”, he cried, “we’ll get rid of the new squeakers first... then Farmer, after consulting a list at his right hand, called out “Atkinson junior... As we were taken alphabetically, my name came about half-way down the list and by the time I was called upon I had the tune at my fingers’ ends.” Ernest Hamilton’s solo success on that occasion, however, was dwarfed by something far more momentous. After all the new boys had sung, Hamilton records that Farmer ‘... turned to the piano with an air of suppressed but ill-concealed excitement and said: “Now I’ve got something new for you which I want you to learn. You can learn the tune first and then we’ll get the words printed for you. I’ll sing it through to you.” He struck a single chord, which at that time meant nothing to us, but which today brings every Harrovian to his feet aa surely as the opening notes of the National
Anthem. And then, in his rich baritone voice, he sang
‘Forty Years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing to-day When we look back and forgetfully wonder What we were like in our work and our play, Then it will be there will often come o’er you Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song, Visions of boyhood will float then before you, Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along.’
Farmer continued to compose Harrow songs, with lyrics by Harrow Masters, for the rest of his time at Harrow. In 1885, he accepted an invitation from Balliol College, Oxford, to become organist and stimulate musical activities there. He died in 1901. As well as songs for Harrow and later for Balliol College, he composed an oratorio, Christ and his Soldiers (1878); a carol service, The Coming of Christ (1899); a fairy opera, Cinderella (1882); and a Requiem in Memory of Departed Harrow Friends (1884).
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It is difficult to imagine such a paragon as Edward Bowen appears to have been. He was described by his pupils as ‘the most brilliant, original and liberal-minded of teachers’. He was also an enthusiastic athlete and was loved and admired by all who knew him. Not a single negative word about him seems to have been written, except that he talked a lot. In his memoir of Bowen, his nephew William Bowen wrote: ‘He possessed many interests beyond literature and scholarship, and was more or less proficient in the subjects connected with them. He was a good astronomer and a fair mathematician. He had a wide acquaintance with military history, and knew of the Napoleonic period as much, perhaps, as any Englishman living. He was enough of a Biblical critic to keep pace with most modern discussions upon questions of authorship, date, integrity, interpretation. He was a keen politician, and deeply interested in all social, and to some extent in all ecclesiastical, reforms. He was a songwriter who, in his own line, was unequalled. He was a vigorous athlete – a splendid walker, a zealous oar, and indefatigable football player, a good cricketer... But to all these things – sufficiently remarkable by themselves – Edward Bowen added a character of the rarest beauty and purity.’ When Bowen died, the Master of Trinity College wrote: ‘a more gracious, brilliant, lovable spirit has rarely been given to the earth’. Bowen was born in County Wicklow in Ireland in 1836. His father, Christopher, was an evangelical clergyman. He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and King’s College, London, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1854. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Apostles, a society of intellectuals, many of whom later became influential in British public life, and he was eventually elected to a fellowship at Trinity. He was active in the Cambridge Union and as an athlete, notably walking the 90 miles from Cambridge to Oxford in 26 hours. In 1858, he was appointed assistant master at Marlborough College but, in 1859, was invited by the Head Master Dr Vaughan to come to Harrow. He was House Master of a Small House from 1864 until 1881, when he took over The Grove, where he stayed until his death in 1901.
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Bowen held views that were untypical allowed the creation Modern Side in 1869, of a Victorian schoolmaster. A political, enabling boys to study history, modern social and educational progressive, he was languages, mathematics and science, along a religious freethinker and anti-militarist with Latin. Bowen, the first Master to take (he was critical of the Rifle Corps). He charge of the Modern Side, wrote: ‘The also opposed jingoism, preached equality, idea was that of a department of equal supported the trade unions and urged dignity and status – so far as it could be modernity on the public schools. In 1880, made so – to the Classical Side’. he contested the parliamentary seat of As significant as his part in the academic Hertford as a Liberal and just missed life of Harrow was his contribution to being selected to contest the Harrow sport, particularly team sports, which he Division of Middlesex in 1885. He only believed were important in boys’ moral parted ways with the Liberals over Home and physical development. Montagu Rule in Ireland, although his liberal Butler wrote after Bowen’s death of ‘his sympathies always remained. persistent devotion to the He was a passionate of the boys. More, “Never, surely, was games advocate of widening probably than any master there a happier the School curriculum who has ever lived at and perhaps his most alliance than that of Harrow, he gave his heart significant contribution to their game as well Edward Bowen to the academic life of as to their work... As to and John Farmer.” the educating effect of Harrow was his part in the institution of the cricket and football, he did Modern Side, which taught an early not care to preach; but he would never version of today’s school curriculum. have hesitated to avow, what his actions Until the Public Schools Act of 1868, the for forty years proclaimed, that, in his Harrovian education was based almost deliberate judgement, they were second exclusively on Latin and Greek, as required to nothing in fostering a healthy manly, by the statutes of John Lyon. The Act unselfish, corporate life.’ freed the School from this restriction and Bowen was a keen player of Harrow
The Philathletic Ground
football and took part in games until a few weeks before his death. It was he who codified the rules of the game in 1865 and established the Torpids competition. A more concrete contribution to School sport was his gift in 1893 of land to extend the Philathletic Ground. Two years later, he gave a large donation towards the purchase of the Northwick Fields. His generosity to the School was not limited to its sports facilities. In 1893, he settled his whole estate on the School. In 1900, he bought The Grove from its owners and built The Copse for his retirement, and the School acquired both these buildings on his sudden death on a cycling holiday in France in 1901, at the age of 65. It is, however, for his songs that he is mostly remembered. Forty Years On is, of course, the most widely known but, along with John Farmer, he is responsible for many of Harrow’s best-loved songs including Giants, Queen Elizabeth sat one day, When Raleigh Rose, October!, Good Night, St Joles, Byron Lay, A Gentleman’s a-bowling and Songs. Ernest Hamilton recorded that: ‘We used to think Bowen’s words were a little mad, but they were not mad, only poetically subtle and wide of the obvious – too wide, in some cases, for the consumption of boys.’ Christopher Tyerman, in his A History of Harrow School, argues that ‘the vision contained in Harrow Songs was shaped in over 30 songs by Bowen’s own preoccupations and philosophy: the centrality of games, the rewards of effort, the experience of the schoolboy, the embrace of Harrow present and past, the cult of youth.’ Farmer and Bowen’s songs, as Montagu Butler wrote, ‘proved from the first and never lost their spell, of quite extraordinary value in promoting good fellowship among the boys and in forging links of love and loyalty between the passing generations of Harrow men.’ Of the partnership of Bowen and Farmer, he said: ‘Never, surely, was there a happier alliance than that of Edward Bowen and John Farmer. No two men could be more unlike in original gifts, in education, in physical activities, in knowledge of the world. But love of Harrow and of free boy-life revealed each to each and made them brothers.’ – Catherine Robinson, Editor
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The Great Court at the British Museum
Members of the Architecture Society with Leo Sixsmith
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The inaugural lecture for the re-founded Architecture Society was given by Dr James Campbell, Fellow and Director of Studies at Queen’s College, Cambridge. He spoke about the history of architecture. Other speakers during the society’s first year included Spencer De Grey, Senior Partner and Head of Design at Foster + Partners. Mr De Grey reflected on some of the buildings on which he has worked, in particular the re-design of the Great Court at the British Museum and the new Apple campus in California. OH Leo Sixsmith (The Knoll 20083) returned to Harrow to talk about his experiences as a student at Cambridge and his work as an architect since leaving university. Aleks PredolacMiller (Druries) gave a talk on ‘Germanic Architecture between 1930 and 1945’, in which he looked at the major architects who revolutionised architecture in Hitler’s Germany and discussed whether the work of any architect who supported the Nazi regime could ever be regarded as great. Members of the society also visited Eton College to listen to Sir Norman Foster, whose talk focused on the importance of designing buildings in a more environmentally responsible way.
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ATHENAEUM SOCIETY INTELLECTUAL EXPLORATION The first subject discussed by members of the Athenaeum Society was whether developments in the design of running shoes would make it possible for someone to run a marathon in under two hours. At another meeting, members considered whether, because millennials value access over ownership, spending habits have changed, creating what is known as a sharing economy. Members also explored the question of whether anyone is above the law by looking at one of the most prominent cases in Canadian legal history, which involved Maurice Duplessis, who was Quebec’s attorney general, and Frank Roncarelli, a Jehovah’s Witness, liquor store owner and petty criminal. They also discussed how the acceleration in technological innovation will continue to affect the macroeconomy and why some economists believe that we would be better off if physical cash were abolished.
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IOLOGY SOCIETY The society hosted a number of outside speakers. In the Spring term, the talks were arranged around the theme of the evolution of vertebrates. One of the speakers was Dr Martin Brazeau of Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, who addressed the society on ‘Life in the Age of Fishes: evolution before the conquest of
land’. His talk looked at the history of life on the planet and focused on the evolution of sharks and how the fossil record reveals a key part of our own roots in the animal kingdom. Dr Michalis Barkoulas from Imperial College London discussed how nematodes are used as model systems for understanding the
relationship between genes and the resulting development of physical characteristics seen in organisms. Colin Jackson, Head of Innovation at The BBC’s Natural History Unit, described how the BBC is using and developing the latest technological innovations in film in productions such a Planet Earth 2 and Blue Planet 2.
Dr Martin Brazeau’s talk focused on the evolution of sharks Photograph by Zac Wolf
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Baku Bay, Azerbaijan
Mosaic of Alexander the Great
CLASSICAL SOCIETY External speakers included Ben Kane, author of novels such as The Forgotten Legion, The Silver Eagle and The Road to Rome. He spoke on ‘Hannibal and the Second Punic War’. Dr Emma Cole from the University of Bristol addressed the society on ‘Horror on Show’ in a Halloween special that covered madness, murder and the macabre in Classical Greek tragedy. Professor Matthew Nicholls from the University of Reading lectured on Virtual
Rome: a digital model he created of the ancient city. Olivia Thompson of Balliol College, Oxford, spoke on ‘Roman Comedy and Intellectual Debate’. Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones of Cardiff University lectured on the Persian Empire and its history from an Ancient Iranian perspective. From Cambridge University, Professor Tim Whitmarsh, A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, talked on ‘Walking with Socrates: philosophy in the city of Athens’; Dr Yannis
Galanakis, spoke on ‘Excavating Mycenaean Greece’; and Professor Emeritus Paul Cartledge, discussed ‘Alexander the Great: Hero or Horror?’ Professor Catharine Edwards of Birkbeck College, University of London, lectured on ‘Roman Imperial Women’, and the Oxford Latinitas group spoke about the Odes of Horace and how the recitation of poetry can affect and enhance its meaning.
Photograph by Alix Saz
The annual Caspian Society lecture, entitled ‘Azerbaijan – from a Land of Fire to a Modern 21st-century State’, was devoted to the topic of Azerbaijan through the centuries, with a particular focus on the country’s transition from an ex-Soviet republic to an independent state with plenty of business opportunities but also many problems, such as corruption, that hinder the country’s development. The lecture was delivered by Mr Abulfaz Abdullazade, who also spoke about his pharmaceutical business, which originated in Azerbaijan and is now branching further afield into Turkey and Germany. After the lecture, society members and guests were treated by the speaker to a delicious buffet with Azeri-style delicacies.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE SOCIETY The Computer Science Society meetings were well-attended, with engaging sessions focused on the practical side of computer science. Boys regularly rebuilt desktop PCs and tweaked the architecture to produce more powerful systems with no extra expense. A big addition was the HTC Vive – a virtualreality headset with sensors to track movement around a room. Boys have walked the streets of Tokyo, skied down Mount Everest, flown over the Golden Gate Bridge and played table tennis against an opponent in Australia. A Shell boy even designed his own VR environment, which he uploaded to the Steam online platform.
CULINARY SOCIETY Culinary Society founder Sameer Murjani (Moretons) gave an introduction to the society and talk on ‘The Art of Cuisine’. He described the history of food and went on to discuss the role that it occupies in our daily lives and how it varies from culture to
culture. He discussed several new types of cooking, including fusion cooking and molecular gastronomy. Members of the society also visited the Chocolate Show at Olympia in London, the world’s largest event dedicated to chocolate and cacao
beans. They learnt about the art of making chocolate from bean to bar and had the opportunity to taste a wide variety of chocolate including a white variety from Taiwan blended with shrimp.
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Mr Jake Rigby, a naval architect at BMT Defence Services, spoke to members about the designing and building of the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier, and how the many challenges faced in the project were overcome. Having worked on the project soon after graduating from university, Mr Rigby provided a first-hand insight into what a career in engineering entails. Mr James Moore, an engineer with Leonardo Airborne and Space Systems, a key player in the aerospace, defence and security industries, discussed the concept of electronic warfare and some of the products designed by his company.
DEBATING SOCIETY The Junior Debating Society discussed a variety of subjects in the rounds of the inter-House debating competition, including ‘This house believes that Europe lacks direction’, This house supports the referendum in Catalonia’, ‘This house believes the current Westminster sleaze is a storm in a teacup’, and ‘This house doesn’t knock it until it’s tried it’. In the final, The Park and The Head Master’s fought over the proposition ‘This house believes the pen is mightier than the sword’. The adjudicator, Freddie Marshall, President of Warwick University’s Debating Society,
awarded victory to The Park. In the Senior competition, motions debated included ‘This house deplores North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programme’, ‘This house deplores trial by social media’ and ‘This house cannot negotiate with a tiger’. The final of the competition, adjudicated by Mr Shaughan Dolan of the Great Debaters London Club, saw Rendalls overcome The Head Master’s in a debate on the motion ‘This house would never advise the destruction of life, but of property, yes’.
Finalists in the Junior Inter-House Debating competition
DIVERSITY SOCIETY DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY Around 60 boys attended the first meeting of the Diversity Society, which was created to provide a platform for the discussion of diversity and equality issues. First speaker was Rafe WendelkenDickson (Druries), whose talk ‘Close-mindedness and Unconscious Bias’ explored how we should be open to accepting and respecting people whose experience and views are different from our own. He was followed by Daniel Baker (Moretons) who, in his talk ‘Free Speech and Diversity of Thought’, discussed the importance of allowing people to express views that are not the generally accepted norm and that may be distasteful to some. Later, members met to continue discussions on topics inspired by these talks, including hate speech and the best way of dealing with someone who expresses a controversial opinion or one with which we disagree.
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Talks during the year were on the themes of ‘Jesus the life-giver in John’s gospel’, ‘Old Testament passages that point to Jesus’ and ‘Paul’s second letter to Timothy’. Half a term was given over to ‘Hard Questions’, including ‘How can you trust a God who allows suffering?’ and ‘How can you be a scientist and believe what the Bible says?’. More than 30 boys regularly attended meetings, with boys coming from all year groups and Houses. Highlights of the year were former beak James Baron’s
return to speak on ‘The Maths of the Cross’, and Head Master Jim Hawkins’ final talk on ‘Guarding the good deposit: 2 Timothy, chapter 1’. On each occasion, there was standing room only in the Hill Café. Bible study groups have run throughout the year for each year group. These provided a valuable opportunity to dig deeper into the Christian message. Additionally, there were visits to churches in central London on Sunday evenings for Fifth and Sixth Form boys.
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Serena Brocklebank, Matron of The Knoll, gave a talk about her ascent of Everest in 2006 and her emotional connection with the mountain following her grandfather’s efforts to climb it in 1933, 20 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit. Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) gave a talk on ‘Humanity
and the Red Planet and the Conquest of Mars’, in which he described how the process of ‘terraforming’ could create a planet fit for human colonisation. He also discussed the geopolitical and social aspects of a Martian civilisation. Brad Frankel and Ian Taylor of the travel company Flooglebinder, which organises educational programmes that connect
young people with the outdoors to help them understand different cultures, communities and global issues, gave a talk on the effect of climate change on rural and urban communities in Sri Lanka, and how species diversity in South Africa and Thailand is threatened.
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GEOPOLITICS SOCIETY At the first meeting of the society, members were joined by representatives from Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School for a lively debate on the question ‘Should every country have the right to possess nuclear weapons?’ Countries represented were USA, China, North Korea, Israel, Iran, Pakistan and Russia. There was a new format to the second meeting of the society, this time with visitors from Merchant Taylors’ and Haberdashers’ Aske’s. After a shorter debate exploring whether Catalonia would survive as an independent republic, during the remaining time attendees were allowed to voice their own opinion without being bound by the views of the nation they were representing. The countries (and some internationally unrecognised states) represented in the debate were Russia, UK, Ukraine, Belgium, Spain, Catalonia, Basque Country and Kurdistan.
Photograph by Day Donaldson
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GORE SOCIETY THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY The Gore Society continued to flourish under the able leadership of a number of industrious Sixth Formers, who gave talks on Utilitarianism, Malcolm X, artificial intelligence, Martin Luther, abortion, how to live a good life, and the Euthyphro dilemma, which questions whether something is good because God says it is or, whether God says something is good because it is? This incited much discussion about how to know whether something is
good or evil. Dr Greg Barker, a leading author in his field and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester, spoke to members of the society on ‘Feminist Theology’. Carl Wilkens, a world-renowned speaker on ethical issues who carried out significant humanitarian work during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, returned to Harrow to talk about his work.
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Members entered the UK Rocket competition for the first time, competing to send a projectile 650ft in the air and deploying a parachute to safely return a delicate payload back to earth. The team enjoyed their adventure, and had some success on the day with an impressive design. Linking with the Motoring Society, there were informative talks from Land Rover Jaguar and visits to the Ferrari exhibition at the Design Museum.
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ITALIAN SOCIETY Dante Alighieri and the Divina Commedia, with specific reference to ‘Inferno’, were the subjects of a talk by Dr Catherine Keen of UCL. Ms Fiammetta Rocco, culture correspondent of The Economist, spoke about her role as administrator of the International Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Talks by boys included Tom Santini (The Park) on the famous horse race the Palio of Siena, and Carlo Agostinelli (The Head Master’s) and Carlos Falco (Moretons), who gave a talk entitled ‘The Life of Silvio Berlusconi: Business, Politics and Women’. Shortly before his death, the society was also addressed by eminent historian the late Lord John Julius Norwich, who spoke with great authority about Venice and the history of the Normans in Sicily.
The Palio in Siena
Medical Lecture Competition finalists
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The Medical Society met regularly in a journal club format to discuss the latest medical news and various aspects of health care over refreshments. Members relished debating whether the antibiotic course has had its day, delivering deeper into psychosomatic disorders, unpicking the ethics surrounding the Charlie Gard case
and appreciating the new biomedical science involved in brain trauma in sports. The Society also visited Wycombe Abbey and RGS High Wycombe for the finals of the Medical Lecture Competition. Upper Sixth members attended the OH Medical Society Tri-Partite Dinner at the Royal College of Physicians. A highlight of
the year was welcoming Dr Mann (or Lt Colonel Darren Mann RAMC) to the Hill to present a personal experience in his talk ‘Surgery in the Combat Environment’. He spoke of the key skills required of a surgeon in the military. – Alessio Kenda (Newlands)
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LD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY ARTS SOCIETY Exhibitions visited this year included: • BP Portrait Award – National Portrait Gallery • The Encounter: Drawing from Leonardo to Rembrandt – National Portrait Gallery • Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize – National Portrait Gallery • Living with Gods: Peoples, Places and Worlds Beyond – British Museum • Fashioned from Nature – The V&A • Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece – The V&A • Dali/Duchamp – Royal Academy • Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography – National Portrait Gallery Mr Dominic Jellinek also addressed the Society on ‘Henry Blackwall Harris: Soldier, Gentleman and Collector’.
ORIENTAL SOCIETY Subjects discussed by boys included the influence of the artist Hokusai on Western art; how the 1964 Olympic Games helped Japan’s reintegration into world society after the Second World War; and the ‘gilded age’ of Japan in the 1980s. Other talks were on the subjects of chopsticks; the Japanese version of the game Mahjong; Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore; and the history of Japanese animation. Boys also gave talks entitled ‘Unusual festivals and traditions of the Orient’ and ‘Ran, Mori Motonari and King Lear: How Kurosawa put together his masterpiece’.
There were a number of joint meetings with other societies, at which subjects of mutual interest were covered. This included a meeting with the Palmerston Society to hear Warwick Morris, a British diplomat for almost 40 years who served as Britain’s ambassador to both Vietnam and Korea during the early 2000s, talk about his career and a balloon debate with the Classics Society to argue about which would be the superior power in a war between the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty. At a joint Sheridan Society and Oriental Society lecture, Alexander Ballingal (Moretons) spoke
about representations of Shakespeare in Japanese cinema, and, at a joint meeting with the Pigou Society, Kareem Jafree (Elmfield) gave a talk entitled ‘Japan’s economy: A history and what it is like today’. At a meeting of the Junior Pigou and Oriental Societies, Lawrence Leekie (West Acre) described the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Other activities were a popular sushi-making evening and a very special performance of the Japanese tea ceremony in the Old Speech Room Gallery with boys from the OSRG Arts Society.
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The year started with a visit from Nicky Morgan MP, who spoke to the society about Theresa May’s premiership, the challenges facing democracy and, of course, Brexit. The theme of the UK’s relationship with Europe and the wider world was continued by His Excellency Mr Sinha, the Indian High Commissioner to the UK, who tackled the challenges facing the Anglo-Indian relationship in an increasingly complicated international system. David Abraham, former CEO of Channel 4, spoke about free speech, the communication revolution and his time running a global media brand. John Bolton, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, talked about the challenges facing US foreign policy and Western Europe. He also
Members of the Palmerston Society with David Abraham
gave his thoughts on the future of US-North Korean relations; considering subsequent events this was a prescient topic and a fine opportunity for the boys. Mr Zachary Harkenrider from the US Embassy in London provided a glimpse into the life of a career diplomat who has served
across Europe and the Middle East. Another memorable speaker was Professor Avi Shlaim from St Anthony’s College, Oxford, who gave a detailed account of the modern implications of the Balfour Declaration and considered the likelihood of peace in the Middle East.
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Professor Fred Taylor, Halley Professor Physics Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, discussed the development of the space programme over the last 50 years. In a talk entitled ‘Carbon and the Climate: Understanding our changing planet’, Dr Millar from Oxford University explored, from a physicist’s point of view, what controls our climate, how seemingly small amounts of warming can have an important impact on our lives, and the choices we face today to determine the planet’s future.
Talks by boys last year included: • Ultra-Hydrophobicity: Super-waterrepellent surfaces – Jonathan Kyd (The Park) • Epigenetics and its Role in Cancer and Mental Health – Ricky Li (Druries) • An Introduction to Special Relativity – William Lintott (The Grove) • The Animal Mind – Finlay Paul (West Acre) • Quantum Superposition: How it works and its interpretations – Dhruv Kotecha (The Grove) • Mind over Matter: The placebo effect – William Vestbirk (The Grove) • The Impact of Time Dilation on Satellite Engineering – George Plant (Druries) • Polymorphism and Allotropism – Cody Kwok (The Grove)
• States of Matter: The weird and the wacky – James Burgess-Adams (West Acre) • The Significance of Nanotechnology in Civil Engineering – Ade Okuwoga (The Knoll) • The Process of Senescence and its Role in Cancer Initiation – Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s) • The Schrodinger Equation: More than a quantised cat! – Firry Yang (The Head Master’s) • Quantum Entanglement and its Applications – Marcos FernandezBarreiros (The Grove) • Antifreeze and Ingenuity: Adaptations to life in the polar regions – Albie Tremlett (The Park)
The Connecticut River near Northampton by Thomas Cole
SHERIDAN SOCIETY LITERATURE Fifteen boys delivered talks this year. Some of the most memorable included Daniel Larbi’s (Moretons) talk on realism in George Eliot and Gustave Flaubert: a tour de force of rigorous independent research, delivered with great levity and good humour. Finn Bertelsen (Lyon’s) argued passionately and authoritatively for the inclusion of Jim
Morrison in the modern poetry canon. Stathis Davies (The Grove) spoke engagingly and with great sensitivity on Sylvia Plath and confessional poetry. Other talks included Philip Gallagher (The Head Master’s) on ‘What is the Canon?’, Daniel Shailer (Rendalls) on poetry of John Keats and Ted Hughes, and Arshaan Bhatnagar
(The Park), who spoke on ‘Hegel, Hamlet and Haruki Marukami.’ Orlando Morris (The Knoll) gave a fascinating account of the relationship between the American landscape, its settlers and its effect on the American character as portrayed by its literature.
