Harrow Record 2017

HARROW RECORD 2016-17

IN THIS ISSUE: Reports

from 2016-17 plus the latest news and views

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FROM THE HEAD MASTER

14 Academic 34 Societies 48 The Arts 72 Leadership and Service 88 Sport 112 Listings 120 Foundation Family 144 Last Word Being educated at Harrow is a full and vivid experience. The following pages try to capture the extraordinary scope of what was accomplished during 2016/17, for example through creative pursuits, sporting endeavour, academic learning and scholarship, or charitable outreach work. The standards that the boys are achieving never cease to delight and amaze me.

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The 2017 leavers certainly led from the front, or the senior end of the School. While maintaining great extracurricular standards, they also managed to set a new record for top A-level grades and secured an exciting array of university places for the next stages of their careers. The kinds of experiences that are reported on in this Harrow Record will, all going well, have equipped them effectively for what they are going to go on to be and to do.

I hope that you enjoy this edition and, like me, take pride in this generation of Harrovians.

Jim Hawkins, Head Master

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• Oliver Bater (Rendalls) received a special commendation in the King’s College London German Essay Prize for his essay, written in German, Europe in 2030: What type of future lies ahead for the European Continent?

• George Reid (Moretons) was one of only four students selected from across the country to represent Team UK in the 2017 International Geography Olympiad.

• William Miles (The Head Master’s) was awarded the highest Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. The scholarship is designed to foster young engineers and will provide funding, work experience, business links and even job offers.

• Krishan Emmanuel (Rendalls) came first in the National Japanese Speaking Competition and competed as the UK’s sole representative against 13 other countries in the international final in Japan.

• Will Thompson’s (Elmfield) artwork, You will not believe what this artist has done, was shortlisted for the 2017 Saatchi Gallery Art Prize for Schools. Will’s work was one of the final 20 chosen from over 24,000 different pieces by students from all over the world and was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

• James Millett (Newlands) was selected to run for the Middlesex team for the UK Inter-Counties Cross Country competition.

• Alessio Kenda (Newlands) was a runner-up in the Medical Sciences category of this year’s Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Schools Science Prize.

• Harrow’s polo A team, Charles Cadogan (Druries), Christian Oberschneider and Valentine Hutley (both The Head Master’s), beat Stowe to become Schools National Arena Champions. The team also beat Marlborough to win the Copenhagen Shield.

• All 24 Harrovians who entered the competition were awarded CREST Gold Awards for engineering projects. One of the teams, who designed a pair of spectacles to help visually impaired people “see” by using ultrasonic waves, was selected to feature in the final of the 2017 Technology, Design and Innovation Challenge, run by the Manufacturing Technologies Association.

• Harrow’s judo team were Independent Schools Champions and British National Schools Champions for a fourth successive year.

Several of these pupils receive bursaries, funded by donors through the Harrow Development Trust.

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• In the Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad, Harrow achieved six distinctions, which is the highest number ever achieved by the School: Fifth Form – Norman Li and Pasa Suksmith (both Elmfield); Removes – Kingston Lee (Elmfield) and Eugene Kim (West Acre) (both were also awarded medals for finishing in the top 25 in their category and Eugene Kim’s mark was fifth highest in the country); Shells – Marcus Ng (Druries).

• Felix Griffin Pain (The Head Master’s) played the role of Tangent in the BBC’s dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.

• Daniel Shailer (Rendalls) won the Young Romantics Essay Prize, run by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, for his essay on Guilt in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This is a nationwide competition for pupils in the Sixth Form.

• Fourteen Harrovians were awarded gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze awards in this year’s Biology Challenge. This is the best set of results that Harrow has ever achieved in this competition. Sean Hargreaves (The Head Master’s) and

23 Harry Kyd (The Park) scored the joint highest mark.

• The following boys passed higher grade ABRSM music examinations with distinction: Daniel Baker (Moretons) Grade 7 Organ and Grade 7 Singing; Gerald Barry (Moretons) Grade 8 Oboe; Alberic Mould (Elmfield) Grade 7 Viola; Adeoluwa Pearse (Rendalls) Grade 8 Piano; Joe Downing (Moretons) Grade 7 Saxophone; Corran Stewart (Lyon’s) Grade 8 Bassoon; Jobie Wong (Bradbys) Grade 8 Trumpet; Nicholas Platt (Moretons), Marcus Harman (The Grove), Francis Bamford (Bradbys), Will Davies (The Grove) and Justin Stollery (The Knoll) Grade 8 Singing. Michael Yeung (The Grove) achieved the Dip. ABRSM for Oboe.

• George Grassly (The Knoll) was third fastest runner from the London Boroughs when he took part in the London Mini Marathon, a race along the last three miles of the London Marathon course.

• Harrow’s squash team beat Eton in the final to win the Public Schools Squash Trophy. They also came third in the National Schools Competition.

• In this year’s Chemistry Olympiad, Harrow boys achieved 12 bronze, 11 silver and 12 gold certificates. Gold was achieved

by Karamvir Kumar (Rendalls), Charlie Friend (Moretons), Andrew Taylor, Masayuki Tonoki (both Bradbys),

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Curtis Ho, Akhil Seth (both Lyon’s), Oliver Farquharson (The Knoll), Steven Yang, Oliver Tippett, Firry Yang (all The Park), David Wang (Newlands) and Ricky Li (Druries).

Karamvir Kumar was placed in the top 30 in the UK and was invited to Cambridge University to compete in Round 2 of the competition.

• Sean Refell (Newlands), Andrew Christie (Bradbys) and Elliott Obatoyinbo (The Knoll) were selected for the 36-man England Under-18 rugby squad.

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• Reuben Bird-Tulloch (The Park) Sean Refell (Newlands) and Elliott Obatoyinbo (The Knoll) have been offered full-time professional contracts at Saracens.

• William Heywood (The Knoll) was chosen for the National Independent Schools under-18 rugby team, The Lambs, for 2017.

• The School retained the 2017 Harrow Cup Six Schools Badminton Trophy.

Both Pair 1, Mahathir Mokzhani and Yi Shuen Gan (both Elmfield), and Pair 2, Hari Rattan (The Knoll) and

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Johnson Lam (Bradbys), were unbeaten in the competition.

• George O’Malley (Lyon’s) captained the ISFA (Independent Schools Football Association) under-18 side throughout this season, including matches against Wales and Australia.

• The School achieved 44 gold, 53 silver and 70 bronze certificates in the Intermediate Maths Challenge for pupils in the Shell, Remove and Fifth Form.

• Harrow’s ski team came fifth in the

English Schools Skiing Association competition in Switzerland. Anton Jurgens (Newlands) won a silver medal in the giant slalom race.

• In this year’s Biology Olympiad, five boys were awarded bronze awards, three silver and one gold. Ricky Li (Druries) achieved the top award.

• Fifty-one Harrovians achieved gold awards in the Senior Mathematics Challenge. This is the School’s secondbest-ever performance. Curtis Ho

(Lyon’s) and Steven Yang (The Park) achieved full marks.

• Jose Abaroa (Moretons) won the Benson Prize in Rugby School’s Theology & Philosophy Essay Competition. The title of his winning essay was If God is immutable, what’s the point of prayer?

• Ricky White (The Knoll) won a bronze medal for the under-15 shot put in the English Schools Track and Field Championships, a national competition for the best athletes in the country.

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A CREST Gold Award winning team were finalists in the 2017 Technology, Design and Innovation Challenge

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2017 EXAM RESULTS AND UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS The proportion of A* grades across all A levels taken by Harrow Upper Sixth boys in 2017 was 32.3%, which sets a new record for the School.

There was strength in depth in that year group too, with the 70% A*/A rate being among the best in recent years.

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his pleasing public examination performance, coupled with strong written applications and interviews, enabled three quarters of our leavers to take up places at Oxbridge, Ivy League or Russell Group universities.

Twenty-five boys took up places at Oxford (13) and Cambridge (12).

Approximately 30% of the boys left for places at universities ranked in the top 10 in the world. Seventeen boys will continue

their studies in the United States, where Georgetown, Harvard and Princeton were prominent. In the UK, apart from Oxbridge, the most popular universities among Harrovians were Exeter (15), Bristol (13) and Edinburgh (13).

In seven A-level subjects, 100% of candidates achieved an A*/A, while Mathematics – which is our most popular A-level subject – achieved a 49% A* rate and over 85% A*/A.

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BEAK HIGHLIGHTS • James Melville, Head of Ancient History, was a major contributor to the new Bloomsbury Ancient History GCSE textbook with his chapter entitled Cleopatra: Rome And Egypt, 69–30 BC. • Work by Art beak Simon Page was exhibited at Daniel Crouch Rare Books in London. Describing the exhibition, Physical Energy, Simon said, “The starting point for this series of work came when I was a marshal on the Long Ducker route starting at the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park. I was stationed a few hundred yards away by GF Watts’ sculpture, Physical Energy. The runners were mainly teenagers and, as they

passed the sculpture, they seemed to become the embodiment of the physical power implied in Watts’ rearing horse and rider. It was a coming together of the real energy of the young runner, the evoked power and ambition of the sculpture, and the shared restlessness of them both.”

• Government and Politics beak Dr David Wendelken has been appointed Chair of the Political Studies Association’s Teachers’ Network.

• Chemistry beak Dr Dean Holt has been invited to join the governing committee of the C3L6 competition (Cambridge Chemistry Challenge for Lower Sixth).

• Joshua Halstead, Economics master and Harrow 3rd XV coach, was chosen to represent England Universities at the Rugby League World Cup in 2016.

• As a member of the Zoological Society of London’s Zoos’ Advisory and Strategic Development Board, Biology master and House Master of Druries, Mark Ridgway, was introduced to Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh at the opening of the new Centre for Elephant Care at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. This new £2 million development provides accommodation for the zoo’s herd of Asiatic elephants.

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Physical Energy by Simon Page

Restless Energy in the Domain of Material Things by Simon Page

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Mr James Ashton – Mathematics

Miss Juliet Bailey – History of Art

Miss Henrietta Chilton – Biology

Mr Ashton achieved a BSc in Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MSc from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was awarded Blues in tennis. He spent six years teaching at Norwich School, where he was Head of Mathematics. He coaches football and tennis and supports fives and Long Ducker.

He has been Head of Mathematics since September 2017.

Miss Bailey studied History of Art and French at University College London before undertaking a Masters in History of Art and Visual Culture at Kellogg College, Oxford.

She joined Harrow having worked in the museum and commercial gallery sector at such institutions as the Barbican Art Gallery, White Cube and Marian Goodman Gallery.

Miss Chilton worked for five years in South Africa, leading conservation research and environmental education projects in a variety of threatened habitats. She completed her BSc in Biology at the University of Bristol and an MSc in Conservation Science at Imperial College London. Following this, she studied Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan and Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains. She assists with polo, water polo and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

Mr William Church – Head of Academic Music

Mr Adam Cross – Director of Drama

Mr Tim Dalton – Mathematics

Mr Church graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a degree in Music.

He joined Harrow as Head of Academic Music, having previously worked as a conductor and composer, and taught at Whitgift School. Mr Church supports boys involved in the School’s community service programme and coaches cricket.

Mr Cross studied at the University of York, King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was Director of Drama at Kings College School, Wimbledon, for seven years. He worked at theatres including the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Liverpool Everyman before starting his teaching career at Eton College.

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This is Mr Dalton’s (Newlands 19923) second spell of teaching at Harrow. He has previously taught at Twyford Church of England High School, where he was Assistant Headteacher and Head of Sixth Form. Mr Dalton read Mathematics at the University of Birmingham and afterwards worked in both the charity and financial sectors before studying for a PGCE at the Institute of Education. Mr Dalton runs rugby and soccer teams, and coaches athletics.

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Miss Sarah Ellis – Art

Mr Thomas Elphinstone – English

Miss Ellis taught at Trinity School of John Whitgift before joining Harrow. After graduating with a first class degree in Fine Art, she completed her PGCE at Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC) and worked at a number of state schools. Miss Ellis is also a practising artist and runs her own arts and crafts business.

Mr Elphinstone graduated in English Literature and Language from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he played Blues hockey and represented the university in cricket. He worked at Radley College for three years as an English teacher and Assistant Housemaster before teaching at Latymer Upper School for one year.

He coaches rugby, hockey and cricket and assists with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award.

Mr Robert McMahon – Design and Technology

Dr Robert Unwin – Physics and Astronomy

Mr McMahon graduated with a BA in Industrial Design and Technology from Loughborough University, where he was also an enthusiastic player of a number of sports. He coaches rugby, soccer and athletics, and is Master-in-Charge of the RAF section of the Harrow Rifle Corps.

Dr Unwin completed his Doctorate in Biophysics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. During his time there, he tutored undergraduate courses in mathematical biology, particle physics and special relativity. He completed his Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Birmingham. He is involved in running the RAF section of the Harrow Rifle Corps.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW 2016/2017 Shunning Oscar Wilde’s wry assertion that “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination”, Harrow is certainly not unimaginative in the breadth and depth of the education we provide while striving, nevertheless, to set our fee so that it just covers our operating costs and no more.

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t the current annual rate of £38,550, the fee is, admittedly, not easily afforded, but it has to cover the substantial expenditure necessary to provide a topclass education and is, incidentally, less than the sum required to keep a prisoner in Strangeways!

The graphics below indicate the approximate allocation of fee income to the principal ‘heads of expenditure’, highlighting the significant employment costs of over 650 academic and support employees. Annual expenditure of circa £30 million may seem a lot, but running an institution which operates, from an expensive Greater London location, ‘24/7’ in term-time and which only closes

completely for about 10 days over Christmas is an expensive business. The estate is another area of considerable expense: almost 200 units of property and the 300 acres of grounds are in constant need of effective maintenance and improvement. Feeding the boys well and running the 12 boarding houses costs in excess of £2 million per annum, while regulatory compliance and professional fees now swallow up over £750,000.

Although our fees have been steadily increasing (generally in the range of 3% to 4% p.a.), over the period 1990-2016 on an inflation-adjusted basis, both independent day schools’ (242% increase) and maintained sector schools’ per capita costs (180% increase) have exceeded Harrow’s (170%). That said, we cannot go on increasing our fees at a rate which exceeds inflation and are always seeking efficiency or ‘productivity’ gains as a partial solution.

In our trading company, Harrow School Enterprises Ltd (HSEL) and our fund-raising ‘arm’, the Harrow Development Trust (HDT), we are fortunate to have two of the most successful examples of their genre in the independent sector. Over the last 23 years, for example, HSEL has generated over

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£28 million from its annual summer courses alone and HDT has raised over £100 million in the last 19 years. Their substantial annual contributions are almost entirely spent on major capital projects and scholarships and bursaries. Together with the income we generate from our four internationals schools – which is invested in our endowment for bursaries – these additional sources of income mean that fee-paying parents need only make a very modest contribution to capital projects and only 1% of their fees is allocated to bursaries: a situation which sets us apart from almost every other independent school. As we are able to offer scholarships and bursaries exceeding £2.3 million p.a., approximately 10% of our pupils enjoy a Harrow education with the benefit of a substantial bursary.

Over the long term, our aim is to establish an endowment, in today’s money, of at least £200 million, which should make it possible for 25% of pupils to have ‘free places’, or 50% to have half of the annual fees met, or any variation thereof. That optimistic note does nevertheless need to be tempered with caution. With total annual income of between £40 million and £50 million, we strive to be ‘business-like’ but we also have to be mindful of our charitable status, the threats to it and the associated financial consequences. Like other independent schools, we would find the threatened imposition of VAT on our fees or the loss of charitable status very challenging. We are fortunate, however, to have strategic levers which we have not yet ‘pulled’, which should allow us to mitigate those threats to an acceptable degree for our current and future parents.

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ssuming that the Mayor of London ratifies the planning approval recently obtained from the local authority for the new science building and sports centre, and subject to the necessary funding being in place, it remains our intention to begin work this year and complete it by 2020.

It is a transformative and imaginative scheme that will provide state-of-the-art centres for Biology and Chemistry, transferring science teaching from the buildings where many Harrovian biologists and chemists endured their lessons in Victorian conditions. There will also be an outstanding new sports centre and new landscaping will create beautiful thoroughfares on the eastern slopes of the School that will allow boys to avoid the traffic on an increasingly busy High Street.

It will also enhance the nearby landscape originally designed by Capability Brown.

Currently the Harrow Development Trust’s principal fundraising priority with donations being collected to finance the substantial cost of the project.

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As part of the ongoing planned programme of external repairs and decorations, work has been completed on Rendalls, the buildings housing Chemistry and Economics, and a number of residential properties.

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ON ARRIVING ON THE HILL – FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF HARROW My first visit to Harrow was many years ago, shortly after I left my job as a fund manager at Schroders to become a Classics beak at Eton.

There was a long-standing reciprocal arrangement between Eton, Harrow and Westminster for interviewing each other’s aspiring Oxbridge Classicists, and I travelled with a group of Etonians and colleagues to the Hill. The interviews ran perfectly to time, the candidates and their teachers were entertained over dinner, and the evening ended with a talk on late Latin translation in the Fourth Form Room.

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took from that first visit three very clear memories: the first was of the place, at its beautiful best on a clear autumn evening; the second was of Harrovian candidates all with an engaging manner and all with an obvious interest in the ancient world; the third was of a strong sense of community among Harrow’s staff and boys.

It is that sense of community of which I have been reminded most strongly during my first year as Director of Studies. Formed by a convivial evening in the Shepherd Churchill Room on that first visit, during which I was both entertained by Harrow’s Classicists and wonderfully well looked after by the catering staff, that impression has been confirmed again and again over the last year. It was first brought home to me very shortly after my family and I arrived in Harrow, when the Estates team made the process of moving to live on the Hill so easy. During my very first week, I fell into conversation with a craftsman working to restore the listed wooden balustrade at The Copse. Finding out that I had come from Eton, he took pleasure in welcoming me (to use his very words) to Britain’s premier public school. His timing and his sense of humour were great; more importantly, his pride in the School was palpable.

It was shortly after the start of the autumn term that I started fully to appreciate the strength and depth of the

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academic community on the Hill. Seeking to experience as much as possible of the super-curriculum for myself, I went to the first lecture in the cross-curricular series on the theme of disaster. A Japanese and a Maths beak had collaborated to produce a talk on the nuclear disasters at Fukushima and Chernobyl. The former was considered from a social perspective and in a cultural context; the latter was about the science

behind nuclear power and the way in which the disaster unfolded. The very fact that there is a cross-curricular lecture series speaks loudly and eloquently for itself. The collaboration of two beaks from different departments echoes that same theme.

More striking still was the audience.

I arrived only a few minutes before the start of the talk and found myself standing at the back of the OH Room. All the seats

CROSS-CURRICULAR LECTURE SERIES 2016 • Nuclear Meltdown: Chernobyl and Fukushima • Colonialism: The Root Cause of Global Instability • ‘So Musical a Discord’: A Brief History of Disasters in Music • Cosmic Disasters: Black Holes and Exploding Stars • Dangerous Fun? The Social and Economic Consequences of the Roaring Twenties • Disaster: Maths in the Movies • Post-Famine Glasgow and Celtic Football Club • ‘Carnal, Bloody and Unnatural Acts’: Why Literature Relies on Disaster • Shipwrecks, Breakage and Missing Pieces: Emphasising Imperfections • The 21st Century: Disaster or Success?

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were taken and the room was full to capacity with a mixture of boys from all year groups and their beaks from almost all departments, all gathered together to listen to a lecture at the end of a full school day.

That experience turned out to be wholly representative: whatever the occasion that I have attended, from Amadeus in the winter to the Shaftesbury Lecture in the summer, there is a willingness among boys and beaks to be involved in the same experiences, to share them and to reflect on them. In open morning presentations to prospective parents, I was asked by the Registrar to put questions to a group of boys, developing the themes and ideas set out by the Head Master. The cast of the show changes from week to week but the most common refrain remains the same: the boys value that sense of shared experience with their beaks and their beaks’ willingness not simply to teach them in their form rooms but more broadly to engage with them as their equals, sharing and reflecting on their experiences in the cultural and super-curricular life of the School.

In the spring, Father Nic took up my offer to preach in Chapel and I took the Hill as my theme. One of the angles from which I approached it was to warn against any sense of difference or superiority having gained the summit of admission. The warning may have been appropriate but it was not necessary. The boys with whom I have talked about their experiences at Harrow, most obviously about their work in Shaftesbury Enterprise but more broadly about their lives at School and their

ambitions beyond it, have been impressively grounded. They have also been receptive to new ideas and to new suggestions for their future, and the same is true of their beaks.

It was clear to me from my first conversation with my predecessor as Director of Studies that there had been some very significant changes in the Harrow curriculum during his time in post, driven by the Head Master’s vision for a school in which learning for its own sake is celebrated above all. As the curriculum and academic timetable for autumn 2017 have taken shape over the last few months, I have formed another strong impression of Harrow: beaks are inspiringly receptive to change, willing to explore new ideas, not only and rightly to challenge and to test the thinking behind them but also and even more importantly to ensure that every new set of arrangements improves on the last.

Whether changes affect the whole School, such as the introduction of Microsoft Surface computers over the next few years, or the curriculum more narrowly, such as the recasting of IT teaching in the Shell, the introduction of Elective courses in the Fifth Form, the initiatives in project-based work in the Lower Sixth, the Lyon Lectures by visiting university academics, or the introduction of curricular drama throughout the Lower School, the willingness of Harrow’s beaks, House Masters and Heads of Subject to embrace and to support change is striking. It makes the School an exciting environment in which to work and an inspiring institution of which to be part.

Personally welcoming, mutually supportive, willing to explore new ideas,

sparing no effort to improve the Harrow experience for boys and to share it with them, that sense of an academic community has defined my first year on the Hill. Stet fortuna domus, as the saying new to me goes.

With these giants of the future, boys and beaks, in the School: stat, stabit.

– Alastair Chirnside, Director of Studies

ELECTIVES IN 2016/17 • A History of Eugenics • A History of Modern Political Thought • Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic • Business Solutions • Chemical Solutions • Cryptic Crosswords • Cultural Geography and Anthropology • Designer of the Year • European Cinema: Context, Analysis and Interpretation • Exercise Physiology • Foreign Aid and International Development • Hilarity and Horror: An Introduction to Classical Comedy and Tragedy • History of the String Family • How Animals Cope With Living • Sensing Spaces: Memory and Experience in Architecture • Super Physics • The Art of Programming • The First Crusade and the Origins of Crusading • The Poetry of Mick Imlah

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Astronomy

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t has been another busy year for Harrow’s astronomers with nearly 40 boys completing their observations using either the Rayleigh Observatory, the NASA robotic telescopes, or the Faulkes Telescope in Hawaii. Many chose to observe a series of Messier objects such as planetary nebulae, supernovae, globular clusters and galaxies, some of which contain hundreds of billions of stars. Some chose to image lunar features over a period of several weeks to see how their appearance changes through the month-long lunar cycle. Many used the new suite of mobile devices to perform image processing and enhancement of their data before submission as part of their coursework.

Recently, the Rayleigh Observatory has been twinned with a new observatory currently being constructed on the island of Mustique in the Caribbean. It is hoped that, upon completion, observation and data collection will be performed remotely

by Harrovians from the comfort of the form room.

Stargazing at Teide National Park, Tenerife

For the first time this summer, a group of Lower Sixth boys travelled to Tenerife to visit the Teide National Park. Tenerife is a privileged island, not only because of its tropical climate, but because the peaks of the island, which are well away from the light pollution of urban areas, are among

the best locations to stargaze in the Northern hemisphere.

– Chris Barry, Head of Physics and Head of Science

research and treatment. This built on some of the work covered by the Upper Sixth boys on the Biology and Medicine Elective.

Another purpose of these talks is to inspire the next generation of biologists.

Arguably, there is none more inspiring than Sir David Attenborough and we were fortunate to be able to host a public event in Speech Room featuring Sir David in conversation with wildlife filmmaker Alastair Fothergill (Moretons 19732).

In addition to talks, the other key strand of the super-curricular programme is boys’ engagement with biology competitions.

There is the Biology Olympiad for Sixth Form biologists, the Intermediate Biology Olympiad, which is exclusively for Lower Sixth biologists, and the Biology Challenge

for which we enter the top Remove divisions. This year, Harrovians achieved more gold awards than ever before in the Intermediate Biology Olympiad and Biology Challenge. Ricky Li (Druries) was awarded gold in the Biology Olympiad; a superb achievement for a boy in the Lower Sixth.

However, it was Alessio Kenda (Newlands) who picked up the most accolades this year. He won the Lower Sixth Human Biology Essay Competition, received special mention for the entry he submitted to the Science Video Competition organised by the Department of Oncology at Oxford, and was runner-up in the Medical Sciences category of the Corpus Christi Schools Science Prize.

– Nick Keylock, Head of Biology

Funding for the Rayleigh Observatory was raised with the help of the Harrow Development Trust.

Biology

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e welcomed Miss Henrietta Chilton to the department this year.

Drawing on her wealth of experience running conservation projects in South Africa, she helped lead the A-level ecology field trip to Slapton Ley and organised events for the Biology Society.

This was a busy year for such events including collaborations with the Gore Society to explore issues relating to medical ethics. One of the key roles of lectures by outside speakers is to keep boys up to date with the latest developments in biological research and technology which syllabuses inevitably fail to reflect. Dr Emily Saunderson from Bart’s Cancer Institute did just this with her talk on the applications of new gene-editing techniques to cancer

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hemistry continues to excite and enthuse Harrovians of all ages. Of the 39 entrants to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Olympiad competition, 26 did so a year earlier than the intended target age of Upper Sixth; three of them achieved the top gold certificate. Overall, Harrovians were awarded 12 golds and 11 silvers. The C3L6 (Cambridge Chemistry Challenge designed for Lower Sixth Students) was extremely well supported with 52 Harrovians taking part. The boys achieved 11 gold, 13 silver and 15 bronze awards.

Jonathan Kyd (The Park) achieved the top score and was only two marks away from obtaining the highest Roentgenium award.

Chemistry beak Dr Dean Holt has been invited to join the governing committee of the competition from next year and he has been creating new practical experiments and demonstrations for the department.

Highlights so far include the Briggs Rauscher oscillating clock reaction that has fascinated Shells and Removes, a colourful column chromatography practical for Upper Sixth students, and a large-scale research project for the Lower Sixth on the synthesis and reactivity of ferrocene.

The Oxbridge preparation course saw a good degree of success, with three offers from Cambridge and three from Oxford, with another to study Biochemistry. During their preparation classes, boys were taught

the principles of retrosynthesis, the design processes involved in pharmaceutical drug production, and performed a case study on the ethical distribution of anti-malarial and HIV medicines by ‘big pharma’ companies in the US. The department played a significant part in the School’s Shaftesbury Enterprise activities by providing introductory science lessons for local primary schools, allowing

Sir David Attenborough with Alastair Fothergill

the children to develop safe handling of chemicals and equipment in the labs. We hosted School Science Week activities and took demonstrations ‘on the road’ to inject some chemical energy to The Cavendish School. Other young people came to use the Harrow facilities and were able to witness an array of reactions they would not otherwise get to see.

– Christian Penhale, Head of Chemistry

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he major highlight of the Classics calendar was the contio, delivered by Head of School, George Reid (Moretons), who made a first-class speech with some well-rounded Latin sententiae. George, who had not pursued Latin beyond his Shell year, put a tremendous amount of effort in his preparation, and delivered the contio relaxed, poised and with perfect pronunciation.

The department’s two major annual competitions attracted a host of talents.

The prestigious Classics Plumptre Prize was adjudicated this year by Professor Armand D’Angour of Jesus College, Oxford, who awarded Benjy Menell (West Acre) the Lower Sixth Pember Prize, which is given to the boy most outstanding in his year group. The Plumptre Prize, for best Classicist, went to Lucas Marsden-Smedley (The Park).

Dita Jaja (Moretons) won best essay in Greek literature; Philip Gallagher (The Head Master’s) won the Jones’ Prize for Latin literature; Kian Amaan (The Grove) won the Gregory Prize for best Greek

unseen translation, and Michael Yeung (The Grove) won the Fred Watkins Prize for best Latin unseen translation. The other jewel in the crown is the annual Oxenham Competition for performance of Latin and Greek poetry. This year’s adjudicator, Mr Macaulay, of Rooksheath School, said that he was impressed by the quality of the boys’ delivery, as well as their accuracy and sensitivity to the metre. Hari Rattan (The

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Knoll) won best Latin recitation in the Lower Sixth, and Dita Jaja won for best Greek performance. Ostap Stefak (Newlands) walked away with the Fifth Form Latin and Greek Prizes; Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) won the Shell Latin and Greek prizes, and Nik Shishkarev (The Grove) the Remove Latin prize.

Our Shells went to see Roman Britain at Vindolanda and visited Hadrian’s Wall, and our annual Classics trip travelled to Greece, where boys spent two days in Athens and then went on to visit an archaeological dig site in Eastern Boetia and travelled to Delphi, Olympia, Sparta, Mycenae and Corinth.

Two Upper Sixth boys, Lucas MarsdenSmedley and Krishan Emmanuel (Rendalls) went off to study Classics at Cambridge and Oxford respectively.

Ancient History is quickly growing as a popular subject among the boys and Mr James Melville has been appointed as Harrow’s first Head of Ancient History.

– Dr Steven Kennedy, Head of Classics

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omputer Science is now thriving at Harrow both in and out of the form room. This June saw the first IGCSE examination for Harrovians and all boys report an enjoyable and stimulating paper. Given the course is still in its infancy, the range of online resources available to Harrovians has hugely expanded over the last year. Many lessons have been delivered using our new suite of Microsoft Surface devices, with handouts distributed and preps submitted entirely online.

Next year we plan to run the course entirely without paper handouts; boys will be free to print if they desire, but will be encouraged to organise their digital folders rather than a mountain of paperwork.

The Lower Sixth physicists also dipped their toes into the digital world in the summer term with a scientific computing

course to help prepare boys for undergraduate study by developing their digital awareness of data processing tools. Boys produced publication-quality plots and figures, ran simple analytical

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– Dr Chris Crowe, Head of Computer Science

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he Design and Technology Department celebrated a notable achievement by one its pupils at the start of the year.

William Miles (The Head Master’s) was awarded the highest Arkwright Scholarship.

The scholarship is designed to foster young engineers and will provide funding, work experience, business links and even job offers for the future generation of leaders in engineering. This success follows on from Priyen Morjaria’s (Newlands) runner-up award in the national Young Designer of the Year competition, run

by the Design Museum.

Throughout the year, A-level Product Design students have created an excellent array of products ranging from a fully functioning table football to a bespoke drinks bar. The IGCSE students impressed with imaginative creations within Design Engineering, using electronics and mechanisms to solve situational problems.

Aside from boys’ continued first-rate work in lessons, the Design department looks to foster their passion for design across its many facets by running numerous trips

Boys visited the headquarters of Aston Martin

Boys designed drones

and talks throughout the year within their several societies to complement academic syllabi and promote thoughtfulness, experience and interest in an array of areas.

Members of the department’s Motoring Society were lucky enough to visit the Aston Martin headquarters, where they saw cars from different eras and visited design studios and workshops.

The creation of the Drone Society encapsulates the department’s philosophy of good design in contemporary matters.

The boys meet weekly to learn how drones work whilst building a drone system, designing 3D printed parts for it, then using different programmable electronic systems to operate it. Boys regularly debate and discuss different uses of potential drone technology. Next year, the department aims enter the completed drones in external races.

– Tom Knight, Head of Design and Technology

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Economics

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n January 2017, two boys from the Upper Sixth were selected, after a rigorous judging process, to enter their essay in the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Economics Prize competition. Brent Lim (The Knoll) produced a compelling analysis of the effectiveness of a carbon tax to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, while Sam Ackroyd (West Acre) wrote persuasively on the impacts of economic inequality on society. With further entries discussing the merits of the Bank of England’s programme of quantitative easing, all competitors were required to conduct considerable research into topics they had not been exposed to in the form room so early in their study of economics, and are to be commended for the clarity of their arguments and for the range of academic sources they consulted.

In February, two teams of four boys from the Upper Sixth were successful in qualifying for the semi-final of the IFS Student Investor Challenge. The teams beat off competition from 6,500 teams around the country as they invested £100,000 of

London’s Stock Exchange

virtual money in the stock market, requiring them to read and forecast data and to identify market trends. The first team was made up of Ant Stanley, Harry Toller, Sebastian Tallis, and Tom Asprey (all

Druries), with the second team formed by Charles Hainsworth, Damir Mynbayev, Pawit Kochakarn (all The Park) and Sasha Guselnikov (Druries).

– Chris Pollitt, Head of Economics

other schools were in attendance. Professor Tiffany Stern and Ben Crystal were the keynote speakers for the day but the highlight was in hearing 16 pupils (including four Harrovians) give their own talks during the course of the day, addressing various topics from representations of female madness to the significance of the ‘common man’ in Hamlet. The standard was exceptionally high and all pupils enjoyed energetic Q&A sessions after each talk.

Theatre trips included an outing to see Marlowe’s Dr Faustus at the Barbican and Patrick Marber’s electrifying production of

Stoppard’s Travesties. In the summer term, the Fifth Form enjoyed a dramatic adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Spies in the Ryan Theatre as part of their preparation for their English Literature IGCSE. The department’s annual competitions saw impressive writing, speaking and reading from boys in all years. Jack Firoozan (Rendalls) took the top prize in this year’s Winston Churchill Essay Competition, with Daniel Larbi (Moretons), Ostap Stefak (Newlands), Humza Qureshi (The Park) and Ryan Cullen (The Grove) also winning prizes for their year groups. Michael Yeung (The Grove), Rahul Shah (Bradbys), Lucas Marsden-Smedley (The Park), Will Travis (The Head Master’s) and Daniel Shailer (Rendalls) were amongst those who won prizes for their creative writing. Daniel Shailer and Max Evans-Tovey (Druries) won the Senior and Junior prizes in the Lady Bourchier Reading Competition.

Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) and Daniel Shailer took the prizes in the Learnt Poetry Competition.

– Dr Joanna Bratten, Head of English

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he English Department enjoyed a range of lectures this year, by boys as well as by visiting speakers. Tony Chan visited in the autumn term to read from his collection of sonnets and to speak about poetry writing more generally.

Dr Paul Davis from UCL also visited the department in the summer term to speak to A-level candidates about Books 9 and 10 of Paradise Lost.

In March, the department hosted a one-day Sixth Form conference on Hamlet, to coincide with the School’s production of the play in the Ryan Theatre. Over 250 pupils from eight

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Lady Bourchier Reading Competition prize winners

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Skogarfoss in Iceland

he Geography Department continues to explore locations both at home, and abroad, as well as working actively to support the provision of the supercurriculum here at Harrow. Over the Easter break, an intrepid group of young geographers in the Shell and Remove year groups travelled north to explore the tectonically active landscape of Iceland.