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SLAVONIC SOCIETY CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Many of the society’s lectures were devoted to the presidential elections taking place in Russia. The first was delivered by Professor Paul Chaisty of Oxford University’s Department of Politics. He spoke about the domestic bases of Vladimir Putin’s support, trying to answer the question why Putin is so popular in Russia. It was followed by a lecture by Nikolay Koshikov (West Acre 2009³), a final-year PPE student at Oxford, entitled ‘Behind the Democratic Façade of Russia’s 2018 Presidential Elections’. Following the elections, the society hosted Vladimir Ashurkov, a Russian opposition politician, who spoke about fighting political and economic corruption in Russia. As 2017
marked the centenary of the October Revolution, Peter Peganov (Druries) and Nick Shishkarev (The Grove) gave a talk on ‘The Russian Revolution – 100 Years On’. The final lecture of the year was delivered by Edward Blunt (Elmfield) and was devoted to the three tyrannical reformers of Russia: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Joseph Stalin. In the Autumn term, the senior members of the society saw a controversial production of Chekhov’s The Seagull. Gatherings of the society were always accompanied in Slavonic fashion with plenty of traditional regional delicacies. – Kasia Fletcher, Head of Russian
SOCRATIC SOCIETY GLOBAL CURRENT AFFAIRS Members of the Society on a trip to see The Seagull
Socratic Society meetings during the year covered the relationship between North Korea and the USA and ways of preventing nuclear war; stalemate in the Brexit negotiations; the failure of Carillion and whether the government had a duty to provide financial support to employees and smaller companies who had been adversely affected or if it should obey the rules of a free market economy and not intervene; and Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury with its revelations about life inside the Trump White House.
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The Trevelyan Society was addressed by a trio of eminent Cambridge professors. Professor John Morrill of Selwyn College assessed the treatment of Roman Catholics by the early Stuart state, while Rosamond McKitterick of Sidney Sussex College shone a light on Pope Constantine II, whose brief reign as Pope in the year 768CE ended with his arrest, imprisonment, torture and
mutilation. Cambridge, Massachusetts was represented by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Caroline Elkins, who gave a thought-provoking lecture, ‘History on Trial’, about the Mau Mau Emergency and her involvement in a legal case brought against the British government by five Mau Mau detention camp survivors.
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Art The Autumn term brought a riot of colour and imagination to the Pasmore Gallery with the vibrant Hidden Tales exhibition by Harrow Art technician and artist Terry Charles, and practising artist and lecturer Linda Austin. Both artists imbue their work with elements of figuration, landscape and symbolism, as well as deeply personal narrative.
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e also held one of the first Lyon Lectures, with Royal College of Art Professor Emeritus David Rayson. His two days of teaching culminated in an inspiring lecture entitled ‘The Mythology, Romance and Necessity of the Studio’, which gave an insight into what is often seen as an esoteric and mysterious world. Subsequently, over 100 works were showcased during the annual House Art exhibition, adjudicated by world-renowned artist Jenny Saville RA, with Rendalls scooping the House Art Palette for the
third year running. New art work was also seen during the inaugural Guild evening in the Drama Studios, also the venue for the boy-led Tall Ships exhibition, which raised funds for the Tall Ships summer expedition. The Speech Day exhibitions in the Art School, Pasmore Gallery, Photography Studio and Sculpture Studio looked magnificent, with adventurous installation, mixed media, sculptural and digital works among the usual array of paintings, drawings and prints. The Burston Prize this year was adjudicated by artist Kim L Pace. Alizhan Aldiyar’s (Rendalls) submission Time after time, a video work that included elements of sculpture and performance, won this year’s prize and was considered by Pace to demonstrate a high level of sophistication and maturity of ideas. She also praised the high calibre of work produced by all the boys. The department took full advantage of our proximity to London with visits to the Frieze art fair, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the V&A and a range of smaller galleries which suited senior boys working
Above, Freedom in Death, Ivan Skorobogatko (Rendalls)
on specific projects. There was also the bi-annual Art and Photography trip to New York and Los Angeles, including visits to the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, Broad Museum, Norton Simon Museum and various others in Los Angeles. In Expeditions Week, a group of boys visited the Puglia region of Italy, with visits to Bari, Lecce, Ostuna and Alberobello to study a range of architectural styles including Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque churches. Shaftesbury Enterprise activities continued in the shape of boy-led art classes for senior citizens in the Autumn and Spring terms, and the newly initiated Clay Club, which gives primary school pupils the chance to experience working in clay, as well as firing and glazing finished pieces. – Laurence Hedges, Director of Art
THE ARTS Above, Crumbling Certainties, George Watson (Newlands)
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Left, Avatar, Harvey Fry (Rendalls) Below, Urban Poetry, Robert Litton (Newlands)
THE ARTS Above, Last Supper, Felix Seymour (Bradbys)
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Left, A drawing in space, Ollie Connell (Rendalls)
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Below, Abandonment, Harry Toller (Druries)
Below, Because I have enveloped you and now wear your skin, Alizhan Aldiyar (Rendalls)
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Above, Spatial Intervention, Sebastian Flame (The Grove)
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Above, Ali Avatar, Max Tonkins (Moretons)
Right, Grenfell, Robert Litton (Newlands)
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Photography The 2018 A level Photography examination theme was ‘Freedom and Limitations’.
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he boy’s responses ranged from aerial photographs from a hot air balloon to scenes from famous films. Other works include Finn Gibson’s (The Knoll) installation dealing with gender equality, Harry Lee-Clarke’s (Bradbys) hanging portraits and Max Tonkins’s (Moretons) photographic relief. There is no end to the boys’ imagination as they push the boundaries of photography every year to produce the most creative and imaginative pieces. – Darren Bell, Head of Photography
Right, Finn Gibson (The Knoll)
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Left, Max Tonkins (Moretons)
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Above, Cameron White (The Head Master’s)
Above, Tobias Munday (West Acre)
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Below, Sam Crean (The Park)
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Above, Harry Lee-Clarke (Bradbys)
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his annual competition for all boys was an exciting collection of the best photographs that Harrow could offer. This year it was judged by Clive Barda, Clare Park and Mike Markiewicz. First prize in the senior category was won by Kirill Korobkov (The Grove) for Soviet Flat, a photograph of his grandparents in their flat in Moscow. Second prize in the senior category went to Finn Gibson (The Knoll) for Walk on the Wild Side. In the junior category, first place when to Daniel Zhang (The Knoll) for his amazing photograph of a bird playing with a toad, entitled Leaping Toad. Second place went to Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) for his Afdera portrait. Many thanks must go to Dr Richard Petty for sponsoring this most generous prize for the 19th year. – Darren Bell, Head of Photography
Right, Afdera, Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) Below, Leaping Toad, Daniel Zhang (The Knoll)
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Old speech room gallery During the year, Paramdip Mander joined the OSRG as Assistant Curator. Formerly a curator in the British Museum Department of Coins and Medals, she is producing a catalogue of the hundreds of coins (and eventually medals and bank notes) held in the OSRG collection. She quickly discovered early medieval Arabic weights and more than 20 rare 19th-century English tokens among Harrow’s miscellany of Greek and Roman coinage. The year was spent consolidating uncatalogued items in the storerooms. Documenting the collections in digital format continued, particularly the extensive Egyptian amulet collection. Research into all aspects of the collection played a considerable part in the year’s activities too. One of the key acquisitions of the year was a portrait of Dudley Perceval (The Head Master’s 18121), son of the OH prime minister Spencer Perceval, who was assassinated in 1812. The portrait will be displayed permanently in the gallery alongside the bust of his ill-fated father. The display of Greek vases in the OSRG was enhanced by the addition of new labels. The exercise was completed entirely in-house and, as a result of research into the Gardner Wilkinson collection, a phiale omphalos and a rhyton from the store room will be added to make the display of ritual drinking vessels as comprehensive as possible.
Simon Page
Japanese tea ceremony
A highlight of the year was the celebration of the Japanese tea ceremony by Japanese beak Naomi Matsubara and Hisako Fukushige. Guests – several wearing authentic Japanese costumes – were able to participate in the peaceful, harmonious and meditative event, conducted according to age-old ritual. Members of the OSRG Arts Society were deeply impressed by the experience; they were particularly pleased that the green matcha tea tasted so good. A number of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze and Silver Award volunteers worked alongside the regular Arts Society members. Boys helped with research, design, conservation, displays and publicity, and gained experience in all relevant curatorial areas. The exhibition programme included the third in the School staff’s Defining Mementos series. Of particular note were the ice axe that helped the Matron of The Knoll ascend Mount Everest and the bullets that so nearly caused the demise of the Operations Bursar while on active service in Baghdad in 2005. New Year 2018 saw Physical Energy, an exhibition of work by Head of Painting Simon Page that celebrated the vitality of Harrow boys as they grow from adolescence to adulthood. Simon has generously donated one of the key pieces to the OSRG collection. Conservation was a major element of the OSRG year. A portrait in the OH Room of George Butler (Head Master 1805-29) suffered water damage after a storm
drove rainwater under the eaves of the War Memorial building. The portrait was expertly conserved by Hamish Dewar Ltd of Mayfair. The last of the redundant or damaged historic silver trophies was restored by Leo Shirley Smith (son of OH Richard Shirley Smith (The Knoll 19492)) and most have now been reassigned for new service in academic departments. The OSRG conservators completed the cleaning, repair and conservation exercise on the 19th-century Japanese print collection. The First World War VC regimental banners in the War Memorial were cleaned and conserved in readiness for November 2018. Churchill’s Cinque Port flag also received full conservation treatment. A conservation studio and associated wet room were created for the conservation team, and the Harrow Development Trust secured funding for a two-year contract for one conservator to work on the OSRG collections. Christie’s experts conducted their five-yearly appraisal of the School collections. They were impressed with the number of new acquisitions since their visit in 2013, particularly the loans from the Codrington and Harris families, as well as the Beckwith, Wei and Cruikshank gifts. The OSRG continues to flourish with the support of its Harrovian families. – Julia Walton, Curator The Harrow Development Trust has helped to attract donations of works of art from Harrovian supporters.
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Drama In September 2017, current and Old Harrovians gathered in the Ronnie Watkins Rehearsal Room at Shakespeare’s Globe, to toast the start of another theatrical year.
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hakespeare has long been at the core of Harrow’s dramatic tradition. The School Shakespeare Play last year was a dynamic, contemporary production of Julius Caesar, which played at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in November as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, as well as in the Ryan Theatre. It was a pacy, lucid version in which the fickle power of the mob was conjured with potency by a tight ensemble of boys from across the years. Valentine Hutley (The Head Master’s) played the title role with bullish intensity; Rafe Baker-Wilbraham (Elmfield) was a wily Cassius; Freddie Heffer (Elmfield) a morally torn Brutus; and Max Evans-Tovey (Druries) a suave Mark Anthony, manipulating the crowd with charm as well as intention. Many OHs will have strong memories of the Shell Drama Festival in their first half term at School, for which all new boys work on productions in their Houses, directed by Sixth Formers. In October, each House presented its own version of one of the Grimm Tales – each by turns weird, wonderful and darkly comic. OH actor Tobias Deacon (Newlands 20003) joined the groups on stage as a woodland recluse, inspired by the stories to seek out friendships he had left behind. Playing over two performances, the festival was a riot of music, colour and ensemble storytelling. The Grove began the year’s House plays with their quirky, highly engaging production of The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, directed with style by Annabel Morley, Director in Residence. Radically re-configuring the Ryan’s auditorium, audiences were literally invited into the strange, increasingly manic world of Guellen – all funk music and 70s neon. Later in November, Newlands and Rendalls joined forces to present a post-apocalyptic Antigone – a compelling production in which the charged chorus work was as striking as the clarity of vocal delivery. In the spring, Lyon’s produced Vernon God Little, based on D B C Pierre’s Booker Prizewinning novel. By turns provocative and darkly comic, the large company treated
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the material sensitively, without shying away from its controversial themes. Bridger Ryland gave a stand-out performance in the title role, capturing at once the innocence and cynicism of a character caught up in a tumultuous chain of events. Finally, in March, Druries and Moretons combined to present The Picture of Dorian Gray. There was gothic spectacle aplenty, but the complex emotional underlay of the piece also came through strongly and movingly. Over the course of the House play season, and under the guidance of the Drama department’s production staff, boys created
original soundscapes and musical scores, realised atmospheric lighting designs, and helped to construct ambitious set pieces. Collaborating with visiting professionals including choreographers and make-up artists, in addition to beak directors, the six Houses presented another bold, challenging and ambitious season of work. In February, girls from Bishopshalt School joined boys from across the years in Oh! What a Lovely War. Joan Littlewood’s iconic musical was revived by the Rattigan Society to commemorate the centenary of 1918. A band comprising boys and staff performed
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The Visit
classic songs from the period. Louis Wilson (The Head Master’s) was outstanding in the role of MC, reinvented as a Head Master figure to tie in with the production’s period school setting. Daniel Shailer (Rendalls) played a sequence of key characters, including officers Haig and French, with poise and intensity, while bringing the house down with his showstopping rendition of the classic ‘Make a Man of You’. In a brand-new project, a company of boys from across the years devised, performed and stage-managed an
Vernon God Little
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Boys worked with primary school pupils
interactive performance aimed at five- to seven-year-old children from local primary schools, under the direction of Annabel Morley. Children and staff at Roxeth, St Anselm’s and St Jerome’s Bilingual schools were audiences for Ellerker and the Sugar Coated Emporium, which played on a weekly tour from late February to midMarch. In late June, the Ryan Theatre team was delighted to welcome back classes from these schools, among others, taking part in the Primary Shakespeare Company’s production of The Winter’s Tale. Original writing from Harrovians was, in fact, a particular feature of this year’s programme. In the autumn, a group of boys embarked on the National Theatre’s New Views playwriting scheme, receiving mentoring from professional playwrights as they worked towards full-length works of their own. Emily’s Room by Henry Empson (The Grove) was placed on the nationwide shortlist. As a showcase for the diverse body of work produced, the first Harrow Fringe Festival ran in May, in spaces in and
64 65 around the Ryan Theatre. As well as Harrovians’ original plays, the festival incorporated a high-octane adaptation of The Thin Man, devised and performed by a group of boys in the Lower Sixth. To round off the theatrical year, a large company of boys from the Shell and Removes presented Treasure Island, the Junior Rattigan Society production. It was a fantastically vibrant piece, full of comic bravura, which nevertheless delivered the epic tale with clarity and emotional resonance. There was also a tremendous sense of ensemble in the production, with no end of inventive individual characterisation. Leading the company with great conviction were Max Paton-Smith (Elmfield) as Jim Hawkins and Max Morgan (Rendalls) as Long John Silver. Curricular Drama continues to thrive at Harrow and, as of last year, Drama is taught in every year in the School. Drama and Theatre Studies pupils presented a wide range of performances, including Yasmina Reza’s Art, Dennis Kelly’s DNA, excerpts
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from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Agamemnon, monologues from Amadeus, and devised pieces taking their inspiration from subjects ranging from Lord Byron to the Great War. All boys in the Shell, Remove and Fifth Form have followed drama-skills-based courses in collaboration, presentation and communication skills. Boys have taken in a diverse range of performances across London and beyond as audience members, and the Ryan Theatre has itself been host to many engaging performances and events. In September, we were delighted to see Incognito Theatre with their acclaimed production of All Quiet on the Western Front. Later that same month, we were pleased to welcome Lord Julian Fellowes to present The Terence Rattigan Society’s Playwriting Awards. – Adam Cross, Director of Drama
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Music The major highlight of the year was when the whole School took to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall for Churchill Songs. For all involved, this iconic evening will remain one of the most memorable experiences of their time at Harrow. The School took centre stage and produced an astonishing display of vocal power and poised music-making, imbued with a strong sense of unity and purpose. For the Orchestra, Concert Band and Pipers, it was a wonderful way to foster team spirit at the start of the School year. The School Orchestra had a fine year. The Autumn term opened with a Children’s Concert, for which we were joined by members of the English Chamber Orchestra. Our young musicians found it inspirational to work with musicians of international standing. The professionals, in turn, were, very complimentary about the Harrovians’ talent and commitment. The programme included Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Toby Deacon (Newlands 20003) returned to narrate and it was lovely to see Speech Room full of young children enjoying some serious classical music. For the Commemoration Concert, we were joined by musicians from John Lyon School to perform Vaughan William’s English Folk Song Suite and Walton’s Spitfire’ Prelude. The latter was repeated as an uplifting overture at Churchill Songs. Repertoire during the year included: Franck’s Symphony in D minor; Debussy’s Prelude a l’apres midi d’un Faune; Bernstein’s ‘Dance Episodes’ from On the Town, Sibelius’s Finlandia and Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ (from the Enigma Variations). The Concert Band was on very good form, ably led by some strong Upper Sixth brass players. There is always a sense of swagger and style in their performances; their enthusiasm is infectious, and audiences always want more. The band also enjoyed collaborating with the Pipers, notably at the Michaelmas Concert, at the Royal Albert Hall and on Speech Day. The Big Band’s year was one of its finest in recent times. The band started the year knowing that they had a tour to China to
Commemoration Concert
Children’s Concert, featuring OH Toby Deacon as narrator
THE ARTS Byron Consort tour to Norway
The School’s music tours are supported by the Harrow Development Trust.
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look forward to in December. The importance of tours in developing a sense of togetherness and polish cannot be overstated. The band prepared programmes for several concerts a long way from home in venues where high standards are expected. The boys were splendidly hosted in the cities of Kunming, Changsha and Hong Kong, and at each stop they rehearsed hard, performed to increasingly excited audiences and invariably brought the house down. Few will ever forget William Yu’s (The Knoll) stellar vocal solo at a charity event in the Steinway Hall in Changsha. There was plenty of cultural exchange and delicious food (including deep fried wasps) to soothe the stress of five flights in ten days. The tight ensemble playing that developed during their time together in China remained a feature of their performance throughout the year, including at concerts on the Hill and at Queen’s College, London. Other groups had some excellent tours last year. For their annual tour, the Byron Consort went to Norway in December, where they performed with distinction. A small string orchestra visited Bangkok and Singapore in March. Our musicians renewed contact with Harrow International School in Bangkok as they opened a new centre for performing arts, and they established new links with young musicians in Singapore. The strength of our orchestras is founded on excellent chamber music, on which we place great importance. Through the discipline of regular practice, ensuring sound intonation and a real sense of ensemble, it is possible to conjure up moments of sheer magic. Chamber music also teaches the boys to think calmly when under pressure, and this means they can face challenges in our larger ensembles when rehearsal time may be limited. Some of our chamber groups enjoyed success in national competitions. Of particular note was a very promising string quartet of Shell boys. We were very fortunate to welcome Levon Chilingirian to adjudicate our own Smouha Chamber Music Competition. Like the strings players from the English Chamber Orchestra who visited earlier in the year, he made no allowances for the fact that he was listening to schoolboys. His honest, detailed and critical appraisals served only to inspire the boys to aim higher.
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CONCERTO EVENING SOLOISTS Vivaldi Concerto for Trumpets – Daniel Shailer (Rendalls) and Jobie Wong (Bradbys) Mozart Violin Concerto No 2 in A (K. 219) – Keisuke Sano (The Knoll) Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 – Joshua Harris (West Acre) Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No 5 – Jon Yuan (The Head Master’s) Bruch Kol Nidrei – Chatto Marks (Lyon’s) Shostakovich Cello Concerto – Kazbek Kandour (The Park) Dvorak Violin Concerto – Marco Chau (Elmfield) and Brian Chiang (The Grove)
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Other instrumental highlights included the many lunchtime concerts in St Mary’s Church, as well as performances in the OH Room, Speech Room and the Music Schools. These events provide the boys with invaluable experience of performing to appreciative audiences. A goal for our top musicians is the opportunity to perform with a professional orchestra in the Concerto Evening. As usual, this concert was wonderful showcase for Harrow’s musical talent. Not only did the soloists acquit themselves with style, but the boys in the Orchestra enjoyed the experience of being treated as professionals. Of special note was Jun Wha Shin’s (Elmfield) fearless horn solo in the Shostakovich (not bad for a Shell boy who had originally been programmed to play the cello in the Orchestra). The choral life of the School remains as strong as ever, with more than 150 boys rehearsing and performing every week as members of the Chapel or Harmony Choir. The carol services are always memorable and both choirs were involved in the world premiere of Matthew Martin’s Ave Maris Stella. Both choirs enhance worship every Sunday. In addition to the tour to Norway,
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the Byron Consort performed at St Paul’s Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral and St Mary-le-Bow, to name but a few venues. The School XII enjoyed the limelight in the Royal Albert Hall and led An Evening of Forgotten Songs, performing for the Worshipful Company of Pewterers at a livery dinner in the City. A small group of boys, with girls from Francis Holland School, performed the Fauré Requiem in St Mary’s Church on the feast of All Souls. Our partnership with Francis Holland was also in evidence in the Choral Society Concert in March, when more than 100 boys joined beaks, friends and the choir of Francis Holland School for a performance of Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor. At this concert Theo Platt (The Head Master’s 20073) returned to sing the bass solos and Aristo Sham (Moretons 20103) came back to play Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto. On a smaller but no less important scale, boys led services of compline during Lent, performed Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and organised a concert of unaccompanied choral music with one boy to a part. Choral music, whatever its scale, is a truly inclusive activity. This was demonstrated by the strength and fervour of the Glees and Twelve competitions, when the whole School enjoyed an evening of high-quality music, with senior boys guiding younger singers through some difficult repertoire. Our musicians also enjoyed collaboration with the Drama department. The company of Oh! What a Lovely War delighted audiences with a performance that exuded a real sense of teamwork and engagement. Many boys were involved in rock and pop music. Bands performed at Harrow and at Wycombe Abbey School. The Mortimer Singer Prizes were keenly contested. The
adjudicator this year was Shamus Palmer (Elmfield 20073) who works in Artists and Repertoire for Parlophone UK. The new Music Production Society met regularly and invited external speakers to talk on various aspects of the music industry. The Recording Studio and Music Tech lab were often a hive of activity in the afternoons. For those boys who do not necessarily play in a band, there were some wonderful open mic evenings, at which they performed songs in a relaxed setting.
Joshua Harris in the Mortimer Singer Prize
During the year of musicmaking, Harrovians delivered more than 100 musical events. In addition, there were some impressive individual successes, with boys winning competitions, gaining diplomas, obtaining places at conservatoires and choral awards to Cambridge, and even performing with English National Opera in a professional production of The Turn of the Screw. – David Woodcock, Director of Music
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HARROW RIFLE CORPS Harrow Rifle Corps, proudly composed of over 500 cadets from Harrow School and from partnership schools John Lyon and Harrow High, continued to offer exciting and challenging training in the full range of CCF Service Sections: Army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force.
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emove boys undertook the Service and Skills Programme, a 22-week training schedule designed to develop interest in and enthusiasm for the CCF through completion of the Basic Proficiency Certificate, while also building confidence and skills in adventurous training. These Basic Cadets study first aid, swimming, scuba diving, climbing, field cookery and navigation, as well as drill, weapon handling and basic fieldcraft, much of which is carried out in partnership with The Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award. The Sixth Form Senior Cadets (A Company) continued to deliver much of this training, having completed the Cadet Force Instructional Techniques course under the guidance of the London District Cadet Training Team.
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Competing in the Sir Steuart Pringle Trophy
Removes choosing to remain in the Corps at the end of the Spring term proceeded to Service Sections and were provided with immediate Service-specific training, which culminated in a week-long camp at the end of the Summer term during Expeditions Week. The Royal Navy Section was stationed in Poole, Dorset, and undertook a week-long powerboat qualification; the Royal Marines were hosted by 40
Commando in Taunton for a rigorous and testing three-day exercise; and the Army and Royal Air Force spent four days on the Isle of Wight at Jersey Camp to undertake a coastal adventurous training programme including canoeing, kayaking and paddle-boarding. Throughout this complex exercise, boys were complimented for their excellent behaviour, attitude and impressive physical fitness.