Touring the south coast, the group visited Thingvellir National Park, the oldest existing parliament in the world, Sólheimajökull, one of the world’s fastest shrinking outlet glaciers and the Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa located in a lava field on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Our guide, Tony Escritt, not only spent time expertly explaining the physical landscape of Iceland but also engaged every member of the expedition with his narrative of the many Icelandic tales and sagas. In addition, the Remove year group carried out their usual assessment of urban change within the ward of Notting Dale in west London. No one could have imagined the eventual tragedy associated with the new, insulating cladding applied to the Grenfell Tower as part of the Lancaster West Estate. The Lower Sixth embarked on their independent investigations as part of the revised A level, working thoroughly for

Glacier walk on Sólheimajökull

a week at the Field Studies Centre in Slapton, Devon. Projects ranged from an assessment of infiltration rates in various soil types to the role that music plays in the informal representation of places.

The department continues to support entries to the International Geography Olympiad (iGeo) and this year candidates investigated the work of Dr Parag Khanna on connectography. George Reid (Moretons) was successful in his entry and joined a team of four representing Team UK at the Olympiad in Belgrade, Serbia, during the summer.

– Simon Sampson, Head of Geography

Government and Politics

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eaching Politics in light of the Brexit Referendum and the election of Donald Trump has never been more exciting. With constant changes – including of course, a snap General Election – boys and beaks have sought to stay abreast of the latest developments. It has also provided a wide variety of wonderful opportunities for boys to experience politics first hand. Several Upper Sixth boys attended a General Election hustings for the School’s own constituency of Harrow West, asking a wide range of probing questions and engaging critically and dynamically with the candidates. Boys have also attended an array of lectures and events in London.

The department has had many unique opportunities exploring Rwandan politics outside the traditional curriculum. After the visit of the Rwandan High Commissioner, Her Excellency Yamina Karitanyi, to the Palmerston Society, 12 boys were afforded

the opportunity to attend a tour and private reception at the High Commission in London. The High Commissioner spoke about the remarkable transformation that Rwanda has made during the last two decades. Boys in the Sixth Form took part in a Politics and Economics trip to Rwanda during the first week of the Easter holidays.

During this expedition, they met with the British High Commissioner in Kigali and the UK Trade Envoy, Lord Popat of Harrow.

They were also addressed by the CEO of

Sixth Form boys in Rwanda

the Rwandan Stock Exchange and the Managing Director of Kenya Commercial Bank in their Rwandan Headquarters.

Boys have also entered a wide variety of essay competitions including those organised by Oxford and Cambridge colleges, the John Locke Institute and the UK Supreme Court. This has provided an excellent opportunity for boys to conduct research and develop their thinking.

– Dr Michael Gray, former Head of Government and Politics

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History

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his was a year of entrenchment of recently established initiatives and the re-establishment of old ones. The department’s magazine, The Seal, went from strength to strength. Masterminded

by Vlado Vasile (Bradbys), this year’s publications covered the themes of ‘Historic Events’, ‘Controversy’ and ‘Exploration’, and there was a bumper summer issue devoted to Speech Day prize-winning essays.

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for History and Politics, sponsored by His Imperial Royal Highness Archduke Simeon of Austria and awarded to the author of the best essay on the subject of Europe’s place in the wider world, the honours went to James Lo (The Head Master’s) for an essay exploring the extent to which the EU can be described as ‘a medium-sized political player.’ Sumer Singh (The Park) was also highly commended by the Julia Wood Prize committee for his essay on the question of whether ‘Britain has lost an empire, but not yet found a role’.

The tradition of the departmental trip to the Great War battlefields was resurrected with a two-day expedition, by almost all the Shell year, to Ypres and the Somme. It culminated in a moving service in the field, led by Father James Power, with 120 Harrovians gathered beneath the central arch of the Thiepval Memorial to the 72,246 missing servicemen who died on the Somme between 1915 and 1918.

While school history is sometimes caricatured as a narrow study of ‘Hitler and the Henrys’, nothing could be further from the truth at Harrow. A-level historians studied the reign of Charlemagne; England from Alfred the Great to Æthelred the Unready; church and government under the Normans and Angevins; the early Stuarts and the English Civil War; the American Revolution; the French Revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; and the relationship between Britain and Ireland from 1791 to 1921. History beaks taught Electives on the history and culture of the British Isles and Scandinavia in the early medieval period, the Crusades, the history of political thought, great battles, and

even the history of eugenics. Many Sixth Formers decided to write coursework that dovetailed with the A-level syllabus, but others pursued research in subjects of special personal interest including British missionaries in colonial Nigeria, the Vietnam War and the Black Panther movement.

This great breadth is reflected in the diversity of university courses that our leavers will be following next year. In addition to the traditional History degree, the department is sending boys on to read for a raft of joint honours degrees (including History with English, modern languages, Economics and International Relations).

For others, the historical interests that blossomed in the Sixth Form have led to more unusual degree courses, such as Archaeology and Anthropology, War and Security Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, and Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

– Andy Todd, Head of History

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t was a busy year in the History of Art Department. In February, the Lower Sixth went on a trip to Florence, where they saw masterpieces of the Early Renaissance from Brunelleschi’s dome for the cathedral to jewels such as Benozzo Gozzoli’s Chapel of the Magi in the Medici Palace. Boys also took the opportunity to indulge in the famous Florentine steak and gelato, and the trip was well timed to coincide with a chocolate festival!

The department has also been making the most of local resources with regular trips into London. In the autumn term, the Lower Sixth had exclusive access to the Norman Parkinson Archive in anticipation of an exhibition at the Pasmore Gallery alongside the work of Cecil Beaton in November 2017. We were invited to the Christie’s Preview Brunch for the Post-War and Contemporary Sale in March, with a talk hosted by the BBC Arts Correspondent, Alastair Sooke, on the work of British pop artist, Gerald Laing, and a select group of boys visited Eton to hear Jenny Saville discuss her practice.

Boys also experienced the Frieze Art Fair, the Antony Gormley show at White Cube and the Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy.

The Removes have had a taster of the subject as part of the Elective carousel.

Lower Sixth art historians visited Florence

Looking at art history through the prism of museums, collectors and the art market, boys have been challenged to think more critically about the art institutions that surround them as well as to consider the economics of art.

The department is excited to be offering future generations of Harrovians the Cambridge Pre-U course in place of the

A level. It requires the same skills of visual literacy but also offers the boys freedom to pursue their own interests. We are looking forward to hosting the National ARTiculation public-speaking prize in the next academic year and introducing the Fifth Form to the subject in a new Elective in September.

– Juliet Bailey, History of Art Master

including the match with the highest aggregate score in the history of the competition. They then recorded wins over Watford Grammar School and St Paul’s in the knockout stages to set up a semi-final against arch-rivals City of London School.

Despite Harrow pushing them all the way, CLS were the winners of this year’s fixture and went on to win the final by a much more comfortable margin.

– Ian Hammond, former Head of Mathematics

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he Mathematics Society hosted several talks by boys this year and was well organised by Curtis Ho (Lyon’s), who leaves Harrow for Cambridge after making excellent additions to the success of the School over many years. Among the speakers were Gordon Thompson (Lyon’s), Ravi Kohli (The Grove), Daniel Larbi (Moretons), Curtis Ho, Akhil Seth (Lyon’s), Steven Yang (The Park) and Scipio Herwegh Vonk (Newlands), who all gave interesting and well-illustrated talk on a variety of topics from the weather to forensic accounting.

The Maths team once again produced some fine performances this year, taking second place in the regional finals of both the Senior and Junior team challenges. In the Hans Woyda knockout competition, the boys topped their group with three impressive wins out of three,

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arrow continues to lead the way in terms of the breadth of languages boys may study: all boys have the opportunity to study at least two of French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Mandarin and Japanese within the main timetable. Many choose to complement their on-timetable study with another language, including Arabic, Polish, Modern Greek and Dutch, as part of the thriving off-timetable languageteaching programme.

The core academic content delivered in the form room is supplemented by an array of language-related societies, which organise lectures, seminars, visits and cultural events over the course of the year.

Highlights in recent months have included the French debating competition, the UK Linguistics Olympiad, the Japanese Nihongo Speech Contest (won by Krishan Emmanual (Rendalls), who went on to represent the UK in the international competition) and

Russian students in St Petersburg

Boys studying Japanese visited Tokyo

talks by external speakers including Bill Browder, John Dickie and Dr Jennifer Burns.

Pupils also took part in the Stephen Spender poetry translation competition and competed in the annual Spanish drama competition, as well as delivering a wide variety of their own society talks, covering topics ranging from the art of origami to the origins of the Russian revolution.

An integral part of studying a language is, of course, time spent in the country itself and Harrow’s languages staff continue to

give up a huge amount of time and effort to organise and accompany numerous trips abroad, both cultural visits and trips designed to improve pupils’ command of the language itself. 2016/17 saw trips to Nice, Chambéry, Berlin, Salamanca, Florence, Tokyo, Moscow and St Petersburg.

– Nick Page, former Head of Modern Languages The HDT supported Modern Foreign Languages trips.

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he Theology and Philosophy Department has gone from strength to strength, offering an impressive variety of curricular and super-curricular opportunities. The highlight of the year was the Speech Room lecture on morality given by Dr Rowan Williams and AC Grayling, attended by many Harrovians and pupils from local schools.

In the form room, the boys have had two innovative experiences: flipped learning and Philosophy for Children (P4C). Flipped learning refers to swapping the substance of what was traditionally ‘classwork’ with what was traditionally ‘homework’. This means that we deliver the basic knowledge and understanding (the content of the course) outside the form room (as prep),

while exam practice, consolidation, assessment and higher-level learning is carried out in the form room. Fifth Form and Remove boys are now taught to ‘prep’ for each lesson by doing some extended reading or an introductory prep task so that the lesson can begin from a higher position and therefore accelerate the learning that takes place. We have found that boys become more independent learners and it frees up lesson time for higher-order thinking tasks, with the opportunity for regular assessment, more verbal feedback, and delivering the depth and breadth of the specification to a wide range of abilities.

The Shell boys have enjoyed P4C throughout the year. This has allowed them to focus on enquiry-based learning

and thinking with a clear focus on boys developing their abilities to listen actively and to offer constructive feedback to one another.

Outside School, a group of Fifth Formers attended an Oxford University masterclass where they learnt about the foundational principles of philosophy from some of the most eminent academics in the field. Sixth Formers enjoyed several crucial A-level revision sessions in Bloomsbury and had the opportunity to go to Cambridge University to learn about Philosophy degrees.

Pleasingly, a number of Upper Sixth boys will be pursuing Theology, Philosophy and related degrees at university.

– Richard Harvey, Head of Theology and Philosophy

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017 was another excellent year for Harrovians in the British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) competitions. These test papers are renowned for their difficulty so any degree of success is widely recognised as a considerable academic and intellectual achievement. In the Round 1 paper of the senior competition, Oliver Farquharson (The Knoll) and Hao Yuan Yang (The Park) recorded top 50 golds, meaning their marks placed them in the top 50 nationally. Seven others achieved silver and there were five bronzes. All top 50 award winners are invited to sit the British Astronomy & Astrophysics Challenge paper. Oliver Farquharson recorded a gold in that paper and Hao Yuan Yang a silver. In the AS Challenge, there were five golds, nine silvers and 26 bronzes. The Physics Challenge paper is the Olympiad competition for those pupils who are still

CREST Gold Award winners visited Cambridge

sitting their GCSEs. Harrovians recorded four golds, 10 silvers and 35 bronzes.

This year’s clutch of engineering projects

comprised four teams with six Lower Sixth boys per team. Each team was linked to an external higher education mentor, who provided guidance and project management throughout the six months of the project, and all teams won CREST Gold Awards. One of the teams, Team Josephson, which designed a special pair of spectacles that uses sound waves to enable blind people to “see” in a similar way a bat does in the natural world, was chosen as a finalist in the Technology, Design and Innovation Award Challenge.

– Chris Barry, Head of Science

AC Grayling and Dr Rowan Williams lectured on morality

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VAUGHAN LIBRARY The Reading Strategy was launched at the start of the academic year and this gave free rein to the Vaughan to celebrate everything around reading and good books, and to encourage reading for pleasure throughout the School.

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hell boys starting in September were invited to write postcards to their House Masters. They chose a book they had read from the New Boys Reading List and wrote a short review of it on a postcard. We displayed the books and the postcards so that the boys could see their reviews on their first visits to the library.

Several tutor groups set up book groups and most boys had timetabled reading periods and opportunities to read in their Houses. The impact on the Vaughan Library was immense, with a demand for books from classics to contemporary fiction.

Favoured authors included George Orwell, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Muchamore, Conn Iggulden and Ben Kane.

As always, we promoted all the best book prizes and nominations for national book awards, with displays for the Wellcome Book Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Winton Prize for Science, the Costa Book Awards and the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction. We also had our own displays on Winter Reads and Summer Reads and booklists to accompany them, bringing together the books that staff and boys have read and want to recommend. It is always interesting to see which books are chosen and by whom.

It was a very busy Speech Day in the Vaughan with visitors and boys collecting prizes or looking at the exhibitions. The Harrow Development Trust were on hand with their display on the Harrow Development Plans. Six-hundred-andfifteen books were ordered as Speech Day prizes, with the most requested title being Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Other popular books were A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking, Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner, Civilization by Niall Ferguson, The End: Germany 1944-5 by Ian Kershaw, What If? by Randall Munroe, Middlemarch by George Eliot and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The most requested authors for Speech Day Prizes this year were Yuval Noah Harari,

Jane Austen, George Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Niall Ferguson, George Orwell, James Joyce, Homer and Dante.

We ended a packed year with a visit from the best-selling historical novelist Conn Iggulden. On the hottest June day since 1974, we listened to tales and

inspirational anecdotes, transporting us across the centuries and lands. The opportunity to listen to an author who writes the books that Harrow boys really like to read was a fitting end to the year in which we launched the Reading Strategy.

– Marie Staunton, Head of Library and Archives

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150 years of Eton fives at Harrow The name “fives” probably comes from the expression “a bunch of fives”, meaning a hand or fist. A modern version is the “high five”. The name ‘fives’ came to embrace all sorts of games where a ball was hit with a hand, a bat or a racquet, usually against a wall.

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he earliest known mention of fives at Harrow dates from 1769, when Sir William Jones (Harrow 1753), who was a tutor at the School, wrote to his pupil’s mother, Lady Spencer: “I strive to encourage him to play at cricket and fives and good exercises for I cannot bear to see a boy idling about with no object and spending hour after hour in making ducks TGO Cole and B Stewart-Brown, School Pair 1895

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and drakes in a pond or sauntering under a tree.”

Most countries have handball games, jeu de paume, pelota and Irish handball being examples. In the United Kingdom, various forms of fives evolved, often against church walls. Most schools had a space where pupils could hit a ball against a wall, but the fives of Rugby School, Eton College and Winchester College were all adopted by other schools, although several other versions exist.

At Harrow, Eton fives is played. The court is based on the space between the two buttresses of the Eton College chapel, at the foot of the staircase leading up to the main door. Ball games had long been played in the bays between the buttresses of the chapel but it was the particular attraction of the “doubles court”, the area at the foot of the staircase to the north door, which led to the distinctive ledges, ‘pepper pot’ and step of the Eton fives court. The game played there became so popular that in 1840, the Head Master, Dr Hawtrey, decided to build replicas of this space (with slight adaptations).

The game spread gradually, mainly through Old Etonians becoming headmasters or assistant masters at other public schools. One such, EM Young, joined the teaching staff at Harrow in 1863 and he was largely responsible for introducing the game to the School.

The first courts were built in unusual circumstances: an appeal for funds for a rackets court had surprisingly produced a surplus and so it was decided to build some Eton fives courts and Rugby fives courts with the extra money. As these courts were intended for internal use only, little attention was paid to the

EH Crake and FB Wilson, School Pair 1900

dimensions. George Townsend Warner (Church Hill 18802), who later became a master, wrote, “The original courts were four in number, built against the east wall of the hard-ball racket court. They were however more peculiar than pleasing and appeared to have been constructed by a builder who had dreamt of an Eton fives court and copied his nightmare in bricks and mortar.” The Rugby fives courts were never used much for fives as boys took their rackets in and played another version of the game that had been evolving in the House yards: squash.

The earliest patron of fives at Harrow was GH Hallam, who later became House Master of The Park. It was largely due to his enthusiasm that four black courts were built in 1880. Although the cricket match against Eton, which became an annual event from 1818, and the Public Schools Rackets Championships, which began in 1868, were by then well established, inter-school matches in all games were rare; the main contests were the House Ties (matches). As the second half of the 19th century progressed, however, a greater awareness of activities beyond the

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A game of fives at Eton in the 1930s

confines of the Hill began to emerge. The March 1885 issue of Harrow Notes, one of the forerunners of The Harrovian, has the following paragraph in Notes on News: “On Thursday, the 12th ult., the Hon. and Revd. E. Lyttelton, F. Thomas and C. Barclay paid a visit to our Fives Courts and showed us the way Fives are played at Eton”.

This is the first reference to an interschool fives match and the beginning of a series of annual contests with remarkably few breaks; for instance, matches were played through both World Wars when many such activities were suspended.

Considering that these early fives courts were neither covered nor lit and that the matches were invariably played in February, the players must have had a very different idea of what constituted normal playing conditions from today. The iron boot-scrapers at the back of courts 3 and 5 were only removed in 2017.

The visit of the Etonians in 1885 clearly gave a fillip to the game at Harrow and six more courts were built in 1894 in memory of Arthur Macnamara (High Street 18752), who had been killed in the Alps. EM Butler (The Head Master’s 18802), son of Montagu Butler, Head Master at the time, who had played for Harrow in the inaugural match against Eton, was at Cambridge with one of the Eton pair, Freeman Thomas. Also a contemporary at Cambridge was George Townsend Warner; Warner and Butler were to return to teach at Harrow and to give enthusiastic support to fives. They

Centenary match v Eton 1985

played against the School pair every Friday in the spring term and it is said that they were only once beaten in their match-playing career – and then by a pair of Charterhouse masters. Warner died at the age of 51 in 1916 and he was described as “the man to whom all Harrow fives players of the last twenty years are indebted for such proficiency as they acquired”.

Harrow won the match against Eton in 1886 but the early contests were, unsurprisingly, one-sided in Eton’s favour until the arrival of JH Crake (Church Hill 19003) and RE Eiloart (High Street 19012), who won all their matches against both Eton and Charterhouse, home and away, for three seasons from 1903 to 1906. These victories inspired Old Harrovians to collect enough money to build a covered fives court in celebration in 1907. Unfortunately, they chose an isolated position on the upper north side of the Bill Yard steps and the court never became established as the ‘top court’. The inscription on the court reads:

Hoc Saxo Per triennium uno tenore Felicissime cosociati Memoriae traduntur E.H. CRAKE, R.E. EILOART MCMIV, V, VI

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“This stone commemorates three years of happy association between EH Crake and RE Eiloart, 1904, 5 and 6”.

Inter-school matches were originally played one pair a side. The first match against Charterhouse was played in 1900 and it was a shock for the visitors to find that their courts were red: “We beat them in their own court which to a Harrow player is even more puzzling than the Eton court”. This was the beginning of a triangular competition between Eton, Harrow and Charterhouse, which continued until 1916. These were the only inter-school matches until Cyril Alington, who had become Headmaster of Shrewsbury, returned to Eton as Head

Master in 1917 and then Shrewsbury joined the group.

In 1910, Dr Lionel Ford was appointed Head Master of Harrow. Ford had previously taught at Eton, where he had become a very good fives player and he was instrumental in raising the profile of the game at Harrow. Six courts were roofed and 11 new ones built, eight of them covered. This brought the total to 24. Fives became very popular with upwards of 12 pairs playing the masters in each of the winter terms.

Harrow fives continued to flourish between the wars. In 1925, a national championship was set up; in 1931, it was given the official title The Amateur Championship for the Kinnaird Cup. From 1927 to 1939, the finals were played at The Queen’s Club near Baron’s Court in London. These courts were bombed during the Second World War and now the finals are played at Eton.

The Fives Association was formed in 1924 and separated into Eton and Rugby Fives Associations in 1928. The laws of Eton fives, which had evolved independently in different schools, were Three Newlands pairs, 1933

formally adopted in 1931. This rapidly developing period of the game was given much useful publicity by the sports correspondent of The Times, FB Wilson (Church Hill 18953), who had played in the Harrow pair of 1900, the first to have beaten Eton both home and away.

One of the Kinnaird Cup winners, KC Gandar-Dower (Newlands 19223), was an extraordinarily talented sportsman.

At Cambridge, he won blues for lawn tennis, real tennis, Eton fives, Rugby fives, rackets and billiards; in addition, he won the Amateur Squash Championship in 1938. He had some eccentric ideas, one of which was a proposal to race cheetahs at the White City Stadium and he caused some alarm at The Queen’s Club when he brought one of them into the bar on a lead. The idea came to nothing because cheetahs are not very good at going round bends. A war correspondent, GandarDower drowned in the Indian Ocean in 1944 when the troopship SS Khedive Ishmael was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. His partner at school, WM Welch (Moretons 19252), who won the Schools’ Championships in

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Tom and Peter Dunbar, Kinnaird Cup winners in 2006, 2007, and 2009

both 1929 and 1930, also perished in the war. Gandar-Dower’s Kinnaird Cup partner, GR McConnell (Rendalls 19222), who was twice a winner and twice a losing finalist in the pre-war years, returned to teach at Harrow and later became House Master of Rendalls.

In 1928, the Public Schools Handicaps was set up. This was later re-named The National Schools Eton Fives Championships. Again, Harrow pairs were very successful, winning five times and being runners-up twice in the first nine years.

Up to 1938, school matches had been played one pair a side but, in the return match against Eton that year, three pairs were played for the first time and, since then, the result of a school match has generally been determined by the best of three courts.

While many schools in the Home Counties were evacuated during the war, Harrow stayed on the Hill. There was some damage from enemy action – an incendiary bomb landed on Speech Room – but the fives courts survived intact.

Moreover, their inaccessible position prevented them being used as coal stores or groundsman’s sheds, the fate of many courts at other schools. At Mill Hill, which became a military hospital, the courts were used as a morgue. Unsurprisingly, the national competitions were suspended during the war years and there were fewer school matches.

A full programme of fixtures was resumed after the war and the immediate post-war years were notable for the success of an outstanding pair, MJ Shortland-Jones and DJS Guilford (both Druries 19442), who both later became classics masters at Eton. They were to feature as amateur champions

and finalists, together and separately, over the next 20 years.

Improvements to the Harrow courts were made in the 1950s: 16 courts were covered, six of them with lights. Most matches began to be played three pairs a side and often colts (under-16) pairs were included. In 1965, the unused Rugby fives courts were demolished for a second rackets court and fives benefited from the building of a changing room.

At the same time, the lowest four open-air courts, backing onto the Church Fields, were replaced by squash courts. In the 1970s, junior colts (under-15) and yearlings (under-14) were included in school matches. By 2000, all 16 courts were covered and lit, enabling Harrow to hold tournaments.

The appointment of Dale Vargas (Druries 19523) as master-in-charge in 1974 initiated a strong revival of fives at Harrow and the establishment of a flourishing local club, The Hill Eton Fives Club. The quality of the School’s fives improved and the Harrow pair of AFH Bell (The Park 19722) and NMJ Hewens (The Head Master’s 19741) were schools’ finalists in 1977.

This resurgence was built upon by Graham Dunbar, who was master-incharge of fives for most of the years from 1981 to 2017. He was ably supported by Mark Williams (1987-97), Tom Dawson (1999-2004) and James Poole (Bradbys 20003) (2012-14). In 1985, 100 years of fives between Harrow and Eton was celebrated by a ‘centenary match’ at Harrow, followed by a six-pair match between the Old Harrovian and Old Etonian Fives Clubs.

In recent years, competition between schools has become more intense with more schools playing and some, such as

Shrewsbury and Highgate, giving fives ‘major game’ status. In the 16 years between 1988 and 2003, Harrow pairs have reached the final of the Schools’ Open Championship no fewer than eight times, winning five: a great tribute to Graham Dunbar. When his two sons, Tom (The Park 19953) and Peter (The Park 19983) playing as a pair, won in 2000, Peter became the youngest-ever Schools’ winner. In 1991, Manuel de Souza-Girao (The Head Master’s 19833) won the Kinnaird Cup while still an undergraduate at Cambridge and was awarded the rare distinction for a fives player of a full blue.

In 2016, a full-time School Eton fives coach was appointed for the first time: Ian Hutchinson was a Kinnaird Cup finalist in 2000 and had also been a Middlesex county cricketer.

In 2017, Tom Dunbar won the Kinnaird Cup for a record 13th time; on three occasions, he had been partnered by his brother, Peter.

– Dale Vargas (Druries 19523) Second Master 1999-2001.

A History of Eton Fives by Dale Vargas and Peter Knowles is available from the Hill Shop.

This article first appeared in The Harrovian Vol. CXXIX No 30, 24 June 2017.

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MILITARY HISTORY

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History beak Dr David Finnegan spoke to the Society about the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the Second World War’s most notorious conflicts. Mr Hamish Haldane of the Modern Languages Department gave a talk on Garibaldi’s Red Shirts: How Italy was made through war, which looked at the unification of Italy and the events leading up to it, and Classics master Mr James Melville spoke about Boudicca and the Battle of Watling Street. At an Evening of Battles, Louis Wilson and Will Travis (both The Head Master’s) discussed the battles of Alesia and Stalingrad. Hari Rattan (The Knoll) gave a talk on the Spanish Armada, Nik Shourie (The Grove) spoke about Gettysburg 1863 and Alexander Nakhmanovich (The Grove) lectured on the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, 1939. At joint meetings with the School’s history society, the Trevelyan Society, members also heard about the motivations of the first crusaders, the British Empire, post-famine Ireland and the Kennedy clan.

Statue of Boudicca in London

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL GROUP A highlight of the group’s year was a visit by Peter Tatchell, a radical figure in the arena of debate on human rights who has been described as ‘the most outspoken LGBTrights activist in the world’. His talk was on the unfinished battle for LGBT rights.

Journalists Fiona Anderson and Polly Truscott addressed members on Amnesty’s fight for rights under Donald Trump’s administration and how it is urging him to take his position as ‘leader of the free world’ seriously.

Belinda Phipps of the Fawcett Society spoke about gender discrimination and feminism in her talk What feminism does for men and boys. Members also heard from Lord

Jonathan Marks (Moretons 19663), a renowned human rights advocate and the Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Secretary of State for Justice. Mike Freer, Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, spoke about the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

Baroness Caroline Cox, founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), founder of the Committee for a Free Britain (which called for the legalisation of all drugs), and former Deputy Speaker of the

House of Lords, visited Harrow to give a talk entitled The Pain and the Passion: The privilege of making a difference. The group also heard from Stephen Brown, Director of the British Institute of Human Rights. Talks by boys included Dillon Anadkat (West Acre) speaking about the major political parties’ stances on human rights in the run-up to the 2017 general election in the UK, and Will Latham (Bradbys) discussing issues around freedom of speech.

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ATHENAEUM SOCIETY Talks given by boys covered a wide array of subjects that resulted in some very spirited discussions. They included Toni Fola-Alade (Rendalls) speaking on ‘In defense of political authority’, in which his audience were asked to question why they obey rules, and on the views of Thomas Hobbes. Vlado Vasile (Bradbys) talked about how the Brexit vote might influence the EU. Alessio Kenda (Newlands) spoke on Winning at all costs: the science of sports doping and Sam Ackroyd (West Acre) gave a talk entitled Is meritocracy dying? He looked at how widening wealth and income disparities in the UK and US are causing increasing inequality of opportunity, and explored how this issue affects modernday capitalist democracies.

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Among a number of distinguished speakers, US Senior Cultural Attaché Mr Tim Gerhardson visited the Society to speak on diversity, culture and policy in the American diplomatic service.

At a joint meeting of the Atlantic and Palmerston Societies, Dartmouth Professor John Carey, a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, explained the

US electoral system and discussed whom he thought had the best chance of winning the 2016 presidential election.

Dr Halbert Jones of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, a leading expert on US Foreign Relations who has served in the Office of the Historian of the US State Department, spoke about recent trends in US politics and its future policy goal.

Members also gave a range of talks: Will Travis (The Head Master’s) addressed the Society on the topic of the US-UK special relationship and the history of Anglo-American relations from the Civil War to Brexit, and Nicolas Gardner (Bradbys) gave a talk entitled Trump in Office: Is he Making America Great Again?

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This year, the Society hosted Edward Griffiths who was CEO of Saracens Rugby from 2008 to 2015; a former chief executive officer at the South African Rugby Union who led the One Team, One Country campaign to unite the country behind the Springboks in 1995; a member of the organising committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup; and a consultant for South Africa’s 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup bids. He spoke to members of the Society about the role of money in international sport. Liam Tancock, international swimmer and 50-metre backstroke world-record holder gave a talk on his swimming experiences.

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Liam Tancock with some of the School’s swimming squad

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The Society’s guest speakers this year included Taro Konishi Dukes (Elmfield 20093), who gave a talk on studying Classics at Oxford, and Ben Kane, best-selling author of the Forgotten Legion trilogy and Eagles in Rome series, who spoke about the life of a Roman legionary. Dr Edmund Stewart from the University of Nottingham discussed Greek Tragedy in Italy and Sicily in the Fifth Century BC. Dr Armand D’Angour, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, who

COMPUTER SCIENCE SOCIETY This year, members of the Society created a suite of Raspberry Pi touchscreen systems, ran a series of overclocking and performance modifications to the suite of gaming desktop PCs, and started an investigation into an iOS/Android app development course to be run next year. Already plans are in place to upgrade the systems to solid state drives, load new OS distributions, and install faster, more efficient CPUs to further increase performance. We hope to make use of the Unity engine to create 3D environments to be used with VR headsets like the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. The Society also heard from a Student Ambassador from DJI Drones on the future of drones and the technology behind them.

composed the Ode in Ancient Greek for the 2004 and 2012 Olympic Games, gave a lecture on his reconstruction of Greek music. Dr Gail Trimble delivered a lecture on Reading Ovid, explaining how the Roman poet adapts Greek characters, and Dr Edward Bispham of Brasenose College, Oxford, addressed the subject of the Roman Republic, outlining the main changes that it underwent both socially and culturally during its transition to Empire.

Photograph taken by a DJI drone

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CURTIS FILM SOCIETY Journalist and screenwriter Thomas Hodgkinson (The Grove 19893) visited the Society to give a talk entitled How to be Cool. Films viewed by the Society this year included: • Standing Tall (La tête haute) (dir. Emmanuelle Bercot) • Caché (Hidden) (dir. Michael Heneke) • That Sinking Feeling (dir. Bill Forsyth) • The Clan (El Clan) (dir. Pablo Trapero) • The Conversation (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

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Professor David Dunstan, Professor of Experimental Physics at Queen Mary, University of London, spoke to the Society on Physics as a Toolbox for the Universe.

He set the scene for his talk by emphasising the importance of selecting the optimum tool to solve problems, as opposed to learning specific answers to a set of questions. Matthew Thomas from Foster and Partners also gave a talk entitled Think big, build big: an insight into careers in Engineering and Architecture.

Design for Battersea Power Station development by Foster and Partners

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The Debating Society kicked off the academic year with motion This house believes democracy is outdated. The Inter-House Debating Competition saw the seniors addressing the motions of This house would repeal the Human Rights Act; This house believes that liberalism has had its day; This house would trigger Article 50 tomorrow; and This house would buy now, pay later. In the final, Lyon’s and The Head Master’s faced each other to debate the motion This house believes it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive, with the adjudicator, Mr Nikolay Koshikov

(West Acre 20093), former President of the Oxford Union, awarding victory to Lyon’s.

The juniors debated: This house looks forward to Brexit; This house would vote for Trump; This house believes celebrities should stay out of politics; and This house would uninvent the mobile phone. Lyon’s were again the victors in the final, beating Newlands in a debate on the motion that This house would limit free speech on social media. Outside the School, six members of the Society went to Kingsbury High School to engage in this year’s Oxford Schools Debating competition.

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Talks by Society members included Henry Chia-Croft and William Tallentire discussing Zenobia, Warrior Queen of Palmyra, and Archie Bullen and Matthew Ede revealing the truth about two of Rome’s most notorious emperors in a talk entitled Caligula and Nero Exposed.

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Diocletian’s Camp, Palmyra

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The main Friday speaker meetings have continued and grown through the year even amidst the business of term. It has again been wonderful to hear the testimonies of young and old OHs who continue to return to tell of Christ’s faithfulness.

The feature for this year has been the strong lead given by the Upper Sixth leaders’ group, Jack Oelhafen, Ollie Rosson-Jones, George O’Malley (all Lyon’s), Oscar Denby (The Park), and Alan Huo (The Head Master’s). They have been tireless in encouraging others to come, and setting the right tone and example. Another feature of this year has been the growing sense of fellowship amidst the small year-group Bible studies. These have become established, often fitted in around supper time in form rooms or homes.

Some boys have continued to enjoy the

chance to investigate the Christian faith in an unhurried way on the Iwerne Christian holidays. These also give boys the chance to widen their circle of Christian friends, amid the fun of often beach-based North Norfolk activities.

It was a special delight for me to be sent off at my final meeting in the Hill Café with cake, iced with my picture, to complement the usual pizza.

James Baron – former Master-in-Charge

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The Society heard a range of talks from boys and from visitors. Will Latham (Bradbys) spoke to the Society on Kurdish Independence: Possibility or Myth?, explaining the complexity of the Kurdish position in the Middle East. Ollie Hicks (The Grove 1998³ and OH Adventurer) delivered a talk entitled The Greenland to Scotland Challenge, which looked at the history of improbable voyages in small craft, the history of the legend, and a first-hand account of what it took to make this ocean crossing in a tiny craft.

Members of the OH Adventurers Club spoke to the Society about their various exploits. Pen Hadow (The Park 19753) opened the evening with an account of adventurous alumni; James Sunley (Elmfield 19761) spoke about the Cresta Run; Sneh Khemka (West Acre 19893) gave an account of his time as a field medic and jungle trekker; Jamie Sparks (Moretons 20053) revealed all about his ocean row; Mark Mosimann (Bradbys 19903) gave an inspirational overview of the Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc; and Henry Cookson (Elmfield 19893) gave an overview of his polar adventurers.

Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko

GEOPOLITICS SOCIETY The Society began the year with a debate about whether Japan’s emperor Akihito should be allowed to abdicate. Members of the Society represented the Japanese royal family, Japanese political parties, devout followers of Shintoism and the American

government. China, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, USA and Malaysia were the countries represented in another debate about whether China is right to claim the South China sea. A third debate considered if NATO should be dissolved.

Members of the Gore Society with AC Grayling

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This year’s Gore Society Lecture was given by the Reverend Dr John Morris who spoke on Suffering: disproving God? Mr Peter Sullivan, of the anti-abortion and antieuthanasia charity Life, spoke on Abortion: A pro-life view, in which he discussed alternative measures for people considering abortion. He returned later in the year to discuss euthanasia. Professor David Clark, Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Glasgow and leader of the University’s End of Life Studies Group also spoke about euthanasia and the role of palliative care. The Society heard from

author and broadcaster, and Master of the New College of Humanities, AC Grayling, who spoke on the topic of his recent book, On War: or the Battle over Explanations, Justifications and Prognostications.

Talks by boys included Dillon Anadkat (West Acre) on The Philosophy of Pleasure, in which he examined the link between pleasure and materialism; Rohan Doshi (West Acre) on René Descartes; and Doshi and Aria Shirazi (Rendalls) on the influence of different philosophers on our thinking about how to live a good life.

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DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY The Innovation-Design Society was created to establish a forum for boys to discuss their passions about global innovation.

The Society’s regular meetings are intended to develop their perspective on design’s global presence. Talks included topics such as SpaceX Rockets, The Psychology of Game Design and Advances in Additive Manufacture. Next year the Society will be hosting more external guest speakers as well as establishing an annual project.

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The Society started the year with talks by Akhil Seth (Lyon’s), Scipio Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) and Stephen Yang (The Park) about calculators, the Monty Hall problem and Maxwell’s equations describing electromagnetism. Dr Nira Chamberlain, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, who has over 20 years’ experience of writing mathematical models and simulation algorithms that solve complex industrial problems and who is listed by the Science Council as ‘one of the UK’s top 100 Scientists’, lectured the Society on Simulations and Algorithms: The art of applying mathematics to real-world problems.

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Among the speakers hosted by the Society this year was Baroness Verma, who spoke about her early life in India, her experience of racial discrimination while growing up in Leicester, and her career as a member of the Conservative Party and a minister. She also discussed the Brexit referendum and her views on its role in the rise of racism.

The Society also welcomed Virendra

Sharma, Labour MP for Ealing Southall.

He described his arrival from India 49 years ago, his path to becoming an MP and his career in politics. Dr Mishka Sinha gave a talk to a joint meeting of the Nehru and Oriental Societies about the influence of classic books from the east on the west.

Professor Peter Robb of the School of Oriental and African Studies, who is

currently researching Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, which are a fertile source of understanding for colonial and post-colonial India, gave a talk entitled Making Englishness. Society member Dillon Anadkat (West Acre) gave a talk entitled Nehru: a nation’s saviour or an egotistical failure?

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During the year, Shell boys visited a Japanese Zen Buddhist temple and experienced Zen meditation.

The Society heard from Dr Brigitte Steger from the University of Cambridge who explained the Japanese habit of frequent sleep, or inemuri.

At its regular meetings, the Society heard from Dan Shailer (Rendalls) talking about important Chinese inventions and Daniel Baker (Moretons) on Chinese minority groups. Firry Yang (The Head Master’s) demonstrated the Chinese tea ceremony and performed on the guqin, a Chinese traditional stringed instrument. James Bailey (Newlands) gave a short and humorous account of the history of China and the Opium War. Oliver Bater (Rendalls) and George Ho (Elmfield) analysed the Chinese Civil War, and Gerald Barry (Moretons) described his work experience placement at Tokyo International Conference on African Development held in Nairobi.

Other talks were given by Scipio Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) who discussed Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, and Thomas Keeble (West Acre), who described the impact of Japanese fashion.

At an annual panel discussion, China’s one child policy was discussed and there

were a number of talks about other parts of Asia. Kochakarn Pawit (The Park) described the history of the kings of Thailand; David Moon (The Park) discussed the relationship between North and South Korea; and Thomas Khan, Lawrence Leekie (both West Acre) and Andrew Hong (Lyon’s) demonstrated the variety of English

Members of the Society with Dr Brigitte Steger

spoken in Asia. Trevor Tang (The Grove) and David Huang (The Knoll) discussed North Korea, and Eugene Kim (West Acre) illustrated the fauna of Asia.

Perhaps the most anticipated event of the year was a sushi-making workshop during which boys were taught how to make a variety of sushi rolls.

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Visits this year included: • Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age – Tate Britain • Picasso’s Portraits – National Portrait Gallery • Rodin and Dance, The Essence of Movement – Courtauld Gallery • Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear – V&A • Taylor Wessing Prize – National Portrait Gallery • Royal College of Arms • Hockney – Tate Britain • Heath Robinson Museum • The Japanese House: Architecture and life after 1945 – Barbican Art Gallery • Electricity – the Spark of Life – Wellcome Collection

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ALMERSTON SOCIETY POLITICS The year’s first speaker was the Rwandan High Commissioner who spoke about the danger of genocide ideology and genocide denial, as well as how, under Paul Kagame’s presidency, the country has undergone a remarkable turnaround. A week before the US presidential election in November 2016, Professor Carey from Dartmouth College in America spoke to a huge audience about the reliability (or otherwise) of polling data in predicting presidential elections. Dr Yaron Brook, the President of the Ayn Rand Institute in California, delivered a lecture on the importance of small government and facilitating free market neo-liberalism. Nader Mousavizadeh, former senior advisor to Kofi Annan and CEO of Macro Advisory, addressed the Society on global politics including responsibility to protect and other humanitarian-related issues.

The spring term began with an address by controversial newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins. In a packed Speech Room, several contentious ideas were suggested relating

Katie Hopkins

to obesity, freedom of speech and feminism. Somewhat less controversial were the visits of Conservative MP Bob Blackman and Labour backbencher Graham Stringer, both of whom spoke about Brexit. Tristram Hunt, in between stepping down as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and becoming

Director of the V&A Museum in London, came to speak about the origins of the Labour Party. The year concluded with an address on Brexit by Lord Dartmouth and a presentation by Jordan Hattar, the founder of Help4Refugees, focusing on the plight of those displaced by the civil war in Syria.

PIGOU SOCIETY ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS The Society had another busy year, led by Dheer Karia (Elmfield) and Sumer Singh (The Park). In addition to the weekly debates and discussions on a range of contemporary issues in economics and business, the Society welcomed several distinguished guests.

Mr Tom Blaksley introduced boys to his company what3words.com, which has divided the entire globe up into three-metre squares with unique labels, allowing for accurate locations to be given for many parts of the world that lack standard addresses. The boys learnt from him the ways in which technology is transforming economies.

Mr Robert Agostinelli, co-founder and Managing Director of Rhône Group, gave an entertaining and thought-provoking speech on capitalism and wealth in the 21st century. Ms Tiina Lee, Head of Global Markets UK and Deputy-CEO of Deutsche Bank UK & Ireland, provided insights into the banking industry and the challenges and changes it has faced since the 1990s.

Mr Cyrus Mewawalla, Managing Director of CM Research, spoke about his best-

Members of the Society with Dr Steve Davies

selling financial thriller City of Thieves and his message that banking is about honour.

He discussed the many roles that exist in the banking sector and the skills and attributes needed in each.

Dr Steve Davies, Education Director at the Institute of Economics Affairs, discussed the state of world trade today and the future for UK trade deals post-Brexit.

In contrast, Dr Paul Walker gave an inspiring and multi-faceted address entitled Building a world free of weapons of mass destruction. Dr Walker is Director of

Environmental Security and Sustainability at Green Cross International.

Dr Andrew Gimber, economist at the Bank of England, provided a detailed explanation of the role of the Bank of England’s Resolution Directorate in dealing with failing financial institutions.

The Society also welcomed back two OHs, Alex Nordhagen (Newlands 20043) and Charlie Michele (The Head Master’s 20043) who spoke about their careers in finance and their roles at JPMorgan Asset Management and BNP Paribas respectively.

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Professor James Wood spoke about bats as carriers of infectious diseases

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Professor Nicholas Long of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College was the Rayleigh Speaker for 2016. He spoke about the basics and applications of transition metals, focusing on catalysts, dyes and medical imaging agents.

The Society also heard from Physics beak Dr Dean Holt who used principles from his PhD thesis to discuss the development of new transition metal-catalysed reactions that allow for the accelerated construction of complex organic molecules from feedstock materials.

Professor James Wood of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge spoke on Global threats from emerging infectious diseases; what might we catch from bats and rats, covering diseases of the past such as the Black Death, as well as more recent epidemics such as Hendra, Ebola and the Zika virus.

Talks given by members of the Society included: • Turbulence: Tackling unsteady flows in • Shapes in Nature – Luca Pittalis the air and on the ground – Bazil Saiq (Rendalls) (Moretons) • A World of Artificial Limbs – George • Battleships, Snowflakes and Empty Grassly (The Knoll) Sinks – dispelling some watery myths • Bam! Crack! Crunch! Sporting Injuries – William Miles (The Head Master’s) – What went wrong and how science • Bioluminescence – Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s) came to the rescue – Alessio Kenda • Möbius-Hückel Theory – Karamvir (Newlands) Kumar (Moretons) • Finding Paul: The search for alien life • Defying Gravity: Concepts of circular – Alex Rutherford (Lyon’s) motion – Oliver Farquharson (The Knoll) • How Science Changed Modern Warfare • Neuroregeneration – Ga Kitada (Lyon’s) – Gordon Thompson (Lyon’s) • Ionic Liquids: Designer solvents of the • The Chemistry of Spices: From ancient future – Masayuki Tonoki (Bradbys) world to the modern era – Jesse Ovia • Fission to Fusion – Noah Van Surell (Elmfield) (Lyon’s) • Batteries and Energy Storage for a • The Engineering of Mediaeval Warfare Power-Hungry World – Charlie Friend – Jamie Herholdt (Newlands) (Moretons) • X-ray Crystallography – Ravi Kohli • Molecular Machines – Steven Yang (The Grove) (The Park)

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Several boys gave talks to the Society this year: Rahul Shah (Bradbys) addressed members at the start of the year on Woe, Destruction, Ruin and Decay, looking at the relationship between tragedy and violence. Marcus Harman (The Grove) presented his talk later in the term, Explaining the Shrew: the role of women in Shakespeare’s plays. Michael Yeung (The Grove) spoke about the poetry of

husband-and-wife poets, looking at the Ted Hughes/Sylvia Plath partnership as well as Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning.

In the spring term, boys from the Lower Sixth stepped up to give talks; Rory Miller (The Knoll) spoke on decadence and The Picture of Dorian Gray, whilst Dan Shailer (Rendalls) looked at the convergence of tragedy with comedy in the plays of

Shakespeare. In the summer term Will Travis (The Head Master’s) gave a talk on Macbeth and madness. Novelist Philip Womack addressed the Society in the summer term, speaking about the limitations of revenge tragedy. Dr Paul Davis from UCL also visited the department in the summer term to speak to A-level candidates about Books 9 and 10 of Paradise Lost.

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SLAVONIC SOCIETY RUSSIA AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The Society ran a busy programme of activities throughout the academic year.

At the start of the autumn term, a group of boys saw production of Chekhov’s Platonov, adapted by David Hare. The Society also hosted two lectures delivered by external speakers.

The first, entitled Engineering in Russia throughout the centuries and how major infrastructure projects are being implemented in Russia today, was presented by Evgeny Smirnov from EBRD. The second one, entitled Odessa is not a port, it is a passport, was delivered by Anna Shevchenko, an expert in international communication and cross-cultural risk management, and a successful author. She talked about her favourite city, Odessa, the setting for one of her recent books.

The highlight of the spring term was the bi-annual trip to Russia, with 18 boys from all years visiting Moscow, Sergiev Posad and St Petersburg. The Society gathered to celebrate the festival of Maslenitsa, or the Russian equivalent of Pancake Day, during which the boys were treated to a feast of dozens of different types of pancakes and other delicacies traditionally served during this festival and watched French comedy-drama Le Concert (2009) directed

by R. Mihailenau. Later in the term, the Society hosted a lecture delivered by Dmitry Korobkov, founder and Chairman of ADV, one of the largest advertising groups in Russia, on How to be a successful

The Society celebrated Maslenitsa

entrepreneur in a country like Russia, where everything changes in 10 years but nothing changes in 200 years. Members also visited the Oxford Union to listen to a debate devoted to the Russo-Western relationship hosted by its President Nikolay Koshikov (West Acre 2009³), an active member of the Slavonic Society during his time at Harrow. In the summer term, the Society

was treated to an entertaining lecture delivered by Alex Nakhmanovich, Kirill Korobkov and Alex Shishkarev (all The Grove), who taught our Russian learners gopnik, or modern Russian street jargon, in a talk entitled “Patsany”, “chiksy” and “bablo”, or modern Russian street jargon and its etymology.

SOCRATIC SOCIETY A wide range of ideas and subjects were discussed by members of the Society during the year. Some of the more contentious topics were the Trident nuclear programme, the refusal of the President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, to step down from power, even after having lost the election, and the subsequent constitutional crisis.

Other subjects included the confirmation of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State despite his relationship with Russia; the rise of Emmanuel Macron and his En Marche!

The Society discussed China’s ban on the ivory trade

party in France; the current state of the NHS; the successes and failures of the Obama administration; the possible consequences of the election of Donald Trump; the decision of the Italian government to give 475 euros to every 18-year-old citizen to spend on “high culture”; the Chinese government’s ban on all types of ivory processing and trading; and the decision by the Supreme Court to allow Parliament to have a vote on the terms of Brexit.

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Team Talk, Yuhki Koshiba (Lyon’s)

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Art My understanding of pearl fishing is that it is an arduous and perpetually disheartening affair, demanding luck, tenacity and agitation before one strikes lucky, revealing the miraculous jewel within the gnarled oyster shell.

This is perhaps analogous with the work of an art department.

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rt beaks and boys experience each day, as Samuel Beckett would have it, ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better’. Through an amalgamation of experimentation with

Nature Morte, Will Gillham (The Knoll)

often unlikely combinations of materials and subject matter, boys use their studio spaces as testing grounds for work that encompasses a complex array of thoughts and ideas, reviewing, modifying and refining until a final outcome is reached.

The journey is not a ‘clean’ process. Art is a hybrid of discipline, technical skill and, to the untrained eye, chaos. One of the most exciting prospects for any Art beak is the studio in full flow with boys painting drawing, printing, photographing, sculpting and generally making a mess. It is an area of school endeavour that affords the boys the chance to reflect, think and ‘only connect’ between their art practice and other curricular areas.

There have been many highlights this year including the adjudication of House Art

by Ian Burke from Eton, the Neville Burston Prize judged by Royal Academician Chris Orr and many visits to London galleries and museums, as well as the History of Art trip to Florence and a cultural expedition to Barcelona. William Thompson’s (West Acre) sculptural work entitled You will not believe what this artist has done was shortlisted for the Saatchi Schools Art Prize, selected from 24,000 entries. The year ended on a high point with an exhibition of work by Artist in Residence for the past two years, Jane McAdam Freud. I look forward to the year ahead with excitement.

– Laurence Hedges, Director of Art

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Left, Avatar, Anthony Cho (Elmfield)

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Above, Sinew, Spencer Chritchley (Lyon’s)

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Above, Ed Rosson-Jones (Lyon’s)

Above, Sam Macer (Druries)

Above, Fragments, Henry Adeson (Rendalls)

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Above, That what is not, Aleks Predolac Miller (Druries)

Above, Dougal Barr (Newlands)

Below, You will not believe what this artist has done, William Thompson (West Acre)

Right, Meta Face, Oliver Atkinson (Elmfield)

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Left, Trump Towers, Alan Huo (The Head Master’s)

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Above, Andrew Chan (Moretons)

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Above, No beginning, no end, Seb Mahal (The Grove)

Above, Drone Strike, Daniel Adebayo (The Head Master’s)

Above, The violet hour, Francis Bamford (Bradbys)

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Photography This year, the A-level photography exam theme was ‘Environment’.

This gallery of images is a selection of the work produced for this exam.

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he topics covered range from the refugee crisis in Europe and eco warriors representing the damage to our environment, to beautiful patterned landscapes taken by Hein Jurgens (Newlands). Other works includes Cameron White’s (The Head Master’s) Last Supper, Charles Cadogan’s (Druries) smoking column of buildings and bridges, Alex Rushton’s (Lyon’s) busy Trafalgar Square, and Felix Bartlett’s (West Acre) Metropolis.

– Darren Bell, Head of Photography

Above, Hein Jurgens (Newlands)

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Above, Cameron White (The Head Master’s)

Above, Charles Cadogan (Druries)

Below, Felix Bartlett (West Acre)

Below, Alex Rushton (Lyon’s)

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his annual competition provided an exciting collection of photographs by boys from all years. This year it was judged by renowned wildlife photographer David Yarrow, and Madeleine Waller, Photographer in Residence for 2017/18.

This year, the first prize in the senior category was won by Alizhan Aldiyar (Rendalls) for his photograph entitled It’s Modern, taken at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. The central figure is his friend Tom Thacker (Rendalls). Second prize in the senior category went to Felix Bartlett (West Acre) for Suspended.

In the junior category first place went to Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) for two of his photographs. The first, She’s Sister John the Baptist, was a photograph of his aunt, a Benedictine nun. Leopold explains the message behind the image: ‘I was once at a Mass with her and the Priest was giving a sermon about St John the Baptist. Suddenly, she cried, “I’m John the Baptist.” Despite having been a nun forever, she’s always been a bit of a rebel.’

His second image was a delightful portrait of his grandfather, who is an infinite source of amusement and anecdotes, and great lover of gardening. Second place went to Cameron Mahal (The Grove) for his Curious turtle. This wild turtle was curious to see what was going on! Many thanks to Dr Richard Petty for once again sponsoring this most generous prize.

Above, She is Sister John the Baptist, Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) Left, It’s Modern, Alizhan Aldiyar (Rendalls)

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Left, Suspended, Felix Bartlett (West Acre) Below, Curious turtle, Cameron Mahal (The Grove)

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Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s)

Old speech room gallery The past year has been full of activity. The School collection received 65 new acquisitions, almost twice as many as 2015 and three times as many as 2014.

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part from single items, such as the delightful coloured engraving of Lord Byron and Marianna Segati purchased at the beginning of the year, there were several group donations, most notably two large devotional hanging scrolls from Tibet, given by Mr Wei, and the generous gift of former Governor, Peter Beckwith (Elmfield 1958³), which comprised over 30 prints, paintings and engravings – all with a Harrow theme.

The Codrington loan was enhanced by the addition of Admiral Codrington’s medals that had been on display at the Naval Museum in Portsmouth for many years but now form an integral part of the Harrow display.

The current generation of Henry Blackwall Harris (The Head Master’s 1885³) have similarly lent their great-great-uncle’s collection of Chinese ceramics and sculpture to the OSRG on an indefinite basis. In 1921 ‘HBH’ was a founder member of the Oriental Ceramics Society so his collection, completed before 1929, is a fine example of oriental ceramic collecting in the early 20th century.

The OSRG loan of a mummified ibis and three mummified baby crocodiles to Manchester Museum for its award-winning touring exhibition Gifts for the Gods was returned in the spring. The agreed terms of the loan included having the OSRG’s damaged mummified cat fully conserved by the expert Egyptologists at Manchester.

Other conservation projects involving external experts included the restoration of a late 19th-century twin fusée dial clock by the specialists at West Dean College, and the repair and restoration of an oil painting of George Butler, Headmaster of Harrow School (1805-29), by Hamish Dewar of St James’s.

The in-house team of conservators worked mainly on the cleaning, repairs and re-mounting of the Japanese print collection, displayed this year as part of the OSRG’s Looking East programme.

Physical improvements to the gallery were made by the installation of a new overhead lighting system and, behind the

scenes, the complete ‘racking out’ of an OSRG store room traditionally known as the Silver Vault.

Research projects included work at the British Museum to learn more about our Japanese prints, as well as trying to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of Old Harrovian donors. Will Travis (The Head Master’s) embarked upon an ambitious project to gather together high-resolution images of all known vessels painted by The Harrow Painter. Arts Society boys successfully pieced together the provenance of a replica Egyptian obelisk that entered the collection in the 1870s, and identified the sitter – known since 1908 simply as Young Harrovian – of a portrait given by Peter Beckwith.

The OSRG temporary exhibition programme focused on China, Japan and Tibet. The eastern themes attracted new audiences into the gallery and new engagement with the collection. The two-volume History of Japan by Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) published by Sir Hans Sloane in 1727, was a highlight of the exhibition. The OSRG has an important collection of rare books and this was the perfect opportunity to give exposure to a work that was essentially the only reference book about Japan in the west for over a century. A number of boys and staff donated objects to complement the OSRG exhibits.

With the closure of the Museum of Harrow Life on Speech Day, the key exhibits transferred to the OSRG. The staff complement in the OSRG has been enhanced this year. Alongside

Image from Beauties, Actors and The Tokaido Road – an exhibition of Japanese Ukiyo-E prints

Ms Jo Payne, who has looked after the administration of the collection, Mrs Paramdip Mander has been volunteering her curatorial and numismatic services and, for the first time, the School’s coin collections are being systematically and professionally catalogued. The OSRG coin collections now feature on a national database and our numismatic research has resulted in collaboration with colleagues at the Ashmolean. In due course, the intention will be to publish the coin collection.

– Julia Walton, Curator

Chinese Imperial dish, Henry Blackwall Harris Collection

The Harrow Development Trust has assisted attracting donations of works of art from Harrovian supporters

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xpression; ensemble; clarity: these were the qualities running through the Shell Drama Festival in late September and, in many ways, they have been the defining features of the year’s work in the Drama Department. As always, every new boy was involved in the festival – on stage or as part of the production team – and Lower Sixth boys acted as directors and producers.

Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand’s action-filled classic, was this year’s major Rattigan Society production. A large ensemble, comprising boys from the Remove through to Upper Sixth, was the show’s defining feature. With fencing, singing and dancing, it played through a narrative spanning decades, moving from verbal swordplay to reflective melancholy.

Thomas Thacker (Rendalls) gave a commanding performance in the title role, full of wit and sensitivity, with Henry Adeson (Rendalls) a sharp, charismatic Roxane. Led by incoming Director of Drama, Adam Cross, the production team of staff and boys in the Ryan ensured the production was as dazzling and full of panache as Cyrano himself.

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Brief Encounter

Dynamic ensemble work, innovative physicality and striking aesthetics were the hallmarks of this year’s House plays.

Bradbys and The Park opened the season in style with their joint production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, full of poise and invention. Elmfield performed a stylish, soulful Brief Encounter, whilst The Knoll’s A Matter of Life and Death was vibrant, witty and full of the quirky humour for which the original film is famous. The Head Master’s gave us a bold, contemporary reworking of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, whilst West Acre presented Ernest and the Pale Moon – a haunting gothic tale of obsession and madness. Boys created original soundscapes and musical scores, realised atmospheric lighting designs and helped to construct ambitious set pieces.

Collaborating with visiting professional practitioners including choreographers and make-up artists in addition to beak directors, the six Houses presented a bold, challenging and ambitious season of work.

A Matter of Life and Death

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Twelve Angry Men

Hamlet, the School Shakespeare Play, performed in the Ryan Theatre in March, felt particularly of the moment in Dr Joanna Bratten’s lucid, contemporary production.

There was a building energy and intensity to the performance that was thrilling to behold. In an ensemble of intelligent, nuanced acting performances, every role was infused with freshness and intention.

Jack Firoozan (Rendalls) gave an outstanding performance in the title role.

His Hamlet had complete clarity and total conviction. His delivery of the lines allowed us into the mind of this complex character at every moment – an exceptional and rare achievement. Moody lighting, atmospheric soundscapes and stylish scenic design brought a further level of vitality and dynamism to the production, which nonetheless retained the play’s complexity, ambiguity and humour. In the School’s long-standing Shakespearean tradition, this production set a real benchmark.

In May, a company of Sixth Form boys staged a gripping production of Twelve Angry Men. The ensemble worked together tightly but, close up in the Fourth Form Room, the individual details in each acting performance were also compelling. This production was not only a first in its dynamic use of the Fourth Form Room’s space, however; directed by Edward

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Cartwright (The Grove) with the assistance of Charles Vivian (The Knoll), this was also the first entirely pupil-led production in recent memory on the Harrow stage.

In June, a large company of boys from the Shells and Removes presented Around the World in Eighty Days, the Junior Rattigan Society Production and the final show of the theatrical year. It was a fantastically vibrant, energetic piece, full of comic bravura. There was also a tremendous sense of ensemble in Mr Phineas Pett’s production, conjuring the story’s many locations. Leading the acting company with great conviction were Columbus Mason (The Head Master’s), Harry Lempriere-Johnston (Druries) and Archie Ross (The Knoll). Behind the scenes, Luke Shailer (Rendalls), Sacha Cremin, Wayne Wen (both The Park) and Otto Seymour (Bradbys) formed a brilliant production crew.

Curricular Drama continues to thrive at Harrow and, from September 2017, Drama will be taught in every year in the School.

The Upper Sixth’s final examination piece Prufrock, a devised adaptation of TS Eliot’s poem, was an undoubted highlight.

Hamlet

Around the World in Eighty Days

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In November, the Lower Sixth division presented a series of responses to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. The same group enjoyed presenting extracts from Joseph K, and a series of monologues.

The Remove GCSE Drama division made a similarly energetic start to their course, presenting a highly physical, ensemble version of Lord of the Flies, and The Mechanicals – a pacey abridgement of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Drama and Theatre Studies pupils have taken in a diverse range of performances across the year, with highlights including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Pinter’s No Man’s Land, Ella Hickson’s political drama Oil at the Almeida Theatre, The Little Match Girl at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Glass Menagerie and Travesties, both in the West End. – Adam Cross, Director of Drama

Dr Faustus

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Music The extraordinary breadth and variety of musical activities at Harrow are among the most precious jewels in our crown. It is not only the scale of events that is impressive, but also the range of genres and repertoire we explore, with the result that nearly all boys are engaged in some form of music-making. What is also touching is the way in which boys are so supportive of each other’s performances and endeavours.

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ur Songs concerts are among our most inclusive events. No other school in the country has so rich a Song Book, or uses it in the way that Harrow does.

Regular Songs concerts in Houses are an integral feature of life at Harrow, with more than 30 Harrow Songs in regular use. The boys have been in fine voice this year. They gave excellent concerts in October and March for the Harrow Association, as well as a Churchill Songs evening in November.

Our choirs have also been in excellent voice. The Byron Consort has notched up appearances at St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral and St Mary-le-Bow, as well as completing a tour to South Africa and Kenya. The Chapel Choir led the Carol Services with some wonderful singing and

relished the challenge of giving the first performance of Daniel Saleeb’s The Shepherd’s Song, commissioned by us for Christmas. In January, the Chapel Choir performed Parts 4, 5 and 6 of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with an orchestra of

boys and staff.

As always, the Chapel Choir and the Harmony Choir have led our worship in Chapel with great commitment and dedication. We also formed special choirs of boys, beaks and OHs for performances of Victoria’s Requiem on the feast of All Souls, and Bach’s Cantata No 22 during Lent. At the end of the summer term, they sang at a Mass to celebrate Dr James Holland’s 37 years of distinguished service to the Roman Catholic community at Harrow and this included a performance of Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli.

Earlier in the year, we joined forces with musicians from John Lyon school for the Commemoration Concert and gave a lively performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria.

The Glees and XIIs competition was once again keenly contested, and it was adjudicated by Dr Philip Moore (formerly Director of Music at York Minster and President of the Royal College of Organists).

All the Houses are keen to do well and the many hours of work that go into arranging, rehearsing and directing the part song (glee) and unison song (XII), provide the

THE ARTS senior boys with invaluable experience.

There was a very high standard of singing and a wide variety of repertoire, and the whole School sat rapt through the two hours of performance before Dr Moore delivered his adjudication and announced the results. Moretons won the Glee and The Grove was victorious in the XII. As is customary, the Choral Society provided a major musical event during the year. This involved 120 boys who sang alongside beaks, parents and friends and, for their annual performance in March, they were joined by the Choir of Francis

Holland School. This year the programme was devoted to the music of William Walton. The orchestra opened the programme with a suite of music drawn from Walton’s score for Olivier’s film of Henry V. This was followed by the unaccompanied rendition of a masterpiece from Walton’s teenage years, entitled A Litany. Before and after the interval there were performances of two works for chorus and orchestra. The first, The Twelve, in its rarely heard orchestral version, contained some beautiful solo singing from some of the Francis Holland sopranos. Belshazzar’s

Feast followed as the main item of the programme. This is difficult music but it was performed with wonderful energy and enthusiasm, together with a real sense of swagger and style.

There has been some outstanding solo singing this year. In January, no fewer than 30 boys took part in the competition for the Singing Prizes and our adjudicator, the eminent bass baritone Michael George, was impressed by the poise and musicianship shown by all entrants as they sang from memory. The Mortimer Singer Prize for solo, self–accompanied singing provides a daunting challenge for competitors but, once again, there were plenty of boys prepared to sit alone on the stage, with no microphone and just a guitar, and serenade us with a ballad, pop cover or their own material. The adjudicator was Paul Heard of Mpeople, who offered the boys much invaluable advice. Boys have also enjoyed taking part in our Featured Artist series of concerts when they perform music by a number of contemporary artists.

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he House Instrumental Competition is another important event in our musical year. Each House is required to field a soloist, a chamber ensemble and a large ensemble. The adjudicator this year was Mr Robert Patterson (Director of Music at Francis Holland School) and he was faced

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In the end, it was a fine performance of a string trio by Schubert from Elmfield that won the day.

The competition for the large ensemble now seems to require both quality and quantity as far as performers are concerned. Several Houses were able to muster an orchestra of more than 25 boys and this is no mean feat. Credit must go to the senior boys who select the repertoire, arrange the music and direct the ensembles. The repertoire for this competition is unashamedly on the lighter side, much to the enjoyment of the boys in the Shells and Removes who attend as the invited audience. As adjudicator, Mr Patterson was once again faced with a difficult decision and it was widely felt that any one of four or five Houses could have won. In the end Mr Patterson decided that Lyon’s were worthy winners. When one considers that the Music Prize preliminary rounds were to be won by The Park, it is clear to see that good musicians are to be found in all Houses.

The School’s orchestras and bands provide many boys with the opportunity to rehearse each week and perform at least once a term. At the Commemoration Concert, the School Orchestras played Bach’s Orchestral Suite in D, Purcell’s Chaconne and Verdi’s Overture to The Force of Destiny. Other repertoire during the year included Beethoven’s Symphony No 3, Suk’s Serenade for Strings, Haydn’s Farewell Symphony, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5. In the New Directions concert in the summer term, the programme included Ive’s The Unanswered Question, and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

The orchestra also accompanied the Churchill Songs and led the Songs Concert on Speech Day. In addition, they performed a suite of music from Star Wars, some 40 years on from the release of the first film of that name.

The Concert Band is our largest instrumental ensemble. It is a full symphonic wind band of nearly 90 boys.

House Instrumental Competition Chamber Ensemble Winners

THE ARTS It delighted audiences at the Michaelmas Concert, the Spring Concert and on Speech Day with a varied repertoire that included Holst, John Williams, Ron Goodwin’s 633 Squadron, an ABBA medley and themes from Aladdin. The Concert Band’s performance on Speech Day is rightly regarded as one of the highlights of that event.

The Big Band is our large jazz ensemble and this, too, has had an excellent year, with some fine performances in Speech Room, the Music Schools and a return visit to Harley Street to collaborate again with the girls of Queen’s College. The wellattended concert on the Hill Terrace was a fitting climax to a wonderful year of music making by the band.

Rock Bands are an exciting feature of life at Harrow. This year, we may not have had quite the variety of bands we have known in the past, but our rock musicians who rehearse together regularly have given termly concerts here as well as our annual joint concert with Wycombe Abbey School. The competition for the Mortimer Singer Prizes for solo singer and rock band was once again well supported. It is good to see so many drummers and guitarists working towards the demanding Rock School examinations.

Smaller ensembles continue to thrive.

Chamber music, a particular strength at Harrow, is perhaps the most rewarding musical activity in which a boy can take part. It develops a range of valuable skills including musicianship, teamwork, listening

and responding. We have been fortunate this year not only to have many string and piano-based chamber groups but also two saxophone groups, wind quintets, brass quintets and octets, a flute quartet and many other ensembles. Many of these groups have been organised and run by the boys themselves. Once again, our groups did well in the South East Schools Chamber Music Competition and gave a fine account of themselves at the finals in St John’s Smith Square.

The highest accolade for our top instrumentalists is to be selected to play in the Concerto Evening. This features boys who have earned the right, through many hours of diligent practice, to display their talent. The concert was amazing and the applause was long and well deserved.

There have been some exceptional concerts this year and, behind the scenes, the boys put in many hours of practice.

As I look back upon the past year, I am impressed by the collaborative spirit of boys and staff, and know how essential teamwork is for the making of good music.

Furthermore, we have been able to harness competition as a force for good, both musically and educationally. In a sense this sums up what this year’s leavers have achieved. They have spurred one another on and, in so doing, they have raised the standard of music at Harrow to new levels.

– David Woodcock, Director of Music

CONCERTO EVENING PROGRAMME:

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Allegro from Trumpet Concerto in Eb major

Haydn

Rondo from Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61

Beethoven

Trombone Concertino

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Piano Concerto, Op 42

Schoenberg

Allegro moderato from Oboe Concerto

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Allegro molto appassionata from Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64

Mendelssohn

Tzigane

Ravel

Allegro maestoso from Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor

Chopin

Allegro affettuoso from Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 5

Schumann

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HARROW RIFLE CORPS On his visit to inspect the Harrow Rifle Corps in March, Group Captain Manning commented to the assembled 600 boys and girls, drawn from the Remove to the Upper Sixth from Harrow School, John Lyon school and Harrow High School, that all cadets across all three services showed true enthusiasm and impressive capability in a significant array of activities, and he commended the Officers of the Corps for their dedication and professionalism.

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he HRC has continued to give unique opportunities to its cadets. It offered Royal Air Force cadets an intensive flight simulator programme including the chance to take to the skies by both plane and helicopter from RAF Benson. Royal Naval cadets gained power-boating qualifications in Poole Harbour and took part in sub-aqua training in the School swimming pool.

Royal Marine cadets undertook a programme of military skills leading to an excellent fourth place in the Sir Steuart Pringle Trophy at Lympstone. Army cadets received a range of training including skill at arms, fieldcraft, first aid, campcraft and map skills, all of which were put to the test in two field days at Bramley and Aldershot training areas.

As an important part of the School’s charitable endeavours, the Corps has been impressively outward looking this year. The training of cadets from both partnership schools has been an exemplar for the Cadet Expansion Programme and has been primarily delivered by two outstanding cadets SUO Oliver Tippett (Head of Corps) and Cadet RSM Sebastian Cator (Corps RSM) (both The Park), the latter achieving formal recognition for his contribution with a Deputy Lieutenant’s Award in June 2017.

The HRC hosted the Mayor’s Cup for detachments of ACF, Air Cadets and Police Cadets from the Borough of Harrow. Seven teams competed alongside Harrow in drill and shooting, followed by awards presented by the Mayor of Harrow. At an even larger scale, the HRC hosted the Guthrie Cup for ten schools from London District. The event is one of the largest of its kind and sees HRC officers work closely

with regular and reserve soldiers and members of the Cadet Training Team.

Awards were presented by Major General Richard Stanford, General Officer Commanding Regional Command, who commented on how impressed he was by the capacity for Harrow School to run such an event. HRC Royal Marines cadets raised money for the RM charity 1664 by running

16.64km around the cross-country course in full uniform (including boots) in the otherwise very pleasant summer heatwave.

Cadet Sergeant George Gray (The Park) was selected as a First Sea Lord Cadet, one of only three cadets nationally, and was vested into the position by the First Sea Lord himself. RSM Cator was invited to Freemason’s Hall to read a citation and

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nomination for a VC to Captain Willis (Home Boarders 18903) at a VC Unveiling commemoration.

On home ground, the HRC has proudly provided an arena for cadets to compete for their Houses as part of the Ansell Bowl.