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Cadets throughout the Corps have competed in fine form this year. At House level, the Drill Competition was hotly contested. Boys from all Houses displayed superb discipline and teamwork, with The Park putting on the most impressive display. The Royal Marine cadets, led by William Falcon (West Acre), came third in the national Sir Steuart Pringle Trophy – their highest-ever placing – which included second places in the gruelling Endurance Course, the Command Task and the Ambush, and a perfect score and first place in the Battle Exercise stand. On home ground, Army Cadets, led by Tom Asprey (Druries), achieved first place in the shooting and fitness stand and fourth place overall in the Guthrie Cup, which the HRC hosts at Harrow against ten schools from London District. The HRC holds a special and privileged place in the School and the wider community. Cadets, led by Head of Corps Edward Cartwright (The Grove), were on fine form during an impressive drill display on Speech Day, which included a boy from every year. On Remembrance Sunday, cadets paraded HRC banners both on the Hill and as part of Harrow Borough’s parade through Harrow town centre; these cadets showed superb discipline and commitment to turn out in such impressive form. – Major Piers Lemoine, Commanding Officer
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The Park – winners of the House Drill Competition
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THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD
Recent OHs and current Harrovians receive their Gold Awards in the Buckingham Palace garden on 18 May 2018, with the comedian David Mitchell as their celebrity presenter
At Bronze level, 16 Removes were trained in expedition skills and volunteered at the School’s Archives and Old Speech Room Gallery, among other places. As well as pursuing their chosen sports and skills, they completed two overnight expeditions in the Chilterns.
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t Silver, there is a strong emphasis on commitment and the need to see through all sections of the award to completion. Sixty boys attended both the practice and the qualifying expeditions. These took place in new locations: the practice trip in the Welsh Marches in first four days of the Easter holiday and the qualifying trip in the Black Mountains, further south in Wales, during the last week of the Summer term. On the qualifying expedition, the extremely hot weather tested the boys’ organisation (in terms of water carrying)
and endurance. However, the scenery of the Llanthony valley and surrounding hills was enjoyed at its best. One of the remote campsites offered a welcome dip in the Afon Honddu (River Monnow) at the end of the gruelling days. At Gold, as well as walking, there is the option of sea-kayaking for the expedition section. Eight boys opted for this, which involves a week of training and practice in
north Wales at Easter. Sea conditions can be challenging and, as one of the group discovered, it is not recommended to capsize in cold waters! On the qualifying trip around the Isle of Skye in late August, perhaps the biggest challenge was the midges in the wild camps on remote beaches. Nevertheless, the boys successfully completed the trip and returned to School in good spirits. The walking expedition was,
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as usual, in the Cairngorms, in the best weather we have ever experienced. The glorious scenery of mountains, rocky glens, lochs and burns was a delight for all. Most groups reached the summit of Ben Macdui, the second-highest mountain in Britain. Over the summer, most boys also carried out their residential activities. Some took part in the Tall Ships voyage across the Channel, others took sailing, language, cookery and conservation courses. Once all five sections are signed off, Gold Awards are sent to DofE headquarters for final approval. Participants then await their gold-embossed invitation, either to St James’s Palace or to the garden of Buckingham Palace. Over 20 of our 2017 leavers successfully completed the Gold Award. Their sense of achievement is evident at the moment they are handed their certificate, but just as important are the lessons learnt and the friendships made or deepened. – Charles Farrar-Bell, Master-in-Charge
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SHAFTESBURY ENTERPRISE LONG DUCKER
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everal records were broken in the 2017 Long Ducker. In the 10km run, George Grassly (The Knoll) broke the School record with a time of 33:45 seconds, which was more than three minutes faster than the previous record. The fastest time in the 21km run was achieved by Angus DenisonSmith (Elmfield), who completed the run from Bill Yard to Wembley Stadium and back in 01:23:18. In the Swimming Ducker, James Bailey (Newlands) won the cup for the fastest 10km swim for the fourth consecutive year, something no other boy has ever done. Four boys took on the Double Ducker – swimming 10km followed by running 21km. Daniel Shailer (Rendalls) won the Double Ducker Cup in a new record time of 04:26:22 and Albie Tremlett (The Park) set a new record
by being the first boy to complete the Double Ducker two years in a row. Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) of the Shells set a new Lower School record for the Short Double Ducker event (5km swim followed by 10km run), with a time of 02:08:24. Maxwell also recorded the fastest time in the 5km swim with 01:07:33.
The main beneficiary of funds raised by Long Ducker in 2017 was Certitude, a charity that provides personalised support across London to people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs, as well as their families and carers. A percentage of the money raised also went to the Harrow Club W10 and other local charities.
RESULTS 21km Run: Upper Sixth
10km Run: Removes
1st Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield) 01:23:18 2nd William Mitchell (Bradbys) 01:25:26 3rd Luca Pittalis (Rendalls) 01:33:33
1st Freddie Strange (Newlands) 39:43 2nd Fynn Maydon (The Grove) 42:07 3rd Ed de Bray (The Knoll) 43:42
21km Run: Lower Sixth
10km Run: Shells
1st 2nd 3rd
1st Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield) 42:19 2nd Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) 43:14 3rd George Ferguson (Newlands) 43:23
Monty Powell (The Grove) 00:36:51 James Middlemass (Moretons) 01:33:05 Freddie Heffer (Elmfield), Matthys du Toit (Newlands) and David Gibbons (The Park) 01:33:13
10km Run 1st George Grassly (The Knoll) 33:45 2nd Freddie Strange (Newlands) 39:43 3rd Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) 39:49
10km Swim 1st 2nd 3rd
James Bailey (Newlands) Michael Ma (Moretons) Oliver Bater (Rendalls) and Albie Tremlett (The Park)
02:27:21 02:30:36 02:40:51
5km Swim 10km Run: Upper Sixth 1st George Grassly (The Knoll) 33:45 2nd George Gray (The Park) 42:54 3rd Max Sodi (West Acre) 44:20
1st Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) 2nd George Rates (Newlands) 3rd Z-Za Bencharit (Elmfield)
01:07:33 01:09:43 01:12:52
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10km Run: Lower Sixth 1st Alex Saunders (The Knoll) 42:52 2nd Ollie Wiggin (Bradbys) 44:25 3rd Isaac Smith (Druries) 45:02
1st Dan Shailer (Rendalls) 2nd Oliver Bater (Rendalls) 3rd Albie Tremlett (The Park)
04:26:42 (School record) 04:27:24 04:28:26
Short Double Ducker 10km Run: Fifth Form
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1st Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) 39:49 2nd Gerry O’Brien (The Head Master’s) 41:24 3rd Arthur Leney (The Knoll) 42:53
1st Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) 2nd Henry Pearce (Newlands) 3rd Cosmo Freeland (Lyon’s)
02:08:24 (Junior School record) 02:20:26 02:21:33
LUMINA 2018
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he Lumina summer course enjoyed a fifth successful year, welcoming a record 195 pupils from 40 local maintained schools for three days of academic enrichment and tailored university admissions advice. The course helps to demystify the application process for pupils considering Oxbridge and top Russell Group universities. This year, we were closely supported by Christ’s College, Cambridge, and St John’s College, Oxford, the link colleges for state schools in the Harrow area, who provided extensive guidance on all aspects of Oxbridge and the application process. The first day focused on the admissions process. We welcomed Dr Mark King and Dr Rita Monson from Cambridge and Dr Sandra Campbell from Oxford, who clarified the system and dispelled myths about off-the-wall interviews. Day two began with Harrow beaks and external tutors offering their expertise in subject tutorials designed to give the students a taste of what the undergraduate academic experience might offer. These were followed by subject-specific lectures and workshops by Harrow beaks and university lecturers. The day finished with an address on ‘The Intellectual Challenge of University’ by Prof A C Grayling, Master of the New College of the Humanities London. The Oxbridge interview practice that Lumina offers is one of the most helpful aspects of the course, and this took up the bulk of the final day. Many of the schools involved have credited the course in helping their students apply successfully to their chosen universities. Last year, 114 students secured offers from Russell Group universities, with 30 receiving offers from Oxford and Cambridge. We also welcomed a delegation of teachers from these schools, giving them direct advice about gaining places at top universities. We are grateful for the support of John Lyon’s Charity in enabling Harrow to host the event. – Dr James Bedford, Master-in-Charge of Scholars and Oxbridge
Lumina is supported by donations through the Harrow Development Trust.
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LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE Boys supported pupils at Woodlands School
PRIMARY SCHOOL PROJECTS Reading Harrovians continued to be involved in reading schemes with local primary schools. More than 80 boys helped with reading programmes, which usually involve one-to-one reading sessions or group work. Partner schools were invited to visit the Vaughan Library for workshops and teachers noticed improvement in reading across all levels. Mathematics Mathematics masterclasses were extended to cater to the needs of primary schools in the borough. Gifted Year 5
students participated in six weeks of lessons and Harrow boys helped to plan and deliver the sessions. Natalya Silcott, Mathematics beak, continued to run a Fabulous Fractals masterclass in local schools. Harrow’s mathematicians also visited St Anselm’s to run masterclasses for some of their top pupils. Twelve of the most able Year 3 children took part in the programme, which was an opportunity for them to be stretched on problem solving and reasoning. All the children who took part in the project are working at an accelerated level.
Drama Harrow’s relationship with the Primary Shakespeare Company, which raises attainment and achievement by engaging children practically with Shakespeare in performance, continued to grow. In June 2018, the Ryan Theatre was filled with over 150 children from six local schools as pupils from Grange, Roxeth, St Anselm’s, Vaughan, Newton Farm and Woodlands performed The Winter’s Tale. Harrow raised a significant amount towards the cost of this project through Long Ducker. A group of boys also wrote and performed a play for local primary schools as part of the Drama Primary Project.
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Motor Skills Boys in Newlands support Woodlands School in Edgware, a maintained primary school that caters for pupils aged three to 11 years with a range of complex and profound learning difficulties. These include severe autism, complex medical conditions, physical and mobility difficulties, and severe developmental delay. In class, boys helped with activities such as singing songs, painting and taking students to the park to help improve their motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination.
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PROJECTS WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND YOUNG ADULTS
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he School collaborated with a number of secondary schools and sixth-form colleges across London. We hosted conferences, including one for Classics for All, a charity that provides funding and expertise to support the teaching of Classics in maintained schools. Students from partner schools attended timetabled lessons in Latin and STEP Mathematics. All partner schools were offered Oxbridge-style mock interviews and were invited to attend all Harrow’s lectures, plays and events. Other initiatives with local secondary schools included Mathematics GCSE masterclasses at Harrow, as well as Latin and Chemistry classes. GCSE Mathematics revision sessions were held for students from five secondary schools in Harrow and Wembley. Harrow boys were involved in helping these students work through some of the new and difficult problem-solving questions. Revision sessions were also held for A level students. London Academy of Excellence Tottenham Harrow has a formal partnership with the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham (LAET). LAET is an academically selective
free school for students aged 16 to 19, which opened in September 2017. As there were so many applicants, Harrow beaks participated in the assessment interviews for potential students. The heads of Harrow’s English and History departments gave advice on syllabus issues and on assessment methods and materials, with Harrow’s Head of English visiting LAET to talk about the cultural importance of studying arts subjects. LAET students also attended several lectures and seminars at Harrow. School of Hard Knocks Harrow’s Rugby Club initiated a pilot partnership with the School of Hard Knocks (SOHK) charity, well known from the Sky Sports TV series. SOHK is a long-term intervention programme helping students most at risk of exclusion to complete mainstream education in schools in East London and Hertfordshire, through weekly mentoring and rugby sessions. SOHK Under-14 and Under-15 rugby teams came to Harrow in November 2017 for fixtures against Harrow’s Yearlings F and Junior Colts E sides. The Harrow 1st XV provided coaching support.
Tall Ships Challenge For the past three years, Harrow has worked with groups of young offenders from the Borough of Harrow as part of the Tall Ships Challenge. Two 22m yachts are chartered from the Tall Ships Trust and sailed off the south coast of England. Minimising pre-conceptions, as well as finding a neutral space where neither Harrovians nor the other young people are at home, are the key reasons for choosing sailing. The first challenge was for the Harrovians to raise sufficient funds to cover their own places and those of the other young people. They arranged concerts, directed plays, ran marathons, cleaned cars, gardened and organised raffles. In 2017, the young people who had been on the trip were offered revision sessions at Harrow in Mathematics, English and science; opportunities in the recording studio; access to Harrow alumni for work experience; and social events with the Harrovians whom they got to know in the summer.
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Spear Spear is a programme which helps people aged between 16 and 24 to develop the necessary skills and mindset to secure and remain in employment. The partnership between Harrow and Spear Harrow began in 2013, with the establishment of a Spear classroom at St Peter’s Church in West Harrow. The Centre’s doors first opened to trainees in the Spring term of 2014 and Harrow boys have volunteered their time in a variety of leadership and service roles ever since. Harrow has also been
responsible for a significant proportion of Spear Harrow’s funding. Last year, the relationship between Harrow and Spear continued to flourish, with some boys serving on the Spear Committee. Other roles included organising and hosting an annual Spear Celebration, producing job bulletins for past and present trainees, staffing the volunteering rota for each new cohort of trainees, fundraising, and raising the profile of Spear by writing articles or speaking publicly about their volunteering experience.
The Spear centre in Harrow is one of the most successful in London, with 75% of Spear graduates still in work or education a year after finishing the course. For the Harrovians who took part in the project, youth unemployment is no longer just something they have heard about in the media.
Language Café The Language Café welcomes women for whom English is not their first language, so that they can improve their confidence and fluency. Around ten Harrovians
attended the Language Café to talk to guests in relaxed sessions. They, in turn, were invited to Harrow for a programme of tours, talks and tea.
The Harrow Spear Centre is supported by donations through the Harrow Development Trust.
LOCAL COMMUNITY
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Certitude The main recipient of the 2017 Long Ducker funds, Certitude supports people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs. Last year, Harrovians visited a residential centre for adults with learning difficulties, delivering a programme of practical work and entertainment. Certitude put forward this work for a volunteering award at the National Learning Disability and Autism Awards, and a group of Harrovians was nominated for the Best Volunteer Award at the Certitude Excellence Awards. Thirty service users, volunteers and staff from Certitude and More Than Just a Choir (a local choir for adults affected by mental illness) visited Harrow for a Sunday lunch cooked and served by a team of around 40 Harrovians, under the watchful eye of Executive Head Chef Sylvain Chevereau.
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he 2018 Shaftesbury Lecture was delivered by Tom Dannatt (Bradbys 19923), founder of the charity Street Child. Mr Dannatt described how, from as far back as his time at Harrow, he has been concerned by the chasm between the great privilege in the west and the poverty so clearly manifest elsewhere. During his gap year, he visited West Africa: a formative experience without which, he explained, he would never have founded Street Child. He read Theology at Oxford and, afterwards, did a variety of jobs, but knew he wanted to do something else with his life. He resolved that, by the time he was 30, he would be involved in humanitarianism and global development. In the meantime, he started a successful financial recruitment company to raise money for this goal. Several years later, he decided that the time was right to get behind a charity, but was unable to find a project where he could have a meaningful impact. Therefore, he decided to start his own. Eventually, he found a suitable project working to help street children in Sierra Leone. Out of this grew Street Child, which now works in ten countries and has helped over 100,000 children. In describing these initial steps, Mr Dannatt emphasised the need to be proactive and touched on the essential mixture of “the idealist and the practical” in his work. Mr Dannatt highlighted that although luck has played a role in Street Child’s success – a large corporate sponsor decided to fund the charity in 2010, for instance – more important was the power of persistence in working towards clear goals. He described persistence as a “magic force”, saying that if you know exactly
Tom Dannatt
what you want to achieve, the whole world conspires to make it happen. Before concluding, Mr Dannatt touched on the next big challenge for Street Child – to transform learning outcomes in 1,000 villages. He also pointed out the uncomfortable fact that one term’s fees
at Harrow is enough to change the lives of 100 children in Sierra Leone. “Education is the smartest investment you can make,” he said, “but as people in a position to create meaningful change, we should understand our huge responsibility to the world at large.”
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CHAPEL It is a privilege to oversee the Chaplaincy at Harrow and I am grateful all the work and ministry provided by Fr James and Fr Stuart. We continue to recognise the importance of a multi-faith approach that celebrates the diversity of religious views at the School and promotes positive discourse and better understanding of the differing world views that are represented. Diwali celebration meal All the boys on the Hill of Hindu faith celebrated Diwali with a meal. We went to an Indian restaurant on the Hill and shared not just food but a very enlightening conversation about Christian and Hindu beliefs, which highlighted a lot of similarities between the two faiths. The food and the company were amazing and, as it was my first term at Harrow, it provided me with an opportunity to get to know other boys. – Dhruv Kotecha (The Grove) Shabbat We all look forward to the termly Shabbat meal. We observe the traditional elements of a Friday night dinner from the lighting of candles and saying prayers over wine and bread, to the concluding grace after meals. It provides an opportunity for us to share a meal and form relationships with boys from different years and Houses, thus creating the true community spirit integral to the Jewish faith. We have had many opportunities for sharing experiences, including celebrating the New Year by performing taschlich, visiting a local synagogue to celebrate Purim and inviting the Chief Rabbi of the UK to address the School’s Jewish Society. – James Leof (The Head Master’s)
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Flambards (Christian Union) Flambards has been a joy to attend throughout the School year. The friendly and relaxed atmosphere allows boys to forget about the stresses of life and to focus on the important messages that each speaker shares about how to live for Christ in the modern world. The fellowship is something I would encourage all members of the School to experience by coming to
Flambards meetings in the Hill Café. – Archie Powell (The Grove) Tuesday and Sunday services The School services have proved full of ideas. Through them, boys have found what it means to encourage and to understand one another, and to persevere through the challenges of life. One of the highlights was Baroness Cox’s Sunday service: her speech was full of wisdom, told through moving stories such as that of a boy trapped in the middle of a violent conflict through no fault of his own, who left a message on the crumbling walls of his house: ‘I believe in the sun, even when I can’t see it. I believe in love, even when I can’t feel it.” – Eugene Kim (West Acre) Catholic Mass Mass on Sundays ran very smoothly. My own highlight of the year was confessing to Father Pelligrini, who gave an eye-opening
talk on aspects of life about which I had not really thought before. The Penitential services, which do not happen at a very popular time of the week, seem to have been a highlight for the boys and I noticed that, while they are not compulsory, almost all the congregation stayed for confession. – Carlo Agostinelli (The Head Master’s) Islam I and many other boys have enjoyed the facilities that Harrow has provided for the followers of Islam. There have been weekly Friday prayers hosted by a member of our own community, and the School provided support for boys observing the fasting in the holy month of Ramadhan, which was very much appreciated. I hope that, over the coming years, Islam will get more attention from the other boys and I look forward to the growth of the Pickthall Society, which focuses on Islam. – Zayn Salah (The Knoll)
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The F Word
The F Word: Stories of Forgiveness “I believe with every fibre of my being that every human being has the right to live without the pain of the past.” – Eva Kor, Auschwitz survivor The OSRG hosted The F Word: Stories of Forgiveness, a photographic exhibition exploring the idea of forgiveness in the face of atrocity and telling the stories of both victims and perpetrators. Its patrons include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actress Emma Thompson, BBC broadcaster Simon Fanshawe, Britain’s former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf, as well as Jilly Forster of The Forster Company, who was instrumental in setting up The Forgiveness Project. The exhibition’s subjects include Eva Kor, a survivor of the medical experiments carried out by Dr Josef Mengele in Auschwitz; Pat Magee, the man behind
the IRA Brighton bomb, and Jo Berry, whose father was killed in the blast; Linda Biehl, whose daughter was killed in South Africa and now works alongside her daughter’s killers; and Andrew Rice, whose brother David was killed in the attack on the World Trade Centre. The exhibition is produced by The Forgiveness Project, a charity that works at a local, national and international level to help build a future free of conflict and violence by healing the wounds of the past. Many boys and family friends visited the exhibition. Tuesday School services during the term followed the theme of ‘Forgiveness, Grace and Mercy’ and many people said how much they were inspired and challenged by the content. – Fr Nic Tivey, Lead Chaplain
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CONSERVATION The major project last year concerned the lower graveyard of St Mary’s Church. This area, long neglected, had become a dark, overgrown place, strewn with litter, that few people felt safe walking through.
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n the Autumn term, the paths were cleared, the yew and holly were cut back and the ivy was removed from the headstones to create a more open, welcoming space. We hope that the wildlife will benefit too; the greater light penetration should allow ground flora to grow, and invertebrates such as hoverflies and butterflies should be attracted to the glades. Two other key aims were to investigate what animals and plants live in the ponds on the School estate and to improve the habitat in order to increase this biodiversity. The principal focus for this work was the pond at the bottom of the meadow by Lyon’s, which had dried out and become clogged with reedmace. During the Autumn term, the reedmace was pulled up, silt was removed and the marginal
vegetation, which had become dominated by bramble and ash seedlings, was cleared so that the riparian plants could grow. Other activities carried out in the colder months included the erection of more nestboxes in Grove Wood and the planting of more trees, both in the hedgerows close to the farm and by the drainage ditch behind the Astros. It would be nice to think that these enhancements have contributed
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to the increase in the number of large predators observed on the estate. The unmown areas at the bottom of House gardens have been popular hunting sites for kestrels. Buzzards and red kites have been spotted too, most dramatically when the farm meadows were being cut for silage. Badgers have also been encountered on occasion – no doubt making use of the two setts that have been discovered on opposite sides of the Hill. At the start of the Summer term, the Fifth Form boys handed over to the new recruits in the Remove. Their term culminated in a week-long series of activities both on site and further afield. The highlight was a trip to Tewinbury Nature Reserve in Hertfordshire. Here, the boys helped to dig out a reed bed, using the mud to construct a kingfisher bank, and pulled out invasive Himalayan balsam before it flowered. Torrential rain forced the group to seek shelter in a bird hide, which proved to be an excellent vantage point from which to observe the avian fauna. Cetti’s and reed warblers, little egrets and a pair of kingfishers were seen or heard. In the afternoon, the warden led the group in invertebrate sampling in the chalk stream. This is carried out on a regular basis to monitor pollution levels in the water. An array of fly larvae was found along with novelties such as water scorpions, leeches and even some fish (bullheads and sticklebacks). This day showed the effort and vigilance required to maintain such a precious ecosystem. – Nick Keylock, Head of Biology
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THE ARCHIVES An important element of the Archivist’s work is to facilitate research for Harrovians, beaks and the wider public. This usually involves undertaking research, finding records or arranging visits, so that researchers can use primary resources for their projects. Many enquiries come from OHs researching their ancestry but a large number of university students, authors and historians also get in touch.
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nsurprisingly, there was a heavy focus on the First World War last year, particularly the final year of the war. The Archive was used in various ways to reflect on the casualties of war and on the ensuing peace. This was the basis for the Archive’s Speech Day display in the Vaughan Library,
which was visited by over 400 people. The First World War was also the focus for research undertaken in the Archive to assist in the planning of a memorial wood on the meadows of the School farm, and to facilitate the Shell trip to Ypres at the end of the Summer term. Beyond the First World War, material from the Archive collections has been used to create displays on female suffrage, Winston Churchill and the history of the Hill. Records previously on loan to the Imperial War Museum, including The Punishment Book, Churchill’s essay ‘La Marais’ and his prize-winning essay ‘Influenza’, were returned. A number of Harrovians also helped out in the Archive. As part of the Service section of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, some boys worked with a century-old photographic collection. They used digitised images scanned from glass-plate negatives (originally taken by the School photographers
Hills and Saunders between 1870 and 1960) to locate and compare how the Hill has developed over the last 100 years. The Archive was also used for an exhibition to support the opening of the Rattigan Society production of Oh! What a Lovely War. All the displays proved highly popular and successful in demonstrating the School’s rich heritage. Work continued on the Archive’s Twitter page, in order to engage with wider audiences. This has helped to raise the profile of the Archive as well as the collections held by the School, and led to collaborations between the Archive, and the Harrow Association and the Classics department. Work has also continued on building up the new Archive database and creating an extensive box list to facilitate access to the collections and speed up response to enquiries. – Tace Fox, Archivist and Records Manager
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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL In the Spring term, Harrow teams won 78 of their 114 matches, losing 22 and drawing 14.
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he club scored 406 goals and conceded 180. The 1st XI, 2nd XI, 3rd XI, Colts A, Colts B, Junior Colts and Junior Colts B teams were again competing in the Southern Independent Schools Lent Term League, and there were title wins for the 1st XI, 2nd XI (who won in the last match against closest rivals St Paul’s) and the Colts B. The 1st XI had one of their best seasons on record. They were unbeaten in the Spring term and dominated the league. They also reached the quarter-finals of the ISFA Cup for the first time. In all games this year, the 1st XI scored 50 goals in 13 matches and had significant victories over Brentwood (6-2), Eton (3-2) and Tonbridge (4-1). The 1st XI also took part in the prestigious Dallas Cup for the first time and played against some of the best sides in the USA and South Korea. In the summer, two squads travelled to Argentina to play matches against Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo, Estudiantes and Atletico Banfield. There were many other teams with excellent records. The Colts C, Colts D, Junior Colts C, Junior Colts D, Junior Colts E, Yearlings A and Yearlings E also had unbeaten seasons, with the Colts C achieving a 100% record. The Yearlings E scored 25 goals in four games and the Yearlings D scored 28 goals in five games. – Alex Turner, Master-in-Charge
The Argentina tour squad
RESULTS Age Level
P W D
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GF GA
1st XI
9
8
1
0
34
12
2nd XI
8
7
0
1
20
9
3rd XI
7
3
2
2
22
16
4th XI
5
3
1
3
18
17
5th XI
5
3
0
2
14
8
6th XI
4
3
0
1
16
5
7th XI
3
1
0
2
7
12
Colts A
9
4
3
2
25
14
Colts B
7
6
0
1
27
5
Colts C
5
5
0
0
21
5
Colts D
4
3
1
0
21
4
Junior Colts A
9
5
2
2
21
21
Junior Colts B
8
6
0
2
23
9
Junior Colts C
4
3
1
0
19
4
Junior Colts D
3
3
0
0
10
1
Junior Colts E
1
1
0
0
9
0
Yearlings A
7
5
2
0
23
11
Yearlings B
6
3
0
3
21
12
Yearlings C
5
2
1
2
18
9
Yearlings D
5
4
0
1
28
15
Yearlings E
4
3
1
0
25
3
Yearlings F
1
0
0
1
2
5
TOTAL
114 78 14 22 406 180
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ATHLETICS Nearly 100 boys represented the School competitively during the season; 31 went to the County Championships (of whom four won gold medals) and eight were invited to represent Middlesex at the English Schools’ Athletic Association Championships in July.
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f the 13 races, the Harrow squad achieved four third places, three second places and one first place. The winning team was the 4x800m Senior squad, comprising William Mitchell (Bradbys), George Grassly (The Knoll), Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield) and Alexander Saunders (The Knoll). This is the third consecutive year that the Senior team has come first and the fifth year that Grassly has won a trophy at the Achilles Relays. A particular highlight of the season was the regaining of the Guy Butler Shield by a margin of 71 points. Three School records were broken and Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) became the National Indoor Champion at 60m and 200m in the Under-15 age group. He now has a national age-group ranking of third for the 60m and is ranked second in England for the 200m. The winning scores that the team achieved, match after match, reflect the dedication of a talented and motivated squad. They understand fully that, while they may be striving for personal bests, they are still part of a bigger team. – Gary White, Master-in-Charge
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BOROUGH CHAMPIONSHIPS First place Henry Arundell (The Knoll) Andrew Holmes (The Grove) Jack Gosden (Lyon’s) Ed de Bray (The Knoll) Freddie Strange (Newlands) Afure Moses-Taiga (Druries) Finn Teepsuwan (Lyon’s) William Dutton (Newlands) Philipp Benigni (Newlands) Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Alex Haston (Rendalls) Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield) Toby Shirvell (The Head Master’s) Iyanu Ademuwagun (Druries) Nick Martin (The Knoll)
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Under-17 100m Under-17 200m Under-17 400m Under-17 800m Under-17 1500m Under-17 100m hurdles Under-17 long jump Under-17 triple jump Under-17 high jump Under-17 javelin Under-17 shot put Under-17 discus Under-15 100m Under-17 200m Under-15 300m Under-15 800m Under-15 80m hurdles Under-15 shot put Under-15 discus Under-17 javelin
Second place Bofe Moses-Taiga (Druries) Under-17 100m Luke Esposito (Newlands) Under-17 800m Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) Under-17 1500m Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) Under-17 3000m William Dutton (Newlands) Under-17 100m hurdles Herbert Zumbika (Lyon’s) Under-17 triple jump Guy White (Lyon’s) Under-17 discus Kit Chetwynd-Talbot (West Acre) Under-15 300m Freddie Taylor (Newlands) Under-15 1500m Ayo Ajibola (Bradbys) Under-15 80m hurdles Jack Joyce (The Knoll) Under-15 high jump Third place Gigi Moses-Taiga (Druries) Jan Kryca (Moretons) Vadim Gurinov (The Grove)
Under-17 200m Under-17 javelin Under-15 discus
Gold medal and County Champion Philipp Benigni (Newlands) Under-17 javelin William Dutton (Newlands) Under-17 high jump Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Under-15 200m (new County record: 22.39s) Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) Under-17 shot put Silver medal Iyanu Ademuwagun (Druries) Ayo Ajibola (Bradbys) Jan Kryca (Moretons) Afure Moses-Taiga (Druries) Finn Teepsuwan (Lyon’s)
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Bronze medal James Bovell (The Head Master’s) Ed Garuba (Newlands) Jack Gosden (Lyon’s) Alex Haston (Rendalls) Nick Martin (The Knoll) Toby Shirvell (The Head Master’s)
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NEW SCHOOL RECORDS Scott MacNaughton (The Knoll) Under-17 shot put 13.65m Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Under-15 100m 11.1s Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Under-15 200m 21.99s
ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ QUALIFIERS George Grassly (The Knoll) Ed Chia-Croft (Lyon’s) Afure Moses-Taiga (Druries) Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) Ricky White (The Knoll) Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Ed Garuba (Newlands) Ayo Ajibola (Bradbys)
Under-19 1500m Under-19 javelin Under-17 100m hurdles Under-17 shot put Under-17 shot put Under-15 200m Under-15 100m Under-15 hurdles
ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ MEDALLIST ACHILLES RELAYS CHAMPIONS Senior 4x800m relay team Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield), William Mitchell (Bradbys), George Grassly (The Knoll), Alex Saunders (The Knoll)
Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Under-15 200m (national record) Gold Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) Under-15 4 x 100m relay Silver
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BADMINTON The badminton team won 14 of their 18 fixtures and showed excellent skill, depth and teamwork.
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e saw numbers playing the game increase, with approximately 30 boys attending the training sessions and a core membership of 16 boys. These numbers resulted in an A and a B team being fielded for many of the fixtures. The 18 fixtures played were against opponents such as Wellington College, Eton College, Epsom College, Coopers’ Company & Coborn School, Abingdon School, Charterhouse, John Lyon School, and Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. The top two pairs – Mahathir Mokhzani (Elmfield), Victor Chan (The Knoll), Kingston Lee (Elmfield) and Hari Rattan (The Knoll) – were unbeaten all season. – Sarah Dempster, Master-in-Charge
CLIMBING The Marmots’ outdoor trips last year were blessed with fine blue skies.
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n September, we revisited one of our favourite crags, Cratcliffe (Derbyshire), and then, in February, the Roaches (Staffordshire). This was the first visit to the latter in some time and it was nice to be reminded what a spectacular place it really is. Both crags give an extra dimension to rock climbing, in comparison to the anodyne clinics of some indoor sports walls. Suitably hardened, the Harrow School climbing team travelled to Milton Keynes for
the Independent School’s Climbing Competition in March. The team comprised two parts: the Seniors (George Green (West Acre), Alex Bradshaw (The Park) and Frederick Heffer (Elmfield) and the Juniors (James Ward (West Acre), Otto Heffer and Hugo Heffer (both Elmfield)). With the help of climbing legend Johnny Dawes and some late-night training sessions, the Junior team won their category outright, the Senior team came a close second in theirs and, overall, the the Marmots won the competition. The last time Harrow won was in 2005, so it was very gratifying to carry the trophy home. – Dr Martin Roberts, Master-in-Charge
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CRICKET The only thing less predictable than the weather last season was the form of the Harrow batsmen. Harrow won games they had no right to and lost games they really should not have, but they could never be accused of being dull or anything other than wholly committed.
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n hindsight, the first week of fixtures was as good an example as any of the season’s highs and lows. The first fixture was washed out two days in advance, owing to every pitch in the country appearing more like a Harrow footer field than a cricket wicket. Just two days later, Harrow played their season opener at home to Wellington on a belter of a wicket. Wellington batted first and, despite an excellent start, with tenacity and fight in the field, a trademark of this side throughout the season, Harrow pegged
them back. Wellington went from 126-0 to 217-9 with Jafer Chohan (Lyon’s) bowling six consecutive maidens. An outstanding partnership between Luke HarringtonMyers (Bradbys) and Rishi Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) took Harrow most of the way. Harrow backed this up with a good win against Hampton. Batting first, Harrow scored 224-7 with plenty of starts but few conversions. In the end it did not matter, with an excellent bowling and fielding performance leaving Harrow clear winners by 118 runs.
After two wins in the first two completed games of the season, Harrow travelled to Tonbridge in high spirits. These continued until lunch. Harrow produced more excellent cricket, reducing Tonbridge to 100-7, and felt the game was theirs for the taking. Sadly, they did not quite reach the same standards after lunch and Tonbridge kicked on to make 174 all out. Harrow crumbled under the pressure, with no partnership lasting beyond six overs and only three batsmen reaching double figures.
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Harrow were given a chance to rectify this poor batting performance at home to Malvern but produced their second-worst performance of the season. A week later, Harrow were back in action against the Middlesex Academy side. Middlesex batted first and were bolstered by Harrow youngster Tej Sheopuri (Lyon’s) (Removes) who scored a superb 72 playing some fantastic strokes all around the ground. Harrow were well placed in response to Middlesex’s 185-4 with both Alex Ferreira (The Grove) and Wijeratne scoring 50s. Both were dismissed by another Harrovian, Panav Patel (Elmfield). Although Harrow came up 18 runs short, this was an extremely encouraging performance for Harrovians both playing for and against the XI. Despite three defeats in a row, Harrow returned full of confidence when they travelled to Whitgift, having produced a much better performance in their last game. They bowled a Whitgift side out for just 155 but were denied the opportunity to respond as the rain came over lunch. St Edward’s Oxford came next in another T20 match and, although low-scoring, this was an excellent game. Harrow chose to bowl first and restricted St Edwards to 118-9. Harrow began the chase well but entered the final two overs needing 12 to win.
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only two balls he faced and strode off again - superb ball striking to win the game. The momentum proved valuable as Harrow built towards their next Cowdrey Cup match, at home to Charterhouse. Batting first, Harrow produced a par score of 204. Another tense and low-scoring game followed at home to St Bede’s. An excellent bowling attack reduced Harrow to 114-9 but, once again, resilience for the final wicket took Harrow to 135 all out. You could see the confidence this gave Harrow and these runs proved vital, with Harrow bowling Bede’s out for 120. The final game before half term saw the Harrow Wanderers return with an incredibly strong side, including England cricketer Nick Compton (Druries 19992), determined to arrest a run of defeats against the XI. Excellent batting from last year’s captain Rahul Wijeratne (The Head Master’s 20123) saw the Wanderers pose a commanding 209-7. Harrow batted well but victory looked beyond them with overs running out. That was not the narrative Falcon had written and he took Rahul Wijeratne for five successive boundaries to win the game for the XI by four wickets.
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On return from half term, Harrow faced two Jazz sides. Firstly, an excellent game against Free Foresters saw a high-scoring encounter. Harrow scored a season high 280-6, with Sheopuri scoring the first Harrow century of the season, 111. Sadly, for the first time in the season, Harrow could not maintain discipline with the ball and they fell to a four-wicket defeat. I Zingari returned with a strong side but, again, Harrow produced some excellent cricket. Batting first, they scored an excellent 301-3 declared and finished with a 95-run victory. The fixture list did not get any easier with an Australian University Combined XI up next. Each of the opponents was playing as an overseas in England and the team contained several players who had played state-grade cricket. With only Max Ayliffe (The Park) available from the Upper Sixth, Harrow fielded a developmental XI. The 196-7 they made was therefore very pleasing, with Wijeratne at 58 not out the highlight. The Australians came hard in response and were cruising at tea on 118, but another superb Harrow fightback saw them claim five more wickets before the Aussie XI ended 197-6.
This high-pressure game was excellent preparation for a Radley XI, in what was the game of the season and, probably of the whole Cowdrey Cup. Radley elected to bat first and watched in horror as a superb run out on the third ball of the innings set the tone. Radley batted well and looked set at 123-3 just before lunch, but an inspired Harry Maxwell (Elmfield) produced the spell of the season, taking six wickets through raw pace, aggression and no little skill. Radley were reduced to 144-8 but a lack of killer instinct allowed them to recover to 197. Once again, lots of batters got starts but failed to go on to make a telling innings and Harrow were 176-9. The determination of Harrow’s final pair had proved crucial twice before and did so once again here. Musa Ali (Moretons) and Maxwell showed skill, determination and guts to see Harrow over the line in the final over of the day: a truly fantastic finish.
LORD’S Up next was Eton at Lords. Eton were clearly intent on revenge following 2017’s excellent performance from Harrow and won a crucial toss to bat first. They batted well and, although the bowling was good,
it was not as tight as it had been all season. Eton’s openers were fed their favourite shots too often and this allowed them to rotate the strike with great skill. Captain Ayliffe shouldered the responsibility to bowl his full allocation for the only time in his 1st XI career, and bowled with great control, patience and determination. At lunch, Eton had been 126-1 but great spells from Ayliffe, Chohan and Ali limited Eton to 237-7 when they had threatened a score of 270 plus. A total of 20 wides did not help and Harrow knew they would have to bat very well if they were to win the game. Eton came to the field full of confidence and bowled with the discipline that had eluded Harrow. After a solid start, Harrington-Myers was surprised by the swing bowling of Gammell and was LBW. Eton then brought on Penny, a mediumpaced in-swing bowler, to stifle Harrow further. He picked up the crucial wickets of Sheopuri and Hamish Dicketts (Elmfield), with Wijeratne also deceived by the swing bowling of Gammell, to leave Harrow reeling on 49-4. This was a position they were unable to recover from and, despite a very determined innings by Ayliffe, Harrow simply failed to produce a performance
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anywhere near the level they were capable of and were left well short, losing by 114 runs. The positive for Harrow is that many of their batting attack returned more experienced this year and keen to right some wrongs. This game is crucial for momentum going into the final week of term. The year before had been full of buoyancy and excitement, but that deserted Harrow this time round. Harrow played a very strong MCC side, which contained ten OHs. Batting first, Harrow scored an excellent 264. They bowled well but dropped crucial chances. It was a great game for Harrow cricket but another defeat for the XI. The following day saw a T20 tournament at Stowe. In the first game, Harrow cruised to a win by 61 runs to reach the final against the hosts. The pitch was very low and slow, and Stowe batted well. Harrow matched their efforts in the field and did well to restrict them to 121. Harrow were unable to adapt from the hard track they had played on earlier in the day, however, and never got going in their chase; they ultimately ended 34 runs short, but it was a good day of cricket all round. The final game of the season was against the strong Rondenbosch touring side. They had the strongest seam attack we had seen all season and ripped through the top order. Harrow fought back to a respectable total of 197, but it always looked a little short of par. Rondenbosch were in no mood to be generous to the hosts and their opener batted all through the innings, striking the final ball of the game over the boundary for six to bring up a very well-deserved hundred and a comfortable victory by eight wickets. It was a harsh ending for this excellent Harrow side who were nothing if not determined throughout. They were superbly led by Ayliffe, who captained with clarity and aplomb rarely seen at schoolboy level. Other leavers included the opening seam bowling attack of Falcon and Maxwell, who have contributed much to the XI over the last few years. Vice-captain and wicketkeeper Ferreira was a big player throughout and will also be sorely missed. – Chris Eades, First XI Coach
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CROSS COUNTRY Come rain or shine or even thick snow, the cross-country runners were out in force. The Autumn term took them from Sevenoaks to Lancing and St Alban’s, as well as to our annual Ten Schools match in November.
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ancing was a particular success. An impressive course through farmland along the South Downs, this was a proper cross-country race, complete with thick mud, slippery clay, steep hills and the odd rabbit hole to provide some excitement. The Senior team won the event, with George Grassly (The Knoll) coming first by a huge margin of nearly three minutes. Some of the boys took part in the Alumni race hosted by Thames Hare and Hounds: Old Harrovians made up the main team, with recent leavers Ga Kitada (Lyon’s 20123) and William Gasson (The Head Master’s 20123) running well. Grassly and William Mitchell (Bradbys) came along to run as guests and there was an excellent turn out from many Harrow beaks. The Spring term started with the challenging Knole Run, a grand event that involves 30 teams. The Harrow A team came fifth, with the B team in 18th, and fourth in the B string. Grassly came an impressive second place. Medals were won at both the Wellington Relays and the
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Radley Relays and the team came 11th in the King Henry VIII Relays. In the Wellington Relays, Grassly won fastest lap of the day The heavy snow threatened the South East Schools Championships but, miraculously, every inch vanished the night before the race, leaving a gloriously muddy course behind. Numbers were low, with only 16 schools taking part, but all the runners were pleased to have made it to a race after two weeks of cancelled events. The Harrow Seniors came fourth and the Intermediates, seventh. Harrow hosted the Harrow Borough and the Middlesex Championships, both very well-attended events. In the Harrow Borough race, all 17 of our runners qualified for the County Championships. Grassly won the Senior race with Monty Powell (The Grove) coming
second. In the Intermediate race, Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) came second, with Freddie Strange (Newlands) in third and Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) in fourth. In the Junior race, George Ferguson (Newlands) won the race, with Freddie Taylor (Newlands) in third and Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield) in fourth. In the Middlesex Championships, Grassly won the Senior race and, along with Ohler, qualified for the English Schools competition, a highly prestigious event. Other individual achievements include Grassly’s 15th place at the National Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill. As captain of the team last year, he was an outstanding leader and role model. – Lucy Ashe, Master-in-Charge
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FENCING The Fencing Club had a larger and younger pool of fencers and some excellent wins over the season, including victory in our annual triangular competition with Westminster and Tonbridge, as well as against St Benedict’s School, to whom we lost the previous year.
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n November, Harrow took part in a charity quadrangular for GB Fencing at the Lansdowne Club, against Westminster, Eton and the fencers of the Lansdowne Club itself. The Harrow team played very well indeed but were up against some tough opposition (for the most part, GB fencers). Despite fencing with brio, they were beaten by the other teams, but had a great time. We returned to the Lansdowne Club again in the Summer term for the James Chambers Memorial Cup, an annual match held in honour of a former coach of both the Harrow and Lansdowne Fencing Clubs. The boys fought very well, beating the
Lansdowne in both the Foil and Epée and thereby winning back the trophy. We also had a fantastic two days at the Public Schools’ Fencing Competition at Crystal Palace in March. This is the highlight of the fencing calendar, with schools competing from all over the country. The stand out performances were Alex Rutherford (Lyon’s), who came 13th in the Boys’ Senior Foil, Rupert Cullinane (Newlands), who came fifth in the Boys’ Mount-Haes Epée, and Yujin Koshiba (Lyon’s), who came third in the Boys’ Mount-Haes Foil. Another highlight of the year came from Cullinane, who entered the London Regional Youth Championships in March and came seventh in the Junior Epée. Although he did not qualify, he was beaten by the boy who then went on to win the qualifiers. We also had successful re-run of the Paterson Inter-House Fencing Cup, in which Lyon’s beat The Park in a thrilling final to take the plate. – Hamish Haldane, Master-in-Charge
FIVES It was a great week for Harrow at the National Schools’ Championships, with several more pairs entering than last year and the weather and the courts at Eton holding up well enough for all the boys to perform at their best.
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he highlights were the Under-15 1st and 2nd Pairs (Fred Prickett (The Park) and Caleb Efemuai (Newlands), and Ben Hope (Rendalls) and Jude Brankin Frisby (West Acre)) reaching the final of the competition and with Hope and Brankin Frisby eventually winning 3-1. Their paths to the final were fraught with danger but both pairs managed to overcome adversity, particularly Hope and Brankin Frisby, who came from two sets down against Eton’s 1st Pair in the quarter final. It was a credit to both pairs that the final was played in the right spirit, although it was disappointing for Prickett and Efemuai, who played well as the Harrow 1st Pair
throughout the year and worked hard at improving their game. They have been a great example to the other players. The beginners’ tournament at the National Championships also saw success for Jonny Barley (The Grove) and Phoenix Ashworth (The Head Master’s), who won a hard-fought final 3-1 against the Shrewsbury 1st Pair. Ashworth and Barley were very well prepared for their match and remembered to stay calm in the face of some strong play from their opponents, who were the first seeds. The match was
very close but some great returns of cuts at crucial times saw Harrow edge home with their opponents tiring. Harrow had six pairs in the last 16 of this event, with the 2nd Pair of John Richardson (Elmfield) and Max Ferreira (The Grove) narrowly losing to the Eton 1st Pair in the quarter finals. It was a historic week for Harrow in holding two national championships in the same year. – Ian Hutchinson, Fives Professional
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GOLF Our friendly fixtures were spread over three terms and included those against Bradfield, Charterhouse, Eton, Stowe, the American School in London and Haileybury.
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e also played in a variety of competitions. Excluding the tour to North Norfolk, we played 15 matches, winning nine, drawing three and losing three. We said farewell to a number of players who have made excellent contributions to School golf over their time at Harrow. They are Ollie Connell (Rendalls), William Yu (The Knoll), Farri Gaba (Lyon’s) and George Watson (Newlands).
PUBLIC SCHOOLS INVITATIONAL This opener to the golfing year, played at the charming West Sussex Golf Course, promised showers and bouts of sunshine. Thirty teams from 15 schools competed for The Benka Trophy. The standard of golf was very high, with many players off near-to-scratch handicaps. The format is foursomes stableford. In Harrow’s squad were the School’s first Golf Scholars, Max Shirvell and Toby Shirvell (both The Head Master’s), off 3 and 6 respectively. Max partnered with captain Ollie Connell in Team A and Toby joined Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s) in Team B. Their combined score of 49 points placed Harrow in very respectable fourth place.
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS GOLF ASSOCIATION (ISGA) MATCHPLAY TOURNAMENT The ISGA Trophy takes place over the year, starting with the first three rounds at regional level then ending in the National Finals at Royal St George’s in April. We faced Westminster in the first round at The Buckinghamshire Golf Club and secured a convincing 2-1 win, with Max Shirvell and Charlie Witter (Elmfield) taking the points. In Round 2, we played Merchant Taylors’. Our opponents were an unknown quantity, so we brought along a top team with some of Harrow’s best players and secured an overwhelming 3-0 win. The next round was the Regional Final against St Paul’s School. On the day, we never quite found our form and lost 1–2 to a good St Paul’s side that went on to compete at the National Finals.
MICKLEM TROPHY We were a little unfortunate to draw the favourites (and eventual winners) Welllington in Round 1 but the Harrow team played brilliantly on the first day with everyone scoring below their handicaps. The next day, the standard of Harrow’s play continued to be excellent, sweeping through the opposition to win the Micklem Plate in an exhilarating 4–1 final against Winchester. Max Shirvell and Qassi Gaba won all their matches in defiant form.
INTER-HOUSE TROPHY (THE MICHELE CUP) AND THE SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP (THE GABA CUP) The Gaba Family Trophy is presented to the Champion Golfer and The Michele Family Trophy to the winning House. Mixed weather in the lead-up days meant the course was soft with rich and thick turf, excellent fairways, and even but slowish greens. The good conditions gave everyone a sense of hope that high scoring was on the cards. Pre-match favourites The Head Master’s and Rendalls both posted impressive 19 points, playing 1 under gross
rounds, and jointly winning The Michele Trophy. Clear winner of The Gaba Trophy was Max Shirvell with 19 points.