The Endurance Event was hotly contested

by The Knoll and Elmfield, with The Knoll achieving first place by five points with a score of 515 from a possible 550. In the

Drill Competition, The Park were in fine form and achieved an outstanding total score and first place, but The Knoll’s total here, too, meant that they deservedly took the overall prize after months of hard work and preparation.

The summer camp once again saw each section carrying out bespoke training and being stretched both physically and mentally in the last week of the year.

Two of this year’s excellent set of leavers from A Company hope to take up places at Sandhurst next year. The Corps also said goodbye to Major Nick Page, who has tirelessly given his efforts this year.

The new crop of officers who follow in his footsteps show enormous promise and the HRC is in most healthy shape for 2017/18.

– Major Piers Lemoine, Commanding Officer

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DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD SILVER AWARD QUALIFYING EXPEDITION TO THE CEVENNES – A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE

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s a novice to the whole Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DoE) experience or, for that matter, to any camping with a degree of difficulty, I first lent a hand on the Silver Award trip to the Cevennes in June 2011. The expedition consisted of nine beaks, a few retired beaks and partners, and 120 Fifth Form boys. This event was single-handedly organised by James Baron. This expedition has now been going for 17 years.

The week before departure, James loaded me up with all sorts of equipment: a rucksack, a new one-man tent, a Trangia set (I had no idea how this worked), a roll mat, a head torch, and a few other items dragged from the shed that functions as the kit store for DofE, as well as a set of maps of the area with routes picked out with vivid highlighters. This new camping kit, plus my clothing for a week and essential drawing equipment, all stuffed into the rucksack, weighed much more than I had anticipated.

The day arrived. After a crack-of-dawn start, we took the train from St Pancras to Lille, changed for the connection to Lyon,

from where we all took a four-hour coach ride that, towards the end of the journey, navigates narrow, twisting roads to the higher region of the Cevennes. Excited but also slightly daunted, we arrived at Villes-Hautes, which, set high on a slope overlooking the valley, was the base camp for the expedition. We pitched our tents and settled into the first evening. After briefing the boys on the next day’s walking routes (I had to pretend I knew both the maps and what I was doing), we had a much-needed supper.

So began my first DoE trip. I was way out of my comfort zone, as were the boys, but what lay ahead of me over the next four days was to become the most lasting and intense experience of my time at Harrow. I was a complete novice: I simply had not slept and lived outside in a remote landscape before. It is difficult to overestimate how eye-opening and revealing an experience this can be. I made drawing after drawing of the boys, from the 6.00am tent-packing, right through to the evening swim in the river and the cooking of the simple supper on the Trangias. Through all of this, the exhausting day-long walks with full ruck sacks and the self-sufficiency, I saw the boys’ mood change from their modest expectations at

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the beginning of the trip to a deep sense of satisfaction and achievement by the end of the last day’s walking. It was tough for them, but it is an experience that brings the very best qualities to the surface: endurance, friendship, initiative and, above all, a closeness to nature and an opportunity to go slow, away from the modern world, from mobile signals and social networks.

I know that, for me, it opened up new vistas and was a source of rich subject matter for my own art work. For this, and much more, I will forever be grateful to James for gently twisting my arm to go on the trip.

Watching James in action close at hand, he is undoubtedly one of life’s great optimists. He sails through the day with a positivity that is infectious. Many others, when faced with the prospect of organising an expedition for 120 16-year-old boys in a mountainous region in the South of France, would see only health and safety issues, dangers and ‘do not’ signs. He sees opportunity for people to thrive. These adventures to the Cevennes may have come to an end with James’ retirement.

But it is worth remembering that approximately 1,800 boys have, through his vision and energy, experienced something very special: something that is likely stay with them for the rest of their lives.

– Simon Page, DoE Supervisor and Head of Painting

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GOLD AWARD QUALIFYING EXPEDITION TO THE CAIRNGORMS, SCOTLAND

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e left Aviemore Youth Hostel early on the first day full of bacon, eggs, toast, cereal and optimism, with plenty of food stashed away in rucksacks. One thing we learned from the practice expedition in the Lake District was that a rucksack full of food was completely necessary.

On the first evening, having trudged through miles of marshland on a track that could hardly be classed as a path as it lay under a few inches of water, we found our proposed campsite, only to find three tents from another school. As a result, we had to camp on ground that was wetter than we would have liked; to rub salt into the wound, it was raining in the morning, as it did every morning of the trip although, fortunately, the evenings stayed dry.

We camped about 900 metres below the peak of Ben Macdui, the second highest summit in Britain, only 46 metres lower than Ben Nevis. The route to the top took us three and a half hours, all of it a gruelling uphill slog. However, the Cairngorm plateau is a unique habitat in Britain (tundra), and home to birds such as ptarmigan and snow bunting, so we were able to fulfil our expedition aim: to observe the wildlife. This feeling of achievement

DoE Gold Award group at the top of Ben Macdui

made the many hours of organising route cards and laminating maps all worthwhile.

After making it back down, we were swiftly transported to Aviemore’s leisure centre where, for the rest of the afternoon,

we were able to swim, shower, and change into fresh clothes, which was certainly a welcome relief after days of rather unhygienic living, before catching the sleeper train back to London.

Collections for Long Ducker are administered by the Harrow Development Trust.

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ong Ducker saw a major change in 2016; instead of following the 10-mile route from the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens to Harrow on the Hill, runners started at a different iconic London landmark, Wembley Stadium, and ran a 10km course back to Bill Yard. Adult participants had the option of running a half marathon (20km) from Bill Yard to Wembley and back again.

The shorter course didn’t bring with it any shortage of enthusiasm as a cold and beautifully clear morning welcomed the half-marathon runners in Bill Yard for the 8.00am starting gun. The rest of the School were just arriving in coaches as the runners hit the half-way point at Wembley’s Arena Square before facing the uphill journey home. First back of the half-marathon runners was George Grassly (The Knoll) in a very fast time of 01:12:45. He was followed by Oliver Tippett (The Park) in second place, and Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield) in third. Of the 109 half-marathon runners, an impressive 86 ran a fast enough time to claim a Long Ducker tie.

The start of the 10km run was smoother than it had sometimes been in previous years and it was less than 40 minutes before the first runner, James Millett (Newlands) was back at School, having run the course in 00:36:51. Alex Saunders (The Knoll) and James Middlemass (Moretons) came in neck and neck a few minutes later, followed after a few seconds by Freddie Heffer (Elmfield).

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his year’s winner of the 10km (400 lengths) swim was James Bailey (Newlands) in a storming time of 02:15:59. Second place went Satoshi Yoshida (The Grove) and third to Sam Trew (The Grove). Michael Ma (Moretons) was the winner of the 5km (200 lengths) event in a very impressive time of 01:10:00. Chasing close behind was Oliver Bater (Rendalls) in second and Pawit Kochakarn (The Park) in third place.

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o do the ‘Double Ducker’ is to complete the tie event for both swimming and running: 400 lengths in the pool followed by the 20km run. Both events must be completed within the tiegaining time. This year, only Albie Tremlett (The Park) attempted the challenge. He entered the pool for the 10km swim at 4.20am, completing that in 02:44:00 minutes. His swim time would have placed him second overall in the 10km event. After a short break, he made his way up the Hill to start with the other 20km runners.

Albie completed the run in a time of 01:43.04 seconds. His total time for the 10km swim and 20km run was 04:17:20 – an outstanding achievement.

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George Grassly, fastest in the half-marathon Ducker

RESULTS 20km 1st George Grassly (The Knoll) 2nd Oliver Tippett (The Park) 3rd Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield)

01:12:45 01:22:25 01:23:07

10km 1st James Millett (Newlands) 2nd Alex Saunders (The Knoll) and

James Middlemass (Moretons)

00:36:51 00:40:15 00:40:15

Sixth Form 1st James Millett (Newlands) 2nd Christophe White-Thompson (The Grove) 00:41:08 3rd Olly Roberts (Newlands) 00:41:24

Fifth Form 1st Alex Saunders and James Middlemass 00:40:15 3rd Freddie Heffer (Elmfield) 00:40:22

Removes 1st Arthur Leney (The Knoll) 2nd Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) 3rd Tom Gianasso (The Grove)

00:42:20 00:42:46 00:42:35

Shells 1st Freddie Strange (Newlands) 2nd Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) 3rd Orlando Closs (Moretons)

00:41:29 00:42:47 00:42:51

10km Swim 1st James Bailey (Newlands) 2nd Satoshi Yoshida (The Grove) 3rd Sam Trew (The Grove)

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LUMINA 2017

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ow in its fourth year, the Lumina summer course for pupils from maintained schools considering Oxbridge and top Russell Group universities returned to Harrow in the first week of the summer holidays. This year was the largest yet, with nearly 200 pupils from 38 local schools descending on Harrow for a week of academic enrichment and tailored admissions advice.

The first day saw a focus on the admissions process and sessions with current undergraduates designed to demystify what can seem to be an arcane world. We welcomed Dr Andrew Spencer and Dr Rita Monson from Cambridge and Dr Sandra Campbell from Oxford to clarify the system and dispel myths about fiendish interview questions.

Day two began with a number of 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 sessions were followed by subject-specific lectures and workshops.

Subjects included: Psychology and the First World War by Dr Alexandra Hills; the Art of Scientific Visualisation by Dr Philippa Davies, Mrs Natalya Silcott, Dr Chris Crowe, Dr Robert Unwin and Mr Richard Chen; Law by Tim Rennie, partner at Ashurst Global Law firm; and Biochemistry and Pharmacology

by Dr Laurence Carroll of Imperial College London. The day finished with an inspiring address by Luka Gakic (Moretons 19983), a former Head Boy who excelled after arriving at Harrow as a refugee from Yugoslavia.

Now working for investment management firm Ruffer, Luka stressed that determination and hard work can take you anywhere in the world, with a good education providing the backbone for achieving your dreams.

Feedback from previous courses had suggested that what students found to be most beneficial was the interview practice that Lumina offered. This took up the bulk of day three as nervous students hovered outside the doors of the Modern Languages and Maths Schools before having their fears allayed by supportive interviewers.

The Oxford and Cambridge interview is designed, after all, not to catch you out but to keep you talking and push your thinking.

The course finished with trips to Oxford and Cambridge where students were able to explore these universities and continue

plotting a path to their doors.

The schools involved have always been enthusiastic about all Lumina offers and many have credited the course when they been successful in their university applications for the following year. Last year, 104 students who attended the course received offers from Russell Group universities, with 23 securing offers from Oxford and Cambridge. We were also able this year to share the expertise Harrow has in gaining places at these top universities with teachers from other schools. We are grateful to John Lyon’s Charity for support in hosting the event and hope that Lumina continues to leave a lasting legacy in the years to come. – Dr James Bedford, Master-in-Charge of Scholars and Oxbridge

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aths masterclasses were extended to cater to the particular needs of schools in the borough. During the autumn term, gifted Year 5 students from Grange Primary School participated in six weeks of lessons. Harrow boys helped plan and deliver the sessions, which explored Pascal’s triangle, probability, algebra and problem solving.

During the spring term, GCSE maths revision sessions were held for students from five secondary schools in Harrow and Wembley. Again, Harrow boys were involved in helping these students work through some of the new and difficult problem-solving questions. A retired teacher from St Dominic’s Sixth Form College also taught at these sessions.

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his year, Harrovians have continued to work with all our local charity partners and have formed two new relationships with charities in Harrow.

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Certitude Certitude supports people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health support needs, as well as their families, to live happy, healthy lives, and helps them to build valuable relationships in their local communities. Harrovians have been helping service users access IT in practical ways that will help in their daily lives. This will continue next year and Certitude will receive a proportion of funds raised by Long Ducker.

Bradbury Court A number of Harrovians have been visiting Bradbury Court, a residential care home for disabled people in Harrow run by Livability (a national Christian disability and community engagement charity).

The boys have visited regularly and entertained the residents through music, games and conversation. The Harrovians have enjoyed their regular visits to Bradbury Court and have struck up friendships with the residents, which has been a valuable experience for both boys and service users alike.

In the summer term, A-level maths students from Harrow High School, Whitmore High School and Rooks Heath College enjoyed six weeks of maths revision. In addition to this, a maths workshop on fractals was held at a range of primary and prep schools in London and Surrey throughout the year.

– Natalya Silcott, Mathematics Master

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t the end of June, the Ryan Theatre was filled with 150 excited children from five local schools as pupils from Grange, Roxeth, St Anselm’s, Vaughan and Welldon Park primary schools took to the stage with the Primary Shakespeare Company (PSC) to perform Julius Caesar. It is the second year that Harrow has hosted the PSC Festival and it proved to be even more successful than the first.

The festival is the culmination of a term’s working partnership between the PSC, theatre directors, teachers and children.

After seeing a PSC touring production of Julius Caesar at the end of March, schools immersed themselves in all things Caesar.

Not only did PSC’s visiting directors produce high quality, collaborative, ensemble versions of the play, but teachers also taught their entire curriculum through it.

Children spent the term producing a huge variety of work: writing in role, producing newspaper articles and crime reports, performing science experiments, making mosaics and clay busts, and investigating ancient Rome, historical truths and geographical locations around Italy. The culmination of this was the festival day itself. Each school performed a truncated

version of an act, creating together – very appropriately – a mosaic of the entire story.

For many of the children, it was the first time that they had been in a professional theatre and teachers reported that it was a life-changing experience for their classes.

That the day ran as smoothly as it did is down in no small part to the theatre staff, who were very welcoming to the children and especially the 10-year-old pupil from Roxeth who operated the lighting system for the whole show.

The venture was an immense success and we hope that our partnership with Harrow School will continue for many years.

– Neil Carter and Luke Hollowell-Williams, Primary Shakespeare Company

FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS:

“Fantastic performance for children and lovely for families.”

“Everything worked so well!”

“Truly captivating and rewarding for all.”

“For the children at Welldon Park Primary School our performance at the Ryan Theatre was out of this world! I was so impressed by the professional level of the tech team.”

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PRIMARY SCHOOL READING SCHEMES

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n 2016/17, Harrovians continued to help local primary schools with their reading projects. Each House partnered a different school: Newlands partnered the Vaughan Primary School, Elmfield partnered St Anslem’s Roman Catholic Primary School, The Knoll St George’s, and West Acre Welldon Park School.

The way the scheme works varies between partnerships depending on the needs of each primary school. The projects tend to involve one-to-one reading sessions or group work and are targeted at particular groups. Harrovians have worked with pupils who find reading challenging and need support, but have also stretched the top to develop the highest achievers.

The number of Harrovians taking part has allowed schools to provide extra reading help where they need it most. Harrow’s partner schools are some of the most diverse in the country and the value of reading with pupils cannot be overestimated. Teachers have noticed

improvement in reading across all levels.

The Houses involved send a good proportion of their boys to help. These boys have gained a great deal from the experience, developing leadership and teaching skills. They have also committed to

the project and have thus formed good working relationships with the young pupils who rely on them and look forward to their visits. It is hoped that other Houses will become involved with different schools next year.

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his year’s Shaftesbury Lecture was delivered by Sir Peter Lampl, one of Britain’s leading philanthropists. Sir Peter began his lecture by describing his education at Reigate Grammar School and at Oxford University. He later founded the Sutton Company, a private equity firm.

Sir Peter explained how, in 1996, in response to the shooting of schoolchildren in Dunblane, he campaigned for the banning of handguns in the UK. He described how, after years of working in the USA, on his return to the UK he was “truly appalled” to discover the lack of opportunities available for pupils from non-privileged backgrounds to get into the best universities. He pointed out that social mobility in the UK is limited and, unlike many other developed countries, the country has not adopted ways of improving the situation. He made solving the issue a priority and his first intervention was to establish Oxford Summer Schools, which gave bright 17-year-olds from families where no one had been to university the opportunity to spend a week at Oxford University, living in college, going to seminars and finding out what life at

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Oxford is like. He described how, in 1997, he founded the Sutton Trust, which funds programmes, research and campaigning to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and to increase social mobility.

Although Sir Peter Lampl has been critical of elitism and public schools, he praised Harrow’s commitment to helping the

community through Shaftesbury Enterprise.

To end his talk, Sir Peter concluded with a piece of advice that should stand Harrow boys in good stead for the future: “Find something you’re passionate about, stick at it and leave the world a better place than you found it.”

– Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s)

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2016/17 Spear volunteers

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pear Harrow is a fulfilling experience in which boys from Harrow can help the local community. Spear is run by the charity Resurgo and helps young people between the ages of 16 and 24 to become more employable and to succeed in the working world. Spear offers six-week courses that tackle the attitudinal and behavioural issues that can be barriers to long-term success, and gives workshops on the practical skills involved in finding work. Each Spear attendee leaves with a Level 1 qualification in Customer Service.

Lower Sixth volunteers put themselves forward to help with the scheme and they were eager to see the outcome of the work done by Spear Harrow. This opportunity came in the form of the Spear Harrow Celebration night in which the young men and women who have taken part in the Spear course come to the Hill and explain the role that the six-week course played in their progress.

The celebration definitely inspired the Harrow boys and illustrated the fulfilment that comes with helping others. It was especially good for the Harrovians to socialise with, build connections and really understand these young people and how

they have transformed their lives. One of our values at Harrow is humility and Spear is a great way for Harrovians to get to grips

with the concept of simultaneously helping and learning from those off the Hill. – Dita Jaja (Moretons)

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SPEAR HARROW STORIES Alex Alex lost both of her parents while she was young and became a mother aged 14. When she came to Spear, she told us that she didn’t want to be ‘another statistic’ but wanted to overcome the obstacles in her life to achieving success. Spear gave her the opportunity to complete a Level 1 qualification in Customer Service and to interact with professionals through our mock Interviews and company visit sessions. Since completing Spear Foundation, she has found work with Straight Talking, going into schools in Hillingdon to educate young people about what it’s like to be a teenage parent.

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Adiad Adiad grew up caring for his mother who is schizophrenic and has other mental health problems that prevented her from providing for her family when he was a child. Adiad was involved in criminal activity as a teenager and came to Spear in an attempt to get himself back on the right track. He surrounded himself with people who would have a positive influence on him and, on the Spear course, he tracked his progress weekly against a set of 10 Work Readiness Indicators. We saw him develop into a professional young man who can be trusted with responsibility and who chooses to maintain a positive attitude even when circumstances are challenging.

He said to us at the end of the programme, “You help people to become adults.” He is now working at Primark in Customer Services. He still lives with his mother and cares for her as well as his partner and three-year-old son.

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CHAPEL There are some incredible educational institutions throughout the world and it continues to be a privilege for me to serve as a chaplain in one of them.

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hen Jesus was asked which was the greatest commandment, he quoted the Shema, familiar to all the Israelites: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength (Deuteronomy 6). Jesus, however, made a fascinating amendment that we tend to miss: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and with all your mind.

In its infancy, the Christian church taught that God created everything: that God was the wisdom behind all things. Therefore, whenever we learn something that is true or understand how creation works in physics and biology, or comprehend maths and logic, we are actually thinking God’s thoughts. We are getting to understand the mind of God, to know God, and many of the forefathers of the faith felt that learning can be an act of worship. They loved seeking truth. St Augustine famously said, “All truth is God’s truth.”

After Roman civilisation collapsed, literary sources were scarce; there were no printing presses and few books. Thomas Cahill describes in his book, How the Irish Saved Civilisation, how the monastic communities copied as many ancient texts as they could and, for hundreds of years, the monasteries were the only institutions in Europe that were preserving and communicating ‘knowledge’. Monasteries became places of great learning. St Benedict collected so many manuscripts that he became known as the ‘godfather of libraries’.

From the monasteries came the universities. The first university was established in Paris in the 12th century, with the Pope having sole authority to grant degrees. Oxford and Cambridge were founded in the 13th century. The motto of Oxford University is ‘The Lord is my light’ from Psalm 27. Inspired by the idea that people could love God with their minds, the church believed that ignorance is the devil’s tool and that God is the God of truth. All but one of the first 123 colleges in colonial America were Christian institutions. Harvard was founded on this statement: Let every student be plainly

instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life!

Education has always been crucially important to the church. In 1780, with the aim of freeing working children from a cycle of poverty and ignorance, Robert Raikes decided to teach them to read and write on their one day off, and so Sunday School was born. A Methodist missionary, Frank Laubach, believed God was inviting him to lift the world out of ignorance.

Known to many as ‘Apostle to the illiterates’, he began a worldwide literacy movement that helped millions of adults in

the world’s poorest communities learn to read. These are just two examples of people who believed we could ‘Love the Lord your God with all your mind’.

Harrow School is a centre of excellence for academic education and, I believe, in line with the traditional thinking of the church, that all our learning here is an act of worship. Nonetheless in Chapel, we continue to invite the boys to ponder and wrestle with the possibility of God and the person of Jesus, whose inspiration lies behind the very foundation of Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and of our own School.

– Father Nic Tivey, Lead Chaplain

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CONSERVATION Ponds are havens for wildlife and so we are fortunate that Harrow is blessed with so many. They can be found tucked away by academic buildings, at the bottom of House gardens, in the corners of fields and in the many tracts of woodland on the School estate.

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wo key aims this year were to investigate what animals and plants live in these ponds and to improve the habitat in order to increase this biodiversity. The principal focus for this work was the pond situated 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 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 of the week 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 pull out invasive Himalayan balsam before it flowered. Torrential rain forced the group to seek shelter in a bird hide that 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 revealed some remarkable natural history and showed the effort and vigilance required to maintain such a precious ecosystem.

– Nick Keylock, Head of Biology

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A VICTORIAN EDUCATION:

How Times Have Changed

HARROW AND THE HIGH STREET A History

THE ARCHIVE, HARROW SCHOOL

THE ARCHIVE, HARROW SCHOOL

5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP Tel: 020 8872 8370 Email: archives@harrowschool.org.uk

5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP Tel: 020 8872 8370 Email: archives@harrowschool.org.uk

THE ARCHIVE This has been a busy year for the Archive. One of the main elements of the role of the Archivist is to help members of the School community and others with their research.

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his involves answering enquiries and producing records for researchers who visit the Archive. Enquiries vary greatly in terms of subject and response time, and range from people asking if their grandfather attended the School to providing authors with the information they need for their work. A recent enquiry involved producing all the records relating to the War Memorial building for English Heritage so that they could decide if the building’s listing should be changed. We have also been processing the School’s historic collection of 90,000 glass-plate negatives, which are being digitised externally – over 25,000 so far!

Raising the profile of the Archive has been high on the agenda this year. This has been tackled through the creation of displays and exhibitions. In the Vaughan Library, we have put together displays on the history of the High Street and on the various Speech Day prizes created to commemorate those who lost their lives in WW1. We have also been collaborating with the Drama and Classics departments to tie in displays with theatrical performances in the Ryan Theatre and displays relating to the Classical world.

The Speech Day exhibition in the Vaughan Library exploring Victorian education at Harrow (preventing boys playing with the birch was perhaps the greatest trial at that time) was a huge success, with 450 visitors on the day.

The exhibition comprised a mixture of paper records and artefacts such as an original Victorian school uniform and diaries kept by the boys during their

time at the School. The next exhibitions will focus on the history of Eton fives, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2017, and the final year of WW1.

Other work undertaken to publicise the Archive includes creating a Twitter account to raise awareness of the fantastic collections and to provide records for Classics guest speakers. We have also been working with Vaughan Library to create a new catalogue for the Archive collections on our database, which will facilitate access and support the enquiry service.

We have been undertaking the organisation, cataloguing, boxing and removal of boys’ files from the 12 boarding Houses to our off-site storage facility to free up space for boys and masters. So far, 150 large boxes of files have been transferred.

The same has been done for exam and Learning Support records, and there are a number of departments still to consider.

– Tace Fox, Archivist and Records Manager

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HARROW RECORD

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George O’Malley

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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL It has been another successful season on the pitch, with nearly 65% of all games being won and 488 goals scored. Unfortunately, however, the 1st XI, 3rd XI and Junior Colts A teams were unable to hold onto the trophies they won last year, and the 2nd XI were pipped to the title by Tonbridge only by head-to-head results.

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n the autumn term, the 1st XI recorded their strongest ever showing in the Boodles ISFA Cup. A 6-1 win in the first round set up a tough fixture against Whitgift at home. Harrow dominated much of the game, leading with just minutes to go, before Whitgift snatched a late equaliser. Harrow fought back and Christian Boland (Newlands) struck in extra time to seal a victory for Harrow. The win set up a third-round tie against rivals Eton.

In this game, Harrow played excellent football but missed a number of chances to score. Eton dominated Harrow physically at set pieces, scoring three goals. Harrow played incredibly exciting and attacking football in the competition and deserved to progress further.

In the spring term, the 1st XI recorded

1st XI Squad

victories against Oratory (3-0), Radley (2-0), Berkhamsted (3-1) and St Paul’s (5-3,) but two losses and two draws meant that it was tough for them to maintain a challenge for the title.

Captain George O’Malley (Lyon’s) led the team fantastically well both on and off the pitch.

The 2nd XI won their first six games of the season, scoring 29 goals, but they suffered two 2-0 losses at the end of the season, which damaged their hopes of a title win. The 3rd XI had a strong season, but a number of 2-2 draws hampered their chances. The Colts A began the season with four emphatic victories, but suffered two defeats at the end. The Junior Colts A team came close to winning their league but eventually lost 2-0 in a winner-takes-all match against Tonbridge.

There were many other teams with excellent records. The Junior Colts C and Yearlings D teams both had 100% records, with the Yearlings D scoring 44 goals in eight games. The most attacking team of the year was the Junior Colts B, who scored 46 goals in seven games. The Colts B team only conceded three goals in six games.

– Alex Turner, Master-in-Charge

RESULTS Age Level

P W D

L

1st XI

8

4

2

2

18

11

2nd XI

8

6

0

2

29

7

3rd XI

8

3

3

2

21

13

4th XI

6

2

1

3

18

17

5th XI

5

2

1

2

13

10

6th XI

3

1

0

2

7

11

7th XI

1

0

0

1

2

3

Colts A

8

4

2

2

27

10

Colts B

6

5

0

1

19

3

GF GA

Colts C

5

2

0

3

18

9

Colts D

4

3

1

0

24

7

Junior Colts A

8

5

1

2

29

10

Junior Colts B

7

6

0

1

46

6

Junior Colts C

8

8

0

0

37

5

Junior Colts D

4

3

0

1

24

4 0

Junior Colts E

1

1

0

0

10

Yearlings A

7

3

1

3

24 23

Yearlings B

6

4

1

1

18

10

Yearlings C

7

4

1

2

13

15 8

Yearlings D

8

8

0

0

44

Yearlings E

6

4

0

2

30 25

Yearlings F

5

4

0

1

17

TOTAL

8

129 82 14 33 488 215

SPORT BOROUGH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Junior 4x800m Achilles’ Relay team

ATHLETICS The athletes have once again had a tremendously successful season. They proved their strength time after time and remain a team that is very difficult to beat.

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ver 90 boys represented the School competitively, 25 went to the County Championships (of whom three won gold medals) and nine athletes were invited to represent Middlesex at the ESAA Championships. The Guy Butler Shield was won and then lost (on post-match disqualifications) and two School records were broken.

The highlight of the season was undoubtedly the unprecedented success of the squad at the Achilles Relays competition: Harrow won six of the 13 races and returned with seven trophies, including the cup for the best performance of the competition. These achievements clearly reflect the dedication of a talented and motivated squad.

I am ever grateful to all on our coaching staff who do such a magnificent job with the athletes and must heartily congratulate the 2017 squad, ably led by Rory Jack (Newlands), on another wonderful season.

– Gary White, Master-in-Charge

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Zeddie Johnson-Watts (Lyon’s)

First place Bofe Moses-Taiga (Druries) Daniel Adebayo (The Head Master’s) Toby Gould (Lyon’s) Freddie Strange (Newlands) Zeddie Johnson-Watts (Lyon’s) Harrison Obatoyinbo (The Knoll) Daniel Adebayo Zeddie Johnson-Watts Douglas Cook (The Knoll) Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) Guy White (Lyon’s) Ed de Bray (The Knoll) Luke Esposito (Newlands) Ricky White (The Knoll) Guy White Ludo Barattieri (The Park) Moritz von Lewiniski (Newlands) Afure Moses-Taiga (Druries) Myles Dismont-Robinson (West Acre) Theo Bartlett (West Acre)

Under-17 100m Under-17 200m Under-17 400m Under-17 1500m Under-17 hurdles Under-17 long jump Under-17 triple jump Under-17 high jump Under-17 javelin Under-17 shot put Under-15 300m Under-15 800m Under-15 1500m Under-15 shot put Under-15 discus Under-15 800m Under-15 1500m Under-15 hurdles Under-15 long jump Under-15 shot put

Second place Sean Hargraves (The Head Master’s) Under-17 100m Herbert Zumbika (Lyon’s) Under-17 400m Matthys du Toit (Newlands) Under-17 800m Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) Under-17 1500m Monty Powell (The Grove) Under-17 3000m Ben Cooper (Bradbys) Under-17 100m hurdles Max Grogan (Newlands) Under-17 400m hurdles Herbert Zumbika Under-17 triple jump William Dutton (Newlands) Under-17 high jump Oliver Glimmerveen (Bradbys) Under-17 shot put Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) Under-17 discus Uno Theerakulchai (The Head Master’s) Under-17 javelin Noble Sule (Moretons) Under-15 100m Henry Arundell (The Knoll) Under-15 200m Enam Anku (West Acre) Under-15 300m Jack Woods (The Knoll) Under-15 800m Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) Under-15 hurdles Ify Ogbonna (The Head Master’s) Under-15 triple jump Guy White Under-15 shot put Third place Max Grogan (Newlands) Philipp Benigni (Newlands) Ade Odunsi (Moretons) James Bovell (The Head Master’s)

Under-17 hurdles Under-17 javelin Under-15 long jump Under-15 discus

ACHILLES RELAYS CHAMPIONS

NEW SCHOOL RECORDS

Junior 4x100m Guy White, Noble Sule, Enam Anku, Ricky White

George Grassly George Grassly

Under-17 Under-17

90 91 1500m 800m

03:53.05s 01:54.82s

shot put

13.49m

ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ MEDALLIST Junior 4x800m Luke Esposito, Jack Woods, Adam Ait El Caid, Ed De Bray

Ricky White

Bronze Under-17

Intermediate 4x400m Toby Gould, Herbert Zumbika, James Middlemass (Moretons), William Dutton Intermediate 4x100m hurdles Ben Cooper, William Dutton, Zeddie Johnson-Watts, Afure Moses-Taiga Senior 4x100m (best performance of the competition) Elliott Obatoyinbo (The Knoll), James Bradley (Newlands), Kesi Oludoyi (Rendalls), Steve Dickson-Tetteh (Newlands), Dita Jaja (Moretons) Senior 4x800m Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield), Will Mitchell (Bradbys), George Grassly (The Knoll), James Millett (Newlands)

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS Gold Medals and County Champions Scott MacNaughton Under-17 shot put Zeddie Johnson-Watts Under-17 110m hurdles Ricky White Under-15 shot put Second place Daniel Adebayo Uno Theerakulchai Luke Esposito James Bovell Guy White

Under-17 Under-17 Under-15 Under-15 Under-15

triple jump javelin 1500m discus shot put

Third place Ben Cooper William Dutton Monty Powell Oliver Glimmerveen

Under-17 Under-17 Under-17 Under-17

100m hurdles high jump 3000m shot put

100m 5000m 100m triple jump triple jump shot put 100m hurdles shot put shot put

INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS

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fter some keenly contested House matches throughout April and May, Newlands had opened up a decent lead over The Knoll, who were unable to close the gap during the relays on Speech Day. The season’s House trophies were presented by Professor Peter Radford, one of Britain’s most successful athletes. In 1960 he set world records for the 200m and 220yds, having set a world under-20 200m record two years previously, whilst also holding the world under-20 100m record. He held world indoor best performance for 50m and was a member of the British 4x110yds relay team that set a world record when defeating the USA in 1963.

He held every British record for sprint distances, from 50m indoors to 300m outdoors, and was a holder of many British All-Comers records, European and Commonwealth, Indoors and Outdoors, for 100m, 200m and 4x100m. He won two Olympic bronze medals (Rome 1960 in the 100m and 4x100m) and is a double Commonwealth Games gold medallist (4x110yds in 1958 and 1962). He was head of anti-doping in Britain for 10 years, and is an ex-Chair of the Council of Europe’s International Anti-doping Convention.

TROPHY WINNERS

ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ QUALIFIERS Dita Jaja Under-19 George Grassly Under-19 Kesi Oludoyi Under-19 Herbert Zumbika Under-17 Daniel Adebayo Under-17 Scott MacNaughton Under-17 Zeddie Johnson-Watts Under-17 Guy White Under-15 Ricky White Under-15

The Knoll receiving their trophy

10.9s 15:48.93s 10.53s 12.93m 13.34m 13.95m 14.2s 12.45m 13.84m

Yearlings 100m Torpids 100m House 100m House high jump House middle distance

Yearlings Victor Ludorum Torpids Victor Ludorum House Victor Ludorum Yearlings Inter-House Torpids Inter-House House Inter-House Inter-House relay Overall Inter-House

Ricky White (The Knoll) Daniel Adebayo (The Head Master’s) Dita Jaja (Moretons) Ade Okuwoga (The Knoll) James Millett (Newlands) and George Grassly (The Knoll) Ricky White Daniel Adebayo Steve Dickson-Tetteh (Newlands) Newlands Newlands The Knoll Newlands Newlands

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BADMINTON The badminton team had another highly successful season in 2016/17.

The team played six fixtures and two tournaments.

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oth Pair 1 (Yi Shuen Gan and Mahathir Mokhzani (both Elmfield)) and Pair 2 (Hari Rattan (The Knoll) with Kingston Lee (Elmfield) or Johnson Lam (Bradbys)) remained undefeated throughout the whole season: a remarkable triumph.

In the Harrow Cup, the team fought off John Lyon, Coopers’ Company and Coborn, Charterhouse, Eton and Wellington to take the win. The final tournament of the season was the Wellington Cup, where the team narrowly missed out on the win to a very strong Abingdon team. The boys should be very proud of their efforts throughout this season; the standard of play has been excellent.

– Sarah Dempster, Master-in-Charge

Badminton team

BASKETBALL This has been an extremely successful season for basketball. We have continued to move forward, elevating the professionalism of our approach and demanding more of ourselves as a club. Our outstanding external coach, Gary Maitland, has been a great source of inspiration, setting extremely high expectations and missing no detail in ensuring the boys reach them.

Basketball Juniors

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ur Under-18 team have been improving all year, culminating in nail-biting end-of-season finale in which Clement Chow (Elmfield) scored the winning basket in extra time: a sensational moment for boys and coaches alike. The Under-16 team, however, is by far the strongest area of the club. They have been undefeated all season. We have seen a new wave of Shells and Fifth Form arrivals, many of whom also recorded solid performances for the Under-18 side.

The club is proud to include several players who have been selected for representative honours. Jude Ho and Justin Donohugh (both Newlands) were called up to represent Harrow Borough at the London

Basketball Seniors

Youth Games. The outstanding Daniel Adebayo (The Head Master’s) is doing better still, having been selected to represent the county. All in all, with such a strong set

of younger players, and some talented prospects entering into the fray, the future of basketball at Harrow is a bright one.

– Joshua Halstead, Master-in-Charge

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CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING It is pleasing to see so many boys taking up the sport on a regular basis as well as old hands coming to shoot when they can get away from their busy schedules of hockey, football, rugby and cricket training. Weekly trips to the EJ Churchill Shooting ground on the West Wycombe estate of Sir Edward Dashwood see a minibus full of boys being instructed in technique and etiquette by highly qualified instructors and even world champions.

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he School hosted 124 competitors in 31 teams from 15 schools for the seventh annual Fido May Trophy Competition at the EJ Churchill shooting ground. Shooting conditions were difficult as there were some very strong winds and equally strong competition. Harrow, including a team made up entirely of Shells, took 4th, 15th, 24th and 25th places. Tom Asprey (Druries) shot 44 out of a possible 50 clays but did not quite make High Gun, while our A team’s score of 92/100 in the flush placed us third overall in that category.

INTER-HOUSE COMPETITION The Inter-House Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition was won by Bradbys, who broke 88 out of 128 clays. Newlands came second with 84 and Elmfield third with 80.

On a slightly easier course than last year, the competition High Gun title was taken

by Sam Regan (Newlands) who broke 29/32 clays, which was an excellent result indeed.

Second-highest gun was William Ouvaroff (Bradbys) with 27/32.

PARENTS AND SONS COMPETITION The highly successful Parents and Sons Competition took place at West Wycombe Park in May. The winners were father-andson parings of William Rudd (The Head

Master’s) and Peter Peganov (Druries) with a score of 418/500. The Solent Salver for Clay Pigeon Shooting and the Woodcock Trophy will be held by those Houses for the following year.

Do you have somewhere to shoot clays within a 90-minute drive from Harrow?

The School’s clay pigeon shooting team is always looking for locations to shoot throughout the year. If you are willing to help out and to allow us to bring our Promatic Huntsman XP Game trailer to your property, we can provide excellent and varied training for our boys as well as providing you with an afternoon of shooting at no cost. Please contact Damian Cox at dfc@harrowschool.org.uk.

– Damian Cox, Master-in-Charge

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CRICKET The 1st XI finished the season with a record to be proud of but it wasn’t looking that rosy after the first couple of weeks. Losing a season-opener to a very strong Cranleigh side was nothing to be ashamed of but then a worrying trend began in which some great top-order batting led to several batting collapses. Perhaps it was the Easter weekend that made pre-season practice difficult but it seemed as if Harrow were batting with rather heavy (chocolate laden?) legs. The bowling unit, too, found it hard to get into any sort of rhythm.

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t was a poor performance in the field that allowed Wellington to chase down a decent score of 253 in the first Cowdrey Cup fixture, before a batting collapse of Biblical proportions allowed a great position against Hampton to slip away. At one stage, batting first, the team was 168 for 3 with 12 overs to go. Six overs later, they had been bowled out for 177. The same almost happened in the next Cowdrey Cup game against Tonbridge but some cool

batting from Johnny Bowie (The Grove) and George Ing (Druries) got the team over the line by two wickets.

A win against Tonbridge is never to be underestimated and, from that game, the XI gained in confidence and never really looked back. Indeed, the team won 10 of their next 13 games, only losing in two T20 friendlies and against a strong Free Foresters side. The final week of the season saw excellent wins against Eton at Lord’s, the MCC and a strong touring team from New Zealand, St Kentigern, as well as winning a T20 festival at Stowe School.

The team won the Cowdrey Cup for the first time since 2012.

The Tonbridge performance was followed by wins against Charterhouse and Radley, just a week before Lord’s. The Radley game was as complete a performance as any coach could hope for. Captain Rahul Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) was in scintillating form, carving, whipping and deflecting his way wristily to a second 100 of the season and enabling his team to post 296. The bowling unit, led by Harry Maxwell and Archie Maxwell (both Elmfield), both back from long-term injuries that limited their appearances before half term, was aggressive and slick, and Radley’s vaunted top order were blown away whilst the middle order was stifled by the three

talented off-spinners, Rishi Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) (a Remove), Rahul Wijeratne and Rahul Shah (Bradbys).

A win by 102 runs against a hitherto unbeaten Radley put the team in an almost worryingly confident state of mind for Lord’s.

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LORD’S Arriving at the Home of Cricket, a green wicket and leaden sky greeted Rahul Wijeratne and his team, denting the captain’s well-oiled plan to bat first. Luckily, Eton’s captain made his first mistake of the day and chose to bat, allowing Harrow’s seamers to have first go at getting seam to zing off live grass. A nervy first couple of overs aside, it was a thoroughly dominant bowling and fielding performance.

Watched by an appreciative crowd (just the cricket-playing boys from both schools in the pre-lunch session) and helped by some anxious and surprisingly unenterprising batting from Eton, the opening pair of seamers, William Falcon (West Acre) and Harry Maxwell, rapidly gained control of proceedings. After Maxwell produced perhaps the ball of the season to take the first wicket, and Falcon and Archie Maxwell had coaxed edges behind from some tentative forward prods, Eton were 42 for 3 in the 13th over. In walked the Eton captain, a fine player who would be the key wicket. He tried to up the pace but struggled against the accuracy of Maxwell and George Reid (Moretons) and it was Reid who picked him off, caught at mid-on by the ever-reliable Johnny Bowie (The Grove). It was, alas, one of Reid’s last acts of the School season for, a few balls later, he fractured and

dislocated a finger and had to watch the rest of the match from the dressing room.

With Eton’s playmaker gone, their lower order tried to salvage an innings that was heading for disaster at 82 for 5, but Harrow’s spin trio got to work. For much of the season, two of the three off-spinners had worked well in tandem, allowing the third to have an off-day if necessary. At Lord’s, all three bowled with great control.

It was the youngest, Rishi Wijeratne, who had the best figures of the day, going for just 17 runs in his 11 overs, but both Shah and Rahul Wijeratne picked up wickets and stifled the batsmen, giving them nowhere to go. There was, in truth, very little intent shown by Eton’s middle and lower order and the spinners were able to operate in relatively pressure-free conditions, even with the usual short boundary on the Tavern side. Indeed, only three boundaries were scored in the last 36 overs of the Eton innings and, although only eight wickets were taken in the 55 overs, only one Eton batsman was able to operate at a strike rate of over 50. Such stodgy batting led to a target of 170 to win at just over three an over. It was clear that Eton would have to take 10 Harrow wickets to win the match.

With the weather set blissfully fair, Hamish Dicketts (Elmfield) and makeshift opener, Rishi Wijeratne, set about their task cautiously. Eton’s best bowler was fired up

and soon made light work of Dicketts, caught at slip, and Maxim Ayliffe (The Park), trapped in front. At 30 for 2, a partnership was badly needed to calm the nerves in the dressing room. Enter the skipper, Rahul Wijeratne, with the bit between his teeth and in prime form.

(He had privately been disappointed at losing the toss and being put in the field because he felt this meant he wouldn’t have the chance to score 100!) From the first ball he faced, he attacked with controlled aggression, with trademark flicks of the wrists sending the ball skidding over the turf with tremendous power. He let

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neither seamer nor spinner settle against him and, with younger brother Rishi, set about rebuilding the innings.

Their partnership had reached 59, easily the highest of the match, when Rishi played across the line to the leg-spinner, Pearson, and was sent on his way. Alex Ferreira (The Grove), coming in at five, continued to try to attack the bowling and perished quickly against Pearson but the intent was there and Eton’s bowlers and fielders could surely feel it. Still, now four wickets down, and with one top order batsman in hospital, it was not the time to be reckless. Bowie strode to the crease with a grin on his face that had been there seemingly since the Lord’s team had been announced. Some boys wither when their time in the spotlight arrives but Bowie batted as if he’d been born in the Long Room. So well did he and the captain now play that within 20 minutes the match was as good as over. Two shots from Bowie will be remembered above all others: one a huge slog sweep for six which almost reached the Mound Stand some 100m from the wicket, and the other a sweetly struck drive to win the match.

So the captain wasn’t able to score 100 but he did finish with a telling contribution.

He looked a class above anything else at the crease that day, as he did for most of the season, and Harrow will undoubtedly miss the skill, power and maturity he brought to his game. The other leavers who played regularly for the 1st XI will also be missed. Maxwell was always the most reliable seamer and had developed into a highly skilled performer, his left-armers

creating a difficult angle for batsmen.

Bowie contributed significantly in almost every innings, even if his number seven position prevented him from hitting big scores most of the time. Shah has the ability to give his off-spinners a real rip and at times was unplayable. He upped his game when the opposition’s best batsmen were at the crease – always the sign of a good player. Reid, the vice-captain, ended the season as the leading wicket-taker, a remarkable achievement not only because he missed the last three matches of the season but also because he had only turned to bowling left-arm seam the previous winter.

His batting was once again ever reliable and it was a rare day when he failed to see off the new ball thus allowing the lower

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order to flourish. He fully deserves to fulfil his ambition of a career in cricket.

There is also much hope for the next few years. Six of the Lord’s XI will return next year and the others in the wider squad all have years to come. It will be a very competitive team for the next three years.

Fifth Formers Dicketts and Christian Boland (Newlands) played all year. Other promise comes from this year’s Yearlings and Junior Colts who between them won 18 of the 26 matches they played. In the Yearlings, Tej Sheopuri (Lyon’s) finished the season with remarkable batting statistics: 920 runs at an average of 102. He passed 50 ten times in 14 innings and was given an outing with the 1st XI in the last week of term. The Junior Colts James Langston (Druries) and Jafer Chohan (Lyon’s) also played for the 1st XI at times, as did the Colts Charlie Witter (Elmfield) and Luke HarringtonMyers (Bradbys).

In total, 156 games were played by all teams this season, of which 90 were won.

As always, however, it is the number of boys taking part that remains impressive, even at a time when exam pressure is taking its toll. Despite, and perhaps because of, academia getting ever more serious, cricket’s value to education remains as pertinent as ever. A remarkably committed team of beaks and external coaches have once again worked hard to provide a programme that will enable boys to take their minds off their studies for a few hours each week and enjoy playing the best game in the world in the sunshine.

– Robin Martin-Jenkins, Master-in-Charge

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CROSS COUNTRY Running at Harrow has gone from strength to strength with the cross country squad growing in number, and proving themselves to be one of the best teams among the country’s boarding schools.

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he year started with success at Sevenoaks in the Simon Houghton Trophy, with George Grassly (The Knoll) taking first place, James Millett (Newlands) in second, and Angus Denison-Smith (Elmfield) not far behind in fifth. This was repeated a month later at Lancing, with the team in first position and four Harrow boys in the top 10 individual places.

The younger boys proved their potential with good runs in the ESAA Cross Country first round and then racing in the Regional final. Two teams entered the St Alban’s relays and there were some exciting moments, with the A team finishing in second place, and George Grassly winning second-fastest lap of the day. The autumn term ended with the annual Ten Schools’ Fixture hosted on the Harrow cross country course. The Junior team came second, the Intermediates fifth, and the Seniors won a clear first place. George Grassly won the race, followed by James Millett in fourth and Oliver Tippett (The Park) in seventh place. Angus Denison-Smith helped the team to victory with 13th place, followed

by William Gasson (The Head Master’s)

Inter-House Relay

and Ga Kitada (Lyon’s) at 16th and 18th respectively.

The spring term started with success at the annual Knole Run, with the Harrow A team coming fourth to win the McGregor Trophy. George Grassly won silver, the first time a Harrow boy has won a medal at this event. In the King Henry VIII relays, the strong team of six runners came tenth of 51 teams, and in the Wellington Relays the Seniors came second, with the Intermediate team in third place. The Harrow Borough Championships saw 16 Harrow School runners qualifying for the Middlesex Championships. Other highlights include the Seniors running an exciting race to win the Radley Relays, and all our teams winning their events at Winchester.

Over 400 runners took part in this year’s South-East Schools Cross Country Championship, hosted by Harrow.

The Senior team came second and the Intermediates third. Harrow also hosted a fixture against Old Harrovians, organised

by Henry Farrar-Bell (Moretons 20023).

We are hoping we can encourage more Old Harrovians to return to take on the challenge next year.

Individual achievements have been impressive. George Grassly ran at the English Schools competition in March and in the London Mini Marathon, a three-mile race along the last three miles of the London Marathon course. He came an impressive third place from all London

James Millett

Boroughs, and 27th in the British Athletics Road Championships, in a very fast time of just under 15 minutes. In May, he took on the Westminster mile in the British One Mile Road Championships, and came third.

This has qualified him for a spot in a prestigious national training camp this summer. James Millett finished his School cross country career on a high, being selected for the UK Inter-Counties Cross Country competition in March. James has been an impressive captain of cross country and his excellent coaching ideas and training regimes will be missed.

Long distance running has been popular this year. William Gasson and Oliver Tippett ran the London Marathon in April, raising money for Kids Kidney Research. During the spring term, four boys took on the challenge of running 21 miles along the canal into London and back. The season ended with a friendly fixture against two London running clubs: Thames Hare and Hounds and South London Harriers.

– Lucy Ashe, Master-in-Charge

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FENCING It has been a year of growth and renewal for the Fencing Club.

Although statistically not as successful as previous years, it has been pleasing to see many young fencers coming through the ranks, providing some much-needed new blood for the club.

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ighlights from our fixtures included our win against St Paul’s (a new fixture this year), as well as a very competitive triangular between Westminster and Tonbridge in which Harrow got pipped to the post by one point. Sadly, despite some dogged resistance from our épée teams, we also lost our two matches against Eton, thereby losing the Lansdowne Plate.

However, the real highlight of the fencing calendar is always the Public Schools’ Fencing Competition held at Crystal Palace. This is an individual competition for fencers from all over the country, including both

Fencing squad

international (GB) and national competitors. Overall, the boys did very well, particularly considering there were many boys who entered this year for the first time. However, highlights from day one included Roman Aubry (Newlands) who came 12th in the Boys’ Senior Foil, with Arthur Oien (The Park) finishing not far behind in 28th. Finn Deacon (The Park) also came 36th in the Boys’ Junior Épée. On the second day, the boys did even better – Arthur Oien finished seventh in the Boys’ Senior Épée, with Roman Aubry and Alex Rutherford (Lyon’s) coming 11th and

33rd respectively in the same category.

We also had another successful re-run of the Paterson Inter-House Fencing Cup, in which Newlands beat The Head Master’s in the final to take the plate.

For their commitment to the club, three fencing ties were awarded this year to Alex Rutherford, who takes over from Roman Aubry as fencing captain, Arthur Oien and William Vestbirk (The Grove). With most of the fixtures for the next academic year now in the diary, we look forward to the coming season with impatience!

– Hamish Haldane, Master-in-Charge

In the Schools Championships our first pair, Rahul Wijeratne and Oskar Denby, lost a close semi final from a strong position of one set all and 6-1 up in the third game but this should not detract from the quality fives played over the past two years. There were encouraging performances in all age groups and the progress of Freddy Anton-Smith and Rishi Wijeratne (both The Head Master’s) augurs well for the future. There were also very good performances at Yearlings level from Ben Hope (Rendalls), Fred Prickett (The Park), Caleb Efemuai,

Jude Brankin-Frisby and Callum Lloyd (all Newlands).

Other highlights of the season were the annual Shrewsbury weekend, our first overseas fives tour for nearly 20 years to Grillon in France where we were introduced to the delights and challenges of the ‘mirror image’ court with the buttress on the right-hand side of the court, and our successful Shaftesbury Enterprise initiatives with both Roxeth and Vaughan primary schools.

– Graham Dunbar, Master-in-Charge

FIVES It has been a memorable and excellent year for Harrow fives.

The appointment of Ian Hutchinson as fives professional and cricket coach has had a hugely beneficial effect. Numbers are very healthy at all levels and over 50 boys have enjoyed regular involvement with the sport.

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he Upper Sixth boys have been excellent ambassadors for Harrow on and off the court and we will greatly miss Rahul Wijeratne (The Head Master’s), Oskar Denby (The Park), Alan Huo (The Head Master’s), Henry Collins (Rendalls) and Andrew Taylor (Bradbys). The Senior team has strength in depth with a promising Lower Sixth contingent of Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s), Benjy Menell (West Acre), Alessio Kenda (Newlands) and Philip Gallagher (The Head Master’s). Harrow were deserved runners up in the Schools three-pair competition.

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GOLF PUBLIC SCHOOLS INVITATIONAL Thirty-two school teams from South of England met in an 18-hole Stableford (handicap and scratch) competition.

Harrow Team A, Ed Bayne (Bradbys) and Elliott Obatoyinbo (The Knoll), played some brilliant golf, including two birdies and an eagle. At one point, they were looking at an outstanding score but a run of three poor holes dented the card. Their 39 points put them second in the individual team handicap prize and produced the best Harrow performance for many years in this competition.

scratch golf, overwhelming their opponents with a 7 and 8 victory. In the second game, the established pairing of Obatoyinbo and Bayne dominated the opposition from the start. They won with the margin of 9 and 8.

The final pair of Ollie Connell (Rendalls) and Qassi Gaba (Lyon’s) had a convincing 4 and 3 win. In Round 2, we faced St Columba’s College at The Buckinghamshire.

St Columba’s took the first two games relatively easily to secure the victory overall.

Consolation came from the third pairing of Hamish Dicketts and Charlie Witter (both Elmfield) who won 5 and 4.

HMC FOURSOMES TROPHY

ISGA MATCHPLAY TOURNAMENT

We had a great start to this year’s campaign with a 3-0 victory over Haberdashers’ Aske’s played at Harpenden Golf Club. Harrow dominated in all three games, with excellent performances from all pairs. In the first game, the calm and consistent approach of William Yu (The Knoll), coupled with the brilliance of Aidan Osobase (captain) (Moretons), produced

We faced Haberdashers’ in the first round. There was some excellent play from Yu and Witter who both comfortably won their games, and a spirited performance from Dicketts who made a half point, giving Harrow a 2½-½ win.

In Round 2, we played St Paul’s School.

Their number 1 is a regular England player and he took the first game for St Paul’s 5 and 3. Bayne narrowly lost in the second game. Our only point came from Connell, who fought back from 2 down at the turn to win 3 and 2 in the last game. We lost 1-2 to a strong team.

The Knoll Inter-House Trophy winners

THE MICKLEM TROPHY In the first round, we were up against a new-look Winchester team. Winchester now offers sports scholarships to three golf players. These three scholars took the top slots in their team, playing off handicaps of 1, 2 and 3 respectively. There was some excellent golf all round but the opposition were too strong and Harrow lost 1-4, with our one success coming from Gaba with a magnificent 6 and 4.

In the first round of The Plate, our opponents were Stowe. The disappointment of the previous day may well have dampened spirits and Harrow lost all the points except in the third game, where Gaba won the match 7 and 6.

PARENTS AND SONS TOURNAMENT It was pleasing to see a full complement of teams (36 players) for this very enjoyable event. A superb 50 points from Connell and Jon Connell (Rendalls 19811) took the top spot by two points from second place Romeo Ravagnan (Bradbys) and Stefano Ravagnan.

THE INTER-HOUSE TROPHY (THE MICHELE CUP) AND THE SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP (THE GABA CUP) Three teams tied in first place for the House Trophy: The Grove, The Knoll and Elmfield. A play-off was held, in which The Knoll triumphed. In the School Championship, there was a clear winner of The Gaba Cup: Obatoyinbo with 17 points.

OLD HARROVIAN GOLFING SOCIETY (OHGS) The School has a regular fixture against the OHGS at Sunningdale. This year the OHGS won comfortably 3-0. We played them again as a warm-up for The Micklem Trophy, where we managed a 4-2 win. There were impressive performances from Yu, winning 3 and 2 against Farri Gaba (Lyon’s 20113); from Qassi Gaba, who won 3 and 2 against Jerome Wilcox (Moretons 19791); from Charlie Witter (Elmfield), who won 8 and 6 against Robert Tindall (Moretons 19723); and, finally, from Dicketts who won 3 and 2 against Jeremy Fricker (Elmfield 19723).

– Simon Page, Master-in-Charge

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HARROW FOOTBALL This year’s Harrow football season started with a successful tour of Edinburgh.

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he boys took to the fields of Fettes College, where some of Harrow’s finest, including Dillon Anadkat, David Perkoff (both West Acre) and Alex Wendelken-Dickson (Druries), played against the northern giants of old.

Unfortunately, the efforts of the XI led to a tight 2-1 loss. Nevertheless, this did not hinder the spirits of the Harrovians.

A fine occasion of dinner and Songs awaited them at The George Hotel with over 40 Old Harrovians currently studying at the university.

In the first week of the spring term, the long list of fixtures kicked off with a testing match against a sturdy DJ-PG Davis’s XI. Some minor snowfall the night before left the pitch hard and fast, causing some high velocity collisions. The match ended in a 6-2 loss but Henry Webb (The Knoll) and Freddie Wilkins (Bradbys) managed to open the account for the XI. The Outcasts also failed to win against a very competitive and experienced XI captained by Louis Kunzig (Druries 19833).

The weather hindered the season greatly and we had to cancel a match against a new OH XI captained by Jake Hyman (The Knoll 20073). TL Lawson-Cruttenden’s XI used the afternoon as an opportunity to coach a contingent from the Household Cavalry in the nuances of the game. The soldiers enjoyed it so much that they returned to the Hill on a further four occasions to play the boys. This relationship has been firmly cemented and we look forward to further fixtures next season.

Plans have also been made to play an “away fixture” in Hyde Park with a tour of the barracks.

The temperature warmed up slightly and allowed the Charles Woodhouse XI to test the mettle of the XI. 2-0 down at half time, the School managed to fight back to take the match to 2-2. The game finished 4-4 due to a last-minute base from James Thacker (Rendalls). The Outcasts again failed to win against a motivated Ali Noor XI. After a confidence-building 6-1 win against Eton, the XI travelled to Oxford in order put the University XI to the test. On a rather dry rugby field, the match was based

on speed and fitness: perhaps two things the university scholars had lost since their departure from Harrow. The first base came from Harry Markham (Bradbys), followed by Andrew Taylor (Bradbys). Overall, the match ended 4-0 to the School XI. In the interim, the XI went down to an OH side captained

by Joe Wigley (Elmfield 19993). They made up for a narrow loss the previous year and reversed the score for a fine win.

The penultimate match was against the Guy Yarrow XI. As a team built on size and experience, the OH XI dominated the opening moments of the match scoring a base quickly. However, the XI managed to adapt their tactics to great effect to bring the match level. However, a lapse of concentration left the XI behind during half time. The second half saw the XI score two more bases to leave the score in their favour.

The Thompson XI provided the opposition for the final match of the season. The School went down a base in the early phase of the match but they looked to their skill and teamwork to level it again. However, a well-worked base from the OHs left the School once again falling behind. As the match drew to a close, the alert Markham was able to take opportune yards and converted to bring the match level again. In the dying moments, the School managed a herculean base on the line, bringing the score to 3-2 to the School.

– Chris Mann, Master-in-Charge

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FIXTURES IN 2017 The XI v DJ-PG Davis’s XI Outcasts v LA Kunzig’s XI The Beaks’ XI v The Grove XI The IX v JH Hyman’s XI Outcasts v AL Lawson-Cruttenden’s XI The XI v SP Woodhouse’s XI Outcasts v P Ali Noor’s XI The Princes v Household Cavalry XI Founder’s Day The XI v Eton College XI (home) Outcasts v The Sunningdale Masters’ X The XI v Eton College (Field Game – away) The XI v J Wigley’s XI Outcasts v CEG Bailey’s XI The Princes v Household Cavalry XI The XI v The Oxford University XI (away) The XI v GFJ Yarrow’s XI The Outcasts v Household Cavalry XI The XI v AFS Thompson’s XI The Outcasts v Household Cavalry XI

SPORT

HOCKEY It was another strong season for the 1st XI. The team celebrated convincing victories against Chigwell, Haileybury, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ and Aldenham.

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he 1-1 draw against Alleyn’s was one of the more memorable matches of the season because of its competitiveness.

A heavy defeat at Merchant Taylors’ was a low point of the season and showed the young team how and where they need to get better.

In July, a development 1st XI squad travelled on the first major tour for hockey at Harrow. The boys competed in the Cape Town Hockey Festival, taking on schools from South Africa, the UK and the rest of the world. Max Webster and Josie Spencer-Pell joined Taj Dogra as external coaches and added a great deal to the training programme.

The Under-16s once again finished runners-up in the Middlesex Cup, but their cup run came to an end with a loss against Challoners’.

The Yearlings struggled, particularly in front of goal. This group has a lot of potential, however, and should see an improvement in their results as they get stronger physically as well as technically.

– Will Alderton, Master-in-Charge

On tour in South Africa

Hockey 1st XI

JUDO Many new boys started judo this year, with uptake boosted by the activity’s debut in the Shell PE curriculum and by our recent successes in national competitions.

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e continue to build our judo programme at Harrow, with a strong competition squad of around 20.

Matches against rivals Winchester, Merchant Taylors’ and St Paul’s are long-standing regular fixtures but, in addition to regular training, we now hold at least two masterclasses per term when internationally renowned coaches and champions come to Harrow to instruct our team. This year, we welcomed former world champions Craig Fallon and Jane Bridge as well as double Olympian Sophie Cox. We have

also developed our inter-schools training events, making use of the excellent facilities at Pinewood Judo Club and the London Budokwai.

Twelve boys attended the judo winter training camp in Lanzarote, which is now a regular fixture in the Christmas holidays.

The camp allows us to improve the level of all judoka, from novice to experienced team player, ahead of the national competitions in the spring term.

In February, we entered a team of 18 boys in the HMC Independent Schools Judo Tournament and returned with six gold, four silver and four bronze medals, enough to finish as the winning school for a fourth year. To round off an excellent day, Toni Fola-Alade (Rendalls) was chosen as the recipient of the prestigious Budokwai Cup for Best Fighting Spirit, presented to him by 1964 Judo Olympian Anthony Sweeney.

As part of an exchange relationship

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Training with double Olympian Sophie Cox

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KARATE The Karate Club meets twice weekly in every term and welcomes boys of any age and level of experience.​

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arate training at Harrow focuses on self-defence and follows a demanding technical syllabus with junior and senior belt progressions.

Boys work on refining striking and grappling skills as defences against common strikes, grabs and body holds.

Senior boys also study basic weapons

defence. Skills are tested and refined in a range of physical self-defence drills as well as through light continuous sparring. The traditional emphasis of karate training adds balance to the martial arts programme at Harrow, with judo training heavily focused on competition under Olympic rules. ​ In the past two years, we have benefited greatly from the expertise of Phil Jervis, a black belt instructor with the British Martial Arts and Boxing Association.

Eight Shell beginners earned karate belts during the year with Oskar Bulstrode, Jake McDermid (both Rendalls) and Francois Ni (The Park) advancing several grades to junior green belt. Remove Tom Gianasso (The Grove) has made rapid progress, finishing the year on junior purple belt. Five senior boys were promoted, among them next term’s captain, Damir Mynbayev, and vice-captain Jonny Kyd (both The Park).

Both are now within reach of senior green belt, which is a significant milestone.

– Dr Matt Glossop, Master-in-Charge

Winning teams at the British Schools Judo Championships 2017

cultivated through our tours of Japan, we hosted top Japanese high school, Nada, for an afternoon of judo and sightseeing at Harrow. We are working towards a return visit to Japan in 2019.

A team of 12 boys qualified for the British Schools Judo Championships this year. There were over 650 competitors representing over 200 schools. This event operates as an individual competition separated by age band and weight category with the winning school determined by

points earned through medals won. It is a tough national event and the whole team showed great fighting spirit and sportsmanship in both victory and defeat.

Orlando Closs (Moretons) achieved our best individual result of the weekend with the silver medal in the Junior Under-73kg category, with Dat Doan (Bradbys) finishing with bronze in the Junior Over-90kg division. Among the Intermediates, Harry Cleeve (Lyon’s) and Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) finished with bronze medals in

the Under-90kg and Over-90kg categories respectively. In the Seniors, Zayan Dhanani (The Park) won bronze in the Under-90kg category, as did team captain Harry Markham (Bradbys) in the Over-90kg category. Our final medal count (five bronze and one silver) was enough to finish as the winning school for a fourth year.

– Dr Matt Glossop, Master-in-Charge Judo training in Lanzarote and the judo masterclasses are supported by the HDT.

SPORT

POLO This has been another successful year for polo at Harrow. All teams have won most of their matches and many new members have joined the polo squad. We continue to practise at Emsworth Polo Club on the outskirts of Windsor Great Park with HPA-qualified instructor Nico San Roman. The A team was also helped in the summer by Adolpho Cassabal and D’Artagnan Giercke (Rendalls 20113).

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n December, eight players went to Argentina for 10 days of intensive polo training. They stayed at La Golondria (The Swallow), the home of the Oberschneider family. Each day began with lessons from coaches Santi, Nacho and Pedro on game tactics and thinking ahead during play.

Morning stick-and-ball sessions helped boys improve their riding and taught them new skills, while in the afternoons they played chukkas.

Polo A team

The spring term also saw much success, with all Harrow teams winning the majority of matches. The B team put up a good fight against Eton, winning 4-2. In the SUPA tournament, the A team won their division, beating Stowe, Rugby and St George’s to become the Schools National Arena Champions.

The Harrow v Eton game is a major event in the polo world. This year, it was played at Guards Polo Club as part of the La Martina

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Varsity Polo Day. The A team of Charles Cadogan (Captain) (Druries), Valentine Hutley (The Head Master’s), Michael Fitzgibbon (Rendalls) and Christian Oberschneider (The Head Master’s) enjoyed a tough and exciting game and did well to come out on top, winning 6-4½. Cadogan scored five goals and won the Most Valuable Player award.

Eight teams took part in the Copenhagen Cup tournament at Guards. Wellington, Millfield, Cheltenham and Radley played for the Cup, with Wellington winning. Harrow, Eton, Stowe and Marlborough played for the Copenhagen Shield. In the A team’s first game against Stowe, Cadogan opened the scoring, followed by Oberschneider taking it to 2-0. Cadogan finished it off with a skilful goal to get Harrow into the final. It was neck and neck throughout the final against Marlborough, with the score at 2-2 all in the final chukka. In the last seconds of the game, Cadogan slotted a perfect penalty to win 3-2.

On Sandhurst Heritage Day, the Harrow A team played an exhibition match against the officers of the Royal Military Academy.

After the second chukka, Harrow were down 3-0 but Cadogan managed to score four goals in the third chukka with the help of Martini Siu (Bradbys) and Fitzgibbon. The officers equalised in the fourth chukka but, in the dying seconds of the match, Oberschneider drove the ball from 30 yards to bring Harrow victory.

Cadogan has been selected to play for England next year against the Maharaja of Jaipur’s team in India.

– Darren Bell, Master-in-Charge

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RACKETS Harrow had a competitive line up at all age groups and plenty of enthusiasm and ability. The unusual aspect was the breadth of talent in the Upper Sixth year, which meant that we were able to win 17 of our 20 matches at 1st-pair level with six boys playing in a variety of combinations.

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lan Huo (The Head Master’s), Archie Green (The Grove), Archie Maxwell (Elmfield), Olly Santini (The Park) and Rahul

Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) all performed well at different times. As a group, all of them were good enough players to have reached at least one semi-final at Queen’s over their Harrow career. They will be remembered as excellent role models for other players and they made many friendships on the school rackets circuit.

Huo and Green both reached the Foster Cup quarter finals and both the 1st and 2nd pairs reached the semi finals of their events at Queen’s. Sadly, an untimely injury to Maxwell meant we had to rejig our 2nd and 3rd pairs at Queen’s.

I am confident that this group will carry on playing after school and Green has signed up for a fellowship in his gap year.

Hector Scott Lyon (Newlands) will be our leading player next year and he played in several 1st pair matches as well as reaching the 2nd pair semi finals in partnership with Green at Queen’s. There will be several players vying to play with Scott Lyon in our 1st pair next year.

Internally, Huo won a tight final against Scott Lyon for the Challenge Racket. Huo also won the House Doubles in partnership with Wijeratne.

– John Eaton, Rackets Professional

ROCK CLIMBING This year, the Marmots Club has continued to climb on a variety of real rock. There were two trips in the autumn term: one to Cratcliffe in Derbyshire and the other to Bowles Rocks in East Sussex. Both trips gave us perfect weather and climbing conditions.

C Climbing Tom Thumb 5c

ratcliffe is an amazing destination; the rock is supreme with awesome routes.

Climbing legend Johnny Dawes was with us as usual and gave us a great insight into the history of some of the classic climbs such as Tom Thumb 5c and Suicide Wall 5a, which all the boys enjoyed.

Bowles Rocks was also a great day out.

The journey was shorter so we managed to get there earlier and fitted in even more climbing. The sandstone was superbly dry and in perfect condition. Climbs such as Pig’s Ear 5b and Hate 6a proved particularly satisfying.

In February, we revisited Black Rocks in Derbyshire and snatched another excellent day’s climbing despite the previous week’s dreadful weather. In March, our junior team took third place in the Independent School’s Climbing Competition at Reading Climbing Centre. This was a fine result considering the large number of schools and contestants.

Our congratulations though must go to Otto Heffer (Elmfield), who was awarded prizes for top junior lead climber, joint-top junior top-roper and third-best junior boulderer.

– Dr Martin Roberts, Master-in-Charge

SPORT

RUGBY UNION THE 1ST XV After a successful USA tour, Harrow started the 2016 season training at The Lensbury, the home of England 7s. The senior-player group of Reuben Bird-Tulloch (The Park), Sean Reffell (Newlands), Elliott Obatoyinbo (The Knoll) and Andrew Christie (Bradbys) were tasked with developing a game plan that would allow the 1st XV to reach their full potential and enjoy the tough season ahead. For the second year, coach Phil Greening’s tactical and technical contributions engaged all the boys. The productive week finished not with a competitive game of rugby but with a dragon boat race along the Thames.

Sadly, despite all the hard work and progress made, the boys were unable to compete with a ruthlessly efficient beaks’ boat, and returned home empty handed.

A week later, Harrow faced Felsted.

Although still acclimatising to their new attacking framework, the XV dominated the first half, with Manu Vunipola (The Knoll) and Ozzie Chalmers (Bradbys) orchestrating phase attack. Tries from Tobias Munday (West Acre), Bird-Tulloch and a brace from William Heywood (The Knoll) helped Harrow to a 26-0 half-time lead. The second half was a more even affair, but the final score of 38-0 was a promising start to the season. Gev Arnsberg (Moretons), Sam Crean (The Park), Munday and Heywood all made their first start for the XV and contributed positively to the team.

Arguably Harrow’s best performance of the season came against a well-drilled and aggressive Oundle side. The XV went into the break 33 points up, with tries from

The 1st XV

Crean, Ciaran Jordan (Bradbys), Christie, Chalmers and Arnsberg. Oundle rallied in the second half but were met by a cohesive and ferocious 15-man defence. The final score of 47-0 sent a clear message to rivals and was well deserved.

Away to Dulwich, Harrow were made to work hard for their 29-10 win. The home side played with an energy and intent that surprised the XV. However, tries from Reffell and two apiece from Christie and the impressive Obatoyinbo were enough to secure victory.

The following weekend saw a match against St Paul’s. The home side were fast out of the blocks, with two well-taken tries.

Harrow gradually began to settle and build momentum and tries from Reffell, Andrew Ellis (Rendalls), Jordan, Bird-Tulloch and Steve Dickson-Tetteh (Newlands) swept Harrow to victory.