TOUR TO NORTH NORFOLK A welcome addition to the golf calendar last year was the tour to North Norfolk in Expeditions Week. The tour squad included Zeddie Johnson-Watts (Lyon’s), Max Evans-Tovey, George Plant, Charles Tallis (all Druries), Alfie Farr and Johnny Marsh (both The Park). In perfect weather for links golf, we enjoyed playing on courses at Hunstanton, Brancaster and Swaffham.
OLD HARROVIAN GOLF SOCIETY (OHGS) We very much value our ties with the OHGS and are grateful to the society for their support of School golf. We met for a pre-Micklem warm-up match in March and again in June for a match and dinner. Both events were excellent opportunities for the boys to meet core OHGS members and to hear about the opportunities for playing golf as an OH. – Simon Page, Master-in-Charge.
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HARROW FOOTBALL Before the season began in January, a party of 20 boys and beaks made their way to Jersey for a pre-season warm-up against a keen OH side during the November exeat.
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ierre Ali Noor (West Acre 20013), an avid footer supporter and resident of Jersey, kindly helped with arrangements on the island before arrival and, through the generous help of current parents David and Jane Jenkins, there was a pitch to rival the pitches of Harrow. A sloping meadow, thousands of gallons of water (supplied by local farmers) and constant hand break turns in a Land Rover meant that conditions on Hemstall 6 were faithfully reproduced. The game was well fought and the School managed a narrow win despite some nimble footwork by centre back Louis Kunzig (Druries 19833) and captain Ali Noor. The day was rounded off by a black-tie dinner and Songs in the Atlantic Hotel. Before heading back to the Hill on Sunday, we visited Jersey Zoo, followed by Sunday lunch, which was generously provided by the Lempriere-Johnson family. The boys eagerly looked forward to a packed fixture list, including the normal away fixtures against Eton (playing the Field Game), at Oxford (playing an OH university side) and at Sunningdale against the prep school masters. My thanks must go to the OH captains, who tirelessly put together sides to play the boys each year. Special mention must go to Guy Yarrow (Druries
19983) and Joe Wigley (Elmfield 19993), who are now the longest-serving captains and always push the XI to their limits, year on year. This year, we welcomed some new OH XIs captained by Jake Hyman (The Knoll 20073), Peter Marsh (The Park 20103) and Robert Malhamé (The Head Masters 20113). The cold weather has hampered games for the last couple of years but, although the ‘Beast from the East’ made the pitches unplayable for some House games, thankfully we only had to cancel one OH fixture. The House competition continued to be a competitive affair, with Newlands
making all three finals and winning the Torpids and Yearlings. The Park were the Cock House. The game remained very popular among Sixth Form boys, with a regular turnout of over 50 each week. We managed to put out two regular teams but there is a real need to attract more OH opposition (and parents keen to have a game) if we are to ride the wave of enthusiasm among the boys. Please contact cdlm@harrowschool. org.uk if you are interested. – Chris Mann, Master-in-Charge
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HOCKEY The 1st XI won seven of their ten Saturday fixtures last season.
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t was also the furthest a Harrow team has progressed in the Under-18 National Cup, getting to the third round before being knocked out by a very strong side from Ipswich School. Owing to the strength of the 1st XI, the Radley fixture was restored and a 1-2 away loss against a very strong hockey school was testament to the progress this Harrow side has made over the last few years. The 1st XI were leading 1-0 against Merchant Taylors’ School at half time and were cruelly denied a historic victory by a couple of late goals from the opposition. The 2nd XI won 50% of their matches, whilst the 3rd XI drew in a tight contest with Haileybury but lost their other two matches. The Junior Colts had a tough season, and were unlucky to lose three of their matches by a single goal. The Yearlings have had some good contests and, when the team grows physically, the results are likely to improve too.
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We benefited last year from the specialist external coaching of Tamsyn Naylor, whose professionalism and ability to provide structured sessions certainly contributed to the improving standards within the club. We continue to attract around 100 boys over seven teams and the increasing standard of hockey in the three inter-House
competitions was testament to the rising profile of hockey in the School. The tour last summer to South Africa was a great success and the boys are already excited about the pre-season tour to Portugal in January. – Tom Elphinstone, Master-in-Charge
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JUDO Boosted by our successes in national competitions and overseas tours, we continued to develop an outstanding judo programme at Harrow, with around 40 boys signed up and a strong competition squad of around 25.
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atches with rivals Winchester, Merchant Taylors’ and St Paul’s are longstanding fixtures but, in addition to regular training, we now hold at least two masterclasses per term in which internationally renowned coaches and champions come to Harrow to instruct our team. Last year, we welcomed Olympic bronze medallist Neil Eckersley and World Champion Jane Bridge. We now make regular use of the excellent facilities at Pinewood Judo Club and the London Budokwai to organise training sessions and contact with younger university students, particularly those at London universities and at the Oxford and Cambridge clubs. We continue to attract some talented young judoka to Harrow and last year had three OT scholars. Judo is part of the Shell PE curriculum, exposing all boys to this popular Olympic sport. At the end of the Autumn term, we held the usual training camp in Lanzarote. Through daily judo sessions, boys expanded and improved their technical base ahead of the major competition term. They also made full use of the excellent fitness and recreational facilities at the world-famous sports resort Club La Santa. In the Spring term, we returned to High Wycombe Judo Centre for the HMC Independent Schools Judo Tournament. The Juniors quickly set the right tone, with two gold medals for Lucas Edstrom (Bradbys) and Vladimir Skorobagatko (Rendalls). Both won their weight categories against some
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tough opposition. After this promising start, it was the turn of the Intermediates, and here the long hours of training really paid off. Harrow dominated the rest of the morning session. Daniel Ponomarenko (Lyon’s) and George Davies (The Head Master’s) fought very well for their gold medals, with some fine technical judo. We also saw the first all-Harrow final, with Casper Gurney (Druries) beating Jan Kryca (Moretons) into second place after very strong opening bouts. Jake McDermaid (Rendalls) won silver with a couple of bold sacrifice throws and George Biles (Bradbys) picked up another gold with a very fine display of tactical judo, wearing down his opponent to win right at the end, first with a switch to a very neat left-side shoulder throw and then a fine sacrifice throw. First-timer Sultan Aben (The Knoll) picked up a bronze for a plucky performance against some large opponents. It was tough for the Seniors. Team captain Zayan Dhanani (The Park) had to be content with silver, going down to a Scottish International black belt but, in the Under-66kg category, we saw a second all-Harrow final with Ostap Stefak (Newlands) winning silver and Will Collins (The Head Master’s) winning gold. Of the 20 Harrow competitors, 15 boys won medals: seven gold, five silver and three bronze, making Harrow the Independent Schools Champions for a record fourth year in succession. The gold medallists were
Lukas Edstrom (Bradbys), Vladimir Skorobogatko (Rendalls), Daniel Ponomarenko (Lyon’s), George Davies (The Head Master’s), George Biles (Bradbys), Caspar Gurney (Druries) and Will Collins (The Head Master’s). Eighteen boys qualified for entry in the British Schools Judo Championships, held at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. This event is a high-level competition with over 200 schools represented and many junior international competitors in attendance. Among our Juniors, Skorobogatko battled hard to win a bronze medal in the Over-66kg category and, in the Intermediate age band, Dat Doan (Bradbys) also took a bronze. Despite some gutsy performances, the rest of the squad were eliminated before the finals, with very experienced opposition able to edge the win in some close contests. We have finished as the winning School since 2014, but this year we had to settle for runner up, just a few points behind the winners. On Speech Day, the club performed its first official demonstration on Chapel Terrace. Boys thrilled spectators with their displays of agility, technique, demonstration matches and self-defence applications against attackers wielding baseball bats, knives and guns! – Matt Glossop, Master-in-Charge Judo training in Lanzarote and the judo masterclasses are supported by the Harrow Development Trust.
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POLO The A team played in three major tournaments in the Summer term. First was the Copenhagen Cup competition at Guards Polo Club in Windsor.
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he top four polo schools in the country battled it out for the top prize. In the semi-finals, Harrow beat Millfield in the last chukka 8-4. Captain Hugo Taylor (Druries) scored all eight goals to secure a place in the final against Wellington. In the final, Harrow took an early lead in the first chukka, which Wellington could not catch. Taylor and Dougal Barr (Newlands) both scored hat-tricks, with support from Michael Fitzgibbon (Rendalls) and Marc Lindgren (West Acre), to win the Copenhagen Cup 6-2. Barr also won Player of the Match for his outstanding performance.
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Winners of the Copenhagen Cup
During half term, Harrow played Eton in their annual polo match at Guards. Taylor captained the team consisting of Valentine Hutley (The Head Master’s), Faiz Kawar (Druries) and Fitzgibbon. It was a nail-biting match. Due to the teams’ handicaps, Harrow gave Eton a half-goal start but Taylor took an early lead in the first chukka, scoring two goals, followed by a goal from Kawar. Although Eton fought back, scoring two goals in the second chukka, Harrow held onto the lead, winning 3-2½. Lastly, Harrow impressed 6,000 spectators at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The army officers’ team had a higher handicap, giving Harrow a half-goal head start. Harrow took an early lead, with Taylor scoring three goals in the first chukka. Sandhurst fought back, scoring
one goal in the third chukka but, in the last chukka, Harrow scored two more goals with Fitzgibbon taking the ball the full length of the pitch before scoring a goal in front of a delighted crowd. With a 5½-1 win, Harrow finished the season on a high note. Special mention must go to Taylor for his impressive performances, with Harrow winning all the matches he played in. Last summer, he was a member of the team that won the Gold Cup, the highest-level tournament in the UK, playing alongside Facundo and Gonzalito Pieres – arguably the best two polo players in the world. He also played for the England Under-21 team against the USA in Palm Beach. – Darren Bell, Master-in-Charge
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RACKETS After losing a strong group of players at the end of the previous year, the challenge was for captain Hector Scott Lyon (Newlands) to lead the side forward through the season.
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e played with a variety of partners in our 1st pair and developed his own
game to the point where he reached the Foster Cup semi-final. He has every chance of being a top player in the adult game now he has left School and is taking up a rackets fellowship in Chicago in his gap year. Through the season, we were competitive at all levels. At Queen’s, the Harrow 1st pair of Julian Owston (Moretons) and Scott Lyon played an excellent match against a seeded
pair from Wellington. They had several chances to level at 3-3 but eventually lost in the set of the sixth game to succumb 2-4. The best performance in the doubles came from Rishi Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) and Henry Wilson (Elmfield), who reached the semi-final of the Colts doubles before losing to first seeds Eton. – John Eaton, Rackets Professional
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RUGBY UNION It was an unbeaten season for the XV, crowning one of the most successful terms of rugby at Harrow in the last ten years. Ably captained by Jack Glover (Rendalls) and Manu Vunipola (The Knoll), the XV played with tempo, precision and courage to become Harrow’s fourth undefeated side in 89 years of rugby at the School.
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trong wins against Norwich, Warwick and Dulwich got the XV off to a fast start and there was little let-up in the emphatic 63-3 victory against St Paul’s. At Epsom, the team struggled to get going, but the boys dug deep to secure a close 19-17 victory. A true testament to the side, and particularly to the departing Upper Sixth, was that, by half term, over 28 players had played a part in the 1st XV. Impressive home wins against Tonbridge and Eton set up the pivotal clash away at Wellington. Harrow had not beaten Wellington at 1st XV level for over ten years, and the previous year’s almost perfect season had been ruined by the boys from Berkshire beating Harrow at home by one point. Harrow controlled the game from start to finish; it was a superb, gutsy 21-13 win and set up a final clash at Bedford to secure an unbeaten season. The day before the final fixtures of the year against Bedford, the Yearlings A had finished their own unbeaten season with a victory over London Oratory in the Middlesex Cup. With no Saturday fixture, they boarded the bus to Bedford to support
their Sixth Form counterparts. The XV duly delivered and emphatically entered the record books with a superb 42-0 victory. The boys of the XV were fine role models last season and throughout their time at Harrow; they approached every game with energy and determination, were professional in their approach and conducted themselves with honour on the pitch. Buoyed by the XV’s success, the rest of the School played some brilliant rugby. 20 teams played 163 fixtures, winning 103, drawing one and losing 59, to finish with a 63.2% win percentage across the Rugby Club, the highest in recent years. There were also one-loss seasons for the Yearlings B, Colts B and 4th XV. The Colts A played some superb rugby, securing some emphatic victories including a 71-14 win over Bedford and 52-14 win over Dulwich. The Junior Colts A had good wins against Norwich and Epsom and, despite difficulties with injuries, improved significantly over the season, showing plenty of promise for their Colts year. In addition to their work on the field, the Rugby Club supported three rugby-related charities – the School of Hard Knocks, Bulaboots and Wooden Spoon – as a part of Shaftesbury Enterprise. There were two fixtures against Under-14 and Under-15 School of Hard Knocks sides, a socialinclusion programme that uses rugby to help boys and girls in difficult educational circumstances. Harrow also took part in the Wooden Spoon charity sock appeal and boys in the XV led a campaign to send unwanted rugby kit to needy areas in Fiji in support of the Bulaboots charity.
1st XV squad
In the Spring term, focus turned to 7s, a game in which Harrow has become renowned in recent years. Despite losing a number of tournaments to the snow, Harrow made a strong impression at the Uppingham 7s, winning the Under-18 tournament and losing in the final of the Under-16 competition. Next for the 1st VII was the Surrey 7s, one of the biggest tournaments in the country, where Harrow
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lost in the final to Cranleigh. The final tournament of the term was the Rosslyn Park National 7s, the biggest schools rugby tournament in the world. The 1st VII cruised into day two of the competition to put themselves in a knockout group with Sherborne, Woodhouse Grove and Sedbergh. Wins against Sherborne and Woodhouse Grove set up an all-or-nothing game against Sedbergh, a side packed with age-grade internationals and favourites to win the tournament. The Harrow 1st VII produced one of the finest performances in memory to down Sedbergh 22-21 with Vunipola scoring the winning three points off a penalty with the last kick of the game. Unfortunately, the effort of the Sedbergh game weighed on the squad and a disappointing semi-final performance against Cranleigh sent Harrow home – made even more frustrating by Sedbergh sneaking into the semi-finals on points difference and then going onto win the tournament! Yet, it was another brilliant effort and the Sedbergh game will last in the memory for some time. – James Melville, Master-in-Charge
Age Level
P
W
D
L
PF
PA
PD
Win Ratio
1st XV
10
10
0
0
374
92
282
100.00%
2nd XV
11
4
0
7
217
201
16
36.40%
3rd XV
8
4
0
4
75
131
-56
50.00%
4th XV
8
6
1
1
213
104
109
75.00%
5th XV
7
5
0
2
236
113
123
71.40%
6th XV
4
2
0
2
87
95
-8
50.00%
Under-16A
11
9
0
2
401
150
251
81.80%
Under-16B
9
8
0
1
236
148
88
88.90%
Under-16C
8
6
0
2
297
77
220
75.00%
Under-16D
1
1
0
0
64
5
59
100.00%
Under-15A
11
2
0
9
154
372
-218
18.20%
Under-15B
9
4
0
5
186
219
-33
44.40%
Under-15C
9
3
0
6
179
191
-12
33.30%
Under-15D
8
6
0
2
303
46
257
75.00%
Under-15E
3
2
0
1
103
89
14
66.70%
Under-14A
12
12
0
0
404
64
340
100.00%
Under-14B
9
8
0
1
326
140
186
88.90%
Under-14C
8
2
0
6
137
228
-91
25.00%
Under-14D
7
4
0
3
182
158
24
57.10%
Under-14E
9
6
0
3
228
197
31
66.70%
Under-14F
4
1
0
3
82
134
-52
25.00%
166
105
1
60
4484
2954
1530
63.30%
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SPORT
SKIING In early December, around 30 boys joined the ski trip to Canada. Five of the boys took part in a Canadian Level 1 Ski Instructor course, which they all passed with flying colours.
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ixteen Harrovians, only eight of whom were regular racers, raced against schools including Tonbridge and Dulwich College and won the coveted Canada Cup. We had some outstanding participants in
the slalom and giant slalom including the 2018 team captain Max Grogan (Newlands) and Ben Moore (Moretons). Eight boys, captained by Anton Jurgens (Newlands), took part in the International School Boys Races Wengen in Switzerland. The Senior IV came third overall in their age group, with Grogan winning a silver medal. One of the squad’s coaches was E R de S Robinson (The Park 20043).
During the year, the squad competed in a number of dry slope competitions and went indoor snow skiing every other Sunday. We started an elite programme, taking three boys to Hemel Ski Centre along with the Hemel Skiing Club. For the first time ever, three boys were awarded Flannels for skiing: Jurgens, Grogan and Moore. – Rob Robson, Master-in-Charge
the School during his time at Harrow and winning 77 of them. Max Sodi (West Acre) played 107 matches, winning 74. Their dedication to Harrow squash over five years was immense. Brando Sodi (West Acre) was the stand-out player. He won 21 and lost just three matches in a fantastic season. At Roehampton, he was unbeaten. Max Sodi won 20 and lost four, while Scott Lyon won
11 and lost 11. The other two members were Daniel Billings (Lyon’s) and Declan Shortt (Newlands), who both battled away with a great attitude during a difficult season. The key second team men were Kareem Jafree (Elmfield), Tom Santini and David Gibbons (both The Park). – Simon Halliday, Master-in-Charge
SQUASH Harrow had a more favourable draw in the Nationals than the previous season and won 4-1 at Brentwood in the quarter-finals to qualify for the finals at Nottingham.
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here, they were drawn against Wycliffe, the eventual winners, and were well beaten by their array of England-ranked players. In the play-off for third and fourth place, Harrow lost 3-2 in a dramatic match against Eton. At Roehampton, the team beat Winchester and Radley 4-1, before losing 3-2 to Epsom in the semi-final. In all, the Senior team played 28 matches over two terms, winning 19 and losing nine, with Aylesbury, Eton and Epsom being the best opponents on our normal circuit. A 3-2 home win against Eton was perhaps one of the best performances, but Eton gained revenge at Nottingham. Many thanks must go to Hector Scott Lyon (Newlands) who led the way at number one, playing 109 matches for
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SWIMMING Last year began with the first-ever pre-season swim training camp at the Best Centre in Mallorca, just before the start of the Autumn term. Following this, the swimming team had a very successful season and was unbeaten in trophy and cup competitions and inter-school galas.
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e had fixtures against Tonbridge, Hampton, Coopers’ Company & Coborn, Sevenoaks, Whitgift, Abingdon, Bishops Stortford, Eton, Blackrock College Dublin, Charterhouse, Reeds and others. The swimmers kept active with a competition nearly every week. The team also had their second open-water event at the end of the Autumn term, the Marlow Classic 3km swim. Despite it being the first open-water race for many of the boys, Harrow was placed first, third and seventh overall and had four more swimmers in the top 30. Our only defeats last year were in the English Schools Swimming Association Schools Championships, in which we conceded to the three swimming academies (Millfield, Mount Kelly and Plymouth). These schools are not allowed to enter the Bath Cup and Otter Cup
Shell Henry Pearce (Newlands) Henry Pearce (Newlands) Maxwell Brooks (West Acre)
50m butterfly 100m individual medley Long Ducker 5km swim
28.89 01:05:54 01:07:33
Junior William Rudd (The Head Master’s) Newlands West Acre
50m freestyle Medley relay (4 x 50m) Freestyle relay (4 x 50m)
25.19 2:03.27 1:50.63
Senior Ben Hooper Ben Hooper Ben Hooper Ben Hooper
100m freestyle 50m butterfly 100m butterfly 100m individual medley
51.00 25.67 55.6 57.71
(The (The (The (The
Head Head Head Head
Master’s) Master’s) Master’s) Master’s)
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS Ben Hooper competed in the World School Games in Morocco and came sixth in the 100m butterfly, fifth in the 50m butterfly and fourth in the mixed medley relay. Thomas Khan (West Acre) was British National qualifier in the 50m breaststroke and 100m breaststroke. William Rudd was a British National qualifier in three events. Andrew Hong (Lyon’s) was a British National qualifier in four events. Caspar Grundy (Rendalls) was an English National qualifier in the 50m freestyle.
Championships (schools championships), as they have full Club Amateur Swimming Association status. Therefore, last year within England, Harrow was is the strongest swimming school of amateur status, coming first in both the Bath Cup and Otter Medley. Seven School records, some of which dated to 2004, were also broken, which was itself a record.
Particular mention should be made of Ben Hooper (The Head Master’s), who is a member of the GB team and who competes regularly in international competitions. He holds five Senior School records and has been an inspirational member of the squad, raising the bar for all swimmers. – Rima Tremlett, Master-in-Charge
SPORT
TENNIS The 1st team won against Wellington, Marlborough, St Paul’s and Bradfield, and took a runner-up position in the RHWM tournament.
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iaran Timlin (Bradbys) of the Removes emerged as a vital cog in the Senior 1st team and this bodes well for the future. The 2nd team had mixed results, but the 3rd team was unbeaten. The Colts had a short but successful season spearheaded by Alex Saunders and Harry Saunders (both The Knoll). The Junior Colts were the star performers, with a strong set of results culminating in wins in the RHWM tournament at A and B team level. The Yearlings also did well, winning the majority of their matches and ending as runners up at both A and B team level in the RHWM tournament. – John Eaton, Rackets Professional Yearlings squad
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The Monitors
HEAD OF SCHOOL
George Grassly, Exh.(Mus), Sch.(OT) (The Knoll)*
Felix Griffin Pain, Sch.(Art) (The Head Master’s)
Alessio Kenda, Sch. (Newlands)
George Gray (The Park)
Dita Jaja, Sch., Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(OT) (Moretons)
DEPUTY HEAD OF SCHOOL Dita Jaja, Sch., Sch.(Mus), Sch.(OT) (Moretons)*
Ravi Kohli, Sch. (The Grove)*
Kazbek Kandour, Sch.(Mus.) (The Park)
Will Latham (Bradbys)*
Chatto Marks, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Lyon’s)
Tim Llewellen Palmer (Lyon’s)*
Adeoluwa Pearse, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Rendalls)
William Miles, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (The Head Master’s)
Michael Tasker, Sch.(Mus.) (West Acre)
MONITORS
Rory Miller, Sch. (The Knoll)
Charles Vivian (The Knoll)
Sam Ackroyd, Sch. (West Acre)
Javier Perez Pera, Sch. (Newlands)*
Louis Wilson (The Head Master’s)
Tom Asprey (Druries)*
Luca Pittalis, Sch. (Rendalls)
Jobie Wong, Sch.(Mus.) (Bradbys)
Maxim Ayliffe (The Park)*
Hari Rattan, Sch. (The Knoll)
Archie Bullen (Elmfield)*
Daniel Shailer, Sch.,Sch.(Mus.) (Rendalls)
THE PHILATHLETIC CLUB
James Burgess-Adams (West Acre)*
Vlado Vasile (Bradbys)
Jack Glover, Sch.(OT) (Rendalls) – Head
Edward Cartwright (The Grove)
Maxim Ayliffe (The Park)
Miles Chetwynd-Talbot, Sch.(OT) (West Acre)
THE GUILD
Alexander Ferreira, Sch.(OT) (The Grove)
Saif-Ali Durrani (The Park)
Daniel Shailer Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Rendalls) – Head
George Grassly, Exh.(Mus.), Sch.(OT) (The Knoll)
Zachary Ellis, Sch., Sch.(OT) (Rendalls)*
Alizhan Aldiyar, Sch., Sch.(Art) (Rendalls)
George Gray (The Park)
Alexander Ferreira, Sch.(OT) (The Grove)
Edward Cartwright (The Grove)
Dita Jaja, Sch., Sch.(Mus), Sch.(OT) (Moretons)
Qassi Gaba, Sch. (Lyon’s)
Marco Chau, Sch.(Music) (Elmfield)
Harry Lee-Clarke (Bradbys)
Philiip Gallagher, Sch. (The Head Master’s)*
Harvey Fry, Sch., Sch.(Art) (Rendalls)
Manu Vunipola, Sch.(OT) (The Knoll)
The Philathletic Club
* Head of House
The Guild
LISTINGS
NEW BOYS IN 2017 BRADBYS THE GROVE Ayo Ajibola
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Indi Abrams
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Temi Balogun
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Charlie Ball
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Josua Biles
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Jonathan Barley
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Hugo Bishop
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Lukas Edstrom
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Charlie de Labilliere Max Ferreira
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Jeran Jeyanthan
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Vadim Gurinov
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Sam McGougan
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Dhruv Kotecha
Lower Sixth
James Nelson
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Ben Leonard
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Lanre Nzeribe
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Archie Powell
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Mikayeel Piranditta
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Samuel Quist
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Dominic Smith
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Iñigo Sánchez Asiaín
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Joseph Wragg
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Lower Sixth
David Xu
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Cody Xu
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DRURIES
Benji Xu-Page
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Angus Walker Robert Zhang
Anjo Ademuwagun
Lower Sixth
Iyanu Ademuwagun
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THE HEAD MASTER’S
Que Akhavan Zanjani
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Reuben Ackermann
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Tristan Bentsen
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Phoenix Ashworth
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Brandon Chang
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Eric Chen
Lower Sixth
Blesk Ekpenyong
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Ashton Choy
Lower Sixth
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Federico Ghersi
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Christopher Gujadhur
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Jack Hedley
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Orlando Hill
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Ben Hooper
Lower Sixth
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Nicklas Host-Verbraak
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Tom Roe
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Angus Labrum
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Luke Simpson
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Carrick Reid
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George Witheridge
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Max Shirvell
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Toby Shirvell
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ELMFIELD
Matt Travis
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Jasper Blackwood
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Jon Yuan
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Edward Blunt
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Newton Zhu
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Kyle Debrah
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Harvey Douglas
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Henry Hancock
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Hugo Heffer
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Yoh Ishikawa
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Kareem Jafree
Lower Sixth
Eddie Jodrell
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George Leigh
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Amar Patel
Lower Sixth
Max Paton-Smith
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Matthew Rates
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John Richardson
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Jun Wha Shin
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Guy Walsh
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Freddie Weatherby
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Florian Hull Lucas Maia Oli Newall Jack O’Connor Alex Oppenheim James Pang
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Aakash Aggarwal
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Daniel Chang
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Sebastian Classen
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Edward Cleeve
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Cosmo Freeland
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Shelli Jokosenumi
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THE KNOLL
Yujin Koshiba
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William Barrett
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Graham Lambert
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Oliver Chua
Lower Sixth
Greg Morgan
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Edred Clutton
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Henry Oelhafen
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George Cutler
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Edward Pagani
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Alex Jeong
Lower Sixth
Oliver Seigue
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George Townshend
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Dylan Winward
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James Yuen
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Andrew Zhou
Lower Sixth
Issah Merchant
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Jin Park
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MORETONS
Dimitri Samonas
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Eray Akbulut
Lower Sixth
Anton Shashenkov
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Musa Ali
Lower Sixth
Daniel Sidhom
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Jake Brockwell
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Hugo Gaffey
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Freddie Gregory
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George Hall
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Leon Kinaro
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Jack Joyce Sam Lussier Felix Majumdar Nick Martin
Alan Tang Will Tate William Wauchope Apollo Wilkins
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Alex Lee
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THE PARK
Oliver Johnson
Lower Sixth
Patrick Lehrell
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Thomas Bereus
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Seb Phillips
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Shiraz Mueller
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Immanuel Doerler
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Arthur Pilkington
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Chike Odogwu
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George Fenwick
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Harrison Scott
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Sam Owston
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Tomas Kemp
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Ziad Shemtob
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Theo Tomlinson
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Archie Kyd
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Vladimir Skorobogatko
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Aarav Tribhuvan
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Ben Kyd
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Archie Smith
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Rufus Williams
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Noah Mazrani
NEWLANDS
Joe McGuinness
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Hugo Anderson
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Hari Moondi
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WEST ACRE
Joe Brankin-Frisby
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Ilyas Qureshi
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Taaj Adetula
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Michael Chiimba
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George Sage
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Fred Bethell
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Ben Coldicott
Lower Sixth
Nathan Shepard
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Maxwell Brooks
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Rupert Cullinane
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Alexander von Kumberg
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Archie Chatwin
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Brian Donohugh
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Max Wilson
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Kit Chetwynd-Talbot
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George Ferguson
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Charlie Digges
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Ehiada Garuba
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RENDALLS
Ben Falcon
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Edos Herwegh Vonk
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Johnny Blake McGrath
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James Gibbens
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Rafe Hogben
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Adam Chambers
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Harrison Layden-Fritz
Lower Sixth
Roger Litton
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Victor Chan
Lower Sixth
Alex Locke
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Henry Pearce
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Tiger Dai
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Ryan Nasskau
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Luke Ritchie
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Sam Dunn
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Marcus Tung
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Hanno Sie
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Jack Hargreaves
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James Ward
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Alvaro Talayero Osio
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Alex Haston
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Adam Wilson
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Freddie Taylor
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Pahal Jariwala
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LISTINGS
SPEECH DAY PRIZES IN 2018 SHELL PRIZES Reuben Ackermann, Sch.(AR), Exh.(Mus.) The Head Master’s Prize for the Best New Boy Project
Richard Hayward
The Balme Remove Prize for Latin
Aakash Aggarwal, Sch.
The Lord Frederic Hamilton Shell Prize for Spanish
The Remove Biology Prize
The Paul Lewis Junior Science Lecture Prize
The Remove Prize for Russian
The Shell Religious Studies Prize
Jake Henson
The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry
The Winkley Shell First Prize for English
The Jonathan Head Barrow Remove Prize for Short Story
Edward Blunt
The Harry Watts General Knowledge Shell Prize
Leo Jiang
The Leaf Remove Prize for Physics
The Shell Prize for Russian
Aurelien Josserand
The Remove Prize for Chemistry
Brandon Chang
The Cayley Mathematics Olympiad Prize
The Williams Prize for Biology
The Shell Mathematics Prize
Neil Kumar
The Randall Prize for History
Michael Chiimba
The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry
Simon Luo, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)
The Geoffrey Simmonds Remove Prize for Computing
Christopher Gujadhur
The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Shell Prize
Shubh Malde, Sch.
The Notting Dale Remove Prize for Geography Fieldwork
Hugo Heffer
The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry
Fynn Maydon
The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting
The Head Master’s Shell Prize for Learnt Poetry
Jake McDermid
The Remove Prize for Chemistry
Edos Herwegh Vonk
The Jonathan Head Barrow Shell Prize for Short Story
George Phillips, Sch.(Art)
The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry
The Ottley Shell Prize for English
The Remove Art Prize
The Verney Shell Prize for French
Nicholas Platt, Sch.(Mus.)
The Society of American Military Engineers Prize
Eddie Jodrell
The Viscountess Strangford Shell Prize for Geography
Fred Prickett
The Affleck Prize for Classical Learning
Tomas Kemp, Sch.(Art)
The Shell Art Prize
Lukas Roberts, Sch.(Mus.)
The Lockett Junior Prize for Pianoforte
Archie Kyd, Sch.
The Ian Beer Shell Biology Prize
Daniel Sandell, Sch.(Mus.)
The Briscoe Eyre Remove Prize for Music
The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science
The Lord Frederic Hamilton Remove Prize for Spanish
The Oxenham Shell Prize for Latin Reading
Luke Shailer, Sch.
The Farr Prize for Design Technology
The Shell Prize for Chemistry
William Wallace
The Remove Art Prize
Angus Labrum
The Botfield Shell Prize for German
George Webster
The Remove Prize for Science
James Yuen
The Hamilton Mathematics Prize
Daniel Zhang, Sch.
The Parsonson Remove Prize for Mathematics
Kevin Zhang
The Remove Prize for Astronomy
Henry Oelhafen
The Colomb Prize for Naval History
Arthur Pilkington, Sch.
The Morwood Shell Prize for Greek
Archie Powell
The Clementi Collard Prize for Imperial History
Ilyas Qureshi, Exh.(Mus.)
The Tower Prize for History
Matthew Rates
The Shell Prize for Physics
FIFTH FORM PRIZES
George Sage
The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band
Abdulla Abdulla-Zada
The Fifth Form Prize for Ancient History
Nathan Shepard
The Shell Family Prize for Treble Voice
The Vaux Huggett Fifth Form Prize for German
Jun Wha Shin, Sch.(Mus.)
The Coward Shell Prize for History
The Verney Fifth Form Prize for French
The Raymond Warren Prize for Organ
Kit Akinluyi
The Fifth Form Religious Studies Prize
Daniel Sidhom, Sch.(Mus.)
The Lawrence Junior Singing Prize
Francis Bamford, Sch.(Mus), Sch.(Art) The Briscoe Eyre Fifth Form Prize for Music
George Townshend
The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band
The Fifth Form Art Prize
The Winkley Shell Second Prize for English
The James Poke Junior Prize for Music Composition
Alexander Von Kumberg
The Clementi Collard Prize for Imperial History
The James Poke Prize for Woodwind
William Wauchope, Sch.
The Bourchier Shell Prize for History
Brian Chiang, Sch.(Mus.)
The Campbell Prize for Junior Strings
The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science
Harry Cleeve
The Augustus Fleet Fifth Form Prize for Poetry
The Morwood Shell Prize for Latin
Myles Dismont Robinson, Sch.(OT)
The Yates Thompson Prize for Art
The Oxenham Junior Prize for Greek Reading
Michael Fitzgibbon, Sch.(Mus)
The Intermediate Singing Prize
Dylan Winward, Sch.
The Shell Geography Prize
The Mortimer Singer Prize for Solo Singing
Joseph Wragg, Sch.(Mus.)
The Tower Prize for History
Leopold Florescu
The Head Master’s Lower School Prize for Learnt Poetry
The Lady Bourchier Junior Reading Prize
Robin Guthe
The Bourchier Fifth Form Prize for History
Joshua Harris, Sch.(Mus.)
The Lockett Junior Prize for Pianoforte
Charles Harrison
The Angus Thompson Second Prize for History
Otto Heffer
The Fifth Form Art Prize
The Whitworth Conservation Prize
George Herron, Sch.
The Coward Fifth Form Prize for History
The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Greek
George Ho
The Angus Thompson Prize for History
Andrew Holmes, Sch.
The Lord Frederic Hamilton Fifth Form Prize for Spanish
The R.A. Fisher Prize for Statistics
REMOVE PRIZES Iggy Abaroa Puig De La Bellacasa
The Remove Prize for Ancient History
Adam Ait El Caid, Sch.
The Head Master’s Remove Prize for Learnt Poetry
The Oxenham Remove Prize for Latin Reading
The Remove Geography Prize
The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Remove Prize Adam Auret, Sch.(OT)
The Sir Percival Marling Prize for Design Technology
Paddy Breeze, Sch.
The Balme Remove Prize for Greek
The Bourchier Remove Prize for History
The Harry Watts General Knowledge Remove Prize
Andrew Hong, Sch., Sch.(OT) The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Upper School
The Viscountess Strangford Junior Prize for Geography
Eugene Kim
The E.D. Laborde Fifth Form Geography Prize
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The Winkley Remove Prize for English
The Leaf Fifth Form Prize for Physics
Yannis Chatzigiannis
The Leonard Walton Remove French Prize
Kingston Lee, Sch.(Mus)
The Worshipful Company of Musicians Junior Brass Prize
Ryan Cullen, Sch.
The Remove Religious Studies Prize
Lawrence Leekie
The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English
The Vaux Huggett Remove Prize for German
Alex Leung
The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize
The Winkley Remove Prize for English
Robert Litton
The Fifth Form Art Prize
Tom Foster
The Head Master’s Send Up Prize
Louis Malhamé, Exh.(Mus), Sch.(OT)
The Fifth Form Art Prize
The Richard Fuchs Prize
Columbus Mason, Sch.(OT)
The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise
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Ben Harrison, Sch., Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) The Jeremy Lemmon Prize (Junior)
The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English
Matthew Harrison, Sch., Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) The Adam Prize for History
Freddie Murley, Sch.
The Fifth Form Biology Prize
The Harry Watts General Knowledge Fifth Form Prize
The Remove Prize for Chemistry
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Nic Neal
The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize
Tom Santini
The Fortescue Lower Sixth Form Prize for Italian
Ryan Ng
The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting
Charles Sherlock
The Lower Sixth Prize for Russian
Gerry O’Brien
The Fifth Form Prize for Astronomy
The Maharaj Singh Prize for Indian History
Sam O’Dell
The Ottley Prize for Shakespeare
Panav Patel, Sch.(OT)
The Coward Fifth Form Prize for History
Aria Shirazi, Sch. The Harry Watts General Knowledge Lower Sixth Form Prize
Mass Praditbatuga
The Bourchier Fifth Form Prize for History
Ostap Stefak, Sch.
The Christopher Cooke Prize for English Literature
The Fifth Form Prize for Russian
The Geoffrey Simmonds Prize for Economics
Humza Qureshi
The Geoffrey Simmonds Fifth Form Prize for Computing
The Harvard Book Prize
The Jonathan Head Barrow Fifth Form Prize for Short Story
The Warwick-Smith Prize for Classical Guitar
The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Lower Sixth Form Prize
Julien Robson The Mark Maples Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Lower School
The St. Helier Prize for English Literature
The Warwick-Smith Prize for Classical Guitar
Alex Saunders, Sch., Sch.(OT)
The Oxenham Fifth Form Prize for Greek Reading
Corran Stewart, Sch.(Mus.)
The Oliver Sichel Prize for Singing
The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Latin
Pasa Suksmith, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry
Theodore Seely
The Fifth Form Prize for Italian
The Upper Crawford Prize for Mathematics
The Head Master’s Fifth Form Prize for Learnt Poetry
Adil Shaydullin
The Alexander Smith Virgil Essay Prize
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition
Sam Shi
The Dudley Gordon Prize for Design Technology
William Tallentire, Exh.(Mus.)
The Habsburg Prize for History and Politics
The Fifth Form Prize for Chemistry
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Ancient History
The Leaf Fifth Form Prize for Physics
Spencer Taylor
The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics
The Lower Crawford Prize for Mathematics
George Wauchope, Sch.
The Evans Prize for Greek Literature
The Maclaurin Mathematics Olympiad Prize
The Oxenham Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Reading
Nick Shishkarev, Sch.
The Oxenham Fifth Form Prize for Latin Reading
Isaac Wong, Sch.
The Hyde Thomson Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics
British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award
LOWER SIXTH FORM PRIZES Musa Ali, Sch.
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Language
The Prior Prize for French
Daniel Baker, Sch.(Mus.)
The Briscoe Eyre Lower Sixth Form Prize for Music
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Andrew Zhou, Sch.
The Beddington Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry
The Upper Crawford Prize for Mathematics
The Verney Prize for Pianoforte
The Walmisley Senior Prize for Organ
British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad Gold Award
Oliver Bater, Sch.
The Jeremy Lemmon Prize (Senior)
British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Politics
The National Westminster Bank Prize for Economics
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition
The Verney Prize for Argument
Victor Chan, Sch.
The Thanawalla Prize for Economics
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Anthony Cho, Sch., Sch.(Art)
The Japanese Prize
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art
The Walter Frith Prize for English
William Cleeve Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Ben Cooper, Sch., Sch.(OT) Rohan Doshi, Sch. Matthys Du Toit, Sch., Sch.(Art)
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Photography The Lower Sixth Form Religious Studies Research Prize The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art
Maximilian Evans-Tovey, Sch., Sch.(Drama) The Lady Bourchier Senior Reading Prize
UPPER SIXTH FORM PRIZES Sam Ackroyd, Sch.
The Pigou Prize for Economics
Moyo Adebayo
The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture
Alizhan Aldiyar, Sch., Sch.(Art)
The Calcutt Prize for Art History
The Head Master’s Upper Sixth Form Prize for Learnt Poetry
The Burston Prize for Art
The Yates Thompson Prize for Art
James Bailey, Sch.
The Chinese Prize
Rafe Baker Wilbraham, Sch.(OT)
The Alastair McLean Prize for Drama
Jack Bell
The Charles Laborde Prize for Geography The Bourchier Upper Sixth Form Prize for History
Joshua Gibbs
The Vaux Huggett Lower Sixth Form Prize for German
Otis Brankin-Frisby
Michael Gill
The Business Prize
James Burgess-Adams
The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics
Cosmo Hamwee
The Parsonson Prize for Mathematics
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Frederick Heffer, Sch.(Art), Sch.(Drama) The Jonathan Head Barrow Sixth Form Prize for Short Story
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art
Edward Cartwright
The Harry Shapland Prize for Drama
Zeddie Johnson-Watts, Sch.(OT)
The Taylor Higginson Prize for Spanish
Marco Chau, Sch.(Mus.)
The Wallace and Walton Prize for Strings
Yuhki Koshiba
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art
Leslie Cheng, Sch.
The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics
James Larard, Sch.(OT)
The Viscountess Strangford Senior Prize for Geography
Ed Chia-Croft, Sch.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Tom Latham
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art
Jatin Chunilal, Sch.
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Simeon Lee
The Eustace Prize for Biology
Max Clark, Sch.
The Dr. R.A. Robinson Prize for Practical Science
Yixuan Li, Sch.
The Rupert Shaw Prize for Chemistry
The Japanese Prize
Sam Macer
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art
British Physics Olympiad Gold Award
George McGovern
The Lower Sixth Form History of Art Prize
Ollie Connell
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Ibrahim Norat, Sch.
The Charles Lillingston Prize for History
Angus Denison-Smith, Sch., Sch.(OT) Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Ludo Palazzo, Exh.(Mus.)
The James Poke Prize for Music Composition
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Nick Peel
The Prior Prize for Religious Studies
William Downes
The Kingsley Prize for Design Technology
Montgomery Powell, Sch.
The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Language
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Oxenham Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Reading
Aleks Predolac Miller
The Head Master’s Lower Sixth Form Prize for Learnt Poetry
Saif-Ali Durrani The Hirdaramani Prize for Exemplary Commitment to Service in the Local Community
Nat Rogers
The Vaux Huggett Lower Sixth Form Prize for German
William Falcon
The Macnamara Prize for Geography
LISTINGS
Marcos Fernández Barreiros, Exh.(Mus.) Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Rory Miller, Sch.
The Coward Upper Sixth Form Prize for History
Harvey Fry, Sch., Sch.(Art)
The Ralph Moore Senior Prize for Handwriting
The Mavrogordato Prize for Ancient History
The Yates Thompson Prize for Art
Damir Mynbayev
The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Sasha Nakhmanovich
The Baron Boulos Prize for Economics
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Ade Okuwoga, Sch.
The Beddington Prize for Chemistry
Qassi Gaba, Sch.
The Exeter Prize for Biology
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science
Adeoluwa Pearse, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)
The Briscoe Eyre Upper Sixth Form Prize for Music
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Javier Perez Pera, Sch.
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
The Harry Watts General Knowledge Upper Sixth Form Prize
Luca Pittalis, Sch.
The A.W. Hill Prize for Biology
The Paul Lewis Senior Science Lecture Prize
The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Nicolas Gardner
The Chinese Prize
Edward Revill
The Ralton Prize for Business Studies
The O’Donoghue Prize for Geopolitics
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
The Spicer Prize for Religious Studies
Malcolm Robinson, Sch.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Nicholas Glaze
The Anghad Paul Prize for Economics
Alex Rutherford, Sch.
The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize
The McIntosh Prize for History
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Marcus Goodman, Sch.
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Keisuke Sano, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Felix Seymour
The Yates Thompson Prize for Art
Dan Shailer, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)
The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry
The Briscoe Eyre Upper Sixth Form Prize for Music
Philip Gallagher, Sch. The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian
George Grassly, Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) The David McLean Prize for Engineering
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Ivan Hanbury, Sch.
The Upper Sixth Prize for Russian
Scipio Herwegh Vonk, Sch.
The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
George Hill
The Gaskell Prize for Photography
Valentine Hutley
The Alastair McLean Prize for Drama
Georgiy Ivanian
The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize
Anton Jurgens, Sch.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Pawit Kochakarn, Sch.
The David McLean Prize for Engineering
The Dr. R.A. Robinson Prize for Practical Science
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Ravi Kohli, Sch.
The Neeld Prize for Mathematics
The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize
The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian
The Head Master’s Sixth Form Prize for Learnt Poetry
The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature
The Sebastian Graham-Jones Prize for Drama
The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Upper Sixth Form Prize Johnny Shanahan
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Max Sodi
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Gordon Thompson, Sch.
The David McLean Prize for Engineering
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Harry Toller, Sch.(Art)
The Yates Thompson Prize for Art
Cody Kwok, Sch.
The Salters’ Company Prize for Chemistry
Albie Tremlett, Sch., Sch.(OT)
The Ernest Cater Prize for Natural History
The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Vladimir Vasile
The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition
Charles Vivian, Sch.(OT)
The Russell Prize for Shakespeare
The Terence Rattigan Prize
Jonathan Kyd, Sch.
The Beddington Prize for Chemistry
David Wang, Sch.
British Physics Olympiad Gold Award
The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
George Watson
The Angus Sixsmith Prize for Piping
Louis Wilson, Sch.(OT)
The Oxenham Upper Sixth Form Prize for Latin Reading
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
Daniel Larbi
The Leonard Walton Upper Sixth Form French Prize
The St. Helier Prize for English Literature
Will Latham
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
James Leof
The Aberdeen Prize for Design Technology
The Christie-Murray Prize for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts
Ricky Li, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)
The A.W. Hill Prize for Chemistry
The A.W. Hill Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics
HARROW RECORD
The Baker Prize for Mathematics
The Dalton Prize for Mathematics
The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics
British Physics Olympiad Gold Award
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition
The Warwick-Smith Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Rattigan Society Jobie Wong, Sch.(Mus.) The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir
The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture
Firry Yang, Sch.
The Baker Prize for Mathematics
The Fry Prize for Mathematics
The Hyde Thomson Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics
British Physics Olympiad Gold Award
Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Dita Jaja, Sch., Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(OT) The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir
The Head Master’s Prize The Oxenham Upper Sixth Form Prize for Greek Reading
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Chatto Marks, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
Harry Maxwell
The Guy Butlin Prize for Spanish
Alessio Kenda, Sch.
The Botfield Upper Sixth Form Prize for German
Edward Mayall
The Technical Theatre Prize
The Head Master’s Prize
William Miles, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)
The David McLean Prize for Engineering
The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Medicine
Crest Gold Award for Engineering
The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
FOUNDATION FAMILY
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Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017
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HARROW ASSOCIATION
Supporting Old Harrovians across the globe
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he Harrow Association (HA) is the association of former Harrow boys known as Old Harrovians (OHs), a thriving old boys’ society with close to 9,000 members worldwide. Our aim is to enhance the lives of Harrovians of all generations wherever they are in the world, to support their success whatever their endeavour, and to help them maintain lifelong connections with the School and with each other. We achieve this aim through a focus on three core areas: Community, Careers and Employability, and Heritage.
COMMUNITY 2017/2018 was a special year for the HA for many reasons. Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall in November, the sixth to take place in this spectacular venue, was a wonderful experience. The sight of more than 3,000 OHs standing and singing Forty Years On in unison was a great demonstration of the Harrovian fellowship
and tradition that the HA seeks to preserve. John Batting (The Park 1972²), Chairman of Governors, addressed the audience with a warm and welcoming speech, reminiscing on his time at Harrow. HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (The Park 1960³), President of the HA, gave an inspirational and insightful speech about his unique role on the world stage, and Nick Luck (Rendalls 1991³) the evening’s Master of Ceremonies, delivered amusing introductions to each Song.
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
The global HA community continues to meet at gatherings in the UK as well as in Europe, Hong Kong, New York, Melbourne, Johannesburg and Cape Town, to name but a few. House dinners, OH club and society gatherings and Songs here on the Hill continue to attract wide participation, to say nothing of Founder’s Day in February, when many OHs return to the Hill for a game of Harrow football against the boys.