Against Haileybury, good ball retention, pace and power resulted in four quick team tries from Crean, Chalmers and a double for Obatoyinbo. The second half was dominated by the referee’s whistle. Harrow’s poor discipline allowed Haileybury back into the game and, with five minutes to play, they only required a converted score to steal the match. Harrow responded by securing victory with a well-worked team try in the last minute.

Harrow put in a dominant performance at home to Berkhamsted. Against the wind in the first half, the XV attacked with pace and ambition and quickly built a commanding lead. In the second half, Harrow continued to exert relentless pressure on the opposition and the final score was 54-5, with three tries from the

impressive Will Glover (Rendalls).

Unbeaten in the first half of the season, Harrow faced a difficult test against an in-form Tonbridge when they returned from their break. With the scores level at 14-14 just before half time, Harrow forwards powered through the Tonbridge defence, setting Ellis up for a fine try. In the second half, the standard of rugby remained high, with a final score of 33-21 to Harrow, in what was a mature performance against quality opposition.

Against a determined Eton side, Harrow were outworked and lucky to leave with a 21-15 victory, before a break in the season gave them time to prepare for the Wellington fixture.

In the much-anticipated match, Harrow drew first blood, but Wellington fought back into the game, taking advantage of

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Harrow’s eagerness to attack from depth, accumulating eight points from turnover ball. Harrow regained control of the game and led 12-8 at half time. Unfortunately, game management was Harrow’s Achilles’ heel at the start of the second half but, at 20-12, Harrow regained their composure and finally started to pin the powerful Wellington side back in their own half. The final whistle blew with Harrow camped in the Wellington half, 20-19 down. In what was an intense and thoroughly entertaining game, the more streetwise Wellington side deserved their narrow victory.

The XV finished the season off in style with an emphatic victory over Radley. The opposition were outclassed in every facet of the game and Harrow’s 43-0 victory was a fitting end to a fantastic season.

HARROW SCHOOL RUGBY CLUB The Rugby Club continues to go from strength to strength and Harrow has become one of the top rugby-playing schools in country. Our results across the board in the 2016/17 season were very impressive indeed, and the standard of play and commitment of Harrovians at all levels has been most impressive.

The Colts C XV and Junior Colts C and D XVs had unbeaten seasons, and the Yearlings and Junior Colts show great promise for the future. The most impressive element of the statistics of the season is the number of games played across the Club, which this season was 202.

Every Harrovian who wants to play Rugby Union can do so, and every player’s skills

RESULTS Age Level

P

W

D

1st XV

11

10

2nd XV

11

7

3rd XV

10

4th XV 5th XV

L

PF

PA

PD

0

1

342

100

242

90%

0

4

188

182

6

63.6%

0

1

9

38

413

-375

0%

10

1

0

9

108

372

-264

10%

9

1

1

7

188

434

-246

11.1%

6th XV

2

2

0

0

63

12

51

100%

Under-16A

13

5

0

8

267

297

-30

38.5%

Under-16B

10

6

0

4

331

154

177

60%

Under-16C

8

8

0

0

304

49

255

100%

Under-16D

8

3

1

4

207

214

-7

37.5%

Under-15A

13

11

0

2

444

134

310

84.6%

Under-15B

10

7

0

3

263

174

89

70%

Under-15C

10

10

0

0

410

86

324

100%

Under-15D

10

10

0

0

516

48

468

100%

Under-15E

7

4

0

3

280

120

160

57.1%

Under-14A

11

9

0

2

342

212

130

81.8%

Under-14B

10

5

1

4

190

148

42

50%

Under-14C

11

7

0

4

316

153

163

63.6%

Under-14D

10

9

0

1

354

133

221

90%

Under-14E

11

6

0

5

305

183

122

54.5%

Under-14F

7

1

0

6

129

253

-124

14.3%

202

121

4

76

5585

3871

1714

60.2%

Totals

will be developed by an experienced rugby professional to help them reach their potential and enjoy playing our great game.

It has been an honour to be Director of Rugby at Harrow for the past nine years

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and I take away with me fantastic memories of games won and lost, and seeing boys develop into fine young men through rugby.

– Jesse Coulson, former Director of Sport

SPORT Max Grogan, Hein Jurgens and Anton Jurgens

SKIING More than 50 boys have taken part in skiing this season. The ski team consisted of 17 boys from all year groups and they have represented Harrow in a number of competitions.

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ive of Harrow’s eight competitors at the English Schools Ski Associations (ESSKIA) competitions on dry slopes were placed in the top 15, with the four-man A team coming in third place overall, and the B team coming seventh.

At the Canada Cup, all 17 members of the squad represented the School against Wellington, Dulwich, Feltham College and Tonbridge. Harrow won the Cup, with Max Grogan (Newlands) coming first overall in the under-16 age category in both giant slalom and slalom. He, along with Benedict Moore (Moretons), took Harrow to victory. Both Grogan and Moore also completed their Canadian Ski Instructor Level 1 qualification.

Five boys competed in the International School Boys races in Wengen. The young team performed well, finishing in seventh place. Anton Jurgens (Newlands) won a silver medal for the combined giant slalom and slalom race.

– Rob Robson, Master-in-Charge Max Grogan and Benedict Moore

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SQUASH This was a historic year for Harrow squash. The senior team won the Roehampton Tournament for the second year in succession, the first time this has been done. They followed this with the momentous achievement of not only qualifying for the National Schools finals but also finishing third in the country.

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o dominant were Harrow on the south-east public schools’ circuit that they cruised through the Roehampton Tournament, beating Radley, Epsom and Winchester 5-0, St Paul’s 4-1 in the semi-final and Eton 5-0 in the final.

To reach the National Schools’ finals, Harrow had to defeat an immensely strong John Hampden team 3-2 before travelling to Lincoln College to squeeze past another star-studded side 3-2 once again. Harrow eventually lost in the semi-final to Ackford School, who went on to win the final. The true worth of the

Harrow team was seen by the way that they lifted themselves to defeat Aylesbury 4-1 in the play-off for third and fourth place at the end of a long, physically and mentally demanding day.

The team (Ed Eaton Hart, Alan Huo (both The Head Master’s), Hector Scott Lyon (Newlands), Brando Sodi and Max Sodi (both West Acre)) developed a close bond and were determined to achieve their goals. A lot of the thanks must go to Huo, the captain, who drove the team on and set a great example on and off the court. He leaves after playing 92 matches for the School, winning 68 of them. Eaton Hart played number one admirably and leaves with 33 wins from his 54 matches, ever remembered for his dramatic win against Eton in the previous year, which clinched that Roehampton Trophy. Scott Lyon and Brando Sodi had outstanding records this season, both of them winning 25 and losing just two.

Max Sodi won 14 of his 19 matches in the spring term, and reserve Daniel Billings (Lyon’s) contributed seven wins.

– Simon Halliday, Master-in-Charge

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COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS • Grand Finalists (top 10) in both relays of the English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA) Championships at the Olympic Pool in Stratford • Seventh place in the Bath Cup • Seventh place in the Otter Medley • Winners of the Tonbridge Trophy – a gala for the top six schools in the south of England • Second place in the Henley Classic, Harrow’s first-ever entry in an open water swimming competition

Jazz Carlin with Oliver Bater (Rendalls) left, and James Bailey (Newlands)

VISITS AND MASTERCLASSES

SWIMMING Harrow swimming has enjoyed another highly successful year of full, three-term competition. Under the guidance of our professional coach, former National Champion William Stokes, our squad continues to grow and there are now enough quality swimmers to be able to field three full squads for galas.

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his year, the squad was unbeaten except at one gala. Considering Harrow only competes against the top-level swimming schools, many of our galas were very closely contended and the wins were sometimes by single-digit margins. Harrow has a young team, with our most competitive swimmers

in the under-15 age groupings. We have been actively working for the past two years to recruit able and committed swimmers.

Some of our main competitors of the 2016/17 season were: Dulwich College, Abingdon School, Coopers’ Company and Coborn, St Paul’s, Eton College, Blackrock College, Tonbridge School, Sevenoaks, Charterhouse, Whitgift School, Hampton, King’s School Canterbury, Berkhamsted, Marlborough, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boy’s School, Bishops Stortford, Oundle, Stowe and Queen Elizabeth Boys’ School.

Next year, we plan to extend our open water skills by concentrating some of our swimmers in this area in the third term to give more opportunity to those who favour longer distances and open air.

– Rima Tremlett, Master-in-Charge

• Liam Tancock, current world record holder for the 50m backstroke and winner of four Commonwealth Games gold medals • Jazz Carlin, silver medallist in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, in the 400m and 800m freestyle events • Georgia Davies, winner of two gold medals in the Commonwealth Games in the 50m and 100m backstroke events, and competitor in the London and Rio Olympics

INDIVIDUAL SWIMMER HIGHLIGHTS • Thomas Khan (West Acre) – second in the 50m breaststroke at the British National Short Course Championships (two years below the age-group category). Khan also qualified for the national finals in the 50m and 100m breaststroke events.

SPORT

TENNIS After a very successful season with a strong Lower Sixth cohort last year, there was much anticipation for the season and it started very well with a 5-4 victory over a typically strong Radley side.

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nfortunately, the RHMW tournament with Radley, Marlborough and Wellington didn’t go our way and, despite beating Radley again in the head-to-head format, the team finished narrowly behind them on games won. Elsewhere, there were strong wins against Bradfield, Westminster, Haileybury and Tonbridge.

Alan Huo

Jack Oelhafen

Will Swan

The team of Alan Huo (The Head Master’s), Olly Santini (The Park), Jack Oelhafen (Lyon’s), Cassius Kidston (The Head Master’s), Sam Hanson, Will Swan (both Elmfield) and Otto Stroyan (The Grove) were probably one of the strongest of the last decade and will be sorely missed in the years to come.

The Yearlings squad

Elsewhere at senior level, the 2nd team enjoyed success, beating Radley early on and enjoying close-fought victories over Bradfield and Westminster amongst others.

Harrow continues to enjoy success in the younger age groups. Building on the success of a strong previous year, the Junior Colts were largely unbeaten. Led ably by the strength of Alex Saunders and Harry Saunders (both The Knoll), the team retained the RHMW trophy. The Yearlings also made an excellent start to their Harrow tennis careers, comfortably winning the RHMW trophy and beating Coopers’ Company and Coborn, Bradfield and Tonbridge in close matches. The paring of Cieran Timlin (Bradbys) and Thomas Cheah (The Head Master’s) looks to be one to watch in the future.

– Will Gaisford, Master-in-Charge

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The Monitors

HEAD OF SCHOOL

MONITORS

GF Reid (Moretons)

HB Adeson, Sch., Sch.(Art) (Rendalls)

AR Huo, Sch., Sch.(OT) (The Head Master’s)

AT Aldous, Sch.* (Druries)

RW Jack, Sch.* (Newlands)

DEPUTY HEAD OF SCHOOL

JE Awdry, Sch.* (Moretons)

CFJ Lo, Exh. (Mus.)* (The Head Master’s)

G Kitada, Sch., Sch.(Mus) (Lyon’s)

RI Bird-Tulloch, Sch., Sch.(OT) (The Park)

SI Mahal, Sch.* (The Grove)

KR Emmanuel, Sch. (Rendalls)

RJ Oelhafen III, Sch.* (Lyon’s)

JB Firoozan, Sch., Sch.(AR)* (Rendalls)

GJ O’Malley, Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s)

JA Herholdt, Sch. (Newlands)

HWT Revill (Newlands) BS Saiq, Sch. (Moretons) AW Smith* (The Knoll) WJR Swan* (Elmfield) AJ Taylor, Sch.* (Bradbys) OEG Tippett, Sch.* (The Park) FWH Trimbos (West Acre) * Head of House

THE GUILD Head – HB Adeson, Sch., Sch.(Art) (Rendalls) JB Firoozan, Sch., Sch.(AR) (Rendalls) MJ Harman, Sch.(OT) (The Grove) CSH Ho, Sch., Exh.(Mus.) (Lyon’s) G Kitada, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Lyon’s) L Marsden-Smedley, Sch. (The Park) The Guild

JP Stollery, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Moretons) SYO Tao, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Moretons) HMM Yeung, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (The Grove) ATH Chow, Sch., Exh.(Mus.) (Rendalls) TR Thacker (Rendalls) HFD Wan, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Newlands) FRC Wilkins (Bradbys) GF Reid (Moretons)†

THE PHILATHLETIC CLUB Head – GJ O’Malley, Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s) RI Bird-Tulloch, Sch., Sch.(OT) (The Park) AR Huo, Sch., Sch.(OT) (The Head Master’s) OE Obatoyinbo, Sch.(OT) (The Knoll) RS Wijeratne, Sch.(OT) (The Head Master’s) SD Reffell, Sch.(OT) (Newlands) CDK Jordan, Sch.(OT) (Bradbys) GF Reid (Moretons)† The Philathletic Club †

ex officio

LISTINGS

NEW BOYS IN 2016 BRADBYS

THE GROVE

Adrei Ariez

Shell

Caldicott

Ben Ahrens

Shell

Zurich International School

Bertie Clayton

Shell

Feltonfleet

Peter Cartwright

Shell

Sunningdale

Oscar Cohen

Shell

The Hall

Tom Carver

Shell

Westminster Under School

United Nations International School of Hanoi

Leslie Cheng Lower Sixth German Swiss International

School, Hong Kong

Dat Doan Shell

Nicholas Glaze Lower Sixth Harrow International School, Bangkok

Preston Chung

Shell

Diocesan Boys’ School, Hong Kong

Ryan Cullen

Shell

St Michael’s

Jacob Goldberg

The Hall

Conor Cushley

Shell

Federico Greaves Shell

Westminster Cathedral Choir School

Marcos Fernández Barreiros Lower Sixth George Gallagher

Shell

Bolton School

Charlie Howe

Shell

Shrewsbury House

Ryan Lai

Shell

The Dragon School

Ollie Kirkland

Shell

Yardley Court

Fynn Maydon

Shell

Brandeston Hall

Simon Luo

Shell

Summer Fields

Jimmy Noble

Shell

Cumnor House

Otto Seymour

Shell

Summer Fields

Charles Read

Shell

Thomas’s Battersea

Cole Siepman

Shell

Northcote Lodge

Max Sjostrom

Shell

Brambletye

Ben Smith

Shell

The Harrodian

Kyle TC-Singh

Shell

Shrewsbury House

Joe Smith

Shell

Ludgrove

Henry To

Shell

La Salle College, Hong Kong

Leo Sun

Shell

Lockers Park

Satoshi Yoshida

Lower Sixth South Island School, Hong Kong

Ciaran Timlin

Shell

Wetherby Prep

Vlado Vasile

Lower Sixth South Island School, Hong Kong

THE HEAD MASTER’S

Eric Yu

Shell

JD Bovell

Shell

The Dragon School

Shell

Cothill House

DRURIES

Thomas Cheah Shell

United World College Of South East Asia

Adam Ait El Caid

Shell

Arnold House

George Davies

Shell

Bishopsgate

Bertie Chauveau

Shell

Northcote Lodge

Nathaniel Franklyn

Shell

Arnold House

Georgiy Ivanian

Lower Sixth

Kevin Lian

Shell

Diocesan Boys’ School, Hong Kong

Julian Li

Shell

Ricky Li

Lower Sixth Fulwood

Han Yi Ng Lower Sixth Garden International School, Malaysia

Olufemi Lijadu

Shell

Grange School, Nigeria

Michael O’Callaghan

Shell

Aysgarth

Arthur Ludlam

Shell

St Anselm’s

Ify Ogbonna

Shell

The Jo Richardson Community School

Finlay Matheson

Shell

Sussex House

George Phillips

Shell

Sussex House

Marcus Ng

Shell

Diocesan Boys’ School, Hong Kong

Ruairi Pringle

Shell

Saint Ronan’s

Peter Peganov Shell

Westminster Cathedral Choir School

William Rudd

Shell

Wetherby

William Wallace

Shell

Aysgarth

Harry Swanson

Shell

Cumnor House

Firry Yang

Lower Sixth Moreton Hall

George Webster

Shell

Dulwich Prep

Kevin Zhang

Shell

Zac Yardley

Shell

Caldicott

Cameron Yarrow

Shell

Sussex House

THE KNOLL

Wellesley House

Windlesham House

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Sultan Aben

Shell

Horris Hill

ELMFIELD

Henry Arundell

Shell

Beechen Cliff

Z-Za Bencharit Shell Harrow International School, Bangkok

James Campbell

Shell

St Mary’s School, Melrose

Ed De Bray

Shell

Farleigh

Paddy Breeze

Shell

Moor Park

Jake Forster

Shell

Sussex House

Toby de la Billiere

Shell

St Anselm’s

Ben Ghani

Shell

Caldicott

Henry Ferneyhough

Shell

Caldicott

Olly Harrison

Shell

Rokeby

Marehiko Kondo

Shell

The Dragon School

Richard Hayward

Shell

York House

Shubh Malde

Shell

Orley Farm

Leo Jiang

Shell

Shanghai United International

Hector Michelin

Shell

Fulham Prep

Rory Miller

Lower Sixth De Aston

Miguel Ocampo

Shell

St Philip’s

Maximus Radcliffe

Shell

Wetherby

Rohan Prasad

Shell

Arnold House

Gabe Rogers

Shell

Cottesmore

Sachin Vyas

Shell

Merchant Taylors’ Prep

Zayn Salah

Shell

St John’s Beaumont

Oliver Wills

Shell

Farleigh

Sasha Sebag-Montefiore

Shell

Ludgrove

Leo Wright

Shell

Cothill House

Ricky White

Shell

Caldicott

William Yu

Lower Sixth

Daniel Zhang

Shell

Belmont Mill Hill

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THE PARK

Adam Auret

Shell

Port Regis

Yannis Chatzigiannis

Pier Bertelsen

Shell

Cottesmore

James Chisnall

Shell

Brighton College, Abu Dhabi

Sam Crean Lower Sixth Chatham Grammar School

For Boys

Henry Farquhar

Shell

Caldicott

Leo Farzad

Shell

Eaton House: The Manor

Jack Gosden

Shell

North Bridge House

Edward Kim

Shell

Papplewick

Alex Gonzalez de Betolaza Gispert

Shell

Oak House School, Spain

Summer Fields

Hassan Hammad

Shell

Arnold House

Shell

St Anselm’s

Billy Llewellen Palmer

Shell

Shell

Wetherby

Zack Morgan

Shell

Davenies

Maxi Hattersley

Daniel Ponomarenko

Shell

Summer Fields

Jake Henson

Shell

Ipswich School

Tej Sheopuri

Shell

Kellett Prep, Hong Kong

Angus Hill

Shell

Ludgrove

Patrick Tallentire

Shell

Aysgarth

Guy White

Shell

The New Beacon

Philipp Letman Shell

Louis Yeh

Shell

Papplewick

Westminster Cathedral Choir School

David Moon

Lower Sixth King’s Ely

Francois Ni

Shell

St John’s Beaumont

MORETONS

Fred Prickett

Shell

Summer Fields

Iggy Abaroa Puig De La Bellacasa

Lukas Roberts

Shell

Orley Farm

Knightsbridge School

Wayne Wen

Shell

Cothill House

Papplewick

Trevor Yip

Shell

Diocesan Boys’ School, Hong Kong

Matthew Ball

Shell Shell

Alex Barnham

Shell

Feltonfleet

Sebastian Burt

Shell

Northcote Lodge

RENDALLS

Orlando Closs

Shell

Newton Prep

Oskar Bulstrode

Shell

Feltonfleet

Faris Kamil

Lower Sixth Asia Pacific International School

Johnny Connell

Shell

Lambrook

Jan Kryca

Shell

Jolyon Glynn

Shell

St John’s College School

Paa Kow Larbi

Lower Sixth Northwood

Johnny Hagg Davies

Shell

Sunningdale

Shell

Ludgrove

Leonardo Haitzmann

Shell

St John’s Beaumont

TSS Australia

Ben Hope

Shell

Ludgrove

Port Regis

Rufus Hunter

Shell

St Philip’s

Christ Church Cathedral Choir School

Jake McDermid

Shell

The Hall

Max Morgan

Shell

Orwell Park

Shell

Tower House

Morgan Majdalany Nic Neal Ademide Odunsi

Remove Shell

Nicholas Platt Shell

The British School, Warsaw

Zed Rana

Shell

Caldicott

Jamie Pound

Daniel Sandell

Shell

Heath Mount

Luke Shailer

Shell

Caldicott

Paul Schell

Remove

St Philip’s

Ben Walsh

Shell

Eaton House: The Manor

Freddy Slater

Shell

Westbourne House

Ricco Yin

Shell

Lockers Park

Noble Sule

Shell

Wood End Academy

George Williams

Shell

The Elms

WEST ACRE

Sam Ackroyd

Lower Sixth Kirk Balk Academy

NEWLANDS

Enam Anku

Shell

Orwell Park

Jude Brankin-Frisby

Arnold House

Sergey Antipovskiy

Shell

Wellesley House

Lower Sixth Whitgift

Shell

Ethan Childs

Shell

Wetherby

Jamie Bedu-Addo

Caleb Efemuai

Shell

Sunningdale

Alex Bethell

Shell

Caldicott

Luke Esposito

Shell

Thomas’s Battersea

Caspar Bird

Shell

Spratton Hall

Tom Foster

Shell

The Dragon School

David Chung

Shell

Elstree

Jasper Gray

Shell

The Hall

Ben Harrison

Shell

Orley Farm

Aurelien Josserand

Shell

The Hall

Matthew Harrison

Shell

Orley Farm

Callum Lloyd

Shell

Summer Fields

Alexander Morrison

Shell

Caldicott

Alex Hau Shell

German Swiss International School, Hong Kong

George Rates

Shell

Dulwich Prep

Finlay Jones

Shell

The Hall

Davenies

John Koutalides

Shell

Lambrook

Aysgarth

Neil Kumar

Shell

Searingtown Elementary School, USA

Davenies

Marc Lindgren

Shell

Summer Fields

Tobias Munday

Lower Sixth Berkhamsted Prep

Matthew Williams

Shell

St Anselm’s

Cameron Wilson

Shell

Cottesmore

Herbie Smith Freddie Strange Harry Tack

Shell Shell Shell

David Wang Lower Sixth Shanghai United International

LISTINGS

SPEECH DAY PRIZES IN 2017 SHELL PRIZES Adam Ait El Caid, Sch.

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

Kingston Lee, Sch.(Mus)

The Worshipful Company of Musicians Junior Brass Prize

The Oxenham Junior Prize for Greek Reading

Lawrence Leekie

The Bourchier Remove Prize for History

The Oxenham Shell Prize for Latin Reading

The Winkley Remove Prize for English

The Verney Shell Prize for French

Columbus Mason, Sch.(OT)

The Head Master’s Shell Prize for Learnt Poetry

The Viscountess Strangford Shell Prize for Geography

Freddie Murley, Sch.

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Remove Prize

The Winkley Shell First Prize for English

The Remove Biology Prize

Matthew Ball

The Botfield Shell Prize for German

Long Hei Ng

The Parsonson Remove Prize for Mathematics

Paddy Breeze, Sch.

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Shell Prize

The Richard Fuchs Prize

The Morwood Shell Prize for Greek

Gerry O’Brien

The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry

The Tower Prize for History

Mass Praditbatuga

The Geoffrey Simmonds Remove Prize for Computing

Orlando Closs

The Jonathan Head Barrow Shell Prize for Short Story

The Remove Prize for Russian

Ryan Cullen, Sch.

The Shell Religious Studies Prize

Humza Qureshi

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Shell Prize

The Winkley Shell Second Prize for English

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Remove Prize

Conor Cushley

The Morwood Shell Prize for Latin

Dat Doan

The Shell Prize for Chemistry

George Gallagher

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

Hassan Hammad

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

Ben Harrison, Sch., Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.)

The Ottley Shell Prize for English

Richard Hayward

The Shell Prize for Russian

The Tower Second Prize for History

Jake Henson

The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry

FIFTH FORM PRIZES

Leo Jiang

The Paul Lewis Junior Science Lecture Prize

Freddie Atkinson

The Augustus Fleet Fifth Form Prize for Poetry

The Shell Mathematics Prize

Daniel Baker, Sch.(Mus.)

The Walmisley Junior Prize for Organ

Edward Kim, Sch.

The Dalton Prize for Mathematics

Alexander Ballingal

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Fifth Form Prize

Kevin Lian, Exh.(Mus.)

The Head Master’s Prize for the Best New Boy Project

Oliver Bater

The Fifth Form Prize for Italian

Simon Luo, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science

The Ottley Prize for Shakespeare

The Shell Prize for Physics

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

Shubh Malde, Sch.

The Shell Geography Prize

Christian Boland, Sch.(OT)

The E.D. Laborde Fifth Form Geography Prize

Marcus Ng

The Cayley Mathematics Olympiad Prize

Anthony Cho

The Fifth Form Art Prize

George Phillips, Sch.(Art)

The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry

The Japanese Prize

The Paul Lewis Junior Science Lecture Prize

The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting

The Shell Art Prize

Nicholas Platt, Sch.(Mus.)

The Lawrence Junior Singing Prize

Harry Chubb The Mark Maples Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Lower School

The Shell Family Prize for Treble Voice

Ben Cooper, Sch.(OT)

The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize

Daniel Sandell, Sch.(Mus.)

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Shell Prize for Spanish

Rohan Doshi

The Fifth Form Religious Studies Prize

Tej Sheopuri, Sch.(OT)

The Bourchier Shell Prize for History

The Whitworth Conservation Prize

Patrick Tallentire

The Fifth Form Prize for Ancient History

Matthys Du Toit, Sch.(Art)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Kevin Zhang

The Ian Beer Shell Biology Prize

Maximilian Evans-Tovey

The Head Master’s Remove Prize for Learnt Poetry

The Lady Bourchier Junior Reading Prize

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise

David Gibbons

The Fifth Form Prize for Astronomy

Caspar Grundy

The Farr Prize for Design Technology

Freddie Heffer

The Fifth Form Art Prize

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise

Edward Joyce

The Geoffrey Simmonds Fifth Form Prize for Computing

Simeon Lee

The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize

Yixuan Li

The Fifth Form Biology Prize

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Fifth Form Prize for Spanish

James Middlemass

The Augustus Fleet Fifth Form Prize for Poetry

Charles Paice, Sch.

The Coward Fifth Form Prize for History

Montgomery Powell, Sch.

The Bourchier Fifth Form Prize for History

The Vaux Huggett Fifth Form Prize for German

The Verney Fifth Form Prize for French

Hugo Rowse

The Sir Percival Marling Prize for Design Technology

Charles Sherlock

The Colomb Prize for Naval History

The Fifth Form Prize for Russian

The Society of American Military Engineers Prize

Isaac Smith

The Angus Thompson Prize for History

REMOVE PRIZES

Alex Saunders, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Balme Remove Prize for Greek

Harry Saunders, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry

Nick Shishkarev, Sch.

The Balme Remove Prize for Latin

The Chinese Prize

The Oxenham Remove Prize for Latin Reading

Henry Wilson, Sch.(OT)

The Remove Religious Studies Prize

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The Remove Prize for Ancient History

The Vaux Huggett Remove Prize for German

Francis Bamford, Sch.(Mus), Sch.(Art)

The James Poke Junior Prize for Music Composition

The James Poke Prize for Woodwind

The Lockett Junior Prize for Pianoforte

The Remove Art Prize

Brian Chiang, Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Remove Prize for Music

The Campbell Prize for Junior Strings

Myles Dismont Robinson, Sch.(OT)

The Jonathan Head Barrow Remove Prize for Short Story

The Winkley Remove Prize for English

William Dutton, Sch.(OT)

The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting

Sean Hargraves

The Parsonson Remove Prize for Mathematics

The Williams Prize for Biology

Joshua Harris, Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Remove Prize for Music

The Lockett Junior Prize for Pianoforte

Charles Harrison

The Adam Prize for History

Otto Heffer

The Remove Art Prize

Archie Heilpern

The Remove Prize for Astronomy

George Ho

The Coward Remove Prize for History

Ostap Stefak, Sch. The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

Andrew Holmes, Sch.

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Remove Prize for Spanish

The Jonathan Head Barrow Fifth Form Prize for Short Story

The Notting Dale Remove Prize for Geography Fieldwork

The Oxenham Fifth Form Prize for Greek Reading

Thomas Khan, Sch.(OT)

The Leonard Walton Remove French Prize

The Oxenham Fifth Form Prize for Latin Reading

Eugene Kim

The Hamilton Mathematics Prize

The R.A. Fisher Prize for Statistics

The Leaf Remove Prize for Physics

The Remove Prize for Chemistry

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Fifth Form Prize

The Remove Prize for Science

The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Latin

Harry Kyd, Sch.

The Ernest Cater Prize for Natural History

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Classical Guitar

The Remove Geography Prize

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

116 117 Pasa Suksmith, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Fifth Form Prize for Music

Dan Shailer, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The Fifth Form Prize for Chemistry

The Lady Bourchier Senior Reading Prize

The Leaf Fifth Form Prize for Physics

The St. Helier Prize for English Literature

The Lower Crawford Prize for Mathematics

Michael Tasker, Sch.(Mus.)

The Lucas Prize for Brass Instruments

The Maclaurin Mathematics Olympiad Prize

Harry Toller, Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The Viscountess Strangford Junior Prize for Geography

Will Travis

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

William Tallentire

The Intermediate Singing Prize

Albie Tremlett, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Taylor Higginson Prize for Spanish

Spencer Taylor

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Vlado Vasile

The Charles Lillingston Prize for History

Uno Theerakulchai

The Dudley Gordon Prize for Design Technology

George Wauchope

The Alexander Smith Virgil Essay Prize

The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Greek

The O’Donoghue Prize for Geopolitics

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

David Wang, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

LOWER SIXTH FORM PRIZES Henry Adeson, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Calcutt Prize for Art History

Firry Yang, Sch.

The Hyde Thomson Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

Sam Ackroyd, Sch.

The Coward Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

The Geoffrey Simmonds Prize for Economics

The Thanawalla Prize for Economics

Alizhan Aldiyar, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form History of Art Prize

The Upper Crawford Prize for Mathematics

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

The Lower Sixth Form Religious Studies Research Prize

William Yu

The Oliver Sichel Prize for Singing

Kian Amaan

The Gregory Prize for Greek Unseens

Gregory Zenin

The Bourchier Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

Daniel Billings, Sch.

The Randall Prize for History

Leslie Cheng, Sch.

The Vaux Huggett Lower Sixth Form Prize for German

Austin Curtis

The Mavrogordato Prize for Ancient History

Angus Denison-Smith, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Parsonson Prize for Mathematics

William Falcon

The Charles Laborde Prize for Geography

Harvey Fry, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Qassi Gaba, Sch.

The Rupert Shaw Prize for Chemistry

Philip Gallagher, Sch.

The Jones Prize for Latin Literature

Nicolas Gardner

The Chinese Prize

The Prior Prize for Religious Studies

Dillon Anadkat The Hirdaramani Prize for Exemplary Commitment to Service in the Local Community

Nicholas Glaze

The Charles Lillingston Prize for History

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Felix Griffin Pain, Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Freddy Ashe

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Politics

Ivan Hanbury, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Oliver Atkinson

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

The Lower Sixth Prize for Russian

Scipio Herwegh Vonk, Sch.

The Fortescue Lower Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Thomas Auger, Sch.(Mus.) The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir

Dita Jaja, Sch., Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(OT)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Language

Joss Awdry, Sch.

The Guy Butlin Prize for Spanish

The Oxenham Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Reading

Kit Baird-Murray

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

The Ralph Moore Prize for Greek Literature

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Alessio Kenda, Sch.

The Eustace Prize for Biology

Jae Bang

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

The Harvard Book Prize

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

Ed Bayne

The Neville Burston Prize for Art

Pawit Kochakarn, Sch.

The Dr. R.A. Robinson Prize for Practical Science

Johnny Blaxland

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Ravi Kohli, Sch.

The Beddington Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

James Bradley, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

The National Westminster Bank Prize for Economics

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Klaus Krause, Sch.

The Walter Frith Prize for English

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Cody Kwok, Sch.

The Paul Lewis Senior Science Lecture Prize

Srinivas Calindi

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Jonathan Kyd, Sch.

The Beddington Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

The Dr. R.A. Robinson Prize for Practical Science

Ashley Chow, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Paa Kow Larbi

The Prior Prize for French

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Lower Sixth Form Prize

Henry Collins

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Christopher Curtis

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Ricky Li, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The A.W. Hill Prize for Biology

William Davies, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Upper Sixth Form Prize for Music

The Upper Crawford Prize for Mathematics

The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Oskar Denby, Sch., Sch.(AR)

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Benjy Menell, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Language

Steve Dickson-Tetteh, Sch.(OT)

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Pember Prize for Best Lower Sixth Performance

Ed Eaton Hart, Sch.(Mus)

The Viscountess Strangford Senior Prize for Geography

William Miles, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Solo Singing

Andreas Eccles-Williams, Sch.(Mus.)

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

Rory Miller, Sch.

The Bourchier Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

Krishan Emmanuel, Sch.

The Japanese Prize

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Ancient History

The Oxenham Upper Sixth Form Prize for Greek Reading

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Politics

The Peel Medal for Latin Prose Composition

Finlay Paul

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Eddie Eyton, Sch.

The Botfield Upper Sixth Form Prize for German

Adeoluwa Pearse, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Lower Sixth Form Prize for Music

Oliver Farquharson, Sch.

The A.W. Hill Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

Luca Pittalis, Sch.

The Christopher Cooke Prize for English Literature

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

The Salters’ Company Prize for Chemistry

Abid Rahman, Sch.

The Economics Prize

British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad Gold Award

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Lower Sixth Form Prize

UPPER SIXTH FORM PRIZES Henry Adeson, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Calcutt Prize for Art History

The Head Master’s Sixth Form Prize for Learnt Poetry

The Ralph Moore Senior Prize for Handwriting

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

The Sebastian Graham-Jones Prize for Drama The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

Hari Rattan, Sch.

The Coward Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

The Oxenham Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Reading

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Ed Revill

The Ralton Prize for Business Studies

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

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Jack Firoozan, Sch., Sch.(AR) The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Upper Sixth Form Prize

Freddie Seaman, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Akhil Seth, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Rahul Shah, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The Russell Prize for Shakespeare

The St. Helier Prize for English Literature

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Rattigan Society

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Charlie Friend, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Joshua Simoes, Sch.(Mus.) The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir

Yi Shuen Gan

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

William Gasson

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Sumer Singh

The Pigou Prize for Economics

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

The Verney Prize for Argument

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Justin Stollery, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Walmisley Senior Prize for Organ

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Jake Tanner

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Oscar Tao, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Verney Prize for Pianoforte

Max Gentleman, Sch.

The Dodd Prize for Oratory

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Andrew Taylor, Sch.

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

The Exeter Prize for Biology

The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Thomas Thacker

The Terence Rattigan Prize

William Thompson

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Oliver Tippett, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Masayuki Tonoki, Sch.

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Sam Trew

The Technical Theatre Prize

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Felix Trimbos

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Upper Sixth Form Prize

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Nicholas Trotter, Sch.

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Noah Van Surell, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Sachin Varma, Sch.