“These Songs play a wonderful part. They shine through the memories of men, and far and wide throughout the world in which we live. They cheer and enlighten us. They breed a bond of unity between those who have lived here and I think that they are, on the whole, the most precious inheritance of all Harrovians.” Sir Winston Churchill (The Head Master’s 1888²), Harrow School, 1941
FOUNDATION FAMILY
CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY CAREER SUPPORT FOR CURRENT HARROVIANS AND OHS The 2017 Autumn term brought the arrival of Harrow’s first Careers Advisor, Michael Wright. Working with the School and the HA, Michael offers a regular programme of GCSE, A level, university and careers advice and support to the boys, as well as to OHs at various stages of their careers. In January 2018, the School and the HA jointly hosted the annual Careers Convention for boys in the Fifth and Sixth forms. This evening saw many OHs returning to share their experiences and answer the boys’ questions. Running in parallel, the School also welcomed back to the Hill a number of OHs working in various fields to talk to the boys in a series of OH Careers Talks. During the summer, 47 boys visited ICE Futures Europe for a day of work experience and training focused on learning how the exchange and the futures for markets for oil, gas and cocoa are set up. This was made possible by Nabs Suma
The Careers Convention
(The Park 1985³) and is just one example of OH generosity of spirit and willingness to give back to their alma mater. In 2017, we launched an OH online networking platform, enabling OHs to
connect globally with each other. Numerous OHs have signed up and are posting jobs, offering to mentor younger OHs or seeking advice.
HERITAGE HARROW RECORD
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2017/2018 was a poignant year of reflection for the HA as we turned our thoughts to the memory of the 642 OHs and two Masters who died during the First World War.
Founder’s Day
KEEP IN TOUCH Telephone us on +44 (0)20 8872 8200 Email us on ha@harrowschool.org.uk Visit us at the Harrow Association, 5A High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP Like our Facebook page: harrowassociation Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @oldharrovians Join other OHs on our LinkedIn group: Harrow Association Connect with the global OH community on ohconnect.org.uk (for OHs only) View The Harrovian archive at harrovian.daisy.websds.net and the Harrow Record archive at harrowrecord.daisy.websds.net Learn about multi-generational Harrow families at harrowfamilies.org Read digital editions of the Contio dating back to 1770 at harrowcontio.sds.websds.net Access digital material relating to Harrow and WW1 at harrowschool-ww1.org.uk
THE EXECUTIVE President HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (The Park 19603) Chairman Adam Hart (West Acre 19771) Executive Board Heyrick Bond-Gunning (West Acre 19851) James Darley (The Park 19843) The Hon Andrew Butler (The Knoll 19813) James de Broë-Ferguson (The Grove 19813) Colin Mackenzie-Blackman (Bradbys 19943) Will Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 19983) Director Perena Shryane ha@harrowschool.org.uk Digital Information Manager Luke Meadows meadowsl@harrowschool.org.uk Alumni Officer Arusha Pillay pillaya@harrowschool.org.uk Financial Secretary Cece Walker hadtaccountant@harrowschool.org.uk
SUPPORTING SUCCESS, WHATEVER THEIR ENDEAVOUR OHs have been winning Oscars, founding companies, raising money for charities, receiving Queen’s New Year and Birthday Honours, playing sport for their country, writing books, producing plays and much more. One of the most important remits
of the HA is to research, record and support OH endeavours, whatever they may be, and this year has been no exception in the variety and breadth of their achievements.
Communications Officer Jessica Bellringer bellringerjr@harrowschool.org.uk Information and Research Officer Dominic Parisutham parisuthamd@harrowschool.org.uk Careers Advisor Michael Wright wrightmd@harrowschool.org.uk
FOUNDATION FAMILY
HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST Looking back at my 20 years at the helm of Harrow’s fundraising efforts, I regard this year as one of the most memorable.
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here was a tumultuous performance of Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall (the sixth since 1974). All those present will retain special memories. I know that the team in the Harrow Association and the Harrow Development Trust, who worked hard with many people in the School to make the evening a success, were elated by the glowing letters and emails that followed. We look forward to the next reunion at the Royal Albert Hall in four years’ time in 2022, happily coinciding with the 450th anniversary of the founding of the School. Over the year, we in the HDT have met generous Harrow supporters at many events and locations in the UK and around the world. A highlight was the Summer Party in July, where Head of Painting Simon Page displayed a special exhibition of his work, It’s All About the Boys. Fundraising results are our end goal and, once again, the response from contributors has been magnificent. More of the School’s priorities can be implemented as a result of our donors’ generosity. We have broken ground on some of these already, and more projects and activities will follow. Finally, I pay tribute to the encouragement and energy that Jim Hawkins showed in supporting the activities of the HDT and our fundraising objectives. A great sum was raised in the seven years of his headship. On behalf of everyone at Harrow, we thank all our donors again for their spirited support last year. – Douglas Collins, Chief Executive
Beckwith Scholars Anniversary Lunch
THE PETER BECKWITH SCHOLARSHIPS 25TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN
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Simon Page, Jim Hawkins, Harriet Crawley and Douglas Collins at the HDT Summer Party
017 marked the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Peter Beckwith Scholarship Scheme, Harrow’s flagship bursary programme. A campaign to raise £4 million for the scheme over the next four years is underway; this will ensure Beckwith Scholars at Harrow in perpetuity. We have so far raised approximately £1 million in gifts and
pledges, including a significant contribution from current and former scholars, supported by their families, which Peter Beckwith OBE (Elmfield 1958³) has generously agreed to match. In October 2017, we were delighted to welcome all scholars and their families back to the Hill for a celebratory lunch with Peter Beckwith.
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Work starting on The Grove extension
The refurbished Reader in Rendalls
A BUSY DEVELOPMENT YEAR
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unds raised by the HDT enabled a great many improvement projects to take place throughout the School last year. Spring 2018 saw the renovation and extension of The Grove get underway following the previous year’s campaign to raise £2.75 million for the project. In the sporting arena, the Bessborough cricket fields were levelled, a new cricket
scoreboard was installed and new astroturf laid on the all-weather pitches near the tennis courts. For the arts, the seating and carpets in the Ryan theatre were renewed and a Drama studio created in the Old Sculpture building. In the Houses, thanks to The Three Yards Annual Fund and to some significant individual gifts, toshes and
changers were renovated (in Bradbys, Elmfield and The Park), Readers and common rooms refurbished (in Bradbys and Rendalls), multi-use-games-areas renewed and moved (in Newlands and Moretons), and many smaller, but no less important initiatives, undertaken.
INCOME RECEIVED IN 2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR
HOW TO SUPPORT HARROW
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he HDT is the fundraising arm of Harrow School and its work is critical to the School’s financial wellbeing and foundation. In giving through the HDT, members of our Harrow family – Old Harrovians and the parent community – provide vital support for exceptional projects that create the margin of excellence that distinguishes Harrow globally as a leading boys’ boarding school. Income from donations exceeded the previous year and continuing the upward trend of giving to the School. The School and the Trustees extend grateful thanks to the many donors who choose to support the charitable objectives of Harrow School.
here are many ways in which you can make tax-efficient donations via the Harrow Development Trust to any of the School development campaigns. Visit the Support Harrow pages on the School website harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow to find out more or speak the HDT team on +44 (0)20 8872 8500.
WHO’S WHO IN THE HDT Harrow Development Trust Douglas Collins Chief Executive William Landale (The Grove 1978³) Operations Director
PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL INCOME
William Young Associate Director Felicity Benjamin PA to the Chief Executive
UNRESTRICTED AND OTHER PURPOSES THREE YARDS FUND AND ANNUAL HOUSE PROJECTS
Dominic Parisutham Information and Research Officer ESTATES MASTER PLAN
9%
68%
BURSARIES
16%
Luke Meadows Digital Information Manager
7%
Cece Walker Financial Secretary Jessica Bellringer Communications Officer
Trustees
TOTAL INCOME £9,100,000
Matthew Fosh (The Head Master’s 1971²) John Batting (The Park 1972²) Kevin Gilbert (Retired Summer 2018) Nikhil Hirdaramani (The Park 1988³) Patrick Wong (West Acre 1986³) Mrs Harriet Crawley (Retired Summer 2018) Jim Glover (Rendalls 19783) The Harrow Development Trust is a registered charity, no 296097
Autumn 2018
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ORDER OF BENEFACTORS 2013–2018 WE CELEBRATE OUR BENEFACTORS
Benefactors who have given or pledged sums to the Harrow Development Trust for the continuing advancement of Harrow in the past five years are listed in the following pages; those who have made donations in the past year for the first time are designated *. We express deep gratitude to all of them, including those who have asked for their names to remain anonymous or whom we may have omitted inadvertently, for which we apologise.
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Harrild D 19492 3 2 C I de Rougemont P 1959 A P S Brewer M 19691 P J Mercer* G 1949 C H B Dorin R 19593 J A J Berry B 19692 I L White-Thompson G 19492 3 R M Thornely-Taylor R 1959 A L T Cragg K 19692 J A Streeter H 19492 S C J Foord W 19593 J K S Morgan H 19692 M M Lipman W 19492 J F Stafford G 19693 W M Wasbrough W 19492 C J L Newton K 19693 1960s C D Massiah B 19493 G L T D Kronsten M 19693 R G Seymour D 19493 Dr R I Evans B 19602 2 3 J G Tregoning G 1960 T J E Lardner R 1949 I H Willis G 19602 1970s R O S Miller W 19493 J F Royle* G 19602 K V B Day N 19701 J A Cecil-Williams W 19493 P T Streeter H 19602 W J Massey W 19701 3 A P K Royle D 1960 W R Worsley G 19702 1950s 3 2 2 W A L Heaton G 1960 C R Boyle K 1970 C A H Kemp E 1950 E A C Crump H 19603 J P M Baron N 19702 J W Whitworth D 19502 3 M J Heaton-Watson K 1960 F P M P de Lisle P 19702 M B J Kimmins CVO DL R 19502 E C D Sixsmith K 19603 G G D Simpson P 19702 C Byford D 19503 C H Gregson M 19603 J F Davis D 19703 R C Lanphier III E 19503 3 J S T Morris M 1960 M C G Peel D 19703 L G Tenison Mosse K 19503 N Forrest N 19603 S E H Lamb* G 19703 D G Fowler-Watt JP P 19512 W E Whitehouse-Vaux N 19603 J E G Hankinson H 19703 A E Oppenheimer R 19512 C S P Douglas Lane P 19603 D O Phillips H 19703 Lord Butler of Brockwell D 19513 1 Colonel S A S J Miller RAMC B 1961 P W S Killick M 19703 C N McCorquodale E 19513 1 3 Sir John Beckwith CBE D 1961 R R Thayer R 19703 The Marquess of Zetland E 1951 T G Proger D 19612 R C Compton W 19703 J H Jones G 19513 2 M K Whitelock E 1961 W P E Bennett B 19712 J H Proctor OBE G 19513 2 L M Borwick G 1961 M K Fosh H 19712 G R P Walker Jr H 19513 R G Russell P 19612 C G T Stonehill N 19712 H J Sims-Hilditch H 19513 S H Walduck W 19612 A I R Stuttaford P 19712 J G Brown R 19513 3 J W Servaes D 1961 Dr H J W Thomas W 19712 M G C O’Connor D 19522 3 2 J A V Townsend P 1961 C R Whiddington W 19712 H M R Mitchell H 1952 R A Nelson P 19613 J A Findlay E 19713 J C J Orchard W 19522 2 G St G Hargreave D 1962 A M Sinclair N 19713 J D C Vargas D 19523 N J Forman Hardy DL D 19622 D C Edward W 19713 J F C Sergeant K 19523 S J Richards G 19622 J D Findlay E 19721 B C R Tate H 19523 C A St C Chute K 19622 T D C Woolland M 19721 F C Minoprio M 19523 J F R Hayes M 19622 B H Simpson R 19721 R I Dick P 19523 2 2 1 P R W Hensman W 1962 J P Batting P 1972 C R Lambourne H 1953 M C B Ward G 19623 B I Donald W 19722 N T Casdagli G 19533 3 3 C Russell P 1962 R M Tindall D 1972 M L Maydon G 19533 J E Lesser R 19623 J D S Fricker E 19723 N M Bolingbroke-Kent M 19533 3 3 M J Keenan W 1962 C W A Bott G 19723 G C Somerville R 1953 N D Broadhead W 19631 S M Bennet G 19723 R J Grindell D 19542 2 D V G de Pass B 1963 C H Gallagher H 19723 A P Leventis D 19543 2 3 R C Ritchie N 1963 S M Watson H 19723 P D F Hicks Jr D 1954 D C M Blackburn P 19632 J D Campbell OBE K 19723 R J Hermon-Taylor D 19543 3 E N S Allen H 1963 M P N Bardsley K 19723 H J Barclay E 19543 3 Colonel H P D Massey K 1963 R M Tindall M 19723 Lt Cdr C W Hunter RN* G 19543 M S Hunter M 19633 J C Townsend-Rose M 19723 S M Boushehri N 19543 L D M Seligman R 19633 C A M Florman N 19723 V R Hedley Lewis N 19543 1 P J R Snowball E 1964 T C Marsden-Smedley P 19723 A A Speelman P 19543 1 1 M E Harrison W 1964 R J Ingham Clark B 19731 A G Trypanis K 1955 R M Davies M 19642 P D C Wigan D 19731 N W Portway D 19552 2 C M Q Rampton D 1964 M D Astaire H 19731 S M B Davison* G 19552 2 Sir Alex Allan KCB W 1964 E A C Cottrell K 19731 H R Walduck W 19552 Dr N A Field-Johnson D 19643 D H Moss B 19732 J C R Dennis B 19553 E J W Houghton D 19643 O C Blount E 19732 H K Leventis D 19553 Lt Col C H Braithwaite* D 19643 H Stirrat W 19732 R J D Blois H 19553 3 3 N E McCorquodale E 1964 D G Howes W 19732 M de la P Beresford P 1955 A J F Stebbings R 19643 J E Metcalfe OBE* E 19733 P R C Knight P 19553 3 R A D Broadhead W 1964 E H Bonham Carter G 19733 P H Seed D 19553 G R J McDonald* H 19651 M Z Lewczynski G 19733 G St E C Lofts H 19561 Dr P R G Anderson R 19651 P C Morgan-Witts K 19733 A V R Morgan N 19562
B – Bradbys
D – Druries
E – Elmfield
G – The Grove
H – The Head Master’s
K – The Knoll
L – Lyon’s
M – Moretons
N – Newlands
R J Dent C W N Bankes J H S Akerman W A H Crewdson Lt Col J D Gibbons D P Wiggin W N G Taylor C G Hamilton-Stubber J F P Lloyd-Jones M C J Baddeley D A Gallagher D E C Lewis-Barclay J R Owen D M C Fisher J E Balcombe P A Ferrari D S Levy E C Gordon Lennox The Hon Anthony Monckton H Watson-Brown G W J Goodfellow J C R Pitcairn T J M Weldon J Dearman J J S Payne A A C Bayne P D H Kininmonth T M R Jeffares The Hon Samuel Adams J C S Marler S O A Phillips J Wyn-Evans A I R Newton A R E Ash C S Farr W J L Carver M L Sealy N P Mehta A D S Prenn* E A Farquharson H J Hastings T W Riddell-Webster S P R Vivian J A G H Stewart S A Taylor M H Thompson J I R Charatan J Miller J B Sunley N H Moss A G Wauchope E D Wauchope M J Menaged R H M Horner D K Chambers J L Farr T S Ashley-Smith M B P Boulos-Hanna E J Thornton G T Butler I W de V Gibson J E Gore C N Gooch G A F Hill A M S Griffin A Varley Dr C R Warren A D Hart A W D McLean D R N Scaife J B Neame T R Ward P-C Lehrell T W Waterfield J G Emus M S Landon J M Warren A Afshar S E Munir F A S Hassan A P Potamianos-Homen J P J Glover G J D Hurley A J Cowan R A Raban-Williams S A Maurin R L S Churchill A H Kent* W J F Landale M F Morley-Fletcher D A Stevenson S J Sebag-Montefiore* The Hon Andrew Millett C M Stebbings S A B Greig M A Sharron S R Galway J H A Coventry O H Nieboer I J F Royle O A A Dajani R J M Keatley S M Levy T P Barrow H J Wickham A E J Bagnall A J B Smith C H Wells MBE
P – The Park
R – Rendalls
M N P P P W B D D E H H K W B D D G G H M R H D D B E N P R H H B K P R R D H K K K K N N P R W E K K K D M W W B D G K K N N N R R G W D K M N N N N R P B B G K R K D D E G G G H K K N R P B D K K G M W D E H K K N
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S – Small Houses
1980s Q M J Ings-Chambers H 19873 G N A Heilpern K 19873 M D Hamwee D 19801 1 G G Winn-Darley* G 1980 M R Smith K 19873 1 C Bonomi H 1980 A C C Wong P 19873 H J P Farr P 19801 A J R Ruddy R 19873 R J MacKechnie D 19803 P A Mosimann B 19883 3 J G Macpherson G 1980 M C P Hammond B 19883 G R Hulse* G 19803 S N K Hirdaramani P 19883 R T Marks MBA D 19803 R P R Hoffen R 19883 3 R A J Hills H 1980 A G Haldane B 19893 3 N R B Bullock R 1980 D R Martin B 19893 A J Willis E 19811 A R Rowbotham D 19893 1 J Kennedy* H 1981 N A J Eady H 19893 1 Lord James Bethell W 1981 G H R Munton H 19893 S D Reid M 19812 S A Stock K 19893 R T Brankin-Frisby D 19813 Q J S G Baker M 19893 3 J A C Campbell-Johnston D 1981 G H Benn P 19893 3 J L J Gurney D 1981 T S Montgomery P 19893 T W H Lloyd-Jones D 19813 D’V C Jacobs P 19893 3 T J Gibbons E 1981 T M J Leveritt R 19893 3 J E de B de B de Broë-Ferguson G 1981 L M W P Ruddy R 19893 S J A Proctor G 19813 M G Gallagher H 19813 1990s The Hon Andrew Butler K 19813 J P O Lindemann W 19901 S D C Harman M 19813 A Y Fang B 19903 A W Sexton M 19813 J J Beer D 19903 A Bance P 19813 A T Nehorai D 19903 1 B J Kirkland B 1982 C C S Ingram K 19903 A C Malcolmson D 19821 G T Revedin di San Martino K 19903 A Y Fallon-Khan P 19821 E J R Cable B 19913 2 J F Mitchell R 1982 S D G Engelen D 19913 C P Theobald P 19822 M Mantis* D 19913 R B Piepenstock B 19823 J C L Prior D 19913 3 T M T O’Connor D 1982 W A T Gillions E 19913 3 E C Forrester E 1982 C W V Tweddle E 19913 A Woodhull E 19822 J J A Ingram K 19913 B E Kryca M 19823 R L W Griffith R 19913 D C Manasseh M 19823 A D F Campbell W 19913 T R D Parsons M 19823 G L Duder B 19923 The Hon William Bethell W 19823 A J Hirdaramani H 19923 G B Hughes W 19823 M C W Lamb H 19923 1 A S G de E Skipwith G 1983 R J H Mitchell H 19923 J M P D Stroyan G 19831 M J B Short H 19923 G C A Minoprio M 19831 C A M Watenphul K 19923 1 J Regnier-Wilson N 1983 J E Prentice M 19923 C R O’Connor-Fenton P 19831 T R M Stoddart-Scott P 19923 M J Morgan R 19831 A C Alban-Moore R 19923 2 A D Middleton M 1983 C A M Boileau R 19923 3 R D Nelson B 1983 E G Smallwood W 19923 L A Kunzig D 19833 H B I I Cheape B 19933 C O Bridgeman E 19833 T A T Davies B 19933 G R Denison Smith E 19833 G E Donald B 19933 J W Mackenzie G 19833 A W Vaughan B 19933 M B de Souza-Girao H 19833 C J R Wilson D 19933 3 R P Trotter H 1983 J G B Taylor E 19933 3 G R C Bucknall K 1983 B C Amos G 19933 A Kumar M 19863 F N G Jones H 19933 M M Murjani M 19833 W J L Matthews H 19933 3 N J B Smith K 1983 N W S Munton H 19933 G Sood W 19833 L C L Fitzwilliams N 19933 H T Wong W 19833 J A Freeman N 19933 1 E R L Slade E 1984 C D M Thorburn N 19933 1 E Stirling G 1984 O G J M Scutt N 19933 A J Hudson P 19841 S M Connell R 19933 1 J R Barkes R 1984 H R Chichester E 19933 1 J A T Hulbert R 1984 A J L Prior D 19943 A H E P Walduck W 19842 E A D Santa Barbara D 19943 J D Orme-Smith D 19843 J D A Baldwin G 19943 3 R J Newall E 1984 R M Hoare G 19943 3 C J A Virgin E 1984 A P J Priestley G 19943 F J Blake G 19843 T L Richards G 19943 3 M C Wallace H 1984 A M A Andjel H 19943 3 S J Hunt K 1984 W H Ellis H 19943 K M Wilkins K 19843 A E C Gray H 19943 Q A Hinxman K 19843 A J B Warman M 19943 3 M B B Sheppard M 1984 J W B Neame M 19943 3 S B Schmidt N 1984 B I A Maclean R 19943 S R Daniel P 19843 C R D Arthy W 19943 3 B H Johnson P 1984 J D Rosemont W 19943 3 C J J Bonas R 1984 H J B Gates D 19953 B F R Bradkin R 19843 T B Dickinson E 19953 W J Mitchell R 19843 T J Simpson E 19953 3 T I O Umenyilora R 1984 T A van Straubenzee E 19953 3 K S B Duffy W 1984 F J Goedhuis G 19953 R L J Arnott E 19851 M J L Macaulay G 19953 S G Pampanini N 19851 N C R Andjel H 19953 1 H J R Bond Gunning W 1985 J L W Gregson M 19953 P C G Witheridge* G 19853 W P R Petty M 19953 J L Pool H 19853 E N Poulter N 19953 3 J T Blake H 1985 C J D Hall* W 19953 N Khan N 19853 M H Leggett W 19953 C R Bain P 19853 T W B Forman Hardy D 19963 3 S N Ajmeri R 1985 W P Buxton E 19963 T Sood W 19853 C T Stephenson E 19963 R E C Power H 19861 N J Strachan E 19963 M M Hussain R 19861 J L Watts H 19963 2 G E Simmons B 1986 The Earl of Haddo M 19963 T J Hughes K 19862 B J Hypolite* N 19963 D Tait D 19863 E S Seligman N 19963 3 J A E Rous E 1986 D A K Stoddart-Scott P 19963 3 J H P Barabas H 1986 A M Lea-Cox D 19973 R J J Hopley H 19863 E D Stileman D 19973 D L Brace K 19863 W H R E Davies G 19973 3 S J L J C Rothwell K 1986 J S Wellwood G 19973 T B Wilson W 19863 C R Reid H 19973 P T-A Wong W 19863 J E Olympitis H 19973 3 J R Gillions E 1987 M W Scicluna H 19973 3 N A Henley-Welch G 1987
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J D O R Schneider E D Lampitt P S Cartwright T B Rogers* T W V French J A Barrington Wells S J Barrington Wells B M Eadon O O Kuti M B Mahon C N Okeke G F J Yarrow A R S Newall W R Orr-Ewing W O Stephenson T H Adcock M H Johnson S J Hirdaramani M S Marks A J Druttman L Gakic H T F Woolley N M Maari E C L Prior J Wigley S Ognev R P F Schneider B J Figgures-Wilson H R Howe R H Symes E R Clifton-Brown G R Allen C G L Hall*
K M P P W D D D D D D D E E E G G H H M M M P D E K K N M M P W W
19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19983 19993 19993 19993 19993 19993 19993 19993 19993 19993 19993
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HARROW SCHOOL ENTERPRISES LTD Harrow School Enterprises Ltd (HSEL) is the School’s commercial trading arm and is tasked to ‘engage in suitable and profitable business’ to provide income for capital projects and refurbishment of the School estate. Much of our business is seasonal and, in an intense eight-week period in July and August, we generate 60% of our annual turnover, employing over 200 temporary staff.
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e provide key services to the School throughout the year. HSEL’s turnover is approximately £2.8 million with a net profit target of at least £500,000. An additional contribution of £350,000 ‘cost absorption’ to the School’s operating expenditure meant that HSEL’s contribution to the School was approximately £850,000 last year. 2018 has been a year of new launches for HSEL, with a new website (www.harrowschoolenterprises.com) and the launch of the Harrow School Short Courses brand. In the 2018 Easter holiday, over 150 students from 60 schools undertook GCSE and A level revision courses. Many students were from local schools, but some came from as far afield as Jersey and Russia. The Easter holiday was also very popular for weddings last year. In the summer of 2018, we operated our first Harrow School Short Courses programme. This is the rebranded BABSSCo summer school, which welcomed 450 students from 37 countries to our ‘Serious
The first Harrow summer schools ran in 2018
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Study, Serious Fun’ programmes for children aged eight to 17 years. These students joined us for English-language and activity programmes, but they also came for courses on debating and critical thinking for native-level English speakers at Dulwich College, and for cultural courses for girls only at Heathfield School. With a new name came the chance for some new and exciting courses. Junior students (aged 9–13), whom we have previously accommodated at Mill Hill School, now stay at Harrow alongside our senior students (aged 14–17). ‘Harrow Seniors’ were able to tailor their own schedule, picking an academic option and a ‘plus’ option and selecting two of their four excursions. The ‘plus’ options for 2018 included multi-activities, tennis, science, drama and coding. Last year also saw an increase in the number of students who study English online with us. Successes included European students who have gained places at boarding schools, including Harrow, and one of our long-term Russian students achieving her place at the University of Bristol. In addition to running our own summer school, we provided administrative and logistics support to the Lumina programme. This offers students from the maintained sector in the Harrow area a three-day
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preparation course to assist with interview technique, writing applications and selecting a subject to study at Oxford or Cambridge. Last year, the demand for places was very high, and numbers grew by 10%. We also hosted two external residential summer schools, Pilgrims and KKCL, for six weeks. Saracens Rugby Club, Exos, FCBarcelona, SuperClubs and the Independent Schools Football Association also ran courses at the School. HSEL operates the School’s Sports Centre as a ‘dual-use’ facility, enabling over 1,000 local members and staff to use the swimming pool, fitness gyms and sports hall. Last year, the name was changed to the Harrow School Fitness Club (HSFC). In addition to their day-to-day activities, highlights for HSFC included seven sports days for over 2,000 local children; England Athletics hosting their camp here for the first year; and our first mass-participation event, a 24-hour Cancer Research relay on the athletics track. The Events team hosted over 80 events last year, including speech days for local schools, concerts for organisations such as the Harrow Choral Society, corporate dinners and 26 weddings. The launch of additional spaces, including meeting rooms for corporate guests and cricket pavilions for community and family parties, has added to our venue portfolio and enables clients to have a wide choice of location for all budgets at the School. 2018 also saw the launch of ticketed events, starting with Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, which was greatly supported by School staff and the community alike. HSEL are now advisory board members for a group called Beautiful Schools, who offer a simple and effective way to search for unique school venues to hire across the UK, and we remain a Film London Premier Location, attracting multiple film and photoshoots throughout the year. – Harry Ogden, Business Director
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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BANGKOK As is true of all schools within the Harrow family, Harrow Bangkok is a learning community, preparing boys and girls for a life of learning, leadership, service and personal fulfilment.
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o address this commitment, our Leadership in Action programme immerses students in activities that support the development of six leadership attributes we seek to engender in our young people: facing challenges with determination; contributing positively to the community; applying knowledge with compassion; solving problems collaboratively; solving problems creatively; and making just and responsible choices. In our Lower School, activities were designed last year to take pupils out of their comfort zones in facing new experiences. For instance, our annual expeditions now ensure there are more purposeful leadership development opportunities, such as the Year 2 expedition to Sattahip, which focuses on conservation and culminates with our pupils releasing rescued turtles back into the sea. A measure of the life skills and positive character traits our Lower School students develop is the contribution they make to their wider community. Last year, our infants worked closely with a local animal welfare charity to improve medical care for stray dogs and cats, while junior pupils developed close ties with children who live in urban poverty in central Bangkok through an annual sports Festival of Friendship, hosted at our school. After several years, some strong bonds have developed between children from very different backgrounds – our Head Boy (of Lower School) now personally raises funds to support the schooling of a friend he met through this unique event. By providing a challenging and innovative curriculum that focuses on academic excellence and the development of transferable skills, our Lower School is preparing its young Harrovians not just for obtaining a place at a top university and for a successful career, but also to provide ‘leadership for a better world’, the motto of all the Harrow international schools. In the day-to-day life of our Upper
School, academic stretch and ambition for university destinations are easy to observe, but our objective of developing those leaders for a better world is sometimes harder to define and success more difficult to measure. Therefore, in the year before last, we launched a curriculum that maps out the progress of our students in their development as leaders. From Year 6 up to Fifth Form (Year 11), all our students now undertake our Leadership and Service Curriculum, allowing us to gauge their progress in developing those six leadership attributes. The students participate in events that provide physical challenge, community service and sport, as well as creative activities. Participation and achievements are recorded and Harrovians engage in a process of critical reflection if they wish to gain higher levels of our Leadership and Service Curriculum Award, a merit or even a distinction. By the time they have completed the Prep (Years 6–8) and Shell, Remove and Fifth (SR5) Leadership Curricula and have reached the Sixth Form, they should be fully competent in using the six leadership attributes and be able to contribute as student leaders. An additional chance to develop student
leadership comes through our expedition programme. During our annual expedition week in February, students engage in challenge and service activities in a wide range of situations. The real magic occurs when the students undertake projects of their own volition. For example, in the summer before last, several Harrow Bangkok students went to the Thai/ Myanmar border town of Mae Sot to work in the Mae Tao Clinic, which provides basic healthcare to migrants, usually ethnic Mong or Karen fleeing Myanmar. Another group independently travelled to Phuket to work with a soi (stray) dog foundation. These are just two examples of the creative routes our students take in order to develop their leadership attributes. We believe that the challenges our students undertake through the Leadership and Service Curriculum contributes to robust personal growth, develops a strong community identity for the school and has a strong positive impact on the academic outcomes of our young people. These unique and worthy programmes are proving to be very effective in preparing our young Harrovians for their future lives of learning, leadership, service and fulfilment. – Michael Farley, Head Master
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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BEIJING 2017/18 was another year in which our students exceeded expectations in all areas: academically, on the sports field and in their varied and many cultural pursuits. All their achievements culminated in the living of our mission – Leadership for a Better World.
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eadership for a better world extends to our youngest students. Numerous pupils in the Lower School have received Lion Awards for demonstrating one or more of the Harrow Beijing leadership attributes. These were on display across the Lower School, as students raised money for, and gained empathy with, less fortunate children who may not even have adequate shelter. Students and parents all contributed to make shelters in the school and paused
to think for a moment about what life is like for so many outside our school gates. Another one of the many highlights was the Collaboration – Creativity – Curiosity week held in March. Students studied the development of the Silk Road and how it formed a link between Eastern and Western cultures. As a part of this project, Year 4 and 5 students visited the National Museum and learnt about the art, trade and transportation that made the Silk Road so important across a number of Chinese dynasties. Older students had the help of staff from the Chinese Academy of Art to create traditional artworks that would have been seen along the Silk Road long ago. A parent reported that her child had asked to spend her holidays on the Silk Road in order to further her studies. Curiosity, it would seem, extended beyond the classroom. While we hold onto many traditions at
Harrow Beijing, it was very stirring to hear our own Harrow Beijing school song being sung for the first time at Speech Day. The song was written by Ms Finch, our Head of Music, who is leaving us after five years of service. It was a fitting tribute to hear the students in full voice singing the lyrics she wrote. Ms Finch is not the only long-serving member of staff to leave. Notably Kelly Wailes, Head of Lower School; Simon Neubold, Director of Sport and Leadership in Action (since 2008); and Barbara Justham, Assistant Head, Staff Development, who was with us for ten years. All these staff members have made a great contribution and we wish them well. Their legacy is a part of our school and will allow us to carry on in a school that is in many ways very traditional but, at the same time, reflects the culture and circumstances of the great city in which we are based. – David Shinkfield, Head Master
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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HONG KONG 2018 saw record results in GCSEs, with 68% of all grades at A*, and 90% at A*-A. At A level, an impressive 83% of Harrow Hong Kong’s candidates achieved A*-B grades, 62% achieved A*-A, and 30% of all grades were A*.
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ur students left us to take up places at some of the world’s most prestigious universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Durham, UCL, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, Michigan, Oklahoma and universities in Hong Kong. Last academic year, we were excited to introduce The Harrow Horizons Programme, comprised of four distinct parts: the Super Curriculum; Leadership Activities; Leadership in Action and Co-Curricular
Activities. This programme, delivered via our Strategic Plan to be the first choice international school in Hong Kong and a leading school in Asia, provides our pupils with breadth of opportunity to enrich their learning and personal development. Through the provision of a stimulating wider curriculum, we aim to inspire our boys and girls to develop the Harrow Leadership Attributes, creativity and innovation, and to ensure that our young people are equipped with the essential skills required to become leaders of the future. We have seen great strides in the development of our School sites, with facilities improved and added to throughout our already impressive buildings. Our new spaces and classrooms have provided our pupils with a range of additional facilities to enhance their
learning further. Staff, pupils and parents were delighted to put forward nominations for the naming of the multi-purpose rooms, dining halls and other significant areas of the School. Prominent local and international figures were proposed to be recognised in this way and we are pleased to see names such as Baron Lawrence Kadoorie, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Francis Grant and Stephen Hawking reflected within our community. Harrow International School Hong Kong is full and thriving. Our pupils are intellectually curious, have a genuine passion for learning, and are presented with boundless opportunities to develop their academic and personal lives to their very best advantage. – Ann Haydon, Head Teacher
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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SHANGHAI Harrow Shanghai experienced a tremendous amount of change last year. The Founding Head and many of the Senior Leadership Team moved on, and so we find ourselves in the next chapter of our journey.
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recognised leader in the field of high quality international education in China, and to do so we must create an educational experience for pupils, parents and staff that surpasses that of our competitors. One of our main aims is to support all pupils to learn and develop to the best of their ability. Our main focus this year, therefore, will be on teaching and learning, along with the pupils’ personal development and leadership. We are in the process of reviewing our educational programmes and have already begun to make some key changes that will benefit our pupils. A review of the timetable and the curriculum is planned to ensure that the structure of the day is suitable and that it supports the coverage of the curricular and extra-curricular activities we provide. High-quality teaching and learning is, of course, the main objective for any good school and we will continue to enhance
our teaching practices this year. Using the Harrow Shanghai Teaching Standards and the newly outlined Appraisal policy, all teachers will be observed and given specific feedback on their teaching practice in order to support staff development. Leadership and Service (L&S), which also includes pupils’ personal development, will be another area of continued focus this year. Using our mission of ‘Leadership for a better world’ and the six leadership attributes, we will support our pupils in their understanding of leadership and their responsibilities as members of global society. Core values of service, respect, collaboration, creativity and social responsibility will be explored. From the youngest pupils to our graduating class, all students will contribute to the L&S programme. Last May, our Year 11 students sat their IGCSE examinations and the results were very pleasing. The Year 11 group attained a 90% record of A* to C grades. As many of our students do not have English as their first language, this is a noteworthy achievement. This year, we have our first graduating class. Presently, the nine Year 13 students are preparing their university applications and we are very pleased to have two of them making applications to Oxford and Cambridge. The new Senior Leadership Team will be using their experience and expertise to build on the solid foundations laid by Mr Cook and to support Mr Ellison in his vision. Our main objective this year is to support pupils, parents and staff in continuing to develop a vibrant, proud and happy community that upholds the high academic standards of a Harrow Family school. – Kelly M Wailes, Acting Head Teacher
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JOHN LYON SCHOOL The hard work of all our boys throughout last year was reflected in the public examination results released in August 2018.
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he strength of a broad, rounded education was seen in John Lyon’s A Level results and university entry successes. With one third of all exams graded either A* or A, John Lyon’s newest set of former pupils have taken their places at leading universities across the country, to read subjects including Law, Medicine, Economics, Engineering, History, Geography, Politics and Modern Languages. We were particularly pleased to see students secure places at Oxford and Cambridge. The importance of all the major academic disciplines to a John Lyon education was shown in an excellent set of GCSE results. 312 exams – 38% – were awarded the top grades across English, Mathematics, the sciences, the humanities, languages and the arts. Beyond the classroom there is much to report. On the sports field, both our 1st XI football and cricket teams reached the latter stages of the county schools cup competitions, with the cricketers going out at the semi-final despite a tied match, and the footballers losing out in extra time of the cup final. We were also delighted to be able to take both sports together on a major tour to South Africa. Still a relatively new addition to John Lyon and now a major Autumn term sport, hockey is rapidly growing in popularity and our younger teams completed a successful tour to the Netherlands. In the arts, our annual large-scale Drama Department musical was again performed at Harrow’s Ryan Theatre. With a cast of John Lyon boys and girls from a number of local schools, South Pacific was performed over three nights to enthusiastic audiences. Music continues to go from strength to strength at the school. As well as a busy schedule of internal concerts, highlights also came in a Choir tour to Venice, Choral Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral and a prominent appearance of some of our boys as choristers in the Netflix hit drama The Crown. Another exciting year for the Art Department saw pupils from all years exhibit their works in the school gallery. Special exhibition events have drawn
high praise from visitors, with comments on the high quality of the work and the imaginative projects explored. The school’s co- and extra-curricular programmes – which include many dozens of clubs, societies and activities including CCF, British Science Association CREST Awards and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award – are also thriving and enable us to provide the type of rounded education which is sought and prized by parents for their sons.
As at Harrow, charity and community is also of great importance to John Lyon. The charitable ethos that has run through the school since its founding in 1876 shows no sign of slowing, and this generation of pupils, like their predecessors, have continued to engage in numerous projects, giving time and raising money for projects in Harrow and beyond. – Katherine Haynes, Head
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HARROW FAMILY FIFTH FORM CONFERENCE Now in its fifth year, the Harrow Family Fifth Form Conference is a firmly established part of the Harrow calendar. Boys and girls from across the six schools compete for places: this year over 40 Harrow School boys applied for the 14 allocated places. We welcomed students from John Lyon, Harrow Bangkok, Harrow Beijing, Harrow Hong Kong and Harrow Shanghai, and put together an exciting and rewarding programme.
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tarting the conference with games and activities was an excellent ice-breaker, and soon all tensions between the different groups had vanished. In fact, on the last day, it was touching to see the friendships that had been formed. Among the lectures, workshops, university visits and project work, there was plenty of time for relaxation, with a BBQ on the first night and a trip to the theatre on the third. Thriller Live got the students out of their seats and dancing – an exhilarating end to the day after watching Harrow’s loss at Lord’s that afternoon. The final night of the conference brought everyone together for a dinner in the Shepherd Churchill Room. We were treated to a wonderful three-course meal after drinks and photographs on the terrace in unusual 28-degree heat. Old Harrovian Zander Whitehurst (The Knoll 20083) gave an inspiring after-dinner speech, entertaining
us with stories of his time since Harrow as an artist, entrepreneur and athlete. The theme of the conference was leadership, and the students were exposed to a fascinating scope of ideas and approaches. Dr Colin Stokes spoke about his charity work, focusing on a life of service as the most rewarding form of leadership. He showed us art work from Arthouse Unlimited, an impressive business that facilitates the art of those suffering from complex epilepsy and learning disabilities, providing a platform for them to sell their work across hundreds of outlets across the country. Dr Isis Dove Edwin spoke about the difference between types of leadership, developing an interesting contrast between traditional hierarchies and more modern and democratic ‘wirearchies.’ Mrs Lucy Elphinstone, Head of Francis Holland School Sloane Square, inspired us with her thoughts on leadership
and the challenges young people face in today’s world. The highlight of the conference was the group project work. Three groups put together an exciting carousel of activities in art, drama and sport for 60 children from Roxeth Primary School. Another group put on a concert at Bradbury Court residential home for disabled people, as well as taking song requests from the residents. The final group prepared an afternoon of games, support and company at St Joseph’s care home. All five groups worked together to produce excellent activities, showing very good leadership skills as well as thoughtful emotional intelligence. They all presented to the rest of the conference on the final morning and it was encouraging to see how much they had learnt from the experience, and how successful their careful planning and team work had been. – Alex Turner, Conference Co-ordinator
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JOHN LYON’S CHARITY Last year saw the charity continue to give grants of over £10m to help organisations working with children and young people in the Charity’s Beneficial Area of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the City of Westminster and the City of London. This funding supports the significant impact that these organisations make on the opportunities and experiences of the young people who live in these boroughs.
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he Young People’s Foundation (YPF) model has become a fundamental part of the local infrastructure within the Beneficial Area for local youth and community groups and charities. The original YPFs in Barnet, Brent and Harrow paved the way for official launches in the past year of YPFs in Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Westminster. Importantly, the YPF model has now caught the attention of government, which, in its August 2018 White Paper Civil Society Strategy: building a future that works for everyone, recognised how ‘imaginative local trusts, such as John Lyon’s Charity, local government, business, and the independent youth sector have come together to develop new partnerships and
services for young people.’ The charity’s School Holiday Activity Fund has now made 369 small grants and distributed funds of £1.62m since April 2015. This popular fund has enabled children in the Beneficial Area to learn new skills such as cookery and swimming, and to go on trips to the seaside or to a West End show for the first time. For many young people, the fund has meant they can access arts and sports activities with friends in their communities, which would not ordinarily be available to them during the school holidays. Across the Beneficial Area, many children and young people are looked after by the local authority and live with foster carers. The charity has for many years supported projects to enable looked-after children to access enrichment opportunities in arts and sports, and learning opportunities to raise aspirations, which these children often struggle to access. Seeking to increase the breadth of opportunity available over the past year, the charity has commissioned the co-ordination of enrichment activities for looked-after children across Barnet, Brent,
Ealing and Harrow to increase the variety of activities available. Looked-after children have been able to access creative writing workshops, a summer camp of STEMfocused workshops and a drama programme developing communication skills, team-building, confidence and self-esteem. The charity has continued to work with Media Trust, supporting its Volunteer Film Initiative. This initiative harnesses the skills of volunteer film directors to create three-minute films for ten small charities in the Beneficial Area. The charity hosted a screening event at the ICA and key members of the participating organisations shared their plans about how to use the films for promotion and marketing, skills they had learnt through participating in the initiative. The films this year feature a wide example of the different activities the charity supports, such as the Woodlands Forest Adventure School, Stonebridge Boxing Club and Harrow Carers. – Debbie Howitt, Grants and Communications Officer
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HARROW CLUB W10 Over 130 years since it was founded, the Harrow Club continues to be at the heart of the community for underprivileged young people living in and around Notting Dale. For many, the club is akin to a second home, acting as a safe haven at a time of increasing street violence and youth crime. Together, the Harrow Club ‘family’ currently has a membership of over 2,000 young people, mainly ranging between the ages of eight and 21.
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he club provides stimulating and unique opportunities for those from vulnerable backgrounds, and activities include an ABA-accredited boxing club, football clubs, arts and crafts, and music making. Residential programmes also provide an opportunity for members from single-parent or overcrowded homes to go on holiday and experience a new environment. To ensure the activities are tailored to individual needs, there are separate junior and senior activities, as well as a weekly girls-only session that enables girls from the large East African Muslim community to attend. Although the main club is based in Notting Dale, it also runs three satellite clubs in housing estates in Hammersmith and Fulham.
THE HARROW CLUB’S RESPONSE TO THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE On 14 June 2017, the club found itself at the heart of the relief effort following the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower. Tragically, four club members were among those killed. The club has worked with over 70 families and 234 individuals directly affected by the fire. Michael Defoe, Director of the Harrow Club, has emerged as a leading community figure, having gained the trust of residents and officials across the area. Since Grenfell, a number of schemes have been launched or expanded to inspire and engage those affected, including boxing, drama and dance clubs. One such scheme is the Debate Project – a debating club that aims to involve 65 students annually and will culminate in an interschool Debate and Boxing Contest in July. Separately, the Motor Project aims to train young people on how to maintain vehicles and drive them safely, and includes trips to race tracks to watch and learn how to race. All projects enable disadvantaged young people to find their voice in the community, as well as allowing them to express themselves in a constructive way. The club is looking to develop its activities by launching a community outreach programme to combat gang violence in the local area. We are also planning to introduce an initiative supporting young people excluded from local schools.
The club’s activities continue to be supported through the Harrow Mission (the ancient endowment funds set up when the club was founded) but the majority of the funding comes from grants and donations. Trustees still include a number of Old Harrovians and Harrow beaks. The development of Shaftesbury Enterprise makes it possible for Harrovians to be more directly involved with the club, and Tim Dalton (Newlands 19923), OH and Director of Shaftesbury Enterprise, has joined the Board of Trustees. For more details on the Harrow Club, including information on how to get involved, please contact Liam Clipsham, Senior Development Manager, at liam@harrowclubw10.org.
Last Word In the spring of 2017, when a neglected space in the bowels of Old Schools was cleared for refitting as a state-of-the-art collections storage area for the Old Speech Room Gallery, among the many objects that had been locked away there for generations was a heavy, polished granite obelisk.
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t is about 1m tall and inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphics. It appeared to be damaged in a couple of areas. There was no accession number but there was a barely legible sales label on to the base that gave a clue as to where it had been bought. The name ‘J Tennant’ and an address ‘Strand, London’ was the start of a journey of discovery. An internet search revealed an advertisement published in The Athenaeum of 3 January 1846. It showed that J Tennant had taken over a business set up by a Mr Mawe at No 149 Strand, London. There, visitors could buy all manner of ‘Ornaments for the drawing-room, library, and dining room, in Italian alabaster, marble, bronze and Derbyshire spar, consisting of a great variety of vases, figures, groups, candlesticks, inkstands, inlaid tables, paperweights etc., imported and manufactured by J. Tennant, late Mawe, 149 Strand, London. Students in Geology, Mineralogy, or Conchology can be supplied with elementary collections to illustrate those interesting branches of science, at 2, 5, 10, 20 to 50 guineas each, together with an extensive assortment of shells, minerals and fossils, geological models, maps, books, hammers etc.’ A further search revealed that ‘James Tennant, Mineralogist’ went on to work with Michael Faraday and became Professor of Geological Mineralogy at King’s College London in 1838. In 1840, he became Mineralogist to Queen Victoria and oversaw the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Meanwhile, we had been scrutinising the hieroglyphics on the obelisk and discovered that it was a model of the surviving obelisk at Heliopolis in Cairo. The original is over 20m tall. Scholars
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have calculated that the obelisk must have been erected by Sestostris I in around 1942 BCE. Images of the Egyptian original show areas of historic damage – these had been accurately reproduced in our granite model, so it was a faithful reproduction, not a damaged one, as we had first assumed. Serendipity played a part in the next stage of our investigations: a chance enquiry on a completely different topic necessitated a search in a 19th-century ledger containing notes about items in the Butler museum. As we were flicking through the pages trying to locate a date, our attention was caught by the pencilled word ‘Obelisk’ at the top of a page. There could only be one obelisk at the School! The complete entry read: ‘Obelisk given by E M Young, 1877.’ We raced to the Harrow Register to see if E M Young was listed in the boys’ names, but the search proved fruitless. Despondently, we turned to the back pages to see if any beak was listed with that name: Edward Mallet Young taught Classics at Harrow between 1863 and 1878. He is also credited with having introduced the game of fives from Eton and later became headmaster of Sherborne School. He would have been at Harrow in the 1860s when Sir John Gardner Wilkinson gave his huge collection of Egyptian and Greek antiquities to the School. His gift of the model obelisk would have been relevant and valued. The model obelisk is now on display in in the Classics department. The discovery of its history and provenance by systematic (and serendipitous) research by the OSRG team have given it renewed and respected status in the School’s story. – Julia Walton, Curator, Old Speech Room Gallery
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THE THREE YARDS ANNUAL FUND The Three Yards Annual Fund is the principal way for the entire Harrow community to support the School, or a particular House. If you are interested in finding out more about how you can support Harrow, contact Will Landale (The Grove 1978Âł) on 020 8872 8522, landalewjf@harrowschool.org.uk or visit our office on the Hill.
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