The Bourchier Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The Spicer Prize for Religious Studies

Dexter Wan, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Wallace and Walton Prize for Strings

Alexander Wendelken-Dickson

The Coward Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The Macnamara Prize for Geography

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Cameron White, Sch.(AR), Sch.(OT)

The Christie-Murray Prize for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts

Freddie Wilkins

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Steven Yang

The Dr. R.A. Robinson Prize for Practical Science

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

The Hyde Thomson Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Michael Yeung, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Fred Watkins Prize for Latin Unseens

The Jonathan Head Barrow Sixth Form Prize for Short Story

The Leonard Walton Upper Sixth Form French Prize

The Oxenham Upper Sixth Form Prize for Latin Reading

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

The Stenhouse Prize for Woodwind Instruments

Ga Kitada, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Clementi Collard Prize for Imperial History

The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Medicine

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

George Reid

The Head Master’s Prize

Josh Hamwee The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Upper School

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The Neeld Prize for Mathematics

Sam Hanson

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Marcus Harman, Sch.(OT)

The Harry Shapland Prize for Drama

Jamie Herholdt, Sch.

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

William Heywood

The Aberdeen Prize for Design Technology

Curtis Ho, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The A.W. Hill Prize for Chemistry

The Baker Prize for Mathematics

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Rory Jack, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Hein Jurgens

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Dheer Karia, Sch.(AR)

The Anghad Paul Prize for Economics

The Maharaj Singh Prize for Indian History

Karamvir Kumar

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Chang Lee, Sch.

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

James Lo, Exh.(Mus.)

The Habsburg Prize for History and Politics

Lucas Marsden-Smedley, Sch.

The Alastair McLean Prize for Drama

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The Beresford Hope Prize for Greek Prose Composition

The Plumptre Scholarship

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

Priyen Morjaria, Sch.

The Kingsley Prize for Design Technology

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Harry Neville

The Extended Project Prize

Conor O’Shea, Sch.

The Baron Boulos Prize for Economics

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Jack Oelhafen III, Sch.

The McIntosh Prize for History

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

David Perkoff

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Max Prasad, Sch.(Mus.)

The James Poke Prize for Music Composition

Leonid Primerov, Sch.

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

Henry Revill

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Olly Roberts

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Gordon Robinson

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Oliver Rosson-Jones, Sch.(OT)

Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Bazil Saiq, Sch.

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

The Dr. R.A. Robinson Prize for Practical Science

CREST Gold Award for Engineering

Exscitec Platinum Award for Engineering

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HARROW ASSOCIATION

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he Harrow Association was delighted to welcome His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (The Park 19603) as its President earlier this year. A pluralist and a pioneer of interfaith dialogue and understanding, Prince Hassan’s international commitments have included co-chairing the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, serving as the Chairman of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and, currently, chairing the High Level Forum for the Blue Peace Middle East plan. We welcomed HRH as Guest of Honour at Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall on 21 November 2017.

SUPPORTING OLD HARROVIANS WHATEVER THEIR ENDEAVOUR

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s a thriving old boys’ society with around 9,000 members, the Harrow Association aims to enhance the lives of Harrovians of all generations. We support their success, whatever their endeavour, by helping them maintain lifelong connections with each other and with the School.

New Chairman Adam Hart (West Acre 19771) reflects on the enduring importance of School values

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n the past year, as Chairman of the Harrow Association, it has been gratifying to observe in my fellow OHs the ongoing influence of the School’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship on the lives they lead. OHs are an impressive bunch, if I do say so myself. Clearly guided by these deeply rooted values, they are undertaking all manner of philanthropic, recordbreaking, adventurous and history-making enterprises, as highlighted in the recent issue of our alumni magazine, Follow Up!

They are all, also, clearly very keen to get together and share their experiences and reminisce too.

The work that the Harrow Association office does to support its members in sharing these achievements and stay in touch with each other continues to be varied and evolving. Priorities this year have included keeping records up to date to ensure OHs receive information of interest to them (with the changing data protection laws later this year, this is more important

than ever), gathering vast amounts of impressive OH news to share with fellow OHs, and introducing improved digital communications including the launch of ohconnect.org.uk and much more.

The dedicated team based at 5A High Street works hard to ensure that current boys and our worldwide community of OHs get the most from the Harrow Association, wherever they are, whatever their age and in whatever way they need.

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Harrow Association Manager, Perena Shryane, looks back at a busy year and a busier one ahead

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he Harrow Association’s persistent sense of community and heritage has been in evidence again this year as OHs all over the globe have been coming together for reunions, networking, House dinners and Harrow Songs. In addition to those in the UK, there have been gatherings in Hong Kong, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and the USA. Impressive numbers of Old Knollites, Old Parkites and Old West Acrians of all ages reunited for their respective House dinners and it was particularly pleasing to see record numbers at the Harrow Association Songs in March for OHs who joined the School before 1959³.

In January, the annual Careers Conference, jointly hosted by the School and the Harrow Association, saw many OHs returning to share their experience and answer questions from Fifth and Sixth Form boys. In February, the School and the

Careers Convention

Harrow Association celebrated Founder’s Day with an impressive display of School v OH Harrow football. Numerous OHs have returned to the Hill to inspire and inform current boys: the OH Players put on an innovative production of Macbeth in Speech Room and the OH Adventurers presented a collection of talks to a captivated audience of Harrovians.

As well as looking back, we are looking to the future, moving forward in the way we communicate with our OH community.

We are launching OH Connect, a new online networking platform for OHs to connect, share news, book events and mentor fellow OHs. We are also looking forward to welcoming back many Old Harrovians to Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall in November 2017, a truly magnificent and uniquely Harrovian occasion.

KEEP IN TOUCH Telephone us on +44 (0)20 8872 8200 Email us at 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 View The Harrovian archive at harrovian.daisy.websds.net and the Harrow Record archive at harrowrecord.daily.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) Manager Perena Shryane ha@harrowschool.org.uk Digital Information Manager Luke Meadows meadowsl@harrowschool.org.uk

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HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST On these pages, I am pleased to report good continuing progress in our efforts to supplement the School’s financial position through development and fundraising.

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pay tribute to the many supporters who contribute their funding, via the HDT, in support of the School’s future progress and ambitions.

Earlier this year, it was a pleasure to greet and entertain a large number of these contributors – among them Old Harrovians, current parents and other friends of the School – at a reception at the House of Commons. However, out of the blue, the Prime Minister unexpectedly called a general election and, consequently, the Old Harrovian MPs who had been due to give us the benefit of their views had been temporarily unseated!

Fortunately, a Harrovian giant of old, Lord Robin Butler of Brockwell (Druries 1951³), came to our rescue and made a gracious speech to the assembly. He reminded us that, unlike our MPs, he could not be unseated. He went on to remark that, with a grandson now being educated at the School, it had given him a welcome excuse to return more often to the Hill. In doing so, he had found that many things have changed and improved, not least in the boarding Houses, even while the essential character of our ancient School remains intact.

So, the level of support for the School’s objectives remains buoyant. All this is thanks to our many supporters, with whom we look forward to staying in touch on frequent occasions in future, whether at the House of Commons or elsewhere.

Last year, I reported that William Vaughan, an experienced fundraiser in the world of the arts and education, had joined the HDT team with a brief of widening our development efforts. He had begun to make a distinct impact on our work. Very sadly, however, William died suddenly in the US this summer.

Our mission and work in the HDT perseveres and continues, although sadly without William.

– Douglas Collins, Chief Executive

HDT Summer Reception

PETER BECKWITH SCHOLARSHIPS

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he Peter Beckwith Harrow Scholarships are often described as Harrow’s foremost bursary programme. This year, the scheme is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Since its inception, the scheme has enabled more than 50 boys to benefit from a Harrow education, with four scholars becoming Head of School and one Deputy Head of School. We always knew that Peter Beckwith’s (Elmfield 1958³) generous funding would run out over time. The Governors have therefore asked the Harrow Development Trust to replenish the scholarship fund by raising £4 million over the next five years with which to endow the fund in perpetuity. All current and former scholars are participating in this campaign and we have secured pledges for over £500,000 to date.

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s Chair of the Three Yards Annual Fund, may I thank all of you who have contributed to the Fund this year – Old Harrovians, parents and friends.

You are helping provide a dependable and increasingly important annual income stream, allowing Harrow to carry out projects that would not otherwise be possible. Each of the 12 Houses are benefiting from the Fund, as we finance projects ranging from the refurbishment of outdoor games areas to library and bedroom renovations.”

– Andrew Wauchope (The Knoll 1976¹), Three Yards Annual Fund Chairman

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arrow is proud to have been the first school to establish rackets as a competitive game by building the first covered court during the mid-18th century. The School has boasted consistent success in the game and has won more than any other schools championships. To maintain our proud tradition in the game, the School plans to bring the rackets courts and facilities up to the best of modern standards, in particular the old or first court built in 1865. The cost of this is £1 million and the HDT will be working with the School to raise these funds. We have raised 50% of the full amount so far and we are depending on the generosity of donors to help us raise the remainder.

INCOME RECEIVED IN 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR The HDT works with Old Harrovians, parents, grant-making trusts and friends of the School to raise funds for the development of the School’s facilities, as well as for scholarships and bursaries for pupils. The Trustees are pleased to report that cash receipts this year continued at a satisfactory level. The Trustees and HDT extend grateful thanks to the many donors who choose to support the HDT’s charitable objectives on behalf of Harrow School.

UNRESTRICTED AND OTHER PURPOSES

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL INCOME

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HOW TO SUPPORT HARROW

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here are many ways in which you can make tax-efficient donations to any of the School development campaigns mentioned above, via the HDT. Visit the Support Harrow pages on the School website harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow to find out more or speak to the Harrow Development Trust 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 Felicity Benjamin PA to the Chief Executive Luke Meadows Digital Information Manager Cece Walker Financial Secretary Jessica Bellringer Communications Officer

Trustees Matthew Fosh (The Head Master’s 1971²) Chairman John Batting (The Park 1972²) Kevin Gilbert Nikhil Hirdaramani (The Park 1988³) Patrick Wong (West Acre 1986³) Mrs Harriet Crawley The Harrow Development Trust is a registered charity, no 296097

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ORDER OF BENEFACTORS 2012 – 2017 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.

1930s M S F Hood L W D Sharp Captain R L Seaman J G Grinling CBE *

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H M M D

19303 19353 19362 19372

1940s

J R Findlay E W D Wilson M E G C Crawley E D L Harland K D V Brown D T A A Kilner G Dr A M Roe H R J Sherlock * D J J S Veisblat Esq * D Dr J E C T Twentyman * D T L F Royle G K K Wynes K J G C Lander B & S A M Pelham Burn E H S Winter FCA W Dr F C Worlock * D Professor D London DM FRCP N Dr R H Levy K J C McMullen B D H O Owen OBE D R B B Ropner E Lord Millett N C H E Tyson N J D Ferguson R J J Miles R D G Spencer * D Major J H H Peile H Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham H B R Barkes R S J Harris W J C Wilkinson B R C Boxhall D R H Dickinson E A W Hakim D H Lang K Dr N K Coni * D B J Livingston E Dr T G Hudson K A N S Saxton K R J Stanes D J G Codrington E B V F Harrild D I L White-Thompson * G J A Streeter H M M Lipman W W M Wasbrough W C D Massiah B R G Seymour D C G Coe K T J E Lardner R R O S Miller W J A Cecil-Williams W

19411 19422 19432 19432 19433 19441 19441 19442 19442 19443 19443 19443 19451 19453 19453 19462 19462 19462 19462 19463 19463 19463 19463 19463 19463 19472 19472 19472 19472 19472 19473 19473 19473 19482 19482 19483 19483 19483 19483 19491 19491 19492 19492 19492 19492 19492 19493 19493 19493 19493 19493 19493

1950s C A H Kemp J W Whitworth * M B J Kimmins CVO DL C Byford * R C Lanphier III L G Tenison Mosse D G Fowler-Watt JP A E Oppenheimer Lord Butler of Brockwell C N McCorquodale The Marquess of Zetland J H Jones J H Proctor OBE G R P Walker Jr H J Sims-Hilditch C C Gates J G Brown M G C O’Connor * H M R Mitchell J C J Orchard J D C Vargas J F C Sergeant B C R Tate F C Minoprio R I Dick C R Lambourne N T Casdagli M L Maydon N M Bolingbroke-Kent G C Somerville R J Grindell * A P Leventis P D F Hicks Jr

19502 19502 19502 19503 19503 19503 19512 19512 19513 19513 19513 19513 19513 19513 19513 19513 19513 19522 19522 19522 19523 19523 19523 19523 19523 19531 19533 19533 19533 19533 19542 19543 19543

B – Bradbys

D – Druries

E D R D E K K R D E E G G H H M R D H W D K H M K H G G M R D D D

E – Elmfield

R J Hermon-Taylor H J Barclay S M Boushehri C R French V R Hedley Lewis A A Speelman A G Trypanis N W Portway H R Walduck J C R Dennis H K Leventis R J D Blois M de la P Beresford P R C Knight P H Seed G St E C Lofts A V R Morgan N W Stuart CB MA M C Ellington J W H Buxton M T Brookes W M W Greenwell J G W Feggetter R F de Robeck J F Bowden Sir Jeremy Greenstock P D A F J Matthiesen C A A F Campbell I H Angus E R A Travis T H Walduck N W D Foster Major J J Buxton W K Moores D J L Fitzwilliams M B Savory J D M Stoddart-Scott P T G Phillips R A Bates C J Dawson M G Barrow CBE JP M G Barrow R C Sheffield C P G Arratoon T B Hargreave I M Taylor-Restell S Kassum D R Wilkinson G E W Macfarlane R H Woolley R G Hill Professor I H Maitland G J G Luck L E T Hue Williams R D Minoprio A de Grunwald P M Beckwith Dr P J Kaye B T Stewart-Brown K F Morgan D C Milne QC Dr R H Norman N F Oppenheimer J M S J Harris W O B Rees C W Ingram N A P Wellington P W Mitchell B G D Blair QC * P Butler C I de Rougemont C H B Dorin R M Thornely-Taylor S C J Foord

D E N N N K K D W B D H K K D H N K B E E E D D G G G G & W N K W D E G N M K G N K B B D K M M N N K W E H R B M R E G H H M R N E G K N R D D K R R W

19543 19543 19543 19543 19543 19543 19551 19552 19552 19553 19553 19553 19553 19553 19553 19561 19562 19562 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19563 19571 19571 19571 19571 19571 19571 19572 19572 19572 19573 19573 19573 19573 19573 19573 19573 19573 19573 19573 19581 19581 19581 19582 19582 19582 19583 19583 19583 19583 19583 19583 19591 19592 19592 19592 19592 19592 19593 19593 19593 19593 19593 19593

B G G H D G H K K M M N N K B D D E

19602 19602 19602 19602 19603 19603 19603 19603 19603 19603 19603 19603 19603 19603 19611 19611 19612 19612

1960s Dr R I Evans J G Tregoning I H Willis P T Streeter A P K Royle * W A L Heaton E A C Crump M J Heaton-Watson E C D Sixsmith C H Gregson J S T Morris N Forrest W E Whitehouse-Vaux C S P Douglas Lane Colonel S A S J Miller RAMC Sir John Beckwith CBE T G Proger * C A Holt

G – the Grove

H – The Head Master’s

K – The Knoll

D G A Seys M K Whitelock L M Borwick R G Russell S H Walduck J W Servaes * R A Nelson A C G Haslam G St G Hargreave N J Forman Hardy DL S J Richards R N Readman C A St C Chute J F R Hayes C G M Wishart P R W Hensman M C B Ward Sir George White C Russell V L Sankey J E Lesser M J Keenan N D Broadhead D V G de Pass C E Sumner R C Ritchie D C M Blackburn E N S Allen Colonel H P D Massey M S Hunter L D M Seligman P J R Snowball M E Harrison R M Davies A B Graham C M Q Rampton Sir Alex Allan KCB Dr N A Field-Johnson E J W Houghton N E McCorquodale A J F Stebbings R A D Broadhead Dr P R G Anderson S G S Allen D G Seligman C J Weston-Simons G R M Cruddas E S Griswold D M Salisbury P T E Massey M M Clarfelt N G G Herrtage P V F S Manduca G C W Marshall W F C Simmonds W H van Straubenzee J R G Traill * G D Unwin Lord Marks of Henley on Thames QC J McN Boyd H R Dundas J A N Prenn S B Cassey The Earl of Portland G J M Downes A J Cator D W Dennis A E J Staples A P Stewart-Brown J C Lepp The Hon Robert Orr-Ewing W G S Massey QC R H C Phillips W S Johnston J R B McBeath I R L Gordon W R S Payne G D C Paterson J B Steel R C Abrams J F Dean N J Frankau * M T Harris * N H T Wrigley A T Lawson-Cruttenden R J R Seligman J G Walker N K L Webb Dr R H Parker C A Meaden A P S Brewer M W Hall J A J Berry L – Lyon’s

M – Moretons

E E G K W D K D D D G H K M R W G H K K R W W B M N K H K M R E W M N D W D D E R W R H H K M D G K N R R W W B G K

19612 19612 19612 19612 19612 19613 19613 19621 19622 19622 19622 19622 19622 19622 19622 19622 19623 19623 19623 19623 19623 19623 19631 19632 19632 19632 19632 19633 19633 19633 19633 19641 19641 19642 19642 19642 19642 19643 19643 19643 19643 19643 19651 19652 19652 19652 19652 19653 19653 19653 19653 19653 19653 19653 19653 19661 19661 19662

M E H H N M N K R R H W E K W D H K N K R W E G G G H R B B M R M K B

19662 19663 19663 19663 19663 19663 19663 19663 19663 19663 19663 19671 19672 19672 19672 19673 19673 19673 19673 19673 19673 19673 19681 19682 19682 19682 19682 19682 19683 19683 19683 19683 19691 19691 19692

N – Newlands

A L T Cragg J K S Morgan J F Stafford C J L Newton G L T D Kronsten R Raja Rayan

K H G K M W

19692 19692 19693 19693 19693 19693

1970s K V B Day W J Massey W R Worsley C R Boyle J P M Baron F P M P de Lisle G G D Simpson J F Davis M C G Peel J E G Hankinson D O Phillips P W S Killick R R Thayer R C Compton W P E Bennett M K Fosh C G T Stonehill A I R Stuffaford Dr H J W Thomas C R Whiddington J A Findlay A M Sinclair D C Edward J D Findlay T D C Woolland B H Simpson J P Batting B I Donald R M Tindall J D S Fricker C W A Bott S M Bennet C H Gallagher S M Watson J D Campbell OBE M P N Bardsley R M Tindall J C Townsend-Rose C A M Florman T C Marsden-Smedley R J Ingham Clark P D C Wigan E A C Cottrell D H Moss O C Blount H Stirrat D G Howes C W Reynard E H Bonham Carter M Z Lewczynski P C Morgan-Witts R J Dent C W N Bankes M C Finzel J H S Akerman W A H Crewdson Lt Col D J 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 I T Tower The Hon Samuel Adams J C S Marler S O A Phillips * J Wyn-Evans A I R Newton

N W G K N K K D D H H M R W B H N K W W E N W E M R K W D E G G H H K K M M N K B D K B E W W E G G K M N N K K K W B D D E H H K W B D D G G H M R H D D B E N K K R H H B

19701 19701 19702 19702 19702 19702 19702 19703 19703 19703 19703 19703 19703 19703 19712 19712 19712 19712 19712 19712 19713 19713 19713 19721 19721 19721 19722 19722 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19723 19731 19731 19731 19732 19732 19732 19732 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19733 19741 19741 19741 19741 19741 19741 19741 19741 19742 19742 19742 19742 19742 19742 19742 19742 19742 19743 19743 19743 19743 19743 19743 19743 19743 19751 19751 19752

P – The Park

R – Rendalls

S – Small Houses

A R E Ash C S Farr W J L Carver M L Sealy P K Leonard N P Mehta 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 C L Feather 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 * P F Barattolo A D Hart A W D McLean D R N Scaife W O H Friend 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 W J F Landale * A F Farquharson MVO M F Morley-Fletcher D A Stevenson The Hon Andrew Millett R P Douglas-Miller C M Stebbings S A B Greig M A Sharron S R Galway A R H Page J H A Coventry O H Nieboer I J F Royle O A A Dajani R J M Keatley * S M Levy A D K Pitcairn T P Barrow H J Wickham A E J Bagnall A J B Smith C H Wells MBE

K K R R B D K K K K N N K R W W E K K K D M W W B D G K K N N N R R G N W D K M M N N N N R K B B G K R K D D E G G H H K N K R K B D N K K G M W D R E H K K N

19752 19752 19752 19752 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19753 19761 19761 19761 19761 19762 19762 19762 19762 19763 19763 19763 19763 19763 19763 19763 19763 19763 19763 19771 19771 19771 19772 19772 19772 19772 19772 19773 19773 19773 19773 19773 19781 19781 19781 19781 19781 19782 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19783 19793 19791 19791 19791 19791 19791 19791 19791 19791 19792 19792 19793 19793 19793 19793 19793

1980s M D Hamwee C Bonomi H J P Farr A P D R Richardson R C Wiltshire R J MacKechnie J G Macpherson R T Marks MBA R A J Hills N R B Bullock G R C Quilter A J Willis

D H K E B D G D H R W E

19801 19801 19801 19802 19803 19803 19803 19803 19803 19803 19803 19811

W – West Acre

Lord James Bethell S D Reid R T Brankin-Frisby J A C Campbell-Johnston J L J Gerney T W H Lloyd-Jones T J Gibbons J E de Broë-Ferguson S J A Proctor M G Gallagher The Hon Andrew Butler S D C Harman A W Sexton A Bance B J Kirkland A C Malcolmson A Y Fallon-Khan J F Mitchell C P Theobald R B Piepenstock T M T O’Connor E C Forrester A Woodhull B E Kryca D C Manasseh T R D Parsons The Hon William Bethell G B Hughes A S G de E Skipwith J M P D Stroyan * G C A Minoprio J Regnier-Wilson C R O’Connor-Fenton M J Morgan M S Shashoua A D Middleton S D Martle R D Nelson L A Kunzig C O Bridgeman G R Denison Smith J W Mackenzie M B de Souza-Girao R P Trotter G R C Bucknall A Kumar * M M Murjani N J B Smith G Sood H T Wong E R L Slade E Stirling S G G Witheridge A J Hudson J R Barkes J A T Hulbert J A G Walduck A H E P Walduck J D Orme-Smith R J Newall C J A Virgin F J Blake M C Wallace S J Hunt K M Wilkins Q A Hinxman M B B Sheppard S B Schmidt S R Daniel B H Johnson C J J Bonas B F R Bradkin W J Mitchell T I O Umenyilora K S B Duffy R L J Arnott S G Pampanini H J R Bond Gunning J L Pool J T Blake N Khan C R Bain S N Ajmeri T Stood R E C Power M M Hussain G E Simmons T J Hughes D Tait J A E Rous J H P Barabas R J J Hopley D L Brace

W M D D D D E

19811 19812 19813 19813 19813 19813 19813

G G H K M M K B D K R K B D E E M M M W W G G M N K R D M B B D E E G H H K M M K W W E G G K R R W W D E E G H K K K M N K K R R R R W E N W H H N K R W H R B K D E H H K

19813 19813 19813 19813 19813 19813 19813 19821 19821 19821 19822 19822 19823 19823 19823 19822 19823 19823 19823 19823 19823 19831 19831 19831 19831 19831 19831 19832 19832 19833 19833 19833 19833 19833 19833 19833 19833 19833 19863 19833 19833 19833 19833 19841 19841 19841 19841 19841 19841 19841 19842 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19843 19851 19851 19851 19853 19853 19853 19853 19853 19853 19861 19861 19862 19862 19863 19863 19863 19863 19863

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S J L J C Rothwell N H Johnson T B Wilson P T-A Wong J M Gevisser J R Gillions N A Henley-Welch Q M J Ings-Chambers G N A Heilpern M R Smith A C C Wong A J R Ruddy N D Feinberg M C P Hammond P A Mosimann M C P Hammond S N K Hirdaramani R P R Hoffen A G Haldane D R Martin A R Rowbotham J R L White N A J Eady G H R Munton S A Stock Q J S G Baker G H Benn T S Montgomery D’V C Jacobs T M J Leveritt L M W P Ruddy

K K W W R E G H K K K R B H B B K R B B D G H H K M K K K R R

19863 19863 19863 19863 19871 19873 19873 19873 19873 19873 19873 19873 19883 19883 19883 19883 19883 19883 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893 19893

1990s J P O Lindemann A Y Fang J J Beer A T Nehorai C W Proger C C S Ingram G T Revedin di San Martino J S Harper E J R Cable S d G Engelen * J C L Prior W A T Gillions C W V Tweddle J J A Ingram R L W Griffith A D F Campbell G L Duder A J Hirdaramani M C W Lamb R J H Mitchell M J B Short C A M Watenphul J E Prentice T R M Stoddart-Scott A C Alban-Moore C A M Boileau E G Smallwood H B I I Cheape T A T Davies G E Donald A W Vaughan C J R Wilson J G B Taylor B C Amos F N G Jones W J L Matthews N W S Munton L C L Fitzwilliams J A Freeman N D Hamilton B A Thakar C D M Thorburn O G J M Scutt J W Keen S M Connell H R Chichester A J L Prior E A D Santa Barbara J D A Baldwin R M Hoare A P J Priestley T L Richards A M A Andjel W H Ellis A E C Gray A J B Warman J W B Neame J C Dick B I A Maclean C R D Arthy J D Rosemont H J B Gates * T B Dickinson

W B D D D K K M B D D E E K R W B H H H H K M K R R W B B B B D E G H H H N N N N N N K R E D D G G G G H H H M M K R W W D E

19901 19903 19903 19903 19903 19903 19903 19903 19913 19913 19913 19913 19913 19913 19913 19913 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19923 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19933 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19943 19953 19953

T J Simpson T A van Straubenzee F J Goedhuis * M J L Macaulay * N C R Andjel J L W Gregson W P R Petty D W Farrant E N Poulter M H Leggett T W B Forman Hardy W P Buxton C T Stephenson N J Strachan J L Watts * H R G Syms The Earl of Haddo E S Seligman D A K Stoddart-Scott A M Lea-Cox E D Stileman W H R E Davies J S Wellwood C R Reid J E Olympitis M W Scicluna J D O R Schneider E D Lampitt E H O Arghebant P S Cartwright 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 J A Glynne-Percy 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

E E G G H M M N N W D E E E H K M N K D D G G H H H K M N K W D D D D D D D E E E G G H H M M M K K D E K K N M M K W

19953 19953 19953 19953 19953 19953 19953 19953 19953 19953 19963 19963 19963 19963 19963 19963 19963 19963 19963 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19973 19983 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

2000s M Gates Fleming J C Poole O N Field-Johnson J A B Orr-Ewing S French C M M Carello S H Crawley A R M Y Herries A G de M M Villas-Boas D Y P Kim R A Smith G Harrap G J George J C I Green E M Lawton A Bhutiani C H T Morris H G McMullen N E M Wingfield Digby F I A MacGregor B H Y Wong A Khan O A Blustin N A F S Manduca S I Ali-Noor H A J Francklin P D Boyle R A Swanson O T Wilson S F C Carlisle F C McClure C E G Bailey C J Gosney W A Martin A G Climie

B B D E G H G G G H H K M M M N M B E G K M N N W B D D D E G H H K M

20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20003 20013 20013 20013 20013 20013 20013 20013 20013 20023 20023 20023 20023 20023 20023 20023 20023 20023 20023

C E Wemyss-Dunn G M Harper F L G Dent J C Stephenson C W Owen M W R Z Szymanski C T Michele E A F Kendall A Nechaev C W C Lewis R R C K Opoku O N Agbim C W Waldron P R Ashton B R E Umbers A R C Banerji S S Maker E A J Parson F C B Henderson O A J Godwin A E T Whitehurst H R Hobb H Y Ng D Kirpichenko A O Seriki P O Otubu J A G Pinchess W D Miles * J N S Taylor

M N W E H K H H N W W B K M M W W W H H K W B L L L L H R

20023 20023 20023 20033 20033 20033 20043 20043 20043 20043 20043 20053 20053 20053 20053 20053 20053 20053 20073 20083 20083 20083 20103 20103 20103 20113 20113 20133 20133

Governors, Masters and Staff D K Baines * Mr I D S Beer Mr S P Berry Mr D L Collins Mrs H S Crawley Mr D A Crehan Dr F W Dalton Mrs A M Fitzwilliams Mr & Mrs K W B Gilbert Dr S A Harrison Mr J B Hawkins Mr W M A Land Mr P D Hunter Mr M T N Liddiard OBE Dr A R Longley The Rev’d & Mrs J E Power Mr & Mrs N A Shryane MBE BA MPhil Mr & Mrs J A Strachan Mr A H M Thompson Mr M J Tremlett Mr W J Vaughan Mrs C Walker Mr R H Walker Mrs P Warwick-Smith Mrs S L S Whiddington Mrs G C Whitmee Harrow Parents and Friends

Mr A Abdulla-Zade & Ms N Yusifova Mr N M Abbas Mrs L Adeson Mr & Mrs B Acar Ms M L Agha Mr & Mrs T T M Agnew Mr & Mrs F M Alireza Mr & Mrs B Arora Mr & Mrs J Asir Mr & Mrs W Asprey Mr & Mrs S P Assani Mr & Mrs R F J Atkinson Mr & Mrs A Bajpai Mr & Mrs G M Baird Lord & Lady Barleugh Mr A H Bartlett Mr & Mrs K A Bedu-Addo * Mr & Mrs R Beeley Mr W R G Bell Mr M J M Bernard & Mrs M C S Ardant-Bernard Mr & Mrs R Bernardi Mr & Mrs J C H Berry Mr & Mrs G D Besterman Mr N Bhirombhakdi Mr & Mrs Mom Laung C Bhirombhakdi Mr & Mrs D R Bick Mr D M Billings & Mrs R H Goodhart Billings Mr & Dr R J W Bird Mrs J J D Blackwell Mr R Bobb Dr & Mrs E H Bradley Mr & Mrs P A Brewster Mr & Mrs D W J Brounger * Mr A R Bowden Ms M Bredin Professor & Mrs R Buckley Mr K O Butler-Wheelhouse *

Mr & Mrs N D Butterworth Mr & Mrs B E E Burrett Mrs M Burston Mr & Mrs P Byrne Mr & Ms S R Carney Sir Roger Carr Mr & Mrs P H Casely-Hayford Ms W K R Chan Mr & Mrs K Chanana Mr & Mrs M D Chandris Mr & Mrs S P Chater Mrs F Chapman Mr & Mrs L E Chauveau * Mr & Mrs A K C Cheng Mr & Mrs C Y Cheung Mr L T Cheong Mr & Mrs G S Cherry Mr & Mrs J B Childs * Mr & Mrs G H A Chisenhale-Marsh Mr S Chiu & Mrs E K Y Kan Mr W W S Chow & Ms M M L Lok * Ms M N Chu Mr & Mrs M Clark Mr & Mrs S Coates Mr & Mrs C R Cochin de Billy Mr & Mrs A Coghlan * Mr & Mrs R E Colehan Mr & Mrs E C Coller Mr & Mrs A M Collins Mrs S de Costobadie Dr & Mrs R E Cook * Mr & Mrs D C Cuff Mrs C Curtis * Mr & Mrs D Cushley * Mr S J Crowley & Ms O Bibikoff Lt Cdr W V P & The Hon Mrs Crutchley Mrs J Culley Mr & Mrs B D’Angelin Mr & Mrs I Dale Mr & Mrs K F Dhanani Sir Edward & Lady Dashwood Mrs E L Davies * Mr & Mrs E R M Davies Mr & Mrs N Davies Dr & Mrs W L Davies Mr & Mrs E N Davies-Gilbert Mr N Deane Mr & Dr L Delunas Miss B Dixon Mr & Ms G Donohugh Mr & Mrs H J Du Toit * Mr & Mrs N A R Dunning Mr T J Duggan * Mr & Mrs J E Edwards Mr I Egorov Professor & Dr P Ellis Mr & Mrs D E Elsom Mrs A P Engelen Mr & Mrs J P Esposito Mr & Mrs R Evans Mr & Mrs J Evans-Tovey * Mr J E C Faber Mr & Mrs M Falco Mrs P J Feather Mr & Mrs R Firoozan Mr & Mrs A R Fleming Mr K S Fong Mr & Mrs S L Foster Mr & Mrs B R M Fox Mr & Mrs V Gandhi Mr & Mrs J S Gallagher * Mr & Mrs G Gallagher Mr & Mrs W Gardiner Mr A Gardner & Mrs A Mac-Crohon Gardner * Mr & Mrs R S Garwood Mrs B H Geffen Mr C Getty Mr D George Mr & Mrs D Glaze * Mr & Mrs M S Gollner Mr & Mrs T Goriev Mr & Mrs J M C Gordon Mr C P J Gower & Mrs R G Johannes Mrs J K V Graham MBE * Mr & Mrs R Graham Mr & Mrs S W Graham Mr & Mrs P D Gray Mr & Mrs M A J Gregory Mr Y Gribov Mr & Mrs J Grundy Mr & Mrs V Grushevski Mr & Mrs D Gu Prince & Princess Guedroitz Mr & Mrs V Gurinov Mr J-P E Gut Mr & Mrs A van Hagen

Mr & Mrs J Hajiyev Mr & Mrs G A Hamilton Mr & Mrs A Hammad * Mr & Mrs P Harrison * Mr & Mrs T Haston * Mrs C A Hedley Mr & Mrs O Hemsley Lord & Lady Henley Mr & Mrs R Hills The Hirdaramani Family Dr & Mrs R G Hollamby Mr & Mrs J Holden Mr & Mrs P A Holland Mr & Mrs J S Hollins-Gibson Mr & Mrs M J F Horne Mrs E Hunnisett Mr & Mrs K Hunter Gordon Mr Y Huo & Ms X Fang Mr & Mrs H Hutchinson Mr & Mrs C Inman Dr & Mrs R J Irving Mr & Mrs K Israni Mr K Ivanyan & Mrs M Grinfeldt-Ivanian * Mr & Mrs R D Jack Mr & Mrs G E Jacobs Mr & Mrs M D Johnson Mr & Mrs R J Joyce Mr N F A Kamil Mr M Kane Mr R R Kawkabani & Mrs T A Gravenor-Kawkabani Mr & Mrs A Kaztayev Mr & Mr J L Keffer Mr & Mrs C R M Kemball Mr & Mrs L Kenda Mr & Mrs J D Kennard Mr & Mrs W C Kennish Mr & Mrs S Kidston Mr J Y Kim & Mrs Y K Chung * Mr & Mrs T Kitada * Mr S Kohli Mr D Korobkov Mr K Y Koo Mr S K Kumaresan & Dr E Jordan Dr J Kumari Mr & Mrs S Kuznetsov Mr & Mrs K T Kwok Mr & Mrs J B G Laing Mr & Mrs J K W Lam Mr & Mrs A Lau Mr & Mrs R G Leworthy Mr H Y Lee & Mrs S A Park Mr S K Lee & Mrs Y T Keung Ms S S Lee Dr H W Leimer Mr M L Li Mr M Z Li & Mrs W Zhong Mr N Li & Mrs W Zhu Mr Z Li & Ms N Xu Mr J Lian & Mrs S Hsueh * Dato’ & Datin A Lim Tan Sri & Puan Sri K T Lim Mr & Mrs K C H Lin Mr & Mrs S Lisichenko Mr & Mrs C Liu Mrs R E Llewellyn Mrs M Lloyd-Jones Mr E K Y Lo Mr J Lok Mr & Mrs A M Love Mr & Mrs P Lovell Mr & Mrs F C R Ludlam * Mr & Mrs P C H Ma Mrs V Mackintosh Mr H Mafra & Mrs T Lamont Mr & Mrs Z Magomedov Mr & Mrs B R Mahon Mr & Mrs M J Martins Mr M Mahathir Mr & Mrs J Masri Mr & Mrs C A McBarnet Mr & Mrs D McCrystal Mr & Mrs R G N McDonald Mrs C McFadden Mr & Mrs J Metter Mr R E B Mews Ms P C Miller Getty Mr A Milyavskiy Mr & Mrs E J P Minne Mr & Mrs C W Mirza The Hon & Mrs G Moi Mr J I Moon & Mrs J Park * Dr & Mrs R Morelli Mrs M T Morgan Mr M Murjani Mr & Mrs R Murley

Dr & Mrs M Musallam Mr A Mutter Mr D Myers Mr & Mrs S Mynbayev * Mr & Mrs Y Nakagawa Mr & Mrs A Nakhmanovich Mr & Mrs H S Nevile Mr & Mrs K Y Ng Mr C S Ng Mr N F Nugent Mr N O’Hara Mr & Mrs C J O’Shea Mr P R Oberschneider & Ms M C Hauser-Oberschneider * Mr & Mrs M Osobase Mr & Mrs J Ovia Mr & Mrs P Owen-Edmunds Mr & Mrs C H Page Mr & Mrs M Pan Mr K H Park & Mrs H J Yang * Mrs G M Payne Mr & Mrs J A R Peers Mr P Peganov & Mrs T Peganova * Mrs A M Pelham Green Mr & Mrs L R Perkoff T W J Phillips Dr A M Picton-Evans Mr A D Pinchess Mr & Mrs J K Pittalis Mr & Mrs M R Pittalis Mr & Mrs A Ponomarenko Mr D Ponomarev Mr & Mrs N Porter Mrs R J Portman Mr & Mrs D Post Mr & Lady S E Prior-Palmer Mr N Ramchandani * Mrs R N C Randall Mr & Mrs M Rasheed Mr V Rawal Mr A Regan Mr & Mrs R H Reid Mr & Mrs P D de Renzy-Martin Mr & Mrs M P Rich Colonel N R Robertson Mr & Mrs M T Robinson Mr & Mrs F E A Robyns Mr & Mrs S N Roditi Mr & Mrs D A Rogers Mr & Mrs S Rolland Dr J W Roth Mr & Mrs A C T W Russell Mr & Mrs S C Sampson Mr & Mrs A Sangines-Krause Mr A M Sarkisyan Ms J Sarkassian Dr M Sarno * Mr & Mrs G H M Scutt Mr E A P Sells Mr & Mrs R Sethi Mr A Setsu & Ms N Wang Mr & Mrs J Seymour Mr & Mrs D W Shasha Mr & Mrs P E Shirley Mr & Mrs S Shishkarev Mrs E A Shortland-Jones Mr & Mrs A Shumeyko * Mr R P Singh & Mrs A Dhillon * Mr & Mrs D J de Silva Mr & Mrs A Skorobogatko Mr & Mrs A Smith Mr & Mrs J Smith * Mr & Mr M Smith Mr & Mrs D Squires Mr & Mrs A D Stevensen Mr & Mrs P D Stevenson Mr & Mrs G Stewart Mr & Mrs E A Strange * Mr & Mrs D Strickland Mr J R F Stunt Mr L Sun & Mrs F Huang Mr A Symes Mr G Tai & Miss M Lo Mr & Mrs S E J Tallis * Ms B Tan Mr M Tan Mr & Mrs R K K Tan Mr Y M Tang & Mrs M C Tai * Mrs A D Tanner Mr & Mrs G W Taunton Collins Mr & Mrs C Talbot Mr & Mrs D Taylor Miss J M Taylor Mr & Mrs J N Taylor Mr & Mrs C W Taylor-Young Mr & Mrs N Teepsuwan

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Mr & Mrs C C Thompson Mr & Mrs P J S Thompson Mr P J Timlin & Ms D W Muchiri * Mr & Mrs K To * Mrs S S Y Tong Mrs C J Townsend Mr & Ms T Trimbos Mr & Mrs J C G Trower Mr & Mrs A K K Tse Mr & Mrs A S Umbers Mr C Van Aeken & Mrs K De Wulf Mr & Mrs P Van Surrell * Mr & Mrs A Vdovin Mrs J M Virgin His Excellency Sheikh Waleed Al Ibrahim of Saudi Arabia Mr G S G Wan & Ms M Fu Mr Z Wang Mr & Mrs A W Waterfield Mr & Mrs R N Weatherby * Mr Y C Wei Mr N Welton Mr & Mrs J White Mr & Mrs R Wijeratne Mrs S M Wilce Mr C S S Wilson & Mrs E De La Fossé * Mrs G Wilson-Copp * Dato’ Dr S J Wong Mr C S W Wong Mr E A Woodall Mrs K F Woodsend Mr & Mrs J Woolhouse * Mr R Work Lady E Wright Mr and Mrs J Xu Dato’ & Datin S H Yeoh Mr & Mrs J M A Yerburgh Mr Z Yin & Ms N Sun Dr & Mrs D Yu Mr F Yu * Mr S Zhang & Mrs P Zhang * Mr & Mrs B Zhu Trusts, Foundations & Companies Academy of International Sport Limited Ashton Charitable Trust Peter Beckwith Harrow Trust Bernard Sunley Foundation Betteshanger Charitable Trust Brigadier and Hon Mrs D V Phelps Charitable Settlement Clarendon International Education Friends of Harrow School Harrow School Cricket Fund Harrow School Angling Club Hawthorne Charitable Trust Hill Cricket Club John Lyon’s Charity The A G Leventis Foundation I R K Maclaren Settlement Orbis Pictus Trust Pawle Charitable Trust Pemberton Greenish Ltd Peter Meyer Charitable Trust Ranjita Ltd * Robertson Foundation Schroders Private Banking The Zetland Charitable Trust

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Major P E Webb G & S Lt Col M W Mann MC N G W Falcon G M J Graham-Jones K G C Royle * G C P C Talbot M Lt Col B H J Holloway M G Highton DFC W & R T N MacN Stephens * H S Pleydell-Bouverie E T W J D Dupree D Sqdn-Ldr D C E England W G W H Stevenson H A J Eady E Sir Michael Connell R N T Casdagli G J E Crossman D J A Y Hill E The Rev’d Ronald Darroch N Mrs W D J Cargill Thompson Mrs M Cotton Mr R E Gregson Sir David Landale KCVO DL Mr F S G Pearson Miss A Pickard Mrs A Stuart-Buttle

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C D Massiah Esq J C R Dennis Esq OBE D H Moss Esq D P Wiggin Esq W N G Taylor Esq A A C Bayne Esq T S Ashley-Smith Esq FRICS FAAV B J Kirkland Esq R B Piepenstock Esq MBA R D Nelson Esq M C P Hammond Esq P A Mosimann Esq A G Haldane Esq D R Martin Esq A Y Fang Esq E J R Cable Esq MRICS G L Duder Esq H B I I Cheape Esq T A T Davies Esq G E Donald Esq J C Poole Esq Mr A Gardner & Mrs A Mac-Crohon Gardner Mr A M Love G W Taunton Collins Esq Mr P J Timlin & Ms D W Muchiri J G Grinling Esq CBE J P G Wathen Esq D V Brown Esq R J Sherlock Esq J J S Veisblat Esq Dr J E C Twentyman Dr F C Worlock D H O Owen Esq OBE D G Spencer Esq A W Hakim Esq Dr N K Coni R J Stanes Esq R G Seymour Esq J W Whitworth Esq C Byford Esq Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO P R J Crawfurd Esq M G C O’Connor Esq J D C Vargas Esq R J Grindell Esq R J Hermon-Taylor Esq P de F Hicks Esq Jr W E F Samuel Esq P H Seed Esq R F de Robeck Esq N W D Foster Esq D A Proger Esq B G D Blair Esq QC A P K Boyle Esq OBE T G Proger Esq J W Servaes Esq E J W Houghton Esq E S Griswold Esq W S Johnston Esq J F Davis Esq C G Hamilton-Stubber Esq D S Levy Esq N P Mehta Esq R A Raban-Williams Esq S R Galway Esq S M Levy Esq R J MacKechnie Esq J A C Campbell-Johnston Esq J L J Gurney Esq T W H Lloyd-Jones Esq A C Malcolmson Esq MRICS T M T O’Connor Esq L A Kunzig Esq IV J D Orme-Smith Esq D A G Tait Esq A T Nehorai Esq S D G Engelen Esq C J R Wilson Esq H J B Gates Esq T W B Forman Hardy Esq A M Lea-Cox Esq B M Eadon Esq BA, MA M H Johnson Esq G F J Yarrow Esq Mr N M Abbas Mr & Mrs L E Chauveau Mrs C Curtis Mrs A P Engelen Mr & Mrs J Evans-Tovey Dr F G Hardy Mr S Kohli

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B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B

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B B B B D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D

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HARROW SCHOOL ENTERPRISES LTD Harrow School Enterprises Ltd (HSEL) is the School’s commercial trading arm whose task is 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 we generate 60% of our annual turnover in an intense eight-week period in July and August.

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e are involved in a wide-ranging portfolio of educational and commercial activities, as well as providing some key services to the School throughout the year. HSEL’s turnover is approximately £2.8 million and our target is to produce a net profit of at least £280,000 for the School. An additional contribution of £385,000 to the School’s operating expenditure means that HSEL’s contribution to the School is approximately £665,000.

Over 10 days of the Easter holidays, Harrow masters and teachers from other schools tutored nearly 200 students on GCSE and A-level subject revision courses.

Students joined us from over 35 schools, with over 80% saying they felt a lot more confident about their exams after attending. Easter was a particularly busy period for filming, as we played host to The Crown, a period TV drama and a notable Old Harrovian’s latest project. It has been our best year to date for filming and

BABSSCo Summer School activities

photography, with new customers including Vogue, GQ, Capital Radio, ITV and Fox. In the summer of 2017, we operated our final BABSSCo Summer School programme with more than 450 students from over 40 different countries. In an exciting development, BABSSCo will rebrand for 2018 as Harrow School Short Courses, as we align more closely with the School. The online English teaching platform, which gives students the opportunity to continue learning English throughout the year, will be part of the rebrand.

So, after 23 years, it is worth reflecting on how much BABSSCo has achieved since its inception with Eton College in 1994.

Fourteen schools or centres have been involved: Harrow, Eton, Rugby, Christ College Brecon, Merton College Oxford, Caterham, Dulwich, Mill Hill, Cape Adventure (NW Scotland), ACS Cobham, Roedean, Charterhouse, Tonbridge and Heathfield. A total of 14,635 international students from 61 countries have attended English and activity courses. Over £28.4 million has been generated for the School.

Over the years, we have developed our courses to reflect the needs and aspirations of young people from different cultural backgrounds.

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A corporate dinner in Speech Room

In addition to running our own Summer School, we provided administrative and logistic support to the Lumina Oxbridge programme, which provides a stimulating five-day course for over 180 students from the maintained sector in the Harrow area.

We hosted two external residential summer schools, Pilgrims and KKCL, for six weeks.

Saracens rugby club, FC Barcelona and the Independent Schools Football Association all ran courses at the School.

HSEL continues to operate the School’s Sports Centre as a dual-use facility, enabling over 1,000 local members and School staff to use the swimming pool and fitness gym. We are working closely with the School in the development stages of the Estates Master Plan and the exciting opportunities that a new state-of-the-art sports centre will offer. We are working with the Harrow Lawn Tennis Club and Harrow School Golf to ensure that they continue to operate smoothly throughout the building phase.

The Events team helped 12 couples to say “I do” in one of our four civil ceremony licenced spaces – the Old Harrovian Room, Shepherd Churchill Room, Field House Club and Speech Room. We also held speech days for local schools, concerts by a variety choirs, and many corporate dinners. Plans for the 2018 season include an increase in events for Shaftesbury Enterprise and supporting Harrow Council in their plans to make the Borough of Harrow a famous destination for quality food in London.

In April, the Hill Shop opened in its new location. The shop was developed by a focus group of Harrow boys and staff, and, in conjunction with IBM and the charity Lead, the boys have been designing an app that we hope to use in the future.

A new range of ‘Harroviana’ has been created to celebrate the shop’s new location. Its old home has been transformed into a meeting room equipped with the latest audio-visual equipment.

– Harry Ogden, Business Director

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FOUNDATION FAMILY Daniel Chiu of Harrow International Management Services at the official opening of The Den outdoor sports area in 2015

HARROW BANGKOK When Harrow Bangkok opened its doors in 1997, we were among the first British private schools to make a foray into foreign lands. Two decades on, as we celebrate our 20th anniversary, the school is much changed. We have weathered coups and floods, we have flourished amid crisis and challenge, we have matured into a world-class institution – one worthy of our namesake.

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ife for Harrow Bangkok started in a riverside condominium when a small group of adventurous teachers and intrepid students opened a pre-Harrow language centre. The Harrow hats, houses and traditions were yet to come, but even in these early days the Harrow spirit was strong. The Thai economy had just collapsed, the country was in turmoil and success was far from certain. Salary payments were often delayed, muchneeded resources frequently stalled in customs, and facilities were far from ideal.

Students and teachers needed to be resilient and it was only through goodwill and hard work that the school survived.

In 1998, we moved to an apartment block in Bangkok Gardens. The corridors were more clinical than cloistered, our games ‘field’ was a car park, and our boarding ‘houses’ were a few bedrooms, but we did now bear the Harrow name and

the strength of the name was immediately evident; our roll quickly grew to 800.

Five years later, in 2003, we moved to our current site in Don Muang, North Bangkok. For the first time, we had space, and lots of it. We opened our first boarding house, The Knoll. Our boarders could now enjoy study rooms, common areas and outdoor space. We also welcomed new sports facilities, a purpose-built Primary building and much-improved catering facilities. We were still a fledgling school and there remained challenges but we now had a spacious and prestigious purposebuilt campus. Indeed, to this day, our lakeside location sets us apart. Unique to Bangkok international schools, we are able to offer fresh air, greenery and space.

On our Don Muang site our roll has grown to 1,600. A few statistics illustrate the pace of this growth: in 2003 we had fewer than 50 Early Years children, today 260; back then we had 22 boarders, today 140; our Upper Sixth had 13 students enrolled, today 113.

In any history of Harrow Bangkok, however brief, it would be remiss to ignore the 2011 floods. The school was under three metres of water, we spent three months in temporary locations, without uniforms, without any technical infrastructure and, for some staff, without access to our own homes. Resources were ferried, quite literally, from our submerged campus; our senior students were schooled from 3.30pm to 9.00pm in a borrowed

facility. Again, it was goodwill and hard work that carried us through. Already strong, the experience affirmed our sense of community. Despite the challenges, every one of the temporary sites felt like Harrow – stet fortuna domus indeed.

Fast forward to today and the school has never been stronger. The start of the year marked our best-ever examination results and our most successful batch of university entries. We have recently opened a new Creative Performing Arts Centre to nurture creativity and innovation. There are new library spaces, Design and Technology labs and several impressive new outdoor spaces.

We also have a new Steinway Concert Grand piano, the only school in Thailand to enjoy such an instrument.

As we begin our 20th year, we proudly reflect on our journey so far. In 1997, we were a small start-up school in a frontier market. Today, we are an established world-class school, recognised as one of the best in Asia. Getting here has required fortitude and resolve, generosity and goodwill, and more than a little flexibility.

Twenty years on, we remain proud to call ourselves Harrovians.

We will be celebrating our 20th anniversary in June 2018 with a Gala Dinner to which Harrovians from all corners of the world are welcome. If you would like to join us please contact our Director of Development, Ms Elizabeth R Hammond, at liz_h@harrowschool.ac.th.

– Michael Farley, Head Master

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HARROW BEIJING The 2016/17 academic year was one in which the staff, students and parents of Harrow Beijing committed to the spirit of Leadership for a better world. If there was a theme for the year it would have been ‘giving back’ – echoing the fine traditions of our mother School.

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new initiative has been our support of and partnership with Anmin migrant school. Over the last 30 years in China, the massive movement of people from the countryside to the cities has created issues regarding the provision of services, particularly medical and educational services, to immigrant workers and their families. The government has established schools for these families but funding remains a challenge. In 2016, Harrow Beijing donated books and school supplies to the local Anmin school. Moved by the response to this simple gift, we decided to extend our cooperation and set up a ‘big brother, big sister’ English-teaching scheme.

The pilot programme began in 2016 with 12 students coming from Anmin each Tuesday to improve their English and participate in other activities typical of a British international school (including learning to play cricket with Mike Gatting).

The scheme has been a great success and we are now expanding to three groups of 36 Anmin students with an equal number of Harrow students. We are providing ‘teacher training’ for the Harrow students and this voluntary activity is oversubscribed.

In April, we held an inaugural Charity Ball. The theme was ‘One night in Beijing’ and parents and staff came together in traditional 1920s’ Beijing fashion. The evening raised a total of RMB500,000 (approximately £50,000). This was split between two charities supported by the students in the School – Water is Life and Educating Rural Girls in China. The money raised will mean 42 girls in rural China will

be able to stay a year longer in high school and three bore-holes, numerous wells and thousands of filters will provide safe drinking water for families in Africa and India.

Another success has been LAMDA. Starting with just 60 examinations in 2014, our Director of Drama worked at enthusing our students, parents and teachers to convince them of the value of publicspeaking skills. In May 2017, 300 students took part in the examinations. The Director of Drama has linked with a number of local schools, providing training for staff and an additional 60 external candidates.

This year, four Harrow Beijing students, keen participants in our LAMDA programme, were chosen to debate the winners of the Chinese National Debating Competition on national television. After the initial rehearsal, one of the members of the television team walked out and just said, “Your kids are great. A little crazy but great.”

Harrow Beijing continues to go from strength to strength. We have now just over 1,000 students in the School and our 2017 GCSE results were the best on record.

The Hegezhuang campus is now much more lived-in and in all respects we are a happy, vibrant and proud community.

Two long-standing members of Harrow Beijing Board retired from service – Mr Edward Gould and Mr Kevin Gilbert. Both are representatives from Harrow School, London, and have nurtured and guided Harrow Beijing since its birth at the Anzhen Xili campus. They will be remembered in Beijing with fondness.

– David Shinkfield, Head Master

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HARROW HONG KONG The new school year has started with great enthusiasm at Harrow Hong Kong and there has been a plethora of activities and learning taking place, in the classroom, on trips, on the sports field, on the concert platform and in interactions with the wider community. The “Harrow spirit” has certainly been at work. It is a spirit whose energy is infectious and creative and it is a spirit of success.

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his success is evident in our impressive set of public examination results this summer. At A level, 35% of all grades were at A* with, 67% at A*/A and 89% at A*/B. The vast majority of our Upper Sixth pupils secured places to read subjects such as Medicine, Law, Social Anthropology, English, Dentistry, Economics and Politics at prestigious universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Warwick, Yale, Stern Business School and the University of Toronto. Particular mention should go to Isabella Kong who was awarded a Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence. This award was set up by the government of Hong Kong in 2015 and this is the third consecutive year that a Harrow Hong Kong pupil has received one of these

sought-after prizes.

At AS level, our Lower Sixth pupils produced a super set of grades with almost 60% at A grade and 79% at A/B. Our Year 11 pupils achieved excellent results once again, 55% of which were at A* and 83% at A*/A. Fourteen pupils achieved nine or more A* grades. Results in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, History, Music and Spanish were particularly strong and it is pleasing to see our pupils achieve across a broad range of subjects.

Success, however, is not only measured in things experienced and accomplished. It is also measured in terms of leadership and service. Along with our family of Harrow Schools, we define leadership as making a positive difference through people and this

has been evident through our Leadership programme, extra-curricular activities, enrichment and social enterprise.

Nelson Mandela once said “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination”, and I am pleased that such a combination is what Harrow Hong Kong pupils work towards.

We are very proud of our pupils and their achievements and contributions, and we look forward to further success in the years to come. I am confident that, with the Harrow spirit spurring them on, there is a bright future ahead for them all.

– Ann Haydon, Head

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HARROW SHANGHAI It’s hard to believe Harrow Shanghai is only just over a year old.

Successes came thick and fast last year, for instance, in no particular order, ‘Churchill Songs’ Speech Day, Macbeth, the Christmas and Chinese Spring Festival celebrations, authorisation by the A-level and IGCSE examination boards, the Shanghai String Festival, Sports Day, expeditions, Leadership in Action, the Ebbe Sand Soccer Academy and Harrow Plus.

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ll of this was made possible by our wonderful facilities, our ability to attract great staff, academic and nonacademic, their rapport and commitment to the school, the unflinching backing from Harrow in the UK and, always in the background, a highly supportive governing body.

At the end of our first year, we asked our parents to complete a questionnaire. The responses were extremely positive and the highest-scoring question was: My child is proud to be a Harrovian. Everyone felt proud to be a Harrovian at our first Speech Day. ‘Churchill Songs’ was a special event for everyone as we celebrated all we have achieved during our first year, both collectively and individually. The pupils looked immaculate in their hats and blazers. Performances were interspersed

Mike Gatting at Speech Day

with the presentation of prizes, including academic and sports prizes, all presented by our special guest, Mike Gatting OBE, former England and Middlesex cricketer.

Proceedings concluded with everyone standing to sing the official Harrow School song, Forty Years On. Afternoon tea was served, including a quintessentially English sandwich selection, scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, and cups of English tea.

We started our second school year on 24 August. There is already an established feel about the school. Everything has grown: the school roll has doubled, we’ve opened the Sixth Form, there are many new teachers, all of whom have made a great start. We have also ventured into new parts of the building to accommodate the growth. One thing, though, hasn’t changed: there are still four houses, all named after prominent Old Harrovians.

Among our new Sixth Formers are our small cohort of Year 11 pupils from last year, who, in effect, tackled their IGCSE and GCSE examinations in a single academic year. They did very well, with 100% A*-C grade passes and 71.5% A*/A grades.

I was delighted to welcome Mr Jim

Hawkins to the school for our start-of-year assembly. His talk centred on the three great Old Harrovians and a family of Old Harrovians who have given their names to our houses. He described his particular admiration for Lord Shaftesbury, who, in his care and concern for those far worse off than himself, has been an important role model to him as Head Master of Harrow.

There was a real sense in the Lecture Theatre of everyone coming together as an integral part of the Harrow community. This was further enhanced when Mr Hawkins met all our teaching staff at an informal event in the evening. Harrow UK felt a great deal closer after he left.

The words of one parent describe just how far Harrow Shanghai has come in its first year: “Although Harrow Shanghai is only newly established, I applaud the way that the Harrow staff work together as a very intimate, cheerful and positive team with a huge depth and breadth of experience. The family atmosphere is so obvious, and the enthusiasm and warmth of all the teaching staff we have met is absolutely palpable. The difference in atmosphere from my daughter’s previous school really is like day and night.”

– David Cook, Head Master

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JOHN LYON The School has consistently excellent results with ‘value added’ at all levels: GCSE, AS and A-level.

Outstanding successes in both local and national competitions continue across a variety of subjects. John Lyon boys achieve success in Olympiads, Challenges, exhibitions, concerts, productions, festivals and debates.

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he School was delighted to welcome Lord Robert Winston to launch our Excellence Programme and open the 1876 Reading Room this year. The Excellence Programme is a new initiative at John Lyon that embodies all the very best qualities for which a student can strive, supported by inspirational and dynamic teaching and a dedicated room for further study: the 1876 Reading Room. Located in the Red House, the 1876 Reading Room has been designed for exclusive use of boys on the Excellence Programme. The décor of the room is in keeping with the heritage of the Red House and the School and provides access to a variety of books, publications, and research for furthering knowledge in a peaceful space.

We are distinguished by our reputation

for music and drama. The year started with a multi-faceted, sell-out performance of Guys and Dolls at the Ryan Theatre followed by Zero for the Young Dudes: a play for the National Theatre Connections Scheme that was performed at School and then transferred to the Arts Depot in Finchley. Boys rose to the challenge of working alongside professionals and gave a fascinating performance of this hard-hitting piece of new writing. The Motet Choir sang

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Evensong at Southwark Cathedral and we are delighted to now have three boys playing regularly within the elite Duet Philharmonic Orchestra.

This year sees the formation of a new production troupe, the Young Company, which bridges the gap between current pupils and gifted Old Lyonians who are pursuing the arts at university. This company also gives a platform to young artists and inspired current pupils to create a theatrical and artistic group that spans the ages. We look forward to their inaugural production, The Arrival of the Prince, later this year.

Sport is central to life at John Lyon; this year has seen some impressive team and solo performances. The Year 7 squad were crowned Borough Champions at the Harrow Athletics Championships. Both the Junior and Intermediate teams performed well at the National Track and Field Cup to be placed sixth overall in the County stage of the competition while also recording victories over some significant neighbouring schools. In cricket, the Under-15s won the Middlesex Final, a notable achievement.

We pride ourselves on our broad yet balanced curriculum and ability to tailor an education to meet the individual needs of our students. Our ethos is to treat every boy as an individual, strive for academic excellence and provide outstanding pastoral care whilst offering a broad range of opportunities outside the classroom.

– Katherine Haynes, Head Teacher

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FIFTH FORM CONFERENCE The Harrow Family Fifth Form Conference took place for a fourth time in June 2017. Bringing together pupils in the Fifth Form from each of Harrow School, Harrow Bangkok, Harrow Hong Kong, Harrow Beijing and John Lyon, the conference provided delegates with an opportunity to strengthen the relationships between the schools while learning about leadership, teamwork, community work and considering their own futures. This was all achieved through a range of talks, activities, workshops and excursions.

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n the first day, the delegates familiarised themselves both with the School and each other. Jesse Coulson, Director of Sport at Harrow, ran teambuilding games that immediately required everyone to work together, which prepared them well for the mixed-team treasure hunt around the School. The pupils were introduced to their main task for the week, which was to plan a community project, where they would be in groups running an afternoon of activities for primary school children and disabled residents in Harrow. The day ended with a tour of the School and a barbeque.

On the second day, Mr Richard Winter (Moretons 19763) gave a stimulating talk on leadership. His observations on leadership were outside the box and gave the delegates much to think about as they tackled the theme of leadership over the coming days. The pupils later heard from Mr Nick Page, Academic and Universities Director, Dr James Bedford, Master-inCharge of Oxbridge, and Dr Alexandra Hills, Master-in-Charge of American Universities.

In the afternoon, the pupils went on a tour of UCL and heard a talk on university entrance, before some watched the Junior Rattigan Society production of Around The World In 80 Days, while others enjoyed the New Directions concert in Speech Room.

The Saturday of Lord’s has proved to be a highlight of delegates’ time at the conference in previous years, and it was no different on this occasion. Dr Colin Stokes kicked the day off with a truly inspirational talk on a life of fundraising and charity work. Mrs Kathryn Gavin, of Harrow Bangkok, ran an excellent interactive workshop on leadership, before the group departed for Lord’s. After watching some exciting cricket but unfortunately having to leave before the emphatic Harrow win, the group headed into central London to see School of Rock.

Sunday provided an opportunity for the pupils to experience some culture and consider their university plans as they explored Oxford. The delegates went on a walking tour of Oxford, taking in some of the colleges, and some of the party managed to rack up over 10 college visits in a couple of hours.

The last full day of the conference was focused on the community projects. To get the delegates in the philanthropic spirit, Mr Andrew Ashe spoke about his charitable

ambitions for onebillion, which aims to help children around the world with numeracy and reading. Mrs Gavin gave her second workshop, on teamwork, which really got the pupils thinking before an afternoon of hard work.

The delegates were split into five groups for the community projects. Three groups ran events for around 110 primary school children on the Hill, with a carousel of sporting, artistic and dramatic activities over the course of three hours. One group invited residents from Certitude to the Hill, to help them learn about online apps and skills, before taking them for a tour of the School. The final group went down to Bradbury Court in Harrow and spent time getting to know the residents before running a quiz and games for them.

The afternoon was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed by all who led and took part in the activities, which were even more impressive considering that groups were given little help and little information from teachers and were encouraged to create a plan using their own initiative and imagination.

The guest speaker at the formal conference dinner was Brigadier Michael McGovern, who provided insight on life as a leader in the Armed Forces and the skills needed to succeed under pressure.

On the final morning, each group worked on their reflections on their community work before presenting to a large audience of delegates and teachers.

The range and depth of the presentations was outstanding, and it was amazing to see how much everyone had taken from their project work, how much they had learnt and how much they had enjoyed the experience.

Having been exposed to a range of new experiences and ideas, the conference delegates were able to form strong bonds, which they hope will continue long into the future.

– Alex Turner, Head of Spanish

FOUNDATION FAMILY The Primary Shakespeare Company helped five primary schools perform Julius Caesar at the Ryan Theatre

JOHN LYON’S CHARITY The past year has been a significant one in the history of John Lyon’s Charity. Not only has our total grant expenditure exceeded £10 million for the first time, we have also recently welcomed our new Chief Executive, Dr Lynne Guyton. Lynne takes over from our founding Chief Executive, Andrew Stebbings, who is moving into retirement. Andrew has been instrumental in the formation of John Lyon’s Charity and we are indebted to him for his enormous contribution to the shaping of the Charity over the past 25 years.

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e have continued our work in the Beneficial Area in developing the Young People’s Foundation (YPF) model.

The three founding YPFs in Barnet, Brent and Harrow have gone from strength to strength and have built up strong membership bases of organisations working in the children and youth sectors.

We have created new YPFs in Camden, Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing, and Westminster. These Foundations share the

same principles as their Outer London neighbours but have marked differences, particularly in how their local authorities respond to them. It is interesting to watch these new organisations grow and develop to meet the needs of their members while upholding the principles of the YPF model.

To date, John Lyon’s Charity has committed funds of over £1.6 million towards developing and supporting the YPF model throughout the Beneficial Area.

The Charity held a conference in June 2016 at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, to launch Perspectives, a document that records the views of arts organisations, special schools, music hubs and funders on what they see as being important to successful partnership within the arts.

We hope that by highlighting the differences between the different sectors as well as areas of commonality, a larger number of arts activities that benefit special schools can be developed.

We were particularly pleased that one of the Charity’s flagship arts and education projects was able to extend its work into primary schools in Harrow this year.

The Primary Shakespeare Company offers primary schools a way of embedding Shakespeare into their learning in every subject in the curriculum. The children

also have the opportunity to develop their own version of a Shakespeare play with a professional theatre practitioner, which they share alongside other primary schools in their area. Harrow School was instrumental in helping five schools in Harrow perform their version of Julius Caesar at the Ryan Theatre as part of the Harrow Shakespeare Festival.

Another highlight of the year was the extension of the Dance Journeys initiative developed by English National Ballet (ENB), which is one of the Charity’s most successful arts engagement projects. Students from four secondary schools received weekly dance workshops and intensive holiday sessions, working towards a final performance piece.

The final performance was delivered as a Matinee Takeover at Sadler’s Wells, providing a high-profile platform for students to celebrate their work.

The Dance Journeys Company danced on the same bill as the ENB Youth Company, the ENB School and ENB itself. This Matinee Takeover was a first for ENB and we are proud to have encouraged and supported ENB to make this happen.

– Anna Hoddinot, Senior Grants & Communications Manager

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HARROW CLUB W10 Over the 130 years since it was founded, the Harrow Club has worked alongside the disadvantaged and underprivileged young people of Notting Dale and surrounding communities.

Although it is situated in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, three satellite clubs in housing estates in Hammersmith and Fulham have been developed in recent years. Together the “family” of Harrow Clubs currently have a membership of over 2,000 young people, mainly between the ages of 8 and 21.

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ctivities include an ABA accredited boxing club, football clubs, arts and crafts, music making and residential programmes that give a rare opportunity for some members to have a holiday. There are separate junior and senior activities and there is a weekly girls-only session, which enables girls from the large local East African Muslim community to attend.

The activities of the Club 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 has to be found through grants and donations. Trustees still include a

Members of the Harrow Club at the Notting Hill Carnival

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), Director of Shaftesbury Enterprise, is set to join the Board of Trustees.

– The Revd James Power, Chair of Trustees 2003-2016

THE HARROW CLUB RESPONSE TO THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE On Wednesday 14 June, the Club found itself at the heart of the relief effort following the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower. Four club members were among those killed. The Club has worked directly 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 who holds the confidence of residents and officials across the area.

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s part of the World War I commemoration project, the Harrow Association and Harrow Development Trust have recently donated the tenor bell for a new ring of eight bells in St George’s Memorial Church in Ypres in Belgium.

This Anglican Church was built both to serve the British community who settled in Ypres after the Great War and as a place of remembrance for the soldiers killed in the war and for those who served and returned home. Latterly, it has become a place of pilgrimage for the many thousands of visitors to Ypres and the surrounding battlefields and cemeteries.

The church was built between 1927-29 to a design by Sir Reginald Blomfield, who also designed the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and the Cross of Sacrifice, copies of which stand in Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries across the world. All the items in the church, such as chairs, windows, wall plaques and kneelers, remember individual soldiers, regiments, battalions, schools, including Harrow School, and many others. It is a place of great poignancy: a place of a thousand stories.

The fine tower at St George’s was originally intended to house a peal of English change-ringing bells, although this was never

The School’s team of bellringers train at St Mary’s

realised. In 2016, however, permission was granted by the church authorities and by the Flanders Heritage Department finally to fulfil this intention by installing a new peal of eight bells with a tenor (the heaviest) of 6cwt (300kg). The new bells are the completion of this lasting legacy of commemoration.

These new bells were cast in England and will be the first change-ringing peal in Belgium. They will ring out their full sound over ‘some corner of a foreign field’ for church services and other commemorations. When the bells are being used to practise and for longer periods of ringing, the sound outside will be greatly reduced by using an adjustable sound-control system.

Great care will be taken to ensure that the tranquillity of the church as a place of remembrance is maintained.

A huge number of Old Harrovians served in the Great War and many of those died or were wounded. This inspired the Harrow Association to donate one bell, and all associated recordings in the Memorial Book will be dedicated to those Harrovians.

If the Ypres bells are a legacy of the Old Harrovians who served in the Great War, the same could be said of the School’s growing team of young bellringers, who train at St Mary’s Church on the Hill and who will be able to associate themselves with these memorial bells. Some of the team travelled to Ypres to ring the bells before the service on Remembrance Sunday in November 2017.

– Dr Christopher O’Mahony, Director of ICT St George’s Memorial Church, Ypres Photo credit: Michael Day

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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.

Harrow Development Trust 5A High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP www.harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow

HARROW SCHOOL 5 High Street Harrow on the Hill Middlesex HA1 3HP +44 (0)20 8872 8000 harrow@harrowschool.org.uk